Artist Edd Lai is on a mission to bring some light into our lives and he's creating dark comics to do so. Mixing the real with the surreal, the 29-year-old from Taiwan is creating horror stories that are quite short yet totally immersive. And it's not just the Internet who's in love with Edd's dark drawings.

"I have always enjoyed reading," Edd told Bored Panda. "And I like all kinds of books, including graphic novels. But it wasn’t until I was 19 that I started writing creepy stories. I was lucky to have my novels published by several publishers that were searching for young writers. Since then, I’ve made writing my living, constantly pursuing this profession. I was also commissioned to write several screenplays for movies."

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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not spooky, but it is bitter sweet :)

Jacob Stark
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's only because they left out the last panel...

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sequoia hawes
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i don't know about you guys, but i think this one is actually cute

Letitia Hedding
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

omg, this one is sweet, I want to get one to run

glowworm2
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aw! In this little guy's case, I really want it to work for him.

Amanda Ammermann
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jeepers that took a dark and depressing turn O.O

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"My greatest passion lies in graphic arts — I enjoy telling scary stories not only through words, but through pictures as well," the artist said. According to Edd, adding visuals allows him to portray his feelings and plot twists way better."

"[Currently], I'm working on my new experimental series, titled Edd Lai's Stories."

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    La Petite Morte
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the figurines too!!! You monster!!!

    Vic
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a special place in Hell monsters like the.. oh wait..

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    Luis Milian
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that's one way of getting a free Nintendo Switch

    Janine B.
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nightmare of my husband. lol

    tuzdayschild
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess Amanda is having very mixed feelings right now.

    glowworm2
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the punchline was going to be that the demon would take his cat!

    Daniel Romlin
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that bastard took hatsune miku :O

    Leo H
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would have been better if you could actually see what the demon is holding

    Trix
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So my boyfriend just showed me this saying "LOL THIS IS SO US."

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    To someone who isn't familiar with his horror comics, Edd would describe it as 'horrifying' but in a 'bright and delightful' way. "[Through my comics], I try to explore the different facades of humanity, highlighting our perception of the world." Both the good and evil. The hero and the villain. "We tend to label everything we know, but there's often a difference between the way a thing looks, and the way it is underneath its appearance."

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    Daria Z
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...and I cannot imagine a better revenge than a huge medical bill :)

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    D. Pitbull
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I call this one a happy ending story! :D

    Brett Bydairk
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never heard of a dentist giving a pill or shot in the arm to put a patient out.

    Deku
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They do it in the mouth and you don’t fall asleep your mouth just goes numb

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    Rebekah
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And... I'm ok with this one.

    Wottermehlon Doge
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hahaha. that was nice. he deserves it for having that gross mustache

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    Edd thinks it's the tone of his stories that make them stand out from the rest. "My stories might appear to be dark, but they can be delightful or even cute. The pieces I've written for Edd Lai's Stories are short, [but they have] a sudden twist at the end, which makes them super dramatic." The artist said he wants the readers to participate in his stories, filling in the gaps. "I love when my readers ask me a lot of questions about my stories. Also, since the stories are so sharp, they're good candidates for movie and other kinds of adaptations."


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    Laura Zaini
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why are you still in that house?! RUN!!!!

    Miklós Nagy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone is stranger on the first date!

    Trix
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the spirit.. of a kidnapper.

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    Luis Milian
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ssshhh.....just be happy and enjoy the surprise

    Lyop
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haha... I'll just nope outa here.

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    And even though the artist admitted he has a dark place in his heart, he doesn't let it control his personal life. "The most important thing is that we can always choose to light up the night."


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    Rebekah Green
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep that's going to cause a nightmare or twenty

    glowworm2
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That last panel is disturbing.

    Tim Huvane
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jesus H. Christ What Is that! Creepy Crawly

    Hellysal
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, maybe she's a spider child, but spider children still need to learn to respect their parents. When it's time to sleep, you sleep, spider baby, your frightening attitude won't help you in living a happy life.

    Lotus Queen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Literally the worst thing ever. Hate spiders. hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate them

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    Lyop
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pay attention to your kids people!!

    glowworm2
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't blame the kids in this case.

    Trix
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you don't take care of your kids, demons will take care of them kindly and protecting their feelings. So I guess they're better parents?

    Vero Morales
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well if satan punish the bad people, doesnt make him that a good boy?

    Calypso moon
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom saw this she said this was me as a kid

    AMYAH MINOTT-STARLING
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    now i no why i don't want to clean my room all the time

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    Kjorn
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i bet he's wife won't see or feel him coming too

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    kevinchin1904
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like that man suggested assault and/or rape

    Insert A Good username
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly! Like when he said "drag her to bed" I was like, wait isn't that rape if he is dragging her to bed?

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    Chris Kourou
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really stupid advice to begin with

    nanashi
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that's why I always try not to give random advises to strangers...

    Lilli
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well that took an unexpected turn...

    Tina Hugh
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Drag her into bed? No, one does not use physical force to impose their will on another human being.

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    Luis Milian
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    never seen this side of Tinker Bell

    Stephanie Hewitt
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Growing up with a Scottish grandmother, this is what I was raised to believe the faerie folk are like. I was terrified of sidhe as a kid.

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    Rarrduu GC
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! Didn’t see that coming

    Lyop
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nowhere is safe. Nowhere!!

    Jameson Flynn
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Its the monster under the bed but it's not under the bed it's in your fricken bed

    MeggersTheFox
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The girl heard her glasses fall to the floor, having accidentally knocked them from the table, and panic set in. Of all the horrors they had allowed her so see, the ones hiding out of her line of sight scared her the most."

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    D. Pitbull
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh... I know EXACTLY who this fate should go to... can I hire this angel?

    Link
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who spoil movies deserve worse than this.

    Lotus Queen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that's the job I want in my afterlife.

    Tim Huvane
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No movie spoilers, you deserve it

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    Lilli
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just got a chill

    Maggie Laemmle
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “From this float, not your speach” -Erica Sinclair, Stranger Things

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    MeggersTheFox
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one really got me, holy hell

    Kim Bush
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hunning? Shouldn't that have been humming?

    Lukasing
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me a thai horror movie I saw many years ago

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    Lyop
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what you choose to share?!!

    Robert Robi Z
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to pass away calmly, in my sleep, like my grandfather... not screaming in panic like the passengers on his bus.

    Loki Laufeyson
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...no offense, but this where I stop reading...

    Jetto Scranda
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they won't be able to understand his feeling, because they will all die, but their family will, without ever making a connection to the driver's trauma, so what is the point? :)

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    Luis Milian
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    who else read this without turning their head...just incase

    Daria B
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me. Didn't need to. But as I'm seeing this on my phone, I'd slightly turn the device in a way the screen doesn't go horizontal mode.

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    Amy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I turned my phone, so I guess I'm good?

    Michka Shoitan
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i just turned my head to read it nothing happ-

    Lilli
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I turned my head... and then actually looked behind me forgetting there was a wall

    Jeff Requier
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didnt have to turn my head to read it

    Chris Plissken
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Alol I'm sucker for following horror rules xD I did turn my head to read it xD

    Zoila Flores Pena
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a weird reader i could read this without turning my head. Also I can read backwards.

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    Vicky Zar
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    American parents. Too protective. Kids are not allowed to go to school alone, playgrounds are boring, because they are too safe....there is a ton more.

    Dynein
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel the same about cats in the US... they are curious animals who want to explore, yet US Americans insist that they are indoor pets only, one stated reason being that it would be too dangerous. I'd rather have my cat happy and mentally healthy than confined... Btw I heard that that one study did a bad job at differentiating between strays, strict outdoor cats (barn cats), indoor/outdoor cats and strict indoor cats when assessing life expectancy. Of course outdoor cats are much more likely to die young if you include the first two with the third category...

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    Mulder
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow, that's a very realistic depiction of abuse

    Noez 🇸🇪
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was dark on a personal level as it reminded me of my childhood.

    Val/Malibu/Dante/Bob
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh im sorry you had to go through such a controlling childhood... any tips on how to make it easier...? :/ just... asking for a friend

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    Adrian Alexe
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is one of the major reasons why people are so f****d up.

    The Girl on Fire
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I relate to this. Sheltered homeschooled kid....

    Norman van Druten
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess there's an inner child in all of us, just trying to break free.

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    La Petite Morte
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor succubi.... you didn't sign up for THAT Hell.

    Da Goodbois
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Notice how the upvote number keeps on going down because people kept on giving up on this thing

    I'm groot
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does the mom look like a hot anime chick

    Jetto Scranda
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's not the mom, she's a succubus demon, they are said to be hot since they are made to seduce men and take their souls.

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    leo tang
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    thats how cancer was invented

    Tatianna Nelson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no no no never go to he double hockey sticks

    moeless
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does the demon wear "wrist warmers?"

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    Mary Montejo
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gives a different meaning to he's still with us.

    Chris Kourou
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And he seemed so happy at the photo..

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    Mike
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A Necromancer is just a healer who got there too late but didn't give up

    glowworm2
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one is seriously my favorite one. The twist is funny as hell!

    Wottermehlon Doge
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    don't you hate when your husband becomes an evil necromancer to conquer the world

    Alejandro The Great
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SCP 049 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT. I WANT ALL AVAILABLE MOBILE TASK FORCE UNITS DISPATCHED AND ON THE SEARCH FOR 049 ASAP

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    Ponty Maningas
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Zeus wasn't immortal, he could've died many times

    Michka Shoitan
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why zeus turned cupid in to a baby.

    Dorothy Parker
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So baby action Cupid got buff, didn't know his own strength.

    D. Pitbull
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ooof. Cupid Grew up... duuude... no....

    Lotus Queen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I am happy to be single AF.

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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    its called French kissing...

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    Jessica
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a strange place to hide a dimension

    Curious Cat
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    new from Hostess... demon chips !

    Lars Skulbru
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TGIF! (Tongue Goes in First 😉)

    Audrey Wegman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@#?emrngdfeuvyedjoci pvhtvudgrjdbhv4ikcnfr3obtu5iv4rhd

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