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Douglas "Jalnor" Carr
@jalnor.bsky.social
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Author, webcomic maker, becoming a YouTuber. I'm autistic and that's not a bad thing. I think lives and happiness are more important than accumulating money. If you disagree on those things, we won't get along.
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Here it is, page 21 of Contents May Vary – "Community Building"
#ScienceFails and a possible way home in this page...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Contents May Vary - my #SciFi #sitcom #webcomic about three accidental time travellers trying to understand (and survive in) the #dystopian distant past and avoid altering the timeline. Page 20 is now published and there's a new one every 2 weeks.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Here it is, page 20 of Contents May Vary – "Negotiable Loyalties"
A little bit of #comfort and Kortney is anyone's? Wow.
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Kortney: <I suppose it's only a half step from loyalty being negotiable for moneys.> Ricky: <True. Imagine only working somewhere because they offer you moneys and not because they're awesome.> Hallam: <We'll have to find out first hand soon. How do we find places to negotiate our loyalties?> Ricky: <It must work like in our time, they announce vacancies somewhere.> Kortney: <Gregory will know where.> Hallam: <What about how we go about bidding for those vacancies? It can't be as advanced as our system where they look up applicants on the Network and decide which ones to invite.> Ricky: (Sitting down) <Gregory will know what to do. He's survived here his whole life. Oh, this bed is surprisingly comfy for the era! It's easily on a par with a sleeping bag.> Kortney: (Also sitting) <Oh, it is! I hope mine is this comfy. Or I might let you seduce me from time to time after all.> Hallam: <So unprofessional.> Kortney: <We're not working. We're a community now.>
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Here it is, page 19 of Contents May Vary – "Tenancy"
Poor Hallam and that #Dibs Protocol. They're still getting the words wrong about #money too...
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(Trio entering Ricky's room, shown by Gregory) Ricky: Dibs my room. Hallam: <Frell.> Gregory: The other two are basically the same, make yourselves at home. (Trio in the room, Gregory turning to depart) Kortney: Thank you, Gregory. Gregory: I'll be downstairs... reading... quietly... if you guys need anything. Ricky: <That was an oddly shifty way to say that.> (Gregory gone) Kortney: <He's paranoid, it's probably a cover to fool anyone he thinks is watching.> Ricky: <I wonder what he'll really be doing.> Hallam: <We're going to need employment to get moneys. At least one of us.> Kortney: <By the time Lana Carroll was born, employment wasn't always enough moneys to secure a place to live. It will likely take more than one of us.> Hallam: <Not always enough? What else could they do for moneys?> Kortney: <Some traded... intimacy... for moneys. Others traded their art.> Ricky: <Trading intimacy? What a dystopia when even affection is negotiable.>
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Here it is, page 17 of Contents May Vary – "Every So Often"
So #calendars work differently and if there's no #money, there's no such thing as #landlords or #deposit.
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Gregory: I'm happy to offer the rooms for a bargain price, five hundred a month each, with a five hundred deposit. You guys interested? Hallam: Five hundred what? Ricky: Deposit? Kortney: <A deposit is moneys held in case you break things.> Hallam: <And what's a month?> Kortney: <Twelve uneven portions of the year, from before most people could count past ten. Mostly alternating thirty and thirty-one days.> Hallam: <That's weird. Also, we only have two thousand four hundred moneys, so that would be most of it.> Kortney: We can... pay deposit today and... rent when we have jobs. Gregory: I really shouldn't say yes to that, but you guys seem solid. Ricky: <Did he think we were vapour?> Kortney: <It's from a 2D series. Shape shifting infiltrators referred to humans as "solids."> Ricky: <Oh, so he trusts us!>
October 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Here it is, page 16 of Contents May Vary – "Verbal Tour"
They don't have fridges in the #future? Or do they just call them something else?
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Gregory: Anyway, let me give you a verbal tour. All the rooms are about this size. Back there is the kitchen, there are cupboards and fridge shelves marked out for each room. Hallam: Fridge? What is? Gregory: Oh, a refrigerator. It's... Ricky: Food cryogenics! Gregory: Er, yeah. Through the back is stairs down to cellar storage, don't worry about that. Up on first floor are bedrooms 1 and 2. Ricky: <Easier access for a late night rendezvous, as long as the neighbour doesn't mind. You're not invited, Hallam.> Hallam: <Watch it, or I'll write you up.> Kortney: <You're not in charge here, silly.> Gregory: The, uh... second floor is a big bathroom and a box room, third floor is bedroom 3 and mine. Gregory: (Whisper) But I don't sleep up there. I have four cots in the cellar. Kortney: <Top floor dibs!> Hallam: <Damned International Dibs Protocol.> Kortney: (Whispering) We're safe from the Secret Government, don't worry about us sleeping upstairs. Gregory: Oh, cool!
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Here it is, page 15 of Contents May Vary – "Secret Government"
So Gregory is a #conspiracy #nut. That's not #worrying... is it?
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Hallam: (To Gregory) <*Secret* government?!> Gregory: Sorry? Kortney: Hallam didn't... think the secret government... here? Gregory: Oh. No, they're global. The lizard men saw to that before any of us were born. Ricky: Lizard men?! Gregory: From Saturn, or Uranus, depending who's right. Their own world is being frozen out so they want ours. Hallam: (To Kortney) <Is this guy ill?> Kortney: <Clearly. I've seen historical 2Ds about beliefs in this stuff, it was disillusioned people who weren't ready to accept that the world was in freefall, so they had to believe there was some kind of plan, even if it was an evil plan.> Ricky: (Side-eyeing Gregory) That's an... excellent translation for Hallam, Kortney. Kortney: Thank you, Ricky! Hallam: <Oh, great, I get to be labelled the class idiot again. Stop it, both of you.> Ricky: <Again? Is that a story you *haven't* told me hundreds of times?> Hallam: <No, a slip of the tongue. Quiet.>
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Here it is, page 14 of Contents May Vary – "Doors and Corners"
Manual doors are confusing, but #AutoDoors are a #conspiracy?
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August 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Here it is, page 12 of Contents May Vary – "Wager"
What’s the fastest way to make money when you’re stranded 400 years in the past?
Arm wrestling. Obviously.
#Webcomic #ContentsMayVary #Comics
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August 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Here it is, page 11 of Contents May Vary – "Carriages"
Imagine visiting a world you know only from films and primary school history...
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(At the top of Cornmarket Street, leaving the pedestrianised area, the trio has stopped in bewilderment) Hallam: <What in the world is this?> Kortney: (Looking at cars and buses) <Oh, I think these were called carriages.> Ricky: <Weren't those pulled by horses?> Kortney: <Then someone invented the "horseless carriage" and, by the millennium, almost everyone had one.> Hallam: <What, they each have their *own* huge vehicle? That's wasteful!> Kortney: <We're in an era of rampant greed. Also, do you know what that odour is?> Ricky: <Like someone put white spirit on a barbecue.> Kortney: <They burn alkenes to move these things, that's why they're so loud and it's part of what caused the climate catastrophe of the 2050s.> Hallam: <Do they know?> Kortney: <Some do. Others wilfully deny it.> Ricky: (Shocked) <They wilfully deny knowledge? *Why*?!> Kortney: <Because they're getting moneys from things causing it, like alkene production.> Hallam: <That's barbaric!> Ricky: <How the frell did we ever make it out of this century?> Kortney: <If not for Lana Carroll, we probably wouldn't have.>
July 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Here it is, page 10 of Contents May Vary – "Time"
Have *you* heard the #story of the #programmer who #panicked?
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Hallam: (Holding up Risti, screen shows an error) <I've got no network signal.> Kortney: <In a settlement? How?!> Ricky: <Oh, no. Because the Network was in its early days during the Great Reform.> Ricky: <Our devices don't exist yet and the Network won't understand how to talk to a Risti, if that's even been built.> Kortney: (Worried) <So we're... really... but I can't - I have... my...> Ricky: (Taking hold of her shoulder) <Hey, breathe. You know the story about the programmer who panicked?> Kortney: (Sighing) <Yeah, my mum used to read me that. You're right.> Hallam: <If we're before the Great Reform, we're going to need more of those moneys.> Kortney: <Also, holographics are less than 200 years old. We can't use our Risti displays in public.> Ricky: <I can set the displays as user-only later. Oh, I have an idea about moneys! Gloucester Green's been about since the 20th century, follow me.>
July 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Here it is, page 9 of Contents May Vary – "Money"
Slow speech, #museum #relics in circulation, newer buildings missing? It can only mean one thing...
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June 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Here it is, page 8 of Contents May Vary – "Street Performance"
Three people appear #crash-landing in the middle of the street and you think... what?
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(Characters in same positions, but in mid-air a metre or so off the ground in the centre of 21st-century Oxford, with no box) (The three fall sprawled across the ground, bystanders looking shocked) Effect: THUD (The three on their feet and looking about with question marks above their heads) Tourist: (Handing Kortney a banknote) Coolest show I see here! Where you jump from?
June 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Here it is, page 7 of Contents May Vary – "The Glow"
The box is glowing. Alarms are blaring. Time to land – fast.
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May 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Here it is, page 6 of Contents May Vary – "The Box"
Things are about to go... very, very off-schedule.
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(Behind the building, a delivery ship is lifting off, Hallam visible at controls, Kortney also in the cockpit) (In the back section, Ricky effortlessly lifts a large Kooflen box with his left arm) (Close-up of the box, we see the name and address: Dr. Emmental Von Braun, 13 Igor's Court, 51.800886,-1.225339) (Box lights up, with a central shape a lot like a BTTF flux capacitor)
May 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Here it is, page 5 of Contents May Vary – "Kortney"
In this week’s #scifi #comedy #webcomic: demolition in #future #Oxford, watch-based #holograms, and Kortney starts her #NewJob in delivery logistics, where there are some very casual HR policies. How would you handle a #promiscuous new colleague?
April 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Repost: page 4 of Contents May Vary – "West Gate"
A #comedy #SciFi #webcomic about #TimeTravel – #future #Oxford has #underground #trains and #BonnSquare has seen some changes... the rewards here are in the #details.
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[In the year 2447...] (Futuristic cityscape with some modern Oxford landmarks, well-spaced with swatches of green; Kooflen delivery ship flying past; in the lower right of the panel some distance from the dock, a purple and black vortex has attracted attention) (Ricky leaving the "Bonn Square Station," with Bonn Square visible. Beyond that, the New Road Church is being dismantled with tractor beams and someone is inspecting an object in the beam) (Ricky clocks in at a door to the Kooflen building by waving his hand past a sensor and the screen displays his ID with photo and details: Ricky Howell, citizen 26CFDDA9A, delivery assistant) (Inside, Ricky hello-waves at Hallam, who is aloof and looking at a tablet-sized screen in thin air projected from a "Risti" device on his wrist, currently displaying unreadable text; in the background, out the window, we the demolition worker is watching Kortney's distress video.) Ricky: <Morning, Hallam.> Hallam: <Hmm.>
April 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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My republish of page 3 of Contents May Vary – "Ricky"
After several hours in the past, Ricky has a weird observation to share about #GenderNorms and #contest. A #comedy #TimeTravel #SciFi #webcomic!
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(Ricky in his bedroom, directly addressing the reader with surprise and amusement) Ricky: Apparently, female people here don't arm wrestle. The society has weird rules like that for what body you're born in. Ricky: (More amused) But if you wager on a left-handed arm wrestle against another male person here... Ricky: ...even if they know you’re undefeated against the last 63 people, an average of 1.9 times each, they pathologically *can’t* say no.
April 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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New republish, page 2 of Contents May Vary - "Distress"
Today in this new #Indie #SciFi #webcomic, Kortney tries to #PhoneHome from the distant past with a #DistressCall. But just when did this #TimeTravel #accident send them?
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(Kortney, addressing reader. Background is old-looking stone building) Kortney: <Help. My name is Kortney Aneurin, a Kooflen logistics co-ordinator. If you're seeing this - if you've found this recording and have the technology to view it - we need your help.> Kortney: <We're stuck. I don't know exactly what happened… or how or why. But we went back in time. You've got to find a way to get us home. This place is…> Kortney: (Looking concerned) <…so primitive. Only the most rudimentary technology, barbaric medicine and we are terrified of altering the timeline. If they discover who we are..?> (Zoomed out, to reveal the wall is the New Road Baptist Church in modern Oxford's Bonn Square, with Ricky filming and Hallam "supervising") Kortney: <Please… find the device that we think sent us back - it should be in the cockpit of our van - and use it to retrieve us.>
April 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Republishing page 1 of Contents May Vary - "Teaser"
This #SciFi #webcomic tells a story of a trying #dystopian time, when #racism, #inequality and #despair overshadowed everyday life. But make no mistake, this will be #comedy.
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(Shot of modern Earth) Narrator: <Four hundred and twenty-two years ago, things looked pretty dire.> (House of Commons, centred on Speaker) Unseen Opposition: Mr. Speaker, the people are poor and starving, yet the Prime Minister essentially proposes that they should eat cake, instead of taxing the wealthy. Narrator: <Poverty, greed and mass ignorance threatened the downfall of our civilisation.> Narrator: <Those who saw it felt all kinds of despair.> (A man with only sky visible behind him) Off-screen speaker 1: We don't like your kind here, go back to bongo bongo land! Off-screen speaker 2: But I'm *from here*! Man: I don't want to live on this island any more. Narrator: Few could imagine that things would ever recover. But there was one person who saw the potential of our kind and, with a stroke of genius, saved us from the brink.> (Trio in modern clothes passing an old stone building) Hallam: <They haven't invented flying, there are no underground trains, how do they travel?> Kortney: <They walk.> Ricky: <No, Da Vinci drew primitive aircraft way earlier than this.> Narrator: <…it was none of them.>
April 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Here it is, page 4 of Contents May Vary - "West Gate"
Welcome to the future!
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April 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Here it is, page 3 of Contents May Vary - "Ricky"
After several hours in the past, Ricky has a weird observation to share.
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March 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Here it is, page 2 of Contents May Vary - "Distress" Who are they and how did they get there? Patron-only HD version: www.patreon.com/posts/cmv-pa...
March 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Here it is, the cover for my new #webcomic Contents May Vary. Time travel is sort of the central vehicle for the story, though it won't happen much :-D
Page 1 goes live at noon (UK time) tomorrow, but patrons will get a look at the HD version tonight :-)
February 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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