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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 9d

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 9d

(Nun speaks to Giant Walrus)
Agatha. Agatha spitt it out. Agatha
(Walrus spits out penguin wearing wimple)
(Nun slaps penguin)
Consort NOTTE with the Wallruss
Ten Hail Marys and NO SUPPERE
(Walrus thumps away, penguin grumbles)

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 17d

Longer versions of my Nuns comics are available on my Patreon $4 tier :) patreon.com/emilyscartoons

No. No. Wrong. Sin. Blasphemy.
What art thou doinge, sister?
I am Correctinge the Crabbe's Sinfull mode of Displacemente, Sister
All inhabitants of this Saycred Isle muste proceede onlie FOREWARDES. Sideways is the Devil's Lateral
I see sister
No. No. Wrong. Sin.

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 17d

The Nunnery is in Dyre Neede of Funds, Sister
Oh deare Sister

Nunneries may Resorte to varyous Fundraysing Methods when in Penurie:
1. Prayer
2. Taxaytion of the Local Populace
or 3. Enteringe & Unexpectedlie Winninge A Regional Singinge Competition
That one

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 27d

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Sep 8

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Sep 8

they're back!

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Sep 7

My shop is back open and Nuns prints restocked! emilyscartoons.myshopify.com

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nuns

Nun 1: Tis a niewe Passtime, Sister. With these two Padells the participants Knocke the Sphere Hither & Thither

Nun 2: Bedev -
Nun 1: Before we Categoryse, Sister. Did I mention that the Sphere is saide to containe the Spirit of Satan?

...

Nun 2: Let us Knocke Him
Nun 1: Very goode Sister

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 31

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New comic - Ireland | Emily's Cartoons

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 31

"Things change, change. You cannot have anything, least of all the present - unless you accept all of it with the past and the future. Only their reality makes the present real" - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

It's the end of summer and the leaves are green and on the trees and also brown and dead on the ground

It's the end of summer and the beginning of something else

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Great Auntie Bernie's not what she was, but in our one interaction still utterly rinses me.
Mum: This is my DAUGHTER, Bernie. She's an ARTIST.
Bernie: Is that all?

We drank tea in the overgrown garden where my uncle's old farm equipment rusted and sank into the earth

Somehow when I turned 30 I began to feel very young. I get flashes of how it'll feel to be 66, 71, 87, looking back to myself at this age

At the time, I was reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and fell upon a line that described exactly what I was feeling

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 31

An old comic about the end of summer

Every summer my family and I return to the motherland - the west of Ireland. In 2022, thanks to the drought, its usual deep green was singed slightly brown

Me and my aunties sprang - collected - my Great Auntie Nellie from her convent in Dublin, and drove west

We stopped briefly in Tipperary Town to stand outside the house my mother and her sisters grew up in in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Suddenly they're bursting with memories:
"This was my favourite step! My throne!"
"I saw Thin Lizzy play in that church hall in 1969!"
"That's Basil's house, where Basil lived. He made the town gravestones"

Further west again, we visit a living part of that old Ireland. The farm where the last stalwarts of my grandmother's generation live.
[Great Uncle Ned, 84, Great Auntie Nellie, 90, Great Auntie Bernie, 89, sit chatting, hunched in chairs]

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 19

3/3

4. REQUESTS
"Or if not, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know that I should just do them myself..."

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 19

2/3

2. FEELINGS
"I feel like you quite frequently don't manage to do the dishes. Do you feel that's the case?"

3. NEEDS
"I just need to understand when you might be planning on doing them"

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 19

1/3

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION WHEN YOU HAVE AN ENGLISH ACCENT = THE PUREST VIOLENCE THAT EXISTS

1. OBSERVATION
"I notice you didn't do the dishes last night"

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 5

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Aug 3

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Jul 25

i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jul 20

Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is gonna be my quarter