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Hershel Deercliff

@deercliff.itch.io

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queer trans (anti-zionist) jew / webcomic creator / it/its- ze/hir - he/him / https://www.patreon.com/deercliff

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · Oct 26

Hey! You should check out my webcomic, Un/Bound. It's about a lesbian with demonic possession going on a road trip to find her missing brother. It's got
-weird sapphic pining
-two (2) cool dogs
-an evil purple worm
The R in RV stands for Retraumatization! Read today!
unslashbound.the-comic.org

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

Well that sucks for you. I guess your party is going to keep losing then

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 21h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Over The Pants-Stuff Werewolf @joehunter.bsky.social · 1d

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 1d

best compliment i could have gotten

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

I am Jewish. Israel is a country where sexual assault and child murder are core tenets of the culture. This country should not exist. They act with such extremity because they know when you tell people what they actually do, it's so bad it registers as unbelievable.

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 2d

You can read the whole first chapter of Paper Shells on my patreon right now--it won't be releasing publically til spring of next year.

& there's penish! do you really wanna wait until next May to see the penish?

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 4d

I SAID WHO’S READY FOR MORE ZINES FROM ME

Three homemade monochrome mini zines on a table with a pair of scissors next to them.

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 4d

Unless something REQUIRES an auditory element, it is possible in the comics medium, you just haven’t thought enough about how you would do it and thus are treating comics as an inferior medium and I get to bite you with full force jaw strength

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 4d

The type of stories you want already exist, you’re just unwilling to look for them

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5d

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cockroaches 🪳 @dreadforts.bsky.social · Feb 19

how is every single queer erotica collection always

welcome to BUCKETS OF GOREFUCK, we are a subversive transgressive indie collection. please read our submission guidelines!

Submission Guidelines
▪︎ no gore
▪︎ no fuck
▪︎ no buckets

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5d

You couldn't submit Frankenstein, IT, Carmilla, The Only Good Indians, Books of Blood, The Jaunt, The Raft, Off Season, A Game in Yellow, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Dracula, or The Haunting of Hill House under these rules.

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 7d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 7d

My mom had me read Bloodchild when I was around 12. Definitely did things to my brain. Absolutely zero regrets.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight begins Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, which instructs us to reflect on the ways that we have missed the mark this past year, and provides an opportunity to commit to transforming those wrongs in the year to come.

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 7d

WHERE’S MY FUCKIN FUCK ROBOT HELLO!!!!

furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 7d

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molly @longfusilli.bsky.social · 8d

hiiiii here’s a comic i made about having a job and being overwhelmed (1/7)

comic cover!!! featuring the main character, Dina, looking nervous and sweaty. She’s a young woman in an ill-fitting work shirt and pencil skirt with her dark hair tied up in a bun and bangs pinned with a dog-shaped clip. Some sort of ominous shadow looms over her. Text reads: FELT BAD, MET GOD by molly kate young (aka longfusilli) (aka ME!!!!)

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 9

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Kimberly Spirit 👻🪦 @kimspirit.bsky.social · 8d

Image of a snail inching along a trail of grass, roses, and skulls through a thunderstorm. At the top of the image it says in Olde English font "the journey is" and then is edited with regular sans serif font to say "fuck. Oh my god, fuck." At the bottom of the image it is edited to say "shit. Jesus Christ."

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 9d

I luv living in a red state no one cares about “call your reps” they are all very excited to take my healthcare away.

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · 9d

Americans, if you have Democrat reps you need to call them TODAY (I can't stress this enough, TODAY) and demand they stand their ground on protecting trans healthcare.

Congress.gov, house.gov, or the 5 calls app to find your reps

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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tro @trog.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's just so fucking frustrating how it feels like every single shred of progression towards a more just society has to be fought over tooth and nail but regression is as easy as just reminding visa that they think fags are icky

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 11d

Comics are really great, you guys. I think we should make more of them.

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · Jul 25

Branded, the first in a series of four-page horror comics.

This is my first attempt at rendering a whole comic in "pure" black and white linework, without shades of gray. It's a style I've always admired but never felt strong enough to do.

Enjoy! 👻

#comics, #art, #horror, #DarkArt

A black and white comic page with three panels.

Panel 1: A bedroom, seen from above, mostly shrouded in darkness. There is a big bed, and a poster above the bed featuring a demonic band called Beelzebabes. There is a bedside table with a lamp, spreading a circle of light around it. A young woman lies curled up on the bed, clutching a pillow. A rectangle of light falls from an off-panel doorway over the bed, and the shadow of a person appears in the light.

The title of the comic: "Branded", appears in the top left corner.
The shadowy figure says "You should go outside.""

Panel 2:
Closeup of the young woman's face. She looks haggard and frightened. The rectangle of the doorframe, with the shadowy figure within it, appears behind her in the darkness.

The young woman says: "I... I can't. That..."

Panel 3:
A slightly abstract rendition of a window with venetian blinds drawn. Insects buzz in the light filtering through the blinds, and something that resembles smoke rises across the panel.

The young woman says: "That thing is still out there."

A black and white comic page with six panels.

Panel 1: A white void, in which sits a rectangular stairway framed by a low brick wall, apparently leading down underground. A crooked sign post stands next to the stairs.

Narration boxes: "It followed me from the subway station. At first, I thought it was just a beggar, but..."

Panels 2-4: In a sequence of three panels, a pale, deformed humanoid figure emerges from the darkness, its arms abnormally long, its fingers long with claw-like nails. The figure seems to twist and bend in unnatural ways, and keeps poking at its own eyelids with its nails, as if its trying to force its own eyelids open.

Narration boxes: "With every step it took, it changed. I could hear its bones snap and slot into place. And somehow, I was trapped with it. Like a bird in an oil spill."

Panel 5: The young woman, now wearing an overcoat and hat, and a long scarf sustained on the wind, clasps her face in horror. Her face and hands have been blacked out with rough pencil strokes, but the whites of her eyes can still be seen, staring in terror. Her purse is flying through the air, spilling its contents as it goes: a set of keys, a book, a pencil, a smartphone.

Narration boxes: "And something passed from it to me. I can't get rid of it."

Panel 6: A closeup of the creature's eye, being pried open by two long, cracked fingernails. The pupil in the eye resembles a twisted reflection of the young woman.

Narration boxes: "You know how smoke sticks to your collar? Or when a sick baby puts its fingers in your mouth."

A black and white comic page with six panels.

Panel 1: The young woman is peeking out her window, parting the venetian blinds with her fingers. Her face is brightly lit, and her eyes look astonished with disbelief.

Narration boxes: "Ever since then, little by little... the world has fallen apart."

Panel 2: A bizarre view of the street outside the young woman's house. A gigantic dog is being walked by a tiny person, who appears to be much farther away than the dog, despite walking in front of it. The dog is intersected by lamp posts which appear to be at different distances from the viewer, and in each section the dog is much larger than the last. The curb itself appears to be a smartphone, and a broken clock is floating among some rubble in the void.

Narration boxes: "Pieces disappear, or appear elsewhere. Things change size without moving. Nothing is the same when you look again."

Panel 3: In a white void, a deformed figure, distinct from the one we saw on the previous page, is shambling around. It is dressed in a blouse and skirt, and its neck is long, snaking away from its body, head lolling.

Narration boxes: "There are others like it, shambling about. I can see them clearly now. Maybe they were always there."

Panels 4-6: Three panels of the young woman sitting on her bed, clutching her pillow, first seen as a white silhouette over pitch black, then straight from the front, then in closeup as she turns her head toward the figure in the doorway.

The young woman says: "There is no outside anymore. My room is the only place I feel safe."
The figure in the doorway says: "You should go outside."
Irritated, the young woman says: "Weren't you listening? I said–"
The figure in the doorway interrupts: "Outside."
Now suddenly anxious, the young woman says: "What..."
The figure in the doorway interrupts, this time with a scratchy, deformed word balloon: "You should go outside."

A black and white comic page with two panels.

Panel 1: The young woman is sitting up in her bed, clutching her sheet as it wraps around her lower body. She is looking over her shoulder, toward the doorway. Concentric circles with hatched patterns inside them frame her head.

The young woman says: "M... mom?"

A word balloon at the bottom of the panel extends into the next panel, with the letters spilling out of it as if entering the same physical space as the characters themselves, spelling out the words "Go outside".

Panel 2: In a big panel, seen from the young woman's point of view, a monstrous humanoid creature emerges from the darkness, reaching its long, clawed hands toward us. Its neck is crooked, head lolling, eyes apparently clawed open, with fresh scratch wounds running down its cheeks. The mouth is open, with worm-like appendages dangling from its lips. The young woman's hand reaches into frame, fingers spread, as if trying to ward off the monster in fear.

A small box in the bottom right corner informs us that this is the end of the story. Thank you for reading!

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 13d

But this win means our collective pressure is working. Palestinians call for increased global BDS and shareholder pressure until Microsoft adheres to international law and ends all complicity in Israel’s atrocity crimes.

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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 13d

Granted i was already not in a great mood before i read this, but reading it did almost make me burst out crying in public. 10/10.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

line———

Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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