Seriously — this is cool, not creepy. Well, it could be creepy, but it's well-curated so you're not receiving a photo of a different penis every day. Or any penises ever. Not that penises can't be beautiful and artistic. The point is — this is about cool photography, not unclothed penises*.

These are not photographs — these are PENCIL DRAWINGS. Yes, they're done entirely with pencils. Like, the same ones you use to color in Scantrons and DMV tests. And yet, these fantasy portraits from Erica Rose Levine look just like freaking photographs, and they're blowing. my. damn. mind.

There are a lot of personages floating around social media sites, a disconcertingly significant number of them with no more life or substance than a discarded shell whose hermit crab tenant abandoned it a long time ago. These "bots" are used to help athletes and celebrities bolster their Twitter accounts, or trick…

Notice anything odd about this picture of an "unknown" beach volleyball player at the Olympics, other than the fact that it literally leers at its subject's midsection? For all the objectification of Ryan Lochte that's gone on recently, all pictures of him include, you know, his face rather than his junk. Ditto for…

It's easy to laugh at the endless series of duckfaces, peace signs, and other assorted poses struck in the bathroom-mirror that fill most teenage girls' Facebook feeds. But behind those kissy-faces made into laptop cameras in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon is a something darker: They're always in front of the…

Inspired by reenelk's request, here's a dragon and a giraffe finding that they cannot, in fact, arm-wrestle. And with that, Josh's day of animal art at Jezebel comes to an end. But if he did not illustrate your request (and there were so many great ones he couldn't possibly get to all of them), head over to his Tumblr…

As per lonelygoatherd's request, here's "a porcupine and a bumblebee leaving a movie theater and sharing their opinions of The Help." The porcupine's take sort of lacks nuance, but at least he understands the basic issues at play.

This combo drawing features sloe-eyed's request for a hedgehog using a mushroom as an umbrella and TragicSpinsterNYC's suggestion of "a guinea pig who enjoys historical reenactments." It's nice that the guinea pig is pointing the cannon away from the hedgehog.

And now, as per octobunny's request, "an octobunny and a raven sitting together." Quoth the raven, "Nevermore nevermore nevermore nevermore nevermore nevermore nevermore nevermore."

Here's Josh Siegel's first drawing of the day: at the request of un seul être soûl, this dapper and disappointed fellow is "a proper English cricket who has just run out of tea." Want Josh to draw you an animal? Make your request here.

Several people have written in to ask about what to wear when photographed. So we decided to investigate.

Playing pranks isn't just a human thing—dogs and cats like to do it, too, as this collection of photobombing pets shows. Mr. Icy Stare here seems to be annoyed by Ol' Happy Dog's joy. Lighten up, cat.

Shooting has finally started on the film My Week With Marilyn starring Michelle Williams. Here is the first picture of Williams in costume. She's gorgeous, but does she make a good Marilyn?

In case you were wondering, Bret Michaels was always a royal dickwad. These pictures—probably NSFW—are the proof:

Last week, we solicited some of your "hand on face" pictures. And herewith, a definitive gallery of everyone's favorite school pic/neck-flattering studio portrait pose:

Apparently, if you search for Michelle Obama in Google images, the first thing that appears is not a likeness of the First Lady, but instead an extremely offensive and racist picture.

A new study finds that the obituary photographs people choose are getting progressively younger - even as we're dying older. The number of outdated obit pics more than doubled between 1967 and 1997. [UPI, Obit]

Hey! Remember when Sarah Palin was on the cover of Newsweek and Fox News got up in arms because the close-up hadn't been retouched? (Given that it was only last week, I'm gonna go with yes.) Megan very correctly diagnosed this a would-be tempest in a battered teapot, but the fracas sparked a discussion of the ethics…