'Or it used to be,' she continues. 'And rent keeps going up.' 'What do you expect' says Cat, walking downhill with her. 'Living in a high-demand area like Tartarus. Right near the Port Authority.' 'EVERY apartment in Tartarus is right near the Port Authority' says Girl, preparing to push the boulder up the hill once more. 'I thought Underworld jobs were solid' Cat says. 'Yeah - If you've BEEN here 10,000 years' replies Girl. 'New hires just get gig work through Boulder. I get paid per climb and I have to bring my own rock.' 'I get 10%' says the rock. 'You get 10% to keep your mouth shut!' says Girl.
  • David Thomsen
    May 19, 2026

    This explains why Bouldy never speaks in the game Hades

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The Other Places

September 13, 2023

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus) illustrated by Charles Dessalines D' Orbigny (1806-1876). Digitally enhanced from our own 1892 edition of Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle.

As the monoplatforms that displaced the monoculture shudder (above: monotremes), we here at the Cat and Girl social media department (employees: 1/28 of a person) would like to celebrate the fact that all the feeds and accounts you need to keep you from looking here, at this website, are – briefly – working. So come join us for your distraction-from-environmental-catastrophe needs –

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and, for luddites who don’t mind web-based subscription platforms, there is a (millionaire-adjacent) patreon that sends out zines

Or, as drewtoothpaste.bsky.social said: “‘why would you use that site? don’t you know it’s financed by someone evil?’ yeah well i made my own websites and you all stopped going to websites so i have to use the evil ones you like instead of my own.”

What’s in your time capsule?

June 26, 2023

Drew a comic about time capsules, Flushing Queens and how long 5,000 years is – over at the Nib.

All Times Are Limited, Strictly Speaking

November 25, 2022

For the next week the attic store is going to be OPEN AGAIN for orders. There’s a limited amount of stuff in there! And I have a limited amount of patience with the current modern era of packing and shipping things. So this will be it for the next couple of months, good luck getting three Graces on coasters when you decide you need them THEN.