panel 1: Bastion is leaning with his hands on his knees, panting, on a white background. His hair is disheveled. Bastion: Where the hell is everyone? panel 2: Bastion brushing back his hair and standing straight, with a forest in the background. Bastion: Knew i should've just gone into a simpler life. i could have been a historian, a librarian... panel 3: Bastion from th side, gesturing outward with his hand, still with a forest and mountain range in the background. Bastion: ..someone that only READS about ghosts, rather than fights them. SOMEONE who doesn't have to read about ghosts at ALL, if he doesn't want to, panel 4: Bastion gesturing emphatically at himself with both hands and wide eyes Bastion: Instead of someone who just got chased through half of a FOREST by ghosts... panel 5: Bastion in the distance, hands on hips, with tolling belles in the foreground and continuing back to where Bastion is and beyond. The tolling belles are little lily-of-the-valley-like flowers, a dark purple color with long green leaves. Bastion: ...into a FIELD OF TOLLING BELLES. Character descriptions follow Bastion is a human man with white hair streaking through his black hair at his temples and in the middle. He has brown skin, black eyes, a trimmed mustasce and beard, and is wearing a white and blue jacket with golden fixtures.

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Meanwhile, Bastion is haven’t problems of his own…many thousands of tiny problems.

The shop is up and running! It’s a bit bare bones, but very functional and we have our license…i’m very excited to be tattooing again. i’m still figuring out the flow of working on tattoos/designs and working on the comic, but we’re getting there~ Thank you all for your support!

Next page will go up Wednesday, November 22nd!

panel 1: Puff in the background holding up an intimidating wall of water from the stream, with Taisce and Emi in the foreground looking up at it. Taisce: Did you really have to make her mad? Emi: She ain’t nothin’ but hot air -- panel 2: A close up of Emi's smiling face, eyes glowing with fire, and sweatbeads on her face. Emi: i nearly had her at the facilities, i’ll have ‘er now. panel 3: A close up of Taisce's concerned/angry face. Taisce: Stop that. You’re still exhausted from the ship fights. Where’s our backup? panel 4: Taisce standing behind Emi with a hand up to hold the water off, Emi crouching slightly with a ball of fire between her two raised hands, close to her chest. Taisce: Where the hell’s Bastion? Character descriptions follow Emi has pointed ears, light brown skin, long, fiery red hair, a scar on her cheek, and is wearing a high-collared black jacket with straps around the upper arm and wrist. Puff has long black hair with bangs, glasses, medium brown skin, and a blue and purple fin, and is wearing a suit. Taisce has light skin, white hair with dark shaved sides, three freckles on each cheek, and is wearing a blue hoodie and aqua fingerless gloves.

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Emi is truly the queen of saying-things-you-shouldn’t-say-while-losing-a-battle.

Shop update: We have a location, and it’s beautiful! We still aren’t ready to open yet, but we’re slowly slogging our way through all the bureaucracy involved in opening a shop.

Site update: i’m currently trying to include alt text for all images going forward! When i have the time, i’d like to include it for all previous images as well.

The next page will go up October 25th! Thank you for your support!

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i’m quite happy with how the bottom two panels came out! i love using elements of the drawing as the panel borders.

Next page will go up September 27th! Thank you all, as always, for your patience and support!

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~i just love fire effects~ It took a lot of work, but i’m very happy with how the fourth panel turned out!

The last couple of months have been a whirlwind. Things ended on bad terms with the tattoo shop i was previously working at, despite a lot of effort and emotional energy from my friends and i, and we are currently working on forming and opening a tattoo collective! It’s exciting and also a lot of work, and i’ll likely have more updates soon.

The next page will go up August 23rd! Thank you all for your patience and support.

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From flirting to fighting~

Next page will be up on July 26th! Thank you all for your patience and support <3

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Here we go~

My love of the trope usually-calm-and-collected-character-becomes-disheveled is rearing its (beautifully disheveled) head again.

i hope you’re all doing well! Thank you again for your patience! My forearm/wrist issues have been acting up, and i’m realizing my old bike was a major culprit. It has drop bars…beautiful, beautiful, drop bars…that meant i was putting a bunch of weight on my hands and wrists so i’m fixing up a more upright ride which should help! Fingers crossed, because it is planting season and i have vegetables to plant~

Next page will go up Wednesday, June 28th!

Chapter Sixteen

And we are back! i was lucky enough to seem some real beautiful scenery out in Montana a couple of years ago that inspired this chapter cover. i had so much fun with this one, i hope y’all enjoy it! One of the benefits to slowing down the schedule is i really get to take my time with the details, and i do love drawing pretty pictures~

EDIT: i forgot to say, the next page will go up May 24th! i’m gonna aim for the 4th Wednesday of the month so that there’s some schedule happening to when the pages go up.

Schedule update!

Hey all, i finally figured out what i’m doing, sorry for the delay!

For this next chapter, i’m going to be posting a page a month in order to give me the space to get my tattoo life in order, work on some house projects, and regain my completely depleted buffer. (Like, literally…there’s nothing left T.T) Thank you all for your patience and continued support!

i wish my only responsibilities were telling my funny little stories– but alas! There are other things i must do, and currently those other things are taking too much time.

Chapter 16’s cover will go up on March 22nd (what a good number). Enjoy this photo of the ocean i took while in Florida helping a relative out…got me in my feels after this last chapter. i even got to see dolphins! Appreciate y’all!

Oh, and check out the process video i posted for page 101 — it’s for everybody, Ko-fi member or not! Enjoy!

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This is why i draw this comic, so Emi can be just an absolute badass and end chapters with one-liners like these.

i hope you enjoyed Chapter 15!

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character whose hair and glasses are always perfectly in place becomes mad and disheveled is my favorite..what is that, is that a trope? anyway, you get it.

 

also, nooooo, i just got over covid and got hit by some kinda flu >:( let me make my comics, universe, i just wanna tell my silly little stories! >:o

i still don’t know what my update schedule is going to look like, but i’m thinking of reducing updates a lot for next chapter, and then reassessing from there once i am able to get my buffer back and get back into the swing of things with tattooing! i appreciate all y’alls patience! and i keep bragging about how my readers are the very best <3