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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026

Got back into the Megaraichu Reaction Epilogue. Susan has entered the scene (why was this so hard and still looks so unfinished??)

Screenshot from Inkscape showing a sketch with an anthropomorphic mouse girl peeking in around a wall to look at a raichu-meowth fusion sleeping on the ground. Gray cues (labeled "gitch cubes" in the "layers and objects" panel) are at the raichu-meowth's fusion points.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2026

Got a lot of deadlines around this time so I'm celebrating halloween this year by just... putting a basket on my desk. Two students have put candy into it so far!

An anthropomorphic mouse in a jacket on a laptop with a jack-o-lantern basket next to him. His fingers move over the keyboard, the monitor is reflected on his eyes.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

I don't know if I've shared this on here, but here's my only art of my sona drinking tea... they're both really old from when I was still learning to draw

Colored sketch of a mouse in a blue jacket awkwardly holding a spoon in a tilted tea cup (probably to fish out the tea bag), while talking with his eyes closed.

Hand drawing of three mice at a table with small round ears. A tall female stands, holding a teapot to a short one and asks, "Tea?"
"Please," the short female replies, holding up her tea cup. Across from them sits a male mouse trying to blow the steam off his own cup. A pendulum clock behind them marks the time as ten 'til seven. Though the mousehole entrance can be seen a high shelf.
The drawing is dated Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Reuters projects Lula to win by 2.2 million votes. I hate praying for the lesser of two evils but God I hope it holds.

Reuters: 19:49 (GMT-4).
Lula: 51.2% (48.7M).
Flávio Bolsonaro: 51.2% (48.7M).
77% of sections counted.
50% to win.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

In case anyone's wondering, left: real image. Right, "powered by AI" image. Yes, I'm hoping students learn AI is bullshit with this assignment, but the "AI free search engine" seems to be saying "not so fast".

Joseph Weizenbaum leans back in his chair during an interview in his office, chewing on a pencil. An Amiga is on the desk next to him facing the camera.

AI maniuplation showing Joseph Weizenbaumm, sitting upright leaning a rubber arm on a desk, in a pristine Mainframe room (the mainframe stacks where his office bookshelves were, a curtain replacing his family photos) but instead of the mainframe having a console of any sort, an Apple II (an Amiga look-alike) is on the desk next to him.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Got started on page 3 of the Megaraichu reaction minicomic today, which will star my Missingno.

A Raichu-meowth fusion sleeps, his head in his folded arms, glitch cubes floating on his earlobe, wrist, shoulers and ankles. He wears a bet in which a radio is holstered.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Well here's an interesting fun fact: if you know a pokémon's favorite berry, you can use this table from Bulbapedia to figure out their nature. Rei (Pikachu), for instance, is fond of the Leppa berry, which means she has a Careful nature, while Missingno's favorite is Cherri, meaning Lonely nature

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

It took a year, but I finally finished the second page! The motivation for this is that it always bothered me that the games don't save who the parents are when an egg hatches, so I raised Sparkey with this little mantra so she wouldn't forget …This isn't the first time it's come back to bite me.

"You're going to ask him anyway, aren't you?" asks the pic-chu in trainer clothes as he rinses off a plate on a garden faucet.
"Who?" asks the raichu, twitching the ear with the bow as she rubs soap into a bowl.
"Missingno, to turn you mega," the Pic-chu surmizes. Towering next to them is a Typhlosion drying off a mug.

"How can you even think that?!" asks the raichu holding out the bowl. "Mom said no!" she surmizes.
"Uh, because you only do as you're told about half the time?" the pic-chu quips as he tries to hand off the plate to Typhlosion, who has turned away to pass the mug on down the line.

"But you always said: respect your mother, not me!" The raichu pleads, having handed off the plate.
"I did *not* say 'not me'," the pic-chu counters now holding the bowl, as the typholosion starts drying the dripping wet plate.
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"

"You did," chimes in Typhlosion as he finishes drying off the plate. "I was there every time."
"Who's side are you on?!" cries out the pic-chu throwing a stampy-stampy hissy fit as Raichu looks up in surprize.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I've always wanted to see @raizap.com draw a raichu and @scottderg.bsky.social gave me the chance! Here is Sparkey gazing at the stars, she's always so happy when they come out! Sparkey continues to defy the "totally not an alter" allegations since she cried happy tears throught the whole stream.

A female raichu sits on a hilltop gazing in awe at the stars, her left ear in a pink bow, her atypical pink toe pads exposed.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Today's intrusive thought is the tiktok song that goes "Budew... Budew Budew Budew... Budew Budew Budew-oo! ♫ Budew? Budew budew budew! Budew budew bud-oo!"

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I don't have a lot of rabbit art, so here's a really old one for International Rabbit Day!

A small, tan-colored bunny whines at his mother –a large, gray rabbit– while pointing to three other bunnies: an ochre female with white paws who looks on curiously, a white male with large brown spots who trembles with anxiety, and a completely white male who is rolling his eyes.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

OMG I just realized why Pixar made a dog a main character in "Up"... it's so he coud be the "up dog!" The question has had an answer all this time! The question has had an answer all this time... and no one noticed!!!

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Everyone clowning on Wind Waker's style, but when I woke up today, all I could think of was Spirit Tracks: the Zelda game I always wanted to play and never could, so I had to draw it! I blame the online gamer community for my store not ordering more. They were _aggressively_ anti-train at the time.

The Spirit Engine locomotive from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks being driven by an anthropomorphic mouse in Link's clothes holding onto the edge of the cabin. Unlike in the game, the smoke is shown as a continuous stream being swept away by the wind.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Box Office Mojo released projections for Labor Day weekend, so I thought I'd update the Coyote vs Acme charts: Domestic alone already covers the 30 million tax write off, and worldwide should cover the 50 million Ketchup paid by the end of it!

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Okay, after a lot of thought, I've come up with an engagement game I can _actually_ do. Here's how it works: with one like, I'll tell you what I'd buy with a spare $1. At two, what I'd buy with a spare $10. At three, $100. And so on.

"One like, one thing I'd buy with then times the money" is scrawled out by had next to crude drawings of the one, ten, hundred and thousand dollar bills (all in their 20th century designs). The bills partially cover each other, leaving only a simplefied caricature of Grover Cleveland visible on the thousand-dollar bill.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Coyote vs. Acme box office this week appears to be growing as expected. If I'm right (on average), it should've crossed $50 mllion today, letting Ketchup make their money back!

Bar graph of two stacked bars: Domestic: $25, International: $17 adding up to $40 (numbers in millions) exceeding a threshold labeled "Better than tax write off". Five other thresholds are marked: "Ketchup covers rights cost" at $50 million, "Ketchup covers distribution costs" at $62 million, "Production costs covered" at $72 million, "WB expected distribution costs" at $100 million, and "Superman Returns threshold" just under $140 million. A best-fit linear extrapolation shows the total reaching this threshold on September 23.

Stacked area chart with the same thresholds showing ticket stales started two days before release (august 26 instead of 28) and grew steadily, jumping up on weekends.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Today's intrusive thought was when I wanted to make a series of drawings of "every pokémon can do anything... except Oddish. Oddish doesn't have any arms."

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I forgot to post one yesterday, but here is OC number 5: Missingno!

A pudgy Meowth-Raichu fusion speaks panickingly into a walkie-talkie he's holding with both hands. He wears a tool belt but his knees prevent seeing the tools. He has zig-zagging markings over and under his eyes.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Next free hug is for... me. I've been needing it. And Rei knows it.

A pik-achu with a V-shaped notch in her tail and a pink bow on her right ear smiles down as she hugs a pic-chu who is clinging to her chest fur, his eyes pressed tightly shut. The pichu wears a jacket way to big for him which drags behind him like a dress train suggesting he ran into her arms.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

So... I just bought a new phone after my previous one kinda ... got smashed into pieces, and... there's so much friggin' A.I.!! I specifically bought the cheap "non A.I." version and there's _still_ so much friggin A.I.!! I don't even know how i'm going to _begin_ to disable it all!!

Final frame from the viral video "Kit (from gameoverse) reacts to her fanart"

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Today's intrusive thought is the Humungadunga

Screencapture from episode 67 of the pokémon anime showing a surfer about to plant a flag atop a rock pilar. The still is accompanied by the narration "40 years go, he rode the Humungadunga."

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Further progress on this. I have _got_ to get up earlier

Inkscape screenshot showing guidelines and outlines for a drawing of smiling a pik-achu with a bow on her ear hugging a little pic-chu with crumpled a jacket to her chest. The pic-chu appears to be trying not to cry.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

No data yet on yesterday's Coyote Vs. Acme box office, but I do wanna look at how the graph's grown from pre-release to now. The worldwide growth friday-to-sunday shows a pretty solid trend, which suggests the elusive "must be double or it underperforms" threshold _is_ reachable!

Stacked area chart (international stacked on top of domestic) showing how the total box office sales grew steadily during the pre-release days (August 26 and 27), accelerated during the weekend (August 28, 29 and 30) and slowed down slightly on monday (August 31) to reach a threshold marked "better than tax writeoff" at $30 million. Five other thresholds are marked: "Ketchup covers rights cost" at $50 million, "Ketchup covers distribution costs" at $62 million, "Production costs covered" at $72 million, "WB expected distribution costs" at $100 million, and "Superman Returns threshold" just under $140 million. A best-fit linear extrapolation shows the total reaching this threshold on September 17.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Ran out of time today because, one, i missed my alarm; two, I wasn't sure whether this is what I really wanted to draw today; and three, I spent too long turning the pose around in my head

Screenshot from inkscape showing the guideleines for a smiling pikachu's head as she looks at something on the ground. There is a pink bow on her right ear but it is currently see-through.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Okay, it appears the press has "moved on" from Coyote vs Acme, but I refuse to! Here's what I've been able to gather: the movie exceeded it's tax write-off value _yesterday_ , but the goal should be to double the production cost. I call this the "Superman Returns" threshold

Bar graph of two stacked bars: Domestic: $18, International: $12, adding up to slightly above a line at $30 marked "better than tax write off". Several lines are marked on the chart: $50 is "Ketchup covers rights cost", $62 is "Ketchup covers distribution costs", $72 is "Production costs covered", $100 is "WB expected distribution costs", and $140 is the "Superman Returns threshold" All numbers are rounded to the nearest million.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I'm seeing a lot of articles call Coyote vs. Acme a flop soley off of _Saturday's_ box office! 1, Bryan Singer's "I don't know what constitutes under-performing these days", and 2, we gotta shut them up! See it once! See it twice! Take your family! Take your friends! Hype it up!

Commemorative Million Dollar Bill from 2012 showing the coyote chasing the road runner in front of "Thats all folks!"

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I want to use this thread to rant for a bit on why I did _not_ go to see The Day the Earth Blew Up and _did_ , not only see Coyote Vs. Acme, but did so within 48 hours of its release. Firstly, I couldn't get clear information on when the movie would be in […] [Original post on meow.social]

Movie poster for The Day the Earth Blew Up featuring Porky and Daffy in astronaut suits floating by an eath-sized pink bubble.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

You know, I've been wanting to do this for a while. Let's start running down the diagram!

an anthropomorphic mouse in a blue jacke tpicks at his claws as he looks up ucertainly*

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Fixing some details on C, thinking, remembering, talking with him about it... eventually I decided to give him the markings of my original experimenta design, with slight adjustments, to better tell us apart. C kind of embodies my younger idealism so it makes sense that's "always been there".

A mouse in a blue short-sleved cardigan, butoned up, looks up from a walkie-talkie to turn around slightly towrd the viewer, holding out a clipboard face-down in surprise. The mouse has dark spots on the back of his arms, legs, and head.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

The theater was also only about a sixth full. However! I checked and there's 26 screening rooms within a 2 mile radius and 8 of them were dedicated exclusively to Coyote vs. Acme all day. That's 30% to _one movie_ which is unheard of for an independent distributor!

Mockup of a movie ticketing system of a 90-seat theater showing only the central 12 seats have been occupied. The theater has two aisles: a shorter one ostensibly going to the exit while the longer one simply allows accessing all the rows.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Photographic evidence that yes, I _did_ go see Coyote Vs. Acme yesterday (and used it as an excuse to practice drawovers!) Sadly, the theater I went to had just the one poster so I had to get a bit of a weird angle to take it. Shirt's by @karlkerschl.bsky.social BTW

Photo of a grinning hand-drawn brown mouse in a real t-shirt, jacket, and hat standing before a backlit hanging movie poster for Coyote Vs. Acme. The mouse has a gap in his teeth where his canines should be and the shirt depicts a sparrow landing among its friends.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

and while we're shitting on the "new" MS Paint, Why is this the only thing in settings and why does it default to that?!

Manage your generated work: ✨ Include a watermark when content is AI generated (when saving images created with Copilot). A dropdown menu is set to "Never".

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Probably my second-last update to the diagram, adding Jacob and C., renaming th elevels, and color-coding the arrows to see if that makes them easier to follow (yes, the arrows snap to these positions every time I close the program. If color-coding is as good as I think it is, it should be legible)

Sonas: Mouse, human, Pic-chu; willing TF between mouse and human, curse trigger to pic-chu.
Alters: Kitten (a were-cat), Jason, Jane, Susan & C. (mice), Ms. Rei & Bea (Pik-achus), Missingno (a Raichu-meowth fusion), Evan (an Umbreon).
Main cast: Bonnie & Alvin (foxes), Sparkey-chan (a Raichu).
Recurring cast: Sean (a squirrel), Clara & Bobby (foxes), Camila (a Fairy), Justin (a rat), Silly (a Typhlosion).
Jason calls the sonas "wierdo". Jane calls Jason "Little bro" and the sonas "Hubby". Susan calls Jane "Mom". Missingno calls them "Mistress" and sonas "Master"; they call him "Son". Sparkey calls the sonas "Onii-chan", Ms. Rei "Mama-san", and Bea "Obaa-san". Susan calls Camila "Cammie". Camila calls Jane "Ms. Susan's Mom". Alvin calls Susan "Ms. Jane's Kit", Bonnie, "Sis"; Clara, "But mom…!"; and Bobby, "dad". Justin has names for Evan, Sean and Kitten, but they don't have names for him.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

To commemorate the relese of Coyote vs. Acme, here's the only time I've drawn the Coyote. The last showing in my area for the day is in 30 minutes. Don't miss it!

Wile E. Coyote sits on the central head of Magneton, the tri-magent pokémon, while holding on to the other two, speeding after the Roadrunner, who is attracting them with a magnet hooked around his neck. Coyote's tongue sticks out of his mouth and flaps behind.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Presenting: Conscience, or C for short. He makes sure that ...everything is okay. (That means that if you see him, something has gone wrong, very wrong)

An adolescent mouse in a blue jacket speaks into a radio while holding out a face-down clipboard in surprise.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

It's opening weekend! This might be your last chance to properly stick it to David Sazlav! I'm going today, how about you??

Coyoe Vs Acme movie poster featuring the Coyote standing on Will Forte's shoulders, while he's surrounded by all the Looney Tunes in varios stages of disarray (John Cena and Lara Condor hiding among them).

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Progress today on the second-last character for the diagram. I've never drawn him before and I didn't get enough sleep due to the eclipse but I'm late for work so I'll just have to finish him tomorrow

Screenshot of inkscape showing the guidelines and outlines for the head of an anthropomorphic mouse in the middle of saying something

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This was incredibly hard to take, i think i'm going to bed now

Partial blood moon eclipse, with the lunar north pole still lit in white while the rest of the moon appears red. Stars have been washed out due to light pollution.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Finished the next one for the diagram: Stationmaster Jacob. I fiddled with his markings like you have no idea (how do you all do it?!) Jacob's shape language is rectangles.

An anthropomorphic wolf in a suit and peaked cap holds out a red flag as he looks up from a pocket watch. The wolf has a dark stripe down the side of his nosebridge and another under his eye and white spots on his knuckles.

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

WIP: Further progress on Jacob the statonmaster. Like I said, i'm having a _really_ hard time pinning down his markings. If there's any wolf artists out there, I could use the help!

An anthropomorphic wolf in a suit and a peaked cap holds a flag as he looks up from a pocket watch. He has a stripe extending from his eye to his ear and his nosebridge is white with black rectangles on either side.

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