Strengthen your body: arm and hand stretches, weightlifting, resistance workouts, regular breaks, walks, swimming, whatever gets you moving. All of the technical advice in the world is no use if you’re in too much pain to draw.

Also, I think the 'start small' advice should be related to your expectations. Because those should start humble imho. That way you can focus on the craft, get momentum or figure out if it's right BEFORE you pour all of these huge hopes and dreams into something new. Pace yourself, comics are a lot

Controversial comic opinion but: you should make that comic even if it's your big idea one first. Because if that's what gets you to start making comics, good. There's nothing wrong with not finishing it either if it's too much work, you can just stop! It doesn't have to be perfect.

The FTC has sent a warning to PayPal, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard over debanking lawful businesses. ︀︀ ︀︀Lawful adult businesses have been financially targeted for years under the guise of "reputation risk." ︀︀ ︀︀If that is finally getting scrutiny, that’s good news. www.xbiz.com/news/297090/...

*Scoops up all the birds and runs away with my new best friends*

happy birthday to our favorite worst guy #KingsOfSorts

Happy birthday bday twin :) Also read kings of sorts!!

It’s my birth of day

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated today! In today’s update: Defying gravity asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomic

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated a few times since my last socmed sabbatical! Starting from here: asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... Also I’m switching updates to every other Sunday based on my new work schedule. Thanks for reading! #soiderforest #webcomics

Making a 🧵 to help people get context on Hiveworks: The Hiveworks Guild statement from Cartoonist Co-op. Make sure to check the "How You Can Help" tab

Coming out of socmed hibernation to draw attention to this. If you have ever read and enjoyed a HW comic or cared about one of their creators, this is an important one.

Aster and the Fire #AATF updates today! In today's update: Welcome to Miya. asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Mistletoe #2... Mistletwo! Another webcomic duo, this time it's Jember & Agnes from @curlyqueued.bsky.social's comic Aster and the Fire, which you can read here asterandthefire.com I'm doin these til the end of the year! #commissions #commissionsopen #YCH #YCHcommission

Long time no see everyone! Back in September, I took a hiatus from almost all social media to try and improve my mental health. And uh…it worked super well!!! It worked so well I’m going to keep doing it!!!

I swear I'm going to post thoughts about SPX/my SPX haul soon, I've just been busy being offline this past week lol

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In this update: Aster sees an old man and is so shocked by his hideous face that she almost falls down the stairs (again) asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Aster and the Fire #AATF updated this past Friday! (I was traveling to SPX and forgot to make the announcement lol) In today’s update: the scary black speech bubbles have returned asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Surprise! I'll be at SPX this weekend!!! Super excited to meet y'all :D

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In today’s update: target spotted asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

When I think about Lil Nas X right now I remember how the best comedians and trolls are often the most depressed people. I’m sorry that was true for him as well.

They're making an example out of him because he spent the last 4+ years mocking the government and being a successful gay Black man in America

Been paying some visits to the local juvenile double crested cormorant recently…derpiest lil guy I’ve ever seen

Choose your online engagement.

I LOVE Lil Nas X’s music and joyful queerness, and he’s really inspired me as an artist and person. His mental health crisis and subsequent arrest/hospitalization is so devastating to read about. I’m glad he’s not dead and is hopefully getting the help he needs.

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In today’s update: everything in this is a spoiler you’re just going to have to read it asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Damn this is some bullshit…

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In this update: the kids investigate their dad’s biggest crash out to date asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Left my feedback and I encourage y’all to do the same!

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated…belatedly! In today’s update: you guys forgot to turn the attic lights off… asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

For those unaware, this is in regards to Visa/MasterCard forcing itch./io and Steam to drop adult content from their platforms bc of conservative groups (and is affecting unrelated content as well). I called my credit card holder today abt this and filed an incident report. Let’s do our part!

I went to a local convention this weekend and had a great time! Some highlights include: -Meeting Beverly Crusher’s actress IRL -Scarily accurate cosplay of King Jaffe from Coming to America -Drag Queen Miku -Scarily accurate Black Jinx cosplay+to-scale Fishbones -Best pho I’ve had in years

Just donated and you can too

“One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating, the World Food Programme said this week. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children, the injured are unable to heal and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies.”

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In today’s update: time to clean up, company’s coming over asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Oh..

Can’t have shit in Detroit!!

I do like giving opinions!

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In today’s update: Aster could have been a theater kid in another life. Well, if she didn’t have anxiety lol asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

I’m curious! Also this week has sucked so I could use a win

Every person I know in my field (STEM) that’s looking for a job (including myself) is STRUGGLING right now. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen, even during COVID.

Aster and the Fire #AATF has updated! In today’s update: kids argue over the quality of a banned book asterandthefire.com/comic/prolog... #spiderforest #webcomics

Woke up from a nap to a round of severe thunderstorms and guess who’s under yet ANOTHER flash flood warning lmao

I went to the beauty supply earlier this week and I have discovered my new favorite genre of photo

I’d like to give a massive shoutout to Brian at @toocheke.com for helping me transition the #AATF webcomic site over to Toocheke after my previous configuration finally broke when WordPress updated. He was extremely professional, patient, and thorough and I’ll be forever grateful for his help!

I’ve liked my time on Bluesky so far but this is ridiculous. How can the mod team on here: 1) have less transparency than Twitter moderation 2) ban you over something that 12 year olds say in COD chats on the regular

Hm. The streets around my apartment complex have completely flooded and there are search and rescue teams being deployed. Also the power is out. This is fine