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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak

@blackmudpuppy.bsky.social

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NYT Best selling cartoonist, salamander enthusiast and aquarium nerd. He/him
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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak's avatar Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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This is your regular reminder that the etymology of the word mastodon is “boob tooth” because a dude looked at a fossil tooth and was like “hurrr bewb”

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I’ve made a mistake perhaps

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Ate like a whole brick of cheese for dinner.

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You are a forest-dwelling hermity sorceress in this scenario. In a magical world.

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And then turn him down again when he agrees to them

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Seems pretty uh, not great

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Aw

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Cartoon for you: Wombat Hugs! Enjoy!

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Yeah it’s also the biggest one I have. And most expensive.

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My most prized are my fossil salamanders/salamander adjacent amphibians.

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I mean, I would definitely remember a wombats name for the rest of my life if I met one probably

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Asking for no reason at all

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Well see, there’s a market for this then

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Bonus if you involve your cats in the process

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Heh instead you could sell instructions for making bathtub gin

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YUP. And the discoverability side of things that goes with it.

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Thanks I hadn’t heard about that one yet. Will check it out. Between patreon sucking and Twitter imploding it’s been a really rough couple of years

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If there were good alternatives that didn’t fuck people over just as bad I think everyone would jump ship but there’s just not.

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God, yes. I’ve been a creator on there since the beginning and it’s gotten steadily worse and worse.

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patreon continually getting worse frustrates me greatly because it's literally a money printing middle-man service where all you've gotta do is keep the lights on and comply with banking laws, but instead they hoover up venture capital just to flail endlessly and make things worse for their users.

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New book idea: your animal facts are trash

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Chat GPT has so, so, so, so many misconceptions about animals. Think of any animal myth in the book and I guarantee you chat GPT will regurgitate it if prompted to give you facts about that animal.

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Unfortunately with a lot of parasites, if you see one there are often more. Hopefully it’s just the one though.

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I have owls on the brain I guess. Earlier I wrote a line for the Unfamiliars script that references a time in their history called “the great owl shift” and yeah deep cut but also lol

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And the man made entirely of dubia roaches

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I think I’m more worried about the cricket man then

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Tack it onto the end, but definitely add it in there

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They would probably still deliver it to the wrong person. And in pellet form.

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Also fuck Rowling for showing owls being in little owl sized canary cages like the equivalent of little owl iron maidens.

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Ok I know there are plenty of valid reasons to hate on Harry Potter but can we talk about how owls would make the absolute worst messenger animals? Mostly non-migratory, silent dum-dums.

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One of my fondest memories was being about 15 and figuring out the central puzzle with my friend. It took us weeks to get there and we ran around the house screeching when we figured it out.

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Hmm. I would keep an eye on it. Google goldfish anchor worm to see what I’m talking about and if it matches up. Easy to treat but would probably require isolating him to his own hospital tank.

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Does it look fuzzy? Or just discolored skin?

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If you can manage a picture at some point it might help. My concern would be anchor worm.

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The Riven remaster is incredible. They added stuff, redesigned puzzles, it’s like a new game now

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He is 13 now and has no memory of this. But I remember. I remember the rat man.

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When my son was about 4, he once woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he couldn’t sleep because “the black rat man was standing by my bed.” I was not able to go back to sleep.

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Could be! It does look like clamitans clamitans.

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I’m extremely tempted to draw this but I have no time right now 😆

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Oho, another #portfolioday is here! I'm Alyssa, a PDX comic artist and Illustrator! My current project is The Emperor's Feast over on Tapas, but I'm also currently open for client work or commissions! (Let me draw your D&D characters man!)

missalyssaread.com

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