AnExcellentSteelHorse

Hit the emergency log-off button, comrade!

Stay tuned for more!

(Stay tuned means to leave your television "tuned" to the same channel, encouraging viewers to keep watching, before streaming made that obsolete)

Achewood is a webcomic from the aughts about the adventures of some cats and stuffed animals in achewood, California. The characters are variously alcoholic, depressed, and deluded, and speak in a unique overwritten slacker dialect. The adventures they have are usually really creative and strange, but there's a fundamental lack of ambition and direction to their lives.

Warnings if you choose to check it out:

Its from the aughts, the r-slur in particular shows up a lot but its not the only one. Casual use of gay as a prejoritive, for example, which was very much the style at the time.

Its about men. There are few female characters and onstead was going through having a baby and getting divorced during the run, so the relationships they have with women are depicted with increasing cynicism.

In fact, the comic is extremely cynical. IMO it's clear that onstead kind of hates life and himself. Teodor dreams big dreams but will never follow through on anything. Roast Beef is depressed and suicidal. There are moments of beauty, but its more often dark. The boys "look after" a five year old stuffed otter named Phillipe, something they are entirely unequipped to do, and childhood, just like adulthood, is depicted as a frightening ordeal.

That being said, it probably remains my favourite piece of fiction ever. I have never seen anything like it. The stories are absurdly creative and the writing is brilliant. In it's heyday there were regularly updated blogs for more than ten of the characters and it seemed like there was an infinite well of texture and depth even to minor characters. It's also funny as hell IMO, I've been laughing out loud looking for panels to post here.

Welcome! I plan on keeping it up, in the tradition of "posting ska everyday until I get tired of it" posts of yore. Just a knucklehead from back in the day.

Apparently there's new stuff coming out on patreon, but I haven't checked it out and am not planning to, onstead seems to have lost his mind a bit talking about "innovative" ways to monetize the world of achewood. That being said, his demons always featured pretty prominently in the brilliance of the strip.

CW: description of abuse, self-harm

spoiler

POV: You are investigating if you would still be a Marxist if Marx was Finnish:

Shocking to hear this dipshit perform this text with such conviction, real roman empire rhetorical shit

About time it saw the recognition it deserves!

By upper end of your vision do you mean, ideally the light should be above your eye level? I have one but my thinking is too disordered to remember to use it

Interesting to see how many people I've talked to or read comments that are literally surprised that they feel the way they do. A lot of people who seemed to balk at the idea of any kind of violence are discovering that, no, actually violence directed toward a CEO did not trigger an automatic revulsion in them like they thought it would have before it happened. So minds might actually be changing a bit

That must be why they released this photo, to try and make him look bad. But you can't really see it that well and also at this point, everyone is already sympathetic to him so they are just going to make everyone more angry at them for not letting him use the fuckin bathroom.

Edit: cops forget that the kind of brutal treatment that gives then such joy to inflict on others doesn't automatically translate to the average person. Sure chuds love the cruelty when it's directed at someone they don't like but they don't want to see it happen to someone they do like.