South Esteam

Official Tumblr of the webcomic South Esteam. The South Esteam Counseling Center (SECC) is a small organization in the city of South Esteam with a company mission of helping the townsfolk with a problem they all have in common, but it seems to be a little more complicated than they realize. Every time you find yourself thinking you know what this comic is about, it's only going to get more bizarre. South Esteam is not out yet, this is a development blog!

[sparklecarehospital-archive]

if tuc turns your fur light blue then wouldn't coast from south esteam also be blue? he's geen but i remember you saying he has tuc

Everyone in South Esteam is depicted as monochrome for story reasons, those aren't their actual fur colors! They're colors that "represent" them

[kitty-silly-deactivated20260502]

more demi art for my soul

[southesteam]

The blog....is Alive and Well......

[towost-deactivated20260109]

HAI you should draw demi derparted from South Esteam :3

here ya go, demi’s one of my favs!

also sorry this took me a while, she was hard to draw -w-‘

[vanillabeenflower]

Karmageddeon Pride Edits and South Esteam Pride Icons

[Please use with credit]

🐴 Lesbian Molly Dust 🐺

🐅 Aromantic Ellie Tronix 🐅

🐿 Demisexual demiromantic Brean Thing 🐿

🦦 Nonbinary Ray Vive 🦦

[southesteam]

woooo im happy my detective skills are working! and your fear is completely understandable+valid, but if u do come out about it and people r weird i will literally attack them ):< , you couldnt control it and it doesnt mean anything abt u. im rlly excited to find out more about this comic, its so interesting :3

i know eventually everyone will know since it's mentioned explicitly in the comic but i can't help but worry anyways because i had someone in the past be weird to me about it and it kinda really left an effect on me and my comfort talking about it :"[ i guess like i said i'm worried about people being insensitive about it

thank you so much for the kind words though :"] it really really means a lot to me!!! i hope you guys will all like the comic!!!

[southesteam]

@ anon: you guessed it, that’s the condition

[southesteam]

tell me abt Coast!! :D what does he do what does he liek…

i can't say a ton about him just yet BUT!!! he runs an ice cream shop in the town of south esteam! :] he has TUC so he's totally frozen despite living close to the equator. he dresses warmly and wears touchscreen gloves so he can use electronics and stuff without getting them wet or anything with his condensation from the illness! he also really likes writing poetry about his feelings, and despite how silly he is, his poetry can be quite dark and depressing. it's funny tho cuz he smiles and laughs a lot sharing it when it's like the most dramatic depressing shit ever LOL..... he also has the same mental condition that demi has !!!

[southesteam]

Is it okay to ask what the illness is, or are you not comfortable sharing/is it spoilers?

my only real hesitation to reveal it is largely because i'm just worried people will be weird or rude about it to me. it's hard enough to make a story based around a really painful time in my life, i'd hate for people to come to me asking questions because they think it's "fascinating" and they're "morbidly curious" or something

[southesteam]

What year does this story take? Since SC takes in 2016 and KG 2019

this one takes place in 6020!

[southesteam]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm just trying to make sure: does Demi Departed not have a pun or does her name mean something I don't understand? Demi means some/half, does it mean she's only partly "departed"?

she does have a pun. the pun is just literally what her name is, as you said, "partly departed" !!!!!

[southesteam]

I'm interested in what this may be!! I wanna learn more about these new characters

Well, similar to Sparklecare, the concepts of this story are based around a traumatic experience I had when I was younger and this is a comfort comic. I suffered from a rare mental illness as a teenager due to my schizophrenia and the original Demi was my fursona at the time I was experiencing it, and some of the characters in this story experience it too.

It's about more than the mental illness obviously but it's a prominent part of the plot. If you know what this mental illness is already then you might understand the allotpuns of these characters.

[southesteam]

I thought Demi's allotpun was "dearly departed" KDKFKB

Her name is quite literally exactly the words it says which is why I keep saying her allotpun is "just her name", it's not an alteration of any existing words or phrases, it's just The Exact Words

[southesteam]

Fun fact, Coast has the same illness that Polly from Sparklecare has: TUC, or the uncommon cold!

[southesteam]

What is everyonez Allotpunz?

Olive: Alive and well

Mandy: Among the living

Brean: Breathing

Ray: Revive

Demi: It's just her name

Coast: Post-mortem

[southesteam]

DEMI IS SO PRETTYYY can u tell me more abt her

here’s a toyhouse profile for her and one for coast!

[southesteam]

DEMI AND COASTS PUNS R LITERALLY SO GOOD OMG.. Demi is pretty her design feels familiar in a kinda weird cozy way :3

if she seems familiar to anyone it’s because she’s named after and based on a fursona i had when i was 14-15 years old!