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Kimmy
@botanicamachina.bsky.social
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Webcomicer, writer, gardener, fool

Comic: https://witchofdezina.com/
Link tree: https://linktr.ee/kimsanguine
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botanicamachina.bsky.social
I find myself flip flopping between the two so rapidly it's making me want to get a shirt that says on the front "It's so over" and then "We're so back" on the back.

Putting it up there with my other rage quitting shirts.
A shirt with a 90's style paper cup in the style of Taco Bell captioned "I'm doing my Baja Best" A black shirt that looks like that UFO poster from X Files that says "I want to believe" but the shirt instead says "I want to leave" A baby blue shirt with a funny looking raccoon on the front who looks like he walked out of a children's book captioned, "I will burn this place down"
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Lately my work desktop has been throwing "out of memory" errors despite having... *checks specs* 64 GB of RAM.

Between this and the SSD faults earlier, I'm becoming concerned about the health of this machine. 💀
meme panel of Jon from Garfield holding Garfield's deflated body and screaming in panic: Garfield! speak to me!
September 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
May I interest you in a comic update in these trying times?

witchofdezina.com/comic/263
A comedic panel where a furious woman glares while a man in the foreground smiles awkwardly and holds his hands up to try and diffuse the situation.
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
*the cartoonist crawls out of her burrow covered in mud and places a small stack of pages on the forest floor*

(Hey my comic has some new pages 🐦‍⬛)

witchofdezina.com/comic/259
Cropped preview of a comic page where Narine leans forward menacingly to say something.
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
When you need some code to do a specific thing and you find someone else has already written exactly what you need.
The "my city now" meme of Kyoko Sakura from Madoka Magica, cropped tightly on her low res face. Edited to say "my software now"
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Good golly this action scene is putting me through the wringer.

But this panel was fun to draw at least!

witchofdezina.com/comic/253
A panel from Witch of Dezina, featuring Tayver, comically clinging to the outside of a balcony railing looking terrified as Lao asks how he even got up there.
May 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Updated my comic in the dead of the night this week and told no one once again 😏

witchofdezina.com/comic/251

Anyways, turns out that ominous shadow was just this guy all along. Good thing we didn't attack him, lol
Preview for new comic page of Witch of Dezina. One of the guys, Tayver, is kneeling while waving his hands in the air saying "Woah! Woah! Woah! It's just me!"
April 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
In today's Witch of Dezina... things are heating up!

You should check it out! Or not! I'm not like, your mom or anything. 😀
witchofdezina.com/comic/249
Preview image from the comic. A man stands gripping his hand while the floor lights up beneath him.
April 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Been slowly rolling out (gasp) an action scene in Witch of Dezina.

witchofdezina.com/comic/245
Comic page: view point descends into a large atrium. The walls are lined with bookshelves, magical conference rooms, and vivid pink runes glowing on the walls. Nothing is OSHA compliant. Comic page. Lao watches the space above him as something flashes through the air above him. He concentrates his senses and a large moth-shaped figure forms in his mind's eye, flying higher up in the atrium. Comic page. The giant moth banks left and Lao notes that it's no longer carrying his friend. He plans to trap it and shouts to get its attention.
March 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Did I ever post these here? I was messing around with drawing the main Witch of Dezina cast as tarot cards last fall.
I'll probably keep chipping away at this over time. 😛
Illustration of my character Elenore as The Magician. She wears a red blouse with dark gloves marked with pentacles. A braided cord floats around her, roughly in the shape of a figure 8. An illustration of Tayver as the High Priestesses card. He sits directly in the middle of a room lit by moonlight directly overhead. The room contains references to black & white pillars and pomegranates.
March 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Unrelated to anything at all...
My morning, ladies and gentlefolk:
What if You. Wanted to try commuting via rollerblades. But god said. Eat shit and die.
February 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Wait, I spoke too soon. It gets more American.
Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, America suburbanized. People were taking their coffee on the road, literally. Commuter culture cemented the need for coffee to travel well, but there still wasn’t a reliable way to transport it. To-go cups were topped with peel-back lids, making drinking difficult on the go, and causing dangerous conditions for commuters sloshing hot coffee onto themselves through the tear-away tops. In 1964, 7-Elevens on Long Island became the first chain stores to offer to-go traveller cups. From there, commuter coffee culture proliferated as chain convenience stores across the country began to carry twenty-ounce behemoth to-go cups, usually as part of a loyalty discount “coffee club.”
February 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
For those learning alongside me today, the origin of coffee to-go is extremely American. 😂
The history of the to-go cup begins with the temperance movement, when teetotalers would travel with a water wagon trying to encourage the public drinking habits away from sipping beer all day. These wagons had a communal dipping cup attached from which the collective public could sip. In 1907, a Massachusetts lawyer Lawrence Luellen, invented the first disposable cup to stop the spread of germs from these communal cups. His invention, originally called the Health Kup, would develop into what we know as the dixie cup today. The ubiquity of the disposable paper cup continued into the 1950s, when office vending machines dispensed a quick coffee in a paper cup for tired office workers in the post-WWII years. In 1952, the Pan American Coffee Bureau coined the term “coffee break.” This made official the practice that began in defense plants during the war, when tired workers needed a few minutes of rest and a caffeine jolt to make it through their long workdays. As part of this campaign, the bureau also introduced the slogan “Stay Alert, Stay Alive—Make It Coffee When You Drive.” With these campaigns, the American way of drinking coffee travelled decidedly out of the home and into the workplace.
February 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
I realize posting All Might would have been more recognizable in the year of our lord 2025, but I've always felt a deep connection to Izumi Curtis.
You'll have to pry "tough women who push themselves too far" from my cold dead hands. ☺️
January 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Me, experiencing stress: this is fine. I will leverage all psychological techniques at my disposal to completely negate the effects of the stress. I am Totally Fine, Actually.

My body:
A screenshot of the anime, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, showing a tough but injured woman smiling with a comedic amount of blood gushing out of her mouth. In the show, she suffers from medical issues and coughs up blood with every over exertion, which is often.
January 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Working on drawing an interior establishing shot so you know what that means~
4 architecture books. "A History of Russian Architecture", "Architecture: a visual history", "Rice's Architectural Primer", and "Architecture: a visual history". Wait these two books are named the same thing?? Ok well one is by Jonathan Glancey and the other is by James Neal.
January 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
For New Year's, I wanted to attend An Event so I went to a club dressed in my 90's girl chic. 💅
Only to be approached by an older gentleman in a dapper Dr. Who-like getup.

He thought he recognized me from the local clubbing scene. 😂

It felt like the meeting of two cryptids.
A woman in 90's fashion. She's wearing dark sun glasses with hair half-up in 2 buns. Tight black tank top and wide leg black jeans with combat boots. I was like this, but picture green hair bob cut, camo crop top & even baggier pants.
January 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Every winter holiday I emerge feeling like I've been run over by a car. And I'm always surprised. Like, how could this happen?

Stress from the holidays?
A ruined sleep schedule?
Some other third thing?? 🤔
A pen sketch of the artist on the ground in the Family Guy Death Pose. For those unfamiliar, the body is crumpled and in an uncomfortable position with limbs thrown all over the place like the person has been hit by a car or fallen down some stairs.
January 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
I open up Clip Studio and wanna shed a tear because I gotta ink this thumbnail but it's already perfect as it is.
December 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Working on a new story and I can feel myself pulling character designs out of the ether and I think "woah, where did that come from?" and then I die a little when I realize exactly which anime or webcomic I'm stealing from. 🤣
Screenshot of a dril tweet. The original text said: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" The tweet has now been edited to replace "good & bad things" with "writing fiction and fanfiction".
December 17, 2024 at 11:26 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
I was in need of some spatulas and saw these festive ones at the store today...
You've heard of the yaoi paddle, now get ready for--
3 spatulas in Christmas colors. Each has the word "ho" printed on the spatula so that the 3 assembled in a line read as "ho ho ho".
December 10, 2024 at 8:13 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
On today's page of Witch of Dezina: Have you considered casting your spell good instead of bad? 😀

https://witchofdezina.com/comic/240
December 10, 2024 at 4:24 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
Updated le comic earlier in the week (lol, sorry I didn't have the spoons to post about it until now)

https://witchofdezina.com/comic/239

#spiderforest #webcomics
December 7, 2024 at 6:25 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
So I've got green hair, right? Recently cut it short and I'm currently growing my bangs out. Trying to figure out how to style it... I experiment with brushing it all straight back, but doing this triggers a strong visceral reaction. Can't tell why.

Then I realize.
A picture of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker except it's also literally me. God help me this is what I look like today. Minutes the clown makeup.
December 2, 2024 at 9:25 PM
botanicamachina.bsky.social
14. "Favorite food?"

Maybe a really good sandwich? Or sushi?

"But Kimmy, don't those things have avocado in them?"

yes, now you understand my suffering
November 29, 2024 at 8:30 PM