I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.

If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.

btw RttS is still contracted to a book publisher, I just got permission from them to share the comic online. This is beneficial for two reasons: it's functionally advertising for a printed book when the comic is complete, and also I am quite shallow and primarily motivated by attention so sharing pages makes pages happen faster 👍

the problem with having an autistic special interest around doujin music is that it's so easy to find excuses to infodump about it, since it's legitimately not widely understood. the average person doesn't even know about Living Only Records. you can tell them everything forever.

explaining what Last Little While is and then looking over my shoulder as I walk away, waiting for them to ask "who's anoare?"

this is anoare. btw.

@irrlichter anoare has a bunch of albums out! they also play in the shoegaze band Last Little While and post about adjacent music on their twitter (easy to find)

also they post tracks on youtube sometimes

喫煙所無いのだりぃ

A few Kiith S’jet scientist concepts.

Interesting! @cyborgnecromancer Any chance you could do concepts of characters from the other Kiiths?

For sure! Here’s a Kiith Naabal engineer, a Kiith Soban merc, and a Kiith Manaan pilot (and/or circus knife-thrower).

chuunibyou is a terminal illness for elves

while it might seem the case that being an independent artist frees you of having a boss you hate, this always ignores the fact that anyone doing art becomes intimately aware of how much room there is in your hollowed out skeleton to hate payment processors

at every level, the payment industry has one of the world's simplest and most profitable jobs: take a cut off of someone else's money in exchange for delivering it to them

now imagine the most grotesque abuse of executive power that could come with someone realising they, by holding this money for any period of time, can actively shape culture before it reaches the masses. understand this is entirely normalised and legal

Every* Type of Mecha

*Not Actually Every Type.

Something I spent WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on lol. This is entirely just riffing off of the many 'kinds' or 'tropes' in mecha design I found. Feel free to suggest more of them.

Might make a document providing examples for each one, but idk. I think most of these are pretty self-explanatory.

Tell me your favourites below

"is marcille a chaser", the longest thread in the history of the dunmeshi forums, seeing the removal of 212 users for their posts,

Allow me to call an expert witness to the stand

"yes yes pole arms are more practical than swords but lack any romanticism" <- words of someone unable to romanticize bleeding out in some irrelevant battle for the sake of a noblewoman they've never met

ⓘ This post is about lesbian sex.

he had that haunted look about him, that sense of deep regret you'd only see on around page 15 of a 28 page long domination_loss doujin

てくせ

I love that this map on the wikipedia page for the Mongol Empire took a hard stance on the legitimacy of succession of Roman Imperium

yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you greedy fucks

good.

"We keep making our service worse, cancelling shows before their time, hiking up the prices, and generally ruining what once was a decent product--piracy keeps wining somehow. 🤷"

i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

head in the clouds 🕊☁