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today's obsession: is it horrid of me to price an estimated 15-20 page comic pdf download as $3

tune in again tomorrow for all that and more.

today's pattern: work on inking tidal, groan loudly while i throw my head back in anguish, then resume inking. repeat.

Ari is standing in front of a window with his back facing the viewer. His head is downturned, hair obscuring his profile, and his hands claw at his back. There are scars that run along both scapulas.

ari study from last night/this morning

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A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

love my vampiric freak

hashtag. myfreak

every single day i learn more news from my home state that both makes me so glad i left and fills me with horror for friends/family who have to remain there (more broadly—the direction the state is heading in)

Ari is standing in front of a window with his back facing the viewer. His head is downturned, hair obscuring his profile, and his hands claw at his back. There are scars that run along both scapulas.

ari study from last night/this morning

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You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act.

Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well

Wonderful breakdown!!! The scariest part of these misrepresented stats is that they drive they idea that these beliefs are common and normal, which itself makes people more likely to align with them!!! It's a blight on every journalist who reported this uncritically

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

keep misreading pokopia as poptropica, for some reason

Even if the environmental issues, labor issues, and frequent inaccuracy/hallucinations of genAI were solved, it would still be bad because according to several studies now it literally gives you brain damage.

H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.

context, we’ve got:
- 2 mini comics
- 2 zines
- about 6-8 illustrations for those zines/solo style
- sticker designs
- a zine piece
- finishing maceration ch. 1
- drafting for overheat
- …and all my university work

been working on many projects all at the same time to progress little by little…but that means very little art to post atm…weh

#vampires, you say? i know a guy.

(read my comic, link below. they're finally showing up soon)

a scene redraw from season 1, episode 4 of “heated rivalry” but with shane and ilya as women. “ilya” is on the left and “shane” is on the right, both laying in bed together. they’re sat up against the wall, kissing, both women shirtless.

a scene redraw from season 1, episode 6 of “heated rivalry” but with shane and ilya as women. they are laying down, faces close. “shane” on the right has hands on “ilya’s” face, leaning in for a kiss.

wait shit i also have these i forgot to post

#art #heatedrivalry #yuri

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

took me just a few minutes to type a response, PLEASE take that little bit of time to engage with this.

Educating yourself is one of the easiest ways -and something you that you have control over- to contribute to the movement. You will be a better socialist for it and you will help make more and better socialists. Dont discount that work and don’t leave it til later- these things matter now!

update: good news happened so my thoughts have reset

another day, another reminder of why i started making maceration (evil obsessive thought patterns)

OPEN CALL! We want your comics and prose!

We are launching a new zine later this year called ZENESIS, featuring comics, prose, articles and more covering Mecha, Sci-fi and Space-Fantasy genres.

Deadline is the end of March.

This is... Not a distraction. The vicious mass murder of people is not a distraction. Saying that it is is its own kind of horrifying dehumanisation of those folks. It's crucial to look beyond the last 12 months to fully comprehend what's going on and also read from analysts outside the West.

This Is some art I’ve made for Decomposer, a graphic novel written by Mason McDonald. The book is well on it’s way to being finished but we’ve set up a Kickstarter to help us complete it. I’d really appreciate if you’d have a look at the page (link below) and consider helping us out. Thanks!

If you want to read voices of young artists in Iran, please support the comics anthology "Young in Iran" published with @comicsworkshop.bsky.social It's 264 pages, 6x9 inches, and was censored by Kickstarter. Take a look: www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/saw-shop/p/y...

I just learned that Northside Mutual Aid (supporting North Minneapolis families impacted by ICE) is still trying to meet $80,000 in rent needs from FEBRUARY.

Can we move some funds in their direction? 🌻

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

Would deeply appreciate help. I am a disabled trans man from the global south. I am also the only person in my family who currently works. I have a life limiting condition that will end my life if not medicated. My insurance is only 350 usd a year, I dunno what else to do but ask for mutual aid

comic fury has been an amazing, indie run comic host that has lasted for 17 years for a reason. comics will help comics. at the end of the day, we have each other.