Deercliff

Ze/hir or it/its / hershel /18+ only / webcomics…and MORE!

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Hello! I’m Hershel (ze/hir or it/its) and I’m a queer trans (anti-zionist) jew who draws supernatural drama comics about trans people having weird interpersonal conflicts and then on top of that, The Curse. Currently I’m in my werewolf zone and making two comics: Paper Shells, a comic about a trans woman trying to get tenure while her relationship falls apart and she also has to deal with werewolves, and More Than You Can Chew, the first in a series about a special little failguy who has to be werewolf president. Paper Shells is posting publicly while More Than You Can Chew is currently patreon only at this time.

Paper Shells / Patreon / itch.io / ko-fi (merch and zines) / bluesky

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May 2026 Newsletter | Deercliff

May 2026 Newsletter by Deercliff on Patreon. Join Deercliff's community for exclusive content and updates.

My May newsletter is here! I contracted zine madness. Also, some other stuff has happened.

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Hey! The first three chapters of More Than You Can Chew are up on my patreon at the 5 dollar tier! That's 60+ pages of werewolf drama, with more on the way.

But importantly, the pages that just went up have Rosarian. Don't you want to meet Rosarian? $5 is a small price to pay, for the great Rosarian. I don't get paid over the summer.

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my internship proposal got accepted so guess who is getting 7k dollars to make a comic about treees

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recently did my semi-annual Order of the Stick reread. I understand why people hate Miko, and in many ways she's a character made to be hated, but I can't make myself have that reaction. I see her and I'm just like oh thats Miko Miyazaki my good friend Miko Miyazaki.

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My husband and I are reading OOTS together (they haven't read it before) we just finished War and XPs last night. This art still occasionally gets notes bc the OOTS fandom is amazing, and starving (I still wanna create more fan content for y'all!) and I just wanna reaffirm that Miko Miyazaki, forever and ever, one million years, every reread I love her more.

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What's Ingrid's biggest failure? I want to know her academic downfalls

What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

Her academic career hasn't really had a ton of major failures, although I think she probably did almost drop out of her PHD program like 50 times haha--academia is just sort of torture no matter how successful or good you are at it.

There's a couple things she would classify as failures--failure to earn the respect/love of her parents, her failed marriage, etc--but I'm too nicies to her about that to say those were failures, cuz they weren't her fault at all.

I guess from the authorial perspective I would say her biggest failure is to herself! Which also not super her fault, but y'know, she had a level of control over that that she didn't with her relationship failures.

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guilt and hate for renato for the ask game!

What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

All of the people who have died because of him, whether by his hand (he killed quite a lot of werewolves, and often still does in cases of self defense) or indirectly through his actions by letting them down or bringing them into danger.

He internalizes all his guilt and it weights very heavily on him. His guilt over his boyfriend, Arlo's, death is currently a big focus for him and he can't quite move past it--and sort of has no desire to, feeling the guilt is his punishment.

What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

He actually does not have a lot of hatred in his heart! He used to hate werewolves but now is more at a "i dislike this and being part of this" situation. I suppose it's a bit cliche and trite, but primarily he hates himself! For the things he's done (see above), for what he's become, and frankly just for who he is (my guy has crazy internalized transphobia for one thing). And to be fair, he's a giant asshole! But I would say the self hatred is more contributing to that than solving it. He expresses this by undervaluing his own life and behaving in reckless and self destructive ways, and also just being kind of a selfish dickhead to the people in his life in this horrible little feedback loop of self loathing and confirmation of that. Hope you get better soon dude.

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guilt from ask game for Rosarian!

took me a minute to start answering this but luckily i am still going through so they can still serve their purpose

What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

Mostly they feel guilt about their role in Renato getting mauled, although they would not admit this. They also feel some trauma related guilt about killing their husband.

Part of Rosarian's survival strategy is to NEVER EVER EVER let themself feel guilt about ANYTHING which works for some things and not other things, but has let to guilt itself being a very hard feeling for them to recognize and typically gets tied in with or grouped under other feelings, usually fear. They have to ALWAYS BE IN THE RIGHT which means any guilt they experience is simply fear those they have RIGHTFULLY DONE BAD THINGS TO will retaliate.

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oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

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Hello hello!! My new webcomic, Paper Shells, has launched today! It's also my birthday! For my birthday, you should read it, unless you are under 18, because there's nudity in it. Here's the summary: 

Things are looking up for Dr. Ingrid Hall. She's on track to get tenure, her transition is basically complete, and best of all, she's engaged to love of her life. In this city, safe from the werewolf threat, Ingrid's finally finding some happiness. But there's something her fiance's not telling her, and three strange hunters coming into town threaten to destroy the meager peace she has found. Paper Shells is a comic about domestic abuse and transphobia. It contains graphic violence, nudity, and sex. For 18+ readers only. If you liked Un/Bound, you will probably like Paper Shells!  It's similar in tone/content just a little more intense, and also better, because I finally figured out to write!! Excited!! Excited!! Excited!!!

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Woah! It’s Webcomics day! Did you know you can read my webcomic? You should!

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Hello hello!! My new webcomic, Paper Shells, has launched today! It's also my birthday! For my birthday, you should read it, unless you are under 18, because there's nudity in it. Here's the summary: 

Things are looking up for Dr. Ingrid Hall. She's on track to get tenure, her transition is basically complete, and best of all, she's engaged to love of her life. In this city, safe from the werewolf threat, Ingrid's finally finding some happiness. But there's something her fiance's not telling her, and three strange hunters coming into town threaten to destroy the meager peace she has found. Paper Shells is a comic about domestic abuse and transphobia. It contains graphic violence, nudity, and sex. For 18+ readers only. If you liked Un/Bound, you will probably like Paper Shells!  It's similar in tone/content just a little more intense, and also better, because I finally figured out to write!! Excited!! Excited!! Excited!!!

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Hello hello!! My new webcomic, Paper Shells, has launched today! It's also my birthday! For my birthday, you should read it, unless you are under 18, because there's nudity in it. Here's the summary: 

Things are looking up for Dr. Ingrid Hall. She's on track to get tenure, her transition is basically complete, and best of all, she's engaged to love of her life. In this city, safe from the werewolf threat, Ingrid's finally finding some happiness. But there's something her fiance's not telling her, and three strange hunters coming into town threaten to destroy the meager peace she has found. Paper Shells is a comic about domestic abuse and transphobia. It contains graphic violence, nudity, and sex. For 18+ readers only. If you liked Un/Bound, you will probably like Paper Shells!  It's similar in tone/content just a little more intense, and also better, because I finally figured out to write!! Excited!! Excited!! Excited!!!

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Hello hello!! My new webcomic, Paper Shells, has launched today! It's also my birthday! For my birthday, you should read it, unless you are under 18, because there's nudity in it. Here's the summary: 

Things are looking up for Dr. Ingrid Hall. She's on track to get tenure, her transition is basically complete, and best of all, she's engaged to love of her life. In this city, safe from the werewolf threat, Ingrid's finally finding some happiness. But there's something her fiance's not telling her, and three strange hunters coming into town threaten to destroy the meager peace she has found. Paper Shells is a comic about domestic abuse and transphobia. It contains graphic violence, nudity, and sex. For 18+ readers only. If you liked Un/Bound, you will probably like Paper Shells!  It's similar in tone/content just a little more intense, and also better, because I finally figured out to write!! Excited!! Excited!! Excited!!!

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April 2026 Newsletter | Deercliff

April 2026 Newsletter by Deercliff on Patreon. Join Deercliff's community for exclusive content and updates.

My April 2026 newsletter is here! Zines, dreams, Paper Shells in one week, and for the love of god let this semester END!!!

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OH YEAH the baby sequence is. An experience. I had AM from IHNMAIMS give his NEWBORN BABY the Communist Manifesto

Well, my silly anon. My wife, Hersh and I had spent almost the entirety of our time playing this game trying go get these two miis of ours to marry and have a kid. and well.

I'm so genuinely sad the noises we made upon seeing this were not recorded.

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New pinned incoming

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i am your girl, and i will protect you