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@kyssimmee.com

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comics + stupid stuff ★ I make #softiescomic at softies.net and you read it ok? ★ kyssimmee.tumblr.com ★ kyssimmee.com/patreon ★ softies.net ★ http://readmycomic.com

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 7d

🍂 October! 🍂

I've been working hard recently on my comic about middle school weird girls who teach themselves witchcraft. My $4 patrons just got a big bite of pencils to read from the past month, check it out!

www.patreon.com/posts/actual...

A loosely penciled comic.

Panel 1, an adult frog character holds a basket and has her hand on a light switch. "Sorry, is the light supposed to be off?"

Panel 2, a child frog character in a skirt and witch's hat stands defiant, one eye closed. Her simple cauldron is bubbling with a tall pillar of fog. "For ambiance!"

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14h

hey cool, bookshop has free shipping today! an incredible, auspicious time to purchase your copy of SIMPLICITY simplicitybook.xyz

Simplicity: A Novel

A Novel

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Smallsmallwitch @smallsmallwitch.bsky.social · 19h

Biscuits haunted house

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · Mar 16

(2021)

rainbow dash reads the bible and imagines that jesus looks exactly like her. "Wow! Jesus is just like me!!" she says, as she imagines him being tempted in the desert by the shadowbolts.

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · Aug 24

Ponies in Therapy, Page #5

Starlight Glimmer sits rigidly, sweating. She says "Before we begin, I'd like to clarify that I defer to your expertise, and will be putting aside all biased subjective notions I may have about what's wrong with me."

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

p counting pebbles fanart #greatgodgrove

cartoon drawing of a greenish, muppety, monkeylike character wearing a bellhop uniform and a single flower, crouching and focused on counting tiny pebbles (labeled "5", "6", "7", and "8")

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · Jun 24

terrible comic day 2025

Panel 1: A boy dog and a man dog look at a girl mouse.
MAN: Son, meet your future wife!

Panel 2: BOY: What's so future about her?

Panel 3: The girl shoots lasers from her eyes.

Panel 4: BOY: Pfft. Big deal.

Panel 5: The man is clutching his son by the shoulder as the girl glows ominously in the background.
MAN: Son I'm gonna need you to get on board here.

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 1d

deep sea dream

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rexalogy @rexalogy.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

really wonderful silly game that charmed me in its first half and spoke to me in its second half. I like living in a world where adventure games for weird gay people get to exist

store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/...

Great God Grove on Steam

THE WORLD IS ENDING AND THE GODS ARE SQUABBLING! Suck up and launch dialogue in a world of puzzles, puppets, and weird gods… or THE RIFT WILL CONSUME US ALL!

store.steampowered.com

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

p counting pebbles fanart #greatgodgrove

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Tim Platt @timplatt.bsky.social · 6d

sally is the funniest peanut

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

i think the most elegant solution will probably be to mark comics i enthusiastically recommend to kids, and also mark comics that have enough grisly or sexual content to earn a little "viewer discretion advised". everything else can just be there

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

i never really set out to make comics for kids, i sorta did it by accident. do i recommend my own comic to kids?? i mean i guess i do???

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

I'm sure none of this relates to any ongoing culture wars or moral panics driving bad public policy (i put my finger to my ear) a young boy is flying away in a balloon!?

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

and i think treating either as a nondefault category sort of subtly taxonomizes it in a judgemental way? I don't want to minimize the kid friendly comics I like, nor do I want to otherise the adult comics i like

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

i think maybe part of the problem is that I'm assuming a default state of "kid friendly" and an opposing nondefault state of "not kid friendly", when i think most art is made without any particular thought to how children relate to it at all

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 2d

I'm working on a links page for my comic, especially to link other active comics. part of me feels like it makes sense to note which comics aren't appropriate for kids, but every time i try to draw the line on which of my links is / isn't kid friendly it feels silly and arbitrary

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 3d

you're making that one up

🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 3d

like at least half of them are pronounced stupid

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 3d

dragonite is the one that got me yelled at

🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 3d

my friends get mad at me when I don't know the names of pokemon

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 5d

it's been extremely refreshing for me to have a completely comedy-centric just-for-fun comic to work on recently, it's keeping me grounded to the fact that sometimes there's value in just drawing a funny picture

🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 5d

ok my actual hot take is I get 10x more work done on comics when I shut off the part of my brain that navel gazes about whether my work has value or I'm (fancy voice) respecting the craft

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 5d

uhhh what else. i think charlie brown is a crazy son of a gun

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