Ice Ripper III

OK

final one

for all the marbles,

this one doesn't have an illustration bc i think it was just a kids novel but i haven't been able to find ANYTHING about it on my occasional internet queries:

kids is staying with his (grandmother?) in the woods and she warns him not to look a fox in the eyes bc they're tricksy and will swap places with you. obviously that's the first thing the little boy does and gets body snatched by a fox who uhhhh proceeds to pig out with his new little boy human hands and the boy has to trick the fox into looking him in the eyes again to switch back...

i cannot express how much these are from memory, that's how internalized these artists and writers have become, they're a part of me now

The second one is likely Stellaluna.

You can’t do a boycott on your own, the company you boycott won’t even notice.

You can’t boycott a dozen companies at once, that makes your boycott hard to join and doesn’t hit any of the companies hard enough for them to notice.

You can’t have an effective silent boycott, the company will blame some other factor.

You can’t do an indefinite boycott without conditions attached and act like the entity is forever evil and tarnished, that isn’t effective because then they have no incentive to change their ways and will keep being awful.

An effective boycott requires that the community/organization have a clearly defined leader/spokesperson or small group of leaders/spokespeople who can communicate with the entity being boycotted and the public on behalf of the community/organization.

The CEO/president/whoever has the authority to make the changes being demanded needs to have reason to believe that, when the leader/spokesperson says they're happy with the changes that have been made, the boycott will end. They also need to have reason to believe that there is some change that will be good enough to end the boycott, and the change can't cost more than they're losing because of the boycott.

You can't social media trend your way through a boycott.

Yes, you can call for public support, but the core community/organization needs to have a defined structure.

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for: