Academy 118: Carbon Copies, by Ava Pun (science comic, 2022)

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" We allotropes might share the same body…but we are far from carbon copies!"

Blurb: At a boarding school based off the periodic table, all the elements are students or teachers! Now, due to scheduling mix-ups and a lack of communication, Graphite, Diamond, Grapheme, and their headmates have to last-minute figure out what to do about their school talent show!

Why is it worth your time?: It is adorable, full of science puns, and has a fun scientific premise. Lighthearted, low-stakes.

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, switching, teamwork

Content Warnings: None! This is the world's cutest, cheerfulest comic.

Access Notes: Free and fully screenreadable! Read it here!

Misc. Notes: WIP and on hiatus as Ava Pun applies for grad school. We sensitivity read the whole script though, so we know it exists!

The Unseen Playmate, by Robert Louis Stevenson (poetry, 1913)

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"When children are playing alone on the green,
In comes the playmate that never was seen."

Blurb: A short poem about imaginary playmates from a century ago.

Why is it worth your time?: It's short, whimsical, and fun.

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, imaginary friends, children, friendship

Content Warnings: Frenchmen are losers in it?

Access Notes: Robert Louis Stevenson is famous, so finding a copy of A Children's Garden of Verses shouldn't be too tough. It's also easy to find for free online, since I'm pretty sure it's in the public domain by now. This link has both screenreadable text and an audio reading. (Back-up link; both text and audio work in it)

Later, by Wintergreen (fantasy prose, 2022)

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"If I had more strength, I could leave this place before it becomes my tomb as well as yours. If you had flesh, you could finish your quest. We could help each other..."

Blurb: A slime monster and the ghost of a cleric adventurer join forces (and body parts) to finish the cleric's quest and escape a dingy dungeon.

Why is it worth your time?: It's short, free, and enjoyable.

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, nonhumans [slime], teamwork, setting-specific plurality (the slime absorbs the skeleton of the cleric to give them a shared body, becoming vertebrate in the process), median, plural on purpose

Content Warnings: Death, mild body horror, ineffective injury, mentions of religion

Access Notes: Fully screenreadable, free to read online. Read it here! (EDIT: Cohost is going down. Replacement link here.)