Traveling mushroom and his trusted cat

For the Guardian

p.s. my new book Revenge of the Librarians is out now in English, French and Spanish: www.tomgauld.com

When it comes to relationships, give yourself (and others) a chance. You can't be sure that others will leave or find you unlovable or "weird" the moment you'll start showing your true self unless you try (and even if they would, it doesn't mean they won't accept you. And if so, better people will come); and tbh even people pleasing won't save you: your mind might tell you otherwise, like "I'm always doing/saying what they want and therefore they need me/cannot hate me or leave", but the thruth is they can actually leave anyway. You cannot know if someone cares or not if you never ask for help/try to be vulnerable but try to do everything on your own (you know, trusting and vulnerability are a strenght sign, much more than being so independent); you cannot be sure that you'll be forever alone, unless you keep fearing to be abandoned, not be vulnerable and real (which is kinda needed in an healthy relationship, no matter what your emotionally immature/unstable caregivers have taught you in your childhood), and not putting yourself out there: you're the one blocking yourself. And if you feel like you cannot do it alone, you cannot sort this childhood trauma on your own, seek for help. Do it for yourself, and nobody else. You deserve to experience a good life and healthy relationships.

(through gritted teeth) i love being out of my comfort zone it is necessary for my personal development

They're having fun! The bumblebees are having fun!

A comic (?) about my love of weird little bats for this halloween

A cartoon from my new book, REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS which is available now in English, French and Spanish from good bookshops. 

Details at tomgauld.com

You know, watching Goncharov entirely through the medium of tumblr posts shared by people I follow isn’t significantly different from how I experience a lot of media these days.

Goncharov, House of the Dragon, equally real to me.

Also, it's teaching me that I can Iove tumblr discourse and creativity about a media thing I'm interested in as much if not more as the thing itself.

is goncharov (1973) really that much less real than whatever show the destiel bloggers have been watching with their extrasensory perception for 15 years

bed bath and behind you

bed bath and beware

bed bath and from the beyond

ATTENTION NEW TUMBLR USERS: This website is different from twitter and there are actually four (4) things that every blog needs. Go to the woods and fetch the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold

Driving through the rain with my daughters tonight, I was reminded that the three of us are the same kind of thing when the audio (Maddy put on the new Into the Woods cast album) went, "I'll see you soon again... I hope that when I do..."

And in unison, as if we had learned our cues, we three all sang, "It won't be on a plate".

Ah, sorry. Excuse me. My cat needs to take a nap on your dash a moment. Just step over him.

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

if i was the joker id just get a restraining order on batman and superman whataere they gonna do? break the law? then theyre no better than me, a cold blooded murderer. and this would 100% work, because superheroe movies have the shittiest takes on ethics since fucking kant