#songdog

[robinsceramics]

"songdog 3"

image description: a porcelain wolf with pink fur and wings painted on. it howls, tail lifted and eyes closed.

[arualmeow]

a mama and her large son

(Read 'I Didn't Know' on Comicfury)

[warriors-synpaths]

Little Miss and Whisper from I Didn't Know! One of my all time favorite pieces of media; I've been following it and every update since it started releasing in December 2023. Following it was apart of my every day routine; I was there for every update day, and eagerly awaited new pages. It impacted me greatly and it will always have a special place in my heart. The ending had me in tears. I love the babies!!! The mama and son ever!!

[joriboltonpainting]

Cover art for Shadowrun: Margin Calls! My first rainy painting for Shadowrun. Love rain! Lots of fun (and lots of difficulty) with this one. So much to include.

The Nukit Burgers location is one of my favourite details, and is almost entirely missing from the print cover (unless it's included in the wraparound—I'll find out when I get my copy later this week).

AD: Ian King

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insta | cara | artstation | bluesky

[togetogetogepi]

Shoutout to Songdog for blocking me from commenting on I Didn't Know for saying that I liked Little Miss's plotline and character much more than Whisper's 😂

Is there an ancient curse that strikes every webcomic artist to have the thinnest skin ever when someone criticizes their work? This wasn't even a hard comment, it was about preference towards a good character over another.

I guess that's why most of you didn't go to art college, you probably can't handle a teacher correcting you.

I'm more salty that this is a grown adult than anything, this is frankly embarrasing.

[starsyspirit]

If I had a coin for every time there is a white animal character called Father, tied to a religion, who is secretly evil, I would have 2 coins.

Which ain't much but it's funny it happened twice.

It's a joke guys!

First one is Father (real name Utu) from Asmundr - Home by Kique Nordin who is not supposed to be evil but his actions tell otherwise.

Second one is Holy Father (real name Ezekiel) from I didn't know by Songdog who is truly and intentionally evil character.

Disclaimer: These two comics are absolutely not comparable.

And I am not complaining, I actually love the reversed symbolism "the pure white one being actually evil".

I just find it funny coincidence.

[sinceredragonslander]

God I hate that "misogyny hurts men too" note on that page.

I get the themes SongDog is attempting to explore but the way she's going about it is weird at best.

How exactly are the stallions being harmed in any way that's outside of their power? They don't have to fight. There doesn't seem to be any reason to partner since there's no danger. There hasn't been any social benefits or detriments shown to partnering or refusing to partner.

A page after men fighting to assault a woman is not the time to be like "misogyny hurts men too :(". LITERALLY HOW. You have not shown any detriments to being a stallion in this society or in the lore of your universe. The mares seem doomed to getting the shit end of the stick.

To be honest the very concept of how partnering works rubs me the wrong way. So the mare just ceases to have all bodily autonomy and just has to take whatever pain the stallion gives her? Crazy work. I really fail to see how this benefits either of them. The stallion feels no pain, sure, but that just makes him more likely to get killed by ignoring his wounds and the mare just suffers I guess. How is having two able-bodied fighters a worse option than this?

I don't fully understand how the partnering works in Swordbearers, again, because I'm not following it. But so far I have no idea how or why are these unicorns surviving as a species with this system.

And yep, that comment is super out of place there. Imagine a similar one in I Didn't Know, "oh, but the Holy Father is hurt too, because he can't have a family" type of shit. Eh, putting a comment like that would probably get your ass blocked.

I don't think Songdogx is going to manage to succesfully pull these themes off as they did with I Didn't Know. The concept of opposite genders being unable to understand eachother sound good in paper, but tough as nails when it comes to develop it.

[assmundr]

Any thoughts on Songdogx shutting off comments and going private when some people were commenting ableist things and others pointed out the ableism but not saying anything about it or admonishing the ableism, instead brushing it off as just fighting?

What I'm about to says seems to be kind of a hot take?? Based on what I've heard from other people when they were giving their opinion on this. But. I actually think this is not an issue at all? At least not in the way people present it. SongDog is fully within their right to do this. They don't owe their viewers anything, including access to comments and the remainder of their (free) comic.

I don't tend to paruse through their comment sections (mostly because the critical thinking ability of people on CF in general seems to be akin to that of a stale chocolate éclair and some of the takes I come across make my brain melt) so I can't say what exactly was the reason for which they closed their comments and stopped uploading, since I didn't see it happen. Because SongDog said one thing, you're saying another.

I will say however that as much as they're responsible for somewhat regulating their comments, it is not up to them to dismantle any brewing fights, arguments, harassment, insults and the like, and I think expecting this of them is really entitled and kinda idiotic? Why blame the author for not managing the raging people in the comments, when it should be up to the actual people to not start stupid fights like this?? It's not SongDog's fault if someone decides to start an argument under their pages, rather it's on the person themselves for not being able to properly regulate themselves.

I also fully support this decision. Whether SongDog really was messaged by someone the way they say they were, or whether this was over a fight about ableism, isn't the key issue here. The key issue is that people can't behave and honestly, what do you expect from someone like SongDog?

SongDog isn't a publisher and this isn't their job either. They're just some guy on the internet that posts animal comics as a hobby. Aside from their obligations to Patreon supporters, they don't owe their FREE audience anything. Sure, it sucks you possibly won't see the rest of the comic, I'm bumped out too! And it also might suck to be told this, but you're not entitled to seeing it, just like you aren't entitled to an open comment section on any comic, not just SongDog's. They're uploading their hobby art FOR FREE onto this part of the internet and they're also fully within their right to decide they don't wanna do that anymore, whatever their reason is.