Erin Ptah

I make webcomics! This blog is mostly fanart. Follow for the fandom we share right now, stay for whatever I get into next.

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Honlon/Honglong, the red dragon from Pet Shop of Horrors! First time I've drawn her/them in 16 years.

(Yes, my favorite pet is the one who's canonically a plural system. I know, I'm predictable.)

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Erin Watches: Supergirl (2026)

I liked it! Saw it a couple weeks ago, typed up reactions over the next couple days, am now editing them together into a single post. There are some valid complaints. The internet reaction hasn’t been as reality-detached as, say, The Marvels (which was a great movie plagued by viewers making up bad-faith nonsense to get angry about). I can point to some genuine problems that stop this from…

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We find out in the fourth Oz book that Dorothy and Ozma have agreed "Ozma will check on Dorothy with the Magic Picture at a set time every single day."

Here's Dorothy catching Toto up on the news, and advising him to look good for the not-a-camera.

(Drawn for Dorothy and Her Princess in Oz, crowdfunding in September.)

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D getting some sugar / Leon having a snack.

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Erin Watches: Avatar season 2

Watched season 2 of the new A:tLA live-action remake. It’s good! I also rewatched s2 of the cartoon…and, well, the more I think about it, the more I like the remake better. The original series has the Gaang traveling across the Earth Kingdom for the first two-thirds of the season, getting into shenanigans with various towns and tribes they meet along the way. They meet a group of refugees,…

Erin Watches: Avatar season 2

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From the final chapter of the Little Sister D fixit fic.

First plan was just to draw Xiao Mei in Leon drag...then I had to draw D and Leon's respective reactions...next thing you know, I had a whole "what if this was how the manga went" page.

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"She is not your xiao mei," said D sharply.

"Well, she told me to call her Xiao Mei!" complained Leon. "So unless you're gonna actually cough up her personal name...?"

(From chapter 2 of the Sister D fixit fic.)

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Erin Reads: Pet Shop of Horrors, Collector’s Edition (volume 5, chapters 29-30)

PSOH reread continues. This is the first point where Tokyopop and Seven Seas have different chapter orders. SS volume 5 started with all the chapters from TP volume 7, but now we’re jumping back to the bonus story that was at the end of TP volume 6. Originally liveblogged on Mastodon / Bluesky. Collating it all together here. Affiliate links for the whole Collector’s Edition, in case you want…

Erin Reads: Pet Shop of Horrors, Collector’s Edition (volume 5, chapters 29-30)

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It was "Make A Terrible Comic Day", so I finally finished this Moon Knight riff on Ooh Mister Darcy.

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Tumblr needs to read more webcomics ❤️‍🔥

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💝 My recs for finished webcomics

💖 My reading list of ongoing webcomics

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Illustration for a fluffy "what if Donor had a happy ending?" AU. After being rejected by D, his mysterious little sister flees the shop...and ends up at Leon's apartment.

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Illustration collection for my personal fix-it rewrite of The Secret Commonwealth.

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A deeper dive into the "People with DID have different brain-scan results for different alters" claim

Gave my DW a new “dissociation references” tag, for these dissociation-related writeups that I actually put some effort into, and will probably keep wanting to find again. Here’s a new entry for the pile. When I went digging into the “1% of people have DID” idea, the conclusion I came to was “this claim goes back to a few studies that are being wildly misrepresented, either unwittingly or…

A deeper dive into the "People with DID have different brain-scan results for different alters" claim

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Pride Month comes to the pet shop.

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Can You Find This Fandom, post #2

Sequel to the first post of this hot new internet game: “Someone has posted a fic on AO3 with this New Fandom Tag. Can we figure out what fandom it’s referring to?” Recap: To get a fandom approved for a canonical tag on AO3 — especially a fandom for a series that should be online in the first place — it helps if you have links to sources. As in “here’s the website, here’s the creator’s social…

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With Walpurgisnacht Rising maybe coming for real this time??, I felt moved to redraw some old art of Madoka in Kyubey's color palette. This time, using an actual reference photo of "a girl standing, as seen from the back."

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In writing the Reaction Posts of Dust, one idea I came up for "how would I fix the Book of Dust trilogy?" is "instead of putting Lyra through a weird character arc that doesn't flow naturally from her HDM experiences...give that arc to a new character Lyra can be narrative foils with."

I'm calling the new girl Bonita, so Lyra's two closest friends can be Bon and Mal. She's from High Brazil, because the place comes up a couple times in passing, and this would be a good setup to give some actual worldbuilding about what it's like.

We need more non-mammal daemon rep, so Bonita's is a caiman lizard: semi-aquatic, and native to South America. His name is Potameides. Like Pantalaimon, it's Greek (it's a kind of river nymph)...and it means their nicknames can be Pot and Pan.

Contrasts. Book Lyra has short blonde hair, so Bonita's is long and dark. Red-brown mammal daemon vs. green reptile daemon. Lyra goes by Silvertongue, so Bonita's family name is Eldorado, "the golden one."

All the random things Pan accuses Lyra of in TBoD, that we never see on-page? Bonita actually does them. Dismisses and ignores her daemon. Sneers at art and beauty, saying they're irrational. Finds out about Lyra's field of study, and scoffs that the alethiometer symbols are so open-ended, you can read anything you want into them.

On the other hand...Bonita is very into this book about a daemonless hero who kills God. Lyra's first great love was a daemonless hero who killed God! She's gone for so many years without a single person in her life who isn't dismissive and/or scared to discuss that subject.

Turns out, Bonita is the only student besides Lyra who isn't intimidated by the Magisterium in general. And Lyra is the only student who isn't intimidated by Bonita. So they end up forming a weird-but-genuine bond.

Then one night, Pot and Pan cross paths while they're both out wandering, and get a massive mutual shock: neither of their humans are in sight...