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This is a web-log about webcomics, thus the name

Started in 2012 but immediately abandoned, revived in 2022 to be a place for me to share my thoughts about my favorite webcomics and about the medium of webcomics in general.

My favorite webcomics still running are El Goonish Shive and Order of the Stick, and I’m also still a big admirer of Gunnerkrigg Court.

Links to my stuff...

General Webcomic Content:

(^^^ Source: Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud)

Longform OC General article/essay on the nature of Webcomics: What Is Webcomics? (There was always intended to be a part 2, maybe someday!)

Weekly Webcomic Roundups, a series of OC longform weekly articles that discussed the happenings in various webcomics that week

The first 10/1/22

The second 10/9/22

The third 10/17/22

Reblog of reaction by blujayonthewing to comics theory from Mort Walker’s The Lexicon of Comicana

Reblog with link to “What Is Webcmics,” above, of post about decline of art by literallyaflame, linked by roach-works to webcomics specifically

Reblog of thewebcomicsreview’s story of the early history of webcomics

El Goonish Shive Content:

Longform Reaction to last page of “Balance” arc and the mysteries it clears up, and its hints at future

Page reaction to latest My Love in Stitches page, comparing to similar moment in EGS:NP

Every time someone says “pressure release chopsticks”

Reaction to latest page

Longform Answer to mintcarousel’s question about the nature of the character Grace, explaining her heritage and powers

Longform Reaction to latest page, explaining callbacks and implications

Page reaction to latest EGS:NP page, comparing to similar moment in Order of the Stick

EGS REBLOGS

MUCH MORE! Beneath the cut:

#webcomics #el goonish shive #order of the stick #gunnerkrigg court #scott mccloud

heedlesshoossy

Hey, fat people deserve to have fun and get their needs met even if they’re the least healthy mf you know. Fat people deserve proper medical care, and carbs, and to wear shorts and so many more things! EVEN IF THEY ARE UNWELL AND ESPECIALLY IF THAT UNWELLNESS IS DUE TO THEIR WEIGHT!!! Fat people deserve the world and more. Not just the healthy fats or attractive fats or small fats or fats that are fat because of medication or disability.

skinny people please reblog this one

Everyone reblog this one

penny-anna

I'm not really a HanLuke shipper but I can imagine them hooking up early in their friendship & then Han later after various revelations having a personal crisis over whether or not it's weird to have sex with both halves of a set of twins

penny-anna

& like he can't ask anyone if it's weird without admitting that he's already done it. he could talk to Luke about it bcos obviously Luke already knows but he's kind of avoiding the subject with Luke in case drawing attention to the fact that he's dating Luke's sister prompts a shovel talk. he's pretty sure Luke can kill people with his brain now and he doesn't want to have that particular shovel talk if he an avoid it.

cipheramnesia

If Han came to me with this kind of question, I would be very supportive and make sure he didn't uncomfortable about having to ask the question because most of all this is about his feelings.

However, I would also desperately need to know if Luke used the force on that thang, and Han also knows I would ask, which is why he never brings these problems to me.

penny-anna

ravenfleesfire

Couples shirts that say "I'm misery" and "I'm company"

thememedaddy

demilypyro

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW

guerrillatech

justalurkr

Truncated text of tweet from MrPitBull, Mar 11, 2026:

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history.

Yale University, 1969.

Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program.

Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?"

The faculty answered firmly: No.

Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit.

Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them.

So she started looking.

She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont.

There were names. There were credentials. There were careers.

The professors had been wrong.

But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing.

Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams.

But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased.

It wasn't random. It was systematic.

Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less.

Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries.

Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside.

She needed a name for what she was documenting.

In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870.

In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect.

The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere.

Her dissertation became a lifelong mission.

For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded.

Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating.

Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions.

Eventually, the evidence became undeniable.

Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased:

Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick.

Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize.

Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed.

And countless others whose names had nearly vanished.

Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out.

The Matilda Effect became standard terminology. Scholars used it to examine how credit is assigned, how authors are listed, who receives awards, who gets left out.

boringkate

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

introvertsnation

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#webcomics #el goonish shive

charlesoberonn

It's probably a coincidence, but Vsauce made a short about the same subject as one of my Tumblr posts twice now. And I'm not entirely sure he doesn't follow me on here.

#charlesoberonn = vsauce confirmed!

crabussy

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

devotedgossamerreader

hey there just out of curiosity are you not human, too?

crabussy

hilariously enough, I am probably the most human out of anyone on this entire site. earlier today I was posting about getting "species euphoria" from doing human activities like ecosystem management. I'm the worlds first therian to have a kintype that aligns with his biological species. shirt that says "I ❤️ being a sapient omnivorous primate & bipedal persistence predator" on the front and booty shorts that say "largest gluteal muscles to body size ratio on the planet"

#furry for homo sap would explain SO MUCH about me...#almost wrote “Hank Green too”#but then remembered that he says “ain't humans neat?” and “ain't fish neat?” with the exact same gleam

mistresssheo

Tja

Found here 🦋

translating-german-to-english

Depending on context:

* well then.

* ain't nothing you can do about it.

* well how about that then.

* you brought that upon yourself dude.

* it is what it is.

* that was completely to be expected.

* told you so.

translatingpoststogerman

Je nach Kontext:

* tja.

bcomic-blog

Wait

So... Is the vocalization "tch" "tsk" or if you are Damian "tt"... a loan word from German?

bamfspock

Bosses and Coworkers: you've got a great work ethic, going above and beyond

Me: I am literally just doing my job. Everyone else is slacking off.

Everyone Else: (magically knows somehow the secret amounts of work the boss is actually asking of them, which the boss cannot tell anyone for Reasons)

bamfspock

There always seems to be a gap in instructions (from bosses, parents, teachers, friends, whoever) between 'required' and 'expected', and this gap is:

invisible

never explained

always a different size

you have to guess the size

if you guess wrong you either get Praised or In Trouble

bamfspock

At least on 'the price is right' you know (because someone *actually told you*) that you are playing a guessing game and that there is an over/under mechanic and that the conquence of guessing wrong isn't a punishment or damaged relationship or getting fired

bamfspock

On an unrelated note my psychiatrist has given me a referal for a formal ASD evaluation

bamfspock

This post is about the neurodivergent frustration of having to deal with neurotypical authority figures who don't say what they mean but I love the pro-union labor-rights energy I'm seeing in the notes

incompotentcyborg

#el goonish shive #webcomics #it should be noted #only a same sex couple anymore #if their gender flux happens to be in synch lol

calcazars

let it be known that i touch grass frequently and I’m still like this.

guiltfactory-moved

the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

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