Carla Speed McNeil
@carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social
I draw comics. I write things. I make miniatures. I teach sequential art. They/them, demi-femme. Currently, everything's on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/carlaspeedmcneil/collections
I am honored to announce that in cooperation with the Toth family, I will be working on the official Alex Toth typeface in the coming months. The plan is for this to be a commercially available font via the official Toth estate. Stay tuned for updates.
Maybe tomorrow, definitely by Friday, the length of day will be juuuust under fourteen hours. Creeping steadily towards cooler weather and the equinox.
“Step by step, all the happy saints go marchin’ in. If a saint step out of line, he’ll have to start again. ‘Cause Jacob’s golden ladder gets slippery at the top, and many a happy-go-lucky saint has made that long long drop.”
Carla Speed McNeil@carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 17h agoAll that said, might be time to go back to THE WIRE. Corruption as a theme might be too much for me right now, we’ll see.
At some point Gilligan decided Walter had been a horrible person the whole time, and his virtue was pretty thinly spackled over the surface. But leading the audience is what he and his team do brilliantly.
Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego)@englishmansdcc.bsky.social · 20h ago(...in much the same way as I think Vince Gilligan wanted to do the thought exercise of starting with a good, honourable man and, minute by minute, go through the shades of white to black, just to test how far an audience would follow him, thinking he's still decent and redeemable.)
It was a pretty good opening, in a cribbed-from-Roald-Dahl kind of way. At the time I thought it was a charming homage to one of the savages of kids lit.
iisaw@iisaw.bsky.social · 21h agoI bought the first three books in hardback in England, back when everybody was going nuts about them. I read them all because they were expensive and I felt I was wasting the money otherwise, but I never read another one. I actually liked the opening of the fist book, but it went steeply downhill.
Harold Pinter and the Goblet of Fire. "Harold looked at Dumbledore. "You cunt," he said. "You're just a cunt, aren't you? You useless, grey-bearded cunt." Dumbledore said nothing. Harold Pinter said nothing. There was nothing to say."
I never thought of an AI prompt before but "Rewrite all the Harry Potter books so that the lead character is socialist playwright Harold Pinter" has me wanting to download ChatGPT for the first time.
New pages of SETTLERS OF THE STORM WORLDS in glorious full color, hand-made, no AI! $1 gets you everything, but there's plenty free stuff too. LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, set in THE TWILIGHT ZONE, meets SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES? www.patreon.com/carlaspeedmc...
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“Potato fruit” sounds like it could either be an archaic insult or a beloved children’s book character. “Banana oil” or “Holly Hobby”?
Thanks, Howell, for signing up as a paid member! I really appreciate it, so here, have a previously unseen sketchbook page. www.patreon.com/carlaspeedmc... New story pages of SETTLERS OF THE STORM WORLDS tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern, hand-painted, no damned AI!
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11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Today's EMPOWERED vol. 12 webcomic page revisits the climactic act of vol. 5, but in an (arguably) "warmer & fuzzier" manner: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume...
Really satisfying vid. And that method of putting down masking fluid works like a mofo with the right mask— Grumbacher’s Miskit is great. I can see some I’ve used being too gunky, drying too fast.
Tiff Hudson@tiffhudson.com · 3d agoThat was so awesome!
No idea! I guess we could ask. Who knows, even caterpillars turn to goo inside the chrysalis.
Woodrow Phoenix@mrphoenix.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is what I was wondering about. I guess the plastic film holds it together when she sprays the back but how does the inked surface not turn to mush when she repeatedly sprays/wipes the front?
Dunno, I am new to the field of preserving ephemera. But they know what all those posters were made of, and with, and how; knowing your materials is always step one.
@kim-mn.bsky.social · 3d agowell, that was satisfying! But how can they possibly use all that water and not have it completely disintegrate?
Such a sweetie, that Nate! youtube.com/@natethehoof...
Nate the Hoof Guy
The videos on this channel offer an insight into some of the situations a hoof trimmer may encounter and the solutions used to resolve those issues. Nate the Hoof Guy (Nathan Ranallo) is owner and op...
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Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3d agotil hoof-trimming videos are a thing (I grew up w/it! didn't know that was video-worthy!)
You just don’t realize how much better off in some ways walking on two toes is than on only one until you get something gnarly stuck in one claw of a cloven hoof…
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3d agooh yeah, lots of cows where I'm from too--they also need care! (though their hooves are quite different ofc)
The satisfaction of watching a hoof guy carve healthy feet out of neglected hooves is one set of vids; watching them carve out cracks and nails and infections, slather ‘em up with disinfectant and then send ‘em out feeling better on half a foot is so crazy
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3d agotil hoof-trimming videos are a thing (I grew up w/it! didn't know that was video-worthy!)
Oh, there’s TONS of it! I never knew cows needed hoof trims too, but dairy farms that want their cows to be healthy as possible bring in guys that do all kinds of wild things to fix their feet. Cows are tough, man, a horse would just explode like a bomb over stuff that milkers just keep walking on…
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3d agotil hoof-trimming videos are a thing (I grew up w/it! didn't know that was video-worthy!)
Edna Mode’s beautiful daughter fixes this shit just right. Honestly, the most mind-blowing part for me was that you can apply masking film with a lettering nib. How many brushes and tools and wimwams have I destroyed with that shit? Let’s say a nontrivial number…
Carla Speed McNeil@carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 3d agoDo you love watching hoof trimming, furniture restoration, jungly lawn clearing? Have I got some video crack for you, watch this HAUNTED MANSION vintage poster restoration: youtu.be/Lnu2Jt4EsE0?...
Do you love watching hoof trimming, furniture restoration, jungly lawn clearing? Have I got some video crack for you, watch this HAUNTED MANSION vintage poster restoration: youtu.be/Lnu2Jt4EsE0?...
Restoring a Ripped Haunted Mansion Poster
YouTube video by Fourth Cone Restoration
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So, to sum up: - some people good, others bad, many tired - cats cute, but also not having any of your nonsense - yay birbs
