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As mentioned before, I left Twitter and deleted every image I ever uploaded to Twitter (including my avatar, which is now an egg) due to the new policy regarding all tweets being used for AI training starting November 15th, 2024 whether we like it or not.

That's today!

As Artist Bluesky rises from the ashes of Artist Twitter like a phoenix burned in the trash fire of Elon Musk's ego, I'll share the longest tweet thread that I ever made.

It's all about my favorite cartoon that I just made up. The title of that cartoon escapes me, though.

26 more screengrabs under the cut!

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I seem to have already deleted some before I started taking screenshots, but I found one more.

So, there you have it!

This is basically a HUGE content brainstorming session, so of course I had to delete it all off the dead bird site.

Just a reminder, these are not writing prompts. I consider them to be short stories. If I ever want to expand any of these into longer stories, maybe I'll turn a few of these into a comic some day.

Maybe I already did turn one of them into a comic! ;)

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Verizon tells me I get Disney+ free with my phone plan, so I’m logged into it now and as you’d expect the front page is littered with Star Wars, including a whole “Star Wars” bar

And, as you’d expect, it’s got the Episode 1 and 2, the 2008 Clone Wars Movie that no one saw, the clone wars TV series based on that movie, Episode 3, Star Wars Rebels, Rogue One, the original trilogy (special editions, ew), the Mandalorian, the Resistance cartoon, and The Force Awakens. All the Star Wars, arraigned in in-universe chronological order with absolutely no glaring omissions.

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Spotted Cryptids!- A Webcomic Masterpost

Axed (Webtoons)

Created by Shren Patel (Twitter) and Emi MG (Twitter) (Facebook) (Instagram) (DeviantArt) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)

Summary: Meet Axelia. Since she was a little girl, all she’s ever wanted to do was become a Monster Hunter. Tough and tenacious, she worked hard to achieve her dream. And then on the day she graduated from Monster Hunter school, with her whole professional life ahead of her…the world declared eternal peace between monsters and humans. Well then. Now, with a useless degree, and no other viable job skills, Axelia must take on any job that will have her. Alongside a wisecracking, underachieving demon and pretty wood nymph whose roots don’t quite reach the soil, Axelia is determined to find the adventure she craves – even if it’s at a soul-crushing minimum wage job. Girl’s gotta eat, right?

Fishing Lure (Tapas) (Webtoons)

Created by FnF Comics ( @fnfcomics) (Site) (Twitter) (Instagram) (Patreon)

Summary: Sleepy town best friends Jerry and Tammy have gathered the police to help them hunt down a terrible swamp monster. Or at least that is what they have made everyone believe that this chase is about.

The Ghost That Lingers ( @tgtlcomic​) (Tapas) (Warning: Blood/Gore and Violence)

Created by Karu (Twitter) (Ko-Fi)

Summary: TGTL is about a YouTube ghosthunter who stumbles upon way more supernatural beings than he thought he would–and winds up hiring more of them than he films! Ghosts, witches, demons, even a cryptid or two get caught on camera as Nikki juggles helping seal dangerous ghosts and pleasing his Patreon followers!

Irregular ( @irregularcomic) (Site) (Tapas) (Warning: Abuse, Blood/Gore, Death, and Rape/Sexual Assault)

Created by Cait May ( @caitercates) (Site) (Twitter) (Instagram) and Trevor Bream

Summary: Creatures like the yeti, selkies, and will-o-the-wisps have captured the imaginations of writers, folk lore enthusiasts, and dumba$$es with video cameras for years.

What if these creatures were sentient, hilarious, and kept under lock and key by a special branch of the government, a branch just as mysterious and disputed as the field it’s devoted to?

I’M STRANGE (and so are you) (Site) (Tapas)

Created by Moe Espinoza (Twitter) (Pillowfort) (Patreon)

Summary: StrangeChat is a chatroom for “passionate individuals who dedicate their lives to the investigation and discussion of the paranormal in pursuit of the TRUTH.”

It has four active users. And it’s just about time to start planning StrangeChat’s First Ever Real Life Meet Up! The dedicated regulars of StrangeChat have only one year before this event… and only one year to sort out their own emotional and supernatural baggage.

Making Friends With Monsters ( @makingfriendswithmonsters) (Tapas) (Webtoons) (Twitter)

Created by Al Dunagan ( @almeow) (Site) (Twitter) (Instagram) (Ko-Fi)

Summary: Middle schoolers Nona, Zepher, and Clifford are Oak Hills’ own cryptid finders. These passionate explorers are out to find and make friends with any mysterious creature that crosses their path. But little do they know that their town’s recent rise in cryptozoological sightings may have something in common with each other.

ROADWORKS (Tapas) (Warning: Blood/Gore and Death)

Created by Yokiter ( @therealyokiter​) (Twitter) (Instagram) (DeviantArt)

Summary: Reptilians, apocalypses, secrets societies and crazy childreen is not even half of what the governmet was hiding. Caps and his strange group of friends are uncovering all the secrets of a society that no longer exists while also trying to find their place in the new world.

Windigo Lake (Tapas) (Warning: Blood/Gore)

Created by Knight JJ ( @theartofknightjj​) (Twitter) (Facebook) (Instagram)

Summary: Soo-jin and Hemant are on the road with their yeti friend Marco to find cryptids around the world. But this one might not be that friendly…

ZomCom (Webtoons)

Created by Emi MG (Twitter) (Facebook) (Instagram) (DeviantArt) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)

Summary: Your average everyday life of a zombie girl and her spooky friends.

Want to learn about more webcomics? Check out The Webcomic Library here!

Do you create a webcomic? Submit your comic to the library by emailing me at [email protected]

(Also here’s a template for peeps to submit their comics with!)

Want updates on what I’m up to between masterposts? Follow me on Twitter here! You can also follow me on Pillowfort!

Did I miss anything in my list? Have a masterpost you wanna see? Just wanna say hi? Send me an ask here!

Like my work? Want to help me expand what I’m doing? Buy me a Ko-Fi here!

If you enjoy any of these webcomics I encourage you to reblog this post or reblog their works. Most if not all of the comics mentioned rely on word of mouth to grow their audiences. All of these wonderful creators deserve to have their stories seen and heard and you can help by spreading the word!

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Rest in Peace Jake

Thank you for making the last 7 years happiest years of my life. I will miss you. I wish I got to say goodbye. I love you forever.

I will try to remember what Stunt said not too long ago.

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Webcomicarune Prophecies

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Liveblog: Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 1

Watching Serial Experiments Lain since I never really got into it the first go-round but maybe I’ll like it more now that I’m older and more appreciative of slow-paced stuff than I was in High School. I’ll liveblog it because why not and we’ll see if anyone enjoys this Content. 

Man, I forgot how much of 90s anime was shots of wires. If I came into this blind, I’d think this was maybe symbolic of like the internet and shit, but I’ve seen Kare Kano and know that you can have a drawing of telephone wires and put it  on screen for ten seconds and people will think your show has passable animation. If you have good drawings, you can make an entire movie out of still shots and people will think you have great animation.

Mmm, that’s good NPCs. I was able to take two screenshots without pausing because they held this shot for a full five seconds, did an insert to Lain  saying a line, and then  cut back to this shot for three seconds before anyone reacted to it. 

Well, one guy reacted, and another guy got a new face drawn on top of his old face without erasing the old face

This whole episode was made on a budget of 3 dollars, a coffee, and some lint, which was AAA studio money at the time. It’s sort of not fair to make fun of the animation, because the budgets they were working with at the time weren’t enough to animate a flipbook, and there was a lot of making do. 

And wires. 

But it’s still weird watching this classroom scene with like a ten second shot of the classroom where everything’s static except for two repeating frames of a talking animation not synced to anything. 

And wires

And I seriously wonder if the the reason so many 90s anime where about lonliness was an excuse to draw the characters in featureless voids. Is Lain emotionless because that was the moe trend at the time, because they’re making an artistic point about lonliness in the digital age, or because they don’t  have to animate her reacting to things? I honestly don’t know. 

LOOKIT HER WIDDLE HANDS

I like that her mom just  doesn’t acknowledge that Lain got an email from the dead. Not even blowing it off, she just keeps chewing. 

Lain: Can  I have a new computer [.....] Her  Dad: Why? [.....] Lain: I want to meet  someone [....] Her Dad:  [Sound of Yoda faking an orgasm]

The hell noise was that? 

Anyway, here are some wires. 

I’d talk about the plot, but....there wasn’t any.  1. A girl killed herself  2. Lain got an email supposedly from the girl  3. Lain had a dream  about the girl dying. 

And they stretched it out for an episode’s length by literally having Lain pause for 3 seconds before each line. 

I sincerely hope this show gets better :|