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

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i saw mid 1990s reader rabbit games for the first time recently and this is what came of that
the interface imitation is an afterthought and so the words do not work very well with it, if they work at all.

i was already too old for the original versions of reader rabbit that i was occasionally near during what legally qualified as school for me, so i missed out entirely on the later versions that actually had characters and animation. hence why i cannot read. however my “audience” tends to be 10-20 years younger than me and not necessarily aware of how young i amn’t

Initially I just wanted to draw the dumb mouse misbehaving,

ruining everyone else’s day while calling out “see me!” and i wondered what else was going on. oddly enough while within the target demographic i probably would not have. possibly i was smarter then than now.
With the book theme and the large amount of small, hostile words that dominate official government messaging, i pushed the drawing toward the specific act depicted.

maybe reader rabbit isn’t a fascist but i lack any attachment to the character so i do not mind implying nefarious things.

and ideally this will not lead to any real person meeting the fate reserved for rabble rousing revolutionaries

before leaving i would like to point out that in the old macintosh game i saw in the past, i was under the impression that reader rabbit worked in a mine, but apparently actually OWNed the mine and has acquired a luxuriant dwelling, which includes a custom-made carrot-themed toilet. the branding is appropriate since rabbits don’t actually eat carrots often so possibly if they did it would cause them indigestion and as I know from reading the historical case study Watership Down, rabbits also don’t have very good long term memory so a toilet like this might one them remember the association. That also explains why Reader Rabbit has been repeating first grade for two decades. The only question is why there is so much space between the toilet and the sink. i suppose that means you don’t need to worry about your toothbrushes if you neglect to close the lid before flushing but that is generally a good habit to get into regardless of space allocation.

an extremely ugly drawing of the beaver-type mascot of the buc-ee’s convenience store+gas station chain holding forth a plush doll of itself and spraying blood on the ground out of a gasoline pump while declaring “Everything’s fine! Keep on buying crap!” the background attempts to show oil fields wastefully flaring off but also tomahawk missiles flying past but ALSO a construction vehicle pushing extra buc-ee’s figures into a landfill and these should probably have been several separate drawings

if this picture is a completely ineffectual and unclear protest at least you get to see a gross cartoon beaver, assuming you are into that sort of thing, which i probably would not draw otherwise
in fat this is better liked than my usual posts and considerably better liked than my usual gripey posts and i largely attribute that to the gross cartoon beaver but as long as viewers don’t contact me directly under the impression that i get off to gross cartoon beavers despite a quarter century of internet evidence that i don’t i will take what i can get.

I have heard only nice things about “buc-ee’s” from a frequent patron of that but he also tends to pretend-joke-like “normal” bits of america which we both understand to actually be horrible, but it disturbs me that a chain of combination world’s largest gas station and worthless souvenir store is somehow expanding when the natural results of this sort of consumerism on the world are only becoming more obvious, unpleasant and lethal, never even mind those to whom this was always lethal through a century of toiling in factories and sweatshops for little to no money in order to make trashy low cost american goods that probably get thrown out within a week of being purchased

Apart from that buc-ee’s incorporated is apparently extremely litigious against other convenience store chains with similar names or mascot logos despite it only being called “buc-ee’s” rather than “bucky’s” to begin with in order avoid being charged with copyright infringement by whoever owns the Ipana toothpaste mascot “Bucky Beaver” after which buc-ee’s is in fact named and the mascot more than casually resembles, via the founder being compared to the character as a child, and this apparently isn’t even an obscure fact. Just nobody asks “hey why is there a hyphen instead of a K and then two Es instead of a Y?” Buc-ee’s has also sued to keep a convenience store chain actually called “Bucky’s” but which lacks mascot signage out of texas. Granted I don’t have much faith in the integrity of a company that isn’t from Texas but wants to go into Texas but the point is that Buc-Ee’s is a sketch-ee business.

in fact when i tried to look up picture of the 1950s bucky now i found numerous pictures of other partially-dressed beaver characters also called bucky and some pictures of the buc-ee’s mascot from persons under the impression its name is simply “bucky” anyway even immediately after spelling the store name the official k-less way.

it was also reported less than two weeks ago that numerous –though not all– Buc-ee’s locations have been given F ratings from the better business bureau but I don’t know enough to say that isn’t a trait common among all convenience store chains. People shop at convenience stores for convenience and, ideally, no other reason. when a convenience store is bigger than a supermarket but still operating under convenience store principles it’s going to be a disaster.

The most recurring compliment i see about buc-ee’s is that its bathrooms are clean. It’s bathrooms are SUPPOSED to be clean! I would be more impressed if their car fuel was clean. Not having human waste smeared on the walls should not be a difficult obstacle to overcome.

unless buc-ee’s is cheating out its competition for being secretly run by skeletons I am not impressed.

facebook’s unrequested AI scan got to the point this time. there is of course no alternative to submitting to an obnoxious ai-scan when posting images on a billionaire-owned platform. maybe it is training the machine on my drawings but generally this is training that will only sabotage the “work” of sleazebags who think they are entitled to have the computer illustrate projects for them.

i saw some racist-justifying dopesial media account try to claim that shoplifting causes “food deserts,” like “some of YOU people steal so the GOOD HONEST CORPORATIONS THAT NEVER EXPLOIT ANYONE have the RIGHT if not the OBLIGATION to not sell food to ANY of you.” but i am in southern connecticut, very much not a food desert –in fact i almost wish it was more of one so a kfc might appear within 30 miles–, and I have only seen more and more stix and snack brands infecting non-snacks on the shelves over the years. anything to replace food with extra packaging or additional ostensibly edible ingredients that aren’t food. and prices still go up and the store i go to most regularly is still set to close at the end of the year.

this never happened. lunchables predated disney in being so bad at remaking itself that people who pay and get paid to be idiots regard the old bad lunchables as classic and original rather than a corporate trashtardization of stuff that used to not belong to a brand and oh joy they’ll still SELL the old ones to you at full price praise the lard. Lunchables at least are cheap but consuming them as children is probably more likely to give you health issues as an adult. Unless we consider lifetime membership in a mediocrity cult as a health issue. *I* do but “we” generally don’t. presumably the writer who claims lunchables used to be good is an adult but i doubt that person will be believing it into old age assuming it is possible to live that long if you grew up eating lunchables.

what’s that? our fascist us government bombed iran and mostly killed civilians because israel told them to? yes of course they did. they hate brown people, women and queers. iran also hates women and queers and you’d think they could all bond over that but unfortunately pigment. nevermind the shared culture of god forbidding bacon and mandating stupid hats, your skin is just a slightly different shade so that’s that. hey did you know that Islam actually considers Jesus Christ as a prophet but Judaism doesn’t? Yeah but they probably mean dark-skinned short-haired Jesus so the pretend christians in america who consider empathy, forgiveness and charity to be sins needn’t bother themselves with it.

jesus shows us what greatness is by blocking supermarket aisles so we can’t get to the lunchables

(I suspect that one of those link icons on the upper left has its data entered improperly which is why i can’t get them to go where i want and also why this comic strip image is trying to show up at full size but only on the front bimshwel page and not in the sub page version where i did not try to add an extra link icon when I was fiddling with them last month since I was having so much trouble doing that)

a very condensed version of a particular recurring complaint to hopefully make me shut up about it at least for a little while
friend and foe alike have commented elsewhere to make clear that they still deal with/are anti-fact shills as bad as the foremost source material for this HAD been so maybe that at least for now they aren’t or at least do not appear to be to the degree they had been represents a more positive shift overall than I have felt like it is.

of course the “foe” in this case seems to varyingly lack reading comprehension entirely which makes me wonder if it is an automated account or a human who trusts automation above its own humanity, and certainly anyone else’s. the inability to understand or unwillingness to put forth effort to combined with unwillingness to admit weakness is also a driving factor in ai-generation usage, which also leads to more grandiose, harmful and stupid misunderstanding
possibly i confused viewers by having the perching creature be smiling. i presume its job is specifically to encourage the typer to issue angry rebuttals, and not trying to issue “ho ho, trump is FINISHED this time!” style worthless premature gloating, though a different person than the one pictured here purported to be “in full agreement with” it, despite it not having expressed an opinion, so i assume its behavior was interpreted in such a manner. Life sure is fun when there is no single way i can not communicate what i want to effectively!

some people cannot seem to do anything right

a rather on the nose piece that i made without even the usual scant planning but i may still have found a way to make my meaning confusing.

i thought about how when i got “political” in the past, shills with nothing of value to say accused me of depicting “strawman” so i made the speaker here be a scarecrow since that is about the level of leadership we presently have anyway

now that i have posted it in a few places i think it may be weirding out the persons who i thought might appreciate it, but foremost i make these because i feel internally compelled to, regardless of how many marks they miss.

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.
the supposedly “engraved” bullets that somebody wrote on with a pen and then kash patel took a phone picture of and posted to twitter outside the usual protocol for handling evidence at a crime scene. and our biased liberal media ran the story of this bullet’s magical discovery without questioning it at all.

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

it often talks too much for its own good but it thinks too much about completely worthless topics for anyone’s good also

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.

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 made sense when i went to bed last “night” and maybe it doesn’t but I managed to dwell on something that might not make sense for less than a day which might constitute a form of progress.

i used to end up at a lot of bad local comedy shows because my brother was involved with them, and the worst comedians invariably became his close friends and also had the worst opinions. None of them have been recruited into the government as of this time but surely that is something to aim for.

then i eventually remembered that fringo and the belligerant gnomes and their preferred hang-out spot were directly inspired by having to attend those comedy/band shows and the awful people i encountered there, so i might as well have drawn fringo as the comedian here. plainly i was going for the same traits. The gnomes may have slightly elevated senses of fashion.

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)

march 31 supposedly was “trans day of visibility,” and as it usually goes I did not know there was one or that it was coming, and so was unprepared.

I also do not know if i properly qualify as “trans” but i absolutely have trans-like issues via preferring ambiguity, on account of not believing that i would be accepted as a full trans person, which a good many people and systems who don’t know me [and a few who sadly do believe that they know me would] still scorn me for, and i also hate to be seen, perhaps in large part due to those issues, so here comes this

on further reflection it isn’t all that different from this idea except i spent substantially less time drawing it and no longer share a bathroom with other people’s toothbrushes

Today’s might have communicated its message better if i showed the creature driving and going to a store to obtain the potion ingredients and emphasizing how it fares poorly when seen amidst doing that, but I have shown that before also! It didn’t communicate its point well but they never do. I would almost hate to break from tradition if I knew how.