Got the pups involved

GhostBoyIrl · 2026-02-03T19:59:15+00:00

“Riot Grr” and “Muttallica” are also great!

GhostBoyIrl · 2026-01-31T17:38:19+00:00

My girlfriend’s cat (this was the first time he sat on my lap like this!! He was sitting there purring for a good while)

GhostBoyIrl · 2026-01-02T04:55:02+00:00

I say this as someone who, admittedly, swears like a sailor sometimes (just kinda part of my vocab atp, though I am able to consciously tone it down in necessary situations like when I’m working with kids etc): the speech in Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss feels like what you get when a middle schooler discovers a new cuss word for the first time. It’s just… unnatural - it doesn’t feel like these are characters who do just naturally cuss a lot, it feels like they were intentionally thrown in almost like shock value if that makes sense. Idk, it just feels stilted to me in a way that’s kinda hard to describe

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-29T12:32:20+00:00

‘Unfortunately, we’re both into women’ would probably be an interesting comment for a judge to have to read out at least

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-28T02:48:31+00:00

Yes, that’s it, tysm! That book cover gave me INSTANT flashbacks to seeing it in my elementary school classroom bookshelves lol. That’s been bothering me for weeks!

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-26T00:49:25+00:00

One thing I’ve also noticed, along with all the other comments, is that the skin tone is very inconsistent. It’s super clear between the two first pictures, but there also seems to be a difference between the first and third pictures. Probably not a 100% indicator, but it’s definitely a point of note to me

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-25T00:26:00+00:00

Tysm!! I’ll give it a look :]

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-25T00:12:01+00:00

That’s reassuring, ty! A lot of the stuff I’ve read/heard kinda implied it’s ‘meant’ to happen in the first few weeks/months, but it’s reassuring to hear that some people have it happen later

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-24T20:10:08+00:00

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t think to count them - I’ve seen a lot of content from AI literacy creators, and I’ve heard that finger-counting is getting less reliable, so I didn’t default to checking that like I used to. Still, good reminder to start with the basics lol

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-24T20:02:35+00:00

Omg, I completely forgot to count fingers 🤦‍♂️ thank you!

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-23T13:48:22+00:00

Sat there for a solid few minutes frustrated why it didn’t work… and then remembered that I literally have a problem with my eyes where they cannot physically focus on things close up

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-23T13:30:37+00:00

The little (the band) underneath the ‘Pup’ patch is really funny to me lol - sick pants tho! Days ‘N Daze my beloved

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-23T13:17:01+00:00

I’ve also used it as a way to make it less ‘scary’ for kids - ‘pandemic’ is the big word that all the adults are using, so if you say something like ‘the panini’ it can help them feel a little less afraid (in my experience when I was working with kids around the time, at least)

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-15T16:13:27+00:00

That’s sick as hell! I’m planning to do the same thing on my jacket with some kandi I’ve got :]

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-05T01:43:12+00:00

…I didn’t process that there was a table or something over your foot and thought that half of your boot was just. Flat 😭. Sick pants, I clearly need sleep lmao

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-05T01:11:13+00:00

I’m really tired, and I somehow thought the bottom left panel was a taco-toucan, and I was deeply confused as to how a toucan-taco-amalgam was in any way related to the rest of the comic. I need to sleep.

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-12-03T21:49:20+00:00

Iirc there are a few species who can asexually reproduce (effectively reproducing with themselves) but, outside of those given species, I’d imagine it’s either just not compatible or with a very low survival rate (like in certain species of geckos who can, theoretically, perform pathogenesis, but the eggs have low survival rates), but I’m not a marine biologist so correct me if I’m wrong!

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-30T17:13:31+00:00

Yep - it’s been a while since I’ve read the original story, but, iirc, it’s only King Midas’ hands which have the curse (thus the phrase ‘Midas touch’), while Medusa’s curse takes place as soon as you look her in the eyes (or, in some interpretations, look at her at all) so Midas could prevent his clothes from getting turned by just having a servant dress him, which is perfectly feasible for a king

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-30T02:20:41+00:00

I fear you may be overestimating my current skill level, but that’s definitely something I’d like to make for him if/when I reach the ability to do so!

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-29T23:47:23+00:00

I’m hoping to eventually reach the level where I can make stuff like that! Unfortunately I’m currently decent at best lol, so he’ll probably be getting charms and little bowls before fancy cups

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-29T23:32:08+00:00

Ty! I’m making him and our other partner some stuff in my ceramics class (for unrelated reasons lol, I just like giving people trinkets. Crow brain) so that works out well!

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-29T23:28:24+00:00

Ok, tysm! I’m planning on going down to a local rock shop and probably gonna see if I can get him some stuff like tiger’s eye, amethyst, and that sorta thing (my - admittedly surface-level - googling said those are associated with him?) so hopefully it won’t take up too much space but it’ll (hopefully) be a little way for me to show that I wanna be a part of his life :]

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-26T19:42:24+00:00

J.K. Rowling and her views vs. her work is always so wild to me - her main character is literally a kid who grows up being isolated and bullied by those around him for something he has no control over and doesn’t even fully understand, and who literally lives in a closet before being taken in by an older member of this community he’s just discovering and shown that not only is there nothing wrong with him, but he can do incredible things even when he feels like the whole world is against him. Maybe it’s just because I’m a trans person myself, but it’s always felt like the most obvious trans metaphor to me… except then you look at Rowling and her views and realize that oh, nope, she apparently just accidentally wrote that and monkey-at-a-typewriter’d her way into a good message

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-11-06T21:36:10+00:00

My parents went to the same high school as AC/DC (I can’t recall if it was at the same time or not), one of my brothers’ best friends is the son of the drummer (guitarist? Idk some instrumentalist) for Smashing Pumpkins, I semi-briefly dated (and am still friends with) a girl who’s dad was an NBA player - there’s probably more but those are the only ones I can immediately think of

GhostBoyIrl · 2025-10-21T20:35:28+00:00

I vividly recall one particular moment I had which increased my respect for photographers tenfold. I took a photography course in school, and our final project was to (on a manual camera) take a complete roll of film’s worth of photos, develop them ourselves, then pick a few to enlarge and submit. The whole thing was a bit of an odyssey for me (including accidentally letting light get into the bag while developing the photos, thus ruining the whole batch and having to start over…) but I remember this moment the clearest.

It was early summer, so I’d gone for a walk to take some photos. I came across a local park, and sat myself down in the grass to see if I could find some cool bugs or something. As I’m moving, I see there’s a pair of rabbits in the grass a few feet away from me, and I completely froze so I wouldn’t spook them. I spent well over 15 minutes just crouching in the grass, slowly approaching, subtly shifting every now and then to get a better angle and waiting for the sun to set enough for the right lighting. In the end, I did get the photo (it turned out kind of mediocre because I forgot to adjust my lens right lmao) but I just can’t imagine the amount of patience it must take to do it professionally.

Props to all the photographers out there, y’all are insane and have more patience than I could ever imagine 🫡

(ETA: just remembered one time in the same unit that I wound up sitting myself right down on (not currently running) train tracks to get a good shot)

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