eating doodlebugs

[ Image description: Three panel format of A Softer World webcomic with a screenshot from the last scene of Conclave (2024). Across the three panels is the text: "It turns out that sometimes / the future actually / belongs to someone else." Panel one and two are of the empty courtyard and panel three shows the three nuns in white walking together. Under the first panel is the upside sentence: La iglesia es lo que hagamos en adelante.(translation: The Church is what we do next.) End of ID.]

The door to the old world is left open, but slowly it closes on its own.

[ Image description: A traditional painting of a witch sitting on a walking chair. The witch is young girl with two longs strawberry blonde braids and a witches hat with a star at the end, a blue ruffled collar, orange pants, lilac boots, and a long coat that covers most of her body and chair. The hat and the coat have a diamond-checkered pattern of pink and blue, with star and circle button details. Her eyes are closed and her expression is determined. One hand is raised above, pointing a star wand and the other on a book on her lap. Her walking chair has four legs, each with a light blue boot and a star at the toe. The background is alternating clouds stripes of pink and cyan. End of ID.]

the winged ones

[ Image description: A traditional painting of a witch sitting on a walking chair. The witch is young girl with two longs strawberry blonde braids and a witches hat with a star at the end, a blue ruffled collar, orange pants, lilac boots, and a long coat that covers most of her body and chair. The hat and the coat have a diamond-checkered pattern of pink and blue, with star and circle button details. Her eyes are closed and her expression is determined. One hand is raised above, pointing a star wand and the other on a book on her lap. Her walking chair has four legs, each with a light blue boot and a star at the toe. The background is alternating clouds stripes of pink and cyan. End of ID.]

[ Image description: traditional painting of a person in profile, facing to the right with one hand reaching their opposite shoulder. Their skin is a deep purple with silver freckles and their eye and earring are both dark with a silver crescent. They have long silvery hair, speckled with stars shaped like asterisks, that goes over their shoulder and over the sleeve of their raised hand. They're wearing a violet cloak with diamond and star pattern over a purple and silver diamond-checkered gown. The background is a dark violet speckled with silver. End of ID.]

Image 2 is the full body illustration. Facing sideways with a slight smile, he's taking off a violet salakot/wide-brimmed hat with one hand and in the other, holding a golden pendant with a cross on it. The hat halos his face, with yellow aura radiating from the rim of the hat. He's wearing a knee-long, high-collared light yellow Barong Tagalog, with diamond-checkered pattern with floral details, along with a light purple short-sleeved camisa de chino/undershirt and a long striped purple and magenta skirt underneath. The background is orange with a light yellow frame. . End of ID.]

Image 2 is the full body illustration. Facing sideways with a slight smile, he's taking off a violet salakot/wide-brimmed hat with one hand and in the other, holding a golden pendant with a cross on it. The hat halos his face, with yellow aura radiating from the rim of the hat. He's wearing a knee-long, high-collared light yellow Barong Tagalog, with diamond-checkered pattern with floral details, along with a light purple short-sleeved camisa de chino/undershirt and a long striped purple and magenta skirt underneath. The background is orange with a light yellow frame. . End of ID.]

[ Image description: traditional painting of a person in profile, facing to the right with one hand reaching their opposite shoulder. Their skin is a deep purple with silver freckles and their eye and earring are both dark with a silver crescent. They have long silvery hair, speckled with stars shaped like asterisks, that goes over their shoulder and over the sleeve of their raised hand. They're wearing a violet cloak with diamond and star pattern over a purple and silver diamond-checkered gown. The background is a dark violet speckled with silver. End of ID.]

[ Image description: A traditional painting of a witch sitting on a walking chair. The witch is young girl with two longs strawberry blonde braids and a witches hat with a star at the end, a blue ruffled collar, orange pants, lilac boots, and a long coat that covers most of her body and chair. The hat and the coat have a diamond-checkered pattern of pink and blue, with star and circle button details. Her eyes are closed and her expression is determined. One hand is raised above, pointing a star wand and the other on a book on her lap. Her walking chair has four legs, each with a light blue boot and a star at the toe. The background is alternating clouds stripes of pink and cyan. End of ID.]

[ Image description: traditional painting of a person in profile, facing to the right with one hand reaching their opposite shoulder. Their skin is a deep purple with silver freckles and their eye and earring are both dark with a silver crescent. They have long silvery hair, speckled with stars shaped like asterisks, that goes over their shoulder and over the sleeve of their raised hand. They're wearing a violet cloak with diamond and star pattern over a purple and silver diamond-checkered gown. The background is a dark violet speckled with silver. End of ID.]

Image 2 is the full body illustration. Facing sideways with a slight smile, he's taking off a violet salakot/wide-brimmed hat with one hand and in the other, holding a golden pendant with a cross on it. The hat halos his face, with yellow aura radiating from the rim of the hat. He's wearing a knee-long, high-collared light yellow Barong Tagalog, with diamond-checkered pattern with floral details, along with a light purple short-sleeved camisa de chino/undershirt and a long striped purple and magenta skirt underneath. The background is orange with a light yellow frame. . End of ID.]