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Diane From HR has an exciting new habit where she demands lap time and moreso, demands lap time be comfortable else she’ll pace endlessly

Turns out the solution was to semi-purrito her and now this is how I work

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welcome back

Sarah + The Safe Word’s amazing new album is here, btw.

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this header exists to deter my in-laws from reading.

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Why your Uncle Stan is not a huge fan of maraschino cherries.

(CW: alcohol in excess, CW: mention of vomit, CW: past mistakes)

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i do what little i can

(another comic about @wangquest; it’s on my mind a lot lately, yknow?)

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A guest Stananigan strip for my husband’s phalloblog.

My partner @snakewife has been extraordinarily supportive and kind throughout my phalloplasty preparation. But just as any major surgery would be, a phalloplasty can be hard on your loved ones as well! And that’s okay as long as you’re both supportive of each other and communicate your emotional needs to each other. Stan tried to hold a lot of her emotions/worries/stress related to my phallo inside for a long time because she wanted to be a good partner and not cause me extra stress. But keeping all of that inside was really hard on her and left her without emotional support for her own stress and emotions. Eventually, when I was making a somewhat cavalier joke about my own mortality, the dam burst and she started crying, which was the first time I realized how much stress she had been under. For all that it was certainly an awkward and painful moment for poor Stan to have, I’m glad it happened, as it allowed me to tell her that it was okay to talk to me about her emotions surrounding my procedure. I also encouraged her to talk to her therapist about it too so she could process her emotions in whatever way felt right for her. With the encouragement of her therapist, Stan started talking to me about her feelings through a medium that felt safe and comforting to her: comics. So every so often I’ll also post a little guest comic from her about her experiences as a partner of someone going through this procedure.

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we’re the same age

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Hello, sorry to bother you but I was wondering, did you used to have a post-apocalyptic webcomic narrated by a woman who died but haunted her husband to help him survive? If not I'm sorry, your art style reminds me a lot of it. The writing was so interesting and I still think about the woldbuilding to this day.

Yep, that was me back when I was a wee college student! Sadly I lost the rights to the site name, and so that comic isn’t really coming back.

I’m writing something kind of similar to it, though. That whole creepy surreal vibe. You can check it out at The Hazards of Love.

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And now, Uncle Stan’s tattoo wishlist. (I am informed that I have added an extra hour and a half to my assessment of my first tattoo. Well, it FELT like it took 8 hours.)

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“Hey, where was Stan for half the year?” Well.

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There was no lead up, no follow up. Just a thrown dagger aimed at my heart.

(I love this person)

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One day, these will be about something other than Diane, but that will not be on a day when I’m drawing with some drinks in me already.

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She was five years old when we got her, that’s plenty of time to have had some sort of ill-fated love affair.

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I hope that if I get horn implants, someone will be there to read poetry to me while it happens.