#eggbug

[balketh]

[ghoulsteak]

thank-you gift for @relia-robot (ft. guest star eggbug)

[aqueousablution]

He is only archives now TT__TT 7

It may not have been a perfect website, but dammit, it was home <3

[cabl-art]

goodbye cohost

its really over.

[zanhazz]

Busy

While I'm like that, look at this poor eggbug

Hope I'll be back soon with crossovers and one more KHMn.... let me think abt it

[sam-keeper]

Hey Look At This Comic: Crossed Wires

hey look at this sequence from my friend @irisjaycomics's cyberpunk webcomic Crossed Wires. I just caught up on this comic and this sequence, the second page in particular, jumped out at me. there's a lot to like here structurally, lots of regular rhythmic panel use, this great buildup in the penultimate page with that set of eight regular panels, jumping between the stopwatch and the company clock app as the clock ticks down, to the break of that pattern with the dramatic reveal on the last page: the company is stealing time, fractions of a second at a time.

but it's that interesting little box that starts page 2 I want to talk about. look at that little diorama, in nice orthographic perspective. for ages I've loved the technique of using a panel with that kind of angled bottom to suggest a top down dimensional view. I first encountered it in venerable A Lesson Is Learned (But The Damage Is Irreversible), but I think I've seen it used as early as Lily Renee's golden age horror comics (hard to verify--I thought a collection of her work got released concurrent with Trina Robbins's comic biography but apparently not, and it seems like some of the blogs hosting pages of her work have fallen offline). it creates such a sense of space, of entering into a whole environment. in that ALIL page above it serves to emphasize the imposing scale of the breakdancing giant as the protagonists enter the forbidden garden. here, though, it really does feel like a diorama to me. the ersatz amazon employee Elaine is a bug in a terrarium, dominated by the space and by the technology she serves. but the text describes it as a space where "her life belongs to herself alone". the sense of space created by the unique panel arrangement, bolstered by a series of other shots that also emphasize the dimensions of this small closet sized space where the company can't put cameras, thus takes on multiple strong, competing meanings, for character and reader. I think that's the sort of thing how-to book writers might peg as confused, or at least a confused analysis, but it feels pretty true to life to me. a cage keeps you in but it also keeps the world out, after all. I've lived some geometries like that in my life.

it's cool how the visuals of comics can make a space feel at once imposingly large and suffocatingly small, constraining and comforting. and it's partly down to the unique breakdown of the comics page, where unlike in something like film can impose the irregular geometry of this orthographic view on the rest of the regular, rectangular page and panels! at a recent talk Iris noted that space in comics represents time traditionally, but space in comics can also represent space, and this sequence is a great example of the medium's strange bi-dimensionality.

damn. comics sure are neat, huh.

This review originally ran on Cohost March 15, 2024.

[logicpng]

so cohost is going read-only soon as september ends

most of yall probably never used cohost, but i'm happy to have used it in the short time it existed! it very briefly was my secondary social media to post on, and im sad to see it go

in the meantime, i'm still mirroring my tumblr posts on the neocities website (neocities profile to watch for updates!), and ive been more active on bluesky

[or-fi-s]

*We gave our proper farewell on cohost, but to repeat some of it: it was a good place, and we hope we can do something like that again one day. Maybe even something better.

Posted using PostyBirb

[abyss-witch]

Since cohost is shutting down, Hello Tumblr!

I'm a 3d artist and heres some of my favoruite stuff I posted to cohost:

Making a blender from blending a blender in a blender, made in blender

calm red rock pools that bleeds purple into the blue water

Cohosts favourite icons, eggbug and edgebug

A wraithguard from warhammer (expect more warhammer soon)

And finaly my witchsona!

[fernal-red]

Thanks for everything, Cohost. One more nsfw artist alternative site gone.

[ahcoffeebeans2]

the beautiful dream

we're gonna miss you so much...

[palescug]

I had this crazy idea and drew it! I'm not going to make a campaign (nor am I able to do so) but it will be an OC. It was made as a joke too.

(Aster) Easter Eggbug is her name and she is in the same timeline as Enot/inv. An Eggbug that evolved, becoming intelligent like slugcats and scavs.

She is carnivorous, but is not able to eat other Eggbugs. Initially, Aster would not start with eggs on her back; she would have to hibernate to have all.

If she hibernates with incomplete food pips, she will have fewer eggs in the next cycle and, mainly, she will be weaker.

Aster has met Enot many times, but every time it ended in confusion or misunderstanding, which is why the two hate each other.

[aurahack]

cat is a terrible manager. eggbug is just trying to get work done!!

eggbug OL design is by @kyn

[meli-writes]

an ode to chosting

i don't know who i am without this site. that's a little sad i'll admit, but the whole time i've felt alive in my life coincides with this site's life too. it was a place where all of who i am was welcomed and wanted. it's somewhere i fit in, which i struggle dearly with. like i don't think i've grieved like this since my own parent died.

i will always have a deeply special place in my heart for the prompt writing culture (aka the writer's salon). it was a beautiful way to connect and to inspire, and i don't know how i'd be writing without it. that it was f/f predominant, queer & trans, sad and kinky as hell and that i never worried about harassment or false reports or the thousand other barriers to our art.

there was so much more i hoped to do here, where i knew i could. i don't know where all of me will go now. i love the people i see here, the cool and the weird that is meant to be seen as human, not content. i don't wanna be content again, never again.

i wanna be me. and i hope i still am, bugless as i must be.

posted one last little story, it'll be here soon, toasting that little site with a glass full of tears. time to sleep, knowing it'll be gone in the morning.

[aqueousablution]

Howdy! I'm a choster!

"When it comes to blogging, I'm… Well, I'm a choster!"

[fruitypieq]

Fluttershy has made some new friends 💖

I realized while drawing this I have no idea how big an eggbug is