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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My kids (8 and 5) have acquired and already nearly exhausted an entire tub of air dry clay in a frenzy of preparation for a sprawling future battle: I give you my 8yo's Cat Head Attack Ship, piloted by "babies" whose species was not made clear to me

An air clay sculpture made by an 8 year old boy of a wedge-shaped spaceship with two hollows in it: the first is occupied by two round blobs with eyes, the second (larger) one featuring a fantastically adorable cat head

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Unironic appreciation for a good idea somebody around here had

Flyer for a one-person business advertising itself as "The Little Rat: Depression Nest Excavation" stating "I would be PUMPED to help you reclaim your space by getting it back to a manageable condition" 510 815 9424 is the number, she/they pronouns, rates between $50-150, text for a consult

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I keep a running list of phrases that pop into my head that would make good band names or titles for albums and I just realized what else they're good for

Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek DS9 titled EVEN WARRIORS MUST PRAY

Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek TNG titled NEITHER ANIMAL NOR VEGETABLE

Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek TOS titled FREE MAPS TO GOD'S HOUSE

Title card for an unfortunately nonexistent episode of Star Trek VOY titled EVERYTHING'S WRONG, NOTHING'S FINE

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I feel like I'm being presented with a Final Boss of Pareidolia test to discover how many smiling faces I can see in this apple

A photo of a cartoon mural depicting a cross-section of an apple with a smile; turned on its side, you would still be able to interpret it as a smile because of how the eyes have been done -- look just trust me on this one

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Going through my important files for something and stumbled across this permanent record of the best joke I will ever make thanks to Android emoji kitchen

(Screenshot of a text conversation; I'm eliding the irrelevant bits because I can)

Friend: I'm just here for THE HAUNTED DOG WHAT THE HELL
Me: [an emoji kitchen mashup of the pumpkin + dog emoji, which results in a dog with a pumpkin for a head]
Friend: Perfect sticker
Does ghost and dog do anything
Me: It turns into Forrest Whitaker

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is the year I give trilobites racing stripes because nobody can prove they didn't have 'em

Two ceramic sculptures of trilobites, glazed gloss black with a pair of racing stripes in red + orange and yellow + orange running down their sides; the stripes are admittedly not as bold as they should be, which just means I need to use more underglaze next time

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

How is it 2026 and we're still fucking doing this, you absolute fucking clowns

A headline to an article somehow written in 2026 that reads "The theory that explains Trump's foreign policy" as if we fucking needed an explainer for it at this godforsaken low point in American history beyond "He's a vicious fucking asshole with a decaying brain and the attention span of a housefly that's been struck by lightning"

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go…" This is either going to be spectacular or disastrous depending on whether I'm Bruce or Thomas Wayne in this scenario now that I'm a dad and all

The #1 movie in 1989 was the first Michael Keaton BATMAN, notoriously a story about a crimefighting billionaire whose parents are cruelly gunned down before his very eyes, which is perhaps a worrisome omen for me personally since I'm a dad now

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I lost my taste for posting to my personal Insta forever ago, but I still want to share my weird little guys, so catch me at this new account!! www.instagram.com/forecastfossil

There's a whole subgenre of illustrations from medieval manuscripts that feature heavily-armed bunnies just going buckwild, I think because then (as now) the concept of a usually harmless animal with a melee weapon is hilarious. I thought it was time to start making some, and it turns out they're even better in 3D form; this one is wielding a war hammer and a circular purple shield

This is just a perfectly normal mushroom, a fine example of the classic Amanita muscaria featuring a red cap and white dots that do not in any way bear resemblance to an assemblage of unblinking light blue eyeballs

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In the realm of the purely theoretical, there must be some level of psychic pain that would actually cause Elon to consider his life not worth continuing, but what is it? Is it even possible to achieve? How would you or anyone go about attempting to inflict it??

Do we think Pinhead might know the level of emotional anguish required to cause Elon to consider suicide and what might be needed to inflict it, or is just physical pain more this guy's deal? I never saw Hellraiser

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I GOT TO THIS ARTICLE IN THE FIRST PLACE I CLICKED ON A LINK IN THE FUCKING NEWSLETTER THAT I'M ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT STUPID ?UTM= GARBAGE IN THE URL FOR IF NOT TO TRACK EXACTLY WHERE THE FUCK I CAME FROM YOU LAZY FUCKING ASSHOLES

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Because of a podcast I listen to, I've started saying "YIKES ON BIKES" in conversations (it's so satisfying, friends) but I'm already phasing it out in texts for this perfect emoji kitchen-derived shorthand, please update your lexical maps accordingly

An amalgamation of the grimacing emoji and the bicycle emoji where the wheels of a bike have been replaced by two faces making the sort of expression you'd adopt upon seeing something incredibly awkward and/or terrible

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I MADE TOO MANY LITTLE GUYS AND I NEED YOU TO TAKE THEM OFF MY HANDS THE DISCOUNT IS *INSANE* TAKE CARE OF YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING NOW WHY NOT www.etsy.com/shop/Forecas...

Medieval manuscripts sometimes feature drawings of bunnies armed with melee weapons out to start some shit; here we have a fully-fired ceramic sculpture of just such a bunny, ready to stand guard in your home or garden

The best I can do here is tell you that this is a sculpture based on a literal medieval doodle of a sort of lizard-like animal that has two legs and a hand where its head should be; the hand grasps the haft of an axe as if ready to strike a blow

This is a ceramic sculpture of a black cat with a cute pink nose and triangular ears and perhaps a few too many eyes on its head

What we have here is a ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade finished in a combination of three different colors of underglaze (a purple and two shades of blue) that have swirled and dappled together without mixing, a pleasing visual effect overall

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Why does everybody in the Hayes Valley have this exact dog now, do you get issued one when you move there or something? We saw a half dozen of these walk past us during the dinner hour last night, all the same color even, what's going on

A picture of a doodle dog of some variety (labradoodle, goldendoodle, otherdoodle) roughly the color of dark caramel, exactly the same as the six (6) separate but identical dogs that passed by my wife and me while at dinner outside in the Hayes Valley, a San Francisco district reputed to have been heavily infested with crypto and AI developers in hacker-house hives over the past few years

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Are we going to see more of my good friend Timothy Ocellus tonight in Alien: Earth or what (I know the T stands for something else but I'm pretty sure it should be Timothy)

A very good drawing of the creature T. Ocellus from Alien: Earth, who looks like a fucked-up land octopus with an eyeball where the whole head should be; additionally, it's wearing a top hat, because why not

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Mission accomplished?? Behold the debut of indoor/outdoor all-weather ceramic version of Kleya Marki With A Gun* suitable for installation in garden, potted plant, or wherever else I think she should end up * (Claya)

A small ceramic statue made by a hobbyist sculptor (me) in the shape of Kleya Marki from Andor holding a gun. The relative crudeness of the likeness might make it less of a statue and more of a totem or *invocation* even, but hopefully an observer would be able to put it together once they'd been told who it's based on; the hair and the outfit are distinctive and reasonably faithfully rendered. It is, at the very least, a more interesting object to put in a garden than your standard lawn gnome or what have you

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It's time for innocuous conspiracy theories; mine is that the sparkle pumpkin emoji kitchen combo is being intentionally deprecated because 🎃 + ✨ doesn't give it to me anymore. What's going on out there? Who's afraid of the sparkle pumpkin? Who benefits from its suppression? Follow the money.

Behold the sparkle pumpkin, one of the best creations of the Android Emoji Kitchen (at least in the eyes of a person who uses the pumpkin emoji almost constantly and has taken great delight in discovering the many possible combinations that result from its use), a combination I used to be able to invoke with 🎃 + ✨ and now have to brute-force search in order to uncover. What's happening? What enemies has the sparkle pumpkin made? We may never know.

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

OH C'MON GROCERY STORE SELF-CHECKOUT, NOT YOU TOO

A picture of my purchase total at a grocery store self-checkout, which just happens to be $14.88, the Racism Number

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How is it 2025 and yet someone felt the need to write this stupid fucking thing and waste all of our time, including the time I've spent just now griping about it, holy FUCK

Screenshot of a WaPo headline that reads "4 explanations for Trump's shocking Gaza proposal" as if fucking anyone in the entire world didn't already know the actual explanation, which is that Trump is a stupid piece of shit who has no idea what the fuck he's talking about at any given moment, which means either the WaPo editorial staff is at this point in 2025 so fucking stupid that they don't know we know this OR they're deliberately wasting the time of both their writers and readers and I don't fucking know which is worse

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Behold the essence of the 7-year-old mind's spaceship and EVA equipment design priorities (I love my kids so much, you guys)

A fairly basic single-seater Lego space skiff that's been augmented by my 7-year-old in ways including but not limited to: glowing laser projection spines, a handheld weapon embellished to be literally twice the size of the intrepid pilot, and not one but TWO literal sharks affixed to each of the skiff's wings where stabilizers might go on a more pedestrian craft

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Okay CES smart guys, anybody got a gadget that will keep these fuckers from getting moldy in my fridge after like 36 hours

A photo of some Persian cucumbers, which come in a diffidently-perforated plastic bag that seems to either encourage or at the very least do nothing to inhibit the growth of the mold that invariably takes out the last 2 or 3 before anyone in my house can get to them

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

All right let's really test the usefulness of Bluesky as a platform: can someone tell me where to go in the El Cerrito/Berkeley/Richmond area for The Good Mandu? - Deep fried - Tasty - Doesn't look like the prepackaged kind See attached visual aid

A photo collage illustrating the kind of mandu I'm after: principal differences are that the kind I want are deep-fried, not pan-fried, and are clearly handmade instead of looking like something I would get from a grocery store freezer section -- NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THOSE, it's just not what I picture when I think about The Good Mandu, okay

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I'm at the holodeck I'm at the science lab I'm at the combination holodeck and science lab

Lt Barclay sits in the holodeck amid an array of novel and highly advanced devices he's built himself to tie his brain directly into the Enterprise computer because why not

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've lived in the San Francisco Bay area for over two decades and just now discovered we have tiny little real actual ARBOREAL SALAMANDERS living outside our houses doing arboreal salamander things, looking through our windows probably, who knows

A tiny brown salamander with yellow spots, Aneides lugubris by name, simultaneously looking both alert and guilty as hell after being uncovered by me rolling the compost bin away from the side of the house. Not pictured: a somewhat larger compatriot of the same genus + species who could not be fit into the frame

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Do more companies need to make zero sugar versions of whatever their holiday soda is? YES Did I save this from last winter because I liked it so much? YES Did I just slam the whole thing in like five minutes flat? ALSO YES Did the date on the can say Feb 2024? THANK YOU NO FURTHER QUESTIONS

A can of Sprite Zero Sugar Winter Spiced Cranberry, a limited edition holiday soda that came out in 2023 and was so good I immediately knew I had to save half the case to savor for the rest of the following year, nobody look at me!!!!!

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This idea drifted into my brain five minutes before bedtime and I couldn't get rid of it so now it's time for everyone to see it

A circle of text surrounding a vintage-looking illustration of a rabbit in a dapper olde-tymey jacket of some sort; under one arm he clutches what appears to be a medieval war pick, a truly vicious-looking melee weapon; the text surrounding the rabbit reads "Violence for violence is the rule of beasts"

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I don't know if this is the fortune I want or the fortune I deserve

Close up of a fortune from a fortune cookie that somewhat ominously reads EVERYTHING WILL NOW COME YOUR WAY

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Can somebody do a wellness check on the computer creating the products(??) over at Temu please

An ad for some clearly AI-generated stuff ostensibly for sale on Temu that includes a dress(?) with an all-over print of just the bottom 80% of a cat, a disturbing figurine of a baby chick making a kissy face, and oh! the face of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson seemingly having been cut off the front of his skull and spread flat onto a throw pillow to gurn horrifyingly at whoever's unfortunate enough to wander into a room with this thing on the couch

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

The rumors are true: SHADOW OF THE SKELETON II: WEB OF THE SPIDER has been REMOVED from theatres BY OVERWHELMING AUDIENCE DEMAND for being TOO SCARY 🕸️💀🕸️

Behold once again a doorway illuminated by the sun and yet haunted by the literal shadow of a dancing skeleton decoration falling across it so perfectly it seems to have been somehow orchestrated deliberately (it wasn't), augmented by the shadow of a big fake spiderweb crisscrossing it as if to suggest the skeleton is either hanging the spiderweb or has somehow been caught in it -- interpretation is left to the viewer

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Two of the GREATEST LIVING MASTERMINDS of modern horror pose in front of the latest BRAIN-MELTING ADDITION to their TABLEAU OF ULTIMATE TERROR

My two small kids posing triumphantly in front of the newest addition to the front porch Halloween decorations, a "spooky" fake spiderweb + papercraft spider from Target

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Prepare to perceive the ESSENCE OF HORROR, an image so TERRIFYING it will SCARE YOUR BRAIN OUT OF YOUR OWN SKULL 💀 Just kidding, NO AMOUNT of preparation will save you from THE SHADOW OF THE SKELETON!!!!!

Behold the front door of a seemingly innocuous house, across which -- almost as if planned by some unspeakably sinister force -- falls the almost inconceivably perfectly-placed shadow of a dancing skeleton decoration cavorting with the grim and gleeful abandon characteristic of the restless undead

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Gaze IF YOU DARE upon the most terrifying house imaginable!!!!!! (Quentin and Felix requested "spooky" decorations this year and were Very Specific both about wanting skeletons & spiders AND the poses to be adopted by the aforementioned skeletons)

A picture of my front porch, which has been adorned with two plastic skeletons: one hot pink, one orange. Both have been cleverly suspended from above with fishing line, appearing to have frozen in the middle of a jolly dance upon the low porch wall; the orange one in particular seems to be mid-dab.

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Branding for the wine bar in my neighborhood is impeccable, A+ no notes

Door signage for a wine bar named Banter featuring a drawing of a classical grey alien from the weed posters imbibing a glass of wine and flashing the peace sign with its free hand

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

"You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?" I'm only up to ep04 but am confident Abby Howells could get the job done solo

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

My 6yo kid came home from a birthday party with a goodie bag that included temp tattoos and I cannot for the life of me figure out where anyone could put these eyes that wouldn't immediately induce the atavistic screaming horrors

A sheet of dinosaur-themed temp tattoos that inexplicably includes a pair of sparkly anime eyes that seem like they would be utterly terrifying to add to anyone's body in any location

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

IT IS TIME FOR MORE TARDIGRADES

Ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade painted in wild multicolored spots

Ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade finished in reflective silvery mirror glaze

Ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade finished in glossy jade green

Ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade covered in nazar amulet emoji

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

My in-laws have a subscription to the print magazine and I think we're all going to have to physically fight each other to be the ones to keep and frame this cover

The cover of the next issue of The New Yorker, featuring a courtroom-style drawing of Trump getting put in handcuffs with just the tiniest hands imaginable

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Wait, actually THIS is its true final form, nevermind what I said before

Two-year-old Metron sits on his Mobius Chair cruising the infinite void of interstellar space

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

I took this photo of Felix months ago and only just now realized what it needed to be complete

A two-year-old boy sits in a rocking playground chair, facing the camera

With the addition of stunning, publication-level comics artwork, the same boy has now been fully transformed into Metron of the New Gods on his Mobius Chair

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I failed to follow the directions on this bumper sticker but if I see it again I vow to obey

Close-up of a bumper sticker on a blue car that says HONK IF YOU LOVE SNOOPY OR ARE INSANE

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

If there's someone out there who's having more fun with their shop descriptions than me, please introduce us immediately www.etsy.com/shop/Forecas...

A ceramic sculpture of the Star Trek: TNG villain Armus wearing a colorful party hat

"Abandoned on Vagra II by a race of titans who were clearly not ready to party on his level, this unfathomably inky yet unmistakably festive being will be most pleased to be set down in your garden, potted plant, or shelf to amuse and entertain any creature that should happen to wander into his domain. As a glazed and fully-fired ceramic object, no maintenance is needed, but you may want to check his base from time to time for any stray Starfleet officers who might have fallen in."

A ceramic sculpture of one of the purple bugs from the Star Trek:TNG episode "Conspiracy" wearing a colorful party hat

"Why settle for a generic garden gnome when you can have a superior form of life instead? Whether you're gathering with old friends at Dytallix B or simply trying to advance your career in Starfleet Command among a mysterious cabal of admirals who really don't want you to show this thing to your science officer, you'll have a chance to play host to a unique and highly resilient creature who simply wants to party in your garden, potted plant, or any other location indoors or out with no additional maintenance."

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

You don't have to settle for a boring garden/houseplant/living space if you don't want to!! Ediacaran biota! Weird tardigrades! A little guy to hold your fruit! Star Trek friends! This has been my pandemic hobby and now you can have a piece: www.etsy.com/shop/Forecas...

Ceramic sculptures of Ediacaran life forms Charnia and Tribrachidium in black, blue, and earth tones

A small ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade glazed in an array of brightly-colored, overlapping, roughly circular areas

A small ceramic sculpture of a humanoid figure in a red suit with its head missing, upon which an organic lemon rests in place of the head

A small ceramic sculpture of one of the purple "nubbin bug" aliens from the Star Trek TNG season 1 episode "Conspiracy", except it's also wearing a brightly-colored party hat with a red pompom on top

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

I wrote this six years ago having never seen the Pixar movie Cars based on knowledge gleaned through cultural osmosis I have now seen Cars and this question is exactly as existentially horrifying as I thought it might be

WHAT I SAY: I'm fine

WHAT I MEAN: In the Cars universe there are cars and planes. Does that mean there are also submarines? The existence of Sarge, a military Jeep and WWII veteran, seemingly necessitates the existence of contemporaneous German U-boats. But if the Cars universe had a WWII, did it also have a Cold War? Are there sentient nuclear missile subs prowling the depths of the ocean, alone in the cold and the dark, their personalities warping under relentless pressure and endless solitude? Furthermore,

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

The J is backwards, but I need everyone to bear witness to the perfect phonetic logic of my 5yo's spelling of DRAGON

A drawing of a dragon done by my 5 year old son, labeled JRAGIN

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