[personal profile] kingstoken's 2025 Book Bingo: Non-Human POV

(I checked this square off my bingo card last time, but this new release arrived with perfect timing, so I'm doubling up.)

Ew, It's Beautiful is the newest collection of cartoonist Joshua Barkman's webcomic False Knees. It contains around 120 short comics, the majority of which were new to me, separated into sections for winter, spring, summer, and fall based on their setting.

The stars of False Knees are usually birds, but there are some cats, insects, and at least a couple of beavers in the mix here. Barkman's art is legitimately beautiful, with a naturalist's specificity and a knack for combining human expressions with realistic animal features, and his writing captures the universal experience of being a small creature in an unfathomably big world. It's full of absurd humour, occasional moments of awe, and recurring bits about the creative process, self-image, and the way friends or family can be on entirely different wavelengths. The comic is where I got my current default icon from, and it almost never fails to bring me a little joy or give me something to appreciate.

3 Comics )
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([personal profile] nanila posting in [community profile] awesomeers Jul. 5th, 2025 06:10 am)
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
([syndicated profile] apod_feed Jul. 5th, 2025 05:08 am)

Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share


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([personal profile] xandromedovna posting in [community profile] fic_rush_48 Jul. 5th, 2025 12:03 am)
I made it to the anchor post! That's it for me, I hope the words find you!
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Originally I wanted John Stewart to be the main protagonist, and I wanted him to be around forty-five. I sat down one day and thought to myself ‘Do I want to do another haunted old man comic? Do I want to do another comic about an older man?’ A lot of my comics seem to be about old men. I was getting notes about how passive John was in the book as well. I was searching for who else could be the protagonist after that, and I had plans for Hal, and I needed somebody who cuts through really well. That’s Jo Mullein. -- Al Ewing

Read more... )
In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off and will be picking up tomorrow.
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([personal profile] casemod posting in [community profile] caseficexchange Jul. 5th, 2025 02:08 pm)
This is not a mistimed April's Fool joke. We are one week out from our assignment due date! Where has the time flown? Perhaps that's another case for a plucky detective to take on…

  • Assignments, including pinch hits assigned prior to Friday 27 June, are due on Friday 11 July at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone + Countdown ].


  • The first batch of pinch hits claimed after the default deadline (that was Friday 27 June) are due Friday 18 July at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone ].

  • Please be aware that if you do not turn in a work and do not default, you may be banned from participating in the next round.

    This exchange allows extensions; however, I will not be granting extensions if they are requested after the assignment due date (Friday 11 July). If you need an extension, please ask before this date!

    Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Our rules and guidelines have information about defaulting and extensions.

    We have deliciously mysterious pinch hits that are available for creating problems to be solved!

    Happy creating! See you in a week. 😅
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    torachan: ryu from kimi ni todoke eating ramen (ramen)
    ([personal profile] torachan Jul. 4th, 2025 09:10 pm)
    1. I had a pretty relaxing day today. Aside from walking up to the store this morning for pie crust and salad stuff, I did not go anywhere and just chilled at home.

    2. I got some of the rhubarb I chopped up and froze a few weeks ago out of the freezer and made another pie. There's still four bags (I didn't divide it that way on purpose but it turns out two bags is exactly enough for one pie).

    3. Ollie is such a cutie pie.

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    ([personal profile] xandromedovna posting in [community profile] fic_rush_48 Jul. 4th, 2025 10:10 pm)
    Where's the kaboom?

    Oh, there it is...anywho, how's the writing going?
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    ([personal profile] xandromedovna posting in [community profile] fic_rush_48 Jul. 4th, 2025 09:50 pm)
    *throws a ticking Post into the Void*
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    ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Jul. 4th, 2025 09:13 pm)
    Tonight we did our home fireworks show. :D These are the things we bought from JT Fireworks Sales in Charleston...

    Read more... )
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    ([personal profile] mecurtin Jul. 4th, 2025 10:09 pm)
    There was a brief but dramatic thundershower yesterday evening, & afterwards when Purrcy came out of hiding he DEMANDED pets, regardless of where I was or what I was doing. As you can probably tell.

    Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stands on a light green bathmat on a terracotta tile floor with glossy green accents, looking back up over his shoulder with an adorably demanding face. His tail is a thwapping blur. A white person's naked foot is barely visible behind him, as though they're sitting down in the bathroom for some reason.

    Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stands on a light green bathmat on a terracotta tile floor with glossy green accents, looking back up over his shoulder with an adorably demanding face. His tail is a thwapping blur. A white person's naked foot is barely visible behind him, as though they're sitting down in the bathroom for some reason.

    Politics has of course been super stressful, I'll write up something under separate cover tomorrow or something.

    Today, all afternoon, I attended the first session of the WSFS Business Meeting, which was as almost as emotionally draining as attending one in person but much more convenient. The Chair, Jesi Lipp (they/them) is a *master* at running a meeting and parsing rules quickly & logically.

    Result for me: the Hugo Process Committee is continuing for another year (including me by default), and also stuff that I insisted on digging out & including in our report conforms to the second part of C.2 Dude, Where’s My Motion?, even though it wasn't required yet & wasn't even aware it was under consideration, just because it seemed so obviously necessary. So I definitely can bask, feeling like I made a real & meaningful contribution.

    I've pledged the family not to overdo it for Hugo Process Committee 2.0, but I *am* going to maybe be the one insisting that we have regularly scheduled meetings & an agenda.
    siria: (the pitt - dr robby swag)
    ([personal profile] siria Jul. 4th, 2025 10:10 pm)
    1 BBY
    The Pitt | ~1000 words | Jack/Robby | Written for the [tumblr.com profile] au-roulette challenge, for the prompt "space opera." Thanks to [personal profile] sheafrotherdon for betaing.

    (Also on AO3)

    A long time ago in an emergency room far far away. )
    senmut: The alien tentacle probe mimics Bud's face (The Abyss: Water Tentacle)
    ([personal profile] senmut Jul. 4th, 2025 08:54 pm)
    1993. I graduated in June of this year, had committed to my late partner (and her husband) that year, got kicked out of my father's home by his wife with his assent before I even graduated, did not walk the stage... Yeah. Ups and Downs.

    28 films, and I actually know I saw most of them in theater, at least half first run and the rest in the cheap second run theater (that had an arcade and mini golf and batting cages in the same complex).

    sure why not do all 28 since I have nothing else on tap? )
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    ([personal profile] torachan Jul. 4th, 2025 06:07 pm)
    Currently Reading
    Murder at the Patel Motel
    39%. This is not actually a book, so much as an audio drama. It's an Audible Original and comes free with membership, so I decided to try it out. Turns out the author and voice of the main character is the guy who played Jack's assistant on 30 Rock. I loved him in that! And I'm liking this "book" a lot so far.

    Just Happy to Be Here
    11%. YA about a South Asian trans girl's experience at a mostly white all girls' high school. It's all right so far.

    Sister Outsider
    No progress.

    Riding the Rails
    48%.

    Recently Finished
    How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
    I felt like this took ages to finish, but it was a good read. Very interesting stuff.

    A Terrible Nasty Business
    I really want more books in this series.

    Sou Iu Ie no Ko no Hanashi vol. 1
    New series from Shimura Takako following three characters who were raised in the same new religion (the religion in the story is not any real one, just based on others), marking them as different from the majority of the population, which is not actively religious. I like pretty much everything by Shimura Takako, so I'm curious to see where this goes.

    Tsumetakute Yawaraka vol. 5

    Hatsukoi no Tsugi vol. 2
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