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I’m playing Octopath Traveler 0

Fascinating that each villain is a “master” of one of the three stats you use to take items from townspeople. By getting better at robbing people, you become more like the villains. Maybe the devs saw those “Psychopath Traveler” memes.

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You can tell Pluribus is dark because people died when the infection hit. You can tell it's not a black comedy because the main character didn't kill anyone while drunk-driving to the hospital

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"I am twelve years old." She looks at least fifteen.

BULLSHIT.

Current Mood: silly

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Comic: Old Man Yaoi (2025)

Rogan: It was a tie between "Old Man Yaoi" and "Cult Comix" this poll, but December is dark enough without cultery, so I exercised my blogly fiat. Besides, "Old Man Yaoi" has contextual relevance, because it's about Coming In or Staying Out, which is now officially up for sale in the violet and bubblegum pink Riso edition! $20, 24 pages, printing so pretty you'll want to rub it across your face!

Image and textual transcription behind the cut!

( Biff doesn't know what an anime is and he does not care. He liked The Wind Also Rises though. )

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ableism,
bigotry

I'm playing Shinsetsu Mahou Shoujo

All these characters think the MC is gonna bomb the school or something, and she's literally just autistic. Everything that's actually wrong with her is downstream of all the shit people put her through for no reason.

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guro

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So if I'm understanding this right, TS doesn't make guro games, but does make guro art of his own games?

(It is so hard to look up a developer called "TS" and find any information about them.)

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arknights

Arknights posting

There’s this recurring thing where the Doctor ties up the enemy’s heavy hitters in an irrelevant fight while the main objective is handled somewhere else. The heavy hitters will win eventually, but by that point they won’t have anything worth fighting for. (E.g. delaying Degenbrecher so she can’t help Silverash.)

This fits with the general description of how the Ghost of Babel used his troops. The difference is that today’s Doctor only does this when the folks who lose to the heavy hitters are still likely to come back alive.

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am i prokopetz yet

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“You’re saying Paradox magic nullifies all rules.”

“Yes.”

“But your spells don’t nullify all rules. Like that frozen-space thing you did. It didn’t get rid of gravity.”

“Paradox nullifies everything. So it nullifies the rule that it nullifies everything.”

“You mean it’s selective?”

“No, you’ve misunderstood. Nullifying and not nullifying at the same time is paradoxical.”

“Fine, let’s rephrase it. Paradox can nullify any rule—”

“Does, not can.”

“So it can nullify the rule that it can nullify any rule. If it does that, that means there are some rules it can’t nullify, right?”

“Paradoxically, no.”

“Your magic is bullshit.”

“You’re beginning to understand.”

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Deity Swag with Cartoonist Style!

Comics we got at MICE! All are great!

BE NOT AFRAID, by LSJM(?) Black, white, and red one-pager that’s like if the angel from Pet was giving you a Trump-era pep talk.
Secret Black Woman, by Ingrid Pierre. Autobio about anti-black racism, anti-Asian racism, passing, and being biracial.
Default, by JCJB. Poetry essay watercolor about fighting empire and suffering. We think Phosphor of hungryghosts would like this!
Prompted: an educator’s response to generative AI in the classroom, by Caroline Hu. Science, chatbots, and college. We think erinptah would like this!
Cannon Fodder, by Eric Alexander Arroyo. Queer mecha pilots in love during wartime. Got it for the sci-fi library; we have now purchased all three printings of this, haha.
Maintenance, by Cryptozoology. “What if a robot liked it when their creator performed upkeep on them (in a sexual way) and they were both girls???” Grabbed for sci-fi library.
Silhouette, by L/V. Navy blue Riso robot porn. May also end up in sci-fi library because the art is so gorgeous.

Current Mood: naughty

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work

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Rogan: holy shit guys, the color version of Coming In or Staying Out came out GORGEOUS. Just Right Press did an amazing job and I will absolutely be hiring them again! I cannot wait to put it up for sale and show it off!

And it’s been the bestseller at MICE so far! I’ll be working a final shift at table 32 from 11-2 tomorrow on Sunday; be the first on your block to have some pink trans dongs!

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feo is easily annoyed

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Sanda keeps conflating “maturing as a person” and “looking physically older” in ways that would really annoy

self_loving_vampire. It makes no allowance for the idea that you could preserve your appearance without being perpetually immature.

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feo is easily annoyed

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Doodle at the end of a Sanda chapter. The artist asks his editor if he’s allowed to draw someone with their guts out. Answer is yes.

Doodle at the end of another chapter. Artist asks if he’s allowed to draw a girl’s nipples. Answer is no.

Current Mood: working

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shameless advertising

LB’s expanded hours at MICE!

On Saturday December 6, 10:30-2 and 4-6 PM, Sunday December 7, 11-2, we are tabling with the Boston comics Roundtable at table 32 at MICE! Sorry for the double post, but we got an extra shift!

Current Mood: grateful

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housing

Tropical Neighbors

I don't know what sort of greenhouse the downstairs neighbors are running, but they are practically heating our own apartment for us. It is 20 degrees outside, we have YET to turn on the heat.

Through luck, we have ended up with the warmest room in the apartment. We wake up in the morning bathed in sunbeams and radiance. The heat is off, and I am comfortable just wearing a sweatshirt--no gloves no hat. It's a little rough in the summer, but right now, I am blessing those downstairs tropical neighbors.

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I’m worried for the longevity of Duet Night Abyss, because I like the story, but there’s not much draw to the modes you’re supposed to play between story updates. The roguelike mode has fascinating aesthetics, but it feels poorly balanced, and nothing else stands out.

Current Mood: bouncy

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poll

2025 December Fan Poll

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes. (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here! (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month? YOU CHOOSE, readers!

Poll #33920 2025 December Fan Poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19

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Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

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Yes (my votes count double)
3 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
3 (15.8%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
2 (10.5%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
3 (15.8%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
1 (5.3%)

Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
12 (63.2%)

The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
5 (26.3%)

The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
3 (15.8%)

two apocalyptic micro-stories
5 (26.3%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix
8 (44.4%)

Death Watch
4 (22.2%)

Protection
6 (33.3%)

Freight Train Flirting
8 (44.4%)

Old Man Yaoi
7 (38.9%)

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I just found a couple different Ask a Manager posts where the team says the manager is the problem, the manager says the team is the problem, and the update makes it clear the manager is the problem. I don’t have hard numbers, but I suspect it’s not usually the team that’s the problem, because how likely is it to be the whole team? One bad manager seems more probable.

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bigotry,
racism

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If you’re arguing about whether someone is a grifter or a believer in white supremacy, you need to pin down what “belief” means for a white supremacist. It’s apparently pretty nebulous.

I'm playing Promise Mascot Agency

This feels like someone looked at The Happytime Murders and went "yeah, I can make something better than this."