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they/he | 20's | obscure webcomic enthusiast | pfp & banner by @stainedge_ on insta

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🪱🪲ABOUT🪲🪱

--------------------------------------------------------------- Hi there! Decided to make a little sideblog for talking about "Tomb's Serial Slashing" since it's one of my favorite ongoing webcomics at the moment! This blog is mostly dedicated to analysis and theorizing, as well as silly posts and little doodles. However, while I do intend to thoroughly analyze and discuss the comic and its related side material, in the end I'm just one guy and all opinions and interpretations expressed are my own. I do it because it's fun, that's all!

Note: Please only follow if 18+! Thank you :) 🪲👍

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tomb's serial slashing and kamen rider are kind of the same thing if you're not even that crazy but the overlap in interests is so insanely specific and niche that it ends up sounding like the carti-chichikov comparison tweet

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since i've noticed it happening already, if you are a minor and you follow this blog and i softblock you, please know that it is nothing personal! it's just because i am an adult and tss is marked as an 18+ series that deals with a variety of mature topics. and while i don't think there's necessarily a problem with younger people reading it, especially since it ticks off all the boxes for "things that are cool as fuck when you're 16", it is a personal boundary and i would rather have discussion about the series among other adults. i have taken upon relaying tss news and posts for everyone, but this also doubles as a personal blog where i share my own thoughts on the series as well.

and i don't mean anything bad by this, but while i am not that old, the difference in age and interests is quite apparent to me. it is completely okay, but it is also a reason why i prefer to keep things distant. i have also seen minors engaging in behaviors that are unsafe within the tag itself, and i wouldn't want to encourage a potentially concerning overlap between minors and adults in what is intended by the author to be an adult space. i do not want 15 year olds interacting with any suggestive posts i might make, for example.

have fun, enjoy the comic, and please be safe.

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been drafting up a post analyzing a hint that stain dropped in an instagram story a while back about what would cause tomb and jacks to get divorced because i actually went and found the exact scenes that were used in the post while the comic was still up, and figured it might be interesting to still talk about in case others hadn't noticed all the details (and in case all of that ends up still being canon). and also just to make my other posts about jacks seem less like i'm pulling things out of thin air and more like i'm pulling body parts out of a swamp. but while i was writing it and i got around to talking about "roadway macabre" i started giving up on doing a comprehensive rundown because at that point the evidence in that chapter for what the hint post was pointing towards doesn't even speak for itself it just grabs the mic and starts holding an entire ted talk

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From Stainedge's Instagram story (7/29/26). Work in progress snippets of character turnarounds for Cece, Sharyl, Hort, and Jasper + Tomb checking out those molars.

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Concept art for "Advertiser Friendly", from Stainedge's Youtube and Instagram.

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to me, i feel like jack's storyline has potential emerging themes of manipulation/abuse and the guilt that comes with having harmed others while under circumstances that were difficult to escape and having to become desensitized and give up parts of himself just to survive. the way he behaved in the original comic, the loaded language of "bad living situation, things got too heated inside", his general selfless nature (to the point of being self-sacrificial at times), his deep affection and loyalty towards tomb while also seeing glimpses of the slaughterer in his eyes and fearing that he may lose the home that he's been given, as well as tomb's trust... it makes me think a lot, especially with him potentially having been a former accomplice to the louisiana slaughterer and the possible marley and caroline parallels. i wonder if these things are going to come up more in the rewrite or if stain has something different in mind for him... though the part about him trying to atone for something he's done has been mentioned as recently as in his description on artfight, so it's possible that it's still on the same course. the story already touches on smaller scale cycles of abuse taking place within the wider cycle of violence caused by the slaughterer with the dugas family situation as well, so it feels like a reasonable conclusion to come to. perhaps his struggles go even farther beyond the psychiatric abuse that he experienced in the asylum, and he is trapped in a vicious cycle of his own.

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according to stain, jacks's song is "breath" by breaking benjamin. Which could mean nothing

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to me, i feel like jack's storyline has potential emerging themes of manipulation/abuse and the guilt that comes with having harmed others while under circumstances that were difficult to escape and having to become desensitized and give up parts of himself just to survive. the way he behaved in the original comic, the loaded language of "bad living situation, things got too heated inside", his general selfless nature (to the point of being self-sacrificial at times), his deep affection and loyalty towards tomb while also seeing glimpses of the slaughterer in his eyes and fearing that he may lose the home that he's been given, as well as tomb's trust... it makes me think a lot, especially with him potentially having been a former accomplice to the louisiana slaughterer and the possible marley and caroline parallels. i wonder if these things are going to come up more in the rewrite or if stain has something different in mind for him... though the part about him trying to atone for something he's done has been mentioned as recently as in his description on artfight, so it's possible that it's still on the same course. the story already touches on smaller scale cycles of abuse taking place within the wider cycle of violence caused by the slaughterer with the dugas family situation as well, so it feels like a reasonable conclusion to come to. perhaps his struggles go even farther beyond the psychiatric abuse that he experienced in the asylum, and he is trapped in a vicious cycle of his own.

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in case anyone is wondering why my writing style tends to be rather inconsistent between posts, it's because i get killed and resurrected on a daily basis and my ego dies along with my body as well so each iteration of myself is a little different every time. apologies for any confusion and inconvenience

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From Stainedge's Youtube and Instagram (7/27/26)

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while the loss of the original version of the comic is quite unfortunate and i do still feel sad about it, i really hope the rewrite ultimately puts less stress on the author. as a writer i can completely understand the feeling of being bothered by glaring inconsistencies in the beginning of a story that would clash with the rest of it and in the process of trying to revamp the first few chapters, i think stain likely realized that there would need to be adjustments made to the rest of season 1 for consistency as well, and at that point it might as well require ripping out the floorboards and starting over. i am very happy to see the creator already working on it so passionately, and it's important to remember that stress, confusion, and lack of confidence is something that can really kill a comic. life circumstances can also be a big factor and i believe it's important to offer grace in that regard as well. there's plenty of times where i've felt like nuking everything and starting over and have gone through with it. it happens. it's important to remember that creators are people too and often go through the same stress and motions. all in all, i just hope that stain can create a story that she feels happy with and continue to work on it in confidence. it is a free webcomic made by just one person and it is still in development and i think it's really inspiring to see it continuously evolve. i will be eagerly following the project regardless.

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Character turnarounds for Val and Casie (From Stainedge's Youtube and Instagram)

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From Stainedge's Instagram story (7/26/26). Script work for the rewrite of "Advertiser Friendly".

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i think the plan is to mainly crosspost tss updates & official art from youtube and insta to here, since the tag and community tab is often relatively inactive and not everything gets posted there. i'd like to treat this as more of a dedicated blogspot for talking about the comic than anything rather than directly engaging in any dedicated communities too much though. not really trying to be a fandom guy, just an enthusiast studying the comic like a bug in a terrarium. unfortunately a lot of analysis of the comic itself is going to have to go on the backburner since it's outdated material at the current moment but once the comic is up and running again i'll be there putting my yucky eyes all over it 👍 i think the side comics and official art are definitely worth talking about too. they're often conceptual / tentatively canon, but it's fun to try and unpack their meaning and what they have to say about the characters and story, so that's something i will consider as well. we shall see...

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they killed tomb again. Sad!

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BUG YAOI INBOUND 🪱🪲🔥

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From Stainedge's Instagram story (7/17/26). It appears that the redraw of "Gas Station Quarrels" will take on a far more serious tone, similarly to Tisler's chapter. There seem to be even more intentional parallels drawn between Tomb and Fig here as well...