#1995 webcomic

[jkriordanverse]

Keith & Corey (fanart) from the webcomic 1995 :D, Or Lucas & Will from Stranger Things. Double fanart >:D

[oregano-gremlin]

hey guys! do any of you like webcomics? do any of you like horror? are any of you interested in sapphic horror webcomics?

boy do i have a recommendation for you!

1995 is one of my favorite webcomics right now, check it out!

(and the art is beautiful too!)

[marsi-arden]

⚠️ Reminder about my webcomic "Species: Project Arden" CLICK HERE!

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[delcat177]

And stay out

[homestuckreplay]

Webcomics at Day 100 #1: Kevin & Kell

Pages read: 9/3/1995 – 9/3/1996 & 4/13/2009 – 8/18/2009; about 380 pages

Reason for selection: Best I can tell this is the oldest webcomic that’s still running as well as among the first ones made. It updated every weekday from 1995-2000 and every day since then without breaks, totaling around 4500 strips as of 2009 and 10,000 strips as of 2024. This webcomic is older than I am and has been around for over 90% of the internet’s public history. While not originally intended as a ‘furry comic’ it quickly gained popularity among furries, who are an important internet subculture. K&K meetups happened at furry conventions in the 2000s.

Current status: This comic is an eternal truth of the internet

Content warnings: predator/prey dynamics

Overall thoughts: I think this strip is charming. It’s functionally identical to a newspaper strip, and there’s nothing about its presentation that couldn’t be done in print – which makes sense as its creator was already a newspaper cartoonist before starting this. Being published on the internet allows readers easy and instant access to the archives without having to buy the newspaper each day, although the sections I’ve read don’t take advantage of this by having long running storylines that require reading the archive. There is overall continuity, but jumping from 1996 to 2009 wasn’t super confusing. At the time of writing this the website is quick to load, well organized and really easy to navigate, so it’s no work at all to just start reading and get lost in the comic.

Content wise, the strip features anthropomorphic animals living in modern society (humans appear to be mythical creatures?) and includes a lot of jokes about animal traits manifesting in school, work and day to day life. Some specific jokes such as the hedgehog character getting stuck to things with her many spines are used often. Quite a few jokes rely on the fact that a significant portion of society are killing and eating the other portions on a daily basis, which is written in a lighthearted way but won’t be to everyone’s taste. I’d also describe the comic as ‘boomer humor’ in some places. Bill Holbrook began writing the strip in his late 30s so is older than the average early webcomics artist, and writes about family and technology from that perspective. The content also focuses on both nontraditional relationships and traditional family dynamics, and the ways these rub up against one another, while avoiding any genuinely controversial topics.

I love how Holbrook draws rabbits – Kevin and baby Coney’s designs are adorable to me and are the visual highlights of most strips. The character R.L., wolf and CEO of Herd Thinners Inc., is never shown in full – only his drooling mouth, fangs, and hands clasped on his desk are shown, which kicks ass as a villain design. Holbrook is also really good at conveying a character’s overall mood or vibe just through their body language in a still image, which is impressive considering how many different species he’s working with. The comic began in black and white and switched to color in 2000, and while I don’t think the color significantly improves the strip, it does make it easier to distinguish between characters of similar species as the cast has grown.

Connections to Homestuck: K&K doesn’t use the affordances of the internet (such as including gifs/sound in the comic) but it is definitely about the internet. It’s established imemdiately that titular couple Kevin & Kell first met and fell in love online, and that Kevin’s job is the system operator for the ���herbivore forum.’ Kevin attends an online high school reunion, daughter Lindesfarne (INCREDIBLE character name) attends a virtual prom, and son Rudy stays in touch with his long distance girlfriend via email. Jokes about online life being inferior to digital are rare, and spending a lot of time online is normalized within the world of the comic, a decade or two before it became normalized in the real world.

K&K also plays with the boundary between digital and real space, and commonly depicts a character typing something into the computer to cause a physical effect in the world far away. Computers physically react to the digital content they are used for, such as Kevin’s computer starting to grow leaves and plants when he spends too much time on the herbivore forum, and digital phenomena are represented physically such as this depiction of a firewall:

I don’t think Rudy and Dave are the exact same archetype but Rudy does wear sunglasses 24/7 and is a different flavor of above it all coolguy whose feelings aren’t as secret as he thinks.

Continue reading? Probably! Despite being loosely drawn archetypes I did start caring about the characters quickly, enjoyed reading enough to go well past day 100, and have marked my place to come back to. It’s sweet and low effort entertainment that I can easily see myself digging into when I’m tired or sick.

I have sponsored today’s update which only costs $5 and is a small contribution to webcomics history.

[sheisawantedman]

Hello!! My name is Samantha | Dan and I'm a watercolor artist specializing in all things groovy and creepy, but mostly creepy. I'm obsessed with Horror and the late 60s / 1970s - especially 70s interior design, linoleum tile, and wallpaper. Also plaid. And orange.

I also collect antiques and vintage items from the 60s/70s !! I primarily draw my ocs and other original work/stories, and am currently working on my webcomic Running Wild!

Which you can read on Webtoon | Tapas | Comicfury

I also have a collection of Minicomics, including Erie and Redford's prequel story My Neighbor Has a Red Curtain.

MINICOMICS:

My Neighbor Has a Red Curtain {Criminologist Erie Lockhart recounts the summers she met and befriended Redford Wild, a florist/gardener serial killer, in this condensed version of events taking place in 1973}

Red Lightning Runner {Red Lightning Runner tells the story of a young woman escaping a dangerous cult in 1995 South Florida}

From The Branches {A young man gets more than he bargained for when he joins a cult in the woods}

Check out the rest of my art Here And find me elsewhere {and my shop} Here

[prokopetz]

Speaking of webcomic history, did you ever read Polymer City Chronicles? From what I understand, it was the first webcomic ever published online, and I'm curious as to what your thoughts on it might be?

Regarding the "first webcomic" thing, that's a common misconception – while it's true that Polymer City Chronicles began publishing as early as 1992, it was print-only until 1995. Even if we define "webcomic" narrowly as comics published online via websites (i.e., excluding comics published online via Usenet, mailing lists, etc.), there are still a few titles that pre-date PCC's 1995 debut as a webcomic – Doctor Fun and Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, just off the top of my head.

As for what I think of it, I know you know my policy on providing on-demand reviews of particular titles. =P

[wolpatinga]

i did some data stuff. was gonna do a tier list but this is more informative

notes:

adaptations:

the original for reference

the mazm mobile game

the 1968 movie with jack palance

the animated version from 1986

le testament du docteur cordelier

the two tracks from the album gothic whore by chonny jash

the 2021 movie with the brothers. idk that's all i really remember from it

okay. it's "dr jekyll and ms hyde" but his name is jaxon in this. it's a movie from 1995

the 2007 adaptation that was really edgy and 2007

the one from 1920 with barrymore

the wildhorn musical

chonny's charming chaos compendium. i know it's not really an adaptation. it's a more faithful adaptation than TGS. screw you

the glass scientists, a webcomic

the hulk. i'm specifically talking about the 2008 one but ig any by-the-numbers hulk story works here

league of extraordinary gentlemen - a comic series by alan moore and kevin o'neill

faithfulness was out of 30 points. could i have used better points? make your own list. (adapted from previous post)

does jekyll love hyde (fatherly or otherwise)

would hyde negotiate with enfield

does jekyll and or hyde cry, especially over his friends

would this hyde actually believably do a murder

is jekyll NOT the main character

does it look fun to be hyde

is hyde not jack the ripper? is hyde only reasonably dickish. does hyde not beat women just to shock the audience

this is extremely biased, but does it do what it can for the time to touch on the more eccentric themes. by which i mean. incongruous faggots. queer street. house of bondage. etc etc.

is hyde autistic/anxious in crowds/shy (see previous post about hyde)

do people hate hyde's appearance. this seems obvious but sometimes it goes completely without mention

is utterson seen being overly focused on the case. is this utterson's case

is jekyll mid fifties

is jekyll big

is hyde a "young man", noticeably younger than jekyll

is hyde little

does lanyon act like lanyon. is he a straight-laced vivacious doctor, estranged friend of jekyll, good friend of utterson

does utterson act like utterson. is he painfully boring, but lovable nonetheless. is he a diehard friend

is poole here

how does hyde die - suicide?

how does jekyll die - long before hyde does, or at least in such a way that they're clearly two different personalities

friendless hyde?

story of the door

incident at the window

the obnoxious will

does jekyll make the potion to set hyde free, out of care? does jekyll daydream about duality

is the house in soho clean - aka is there a house in soho and are you refraining from moralizing cleanliness

transcendental medicine - jekyll is a mad scientist, right? (because cccc's on the list)

jekyll's interior design hobby. utterson thinks jekyll's house is the finest spot in london, and he's the lawyer for MPs. he's seen finery, and he says jekyll's it

jekyll born into wealth

does hyde have a panic trying to get more of the potion

my likeability scoring was as follows:

would i watch/read it again

does it seem like the creators like the original story

do i like its changes

would i like if it it weren't j&h

did i love it *while* i was actually watching it. each one of these i've come around to liking in some respect, but like, in the moment was i happy as a j&h fan

additional info

if i enjoyed watching it, it probably wasn't being faithful

the most followed point was "hyde does a murder"

the least followed point was "does jekyll have an interest in interior design" and that was the half a point i gave to the 2007 movie because jekyll's seen giving orders to poole to redo the doors on his lab

adaptations on the whole aren't all that faithful. mazm was closest at 24.5/30. the others that made it halfway faithful were palance 1968, animated 1986, prof cordelier, and gothic whore. that's 33%

according to this - cccc is a more faithful adaptation than TGS by half a point. and cccc wasn't really trying to be an adaptation, it just references j&h a few times so i threw it in there

the least faithful adaptation of the ones i looked at was league of extraordinary gentlemen. it also wasn't really trying to be a j&h adaptation, so, /shrug/

according to my grading system, everyone is failing. 65% is the highest score, a tie between gothic whore and 1968 palance

my grading scale is HIGHLY biased towards the dynamics between jekyll and hyde. i mean. half the book is jekyll talking about his dynamics with hyde. and then no one looks at that when they adapt the book. :(

love interest isn't even one of my points. just wanted to state that for the record

[fenmere]

Writing Questionaire (tag game)

thank you @the-letterbox-archives for tagging us! this is a writing questionnaire. It's a long one!

about us

when did you start writing?

we started writing poetry in 3rd grade we started trying to write novels in 6th grade and just couldn't we started writing vignettes in 9th grade we started writing massive amounts of poetry just after high school we started writing in social media posts in 1995 we started writing short stories in 1997 we started writing a webcomic in 2000 and then we started writing massive amounts of novels in 2019

are there genres/themes you enjoy reading different to the ones you write?

We write science fiction/fantasy and that's our favorite genre to read. But we also love just about anything else if it's good and recommended by someone we trust. Mysteries are wonderful, biographies and autobiographies are delightful, non-fiction books about all sorts of subjects, historical fiction, comedy, parody, etc. We haven't read a romance yet.

is there an author you want to emulate, or one to whom you're often compared?

We draw from Ursual K. LeGuinn, Octavia Butler, Rivers Solomon, Glen Cook, Akwaeki Emezi, C.J. Cherryh, and Jack L. Chalker, mostly.

can you tell me a little about your writing space?

We wrote our first and second book on an iPhone 5S using our right thumb, on bus rides. Now, we also frequently write at our desk with our computer, which is in the livingroom, with our own pieces of artwork surrounding us, as well as a couple of gundams, some models of the Sunspot and Spindrift from our stories, and a porcelain doll named Akailea.

what's your most effective way to muster up some muse?

Reading other books, watching movies, and listening to music. That can take months if we're between book ideas. Once we have a book idea, if it clicks, there's no effort. We just sit down and write. But, having a playlist for the book helps move it along, and helps us focus when everything else is being distracting.

did the place(s) you grew up in influence the people and places you write about?

Absolutely. Utterly and entirely.

are there any recurring themes of your writing, and if so, do they surprise you at all?

Yes, and not at all. We write about what we care about. And we explore all the different angles of it that we can: plurality, autism, gender diversity, intersex bodies, therianthropy, alienation, consent and autonomy, bullying, fascism, resistance, activism, etc.

my characters

would you please tell me about your current favourite character?

We don't have a single favorite character. However, Phage appears in almost all of our stories for a reason. The way that we depict it in our stories is true to its real life identity. So, it can kind of be easy to see why we write about it a lot. It's sort of our spiritual hero. You can read it's blog here: @ohthatphage It is a monster and a law of nature and not a living thing but it lives while in our vessel, and it nearly killed us, but it is also our greatest protector and advocate.

which of your characters do you think you'd be friends with in real life?

They are us! We are friends (and family) of all of them. In real life. For real. Even the villains (because they play villains in our books, not in real life).

which of your characters would you dislike most if you met them?

We've met all of them. They are us. We each have different opinions of each other. We're not going to say which of us is the least popular.

tell me more about the process of coming up with your characters.

Well. Usually, we have a role in a story that needs to be filled, and then we give the character in that role and name, and that summons or creates a headmate to fill that role, and then they tell us who they are and start roleplaying out their part of the script, and it goes from there. It's all very stream of consciousness. Sometimes it works better than others. Some of our headmates aren't very enthusiastic about participating in the stories they've been called to. But most of the time it works out.

do you notice any recurring themes/traits among your characters?

Since they are all heatmates and we're all autistic, they're all autistic in different ways. Sometimes we try to have a character who is not autistic, canonically, but honestly they still really are. Similarly, we can't really write a character who isn't ace.

how do you picture your characters?

Vividly! They do sometimes have pretty vague appearances in the beginning, but as we write them and their headmate-actors embody the role more and more, their visages become quite detailed and animated. It gets to the point where we can sometimes draw them pretty well as if working from a model.

my writing

what's your reason for writing?

To live. We live most thoroughly through either reading or writing. And when we don't have stories that are good enough to read, we must write. We also reproduce through writing. In a variety of ways. It prompts us to create new headmates, which always feels good. But also, it puts these fictional versions of ourselves out there that can then become fictives in other systems. And in that way we'll have children that can outlive our own body.

is there any specific comment or type of comment you find particularly motivating coming from your readers?

"well fuck I wish that was real" and the very simple "thank you for writing this" - both the best comments we've ever gotten.

how do you want to be thought of by those who read your work?

as people who can now live in your head and help you live a happier life

what do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

we outnumber Portland

what have you been frequently told by others is your greatest strength as a writer?

we haven't been told anything by anybody yet

how do you feel about your own writing?

we write it mostly for ourselves, we live it, we reread it frequently and regularly, and we relive it, and it makes us feel OK with existence when we otherwise would not

if you were the last person on earth and knew your writing would never be read by another human, would you still write?

absolutely, because it would be read by us. We're not human, but we are constant having more children, and they need good stories to read

when you write, are you influenced by what others might enjoy reading, or do you write purely what you enjoy? if it’s a mix of the two, which holds the most influence?

We know that what we enjoy and need is something that some few other people need and enjoy. And while we write primarily for ourselves, we share our work for the people who are like us who yearn for writing that is like ours, for the kinds of stories we write, that most of the rest of the world never writes. We write primarily about plurality, in all sorts of different forms and variations, and what it means to be plural, in heroic fiction. And none of our plural systems are villains so far. And you just don't really get that in any traditionally published books, comics, or movies.

Tag yourself and answer this please.

[leam1983]

So, you wanna play the Wizard Game...

Let's start with a point of comparison.

When I was a kid, in the halcyon age of the Nineties, Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 were my jam on the SNES. I loved the associated cartoon, and basically owed my exposure to absurdist humor to concepts like the Great Cosmic Worm or the launching of cows into the stratosphere using a crude fulcrum. To me, EWJ was zany, lively, more than content to wag its Vaudevillan villains around for non-crucial bits of mundane evilness that went as far as being rude to the postman - and mostly innocent.

Then, time passed, I grew up, and came to learn of Doug TenNapel, the creator of the IP - and of his views.

Doug TenNapel is a Conservative who mealy-mouths his way around bigotry and antisemitism, more or less the type to Tommy Tallarico his way out of a situation by waving the "Lookit, I'm zany!" card as if we were still effectively in 1995. He tried for a comeback with a Webcomic entitled Ratfist, back in 2010, but his views more or less blew up in his face. Ratfist was unceremoniously concluded and TenNapel effectively faded from public consciousness.

I spent a few weeks wondering how I felt about this. I still had some fondness for EWJ and for ancillary projects that bore a bit of that TenNapel touch (like Shiny Entertainment's MDK), and it took me a while to remember that no, some literary analysis devices that I've been taught to use in the field are not, in fact, a form of tacit approval of the author's views.

Fast-forward to today, and I'm seeing a world where you cannot extricate a work from its author, where someone having a stroke of genius one particular decade ago and then turning into a raging shithole several years later apparently disqualifies everything they've put up in the past from any sort of consideration.

Now, my girlfriend had a sideline in Art History. Whenever she's confronted with Purity Culture as a concept, she remembers Caravaggio's works. The guy is a giant in the field of later Renaissance art, both for his talent and for his personality.

You see, Caravaggio fucked. He was a serial philanderer, he got into fights over women, cultivated a long list of lovers both male and female - and of open convictions. He also recruited a prostitute off the street and hired her to pose for him - as the Virgin Mary. Imagine picking a lady-of-the-road right across from the church that's just commissioned you, and recognizing that with the right light and medium, her face had those exactingly precise characteristics the elite looked for in their depictions of religious figures. For his time, he was as controversial as you could imagine. By today's standards, he'd probably have a massive following on Tumblr, if he were both alive and had a blog of his own. I don't think it'd be much of a stretch to imagine him as an ally, actually.

Despite that, no Art History student will ever look at his works in the context of who Caravaggio was. They'll look at his works in the context of when and where they were made. There's a massive difference there. In my own studies, I've done the same for everyone between Zola to Steinbeck, and I've definitely given Joanne Katherine Rowling's flagship series more of a critical eye.

Just - not in the way I'd assume most people would appreciate, these days. The Potterverse, if you will, is one that's effectively designed to be formative for younger readers, and one that quite visibly predates the author's drift towards reactionary politics. You can spot weak shades of it in some places, like Dumbledore's tokenistic referral as a gay man, but the series actually strives for inclusiveness. As to why trans characters never came into play, I'd chalk it up to ignorance and lack of comfort. I'm only a cis and bi man, and it took me years of study and careful attention to work past my own fears and workshop a trans character that wouldn't be - hopefully - much of an offense to anyone. Rowling herself simply never had that chance, or never took it once it was offered.

Obviously, she won't take it now even if it's offered. Her later works are disturbingly facile, in the sense that most skilled authors tend to use their external voice to provide mere observations and not to unsubtly pass judgement - an aspect in which she now repeatedly fails. Her posture can still be extricated from what she's written under the name of Robert Galbraith, but it has the relative finesse of a Ben Shapiro wish-fulfillment fantasy. Considering, I find it quite easy to draw a line between the Potter Era and the Post-Potter Era. There's a bitterness at play in her later works that just isn't present in what actually serves as her juvenilia, effectively.

There's a young and hopeful JKR drawing sketches in a café, and then there's the frustrated and bitter woman pulling increasingly desperate pleas for relevance. The lines couldn't possibly be any clearer.

So - let's assume you've effectively killed Rowling in the sense used by Narratology theorists and removed her from any consideration in her works. Can you play Hogwarts Legacy knowing that a small, if not insignificant portion of its royalties are going to go to Rowling's pockets?

Yes. How, you might ask?

Pirate it. If the Wizarding World still matters to you, pirate the fuck out of this one. Rip her books and upload raw PDFs to your Kindle. Considering the game's dev history, I'm sure plenty of employees in Avalanche itself would give you their blessing.

The Death of the Author absolutely does apply - especially in a situation where means exist to obtain the media involved at no cost whatsoever beyond your own bandwidth.

[extremetimedchallengeexchange]

Tag Set Update

So, what's in the tag set?

I look up blearily from a spreadsheet, making a spluttering noise.

YES, talking about the tag set, not just updating it. I can do that.

Three days into Tags week, the tag set as it is looks like this.

Anime, Manga, Books and Literature!

Cartons & Comics & Graphic Novels & Celebries & Real People!

Movies & No Media!

Other Media & Theatre!

TV Shows, Uncategorized Fandoms, Video Games!

That's everything that's been seconded into the tag set.

You want to know everything that's been nominated? Well that is going under a cut because BOY is that a list.

3rd Life | Last Life SMP

Akira (Anime & Manga)

Animator vs. Animation (Short films - Becker)

Archive 81 (Podcast)

Avatar: Legend of Korra

Bleach (Anime & Manga)

Bones (TV)

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Buzzfeed Unsolved (Web Series)

Call of Duty (Video Games)

Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)

Castle (TV 2009)

Class of '07 (Australia TV 2023)

Cogchamp SMP

Content SMP

Creepypasta - Fandom

Critical Role (Web Series)

Dangan Ronpa Series

DCU (Comics)

Deltarune (Video Game)

Destiny (Video Games)

Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)

Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Disco Elysium (Video Game)

Doctor Who (2005)

Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel)

Dream SMP

Eddsworld - All Media Types

Empires SMP

Enola Holmes (Movies)

Evolution SMP

Fallen Hero - Malin Rydén

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Fire Emblem: Engage

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Frozen (Disney Movies)

Hades (Video Game 2018)

Hamlet - Shakespeare

Hannibal (TV)

Harry Potter - J.K Rowling

Hermitcraft SMP

Hetalia: Axis Powers

Horizon (Video Games)

House Builder Gang SMP

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

iCarly

Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger 

Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball 

Lackadaisy (Webcomic)

League of Legends

LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022)

Lifesteal SMP

Lockwood & Co. (TV)

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Marvel Cinematic Universe

McGillicuddy & Murder's Pawn Shop (Podcast)

Mean Girls (2004) 

Minecraft (Video Game)

Night in the Woods (Video Game)

Nikita (TV 2010)

Nurses (TV 2020)

Original Work

Pocahontas (Disney Movies)

Promare (2019)

QSMP | Quackity SMP

Sherlock (BBC)

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)

SMPEarth

South Park

Splatoon

St Trinian's (2007 2009)

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Wars - All Media Types 

Stardew Valley (Video Game)

Stargate - All Media Types

Stranger Things

Supernatural (TV 2005)

Tales from the SMP

Teen Wolf (TV)

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

The 355 (2022)

The Accidental Warlord and His Pack - inexplicifics

The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)

The Locked Tomb Series

The Magicians (TV)

The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

The Owl House (Cartoon)

The Pack - YouTube

The Yogscast

Titanic (1997)

Triangle Strategy (Video Game)

Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)

Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)

Victorious (TV)

Video Blogging RPF

Voiceteam and Related Fandoms

Warcraft - All Media Types

Welcome to Night Vale

Wiedzmin | The Witcher (All Media Types)

X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)

전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong

とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)

二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)

原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) 

名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed

天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

憂国のモリアーティ | Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Manga)

逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

WHOOOOOO (exhausted, but with feeling) EXCHANGES.

[boatmediatourney]

🛸Spaceship Media Lineup🛸

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 movie)

3Below: Tales of Arcadia (2018-2019 tv show)

Alien (1979 movie)

Apollo 13 (1995 movie)

Arrival (2016 movie)

Aurora (2016 book)

Babylon 5 (1993-1998 tv show)

Battlestar Galactica (2003 tv show)

Chorus (2021 video game)

Cowboy Bebop (1998 tv show)

Culture series (1987-2012 book series)

Dark Matter (2015-2017 tv show)

Dead Space (2008 video game)

Doctor Who (1963-present tv show)

Event Horizon (1997 movie)

Farscape (1999-2003 tv show)

Fire Fire (2014 song)

Firefly (2002 tv show)

Galaxy Quest (1999 movie)

Guardians Of the Galaxy (2014, 2017, 2023 movies)

Honorverse (2004-2015 book series)

Imperial Radch series (2013-2015 book series)

In Space with Markiplier (2022 movie)

Interstellar (2014 movie)

Lifted (2007 short film)

Little Einsteins (2005-2009 tv show)

Lost in Space (2018-2021 tv show)

Mass Effect (2007, 2010, 2012 video games)

Nope (2022 movie)

On A Sunbeam (2018 book/webcomic)

Orphans of the Sky (1963 book)

Red Dwarf (1988-present tv show)

Rocket Ship Galileo (1947 book)

Seveneves (2015 book)

Spaceballs (1987 movie)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2012-13 tv show)

Space Invaders (1978 video game)

Space Oddity (1969 song)

Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato (1974 tv show)

Starman Jones (1953 book)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999 tv show)

Star Trek: Generations (1994 movie)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 tv show)

Star Trek (1966-1969 tv show)

Star Trek (Alternate Original Series) (2009, 2013, 2016 movies)

Star Trek Voyager (1995 tv show)

Star Wars (new trilogy) (2015-2019 movies)

Star Wars Original Trilogy (1977-1983 movies)

Star Wars Prequels (1999-2005 movies)

Star Wars Rebels (2014 tv show)

Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2019-present tv show)

Sunshine (2007 movie)

The Expanse (2015-2022 tv show)

The First Men in the Moon (1901 book)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014 book)

The Lunar Chronicles (2013, 2014, 2015 books)

The Martian (2011 book, 2015 movie)

The Mechanisms (2011-2020 band)

The Warrior's Apprentice (1986 book)

Treasure Planet (2002 movie)

Valerian (2017 movie)

Voltron Legendary Defender (2016 tv show)

Wolf 359 (2014-2017 podcast/audio drama)

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[dukeofriven]

Seeing Deep Dark Fears unlocked a memory of an ancient webomic that was so ancient it got its start as an alternative newspaper comic in the mid-90s. Slow Wave was a comic by Jesse Recklaw in which readers would submit there dreams and Recklaw would draw them in a four panel strip. In ran from 1995 to 2012 and was, for a time, very popular among the In The Know crowd of the aughts internet. The strip ended in 2012 for a variety of reasons: the artist had physical and mental health issues, the was likely burn-put after so many years of doing it, but there was also the format change a few years early. For most of its run each slow Wave comic was self-contained: a user submitted dream, rendered in four panel, the next a different dream from someone else. It's the comic people fell in love with. Then around 2009 or so the format changed: Recklaw still took user-submitted dreams, but now they were woven into a ongoing story. His recurring characters were experiencing these dreams, going from dream to dream, as part of an overarching narrative and story. And it was really, really bad and nobody liked it. It felt intrusive, and in some sense felt... exploitative is far, far too harsh, but that isolation and self-contained nature of Slow Wave is what made it good. Each dream was personal, part of someone's psyche and given its own little four-panel tribute. Often you wondered how true it was: did someone really have this dream, or were they just writing-in to see their creative writing in print? Either way, these stories were personal, absurdist though they may be. By taking them and making them part of someone else's story, something vital was lost: the pacing changed, it wasn't as funny, and each comic had to spend time continuing the overarching plot or furthering the characters, all for which felt extraneous and clumsy. What made Slow Wave so distinctly itself was gone, and it became just another webcomic with underwritten characters and dull plot. And then it died. Shortly after it died Recklaw took the archive off the internet—outside a couple of retrospective pieces that have some high-def images form god-knows where, Slow Wave has largely vanished from the internet. Despite having the exact same format, with user dreams swapped for anxieties, Deep-Dark-Fears makes no reference whatsoever to Slow Wave, despite starting-up the year Slow Wave died. Perhaps it was made in isolation—it does not seem to have started to take user submissions until several months into its existence. I am not trying to start any internet beef.Regardless, Slow Wave exists only in fragments long, long forgotten. I miss it.

[marsi-arden]

👽 My webcomic "Species: Project "Arden" is now for sale on Gumroad! Hooray!!! Buy and read! CLICK HERE!

[fandomgrowthexchange]

Remaining Initial Pinch Hits - Round 7

We have 13 remaining initial pinch hits for this round of the Fandom Growth Exchange! See more details and claim them here: https://fandomgrowthexchange.dreamwidth.org/tag/iphs

PH 3 - Nyanko Days (Anime & Manga), Bonnie's Bakery (Video Game), Wildfrost (Video Game)

PH 5 - 网游之近战法师 - 蝴蝶蓝 | Wǎngyóu Zhī Jìnzhàn Fǎshī - Húdié Lán, ダウト～セレブは華麗に嘘をつく～ | Doubt ~Serebu wa Karei ni Usowotsuku~ | Liar! Scheming Socialites (Visual Novel), ダウト～オフィスは男女の嘘だらけ～ | Doubt ~Ofisu wa Danjo no Uso Darake~ | Liar! Office Deception (Visual Novel), 대장금 | Jewel in the Palace (TV), Siren (Video Games), Dance of Cards (Video Game), Heroes of Might and Magic (Video Games), 古剑奇谭 | Gujian Qitan (Video Games), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon)

PH 6 - Dominion of the Fallen - Aliette de Bodard, Kamen Rider Kuuga, 蟲師 | Mushishi (Anime & Manga)

PH 7 - Manifest (TV 2018), The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan, Passions (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe

PH 8 - Arthurian Mythology, Criminal Minds (US TV), Open Heart (Visual Novels), The Royal Romance (Visual Novel), Something Wild & Wonderful - Anita Kelly

PH 9 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Sly Cooper (Video Games), 賭ケグルイ | Kakegurui (Anime & Manga)

PH 10 - Анна – Детективъ | Detective Anna (TV), Enquête à cœur ouvert (TV), Los Espejos Venecianos - Joan Manuel Gisbert, Avril Lavigne (Musician)

PH 12 - Badlands 2005 (1988), Iron Man (Movies), Twin Peaks, Crossing Jordan

PH 13 - If It Please the Court - D.E Chaudron, Triaina Academy - Leo, Heart of Battle - Fay Ikin

PH 15 - Leverage RPF, Braveheart (1995), NCIS RPF

PH 17 - What Happens Next (Webcomic), We Know the Devil (Visual Novel), Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer, Turnabout: An Ace Attorney Musical

PH 18 - Babylon (2022), Fool's Paradise (2023), Snatch. (2000)

PH 19 - 明星大侦探 | Who's the Murderer (TV), Penance (Movie 2018), Gabriel Allon Series - Daniel Silva

[sit-next-to-me-official]

New logo for Sit Next To Me! An upcoming YA gay coming of age webcomic.

A world full of anthropomorphic cats, SNTM takes place in Venice Los Angeles during 1994-1995. Follow Colin Moore in his journey of self-discovery!

Follow for updates on when the comic will launch and additional stuff like character renders and general updates!