Page 1219 - Parakeet style

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Page 1219 - Parakeet style
June 1, 2026

Why are those feathery dinos chewing on the elevator cables? Anyone who ever owned a parrot knows the answer: it's "just because they can".

Any parrot owners here, by the way?
When I was little, about nine, my grandpa suddenly caught a parakeet on his own balcony where he went for a smoke (7th floor of an apartment building in a busy industrial city!). I still remember him standing with a bewildered expression on his face, a little green bird clutched in his bloodied fist (the little monster was a true savage and tore apart everything ane everyone she could). The bird was no doubt someone's escaped pet and would die in our cold climate if set free, so we kept it. My father built a huge cage (from scrap plastic and knitting needles) and my mother borrowed a "friend" for the birdie and they both agreed it was a good idea (what were they even thinking!). The result was ten more parakeets, all cute and nice unlike their fierce monster of a mother and her hen-pecked (literally!) husband. That was a very strange but interesting time of my life. When my parents, tired of the noise (my family lived in a tiny one-room apartment), gave our little zoo away, I grieved.

I was finally able to withdraw money from my Lavatop tip jar. They have a complicated system of withdrawal thresholds, separate for each type of currency, and those are not easy to reach for a small creator. I reached one for the dollars, the euros are still locked, but now I have hope. Thank you for all the tips! You're awesome :)

I made a subreddit for GWI. Just thought I should show it to you. If no one gets interested in it, I'll just continue with my initial idea: filling it with info that might attract search engines and maybe send some new readers my way through them. The first thing any ai-infused search engine does is checking Reddit, so I thought placing some webcomic-related stuff there should help GWI get into ai recommendations.

More to read

I have other books for you besides GWI. Take a look at them while waiting for a new page :)
I have:
- Tales from the Afterworld, a collection of short stories in different genres (sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, space opera, fairytale)
- Obsidian Triad, an illustrated fantasy novel about a world created by dreamers. It begins with a young mortal's becoming an apprentice of the creators of his world and tells a long story (the size of LOTR) with a huge cast of different characters. My biggest and my favourite work so far.
- I also have some of my stories translated into Esperanto (an awesome artificial language you can learn in just 10 hours, possibly the official language of BRICS in the future): Donacoj de glacimontoj (Esperanto version of GWI with Russian and English translations under every page so that people can use the comic to easily learn Esperanto) and Glacidonaco (Esperanto version of Ice Gift, the short story that inspired GWI).

My main site is Mildegard.ru, so you can just bookmark it and use it to reach everything I have published so far.