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Neal
@nskorpen.bsky.social
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Comic creator, graphic artist, aikido guy, in the twin cities with my wife, our son, dog, cats and guinea pigs. #noAI #noNFTs #antifa
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Were-crab monologues in today's Simane the Slayer. More at simane.thecomicseries.com
#webcomic #werewolf #werebat #therianthropes #urbanFantasy
panel 1. Simane, from off panel: there's more than one of those fucking things? Crab Guy, in human form, adjusting a sleeve: Do you know, we're supposed to be entering another ice age... panel 2. View from above, Panic the bat flies around, Simane stands at the edge of a pit in the floor. Crab Guy from off panel: It's no skiing holiday, I assure you. Little access to the finer things, and less capacity to enjoy them. panel 3. Looking up past Crab Guy's joyous face, a swirl of energy is on the ceiling with cables feeding into it. Crab Guy: But the in-between time! Glorious! We can choose our forms, we can travel anywhere in the blink of an eye...And we can work the most unlikely magic. panel 4. Looking over Crab Guy's shoulder at Simane, across the pit. Crab Guy: So my friends and I thought, why not make the in-between time the only time? Simane: You...started climate change? panel 5. View of Crab Guy's feet at the edge of the pit. Crab Guy: Oh, no. Credit where due. Your people started it, with your ingenious extraction and burning of the liquefied dead. But now you've almost used them up...so we're making a fresh crop. panel 6. Panic lands on Simane's shoulder. Her expression is dubious, maybe a little snarky. Simane: Wow.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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construction nightmare up my street from a couple weeks ago #photography
photo of a residential street at night, both sides lined with construction equipment, with a harsh streetlight in the upper center photo of a construction machine on a residential street at night, with the moon shining through a curve-edged opening photo of a residential street at night, both sides lined with construction equipment, with a harsh streetlight in the upper center, past some leafy treetops
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Walnut is weird #caturday
Black and white photo of a cat on a cat post, laying on a platform on his side, with one hind leg braced awkwardly against a higher platform, and tail dangling below in a roughly reflecting shape
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Hiccup showing off his sutures #photography
#caturday
High contrast black and white photo of a cat sitting on a countertop looking at the camera , in front of a doorway in deep shadow. A stitched up wound is visible on the cat’s shoulder
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The latest in Æthernaut. Full comic at flintpunk.com
To get your copy of the graphic novel vol. 1, check this: www.patreon.com/posts/aether...
#webcomic #steampunk #weirdFantasy #earlyModern #pirates
panel 1. Lemuel stands on a small stage, looking out over a crowd like a deer in the headlights. Denumar is on one side, doing a handstand and holding up his cloak with his feet. Arome is on the other side, smiling and gesturing. Behind them a pair of attendants are handling prop stars and a large prop Moon. caption: Lord Arome then brought us to an odeum, where the guests had already gathered, and made a great show of our introduction. I could summon no words for ther assembled visitants, but Lord Arome and Denumar between them supplied a colorful, if wholly inaccurate, account of our adventure. panel 2. View from above of Lemuel surrounded and jostled by party guests. caption: Next came an interminable torrent of questions, overtures, and anecdotes from the peerage. I found myself still incapable of the slightest articulation. Fortunately the gentility were only too happy to carry on conversing without my aid. panel 3. View of Lemuel's face, looking questioningly toward the off-panel voice. caption: I allowed myself to drift among the folk as I had in the open æther. A not unpleasant experience, until I met with another familiar face. Voice from off panel: So, young Rasmussen. panel 4. View of the speaker, Lord Tochville, looking smug. Tochville: You've returned to us with quite the yarn.
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Walnut, office helper #caturday
Photo of an orange cat standing on a desk in front of a computer, looking at the camera
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The latest in Simane the Slayer. Full comic at simane.thecomicseries.com
#webcomic #urbanFantasy #werewolf #bat
panel 1. close up of crab-guy in human form's face, slightly crazed. Crabguy: It's a thing of beauty. I wish you could see it. panel 2. Simane and Crabguy in a basement cluttered with machinery. Simane: I have seen it! It's abominable! crabguy: Why? Do you imagine they suffer? How could they feel anything without a brain? panel 3. bird's eye view. Crabguy and Simane stand on opposite sides of a pit in the floor. Panic the bat flies above them. Crabguy: Actually, you're right. They have nervous systems after all. They sense how wrong their existence is, but lack the anatomy for understanding. It must be awful. Simane (has drawn her knife): So you just grow armies of headless people to have muscle memory of existential crisis until they fall down a pit? panel 4 Crabguy: A delightful tableau, to be sure. But not nearly as beautiful as the engineering that makes it possible. Microchips and motors functioning in Faerie, producing human clones at speed and scale impossible on the material plane. The incompatible aspects of our two worlds, pushing against each other in perfect balance, in service of our great purpose. Simane: Some purpose. I'm pulling the plug, Crabby. panel 5. Looking up past Simane's face. Panic flies between her and a swirling mass of energy above. Crabguy (off panel): What a plucky little witch you are. But even if I were to allow you, it wouldn't matter. Our other installations would carry on.
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#silentSunday
Photo of the side of a tree trunk, half covered in orange ivy leaves
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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My wife and I continue to get wildly divergent fortunes
2 fortune cookie fortunes: “Adventure fuels your soul; pursue it with passion” and “a moment of serenity awaits you tonight”
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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#caturday
Close up photo on an orange cat’s face, laying on his side on a table
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Auroras in the hood!
#northernLights #minneapolis
Photo of red northern lights in a bat or moth like shape above some trees Photo of a red and purple smear of northern lights above a residential street Photo of red and green streaky northern lights above a residential street
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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The latest in Æthernaut. Full comic at aethernaut.thecomicseries.com
#webcomic #weirdFantasy #steampunk #pirates
panel 1. Close up of Lemuel, nervous and bewildered. Morris (off panel): Your Lordship, only Rasmussen will be joining our crew. Denumar, sadly, is unable to sail. Lemuel: I'm honored, your-- panel 2. Denumar leans in for a closer look at the drawing help up by Alanthus. Arome looks on. Denumar: This device will guarantee New Byzantium's sovereignty over the stars, will it? Alanthus: Well, no, it cuts down trees-- Arome: What do you know of my levitation engine? panel 3. Overhead view of the room. Denumar: My dear Lord Merchant, it is well known how tirelessly you labor for the Empire's primacy! Arome: I've always said, we depend too much on phlagranite to lift our balloons and fire our cannon. We're entirely beholden to Mars for the red dust. Haven't I always said so, Alanthus? Alanthus: Yes, you-- Arome: But not for long! I'm on the verge of a discovery that will forever free us from trade with those horned savages. panel 4. Arome is cheerful, Alanthus is sullen. Denumar whoops behind them. Arome: Then they may burn their own planet to ash, as they seem so eager to do. Denumar: Brilliant! Sagacious! Perspicalian! Arome: It's all due to my studies outside the bounds of Masonic tradition. I've gathered many great minds like Alanthus here, exiled from the guilds for exploring too far. Alanthus: Quite. panel 5. Close up of Arome, looking a bit grim. Arome: Together we're reaching revelations the state alchemists could never dream of. Denumar (off panel): Positively prodignatious!
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Painted the minis from my Myth Dark Frontier game #miniatureMonday
Photo of 7 painted minifigs: sorceress in red, two artificers in browns and motley, ranger in green, priest in orange and blue, rogue in dark browns, and a ferret-woman fighter in blue
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#silentSunday
Photo looking across a wall covered in ivy, with red stems that are sparse up close and blend into solid red further away
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The view from outside Mike Johnson’s office
Photo through a shop window of a notice on an inflatable attraction. The only visible portion reads “we are not responsible”
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Good morning! Hiccup’s mystery wound is healing nicely #caturday
Photo of two orange cats on a dining room chair, both looking at the camera. One is sitting up with a shaved patch and a stitched up scar on one shoulder
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#photography #foliageFriday
Photo: a treetop, with leaves in shades of yellow, filling the lower 2/3 of the frame, under a blue sky with some wispy clouds
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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#photography
Photo of a wall painted with a mural of mostly blues and abstract swirling colors, partially covered by ivy with reddish leaves that sweeps across the wall in a wave shape
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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the latest in Simane the Slayer. full comic at simane.thecomicseries.com
#webcomic #urbanFantasy #werewolf
panel 1. Exterior view of a cabin, waxing gibbous moon in night sky. Voice from inside: Are you guys gonna go through with it? Get bitten? panel 2. Inside, Simane, Brendan, and Celandine are eating around a small table, with lantern light coming from the side of the room. Brendan: Well Simane, we wanted to talk to you about that. Celandine: It hasn't always been easy here...for any of us. We've certainly had our ups and downs in this family. panel 3. Close up of Simane, looking slightly hopeful. Brendan: But your mom and I... we think this is a good chance for us to make a fresh start. Simane: You mean... leave? panel 4. Close up of Brendan, laughing: Leave? Now? When we're finally about to become real magicians? panel 5. Celandine, reaching across the table to grip Simane's hand: No, Simane. We want you to be the first of us...to receive the gift. panel 6. close up of Simane, looking disapointed. panel 7. Same view, grief overtakes Simane and tears fall from her normal eye. panel 8. Simane runs out the door, knuckling her face. Voices from inside: Simane! Where are you going?
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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I don’t know when or where I got this old lead bugbear mini, but I’m playing one now so I painted it
#miniatureMonday
Photo of a painted bugbear miniature, with red-orange skin, brown fur and hair, and wearing a hodgepodge of metal and hide, holding an oblong spiked mace Photo of a painted bugbear miniature, with red-orange skin, brown fur and hair, and wearing a hodgepodge of metal and hide, holding an oblong spiked mace
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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#silentSunday
Photo from a park near an airport in early evening, with a bright moon in a dim cloudy sky, over far off lights on the ground
November 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Too many feet #caturday
Photo of a sleeping orange cat curled up, only the head and paws are in frame
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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It was my intention all along to leave the pumpkins out and not carve them and have squirrels chew on them so creepy bugs can be coming out #halloween #notBlowingIt
Photo of a pumpkin on a porch with a big gross hole, and some plastic spiders and centipedes attached to the surface around the hole
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Goodnight Freestyle
#Drawlloween2025 + #Drawtober2025 day 31
#graceyencer #holliweensdrawlloween2025 #inktober
Happy Halloween!
cartoony ink drawing: 3 trick or treaters in front of a little shack, with some decorations and some candy set out with a "take one" sign. One kid looks up past the shack and sees a towering figure, wearing a moon mask and a starry night cloak, who waves at her
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Vintage Halloween Shelf
#Drawlloween2025 + #Drawtober2025 day 30
#graceyencer #holliweensdrawlloween2025 #inktober
cartoony ink drawing: on a shelf, three modern cute halloween decorative figures sit in front of an older and very creepy pumpkin thing
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM