Anti-voting rhetoric will be the death of the left. Literally.

Not a single fucking Republican voted to protect roe. It was fucking overturned in the first place bc trump got three Supreme Court appointments.

Every fucking thing wrong in this country is almost certainly the result of Republicans being in power. In 2020, Texas cut half of the polling places in black neighborhoods, and doubled them in white ones, regardless of population. It was Republicans bitching about mail in voting, and constantly, constantly fearmonger about voter fraud. Literally, their platform is about making civil rights harder to practice.

Would you like to know why? It’s because Republican politicians know better than anyone that higher voter participation means higher republican loss.

But what do I see from the online left, champions of the oppressed?

“Voting doesn’t do anything, the parties are the same, the system is rigged, etc, etc”

Don’t sit here and tell me you give a fuck about marginalized people if you aren’t ready to march your ass to the voting booth and vote out the party actively stripping their rights away.

Protest, donate, community build, unionize, and vote, vote, vote.

If voting didn't do anything, nobody would be trying to stop you from doing it

"if everyone angry with Biden voted for the same third party candidate we wouldn't have to have either trump or Biden!" Is absolutely catastrophically incorrect. I know you all think from the protests and internet and the consensus of the entire rest of the world that a meaningful majority of voters must care about genocide but within America unfortunately the majority of registered voters truly do think either trump or Biden are great.

We who care about people as more than expendable numbers are up against a far larger swathe of voters who either don't give a shit or LOVE what's happening, and that means no matter what we all do, we're getting either four more years of Biden or of Trump, with Trump vowing to do more for Israel than Biden is doing. This is not doomerism or submission this is just plain how it is. Most third parties themselves also think blowing up Gaza is fine. There isn't any alternative big enough to back in time.

You saw how many people wanted Bernie years ago and he completely failed. Currently there isn't even a "better option" you can even name right now. There is no competitor to Donald and Joe who is trending anywhere and millions have *already* voted. The ballots have Trump, Biden, and a write-on option; who was to be written in? Who did everyone agree is the secret good person to nominate? It is absolutely too fucking late now.

Tubba Playerina Cretacious Period

DOOT DUET

Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, Cicindela sexguttata! I was so psyched that I managed to nab this individual. They're blindingly fast (literally - they can run so fast they go temporarily blind)! Seen in central Illinois on 5/19/2024.

@revretch and I put one through the SAME ordeal last month on Maryland! Get momentarily vial'd, dummies!!!

the new dead by daylight killer mori turns the survivor into a skeleton and they keep their fucking pride charms equipped when it happens

Well yeah it's called LGBT for a reason.

Lost all

Goo, just

Bones &

Teeth

Pose! ‘Super Metroid’ Super Nintendo

It’s an awesome iconic piece of art but I still wonder how she fills out the arms. I mean where are her actual human shoulders in there, right now? Try to picture it I dare you

I can only do a stick figure at the moment but i think it has the general idea

It’s that Chozo DNA!

Maybe when she takes off the suit her limbs retract a little, like a snails tentacles. They just shlorp in a bit

This is the official explanation, but the upper arms would have to be pretty much fused to her torso for it to work

Pose! ‘Super Metroid’ Super Nintendo

It’s an awesome iconic piece of art but I still wonder how she fills out the arms. I mean where are her actual human shoulders in there, right now? Try to picture it I dare you

I can only do a stick figure at the moment but i think it has the general idea

It's that Chozo DNA!

Maybe when she takes off the suit her limbs retract a little, like a snails tentacles. They just shlorp in a bit

Pose! ‘Super Metroid’ Super Nintendo

It's an awesome iconic piece of art but I still wonder how she fills out the arms. I mean where are her actual human shoulders in there, right now? Try to picture it I dare you

I'm absolutely on board with learning some self-reliance in the webcomics arena. Remember when Tapas included a grab for the right of first refusal in their general terms of service? Yeah. I'm 100% on with you on trying to manage your stuff yourself.

ANYWAY.

@nattosoup, @respheal and I wrote an blog post about this years ago, when Project Wonderful still existed. It has been a long time, and the landscape has changed, so please bear with me as I provide some updated information.

(See also: the archive of the FreeJeeves page. There's a wealth of information here, including some ways to make your comic website more mobile friendly.)

Please visit these resources and see if any appeal to you. They're a mix of materials that are like textbooks, as well as free courses. Some links may require signing up.

I am not affiliated with any of these websites.

1. Learn HTML + CSS

HTML and CSS are the foundation of every page. You don't need internet access to build an HTML page -- you can do it all from your computer at home. But you do need some basic knowledge to get started. If you can format a tumblr post or ever feel adventurous enough to poke at tumblr's themes, you can learn HTML.

Once you learn how to build your website, and have a place you want to upload it? You might want to learn about FTP, which is the file transfer protocol. This lets you upload files to your webhost. If you need an FTP client, Filezilla is absolutely free and works Windows, Mac, and Debian flavors of Linux. (important note: Download the Filezilla client. Don't download Filezilla server unless you know what you're doing.)

2. Where to Post your Webcomic

Here, I'm focusing on places that let you customize your layout and allow for some freedom.

In that old blog post, I mention different types of hosting. We're going to focus on "shared" hosting, which is usually fairly inexpensive on a month-to-month basis and requires almost no knowledge of the server. For a webcomic, you do not need to use AWS, buy a VPS, or rent a dedicated server. That'll be overkill for most folks. If you're at that level, you should know what you're doing.

2.1 Existing Services

Existing services can change their rules or go offline at any time with no notice to the user. Please keep this in mind.

2.2 Self-Hosting with a Content Management System (CMS)

I cannot recommend any webhosts right now, but I can recommend software you can use for posting webcomics, if you feel like getting into the weeds way more than basic HTML/CSS will allow.

These will require the ability to read documentation and follow instructions, as well as basic knowledge in how to upload/edit files using FTP. Your webhost will have documentation if you need access to it.

At the end of the day, a webcomic is basically a blog, so most blogging software can be modified to make it work for this purpose.

If you require technical support for these options, please visit the websites for these tools.

Also, please remember support the developers if you can. Making tools for webcomics is largely a project of love (...sometimes spite), but many are discontinued because the devs become tired, burnt out, or simply lack the energy and finances to do so. It takes a lot of spoons and energy in general to provide technical support, especially when so much knowledge has been lost.

3. Promote your Webcomic

Let's assume you know about social media, and skip right to some other resources:

@bogleech as a seasoned webcomic maker do you have insight on this?

Hosting a webcomic is free and almost effortless actually. My multi gigabyte 22 year old website is now hosted for $5 a month on neocities, but the free neocities also gives you enough space to host hundreds of comic pages and more.

The html I use is less complicated than what many of you used to do for your custom Tumblr profiles, or what kids used to do for their neopets lookups. I made one simple template to my liking and all I do to update is copy that template again, then manually alter the links as needed.

For a typical webcomic that would mean you're only updating the links to the comic page and navigation buttons, then adding a link to the new page in some master "archive" page.

I can just upload a template myself when I get home later, or alternatively, you can save any of my pages off bogleech.com as a .html file, open it up in a text editor and see how it's laid out. If you change it all around to your own content you don't have to credit me, since it's bare bones universal css code anyway.

Okay, here's a silly thing I made for everybody who knows absolutely, positively zero HTML:

Click this link to see a very dumb comic all about how to download the page and use it for your OWN comic.

HOW SIMPLE IS IT??? So simple, the entire guide could really just be this single panel:

.....But I include other ultra basic instructions on how to do this, beginning with how to save the webpage at all. If you don't understand html/css, you don't have to worry about anything other than the six pieces of text I circled there in red. Just keep reusing that page and changing those things to whatever you need them to be. There is no software you need for this to work, no additional coding or resources other than having a place to upload it to, and certainly no "glitches" you need to fear other than typoing your own links. It's the most bare bones it could possibly be but once you're used to it you can look up how to change background colors, add links and other basics. And like I said, neocities will give you the space to upload hundreds of such pages at no cost, or as little as $5-10 monthly if you think you can cover that and you want to upload tens of thousands of such pages. With that basic plan my own website has somewhere around 65,000 image files on it. (You can also modify the same template to make other kinds of posts. Articles, whatever you want!)

HERE'S ADDITIONAL STUFF YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BUT IT DOES MAKE A WEBSITE MORE WEBSITIER

that last code by itself:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=yourwebsite.com">

THIS IS WHY when you go to bogleech.com/pokemon/ you go to the very newest pokemon review! Because my site's /pokemon/ folder has an "index.html" file with just that line of code! When I put up a new review, I change the code in the index file to take you there!