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Audra Stang @audra-stang.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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Shingles - 4

Besides her Lucille in 2022, she's also won an award whose name escapes me in graphic medicine.

I have no doubt that she has saved kids' lives.

And some corny adult lives too.

If I have a view of her at a show, I will, without fail, see somebody crying at her table.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

hey i cant stop thinking about this one. panel 3 holy shit

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

im gonna try self-hosting a git server on my virtual private server this weekend... it doesnt look too complicated if youre comfy w the command line linuxvox.com/blog/how-to-... u can even install a service like gitlab if you want a web gui

linuxvox.com

How to Setup a Git Server: A Comprehensive Guide

Git has revolutionized version control, enabling developers to collaborate seamlessly on projects of all sizes. While popular hosted services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket simplify Git workflows,...

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

yeah thats rad!! feels like its been going for a while... i hope it feels as dope as i imagine to finish such a long project!

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

a magical world would be *less* exotic than ours, because magic organizes around the anthropocenter. things that talk or operate on contracts are interesting bc theyre like us. flying and glowing are normal on non-human scales. a more exotic world would be even less parseable than ours (more boring)

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

going camping in an abandoned, overgrown space station

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

wanted to let you know that your alt text here is so rad

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

a romance author friend (whos consistently disappointed in readers) has told me how a large fraction of modern ya readers are adult women, so at least according to her, ya *is* for women. i dunno tho, the women around *me* dont seem particularly interested in ya

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

18 gauge is the clear winner to minimize length but with a diameter of more than a millimeter its not very practical to wrap 200 feet of it around an inch-wide core... luckily, as long as youre at 16 gauge or higher then you can just look for a practical wire diameter w/o adjusting your length much

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

if u want to build an electromagnet i did math to find the length of wire of each gauge that provides enough resistance to keep the wire from overheating (specifically to keep it at ampacity at 60C). data from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... and my processed data here pastebin.com/DQJey1WA

A plot depicting the length of copper wire required to provide enough resistance to not exceed its current capacity given a 1.5 volt supply and no load on the circuit. The plot starts at the largest gauge, 0000, then 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, and then proceeds counting up. The length, in feet, starts at a little less than 160 for 0000, followed by less than 150 for 000, and continues decreasing steadily. At gauge 1 it's about 110 feet, at gauge 10 it's about 50 feet, and it continues down until gauge 18, about 25 feet, after which gauge 20 actually shows an increase in the length required because of the decreased current capacity, to about 30 feet. The length actually stays at around 30 feet up until gauge 34, after which there is no data.

A plot depicting the length of copper wire required to provide enough resistance to not exceed its current capacity given a 9 volt supply and no load on the circuit. The plot starts at the largest gauge, 0000, then 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, and then proceeds counting up. The length, in feet, starts at about 950 for 0000, followed by less than 900 for 000, and continues decreasing steadily. At gauge 1 it's about 650 feet, at gauge 10 it's about 300 feet, and it continues down until gauge 18, about 150 feet, after which gauge 20 actually shows an increase in the length required because of the decreased current capacity, to about 190 feet. The length actually stays at around 190 feet up until gauge 34, after which there is no data.

A plot depicting the length of copper wire required to provide enough resistance to not exceed its current capacity given a 12 volt power supply and no load on the circuit. The plot starts at the largest gauge, 0000, then 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, and then proceeds counting up. The length, in feet, starts at about 1250 for 0000, followed by about 1150 for 000, and continues decreasing steadily. At gauge 1 it's about 900 feet, at gauge 10 it's about 400 feet, and it continues down until gauge 18, a touch less than 200 feet, after which gauge 20 actually shows an increase in the length required because of the decreased current capacity, to about 250 feet. The length actually stays at around 250 feet up until gauge 34, after which there is no data.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

made some v v silly bunny and doggy crossover fanart and @fluffliestclouds.bsky.social liked it so i thought id post it!! pls pls check out bunny and doggy (and bear and his mom!) on her profile, i think abt them alot so my brain generated this btw thisd be in ~2014, when bunny and doggy were teens

A black and white ink drawing rendered with thin, harsh lines which are layered for the thicker outlines. A caption in Comic Sans reads "Makima and Reigen Arataka compete to see who can get the most use out of Bunny and Doggy". Makima is the antagonist of Chainsaw Man and Reigen is the deuteragonist of Mob Psycho 100 and both are manipulative anime mentor figures, while Bunny and Doggy are the protagonists of the comic Bunny and Doggy and they're in a complex, grounded, raw, sometimes mutually harmful relationship. They are utterly unprepared for the anime silliness, while Reigen is utterly unprepared for how intense Bunny and Doggy are (Makima is totally prepared). Here, Makima, drawn in her slacks and white button-up with realistic proportions, leans toward Bunny, and tilts Bunny's chin up with a finger, smiling in a calmly sinister way. But Bunny, drawn in her cartoony style with long rabbit ears and a big lashed eye peaking out from her bangs, leans away and looks, annoyed and resentful, back at Doggy and Reigen, who are walking in the opposite direction. Doggy is drawn in the same cartoony style as Bunny, in her black tee over her striped long sleeve and wide pants atop big sneakers, and looks up at Reigen, fucking bewildered. Reigen, drawn in the moderately cartoony Mob Psycho 100 style, gestures wildly as he walks, not even looking at Doggy. He's probably talking about how it's wrong to take advantage of vulnerable teenagers.

Makima literally calls the main character in Chainsaw Man "puppy" but I have a case for why Bunny would be more likely to be taken under Makima's wing than Reigen's. Makima manipulates people by providing for basic needs, and while neither Bunny nor Doggy are in great places in their teens, their needs are more complex than just food and a place to stay... but clearly Bunny does sometimes need a place to stay. Makima would find out about Bunny's occasional violence and start salivating. (continued...)

(...continued from previous) Meanwhile, Reigen would find Doggy's passive side easy to take advantage of in a way he wouldn't with Bunny. Reigen hates himself in a way that Makima doesn't... would Bunny and Doggy recognize that behind his eyes? Regardless I think they'd find Reigen deeply pathetic and maybe that's actually a point in the favor of Bunny going with him rather than Doggy. But fuck, giving Doggy that bewildered expression made me laugh out loud.

Anyway, this one's an ink and marker drawing. The ink is in thin, harsh lines which are layered for the thicker outlines. The girls are fighting... Bunny looks kind of like Chainsaw Man, except she has a blender for a head instead of a chainsaw, and she has two-foot-wide razor blades instead of arm chainsaws. Also she's wearing the same outfit from the previous image, a coat over a patterned sweater, though she's rolled up her sleeves. Razor Bunny leaps towards Doggy with blood-stained shoes. Surrounded by red, she opens her long-toothed maw, ears streaming behind her, as she reaches toward Doggy, blood streaking back from her razor. Doggy, for her part, also reaches toward Bunny, her arm surrounded by Mob Psycho 100 rainbow psychic energy. ???% Doggy is dressed in the same clothes as before, but this time they blow in the psychokinetic wind along with her hair and tail. A black cloud of spirals and stars billows behind her. I like to think this is one of those situations where they fight for a bit and then they team up against someone else. Let them have a power fantasy!

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

sick!! this the kinda shit that makes me love comics

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

damn ive drawn topless to keep ink off my shirt but i never thought to draw in socks only... must be liberating!!

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

i didnt think any of my pop geek knowledge would be useful until i started teaching. i scored so many points with a student when i recognized gogeta on his phone case

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

im happy for iranians celebrating their autocrats deaths. but idk, venezuelas government is essentially unchanged, and two of the strikes hit schools www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/... obvs theres different reactions in iran but iranian leftists arent welcoming the us crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/i...

aljazeera.com

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people

Israeli strikes targeted a girls' school in the southern city of Minab and another school east of Tehran.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

one time i was a teen and i talked to kc green at a convention and i said "hiagb is my favorite comic..." (i gestured to the right, indicating meredith gran, 20 yards away) "...now that octopus pie is over" and then i realized what i said and kc looked embarrassed as cohen edenfield laughed at me

OBCY @heelsforeels.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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Night of the Hunter (1/7)

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

cyberpunk city gets hit by rolling blackouts due to climate change. unreliable connections impede navigation, fracture the netsphere, and dump addicts back into consensus reality. implanted folks ration batteries. a black electricity market develops. for the first time in 200 years you can see stars

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I FIXED Jurassic Park's T. REX Fight!

nahh totally. seems it feels like youve already done the giving up thing. frustrating is maybe the least severe adjective you could use lol. im sorry theres been so much miserable bullshit, friend. have a video abt scientifically accurate dinosaur fights youtu.be/TgoTyj-_G6s

youtu.be

YouTube video by FilmCore

im a replier on the internet and i dont really know you and i have a character limit etc etc but thats my advice

if you feel like giving up rn... maybe think abt leaning into that. and giving up. especially if youve never done that before. but also be flexible enough that if you find yourself thinking abt trying again, you can lean into that too and try again. who knows when. but you can

abt the 3rd or 4th time i stalled out of/was denied readmission to college after medical leave, i gave up. it took several years to work up the energy again. but i did and now, better late than never, i have a degree. what helped me in the end was being flexible about the future

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

do u think the evil yellow sphere from the new an0nymooose video would let me smash

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

if you stretch the definitions enough then this is just being alive

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

rgb keyboard × crt monitor is a VIBE

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

its an expected value thing... what am i risking by shaving and nothing happening (time, maybe a nick or two) vs what am i risking by not shaving and something happening (they get lost in the jungle and i have to call tarzan to find them)

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

theyre alive... theyre floundering... and theyre in color. a familiar state #comics do these even work

A four-panel comic in black, white, and red. The first panel is a title card, "Local and Foreigner Talk to a Girl??" In the second panel you see a young woman smiling and waving goodbye to two other young people in front of a classroom door. Foreigner, the short one with pointy ears and an awful mustache, asks, grinning, "Do you think she likes me?" Local, the tall one with long, straight black hair that covers her ears, replies, "What?" as she waves back. Foreigner responds, shoulders now up, his grin morphing into a cringe, "Oh, god, you're right, she hates me." Local says, still smiling but looking away, "No, she hates me." "But, we had such a good conversation..." "It was not a good conversation. I was weird and overshared." Foreigner looks up and puts his hand to his chin. "If she hates me so much, why did she seem so happy when she was talking to me?" Local rolls her eyes and says, "She was talking to me, and she was faking it. I'm a stranger, it's easier to pretend to be happy than disappoint me." She finishes, accusingly, "That's what you do."

Page 2 of "Local and Foreigner Talk to a Girl??". Foreigner protests, "I don't do that with you!" Then he looks away, eyes narrowed, to say, "Oh. Right. You're no stranger." He looks at Local out of the corner of his eyes to ask, "...well maybe she wasn't happy but what if she still wants to make it with me?" Local mugs the camera and replies, "Mm." Foreigner muses, "You can want to make it with a stranger... She's seen me..." He bites his lip and becomes distressed and says, "Agh, but she's seen me," putting emphasis on the "me". He brings his clenched hands up to his temples as he mewls, terrified, "She's seen me!!" Local looks down on him to ask, worried, "Do you even find her attractive?" Foreigner looks ashamed and rubs the tips of his pointing index fingers together, replying, "Well, she's not, should I say, ideal, but, uh... I still would. That is, if she wanted to, I'd want to..."

Page 3 of "Local and Foreigner Talk to a Girl??". Foreigner asks, worried, "Could someone want to fuck me?" He only grows more scared as the background disappears behind him. He wonders, "Could someone even like me?" Local is no longer tethered to the floor, though her hair hangs the normal way. She remarks, with a flattened affect, "I don't think anyone has ever liked me the first time they talked to me. Even when I try to fake being someone likeable, despite everything, it's still me." The disassociating background shows the first four notes of Megalovania. Foreigner, barely in the panel, angrily replies, "But you don't know." His face warps as he says, "You think no one's ever liked you but you don't know." Local, growing, still neutral, says, "I can tell." The background grows more jagged and melts. Foreigner says, "But you can't tell for certain." He holds his hands up, mouth huge, yelling, "You'll never know! You just have to be prepared for anything!" Local, now several feet taller than Foreigner, puts a hand to her mouth and, blank-faced, says, "That sounds like a good way to go crazy."

The final page of "Local and Foreigner Talk to a Girl??". Local and Foreigner shut up, snap back to their normal proportions, and look at each other in a face-searing moment of self-awareness.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

actually here it is ;) #hourlycomicday

5PM - 7:56PM. Made myself sad making that last comic. I've heard journaling can negatively impact your mental health if you're already depressed. Feeling an urge to do stuff for the "content." Actually, fuck hourly comic day.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

david byrne is a little breedable

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

if i had a big field i would set up a bunch of freestanding walls and draw comics on them and create a little path so people could take a nice walk through my comic. imagine doing a colab with a nature reserve and making a comic that goes up a mountain

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

aw ty fuck yeah!! i tend to agree, i honestly love inexplicable stories. tho idk, i make stuff both to express myself *and* to communicate, and those two things can be in tension... maybe its about becoming comfortable in that tension

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

local & foreigner commit suicide (non-canon, bc im a coward) my ocs are back, to contemplate that most bewitching escape method... (cw suicide) 1/2

A four panel page of a black and white comic. Panel 1 is a title card: "Local and Foreigner Commit Suicide (non canon)", with a crying emoji and a poop emoji around the word "suicide". In Panel 2 is Local, a woman with straight black hair. She is deeply hunched, with a hand in front of her mouth gripping her face, hard. A caption reads, "CSC 131 Lecture. Usually pretty tolerable." Other students seem to be watching the lecturer or typing on their computers. She thinks, "fuck fuck fuck" over and over again. In panel 3 she thinks, "fuck fuck fuck. welp. fuck fuck" as she leans over to rummage through her backpack. In panel 4 she holds a craft knife, specifically an "X Acto Craft Knife (stored loose in bag)" according to a caption. Local thinks, "fuck you fuck you fuck you."

The second page. Local thinks, "If you want to hurt yourself, cut across the vein. If you want to kill yourself, cut along the vein," emphasizing "kill" and "along". She's rolled her sleeves up so she can push the craft knife into her inner left arm, close to the elbow. The wound immediately bleeds. Local then pulls the blade down in an arc, cutting her entire radial artery in one clean stroke. A ragged sheet of blood leaps from the wound to follow the knife. It makes a bad sound. Local says, out loud, "Ow." Local switches hands and does the same thing on her right arm, this time arcing up to cast another flat gout of blood. It makes another bad sound. Local says, "Ow." Finally, Local gets up, abandoning her backpack at her seat, and begins to walk out of the classroom, trailing puddles of blood. She thinks, "Now to find a stream to float away in." No one else seems to have noticed her. Blood escapes from her arm in big drops.

On the third page, the scene changes. A caption reads, "4:41 PM on what was, objectively, a pretty good day. Foreigner, a man with pointy ears and an awful mustache, lies on his back on a carpet, his head near the corner of a couch. He opens his mouth wide and says "Ahh" so that he can push the barrel of a revolver to the roof of his mouth. You can't see it fire, but you can see the blood splash up onto the couch and hear the enormous "Pop" sound the gun makes. However, Foreigner sits up, still holding his now smoking gun. The back of his head has partially shattered, with skull fragments and brain matter flowering out like plant stamens.

The fourth page. Foreigner once again shoots himself in the head, ejecting a symmetric flash and another incredible "Pop" along with the bullet. It jerks Foreigner's head back as it bursts through the opposite temple with ejecta of blood, brain matter, and bone. Another gore flower is left on Foreigner's now frustrated face, which glares at the gun. Foreigner fires again and again, "Pop pop pop," creating flashes of light and spattering parts of his head. A messy spray of blood covers the entire back of the couch, and pieces of skull sit on the seat cushions. Little dots of gore are scattered over Foreigner's collar. He hunches and says, "Dag nabbit." The top half of his head is gone, nose up.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Houston Food Bank has multiple locations and also delivers meals, with programs aimed at children, adults, and seniors. Consider sharing this.

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Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Houston is better positioned to provide food relief than many cities because they have leftover funding from the response to Hurricane Beryl. Also, the dems have folded and the federal government has (informally?) agreed to end the shutdown. But there's still a lot of uncertainty in my city.

Briel Comics @brielcomics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I'm offering doodles for donations! Donate $1 to the Houston Food Bank secure.houstonfoodbank.org/site/Donatio... and reply/message me with proof of donation and I'll respond with a doodle of my choice. Donate $3 and I'll make a doodle of your choice. $1 is the equivalent of about 3 meals.

An ink drawing of a toilet with muscled human arms laughing as it flushes itself.

A cartoon drawing of a sad-looking woman walking her bike through a backyard.

A cartoon drawing of a woman sitting on a couch and sighing, surrounded by cats. It's drawn with a nib pen and digital colors.

An ink drawing of Tome Kurata from Mob Psycho 100 with a mischievous expression on.