i offer cheap commissions! i need help moving me and gf and our cats in 2 months we'll be losing our home. anything helps pls dm me or visit my ko-fi to order them!
Fall season is officially here! what a better way to celebrate than have Lin watching the fall leaves! watch the speedpaint for it here: https://youtu.be/NoRtzfhYsjE?si=XXjziolAxwKyD8LX
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RIDE OR DIE is a high-speed supernatural LGBTQ comic! We follow Lucky, a born-loser who stumbles upon a demon-possessed muscle car that suddenly changes the trajectory of his life. Desperate to find his missing mother, he joins Vick, a mechanic with a troubled past, in a high-stakes underground street racing tournament to uncover secrets about the car and his mother's disappearance!
If you would never let anyone shame you for buying these toys...
Then you should feel no shame, guilt or take any for buying this one either.
If it's ok for male characters to be sexy, then it is ok for female ones to be sexy too. A character is only bad if they are badly written. Otherwise, the way they look or dress doesn't matter.
Moreover, I'm going to tell it straight as a woman myself, I like beautiful female characters because they inspire me especially Elita-One here who is a leader, happily married to a hero (Optimus Prime), intelligent, strong and kicks butt. And she does it all in style even at the age where in human years, she would be in her forties like me. I don't feel degraded when I look at her. I feel happy and encouraged that if she can do it, I can do it too and that age is just a number.
Beauty shaming is another form of body shaming. Period. Judge the way a person acts not looks.
PS: I don't see anyone complaining when Optimus or Megatron are drawn or designed to be all muscles. Why can't Elita-One or any other femme have a hot body too? Only men can be beautiful? Nuts to that.
As someone who mostly draws female characters as a woman myself i don't care how big the breasts are or how curvy they are or if they wear makeup theres nothing objectifying about it.
FUN FACT: alot of women love seeing exaggerated features in media because its not real and doesn't effect them, and because it makes them feel sexy and powerful too! thats why so many people cosplay characters no matter their body type. i'm short and fat but i would LOVE to do a bayonetta cosplay and she is a very sexualized character in media but noone has a problem with that because she'd written very well.
another example is my art specifically my main character of my comic "I love you Lin Peckett" is Lin Peckett she's short and busty and curvy in all the right places! here's some nsfw-ish art of her to show that
does her having large breasts and ass make her objectified -NO it doesn't! I can have a male character with a large chest and bulge and noone will say anything cause that is normalized. make women normalized too!
here is another oc of mine named Barbara who is a very tall curvy woman i draw her like this because she looks very beautiful like this! and theres nothing wrong with that! she is also written to be a super hero who saves a city from evil. I've written her around a story not about her body and her looks. (i dont have art of her atm in her hero outfit so heres her sleepy!)
anyways to end off this i wanna say that drawing Lin and other female characters like that makes me happy as a woman and other women too, if you feel like this art is objectifying then maybe you need to just NOT LOOK AT IT MAYBE? not all art and character are gonna appeal to you or your ideas of how all women should look like. as long as they are well written or just appeal to you specifically theres nothing wrong with that and nothing with having female characters that are sexy.
OH AND P.S. IF U ACTUALLY WANNA SEE MEDIA ABOUT OBJECTIFYING WOMEN THEN USE THIS FOR EXAMPLE! THIS IS AN ACTUAL EXAMPLE OF HURTING WOMEN AND OBJECTIFYING THEM!
There are many web hosting companies to choose from if you're taking the plunge into making your own website with a comic content management system (CMS) like ComicControl or Grawlix, a Wordpress comic theme like Toocheke or ComicPress, or a HTML template to cut/paste code like Rarebit. While these solutions are generally free, finding a home for them is... generally not. It can be hard to choose what's best for your webcomic AND your budget!
We took a look at a few of the top hosting services used by webcomics creators using webcomic CMSes, and we put out a poll to ask your feedback about your hosts!
This post may be updated as time goes on as new services enter the hosting arena, or other important updates come to light.
Questions:
💻 I can get a free account with Wix/Squarespace/Carrd, could I just use those for my comic? - Web hosts like this may have gallery functions that could be adapted to display a series of pages, but they are very basic and not intended for webcomics.
📚 Wait, I host on Webtoon, Tapas, Comic Fury, or some other comic website, why are they not here? - Those are comic platforms! We'll get into those in a future post!
🕵️♀️Why does it say "shared hosting"? Who am I sharing with? - "Shared hosting" refers to sharing the server space with other customers. They will not have access to your files or anything, so it is perfectly fine to use for most comic CMSes. You may experience slowing if there is too much activity on a server, so if you're planning to host large files or more than 10 comics, you may want to upgrade to a more robust plan in the future.
Web Host List
Neocities
Basic plan pricing: Free or $5/month. Free plan has more restrictions (1 GB space, no custom domain, and slower bandwidth, among other things)
Notes: Neocities does not have database support for paid or free accounts, and most comic CMS solutions require this (ComicCtrl, Grawlix, Wordpress). You will need to work with HTML/CSS files directly to make a website and post each page.
Hostinger
Basic plan pricing: $11.99/month or $7.99/month with four year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 4 year plans available).
Notes: Free domain for the 1st year. Free SSL Certifications. Weekly backups.
KnownHost
Basic plan pricing: $8.95/month or $7.99/month with four year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 4 year plans available).
Basic plan pricing: $12.99/month or $9.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, and 3 year plans available).
Notes: Free SSL Certifications, free domain names for 1 and 3 year plans. 24/7 live customer service and 90-day money-back guarantee.
Inmotion also advertises eco-friendly policies: We are the first-ever Green Data Center in Los Angeles. We cut cooling costs by nearly 70 percent and reduce our carbon output by more than 2,000 tons per year.
Reviews:
👍“I can't remember it ever going down.”
👍“InMotion has a pretty extensive library full of various guides on setting up and managing websites, servers, domains, etc. Customer service is also fairly quick on responding to inquiries.”
👎“I wish it was a bit faster with loading pages.”
Ionos Hosting
Basic plan pricing: $8/month or $6/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 2 and 3 year plans available).
Notes: Free domain for the first year, free SSL Certification,
Daily backup and recovery is included. Site Scan and Repair is free for the first 30 days and then is $6/month.
Reviews:
👍“Very fast and simple”
👎“Customer service is mediocre and I can't upload large files”
Bluehost
Basic plan pricing: $15.99/month or $4.95/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 3 year plans available).
Notes: Free domain and SSL certificates (for first year only). 24/7 Customer Service. Built to handle higher traffic websites. Although they specialize in Wordpress websites and provide updates automatically, that's almost a bad thing for webcomic plugins because they will often break your site. Their cloud hosting services are currently in early access with not much additional information available.
Reviews:
👎"The fees keep going up. Like I could drop $100 to cover a whole year, but now I'm paying nearly $100 for just three months. It's really upsetting."
👎"I have previously used Bluehost’s Wordpress hosting service and have had negative experiences with the service, so please consider with a grain of salt. I can confirm at least that their 24/7 customer service was great, although needed FAR too often."
Dreamhost
Basic plan pricing: $7.99/month or $5.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 3 year plans available).
Notes: Free SSL Certificates, 24/7 support with all plans, 97-day moneyback guarantee. Not recommended for ComicCtrl CMS
Reviews:
👍“They've automatically patched 2 security holes I created/allowed by mistake.”
👍“Prices are very reasonable”
👎 “back end kind of annoying to use”
👎 “wordpress has some issues”
👎 “it's not as customizable as some might want“
GoDaddy
Basic plan pricing: $11.99/month or $9.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 3 year plans available).
Notes: Free 24/7 Customer service with all plans, Free SSL Certificates for 1 year, free domain and site migration.
Reviews:
👍Reasonable intro prices for their Economy hosting, which has 25GB of storage
👍Migrated email hosting service from cPanel to Microsoft Office, which has greater support but may not be useful for most webcomic creators.
👎 Many site issues and then being upsold during customer service attempts.
👎 Server quality found lacking in reviews
👎 Marketing scandals in the past with a reputation for making ads in poor taste. Have been attempting to clean up that image in recent years.
👎 “GoDaddy is the McDonald's of web hosting. Maybe the Wal-Mart of hosting would be better.
If your website was an object you would need a shelf to put it on. You go to Wal-Mart and buy a shelf. It's not great. It's not fancy. It can only hold that one thing. And if we're being honest - if the shelf broke and your website died it wouldn't be the end of the world.The issue comes when you don't realize GoDaddy is the Wal-Mart of hosting. You go and try to do things you could do with a quality shelf. Like, move it. Or add more things to it.” MyWorkAccountThisIs on Reddit*
Things to consider for any host:
💸 Introductory/promotional pricing - Many hosting companies offer free or inexpensive deals to get you in the door, and then raise the cost for these features after the first year or when you renew. The prices in this post are the base prices that you can expect to pay after the promotional prices end, but may get outdated, so you are encouraged to do your own research as well.
💻 Wordpress hosting - Many of the companies below will have a separate offering for Wordpress-optimized hosting that will keep you updated with the latest Wordpress releases. This is usually not necessary for webcomic creators, and can be the source of many site-breaking headaches when comic plugins have not caught up to the latest Wordpress releases.
Any basic hosting plan on this list will be fine with Wordpress, but expect to stop or revert Wordpress versions if you go with this as your CMS.
🤝 You don't have to go it alone - While free hosts may be more limited, paid hosting on a web server will generally allow you to create different subdomains, or attach additional purchased domains to any folders you make. If you have other comic-making friends you know and trust, you can share your server space and split the cost!
Want to share your experience?
Feel free to contribute your hosting pros, cons, and quirks on our survey! We will be updating our list periodically with your feedback!
Made a coloring book of me and my friends ocs for this halloween, i just put it up on my neocities if you all would like to download or print them out and color them! I hope you all have a fang-tastic Halloween!
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pixelskylines
turnnoffyourmind
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