uh-oh! the necromancer forgot my brain!

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!

Everyone say hi to my newest puppet Julius! He can be found in a library, although do not mistake them for a librarian. Library dragons and librarian dragons are not the same!! He has a book hoarding problem and unfortunately not a book reading problem. 🐉📚

Yes. Please use nouns and pronouns as often as you need to.

The best way to use a word less is not to replace it with another word, but to just find reasons not to use it again. If you introduce the subject noun at the right time, readers can assume you're still talking about the same thing within the same paragraph.

Fear of using normal words too often is how we end up with eyes being renamed "orbs."

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But to make a rule never to use the same word twice in one paragraph, or to state flatly that repetition is to be avoided, is to go right against the nature of narrative prose. Repetition of words, of phrases, of images; repetition of things said; near-repetition of events; echoes, reflections, variations: from the grandmother telling a folktale to the most sophisticated novelist, all narrators use these devices, and the skillful use of them is a great part of the power of prose.