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You know, this is still the best guro comic I ever did

Roadhog dealing with Junkrat’s gangrene-ridden limbs just days after Junkrat hired him.

Based on Chapter 1: Pain of the fanfic Kabobs by brickinthewall and maximum124

time to put my comics education to some proper use

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I hate twitter and will never make an account there. Don’t stop posting here.

i'm afraid i have some bad news

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Scarred Arcane man go brr

Please check out my [Twitter]  for NSFW etc. since I rarely ever post here anymore.

#silco #arcane silco #arcane #imzeroafterdark #imzero #zeroafterdark

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Heisenberg giving Ethan a lil lovebite

Please check out my [Twitter]  for NSFW etc. since I rarely ever post here anymore.

#re8 #resident evil #karl heisenberg #ethan winters #re 8 #fanart #blood

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I had 20k+ followers when tumblr shut my account down along with other nsfw ones in 2018 during its panic to appease Apple.

This post is so incredibly accurate and hits hard like you won't believe.

Anyway I'm mostly just active on twitter and patreon now [LINK]

I spent ten years building up a following on Tumblr. I had 30k+ followers, great engagement, it helped my career thrive like nothing else. I could quit my day job and live off the fan base I’d accrued.

Then, their policies changed. Half my work was no longer allowed. People left the site in droves. I left too, for awhile. I came back to a ghost town. I still have 25k followers, but I don’t think more than 10% are active anymore. I’m followed by ghosts. Same with DeviantArt, although I was never quite as big there, and I’ve been gone so much longer.

This disallowed half of my work was never allowed on Facebook in the first place, or Instagram, but their algorithms are such that my stuff rarely makes it to anyone’s feeds, and if I post a link to where people could actually pay me for my content, it’s hidden unless I pay for it. Patreon swept my work away to a dark corner where no one could see it unless I personally guided them there. Twitch is so strict you can’t even show bare feet. The death of Google Reader means nobody follows RSS feeds anymore, so I can’t direct people to my own site.

So there’s Twitter I guess, where I can post whatever I want, but again, algorithms. But more than that, I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim. The thought of spending time jumping around through hoops for attention just to have it taken away again has stripped any motivation I had to try.

The internet has been gentrified. All the small cute houses and mom & pop shops have been shut down and replaced by big corporations that control everything. I’ve been making webcomics for twenty years, and at the start, the internet was a beautiful wild place. Everyone had a home page. It was like having a house and people came to visit you and you would visit other people in their houses. Now, we don’t visit each other in personal spaces anymore. It’s like we have to visit each other in the aisles of a megamart. Everything is clean and sanitized and the weirdos who made the internet what it was are no longer welcome. No space for freaks anymore.

People still ask me for advice on how to break into comics, and I don’t have any wisdom because I don’t recognize the internet anymore. I don’t feel comfortable working within its boundaries which seems to be getting smaller and smaller and smaller. None of the tools I used when I started exist anymore. They’ve been replaced by things I don’t know how to use. I don’t think I could break into comics today. 2002 had so few barriers compared to now. You might have started on Keenspace, but you could reach a point where you could break away to your own site and people would go to it. Now, you start on Webtoon or Patreon and I guess you just stay there? It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business. I’m looking at my career trajectory and it all points to being a Wal-Mart greeter with uncontrolled arthritis.

I don’t want to make “content,” I want to make comics, I want to make art, and I want to do it in a space that is mine. I’m not sure there’s a place for that anymore.

#text post #hate this place

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royal tiddy

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#anduin llane wrynn #world of warcraft #wow #warcraft #anduin

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A king and his dragon bf

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#world of warcraft #anduin llane wrynn #wrathion #wow #blizzard #fanart #sfw

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Sweaty

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#original #monster boy #tommy #oc #vampire #sweat #sweating

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smacked around

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#blood #guro #tobias #oc #imzero

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ughhh it’s too hot out

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#imzero #imzeroafterdark #pin-up #original

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Reposted this whole vampire prostitution comic on Twitter come have a look!

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#imzero #imzeroafterdark #monster boy #vampire

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Late Mermay

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#Monster boy #mermay #imzero

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Green eyes

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#imzero #imzeroafterdark

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Sorry to bug you. But you mentioned before about how you couldn't find a site to host a comic because stupid tumblr keeps deleting and flagging? You could try Pixiv. many nsfw artists have moved there and it has tags for porn/guro/gore and dark content. They also allow you to put a full comic strip in one post. Just age restrict your stuff and it should be fine. Another one is Newtumbl, it's a tumblr knock off, but good, not really active, but you can post whatever. anyway thats all.

Thank you! Those are good suggestions, I’ll look into it. :D

#anon #anonymous #text post #Anonymous

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Polished an older thing

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#imzero #monster boy #zombie #undead

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#imzero

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A delicious roast pig.

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[Twitter]  for my NSFW art

[Patreon]  for my Hi-Rez, archive, and sketches

#guro #gore #sfw #imzero #artists on tumblr #roasted