#cassiopeia quinn

[psuedofolio]

This week of OCs, it's OCs from Cassiopeia Quinn. You know, that webcomic that I make over at https://www.cassiopeiaquinn.com/

Flavor Text is as follows:

1: CASSIOPEIA: Heh. 69. That's, you know... The only natural number whose square and cube use every digit from zero to nine exactly once. *Nice.*

2: An unusual example of the Vanaa species, Nimoo enjoys many human items and traditions, and few more than Halloween. Taking advantage of his malleable form allows Nimoo the chance to dress as festive gourds or a behatted occultist.

3: Despite being a near full body replacement cyborg, Zeke likes to keep most "smart applications" in his head to a minimum. A built in clock is nice for when he wants to check on the oven or the laundry, but he'll turn it off when he's lying down with some dusty old paperback.

4: Paola Feti is a model Navy officer (in a culture based on reputation, rank, and competition). Her skill at dueling hasn't actually proven her correct in any arguments, but it's definitely given her the last word more than once.

5: Madison figured she'd be happy after finishing this new kit, but all she could see are the dozen little mistakes. And they'll nag at her every time she sees it.

(we'll be past 75 characters a day next week meaning I'll be 3/4 of the way to meeting my 100 OC characters a day thread goal, let's a go)

[thewebcomicsreview]

So, Gunwild, the writer of Cassiopeia Quinn, made a comment on that post about webcomics turning into illustrated prose

gunwildversuseverything said: I was hoping this would prompt a discussion about formats and expression, but no, it’s about artist versus writer workloads and “amount of story” being reduced to equations and word counts and update schedules. Figures.

And you know what, it's a good point. So instead of getting into the Artist vs Writers debate for the millionth time, let's take a look at how you, and artist and/or writer, can get a story told on the internet. For the sake of this discussion, lets assume you don't have any actual preference for a given medium that might influence you, you just want to know what's right for your story and will learn whatever skills you need.

TRADITIONAL WEBCOMIC

Comics are the most visual-heavy medium that a solo project can realistically do. This has several business advantages (pictures do better on social media), but it's also a good fit for stories with a bunch of things that are interesting to look at. Cassiopeia Quinn is a story heavily featuring weird alien races, cool spaceships, and attractive young women with extraordinarily casual dress codes. These are visual things! And visual things can be conveyed super quickly and subtly using visuals. Imagine just the "Cassiopeia doesn't wear pants" gimmick, if this was written out. If Cassiopeia gets a description of her appearance the first time she shows up in chapter one and then it's kind of glossed over, the reader would forget. If every time Cassiopeia entered a scene Gunwild had to go

Cassiopeia sauntered up to the motorcycle rack. Her own rack was barely contained by a dangling strip of black fabric, visible through an open orange jacket. Black elbow-high sleeves, covering her hands, matched her thigh-high stockings, separated from her black panties by her thigh pouch.

Somehow it's a lot less cute when it's written out like this, huh? And it also takes way longer to read that then it does to just look at her on the page, which increases the chance your readers might get bored. Comics are the medium that takes the most time to make and also the least time to read, which makes readers a lot more likely to put up with exposition or a plot tangent that doesn't really connect with them. Even if your comic has bits that don't grip your readers, they can grip themselves if you show them interesting bits.

The main downside of comics is the "equations and update schedules" part. They take a looooooong time to make, even compared to everything else. It's also got issues with how people read it. A comic that looks good on a desktop often looks too small on a phone.

TEXT UNDER A PANEL

This style is so strongly associated with Homestuck that a lot of people who weren't making explicitly Homestuck-themed comics seem to have been scared off it. But it's a perfectly cromulent format. It reads well on both desktop and mobile, and lets you use art for all your visuals while using text for dialogue and character thoughts. It's not, however, the best fit for every story. Because each panel is separate, it can be hard to make an exciting action scene this way, which is part of why this format is also associated with special animated pages (I mean, besides "Homestuck did it"). The panels don't really flow into each other, and there's a constant switching between looking and reading.

ILLUSTRATED PROSE

Distinguished from the Text Under a Panel Style mostly by the ratio of text to art, without a hard line demarcating the distinction between them. This style also reads well in desktop and mobile. Well, it should, but a lot of webcomics who switch to this style tend to stay in their webcomic format, meaning it's a picture of text that doesn't resize legibly, grumble grumble. I don't....I don't know if I need to explain the concept of "text" to people. You know what words are, and if you don't there's nothing I can say to explain it.

VISUAL NOVEL

I'm not going to claim to be a visual novel expert, but the main advantages are that it's the most art-efficient medium of any of these (because you can flat-out reuse art), the main disadvantages are that you'll usually need music, it's maybe not as well suited to long monologues, and most importantly that it's not a good method for drip-feed three-day-a-week updates. You kind of have to release the entire thing all at once, or at least in large episodes.

ALL OF THE ABOVE

A comic like Out-of-Placers is mostly traditional, but uses illustrated prose for lore updates. Prequel is text-under-a-panel but not always, and of course Homestuck is the absolute king of format switching, even ignoring the animations. The upside is that you can use the best format for any given scene, and that you're constantly keeping your readers on their toes. The downside (besides having to learn to do all this shit) is that you kind of have to commit to the bit and get your readers on board early with the idea that you're going to just be doing whatever this week. It's also harder to take full advantage of any one medium if you're constantly switching them up

I'm sure I'm forgetting about two hundred formats, but what are the biggest ones I'm missing?

[freeglassart]

Commander Feti - Cassiopeia Quinn

collab with @Frank_Draws

From the webcomic Cassiopeia Quinn

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[heroineimages]

How come every time I hear about honor from one of you guys, it's just an excuse for more violence?

Bastian, Cassiopeia Quinn

[silvereyedowl]

Questions about Quinn

What did Maddy tell Cass about regarding her suspicions of her superiors? And what, if any, part of that conversation may have been overheard by Russ? If he did overhear anything, why did he not use it as evidence of Maddy's "dishonour"?

What instructions did Maddy give Cupcake?

What does Senchel suspect about Maddy's heritage, if anything? And if so, how did he find out?

Why did Toyn want to force Maddy out of the navy? Do he and his conspirators know or suspect anything about her heritage? Or is it just because her integrity posed a threat to his conspiracy?

Is Rosalba's hatred of Maddy pure jealousy, or does she know something about Maddy's heritage?

Do the vanaa know anything about Maddy's heritage and/or Xerran history? Gleb's reaction to the sword incident was interesting...

How did the Xerran civilization become lost? Why did they abandon their homeworld, and why is the truth such a secret?

How did the Tourney Sword become the trophy for that competition?

Why are the Xerrans so similar to humans?

How did Maddy become lost to her birth family and get adopted into Regency space?

How will Maddy claiming her inheritance save Xerran civilization?

Crazy theory: Was the Tyrant of Vaze an ancient Xerran? Is the lost civilization he was part of actually the ancient Xerran civilization?

What is the actual name of the Xerran species?

I just started reading Cassiopeia Quinn on Wednesday and now I have many, many questions. And theories.

[psuedofolio]

Sketch to Final. Approximately 10 years.

Webcomics take a long time.

[thewebcomicsreview]

I wanna do some deep analysis here for branding or whatever, but a comic I like had a funny and clever joke that made me laugh and that's worth mentioning sometimes

[mercless]

🗡 riot and their sibling dramas

[thomas-jefferson-miku-binder]

a reminder that the guides would be my personal opinion as someone who’s deeply enamored with league of legends’ midness. not every league champion would be covered as i would only talk about those i’m sufficiently familiar with

[eaden]

some parallels between the og lyctors and their Canaan House counterparts:

• G1deon and Dyas dying in the same unwinnable fight they willingly threw themselves into out of Duty

• 'chickenshits don't get beer' sounds like a Pyrrha aphorism

• Judith served in the Dve Territorials

• the chances of Coronabeth & Ianthe painting nude portraits of each other and gifting them to people are not zero

• we know very little about Cyrus and Valancy but what we do know explains A Lot about the Third House in general

• Ulysses the Fourth launching himself into hell via Resurrection Beast/Isaac welcoming the opportunity to be a human peg board

• Magnus 'my wife practically issues written invitations to breakfast' Quinn vs Augustine 'here is a formal invitation to witness a threesome with God' Quinque

• Augustine waited 10 000 years for a biographer only for the Houses' most renowned historian/lyctor researcher to be murdered by his colleague precisely for having those interests

• Cassiopeia & Nigella being in charge of the Teacher Project where they fit many souls into one body/CamPal fitting 2 souls into one body

• Cassie being a River expert/Sex Pal creating an unprecedented River bubble

• both Sixth House pairs have a 'wedding' just before the climax of their respective emergencies

• Literally everything about Cytherea/Dulcinea

• unloveable Mercymorn, critical Mercymorn...... certainly no one could accuse Silas Octakiseron of being loveable and uncritical

• 'you will be forgiven' / immediately attempts murder: possibly the only thing Silas and Mercy would agree on

• they also both give Gideon Nav explosively vague revelations about her origins before trying to kill her

• Anastasia/Harrow having a complex and potentially horny dynamic with The Body

[popawritter12]

that post of yours about how every yandere in league of legends is consenting made me think about how they are when it comes to jealousy I just love your posts

Author's notes: I know, im very young in this plataform, but things in my "love life" make me change a LOT of things in my life, so... I guess that i'm coming back bcs i "come back" to normal.

Also I had this thought for a long time so... Let me explain it first.

Of course that i will divide it in a total of four categories:

1- Just in a extreme jeolusy feeling, it gonna "take measures".

2- Tries to hide the jealous, but in one point just gets carried away they emotions.

3- Meticulous search of that person, and subsequent kill.

4- Violent reaccion in view of the jealousy.

5- A REAL violent reaccion in view of the jealousy.

So, let's start

1- Just in a extreme jeolusy feeling, they gonna "take measures".

Alistar, Anivia, Bardo, Blitzcrank, Braum, Galio, Ivern, Janna, Jax, Kai'sa, Karma, Kassadin, Lee Sin, Leona, Lillia, Malphite, Maokai, Master Yi, Morgana, Nami, Neeko, Orianna, Pantheon, Rakan, Riven, Ryze, Shen, Skarner, Soraka, Taliyah, Taric, Wukong, Yasuo, Yone, Yorick, Zac and Zilean.

2- Tries to hide the jealous, but in one point just gets carried away they emotions.

Ahri, Akshan, Aphelios, Caitlyn, Camille, Ekko, Garen, Gragas, Gwen, Hwei Illao, Irelia, Jarvan IV, Kalistam Kayle, Nautilus, Nilah, Olaf, Ornn, Quinn, Rell, Samira, Senna, Sona, Tryndamere, Varus, Volibear, Xin Zhao and Zeri.

3- Meticulous search of that person, and subsequent kill.

Akali, Ashe, Azir, Darius, Diana, Draven, Fiora, Jayce, Jhin, Katarina, Kayn, K'sante, Lucian, Lux, Miss Fortune, Nasus, Nidalee, Pyke, Qiyana, Renata Glasc, Renekton, Rengar, Sejuani, Seraphine, Sett, Shivana, Sivir, Swain, Sylas, Talon, Twisted Fate, Vayne, Viktor, Xayah and Zed.

4- Violent reaccion in view of the jealousy.

Cassiopeia, Dr.Mundo, Elise, Evelynn, Gangplank, Malzahar, Nocturne, Shaco, Singed, Thresh, Udyr, Vi, Xerath and Zyra.

5- A REAL violent reaccion in view of the jealousy.

Aatrox, Aurelion Sol, Brand, Bel' veth, Briar, Hecarim, Jinx, Karthus, Le Blanc, Lissandra, Mordekaiser, Sion, Syndra, Trundle, Tham Kench, Urgot, Vel' Koz, Viego, Vladimir and Warwick.

And, there are two exception of all of this categories; Ezreal and Graves. Why? Well, First i thought that both of them would really be the 3rd categorie, but then i realiced that... The two of them would TRY to kill the cause of they jealousy, but... They literally kill the "cause" by accident ---or directly didn't even get it---, so... that is my explication.

Im gonna say it, it was so funny to do this, and I really say that I must be thankfull to all of the Anon's that try activelly to "revive" this side of mine of hiperfilaxion with Yanderism and my favorite games.

Also, I learned to crochet and do pixel art so im guess that im gonna put some of that from time to time in this account. I wish to all of you the best! <3

[small-witch-big-hat]

STRONGLY seconding the recommendations for the Vorkosigan Saga and everything by Diane Duane. Check out the Cat Wizards books, starting with The Book of Night with Moon - and Spock's World is one of the best Star Trek books ever written!

If comics are to your taste, Cassiopeia Quinn and the (completed!) Star Power are both great reads, and available online for free.

If venturing into gaslamp fantasy/sci-fi is more to your mood, you cannot go wrong with Phil and Kaja Foglio's inimitable Girl Genius, available in both webcomic and novel form.

Anyone got fun sci-fi recs? Emphasis on Fun.

Murderbot are my comfort books and I loved The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. That’s really the ideal vein that I’m looking for. I’ve read some Scalzi books and enjoyed them and same with the Martian, but beyond that I’m still pretty fresh to sci fi. I’m a big fantasy person, so I’d appreciate any and all ideas of what I can explore next. Thanks!!!

[twinktosterone]

List of League Champions that are Trans

Aatrox

Ahri

Akali

Akshan

Alistar

Amumu

Anivia

Annie

Aphelios

Ashe

Aurelion Sol

Azir

Bard

Bel'Veth

Blitzcrank

Brand

Braum

Briar

Caitlyn

Camille

Cassiopeia

Cho'Gath

Corki

Darius

Diana

Draven

Dr. Mundo

Ekko

Elise

Evelynn

Ezreal

Fiddlesticks

Fiora

Fizz

Galio

Gangplank

Garen

Gnar

Gragas

Graves

Gwen

Hecarim

Heimerdinger

Hwei

Illaoi

Irelia

Ivern

Janna

Jarvan IV

Jax

Jayce

Jhin

Jinx

Kai'Sa

Kalista

Karma

Karthus

Kassadin

Katarina

Kayle

Kayn

Kennen

Kha'Zix

Kindred

Kled

Kog'Maw

K’Sante

LeBlanc

Lee Sin

Leona

Lillia

Lissandra

Lucian

Lulu

Lux

Malphite

Malzahar

Maokai

Master Yi

Milio

Miss Fortune

Mordekaiser

Morgana

Naafiri

Nami

Nasus

Nautilus

Neeko

Nidalee

Nilah

Nocturne

Nunu & Willump

Olaf

Orianna

Ornn

Pantheon

Poppy

Pyke

Qiyana

Quinn

Rakan

Rammus

Rek'Sai

Rell

Renata Glasc

Renekton

Rengar

Riven

Rumble

Ryze

Samira

Sejuani

Senna

Seraphine

Sett

Shaco

Shen

Shyvana

Singed

Sion

Sivir

Skarner

Smolder

Sona

Soraka

Swain

Sylas

Syndra

Tahm Kench

Taliyah

Talon

Taric

Teemo

Thresh

Tristana

Trundle

Tryndamere

Twisted Fate

Twitch

Udyr

Urgot

Varus

Vayne

Veigar

Vel'Koz

Vex

Vi

Viego

Viktor

Vladimir

Volibear

Warwick

Wukong

Xayah

Xerath

Xin Zhao

Yasuo

Yone

Yorick

Yuumi

Zac

Zed

Zeri

Ziggs

Zilean

Zoe

Zyra

[psuedofolio]

So Psu, I’ve been wondering if with the cast in the Cassiopiea comic get their fair share of critiques and analysis. Cause the difference between how readers have reacted to Regency Maddie and Regency Feti is very clear. I’m a Feti admirer, she’s written very well but she gets such an unfair amount of criticism for just being the antagonist. The amount of comments that were very targeted at her in the recent update had me pretty disappointed how some readers view her. As for Maddie and Cass in comparison it’s like they get a free pass because they’re the protagonists.

Feti's like my favorite character! Well... third favorite character. Fourth. ONE of my favorite characters! It's a bit hard to pick when you like them all and you're working with them...

But for sure, I think Feti's complicated in a way that doesn't have a lot of clear answers and we've enjoyed the task of writing her in a way that keeps her true to herself but also challenges her in unexpected ways. I'm glad to hear you like her a lot. Thank you for reading.

ps, don't be so hard on Maddie and Cass though. They got to be protagonists by working at it!

[canvaswolfdoll]

i can back up gunnerkrigg court, girl genius, and order of the stick (never got into qc; dropped doa when i realized the author just... doesn’t believe in nuance? you’re either with him or a villain; and i enjoyed paranatural but just... don’t have the attention for web prose, and so dropped it...)

but to add my own recommendations no one asked for! and avoid my own creative project

- Clown Corps: goofy premise that takes itself the right amount of serious while also being about clown police in basically a shonen manga setting.

- sleepless domain: more of ‘american creator taking inspiration from the anime they grew up on’ (like egs is clearly inspired by ramna 1/2), only it’s a magical girl comic. leans a bit more serious than egs, but it has goofs.

- harpy gee: more all-ages than the other recommendations. bunch of nerds being friends in a setting with magic. though this is traditional european fantasy setting than egs’s ‘modern illinois-ish’ setting.

- atomic robo: the author’s been in webcomics since the early 2000s, though he swapped from the sprite-based[1] 8-bit theater to this action sci-fi. plays with tropes of 80s and 90s cartoons and action serials throughout media history.

- cassiopeia quinn: another comic that is joyful in how it plays with tropes, and has the most obvious art evolution out of the comics i’m recommending (though it still starts amazing). everyone is likeable, and the serious background stuff is kept at a carefully considered distance to maintain a largely optimistic tone. also a real good ‘enemies to probably friends (but we haven’t gotten their yet)’ narrative. only knock i have against it is ‘cassiopeia’ is an impossible name to remember, so i recommend setting up an rss reader or following the comic’s tumblr so you don’t lose track of it.

[1] a good move; what respectable creator would do a sprite comic?

i just finished reading all of EGS yesterday, and i saw ur pfp on my dash! do you have any other webcomics youre a fan of?

A ton! too many to mention them all, really. I'll be restricting this to 'currently updating stuff', and comparing it specifically to EGS given your ask. That also means that I'll be ignoring some comics that are just completely different (such as any gag-a-day type stuff. XKCD may be a classic of the internet that you should read, but it's a weird recommendation after someone asks about EGS)

The other thing I don't really have recommendations for is if you liked the 'everyone transforms all the time' parts the most. There's a reason I stuck with reading EGS over The Wotch, and it's not just because the latter went on hiatus. I'm sure there's something to that taste somewhere, I'm just not reading it at the moment.

TL;DR: Questionable Content, Dumbing of Age, Paranatural, Gunnerkrigg Court, Girl Genius

For my first recommendation, I'm going with Questionable Content, which is less questionable than you'd assume from the title, and more questionable than you'd assume from this disclaimer. It started as a basic soap opera/endless pit of references to early 2000's indie rock (but there's a funny robot that makes punchlines), and is now a soap opera where the funny robots have feelings (but there's also still punchlines).

for comparison to EGS, I'm going with hammerchlorians as a stand in for the general trend both of them went through, folding early wacky concepts into a whole that can be surprisingly emotional. It's also still wacky fun.

Dumbing of Age is a reboot of the author's earlier webcomics. Instead of taking the above approach and slowly fold the weird aspects into a sense of normalcy for the setting, Willis decided to just do a reboot of the universe, with the same characters, back in college, but no aliens this time (except fictional).

The closest EGS equivalent is end of an era, the arc where Sarah and Elliot break up, but really it's just every bit where magic takes a backseat to relationships, introspection, and growth.

I'd be remiss not to mention the comic being both funny and having action pieces, though. Those are just a lot more realistic. Also, Walky is a trans girl (she just hasn't figured that out yet (and I'm not sure the author has either (I can tell though))).

Next up, Paranatural. I'm actually a bit behind on this one, but it's really really good. It switches from a more traditional comic style to a more illustrated novel type thing partway through, but it's really really good.

It had a lot less 'folding in concepts' to do than my other examples so far, but that's because the author went in with a plan. And that plan was to write the funniest trauma a middle schooler could get. The entirety of the hitball sequence is a sight to behold. If you click on nothing else, read Paranatural.

The closest thing EGS did was Sister 3, my favourite arc. Both do 'set up a magic thing/pay off the magic thing' combined with character growth at the highest quality.

Gunnerkrigg Court is an english boarding school mystery featuring magic and robots and psychopomps and psychic powers. It seems to be nearing completion, with most of the basic mysteries solved and the questions shifting to 'now what'.

There haven't been many real Mystery elements in EGS, at least none where our protaganists are actively trying to solve it. The current Uryoms arc will probably be the closest thing we can currently see by the end, but even that's giving us more answers than it's giving the characters. If you want something Magical, but with a different vibe, read Gunnerkrigg.

Finally, Girl Genius. Girl Genius is about a young mad scientist reckoning with the mad science performed by mad scientists of the past, together with her two boyfriends (who are also mad scientists)

The closest EGS arc is any where Tedd does Mad Science, but especially the last parts of Title Pending, aka party 2. 'some device had unintended consequences and now it's up to our mad scientists to throw science at it until the device does what they want' is a description of half the arcs in girl genius (the other arcs in girl genius have other characters cause the problems on purpose (it's still solved with either mad science or swords (sometimes the swords are mad science)))

This concludes my list. the other thing these comics have in common is being pretty long-running. There's absolutely newer comics out there worthy of reading, and I'm always looking for more recommendations myself.

[thewebcomicsreview]

What are the main influences that you drew upon for your comics?

So the biggest influence would have to be ASequentialArt. The guy who makes it is the artist of Saffron and Sage and thus his influence is rather more direct; any kind of meta-fuckery in Legend of the Hare or Saffron and Sage is either Carlos' idea or something I thought he'd like. The big parallax finale of Legend of the Hare was his idea, and one of the low-key reasons I'm dragging my feat uploading that comic is that I don't want to have to figure out how to set it up again!

Kill 6 Billion Demons inspired the idea of having "Lore" under the Legend of the Hare pages, though that idea crashed because no one cares about my lore.

Gunnerkrigg Court inspired the idea of making Saffron and Sage episodic, an idea I actually regret a little, which is an essay I've been meaning to write.

It's a small thing, but Homestuck inspired my character writing just a little by making me think of "rules", like how every sentence out of Liri's mouth ought to deserve an exclamation mark or how Saffron often talks in sentence fragments because she's a busy woman and doesn't have time for superfluous words.

Prequel Adventure, Narbonic, and Latchkey Kingdom are all comics I like that have similar vibes to mine in one way or another, but the comic whose writing feels closest to my own might actually be Cassiopeia Quinn. If you take Cassiopeia Quinn and you mix in a bit of Katia Managan you get something not entirely dissimilar to Liri Bloom.

Final Fantasy XIV (specifically Shadowbringers and Endwalker) isn't really an influence, but it is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Those expansions are very thematically dense in a way that both inspires me to try better and makes me want to give up and quit. That's sort of tied in to why I regret the way I wrote Saffron and Sage episodically, and perhaps one day I'll write that essay. I'm pretty consistently on the precipice of quitting Saffron to try to start a new comic; I'm a notorious dilletante.

But if you look at how horny the characters in my comics tend to be when the comic itself dares never show a boob, you can probably see the deepest influence of all, the one I dare not speak even to myself, which is all the trashy quasihorny shounen manga I read in high school, and the early webcomics like The Wotch or Misfile that had a bit of that energy that stuck to me indelibly no matter how much I try to pretend otherwise.