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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 · 6d

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 · 14h

Ohoho!

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 15h

No😔

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

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 15h

Yea

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 15h

Page seven’s up there now🩸

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 16h

Should it be “bullshat”

Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 22h

😩😩

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

It really doesnt

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

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 · 1d

😩😩😮‍💨really hard

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

1hundo💀

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

(Non-sarcastic! Just to be clear)

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

Real collaborative spirit!

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

It’s just bother!!

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

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

I think it’s bad to publish mind-melting (pejorative) niceness at this time or at any. Don’t take the Turkish delight if it means selling someone out. But—it is happening now, specifically, and it’s bad training. It’s bad practice. I’m dismayed by this editorial value (?) set in action

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

I don’t think it’s good for these books to exist, bc I don’t think that these numbers are just people being nice, i think they’re people practicing liking things instead of paying attention. I don’t think someone could like this book without not minding things that matter and should be mentioned

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

They also piss me off bc I don’t like being bullshitted

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

I believe in pleasant literature. I know perfectly well that there is depth and change and healthful comfort in gently-written books. But not in ALL of them. It doesn’t just Happen. It takes care. I think lax books can make you lose hold of important things like “paying attention to stated truths”

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

Whoever just DM’d me I still can’t read those bc I don’t really want to give apps my ID… find another way…

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

I like this woman and I think she could write good books if someone helped her to write something real. But that is not the machine she’s caught in

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

They ignore it for treats. They aren’t supposed to notice, the dissonance isn’t supposed to be there. It’s a writing mistake that appears again and again because nobody helped it the result is this equation: want cosy glow? Make mind smooth, don’t see it. That is bad life training

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

There is not supposed to be constant dissonance. It doesn’t come to anything in the text. It’s just unchecked prose, two ideas trying to be ~in the story~ at once because they’re both cute, but they cannot coexist because they are separate scenarios. The ideal, positive reader ignores this

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