5,000 followers im about to feed yall advice like 5 loaves and 2 fish

Comedy is the sole genre where more effort isn't always better.

I never begin a comic with an actual joke prepared. Structural planning is powerful, but if there are millions of ways to squander and enhance a joke brought to reality, then only the result is worth my attention.

With few exceptions, I never let the polish of the visuals exceed the polish of the joke. That is like a fancy wrapper with cheap candy.

For the love of God, practice brevity. It's better to leave readers puzzled rather than groaning.

Most importantly, I never complete a comic unless it makes me physically laugh, otherwise there is no reason to believe that others will. This advice carries over to all other genres, where tender emotion must be felt by the author first, if ever the reader.

Thank you.

Starr Andrews 2023 US National Figure Skating Championships SP

Why is undertaker's scythe an actual Scythe unlike the other reapers?? And do grim repaers have their scythes specially made for themselves? What is so special about him that they decided to give him an real scythe?

Undertaker's scythe, revisited

All of these questions have been discussed in my blog before, in some fashion. Perhaps try searching it for stuff like "agriculture" or "agricultural". Or "Undertaker's death scythe" or "Cedric of Rotherwood".

But, for quick answers, I'll break it down like this:

1. That's what he chose. Either that sort of scythe was new technology when he first became a reaper (Cedric of Rotherwood from Ivanhoe parallel) because he's really that old... or a death scythe that looks like an actual scythe is the regulation version that reapers usually get once they complete their training. And he either didn't modify it after turning it from sickle to scythe, or he only modified it a bit, like adding the skeletal details.

Since I think he's very old, and because he was the "epitome" of a reaper, I think this is the only design he would have wanted.

2. It's explained in the manga that once reapers complete their training, they get to modify their death scythes. Othello's sickle is a training version because he never modified it at all. He admits that to Grelle when we are first introduced to him.

Grelle's most-recent modification apparently wasn't made until working with Madam Red inspired the chain saw design. One of the reasons William arrests Grelle is because of this unauthorized modification. That means it's new. Grelle later gets the modification approved. Ronald's modification is also fairly new, probably made just before we meet him, and he had to chat up a lady from the reaper HQ's modification department (or whatever) to get it. Honestly, I think both of them have ridiculous designs for death scythes. Not only is it gruesome to hit a person with rotating blades, but any death scythe that relies on rotation is easily disrupted: we've seen Sebastian stop Grelle's with a wool coat, and we've seen Layla/Al stop Ronald's with what might be regular scissor blades. Ludger might have a similar weakness in the design of his hedge trimmer.

3. At the time, nothing about Undertaker (136649) would have seemed special at all... beyond him refusing to go by his name. I suspect that he's really that old. All the reapers long ago would have probably used death scythes that look like scythes.

What's so special about the (relatively) newer reapers -- like Grelle, Ludger, and Ronald -- that they'd be approved to use power tools as death scythes?

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Hg uh whghh had a dream hhhHH I am playing it ove r andnver in the back of my mindz pls ggive me motivation to dRAW

Jan 26 2023 - first test indicates that rivets are stronger than rivet plus reinforcement tape.

BUT - research shows the tape needs to cure - so setup of multiple tests to check if fluke or truths

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[Jan 31st, 2023]

i'm fairly confident that the succession season four airdate and extended trailer will drop ahead of the last of us premiere on jan 15

Jan 26 - Vacuumed upstairs and ground floor.

Jan 27 - Baked a loaf of challah bread. Finished rolling coins. Partway through the pennies I decided to see how many different year-marks of pennies I could find in the remaining pile. Ended up having to throw a magnifying glass app on my phone so I could make out the years on the more tarnished/dirty/worn coins.

A bit later I had to pause sorting them into 5-coin stacks (in sets of 10 stacks, of course) so that I could make a chart to lay my growing collection of pennies-by-year out on so I could easily tell which years I still didn’t have a coin for:

I am amused to have come across not one, but TWO 1957 pennies while sorting (shocked to have found any from the 50s, really, given just how long ago that was, and surprised by how many from the 60s I had). I am sad-faced that I didn’t find a penny with my birth year (though not sad-faced enough to unroll and sort through the pennies I’d rolled before I started setting them aside). I am also now debating - do I want to keep this little historical collection, or only the 2011 penny (the last year they were struck before being discontinued in 2012). Decisions, decisions.

I seriously need to get my shit together.

I’m so tired of this.. I do everything else right. I’ve been able to work through hell and support my family, I’ve kept my sweet partner, I take care of my animals and my apartment.

I. Just. Won’t. Stop. Eating.

It’s the biggest vice I have I hate it so much I hate being in this body. I felt so much better physically when I was thinner. (Like medically, I’m clinically TooFat.)

I’m losing my 20s to this shit. I’m running out of time. I don’t even want to be stick thin (no offense to other peoples GWs) I just want to fit in NORMAL clothes for a NORMAL sized body.

Idk maybe I need to gamify it again. I lost a lot of weight with my Fitbit. I know most of that was my birth control but I am too scared of going back on it again it made me feel worse than I have last year (categorically the Worst year of my life lol).

AGH. yeah anyway. gonna either try to work or read or maybe play animal crossing idk.

Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko 2023 US National Figure Skating Championship RD

Mr Undertaker, I made a few memes of you today and this one made me wonder... do you realise how handsome you are and that you have many admirers around the globe?

Also, is the following an accurate portrayal of one of your pick up lines?

Have a good day/evening Sir!

happy almond milk year!!

[Image ID: A carton of "Almond Breeze" almond milk. End ID]

Had a nifty dream and I it's just in my head, so many ideas yet have no energy to put it donw