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Good Old Claire

@illusclaire.bsky.social

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Comics editor (the kind you hire); cartoonist of hostile romance comics (Take Me to the Place I Love; The Magic Necklace; Wolf Story). Still a critic, after all Clairenapier.com 🌸 38, but who can prove it?

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 9d

Cosy Witch Book (Brutal) pages 1-4. Watch the website! Your new favourite uncomfortable romance comic😊🌙✨🔫🙍‍♂️🖤

A house built all mish-mash, by a road, at night. A car’s on the road

The car’s parked in a lane by the house. It ends at a small wood. A man’s got out and he’s opened the boot

Sounds at night—sounds at daybreak—sounds in daylight. They sound like this: CHK—frrr

Man’s sitting on a log, all puffed out. Has a drink, wipes his face, slaps his gloves. Seems to be a shovel just behind him, maybe

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 10h

Jsyk Alfie (1966) is a movie from men to men saying hey. If u measure success only in pussy units and shine u’ll be a failure As A Man. It could be marginally clearer but I wish it wouldn’t need to be

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 1d

Watched the Alfie remake this afternoon. Really bad

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 2d

Cosy Witch Book (Brutal)
pages 5-8

Watch cosy-witch-book-brutal.neocities.org

An uncomfortable romance for the dark months🌙

Eugene exits the woods, and is surprised by a greeting

Eugene pulls ani’s glasses out of the brambles. Oh, is that blood on his hand?

Eugene does not lick the blood that he says is not on his hand and refuses help with the wound—it’s healed, he says. Ani invites him in anyway. For soup. Bc he’s been out there for so long!

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a good movie…

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh that’s interesting… I wonder why he hated it…

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 1d

Watched the Alfie remake this afternoon. Really bad

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 2d

What if…

Taste the Prog of Dracula @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social · 2d

What if I opened a play in a tiny little bar theater and it was about the nuclear apocalypse and the Simpsons and how pop-culture is weird and so on

And it opened with a two minute soundscape exactly like this one?

WHAT THEN, FOLKS

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 2d

They’re so good

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, I'm going to throw my hat out: would anybody like to have me on their podcast/newsletter to talk about Appalachian pulp, folklore, witchlore, and the benefits of weirding historical fiction? I think these stories are good, and I want to talk about them!

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 5d

Fuck Prime Day. PDFs of GHOST DAYS and IN THE SNOW, THE JUNGLE are on sale for just 3$ today, which means you can grab this fully illustrated short story collection AND its followup novella for just $6.

Get your Appalachian historical folklore/horror fix here!

www.asherelbein.com/store

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 2d

Cosy Witch Book (Brutal)
pages 5-8

Watch cosy-witch-book-brutal.neocities.org

An uncomfortable romance for the dark months🌙

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

Ohoho!

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

No😔

But you’re welcome down here if u have spare days!

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

Yea

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

Page seven’s up there now🩸

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 9d

Cosy Witch Book (Brutal) pages 1-4. Watch the website! Your new favourite uncomfortable romance comic😊🌙✨🔫🙍‍♂️🖤

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

Should it be “bullshat”

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

😩😩

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

It really doesnt

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

I think yeah, the inherent visibility struggle in that line of work will make, or just come from, “being seen” (negative) a really painful experience

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

😩😩😮‍💨really hard

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

1hundo💀

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

(Non-sarcastic! Just to be clear)

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

Real collaborative spirit!

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

It’s just bother!!

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

There is more to you than this if you have the courage to write it

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

But it’s not real! She’s being cashed in on, in a way that harms the relationship between reader and word. She’s not using her potential, or her stories’. Publishing doesn’t care about writing, growth or people. It’s just a business. Creation, discernment and discipline lie apart

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted better FROM her. I wanted to be able to be jealous of her, so I could believe in bookish girls having their publishing dreams come true just like that, just by putting a first story onto pages. I wanted to envy something real along simple lines & say “ah, comics are just a smaller industry”

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3d

And extra-so, I suppose, because I’m part of the target audience, both in terms of shared demographic with the author who is writing for herself and in terms of having watched this woman’s channel for years and years. I understand her. In some essential sense I love her. I wanted better for her

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