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Dash for the Prevention, page 2

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Dash for the Prevention, page 1

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Off-Shoots Sketchbook: unfinished Character vs. Inspiration

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Off-Shoots Sketchbook: Future Iona (and Ragnild)

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Tips on organizing your webcomic, for #WebcomicTalk

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There’s a new Mastodon account/hashtag prompting creators to talk about their comics!

The last one had a theme of “Structure.” Most of the respondents talked about the structure of things like “plot outlines” and “worldbuilding notes”…I took it more in a direction of “how do you organize your files?”

Read the original answers on Mastodon, or scroll down for a touched-up combo platter of the whole thing!

(This is part of the “how do I webcomic?” series, with useful information on all kinds of comicking-related topics.)

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Leveraged Dex Episode 2, page 3

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I asked the Bing Chatbot about its Leif & Thorn headcanons

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For a fun time, I decided to ask the new “Bing Search” chatbot what it knows about Leif & Thorn.

It started off by almost directly quoting the “About” page on the site here…then it suggested follow-up questions. I didn’t make up any of the rest of them, just picked from the suggestions.

By the second answer, the bot had made up a whole nonexistent storyline. The rest of the chat was a mix of accurate details and elaborate headcanons. It decides Pascentia and Leif both have ice magic! (I’m 90% sure it thinks Pascentia is Elsa.) It calls Kale a vampire expert who is Leif’s boyfriend and also roommate! It writes multiple paragraphs about the benefits of Thorn and Leif’s psychic soulbond!

Many sentences in these answers have a link to a “citation.” Some of the links back up the text of the sentence. Others are about the right character or theme, but don’t back up the specific detail at all. Still others are wildly off-base.

Y’all, one of the bot’s “sources” for explaining Leif and Thorn’s “magic soulbond” is a financial article about fixed-income bond investing.

The whole thing was extremely funny — so I’m just going to copy-and-paste the full unedited text here.

Content notes:

  1. The bot is guessing wildly about pronouns, and gets some of them wrong. (It does the same with familial relationships…and nationalities…and species.)
  2. There’s a line about a character self-harming, and a list of ways in which he does it. That is not canon! Please don’t worry about him on that account.

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Leveraged Dex Episode 2, page 2

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Leveraged Dex Episode 2, page 1

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Closed Leif & Thorn polls: website usability and/or market research

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It’s close enough to springtime that I’m doing my seasonal switch of the Leif & Thorn site theme, from the polar Northern Lights to the floral Rose Garden! (If you prefer reading in Dark Mode, the buttons in the site menu will switch you back.)

We had a poll about favorite themes a while ago, in which Rose Garden was the winner by a mile:

Favorite Leif & Thorn site theme?
  • Rose Garden 57%, 112 votes
    112 votes 57%
    112 votes - 57% of all votes
  • Northern Lights 24%, 47 votes
    47 votes 24%
    47 votes - 24% of all votes
  • Blue Castle 14%, 27 votes
    27 votes 14%
    27 votes - 14% of all votes
  • Blood Moon 3%, 6 votes
    6 votes 3%
    6 votes - 3% of all votes
  • Y2K 2%, 3 votes
    3 votes 2%
    3 votes - 2% of all votes
Total Votes: 195
10 December, 2020 - 20 February, 2023
Voting is closed

And on that note, let’s do a roundup of other site-related (and merch-related) research polls with closed results…

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