Steven Hoefer🖋 @readsteven@mastodon.xyz

A thread of optimistic science/fiction art.

First up, Bryan Larsen's joyful inspiration: https://www.bryanlarsen.com/gallery/

This has made my day better, and improved the day of all good people I have shared it with. "Man Fashions Fabulously Tiny Hats for Toad Who Visits His Porch Every Day" https://mymodernmet.com/toad-hats/

Suicide calligraphers!!!!!

(I just want to hug pretty much every idea in these books.)

Very nearly verbatim: "This element is too wide. It's also too narrow. Can you fix that for us? Thanks!"

Glitch panorama

Someone at the coffee shop, knowing my interests, gave me this vintage button.

Would have vastly preferred, “Ad astra per aspera,” as the slogan instead of some trite snark, but the Omni logo still stirs my heart for optimistic futures.

A mysterious quest arrived in the mail...

At the coffee shop, my designer sneaks up behind me and slides his phone in front of me. It’s showing a timelapse of his last session working on my podcast logo. I get more and more excited watching it play... Working with talented people is good. Working with good people is better.

(Yes, there will be more podcasts after the current fires are extinguished.)

Need something to do tonight…

I've seen Captain Marvel three times now, and still have never felt it was set in the 90's (Blockbuster and CRTs notwithstanding).

I've been trying to figure out why, but I'm not really sure. Anyone else?

The big sign saying “Segway Tours” might have been a hint.

Use Mastodon Filters (Preferences -> Filters) to keep from importing other people's rage.

It's okay to not be incandescently furious about every goddamn bad thing in the world. In fact, it's required to get through the day.

Pick your passion, fight for it furiously, don't get distracted.

What X was for before X-Rays and Xylophones.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/x-is-for/

This is the best tree.

Against the odds, it grew large in a volcanic cinder field.
Then it was struck down.
It said, "You know what Universe? I don't care that you don't want me to exist. I'll not only exist, but I'll thrive!"