David Revoy

🍄 Webcomic Creator | Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips | Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools | CC-licensed | No AI

🔗 Blog/Shop/Support:: https://www.davidrevoy.com/linktree/

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2026-05-06 18:11:15 CEST

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Yes, "Hereva"; but take it as a parody of lore and universe rather than something really trying to be serious and coherent to the detail by design.

2026-05-06 17:52:19 CEST

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Real loot: "wild ferocious wild forest octopus meat", equally disappointing 😅

2026-05-06 17:32:58 CEST

The loot
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/051.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-04 16:40:30 CEST

A Fediverse experiment! an "Exquisite Corpse" collab with artist @npub1lym…fqe3 (left), and me (right). Fun fun!
Full original thread: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B5c8qmENlmX1kjRXMm
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2026-04-14 16:14:56 CEST

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Hey Emilion, I totally understand, and I would do the same 👍
Unfortunately, for the self publishing books 100% made with FLOSS, that was the only company/solution I found long time ago, before that was so problematic (the Brexit put a lot of tax on the UK print pod). I might need to look for a EU print-on-demand solution soon.
For the version of the publisher Silly Studio (Italian publisher), they just put their Italian/English version in the shop https://sillystudiosofficial.com/shop/

2026-04-14 15:12:50 CEST

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Screenshots of Scribus running on Debian KDE with the Pepper&Carrot books on it (CC By)
- Sources: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/book-publishing (require 24GB)
- Books: https://www.davidrevoy.com/static9/shop#official
#scribus
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2026-04-13 08:17:29 CEST

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I have artists who use that vertical (1×4 or more) in my TL, yes it has good pros you mentioned but also this cons:
Cons:
- limited to the width of a single long 'thumbnail' sized the column of TL on clients and not all og them have a policy for it (but Mastodon does)
- Scaling down image algorithm of the platform, good for graphical style, but not detailed art.
- On click, the "full preview" rescale to the entirety of the screen, making them impossible to read without zooming.

2026-04-13 01:08:54 CEST

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Inkscape, because I'm maintaining right now 28744 Inkscape SVG files (translation of pages for Pepper&Carrot and Mini Fantasy Theater), and refactoring all of that to change workflow is impossible right now. Also because hosting on Git the SVG is really flexible and lightweight compare to the Krita Kra files with multiple layers: SVGs are XML text, so it's possible to diff, and versioning control system works great for that type of file.

2026-04-12 23:39:49 CEST

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-12 23:16:16 CEST

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Also on the Fediverse → @npub1lc8…j94y

2026-04-12 23:09:25 CEST

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Oh! my bad, thank you for reporting, I'll check it right away.

2026-04-12 23:03:26 CEST

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🤯 oh! I had no idea such a CSS class existed. I'll add it to my TODO! Thank you for sharing and for your words too.

2026-04-12 21:52:57 CEST

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Thank you!

2026-04-12 21:51:16 CEST

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That's a good one! I'll add it. Thank you 👍

2026-04-12 21:30:24 CEST

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Yes, I wonder if I can just put the 4 panels unified twice on the html, and hide the one of the top on small screens, and on desktop inverse it: hide the one after the panel-a panel-b, etc... In general, I'm not fond of making a different content depending of the device, and "choose for the user".

2026-04-12 20:48:55 CEST

New blog-post: "Unified Vs Split-panels: experimenting with publishing digital comics on the Fediverse"
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse

2026-04-12 17:19:38 CEST

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Hey, the arrows navigation (and page up/down, spacebar) is already implemented.
I tried the mousewheel, but this 'breaks the webpage too much, and managing the mouse wheel sensitivity in Javascript is a can of worms I don't want to maintain for so many devices possibles emulating a mouse scroll.
But Maybe I'll consider a fixed button (position fixed css, sticky on screen) to go up and down.
Thank you for the feedback!

2026-04-12 05:25:01 CEST

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Yes, thank you, it's a good point and a popular feedback, but unfortunately Mastodon limits me to 4 pictures per post. But since I posted that, I refactored also my website, and this one now has everything: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/047.html
I'll just make sure every post have also a link.

2026-04-12 00:33:37 CEST

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Thank you, I started to write her a series, but I felt stuck in my scenarios: her universe of Necromancia is so dark that the humor also went very dark quickly. Maybe at one point I'll have better ideas for her. Or she'll remains Miss "Halloween special" 😆

2026-04-11 23:11:58 CEST

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Yes, the URL is stable, and retro-compatible with previous URLs. The RSS for miniFantasyTheater [1] will continue to deliver the "unified" all panels in a single picture comic, but with a link to this comic reader.
[1] https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/rss-feeds/index.html

2026-04-11 22:57:11 CEST

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-11 22:54:51 CEST

Over the past days, I worked hard on the MiniFantasyTheater website.
I'll blog about it tomorrow, but if you want, you can test before my new homemade comic reader: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/025.html

2026-04-09 15:27:22 CEST

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"Note the limited movement of the carpals and metacarpals as compared to the wide range possible in the phalanges."
Drawing Dynamic Hands ~ Burne Hogarth
#page42

2026-04-09 15:16:42 CEST

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😍 THANK YOU!
First comment about it, and I really expected to get more about it, but maybe it was forgotten.
This is the original soundtrack I was listening while doing the character design. I also tried a lot to make a reference to Parn on the design and color palette, just a younger and 'goofier' version.
💜 Record of Lodoss War

2026-04-09 14:39:44 CEST

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-09 14:39:23 CEST

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Oh yes, but lets push the dream even further: JXL for the raster part but embed inside a SVG, so the texts are also possible to be selected and read out-loud the by machine, and a description of the panel also float under it for accessibility. 😺

2026-04-09 13:47:42 CEST

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True, thank you for sharing your feedback, that's a lot of good points.

2026-04-09 01:54:07 CEST

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Those eyes seem to say something...
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2026-04-09 01:44:28 CEST

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Merci pour le retour!

2026-04-09 01:43:51 CEST

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Thank you!

2026-04-09 01:43:14 CEST

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Hey, I keep posting all manually, just because I don't like really using script for my social interactions, but I pretty automated all the "split in four pictures" with Imagemagick and bash; I have the four output pictures with no effort now. The longer part is just to copy/paste the four part of my transcript for the alt text. It's a couple minute longer to do, but in comparison to the 16 hours this comic strip took me to paint, it's insignifiant.
I would say the effort are the same.

2026-04-09 01:36:22 CEST

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Thank you for the feedback! Sure, you are even encouraged! You'll find on the website the high resolution (just click on it) https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/047.html , and under the transcript (for the alt text) and even the layered Krita file.
It's under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike and it gives you a lot of permissions, commercial included.

2026-04-09 01:33:16 CEST

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Yes, I saw that on Instagram too, where it can go to 9 pictures and beyond. But unfortunately, not something I can do with my 4 panels, because the picture limit on Mastodon is 4 pictures by posts...

2026-04-08 22:03:49 CEST

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I wish! But Mastodon has a 4 pictures limitation per post.
But both is the way, it starts to take shape in my brain, and I need to test a sort of proof of concept on my website to see if I can make something.
I'll blog about it soon.

2026-04-08 22:01:11 CEST

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I'm interested to know the model if it works well, I have a stack of real books and manga on my bed table; but I can't read them in bed because I need to turn on the light and Alicja can't fall asleep.

2026-04-08 21:53:20 CEST

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Yes, the context with the frame around and the 'grid' visually feels more like comic to me too. I'll think about it.

2026-04-08 21:51:56 CEST

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:blobcatheart: Thank you. I'll take care of this aspect in my decision. I'll blog soon about it.

2026-04-08 21:50:23 CEST

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With the feedback I'm collecting, yes, it sounds like "both" is the right approach.
I more and more think about the inverse of what you wrote: keep the 2x2 single picture here, and put a link direct to a fullscreen/swipe reader, something where I can also put bonus (like making of, sources).
That's because I also collect that there are clients reading the Fediverse on their way (eg. Fedilab showing picture in reverse order, or another one, showing them like files in attachment).

2026-04-08 21:45:30 CEST

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🤣

2026-04-08 21:31:57 CEST

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Haha, once posted all on all platforms and with the sources on the repo; I did the test for myself. I had a d8 around, and made 7. Lucky!
But I'm not sure if I would roll it knowing it has real consequence 😆

2026-04-08 21:29:56 CEST

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🤣 🤣 True.

2026-04-08 21:29:13 CEST

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Hey Kujiu, thank you very much for testing it with your perspective 👍

2026-04-08 21:22:52 CEST

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Yes, no problem, and unfortunately, it's hard to color balance slightly on the golden yellow now for artists as ChatGPT genAI picture associated that with the infamous "yellow piss AI filter".
But here I needed this type of golden light ( for the theme, golden scarab dice, golden light ) and the contrast for the end panel.
You can see the process recorded here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/047.mp4 , this one probably took over 16h of work!

2026-04-08 21:01:22 CEST

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Thank you. Yes, that's correct, and thank you for noticing this example. Panel reading has a flow, that are more like curves; and in a 1 picture 2x2 grid I can play with it a lot. While in 4 pictures, the eye is reset to the top left and follow the diagonal of reading Left to Right and immediately chase the speechbubbles and the faces. Something about composition and the comic format is lost.
I put that on my list. I'm collecting data, I'll blog about my results soon.

2026-04-08 20:54:39 CEST

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Thank you for the feedback, it must have been a challenge to understand the comic in reverse; you probably thought I was going very into a contemporary way of storytelling 😅
Probably 5 years ago or more, I posted a test about sorting of pictures; and it was totally random for many clients on Fediverse. I somehow assumed that in 2026 the order would be preserved across the Fediverse; but I see there is no warranty about this.
Precious feedback. Thank you. :blobcatheart:

2026-04-08 20:47:43 CEST

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Oh yes, I had to sacrify the "Die" singular, too close for non native of the verb "to die" and confusing (Stop! a golden die!").
Dice singular is modern, and easier for international. Sorry to all die lovers.

2026-04-08 20:12:56 CEST

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Oh! :blobcatheart: Thank you for reporting this one before I "git commit" it to the repo.
Too much rewrite made me blind to this I guess. Yes, in a previous version he asked in this panel "and what's happen if we roll a twenty?" and then the Pink-fairy was giving the peasant/lord line, but then the room in the panel while drawing was missing so I refactored it.

2026-04-08 19:59:26 CEST

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Unfortunately, not possible on Mastodon: 4 picture max per post 🤔 But I already have a little idea about how I could workaround that.

2026-04-08 19:30:22 CEST

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Thank you, unfortunately, a hard limitation of Mastodon UI: I can put 4 pictures maximum inside a post. But I'll think about something. I'll blog about it before the end of the week.

2026-04-08 19:29:00 CEST

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I already automatized the picture split with imagemagick at the renderfarm level ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/low-res/panels/ ) so I have picture a, b, c, d now for free. The only additional work is to copy paste my transcript into four pictures, and also take care of really inserting them into the right order.

2026-04-08 19:21:20 CEST

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🔗 1 picture, with all 4 panels on it: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/047.html

2026-04-08 19:05:36 CEST

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Yes, or even just proposing a carousel mode: just the first panel visible with dots under that indicate their is pictures to flip. (or arrows and a count)

2026-04-08 18:56:35 CEST

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Good to know about Miskey; I had no idea the Mastodon UI was trimming the pictures count if above 4. That sounds bad, because if a comic artist on Miskey post a story in 6 panels and his client allows it on the Fediverse, it's a shame that Masto UI ruins the story and trim it...

2026-04-08 18:51:38 CEST

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Note: I'm testing something new: splitting the four panels and posting them as separate pictures.
Reasons:
- More resolution and details
- Easier to read, larger font size
- Mobile/small-screen friendly.
Should I keep this format for the future?

2026-04-08 18:41:07 CEST

The Golden Twenty Dice
(would you roll it?)
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-04-07 20:19:03 CEST

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😍 Awww! thank you!

2026-04-07 17:38:03 CEST

🪷 Litchee
A new character design for my weekly MiniFantasyTheater comic series.
#krita #conceptart #oc
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2026-04-06 13:02:41 CEST

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Good job: keeping old theme alive is a lot of work, but also very important.
Personal story: Linux Mint continues to ship their distro with very old themes. I could, thank to this, maintain this summer the computer of my (old) mother, a Linux-Mint from 2012 that semi-rolled update and upgrade until 2026 but too unstable because of all upgrade layers. I reinstalled a Mint from scratch, and could still put the same color, same directory icons, same start menu and sound, a joy for her.

2026-04-05 11:35:35 CEST

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That's the most anticlimatic name I ever read for a powerful laser ray...

2026-04-04 12:48:08 CEST

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Thank you for relaying the info and for taking care :blobcatheart: yes, we moved everything to https://framagit.org/peppercarrot when Microsoft acquired Github because it was obvious that the platform would only go downhill after that and evil. The old repo are still on it, but archived, with a message on the top that invite to the new repo for discoverability. I guess they were already trained anyway. I'll switch the option anyway, in case it can help also with the archived repo. Thank you!

2026-04-04 12:28:42 CEST

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Thank you for the tip! I already also banned the user 'claude' from another tip.
Yes, I'm not using it at all, just to comments some projects still on it or put emoji on answers of other mostly.

2026-04-04 08:43:49 CEST

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Chouette! Et la grande classe pour Plane-kun 💜

2026-04-03 13:57:51 CEST

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🦆 :blobcatheart: Chouette que ça donne des idées!

2026-04-03 13:56:10 CEST

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Merci pour cette synthèse, elle est chouette et fait bien le tour!

2026-04-03 08:00:53 CEST

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Interesting idea. I'll save it in a corner of my brain, maybe one day I'll design my own tarot card illustrations 😊

2026-04-03 07:59:58 CEST

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Thank you, and yes, I'll keep it online, it's just a 10kb single html file, probably 0 future maintenance and easy to host!
You can save the page on your computer, it will runs local easily too.

2026-04-03 04:15:47 CEST

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Nice! That made me think about the 1951 cartoon "Duck and Cover" 😆 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover

2026-04-03 04:13:18 CEST

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🤣 :blobcatheart:

2026-04-02 22:28:32 CEST

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Amazing article! Thank you GunChleoc for sharing!

2026-04-02 22:25:10 CEST

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Nice! Ping me when you publish your result (and if it is public), I'm sure I'll love it!

2026-04-02 22:22:19 CEST

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:blobcatheart: 💜 💜

2026-04-02 22:21:50 CEST

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Le 'Piaf'? Mais sa déboîtait comme nom, y aurai eu des BD à faire dessus. À méditer...
Je médite Piaf. :yay:
( Ok, je → 🚪 )

2026-04-02 18:42:23 CEST

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:amaze:

2026-04-02 18:32:21 CEST

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The beauty of a deep conversation about adulthood and the young generation. Such a beautiful ending where each participants stay on their positions, respectfully. 😆

2026-04-02 18:22:33 CEST

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:blobcatheart: Thank you Zoe!
Just to let you know: only the book 4 exists, and I'm still working on making the book 5 ( but the three first episode are on the website ep37,38,39 https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/peppercarrot.html and I'm working on the 40 right now).
The 5th book on my website is just a Artbook, with drawing, and more background about the universe of Pepper&Carrot.

2026-04-02 18:18:30 CEST

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Oh yes, I saw it this week, from the Wikipedia page of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging , chapter "pop culture". I wish I was around to see it live that day!

2026-04-02 18:16:24 CEST

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Sure, consider it CC 0/Public domain: you have FULL PERMISION.
It's only a index.html file, a screenshot.jpg (for the opengraph preview on social media), and the svg of the duck from clipsafari (cc 0 as well). You'll have no problem downloading the files.
Have fun!
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2026-04-02 18:12:42 CEST

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🤣
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2026-04-02 18:09:51 CEST

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😂

2026-04-02 18:07:30 CEST

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Hmmm... Let me check what Sam Altman would say in this type of situation. As a beginner owner of an AI service, I have to take from the best... oh, alright:
"we are not accountable for your usage, AI psychosis, and other brain erosion effects." 😆

2026-04-02 18:00:32 CEST

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Don't worry, because I publish under Creative Commons I am, unlike almost all other authors, not tied to any publisher. They all continues to publish side by side, none can have exclusivity anyway (the beauty of working under Creative Commons license 💜 ) Thank you for the feedback about book 1 to 3!

2026-04-02 17:58:33 CEST

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None, sad, now I realize I could at least have made a cool array of word detected and variations. #missed_opportunity

2026-04-02 17:55:53 CEST

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😆 lol!

2026-04-02 17:54:50 CEST

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Oh yes, so many interesting things about rubber duck, and pictures. The one yesterday I liked, a rubber duck raccing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck#/media/File:Entenrennen_auf_der_Dreisam_in_Freiburg,_Plastikenten_an_der_Leo-Wohleb-Br%C3%BCcke.jpg

2026-04-02 17:52:46 CEST

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:blobcatheart: cute!

2026-04-02 17:52:17 CEST

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😂 lol!

2026-04-02 17:47:09 CEST

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Thank you :blobcatheart: And same here, that was really painful to show Cepper on episode 45 having her addiction to the point of running her own local model. I'm glad to turn the page and open a new chapter!

2026-04-02 16:01:16 CEST

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🤣 🤣 🤣 Perfect!

2026-04-02 15:59:27 CEST

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🤣 🤣 🤣

2026-04-02 14:41:17 CEST

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🤯 🤯🤯 It's sentient!
Oh no. What I have done!

2026-04-02 14:27:19 CEST

Yesterday's comic was published, but the prank part for 1st April wasn't... (not ready, and too tired to finish it) A bit sad. So, I finished it this morning.
Discover my new online service, Rubber Ducking Avian Intelligence!
https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2026_Rubber-Ducking-Avian-Intelligence/

2026-04-02 11:06:55 CEST

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Thank you, yes. I also feel it's a good ending point for the mini series

2026-04-02 10:58:55 CEST

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En bonus pour les Francophones, à voir l'image dans l'en-tête de la MR que @npub1742…48nv (qui fait la trad fr) m'a envoyé hier https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/merge_requests/1234 🤣

2026-04-02 10:55:20 CEST

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Yes, I think I exhausted all I had to say on the topic: ads, premium, sources, accuracy, economic, ecological aspect and more.
This comic strip is a solid conclusion and the LLMs/AI theme was hard to endure for a large part of my followers.
Maybe it's time to move on :)

2026-04-02 10:47:20 CEST

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🦙 🦙🦙 :blobcheerbounce:

2026-04-01 22:10:32 CEST

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Pronunciate it the way you want! 😊 But if you want to know my way, in French, the C before a 'e' makes a [s] sound, but I like to spice it a bit and tell it like a [ts].
@npub127u…p52c

2026-04-01 21:50:26 CEST

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Congratulations! 🎉 🎂

2026-04-01 21:48:00 CEST

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My cats sleeping around the desk are also very good at listening my scenario problems :neko_nyaan:

2026-04-01 21:44:24 CEST

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Thank you!

2026-04-01 20:41:18 CEST

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Yes! Good to reach this part of the arc for Cepper: a closure, a solution... she grew. I'll probably end the Avian Intelligence arc here and move on.