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Good Old Claire

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Comics editor (the kind you hire); cartoonist of hostile romance comics (Take Me to the Place I Love; The Magic Necklace; Wolf Story; Cosy Witch Book (Brutal)). Still a critic, after all Clairenapier.com 🌸 CANNOT SEE DMS

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I'm calling it--the use of generative AI is antiblack. Internationally. Multiple countries. Multiple coasts. If you fire it up--I judge you.

04.03.2026 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Cosy Witch Book (Brutal)
An uncomfortable romance comic for adults
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We’re going right to the kitchen next. It’s called pacing cosy-witch-book-brutal.neocities.org/page76

04.03.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So did I, but they starved me then and they do it now

04.03.2026 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And those are always boring too

04.03.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Like to be more critically articulate, the only way that emotional impact mattered was to make the girls sad and unhappy. Nothing that could have been built from it was; no truths or connections emerged. it was just a Sadness Event for short term buzz, integrated neither forwards nor backwards.

04.03.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They forgot that bitch quick as

04.03.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think that’s true, I think it was pretty constant and notably peaking there

04.03.2026 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And sometimes I’m like β€œthat’s not what I would define as character design” bc it’s experience design but not, idk, β€œusefully” indicative of anything β€œabout” anything beyond the visual experience that the viewer is having themselves

04.03.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

With character design I feel like there’s a range of abstract to narrative character design where the visuals tell you something about the personality and experiential lifestyle thru literal detail as well as vibes, and then there’s abstract-abstract aesthetic design where it’s Shapes on a Person

04.03.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If u aren’t ever pretentious how will u become anything

04.03.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Send it to ur friend who likes toxic romance and hope

03.03.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This frustrated me wildly on rewatching buffy. If nothing is consequential nothing is consequential

04.03.2026 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Self-security stops u from being a fuck!

04.03.2026 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely loved the first one. Been eagerly awaiting the second volume. This is a must back. And if you missed the first, get them both. 100% worth every penny you spend on it

03.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Once again there is this assertion that disabled/high risk/immunocompromised people live in a vacuum, like we don’t have healthy family members around us or caretakers who desperately need to stay healthy to avoid endangering our health or becoming disabled from their next Covid infection.

03.03.2026 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

(Breathless, slamming my buzzer) Davidfinchergormenghast

04.03.2026 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right??

03.03.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Send it to ur friend who likes toxic romance and hope

03.03.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cosy Witch Book (Brutal): an uncomfortable romance comic for adults

Because it’s March, Wolf Story chapter three is up in one chunk on neocities. Everybody has a dream (horny)

wolf-story.neocities.org/chap3

03.03.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing β€˜reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

Gift link.

β€œThere’s something really biologically wrong,” Nath told me early in the pandemic, as patients with lingering symptoms began arriving in his clinic. β€œThey need to seek help. And if their physicians cannot figure it out, they need to find researchers who are looking into these things.”

03.03.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Remember that in the UK, in space year 2026, it is *still* illegal to rip a CD you bought with your own money to play the resulting MP3s (or whatever) on your computer. That is not considered fair use. But AI companies eating all of our creative work for free soon will be.

Fuck off, Labour.

02.03.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So blue…

03.03.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cosy Witch Book (Brutal)
An uncomfortable romance comic for adults
p75

cosy-witch-book-brutal.neocities.org/page75

03.03.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The kind of comics you should be able to pick up everywhere. Shorts about a working woman making bad decisions, irritably

03.03.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œOh this isn’t an achievement to listen people though” who cares. Love yourself

03.03.2026 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genius idea: if it is hard treat doing it like an achievement

03.03.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Two hours to go until the post finally arrives!

03.03.2026 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few years ago I learned that to a highly financialised state (eg the UK), a person in debt is considered far more valuable than a person just working and paying taxes.

After reading that, suddenly every government policy made much more sense…

03.03.2026 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Ugh, β€œnone”. Work with me

03.03.2026 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0