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My latest comic for The Nib was written by my friend Mike Thompson- it’s his first published comics work! 

The Nib has been a steady source of income and a huge support to me and many other indie cartoonists for years. They publish amazing work, but will be cut loose by their financial backer in July. You can read the official post about it from editor Matt Bors here.  They are still running their kickstarter-funded print magazine, but have to put digital publishing on hiatus until they figure out their next steps. If you’ve been thinking about supporting their membership program, now would be a good time. They have levels from $2 to $40 per month. I really don’t want this to be my last Nib piece! 

instagram / patreon / portfolio / the nib / etsy

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That's my name, do wear me out

#sexually #kassandra rambles

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Magnet Monday Week 40: Onions

if this makes you feel like someone's cutting onions, i did my job

If you’re interested in being able to choose the topic of the next poem, make sure to vote in the weekly Magnet Monday polls! Or if you want a commission just like it, check out my pricing sheet!

Transcript under the cut!

[Ko-Fi] [Magnet Monday]

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Onions

onions do not make me sad

cutting through skin does

with steel and one slice

the crunch of a life

I touch a deep center

the epitaph of self

strong or crazy

the salt comes from me

to die does not move me

killing does

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chemically addicted to downloading cute gif-based cursor packs for my mouse

#kassandra rambles

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As president I will add Minecraft clouds. In addition to the regular clouds.

#kassandra rambles

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i love you male lesbians! i love you lesboys, i love you guydykes, i love you butch men, i love you ftm lesbians, i love you gentleman dykes, i love you transmasc lesbians, i love you genderqueer lesbians, I love you nonbinary lesbians, i love you gender non conforming lesbians, i love you bigender lesbians, i love you genderfluid lesbians, i love you intersex lesbians, i love you two spirit lesbians, i love you lesbians who were men, i love you lesbian men!

i love the many ways one can be a lesbian, and the variety of identities that the community contains! be loud, be proud, be your lesbian self!

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why so tape? the painter

#gonna make my new room LAVENDER #denali censors so that you don't geoguess me #my face #kassandra rambles

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this is my strategy for delivering exposition

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page 2! in which we meet our central character, who may perhaps be a little bit silly.

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toxic doomed yuri

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computer angel

#art

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The distant sounds of mario kart ghost level coming from upstairs

#kassandra rambles

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the face of "i don't know what you're doing but i love you"

#baby of all time #denali #my cat #fluff

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its so brave that you have such a 2012-coded url in this 2024 world

would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him

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Fun fact: my roommate has the unique honor of having accidentally weirded out Andrew Hussie, of all people, with something completely innocuous

#kassandra rambles

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When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.