Theri There

Cast, page 1

Thu, 05 May 2022 23:10:25 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Self Cat Day 3

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:31:41 GMT

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Self Cat Day 2

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:06:01 GMT

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Self Cat Day

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:09:15 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

See today's comic page on Tapas.

The discussion threads for some previous pages were on my personal Dreamwidth, but I think I'll switch back to having them in this community.

You can read the rest of the series on Tapas. If you like it, please buy me a coffee or subscribe to my Patreon.

Comic transcript follows.

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This community has migrated to Dreamwidth

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:18:18 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Yesterday, I migrated this discussion community from Livejournal (therithere) to Dreamwidth (therithere). I moved all the old posts, comments and all. From this point forward, I'll be posting only to the one on Dreamwidth, not to the one on Livejournal. Hope to see you on Dreamwidth!

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Theri There printed in academic article

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:35:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

A recently published academic article about therianthropes: Venetia Robertson's "The Beast Within: Anthrozoomorphic identity and alternative spirituality in the online therianthropy movement," in Nova Religio. With my permission, the article includes three cartoons from Theri There.

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Theri There в переводе на русский язык

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:59:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

A dragon called Lizzardboy translated a selection of Theri There comics into Russian. You can read the translated comics on the Russian dragon site, Drakony.com. Thanks, Lizzardboy! :)

If somebody translates my comics into another language, please tell me!

[Edit 2013-06-13] Here's a complete Russian translation of the comics.

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Theri There traduzido para o Português

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:02:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

A Brazilian dragon named Yami has started translating Theri There into Portuguese! This is the first translation of the comic into any other language, so I'm really happy to see this. You can read the first comic on Yami's blog on Tumblr.com, Br Kin.

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If you could be any animal, reprise

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:57:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Names

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:49:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Idyllic

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:26:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Yule

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:55:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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If it hasn't appeared on the site yet, read the comic here.

( Artist's commentary on today's comic. )

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ClaWrite

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:21:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Today's comic is encrypted in ClaWrite, a dragon alphabet invented by Baxil. The dialog is based on a conversation that I had with a classmate, but I'll leave the fun of deciphering it up to you. ;)

Unless if you'd rather just read the translation in the comments below...

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Perils

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:24:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Today's comic is based on a sketch and script by Lupa (lupabitch), a pagan author. I just redrew and lettered it. Thanks, Lupa!

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Guest comic by Seiryuu Kami

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:22:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Thanks for writing and drawing today's comic, Sei!

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If you could be any animal

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:35:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

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Portrayals of...

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:56:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for the week of February 3, 2007.

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Clock radio

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:08:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

( Commentary that should be read after the comic, or else it'll spoil it. )

This past year, I've tended to devote more of my creative energies into making an illustrated journal, full of rants, sketches, meditations, jokes, attempts at sorting out my spirituality, and anything else about my personal life that needs to be drawn out in the form of a cartoon. That comic-journal is completely private, since I've found that if I don't censor myself and don't have to worry about how other people would see it, don't have to worry about something being too scribbly or arguable or personal, I'm getting farther with discovering my writing-voice. It just seems to work better when I can be as brashly honest as I want, as well as combining illustrations and text together instead of having them separate. It's been a marvelous exercise. When I drew this particular entry in it last morning (which was something that actually happened) I decided this one ought to be shared.

How do you feel about some (but not all) episodes of "Theri There" being a cartoon journal of a real therianthrope's life, and other interjections such as an episode with a joke about (say) Arthurian legends, rather than all the episodes having to deal directly with defining therianthropy in general? Must they all be exclusively, completely on-topic (even more so than most discussion forums about therianthropy or draconity tend to be, which tend to wander in any direction that interests the members, to such an extent that alt.fan.dragons said that nothing was off-topic for them at all)? Or can the idea of "on-topic" be broadened to include other topics that I feel are related to it? I was starting to feel like it was too limiting, even though I do have a lot of material for it, I have all these other comic ideas as well. What do you think, should they all be together in "Theri There," or should it stay strict with what's considered on-topic?

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A bigger picture

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:15:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for November 6th, Monday.

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Happy Halloween and Samhain

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:30:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for Monday, October 30, 2006.

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Motivation

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:09:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for August 28, 2006!

In the seventh panel, the book cover says "haiku" in tiny possibly-illegible hirigana, and the poem in the air next to it is Basho's famous haiku about the frog jumping into the pond.

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Dichotomy

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:42:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for August 27, 2006. Today's comic is actually two pages long, making amends for the missed comics on January 30 and February 20. I've been tinkering with the script on this one for a long time; the first page was made last week, and the second page was made today.

Yay for the first appearance of mister non-stereotypical vampire. Psychic vampire, at that.

Footnotes from the comic pages:
* See examples of human-and-dragon friendships and heroic dragons in Greek and Roman natural histories, such as The Natural History of Pliny the Elder, Book viii, Chap. xxii (after Democritus) and Aelianus de Natura Animalium: Book VI, Chap. 63; Book VIII, Chap. 11; Book X, Chap. 48, and others. All are cited in Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters (1886) which was republished as Dragons, Unicorns, and Sea Serpents (2002).
** See the chapter on unicorns in Charles Gould's Dragons, Unicorns, and Sea Serpents. I don't have to identify specific antiquated sources that he quoted in this case, because virtually all of them ended up saying unicorns are "fierce" or "ferocious." I'd intended to make a tally of it.

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The ancient myths generally agreed that...

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:22:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

The comic for August 26!

What, another one? Yes!

The first birthday of Theri There is coming up soon on September 4... a whole year! Many webcomics never make it that far. Although I have a zillion scripts and comic ideas in my notebooks, there were stretches when I wondered if I could ever find the time to make finished versions of any of them. A comic a week sounds easy until you get into midterms, and once you've lost your pace at comic updates, it's hard to pick it up again.

In celebration of Theri There's upcoming birthday, I'm going to make sure that this will be a full year of comics. In the past, I've missed 17 of the weekly comics, and now I'm going to make up for each of them. That's why there's an additional update today: it's a replacement for January 16, the first update that I missed. It cuts the count of missed comics down to 16 and raises the list of finished comics to 32.

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...than a desk chair

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:59:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for week of August 25, 2006

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Keys

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:31:00 GMT

Posted by: frameacloud

Comic for the week of August 10, 2006.

[Edit on following day] After I posted this comic, Aaarhus informed me that there's another comic that made a very similar joke to this one. The comic is by Thornwolf and was made in 2003, so it predates mine pretty well: http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Thornwolf/Sketches/pshift.jpg I honestly wasn't aware that anyone else had made that particular joke before, much less made it into a comic. Nice comic, Thornwolf! Sorry about the similarity of joke, it seriously was coincidental. "Great minds think alike," I guess. *blush* Thanks for kindly letting me know about that, Aaarhus.

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