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I make the webcomic Treading Ground (a raunchy romcom about broke people), videos, games, and burritos. I talk about Star Trek, lefty stuff, and old anime. he/they Comic! - https://treadingground.com NSFW! - https://patreon.com/treadingground

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · Oct 17

Hey, Bluesky!

I'm a cartoonist, writer, video maker, and Star Trek fan. I do fan panels at conventions and help run Trek Track at Dragon Con.

My romcom webcomic Treading Ground came back LITERALLY TODAY after 13 years. Talk about timing!

Comic: treadingground.com
Other Crap: nickthewright.com

A comic strip featuring three grocery store employees. The first panel shows the exterior of a grocery store called "Food Baron" with a parking lot and cars. A speech bubble from a character off-screen says, "Sup, Kate. Is that the new schedule?"

The second panel shows a woman with purple afro hair (Kate) looking at a schedule, responding, "Yep. Freshly squeezed from Corbin’s teat." A man next to her says, "Wow, I’m closing on Saturday night AGAIN??"

In the third panel, a woman with glasses, named Tracy (per her name tag), sarcastically teases, "Aww, so poor widdle Natey-Wate has to work a Saturday? Suck it up, buttercup!" The man, Nate, rolls his eyes, replying, "Ugh, here we go."

The next panel shows Tracy smirking, continuing, "I bet he schedules you like that because he knows there’s no chance you’re out hooking up on weekends." Nate responds, "Isn’t it time for you to slither off to lunch, Tracy?"

The final panel zooms in on Tracy, waving and smiling as she walks away, saying, "Toodaloo, incel!" with a heart symbol.

A four-panel comic featuring my OC Aya, a woman with short, dark blue hair, sitting in front of a laptop.

In the first panel, she looks thoughtful, with her hand on her chin, thinking, "Hmm... Am I posting too much and annoying people in the chat?"

In the second panel, she smiles confidently and responds to herself, "...Of course not! Can't be annoying if nobody ever THINKS about you!"

In the third panel, her expression shifts to one of shock, eyes wide, as she realizes the implication of her own statement.

In the final panel, she covers her face with both hands in despair.

Art of my OC Kate King. She has punkish hair with dark red locs over a black undercut, dark skin, freckles, purple nail polish and maroon-ish lipstick. She's wearing a black (hopefully fake) leather vest, dark blue jeans and a burgundy tank top. She's looking away embarrassed while handing you a heart-shaped red box with a black bow on it that says "Happy V-Day".

A six-panel comic featuring a man (my OC Nate) and a woman (my OC Rose) sitting at a table in a restaurant with drinks.

In the first panel, Nate holds his cup and looks behind him, saying, "Be right back, grabbing a refill." Rose asks, "Oh, can you get me one too?"

In the second panel, Nate turns back and awkwardly asks, "Sure. Can you take your top off?"

The third, fourth and fifth panels focus on Rose, who looks surprised and confused at first, then appears to blush while considering the request, and finally grins mischievously and starts to lift her shirt up.

In the sixth panel, Nate, flustered and blushing, hurriedly clarifies, "The DRINK! The top of your DRINK!" Rose reaches offscreen for her cup and simply responds, "Ah."

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 19h

We noticed the same thing - no interracial couples. Closest we came was Little John dancing with Lady Kluck.

Overall though, it holds up. Lots of funny moments, and the Sherriff of Nottingham sounds like Ted Cruz so I was basically laughing every time he was on screen.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, I'm sorry: WHAT tf is happening? Is Bsky Trust & Safety actually saying that they don't provide input on the 3rd party "AI" that is the 1st tier of all image & video moderation on this website? Am I actually reading that right? Because that seems like a completely bananas way to run a railroad

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 1d

The Darth Maul double light saber meme. In the first panel, one half of the lightsaber is extended, labeled "I'm not a furry". In the second panel, the other half extends, and is labeled "but"

Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 1d

Rewatched Disney's Robin Hood for the first time since I was a kid, and I'm not sure what was behind the decision to make Robin and Marian look so similar.

Like, maybe do some basic genealogy before you two get married? You are the only foxes in this entire movie and you look like identical twins.

A screenshot from Disney's Robin Hood (1973) showing Robin Hood and Maid Marian walking down the aisle on their wedding day. They look exactly alike except for clothes, height, and eyelashes.

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 4d

A sensible precaution. She'd probably kidnap a child and shoot a dog on the way to the toilet

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

*stares directly at the camera like in the office*

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 5d

I would love to see a modern Discord-like interface with all the bells and whistles and UX improvements built on top of an IRC foundation. Looks like the closest anyone comes is @irccloud.com.

a hybrid signal @unknown.garden · 5d

every time something like this happens, there's a part of me that goes 'what you need is your own irc server'

it's extremely wrong on multiple levels, totally different vibe for a really big one but it keeps coming back like a shitty zombie anyway

Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 5d

My OC Nate, showing some frustration, saying "The FUCK bucket? I was in the FUCK BUCKET?"

From: https://www.treadingground.com/comic/chapter-1-page-27-friends/

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 6d

I was also pretty low on Substack, but I moved to Beehiiv anyway. I think it's really important to have a direct line to your audience without relying on them to happen to see it on their feed somewhere, so each newsletter subscription is worth a lot.

Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 6d

That was my hole, it was made for me

Chapter 1 | Page 30: Alive

📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...

Nate: No, I wanted to thank you for not giving up on me.
Nate: For dragging me out of that hole and making me live my life again.

Steve (flippant): We needed another roommate.

Steve (sincere): And I wanted that roommate to be my best friend. Who was still alive.

Nate: I might not have been, if you hadn't kept sending me lewd memes.
Steve: And you never did anything more than laugh-react. Interact with a motherfucker some time!

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 9d

He's so stiff. It's like they ran out of money mid-necromancy.

Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 9d

He's so stiff. It's like they ran out of money mid-necromancy.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 12d

a man in a superman costume is standing in front of a cloudy sky and says the joke .

ALT: a man in a superman costume is standing in front of a cloudy sky and says the joke .

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12d

Another reminder that these people are all venal cowards and can be forced into doing the right thing, which means we can take that lesson and *Apply It Elsewhere*
apnews.com/article/jimm...

Sinclair brings Jimmy Kimmel's show back to its ABC-affiliated stations, ending blackout

Sinclair Broadcast Group has decided to bring Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show back to its ABC affiliate stations.

apnews.com

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 13d

Thank you!

Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 13d

Something smells off.

Chapter 1 | Page 29: Appreciation

📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...

(Nate returning car keys to Steve)
Steve: See? I told you they'd hire you back.

Nate (thoughtful): You did, and I need to thank you.

Steve (shocked): Holy shit, Nate's actually showing some appreciation? What gives?

Steve: Wait a minute, did you fucking VAPE in my car? If I get in there and it smells like FARTBERRY SWIRL, you're getting it steam-cleaned.

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 19d

It's Go/no-go time

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Rose: So yeah, I guess I'd like to be your friend. Is that ok?

(Nate conflicted)
NARRATION: I can't be friends with Rose. I'm heading back to Franklinburg as soon as I can convince Steve to give up on me.

(Rose smiles silently)
NARRATION: But somehow...

(Nate smiles at Rose, who grins back.)
Nate: ...Yeah. That sounds good.

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 14d

Exactly! It is by no means high cinema, but there's definitely a enjoyment to be extracted from it. Also, both Pattinson and Stewart have gone on to do some cool shit.

TBH a lot of the opposition stank of misogyny - "this is a thing that women like, therefore I must hate it or I'll catch the gay"

Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 15d

Much like the Justin Bieber hatred of the day, the whole "let's make fun of Twilight" era is pretty embarrassing in hindsight.

In this shitty world, I'm not going to blame anyone for lusting after a brooding sparkly vampire twink

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 15d

I'll bite. That's very close to Aya's body type

My OC Aya from Treading Ground, on the phone in a cafe wearing her Loco Mocha uniform - a brown polo, beige apron, and black yoga pants

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Darling Snarl @darlingsnarl.bsky.social · 16d

I gotta say, for the first panel, the siren song that is drawing a Tex Avery-style wolf reaction face called to me like hype-fueled market manipulation calls to a crypto bro. That is to say, it felt virtually irresistible but I knew it would hurt things in the long run.

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Kaylee's Boyfriend @megsyv.bsky.social · Mar 9

If you wait until you're ready to start, you never will.

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 19d

It's Go/no-go time

📱Mobile View: www.treadingground.com/comic/chapte...

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Nick Wright @nickthewright.com · 22d

me drinking a protein shake