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Hershel Deercliff
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queer trans (anti-zionist) jew / webcomic creator / it/its- ze/hir - he/him / https://www.patreon.com/deercliff
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collar of itch
A digital painting. A white man in silk robes, most of his face obscured, raises his chin to expose a ring of psoriasis that circles his throat.
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I actually did this a while back for that Song Week thing I do with my dnd squad. Yes I picked the song. I will force my besties to listen to Clarence Clarity any chance i get
A digital drawing. A white man with graying hair and a sly smirk is separated by a diagonal bar from a grey wolf with tufted ears, also smiling sinisterly. The man is swishing a wine glass, out of which flows bright red wine, while the wolf has bright red blood dripping from its jaws. The background is abstract and surreal, and the characters are shaded with pink and blue screentones. Text on the screen reads "think i could fool you/cuz i have to/and i want to" with more text attributing it "Those Who Can't, Cheat-Clarence Clarity"
October 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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yeah so the self publishing thing is going great so far
A screenshot of my documents folder showing several pdfs I exported from InDesign last night. They are all minutes apart and named things like "GOOD LORD HELP ME" and "PLEASE ANYTHING" as well as "No Honeymoon ACTUALLY"
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I’ll take care of you
A digital drawing of my OCs Rosarian and Renato hugging while naked. It's rendered in reds, oranges, and yellows.
October 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I SAID WHO’S READY FOR MORE ZINES FROM ME
Three homemade monochrome mini zines on a table with a pair of scissors next to them.
October 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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He’s dishwasher safe, he’s uv resistant, he tells you to indulge your worst impulses, and he’s popular with cats.

I didn’t say a name, but he popped into your head anyway, didn’t he?

Buy him here: ko-fi.com/s/1a7f9d6765
A big round brown and white cat sniffs the Bad Advice Pan sticker with curiosity. Photo courtesy of a friend, posted with her permission.
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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yeah scripting's going great
comic script of a perfectly normal mildly dramatic lesbian conversation, followed by "SCENE 4: EROTIC BLOOD DRAWBING"
September 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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past two years i've done OC Kiss Week which is an event on tumblr, because I really like to draw kissing, and I don't do it enough. anyway.
September 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A woman of many names
a digital drawing of a black and white cat sprawling on her back with her front paws curled up against her chest. She is smiling/squinting. Label's surround her, stating her name "(the) Amity" and her various nicknames: "Ms. Amity (Ms. Girl)" "The Animal" "The Beast" "Wamity (wam-bamity)" "Girlfriend" "Bambo" and "Ammy"
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Soon…very soon….
some stickers of my purple worm demon guy pan looking mischievous and saying "BAD ADVICE"
September 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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By year three of owning a pet you should have at least one nickname you call them all the time that has nothing to do with their name or qualities

(I’ve been calling Amity “Bambo” lately)
The most beautiful and wonderful black and white cat you’ve ever seen sprawled across kitchen tile, putting her back feet against my hand The same cat, but now she’s rubbing her big head on my foot.
September 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Help me this is so funny
A sexual values graph that diagnoses me as a bisexual sub who is horny all the time and has a bunch of insane kinks.
September 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I am doing so bad right now personally, professionally, and geopolitically and it has resulted in some sort of freakish reverse crisis of faith and listening to Leonard Cohen a lot.
A digital drawing of a black wolf looming over a lighthouse, leaving a circle of white negative space between it and the lighthouse/coastline. The wolf has been gutting and its red intestines spill down the side of the frame; it stares with one empty white eye. Text above the lighthouse reads "YOU WANT IT DARKER" in rough, serif lettering.
September 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Another maner of thing. This made me think about my traditional watercolor process—and how digital basically cannot replace it.
A faux-watercolor digital painting of a kitchen in greens and browns.
September 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Here is some manner of thing. Please enjoy.
A digital faux-pencil sketch of a room.
August 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Mine aren’t technically open but I would love to paint one in watercolor for you
August 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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No cheating, post the last pic of your pet

(Sorry/youre welcome for the feet pics)
A black and white cat (the most beautiful you have ever seen) lies on kitchen tile, sort of croissant shaped, next to my bare foot.
August 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Procreate study of a photo I took of a very scrungy cat
A digital painting of a weary white cat standing in from of a chainlink fence. The foreground is composted of gravel, dirt, and a few tufts of green grass.
August 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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7. Out of Skin, E.M. Carroll

Carroll’s work is was some of the first horror I got interested in. I read this comic when it first dropped, I was 15 and still a huuuge weenie so it really broker my brain a little. Love it to death.
Screenshot from webcomic Out Of Skin. A woman drops a bowl of blood and it turns back into soup. She tries to convince herself it was a trick of the light, but when she wakes the next morning “THEY WERE EVERYWHERE”: her house is now made of the flesh and blood of murdered women.
August 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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6. Fellowship of the Ring

Not for the reason you might think. The real reason is special Hershel lore though
Boromir’s death scene
August 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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5. These Joanna Newsom lyrics made me bigender. (From Go Long and Only Skin)
Though I die Magpie This I bequeath By any other name A jay is still blue With the loneliness Of you mighty men With your mighty kiss That might never, never end While, so far away In the seat of the west Burns the fount of the heat But always up the mountainside you're clambering Groping blindly, hungry for anything Picking through your pocket linings, well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus? I see the blossoms broke and wet after the rain Little sister, he will be back again I have washed a thousand spiders down the drain Spiders ghosts hang soaked and dangelin' Silently from all the blooming cherry trees In tiny nooses, safe from everyone Nothing but a nuisance gone now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman
August 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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4. Nope (2022)

I almost had a panic attack in the theater 💖💖💖💖 (positive)
Start of the “Star Lasso Experience” from the movie Nope. Steven Yuen as Jupe looks up at the sky in a mixture of awe and terror. Behind him is a sparsely filled stadium.
August 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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3. Feast For A King, page 5041, Kosmicdream

Could also probably fill this thread exclusively with FFAK bc there’s just so much of it
August 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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2. Revolutionary Girl Utena, episode 33
Close up of Utena, a pink haired anime girl, lying on a bed with a distressed expression. Subtitles read “Tell me…”
August 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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1. In The Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

To be honest I could fill this thread with just quotes from In The Dream House, but I won’t.
“Don’t you get it? All of this shit already happened, and you can’t make it not happen, no matter what you do.”
August 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM