My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE

“THAT’S RIGHT TWAS I that set the house ablaze!!!”

Dying.

Every fucking time I know what’s at the bottom and every time I still lose my shit.

I’m so happy this post is back again asdlkfjsa

HAPPY TEN YEARS TO “TWAS I THAT SET THE HOUSE ABLAZE”

@hellsite-hall-of-fame @hellsite-hall-of-girlfriend

2 million

2 million f☆☆king notes.

How

Heritage post

Literally me in every RPG I play. 😅

Kontent

Theres no fukin betterer way zum flyen.

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

Many more of my science cartoons are here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Dog Breeds of Thedas

Real version with BLOOD under the cut

My zine piece for LTLT

Moros

Small Thanzag romance dialogue/scene redraw… ^_^ I need to get it out of my system huhu 

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

I have been waiting for this post all my life.

They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?

My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century

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Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long

Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.

The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue

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While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

Hirple - To limp or walk awkwardly

Cirple - An old Scots word for the hindquarters of a horse

“Roses are red, violets are purple,

My boner for you has caused me to hirple.”

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DYING. I AM DYING.

Calling theshitpostcalligrapher! We need @theshitpostcalligrapher

@kiranovember u better buy this as a commission lmao

Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

in honour of hades 2 being announced, heres a repaint of my fallen angel zagreus

2020 vs 2022

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Going to be posting some of my stuff from Twitter/Instagram! I went crazy over Hades when it first released, and I always mean to go back to it at some point because I miss these characters.

Going to be posting some of my stuff from Twitter/Instagram! I went crazy over Hades when it first released, and I always mean to go back to it at some point because I miss these characters.

a #snowy cartoon from my new book of cartoons REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS. Out now: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

STOP TALKING ITS THE UNDERWORLD PRINCESS!!!