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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷
@tantzaerine.bsky.social
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Ed. Psychologist & author that makes webcomics. History & Politics. Research & fact fanatic.
Verdant (political dark fantasy): theduckwebcomics.com/Verdant/
Without Moonlight (WWII war drama, vol1 complete!): withoutmoonlightcomic.com
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Here, from my webcomic Verdant- Etan on a hopeless mission against a fire lava demon.

Read Verdant here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/Verdant
From the webcomic Verdant: A ginger knight, wearing chainmail and a surcoat of blue,with a long single braid is bursting through a magic force field, sword swinging, as he's glowing green with his own magic. With his sword swing he's cutting through tendrils of lava that look to be alive. In the background, the source of the force field, a corvid-man witch flowing in the air with his wings spread and glowing, is casting so powerfully he's almost invisible in the light emanating. The knight is saying, with a challenging grin "Hey, ya glorified kindle-starter! Doncha tell me... ya really think yer unmatched?"
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:
My female dog Evie in a headscarf like a girly girl looking pretty
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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It's #Caturday so here's my two cats right after they finished bouncing off the walls like they were on fire.
An orange tabby cat (Cornelius) and a mostly white cat (Demos) with some color spots at the ears are collapsed together on a patterned duvet cover sleeping haphazardly like they were trying to form a yin yang design but fell asleep midway.
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Quote repost your art with fire on 🔥
A man radiating energy so powerfully that his flesh is transparent and his skeleton is visible, looking like it's on fire, is manipulating a ribbon of lava crackling with fire. A panel from my webcomic Verdant.
October 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Since it's #Caturday, enjoy a surreal photo of my cat Cornelius that could have been an album cover.

#cats
An orange cat with white paws and belly is sleeping on his back, covering his face while leaving his hind legs spread wide open and in the air, exposing his fuzzy tummy. Because he was on a black couch, in thephoto he looks like he's floating in black space.
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Someone give me my gold star XD

(I have a lot more images posted than just 4, but all of them have alt text.)

Get your Bluesky alt text rating here: cred.blue/alt-text
A screencapture of my alt text percentage score showing I have 100% of images posted with alt text. It lists a 4 out 4 images posted, which is wrong, btw. I got a lot more images posted, but all of them do have alt text :D
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Happy International Dog Day with my two jesters, Alekos (the black and white) and Evie (latte-caramel)
Alekos being dramatic on the couch, letting his head drop off the edge Closeup of Evie looking content, and on her back Evie looking cute on her back, waiting for belly rubs Alekos on the floor, on his side, looking over his shoulder to see if I'm still watching him
August 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Feels like Stalinism but without the communism highlight ('housing/healthcare/food' for everyone) side dish and evangelist far right/positive 'christianity' to me. Congrats, USA, you became what you supposedly feared.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Trump. Post reads: "The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!"
August 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Just Verdant's cover for me
Screen cap of my phone's lock screen. It's the cover of my webcomic Verdant showing a wounded Etan (a cleric style knight) floating unconscious in the water of the swamp forest while a vine witch is sending her vines towards him
July 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

Heartstrings and fun.
Poster for the animated Pixar movie Coco Movie poster for the animated Chinese movie New Gods: Nezha Reborn
July 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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What's one horror movie you never get tired of watching?
Cover poster for the move Dead Snow 2 showing a zombie communist vs a zombie nazi, both gripping each other's chins as they're growling.
July 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Among better news, my #comic Verdant has updated @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social!

Not that the world there isn't burning too. Or that the villain isn't gloating. But at least this villain LOOKS COOL.

Read it here!

www.theduckwebcomics.com/Verdant/5810...

#webcomics #fantasy #horror #darkfantasy
A naked man so aglow with magic energy that all that's really visible is his skeleton and an aura of his glowing flesh like it's burning with energy, is manipulating burning water that looks like lava. He's causing it to rise up in a ribbon like wave of lava around him as he gloats. Around him the swamp forest trees are all burnt and barren. Dialogue reads: "It's always fun to see what you come up with to face me!"
July 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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On my Greek side, it's the Resurrection Saturday soup, called mageiritsa (pictured below). Even before I turned vegetarian, I couldn't stand the whole 'chopped up lamb liver and entrails in a lettuce fricassee soup'.
A bowl of mageiritsa soup. It's got an eggy color. Some dill and chunks of cooked liver are visible.
July 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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How I would dress if money wasn't an issue
A woman in a purple steampunk outfit rocking a top hat
June 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Technology has progressed but humanity has not.
Screenshot of a tweet asking the question "Which opinion about history will get you like this?" and showing a meme sketch (bad haphazard linework) of a smiling chibi style figure smiling as it's surrounded by knives, guns, blades, and a hand flipping the bird all pointed at it.
June 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Artist! Quote with your evil art 😱
A page from my webcomic Verdant. It's a splash page showing a man with so much evil glow that his skeleton, seemingly on fire in a way, shows through his illuminated body, is rising from within a swirl of water that's turned into a lava wave he controls. Behind him, burnt trees from a swamp forest rise up as shadows against an orange sky.
June 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Reskeet with a pic if you're on the right side of 40.

I'll be 47 in August 😹
A selfie, I'm wearing glasses and have short red hair (dyed natch)
June 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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To my American friends, since you'll be embarking on your first #NoKings demo since King George, I figured you might want a contribution from Greece, from when we ousted for the umpteenth time our unwanted king, in 1974:

here's the Crown Peeing Kid, the most famous pro-democracy cartoon we got!
A little blond boy is turned away from us. He's wearing a red tank top but no pants or undies. He's standing before a big overturned golden, bejeweled crown and he's peeing in it while cheekily looking over his shoulder at us. Cartoon by Ornerakis, 1974
June 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Show me how you draw armor!

Here's the closest recent thing I got
A female and male fighting knight posing with their choice of weapons. The woman has her red hair in three dutch braids merging into one. She has a chainmail under her surcoat which is held in place by a shash. Her surcoat is brown. The guy has his (also) red hair in a single long braid and has similarly chainmail under his quite longer blue surcoat. The woman has double battle axes and the man has a sword. The woman's name is Raksha and the man is Etan, from my webcomic Verdant.
May 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Show off your webcomics and 3 things that inspired it!

For Verdant:
Panel from Verdant showing Etan, a ginger cleric-style knight called a Kome fighting against a grey-black flying corvid man he calls a witch. The stand off is making Etan glow as the corvid guy casts purple/pinkish magic. Poster for the Chinese fantasy drama "The Last Immortal" showing a traditionally clad Chinese young woman (in a classic divine pose/composition) with long flowing black hair and a red traditional chinese dress surrounded by the sweeping image of a phoenix in the background, its tail going around her. An image portraying a Byzantine royal family, with the Emperor and Empress, and some vassals and/or attendants. They are standing in the middle of a church that alludes to Agia Sofia in Constantinople (Instabul). They are all dressed in opulent, ornate clothes and headdresses, illuminated by a sun ray. Image illustrating the Great Schism of 1054 AD (BCE), showing a map of the Mediterranean area and surrounding lands (including part of Africa) with the territories of influence of Rome (i.e. The Roman Catholic Church) and Constantinople (i.e. the Eastern Orthodox Church). There are also two medieval style figures portraying the two leaders of the different churchs, the Pope and the Patriarch.
May 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Show off your webcomics and 3 things that inspired it!

Okay for Without Moonlight (WWII in Greece war drama):
Without Moonlight's protagonist, Fotis, standing at the forefront with the two leaders of the two biggest Greek resistance groups (Aris Velouhiotis and Napoleon Zervas) in the background. Fotis is a 15 year old with curly brown hair, and scars on the left side of his face around his milky blind eye. His intact eye is green. The two resistance leaders look very much alike, with big bears and wearing military uniforms in different combinations. They're both middle aged but very sturdy looking, stout men. Illustration from the 1960s-1980s children's pulp fiction stories called "Young/Little Hero" about a bunch of kids in WWII Greece (mainly 3 but there were more on occasion) standing up to the country's occupiers and helping the Allies win the war carrying out mission as (unsaid but implied) basically SOE-employed agents. The stories are larger than life and full of patriotic bravado, with a humanitarian spin. In the end though, it's basically 'gritty superpowered kids vs Usually Dangerous but Ultimately Foolish Nazis'. I grew up with these little paperbacks and though there's no way to suspend disbelief after you hit 15, I still think about them fondly. Cover of the book "Petros' War" by Alki Zei (there is an English translation). It's showing a young boy about 10 years old with a pet turtle sitting in a foggy museum with a female figure in the background, watching him. The book is about the Nazi occupation of Athens during WWII through the eyes of a boy and everything he's exposed to. It's not an easy read but it IS a great one. Poster for the film "Inglorious Basterds" starring Brad Pitt, showing Also, Stieglitz, Von Hammersmark, Shoshana and the Bear Jew.
May 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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From Without Moonlight:
Fotis: the one who shines
Martha: Lady and master

From Verdant:
Etan: strength
Aviya: child of the deity

Yes they're all picked on purpose. XD
Fotis from Without Moonlight, a 15 year old Greek insurgent from WWII. He has curly brown hair and scars across the left side of his face, where one eye is milky because it's blind. He's wearing many layers of clothing and in this drawing he's cheering, somewhat belligerently, at a successful sabotage. Art by me! A panel from Without Moonlight featuring a closeup of Martha, a young woman with wavy blond hair and blue eyes, looking down with teary eyes and a sad smile. Bubble reads "He did say it. He even had a quote for it: Injuria non excusat injuriam." Panel from Verdant featuring Etan. He is a young well-exercised man with green eyes and bright ginger hair in a long braid that's become loose. He's turning to look towards us as he's sitting in a sunray that illuminates him. Panel from Verdant featuring Aviya, a young witchling girl. She has greenish skin and green hair that falls straight and heavy down the sides of her face and even in front of it. Vines seem to grow out of and around her head forming a wreath or circlet around it. She has bright yellow eyes and is looking in disbelief at someone. She's wearing a very plain, somewhat tattered purple dress and from under it at her shoulders there grow raven feathers.
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Quote with a fantasy being that's NOT a vampire or a werewolf!
From my webcomic Verdant, a grey/black-skinned male witch manifesting corvid wings and feathers, currently casting magic while flying that makes his black feathers glow purple. He is in between tall towering trees and he's casting a powerful glow.
May 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Aside the sheer relief that PP won't be in Canada's saddle moving forward, this thing right here has been a ton of fun to watch. It's unlikely Carleton will be ultimately free of PP, but STILL, so much fun to see this has been going on for a while now. XD

#canada #CanadaElection #CBC
A screencapture from the CBC's Canadian elections result page, showing the riding of Carleton where Pierre Poilievre is running, and is currently coming in second with a 39.6% to liberal Bruce Fanjoy's 57.3%
April 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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quoting for the alt, as I believe this is a message any democratic American should at least have access to.

Having lived through memorandum Greece, where autocracy reigned pretty similarly (except the kidnapping of people off streets), I 100% agree. You're running out of time.
Image from an article (or OPed) from The Atlantic, where only the opening paragraph is pictured. Paragraph reads: Look around, take stock of where you are, and know this: Today, right now- and I mean right this second- you ahve the most power you'll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America. If this sounds dramatic to you, it should. Over the past five months, in many hours of many conversations with multiple people who have lived under dictators and autocrats, one message came through loud and clear: America, you are running out of time."
April 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM