#egscomics

[sillylovingpupper]

[hemthead]

I don't really have the emotional capability to truly *love* a character. Sometimes I struggle to feel emotions in general.

But when I think about Michelle, I can feel my body trying. She makes me wanna break down and cry about how beautiful and good and bad and *eugh* everything is. She just fills me with this unbearable love that fills up my lungs until I drown in emotion.

It's so very rare for me to feel like that about anything... I don't even know if Tedd Verres conjured up those feelings so readily. I mean, we stan Tedd, but was I always choking up on sight? IDK, it's been a bit since my Tedd peak.

[pekkhum]

A Google search shoved me into an old "El Goonish Shive" (egscomics, on Tumblr) comic and I started rereading from there and can I just say:

This is from 2018, so it isn't like this was that hard to see at the time, but I didn't actually think it'd go this far. 😅

[villainessbian]

PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK PANDORA "BOX" CHAOS RAVEN IS BACK

THIS IS NOT A DRILL MY PERFECT ANGEL WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG IS BACK AND SHE HAS SENSORY ISSUES MY SWEET BABY I WILL HOLD HER IN MY ARMS

[entangledv2-blog]

Tedd D. Verres' Alien-Free Transformations and Funland

Is this something

[privateeye-cj]

Wasn't there an arc with Grace asking the squirrels not to eat the birdfeed? I think in np?

I can't find it :-(

[macksting]

If you like El Goonish Shive

If you like El Goonish Shive, I think you might like Dungeon Meshi, and also O Human Star. They're all three different situations entirely, but Dungeon Meshi has the same earnest portrayal of neurodivergence and the same sense of responsibility to its characters and its readers; and all three have that incredible and sometimes painful compassion for their characters. Dungeon Meshi's kinda long, though not One Piece long, and having recently concluded you can also rest assured it is finite and has an ending as intended. O Human Star is much shorter, much more freely available on its own site. While it lacks in what one might say are obvious warnable content, it does have a forking/cloning situation somewhat coincidentally a bit like Elliot's and Ellen's, and I know one person at least who cannot deal with forking content; there's one death, but it doesn't stick, and is what sets the story in motion; and there's self-harm scars but it's plot-relevant that they're not talked about, much less actively engaged in creating. That said, it's intense. I know only one person who's read it through without having to take a break just to come up for air, and at eight approachably short comic chapters, that says a lot. Personally, I didn't get through the first chapter before I had to lay down and sob uncontrollably. My wife managed to make it all the way to the middle of chapter eight before she had to stop and take it in, and another friend made it to chapter seven before they had to pull out for a bit. It's a lot.

[thejazzywaffles]

Re-reading EGS for the first time in a few years and I'm almost caught up to the present pages. But more importantly, I can't stop reading Kevin (the wand)'s dialogue like an old-timey radio announcer. Kinda like the radio demon from Hazbin Hotel.

(See Balance Page 113 for the added context of how Kevin tends to talk.)