A limerick. Based on a true story.

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Three men and a Baby in White https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-three-men-and-a-baby-in-white/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

If that miserable crank wants me to be less depressed, he could resign and then go walk into the ocean.

Has anybody written the modern equivalent to Bowling For Soup's "1985" yet? It came out 2 decades after the titular year, and it's been another 2 decades since then. We're due for a nostalgic anthem about when [list of pop-culture references from 2005] were the leading edge of coolness.

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Vampire (Hunter) Thorn, page 26 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/vampire-hunter-thorn-page-26/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

A mystery solved! This pattern I remembered as "some kind of screensaver, probably?" isn't from a computer screen at all. It's...a novelty lamp, I think?

Men be like "wow, I talk to this object just like I talk to human women" and conclude the object must therefore be human, and not that they treat women like objects

Erin Reads: Pet Shop of Horrors, Collector’s Edition (volume 3, chapters 18-19) Reread thread for the end of #PetShopOfHorrors volume 3 (Seven Seas edition), which is the first half of Volume 5 (TokyoPop edition). Mastodon, Bluesky, affiliate links, you know the drill. Almost halfway through the…

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Good night boop https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-good-night-boop/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

Reread thread for the end of #PetShopOfHorrors volume 3 (Seven Seas edition), which is the first half of Volume 5 (TokyoPop edition). Almost halfway through the series, and this is the point where Chris Orcot finally shows up <3 Where I got the new books: bookshop.org/lists/psoh-c...

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Soft rosy kiss https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-soft-rosy-kiss/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

6 strips drafted/sketched tonight, with the secret art technique of "take sketchbook to a restaurant, order an expensive amount of food, now you can't leave for hours until you finish it all"

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Vampire (Hunter) Thorn, page 25 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/vampire-hunter-thorn-page-25/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

AO3 spam, more AI toy fails, the myth of Mythos, and other LLM news Official AO3 newspost: "Below is a list of different types of spam comments that have been posted on AO3 over the last year. […] None of the accusations these spam comments make are true. The bots are merely spamming false…

Wow, the bill on my Comics Business credit card is wildly high this month, I should double-check if--oh, right, it's the $1000 I spent shipping out BackerKit rewards

Erin Reads: Pet Shop of Horrors, Collector’s Edition (volume 3, chapters 16-17) Rereading the middle of Volume 3 (Seven Seas edition), which brings us to the end of Volume 4 (TokyoPop edition). This one has vampires in it! Good times. As usual, I’m posting the individual reactions on Mastodon and…

#PetShopOfHorros reread continues! Comparing the original TP translation with the flashy new SS re-release. "Chapter 16" is the second Flowers and a/the Detective mini bonus. Last time, Leon only actually saw a plant. This time, the flowers are hot ladies! Oh no.

Works roundup, 4/22 (Marvel, Cosmic Princess Kaguya, webcomics) Leif & ThornLamb to Lion (wallpaper | Liana | worksafe)Good night boop (art | Leif/Thorn, Tiernan | worksafe)Three men and a Baby in White (art | Leif/Thorn/Kale, Mulberry | worksafe)Hunters Violet and Rowan (art | Violet, Rowan |…

Leif & Thorn news tidbits Leif & Thorn Volume 8 reward packages are arriving for backers. (If you're one of them, sharing photos like this and tagging me is encouraged.) I'm also doing another backlist shipping special for Volumes 1-8, to get them in the mail before the latest Trump-induced price…

Can I get a billion-dollar investment if I redefine every piece of software I use making #LeifAndThorn as "an AI-assisted art tool"? Yesterday I saved hours on manually redrawing a layer by using the high-tech "ctrl+C" and "ctrl+V". Truck of VC cash, please

It is still your moral duty to vote against Republicans. The leopards will keep eating faces, for everyone, until "we support leopards eating your face!" stops being a platform they can win elections with.

Mountain Dew flavor ratings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... My local stores have only stocked these 4 so far. Others TBA maybe: Code Red (cherry): Really good. Definitely buying more Voltage (blue raspberry): About the same as the original. Might switch between them just for the variety

Golly, I can't believe I got to visit Bluesky headquarters and sample the local cuisine

Erin Reads: Pet Shop of Horrors, Collector’s Edition (volume 3, chapters 13-14) Taxes are done for the year, time to reward myself with some PetShopOfHorrorsposting. My readalong has reached the start of Volume 3 in the Seven Seas Collector's Edition, which is the start of volume 4 in the original…

Taxes are done for the year, time to reward myself with some #PetShopOfHorrors posting. My readalong has reached the start of Volume 3 in the Seven Seas Collector's Edition, which is the start of volume 4 in the original Tokyopop release. Previous posts: erinptah.dreamwidth.org/tag/fandom+s...

Fandom-dropping progress, April 15 report Down to 939 fandoms total. (Only 26 currently have any tags to wrangle.) I'm keeping up the pace of "shedding about 100 per month." Still working on the second A-to-Z sweep, just finished with the P's. Also, still chipping away at recruiting "wranglers who…

The International Justice Mission and the EOS Collective both do pretty good work in the space: www.ijm.org eoscollective.net

Erin Watches: Wonder Man Finally got a chance to see the Wonder Man TV series. (It's already renewed for season 2, which is delightful to see. Come on, MCU, let more of your characters have ongoing arcs again.) Spoiler-light reactions: It's good! Funny, charming, with a great…

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Gonna start* a hot new internet game: “Someone has posted a fic on #AO3 with this New Fandom Tag. Can we figure out what fandom it’s referring to?” erinptah.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/c... *no guarantee if/when I'll continue, but I'm starting #webcomics #fanfic

Blue states haven’t passed a single antitrans law. Red states are a couple steps short of rounding us up. The single most effective thing you can do for trans rights is elect democrats. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise does not have trans people’s interests at heart.

New Patreon bonus: I made a post about playing with Waveform outputs back in 2023, on some soft-shaded character art. Mentioned that the results were very different with cel-shaded comics. ...And then I never posted those. Until now! www.patreon.com/posts/vampir... #webcomics #MakingComics

Real tired of seeing people complain about "liberals" when they mean conservatives. "This Republican policy is traumatizing people and destroying lives, because liberals--" Republican voters are conservatives! Please hold them responsible for the consequences of their actions!

I have 1 more "the entire #LeifAndThorn backlist" preorder to pack...and I'm down to my last 2 copies of Volume 3. Fate was on my side with this one. #webcomics #crowdfunding

Fully into the International Shipping phase of campaign fulfillment, aka the "gosh I wish these prices were April Fool's jokes" phase

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Nightmares in the North 4/1 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/nightmares-in-the-north-4-1/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Nightmares in the North 1/11 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/nightmares-in-the-north-1-11/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Liana Actually Looks Happy https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-liana-actually-looks-happy/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Armadillo guy https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-armadillo-guy/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

bUt I wAs ToLd It WaS tHe FuTuRe AnD i NeEdEd To AcCePt It Or ElSe www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Watching a video on iconic DC writer/artist Darwyn Cooke, which led me to an interview with this quote: "I don’t work in a formal fashion — I don’t sit and type a full script and then draw it. What I do is I plot it. And then I sit down and draw it and then I write the dialogue afterwards."

New #LeifAndThorn comic! The AU That’s Got Religion, page 12 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/the-au-thats-got-religion-page-12/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Standing in Black https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-standing-in-black/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Bap the plush https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-bap-the-plush/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Posted a new #AO3 chapter. In the first 12 hours I got two separate "unhinged rant" bot comments (in the style of...a link @openvibe.social won't post, it keeps glitching). Immediately marked both as spam, but it's wild these keep happening. Has anyone figured out what the goal is yet...?

New #LeifAndThorn comic! The AU That’s Got Religion, page 11 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/the-au-thats-got-religion-page-11/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

#PetShopOfHorrors reread, chapter 11: Dessert It's the Totetsu chapter! ...and the SS translation immediately has D refer to the "Taotie". Apparently "Totetsu" is the Japanese name for it, this is the original Chinese: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taotie

Whoops, let my #PetShopOfHorrors reread languish for more than a month while I was doing the Book of Dust liveblog. Well, no more! Starting chapter 9 "Diamonde" now. With both the new Seven Seas (SS) and original Tokyopop (TP) translations on hand.