I started this comic as a challenge to myself to create something new when the rest of my life seemed to be stuck. I try to create things that I enjoy, which means lots of books, cats, spiders, and general coziness. I've been grateful to have a little corner of the internet to put spiders in tea cups and write ghostly proposals.
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As long as I have a blanket and book, and a cat, it’ll be a perfect day
"ahhh another perfect day to snuggle up with a book..." ... *five mins later* *grabs phone*
I started the comic when I was struggling with depression and a couple other things in my life. I hadn't drawn in a long time and I wanted to get back into it, so I thought a comic would be a way to encourage myself.
I was going to say, if I couldn't access the news of Facebook through the glowbox, maybe it would help, but still probably not that much.
Load More Replies...The blanket I use in winter, I sit on during summer, nomore ripped skin
I spend about two to three hours a week brainstorming. Oftentimes after I brainstorm I'll send my ideas to a friend to see if it's actually funny. Then finishing the drawing is another 1-2 hours.
The best part of drawing comics is having a little space to try out jokes and make something. I'm glad that other people enjoy them, too.
One of my cats favorite toys is... A broken hair tie. I tie the ends into knots so the fabric covering doesn't come apart. Then i throw the broken hair tie. He runs after it, grabs it in his mouth, and brings it back. He loves to play fetch. (Please note, if you give your cat a broken hair tie, make sure that you're watching them and don't let them run off with it. Hair ties can be ingested and cause intestinal blockages. My cat does not eat them and he only shows interest when he's in the mood for fetch and we collect the toy when he's bored...)
I used to take my guy's dog to the hardware store in a small town just to have her choose a toy and a treat she would absolutely destroy within ten minutes. I loved it more than anything I ever got for myself.
Today Bouche is nine months old. She got new spring toys. Spent a very busy hour batting the orange one around the hallway.
The last one is the best, but more often than not, my cats will not appear to even see the expensive toy I bought for them.
Cats can't really see objects very good except they are in motion. Get a moving toy or toss it around
Load More Replies...I do this for early-morning doctor or veterinarian appointments! 0/10 do not recommend XD
I've been a fan of comics for a long time, so it was always a dream to create something similar. I'd be here all day if I listed all my favorites, but a few of my top ones are JL Westover (Mr. Lovenstein), Chris McCoy (Safely Endangered), Zach Stafford (Extra Fabulous) Sarah Andersen, and Hannah Hillam.
My two are pretty skilled at that and can offer their services if needed
Load More Replies...I was a massage therapist for over a decade, and people still tell me I make them feel like human shaped jello when I'm done... I would definitely include the puppy dump in my repertoire if I had access to puppies I could borrow (I don't have room for puppies in my apartment)
My talent as a patient was being able to guess which massage therapists were moms. It's like once you become a parent you develop a specific grip.
Load More Replies...Kitty dump with all that purring is WAY more effective! Everyone knows that
I hope people enjoy the comic. It's been fun to make, so as long as people keep enjoying it I'll keep making it. It's always great to hear when a comic really hits home. Thanks to everyone who's stopped by.
Move to somewhere with no rain! Problem solved!
Load More Replies...I once made a bookcase out of books. A set of old encyclopedias that someone just threw away. I stacked them perfectly to support my other books...
There’s also the thing where people put the paper side out, the spine in…. How would you recognize the books tho?
Yeah this is what I wish I could do all the time. Minus the being sick part
Ah yes, the common huhu-man cocoon, the final stage before our bursts a quasi-functional adult being.
Agreed, but also endearing... both rare sightings!
Load More Replies...“And you even got me HEATING? The heating bill is so expensive these days…”
They say you're all like a family there... but what if you get into a work relationship... and aren't in Alabama...
That’s the author’s comic name, I thought it was a slur at first too
Load More Replies...But only if you're open to a poly relationship. If you want something monogamous, you gotta go with a demon.
Load More Replies...The only way I'm getting in any relationship, unless it's with a cat or a dog.
This is my dream except they're all crows and pigeons cause I live in Seattle and I love my dumb goth birds (and my extra dumb normie birds)
All my fish came from the "feeder fish" tank. They were my rescue fish, saved from being eaten by their bigger counterparts.
Oh god, this is how we got almost all of our pets. Parrotlet? She bit like crazy and no one wanted her. Rat? "Allergies" - it was actually the rat that had that red mucous sneezing thing, not the person that owned him. Hedgehog? Twisty leg, because the pet shop owner kept the poor dude in a wire cage! Dogs? Countless - blind in one eye, emotionally messed up, & breeder mamas that were super old and needed love before they passed. I feel this comic in my soul because I'd still do it in a heartbeat!
It's weird. I just read an entire book about how fish are smart, loving creatures.
They are. I've seen fish do tricks, I've seen fish respond to their owners, and I've seen fish play. It's sad how often they are mistreated, discarded, or just used as unloved decoration.
Load More Replies...Not the point but I personally have fish cause I want them to have an enjoyable life and also they're gorgeous decoration in nice tanks. Also, I get strangely attached to them
my grandma's goldfish is around 11 years old! get them the proper tank, food, and environment and they can live pretty long!
Yes! Any fish can live a really, really long time if they're just properly taken care of!
Load More Replies...Quick tip: Dryer lint is INCREDIBLY flammable! Be cautious around certain temps whilst gathering dryer lint.
Pink Ponytails is an extremely disgusting person. Water? In CEREAL? Are you f*****g INSANE?
Exactly! Everyone knows it should banana mashed with orange juice.
Load More Replies...We used to make fire-starter out of dryer lint - put some in a small dixie cup, then pour some wax over it and it will start almost any fire
I would be fine if someone said they hated dogs, but not if they hated cats. If they said they hate cats I would run away then come back with a knife and stick it in their face
I am on the verge of putting milk in my bowl of Goldfish crackers...but at least I like dogs.
The only reason I know it's not me is that my chair is red, and my blankie is shades of purple
Load More Replies...The second book pile to the left looks like the gay man flag.
When I was getting ready for Bouche, I went to Chewy and looked at all the cat stuff. I got her a variety pack of toys, a wand, a tunnel, mice, balls, springs, the whole works. I wanted to spend around $15 for that. I looked at packages between $10 and $20. Most of the ones with both a wand and a tunnel had this ugly rubber fish. So I bought the one in my price range that had a wand, a tunnel, and no fish. All the toys were in pretty rainbow colors, although color didn't really matter. The toys came the same day Bouche did. I pulled this kitten - sized teddy bear out of the bag for her to snuggle with. It had on a gay pride t-shirt. It was only then that I realized I'd bought the gay pride pack of toys. It had honestly not occurred to me why they were all rainbow colors. It's ok, though. Bouche is an equal-opportunity pouncer.
Me personally I am gender slime. Directly between solid and fluid
First time I’ve seen that joke on BP (I’m gender-fluid as well)
Been hanging out in a basement a bunch and...uh...yeah... The female spider's about to have babies. The male spider is clinging to the wall and I can almost hear him going 'Oh no! Ohnoohnoohno--'...
I'm going to Disney with my marching band in about 12 days and I cannot wait for the free hotel breakfast like I'm going to eat every single thing
Load More Replies...your lucky usually when i get free breakfast its dry muffins and fruit x3
I'm sorry, I walk like a man? Did I ask for your non-relevent comments on my every day functions? Nope! Yet here we are.
How do you even walk like a man? Now I wonder if I don't
Load More Replies...Me, who spends hours a day trying to figure out how to subtly tell people that I am a Cisgender Straight Man Who is Very Cisgender (tm)
I walk like a sheepdog about to nip at the heels of the flock or threaten the local wolf gang.
Shucks. I think I need a chaotically autonomous creature in my life right now. All I have is a myopic void-gazing beagle blep whose first obsession is food, next is thorough massage, then the evacuation of bowels and bladder, then sometimes he'll be all like... 'You seem down. You okaysies?' and snuggle. I need a li'l panther who doesn't give a dang and has sparks of intelligence in his eyes...and will find his own stuff to do.
Me: pets the cat Me: takes the cat out of my room Me: gives the cat back to my sister
ik i sound like a 2 year old, but im afraid of the dark
*cries in non-exsistant bisexual ace*
Load More Replies...me too and it's frustrating walking around with my pride pins and people tell me how I'm such a great ally 💀💀💀
Load More Replies...Contrary to popular belief, most people don't care what your personal preferences for a romantic partner is or what your genitals are. Except maybe for those looking for a partner.
Supercat! Why is this cat name not more popular? Maybe because it's self evident?
The signs were all there... how come I only figured out my queerness recently?
I don’t have trauma, but I have stickers all over my computer, try to have nice nails, and wear big shoes
Load More Replies...I have 2/4 of these but nails give me dysphoria and i only ever wear ancient sneakers
Can confirm, lol. Love me some stickers, awesome nails & big chonky sketchers. Also my parents sucked.
Load More Replies...Literally less than 24 hours after I met them, I emptied all of my trauma I can remember onto my now partner lol
Good for u honestly it's nice to have someone to talk to
Load More Replies...That ring finger made me feel like something was wrong here
These signs... Very accurate, I haven't painted my nails in a while, but the others,
Sorry for asking but, what is pittakionophopbia?
Load More Replies...Lol I never paint my nails cause dysphoria but all of my friends constantly have super extravagant nails
Load More Replies...Burn your house down and have a great excuse not to do anything! Can't work from home if you don't have a home to work from
Load More Replies...Homer gave us a great example that the drinking bird is not reliable. Don't trust him! (Maybe a hamster wrote this...)
I've also heard setting your mouse on top of an analog watch works. Not that I'm condoning it or anything...
What if you photoshop male nips on female nips? Problem solved /s
I saw a vid once where they were talking about signs of breast cancer and they literally printed out a dudes nipple and tapped it to the models. It looked identical lol
Load More Replies...My favorite was a Trans woman's before and after photos with hormone treatment. Before hormones the nips where shown and after treatment the nips where blurred; like really was that necessary?
IMO it's very funny that boobs have been sexualized. They hold baby food and that's it lol
Whatever you do, don't show off a baby bottle -- they have functional nipples, too!
Load More Replies...What about breastfeeding nips? Trans woman nips? Trans-masc nips? Woman post-mastectomy, tattooed or reconstructed nips? Woman post-mastectomy with aesthetic flat closure absent nips? That last one confuses me - how can you censor images without nips on the basis that the censor-able nips 'should' be there?
I now aspire to be a books spider. Or a tea spider. You know what? I will be a cozy window nook spider with tea and a book! 🕷🍵 📙
May I join you in the book-nerd spidery coziness?
Load More Replies...I cherish my spiders. They eat other insect. I'm worried about my bathroom spider. He/she has abandonded its corner and plunked itself in the open. Is my bathroom too clean? Doesn't grow enough silver fish? Worried that he changed place because ran out of food. Gave him some cat food.
And this us why we make hair choices based on our head shapes and not what other people do. We also don't cut our hair short because of the cheap Halloween wig we got a target. I apologize to my second grade self for every decision I ever made.
Snip snip! It grows back, and it's fun to experiment with hair anyways, I cut mine off and it looked like a chainsaw attacked me, but I loved how short hair felt, it's especially nice to not have to pin it up or anything when the weather's hot.
Load More Replies...but like I want short short hair so bad but I've had five boys tell me I'll look ugly and two girls say I'm already beautiful condescendingly and three girls say I'll look hot and I don't know what to do
I learned that valuable lesson when I like 10/11. A Bob looked soooooo cute on my sisters mostly straight hair; it did not look good on my naturally curly hair. I'm thankful my hair grown super quick because it was just terrible and ny face looked extra round too
For a group that stands strongly against stereotypes, its funny how stereotypical they are.
It’s funny how for someone whose trying to talk about stereotypes in a community, you’re stereotyping & policing the way people look. ♥️
Load More Replies...I just got past this stage of sickness, now I'm at "watching simplistic kids shows with a pile of stuffed animals and living off of cough drops and chamomile tea"
I just lie down in front of my heater and listen to music. Which is pretty much normal for me but with more complaining (somehow)
Get a pet rat with musaligned teeth and start growing them! The rat will share its tooth clippings because rats are very sweet and empathetic.
Honestly my intrusive thoughts tell me to clip my teeth cuz I want to know how it feels like.........
And behind door number three: Being Understood and Known and Still Being Mortified.
I crave being known but once people know me they realize that I'm actually just a d**k
I iz puddle hedgie lap cactus dramatic fluffy toothpick holder
“Every day after”? Me: “I’m puddle hehehe. Puddle person. All puddle only puddle day one through forever. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.”
My anxiety just makes me do everything at 5x speed if I'm not actively doing something it gets worse
I name things similarly. The dog has pewped everywhere in the yard. I call it the Poop Mines or Morria.
In case anyone is curious, the podcast being referred to is "No Such Thing as a Fish".
I bought a weighted blanket for Xmas. I may never leave Comfort Caverns.
I bought a weighted blanket for Xmas. I may never leave Comfort Caverns.
You forgot "soaked in rainbows because I've given up on subtlety and people keep assuming I'm cishet"
Reminds me of when 22 from soul said meh to all the suggestions for life
I’m homeschooled and I have a list of 54 books I have to read by the end of 8th grade I have read thirty but every time I start reading more of the list I just go back to keeper of the lost cities 🤦♀️ ( ten book series) and get distracted for the next two weeks reading ten like five hundred page books. Oh and have I mentioned I have read them at least ten times…
LOL for me it's the reverse! I have dozens of ebooks loaded and unread on my tablet while I still buy and read books from my local used book dealer. Oh and buy the latest Dean Koontz and James Patterson from Amazon! Someday when my disposable income dries up the ebooks will still be there!
Personally, virtual books have always been my last choice since I tend to forget about them. My first choice is a physical book, then an audio book, and finally a e-book
Still thinking of how my basement spider hid when it was really cold...came back and started nesting...and then we saw her boyfriend scrabbling up the wall away from her...
Brussels sprout. Weird. No one wants to try it. No one wants to get near it. Everyone is convinced that they hate it. BUT AM DELICIOUS. XD
Load More Replies...Sorry, you want us to be kind about how much sugar it takes to make bitter New England bog berries even just edible? (Kidding, you do you)
Load More Replies...curry it will burn your mouth at first but its delicious repersents me
Green bean casserole: one of the few acceptable ways to eat green beans. Creamy goodness inside, fried onion crunchiness outside. 😋
Or ace bandages. I have a friend who broke two ribs binding with ace bandages.
Load More Replies...Add "infinite list of school assignments you need to make up." I'm sick now and I'm scared of going back to school after missing a week. I think I'm failing 4 classes now
Personally I love my birthday, but only because I'm still young enough that people get me cool stuff that I actually like. Shoutout to my big bro for getting me whatever I ask for, plus other stuff I never knew I needed!
My favourite holiday is Halloween but only cause it's 1) fall and I love fall and 2) An excuse to eat reeses peanut butter cups
I tried this, all that happened was that I woke up sick, without the ability to breathe out of my nose
my problem is I focused too much on trying to wake up different that I anxietyed and didn't sleep
Load More Replies...I should technically be waking up about an hour earlier cause insomnia but I can't cause insomnia
Two great queer fantasy recommendations: So This is Ever After, and Girls of Paper and Fire. I loved both these books, but check the trigger warnings for Girls of Paper and Fire before you read it.
I'm not homophbic, but adding gay characters just for the sake of them being gay doesn't make a movie any better
Still, I like having at least one LGBTQ+ character
Load More Replies...These are utterly charming! I love the lil spi-spis (as we call spiders at my house).
Queer rep was literally the last thing I was expecting on this site
You need to post more soon. These were really good and they really hit me at home cause I'm a little crazy person
Ngl I wasn’t gonna click on this but I saw the word queer and my gay af self couldn’t resist
Because they’re queer… and drew queer comics… and it’s part of the f****n comics…
Load More Replies...These are utterly charming! I love the lil spi-spis (as we call spiders at my house).
Queer rep was literally the last thing I was expecting on this site
You need to post more soon. These were really good and they really hit me at home cause I'm a little crazy person
Ngl I wasn’t gonna click on this but I saw the word queer and my gay af self couldn’t resist
Because they’re queer… and drew queer comics… and it’s part of the f****n comics…
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