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Authentic Mintywolf! (she/her) Comic artist/author of A Long Road Home and Guardian https://artofmintywolf.carrd.co/

[mintywolf]

Last day for preorders!!

Cottagecore domesticity! Wilderness survival! Laudna backstory! Cats! Dogs! The birth of Pâté! A catchy song! Exandria's Best Worst Couple! Biscuit discourse! Laudna gets hit in the face with a fish! This book has everything!!

A Long Road Home: Volume Two -- Get it here!

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A Long Road Home: Volume Two Print Edition and Big Shop Update!

🌟IT'S TIME!!!🌟

A Long Road Home: Volume Two print edition is now open for preorder! Preorders will be open until June 3rd, with books expected to ship in mid July.

Preorders will arrive with a free Calamari sticker!

If you can't wait (or just prefer e-readers), there are also high-resolution digital ebook editions of both Vol. One and Two available right now on Etsy and Ko-fi!

Visit Mintywolf's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

Also: new stickers!! 3x3 vinyl decals of Laudna and Imogen in bloom. 🖤🌼💜

Check them out here.

And finally, I added a bunch of new prints to my INPRNT shop! Mermaids, witches, and unicorns!

Patreon members, don't forget you can get a discount across all my shops at Pocket Frog tier or higher! Go here for your promo codes or here to become a supporter!

[mintywolf]

Cottagecore domesticity! Wilderness survival! Laudna backstory! Cats! Dogs! The birth of Pâté! A catchy song! Exandria's Best Worst Couple! Biscuit discourse! Laudna gets hit in the face with a fish! This book has everything!!

Get it here! Preorders for physical books cap on June 3rd and I'll only have a few extra print copies in stock so get your preorder in if you want one!

[mintywolf]

Another illustration for What Doesn't Break that I meant to get to like a year ago! Laudna and Sybil. 🐺❤️

Vague sequel to this.

[southern-gothic-comic]

A Long Road Home: Volume Two Print Edition and Big Shop Update!

🌟IT'S TIME!!!🌟

A Long Road Home: Volume Two print edition is now open for preorder! Preorders will be open until June 3rd, with books expected to ship in mid July.

Preorders will arrive with a free Calamari sticker!

If you can't wait (or just prefer e-readers), there are also high-resolution digital ebook editions of both Vol. One and Two available right now on Etsy and Ko-fi!

Visit Mintywolf's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

Also: new stickers!! 3x3 vinyl decals of Laudna and Imogen in bloom. 🖤🌼💜

Check them out here.

And finally, I added a bunch of new prints to my INPRNT shop! Mermaids, witches, and unicorns!

Patreon members, don't forget you can get a discount across all my shops at Pocket Frog tier or higher! Go here for your promo codes or here to become a supporter!

[mimi-and-luna]

I love how some cats have two modes

Princess & Creature

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[mintywolf]

Hello! I was wondering if you are going to have the other parts of A Long Road Home on Etsy for purchase? I absolutely love them. Hope you have a good day!

Yes! I actually just got the proof for the print edition of Volume 2 so it should be available for preorder in my shop sometime this week! (And thank you! :))

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Page 146

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(Author's Notes)

Panel 1: Behind the counter of the shop, where she has been given her own space to work, Laudna weaves her mending magic over an astonished customer's broken teapot.

Panel 2: At home, Imogen hangs the commemorative plate over the fireplace with Mage Hand while Laudna watches approvingly. The mantel has been tidied and furnished with other castoff knickknacks from the store.

Panel 3: In the store, Imogen organizes and dusts a display of music boxes, humming along with one that's open.

Panel 4: Laudna and Pâté are spinning a story about an antique rooster-shaped lamp to a prospective family of customers, who are listening avidly.

Laudna: This handsome fellow will protect and guard your home so long as the flame is burning, but you must be mindful of your manners, and always treat him with respect! Just ask poor Pâté.

Pâté: A lesson learned the ‘ard way, that was. I wasn't too courteous about my manner of addressin' Mr. Rooster here, and what followed was the worst week of bad luck I've ‘ad in me entire death.

Customer: Oh no!

Pâté: First Laudna here dropped me in the mud and I had to have a bath. Then a fox tried to carry me off for a snack. Then I got mixed up in the laundry somehow, earnin' meself a second unwanted bath, and to top it all off Miss Imogen put me through the wringer and me poor bonce popped clean off!

Laudna: It really was quite dreadful for him. But a guardian lamp with a built-in curse! You can't find that kind of thing just anywhere.

Customer: How much?

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A Long Road Home - Page 146 Author's Notes

Page 146

Laudna has finally realized her calling as a shop girl.

The rooster lamp story is based on a family anecdote from my aunt and uncle. When I was about ten my sisters and I were helping them move into a new townhouse and, while we carried some things up to the attic, my uncle pointed out an antique lamp shaped like a rooster that had been left behind by the previous owners and said “Don’t let the rooster lamp get you.” They said that after each of them had picked it up to move it they’d each had a week of bad luck. I don’t remember all of the incidents of unluckiness they described but the one that stood out in my mind was that when my uncle tried to fill the gas tank in his car the pump hadn’t stopped automatically like it was supposed to and overflowed all over his hands. At the time I was very afraid of it! It was of course an electric lamp, so I had to figure out what an oil-burning rooster lamp would look like. I settled on an Aladdin-style lamp in a rooster shape with the neck and open mouth for a spout and the tail for a handle.

Also on the shelves is Lulu’s moogle doll from Final Fantasy X and my comic Guardian, a few minor magic items (Hat of Wizardry, Ear Horn of Hearing, Beads of Nourishment) and some things that are just on the walls or shelves of my own room (dragonfly kite, straw hat, Mardi Gras cat mask, unicorn lamp, old perfume bottle).

The advertisement for Doctor Porlock’s Calming Cordial (Guaranteed to Soothe all creature types!) is I guess a call-forward to the as-yet-unfinished next chapter of Come In From the Cold. It’s the cough syrup Laudna is sailing on while Imogen is braiding her hair in the little snippet I posted on SG Discord, and a product of my interest in Ye Olde patent medicines of the 18th-19th centuries, the active ingredient in which was frequently some form of opium. The name Porlock was chosen as an allusion to Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” a poem that remains famously unfinished after the poet’s state of opium-induced delirium in which he was writing was interrupted by a “person from Porlock.”

And the tale of Pâté losing his head in the laundry is a callback to a little memory vignette in Chapter 13 of Remember Us:

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— and they are in the yard of a little cottage in the sweet grassy breeze of an afternoon in early spring. She is pinning up a wet sheet on the clothesline while Imogen, with her sleeves rolled up over her bare, freckled arms and her hair tied up in her bandana (in a way that is quite adorable) is scrubbing a sudsy pillowcase against the washboard between her knees.

“I was thinkin’,” Imogen says, squeezing the soap from the pillowcase and threading it into the wringer, “this seems like a nice enough li’l town. What d’you think about stoppin’ here for a while? We could plant a garden. Maybe even get some chickens.”

“Oh! Iafn—” She takes the clothespin from her mouth and tries again. “I haven’t lived anywhere long enough to have a garden in such a long time.”

“We could plant some strawberries,” suggests Imogen, cranking the wringer, “and sweet corn.”

“And pumpkins!”

“And squash, and green beans.”

“And blueberries!”

“And —” There is an ominous crunch from the wringer. “Ohmygod.”

She turns from the clothesline to find Imogen fumbling with the contraption in dismay. “What? What happened? Are you all right?” Dropping to her knees beside the washtub, she takes Imogen’s wet hands in her own, anxiously feeling each of the bones in her washwater-reddened fingers. “Did something break? Can you move your fingers?”

“Laudna.” 

“We don’t have a healing potion, do we? I think we have enough gold saved to pay a cleric—”

“Laudna, I’m fine. It’s okay.” She turns back the crank and gathers the wet pillowcase guiltily into her arms. “It’s just . . .” Fishing around in it, she holds out the limp and bedraggled (but very clean) body of Pâté in her hand, and only his body. His bony head lies in her other hand, quite separate from the rest of him. “The casualty was not me.”

She covers her mouth over a little gasp, and Imogen’s face crumples in remorse.

“I’m so sorry, Laudna! I didn’t know he was in there. I shoulda been more careful. Oh . . . are you cryin’?”

But she isn’t. She’s laughing. “Oh, darling, it’s all right. It’s certainly not poor Pâté’s first war wound. I don’t think he’ll be much hurt, except for maybe his feelings.”

Taking the two pieces, she holds him in her arms and croons a mending incantation over him. Imogen relaxes as the ill-fitting halves of him become whole again, until his head swivels in her direction with a crack.

“Me poor bonce! Miss Imogen, ‘ow could you? I’m only ‘alf the rat I used to be!”

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The shop update is today! I have a few different ceramic skull pendants this time. They each come with a gold plated chain. They’ll be available today, Friday May 22nd at 8pm Eastern time.

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Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

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More from the notes:

[vexwerewolf]

I love this post

[karifaevt]

The horse thinks as it scratches an itch

[possessable]

blorbo sickfic that turns into a possession fic halfway through

[drudg30n]

what does this meannnn

[possessable]

well you see,

[unfamiliarsculptures]

A little black goat sculpture! The black animals in this update were made by staining the clay itself black. A new process I’m really excited to know! This piece will be available Friday, May 22nd at 8pm Eastern time.

[mintywolf]

She wants to be where the people are.

More Little Mermaid AU concepts! including Pâté who is a hermit crab living in the skull of a cormorant.

[mintywolf]

Some kind of Little Mermaid AU? Idk I really just wanted to draw Laudna with huge abyssopelagic eyes and a lil anglerfish bobble.

Update: more of her!

[tinyshoopuf]

I started watching Campaign 3

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How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.