as usual I must warn you that clicking on this will lead to a bigger version on which the text may be legible.
back in august I mentioned a “documentation/abuse forum.” some time after that I posted a comic strip without an explanation. It was MOSTLY inspired by the same thing as this one, then I built the rest around my frustration with that. I wanted to stop thinking about it but I still did and then this one came about, which is more direct, though still possibly hard to understand. I cannot explain it concisely, either. Even trying to explain why I can’t explain it concisely isn’t concise, so maybe I will try again later. Or ideally I will forget about it this time.
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october 28 2024 addendumb: It has come to my attention that the person this was mostly about was banned from that forum over attempts to photographically prove its own biological womanhood to other users several days after I posted this, but presumably utterly unrelated to my having posted it since no one legitimately perceived me a target who deserved to be stalked at length, just abused for a few moments and tossed away. But for all the ungrounded garbage written about me, I was never actually kicked out of that septic tank! I could still go back if I wanted to! But why? They ban the people who most fully embody their own spirit of hateful pettiness. Who can you trust if not the ones as evil as you are? Not only is it a nest of voyeurs and vipers, the vipers are cannibals.
I prefer to leave the fake title lines on their own but guess what, snakes! that’s a dumb place to look for spaghetti!
but here is another one of those annoying snake comic strips that you have to click on to make legible and that have nothing to do with the better comic strip that I have not worked on since June
I have noticed that when somebody wants to buy a drawing, they do it. When they ask IF i sell drawings, they never buy, and it is never people I hear from ordinarily, who are actually looking at the art I am posting, because the ones who ask this aren’t actually following the art. If they were paying attention they would have also already have seen the hundreds of links I place leading to my commission information. They don’t want what I am offering, and I am unclear why they ask. I cannot prove but I believe there is a perception that I will be so overjoyed just to have this notion brought up, that I will do whatever nonsense they ask and cheap. When my basic information makes clear that I will not, the instigators disappear. Back when I let other people make the rules, it never got me anywhere. And I am still nowhere but it is a less uncomfortable nowhere.
I recall February 2012 (or rather I repaste text from my previous 2023 recollection of this story, several details of which I had already forgotten since then), when I was waiting for a bus, drawing in a sketchbook, and a man saw me, offered to pay me $10 or $15 to draw him and his wife on a large sheet of paper. I had to +friend him in facebook to get references, which seemed odd. The job was not quite my forte but bearable. However, then I had to walk across VERY windy New Haven without the thing getting damaged to meet the guy in at least two other spots whose locations he gave me, poorly, over the phone while I was walking. He had expected me to also give him some sort of bag to carry the thing in, which he only told me at the end. Then he tried to just pay me $10. He stated “I said I’d pay you $10 OR $15.” I protested and got the 15. But it was so windy, midway through my 20ish minute return walk home I lost a glove while blowing my nose, and the pair probably cost $30.
Later on the fellow sent a text message telling of the “brownie points” he received for his gift. Neither of us heard from the other again. I still have the remaining glove, though. I think I also have voicemail messages from the person amidst the task but they are probably unremarkable. And I only re-remembered that after I already made the comic strip but cheaters, short-changers scumbags, they don’t change much, so it is better to refer to ones who are less likely to see these things and think “is that about me?” Because my issue is with the people only pretending to pay attention in order to enrich themselves.
perfect example: this dork who has some automated function “favorite” any picture I upload a few a minutes after it goes up even though he doesn’t actually browse the site. And I know he doesn’t because I sent a direct message a week ago asking if he does this, and he hasn’t seen this message yet but still somehow “favorite”d THIS comic strip inspired by people like him that I uploaded today. In fact I postponed putting it here because I thought of this dork and wanted to see if he would do it again. And he did because he doesn’t care that he cheats. People like this think they are entitled to give fake support to try and trick others into giving them real support. No advantage is too small, no cheat is too petty. They “fake it ’til [they] make it” and then continue faking it because their entire psychology is fake, just like everyone they idolize is a wealthy, soulless cheater, which is why people like trump are viable presidential candidates, and we get low quality alternatives. Or just a few people on stupid art sites are lazy boneheads.
you will definitely have to click this for the larger version if you want to read it, so please avoid doing that.
I am being informed now that the snake is fine.
You know the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make me dwell at length and periodically explode comically, but I worry this might still worry my mother if she saw it.
I had hoped in september to get back to more productive projects this one keeps coming back
busy week, almost forgot
i hear “go to disney” said casually regularly and it bothers me, much the same way as “google it” does. I don’t like brands replacing bits of language, even if in this case the brand has merely replaced a reference to its own branded attraction. it still means language got stupider through the actions of boring complacent people.
whenever I see or hear the phrase something about it seems nefarious, possibly due to early life exposure to the terrible but ubiquitous 198x “Ghostbusters” video game that commanded players “GO TO ZUUL” at some point, the whole while various ghosts have also been going to zuul and presumably strengthening it. I never actually knew how to play it or if not going to zuul in a timely fashion made a difference but I remember being worried about it when watching other people play it.
more of this is absolutely what everybody wanted.
it is not a complete waste since the seeing what complainers fixate on can help me to know what I am unclear about and what they absolutely will never accept any level of clarity on. Which still accomplishes nothing long term but it momentarily satisfies my curiosity, potentially. So it is probably only about 85% waste.
speaking of cults,
Why? Tom Cruise isn’t French and he definitely isn’t an olympic competitor. He is an actor who pretends to do amazing things but in actuality is the top spokesman for a billionaire cult that actively harms its own members and tries to destroy former ones who speak about it. I realize that describes all billionaire cults but the important thing is that Mr. Cruise represents one, not which,
one of the recurring complaints that I received about this was that the ridiculous things I made the character say were TOO ridiculous, since nobody actually said them and thus the argument is invalid. Consequently I produced an an alternate version.
Surprisingly this did not change anyone’s mind. I guarantee you any public figure consistently photographed wearing a cowboy hat believes one or all of these, and Trump himself either does also or doesn’t care if he enables and empowers someone who does.
the second could be better, but it was foremost a work of spite and that was supposed to be obvious from the low effort level, though still substantially more effort than the meme gifs with which people who had nothing to say tried to argue against it. The third frame refers to a number of killings that were justified after the fact by claiming that the people shot had mental illness, were on drugs or were criminals and thus are better off dead, the best known of which is the Kyle Rittenhouse matter. But I actually forgive him because he was 17 years old at the time and was plainly trusting in very bad people. He shot one person who attacked him BECAUSE HE HAD A GUN. After that occurred, two more attacked him, one with a skateboard, and they also got shot to death. The third had his own smaller gun, which also had no business being there. Was HE planning to shoot someone BEFORE he saw someone with a bigger gun? Impossible to know. So it is a complicated issue, but the PERCEPTION of this is that Kyle bravely fought for freedom and gunned down a mob of pedophiles, which isn’t what happened and isn’t what ever will happen outside of Deadpool 2 (which I didn’t particularly enjoy but that is unrelated), and they let their belief in this absurdity flavor their view of the world, which doesn’t help ANYONE. Leftists (as I have been called for posting comic strips like this) don’t help by presenting the House of the Ritten as a deliberately acting white supremacist T800 either, but as unfortunate as that is it stops short of endorsing more gun violence.
stupid arguments led to the creation of a THIRD strip but since it actually has new drawings I should probably try and pass that off as next week’s update instead of forcing it into this one. I am also tired after foolishly responding to no less than thirteen comments from the same guy who seems to have only seen that troublesome third frame, even after I discovered that he spent several WEEKS, maybe years, arguing that She-Ra looked too much like a man in some dumb cartoon.
The people who want to argue with me about this literally having nothing better to do or aspire to do. I ought to at least act like I do.
you will absolutely need to click through to the larger version to have any hope of reading the text on this
this is not remotely finished but I am uncertain of the internet situation at the place(s) where vestigial family obligations intend to hold me hostage for the next ten days and I thought this was important. I will replace this with a more legible version if opportunity thinks that is necessary. in reality I and the shirtler did not speak, i never found out what it said and I am not actually a snake. however I was able to find the full text from 500 different vendors, which states “If you don’t like Trump then you probably will not like me either, and i am okay with that,” which I think encapsulates the nihilistic spite of the american spirit appropriately for independunce day. the land where so many are ready to pay for the right to tell strangers “i want you, whom i haven’t even met and may not meet and in fact cannot confirm exist, to NOT like me” that there is a wide-ranging market specifically for it. Alas I could not find the specific variant of ugly corona beer velcro sandals, so perhaps I was looking at vintage collector’s items, the mark of a true enthusiasthole.
no i do not reckon i am getting much work done at this 19th century fischer priƒe pretend desk. I should think it nice to have something resembling a desk at all, a rarity on these trips, but since there is just one bathroom for all four people and it connects to this room this is unlikely to be an efficient room even with a work surface not made for and by elves. the chair TOUCHES the desk.
a recurring and stupid problem.
this is not the new comic strip page that I threatened last time! That is complicated. It will be better than this. Still probably underwhelming. But building it is complicated.
I think you will definitely need to click on this in order for the text to be legible. apologies for not making it permanently unlegible!
when I show nonsense like this, it is crucial to not make viewers uncomfortable and think I am looking for [ity compliments or trying to intimidate them into sharing posts that they don’t want to, and resenting me, since the character in these dumb comics on many occasions shares my experiences but is not meant to “be” me. As much as I have dwelled on why they do or do not, I have never asked somebody to share one of my posts! And I do not reckon I will. Hopefully changing the character to the jerk fish form I have used a few times before limits that somewhat. I only call its usual shape a “snake” because before I did people would call it a worm, and worm is an extremely vague animal name. Earthworm seems to be implied, which is an entirely different phylum from snakes and other commonly anthropomorphized animals, lacking what we think of as faces and limbs entirely, and non-annelid “worm”s are even further from that, and I am not comfortable with that manner of inaccuracy.
also the “normal” comic strip has not been cancelled. I do not know that I have ever cancelled anything. except for minor works like “goldilocks and the berenstain bears” which only existed on school computers when I did not have a home computer, I have been thoroughly unable to cut my losses in life, creative-ish or elsewise or elpsewise (though never nemitzwise since nemitz is highly foolish).
this has been going on for years
2024’s edition is yet un resolved
I read too much weird garbage about people who I do not understand
i inadvertently rather like the little red-cloaked creature
1-10-2024 229am:
I wanted to push that off the top of the page but the weather apparently liked this post enough to knock over a much larger post and break the local electrical distribution therefore screwing up my computer machine’s inclination to manipulate internet and this dumb phonoblock would probably shrivel into a Game.com if I tried to leach mobile internet out of it
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this is of last year and is visible very briefly in that video. I was not sure if it should go here at all, but if it should, there is no sense in delaying it, because if I decide later that it should not have gone here I will want it as far in the past as pawsible.
october 11 addendork: this music arose in my music playing list while I was operating an automobile today and it struck me as suspiciously tut-tutty.
excuse me sir, I think you mean
ARRGHF I was kidding!
I never in my life heard somebody say this but whoever translated Arc the Lad Collection, reportedly Victor Ireland and C. Sue Shambaugh, but probably mostly Victor Ireland on the actual localization, seem to have heard it constantly.
I tried imagining how this might apply to my life in a comic strip (via the pathetic snake) but it does not seem quite right, which is just about right for one of these.
another addendoy: I wanted to replace this before next week but it doesn’t look like I did.
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an addendoy: I suppose this does not make a whole loaf of sense; why free orange sketches, and why would non-orange be a problem? That is probably why I am still making comic strips also for free.
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I do not even remember HOW to log in to the section of the website where I had started posting these, so this one is not there yet, much less the ones that should come between this one and the most recent other one that I did post. However, I intend to remember!
Ah! I did. I added four more, including one that I missed before. Somehow this this is a harder job than it seems like it ought to be and so is yet incomplete! I also need to determine which number in the styles.css is causing those ludicrously large numbers at the right side of the page which I was unable to do even before I forgot how to log in. The world has many mysteries.
Nobody should ever talk to this serpent
the depicted dialog is simplified for brevity and exaggerated to make the orange creature seem more pathetic; the interview proposer in reality was humble and cordial about the matter and I talked too much to be understood easily so that I seemed like I was claiming to have never done anything as an artist when in fact it was recognition and a sense of validity that I worried was lacking. It just FELT like this.
I decided against this conclusion because:
I, whom this character shares many traits of, do not own a gun
I cannot draw guns well
a lot of people don’t have the background to find an implied suicide attempt of an immortal fictional character funny, and they may be better off for it.