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Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
depicting loving is as old as the concept of depiction itself

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Nick Buntline
Dec 20, 2007
Doesn't know the impossible.

Tenebrais posted:

That or she knows what just happened at Tessa's room and is disappointed she let the goop have the chance to reach out.

she's canonically omniscient about everything in the dome other than Purple, Gold, and Mark, so she definitely at least knows. probably she's just disappointed at how poorly her attempts to actually accomplish something other than snarky alt texts are turning out.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
I mean, Goopy is basically saying "I can't help but notice you want to die; just open the window and I'll give you a hand with that."

Tessa probably didn't commit suicide (and also get both her parents killed) off-screen, but I had to think about it for a second.

Joe Slowboat
Nov 9, 2016

Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements



Rand Brittain posted:

I mean, Goopy is basically saying "I can't help but notice you want to die; just open the window and I'll give you a hand with that."

Tessa probably didn't commit suicide (and also get both her parents killed) off-screen, but I had to think about it for a second.

I think Goopy actually wants to make her into a dark magical girl, because that would be a pretty solid story option here.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Like if you want an example of why you'd go to porn the VGcats guy is making 10x the amount of money doing a semi-weekly porn pic than he is doing his extremely longrunning webcomic.

nimby
Nov 4, 2009

The pinnacle of cloud computing.



He also stopped making his long running comic like 4 or 5 years ago.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
He's the one who made separate patreon accounts for porn and regular, and then shortly after stopped updating his regular comic because the patron split was something like 99% porn/1% regular?

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

"It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"
Hell Gem

Cat Mattress posted:

He's the one who made separate patreon accounts for porn and regular, and then shortly after stopped updating his regular comic because the patron split was something like 99% porn/1% regular?

The thing is regular VGcats already didn't update. :v:

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

I get it doesn't matter especially, but I find that one crazy because he's not a good cartoonist to start with.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

"It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"
Hell Gem

Dawgstar posted:

I get it doesn't matter especially, but I find that one crazy because he's not a good cartoonist to start with.

VGcats is just one of those odd pieces of history that's completely mystifying in retrospect. I don't think anyone who wasn't there at the time can believe it blew up when it doesn't have "good art", it definitely doesn't have good jokes, and it barely updated.

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer
I literally forgot VGcats existed until this discussion which makes me feel so old

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
That weird Spanish guy who’s still doing that Vivian James/Not Vivian James Gamergate webcomic in 2019 is also making bank by selling porn to the incel fanbase he reeled in with said Gamergate webcomic. He’s also a terrible artist, so it shows that people will pay money for loving anything if it gets them randy.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Joe Slowboat posted:

I think Goopy actually wants to make her into a dark magical girl, because that would be a pretty solid story option here.

Given Goops stated goal of destroying Undine mentality then literally, her using Tess like that makes more sense than simply showing up, going ‘dun murdered your friend’ and showing her the spoils given what happened the last time she tried that sort of stunt with HP.

On that point I hope we get more solid info on her beef soon.

Malpais Legate
Oct 1, 2014

I just actually read Sleepless Domain in full, and while I'm excited to see it continue, I feel like that was a LOT of comic to read for very little illuminating on the main plot. The bait-and-switch in the first three chapters was great, though!

Also Tessa's homeroom teacher is definitely a self-insert for the author, right?

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Malpais Legate posted:


Also Tessa's homeroom teacher is definitely a self-insert for the author, right?

Yeah, straight up. It's the same depiction as in her earlier autobiographical comic.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
熱くなれ夢みた明日を
必ずいつかつかまえる
走り出せ振り向くことなく
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Malpais Legate posted:

I just actually read Sleepless Domain in full, and while I'm excited to see it continue, I feel like that was a LOT of comic to read for very little illuminating on the main plot. The bait-and-switch in the first three chapters was great, though!

Also Tessa's homeroom teacher is definitely a self-insert for the author, right?
Check out the artist's Twitter. Pro click

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

SardonicTyrant posted:

Check out the artist's Twitter. Pro click

An even more pro click: her cat twitter

https://twitter.com/CagleCats/status/1140619409515565056

Malpais Legate
Oct 1, 2014

I'd read Let's Speak English before, but it'd been a while so she just looked vaguely familiar in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on.

Of course, it's obvious now. Cagle, Cable.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/guest-comic-krekalie

"Does this excite you, girl?"

Kojiro
Aug 11, 2003

LET'S GET TO THE TOP!
Y'all like The Sword Interval, go back it on Kickstarter

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

"For her neutral special, she wields guns"

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/guest-comic-ayme-sotuyo

“This comic is, technically, not canonical whatsoever.”

Well it should be :colbert:

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Oneiros posted:

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/guest-comic-ayme-sotuyo

“This comic is, technically, not canonical whatsoever.”

Well it should be :colbert:

There's at least one JRPG where the elements are FIRE, ICE, WIND, EARTH and GUN.

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

The Lone Badger posted:

There's at least one JRPG where the elements are FIRE, ICE, WIND, EARTH and GUN.

Persona has gun and also nuclear.

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

The Lone Badger posted:

There's at least one JRPG where the elements are FIRE, ICE, WIND, EARTH and GUN.

All the SMT games have a gun element. Generally the gun spells are things like "myriad arrows" so it's more like piercing element, but it's fun to imagine your Jack Frost pulling out a glock.

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
Webcomic author news: Thunt, author of Melty People Goblins, has come out of the closet as a trans woman.

I'm not linking the website, it still doesn't deserve the traffic posted:

I've tweeted about this but I know not all of my readers use Twitter, so I figured that I should post this here as well. I'm transgender. This is going to be very strange or uncomfortable to some of you and I totally understand and respect that.

My breakdown in 2014 was the result of me trying everything I could to ignore this side of me and just live with the dysphoria. Or at least find other ways of coping that didn't involve me acknowledging this aspect of myself. I've been to two gender specialists and I've been on hormone replacement therapy for a little over 2.5 months now. Things are going really well and even though I'm still at the beginning of my transition, I'm super happy about the results already.

I'm amazed at the way my depression and self hatred have just melted away. I feel confident, energetic, social and creative. I know that transitioning is going to bring me through new difficulties and present new problems, but I feel like whatever comes at me, can't be as bad as wasting away like I was before admitting this to myself and to those people in my life.

My pronouns are she/her and I'm in the process of changing my name to "Ellipsis Hana Stephens" (Ell or Elli for short). If you're communicating with me and you misgender me or use my old name, don't even worry about it. This is an adjustment for everyone, so I promise that I won't be offended or annoyed (unless you're doing it on purpose).

I know this is going to cost me some readers, but this is something I just have to do.

Good for her. Her comic is still repulsive on every conceivable level, but maybe there's a chance she'll find some self-awareness now?

Joe Slowboat
Nov 9, 2016

Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements



Maybe the comic's constant veering into extremely bad despair holes was an artifact of her dysphoria and related depression? I mean I'm not going to start reading it again (ask me about my bad webcomics decisions) but that would be nice.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Hurt people hurt people webcomics

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I said it before on the other webcomic thread, but This image makes a lot more sense with the new context.

(And also :laffo: that I found it back on Wikimedia, of all things, because it's gone from the Goblins site.)

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Every time I look at Goblins, as far as I can tell, it's about three things:

* Torture porn
* Grief porn
* People making this expression:



I wish her all the best and that her gross, offputting comic continues to find an audience. That isn't me.

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jun 21, 2019

Niton
Oct 21, 2010

Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

PMush Perfect posted:

Webcomic author news: Thunt, author of Melty People Goblins, has come out of the closet as a trans woman.


Good for her. Her comic is still repulsive on every conceivable level, but maybe there's a chance she'll find some self-awareness now?

Agreed on the good for her but.. Ellipsis? Seriously?

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Niton posted:

Agreed on the good for her but.. Ellipsis? Seriously?
Listen, it is trans girl tradition that our new names make us sound like 23rd century cyberpunk hackers.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

I kinda stopped caring about weird names since I got involved in the burner community. I know people who by Portals, Cowboy, Meowmeow, Apatheus, etc. I don't even know most of their real names. As far as I'm concerned, if you have the opportunity to choose a new name and DON'T choose something weird, it's a missed opportunity.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Yes, it is a Trans Girl Thing to name yourself something weird. But I've seen weirder. I mean, Ellipsis is up there, but it's not the top weird name I've seen. (Not IRL, since my boring rear end country doesn't allow "non-proper names" as official names. But still.)

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

PMush Perfect posted:

Listen, it is trans girl tradition that our new names make us sound like 23rd century cyberpunk hackers.

It was only earlier this week that I realized Agent Smith was deadnaming Neo through three goddamn movies

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Phy posted:

It was only earlier this week that I realized Agent Smith was deadnaming Neo through three goddamn movies
Yeah, in retrospect, the Matrix trilogy is packed to the gills with trans symbolism.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

what did the orgasm cake mean

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


PMush Perfect posted:

Yeah, in retrospect, the Matrix trilogy is packed to the gills with trans symbolism.

best part of these forums is people arguing that this is in fact not the case.

Galvanik
Feb 28, 2013

Like what? It's a neat interpretation, but haven't seen the movies since they came out and barely remember any scenes.

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Old Kentucky Shark
May 25, 2012

If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.


Galvanik posted:

Like what? It's a neat interpretation, but haven't seen the movies since they came out and barely remember any scenes.

I mean, famously and most up front, the character of Switch in the first film was supposed to be played by a female actor in the Matrix and a male actor in the real world but the studio squashed it. Then there's the fact that the entire movie centers around a group of rebels reclaiming their own physical bodies from social system that holds them in literal bondage, and gaining incredible freedom (and superpowers) by awakening to the true reality of what they really are.

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