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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 4h

My entire face is numb thanks to dental work, which as usual, is making it tough to drink this bubble tea. I will persevere.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tis very much a "No Thoughts, Head empty" day apparently. Honestly, these are worse than the high fatigue days, because like, I'm not that sleepy now that my meds have kicked in, but brain? Brain no worky.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Man, summer is NOT going out without a fight this year.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Give my weird millenial heart strength, I have to pair down T-shirts because I have too damn many. Figuring out what to get rid of is gonna be TOUGH.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ovaries are stupid and the fact we can grow cysts on them is a scam.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Went to breakfast with Mom and my Wife and I am now happily stuffed with baked apples and crepes 🤤

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. My convertible bags can be worn as a backpack, crossbody bag, waist bag or on a mobility aid! They have custom lining & zipper pulls. They're on pre-order right now! Store: Bibipins.com

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time to chat with a Sleep Study doc and see if maybe that's a problem. Good day for it, I've been in a fog all day thanks to nightmares last night.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Behold, the single cutest thing I've ever put in my rat cage. Yes, the dumpster lid opens, and is vented for circulation.

A 3D printed green dumpster with a black lid and large hole, made for rats

A 3D printed green dumpster hide, complete with model, Laios.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My webcomic #TheEmperor'sFeast has a NEW HOME over on Comicfury! I'll be uploading pages in batches over the next week or so, then I'm hoping I'll be all set to start weekly uploads again! Bookmark me over here: theemperorsfeast.thecomicseries.com

A banner of The Emperor's Feast's update about a new home!

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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

John Baizley. 🖼️ He’s done some great album covers for Kvelertak & Baroness

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today starts the migration of comics to Comicfury. Using the opportunity to make sure I have decent page files backed up and resizing the webfiles. Tediouuuuus.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The biggest problem with Project Zomboid is that my wife knows she can wait till I'm already on edge, then come over and spook me. Because I will squeak.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God bless the folks at the Sheridan who full on made me my own plate of fish, because I was the one guest with a citrus allergy. I am always so damn thankful when folks go above like that.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Obligatory "I feel cute af" bathroom selfie. BTW this dress has dragons on it and I didn't notice when I bought it, lol.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to a wedding tonight for a good friend, so of COURSE nothing else is getting done so that I have as much energy as possible. Also trying to decide how I wanna do my makeup.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kiki's Delivery Service, No. 1 in Koriko since 1989 ✉️ 🎁 🍞

An art nouveau style posters featuring Kiki flying on a broomstick with Jiji. The background shows various scenes of bread and pastries, plus the town of Koriko.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

let your friends help

another sketchy comic. Fanlee removes Spätzle’s smiling mask, revealing that Spätzle is crying underneath. Fanlee gives her a reassuring look, examines the mask, and crushes it underfoot. Fanlee huffs and turns back to say something to Spätzle, but finds Spätzle is already wearing a new mask.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That feel when you finally clean your iPad screen but now the pen is too slick on the glass

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Katch @katchdraws.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Its my birthday today, you know what to do ✨️

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me: I would like to feel better now.

My body:

this scene cannot be skipped.

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pulkamen @pulkamen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mannon. Daughter of a Hag

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I always forget that restarting meds also means an insomnia night. Anyways, thank God I follow people all over the world, gives me plenty of art to enjoy

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OKAY I have done enough admin catchup, time to go draw.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Day one back on my ADHD meds and I have accomplished almost every single dangling task that has been hanging over my head for almost a month. JESUS FUCK

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

GOD I hate Squarespace. I am absolutely going to move. I will make myself a damn Neocities and relearn CSS/HTML. Fucking hell. But until then, I need to FIX my Squarespace so my comics are easy to see. So rage. So much rage.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Y'know, I could use this Tapas shit as the push to get OFF of Square space, which crashes every single time I try to edit ANYTHING. ...HMM...

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I don't want to run away anymore" One of my favorite scenes from Chapter 5 of Deltarune. No, there are no other lake scenes. Nope.

A digital illustration of Susie and Noelle wading into the lake from Chapter 5 of Deltarune. Susie is holding Noelle and laughing.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the best thing to come out of this Tapas crap is I can finally post the comic in a better place WITH A BETTER RESOLUTION. Their width limits made no damn sense.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

uuuUUUUGH. Well, The Emperor's Feast will find a new home, but that could take a bit. And of course, right as I was ready to upload some more pages.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My neighbor has started baking sourdough bread with a 100 year old starter and brought us a loaf. DEAR GOD, Y'ALL. AMAZING.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Continuing to be debilitated by lack of meds...BUT...they're supposedly shipping...soon I will be able to stay awake for more than a couple hours...

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My joints are full of wiggle and ouch, and my brain meat is being mean today. Ugh.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two of my favorite Gamecube games are now on NSO, so until the OoT remake comes out, I'm living my life with Super Mario Sunshine and Star Fox Adventures. Yes, both games are objectively terrible. I'm reliving my childhood damnit.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep having to remind myself that Post-Show Drop is a hell of a thing, and it's okay that I'm struggling to be a person still. Meds would help, OF COURSE, but I'd still be doin the drop.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

FINALLY got an answer from Aetna about why my meds are two weeks late. ...they "Oopsied" and flagged them as early refill instead of actually refilling. Did they TELL me this? NOPE THEY DID NOT. Anyways I'll get to be a person again soon.

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

My rat lei lei thinks she’s tough macaronis

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ratapalooza was great fun yesterday but now I am going to spend the day HORIZONTAL

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Had to break out the sunglasses, because my sensitive Cave Witch eyes hate the Bad Overhead Lights. Means I can safely zone out too.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I adore that Ratapalooza is a giant fashion show of people's niche rat clothing. I hate that no one ever remembers where they found things.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Prints all packed and ready for Ratapalooza tomorrow! I realized I never posted it, because I'M BAD AT THIS. Come over to Lakewood, WA, the McGaverick Conference Center, to ogle cute ratties and see cute rat artists!

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me: Oh God I have to run errands, I have to walk around a bunch... *remembers I have a placard now* OH THANK GOD.

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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Have I found a Project Zomboid server to play on two days before it wipes? Yes. Am I gonna play anyway? Also Yes.

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