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Robin Thorne
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robin(@)whatido.co.uk | Creator & illustrator | Clients include TRON, Image, Z2 & Balmain, Magma Comix, Legendary Studios, Good Trouble | DM Confidential
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Hey y'all, let's play Drakes and Ladders.

For January, a new and ✨ entirely free ✨ post to dip your toes into on the DM Confidential Patreon. Bring this classic children's game to your DnD session.

I feel kind of insane, but it's actually quite fun.

www.patreon.com/c/dmconfiden...
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Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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If your art isn't a complete disaster for 90% of the process what are you even doing.
February 10, 2026 at 9:21 AM
If your art isn't a complete disaster for 90% of the process what are you even doing.
February 10, 2026 at 9:21 AM
So this was meant to be the Coven of Storms art. But keen eyes may note that this has absolutely zero association with storms. Sometimes that's how it goes.
Anyways, there's a fifth Witch Subclass now.
Three witches down, one to go.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Three witches down, one to go.
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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This is what I mean whenever I utter “Comics will break your heart.”
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
February 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM
The worst part is that it really felt like the comics audience at large would come for your ass if you said anything. It still feels like that. Here I am years out and vague posting.
Here is a thing:

There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.

(cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Here is a thing:

There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.

(cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Tis the season of the Witch (class).
February 2, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Tis the season of the Witch (class).
February 2, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.
For fucks sake, again with the apple/patreon bullshit. I have to move to monthly billing and fuck me over www.patreon.com/posts/148395...

13 years on your platform. Thanks for nothing patreon. I hope the apple dick is that good.
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January 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Environment studies from the past few months. :)
January 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
✨An exercise in DM Frustration ✨
Crafting what you’re certain will be a fantastic encounter... and your players sit in a single choke point before promptly retreating behind cover again.
Let's change that with 10 FREE options to get players moving around the map.
www.patreon.com/posts/tips-a...
February 1, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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it's my birthday today, which means you are legally required to catch up on my long-running wizard webcomic, which is ending in less than 30 pages! it's free, what do you have to lose www.widdershinscomic.com
if you want a pleasant fun read, here is my victorian wizard webcomic ✨ www.widdershinscomic.com
for goofy queer cyberpunk heist tales, buy my novel ✨ www.widdershinscomic.com/hit-the-grou...
if you need a bunch of cartoony work done, check out my comics/illustration portfolio ✨ www.kateashwin.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
The trend of crop tops is shrinkflation.
That is all. Carry on.
January 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Coming soon....
January 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
It’s dark and miserable and I can really understand where these ‘sacrifice a dude to bring back the sun’ ideas came from right about now. Just sayin I’d consider it.
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:

cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
While I have a long stubborn history of just lasting things out, this ain't it. The order of operations here has to be Everyone Leaves TwitX -> Companies have very little reason to be there -> Governments have even less reason to be there -> Only assholes remain - TwitX becomes a financial loss.
You used to see this "logic" with people who argued against blocking trolls. "If you block, they win!"

Win what? What are we fighting for? Are we actually believing the trolls here? "If you block me I win!" has the whiff of "I win times infinity" from an eight-year-old.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Get you a DM who builds mini games into your dungeon 😂😂😂😂 @whatrobindoes.bsky.social #dungeonsandsragons #dnd #frosties
January 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
All sorts of fun things are piling up on the Patreon at this point - stories, mechanics to get your own chicken legged house, tools to homebrew your own monsters, NPCs (for use in any RPG, really), adventures...
✨And it's only gonna get better from here.
January 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Hey y'all, let's play Drakes and Ladders.

For January, a new and ✨ entirely free ✨ post to dip your toes into on the DM Confidential Patreon. Bring this classic children's game to your DnD session.

I feel kind of insane, but it's actually quite fun.

www.patreon.com/c/dmconfiden...
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I am so sad about the creators comics has lost because either they realised the system was insane, or they tried to work with it and broke their bodies.
Comics is a beautiful, deeply creative, and often personal way of story telling, and I miss it - but I don't miss the system one bit.
This is a ridiculous way to run a business, which is why after I turn this book in I'm not doing it anymore! I can't spend the rest of my career arguing with editors about why I'm physically incapable of drawing ten comic pages a day.
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Gonna have to blue prince this one
January 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM