‘Calvin and Hobbes’ was prescient.
As usual, the hero business is up to me.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
‘Calvin and Hobbes’ was prescient.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
one of the best family activities we do is watching drawing videos on youtube and having everyone try to draw whatever it is. (tonight we are doing calvin and hobbes)
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
one of the best family activities we do is watching drawing videos on youtube and having everyone try to draw whatever it is. (tonight we are doing calvin and hobbes)
Bill Watterson says Hobbes isn’t a doll who comes to life; Calvin sees him one way, everyone else another. He wrote about reality being subjective. This seems a main lesson of his hero Charles M Schulz. Only the kids know how complicated they are. Snoopy IS a writer.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Bill Watterson says Hobbes isn’t a doll who comes to life; Calvin sees him one way, everyone else another. He wrote about reality being subjective. This seems a main lesson of his hero Charles M Schulz. Only the kids know how complicated they are. Snoopy IS a writer.
The Parable of the Sower redefined how I look at the world and my place in it.
To Be Taught if Fortunate changed how I look at all genre fiction.
Slaughterhouse 5 made me into a writer in high school.
Calvin and Hobbes, which I used to read in syndication, is still the text I return to the most.
To Be Taught if Fortunate changed how I look at all genre fiction.
Slaughterhouse 5 made me into a writer in high school.
Calvin and Hobbes, which I used to read in syndication, is still the text I return to the most.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The Parable of the Sower redefined how I look at the world and my place in it.
To Be Taught if Fortunate changed how I look at all genre fiction.
Slaughterhouse 5 made me into a writer in high school.
Calvin and Hobbes, which I used to read in syndication, is still the text I return to the most.
To Be Taught if Fortunate changed how I look at all genre fiction.
Slaughterhouse 5 made me into a writer in high school.
Calvin and Hobbes, which I used to read in syndication, is still the text I return to the most.
That was me Sunday morning before and after I went to the Japanese Garden. I keep remembering that line from a Calvin & Hobbes strip "The world isn't so bad if you can just get out in it."
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
That was me Sunday morning before and after I went to the Japanese Garden. I keep remembering that line from a Calvin & Hobbes strip "The world isn't so bad if you can just get out in it."
The best always from Calvin and Hobbes
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The best always from Calvin and Hobbes
Jim Rugg told us we should be reading Calvin and Hobbes right now, so that's what we're doing.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jim Rugg told us we should be reading Calvin and Hobbes right now, so that's what we're doing.
had a fun art idea last week, though pulling it off DID require putting @emmypup.bsky.social to bed. how hard could it be?
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 AM
had a fun art idea last week, though pulling it off DID require putting @emmypup.bsky.social to bed. how hard could it be?
Imagining Spirit and Allegiant pilots today
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Imagining Spirit and Allegiant pilots today
Fucking love Calvin and Hobbes. The ONLY good thing to come from my parents getting the Daily Express when I was a kid.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Fucking love Calvin and Hobbes. The ONLY good thing to come from my parents getting the Daily Express when I was a kid.
Most Inspirational Male Characters
* Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune)
* Dan Hentschel (Real Life)
* The Joker (The Dark Knight)
* The Joker (Joker)
* Sans (Undertale)
* Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
* The Joker (Batman: TAS)
* Armstrong (Metal Gear)
* Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
* The Joker (Batman 1989
* Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune)
* Dan Hentschel (Real Life)
* The Joker (The Dark Knight)
* The Joker (Joker)
* Sans (Undertale)
* Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
* The Joker (Batman: TAS)
* Armstrong (Metal Gear)
* Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
* The Joker (Batman 1989
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Most Inspirational Male Characters
* Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune)
* Dan Hentschel (Real Life)
* The Joker (The Dark Knight)
* The Joker (Joker)
* Sans (Undertale)
* Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
* The Joker (Batman: TAS)
* Armstrong (Metal Gear)
* Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
* The Joker (Batman 1989
* Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune)
* Dan Hentschel (Real Life)
* The Joker (The Dark Knight)
* The Joker (Joker)
* Sans (Undertale)
* Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
* The Joker (Batman: TAS)
* Armstrong (Metal Gear)
* Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
* The Joker (Batman 1989
I’m rereading the final Calvin and Hobbes collection, and in retrospect, there are a LOT of strips about not wanting to get up for school and wondering if this is how you want to spend your days
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I’m rereading the final Calvin and Hobbes collection, and in retrospect, there are a LOT of strips about not wanting to get up for school and wondering if this is how you want to spend your days
Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!
Today is being very Monday for a Friday. Calvin, as ever, sums it up for me…
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Today is being very Monday for a Friday. Calvin, as ever, sums it up for me…
I grew up with "Calvin & Hobbes", and it seems I was much influenced by the latter's outlook.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I grew up with "Calvin & Hobbes", and it seems I was much influenced by the latter's outlook.