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I Hate the Generative AI Situation.

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Before I get started here, I want to be very clear — I will never use Generative AI images in any of my public creative projects. Any comic I write will be drawn by an artist (myself or someone else),
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As Time Goes By…

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Right now I’m sitting in a cabin just outside Phillips, WI. Crysta and I are spending the week at the resort she went to growing up, just like we do every May to both celebrate her birthday and do something
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Racists Are Mad About the TERF Show, and They Want Me To Do Something About It?

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So this situation just honestly amuses me so much that I had to share. It also requires a lot of background, so please bear with me as I try my best to explain. I actually got this email a couple
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Sometimes Death Comes Quietly in the Night

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Trae Dorn

My grandmother died last night. This wasn’t a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she’s been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was
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So Many Things All At Once

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Trae Dorn

On Monday night a storm rolled through town. It only took a half an hour for the rain and wind to hit and leave, but in that time a tornado passed by about fifteen miles south of where I live.
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Find Me at Concinnity on Saturday!

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Even though I just got home, it’s time to hit the road again — as on Saturday (April 26th 2025) I’m going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI. Concinnity is a one day con held at MSOE downtown. This
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Journeys and Returning Home

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So I just got home from traveling out to Maryland to visit my sister and her family for the Easter weekend. We got in the truck and drove the almost exactly one thousand miles to her home in Rockville, MD.
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One Year of Peregrine Lake

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Trae Dorn

One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in
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Fandom Is Supposed to Be Fun.

Posted on April 12, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Fandom is something we all get into because we, frankly, like something. I feel like that shouldn’t be something that I have to spell out, but every once and a while I find myself in a fandom space where that
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Facebook Literally Pirated My Novel.

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So Meta/Facebook apparently used millions of books to train its AI model without the permission of the authors or publishers. These aren’t even books they purchased, but books they illegally downloaded. I’ve known about this for a few weeks (and
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