elfbiter

'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5720

It's hard to believe the first Cubetown visit was like 800 friggin' comics ago, holy crap. Time does weird things when you draw a comic every day for 20-odd years. As I recall, at this point I was still trying to figure out if QC would switch solely to focus on Marten and Claire's Cubetown adventures, or if I'd split the focus between Cubetown and Northampton. I ended up doing the latter, which I think was the right choice. Too many fun characters to just leave behind like that! And of course then I immediately added like four new ones, and then Anh basically took over the comic for a year. Is Sam still going through her goth phase? IS it just a phase? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (I will do whatever seems funniest at the time)

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5720

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, December 10, to midnight on Thursday, December 11. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33942 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 15

How are you doing?

I am OK.
9 (60.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (40.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
6 (40.0%)

One other person.
6 (40.0%)

More than one other person.
3 (20.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

ffutures

This is a new bundle of role-playing material for the introductory RPG / Story telling game Magical Kitties Save The Day from Atlas Games:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/MagicalKitties

Atlas Games have published some very good introductory RPGs and story telling games - this one is very much in that genre, with some fun supplements for different settings and styles of play, from film noir to alien invasions. It's never been offered in these bundles before, it's cheap, and it's being run to promote a forthcoming kickstarter for a superhero rules supplement. Better buy it, or Streaky the super-cat will spit hair-balls at you at mach 5...

twistedchick

A few thoughts for the week, on alligators, dementia, and lonely MAGA men. (let them continue to be lonely.)

reapermum

I changed my mind about what today's picture was going to be. I went shopping in Lichfield this morning and in the big supermarket they had a postbox topper. It's quite simple compared to many but still a nice one, three or four trees on top and a few snowflakes round the edge.

The picture's not very good, the background is too busy, but you can get the idea.

twistedchick

Times are trying, but my cats are on the job.

Sweetie, who now looks like a furry tabby bowling ball with legs, comes downstairs to support my efforts when I'm on the weight bench. She has learned not to walk under the moving parts (the weights) when they're moving, which means I don't get a cramp letting them back down sloooooowly to avoid her. And she tells me she loves me and would I skritch ... there? Ohhh thanks. And asks to be let into the storage room to check for mice. Why would I say no to that?

Zoomy doesn't do that, but he has taken to shoving his favorite toy mouse under the bedroom door for me at night, so that I will have it to play with if I want or to sleep with. (I don't, but he doesn't understand a lot about humans yet. He's only about 18 months old.) I give it back to him in the morning, and then find it again later. He also curls up (during the day) next to me and sighs and sleeps with only a little whuffling snore. (I'd let him sleep here at night but it would screw up my breathing; he sheds a lot. A lint roller is a must with him, for use on anywhere he's been lying.)

questionable_content_feed

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5719

A Bembo comic! Man I love these. IIRC, the whole idea for Bembo started off on twitter when I went on a bit of a "dumb barbarian but not in the way you'd expect" style of shitposting spree. Then later that year I needed some filler comics for the week between xmas and new year's so I decided to turn some of those posts into actual comics. And then it became a semi-regular thing! They're very fun and I hope to do more in the future. Bembo is obviously heavily indebted to Oglaf, a comic I adore. Go read Oglaf, unless you don't like cartoons with tits and wieners in them I guess.

Every time I see one of these old comics I think "man, remember when QC was about indie rock lol." Also remember when I used to make jokes about the size of Faye's ass but didn't really know how to draw thicker ladies yet so she pretty much looked like every other character, lol.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5719

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, December 09, to midnight on Wednesday, December 10. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33936 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am OK.
12 (50.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
12 (50.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (45.8%)

One other person.
8 (33.3%)

More than one other person.
5 (20.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

reapermum

Yesterday was a decoration I didn't like, today's is one I do. We put it up on the mirror in the hall every year.

I don't know how long we've had the top, wicker ring, it may even go back to my childhood. The lower, felt ring is newer. My sister-in-law made it for us years ago and it seemed to go well with the other one.

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3178/

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

https://xkcd.com/3178/

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, December 08, to midnight on Tuesday, December 09. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33934 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am OK.
14 (58.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (41.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (41.7%)

One other person.
8 (33.3%)

More than one other person.
6 (25.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

ffutures

This is a new bundle of independently-produced material for the popular Forged in the Dark rules-set, also including Blades in the Dark, the game that originated the system. Blades... has been in several previous bundles, the others are new.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Forge3rd

The mood of these ranges from zany comic-book comedy to gritty crime realism, heroic and not so heroic fantasy, and far-futures cyberpunks and transhumans. If you like more than one of the genres it's worth buying the whole bundle, you'll save money.

reapermum

It's amazing what you see in the shops to decorate your home for Christmas. I saw these last year, about 1.5m tall and horribly expensive. And even if I had been tempted to buy them I don't have anywhere in the house where they would fit and look good.

questionable_content_feed

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5716

lmao that the first comic to pop up when I hit the random button on my site was Faye saying "why's there always gotta be new people"

Looking back at this year, I feel like Anh basically took over the comic? It's wild how it's always the unexpected ones who have the most juice. No offense to Ayo, who is also plenty juicy and I also love writing. But Anh's a couple orders of magnitude more of a mess. But THIS comic is about AYO! Who is a delightful little idiot and I can't wait to do more with. OKAY THANKS I LOVE YOU ALL BYE

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5716

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, December 7, to midnight on Monday, December 8 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33927 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 28

How are you doing?

I am OK
14 (51.9%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
13 (48.1%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
11 (39.3%)

One other person
12 (42.9%)

More than one other person
5 (17.9%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

reapermum

The Second Sunday of Advent always seems to get a photo related to the readings (often large road building machinery) and this year is no exception. The first reading starts with a "shoot from the stump of Jesse"

This inspired a lot of images of a family tree growing from Jesse and going up the generations to Jesus. This version is a window in the Collegial Church at La Romieu in the Gers, south western France.

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Poll #33926 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am okay
14 (60.9%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
9 (39.1%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
8 (33.3%)

One other person
11 (45.8%)

More than one other person
5 (20.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

reapermum

Happy St Nicholas' Day. He was a bishop in 4th C Anatolia and is patron saint of sailors, pawnbrokers, students, repentant thieves, and children. Apparently he left gifts anonymously to parents to provide doweries for their daughters so that they wouldn't be sold into brothels. And that's why he became a source of Christmas presents as Santa Claus.

The stained glass was designed by one of the pre-Raphaelite painters working for William Morris, and is in the 14thC parish church in Tamworth.