fuck you

I'm just saying, "We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don't question because computers are logical and don't make mistakes" literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.

“Blood sweat and tears” such an excellent method of measuring investment. Yeah I worked really hard on this, hurt myself a lot, cried the whole time. stress nosebleed, sweated profusely, sobbed openly. Bleeding sweating crying etc. And everyone goes oh. Well done.

"Bleed Sweat Weep" painted on a wooden plaque in a curly script that you can hang in your farmhouse kitchen.

Holy

PIXEL AAAAAAAART

laga dyga is an evil hag and she is going to Get you

It took me way too long to figure out what it's trying to say. I was just willing to accept "laga dyga" at face value.

Can't read my, can't read my pofa kerce

Stop fella toning me

I thinks folks expressing incredulity at the quality of the writing and composition in Calvin and Hobbes are often missing the context that Bill Watterson is arguably the most influential sequential artist of his generation. Like, this is a guy who once told the editors of nationally syndicated newspapers to go fuck themselves when they wanted to mess with his panel layouts, and not only did he keep his job, he got his way. He could have had literally any gig he wanted, and he chose to be the Sunday funnies guy because that's what made him happy. He's basically the Weird Al of sequential art.

Watterson considers comics to be as true an art form as painting and films and literature, capable of reaching just as high as any other medium. Calvin and Hobbes isn't accidentally high art. Watterson made it what it is on purpose. And when he was done, he stopped. No movie, no spinoff, no reboot. He considers the comic to be its completed form, in exactly the medium it is supposed to be. He believed in comics in a way few others ever have, and he fought tooth and nail for the right to take his own work, jokes and all, seriously.

posting niche fic on ao3 is like releasing a small creature into the wild and hoping it survives and finds sustenance

got one whole comment… the small creature may yet survive the winter

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

That's absolutely aspicable.

Hat tip @alexaloraetheris !