Other days, other skies.

New knitting book is here!!

Here's the whole group:

DeeDee is a repainted 1980s "Hispanic sculpt" Barbie head, rerooted with unraveled rib knit fabric yarns, on a Project MC2 body

Shep is a Barbie Extra pet head adapted to go onto a My Scene guy body, spray painted white

Francie is a rerooted Smashin' Satin reproduction Francie head on a modern articulated Kurhn body

Enrique is a Curvy Karl/Daisy head, with sculpted hair and new paint, on a Creatable World body

Here's Enrique!

Enrique is a Curvy Carl/Daisy Barbie head on a Creatable World body. I removed all of the original hair and paint, sculpted new hair from epoxy putty, and attempted to paint the face in vintage style

again, I acknowledge that he's not perfect, but I'm still very happy with how he turned out

As you can see, he's very much inspired by Ricky and not at all a copy, as much because of the sculpt differences as because of my mid tier painting skills

If I were doing this project over again, I would acetone shrink the head before sculpting the new hair, and I might make the eyes smaller. I'm not upset with what I have done, though

(I also want to acknowledge that I understand that the name Enrique is part of the whole Heinrich/Henry name lineage, and Ricardo would have been closer to the origins of Ricky. I like the name Enrique more.)

This video is finally finished! Just over a half hour of background babble to keep you company while you do your own doll things

pssst the Monterey Bay Aquarium workers are unionizing and you can show your support 👇

Haunted is one of my favourite stretches of new characters in G1 so I feel incredibly happy that Vandala has gotten a new head that doesn't have bald spots and nicer eyes than my first one.I gewt really happy seeing my New Scaremester Haunted High dolls and I do hope one day we'll see them again.

This video is finally finished! Just over a half hour of background babble to keep you company while you do your own doll things

Still in absolute awe how good of a pick this head is for this project, it was a hella good vision and the faceup pulled it all together

Obviously it was real cathartic for my overthinking ass to watch you pop right on through a faceup just declaring that going back and forth over a line (blackwhiteblackwhite) is how you do it

I was listening with volume up for once (this was a real relaxing audio) so I actually heard the theme song which took me out at the knees hahaha absolutely loved it laid over the final shots and those outfits!!!

Thank you!

I was worried the head sculpt would be too modern, but I feel like there's something about the process of changing its use from "grown woman" to "tween boy" that sort of...redefined it? Like...I don't know if it would work to paint this same sculpt in Mod Barbie style and put it on a TNT body, or if that would seem anachronistic or incongruous? Or if it really is all in the paint, and that would work just fine (if anyone wants to try that, feel free, or point me to it if it has been done already--I know there are people who like to repaint modern sculpts with vintage style)

If I were to do the project again, though, I would shrink the head first, because it is absolutely enormous compared to vintage dolls. Still: proof of concept!

if you think about it, every time we tranquilize animals to transport them safely to another place, we are the sleep paralysis demon

You know, I love this comic dearly, but ever since I’ve put it out into the world, I realized that

I made a grave error in my script.

A lot of people in the comments have, understandably, tried to correct me on my choice of words, most specifically on this panel:

“And yet a chimp can not learn language the way a human can.”

And I’m here to admit my mistake………….

I forgot to put a disclaimer reminding people that I do, in fact, know what the fuck I’m talking about.

Alright, I know that there’s a fun little factoid that gets passed around a lot - that gorillas/apes/chimps can learn sign language, and therefore CAN do language as well!

And the thing is - no, that’s not actually true. Not in the way you may have come to believe it.

If you want the TL;DR of it:

For further reading, I would suggest the following:

Here’s some reading about Nim Chimpsky, one of the more famous chimps, whose life was pretty horrible and frankly tragic by all accounts, even human ones

Here’s a wiki article with an overview of various ape language experiments and their surrounding issues

And HERE is a very succinct podcast episode that neatly summarizes the entire issue within an hour and twenty minutes:

I highly reccomend this Soup Emporium video on the subject, it covers most of the same stuff the You’re Wrong About podcast ep does but he also talks about those dogs and cats that press buttons to “talk” and specifically focuses on how this whole thing has a lot of fucked up ableist implications that should be acknowledged. Just be warned for mentions of animal cruelty, sexual harassment, and ableism. (I also reccomend his video about Helen Keller which expands on a lot of the ideas about ableism and language he brought up in the Koko one.)

Also stellar comic OP I love it!

and my personal favorite:

i love getting validation as a lefty but also learning about new fun ways it continues to suck

I have to squeeze my fucking wire crimpers with my RIGHT hand because if I don't everything has to be upside-down

Things I have to write on being in 3 Ring Binders.