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A. Senna Diaz (she/her) Cartoonist | PDX | Dialectical Material Girl ☭ Creator of Dresden Codak/Dark Science https://dresdencodak.com/ https://www.patreon.com/dresdencodak

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · Oct 17

Hello new followers! If you want to check out my queer cyberpunk comic that's sort of "Metropolis + Ghost in the Shell + Discworld", you can start reading it for free here! dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/d...

Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie - Dresden Codak

So this is page one of a new series that will be going on in Dresden Codak! Page 2 will be up next week.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 5h

I'm watching Curse of Frankenstein for the first time (I love Hammer horror but somehow always missed this one). I love Peter Cushing's take on Victor. From the moment he's on screen you understand that he's someone who, through immense privilege, can't comprehend his actions having consequences.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

"Calling me a monster is just a fancy way of saying you're afraid to know what I am"

Xiaoling Chavez easily blocks Sirius's punch (from Dark Science #175)

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

Home, home again.

A young Kim Ross returning to her childhood home (from Dark Science #175)

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 13h

Haha I have run into this a LOT. 💀

Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 14h

I promise not to turn this into a rant about how Walt's "entertainment first" directive cements every Disney feature as a pretty, soulless, Product, and how Fleischer's Gulliver is fundamentally superior to Snow White, but you can imagine that I did if you want.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 14h

Also the kind of person who'd call it "cozy" are thinking of Disney or Disney-influenced features, which are the greatest offender in the sensory overload dept.

Worth considering too that Miyazaki was heavily inspired by Soviet animation, which heaven forbid gave your brain time to digest things.

Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 15h

I’m convinced the main reason Miyazaki films have a reputation for being “cozy” in the West is because he actually writes and animates long moments of quiet into his stories, whereas Western animated films are usually a nonstop parade of loud music, sounds, noises and neon colors.

Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 1d

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 1d

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 18h

It's kind of hard to convey to a normal person how much work I do each day to be a full-time cartoonist. Sure, it's a "dream job," but I have to be okay with that job being most of my waking life, with zero benefits or security.

I mean, I *am* okay with that, but dang comics should pay better.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

"Calling me a monster is just a fancy way of saying you're afraid to know what I am"

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

Home, home again.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

Yeah, that was a letdown. It's like they spent all their "good character writing" points on Midna.

Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

I'm surprised there's never been a mainline Zelda game where Ganon has a hot second-in-command whose loyalty ultimately breaks. Like Kagura from Inuyasha or Ashram in Lodoss War.

Black Knight Ashram (Record of Lodoss War)

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 5d

Look you gotta create from the heart.

Vonnie Awning and Kim Ross (Dark Science #07)

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 4d

"The author's barely disguised fetish," is a funny trope until you realize *my* fetish is reflective surfaces with environmental details that that no one can even see at web resolution.

Urban sprawl in the Naglfar (Customer Service) district, from Dark Science #160

Back alley in the Mezzode (Cyborg) district of Nephilopolis, from Dark Science #111

Exterior of the Church of the Empty Inbox in the upper levels of Nephilopolis, from Dark Science #113

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

One of the most gruesome things about the JJ Abrams Star Wars is how it fully embraces the Great Man theory of history, ignoring the grounded, materialist underpinnings of Lucas's films. In the OT the Rebels were based on the Viet Cong. With Abrams the resistance is based on NPCs waiting for a Jesus

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

If you want to write convincing revolutions in your sci-fi, you have to study 20th century revolutions. You have to understand where and how colonialism has been excised. You have to know the means by which real world people have successfully overthrown capitalism. That ain't the French Revolution.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 1d

Leo is my favorite adult baby 💜

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

Dark Science High School (Part 4) dresdencodak.com/2025/10/05/d...

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

Have a little color preview of the next installment of Dark Science! www.patreon.com/posts/color-...

Color Teaser for DS #176 | Senna Diaz

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

I will always side-eye people who will only recommend/talk about Lain as if it's just some "psychological" sci-fi story, because apparently horror means lowbrow. I see you, cowards. Grow up!

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

Something I love about Serial Experiments Lain is that it is unabashedly a *horror* series. Horror isn't just people getting mangled or jump scares, it can also be the isolating fear from queerness and neurodivergence, presented in just enough of a heightened way to allow you to explore it safely.

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ALT: a cartoon character with a badge on his chest

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

a pixel art of a girl with pink hair flying in the sky

ALT: a pixel art of a girl with pink hair flying in the sky

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

Yeah he's a slow burn Big Bad, he hasn't really cut loose just yet.

Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

Harthrow's probably the most dangerous (he's weirdly cunning and has almost killed Kim twice), but he's also usually a bit goofier. Sirius is the most bluntly violent and cruel, which is expected of a human trafficker. And Stolas is basically one sword fight away from being a Utena villain.

Amon Harthrow revealing that he's infiltrated a left-wing group to disrupt it and sow terror (Dark Science #95)

Sirius Harthrow calmly complaining about uppity teenagers after ripping her arm off. (Dark Science #168)

Aurem Stolas smugly bribing officials to label Vonnie and his fiancee Asmodea as "cousins" because Asmodea dared to go on a date with a girl. (Dark Science #129)

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