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The ITS Ghost Cameo Fundraiser is live!

I'm doing a little fundraiser to help cover costs for the first year of ITS web hosting, and hopefully a promo budget too. So, as promised, I'm selling ghost cameo slots! You or a pet can be a background ghost in chapter 1 of Into the Smoke. :D

After early access for my patrons, we're up to $180 and still have some good slots left. The fundraiser is running until May 5, and you can pick up a slot in my shop at bobappavu.com!

(also the preview thrift shop slot above ended up selling out, but omg it's gonna be so cute and I can't wait! I'm too excited about all the sold slots, in no small part because I get to see people's A+ pet photos 😆)

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Behold, Canadians.

My mom was showing me her garden today, and she very excitedly told me about how "two giant Canadians" just landed in her yard the other day.

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My mom was showing me her garden today, and she very excitedly told me about how "two giant Canadians" just landed in her yard the other day.

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Hi I just learnt that grebe the bird existed and I am intrigued do you have any knowledge to drop on the dudes

BOY DO I! grebes are my favorite waterfowl!

they're specialist divers and fish hunters, and they're a pretty wide group with a LOT of species!

and they're all freaks. every single one of them.

they're most closely related to FLAMINGOS, of all things, which is why their feet are so weird! they evolved completely separate from other waterfowl like ducks and geese, so they did the flipper thing totally backwards.

this is going to be a theme, nothing these birds do is normal.

unlike other specialist diving birds (coughcough LOONS coughcough), they aren't totally incompetent on land! just, again. total freaks about it.

aaagh I love them so much I might actually explode

also they swim like frogs, babies can dive pretty much immediately after hatching, and adults can minutely adjust their buoyancy in the water at will like a fucking submarine. you just can't make any of this shit up.

weirdest fucking bird 100/10

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You ever catch someone staring at you and you just

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Little drawing of Blaze the spirit medium consoling the most tormented soul of all

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came for the geese stayed for the gay. keep that old cheese wheel rolling friend

Thanks pal, I sure will! :D

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Hopefully y'all will never get a 404, but you're gonna want one :D

(404s hurt search rankings so don't go there on purpose haha.) This screenshot is Otto's gift to you 🙂

The Website is Live!!

Into the Smoke's website is open to the public! It includes, among other things:

A big fat chapter 1 preview episode y'all can read now!

The new Monthly Roundup blog, which list everything I released over the past 30 days so you don't have to follow me in a thousand different places

You can sign up to get episode updates by email

...shiny

Into the Smoke is my upcoming free webcomic about a spirit medium who loves his ghosts a little too much. It launches on May 29!

Anyway:

🎉 intothesmokecomic.com 🎉

[bob-artist]

The Website is Live!!

Into the Smoke's website is open to the public! It includes, among other things:

A big fat chapter 1 preview episode y'all can read now!

The new Monthly Roundup blog, which list everything I released over the past 30 days so you don't have to follow me in a thousand different places

You can sign up to get episode updates by email

...shiny

Into the Smoke is my upcoming free webcomic about a spirit medium who loves his ghosts a little too much. It launches on May 29!

Anyway:

🎉 intothesmokecomic.com 🎉

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Hi there! I friended you about a year ago, I think, when you were following the nesting of a mourning dove pair at your window. Will there be further coverage of the doves this year, do you think?

I sure hope so! I miss them so much. 😭 My planter box is all ready for them (as in, it's devoid of any actual flourishing plants, haha). Looking back at my mourning dove neighbors tag, they showed up last year on April 23. So if they do come back, it'd be pretty soon!

But you never know with wild animals... I don't know how old they were, and it's possible this was at least their second nesting year. In 2022, on the day I was bringing my plants out on the balcony, I startled a pair of mourning doves trying to set up their nest. They flew away and didn't come back that year, but it could have been the same doves in 2023.

Anyway, cross your fingers for the return of World's Greatest Mom and World's Greatest Dad!!

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OMG look at him!!! He's perfect ;_;

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

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I was going through old photos, and I found these gems from a Morton Arboretum trip.

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I can’t believe I didn’t see your first quadraped Canada goose and follow you immediately, you are the artist I have been looking for my whole life

LOOK AT THAT BEAK. I just love that I'm suddenly being united with all the Canada goose appreciators after a lifetime of only knowing haters!

And now, I must share with you one of my favorite goose photos, which also demonstrates my prowess as a photographer. 😆

Did I continue down the sidewalk? 100% yes. :D

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Hi! I love the Canadian Griffin comic SO MUCH and I would like to print it out and frame it. Do you sell prints? Is there a pre-established way for me to buy it? If not, are you ok with me printing it on my own and sending money to your patreon?

I actually had to close my old print shop last year. I have another ask in my inbox about this, and I wanted to set up the new shop before answering... but I'm slow. ;_;

I'm hoping to set up the new shop in the next couple weeks, but if you don't want to wait, you can definitely print it out yourself - and you don't need to pay me if you do that!

If you want to send a bit, though, you can, and I always appreciate anything people give! <3 Patreon is an option. Or, if it's easier for a one-off payment, you can buy me a coffee send me a honk on Ko-fi instead - but again, it's not at all required!

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Do you know where your boops are coming from?

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Do you know where your boops are coming from?

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1 000 000 paws attack