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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 1d

Millennials staring down this whole AI thing like

A screenshot of Merry and Pippin from The Lord of the Rings with the text "We've had first tech bubble, yes. But what about a second one?"

Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 1d

I hope my favorite flowers are all weird as shit. I hope I get all new favorite flowers out of this and all the meanings are rancid.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 2

the full production is available to view on archive.org

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Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Kierie might fight him for the title of Official Webcomic Skank.

She wouldn't admit to fighting him for it, she just wouldn't want him to win.

a drawing of Kierie in the "Support Rigsby on Kickstarter" crop top

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh, I didn’t know rattlers also gave birth to live young!

(I knew that about garter snakes, something we found out by accident after my dad decided to keep a garter snake that bit him and then whoops, thirty babies.)

(Most of them went to Boy Scouts doing their Reptiles projects.)

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 2d

Which was just. Such a fucking funny scene with all the context of almost every other book in the series. Like yes, Saetan, I too would be shitting my pants over that, that is terrifying.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 2d

And it was decent at providing me with just enough context to read the third from the original trilogy out of order!

Though maybe I did start the first one at some point? I'm now remembering Saetan shitting his pants over this small child showing up in Hell with her Too Many uncut black gems.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like The Invisible Ring was probably the least terrible of them to have accidentally started with when reading my way through Every Romance Novel On Libby based on what had no waitlist in, like, 2018.

At some point I need to read the first two books, but I know I need to Brace Myself.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 3d

i already loved this greasy weirdo before you started making him slutty and I've been thinking about this outfit since you posted it.

fanart of frank in his support rigsby on kickstarter crop top

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes, your household needs new medium plates.

And sometimes, the thrift store delivers SPECTACULARLY.

A plate with a drawing of a chicken dressed as a sultry lounge singer, reclining on a piano.

A plate with a drawing of a chicken dressed as a wealthy and drunk bar patron.

A plate with a chicken dressed as a lounge singer, rocking out at the mic.

A plate with a chicken bartender behind a bar on it.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for coming out to blather! It was very entertaining! Probably see you in person again in another 5–7 years, at which point I hope the wombat wristwarmers will still be going strong.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 5d

Which is admittedly about the amount of time I expect to spend thinking about animal genitalia after seeing you talk, but still a bit of a curveball.

Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 5d

You told the story about the sea cucumber gonads AND THEN you mentioned they were trying to decide whether to place your novella with a Rat In Fancy Clothes in fantasy or romantasy and kept asking you how explicit it was going to be, so I ended the evening thinking about rat testicle size.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 7d

It was lovely to listen to you ramble out loud again instead of reading your rambles online! Perhaps I will again see you briefly in another 5-7 years, at which point I hope the wombat wrist warmers will still be functional. (Still shocked they’re in one piece, given all the places they’ve gone.)

Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 7d

T Kingfisher: *talking about her publisher trying to place her fantasy romance with a Large White Rat Man and it coming down to how explicit it is*

Me: *trying very hard not to think about how male rats have really large testicles compared to their body sizes*

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 8d

There's also Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, but that one isn't, y'know, fiction, other than they probably wished some of the things they tried eating were fictional: kuec.libsyn.com

Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap

Kevin Sonney and Ursula Vernon explore the world of cheap, pre-packaged foods. Join them as they sit in their kitchen, prepare the foods, and share their impressions with you.

kuec.libsyn.com

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 8d

The Hidden Almanac! hiddenalmanac.com

It's a delight and I love it.

The Hidden Almanac

Interesting "Facts" every M-W-F

hiddenalmanac.com

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 9d

(And also being amused that "gobbo" simultaneously works as shorthand for goblin in English but maybe also kind of could be slang for "mouthsounds" in Orlekra, given the vocab we're given in the audition script.)

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 9d

I briefly considered putting in an audition for her before realizing I am not at all set up for getting clean sound just because I was having so much fun attempting Orlekra.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 10d

We always knew you'd come into your own as a Terminator one of these days.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 10d

As someone who has been following you around since the days of Elfwood, this is. How to say. A little bit surreal to see? In a good way, but. Y’know.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10d

Reminder to my fellow fortysomething-year-olds that, if you want to go into a Hot Topic to buy Lackadaisy shirt and support indie animation, you are allowed. No one can stop you

Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 17d

Ivy is very much enjoying being a Hot Topic. Freckle doesn't know what he's doing here. (Thank you Lisa R, for the photo!)

Lackadaisy stuff now in some Hot Topic stores! Keep an eye out for more popping up soon.
#lackadaisy #hottopic

A photograph of a Hot Topic t-shirt display. A Lackadaisy t-shirt featuring Freckle and Ivy sits among Murder Drones, Gaslight District, Arcane, Smiling Friends, and Bluey shirts.

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 10d

He's the poor man's god...

Hazel from The Bardic Hearth (with bonus Guile)

A digital drawing of Hazel, a white woman with dark hair and eyes, looking contemplatively off to one side and holding a face-out playing card to her lips. The playing card is a red Joker with a rather life-like Guile on it, holding a hand of cards of his own and looking up at Hazel's face.

Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 11d

But if you want PDFs of any of these minizines—including the full-page versions so you can print them out and fold your own!—you can get them for free on my Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/6fd432ee4c

please enjoy the worst promo image ever.

2025 Narrative Podcast Zine Fest - Kadharonon's Art's Ko-fi Shop

PDFs of the illustrated mini-zines I created during the 2025 Narrative Podcast Zine Fest on Tumblr, including: - Canon Podcast Couples I Adore - Inadv...

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Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 11d

I hoped to get more of these done before the end of the fest, but I think I'm going to have to call it. Those chronic illnesses sure are illnessing.

Mad S @kadharonon.bsky.social · 15d

Another trio of recs! Fantasy podcasts, this time.

The front and back cover of a one-page minizine.

Cover Front: Three Fantasy Podcasts

Cover Back: A minizine of podcast recs by kadharonon-art

A two-page spread from a mini-zine

Spread 1 top: Absolutely No Adventures

Spread 1 Bottom: A black and white lineart illustration of Bea and Happy crowded around Sig, who is pulling a tray of cronuts out of an (implied to be in the position of the viewer) oven. Bea is pumping her fist in the air and Happy is stealing a cronut with his bare hand.

Spread 1 left text:
Sig (my son with every prophecy) does his best to avoid every adventure that comes his way with the help of his best friend Happy (an Aberrant One) and Bea (a normal human woman from our world).

Spread 1 right text:
Join them as they do a lot of baking, avoid a lot of adventures, and make a lot of new friends... and, unfortunately, end up on an adventure or two along the way anyway. Whoops.

Spread 2 left text: Starfall

A mysterious, martial scarecrow of a woman with a gigantic magical sword joins up with a traveling theater troupe and learns everything she was never taught about life, love, and being part of a community.

Spread 2 right text: Leona is often lost and confused in her new life, but the members of the Carouvel Traveling Acting Troupe are there for her through it all.

Spread 2 bottom: a black and white illustration of a cart on a path at a distance, just passing off the page in the distance, while Leona watches in the foreground, her sword propped on her shoulder.

Spread 3 left text: The Bardic Hearth

An amnesiac bard guards a well of wishes for the goddess of death, gathering the stories of all who come. Meanwhile, in the wider world, a young woman tries to solve the mystery of why [redacted] [redacted] is fading from the world...

The season 1 finale assembles a Chekov's firing squad out of the hints the rest of the season presented, and it's GLORIOUS.

Spread 3 right: A black and white drawing of Mortaine, Goddess of Death, standing behind Wren, the amnesiac bard. He's sitting on a stool, playing his guitar, and her hand is on his shoulder.

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