Planettes #2: Earth’s Moon

Art by Carlos Fonseca

long post version for the autobio comics crowd. stop what you are doing and, let the pain and anger in, then donate to @save-mohamed-family here now

*gasp* my reflection! Edwin looking at himself always makes me cry...

Anyway, watch dead boy detectives it's good and gay. (if anyone wants to buy my art that'd be great, lmk!)

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

More galaxy bugs! 🐛✨

In late 2024 I got inspired to paint a bunch of galaxy bugs for my galary animals series. I'm very happy with how popular these have been at conventions!

Find me and my art elsewhere!  

if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

Finished my sunny cicada piece to complement the moonflower design! 🔆

The two will both be available as prints with my next shop update (TBA soon!) :)

TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord. 

Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread. 

HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI. 

Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual. 

Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online. 

Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.  

Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.  

ETA: because many have asked, yes this is fine for anyone to use for any reason, I give it to the world. If it’s convenient to link back to my tumblr (or to my author website at extribulum.wordpress.com) that’d be lovely, but don’t feel obliged. Use it in good health, my ledans! 

Wendy Klemperer