sizab

hi i'm siz

@sizab

artist on hiatus

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30+ / bi trans / ilu <3

i'm an artist making my way through life, this site seems neat.

Adult subjects and jokes may occur but no explicit porn. that's a DIFFERENT account.

Icon/PFP: gallusgalluss @ tumblr

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if you haven’t read any of @maximumgraves What Happens Next, you really should. he posted the last update for the current chapter, so now’s as good a time as any.

an extremely Real feeling work, incredible writing (character and macro-level). easily would call if one of my favorite webcomics of all time.

lot of CWs associated with the actual work, but each chapter starts with a summary there (which creates some unbelievable dread when a chapter starts with “CW suicide attempt”.)

anyway. check it out.

pervocracy
@pervocracy

I didn't like this comic at first. I wasn't sure if it was mocking its protagonist for being an always-the-victim manchild Tumblrino, or taking his side and arguing that his trauma was so bad he has no agency and should never have any responsibilities. Took a while to build trust that no, the artist is doing a thing called Nuance here.

(reading the comments under each panel helped me tremendously in figuring out subtext)

And once I did start liking it, ouch, it felt personal.

Like, I've never been in this exact situation, obviously, but boy howdy have I been a terminally-online twentysomething queer fuckup, and sometimes the comic's aim is so goddamn precise

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sunlightFrequency
@sunlightFrequency

Oh man thank you for posting this. Just marathonned the whole thing, lol. You're not wrong when you say it feels very Real, the comic's so nuanced with its characters and interactions. Like, there's so much grey here - no one person is completely good or bad, it's just a complex set of People Being People™, and there's something very grounding and sobering about that.

It's also kind of weirdly nostalgic in a way? It's kind of hard to explain just how it pulls me in like that, but it reminds me of some of the dreams I'd have when I was in high school and shortly after graduating. Nothing super fantastical would happen, it was just highly grounded People Being People stuff, as if I was living a thousand lifetimes parallel to my own. Anyway soz for the unsolicited mini-review, this webcomic just made me Feel Things that I had to share, haha.

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oddmerit
@oddmerit

i feel like vikki’s comment in the first chapter, when milo says “it feels like they hate me for who am, not for what i did” and she responds “in my experience, they can do both pretty easily”, is a guiding principle for reading this comic. that, and the understanding that sometimes (often, actually) there may be nuggets, however tiny, of real truth amongst the shit characters sling at each other. sometimes it makes it hard to discuss character’s motivations without sounding like a centrist lmao, but there’s been many discussions in the comments where i’m like “yknow i think these contradictory statements are both true in this case”

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