Ah, that special moment where you realize you have a brand-new thing that will haunt you as you try to sleep for the rest of your life. I apologize to everyone feeling an empathetic cringe or thinking of that time you said something offhand you realized was the most awful thing that could ever be said.

I can say with confidence that the hydra wasn't upset. Just giving an answer to something they don't really think is going to be relevant to them and they didn't realize it was going to hit that hard. You know how it is, if you have a chronic condition people volunteer information you've already read about and they intend it kindly but you but gads, hacking your way through other people's kind intentions, you know?

While I don't know much about genetics, I know with 100%, complete, apodictic certainty that if gorgons existed, geneticists would name some gene of theirs 'ELO'.

Sure is nice that these two hang out just lying on the floor of a furniture-less living room(?) together. Wonder if that means anything.

Leap The Dips, the oldest roller coaster in the world, they just announced won't operate in 2024, which is a crying shame.

Hydra's 'Water's Fine?' prompt is a reference to  Adalore's work in advanced pooltoy psychology, yes.

The colors on this feel wrong, but I used the exact same palette as ever. I don't know what I did in ProCreate that that happened. Maybe something in using the comic-page format for the image --- a rare comic sequence for me --- instead of the usual 8.5-by-11 format.