Ambrose/Amber for short ā¢ They/He ā¢ 24 ā¢ š³ļøāš ā¢
Multi-Fandom blog + whatever I find funny ā¢ chronically shy + nervous so don't take it personally if i dont reply i have anxiety
what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink
āif youāre going to eat that rotisserie chicken please do it in an area where none of us can seeā you hate me. you hate me because i have different eating habits than you and you want me to STARVE
look upon my works ye mighty and weep (im not done thereās still plenty of good meat on there)
reviews are in
I agree entirely with OPās method of stripping and devouring a rotisserie chicken and have been inspired to pick one up on the way home myself
Also tags are entirely correct. Waste not want not! And then stick the bones in your planter pots to feed your plants and BADLY frighten your neighbours!
actually im just gonna make my own post about it: please read more webcomics. please try them. every time people make posts about āaw man i wish SOMEone would WRITE about FLAVOR OF QUEER THING/TRAUMA OR ABUSE BUT IN SPECIFIC WAYS I CAN RELATE TO/WHATEVERā and then it gets reblogged into a giant thread of people agreeing with it and demanding Content i die because whatever it is is definitely being painstakingly created by an indie author who would really like for people to consume it and every time i point this out people suddenly canāt read lmao
it is out there it is free it is being made from firsthand experiences by people who care very very deeply who would be DELIGHTED to hear that itās resonating with anybody at all, please throw some of that enthusiasm and support at people who will actually appreciate it
if youāre an indie comic person and any of this applies to you i encourage you to reblog this with a link to your comic and a short synopsis so people can browse the notes and find shit theyāre looking for. or make your own post on your own blog if you donāt want to fool with other people i donāt care this is a sign from the universe that you should be louder about what youāre working on because people canāt fucking find it apparently.
iāll go first i make kidd commander and itās about an ensemble cast of queers on their way to kill god, they live on an airship and theyāre all too pissed off to die. itās free to read and itās in the middle of its third arc right now. it lives here http://kiddcommander.com/
go go go
on second thought gonna add if youāre a READER and youāve had Feelings about a webcomic feel free to recommend it here too
In addition to Kidd Commander, I enjoy:
Dumbing of Age - semi-autobiographical webcomic by an ex-Christian fundamentalist; explores a wide bevy of social justice issues in more nuanced ways than I often see, especially in regards to abuse
Monster Pulse - A group of kids (some of them explicitly queer) have their body parts turn into monsters; great analyses of trauma and transhumanism
Leftover Soup - slice-of-life story about the most philosophically inclined 20somethings in the world, seriously they spiral off into fascinating discussions all the time, this is basically Having Difficult Conversations: The Webcomic; the opening is terrible but stick with it
i follow a lot of podcasts, i can put together a curated list.
http://ohumanstar.com/ is incredible, itās about trans robots (in minneapolis! not a huge plot point, but itās where iām from). it finished recently, so you can have a completed reading experience.
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/01/01/spacetrawler-4/ spacetrawler started as the story of six humans kidnapped by an incompetent alien to help free the eebs, an enslaved alien race. itās very good, sometimes it hits very hard. the first and second series are complete, the third series is updating currently.
http://www.rice-boy.com/see/ rice boy is a ābrightly colored and surreal fantasy adventure storyā. bittersweet chosen one stuff. also by the same author is the order of tales (completed) and vattu (on going, i think itās near completion)
https://www.egscomics.com/ very queer cast of magical teens. starts out very rough, but that was 19 years ago. lots of gender transformation magic and magical hijinks, with a helping of tragic backstories and nerd stuff.
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1 about a couple of weird magic british school children at a weird british boarding school. there are a couple chapters in particular that hit hard. also, itās just very well drawn and written and it always updates MWF, which is more than most webcomics can say.
http://diggercomic.com/ digger is just a good comic, i should reread it again, itās been awhile. itās about a ātake-no-nonsenseā wombat who finds herself dealing with a talking buddha statue, a tribe of the best anthropomorphic hyenas youāll see, and a dead god.
boy have i got good news for YOU
the good news is that on this list (to my limited knowledge) both my comic and gunnerkrigg court feature wlw protagonists!
the other good news is there are TONS of us working outside the aggregate sites, please please donāt assume those companies are indicative of everything going on in webcomics as a genre. my thoughts on that could fill a whole other post but i wanted to bring it up here at least.
I also just remembered thereās the website https://archivebinge.com , which is FANTASTIC if youāre looking for something specific. Itās limited by the fact that the creator needs to post the comic themself, but itās got a great tagging system for both genres and content warnings:
and lets you know when new posts go up even on independent sites! Extremely useful for finding and reading a bunch of comics without taking agency from the creators.
i read a shitton of webcomics but here are my recs specifically for ones that arenāt on networks like hiveworks so they need more love (on mobile so sorry if formatting gets weird)
Softies i canāt summarize better than page one sorry. thereās a bit about a stubbed toe that will hit you like a freight train to the feels.
Job Satisfaction is slice of life about queers and demons and queer demons.
Radio Silence is a coming of age story about a British band on tour.
Ingress Adventuring Company is about Professor Toivo Kissa. He is an elf and he goes on adventures instead of doing his job, which is professoring.
Skin Deep is about a girl who goes to college and finds out sheās a sphinx (i feel like everyone reads skin deep but also not enough people read skin deep).
Sfeer Theory has a magical university for a very complicated magic system, if youāre into Lore.
Outliers takes place in a superhero world but these boys are just trying to be happily married in peace.
Some LGBT webcomics just off the top of my head
Muted - fantasy comic about a gay, poly witch in New Orleans.
Paranatural - All ages fantasy comic about middle schoolers who fight ghosts.
2 Slices - Classic, trope-y romance comic with a queer spin
Sleepless Domain - Magical Girl genre deconstruction. In a mysterious fantasy/sci-fi world where teenage girls sometimes have superpowers, how are those girls treated and valued? Content warning: This comic is usually pretty cute but has some serious violence early on.
Chaos Life - autobiographical slice-of-life comics about an agender illistrator and their gay, disabled wife.
Boy In Pink Earmuffs - All ages comic about two best friends who solve mysteries together and are also crushing on eachother.
Magical Boy - Fantasy comic about a trans boy who finds out heās descended from a long line of magical girls and is destined to save the world. (tapas exclusive)
whatās up if youāre in the notes looking for recs you canāt see most of them because tumblr hides anything with a link in it, view this reblog to see a big olā list of webcomic links
tiger tiger is so gorgeous and funny! a girl steals her twin brotherās identity and jaunts off with his ship to study sea sponges. really amazing.
skinhorse itās been a long time since i caught up but iāve admired garrity since i was reading narbonic in middle school. skinhorse is about a government department full of weirdos that tries to regulate nonhuman intelligences and itās also just very funny and cute.
kill six billion demons is extremely dense, extremely gorgeous. a woman wakes up in hell with a magic thingy in her forehead and it only gets weirder from there.
Do you want ass kicking nuns? Do you want badass witches? Do you want every single person in the webcomic youāre reading to be queer?
I donāt even remember when/where I picked up this webcomic but itās been going for YEARS now, and I have loved every single thing the artist has ever done.
Aside from the main webcomic (updated twice weekly I think?), there are the missing moments, short stories about the world and characters that fill in a TON of lore and are well worth a read.
Yamino has also done some zines about elastigirl and stratogale that have changed the canon of the incredibles for me, not to mention the awesome sailor moon polycule content on patreon.
My runner up suggestion is Questionable Content by Jeph. Itās a little slow to get started and thereās a LOT to catch up on, but itās updated every weekday and it just gets queerer and queerer as time goes on. Also quirky robots (seriously Melon is my absolute fave).
literally will always recommend White Noise by @thephooka. its been going for a long while now, and has been SO compelling the entire time. its about a half monster guy trying to connect with his little sister. but its also about both of them Going Through Shit and figuring out themselves. its also about fictional politics. a lot of trans/nb characters. its got such a lived in world, its my absolute favorite.
