#dh ch2

[pocketandrew]

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GOOD MORNING EVERYONE here are my next goals for the summer now that I've posted that heinous fic:

recover from the repetitive motion injury that fic gave me 👍 and finally catch up to my tbr list 🫶

dh dual cultivation fic got fully funded first so I shall write that in june 🐉

in july I will finish ch1 of the omegaverse fic and update the word counter for ch2

in august it's me vs sunday fic and I will try to finish by sept 🙏

I am gonna attempt to take requests in aug-sept too if it's not too busy 🥲 (please got let it not be busy I am so tired WFLSJSK)

[skinks]

Do you have any works (i.e.; books, fics, poems, even movies, etc.) that inspire your writing?

ahhh thank you for this question!! I’ve been thinking about it for a few days, sorry this is so long. I hope this doesn’t sound too pretentious either, but who doesn’t like talking about the shit they enjoy?

In terms of the technical aspects, like style and structure, I love really visual and evocative writing. Clive Barker is great. I read a book last year called Days Without End by Sebastian Barry and he would occasionally bust out these fuckin gorgeous metaphors in the middle of the character’s very guileless narration, one that comes to mind rn is a giant herd of American buffalo stampeding over a hill, described as looking like bubbling molasses, and I thought holy shit, what an amazing way to describe something like that.

Then, and I’ve mentioned this a few times, but the Dreamboy podcast has absolutely beautiful writing, it’s lyrical and hilarious and blunt and horny and gross all at once in a way I wish I could do. One great metaphor I remember is describing a driveway as a “gray loaf”. Literally the way we’re introduced to the main character is him describing a recurring dream, with stuff like: “I open my mouth and the icy water rushes in, it hits the back of my throat and zooms down into my stomach. I feel it fill me up, and then it zig-zags its way through my intestines like a cold knife, and just before it gets to the back of my asshole — I wake up. And I throw off the covers and I look down, and my dick... is rock hard. Like — so hard that it’s actually like, bobbing up, and — oh fuck I’m late for work.” I dig those very nasty visceral descriptions of sensations, and how it doesn’t shy away from how bodies react in weird ways to weird things.

structure-wise, I’m really into writing where seemingly insignificant details are revealed to be more meaningful later on, long-form stories where everything fits together neatly. I think that’s why I like heist movies so much, Logan Lucky and Oceans 11 are great. I also like stuff where actions have real consequence, where you actually feel the stakes, y’know?

That last part about stakes doesn’t really apply to ithots because it’s super fluffy, but the small details thing, I was trying to do. I love the writing in shows like Barry and Fleabag for those aspects, or films like Hereditary, or Guy Ritchie’s better gangster movies. I tried to lay some breadcrumbs throughout the fic for stuff I knew I wanted to become significant in the last chapter, like the “you brought me weeds” thing in ch11, or their Olive Garden date in ch2. Or in ch6 at the aquarium there’s a line about Eddie rubbing his right arm if he stays in the pool too long, because I wanted to make a point about it and old breaks later. Richie saying “manhattan’s all shitty and cold this time of year” in ch1, then Eddie saying it again in New York. Everything Eddie talks about in his Big Speech lmao.

Pennywise appears to Richie as a werewolf in the novel (queercoding imo) so I say he feels like a dog “territorial and owned at once” in ch5, “a neglected dog” in ch6, follows Eddie like a dog in ch11 as well as hugging Eddie til he’s “squeaking like a dog toy”, shakes his head like a dog in ch12, feels like a dog with its head out the window, as well as saying his love for Eddie as a kid was “hairy and howling” in ch13, “lycanthropic” in ch15, and THEN it all culminates in him literally howling his love at the moon at the end, because he’s a dawwwwg but he’s a good one. Not a monster.

There’s a lot of that specifically with stuff Eddie says too, because I was kinda trying to show that he listens to Richie and values the stuff he says by having him parrot/emulate him a lot. Richie makes the Tozieritis joke in ch12 and Eddie says “There’s your Tozieritis” later For the Banter. Richie says “pull a groin, then?” in ch14 and that’s what Eddie tells him before the SNL show. Richie says “I’d have made a good cowboy” in ch5, so Eddie starts calling him “cowboy” in bed, the Die Hard quote comes back in ch13. Richie calls the Losers “chucklefucks” in ch9 and that’s the name Eddie calls them when he goes berserk in Atlanta, as well as him doing a Voice, saying “yessir” at the end because Richie says it all the time throughout the fic. And Eddie wearing Richie’s clothes a lot is a physical manifestation of that whole Thing he’s doing, kinda taking small parts of Richie onto himself. In a healthy way ofc.

So yeah, I’m into writing with good continuity, stuff like Archer or Arrested Development is the god tier for good continuity. I really wanted to try to do that.

as for like, mood and tone and visuals, I love surreal/liminal feeling stuff, I like how super hot lazy weather can feel otherworldly. Whatever feeling I get from watching The Green Mile, Donnie Darko, Happy as Lazzaro, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, or the parts in Ghibli or Makoto Shinkai movies where the cicadas are so loud and everything else is so still because it’s too hot to go outside. That hypnotised feeling. The illustrations in Shaun Tan’s book, Tales from Outer Suburbia, they were hovering in my head a lot, all the gold and long shadows.

The poems Snake by DH Lawrence, and Los Angeles/Boys by Rachel Sherwood. Definitely I Remember by Anne Sexton, since I put it at the start. The song Mad Man Moon by Genesis.

Also like, I write by basically imagining what I’d want to see if it were a movie, where the edits would be, what the camera’s seeing, what colour everything is. So I’d say the last two biggest visual inspirations would be the films The Fall by Tarsem Singh and Mandy by Panos Cosmatos. Idk how to describe it except that the imagery in those movies is the kind of stuff I see in my head when I close my eyes, like the line in ch15 about the stars falling to hang around in the canopy, that’s actually a dream I had when I was like 9 and the image always stuck with me. So yeah, all the surreal space stuff in Mandy or the strange nature in The Fall really speaks to me:

[snamioneasks]

Surprisingly Pure by mypseudonym - T, 31 chapters - Hermione Granger was just a normal girl until a summer surprise turned her world upside down. Pureblood Hermione, AU, OOC, non-DH compliant. eventual SS/OC HG

Hermione has a new name starting in Ch2, may be considered OC.

[pocketandrew]

ISSUE 2 - Chapter 2 Retrospective

Welcome back! It’s been about three months since the last retrospective on my comic Dynamo Heroes. Another chapter in da pocket! Full issue under the cut!

Eagle eyed viewers will notice I changed my url from ctcomix to pocketandrew - pocket andrew has been my name online for years and it felt a bit weird going by something so corporate sounding like ctcomix, even though I’d like to make a comic company someday called Common Tongue Comics.

Anyway! I’d like to celebrate a big milestone - 50 subs!!!! Not just 50, we’re at 61 now! In the last newsletter I was saying how my goal was 50 by the summer! it’s not even spring yet lmao. That’s it!! 100 subs by summer! LET'S DO IT!

Random Thoughts

Recently I been trying to focus more on growing my tumblr, but it’s been hard. I don’t get how these modern social medias work lol… I left instagram for tumblr because I thought it’d be easier… well I just gotta make it work. I’m not going back on that meta ai bs.

I think I’ll start posting more about my other projects I got going on. Besides the comic, I got a couple games I’m writing/drawing for - BRAKE UR NECK, a retro racing game, and The Carter Kozak Files, a murder mystery visual novel game. The CK Files is much more developed and I’d love to share some concept art for it. Hoping for it to start production this year. I’ll also post characters from dh that haven’t appeared yet in the main upload. I have a ton of art I been holding back posting bc the character hasn’t made it to the webtoon yet! I’ll just post it!

CHAPTER TWO THOUGHTS

Chapter two introduces Enviroburst - an old super villain of Dynamo’s. He’s got some History with Chester as well… Enviroburst was meant to be a one and done kinda villain but I loved writing him so much I decided to explore his backstory and bring him back later on in the story. He doesn’t reappear till like chapter 15ish tho enviroburst fans gotta cope till then (it’s me i’m coping). 

Comments

My fav comments this chapter:

‘guidelines are dumb ;)’ brotheboss

‘What a stupid attention seeker…’ Dr Everlasting

‘I can’t wait to see the full array of her powers’ brotheboss

About that last one - we’re not gonna see Sunni’s proper powers for a couple chapters yet,, she’s still a total noob lmao

Stats

These are the stats I collected at the end of chapter 2; I’m posting this a couple pages into chapter 3 as I hadn’t had time to write this out yet.

Views: 5545 Subs: 61 Likes: 477

[pocketandrew]

Pages 79 to 81!! Chester has had ENOUGH Subscribe on WEBTOON!!!

[pocketandrew]

I had so much fun with Enviroburst

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[pocketandrew]

Sorry I didn't upload these yesterday I totally forgot!!

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Chapter 3 starts on Webtoon tomorrow so I thought I'd upload this page now!!!

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pages 85 to 87 :) only one page left of this chapter!

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AH! SONIC?!?!?!?!

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...nice

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WHO is this....???

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some dad lore! and shadow walker name drop!

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pages 51 to 54! it's the start of chapter 2!!

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