#misfile

[zkfae]

[Obsessively rereading these throughout high school/college]

"Still cis tho!"

[mlembug]

After all this time the webcomic Misfile still holds up.

[thewebcomicsreview]

What are the main influences that you drew upon for your comics?

So the biggest influence would have to be ASequentialArt. The guy who makes it is the artist of Saffron and Sage and thus his influence is rather more direct; any kind of meta-fuckery in Legend of the Hare or Saffron and Sage is either Carlos' idea or something I thought he'd like. The big parallax finale of Legend of the Hare was his idea, and one of the low-key reasons I'm dragging my feat uploading that comic is that I don't want to have to figure out how to set it up again!

Kill 6 Billion Demons inspired the idea of having "Lore" under the Legend of the Hare pages, though that idea crashed because no one cares about my lore.

Gunnerkrigg Court inspired the idea of making Saffron and Sage episodic, an idea I actually regret a little, which is an essay I've been meaning to write.

It's a small thing, but Homestuck inspired my character writing just a little by making me think of "rules", like how every sentence out of Liri's mouth ought to deserve an exclamation mark or how Saffron often talks in sentence fragments because she's a busy woman and doesn't have time for superfluous words.

Prequel Adventure, Narbonic, and Latchkey Kingdom are all comics I like that have similar vibes to mine in one way or another, but the comic whose writing feels closest to my own might actually be Cassiopeia Quinn. If you take Cassiopeia Quinn and you mix in a bit of Katia Managan you get something not entirely dissimilar to Liri Bloom.

Final Fantasy XIV (specifically Shadowbringers and Endwalker) isn't really an influence, but it is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Those expansions are very thematically dense in a way that both inspires me to try better and makes me want to give up and quit. That's sort of tied in to why I regret the way I wrote Saffron and Sage episodically, and perhaps one day I'll write that essay. I'm pretty consistently on the precipice of quitting Saffron to try to start a new comic; I'm a notorious dilletante.

But if you look at how horny the characters in my comics tend to be when the comic itself dares never show a boob, you can probably see the deepest influence of all, the one I dare not speak even to myself, which is all the trashy quasihorny shounen manga I read in high school, and the early webcomics like The Wotch or Misfile that had a bit of that energy that stuck to me indelibly no matter how much I try to pretend otherwise.

[teffiebell]

Just...

Why do relationships have to be so hard? They're supposed to be natural and beneficial!

They should be easier and less confusing, dammit!

Why can't I at least know what I want? It's not fair when my feelings fight each other inside my own head!

[clockworkprism]

Was just catching up on Misfile/Hell High and the author has just come out as trans. Probably not the biggest shock to anyone, except the author themselves who said they had been in denial their whole life (they haven't announced a new name or pronouns yet and said they will keep their name for now)

I'm not trans but that comic was my first experience getting some understanding of the experience of gender dysphoria. Then I started going out of my way to follow artists or programmers who are trans to try and understand the community better, and I was surprised to see misfile actually has mixed reviews among trans people themselves. Very curious to see someone reanalyze the comic with this new information in mind.

[innocet]

Did you guys know that (in most cases; it varies fandom by fandom) if you have a problem with a fandom wiki, you can edit it. Because they’re fan wikis of fan knowledge. And you’re a fan. You don’t have to sit back and complain about it. You can go forth and do good. The power is in your hands. I believe in you

[snckt]

without a sub-sub-librarian, or even a catalogue, what is to be done?

@asouefanworkevent day four of woevember : the hotel denouement, alternatively titled,   misfiled, a collection of things not where they ought to be.

[apollos-boyfriend]

procreate should NOT have such a ruthless deletion system

[kingfakey]

she's a blorbo girl in a blorbo world and i just made her have the most fucked up nightmare she could ever imagine. thank god it was just a bad dream.

[incorrectsinnohquotes]

Candice: You realize you're a bitch, right? Fantina: It was my nickname in the class yearbook. Ah... memories...

[dykesynthezoid]

Vampire’s Kiss is on tubi 🙂‍↕️

[sabakos]

Which Ancient Greek philosopher would make the best stand up comedian?

Hmm, that's a tough one. Probably one of the skeptics? I feel like stand-up comedians are always making some sort of skeptical commentary on society, and one of the earlier followers of Pyrrho, Timon of Phlius, seems to have written some sort of satirical poetry that very well may have been intended to be read before an audience. Or maybe Diogenes or one of the later Cynics could do some avant-garde performance art in a similar manner of challenging societal values, some of the later Cynics apparently adopted a style called Spoudaiogeloion from Old Comedy which was meant to convey serious social criticism through humor.

Alternatively the copout answer here is that some Ancient Greek philosophers were also Comic poets, which is probably the closest thing to stand-up comedy. But none of their works survive in enough fragments to really assess whether or not they were all that funny, Epicharmus of Kos is probably the best preserved of these and I don't think there's any more than a few consecutive lines of his work, not really enough to provide context.

Or perhaps it makes more sense to turn it around an consider the Ancient Greek Comic poets themselves as philosophers. In that case it's probably almost certainly Menander, the dominant poet of Early Hellenistic era "New" Comedy, whose plays touched on more everyday themes than Aristophanes or the poets of "Old" Comedy, and were quoted from extensively by later authors for their philosophical commentary on society. The manuscripts of Menander's plays that were known to the Byzantines, uh, "disappeared" at some point during the late middle ages or maybe the renaissance, but between the excerpts and a large amount of papyri fragments (they were extremely popular in the ancient world!), classicists have been able to piece together one complete play, The Grouch, and large portions of about six or seven others. So if we can consider Menander a philosopher I think he's certainly got the best case for being a stand-up comedian.

[thewebcomicsreview]

Could I ask for help finding an old webcomic? It was b/w kind of manga style, about a boy who got magically transformed into a girl, but it was ALSO basically a sports anime about street racing/drifting??? I remember it being slightly too horny with really sick race sequences.

Misfile. The creator has a new comic called Hell High on the same site with similar but somewhat cleaner art.

[teffiebell]

Do you agree?

"Being a girl now isn't nearly the same thing as having been raised a girl. You're missing seventeen years of double standards, media influence, harassment from boys and, most importantly, the experience on both sides of girl on girl psychological warfare."

[garyfischy]

i appreciate how all of this is scanned pencil art. i can't imagine what a pain in the ass it must've been .

that being said this comics gender politics are so fascinating. having the protagonist both abhor his body and be groped by creepy guys- but also just accept that his lot in his body is loathing. is just fascinating. yeah this guy hates his female body and finds it disgusting but also sexually fascinating so we can have booby fanservice.

[solitarelee]

Interacting in any way with an american DHHR is almost more stressful than dying of preventable illness which is what I was doing before