Epitaphs from the Abyss #4 by Jay Stephens, Amy Roy, J. Hotham, David Lapham, Claire Roe, Raúl Allén and more. Cover by Lee Bermejo. Variant covers by (2) James Stokoe and (3) Stephens. Out in October.
"IF EVERY TOMBSTONE TELLS A TALE... YOU'RE IN LUCK, BECAUSE THIS GRAVEYARD IS FULL OF THEM!
You know the drill, comic guys and gals... so let's VROOM, VROOM! Fueled by the vengeful spirit of the legendary EC Comics, we proudly present all-new tales of the macabre and merciless from some of the top talents with a penchant for dragging you down to the bottom stair of despair!
This month: Live hard, die fast creators J. Holtham and Raúl Allén, Amy Roy and Claire Roe, and Jay Stephens and David Lapham welcome you in the cold grasp of the ABYSS—there's no need to RSVP, and time shares are available!"
sp/sx is the glorified type 8 of dumbogram. What I mean by this is that enneagram cult leaders see this stacking as The Cool Stacking For Edgelords and they gatekeep it like hell. In reality no actual sp/sx would gatekeep sp/sx because the nature of this type is that we do not care what you identify as, we are too self absorbed.
Once again I stress that if you are concerned with your social image of being an Edgelord, like if it's so important to you that you type yourself and others based on it then you probably aren't soc-blind. The exception here is soc-blind 4s and 4-fixes, since 4s are an image type invested in their image of being an edgy outcast no matter what their stacking is. If you aren't a 4 or a 4 fix and you care about your image of edginess, that is soc.
I only gatekeep sp/sx from idiots who preach that being sp/sx means being edgy and being a busybody who tells other people their unwanted opinions about how they're supposedly mistyped. This is literally the opposite of what an sp/sx does or cares about doing. The whole art of going around saying this and that person is mistyped, and dishing out battletypings, is a social power game. Soc-blinds might briefly engage in that stuff then drop out of it and avoid it, because social power games are exhausting and confusing to us. Nobody who does this shit chronically or regularly is a soc-blind.
Regarding being edgy, soc-blinds are often provocateurs but we end up being so unintentionally. Soc-blinds often express our opinions which are detached from the social consensus and get backlash. This is different to being an intentional provocateur... The kind of person who knows they are going to get backlash and speaks anyway because they enjoy the conflict and the arguing. The intentional provocateur stacking is sp-blind.
No sp-dom enjoys conflict unless it has a direct money or resource prize on it.
i have energy now and i just wanna talk abt a drabble idea i had where aisling returns from another universe and ajay warns her that "they can visit you too, you know." and she returns to her apartment in time to find one of her variants sitting in the living room while stanley sleeps in an armchair, bc it might be one of the scariest things aisling ever experiences, but it's also one of those immediate "no." moments where she just instantly leaps into "protect" mode, yk?
tysm to the Kazuha and Bennett in co op that made my Diona do 53k charged attacks and tysm to Angel for switching characters that was so sweet of you and tysm Tighnari for returning your gear to it’s rightful owner and tysm Mika for not showing up so that I would get c0-c6 Diona ig and no I don’t have a video to show for it because I didn’t think to record it and when I did I fucking died
Spamton cosplay. Attended a con with my pals @mushymushrom (Gaster on the left), another friend (Gaster on the right) and @disco-captain (Harry Du Bois) ((W1TH MY GL4SSES 0N)).
Random super cool Abyss Mage who chilled next to me for a long time. They were very sweet. Deltarune x Genshin Impact x Disco Elysium collaboration CAN0N??1?!
Me and @mushymushrom playing vidya gmes
BONUS
First variant of the cosplay. Before the one you saw up there, I attended another con as Spamt with @mushymushrom as Gaster, and one of my eyes decided that it’s the right time for a vacation right during the fun part. I remade the eyes after that, as you can see on the previous pics.
BONUS x2
A little something of second Gaster and @disco-captain separately and me with @mushymushrom walking and being completely normal
Extremely long post about how you’re now allowed to erase your neopets faces (NEOPETS IS GOOD AGAIN: YOU CAN ERASE THEIR FACES.)
I have just learned that neopets recently added some wearable (neocash only though) items called the “be-gone cans” that let you hide different body parts, so there’s like eyes-be-gone and wings-be-gone.
There’s a lot of caveats (the mouth one for some reason is locked behind a gacha capsule, the “body” one only removes minor extra details from the torsos of a few species, they don’t all work on all pets and they don’t even work on the same exact parts of the same species in different colors because of how they were coded) but at minimum ALL pets can at least have the eyes and mouths removed and this alone improves countless, countless designs. For instance if you didn’t like some of the invertebrate variants stuck with the pet’s usual face, now you can fix it:
Same for the fruit and vegetable chias, they're SO good without faces, for reference here’s the mushroom chia with the horrible face all chias normally have:
Awful. Just ghastly.
Now you can correct him and make him good:
Look how fucking cute some of the other chias are this way:
This is a fucking game changer, I actually care about neopets for the first time in a decade because I can take their faces off. They were born for this. They were waiting almost 30 years to be freed from their disgusting foul orifices. “Help me, mother” they say, “I am cursed with a mouth and can therefore all too easily scream!” as their famous catchphrase always went I think. At last their salvation is here.
I mean, look at this sad lenny:
We all know exactly why he’s canonically always so miserable! If there’s one thing he hates more than having legs to touch the earth’s filth and corruption it’s being able to see it.
Now he’s happy! He wants this!
And now he’s even happier i’ll bet!!!!!!!!!!
If you take the muzzle piece off the scorchio it even liberates their whole head from their neck as their god intended:
Legit though some pets actually make better serious designs besides the nudibranch one, like if you take the eyes off any of the (already badass) transparent pets you get their deep abyssal cave version:
Now look at some of the transparent pets with everything taken away that can be taken away:
The uni is finally almost unrecognizable as an equine, its life long dream
This isn’t like any of the dog designs in any of the silent hill games but it could exactly have been a dog design in a silent hill game, you know??
God bless whatever artist refused to give the insectoid Ruki a normal vertebrate skeleton so you can make this gelatinous flying space angel
But god bless whoever DID give the insectoid Buzz a vertebrate skeleton so you can make this HR Giger parasite embryo. Actually cannot pick between the two bug pets here as my new favorite neopets that are still technically available.
THESE WINGS HAVE BEEN RETIRED SINCE 2012 OR I WOULD MAKE THIS PET:
Epitaphs from the Abyss #5 by Matt Kindt, Joanne Starer, Matthew Rosenberg, Kano, Alex Tefenkgi and more. Cover by Lee Bermejo. Variant covers by (2) Naomi Franq and (3) Jay Stephens. Out in November.
"GIVE YOURSELF OVER TO EC'S SMASH-HIT TALES OF TORMENT AND TENSION—NOW A MONTHLY SERIES!
Welcome back to the Grave-Digger's cemetery on the edge of the endless, black ABYSS that awaits us all... some sooner than others, heh heh! Inscribing this month's moribund epitaphs in so much funerary stone, we welcome scribes Matt Kindt (BRZRKR), Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires) and Joanne Starer (Sirens of the City) to write our rites of terror as arists Kano (Gotham Central), Alexandre Tefengki (The Good Asian) and more surprise guests rain down torrents of red ink in true and timeless EC Comics fashion!"
Epitaphs from the Abyss #1 (Oni Press, July 2024) EC Homage variant cover by Jay Stephens, along with the cover it's an homage of, The Vault of Horror #15 by Johnny Craig
So... I was wondering how drow names from BG3 would look like written in drow script - because hey, surely there is one, right?
Apparently (but please correct me if I am wrong) there is no official drow script because for some odd reason, drow in DnD universe are supposed to use elvish script called Espruar. You can stumble across this script in some places in game, for example, some of the posters from Act 3 have text written in Espruar. It looks like this:
But I was not satisfied with this - I mean, seriously, drow using a surface elven alphabet? 🤔 - and after a bit of searching, I found some not-exactly-canon, but cool alternatives.
The first one is 3e Espruar script, a redesigned Espruar alphabet that is no longer used in the newest edition of DnD. It is elegant and looks pleasantly elven. The second one is High Drowic script, a redesigned 3e Espruar with a touch of Abyssal and more runic design. High drow language was supposed to be used mainly by priestesses (for ritual purposes) and among nobles.
Below some examples - 3e Espruar / High Drowic variants:
There is also another script, known simply as Drow script, that has two versions: rounded and angular. This script looks a bit chaotic, as if somebody gathered letters into a jar and shook them before writing them down - I also like it:
Espruar font and High Drowic font are by Neale Davidson. Drow font is by Daniel U. Thibault.
For more of my drow lore ramblings, feel free to check my pinned post 🕷️