#reminiscing on the good old days

[crowley-meratyn]

These three run the kingdom and I love all three of them for it

Halt, Duncan, and Crowley

A sketch to let out my excitement for purchasing the new book tomorrow

[amphibianaday]

day 1821 - half a decade!

redraw of day 1, 364, and 1000, but with a twist - now it's also my frogsona :D

for now i'll be taking a (maybe permanent) break for at least the rest of the year! see you in 2025!

previous versions for comparison below!

[teunip]

Alex & Tin-Can plotting to blow up a car or two ⚡⚡

[crvelmelody]

bro i legit started crying💔

[thanatika]

fun history fact: body snatchers, the people who would steal corpses from graves and illegally sell them to be used in medical research and anatomical study, were commonly referred to as "resurrectionists" or "resurrection men".

anyway...

[rainbowthefox]

Me and the Subway Surfers mutuals waiting for Episode 12

[captaincrowe]

no one:

absolutely no one:

erik in every act iii party talk: man, my life hasn't been easy, but i wouldn't trade a moment of it since it means i met you!

[pseudophan]

Do you know if Phil went to pride with Dan

no he stayed at home, dan said he's not really into the whole Crowds Thing

anyway using this as an excuse to share every version of these pics he took i like 1 and 3 hbu

[okaioh]

missing the days where there was crazy lag on the qsmp whenever you teleported to a specific area - the way that everyone's frames would instantly drop to be a powerpoint presentation when going to the pierre's or to the favela in general - how half the eggs would be floating mid air (or in lullah's case, having an asthma attack) because there was so much "pollution" around so the parents had to wait a couple seconds for their kids to reappear again

[agathas-megacoven]

Forgetting the hair grab for a sec, the moment the Levihan seed was planted in me was when Hange walks in on OG Squad Levi apologising to Eren after the well incident and he says “what took you so long? Constipated or something?” and she very seriously answers “no, it was nice and smooth actually” like ????? You two update each other on bowel movements? That’s so disgusting and so sooo cute

[cookie-shmookie]

A sketch of Sol drinking cognac I made while drinking cognac :)8

Because I like it well enough to post and not feel shame... Much.

[longlostlorian]

I don't want to add on to that good webcomic post with what I'm p sure is just my own fruitless navelgazing, but I started doing webcomics as a kid in the mid-aughts and the scene was basically unrecognizable from what it is now. I would come home from school and post sketchbook comics scanned in with minimal touchups, and I don't think I've ever gotten as much engagement on anything in all the years since. I didn't know how to implement a comments section (I was hardcoding everything in html on a domain my dad helped set up for me, lol) but I got tons of emails from excited/curious readers every week! A phpbb board (early internet forum) with 300+ human members (and all the fun of viagrabots I had to cull by hand)! People were just excited by what it was possible to see online. And that was for a bad comic made by a kid with minimal skills that nobody remembers today!

For better or worse, the grand majority of readers live on apps now. Webtoons and tapas host hundreds of the most niche, beautiful passion projects you can imagine, better than nearly anything available 20 years ago, but there's just as many stories that were literally churned out by content farms (studios with large teams producing a groupthink product they aim to sell/IP farm - in other words, something that's nobody's baby). And by and large, the userbase is simply too young to discriminate. They've literally been trained to view webcomics as content. Does that mean readers today are the problem? No, of course not! And it's hard to complain about greater access to free, often queer art that's technically better than it ever has been before. I'm glad young readers have easy access to things like that.

But webcomics have become subject to the same level of scrutinization as any other aggregated content. Don't post for two weeks and people will talk about you like you've died, and a week later they stop talking about you altogether. The culture that I grew up with by and large doesn't exist anymore, though remnants of it struggle bravely on. Part of this comes as the "wild west" aspect of the internet circles the drain. When comics are produced with the knowledge that they will go up on webtoons/tapas - sites with strong censorship requirements - people dull down their work. They have to. Anything that goes on those sites automatically becomes a product. And so the truly weird, the unexpected, the indie, and the unapologetically, freely, charmingly bad (and messy) aspect of webcomics is systematically sucked out, both by the exacting standards of a captive consumer base and by the requirements of the platform.

I don't know that I view wt/tapas as net evils or anything like that. I use them myself. And I've heard things about places like comicfury that make it sound like a great substitute for the culture that used to exist around smackjeeves, drunkduck, etc. I also think it's more accessible than ever before for creators to monetize their work, even if for most of us, passion projects never come close to paying the bills. So maybe what I really miss is the early internet and I don't think it's ever coming back.

[millenari]

'PLAYING AGE 31-55?'

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Favorite Pacey/Joey Moments Per Episode: 6x1 The Kids Are Alright (Part 2)

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

AFTERMARE WEEK: Day 7- the end of a beginning/ the beginning of the end

make me believe and raise my hopes up one last time, then haunt my dreams for the rest of my life

aftermare week is hosted by @bluepallilworld

[sainz100]

idk how to explain it, but I feel this small bubble of hope. as if some good news is right around the corner 🫧🌅 not yet, but maybe soon, I'll always feel that hope that the next chapter will be better than the last