Third Child Reblogs

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

chemists will be like this is a molecule

I am THRILLED to announce a very special OOPS! ALL LAYOUTS special edition for TAZGN7-- featuring never-before-seen first pass paper layouts, drawn <1" tall and RIGHT ON THE SCRIPT PRINTOUTS!! How exciting!! How delightfully illegible!!!

TAZGN7 will be out on July 14th, 2026!! 15 weeks left!! You can preorder your copy (of the normal book, or the real special editions) at theadventurezonecomic.com!!

FAQ:

Q: are these the real layouts?? like, for the real book??? A: YES. Q: these look like spoons rattling around a silverware drawer???? A: please trust the process. Q: why are they so messy??? A: They're the very first thing I draw!! The goal is to think about overall composition of the page more than anything else. If a page doesn't work this tiny and messy, it's not gonna work at all! I am also a firm believer in: do it bad, by which I mean, if I tried to make my first pass legible it would take 17 years and I would never make a book at all. Q: How can I get the definitely completely real oops! all layouts special edition of TAZGN7*? A: Please ask your local library to order The Adventure Zone: Story And Song graphic novel!! If a bunch of people people tell me (comments or reblogs) that you did that, I'll post more layouts in insta stories and tumblr reblogs. thank you for supporting the book!!

*please note the date this was posted on. but I'm serious about posting more layouts if a bunch of people tell me they requested that their library order TAZGN7! thank you!!

I'm so excited that we get to start to talk about the TAZGN7 exclusive editions! You can learn more about them and preorder at theadventurezonecomic.com . The book will be out on July 14th!!

The Books-A-Million exclusive edition includes this 11x 17" foldout poster:

THE FINAL VERSION IS NOT PIXELATED. I am having fun doing Voidfish Special spoiler sneak peeks in a lot of my promo talk for this book but: the final edition is in full, glorious, unpixelated color. I don't know when/whether/ how much of it we'll be able to show before the book launch! Hopefully more! I want to do a whole slow-game-loading-screen where I get to gradually decrease the pixelation over time.

The Barnes & Noble exclusive edition includes a set of 4 trading cards AND foil cover treatment! Plus, today (3/26/26) B&N is the last day of B&N's 25% off preorders sale- more on that at their site. Here's a better look at two cool elements from the trading cards:

The main trio! Did you notice: this is the same composition as the cover of the very first TAZGN :')

And one more detail:

My darling and the bane of my life: the Starblaster! There she goes!! I built a 3d model and she STILL added extra drawing & inking time to every page she was on. But she's worth it!!

I'm honestly shocked we got to do exclusive editions for the final book, but it was such a treat to get to come up with the cards and the poster. I'm excited to talk more about them soon!

Over the years I've gotten a bit more inured to it because... people just do that a lot, but it is kind of a thoughtless thing to do.

Part of me understands the impulse and knows it's not malicious and that it's just a consequence of human brains being pattern recognizing machines: if something makes a familiar neuron fire we feel compelled to shout out the connection we just made. And that is so understandable and normal!

But when you're looking at and commenting upon someone's art in a space where you know they can hear you (so, the notes on their tumblr post) it is good form to engage with the art in front of you on its own merits, rather than attempting to turn it into content for your fandoms.

If the only way you can engage with it is by blurting out something else it reminds you of, even though you feel like you're just being excited and participatory, what you're telling the artist is that the art they made is not interesting enough for you to engage with it as it is and to think about what's in front of you; that it is only interesting to you insofar as it reminds you of something else you already like.

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

”aww, master 😊😏”