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Plus, adding characters from other demographics besides the generic Caucasian human beings opens up so many more opportunities for character design and storytelling!

Gee, it’s almost like including characters of different ethnicities and backgrounds can help tell a richer story! Who woulda thought?

A thing I love about Castlevania is that it sees the opportunity for historical diversity and takes it.

Like it’s so obvious you would think more historical fiction would do it but often if something set in a historical setting is fantasy the creators go “this is partially fantasy so we can just take liberties with the demographic and be ethnicity blind and create ethnic diversity in that way”

And while that’s okay it’s so cool when the actual diversity of the period gets shown, like of course if you are gonna set Castlevania: Nocturne doing the French Revolution you would want to feature Haiti as well and show the similarities and differences between the two and show how their background effect poc characters just as if you are going to set Castlevania in medieval eastern europe it would be interesting to see medieval north Africa as well because regions don’t just exist in a vacuum and the meeting of cultures is interesting

It adds so much: it shows historical settings that often aren’t seen which makes everything way more interesting than if they just featured the European clichés, it enriches the world + makes everything more nuanced and more histories gets told

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Nearly binged all of Nocturne S2 with the wife last night. This season is so good. We were discussing the changes in style and how this season is so much more horrifying than others in tone. There's so much dread and loss in this season.

A big thing I noticed was an overall theme of corruption and the loss of self. Maria, Olrox, Mizrak, Tera, and Emmanuel all experience or struggle with some form of corruption or have strayed from their original paths. People aren't just losing their lives or their loved ones, they're losing themselves. And it's SO compelling to me.

We're only halfway through the season right now but man, we are eating this up.

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HOW ABOUT THAT B3P CHAPTER 9 HUH

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Hell on Earth January Update!

I have promised updates about Hell on Earth, and I am delivering it with a bitchin' new poster! First, a quick TLDR for those of us who don’t want to scroll through the whole post:

Issue 2's script is awaiting editing. Issues 3 and 6 is currently being beat-sheeted. All of the issues' general plots have been beat-sheeted.

Thumbnailing has begun for Issue 2 and Issue 6. Concept sketches for the covers have begun. Character reference sheets will come out within the next month or two.

Because I don't fully trust myself to get sufficient content completed by the end of the year, I may push the official release days to December 2025. The quarterly release schedule will stand no matter what.

Issue 1 will be pre-released at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo in April 2025 — along with The Book of Haborym.

What is this comic? How did it come about?

Hell on Earth was initially my senior capstone, but I got really attached to it and wanted to make more. Unfortunately, I kept writing the same plot over and over and kept making the same mistakes, so I got really depressed and tried to scrap the whole thing in favor of a new plot. Ove winter break, I made an entirely new plot, cast, script, and thumbnails. I was ready.

Then on January 8th, 2024, I was dragged down a hill by one of the family dogs and I fractured the two bones in your ankle that will not heal on their own. Surgery was required, I was forced to pull out of what would have been my final semester, and I relearned how to walk over the summer. It was a mess, I was a mess, it was horrible.

However, it did give me an opportunity to pay more attention to the capstone. With that time I spent being unable to walk, I started to move back to what I'd originally conceived, now having a fresh start and read all the Walking Dead comics and watched Romero's Living Dead films. And now I've created something that I am not only obsessed with, but am dying to share with the world.

What can we expect from Hell on Earth?

Zombies! Zombies lurking around, stalking us, looming in the background. Because at the end of the day, this is a zombie story. Hell on Earth is going to be a relatively slow burn for the spook side of things, but it will be showing more and more of its face as the story goes on.

I'm planning to do six issues per story arc, and as of now I only want to start with one or two. I have enough material for a second and third run, and if all goes well, I'll get more of my plot ducks in a row. This first run is like an introduction to the world, but it's also a story that can be read on its own.

Where will Hell on Earth be sold?

I'm still figuring that out. I have yet to update my own personal website (I love that Wix wants me to shell out $30 a month to sell things on my own damn site), so I'm open to suggestions and currently searching for a place to sell it. I'm leaning towards selling it on Amazon (boo, hiss) until I have enough money to sell it over my Wix site.

You mentioned pushing the release date back. Why?

I don’t know if I trust myself to finish enough issues by the release date. ADHD is hard to manage on its own, especially when you’re trying to force yourself to get five more issues done over the course of a year and three months. I’m trying hard, but aside from the wonderful pro bono help of my editors, I am making this thing entirely on my own. I’m doing all the writing, penciling, inking, coloring, lettering, and printing, and it's all coming out of my own (jobless) pocket. This is going to take a while. The bottom line is that I want to deliver a quality comic and I want to figure out the workflow that will help me get this done in a timely manner so I’m not turning this into another Book of Haborym.

Why are you still doing the prerelease if you think you'll push this back?

Issue 1 is completely finished. Like, absolutely 110% done. This isn’t a Book of Haborym situation where I’m sorta done with it and still touching it up so I can sell it. It’s done. And since I've already posted about this, I figure it's not worth making people wait more for a thing that's already finished.

I'm lucky enough to have been given a table at the Small Press and Comics Expo here in Columbus with the rest of CCAD's comics seniors. A certain amount of Issue 1 copies will be sold there, along with copies of The Book of Haborym. Yep, that's right. I've finally finished up that goddamn book!

Thank you to everyone who’s supported me in the journey of creating this! I have very high hopes for the way the series could go. And just so y'all aren’t scrolling for nothing, here’s some sketches for future covers!

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More Grendel sketches, this time featuring my OC! I’ve been going wild with this boy between fixing up the Hell on Earth announcement and going nuts for Creature Commandos and Osmosis Jones, so I figure it’s time I threw him up again! I’ve also got some fanfic excerpts that I’m looking to throw up as well, if it pleases the court.

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For the Hydrophyte au do the settlements do sacrificial offerings for Vash believing if they give him a big feast he won't eat them? Such as fish and other kinds of food? And donuts for dessert! 🍩

That actually sounds like a sweet idea! I can see that happening in the Gods Walk Among Us AU, but I never thought about it happening for hydrophyte Vash!

I could see these sacrificial feasts consisting of lots of meat, a lot of greens, and of course, some doughnuts or dessert. Vash, bless his heart, only eats the doughnuts because he’s vegan. Doesn’t eat fish because it makes him feel bad. So after a while, these feasts turn into a big ole doughnut table and he VIBRATES whenever he gets one. Doughnuts for dayyyys, baby!

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Seems like monsters are the flavor of 2025

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BE MAD BE SAD BUT DONT U DARE GIVE UP

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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It is with the deepest frustrations that I must report Microsoft has pushed out Copilot onto Microsoft Word no matter what your previous settings were. If you have Office because you paid for it/are on a family plan/have a work/school account, you can disable it by going to Options -> click on Copilot -> uncheck 'Enable Copilot'.

(Note, you may not see this option if you haven't updated lately, but Copilot will still pop up. Updating should give you this option. I will kill Microsoft with my bare hands.)

In addition, Google has forced a roll-out of it's Gemini AI on all American accounts of users over 18 (these settings are turned off by default for EU, Japan, Switzerland, and UK, but it doesn't hurt to check).

To remove this garbage, you must go to Manage Workspace smart feature settings for all your Gmail/Drive/Chat and turn them off. Go to Settings -> See all settings -> find under "Genera" the "Google Workspace smart features" -> turn smart feature setting off for both Google Workspace and all other Google products and hit save. (If you turned off the smart settings in your Gmail, it never hurts to open Drive and double-check that they're set to off there too.)

Quick Edit: I found the easiest way to get to the Smart Feature settings following the instructions above was to do it through Drive. Try that route first.

Now is the time to consider switching to Libre Office if you haven't already.

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to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

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The Grendel OC floodgates have been open for a bit, but now they’re finally flooding into Tumblr. Ah, Grendel, you’re a beacon. I don’t know what of, but you’re a beacon.

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Grendel sketches!! I am in agony figuring out his color scheme and I’m sure that I’ll be tweaking it once more puppet pictures are released. I need them. God, I need them

These are all direct quotes from the book, by the way. Man’s such a sassy little c-word.