the local spirit has its finger on the pulse of the art world despite being non-corporeal
although now i feel bad since i first posted this yesterday and haven’t seen the yellow character since the day before that but i presume i will again. generally i feel bad whatever happens.
this is actually the third edition of this picture and that one also. it appears that i did not make “normal” website entries for them because, like this one, it depends on an obnoxious social media sort of context that this website isn’t and in 2018 and 2017 i must have had enough other things to post that i was comfortable skipping them. Last year i suddenly started seeing what could be described as PLUMBER BLUE JERKRABBIT but evidently that was not sudden enough to inspire a continuation of this impotent protest then, so there are definitely different tiers of it.
I forgot to change the “bed” line from 2017 even though I have a real bed instead of a pair of mattresses now. I cannot determine what the floor clutter was supposed to be, so attempting to update it to resemble the present clutter would be a waste of time as i am destined to not know what that is later either. otherwise this is a completely logical use of time yes
comic page 4-7 ! not again, the 4-7 from last time is now 4-8. I didn’t like how this once aggressive creature suddenly seemed cowardly for no reason and also having fearsome deeds occur out of view seemed inconsistent with what i have done up to this point. beyond that since treco has only effectively intimidated lope so far, to have a creature that also tried to intimidate lope be victim of it requires that i show it. And i had to wonder what could possibly HAVE happened which would accomplish that? And I am not sure that THIS shows THAT, but it shows more than before this page existed whatever the case. maybe ponappa is less cowardly than bothered and confused. this also gets slightly more use out of an old character design that i hated to waste on an extremely brief appearance. it is still wasted but to a lesser degree
may 7: i forgot that since i posted this a few minutes after midnight may 1 i should have the next post up today instead of tomorrow. whoopth.
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i sketched out the next pages and considered that i might need to insert another page before this one to explain why this pineapply creature is acting like that since it looks like there isn’t an organic way for that to be explained afterward without the lizard no longer being able to dopily smile about it
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page 7 of part 4 of this
this section may end up being less relevant even than usual since the imps’ position in time is out of synch with what needs to happen to them next.
this was posted later than i meant to because i was discussing with someone how funny ub iwerks’ name is.
page 4-6 of the bimshwel comic strip
a lot of green pants on this page. thankfully not pale green pants with nobody inside em. green boots as well, and they seem to be the same shades of green
THIS should conclude the gnome section and more conventional imps should appear on the next page. I don’t know what they will be doing yet but it should be easier to figure that out and easier to remember how many are there.
i actually DO know how to sneeze so i made sure to not show this gnome trying that. when i was tennish years eld i discovered that i could force a sneeze by inserting an end of an unbent paper clip into either side, and touching or rubbing it toward the middle. i don’t know why i did that the first time. any similarly sized object will work but i seem to recall using that first, and also toothpick thickness bits of wood that were in the back of my mother’s car for some reason, maybe we had transported some terrible broken furniture recently, that seems like us. in those days i liked sneezing so i would do it so much that my nose bled, probably because i was using non-smooth-edged tools, and then thankfully did not develop a long term habit out of that. so the gnome has the right idea on the last attempt. ordinarily a finger is simply too big to be treated as a mild irritant that can be sneezed out, but on a nose that size it might actually work, but alas the gnome is pulling outward instead of pushing inward.
bimshwellian comicoid part 4 page 4
another slowww-progressing page with those boring, confusing-to-keep-track-of gnomes but at least they are slightly closer to being dealt with and once they are then i won’t necessarily need to show them for a while, though it is necessary for them to appear some more.
page 3 of part 4 of this solves nothing but it doubles my new page output for the year so that is statistically significant.
I do not like mouth-emitted particles but this is mild. It bothers me that i came up with this resolution but i don’t think this will be a problem for anyone else like it is for me and i can ensure it won’t get worse than this. i COULD explain it away as instead being force-of-air-based but that would contradict the not-pog being able to smash the bubbles together on the previous page.
page 2 of part 4 of that
yes i DID post page 1 almost a year ago and then nothing after that but i had every intention of continuing; this part here was already sketched. i DO know what will happen next but have not sketched THAT and am yet uncertain if it will continue to have three-row pages or if i will revert to not being able to handle 4 once i no longer need to depict 8 characters in the same panel for a while.
Some crucial details like the hat rack and sky swirls remain to be filled in but you know how i am with the appearance of one update per week even if most of it legally occurs the next day. Sunday tends to be busier than i expect since it is everyone else’s day off so they treat it like my day off, too. no! i have IMPORTANT imaginary deadlines to keep! I will update this again once it is the proper update. Unless I already did!
i was indecisive about the final frame since it took me two years to bother finishing the sketch since I can’t draw like this very well, and it seemed like the police state object of exaggerated bogeyness is now bullets of dubious origin with mysterious writing of dubious authenticity. ALTHOUGH maybe you can’t actually tell that is what this is here since I made the edit so hackily.
However the issue is mostly mootly since Blue Bloods was apparently cancelled in 2024 and most people i have access to have never heard of blue bloods to begin with, since they didn’t have sickly/elderly parents who just watch basic cable reruns of syndicated garbage all day in the mid 2010s and people who ARE that or share its mindset aren’t watching my art pages, at least not at this point, except for the purposes of trying to determine my own weaknesses and intermittently sending what they consider examples of it at me. However my real weakness is that i talk about my weaknesses too much. Nobody would know if I didn’t tell, and I get nothing out of telling, yet i continue to do so.
the fellow in the distance, presumably his weakness is hats
some people you just can’t take anywhere
I spent far too long on this considering that I couldn’t even tell if it made sense. Which is consistent.
generally mario is only seen on adventures in hostile territory where jumping and shouting a lot may help in defeating or frightening foes, but perhaps like veteran soldiers or freed prisoners mario has difficulty outside of the dangerous situations he has adapted to survive in. but then as i spent longer [needlessly] refining certain bits of it I considered that I would not far too well either if stuff kept bumping into me and THEN I hit myself with a meatball, though still better than this.
and a truly masterful unrequested, non-preventable artificial intelligence assessment from faceboof. I am so glad the entire United States economy was force-fixated on to cramming this technology inextricably into everything.
what a great time to be alive
in case clarification is required, this didn’t happen, to me, recently, but it has happened recently, though generally in the form of being TOLD rather than asked or even accused, and it has happened to me, and it can happen again, and even when it isn’t happening to me i know it would if it was aware of me. These attitudes are much older than touchy trump and precious kirksy’s influence on american culture; i have been called “faggot” since I was twelvish and “retard” before that. Trumpism and Kirkism and general racial supremacist creepism merely told adults who were abusive as children that it is acceptable to continue being abusive as adults. They saw that kind of garbage from the likes of the taliban and instead of thinking “we’re better than them because we don’t do that” they preferred “HEY why can’t WE do that? We’re better than them!”
the “i don’t talk about my problems” creature was based on someone reacting to the first three frames and it bothered me enough to add the fourth frame, and then i looked at that person’s youtube page and was reminded that he voluntarily uses a normal man’s name and is comfortable being filmed with a beard while wearing baseball hats and short sleeve shirts and I considered that i really don’t need to defer to this person’s experience since it is utterly different than mine but i already drew the character fairly vague and just added the beard which doesn’t look like the person’s actual casual shab jd vance beard and round sunglasses because he had those in one video and i inadvertently made that character more stylish than i intended to, so it has that going for it in the event my characterization is otherwise unfair.
Shortly after I posted the earlier version of that comic stripzoid without the fourth frame –it had been three frames across and I only turned it into a box to appease insta-gram’s irritating cropping system which could not be done properly prior to the additional frame balancing out the first one– I received this curious anonymous message on tumblr, where I had never mentioned any of these issues. I asked one person who enjoys sending me incomprehensible messages under varying identities who denied having done it on this occasion. “greener pastures” is such a gosh darn hokey phrase i assume it is either a regressive older person raised on hokey television or someone who listens to hokey older people talk on television a lot, and they’re usually condemning someone they don’t understand for extremely minor transgressions that they don’t want to understand.
And i know they know how to use websites to some degree since this is in place and presumably got money out of somebody. The world was not better and simpler when you or i or anyone was “growing up.” You were just better insulated against how crummy it was and knowledge of who was suffering the most for that, and you can’t “go back” to that, except mentally, by reinsulating yourself, because it doesn’t exist, and you can’t force anyone else to “go back” to that since they never were that.
another comic strip based roughly on my life even though my life is the least interesting thing about me. Other projects are yet ongoing; as i have stated in the past, none of them are dead, I will probably die first, and maybe I can even hurry that along with the help of enough crispy birds.
thanksh a bunch, reid
based on something that happened actually to someone other than me. Somebody who didn’t trust doctors in the past due to legitimate bad experiences more recently had issues discontinuing a medication at the same time as getting caught up in a misinformation vortex meant to discredit scientists so to funnel support toward republican political candidates with no regard for people who actually need help and aren’t ever going to vote for scumbags, now distrusts doctors harder than ever and keeps getting worse mentally due to not trusting doctors so to get help with the medication issue but then also cannot be guided out of that due to continually getting stuck with doctors who seem less than trustworthy. In fact it is rather an ongoing matter but i think, i hope, the worst is over with, so i can justify posting the comic strip in the absence of anything else remotely coherent.
Now I need to take this computer apart to try and replace the “thermal paste” within it due to my other ongoing crisis that people getting paid loads of money could have prevented and saved trouble for countless common folk but didn’t. If I succeed at this I still will only have scrappy website updates but will have a substantially reduced chance of blowing up the computer and setting my home on fire if I ever get back to attempting to create better updates.
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ah nope, worse than ever. i definitely have to pay somebody to fix it or buy another one now. which i partially expected but i was never psychologically prepared to deal with. taking that thing apart and especially putting it back together, then dismantling it and remantling it again and only getting this is more than i can do a third time and potentially STILL get… this. plenty of videos showing how to take everything out but you are mostly on your own when it comes to putting stuff back in.
most of your screws are just not in or the wrong place. one is wrong and ruined and unremovable and thus the power port will forever after be lopsided AND i didn’t even need to remove that one
the screws DO NOT WANT to go back in. they want to stick to my fingers. they want to fall into different places and roll around unvisibly. they want to get stuck sideways and then fly to oblivion when freed.
and after all that, when it simply shuts off after a few seconds, it gives no indication of what thing that i did wrong was the culprit. I have been doing things wrong my whole life, possibly even beans on toast, i can’t work with something that needs all things done correctly.
i have my data, but i can’t do anything with it on this crummy backup computer that i bought for my mother that my sister then commandeered. it has TWO (2) usb ports, and i need 3, for mouse, keyboard, and tablet, not counting the one connected to the
hard drive toaster thing. and i also “have to” go on a week long “vacation” and nothing is less relaxing to me than being stuck in some other place on someone else’s conditions and not about work on my personal stupid nonsense. there certainly isn’t time to order a new machine then and i don’t trust any place to fix this fast and not charge moreforfeoieroufreefropfrupidorfrupefrupefrupelope
was trying to use ptm 7950 instead of paste like reddit dorks insisted was better the problem? would it be working now if i had just used paste? is someone that i pay $200+ just going to use paste? I don’t know. any time i open it up another screw goes missing and every time i have to reconnect the blorks to the wifi card i think i lose a year off my life.
i swear this comic strip is not about me. I have ISSUES but they aren’t new or freshly medicated.
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ah! it lives! I had not screwed the fan in tightly enough. One of the guides I looked at warned against screwing the fan in too tightly and as usual i drew the wrong conclusion from advice that i probably would have been fine without receiving. Good thing i dared to look back inside; i almost had a nervous breakdown when i resigned myself to using GIMP on a backup computer for the next twoish weeks. How do I move a selection? I don’t know! I thought just KRITA made that stupid. I am glad it doesn’t have to be my problem.
I don’t know if i actually solved the INITIAL problem of overheating but i seem to have alleviated the apparently more serious problem of me touching the computer inappropriately. It has more screws outside of it than in and the keyboard is on my bed since I got tireder and tireder of hooking stuff like that back up just for nothing to happen. Ideally I will sort that out before getting on an airplane because this thing presently looks almost as dangerous as four ounces of water with its insides and wires exposed.
and my mind state is like I have been “away” from using the computer for a week or longer when it was just a single day. Maybe this is a sign of mental illness. I will add it to my collection
this has not literally occurred, at least not in this exact manner, but mostly because I know people react this way and I generally do not want to make my dumb problem into someone else’s bigger problem with me, however ridiculous the thought process behind it is. i do not believe i could ever say “i have an agender identity” aloud without putting an insulting inflection on it. nonetheless that is something which i WANT to express.
This previously featured additional dialog that i worried was excessive. And so i removed it, but i still think about what i removed. i like some of the dropped poses and some of the dropped dialog isn’t even redundant with what i have put in past annoying pathetic snake comic strips.
too many dumb snake comics these days. i have let the dedicated side-site for them fall out of date again (now amended), and still without investigating the elephantitis of its navigation links (still still)