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Original - 07 - HD

Critical miss!

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This is what happens when you have an absurdly good alignment, but are also into things you're embarrassed about.

Original - 06 - HD

Whoops! Hang on a second!

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That moment when you accidentally ship your boyfriend with a girl you look up to.

I gave not-Elliot the wrong hair in the previous comic, and even had to redo the inking of the character's outfit in the first panel, because I had drawn him in one of Elliot's standard black shirt.

To the shock of no one, it was a comic made while tired and distracted, and it wasn't actually int...

Original - 05 - HD

Writing!

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I mostly just wanted intense Ashley writing as a visual.

Original - 04 - HD

Serious business!

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I never really gave that much thought to the difference between a starship and a spaceship before, and this strip gave a unique opportunity for me to look into that.

I essentially wanted to reference engineers on Star Trek in the last panel without making it a direct Star Trek reference, and I wasn't sure how to do that. After trying "spaceship", it occurred to me that tha...

April 22 Poll #2

Grace in a half-griffin form with wings, a tail, and a beak.

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April 22 Poll #1

Super evil Cheerleadra in an eeeeevil outfit that’s evil.

Cheerleadra’s physical form is…

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Original - 03 - HD

THIS time...

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Some were confused by the half-closed eyes in Ashley's imagination, and I can't believe I have to explain this:

Everyone in fantasies like this are bored.

At least, I think that's the reason for that look. Maybe they're trying to look attractive somehow? That doesn't make sense. They MUST be bored.

Pronunciation!

I have no idea how not-Ashley is saying that one...

Original - 02 - HD

Original Characters Do Not Steal

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EDIT: Fixed the borders

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I think we can all see what's happening here.

And what's happening is that Ashley is doing a darn good job making up completely original characters who do not resemble anyone in her life.

Good job, Ashley!

Original - 01 - HD

Friend fiction

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This comic got delayed for two main reasons.

One was because humans apparently need sleep, and I was catastrophically behind on that somehow (it's a mystery).

The other was because I decided I wanted to spin off the previous comic into an actual storyline, and I needed to decide what exactly the heck that would even mean. I knew there was fun to be had, but how to go about it, and how to...

Next EGSNP Saturday

Next EGSNP Saturday for "Dan needs sleep, apparently" reasons.

I should have decided to do this earlier, but as I tend to do, I was in denial about it's necessity.

Size Change Antics Survey

Shorter version on Twitter 

One character is larger than the other, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with their normal heights.

Which of these options appeal to you?

NOTE: Can choose more than one

Assortistant - 12 - HD

Assistant

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I'm not sure what exactly Ashley is imagining?

Probably Sarah doing paperwork.

Big Susan

I'm not entirely sure what the in-character plot explanation for this would be. Susan was already taller than Diane, so she could already joke about being the big sister (even though they're not sisters). 

She's also petting Diane's head, which could simply be evidence of progress with being okay with physical contact, but did she need to be twice as big for that?

It's all very mysterious.

And the FACT that it's THIS mysterious makes me assume that another character is imagining this. Sarah? Elliot? Rhoda? Catalina? Je...

Assortapep22 - 11 - HD

Pep thoughts

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I like that Susan has impractical long hair. It says something that she keeps it in spite of various other aspects of her personality.

What exactly it says, I'm not even going to try and articulate.

But it's definitely something.

Assortolarry - 10 - HD

An entirely unexpected turn of events.

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- Feminine Larry

I'm not 100% sure this is actually Larry? I liked the design, and wanted to use something like it here.

An anime I like is (deep breath) I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

Or Bofuri for short.

ANYWAY, I t...

AssortOfUAndMe22 - 09 - HD

About me! ALWAYS ABOUT ME! MWUH-HAHA! 

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The last few days have been weird for mostly non-comic reasons that were NOT good for my sleep and/or work schedule, but I also liked the idea of laughing with myself about having three out of eight of the previous "assorted" comics involve my avatar.

I guess it's four out of nine now.

Look, I'll do something about that ratio unless something unexpected happens on Wednesday.<...

Next EGSNP Tuesday

I tweeted the following earlier. "Next week" is in parenthesis because, in my hurry, the original didn't include that >_<

-- First tweet 

Next EGSNP will be Tuesday. I was also planning a sketchbook that will instead be sometime (next week)

Something personal has come up that is devouring my day.

-- Follo...

Assorted Twenty-Two - 08 - HD

Wait who is that?

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Personally, I think I look closer to Ellen or Elliot.

The confusion could have been simply due to my drawing similar faces, but I think it was at least partly because I just had a new avatar show up without explanation or introduction. A "is that Tedd? That's probably Tedd" response was understandable.

In any case, after I saw that response, I wanted to draw a comparison. 2022-04-07 03:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Assortamatic22 - 07 - HD

Me again!

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- First panel

- Second panel

- Two comics ago, this avatar's intro

I just found myself wanting to talk about this, and hey, I'm d...

Aprisorted - 06 - HD

April 2nd April 1st Comic 

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This is SORT OF something people could actually do for April Fools?

It's just, like, they'd have to ACTUALLY do a good job of it.

Assortment 22 - 05 - HD

Sandwich

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This is just something that occurred to me recently, and have wanted to talk about.

The surface level of the distinction between making something for yourself, and something for someone else, is obvious. I want to write a story about hamsters. Someone says I should write about gerbils. I stick to doing what I want to write about, and write about hamsters.

Success.

But that's on...

March End of Month poll #2

Susan has grown bigger, and is patting the head of…

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March End of Month poll #1

Conan undergoes a feminine transformation, and winds up with a figure and height similar to…

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Assortocity 2022 A - 04 - HD

CELEBRITY DRAMA!

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I recently had the following to say on The Twitters, which inspired this comic (even though Justin's attitude is a bit different to my own):

A question I'm asking myself more and more is "why do I care?"

Not in general, but in specific situations, such as a celebrity drama that's vaguely alluded to on Twi...

22 Assorted... Stuff? - 03 - HD

Suddenly, you see...

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"I assume you have formed an opinion without basic knowledge of the situation."

"I have basic knowledge of the situation."

"WELL, you see..."

Assorted 2022 A - 02 - HD

Ellen rides up front because she's good at sports

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It just seems like all the positive stuff about sports has nothing to do with trophies.

Like, I'm not in favor of participation trophies, but I'm also not a fan of first place trophies. I'm just not big on trophies. I feel like that's sort of taking away from what games should be, which is, well, all that non-material goodness.

If I was in fav...

Assorted 2022 A - 01 - HD

Lost squirrel!

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Apologies to those who don't get the video game reference!

This is a joke I've had in my head since the day I started playing Elden Ring, a recent "Souls" style game (named after the Dark Souls game. A Souls style game has a similar gameplay loop to it as those games).

In that game, there are locations of importance known as Sites of Grace.

When you find...

Jestful Statement - 47 - HD

Conclusion!

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I really wanted to establish all of the things in this comic without it taking a whole bunch more comics just to check everything.

The one thing I had wanted to note was that the moral wasn't "hey guess what having to keep personal secrets you wish weren't secrets is no big deal", but I'm giving you all the benefit of the doubt that you wouldn't jump to that conclusion just because I gave Gr...

Jestful Statement - 46 - HD

Something something boats?

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I hadn't originally planned on showing Grace's interpretation of people reacting to her.

What I'd originally intended was simply Grace thinking about how she could tell when people like-liked each other, but was less sure about people being like-liking her, and I'd planned for her to note it wasn't exactly a challenge to tell when some people liked each other (cue reference to...

Jestful Statement - 45 - HD

Floating hearts and stuff

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While writing the previous comic, I very, VERY briefly considered having Grace deliberately hug Ellen to capitalize on the rumors about them, and to imply to Conan that she and Ellen were a couple.

I would like to emphasize how very brief this consideration was, because that would be alarmingly out of character for Grace.

Out of character ideas will sometimes give way to ...