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Deviant Life #54

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I promise things are going to get more upbeat soon.  There wasn’t supposed to be this much time between Deviant Life strips so this storyline wasn’t supposed to take up a half a year.

At least I know some people will be happy to see the problems in Dace and Audrey’s relationship addressed. There’ve been those saying she needs to dump him since strip #20.  

But don’t think this will be the last we see of Dace. 

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Deviant Life #51

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One of the drawbacks of how rarely strips come out the last couple of years is that I don’t feel like supporting characters like Skylar and Rhianna get enough attention. Just imagine these two became fast friends after strip #41 and regularly get together to get stoned and watch anime.

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Deviant Life #47

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This strip was thrown out onto the various social media pages for Discerning Deviant way back in June when I was going through some shit and put everything related to this site on what I thought would probably be a permanent hiatus. I’d already been sitting on it for quite a while and nearly didn’t release it at all except that it nagged at me, so I released it in the laziest way I could and didn’t bother actually updating this site.

I’d forgotten this little detail when I went to upload the first new strip since the hiatus and realized that if I didn’t make a post for this one there’d be a gap. So here’s that post.

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Deviant Life #46

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Certain households believe every game needs a strip variant. Except Twister. Just skip straight to being naked with that one.

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Deviant Life #45

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It’s been a long while since Audrey’s long distance girlfriend Terry has shown up, at least in a speaking role.

I have to say I’m deeply envious of people who have partners they can shelter with during these isolating times.

(Discerning Deviant is supported entirely through reader sponsorship via the Discerning Deviant Patreon and can also be followed on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram. We also now have a Redbubble store. Deviant Life artist D. White and I also collaborate on a more traditional adventure comic called Hardcore and Lethal.)

Deviant Life #43

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We’re back! I’ve missed y’all!

For those who care what’s going on with me, due to health problems I have left New York and returned to my birth state of Georgia to be closer to my family and support network. I’ve been staying with family in Gaineville (GA, not FL) while getting some extensive dental work done (an average of two dentist visits a week…so much fun) and trying to work out where I’m going to work and living in Atlanta.

My health has drastically improved since leaving New York. I’m in nowhere near the levels of chronic pain I was in before. Where I was spending most of my time between 8-10 on the ten scale in 2019, I’ve been staying mostly in the 2-4 range lately which is certainly much more livable.

Because I have no income right now, and I pay D. White to draw the Deviant Life strips, I’m only able to get back to posting strips again because of my wonderful Patreon supporters. So, much love to them for letting me continue to indulge in one of the few things that brings me joy through these dark times.

(Discerning Deviant is supported entirely through reader sponsorship via the Discerning Deviant Patreon and can also be followed on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram. We also now have a Redbubble store. Deviant Life artist D. White and I also collaborate on a more traditional adventure comic called Hardcore and Lethal.)

Deviant Life #25

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Deviant Life isn’t the first time D.White and I have worked on an online comic project together, as we’ve been friends for the better part of three decades. The world has only seen a tiny sliver of the stuff we’ve created together since we met in seventh grade.

A long, long time ago there was Roth & Earl, a comic about a redneck and a goth being roommates.  Sadly, I didn’t really know what the hell I was doing back then so it never got much of an audience and most of the strips have only survived my lack of organizational skills in terrible resolution messes. I really loved those characters, though, and had been thinking about working Rhianna into the cast already when D. White suggested we do a triple-size Deviant Life/Roth & Earl crossover for Deviant Life’s 25th strip.

Rhianna and Roth’s Sadistic/masochistic dynamic had been mentioned a few times throughout the Roth & Earl strips and it was established that they weren’t entirely monogamous either so Rhianna joining the cast wasn’t any kind of stretch for her character.  I was also looking for a way to establish that Bernard was a switch so it just seemed natural to make Rhianna and Bernard an item.

I could probably count on my fingers the number of people I know who remember Roth & Earl, so really this crossover is pretty self-indulgent, but I also know that a bunch of those who do remember are going to squee hard over seeing these characters again. I just hope those who don’t know these characters still enjoy it too.

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