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Good Yule everyone!

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Got a new laptop that should be here in a few days. So, the comic will get made one way or another, though...I have to figure out how to get the last few pages I drafted off my out-of-commission desktop still. I've never transferred from an SSD before and am afeared.

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik

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So....

my computer fucking died and I have no other way to do digital art (other than my phone and *insert wheeze meme here*) so it's going to take me even longer to post shit. All because of a chip only about 2 inches wide on every side (or the motherboard; idk until I get a new part to try).

Just so y'all know what's happening if I disappear for a while.

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Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!

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okay. which of you motherfuckers taught my vile little homunculus how to put on eyeliner

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I SWEAR my haunted manor isn’t a trap for waifish young men. Yes I know they can’t resist the allure of the silk bedsheets but I promise I am NOT trapping them here and using their bodies in my experiments. STOP asking me about the mad science lab in the basement. You know I’m sensitive about that!

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love the potential explanations for why demons speak in "archaic" tongues:

time works differently for demons, they took a quick (centuries long) nap and suddenly humans have invented weird new lingo

it's just the natural consequence of being immortal and not terribly interested in the human world. they already took the time to learn to speak Human (random outdated language) when they got their demonic possession license in the 11th cent AD, they're not learning it again

Demonic education system uses old textbooks. Human Studies is a practically obsolete field anyway, there's no money in the budget for updated editions for another millennium at least

all the translation spells were invented by this one nerd who later fell into a wormhole, leaving behind illegible notes and no update procedure

it's a sociopolitical issue. the last push for reform led to a brief period wherein all interactions with human priests/summoners were conducted in 19th century Cockney Rhyming Slang. (the results were controversial)

the humans just seem to enjoy it

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When you’re out in the wild, do the animals, insects, and plants question you being nonbinary? No, because you’re just a person to them and part of the world they live in.

Does the ocean dry up and the desert blow away at your feet? Of course not. You are just another being making their way through existence.

The vast majority of the universe doesn’t have a problem with you being nonbinary.

So, why should you?

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Fox

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Here's my review of the review, I guess. He basically said what I figured he would in terms of it having mixed results online, but I wish he would have dived more into the pacing issues and some of the characterizations that could be stronger. HOWEVER! I'm glad he talked about the good parts of it and how it's great for indie (HH really doesn't feel indie anymore just because of how many studios have been corralled for it and Amazon though the advertisement for it has been...interestingly lacking despite just how popular it is) work. Film and animation are hard and it's nice to know major studios are getting the reckoning they deserve as things progress and we start taking matters into our own paws.

I also like that he talked about how they are very different shows from each other because of their production value but also that it gives a lot of hope to what smaller studios can create if given the time and passionate people to make it happen. I also really like that he didn't just berate it for having more mature themes but idk how much he knows about what's actually happening behind the scenes with these actors and the studios involved so...

All in all, an okay review but I do wish it had been a bit longer and more in-depth over what's been done well in these shows versus what hasn't been.

I hope I'm alive when Doug Walker is forced to talk about Hotel of Hasbeens and and Hella Boss.

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Demonic magical girl

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I hope I'm alive when Doug Walker is forced to talk about Hotel of Hasbeens and and Hella Boss.

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Funnily enough, didn't really ship Charlastor or Huskerdust before I started rewriting their characters for myself.

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Working on a fun comic panel. Here's a peek:

Alastor makes a concentrated effort to irritate and weird out his boss' daughter 24/7. She hasn't learned how to block him out yet.

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Apparently it's time to start posting and reblogging How to Tumblr stuff again. Lots of people are hopping from Twitter to Bluesky. A big thing to emphasize is that "repost" is the term bsky uses for "retweet", and we need to educate on the difference between "repost" and "reblog" here on Tumblr. We have so many things saying "don't repost things!" and that might cause confusion now that bsky has entered the game. I'd hate to see people avoiding Tumblr because they got yelled at for something they didn't do, because lingo is different.

I'll start: on Tumblr, "reblog" is sharing the original post on your blog for your followers to see. "Repost" is creating a new post with something you saved or downloaded or screenshoted from someone else's blog, and that's highly discouraged here. Please reblog to share the original so the creator can get the interactions too.