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My sweet cat husband wearing Jax’s maid dress

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The Character pipeline

There was another comic like this that i was desperately looking for, but I couldn't find it. so i made my own

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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

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Rocky as a witch! I’m not sure how he got magic powers but he does look super cute in this witch costume!

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draws Jax normally one (1) time-

smash cut to 10 drawings of maid jax 💥💥

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divorce selfiee

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The only thing missing is a drawing of Freckle in your style.

I’ve actually drawn Freckle before! I drew this for a freinds birthday a bit ago. I do definitely plan on drawing more of him in the future.

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Hallucigenia 🪱 this is next month's (September 2025) patreon print! It'll be a fine art print so the details will come through nicely! For more than 500 million years life on Earth has been experimenting, and everyday I'm growing in my awe and excitement about that and about all of the creatures that have existed.

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I hate when people say Summer is over once Labour Day gets here. Yes the days may be a bit cooler and the sun sets earlier and the kids will be back to school but Summer still has 3 weeks left. We spent months waiting for her arrival so don't be so quick to forget she's still here with us.

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been having thoughts on admin Kinger theories and the like.

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prompted by something my friend said

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Carousel Twilight (and spike hehee)

This design took so long because every step was absolutely nerve-wracking :’) I love how she turned out though!

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I was watching Digital Circus with my grandmother last week, and we were at the part where Gummigoo was having his existential crisis and she had put her hand to her chest and said “that poor horse…”

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Older G5m7 part1 by xiaowu07

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So this moment right?

Initially I felt like this reaction stemmed from him beginning to identify with Ragatha’s tendencies to rapidly change the subject when she starts feeling uncomfortable, and that he may have been judging her a bit too harshly for her overcompensating positivity

But in light of ep 6, this pensive look he gives actually says a lot more

Jax, outside of Kinger because he literally can’t remember, was the only one who didn’t share anything about himself at the bar

I’ve seen a lot of people claim that Jax is a lot more honest than Ragatha is, but…he’s really not. It's as much his problem as it is hers

I wanna talk about the bar adventure as a whole because it's probably the most blatant example of how Jax's own reluctance to be vulnerable (or just being open about himself in general) has been hurting his chances at making any meaningful relationships

And this is exactly how he prefers to keep it

Something had cemented the ideology in him that so long as he pretends to not care what other people think of him then he won’t ever get hurt. The less someone knows about him the less they can use that personal information against him. This is why he gets all squirrely whenever Pomni starts to dig a little deeper

Zooble just flat out does not put up with any of Jax's bullshit. Even when he pretends to finally decide to talk about himself

They are quick to dismiss him because it’s obvious he’s just gonna keep the real answer to himself and they refuse to give him the attention if he’s not gonna actually deliver

The bar scene I think does a great job of naturally introducing what we already didn’t know about the characters. It doesn’t feel like an exposition dump because they’re in the perfect environment for sharing their individual stories, but each one shares their piece in a way that's unique to their personalities

Pomni only directly answers someone's question, tells them her job then very vaguely explains what probably led to her getting stuck by mentioning her hobby of urban exploration. It’s very interesting that she doesn’t see herself as a former YouTuber because the videos she posted about her…ahem…adventures…never garnered any kind of audience. She’s almost reluctant to include the detail that she posted these videos online, like she’s embarrassed that she even did it. She claims it’s something she did for herself, which I believe. But her looking wistfully into her drink makes me think that perhaps she wanted someone to watch these videos. Maybe it was her way of leaving something of herself to be remembered.

Gangle also initially just answers the main question, almost shamefully. The service industry is rough, and working in fast food is typically not a profession that's looked at or treated with much respect. Plus there was the entire previous episode that probably resurfaced a lot of trauma and created a lot of new ones. I like that Zooble is the one to gently push her to see that she was a lot more than just what she did for work. But Gangle also sees the artist part of her life as a failure since she never completed her degree

I just want to gush a little bit about Gangle and Zooble’s relationship for a bit because it’s very sweet that Zooble never treats Gangle as being either one or two things like her masks. And how Zooble sees that her passion for art never actually left her despite the realization that her dreams will never come true and consistently encourages her to continue doing what she likes because it’s what makes her special and genuinely happy. Zooble's at their most positive and uplifting when it's with Gangle

If this ain't an invitation to fuck, I don't know what is

These two are just the cutest. I love them.

Anyway, Zooble meanwhile is never directly asked about their former life but they are happy to sprinkle in tidbits about themselves to help fuel the conversation. Shows how comfortable they are with sharing when they know someone is actually listening, and it helps to create a more casual atmosphere rather than making it feel like each character is getting interviewed. I also think it's neat how despite Zooble being so uncomfortable in their current body, they're quite confident and authentic when it comes to everything else about themselves

We arguably get the juiciest details about Ragatha out of everyone.

Her deciding to share despite no one directly asking felt like her way of trying to include herself since she’s picked up on the pattern that nearly all of them had decided to talk about themselves

But what stood out to me was how anxious she was to even begin talking about her life. Makes me think she not used to sharing anything about herself

Me every time I get a new therapist

And Ragatha doesn’t start with just talking about what she used to do like everyone else. No, she starts with her home life. What’s more, she actually gets really into sharing what she loved about where she lived before suddenly remembering who she lived with, and immediately her ramped up excitement shifts into something more subdued

Doing what she does best, Ragatha tries to repress the bad stuff by not getting into what she mean by “a lot”. It's only after dumping this emotional bucket of ice water on herself that Ragatha finally answers the main question. Though it's clear she has no strong feelings her old job as a realtor one way or the other because now all she can think about is her mother

Going into just a few of the ways her mother was "a lot" to her before becoming self-conscious when she turns and sees this

(God the way Zooble, Gangle, and Pomni look so concerned here kills me every time)

We can just go ahead and add "over-sharing" to our Beautiful Princess with a Disorder's growing list of trauma responses. But then again, we already knew that was something she does when stressed

But in all seriousness, I don't think Ragatha has ever allowed herself to vent the way she does here because that would mean dumping her own sadness onto someone else and she would rather suffer silently than become an inconvenience like that. So of course it's done unconsciously. This bitch has a support system and is too scared to be the one in need of supporting, so she clams up again the second she thinks she's making the others uncomfortable

And Jax's reaction at the end of this share fest really highlights how uncomfortable it makes him when his views of everyone is directly challenged. He got huffy when Gangle is seen actually being happy, constantly tries to get under Zooble's skin any time they start to talk about things that they genuinely like

is confused (and even annoyed) that Pomni doesn't find Kinger to be as crazy as he does

and now he's seeing that Ragatha truly only uses her cheerfulness to cover up the more vulnerable parts of herself... just like how uses "comedy" as a cover to distract others from the most vulnerable parts of himself

This trips him up because how is he supposed to keep treating them like cartoon characters if they keep going against what he believes them to be? Jax constantly tries to steer away from opening up, but he also can't hide that he longs for connection no matter how much he tries to convince himself and others to the contrary. He could've been honest here too, but sharing would mean actually being a real person

And he really doesn't want that

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let’s hang on mama (of another species)