FAQ

Q: Is there somewhere I can easily read your comic in order?

A: Check out our ComicFury! It has an automatic archive that’s super easy to use so you can access any moon, aphidask, or additional material/art instantaneously without having to scroll through the entire blog, and it’s all in order!! You don’t need a CF account in order to use it as much as you like, and if you wish, you can come straight back to the tumblr blog after using CF to catch up! Enjoy!

Q: Is your clangen modded?

A: Nope! The actual sprites of the characters are normal, but my own creative liberties turn them into sparklecats. That’s why you’ll see Pearlstar with pink and gold and sky blue markings in the pages, but not in his sprite.

Q: Are the background/side characters available for questioning?

A: Yes!! Any and all cats that appear on this blog are available for questions, even if they’re deceased, an Outsider, or a nameless background character only present for a panel or two.

Boundaries -

PLEASE do not ping me. Don’t ping me with newly made clangen blogs, even as inspiration. (Pinging me for fanart is fine👍 but only fanart/fanwriting) if you really want to include me as your clangen blog inspiration, write my blog name like “@/aphidclan-clangen” so I don’t get the ping

Don’t ask me for art or demand that I make reference sheets for the characters, or update the family tree sooner, or any other additional material for the comic. Don’t demand for updates to come out sooner. It’s very disrespectful. This is a hobby where I draw for my own entertainment, nothing else.

Do not make humanized designs of my characters. They are my characters, not yours. However, I am fine with you drawing Aphidclan cats as furries and anthros or dressing them up in cool outfits, since I already draw them as anthros/furries myself and no real aspect of the design is being changed when they’re drawn as anthropomorphic/furries, it’s just,,, the cats, but standing on two legs lol

No parasocial shit, please. Do not DM me, or ask to be my friend, or make headcanons of my OCs, or stalk me and obsess over me or otherwise put me on some kind of pedestal. I’m not your idol, I’m not an influencer, this makes me extremely uncomfortable. Respect me as a person and treat me the same way you’d treat a stranger you met irl, my characters/comic/art/writing is not yours to claim or take from or freely treat as your own just because you like my art. These are my characters, and not yours to play with and do as you please. I should not be your friend just because you like my art. Do not try to use me or my blog for clout. Do not ask me for my opinion on real-world things, it literally should not matter to you. I am just a guy drawing cats on the internet. I am a living breathing person with boundaries and flaws and a life outside of this comic. Please do not be weird about me or my characters, parasocial shit makes me deeply uncomfortable and it is often extremely rude and dehumanizing. If I find you doing any of these things in my asks or comments, I will block you immediately and delete the ask/comment. Treat me with respect, or I will block you/turn off asks/etc.

Interlude: Rain - Page 1

It’s Rye!! And…whose that at the door?

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We’re BACK, baby!! Weekly updates will go up every Friday!

get excited get hype. i missed you aphidclan

Happy April Fools! Have a fun lil crossover event with @shelter-clangen for the occasion.

It feels so cursed to see Blisswhistle and Kindred next to each other in the same image lol.

Ok, new plan

So the reason why my activity has been dipping in and out for months lately is because social media is a huge drain on my mental health. It exhausts me emotionally and does a number on my motivation. So I’m gonna switch up how I upload my pages to the internet to minimize my interaction with it. I love you guys and my fan base very much, but I was so not built for social media lmao, I don’t even know if the human brain was built to be able to interact with so many people at a time

I think I’m going to try a weekly upload schedule for a while. Can’t promise I’ll be terribly consistent with it, and I’ll likely take breaks every now and then to build up a backlog, but I’ll give it a shot. Normally I don’t have an upload schedule, and I just upload the pages immediately after they’re made so I get a huge boost of instant feedback and interaction with my work for me to take in, but a queued weekly upload would work differently. I’ll probably be asleep when it goes up. I’ll need to make a huge page backlog first, so this wouldn’t be implemented for a while. My other webcomics, Shelter and Stitched Together, will likely do the same.

I’ll also probably be turning off replies and asks for a long time, unless the mood strikes me to open up the ask box every now and then for some character interaction or lore drops, and then I’ll close it up again when I’m done. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, I know first-hand how super fun and amazing the character asks can be, but I gotta put my mental health first

Hopefully that helps things feel a bit less heavy and overwhelming for me, which would then give me more motivation to draw and help me reconnect with truly enjoying drawing AphidClan again. It’s been a struggle to find my spark in it lately, and most of that struggle stems from how stressful and overwhelming it can be to post my art to a crowd. You guys are so sweet, and I appreciate every comment and ask I get, and I’ll never forget that! But the current method isn’t working out too well for me right now, so I’m gonna switch things up till it does. Oh and the turning off comments thing also applies to ComicFury, not just tumblr

Thank you! I’ll see you guys when the backlogs ready to start rolling out!

Some fake screenshots for the Skinamarink AU