#sff webcomic

[kalipso-webcomic]

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Kalipso is a science-fiction and fantasy webcomic about people from various worlds (an epic fantasy planet, a steampunk planet, etc) who end up on an alien spaceship in space

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[thephooka]

White Noise has updated!

Read it here! | Start WN at the beginning | WN on Patreon

It's hard to make friends when they keep shining flashlights in your eyes.

[valleyofthesilksky]

Hi, remember this comic? I don’t blame you if not, I haven’t been able to work on it for awhile. The last time I penciled a page was in January 2022, and chapter 13 of Valley of the Silk Sky has sat at 75% penciled ever since.

In the intervening time I spent 6 months in physical therapy (two rounds, somewhat different issues, the bulk of it focused on getting my drawing arm in working order again). And so VotSS has sat on my cork board, those penciled pages staring at me every day, waiting for the will to work on it to return.

Well, it didn’t return, so I did what you sometimes have to do as a creative professional, and decided to pencil the next page anyway. I can’t make any promises as to when I will actually publish chapter 13. But I do still very much intend to finish this book, and I’m hoping knocking the rust off will help me get it running again. Onward!

[triaelf9]

Last few days of the month to get these goodies! Even a dollar or two goes a long way, and everything makes what I do possible. Also makes paying the bills possible lol ^_^;;

Become a supporter & get bonus perks on top of enjoying and supporting a number of queer webcomics, & more!

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NEW MONTHLY PERK! A Bonus Soft 'n Sweet sketch each month for all supporters, and access to an archive of the monthly sketches (as they get made) so you can enjoy them when you need a smile on rough days ^_^

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Here are details on this year's new tier perks! The Soft 'n Sweet tiers also have archives to enjoy the sketches ^_^

Your support makes what I do possible, and as of August, mine will be the only income for the family, so please consider joining! And you keep any digital files you download, none of this DRM nonsense XD

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[lurking-latinist]

Next time I do one of those randomized characters memes I should throw in some characters from Narbonic. I think an increased quota of lady mad scientists and violent young women would improve most memes. Also Dave. Someone remind me.

[alakotila]

If you're looking for achillean SFF comics and stories w/ transmasc leads I've got a few! I think my writing tends to be a bit cozy. My protagonists are often in their late 20s-30s, and finally in a position to follow (or find) their dreams.

Fell Swoop is a space fantasy romance and is complete! Webcomic version available on Webtoon, Tapas, and an edited graphic novel PDF w/ 20 extra pages + bonus content is at my store! (corresponding art: lower left image)

Sunlit Silence is a fantasy adventure (solarpunk), ongoing, on Webtoon, Tapas, and Patreon! (top two images) There's romance in this one too, it's just not as central (yet) as the others listed here. This is my coziest series at the moment, and there is more than one trans character in the main cast. Bard & Messenger (working title) is a fantasy adventure romance novel, currently with beta readers. Do you want a story where the bard gets the guy? Working to release this year! (lower right image) He Took Me to the Stars is another space fantasy romance, set in the Fell Swoop universe, and I'm starting work on it for patrons first as I work though concept art, trial pages, etc. (center image) These stories are generally adult though not very explicit. If you want NSFW art of these characters or those from my main series, Spidersilk, it is available on my patreon.

[lluvia-otsana]

2,13,20 (book ask)

I got an ask, time to overshare -w-

If you make it to the end, you get a cookie (or you can cheat and scroll to the end!)

2. Top 5 books of all time:

Harrow is def no.1 by far for me, as much as I loved and devoured GtN in one sitting. Both of those books I've reread a million times and hold such a grip on me I can recite so many lines word for word, I can repeatedly open the books just to revisit scenes, I'm so invested in what will happen next in the series, and somehow they're even better on reread. There is always a portion of my mind now possessed by this series lol.

Ugh I'm bad at top 5 tho. I love the Murderbot series too but there's so many novellas in that series that if I include them TLT and Murderbot could take all the top 5 slots. It's sci fi action packed but also the narration is just such fun snark a bit like GtN.

In the same vein of the above books with their dark humor and banter I really enjoyed Nevernight. Probably also cuz the sidekick was a magical sarcastic cat made of shadows. And horny bi girl rep.

Also love When Women Were Warriors - it's my cheesy wholesome romance go to series. It's enemies to friends to lovers ish but soft.. except the swords.

Since the question says of all time, I will include that when I was a little weird kid I was obsessed with the Silverwing series and reread those a million times. Including and *especially* the very strange Firewing book that took place in bat hell lol. One of the main characters gets burned to death in the beginning! Great books for kids.

13. Do you have a goodreads?

Yeah, I've mostly been using that one lately. Trying to combine books/manga/webcomics in one site even tho goodreads isn't always great for shelving manga/webcomics.

If you wanna snoop and spend a second harshly scrutinizing me I think the link is:

goodreads.com/lluvia_otsana

Haven't been using it to keep track of books read per year as much until recently cuz I usually read physical books* and wasn't updating times before.

(*I live close to a gigantic indie bookstore I love to support. A dangerous place to live.)

20. What are things you look for in a book?

I like authors with a crazy imaginative mind. I wanna be thrown into a really different universe and experience the passion they put into the details of their beloved story. Bonus points for funny world building footnotes and appendices - I don't care that it detracts from the plot. I don't care if I don't know wtf is going on and I need to think and squint for foreshadowing and to understand the truth of what the characters are feeling - I like biting thru the layers of thick plot and characterization tbh. I love humor interwoven into the series and want to care about a diverse cast of characters. Not cuz it's forced in there but especially if it's SFF if you're gonna write an entirely different world why not put that care into writing different perspectives rather than the default usually cishet and male ones. I care more about the characters' motives and feelings and actions feeling real than them being morally correct. I don't need romance in it I can read diverse relationships, platonic or hateful or whatever (more fun if it's still intense in some way) But truthfully I am a sucker for deep monog romance if it fits somewhere in there.

Here 🍪 („• ᴗ •„)

(And thx for the excuse to ramble at myself @ghostlament)

[kalipso-webcomic]

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Kalipso is a science-fiction and fantasy webcomic about people from various worlds (an epic fantasy planet, a steampunk planet, etc) who end up on an alien spaceship in space

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[thephooka]

White Noise double update - end of Arc 1!

Start here and click through! | WN on Patreon | @hiveworks

That's that! Check the page description for what's next! Thanks y'all. <3

[zorilleerrant]

@bigmeatpete69420 So, I love bookstores and buying books is often exciting, but then sometimes it doesn't really chip away at a reading slump, and I have to find another way to get back into reading. So here are some things that will get you reading (not necessarily books, but if you try too hard to skip to books straight away, you'll just make yourself anxious and frustrate yourself).

read some picture books. they're very fast, often very cute, and will remind you the sorts of things you like in a book: characters, dialogue, conflicts, themes. also you can look through a lot of them while you're at the bookstore to make sure you can find one you like to take home with you.

short story collections or anthologies: if you don't like one, you can skip to the next. if you're used to doomscrolling, there can be a catharsis in being able to move on quickly. or seek out flash fiction collections, if you need to look at a lot of things fast.

similar to that, go to one of the writing prompts tumblrs, and look through it until you find an interesting prompt. click through to the notes, and see what stories people have added to it; a lot of these are very short and will be quick, fun reads. if you're inspired, you can also write something based on one, just for yourself or to share, and that can remind you what you like in a story, too.

reading a webcomic can work really well if you're having trouble concentrating, because they're usually broken into very short segments. some types of comics are even designed to scroll through on your phone; you can go to Webtoon and read through Wayne Family Adventures, since you like flying things (Batman).

do you read fanfic? if you look up Elder Scrolls on AO3, I'll bet there's a least a couple things your speed, and if you leave comments on those stories most authors would love to chat with you about the lore and stuff. I don't know if there are official novelizations and tie-ins, but those can be a low effort place to start with books for any game/show franchises you like, since you already like the characters and settings.

look up rec lists for some specific topic you like, and see what people say about it. not if the book is any good or not, but how accurate it is, or how hilariously inaccurate. there are lots of fantasy books with fantasy dragonflies! I read one where people used them like ubers. reading books that aren't very good can be easier, because you don't have to feel guilty about thinking it's not very good, and it makes it hard to treat it like work when it's just a silly thing you're doing.

but if it would be easier to work through it, just because then you're making progress even if the book isn't so fun, you can find a list of books you meant to read, like every book that won a certain award, or the most famous books in a genre. you can also look for book bingos, which are sometimes geared towards making sure you read a lot of different genres or styles. your genre preferences easily could have shifted as you grew up, but it takes a while to notice if you're not looking for it. read some classics and feel educated, or read some bestsellers and feel connected to pop culture, that kind of thing.

you can also mark up books a lot with all your thoughts on them while you're reading, and it can make you engage more actively, or help you feel less frustrated if you're not liking the book. or, if you want to share your thoughts, a lot of people like to do readthroughs, and post their thoughts chapter by chapter on a dedicated tumblr. your friends/mutuals might have thoughts you didn't even think of while reading, and discussion can be fun. a book club might work in that context, too.

short genres of books (so at least you can get back to reading several books in a row) generally include: novellas, cozy mysteries, harlequin romances, "beach reads" (this is a bookstore genre typically), YA published prior to about 2005, old pulp SFF and penny mysteries, and series published by multiple authors. but if you're in a bookstore or library you can just look for things that are smaller and less intimidating if you end up not liking them much.

you also might want to go back and reread old favorites. what book do you remember not being able to put down, just zooming through it? what did you read several times in a row, or keep going back to? what kept you excited to see what happened next every chapter? what had your favorite character, scene, snippet of dialogue, macguffin, handwaved explanation, or goal? if you pick back up a book you know you love, it will help you remember how much you really do love reading.

Hello Mr Gaiman

I hope this ask finds you well, I don't know if you will have the answer to this and I do not mean to put any amount of pressure on you from asking it.

When I was younger I had a voracious appetite for reading. I would read any chance I got planes, car rides to school, in bed before going to sleep. I think ever since I have unfortunately had a smart phone I have been trapped in a vicious dopamine cycle of doom scrolling until I find something so abhorrent that I have to put my phone down to reset.

I want to read books again. I want to have joy I use to get from reading long told stories the world over.

How do I get motivation, where do I start?

Sorry and once again no pressure

Pete

Start in a bookshop.

I went to The Golden Notebook yesterday with one mission: to buy a book I wanted to read and hadn't read. Not one that anyone was expecting me to read and give a blurb for.

And then I put my phone away and made a cup of tea and had the best time reading my book. And I cannot wait to get to it.

[steamcrew]

Hey! Welcome to our writing blog!

We're Mantis + Jamie + Epitaph, and we're a queer DID system. We will not sign off on who's fronting.

Our url is from our story Steamcrew (working name), our header is from Magica (working name), and our icon is from Enemies and Lesbians.

We tag:

#epitaph speaks : a talk tag

#so many ocs : a tag for when we don't want to tag all of the ones we're thinking of

#ocs interaction : a funny post that could be two or more ocs

#[oc firstname] [story] : this is self explanatory

#[story] : also self explanatory. mainly steamcrew, currently, as this used to be a steamcrew blog only

#ask game : self explanatory

#writing : general writing stuff!

#ref : oh, you know, references

#others writing : not mine!

#inspo : inspiration!

We commonly create with our qpp Ark who's writing / oc blog is here

Trigger tags will be tagged like this: #[trigger]. Please ask if you need us to tag anything. We are very forgetful but we try our hardest to catch things!

PLEASE ask us for more information on stories if you're interested!

Below the cut is a list of stories we're working on!

A * delineates which stories we are working on with Ark

Original:

Steamcrew (working name, my baby and this blog's namesake! a found family steampunk story about how capitalism sucks in two acts) #steamcrew

Enemies and Lesbians (webcomic in it's rough draft stage about two queer kinky villains and trauma)* #enemies or lesbians, tagged on characters as eol

Cat Eats It's Own Tail (webcomic about cycles of trauma)* #cat eats its own tail, tagged on characters as #ceiot

Alice Refuses to Die (Android bunny boy Alice kills his father; where does he go from there?)* #alice refuses to die, tagged on characters as #ard

Gifted Kids (middle school supernatural horror)* #gifted kids, tagged on characters as #gk, @giftedkidsstory

Lavenderverse (working name, neo-1920s/Cold War setting. About a speakeasy that kills people)* #lavenderverse, tagged on characters as #lv

trans.D1V1N1TY (transgender technological horror) #v1rus

Casino Royale (nothing to say about this one, still in concept stages)* #casino royale, tagged on characters as #cr

Magica (working name, used to be a TMA au but is being reworked to fit a magical girl/boy cyperpunk setting about living under capitalism)* #magica

Cold War story (working name, Stranger Things if stranger things had continued to go on it's "america did shitty things during the cold war and capitalism is bad" thing)* #cold war story, tagged on characters as #cw

Monster story (working name, still in concept stage)* #monster story, tagged on characters as #ms

Root of Roses (this one is about family! and also about being a leader)* #root of roses, tagged on characters as #ror

Elves Plurality (working name, elves and plurality / systemhood) #plural elves, tagged on characters as #pe

Bonetumble (worldbuild practice and just plain old fun, I have no idea what I'm doing with this world!) #bonetumble

Sci-fi found family (working name, it's kinda in the name?) #sci fi found family, tagged on characters as sff

Sci-fi Rom-com (working name, about having severe mental illness and falling in love) #sci fi rom com, tagged on characters as #sfrc

Cringe Kids (working name (?), 3 scenemo high schoolers have so many things to worry about, like homework and ghost hunting) #cringe kids, tagged on characters as #ck

The Simulation- It's Breaking! (working name (?), something I started during my psychotic episode 2022-2023 to help cope with our delusions. Still a concept) #the simulation! its breaking, tagged on characters as #tsib

The Child Tyrant One (working name, what if the savior of the universe didn't want to kill that child tyrant?), #child tyrant, tagged on characters as #ct

Fandom:

It Seems Unforgiving When A Good Thing Ends (RE 8 monster!Ethan/Ethan lives au)* #isuwagte

Laurelverse (Starbound askblog)* #laurelverse, @laurelverses

[catgirlelric]

if you are a writer and you're about to describe your story as "a queer/trans [insert genre here]" but all your trans characters are afab nonbinary with quirky single-syllable names i am begging you to for just one single minute let go of the "gender is fake haha!" attitude you probably currently have in an unnecessary mental vice grip and create one (1) trans woman

[caelstyx-backup]

I wanted to share some panels from my slice of life, science-fantasy latine webcomic Welcome to the New World which you can now read on both Webtoons and Tapas

[valleyofthesilksky]

Valley of the Silk Sky: "Extraction" - page 2

I'm sure I've talked about this before, but to recap: the Pocalo Valley is widely renowned for its advanced medical treatments for all sorts of conditions, including trans medicine. When Razi references hormone treatments, that's what xe's talking about.

Also, the last panel is referencing the Valley of the Silk Sky short story "Medicine; Run," though you don't need to have read it to follow the events in "Extraction."

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[percheroncomic]

Pirates of the Blue Swallow: Page 18