Reminder to all who may be interested! I have a patreon! Where you can help support me and my work!

I’ll be posting stuff there I don’t put anywhere else! Like WIPS, errant process thoughts, the occasional world buildy/ concept journal, and sneak peaks at current and future projects. Sometimes I post stuff there before I decide to post them anywhere else so you’ll get early access to some thing! I will also start putting some roll20 assets I’ve made for my friends at twitch.tv/warpedlamp on patreon as the become available. (For everyone else I’ll eventually be putting a grab bag of most of them on sale on Gumroad for a few dollars.)

I post pages of strange happenings there the moment I finish them regardless of how close or far I am from the public posting date, most of the time you’ll see those before anyone else does. Along with early posts I also post the clean paged without any of the dialogue or sound affects for anyone who might be interest in those. You’ll also see sneak peaks to characters before they’re introduced and, of course, concept work and sketches as you watch me try to figure things out as I do it! In the future I also plan to have a special Strange Happenings related, patron exclusive thing!

I also have things planned for the future if/when I have enough patrons to go about doing them like monthly commissions, a digital sketch book, and sketch polls.

Patrons will also get some sway in what small person projects I work on and finish! So if any of that sounds appealing or you just like like work enough to want to throw a dollar or 2 my way a month for a while Join me at Patreon.com/Nikodraws!

OR! If you don’t have the funds for a long term commitment but still want to throw a dollar or two my way you can drop some change in my tip jar!

ONE TWEET. THIS FIT IN ONE TWEET. IF YOU FUCK IT UP YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.

So much of this.  An apology is NOT “I’m sorry BUT here’s why I’m totally in the right and think I did nothing wrong.”

Heads up I’m moving blogs

Hey y'all I feel a need for a clean fresh start so I’ve moved my side blogs and I’m gonna move my main over to a new username and icon. Brand new, gonna follow a lot of the same blogs but cut back a little (I’m currently following 860) so it’ll still be a big reblog blog.

If you’re a mutual or friend and want the new blog name just shoot me a message or an ask, I may have already followed you over there.

Basically I’ve got something like 60k posts and well over 120k likes here and I’ve had spookyram for like five years or smth and I’m itching for something fresh and clean and different. Idk, I want to feel like this site is a hobby again and not an all-consuming void. I’ve still got important memories here so I’m not deleting, and this blog will remain intact (not that anyone really needs it intact) but it’ll get a lot quieter over the next few days as I transition to the new account. All my sideblogs are still around but may change names eventually too as I come into a new and better understanding of who I am and how I want to be perceived online.

Again, feel free to request the new name if you want!

Like everything in this world this isn’t the end, it’s just a change.

Heads up I’m moving blogs

Hey y'all I feel a need for a clean fresh start so I’ve moved my side blogs and I’m gonna move my main over to a new username and icon. Brand new, gonna follow a lot of the same blogs but cut back a little (I’m currently following 860) so it’ll still be a big reblog blog.

If you’re a mutual or friend and want the new blog name just shoot me a message or an ask, I may have already followed you over there.

Basically I’ve got something like 60k posts and well over 120k likes here and I’ve had spookyram for like five years or smth and I’m itching for something fresh and clean and different. Idk, I want to feel like this site is a hobby again and not an all-consuming void. I’ve still got important memories here so I’m not deleting, and this blog will remain intact (not that anyone really needs it intact) but it’ll get a lot quieter over the next few days as I transition to the new account. All my sideblogs are still around but may change names eventually too as I come into a new and better understanding of who I am and how I want to be perceived online.

Again, feel free to request the new name if you want!

Like everything in this world this isn’t the end, it’s just a change.

Heads up I’m moving blogs

Hey y'all I feel a need for a clean fresh start so I’ve moved my side blogs and I’m gonna move my main over to a new username and icon. Brand new, gonna follow a lot of the same blogs but cut back a little (I’m currently following 860) so it’ll still be a big reblog blog.

If you’re a mutual or friend and want the new blog name just shoot me a message or an ask, I may have already followed you over there.

Basically I’ve got something like 60k posts and well over 120k likes here and I’ve had spookyram for like five years or smth and I’m itching for something fresh and clean and different. Idk, I want to feel like this site is a hobby again and not an all-consuming void. I’ve still got important memories here so I’m not deleting, and this blog will remain intact (not that anyone really needs it intact) but it’ll get a lot quieter over the next few days as I transition to the new account. All my sideblogs are still around but may change names eventually too as I come into a new and better understanding of who I am and how I want to be perceived online.

Again, feel free to request the new name if you want!

Like everything in this world this isn’t the end, it’s just a change.

Heads up I’m moving blogs

Hey y'all I feel a need for a clean fresh start so I’ve moved my side blogs and I’m gonna move my main over to a new username and icon. Brand new, gonna follow a lot of the same blogs but cut back a little (I’m currently following 860) so it’ll still be a big reblog blog.

If you’re a mutual or friend and want the new blog name just shoot me a message or an ask, I may have already followed you over there.

Basically I’ve got something like 60k posts and well over 120k likes here and I’ve had spookyram for like five years or smth and I’m itching for something fresh and clean and different. Idk, I want to feel like this site is a hobby again and not an all-consuming void. I’ve still got important memories here so I’m not deleting, and this blog will remain intact (not that anyone really needs it intact) but it’ll get a lot quieter over the next few days as I transition to the new account. All my sideblogs are still around but may change names eventually too as I come into a new and better understanding of who I am and how I want to be perceived online.

Again, feel free to request the new name if you want!

Like everything in this world this isn’t the end, it’s just a change.

Heads up I’m moving blogs

Hey y'all I feel a need for a clean fresh start so I’ve moved my side blogs and I’m gonna move my main over to a new username and icon. Brand new, gonna follow a lot of the same blogs but cut back a little (I’m currently following 860) so it’ll still be a big reblog blog.

If you’re a mutual or friend and want the new blog name just shoot me a message or an ask, I may have already followed you over there.

Basically I’ve got something like 60k posts and well over 120k likes here and I’ve had spookyram for like five years or smth and I’m itching for something fresh and clean and different. Idk, I want to feel like this site is a hobby again and not an all-consuming void. I’ve still got important memories here so I’m not deleting, and this blog will remain intact (not that anyone really needs it intact) but it’ll get a lot quieter over the next few days as I transition to the new account. All my sideblogs are still around but may change names eventually too as I come into a new and better understanding of who I am and how I want to be perceived online.

Again, feel free to request the new name if you want!

Like everything in this world this isn’t the end, it’s just a change.

Heads up I’m moving blogs

Hey y'all I feel a need for a clean fresh start so I’ve moved my side blogs and I’m gonna move my main over to a new username and icon. Brand new, gonna follow a lot of the same blogs but cut back a little (I’m currently following 860) so it’ll still be a big reblog blog.

If you’re a mutual or friend and want the new blog name just shoot me a message or an ask, I may have already followed you over there.

Basically I’ve got something like 60k posts and well over 120k likes here and I’ve had spookyram for like five years or smth and I’m itching for something fresh and clean and different. Idk, I want to feel like this site is a hobby again and not an all-consuming void. I’ve still got important memories here so I’m not deleting, and this blog will remain intact (not that anyone really needs it intact) but it’ll get a lot quieter over the next few days as I transition to the new account. All my sideblogs are still around but may change names eventually too as I come into a new and better understanding of who I am and how I want to be perceived online.

Again, feel free to request the new name if you want!

Like everything in this world this isn’t the end, it’s just a change.

#SaveTheTrees

I feel like an important message is trying to be communicated to me but I have no idea what it is

Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! This is super useful for so many things, especially paper production! In addition, hemp takes in carbon dioxide 4x as fast as trees do, which makes it especially valuable in the act of reducing CO2 emissions/greenhouse gases! 🌲🌲🌲 source 

#the scope of the anti-hemp conspiracy in the united states is terrifying once you start doing research tbh#like it was initially smeared/banned bc lumber lobbyists pushed for it to be…#and a major smear tactic was to associate it with black people#who now a hundred years later are the ones primarily being imprisoned for it#and the plant itself has now been inextricably linked to the drug so people won’t even allow for it to be grown for commercial purposes#like paper making (via literallyfuckeveryone)

Important reminder that industrial hemp can’t be used as a recreational drug, so if anyone tries to pull that card you can just stop them then and there. There are no real arguments against using industrial hemp, even if you’re rigidly against the legalization of any recreational drugs.

AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I never see pro-hemp on my dash, woo!

Usually the argument on why you can’t have hemp is because then people will hide marijuana in it.

yeah, sure…. if they want shitty, shitty marijuana.

It would be like growing sweet corn and dent corn together.  Yeah, they look similar at a distance and they’re closely related, but you don’t want them next to each other as they’ll cross pollinate and you’ll end up with bad versions of both.

Same deal here.  a patch of marijuana grown in an open field of hemp IS going to get contaminated and it’ll lower quality of BOTH crops.  Your hemp farmer doesn’t want that and if likely going rip out any patches trespassers try to add for same reason. 

and the big issue is not even the THC content.  Because most quality marijuana is intended to be grown indoors or greenhouses, its a dwarf variety. Short.  Fiber hemp is bred for height so as to maximize fiber production.  super tall. It’s going to be really obvious, really fast if you’ve got both in the same field even before you get to the point of pollination. what’s this runty bullshit doing in my field?

They also have different growing needs with regards to spacing, harvest time, etc. so the argument that you can hide marijuana in industrial hemp fields are basically bullshit.

anyway… aside from paper, hemp fiber can also be used to make earthquake resistant concrete that’s actually LIGHTER than conventional concrete while being stronger. It’s better at resisting flexing or warping, so ideal for stuff like bridges and highway supports as it’ll better resist large temperature swings and vibration. (”hempcrete” is slightly different, but makes great fire resistant insulation)

You can also use the waste after fiber harvest for animal fodder, including silage. Comparable to corn. and remember, that’s the waste after you’ve harvested for fiber!

Just to add, it can be used for paper, concrete, insulation, cloth and rope (both rough like sack cloth and smooth like cotton), bio degradable plastics (oddly same for banana trees I believe) and then of course for things like fishing lines and nets etc.

It’s a very versatile and useful plant that has been used for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years for material uses, and with modern advances is becoming even more useful thanks to chemical engineering and similar.

Biodegradable plastic folks. Why is that important? Because of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

is anyone else just going through life like “yeah i just gotta get past this last difficult week and then it’s smooth sailing from there!” but like… every week

Ross didn’t deserve to have friends

always remember that american schools are not concerned with truth but with americanization. if it were concerned with truth, it wouldn’t be still be teaching that abe lincoln was some kind of messiah who came to the rescue of black people. 

Learn something new everyday

Also the term “race riot” or “riot” does two things. First, it fails to place culpability on white people who are perpetuating the violence because a “race riot” doesn’t specify which race. Secondly, it allows the word to be demonized in a slight manner.

Both of these affect how people of color treated when they engage in the same activities because we’re honestly trying to make room for us to simply live without hindrance.

The U.S. is okay with white folks rioting and causing mass destruction because we’ve taught that they had righteous reasons to be committing such acts.

me trying to tell a joke

i’m travis excitedly looking around trying to figure out where the fuck the joke is going

During the 15-hour Senate filibuster on gun control, there were 38 shootings that killed 12 people and injured 36 more across America. 

That roughly translates to one shooting per every 23 minutes.

Oh wow…

whew

IF YOURE EGYPTIAN AND LGBTQ+ GET OFF ANY QUEER DATING SITES, THE POLICE ARE TRACKING AND HUNTING PEOPLE DOWN AGAIN. DELETE YOUR ACCOUNTS.

This is very real.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/amp/human-rights-groups-urge-egypt-halt-crackdown-gays-n806641

current as of oct 2nd 2017