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It's been a little over a month since I dropped out of Tumblr and moved over to Bluesky. I still check over here about once a week though, to see whether there's any indication the mods have shaped up (actually I'm not sure how to check for that); and see whether there's anything in my notes I have a comment on. Looks like I'll still be posting here once or twice a month.

Meanwhile at Bluesky where there's no porn ban I've been going a little crazy with the NSFW stuff. I generally got like this every spring already (I'm now calling it my annual second puberty) but till now for posting I'd have to go to Pillowfort which has never been my primary social instead of to, you know, my primary social. I've even gotten myself a scanner so I can do it with pencil drawing and have refreshed my memory of the production procedures I used on Arthur, King of Time and Space. If you're interested it's here. I've even been drawing OCs. I never invent OCs.

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Another few months and I'm pretty well settled in over there but I miss the engagement I got over here. Of course I'd been on Tumblr for fourteen years when I walked out. I'd been on Bluesky for four years when I picked up and moved in there and, while I get my fair share of likes and reblogs reposts, I guess, I don't get a lot of comments/replies and I get little or no response to daily The Hero of Three Faces links (when it's not summer hiatus and there are any) or other art.

A post was going around there last month where someone asked what's the best social forum you ever knew and everyone who's been drawing webcomics as long as I have was saying their site's comment section. I never had a comment section on my site, because my webcoding arrested in 1997. I had a free one for Arthur, King of Time and Space at Talk About Comics once. I woulda thought that site disappeared with Webcomicsnation but looking now I find it's still there, though the AKOTAS bbs seems to be gone. I haven't any record of what my password was so I tried to register anew. The forums page says I'm banned, says I can contact the site mod about it, and hides the mod contact link or doesn't have one.

I asked these questions on Bluesky then and got zero response, so maybe here:

Anyone got contact information for TAC?

Anyone got recs for other free phpBB forum providers, or something similar, whatever it is people have nowadays?

Anyone got recs for simple forum software I might run on my own site?

Should I just make a Strawpage and crosspost the answers on my site and socials?

#tumblr #blogging #blogging about blogging #bluesky #me #hammergate #hero of three faces #social media

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shirecorn

THIS is the comic that has been banned

It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

And yet, we will CONTINUE to exist, and grow, and find each other. We will be visible up to and beyond our own deaths. Because we stand for love. We love ourselves and each other and that just makes us stronger.

shirecorn

Happy pride!

The original post was pardoned, but the shadowban still persisted and every reblog was hidden from the dash and flagged explicit. I'm not sure if it recovered by now, or if it's always going to be at risk of banning.

So whatever staff reviewed my complaint agreed that it wasn't explicit. So thank you for that, moderator. This highlights that the problem starts with bad actors reporting anything they don't like, and that it's a tossup if your appeal is seen by a bot, a normal human, or a bigot.

I'm grateful I can still touch people and spread positivity. Many of my queer siblings, brothers, and sisters - especially trans sisters - can't say the same.

But no matter what happens, we will always have each other. Every letter in our alphabet is a pillar holding up a beautiful world that only stands if we're all in it together. The rest of society may call you a monster, but it calls me one too. Maybe you won't hear it from the rest of them, but listen and you will hear it from me.

I love you.

I always will.

#comics

Not Rule Of Three but "they move in herds"

#sam neill #obituary

According to my spreadsheet chronology, today was the day when the latest-set contemporary arc Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoon with Arthur, Guenevere, and Lancelot on the site is set.

Canon no longer keeps them alive.

#arthur king of time and space #akotas

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paulgadzikowski

This directed me to a screen which presented a CAPTCHA and then prompted me to paste something into my command prompt sight unseen.

Do not do this.

#scams

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vaspider

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

Contact your representatives, US folx. Yes, even if you're scared. Yes, even if you think it doesn't matter, even if you think they won't listen. Write an email if you can't make a call. Call after hours and leave a message. Call during office hours if you feel up to it, but do something. Call every day. Email every day. Fucking bother your rep. They work for you, not the other way around.

Your single call is not the point. The point is the aggregate of calls and emails. The point is that even "safe" Republicans don't feel really safe right now. The point is that "safe" Democrats are feeling pressure from the left due to the success of DSA candidates. You think they won't listen, and they'll probably try to make you think they're not, but they do, in the aggregate. The midterms have them running scared right now, and now is the time to shut this shit down.

Yes, again. Sorry it's not over. The people who really, really want to criminalize dissent are going to make us keep fighting this one. Sorry about that, but keep fighting.

#war on communication

A family member has reached out to me to pass on the sad news that Tumblr user @believerindaydreams/@ruffledringdove died Tuesday June 9 from a cliff fall apparently during one of their frequent nature walks.

Under their deadname they were co-author with their husband Tat Woods of several of his Doctor Who commentary series About Time and of World History in Minutes. More recently they've been going by another name, at least with me; according to my family contact they've had multiple names over the years.

My first contact from them was an encounter I don't remember during the run of Arthur, King of Time and Space. They wrote to express uncertainty about their novel-writing, and apparently what I wrote back was encouraging, as it will have been meant to be. I believe from a comment they made at the time of posting that the work they were talking about then was the Under Milkwood sequel on their AO3.

My last contact from them was June 9, a DM on Tumblr. They knew well that I don't check Tumblr daily any more, and I didn't see it till Wednesday June 10 when I logged in, unusually midweek, to write the post about the impact on The Hero of Three Faces of the day's Doctor Who news, which I think they'd appreciate. "In an ironic twist of events, it looks like you're going to outlive me. …" Their last Tumblr reblog is timestamped about an hour after the DM to me. I messaged back for clarification - their message included no details of what had happened - to no response. Thursday June 11 I was contacted on another of my socials by a family member with the news, wishing me to pass it on for Tumblr. The family member wanted to relay more information when the family had it from the husband but such has not yet been forthcoming.

We met twice over the years when they were passing through Omaha. They were the first and so far only Tumblr mutual I've met, and they were the first and so far only person I've met as direct consequence of their being a fan of my work. At our first meeting they were quite fangirly for the first few minutes and their husband said then he'd never seen them like that. I don't know that the DM to me wasn't their last reach out to another person in this life. I will remember them.

#believerindaydreams #obituary

The BBC has ended its arrangement with Bad Wolf and Russell T Davies. There will be no 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special.

So, I know what you're thinking now, or have already been wondering if you saw this news earlier today: What's going to be impact of this on The Hero of Three Faces?

I've already been drawing the Billie Piper "Doctor" as the future Doctor in some Three Faces crossovers set during what would have been Season 2027 if there had been going to be one, even if it had consisted only of the now-cancelled 2026 Christmas special*. My plan, of course, was to edit the images once it was announced who was following Ncuti Gatwa in the role for the special and next year. Then recently I decided to keep the "Piper Doctor" in some of these cartoons anyway, as sort of AU Doctor like the Lumley Doctor and the Grant Doctor, both of which have been established in Three Faces continuity as Doctors of alternate fiction-planes sort of like the Pine Kirk in relation to the Shatner-Wesley Kirk or like the other two Spider-Men in No Way Home. This decision was precipitated partially by the cancellation of Buffy: New Sunnydale after some of those characters had already appeared in Three Faces, so the never-weres at least have each other to hang out with.

Meanwhile there was still going to be a gap year where Season 2026 proper was failing to happen. Though the Gatwa-"Piper" regeneration came onscreen at the end of Season 2025, I've continued drawing the Gatwa Doctor as Three Faces' current Doctor in crossovers set in this year's continuities (e.g. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and Supergirl when it comes out), even giving him his granddaughter Susan as a companion** in compensation for continued lack of resolution for her Season 2025 story arc (after the planned resolution was cut from the finale), as will almost certainly now be the case when Season 2025's head writer is gone. The point is, I was asserting the regeneration comes just after the hiatus - right before the special when, presumably, the new Doctor would start airing, whatever the followup air schedule developed to be - instead of at the beginning of the hiatus.

So what to do now, when there's going to be no new Doctor, due to there being no Doctor Who, for at least 2027*** and possibly, as those of us fearing the doom of repeating history, years or even decades? (It's no use telling me, "There's plenty of EU you know," when e.g. Big Finish can't give me a post-Gatwa incarnation which won't be consigned to the same AU status as the Grant Doctor**** [who the BBC website was touting as the official ninth Doctor till the tv revival was announced] once there are screen adventures again, assuming I live so long.)

Today I went through the existing Three Faces cartoons set in next year's continuity, decided which ones the "Piper" Doctor could keep, and in the rest replaced her with the Gatwa Doctor. Like the McCoy Doctor in my pencil dailies of 1989-1996, the Gatwa Doctor will remain the current Doctor in my work not just in 2026 continuities but until there's a screen successor.

The in-text rationales, and notations concerning the out-text rationales updated due to today's development, for both the "Piper" Doctor and the Gatwa Doctor persisting are respectively here and here.

* In my spreadsheet the Christmas specials have always been tracked as episode zero of the following year's season, because the first one introduced a new Doctor at the beginning. Unlike every single Christmas special regeneration since then (except, of course, the one we're not after all getting this year). ** Much like I gave the Hurt Doctor a companion, a Time-War-generated-AU version of Cass. I don't invent an OC if I can avoid it. *** The guy whose skeet I reblogged reposted might say "You don't know there's going to be no Doctor Who in 2027" but yeah, the lack of anything like hard dates in the official statement tells me no Doctor Who in 2027. **** Notwithstanding Grant's face in the incarnation collage in Rogue. Unless Rusty's put out an explanation that's never reached me, I think he was just winding us up.

#hero of three faces #doctor who #for whom the cloister bell tolls

overthinkingao3

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

haunted-hideaway

I think most of us want to be seen. We want to connect with the people who read our stuff and have them say yeah, I’ve experienced or thought that too. I felt that emotion with you. It’s why we read. We want to connect. Nothing wrong with that. Reviews tell us we connected enough to someone that they wanted to say so. No reviews or readers can sting because it means people aren’t seeing us. Because what we write, even if it’s about Those Characters and Their Problems, is often about what’s on our mind and heart. Or about what we need and aren’t getting. Our writing is often revealing and it can sting when there’s no validation in the form of someone nodding, tipping their hat, and saying “I see you.”

#fanfiction #writing #creation

paulgadzikowski

It's been a little over a month since I dropped out of Tumblr and moved over to Bluesky. I still check over here about once a week though, to see whether there's any indication the mods have shaped up (actually I'm not sure how to check for that); and see whether there's anything in my notes I have a comment on. Looks like I'll still be posting here once or twice a month.

Meanwhile at Bluesky where there's no porn ban I've been going a little crazy with the NSFW stuff. I generally got like this every spring already (I'm now calling it my annual second puberty) but till now for posting I'd have to go to Pillowfort which has never been my primary social instead of to, you know, my primary social. I've even gotten myself a scanner so I can do it with pencil drawing and have refreshed my memory of the production procedures I used on Arthur, King of Time and Space. If you're interested it's here. I've even been drawing OCs. I never invent OCs.

paulgadzikowski

*sigh* I dunno man. Bluesky has always had great user filters for filtering out NSFW posts if you don't want to look at them, and in fact I gather that was one of their selling points - but now they're implementing an update which blurs or hides all posts of any account which has been marked (self-marked? moderator marked? either? not sure) as posting anything NSFW. It's redundant and unnecessary with what's already in place, and in fact actively renders what's in place useless for blurring or hiding only such an accounts' NSFW posts, and (preaching to the choir here unless you're new on Tumblr since 2018) this makes it not only a career killer for artists and sex workers but it's silencing and oppression of posts advocating against the persecution of artists and sex workers. Same old story: use the NSFW posters to build a userbase and then boot them out as undesirables.

My user filters there are all turned off but with the posting I've been doing lately I might get hidden to users who want/need not to see the Doctor boffing the characters I want to draw naked but who enjoy my humor and progressivism. And another social forum is engaging in procedures which offend my principles.

If it gets intolerable there I may end up wanting to start curating more active feeds at Pillowfort and/or Dreamwidth than I have now, or to crawl back here with my tail between my legs without having waited for Tumblr to fix what drove me off. Or start curating more social life offline, but that's part of what I need moving to Chicago for fixing, and the timetable for that isn't predictable, and it was never meant to be an all-the-time thing anyhow cuz I like not having to go out to be social.

EDIT 6/1/26 it's so unpopular it's been rolled back

EDIT 6/7/26 I just noticed that for the last week there was a typo in one of the tags on this post, #war on cummunication. Not inappropriate for the subject of the post, but #war on communication is what's my existing tag regarding the fake administration's persecution and prosection of free speech.

#bluesky #tumblr #hammergate #blogging #blogging about blogging #me #art #sex workers #war on communication #my move

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It's been a little over a month since I dropped out of Tumblr and moved over to Bluesky. I still check over here about once a week though, to see whether there's any indication the mods have shaped up (actually I'm not sure how to check for that); and see whether there's anything in my notes I have a comment on. Looks like I'll still be posting here once or twice a month.

Meanwhile at Bluesky where there's no porn ban I've been going a little crazy with the NSFW stuff. I generally got like this every spring already (I'm now calling it my annual second puberty) but till now for posting I'd have to go to Pillowfort which has never been my primary social instead of to, you know, my primary social. I've even gotten myself a scanner so I can do it with pencil drawing and have refreshed my memory of the production procedures I used on Arthur, King of Time and Space. If you're interested it's here. I've even been drawing OCs. I never invent OCs.

#tumblr #blogging #blogging about blogging #me #hammergate #bluesky #OCs

byjove

I think it would be so funny if there was a show about King Arthur and the knight of the Round Table where a different knight(s) joins the Round Table every episode and it gets to the point where the cast is like 500 people and absolutely no one is acknowledging that there are like 400 people in this court. Like a gratuitous amount of knights. The plot randomly pivots to knight or knights of the week and then back but it’s not an anthology exactly. Some of them die the same day they join, some randomly disappear from the story and others are technically there for the rest of the series but doing fuckall. Occasionally Arthur will be like “Where has Sir Whatever gone?” and everyone will shrug. Very important quest surrounding the major knights you’re expecting and a minor knight no one has seen for 5 seasons randomly joins in. You need a knightly spreadsheet to join in.

byjove

This is all handled very dryly by all the other characters, except for Arthur who occasionally breaks the 3rd wall, addresses the camera and says something like “This is all very confusing.” when the plot hits maximum ridiculousness.

byjove

There are several knights who do not speak Welsh and this is depicted by them speaking various dialects of old French and Gaulish and Brittonic splinter languages with a bar at the bottom that just says ‘I do not know what he is saying.’

Sometimes Arthur will be like “Where has Sir Whatever gone?” and someone is like “He has become a saint.” or “I believe he has become king of Dumnonia.” and there’s a random quick montage of this random knight getting up from the Round Table, riding out of Camelot and having religious visions or conquering an entire kingdom or drunkenly wandering all the way to Constantinople for no particular reason with the implication that this was all occurring while the other knights were debating a riddle or something asinine.

byjove

I think it would be so funny if the first shot of the series was Arthur sitting alone at a comedically large actually round table. Court utterly empty except for him and Sir Kay and like 2 guys from his father’s reign. And in the closing scene of the series he’s sitting in the same spot but there are hundreds of knights crammed into the room around him, sitting on each other’s laps, on the table, pressed flat against the walls to fit. They outgrew and surpassed this ridiculously large table several seasons ago and have been lowkey sitting on top of each other without addressing it.

howieduet

Every now and then there's a fwoosh and a scream as someone forgets and sits in Siege Perilous.

byjove

Galahad is stacked on top of Percival in the Siege Perilous and they keep talking over each other.

byjove

periodically Percival will say something and Galahad will elbow him really hard and repeat it and Percival will be like “OW. Lancelot, are you seeing this?”

makiruz

Pretty sure this is actually Canon, like the Round Table is magical and can accommodate hundreds of people

@heroofthreefaces @paulgadzikowski what's your professional opinion?

paulgadzikowski

Yes, it's in the Vulgate I think, and I incorporated it into AKOTAS:

#arthur king of time and space #akotas #cartoons

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that leaving Tumblr and settling at Bluesky as my new primary social forum would mean that I wouldn't be reminded at the time and wouldn't realize till the next day when looking for something else that the Good Omens finale had dropped

#good omens #best omens #blogging #blogging about blogging

The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Click here for this cartoon’s homepage. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 11:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 23:00 daily are from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates.

Thanks for reading.

#black panther #mcu #marvel #fancomics #fan art #rerun

I'm gone, gang. I hit a wall and I'm gone. I'm not gonna delete these blogs, and I may post rarely and look at yours to keep up, but I won't be posting regularly or often unless they shape up around here. You can always find me at the Hero of Three Faces site, with up-to-date links to my current socials at the bottom of the About page.

Thanks for the joy you've given me. I want you to know I believe in your song.

#tumblr #blogging #blogging about blogging #me #hammergate #bluesky

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The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Click here for this cartoon’s homepage. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 11:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 23:00 daily are from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates.

Thanks for reading.

#ds9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek #fancomics #fan art

The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Click here for this cartoon’s homepage. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 11:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 23:00 daily are from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates.

Thanks for reading.

#doctor who #star trek #tos #fancomics #fan art #rerun

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