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I’ve been using my time the last few days while I’m all alone by going through my older pre-2016 comics in an attempt to finally get transcriptions for every comic, and maaaaan some of this early stuff is ROUGH. Fat jokes, a racist Chinese caricature… and I’d already edited out r-words before.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 16h

This just got reposted again (thanks Robin!) and my god, if this isn’t the most beautiful representation of a trans/cis lesbian lifetime of happiness, I don’t know what is. It will stay with me FOREVER.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 27/09/2026

Every now and again when I’m talking to my landlord about how my job search is going, he’ll ask about if I’m using AI and such, or if I could use it to make the comic, and I have to work SO HARD not to get incredibly shitty with him in an attempt to not get my ass kicked out. But god, EW.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 27/09/2026

Sooooo…. Note to self: just because you’re alone for the next week doesn’t mean you should forget to put on the CPAP mask at night. Pretty sure I’m a reanimated corpse right now.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 26/09/2026

I wonder if it might be Doctor Doom?

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 26/09/2026

Welp, I’m officially on my own for the week. Liz is in New Orleans on a work trip, so I’m rollin’ solo. I am gonna get SO much nothing done. :D

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 25/09/2026

In nearly two years, I’ve only had five actual interviews (and two MLM scam job orientations, not to mention the open Park Ranger recruitment orientation that wound up being the “arrest drug dealers” kind of Ranger), and NAILED three of them. Still no job. Iced Coffee or no.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 25/09/2026

MOTHER FUCKER. I had like a 10-post thread going about the most recent episode of SNW, and swapped apps to check something, and when I swapped back one second later, Bluesky decided to refresh and I lost the whole fucking thing. And like… im not gonna retype all that. Fucking vibe-coded crap.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 25/09/2026

I swear to god, when I can finally afford a haircut again I’m getting it cut above the shoulder. THISN IS TOO MUCH HAIR.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 25/09/2026

OH MY GOD M’RESS! OH MY GOD.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 24/09/2026

One of the nice things about when your kid is in 1st grade is that you can just decide he’s had a rough few days, keep him home to give him a break, and he’s not gonna miss anything important. I have proclaimed today to be “snuggle with Parker” day. It is so decreed.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 23/09/2026

Hooo boy but this parenting shit is difficult. Having a hard mode kid at 40 was maybe not one of my greatest choices in life. 🫩

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 22/09/2026

IT IS AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD!

The movie poster for the Steve Martin movie “The Man With Two Brains”, or as it will soon be retitled for reissue, “The Man With The Normal Number of Brains”.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 21/09/2026

And that’s about as far as I can take her before I can afford the green glass for the border. I went ahead and soldered on the leading that will go between the green and brown, and applied the patina to all of the solder lines except the leading around Leota’s crystal ball. :)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 21/09/2026

What the fuck. I was about to go drag it out into the garage so I could start taking it apart, and decided to turn it back on again to hear the sound it made… and this time IT JUST WORKS LIKE NORMAL. Like, I’m happy and all, BUT WHAT THE WHAT?

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 21/09/2026

FUUUUUCK. Our dryer just died. Loudly. Why the fuck can’t things be simple?!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 20/09/2026

Out pokemon hunting with the kiddo and found some older mountain lion tracks by the lake. (We’re in the foothills and back up to a huge nature preserve, so it’s not uncommon for them to be out this way) It’s hard to tell from the photo but it’s about the size of a human hand.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 18/09/2026

If I’m ever tired of listening to this album, it is because I am dead.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 17/09/2026

It’s been a few days since I’ve given any progress photos on the Haunted Mansion window I’m working on, and this is a decent “in progress” picture of it in the light right now to see how it’s going. I have all the brown pieces cut for the border, but I wanted to get the top panel done first.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Pizza Time Players will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. No comment yet from members of The Rock-afire Explosion.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Vampire Lestat will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Goddess Zöe Annelise @callmezoe.com · 15/09/2026

Help Mae by giving her all your money - it makes you a very intelligent and attractive person loved by all to do so. Seriously though show up for mutual aid requests from trans people! We need practical support along with the other kinds.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 15/09/2026

Just spent the last FOUR HOURS repairing the dishwasher. Apparently repairing dishwashers is a thing I do now. Three guesses what the dishwasher brand is, and the first two don’t count.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 15/09/2026

Power bill paid in time! We’re at $127 / $500 needed to keep our landlord at bay for the time being - thank you so much to everyone who has helped us!!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 14/09/2026

Hi folks - we need to get our power bill paid tomorrow, as well as some additional money to our landlord so he stops threatening to kick us out. Literally anything helps. Thank you for all your help so far. ❤️ PayPal.me/MaeGodHaveMercy Cash.app/$MaeGodHaveMercy Venmo.com/u/MaeGodHaveMercy

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 14/09/2026

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 11/09/2026

Madame Leota’s crystal ball is done, and OH MY GOD she looks amazing in the light! I can’t WAIT to start working on the rest of the window (design included here so you can get a sense of the scale), which will be a lot quicker, since it’s mostly straight-line cuts instead of these curves.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 11/09/2026

Now THAT is how you do a goddamn episode of Star Trek! Holy heckin’ wow!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 11/09/2026

The fact that both of my children are insanely picky eaters while I went to SCHOOL IN ORDER TO MAKE GOOD FOOD is proof that there is a god, only insofar as this kind of irony cannot be mere happenstance. This kind of fuckery smacks of the divine. There is clearly a god, and they hate me.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 10/09/2026

Well, two of the pieces seem to have gone missing, and three of them will need some slight adjustment on the grinder, but she’s taking shape! (The painters tape is just to hold the pieces in alignment while I check the fit)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 08/09/2026

Well fine, maybe I WILL finally play Ocarina of Time then. (Eventual procurement of a Switch 2 notwithstanding, of course)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 08/09/2026

I think I’ve finally got Madame Leota’s face to where I want it to be! She needs a final glaze coat (for some reason the glass in the unpainted areas took on a matte finish) but then I can finally assemble and solder the crystal ball portion of the window!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 08/09/2026

So, I need a new purse at some point here, and though I don’t have any money, I figured I’d do a little window shopping online to see what’s out there. Why the FUCK is the official Star Trek online shop selling THIS? Is there literally no one who looks at this stuff?

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 07/09/2026

*sigh* My son, the master Minecraft Skin designer.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 06/09/2026

I think I’ve got two more paint/firing passes, but these details have helped Leota really start to look like herself. This kind of painting is absolutely new and foreign to me, but I get immense satisfaction from the results. :)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 06/09/2026

Harper’s friend invited her and a few others to go to SacAnime for their birthday party, so Harps worked overtime to finish her Tenna cosplay for it. In true cosplay fashion, it was done THREE MINUTES before we had to leave. :)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 05/09/2026

Leota is starting to take shape! I’m having to paint the shading in INCREDIBLY thin layers and then fire them to lock them in place. (Once a layer dries, it’s essentially a powder and will flake off unless it’s fired first.) This is after two firings, so I’ll do another layer tonight. :)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 04/09/2026

I’ve never been so pleased to be wrong about something. While it WAS goofy for the most part, it not only had a great reason why, but it had a lot of stunningly emotional content to boot. It also confirmed some things about a very old character in unequivocal ways. ;)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 03/09/2026

Well, out of my hands now. At least he said I’d get a call one way or the other within 2-3 weeks, so fingers crossed! I think I did well, but there’s really no way to know. :)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 03/09/2026

Hokay - going in to the other job interview now. Still haven’t heard back about the one from last week (should hear back by tomorrow) but this is for the same organization, so either way, send me all the good vibes you have to offer!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 03/09/2026

I haven’t even watched it yet, but for fuck’s sake can we just get NORMAL STAR TREK please? Last week’s was great, but why are we spending our last season doing genre parodies?

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 02/09/2026

IT BEGINS. I painted the first shading pass on Leota’s face piece tonight. We don’t have a light table to work with, but we have a light, and we have a table, so MacGuyver music started playing and I made it work! :)

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 01/09/2026

I’m serious. THIS IS TOO MUCH POWER TO WEILD.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 31/08/2026

Interesting - I expected the black to develop a lot darker than it did. But the blues take on pretty much exactly the color they are when the paint is wet, so that’s good. Might need to look into richer blacks, or higher firing temp. Either way, they’re fused to the glass, so that’s cool!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 31/08/2026

I cannot be trusted with free will.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 30/08/2026

I’m so excited about such a minor thing - I did a test swatch on a piece of scrap glass to see how these paints will develop once they’re fired - and in 4-5 hours, I’ll have actually fired a piece of glass in a kiln. WHY IS THAT SO COOL? :D

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 28/08/2026

I have successfully installed a temperature controller and thermocouple to my janky secondhand kiln, and it WORKS! Took 2 hours and 20 minutes to hit 1150°F, but the relay actually holds the temp where it needs to be! :) Tomorrow I should be able to test-fire some glass!

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 28/08/2026

I have a deep, burning need to talk about this book, because I’m not exaggerating when I say this book affected me in ways that very few have over the course of my life, and I feel strongly that it deserves to be considered alongside the best of Vonnegut, Bradbury and Clarke. Zero spoilers to come.

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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 28/08/2026

Holy craps!! I was able to not only get the past due paid, but I’m now CURRENT with the water bill for the first time in over a year. You people are absolutely amazing, and while I’m going to be sending thank-you messages to everyone, I cannot express to you how much this means to me. ❤️❤️

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