PSA: COMIC DRAMA
I've been slowly receiving critical, entitled, and passive-aggressive messages about the way I've been writing my comic! I wanted to address this behavior.
That being said, the majority of my readers have been nothing but positive! And when they spot a problem, they're kind about it. I really appreciate this; thank you to those who choose to be civil.
I'm making this post to address some issues, complaints, and questions I've seen. Let's take a look & see what we can discuss!
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🦈-> I want you to use my character in your comic, but you're not using them! Sometimes, a character doesn't quite fit my vision for the comic-- even when they're designs that I love! I really do try to use as many people's characters as possible. I think it adds to the world & makes the comic feel more full of life! But I can't accommodate everyone's desires.
🐟->You're using my character in your comic, but you're not giving them enough screen time! Similar to the above issue, sometimes I don't think focusing on a particular character for any longer will serve the story well. Ultimately, I have final say on what happens in the comic. My advice is, if you feel your character isn't appearing enough, make your own content! Draw, write, craft, etc like I mention farther down below!
🐠->You said you were going to use my diplomat/character(s), but you only drew them in 1-2 panels. Why aren't you using them more? Similar to the points above! I was never planning on going into a TON of depth with the diplomats-- the comic focus also drastically changed, as I mention below.
🐡->You're using characters in the story that I don't like! Ahh that is too bad, but! In that case, you can always take a break from the comic & come back later to check if the characters are no longer being used, or maybe stop reading the comic altogether.
However! If you have concerns with how the character is portrayed because of legitimate sexual/violence/illicit/illegal issues, then that's another issue entirely and you should let me know.
🪼->I thought this story was about rescuing Kenne, but now she's not even in the comic! I don't like the way this story is going! This is a big issue some people are having and I completely understand. There's been a lot of things going on behind the scenes that I haven't explained, which must be generating a lot of confusion.
Originally, @kenneduck and I were collaborating closely on this comic. Recently, the dynamic shifted, and we're now working on the comic separately. @kenneduck is now responsible for the part of the story that heavily features her characters, i.e. Princess Kenne's perspective of the rescue, her rescue effort, and what's happening in the Domain of the Luminous trench.
I am now working on a different angle of the story-- the diplomatic efforts of Zora's Domain in their attempt to negotiate for Princess Kenne's return. So, the story is still the same... the focuses have just changed and split!
🦑->You reblogged my fan art and/or linked it in your comic directory-- does that make my content canon? Oooh, this is actually kind of a tough one! Normally, if something is in the comic directory, I consider it to be canon to the story. So, if you've drawn something, and I add it to my directory for a comic chapter, I'll consider it to have happened in real time.
THERE'S AN EXCEPTION! And it may be confusing, so I'm genuinely sorry! If you have drawn something where you are heavily modifying someone else's character--this means cosmetic changes, giving the character children/spouses/family, killing the character, altering their personality-- WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION, then I cannot accept that as canon.
It's still fantastic that you drew/wrote/created something and I will probably put it in the MISCELLANEOUS section of the comic directory. I'VE MADE MISTAKES ON THIS! So, I've since updated the directory. And, sorry for all confusion on this issue! If you've made something & intended it to be canon, let's talk about it!
🐳->I want to collaborate with you on your comic, can I do that? That's awesome! Maybe in the future, but right now I'm not taking on any more partners. Maybe you can make your own separate additions, with your character(s) like I mention below!
🐙>I want to make fan art, can I do that? You absolutely can. Go for it. This was originally meant to be a very interactive comic, so draw/write/create away!!!
🦀->I want to draw my character(s) doing something in the world of your comic, can I do that? You absolutely can. Go for it! Like I mentioned above, however, I may or may not deem it canon to the events of the comic. But even if I don't, I'll add it to the MISCELLANEOUS section of my comic directory! ...as long as you don't alterate someone's character without permission! If you've made something & intended it to be canon, let's talk about it!
🐬->I want to make a character based on a Domain you created/idea you drew/etc., can I do that? Of course! Go for it. I love seeing what people make!
I know this is a lot of text, but it's better to be comprehensive! Please, keep in mind, I'm just one hobby artist making a comic for fun, with the spirit of interactivity and collaboration in mind. But it's impossible to keep that spirit going when people feel entitled and demand things of me that I am not obligated to give.
I queue out my pages several weeks in advance with the help of the people I'm working with, so what you see in the comic is the product of a lot of thought and work. You're getting something for free here, y'all. It ain't so serious!!!!
Anyways, thanks for reading this! And for reading the comic! Peace out ✌️
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Heyo! Name's Tas/Harpy. I'm a butch comic artist from Canada. Any pronouns are fine! This space is mostly for my fun art. Otherwise I make comics and run a little indie shop with my fiance, @g0d-play
--who I also collaborate with often, most of these stories are both of our creations. (Some the art is collaborative too!)
Here's a bunch of the worlds/stories/collections I mostly have here with my OCs for easy browsing.
MOBY DYKES (FROM HELL'S HEART)
Moby Dick yuri. (Okay, not really). Lucy's a former captain, Bonnie is a terrifying werewhale. Jiminy is also there. I like answering asks for these guys, and they have their own sideblog at @mobydykes. Will maybe become a comic one day? [Tag for it is here]
THE FAREWELL TOUR
Space lizards and space bees... Jax is a washed up rockstar trying to run from his shitty contracts, Raddley is the bounty hunter who captures him--but what if they fell in love??? Will maybe become a graphic novel one day? [Tag for it is here]
MAD SCIENTISTS
Dr. Lovejoy and Dr. Kline--both specialize in different practices, but both are definitely not ethical. Things get spicy with them usually. Will probably become little smutty one-off comics. [Tag for it is here]
AUGUSTINE
A webcomic that's CURRENTLY UPDATING!! The pitch is "mad max meets greek mythology". Sometimes I'll post extra art of the characters. [Tag for it is here]
TABLETOP
My tabletop characters and art! I mostly dabble in Starfinder and Pathfinder. I also am currently GMing my own Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game. [Tag for it is here]
FURRY STUFF
I have a furry blog here: @jasperrex , where I post my more explicitly furry things (and also reblog furry art).
Finally, here's other places to find me at or check out:
PERSONAL SITE | W&W | ONLINE SHOP | PATREON
Thanks for poppin' by!
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WIP Tuesday
Buckle up babes, it's going to be a long post!
I come before you humble, hat in hand. I know I been wilding ya'll. I know there's a lot of fics I need to update and get back to. I haven't forgotten! And since there are...so many new people thanks to my Terry fics, what a great time to call myself out chuz ya'll too nice to do so! I saw @nerdieforpedro do this a few weeks ago? Forgive me for not tagging the person you got it from, but I am tiredt, chilleee.
Current focus: Terry got my whole heart, ya'll. Every fic I read of him, I just want to go hop in the booth myself and get to writing. Ya'll inspire me every damn day, it's magical. There is a filthy, disgusting, mean, despicable fic I wanna write with him. But alas, he is not the only one I write for.
Girl, there's how many series????? Listen, the muse wants what it wants. 11 series in total. Chillee, why I do dissssss. Some are closer to finishing than others. So let's count them out (click the links to learn more):
Be My Little Darling - Loki series | It Started With a Whisper - Sam Wilson series | Midnight Sin - Vampire Tyrone series | Blackbird - Mob Boss Fontaine | Camp Wanderlust - Franklin Saint series | What You Deserve - Homewrecker Stunna | Runaway Lover - Professor Stunna | If I Took You Home - Kevin Atwater | Kill Her Softly - Zyair Malloy | A Taste of the Divine - Yakuza Sukuna | We Are the Night - Qimir
Frenn, that's a lot, do you sleep? Are you okay? Blink twice if you need help. I'm promise I'm good ya'll, I just love writing and I love interacting with ya'll. You have NO idea how much each and every single one of ya'll mean to me. I love the support, I love the comments, I love the reblogs. I'm trying not to disappoint folks, I was on a schedule and well, life happened. I can course correct, I promise. Just gon' take me a little minute. Let me close the smaller series first!
Okay, surely that's it right, frenn? Ahh no, because there's also the asks that have been piling up. Per my pinned post, you know that I have a scatterbrain. Some asks I deleted because they're too similar to what I've done before. Some I'm still trying to picture before I start writing. But the ones I've kept? At last tally it is...33. Some are similar and I'm going to combine them, but yeahhhhh. This isn't a callout post, keep sending those requests in! Just know it's gonna take me a smoooooooth minute. Also, welcome new people, welcome! But not everything needs a part two, I promise. If I write "The End" at the bottom, that truly means the end. No part 2 planned, ain't trynna write a part two. I want to move on sometimes. I love you, but I'll be writing until I'm gray if everything got a part 2. And I wanna get paid for my writing. Which brings me tooo...
Umm, umm, what's this I hear about a book??? Yes! I am actually writing a book based on an ask I received. It was a sweet ask about what kind of story would go with "Handwritten Letter". I said it gave friends to lovers, she fell first, he fell harder type of vibes. It has morphed into dark academia about a shy girl just trying to come into her own. It's a combo of and a love letter about girls like me, girls like you, each and every person who identifies as a Soft Black Girl. And I already have *so* many ideas about other books I want to do. There will be one based on the Mr. Black series I wrote. There will also be a vampire one! I just can't decide yet which will be the second book I put out. I'm leaning towards vampire because Terry is HEAVY on the brain ya'll. And he'd make a sexy vamp. But anywhooo...
I say all this to say that I'm not a machine. I'm not that quick despite appearances. I may not seem like I have any chill, but I've been fantasizing and turning over these fics in my head for days or weeks before I sit down to write. And I'm not saying to stop. Your support is exactly why I feel good enough about my writing to sit and write an entire book! I want to be a full time author. I want to share my ideas with the world. I'm just slow lmfaoooooo.
In the mean time, I hope you're hitting up all these amazing writers on here. I hope you're commenting and reblogging and showing love on here. I will keep saying it. This site will DIE and these BLACK writers will LEAVE if people keep stealing, not commenting, not reblogging, asking for part 2s and never showing love. Fandom is a community, not a pillar. No one know it's you behind that avatar, go crazy! Go nuts. Show nuts. whatever.
Love, love, love you all. If you read this far, drop something funny in the comments. Or go unhinged in my asks about Terry. Don't get me started about that man, but go awff about him because that's my baby favaaa.
no pressure tags: @chaos-4baby @j0kers-light @umber-cinders @harmshake @planetblaque @babybratzmaraj @soft-persephone
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Palestinian fundraisers to donate to
Second list of fundraisers (share this one as well)
Hello all, here are some Palestinians who have currently reached out to me to share their fundraisers. I put together both posts in one so I can edit the amounts donated regularly.
Please take a moment to read their stories, share and donate if you can.
Some conversions for Swedish krona (SEK) as some GFMs use it:
$1USD = 10.36 SEK
$1CAD = 7.61 SEK
€1 = 11.43 SEK
Fundraiser currently unavailable, but blog is still up. I'm keeping the link up just in case the issue is fixed
@ameer-mohammad | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted by reverse image search comes back clean
$25/20,000 USD (As of 9/11/24)
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@hanaa-2006 | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted but reverse image search comes back clean
€77/30,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@karamostaz22 | GFM Link | Vetted here
$145/70,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@wisammurtaja | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted but reverse image search comes back clean
€238/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@yousefalyazji | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted, but reverse image search comes back clean
2,576/200,000 SEK (As of 9/22/24) ($255.55 USD)
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@amalpalestine | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted, but reverse image search comes back clean
$241/31,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@lawyer-adhamayyad81 | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted by reverse image search comes back clean
€287/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@nourasissue3 | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted but reverse image search comes back clean
€388/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@wajihmadi | GFM Link | Vetted by association
€330/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@mohammedmoner | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted, but reverse image search comes back clean
€375/25,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@dutifullymykid | GFM Link | Vetted by association here
£445/45,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@haneenmohamaad | GFM Link | Vetted here
€783/25,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@baraaalshrafa | GFM Link | Vetted here (#911)
€796/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@ghadanabilfamily | GFM Link | Unvetted but shared by vetted account
€991/20,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@ahmadgaza1 | GFM Link | Vetted here
Note: Unvetted, but reverse image search comes back clean
$1,246/60,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@hebamohammedsy | GFM Link | Organizer has vetted fundraisers
Note: Heba has other blogs, the one in the vetted link is also her, and is the same GFM
$1,250/30,000 CAD (As of 9/24/24)
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@emanabosedo | GFM Link | Vetted by association
$1,251/50,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@helpamalm | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted, but reverse image search comes back clean
€1,331/53,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@familygazaamal | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted, but reverse image search comes back clean
$1,567 /30,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@hanangazaa | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted but reverse image search comes back clean
$1,726/100,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@ashourmohammed | GFM Link | Vetted here
£1,831/25,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@hashem19798 | GFM Link | Vetted here
Note: Hashem has other blogs, the one in the vetted link is also her, and is the same GFM
$2,165/60,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@mariam2013y | GFM Link | Vetted by association
$2,692/30,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@moh-gaz & @farah-mohanad | GFM Link | Vetted by association
$3,111/35,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@osamabasilps | GFM Link | Vetted here
€3,358 /15,000 (As of 9/24/24)
(note: the blog in 90-ghost's reblog is osama's previous blog, but the gfm is the same)
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@abdalhadiaburas | GFM Link | Vetted here
$5,802/65,000 CAD (As of 9/24/24)
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@sameergazafamily | GFM Link | Vetted here
$6,066/50,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
(note: Sameer had a previous tumblr that was deactivated, this is his new Tumblr)
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@mohamedjshamia | GFM Link
Note: Unvetted but reverse image search comes back clean
61,680/250,000 SEK (As of 9/24/24) ($6118.90 USD)
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@savepalestineinfamily19 | GFM Link | Vetted here
€7,909/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@abedallhferwanagaza & @olaferwana| GFM Link | Vetted here
€8,092/25,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@ahmadwaleed5 | GFM Link | Vetted here (#167)
$9,452/25,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@amalblogsworld | GFM Link | Vetted here
Note: The blog in the vetted link is another one of Amal's blogs, but the GFM link is the same
€9,648/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@hazemsuhail | GFM Link | Vetted by association
€9,815/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@husamfarht | GFM Link | Vetted here (#248)
$10,179/29,500 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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@hyamshehabnew | GFM Link | Vetted here
€10,846/25,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@burningnightgiver | GFM Link | Vetted here
Note: the new blog is here
$12,762/50,000 CAD (As of 9/24/24)
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@abdelmutei | GFM Link | Vetted here
€13,288/25,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@aya-alanqar | GFM Link | Vetted here
Note: The blog on 90-ghost's link is another blog of Aya's, but it's the same fundraiser
€13,386/15,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@ahmadresh | GFM Link | Vetted here
$15,969/31,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@mohammedatallah | GFM Link | Vetted here
€17,637/82,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@saveyouseffamily | GFM Link | Vetted here
€19,900/20,000 (As of 9/24/24)
VERY CLOSE TO GOAL - €100 LEFT
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@hanaa-yousef | GFM Link | Vetted here (#246)
£21,077/50,000 (As of 9/24/24)
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@falestine-yousef | GFM Link | Vetted here / more info
$23,741 /40,000 USD (As of 9/24/24)
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