Brown junior Mia Tretta was injured in a California school shooting, and sophomore Zoe Weissman was in class next door during the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre.
Dec. 14, 2025, 12:52 AM MST / Updated Dec. 14, 2025, 9:06 AM MST
Amid the scores of fearful and worried students following Saturday’s shooting at Brown University were two who have been here before.
Mia Tretta, 21, was shot in the 2019 mass shooting at Saugus High School, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. A 16-year-old boy carried out that attack, killing two, including Tretta’s best friend, and injuring three before fatally shooting himself.
Zoe Weissman, 20, attended Westglades Middle School, adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a former student opened fire, killing 17, in 2018.
Have this Zuko I did for Mother’s Day. (Zuko is my mom’s fav)
[image description: a digital illustration of Zuko smiling. He is looking up to where there is a baby turtleduck siting on his head. He has his arms raised to make sure they don’t fall. End id]
Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.
It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.
One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.
It seems my lighting advice has given people a mistaken impression…
These outtakes where the flash didn’t go off are also AI generated.
I like this spooky dutch angle one.
I was just starting to learn flash and I didn’t have all the equipment I needed. Since corgis are quite short, I had to put the lighting on the ground. The off camera flash was on a tipped over lightstand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light.
But I had no wireless triggers. And the only other way to trigger a flash, is with another flash. So I used the on-camera pop up flash to trigger the main flash.
But I had two issues.
First, I did not want that dinky on camera flash affecting my picture.
Second, triggering a flash with a flash is best done indoors. The flash will bounce all around the room and eventually hit the sensor so the main flash triggers. When you are outdoors, there is no bouncing.
SO… I took a little handheld makeup mirror and angled it toward my main flash. This blocked the dinky pop up flash and sent the beam of light towards the main flash to trigger it.
I was lying on the wet morning grass, holding a camera in one hand, a mirror in the other, trying to aim the mirror exactly toward the main flash, making crazy noises to get Otis’s attention, and trying to get the focus point on his face so I didn’t get a blurry photo. Also, Otis was much more interested in sniffing things than posing for a photo.
Here is an overhead view that might help explain.
I await all of your comments saying my amazing drawring is clearly AI generated.
Only 30% of the time did the flash actually go off. Aiming the mirror was tricky and I was doing like 8 things at once. I wasn’t even sure I got the photo I wanted. But when I came back to the computer there was one that stood out and it is one of my favorites I’ve ever taken.
It was the best combination of monumental effort, great discomfort, perfect foggy sunrise light, and just pure luck.
Unfortunately, people like me who use advanced sculpting light techniques are getting accused of using AI more and more. Not really sure what to do about it—other than show the 30 awful photos it took to get the good one.
My 80s sunglasses photo and spoon photo get called out the most.
But it’s just good old fashioned gradient lighting which has been used in product photography since the days of film.
So, no need to be suspicious.
Photography like sirfrogsworth’s is what the fucken AIs were TRAINED on.
My inbox is full of people begging me not to raw dog that muppet.
“It’ll kill you!” They scream. “Overexposure to the deadly muppet hole will poison your body, mind, and soul, my liege!”
Heh. You think I don’t know this? Do you know who I am? Not even the prospect of death could stop me from nutting with all my might into all of the holes of my sweet, sweet Kermit.
Yes, sometimes we use protection. Sometimes we even get out the
and it slows down the poison. But it’s not the same. I NEED it raw. And besides. When I use my True Flesh Rod to pleasure him, I feel us connect. He wants me dead, wants to take over my life, but I know him. He is dear to me. I look into his froggy muppet eyes, pulsing within him, and for a moment, the murderous rage within him is clouded over with pure pleasure.
“MAKE ME MEGNANT,” He howls;
“MUPPET PREGNANT,” He clarifies.
I kiss him on the top of his head as I blast hot, sticky rope inside of him. “I love you,” I whisper, and I almost call him Colter. He hates that name. So instead I call him Kermit.
He doesn’t say anything back. But he does hold me, after.
I’ve been playing around with ink painting again, and getting some fun effects with a UV reactive fake blood (it glows orange!!). It’s been fun to add a pop of colour since I usually just work in greyscale.
A little sketch from a stormy night during dinner with friends.
Playtime for young kea birds! There’s a benefit to this apparently carefree behavior. It helps establish long-lasting relationships between the youngsters and even diffuses tension. David Attenborough | BBC Earth
These are local Placobdella parasitica (smooth turtle leeches) I pulled off of our permanent-rehab pond sliders. While these critters can evade detection on healthy aquatic turtles by staying under the shell and behind the legs, they’re given an advantage over turtles with deformed/injured shells and turtles with less leg functionality, (assumedly) allowing them to multiply over more surface area.
I will be taking these two (live) specimens to my bio lab on Tuesday. I removed a large cluster of juveniles that I have since humanely euthanized from a large pond slider to bring in as well. The two live specimens are mature adults and will be released after lab examination.
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