BootPrince 👢👑

@bootprince.bsky.social

Comics, BL, fandom ethnography, and cats 🌟 18+ only 🌟 they/them 🌟 30⬆️ 🌟 a lot of Star Trek lately

you know how in Sailor Moon it's like. if any new trendy product or shop or something pops up you're like DUDE DON'T GO IT'S A TRAP YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR ENERGY STOLEN this is how fun little social media trends feel in the age of AI 🫠

It's never too late to start masking again! We've known that conventions and fests are superspreader events for decades, you don't have to get sick! COVID is still here and leaving so many disabled people isolated from most public spaces. If you don't want that to happen to you, wear a mask!

Cartoonists United@cartoonist.coop · last mo.

As convention season gets underway, a reminder that we have an ongoing masking initiative pushing to make all comic events safer for all of us! 🧵1/3 ( art by @orchiscribbles.bsky.social )

The Co-op's mascots Inkling (an inkwell) and Nibford (a dip pen) are at an art event. Inkling is tabling, they are standing behind a table full of art merchandise- several comic books, pins, buttons and bookmarks. On the table are also some single-use pink facemasks and a bottle of hand sanitizer. A pink banner hangs from the table, it has "Make Events Safer for Everyone!" written on it. Inkling is waving at Nibford. They are wearing a pink face mask made from cloth that has rosy cheeks and a bucktoothed smile painted on it.
Behind Inkling, is a poster taped to the wall. The poster features a happy Inkling wearing a white facemask with deep pink stars and planets drawn on it; and a single-use blue face mask surrounded by stars. On top of the poster, a horizontal light pink banner is pinned to the wall that reads "Cartoonists United Masking Initiative" in magenta.
In front of the table, we see Nibford waving back at Inkling. They are a visitor to the event and wearing a deep pink satchel that hangs from their left shoulder. Nibford has filled the satchel with the event's howls- a leaflet and a book. In their left hand they are holding another book. Nibford is wearing a black cloth mask with pink polka dots on it.

Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one

Instagram screenshot of Cookie Monster trying to eat the NBA championship trophy

You know what, I love little guys, I'm gonna make a thread. Will update every time I think of more 🔽🧵: - Faience Hippo (William) Middle Kingdom. Egypt - Amber Bear. Mesolithic or Proto-Neolithic. Poland - Hedgehog holding bowl. Early Cycladic II period. Greece. - Bowl with feet. Predynastic. Egypt.

Faience statuette of a hippopotamus (popularly called "William"). Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12 (ca. 1961 to 1878 BCE)
Meir, Tomb B3 of the nomarch Senbi II (Egypt)
METThe Amber Bear of Slupsk, Poland. Mesolithic or Proto-Neolithic period (ca. 9600-4100 BCE)
National Museum in Szczecin. Terracotta Hedgehog holding a bowl. Found in Chalandriani, Syros (Greece). Early Cycladic II period (2800 to 2300 BCE).
National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Greece)Bowl with Human Feet. Predynastic, Late Naqada l–Naqada II (ca. 3700 to 3450 BCE). Egypt.
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Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be