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teaching myself how to make comics! by @carriethesage.bsky.social if hope has feathers, may it also have predator eyes

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
just going to retweet this every time I do this, until the lesson kicks in
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 16/09/2026
I wish you luck in getting them soon! (I might get my missing inhaler tomorrow or Friday...)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 15/09/2026
a word for word real story from yesterday #TerribleComicTuesday
panel 1: 
I'm at the pickup window at the pharmacy, the tech is handing me a bag of drugs

me: Thanks! uh, can you tell me anything about the order that was cancelled? 
pharmacy tech: no ma'am, none are cancelled

panel 2:
me: hang on...hang on the app just logged me out...

panel 3:
me: this one
phone: red X Cancelled, Call your pharmacy for information.

panel 4:
she takes the phone from me with a yoink

panel 5: 
tap tap tap at her computer with long pauses, holding up my phone with her face behind her monitor

panel 6:
she: it means it's still in progress
me: it d...?
she: if you can wait we'll have it for you

panel 7: large panel of the view from inside the pharmacy. I'm sitting in the waiting area. two pharmacists on phones having two different frustrating times:

pharmacist A: ...representative 
pharmacist B: Hi I'm calling from Walgreens on behalf of your patient [ redacted ], she's requested a refill of [ redacted ]
A: ...representative
B: yes we did ma'am, we faxed that on September 9th and again on the 11th ...847-[xxx-xxxx] yes that's the number we faxed
A: ... representative 
B: well if you could send over the correct order please, then we can get that ready for your patient
A: ...representative
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
dammit gary why are you like this #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026
Scratchy digital ink comic. Panel 1: a farmer approaches an ox working in the field. "Ho! What troubles you, my oxen friend?"

Panel 2: close-up reverse shot on the sweating ox. "I am burdened by my yoke, and I cannot free myself."

Panel 3: close-up of the farmer: "Ah but: is the TRUE burden your yoke, or your resistance to the yoke"

Panel 4: reverse shot, the ox continues working. "Don't be obtuse, Gary"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 09/04/2026
(I just re-verified my handle, so hopefully atproto will catch up soon?...)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 09/04/2026
happy belated birthday to HT! as everyone knows, toddlers throw some mighty tantrums so the best is yet to come
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
maybe I could learn wrap from bellsprout?
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 26/03/2026
ditto's missing one important skill in pokopia
Digital comic based on the game Pokopia! Panel 1: Ditto, the shapeshifter Pokemon is in human form (femme, with the pink space buns) discovers Sprigatito (a grassy cat Pokemon), who pops out of the tall pink grass. "Hi!" they say to Ditto.

Panel 2: Sprigatito says "Wow, what a spot! I think I'll make myself at home here. Nice to meet ya, neighbor!"

Panel 3: Upward shot of Ditto, with a wide vacant smile (and one drippy space bun)

Panel 4: Reverse shot of Sprigatito, looking back at Ditto with big eyes and a little heart.

Panel 5: Ditto has yoinked Sprigatito out of the grass and is squeezing them into a surprise hug.
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 24/03/2026
looking forward to plowing through and finally finishing the first issue of the graphic novel (which is why things have been quiet here for the past months)! wish me luck with that too 💜
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 24/03/2026
housekeeping note! I'm moving the website to a new host (and already fucking it up by getting excited and doing steps out of order, oooops), so the HT site will be down until I successfully please the spirits of DNS and FTP
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
logging on
Screenshot from Guild Wars 2, after my character chose to "Remember Owl's sacrifice":

"What comes next is an assault on the senses. A flurry of feathers, a scream into the maw of oblivion, a creeping coldness. But one sensation towers over them all — hope."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 07/08/2025
backstage behavior, in ascending order of who I want to sit by at the cast party #webcomics #theatresky
3-panel comic titled: "Backstage Behavior, arranged by how likely I am to vibe with you personally." The bottom of the comic has a temperature gauge, going from red (panel 1) to yellow (panel 2) to green (panel 3).

Panel 1: a bald guy with a comically large martini glass has a sassy hand on their hip, smirking and chatting. Behind them, a woman stands illuminated by stage lights, tapping foot impatiently. Caption: Just Missed an Entrance Because You Were Talking Shit

Panel 2a: a stagehand bumps into a very large serious man waiting in the wings. "Oop, pardon..." the stagehand whispers.

Panel 2b: The serious man, glowing with holy stanislavski aura, pulls a knife on the stagehand. Caption: Off-puttingly Method Actor

Panel 3: "SUDDENLY SEYMOUR..." sing two voices on the stage. But we see a woman and a man posing very dramatically as though they were the ones singing. Caption: Extreme Lip Sync Dance-Off Extravaganza
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I kept this to 15 minutes; that's character growth happy #MakeATerribleComicDay2025 🥕💦
2 panel comic done in pen on paper.

panel 1: A woman with glasses and long hair leans into a fridge. A thought bubble is pasted on over her shoulder (seems like I hadn't planned balloon space properly before drawing): "I need something healthy to put in my lunch..."

panel 2: An unopened bag of "Fresh Baby Carrots." "Not Slimy We Promise!" Inside are the wettest, saddest baby carrots you've ever seen, drippily saying "may we be of ssservice?"
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
stressed about impending world war III? speed-draw some butts
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 13/06/2025
I'm getting used to an iPad lately for other upcoming art projects. haven't really used iOS since I did so briefly for work in 2014! Procreate is really nice though. if I can just remember all the gestures...
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 13/06/2025
new tablet learning curves #webcomic #webcomics
3 panel comic: (Images might be slightly wavy due to use of Glaze, AI scraper protection)

Panel 1: A guy sits holding a tablet with a bee logo on the back, looking a little frustrated. He says: "I'm used to Android...where did they put the copy-paste button on this?"

A girl standing nearby gives a condescending laugh. "Ohoho! Bee OS doesn't use a button for that..."Panel 2: She points for his attention. "You have to do these steps."Panel 3: A series of sketches of her wiggle dancing: thrusting hips, twerking, shimmying. (The guy looks on, skeptical.)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 29/05/2025
nostalgia bait for the recently diseased #webcomic #webcomics
Caption, decorated with clusters of forget-me-nots: "remembering the good old days"

"I used to breathe through my nose," thinks a person on a couch, wrapped in a blanket, surrounded by used tissues. They're blowing their nose with a "bfffft"

(Image is slightly wavy from genAI scraper protection by Glaze)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 29/05/2025
I blogged on the website about this but: gonna try doing scratchy quick comics for the next few months, as other creative projects are taking most of my time, but I don't want to feel like I'm falling behind in comicmaking (I can work harder when the cold is gone though. get thee gone, face sludge)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 29/05/2025
nostalgia bait for the recently diseased #webcomic #webcomics
Caption, decorated with clusters of forget-me-nots: "remembering the good old days"

"I used to breathe through my nose," thinks a person on a couch, wrapped in a blanket, surrounded by used tissues. They're blowing their nose with a "bfffft"

(Image is slightly wavy from genAI scraper protection by Glaze)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 02/05/2025
this is a true story and a cautionary tale #webcomic #webcomics #adhd
Panel 1: I'm checking out at the garden store, holding a book with scribbles and plans in it. The checkout girl says, "Ah, you have a gardening journal! You're so organized!"Panel 2: I'm glowing as she finishes scanning my items, with "So Organized!" floating above my head. Other thoughts: "ADHD Defeated", "I did it", "I'm a good person"Panel 3: I'm exiting the garden store with my cart.Panel 4: I'm hurrying back in, looking sheepish. "...Uh, did anybody turn in a phone? It has a blue case..."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 02/05/2025
this is a true story and a cautionary tale #webcomic #webcomics #adhd
Panel 1: I'm checking out at the garden store, holding a book with scribbles and plans in it. The checkout girl says, "Ah, you have a gardening journal! You're so organized!"Panel 2: I'm glowing as she finishes scanning my items, with "So Organized!" floating above my head. Other thoughts: "ADHD Defeated", "I did it", "I'm a good person"Panel 3: I'm exiting the garden store with my cart.Panel 4: I'm hurrying back in, looking sheepish. "...Uh, did anybody turn in a phone? It has a blue case..."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 04/04/2025
octopus traveler #webcomic #webcomics
Panel 1: Two women sitting on a couch. One is scrolling on her phone and says excitedly, "Did you see that octopus riding on the back of a shark?" "AI?" asks the other. "No, a real photo. By scientists."Panel 2: "Wow!" says the other one. "They say nature is so cutthroat. But there's also so much survival by cooperation."Panel 3: A painting of that viral scene, octopus flopped like an old timey ice pack on the back of the mako shark. The shark says "I don't want any trouble." The octopus: "Then you shouldn't have crossed my family, Jerry..." A beat. "...You got an aux cable?"
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
please ignore the fact that I somehow gave her 5 knuckles? midjourney does that too and people still use it
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 04/04/2025
In case you haven't seen that viral video: (that octopus really does look just like a floppy old timey ice pack. nature is so weird)
popsci.com
Shark's 'mystery hat' turns out to be a giant octopus
Researchers spotted the unlikely travel pair near New Zealand.
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 04/04/2025
octopus traveler #webcomic #webcomics
Panel 1: Two women sitting on a couch. One is scrolling on her phone and says excitedly, "Did you see that octopus riding on the back of a shark?" "AI?" asks the other. "No, a real photo. By scientists."Panel 2: "Wow!" says the other one. "They say nature is so cutthroat. But there's also so much survival by cooperation."Panel 3: A painting of that viral scene, octopus flopped like an old timey ice pack on the back of the mako shark. The shark says "I don't want any trouble." The octopus: "Then you shouldn't have crossed my family, Jerry..." A beat. "...You got an aux cable?"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 03/04/2025
Hey neat, I've been practicing drawing digitally (and sharing to bsky) for a year now 🧁🎈
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 12/03/2025
new comic, about helping #webcomic #webcomics
Panel 1: A girl in pigtails looks sadly at the shoreline, surrounded by stranded starfish beached up on the sand.

Panel 2: She picks up a starfish and looks at it, concerned.

Panel 3: She holds up the starfish to pitch it back into the ocean. In the background, an older man in a jumpsuit notices what she's doing, and is curious.

Panel 4: She pitches the starfish back into the ocean. The man is approaching to stand by her side.

Panel 5: The starfish lands in the water with a PLISH

Panel 6: The man points at another beached starfish. "You should have saved that one instead."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 12/03/2025
new comic, about helping #webcomic #webcomics
Panel 1: A girl in pigtails looks sadly at the shoreline, surrounded by stranded starfish beached up on the sand.

Panel 2: She picks up a starfish and looks at it, concerned.

Panel 3: She holds up the starfish to pitch it back into the ocean. In the background, an older man in a jumpsuit notices what she's doing, and is curious.

Panel 4: She pitches the starfish back into the ocean. The man is approaching to stand by her side.

Panel 5: The starfish lands in the water with a PLISH

Panel 6: The man points at another beached starfish. "You should have saved that one instead."
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
(as usual I break out of a block by making fun of myself)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 06/02/2025
this doesn't solve everything #webcomics
panel 1: a person is concentrating on working with a pen stylus at tablet/paperpanel 2: sits back, thinks, "This art doesn't solve everything. I can't post this."panel 3: flops onto the sofa, lounging forlornly in their sweatshirt and sweatpants. empty page and abandoned pen stylus on the coffee table in the foregroundpanel 4: same, but the person's turned to bones and there are spiderwebs on the abandoned pen stylus and coffee table
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#hourlycomicsday 2025, this year borrowing a nice scratchy zebra bLen pen from Aloe
Cloud on an angle, reading: HOURLY COMICS DAY, February 1, 20257AM: panel 1: Everybody look at my tiger. A tabby cat is tucked under the covers, trying to fall back asleep

panel 2: exiting bed, I've stepped on something! (She brought me washi tape to play fetch.)8AM: panel 1: I'm drawing on the sectional couch next to Aloe who's sprawled out in a silly pose in the corner. (Cat loaf between us.)
Me: "I'm trying to draw these in flair pen and I'm not having fun."
Aloe: "Oh well don't do that. Wanna borrow my pen?"

Panel 2: black & white photo of my hand drawing the previous comic with the new pen. Overlaid is a speech bubble: "not bad! I can work with this..."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 09/01/2025
so much for the compassionate left #webcomic #webcomics #arthritis #NEISvoid
Panel 1: A woman's hands are aching and she's fuming, rubbing them for relief.Panel 2: She yells at them: "Why are you hurting so much? We didn't even get that winter storm here."Panel 3: The hands have little faces with silly eyes drawn on the fists. One hand says: "we ache in solidarity with those who suffer in the storm." The other: "damn, we thought you cared about your fellow humans! guess not!"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 09/01/2025
(the only rule of the climate crisis means that a new and worse weather event will always happen while you're drawing the comic referencing the first one. anyway time for more diclofenac gel)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 09/01/2025
so much for the compassionate left #webcomic #webcomics #arthritis #NEISvoid
Panel 1: A woman's hands are aching and she's fuming, rubbing them for relief.Panel 2: She yells at them: "Why are you hurting so much? We didn't even get that winter storm here."Panel 3: The hands have little faces with silly eyes drawn on the fists. One hand says: "we ache in solidarity with those who suffer in the storm." The other: "damn, we thought you cared about your fellow humans! guess not!"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 20/12/2024
what's the worst thing you ever got from one of these parties? Once I went home with a broken iron, wrapped in the box the new iron came in
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 20/12/2024
that one guy at every white elephant party #webcomic #webcomics
that one guy at every white elephant party

Panel 1: A woman unwrapping a gift, a Christmas tree behind her. There's a guy on the chair with their knees pulled up to their chest, hands to their face, glowing in anticipation.Panel 2: The woman is confused, looking into her box. The guy explodes in Muppet-like ecstasy: "LOOK! I gave you my trash."Panel 3: A man is choosing which gift he should pick up. The woman still kind of looks confused. There's a collection of poses from the guy as they bounce around the room, shouting "Hey Jim! Steal my trash! Don't you want my trash? Steal it! C'mon it'd be so funny..."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 20/12/2024
what's the worst thing you ever got from one of these parties? Once I went home with a broken iron, wrapped in the box the new iron came in
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 20/12/2024
that one guy at every white elephant party #webcomic #webcomics
that one guy at every white elephant party

Panel 1: A woman unwrapping a gift, a Christmas tree behind her. There's a guy on the chair with their knees pulled up to their chest, hands to their face, glowing in anticipation.Panel 2: The woman is confused, looking into her box. The guy explodes in Muppet-like ecstasy: "LOOK! I gave you my trash."Panel 3: A man is choosing which gift he should pick up. The woman still kind of looks confused. There's a collection of poses from the guy as they bounce around the room, shouting "Hey Jim! Steal my trash! Don't you want my trash? Steal it! C'mon it'd be so funny..."
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 06/12/2024
the answer is always love. or time, or death #webcomic #webcomics
Comic: The Duality of Watching Puzzle Game Streamers

A person is sitting at her laptop, confused, thinking "How'd they get that answer so fast? ...Are they using a walkthrough?"

vs.

A montage of that same person grimacing and cringing in agony. She yells: "LOVE. The answer is LOVE. How do you not see this! It's obvious AAAAH"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 06/12/2024
the answer is always love. or time, or death #webcomic #webcomics
Comic: The Duality of Watching Puzzle Game Streamers

A person is sitting at her laptop, confused, thinking "How'd they get that answer so fast? ...Are they using a walkthrough?"

vs.

A montage of that same person grimacing and cringing in agony. She yells: "LOVE. The answer is LOVE. How do you not see this! It's obvious AAAAH"
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 06/11/2024
17. Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat

Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most.

Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that's seen some shit.

It's what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in.

It's the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as Optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and Bites you in the ass.

Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily.

It's a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
I didn't have a Buffy phase but damn I had a Hetalia phase! I tried to put that in but it seems impossible to represent visually without looking like I'm disrespecting actual Italians. (which you'll note is the whole problem with Hetalia in the first place!)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 29/10/2024
mortals beware: your past self lingers here... #webcomic #webcomics #hyperfixation
Caption: Mortals beware! You might wake the spirits long-dead that once haunted your whole being...

Cemetery gates read "Hyperfixation Cemetery". A woman runs away shrieking "NO!" from a gravestone underneath a Whomping Willow. An owl and a broom rest on the grave. 

Another gravestone has the stylized "B" logo from Buffy.

Another gravestone has scorpion troll horns and the Scorpio symbol. A cringing person shouts "I can't bear it!"

The last gravestone has a carved statue of a skeleton from Minecraft. A person scratches their head and thinks, "Oh man, Minecraft! I should re-install that..." As they think about this, a rectangular zombie arm breaks through the ground, ready to grab their ankle...
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
today's thumbnail: the face of somebody who deeply remembers tumblr upd8 discourse in the early 10s
A person cringing with each of their teeth, looking at something with a troll horn on it
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 15/10/2024
(repost of a comic from Oct 27, 2023, when I was still doing them all in watercolor)
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 15/10/2024
it could always be worse (happy breast cancer awareness month)
A nurse in a lab coat and scrubs strikes a jazzy pose, singing "da-da da-da da dah! I... AM..."Nurse continues singing and dancing. "...Your singing mammogram""Squishhhhh" goes a mammography machine, as the patient holds on and frowns at the discomfort. The nurse is grinning madly behind her protective shield.
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 10/10/2024
what if YOU wrote that, tyler? I'm busy #webcomic #webcomics
Panel 1: A woman, visibly nervous but excited, saying "I'm working on a project that requires a lot of careful reflection. It's slow work but deeply personal."Panel 2: A man in glasses, musing out loud: "Hm. What if instead..."Panel 3: Man in glasses, pleased with himself: "...you wrote something that I wanted to read?"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 10/10/2024
what if YOU wrote that, tyler? I'm busy #webcomic #webcomics
Panel 1: A woman, visibly nervous but excited, saying "I'm working on a project that requires a lot of careful reflection. It's slow work but deeply personal."Panel 2: A man in glasses, musing out loud: "Hm. What if instead..."Panel 3: Man in glasses, pleased with himself: "...you wrote something that I wanted to read?"
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HOPE TANTRUM @hopetantrum.com · 26/09/2024
I hope that one key ring with my favorite key chain on it is enjoying its mystery isekai journey #webcomic #webcomics #adhd
Panel 1: An upwards angle of a guy setting down a phone. He thinks: "Wait. If I put my phone down here, I'll never remember it later..."Panel 2: snapping his fingers with an idea, he thinks, "Oh! but I'll remember this feeling and where I was. So it's okay."Panel 3: As he walks away, setting down the phone behind him, the phone slips and stretches into a black hole that's opened up on the end table.
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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
new comic! wrote this naked in a hotel room when I was in portland
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