#i really like Julie :] her design is. so so cute and looks fun 2 draw!!! honestly all of the characters do

[transurgender]

im only about 3 episodes into motorcity but i am giving Julie the highest honor i can give to a character: Irish.

[artificialqueens]

2003 (1/2) (Vanique) - Ortega

a/n: VANIQUE MUST RIIIIIIISE!!!! ayo team, welcome to this. i pulled this ship from virtually nowhere when i was writing n19f and people seemed to like i as much as i did, so i wrote these two together for the fic challenge. i’ve split this fic into two halves, as they’re two very different vibes. this part follows Vanessa and Monique as they go through primary school and then start their first couple years at high school, so it’s definitely more platonic than anything else but it’s cute! also overall this was inspired by two songs, one being 2003 by Todrick and the other being I Choose You by Kiana Ledé which will be the title of the next part, so look out for that. i so so sosososo hope u enjoy, bc i highkey love this pairing a lot. lots of lo-ove, by-ee!

tw: implied child neglect and drug use

summary: Vanessa Mateo and Monique Heart start school in the year 2003. They love girlbands, superheroes and football, and they’re best friends forever. At least, that’s the plan.

***

The room smells of squeaky floors and play-dough. It’s not like anything she’s ever smelt before, but it’s weirdly comforting. She’s sat on a carpet patterned with all kinds of fruit. It doesn’t have pineapple (which is her favourite), but that’s okay. The walls are covered in colourful paper, an arts-and-crafts rainbow explosion. There’s words too, different curly and spiky shapes making letters. She knows one has a “V” in it because that comes at the start of her name and it looks the same, but she can’t read any of the writing yet. Some of the kids in nursery could already read and one of the boys could even write stories. Vanessa couldn’t. She still can’t, but that’s okay. She can write her name and say please and thank you in two different languages and she knows how to count up to 12 (she gets stuck after that, but she’ll learn the rest).

She looks around the carpet. There’s a girl nearby her with two huge black plaits and huge brown eyes to match. Her skin is dark, and Vanessa feels comforted by the fact she’s not alone in sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the Snow Whites and Cinderellas and Auroras and their matching porcelain-skinned Disney princes that are sitting on the carpet with her. She scratches her head, feeling the bow her Mama tied in dark her hair shift. She hopes she’s not made a mess of it. Then Mama would be mad.

Her teacher’s been talking for a while now. It seems like she’s been talking for two hours. Maybe she has been talking for two hours. Vanessa looks up at the clock, even though she doesn’t know how to tell the time yet so the information is less than useless to her. Bored, her eyes drift towards the girl she was looking at before. She’s wearing a white polo shirt and a red pinafore, and her white socks have got red bows on them. Vanessa is jealous. Her new jumper with the school logo is scratchy on the inside and she told her Mama that her leggings have a hole at the knee but they can’t get any new ones until she gets paid.

She bum-shuffles across to sit beside the girl, keeps her eyes trained on the teacher like a sniper as she leans in and whispers. “You look like a princess.”

The girl gives her a big smile. Vanessa knows she should say thank you, but maybe she doesn’t know as much about manners as Vanessa does. The girl whispers to her. “You look like Meg from Hercules.”

Vanessa smiles at her. She’s seen Hercules- it’s not her favourite, but she’s seen it- and Meg was her favourite character. “Thanks.”

“It’s okay,” she whispers. There’s a pause before she hisses to her again. “My name’s Monique, what’s yours?”

“I’m Vanessa,” she replies quietly. Vanessa picks at the hole in her leggings. It’s now about the size of a 1p coin. She knows about coins, at least. “Hey, you wanna play princesses at playtime?”

Monique nods excitedly, then whips her head around, scared. Vanessa looks up at her teacher. Her eyebrows are almost joined-up and there’s little lines on her forehead and her eyes have gone all hard. Vanessa knows this means she’s feeling cross.

“Vanessa, Monique! It’s rude to talk while someone else is talking. We don’t do that in school.”

Vanessa knows she should nod, but her stomach feels all fizzy and she finds herself frowning at her teacher instead. Monique says sorry. Maybe Vanessa should say sorry too. She decides she doesn’t want to.

“She’s been talking for about 5 hours. Maybe even 4 years,” Vanessa whispers to Monique again. Monique covers her mouth with her hands and lets out a tiny giggle. Their teacher gives them a suspicious look again and Monique shuffles away from Vanessa. Vanessa knows this means she doesn’t want to get into trouble. As soon as the teacher starts talking again, Vanessa hisses over to her.

“Monique!”

No answer. “Monique!”

Monique turns around a little bit to face her. “What?”

Vanessa cups her mouth with her hands so the girl can hear her. “Do you want to be best friends?”

Monique gives her another big smile. It makes Vanessa feel happy too. “Okay!”

She’s only been here for five hours, maybe even four years, and she’s already made a best friend. This school thing is easy.

***

It’s the two of them for life. Vanessa just knows it. They’re BFFAEAE (best friends forever and ever and ever). They get in trouble for chatting at school and their long-suffering teacher monitors them like a hawk. They’re banned from sitting near each other on the carpet because even when Vanessa tries to listen (even if it’s P.E., her favourite), she’ll think of something funny she just has to share with Monique, and of course Monique is incapable of laughing quietly so she lets out a screech that completely disrupts the whole lesson and earns them both five minutes off their reward time. Vanessa doesn’t even mind losing reward time. They sit at the same table while everyone else plays and they write out the class rules, but Vanessa doesn’t mind because it’s the only time they’ll ever be allowed to sit together in class.

In the playground and after school it’s a different story. In Reception they play princesses and animal rescue with their threadbare, well-loved stuffed animals they sneak into school in their schoolbags. By Year 1 they’re popstars learning dance routines and designing album covers and falling out because Monique wants to call their double-act The Strawberry Babies and Vanessa knows that obviously The Starlights is a far superior name. In the Summer between Year 1 and Year 2 Vanessa’s Mama takes them to the cinema to see Fantastic Four and so for the whole of Year 2 they’re obsessed with superheroes, rolling around on the tarmac play-fighting with each other and getting bruised knees and scraped elbows and so far removed from the girly girls they were when they started school.

Vanessa knows everything about Monique and Monique knows everything about her, because that’s what it means to be best friends. Vanessa knows that Monique’s brother is eleven and goes to Big School and doesn’t play with her and slams his door and plays rap music that Monique can hear when she’s in her room with the door closed. Monique stays in the high flats with her brother and her gran.

“Do you have a Mama?” Vanessa remembers asking her one day in the playground, drawing in the dirt with sticks.

Monique’s voice had been quiet. She hadn’t looked up from drawing in the dirt. “Uh-huh.”    

“Where is she?”

Monique had shrugged, scribbled out the happy face she’d drawn. “Gran says she’s not allowed to see us any more.”

Vanessa could tell talking about her Mama had made Monique sad, so they don’t talk about that any more. Dads are off the table too. Vanessa doesn’t know hers and Monique doesn’t either. Vanessa doesn’t really need a Dad. Her Mama works in the supermarket and keeps their tiny pebbledashed council house in the estate spotlessly clean and is always on time to pick Vanessa up from school. She drags Vanessa kicking and screaming to mass every Sunday (Vanessa doesn’t like it because all the chanting scares her) and threatens her with El Coco until she’s blue in the face. Monique goes to church too but hers sounds more fun- they laugh and clap and sing their hearts out. Monique sings the songs in school. Vanessa thinks she sounds like she could be in the Sugababes, not that she’s allowed to listen to the Sugababes.

Monique comes round to Vanessa’s house every few weeks or so. She lives close, and Monique is allowed to walk round on her own. Vanessa is jealous of that. She wishes her Mama would let her go places on her own. She tells her that one day and Mama howls with laughter, says she’s not allowed out on her own until she’s at least twenty-one. Vanessa thinks she’s joking. Thinks.

Vanessa gets excited when Monique visits because she knows her Mama will make an effort with the dinner. That’s unfair and disrespectful, she knows; Mama works hard to put food on the table, but her stuffed arepas are just better than rice and beans (and microwave meals if it’s near her pay day, which her Mama makes Vanessa promise she’ll never tell her Abuela they eat). They sit and eat with their bowls on their laps on the sofa in front of the TV and watch The Weakest Link. They sometimes get the questions right even though they’re only 7 and the people on the show are fully-grown adults. Monique is smart, though. Smarter than Vanessa. Vanessa thinks she’s smarter than their teacher. She’s the best at writing in the class and the best at maths too, and she can read any word at all.

Vanessa’s not that smart, but she knows Monique is, and she thinks she’s amazing.

It’s a grey-clouded day in July in the Summer of 2007 when Monique pulls up outside Vanessa’s house on a brand new bike. It’s blue and the seat is close to the ground and the spokes are all shiny. Vanessa runs out to see her, sticks her feet in between the bars of the rusty iron gate at the front of their house and swings back and forth as Monique talks.

“My brother got me it. Someone from the skatepark didn’t want it any more and it’s too small for him, so I guess it’s mine now,” Monique shrugs happily. There’s a smudge of dirt on her face that Vanessa knows her Mama will wipe off with a hot cloth if she sees it. “It’s kinda big for me but it works okay. You got a bike, right?”

Vanessa cringes, thinks about the pink bike with streamers at the handles that lives in their back garden and is probably crumbling away with rust. “I got one, but it ain’t as cool as yours.”

Monique smiles, satisfied with the compliment. “Well, go get it an’ we can go for a ride.”

Vanessa blushes and thinks of how many cool points she’s going to lose when she tells Monique that she has to ask her Mama first. Monique laughs at her good-humouredly, sticks her tongue out at her and calls her a baby. Monique turned 9 two months ago and Vanessa has to wait four more to catch up with her, so the comment stings but she pretends it doesn’t.

To her surprise and delight, her Mama lets her go out on her bike with Monique but only if they just go round the estate and they’re back before dinner time. Vanessa has never been able to follow the rules, though, so when Monique tells her she knows a place by the river under the bridge with a scrub of sand like it’s the seaside then Vanessa doesn’t hesitate to follow her. Vanessa wonders how Monique seems to know the city so well: she takes her on a journey through dark underpasses with yellow strip lights and bright scrawls of graffiti, narrow bridges above busy roads that Vanessa tries to pretend don’t scare her, secret little paths through the big park Vanessa goes to with her Mama sometimes. They pedal wildly and everything zooms by so quickly that even though she has no idea where she is, Vanessa feels safe. Any vaguely scary things they see (big dogs) are gone a second later, and Vanessa knows Monique would protect her if anything scary did happen. She would protect her too. That’s just what best friends do.

They arrive at the place Monique had been talking about. The brown stone bridge hangs high above them but Vanessa can still hear the cars on it pass by. They’re drowned out slightly by the babbling of the river, inky and cold and black with jaggy rocks underneath its surface. There’s huge clusters of boulders that they both have to climb over to get to the sand and they have to leave their bikes leaning against the wall on the path. It’s not a pretty place, but it’s still a little bit magical. It has the aura of adventure rather than beauty and they’d be more likely to discover pirates here than fairies, which is just how Vanessa likes it. Together they chuck stones into the water haphazardly, their hands growing more grubby by the minute and the dirt black under their nails.

“What’s that?” Vanessa narrows her eyes, reaches down to pick up the object she’s spotted. It’s embedded in the sand and she can’t really see what it is, but it looks like what she got her injections with at the doctor’s. Monique races over to see what she’s talking about and pushes her hand away quickly. Vanessa snaps. “Hey!”

“You’re not s'posed to touch that, it’s dangerous!” Monique cries, outraged. “What if you got stabbed?”

Vanessa snorts a laugh. “It’s ain’t a knife, M'nique, it’s only a stupid needle."

Then, almost as if Monique’s warning had been a dare, Vanessa picks it out the sand with her thumb and index finger, holds it by the plastic tube. Monique’s face falls. "Stop it, ‘Ness, that’s creepy.”

Vanessa laughs, starts making the needle float about while making spooky noises. Monique takes a step back, her face all panicked. Vanessa gives a giggle. Monique’s acting like a scaredy-cat; she does that sometimes and it’s funny to wind her up. She usually takes it well but she’s growing more distressed than she usually does. Her eyes are all wide and Vanessa stops playing the moment she sees tears start welling up in them. She immediately drops the needle into the river and crosses over to her, her trainers leaving huge Nike ticks in the sand.

“Hey, what’s the matter? I’m sorry,” she mumbles. She regrets joking around now, and Monique is wiping at her eyes and sniffing and smearing dirt across her face.

“They used to be all ‘round my house before we lived with Gran,” she sniffs. Vanessa gets a churning feeling in her tummy. She doesn’t really know what that means, but it makes her feel frightened just hearing about it. She can’t imagine how frightened Monique felt seeing them for real. Slipping the sleeves of her hoodie down over her hands, she gives Monique a hug, pats her back in the hope it’s comforting.

“I threw it in the river. Don’t worry. You don’t need to see it ever again,” Vanessa says. She’s not Monique, she doesn’t know what it’s like to have a sibling, but Monique is the closest thing to a sister she has and she wants to keep her safe. Monique is smiling at her when she steps out of the hug, and Vanessa feels relieved.

“An’ if it does come back we’ll just stab it before it can stab us first!” Monique jokes. It’s a silly joke but Vanessa still bursts out laughing.

“We’ll stab it with a stick!” she joins in, and soon the two girls are laughing and anything vaguely threatening has been forgotten about.

They end up cycling a lot that Summer, Monique showing Vanessa all sorts of hidden places all round the city. Vanessa never feels freer than when she’s racing around on dirt paths behind her best friend, and worries are a distant memory. Vanessa’s life is good and she has a lot of things to be thankful for but she knows she looks different and doesn’t fit in, she knows there’s a lot of things that the other kids have that she doesn’t, she knows that there are times when her Mama sits up at night time with her bills spilling out across the kitchen table and a calculator in her hand. Monique is a bright smile and a sense of adventure and she makes Vanessa feel happy.

They don’t go out on their bikes as much when they go back to school after the holidays. Year 4 flies by almost as quick as they used to cycle, as does Year 5. They don’t pretend as much in the playground anymore, preferring to run riot on the astroturf with the boys in their class and play football and get bruises on their shins from being tackled to within an inch of their life. Not much changes by Year 6; their last year of primary school when they should be responsible and conscientious and yet they’re still getting in trouble for giggling in class and playing pranks on the other kids and whispering swear words in Spanish (that one is Vanessa’s fault).

They’ve only got a month left of primary school and Vanessa’s allowed to walk home with Monique now as long as she keeps her phone on loud and texts her Mama to tell her if they’re stopping by the park or the snack van. Today is one of those days. They’re sat underneath the huge cherry blossom tree at the park; Vanessa wants to climb it but Monique’s saying that’s too babyish. They’re too old for that now, so they’re bluetoothing each other Tinchy Stryder and N-Dubz songs and blaring them at full volume out of their tinny phone speakers instead. Vanessa’s about to show Monique a parody somebody’s made of You’re Beautiful by James Blunt when Monique breaks the not-quite-silence.

“You gotta crush on anyone?”

Vanessa wrinkles her face up, snorts a laugh. “Ew! Nah. All the boys in our class are gross. I ain’t ever had a crush on any of ‘em.”

Monique gives a quiet laugh. “Me neither. They all use that Lynx Africa like it’s gonna cover up their B.O.”

Vanessa lets out a howl of laughter. She wasn’t lying to Monique; she doesn’t have a crush on anyone. If she thinks about it, she’s never really had a crush on any of the boys in her class. It’s just not something she thinks about. She cares more about her best friend than she’d ever care about any boy.

Their laughter dies down, and Vanessa gets a knot in her stomach. It happens every so often when she thinks about high school. Their class went up to see the school last week and it felt like such a terrifying maze of identical-looking corridors and crowds of kids so old they looked to be mini adults. Their teacher had told them to write down three friends they wanted to be in the same form class as, even though she said she couldn’t guarantee they’d get to stay together. Vanessa had written only one name on her form- Monique Heart - in her curly, barely-legible handwriting, the “i”s dotted with hearts. It’s been on her mind ever since, though. They’ve been together since Reception, Monique is all Vanessa knows. She wouldn’t begin to know how to make any other friends. She doesn’t want any other friends.

“M’nique,” Vanessa says, and the other girl looks up. “What happens if we ain’t in the same form class next year?”

Monique gives a small, humoured laugh. “Well then we ain’t in the same form class.”

Vanessa rolls her eyes and shoves her. “Duh, idiot! I mean like…with us. We still gon’ be best friends?”

Monique laughs dismissively, shakes her head at her. “Now who’s being the idiot?”

“I’m serious!” Vanessa objects, annoyed that Monique’s still got her eyebrows raised at her like she’s a little kid. She’s going to be 12 in October; it’s not like she’s a baby. “What if you find other cool girls to hang out with? What if you get a new best friend? What am I gonna do?”

“You’re gonna do nothing, cuz that ain’t gonna happen,” Monique insists. Her face lights up as she gets an idea, jabs a finger against the tree trunk. “Okay. If I carve our initials into this tree, it’ll be like a promise. That we’re always gonna be best friends. I don’t want to hang out with cool girls. It’s fun just me an’ you.”

Vanessa smiles, her heart feeling all warm at the reassurance. Monique rummages around in her bag and produces her keys, starts stabbing at the bark of the tree relentlessly. Vanessa flinches a little, part of the reaction a residual memory from watching Pocahontas too much when she was really little; she used to believe that trees could feel things like humans. She shares the memory with Monique who doesn’t laugh at her, even though she probably has every right to.

“Well humans feel things an’ they get tattoos. So this is like a tattoo for a tree,” she shrugs. She’s chipped a big capital M in the bumpy bark so far and is starting on an H.

“Hey, you think we should get matching tattoos when we’re grown ups?” Vanessa suggests, the idea exciting her. Monique frowns as she drags her key over the wood.

“Don’t they use needles for that?”

Vanessa regrets the idea as soon as Monique says it; she’d forgotten about her friend’s fear. She decides to commit to the idea. “They do, but they’re all clean an’ safe. An’ you wouldn’t have to be scared cuz I’d go with you.”

Monique nods as she starts on Vanessa’s name. “I never feel scared when I’m with you. Except when Mrs Del Rio yells at us.”

“She’s a big baby. She just hates us cuz we would be better teachers than her,” Vanessa shrugs. It’s true.

“Well, what tattoo are we gonna get? We need to decide now so we can start saving up for it,” Monique questions her. Vanessa scoffs.

“How much do you think a tattoo costs? It’s like ten pounds, God!"

It’s Monique’s turn to laugh. "Nah, it’s way more than that! My brother’s got one and his cost a hundred and fifty.”

Vanessa lets out an outraged screech. “That’s a damn lie! You’re gonna go to the bad fire if you keep tellin’ lies like that.”

“An’ you’re gonna go to the bad fire cuz you just cussed.”

“Well, see you down there,” Vanessa shrugs. She considers Monique’s question. “What about we get BFFs in cool writing?”

Monique nods enthusiastically. “Yeah! With a heart maybe.”

“Yeah!” Vanessa agrees, excited about the prospect of their matching tattoos. She Googles “when can i get a tatoo” (spelling’s never been her strong suit) and lets out a groan at what she reads. “Ugh. We have to wait seven whole years.”

“You have to wait seven years, I only have to wait six!” Monique boasts, Vanessa sighing. She hates being one of the youngest in the class. She doesn’t have time to feel down for long though, as Monique shows her her handiwork with a flourish; MH + VM, scratched into the tree forever. “There! Best friends forever.”

Vanessa feels as if her smile is going to break her face. It feels like her body is made of the sun’s rays. When Monique says that, high school doesn’t seem so scary any more.

“Where we gonna get these tattoos anyway?” Monique speaks again. Vanessa’s smile turns wicked and she can barely get her thoughts out without laughing.

“Imagine we get them on our butt!”

Vanessa thinks Monique’s Gran might be able to her them screeching with laughter from the top floor of her tower block.

***

Things change though, despite the promise they make. Monique doesn’t think either of them mean to break it but life gets in the way and God has other plans. It’s what she believes at least.

Though she doesn’t know what his plan was for separating her from her best friend. Monique cries for forty-five solid minutes when she receives the letter telling her what form class she’s in; she knows it’s different to Vanessa’s. Her Gran holds her tight and rocks her against her chest on the sofa while her brother yells at her to shut up and slams his bedroom door. Her Gran is full of comforting words: you’re a strong girl, and you’ve been through worse in your life than this, and this isn’t going to change a single thing, hush now. But it is going to change things. When she’s with Vanessa, Monique feels like she can take on the world. She brings out her confident side when she feels shy, matches every shriek with a screech, takes her mind off the fact that she lives in a shoebox fourteen storeys high in the air where the elevator doesn’t work and the stairwell smells like piss. She can’t imagine starting high school without her. She doesn’t want to imagine it.

Monique batters out of the flat despite her Gran shouting after her, dashes down the stairs like her life depends on it. Her heart feels ready to give out when she reaches the lobby and bursts out into the open air but she still unchains her bike from the rack outside, pedals madly to Vanessa’s house. The bike is too small for her now and it’s uncomfortable to ride but it’s all she has to get her to the person that matters most. She reaches the house and Vanessa’s Mama lets her in, and Monique takes the stairs up to Vanessa’s bedroom two at a time where they hold each other tight and bundle up in Vanessa’s duvet and sob and sob and sob.

But looking back, Monique knows she’d been a little dramatic that day. Not being in the same form class as Vanessa really is not the end of the world. They walk there together on their first day and give each other a tight, nervous hug before they each head to their own form rooms. Monique pushes down on the doorhandle and anxiety fills her body as she walks in, freezes at the doorframe. There’s about twenty other kids already in the room and the whole scene is a bit chaotic. There are two boys chucking a ball to each other across the classroom, some girls with hair in high ponytails screeching and playing Katy Perry out of their phone speakers. Even though Monique has sat through countless interviews with social workers, child psychologists and police officers, this is one of the scariest experiences of her life.

“Hey. You wanna sit with us?”

Monique’s eyes fall on a table of girls with skin just like hers and hair to match. Monique instantly feels 80% more reassured; she’s never seen a classroom with a colour palette like this in her life. She and Vanessa had been the only two girls in their year at primary whose skin colour had deviated from the sea of pink or almost-translucent. There’s one girl who fits that mold at the table with the others, and Monique thinks it’s funny that she’s got pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes and still happens to be the odd one out.

The girls take her under their wing that first day, and the next, and the next. They’ve all gone to a different primary school from Monique and so are already closer than close, but they never make her feel like an outsider. Asia with the sleek, black hair that tumbles down her back has a sweet smile and explains all the in-jokes that Monique doesn’t understand. Antonia, the girl who invited Monique to sit with them, has an intimidating face and a skinny frame but a kind heart and always shares her snack and pens with her. Roberta- Bob- has a huge untameable afro and personality to match, and her cousin Monét isn’t dissimilar apart from the fact that her hair is wavy and caramel instead of jet black and curly. They bicker with each other and gossip about their teachers and make Monique laugh when she’s down. And Brianna is kind and caring and is always able to put a smile on Monique’s face.

Before long, it seems like Monique has made five new friends without even having to try. She wishes she could say she’s friends with Vanessa like she always used to be, but that would be lying.

Because Vanessa’s made friends too. They’re the girls Monique’s Gran always warned her about- friends with the devil and they’ll lead you on a path straight to him. Akeria and Silky make a reputation for themselves at high school within a week of the year beginning. They mess about in class, text during lessons, Silky starts fights with other girls in the corridors that her victims never have the balls to finish. Akeria flirts with the boys and the rumours say she’s had her first kiss already. They backchat teachers and keep cans of spray paint in their bags and walk along the train tracks to the depot after school to spray their wobbly initials on the side of freight trains.

But despite the fact they don’t hang out as much in person any more, that doesn’t diminish the light that Monique keeps burning in her heart for Vanessa. They bump into each other in corridors and chat excitedly in the five minutes they have between lessons, smile and wave at each other from across the lunch hall, and they still text each other and walk there and back from school together. Well, until just after the start of Year 8. Vanessa starts getting a lift from Akeria’s Mum in the mornings and hanging out at the shopping centre with her and Silky after school. It’s not her fault, and Monique supposes she’s no better- Monét lives on Monique’s route to school so the two of them start walking together instead, and after school the girls often go to the chicken shop in town and shovel down wings to make up for the disgusting school lunches.

By her second year of high school it’s almost like Monique has a new best friend.

But she doesn’t want to think like that, so she’s overjoyed when it gets to the start of Summer, just before the last term of their second year ends, and Vanessa’s texts change from general small-talk chit-chat to an invitation to have a sleepover at her house at the weekend. Monique feels embarrassing levels of excitement as she texts back confirming she’ll be there.

M: Are your other friends gonna be there??

V: nah just me n u

And it is just her and Vanessa. It’s a gorgeously sunny day and Vanessa’s Mama puts up a tent in the garden that they can camp out in. It’s nice to be back with her, talking and giggling and laughing about stupid stuff. Vanessa laughs uproariously as she tells Monique about Silky and Akeria’s latest exploits and Monique listens nervously, anxious just hearing about them.

“Do you join in when they do stuff like that?” Monique asks her, after a story about how Silky signed her name in the same Sharpie she does her eyebrows with on a toilet cubicle door and got detention. Vanessa shakes her head, smiles bashfully.

“Nah. I tell ‘em it’s good to keep someone onside in case we get into trouble. The teachers’ll let us away with more if they like one of us. 'Least that’s my excuse,” she explains. Monique smiles, reassured.

“I didn’t think you were like them,” she says, relieved. She thinks Vanessa narrows her eyes at her, but she blinks and her expression has changed. Vanessa’s started wearing makeup and it suits her, even though her foundation is maybe a little off-colour. The mascara she’s swept onto her lashes opens up her eyes a little more and lets Monique see the twinkle that seems to be permanently shining in them.

She is so pretty, and Monique wishes she could look like her.

They talk as if nothing has changed over dinner, various barbecued meats grilled on a disposable barbecue Vanessa’s Mama got from her work. Monique has never had a barbecue before and she decides that burgers charred to within an inch of their lives are the best thing she’s ever eaten. They make smores from chocolate digestives and marshmallows for dessert and Monique howls with laughter as the chocolate and marshmallow melt down half Vanessa’s hand and she licks it off as her Mama rolls her eyes, goes to find her a hot cloth and mutters in Spanish that Monique doesn’t understand but knows is long-suffering. She has almost forgotten the way Vanessa can make her belly laugh just by acting the fool. Monique has spent two whole years not even knowing how much she’s missed her friend, too distracted by her new ones.

When it’s time to go to sleep they both cosy up under Vanessa’s duvet that’s been dragged outside and a sleeping bag each under that. Every available pillow and cushion in the house has been utilised in lieu of a blow-up mattress but the set-up is still comfortable, even though it’s pitch-black both in the tent and outside. It might be the end of June but it’s still cold once the sun goes down, and Vanessa has shuffled up near to Monique in a bid to try and keep warm. Vanessa being so close makes Monique feel warm on the inside as well as the outside.

“Hey, you know that rumour about Akeria kissing Dean from Year 9?” Monique pipes up, interested. “Is that true?”

Vanessa rolls onto her tummy to face Monique, and her eyes are sparkling with mischief even in the dark. It makes Monique’s stomach do a flip. “Yeah. They did it at the food court after school one day. You wanna know what else?”

Vanessa’s face is so full of glee that Monique can’t help but nod in anticipation. She’s almost in fits of laughter as she tries to get the secret out. “He tried to get her to touch his…you know!”

Monique lets out a screech that is equal parts horrified and amused as Vanessa dissolves into giggles too. “GROSS! Did she do it?”

“Ew! What do you think? Of course she didn’t. That shit’s nasty.”

There’s a pause in which Vanessa lets out a few more giggles. Monique doesn’t. She’s silent. She’s thinking.

“I wonder what it’s like.”

Vanessa’s voice is loud in the silence of the night. “What? Touching a boy’s-”

“No, idiot!” Monique laughs, explaining herself. “Kissing someone. Wonder if it’s as nice as people say it is.”

Vanessa falls quiet as well. Monique wonders what she’s thinking. She decides to break the silence. “You ever kissed a boy?”

Vanessa lets out a snort. “Come on, M’nique, you know I ain’t.”

“No I don’t!” Monique protests, her voice dropping to a murmur as she feels herself pout while she speaks. “I feel like I don’t know anything about you anymore.”

They both fall silent, and there’s a shift in the atmosphere that Monique can’t quite put her finger on. Vanessa lets out a sudden giggle.

“What?” Monique asks awkwardly, unsure if she’s meant to be in on the joke or the butt of it.

Vanessa’s face is scheming. She laughs a little, buries her face in her pillow before she speaks. “You know we could practise?”

Monique is slow on the uptake at first. “Practise? Practise what?”

She realises as Vanessa lifts her head and gives another giggle. Monique lets out a screech, takes the pillow from underneath her head and thumps her friend with it. “Ew, Vanessa! Ew, ew, ew! You’re so weird!”

“Oh, c’mon! I don’t wanna go kiss a boy and then be really bad at it, then he’s tell his friends and they’d tell their friends and then the whole school would think I’m shit!” Vanessa insists. Monique’s heart gives a very loud thud as Vanessa inches her face close to Monique. She’s not taken her makeup off and her mascara is all smudged around her eyes like makeshift eyeliner. She looks really pretty.

Monique shoves her away back onto the pillows. “I ain’t doin’ that shit with you! Ask Akeria since she’s so experienced.”

“But I don’t wanna practise with Kiki! I wanna practise with you!” Vanessa says matter-of-factly. Monique’s stomach gives another churn. Something is different, something has changed. Monique isn’t sure what it is or what to make of it.

“Well, tough shit. We ain’t…practising,” Monique huffs, turning her back to Vanessa and letting her eyes burn holes in the flimsy tent walls.

Vanessa’s voice comes from her side of the tent. “Fine! But if they call you…shit, I don’t know…Washing-Machine Mouth Monique…don’t say I never warned you!”

Monique lets out another huff, squeezes her eyes shut and wills herself to sleep. She feels weird. Her heart is going too fast and her stomach feels fizzy and it takes her a moment to realise her face has gone all hot.

“M’nique?” Vanessa’s voice comes from the darkness. She ignores it. “You mad at me?”

She sighs, rolls her eyes even though she knows Vanessa can’t see. “No.”

“Okay,” Vanessa says. Her voice is soft, and she rolls over onto her side. She rests her head against Monique’s back and puts an arm around her. They hug all the time, but this one feels different. It’s nice, though, and Monique feels warm and safe. “I’m sorry we haven’t hung out much. You know. Like we did in primary.”

“I’m sorry too,” Monique sighs, bringing a hand up to pat Vanessa on the arm. She ends up simply leaving it there.

“Hey, we should hang out more in the Summer! You know you can always come round to mine,” Vanessa continues.

“Yeah, that sounds nice,” Monique murmurs, letting out a heavy sigh. She’s not lying- it would be nice. She knows she could never have friends back to her flat because they don’t have the space and besides, most of them wouldn’t even want to set foot in the high rise anyway. Monét’s parents are doctors and Asia’s Dad is a barrister and her Mum is a lawyer, and Bob’s parents work in something accountant-y, and they all live in big houses with sweeping paved driveways and garages and gardens the size of the Emirates stadium. Granted Antonia’s Mum and Dad both work two jobs to pay the rent and Brianna’s Dad is a dustbin man while her Mum stays at home to look after her baby sister, but at least their families are happy ones. Monique has never known the luxury of a fancy house or a private garden or a car or a perfect, cookie-cutter family. She wonders if she ever will.

She’s pulled out of her thoughts by Vanessa giving her a gentle squeeze, cuddling closer. She didn’t think it would be possible but she somehow manages it, and Monique isn’t complaining. “G'night, M'nique.”

Monique is too tired to think any more. Vanessa’s arms feel comforting around her, and she chooses to settle in them. “Night, 'Ness.”

[birthdaykeesha]

Big Brother Tumblr Tag Game

Tagged by @vanessacries 😘

About You (feel free to not answer all of these if you aren’t comfortable doing so)

1. Name or nickname? justine

2. Age/Age Group? 24

3. Zodiac Sign? pisces!

4. Favorite Color? yellow

5. Favorite Animal? pug dogs!

6. First Season of BB you remember watching? bb14

7. Would you ever want to go on BB, if so, what type of player would you be? i would be horrible at bb physical comps (following in queen bb12kathy’s footsteps) so i would not want to be on the show to avoid embarrassment 💕 but if i happened to be on the show i would just play up being a bimbo so people wouldn’t think i’m a threat lol

8. Are there other CBS shows you’d want to go on, and if so, why? i don’t watch any other cbs shows, i do want to get into survivor tho!!!

9. What other Reality shows do you watch? project runway, rupaul’s drag race, ummmm i am blanking rn but i am a whore for reality tv

10. All time favorite houseguest? bbcan ika wong!!!

About the Show

1. What is your all time Favorite twist? ika getting to shred the letters from home for a fat check!!!! (basically i like twists that reward the houseguests but do not have a huge effect on the game itself)

2. What is a twist that you like, but kind of flopped? i did not like this twist but i just want to shit talk the teams twist i hate the teams twist so!!!! damn!!!! much!!! 

3. If you were the new Grodner and had to remake the show, what would you keep the same? um the show can keep it’s name ❤️

4. What would you change? i would stop casting the machismo male archetype IMMEDIATELY. i would also make sure the cast was actually diverse, maybe one token straight white person, as a treat 

5. What’s your all time favorite comp? pressure cooker hello!!!!

6. What’s your all time favorite competition? i also like the how bad do you want it comp 

7. All time favorite punishment? getting to watch paulie cry while making pies 

8. If you could bring any houseguest back to be in the house (not to play the game) who would it be and why? omg da’vonne again in the future, she always brings us good tv!!!! she can get a check without having to deal with uglies playing the game

9. If you could bring any houseguest back to play, who would it be? CHIMA WE LOVE YOUUU

10. What is your most memorable episode? omg when josh beat paul that was legendary and so unexpected

11. If you could have any reality star from any other show on BB who would it be? nene leakes!!!

12. What’s your favorite BB series outside of normal BBUS (normal BBUS does not include CBBUS or BBOTT) bbcan5 was immaculate

13. Favorite Julie Chen sign off? when she didn’t say moonves 

14. Is there anything from old BB that you would bring back, why or why not, and if yes, what would it be? omg the luxury comps!!! they forced people who didn’t like each other to work together so they were entertaining 

15. If you were in the BB house and you won HoH what album would be in your HoH basket and who would you want to receive a letter from? beyoncé’s critically acclaimed homecoming: the live album!!!! i would get hate mail from my dogs 💖

16. Favorite Alliance? the coven!!!!

17. Funniest BB moment? keesha’s birthday is going down in history!!!!

18. Favorite first boot? jodi 😔

19. Least favorite houseguest? too many!!! any bigoted white person (unfortunately there are too many to name)

20. Favorite BB couple? me and kaysar!!!😍

This or That

1. Old School BB or New School BB? old school!!!!!

2. Julia or Liz Nolan? fellow austin hater julia

3. Vaness Rousso or Jun Song? jun song

4. Cody Calafiore or Cody Nickson? ugh chuck e cheese is less of an asshole so him i guess

5. Swaggy or Bayleigh? BAYLEIGH WE LOVE YOUUU

6. Janelle or Kaysar? KAYSAR WE LOVE YOUUU

7. Orwell or the rubber duck? orwell 

8. Hacker twist or Pandora’s Box? pandora’s box

9. Nicole A or Nicole F? nicole a if i must

10. Dan or Will? dan

11. Bathroom with Bathroom sand (BB18) or The Fidget Spinner Wall (BB20)? we will never have interior design as iconic as bathroom sand!!!!

12. The Hive or The Spy Grils? the hive were dumb as hell but i love them so much

13. PB&J or Slop? pb&j

14. Nerdy Guy archetype or Quirky Girl archetype? quirky girl 😗

15. The cursed liztin gif or the Maven (BB19) cum rag? jfhbdhf the cursed liztin gif because it’s not a health hazard (except to my eyeballs)

Tag Questions

1. First Season you blogged? bb16 technically but i only liked and reblogged things from my personal blog. this is my first year being active in the tag!!! (horrible timing i know)

2. Favorite season to blog? bbcan5!!!!

3. Favorite Bloggers? omg kind of a copout but everyone i follow i love!!! i always have the goofiest smile when i’m scrolling through my dash cause everyone is so funny 💕

4. Favorite tag cryptid (i.e. djmrod, the confession accounts, the bayler stan account, stella) stella we miss you!!!

5. Build an ideal alliance with people from the tag: @transpokenerd @kaysarsupremacy hey besties 😘

6. Favorite content creator (gifs, videos, posts)? omg i love all the content creators!!!! i am especially impressed when they gif live feed clips cause i know it’s hard to make that shitty quality look nice AND THEY ALWAYS COME THROUGH

7. Person in the tag that you like but are too nervous to talk to? um never nervous to tell @bathroom-sand that she is the queen of the tag!!!

8. Have you played in any tag games (like bbdiscords, orgs, etc.,) if so what was your favorite experience? omg i love bbsims and i’ve been in one (1) discord but it was very fun!!! just a lot of typing fkkffk

9. Favorite gate? petgate is always so cute and wholesome!!!

10. What opinions do you have that you feel would be unpopular in the tag?most times i agree with that tag tbh!! ummmm i don’t really care for the random draw in veto??? i think everyone should play in veto or the hoh and the two players on the block can all have houseguests choice 

11. Have you thirst followed anyone after a selfiesgate? ya 

12. Whose someone in the tag that has stopped blogging bb that you miss? stella bird blog come back!!!

13. Favorite holiday people have called Christmas? national hit and run day 

14. If you could steal any url whose would it be? omg the keesha url

15. Favorite tag meme? (i.e. Paul;s mistake, victim noises, claling chr*stmas anything but her name, etc.,) PAUL’S MISTAKE PT II DESERVES TO GO #1 ON BILLBOARD!!!!!

Tag 3-5 people (or more or less)

I tag @transpokenerd @kaysarsupremacy @yeetusweenus @bathroom-sand @whats-bb22

and anyone else who wants to participate!!!!😊

[moldy-mold]

Diary Post: My Thoughts and Processes on Making “Silent Strength” It’s lengthy, taking place over long period of time. Mainly written for my future-self to remember what I went through, but also for anyone who is curious. Now that the project is over, I can post without reservations. There are certain things I need to keep secret though, so if I’m vague I do so intentionally!

Basically, a lot of number-crunching, physical labor, and psychological labor.

It started off as kind of a joke tweet I made. I had enough content to make a Tales Of art book and people were receptive to it. So… I thought maybe I could go somewhere with this. A few weeks later, I suddenly had a lot of Kratos art. Like. 80% of all my Tales art was Kratos. It didn’t make sense to make a broad Tales Of book when really most of it was Kratos.

I hadn’t made a book since I was in college despite it being one of my favorite things to do. They were never art books, just some editorial design projects that totally didn’t count. This book… would be my first-ever art book.

Several times, I came close to having enough art to print a book - the last time was my large collection of Yusuke Kitagawa, but the quality wasn’t where I wanted.  At that time, I was still experimenting with my iPad Pro and figuring out Procreate, so that was what I used him for.

NGL, I was pretty afraid of looking like a clown. After doing all this work, what if no one actually buys it? I was talking to some friends and they said they would buy it. It was enough for me. In the end, I’m creating something that I love. - The first thing I really wanted to work on was the cover. It needed to be epic but also mysterious (lol)… It was a good time to practice lighting and backgrounds. The cover had to be freaking Fantastic. I spent 3 days drawing nonstop. I was on vacation so I could spend full days just drawing. It was really intense. I would stop in the evenings to go for a run or else my legs would never get circulation again.

The hardest part was keeping it secret. I wanted to share it with the world right away bc I was so proud of it. Well, all I could do was show it to my parents and some close friends. They didn’t know who Kratos is, but it was obvious I was crazy about him.

Initially, I was doing some hand-lettering for the zine title instead of using a typeface. Tbh, I was so sure I was naming this zine “Blame Your Fate!” bc that is such an iconic line. But it just didn’t work with my cover, which looked… a little too serene for that. So… Silent Strength or Divine Strength? I asked around and got my answer.

But what size? All of my art has been on letter canvases. I wanted it to be large so you could see the details in the art. I’ll just start with that. - Luckily, I had all my Kratos-related art in one place. I started my InDesign file and threw everything in there just to see what it looked like. Man, I draw a lot of boxes… But I didn’t want them all next to each other. I also wanted to kinda organize it by the people Kratos hangs out with. There’s a Yuan section LOL… and a Lloyd section… and an Anna section. Idk, I tried to get some kind of order in there with a sprinkling of full spreads here and there to keep it fresh and interesting for the eyes.

I hadn’t worked with InDesign on such an intense level since college. I forgot all of the tips and tricks we learned in class. Spent some time reading on how to do things again… like adding page numbers. - I started drafting my pre-order form. It’s my first time making a google form like this. It’s kind of fun? I spent a long time on it, despite how simple it was. This was going to be my “Store” so it had to look and sound good. - My friend introduced me to charm-making. It seemed easy enough, and I wanted to give my zine more oomph. Besides, I’ve always wanted to make a charm.

I remember someone saying they’d buy a book of just the 4 Seraphim if it existed. I like them too and they lack art imo. In the end, I decided to do a polaroid charm. It’s not really that unique but I wanted Kratos to have actual friends to hang out with for once LOL.

She was going to do a group order to try to reduce the costs. I thought maybe 4 weeks would give me enough time. In the end she said I only have 2. I work well under pressure, so needless to say, I did make that deadline. I actually sketched the whole thing on the plane headed home. - After playing the game the second time, watching the OVA again, and reading “Offerings to a Star,” I have gained a real soft spot for Yuan.  My friend once said, “If you weren’t stolen away by Kratos, you would be in love with Yuan.” Lol. I’ve been in a “Kratos and Yuan hanging out” mood lately, so of course I needed something good for the zine. They’re so cute together! Now… what is the bro-est thing I can draw?

I was currently in Florida for my friend’s wedding. I was friends with the groom and his best man since high school, so that makes it 10 years now. Seeing how they’re still friends after all this time, despite living in opposite sides of the country, was really moving to me. Of course, me being me, I could see Kratos and Yuan’s long friendship being similar to this, if they had gone to school together. I just had to draw it. - When I got back from vacation, I did some research on zine sizes. Mine was HUGE compared to others. I just didn’t quite realize it until I held a magazine in my hands. It really is huge…

I settled for a medium size. 7x9. I really liked how it looked. Petite but not too petite. Unfortunately resizing my book had messed up my artwork placement so I spent hours rearranging all the text and resizing my images. I found out afterwards that there’s a way to retain the format while changing the document size. Gee, that would have been helpful 4 hours ago.

Sadly, choosing a custom size booklet makes printing more expensive. But I wanted it badly enough that I’d be willing to pay for it. Letter size is just too large… - I decided to stop dragging my feet and post a promo. I just really needed a deadline for myself to get this all done before July ended. I’m happy it was well-received. A lot of people like Kratos huh…

Anyway, the pre-order is due in a week and I still don’t know what all the costs are yet. I need a physical proof ASAP to weigh at the post office! - Something possessed me one day to do another drawing. I don’t usually do painterly style (mainly because it’s really difficult and takes 10x longer) but I just REALLY wanted to push myself on this Final Piece to the zine. I wanted it to be… radiant. Almost religious. I worked on it obsessively. From breakfast to sundown. The only time I would stop was at 7pm to go running or else my legs would give out on me.

Call me crazy, but I would save my progress on my phone so I could examine it for errors during my warmup. I also spend an hour examining it for errors before going to bed. It’s a miracle I hadn’t dreamt of the painting. - I sent my files in on Sunday in hopes that they start working on it first thing on Monday…. and it HAPPENED! They finished before I even woke up. I think they start work at like 6am…

Of course, I drove over there as soon as I heard so I can get a look. “Please… please let the colors be okay,” I prayed as I was driving. I barely remember driving there, I was so lost in thought. It would be another long ordeal if I had to fix all the colors.

Thank the stars. The press proof looked BEAUTIFUL!! I was screaming to the client coordinator how much I loved it. I mean, I worried for a looooong time that everything would turn out too dark (it usually does) but it was PERFECT. I was especially worried about the cover, which contained a lot of yellow and I def did not want it to come out mustardy… But it was great in the end!

The press operator is a quiet man. He’s got a scary face and never smiles but I think he’s secretly nice. He has done a lot of favors for me in the past without my asking. He was the one to print, bind, and trim the book for me. Obviously he had to have seen what I was drawing. I wonder what he thought of it…? He walked away before I could express how happy and thankful was. He didn’t need to hear it. It was like he already knew. So cool…

I immediately took it to the post office to weigh it. I needed as much info as I could get and plus, I was dying to know for myself. This is the week I was supposed to open pre-orders and there was still a lot I needed to do. Take pictures, create mockups, pricing, etc.

NGL, all of these costs were building up fast. It was so darn expensive to make a zine while also keeping prices down. But I wanted so much more for my baby. Extra glossy cover, perfect binding!! I knew by the end of this, I probably wouldn’t make much money. It hurt a little, but I tried to think that it was for the greater good. Learning experience and all that. And creating something beautiful. Especially something beautiful of Kratos. - Pricing was really the hardest part. I pretty much threw profit out the window. However, I definitely did not want to be losing money. My dad and I had worked together to create a spreadsheet of expenses to make sure my head was above water. I followed it… loosely.

My friend came to talk to me at the right moment. I was sort of panicking at the prices. She made me realize I was thinking way too hard about it and gave me some tips based on her own experience. It really put my mind at ease talking to someone who understands my woes.

The truth of the matter is, the book is wonderfully made and has a lot of pages - countless hours of drawing. There is only so much I can do about pricing. It is what it is… I just needed to come to terms with my own worth. - Boy, what am I going to do once the zine is done? My friend says that I’ll be so over Kratos that I’ll stop drawing him (but the love remains). It’s like… all of the intense planning, working, struggling nonstop will just suddenly… stop. TBH, I’m running out of ideas. I spent it all on the zine. - Photoshoot today. I had to paint my nails purple for this occasion. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the look I wanted in the apartment. It’s just so naked without props. I think I’ll take it to a cafe for some nicer backgrounds. I talked it over with my friend and decided to do a quick flip-through of the zine as a promotional video. I used the most professional video program I had on hand… Snapchat. It actually turned out pretty legit and of course I slapped stickers on there because it’s Snapchat.

I had to tape/hide some of the pages for the video because I wasn’t actually done with the drawings. I had the printers print it anyway so I could examine it for color accuracy.

I’m really stressed about pricing now. It turns out I had a lot more international fans than I anticipated. I wish I took notes on interest earlier in the game to cater to them. I had a list of “possible buyers�� and I only just now decided to check where they live? Foolish.

I did another cost analysis on paper to figure out what my goal was to make up for the charms. Right now they’ve cost me a fortune for something that was supposed to be giveaway. Other things that rack up are packaging costs, PayPal fees, and some other supplies I needed for this project.

Maybe I shouldn’t have made it 40 pages. It is an impressive number, but no one is really paying for quantity. I think 25 is a better number lol. If I had done that, I could have had my super-gloss cover like I wanted. :’(

There is hope though. And I’ve placed it in the hands of my followers to come through for me. I think I’ll open pre-orders on Saturday or Sunday, depending on what I finish. - “Losing your cool will only lead to poor decisions.” 
Thanks, Kratos twitter bot. You always know what to say.

I read this post today on what makes people buy zines. Very interesting!
 https://twitter.com/andythelemon_/status/1141469048653398019 - Photoshoot part 2 today. My friend and I went to a cafe nearby that had some nice atmosphere in hopes of finding the right shots. I brought all of my Kratos merch just in case. I’m glad I did though, since the tables were pretty sparse and it was difficult to capture the backgrounds without getting a bunch of random people in it too.

I would have been the photographer, but I definitely wanted my hands in the shots. In a way, it was meaningful - to show that this was made by my own two hands. Plus, I wanted to depict natural interaction with the product. It made it feel real.

The photos were cute! I feared it would look a little amateurish with all the merch in there, but I think fun was what I was really going for, not “professional.” And plus the flip-through was a Snap anyway LOL. As long as the photos have good lighting and tasteful composition, you really can’t go wrong with “fun.”

Now that I’ve finished editing my photos, there really isn’t anything holding me back from opening pre-orders. I’ve pretty much come to terms with my pricing. If I fail to break even, I’ll just have to open commissions to try to make up for it. I was telling my friend on the way home, “I gave this zine EVERYTHING I had to give. So at the very least, I won’t be disappointed in myself.” No stone left unturned, no detail left unchecked. It was perfect according to my standards. I really love my zine okay?!

I thought I was crazy for not only choosing a small fandom, I narrowed it down even further by picking ONE GUY to make this zine about. She replied, “Even if it’s small, those people who love him now must be EXTREMELY LOYAL to still be in love with a character from a 15-year-old game. All of them will want your zine.” - I went to bed that night with the intention of making the pre-order post live in the morning. I was so nervous I couldn’t sleep. I was wide awake until at least 5 or 6 am. Luckily, I was able to doze off for a an hour or two before I would shake myself awake again. It was a mixture of anxiety and excitement. It was the moment of truth - to see if all my effort made a difference. Was it going to sell? - The pre-order post looked really freaking good. I’ll give it that. I even made a YT account just to post that darn preview video on tumblr lol. It was definitely fun seeing everyone’s excitement and we all just freaked out together.

I broke even! That’s what really matters. Honestly at this point, I couldn’t care less if I made profit or not. I now know how much people really like the zine and that alone made me so happy I could die.

I was particularly fascinated at Google Form’s ability to transfer all the data collected into a spreadsheet. That is extremely helpful. I spent hours organizing the data. It was really fun…?! Now I can tell who gets invoiced and who paid and separate them into categories. IT’S FANTASTIC!

Stayed up late researching how much adding tracking could be. I had a slight panic attack thinking “what if my books got lost in transit?” It would really hurt me to have to reprint books and ship them again. And then I realized I will need to fill out customs forms for all international orders. Yikes, I’m gonna be living at the post office lol. You can print them out at home if you fill out the form online but there are still some things I’m uncertain about. I may visit the post office later this week to ask all my questions. - This morning I sent out everyone’s invoices. I gave the international people the option to purchase tracking. It’s expensive… but I need to provide that option just in case.

I received a nice message from someone who offered to advertise for me on Instagram. Of course, I gave them the OK! I’m really so shocked they would do that… They said the liked the zine so much it deserved more exposure. My dude… I love you… T_T

I thought about advertising on insta myself earlier in the week. For some reason I felt it was going to be fruitless since I don’t have an art account on there with a following. So, I gave up on the idea. Hey it worked out in the end.

I’ve never been so organized in my entire life. I want this zine experience to be perfect. The people have placed their trust in me, so I cannot mess up. - Edited some pages in the zine. The typography must be perfect… It made me think back to undergrad days in graphic design school. Man, if only I can present this as a project - photos, videos, matching accessories and all. I’d probably get an A lol. - Orders slow down after the first day. The rest is just about getting new people to see the post and giving other people more time to decide.

I finished my Kratos stationery today. It’s going to be so cute. My friend said people would want to buy it but I don’t have it in me to do more products at this time. Plus, I want it to be a surprise.

Why make stationery? Well my real job (no, I don’t draw Kratos all day for a living) is a stationery designer! It would feel really wrong not to put into practice what etiquette I’ve learned in this business. Plus, I felt that it was necessary to properly thank all those who ordered. And it’s fun?

I started designing the shipping labels for the domestic orders since I don’t need to fill out a customs form for those. I wish I had sticker labels but… it’s okay. It will still look good in the end. - Every so often, I would get nervous at the amount of money I’m responsible for. Perhaps, if I had a store with existing products I wouldn’t feel this way, but the fact that the books haven’t been printed yet made me scared. I know, I need this money to even print the books in the first place, but I’m just baffled at my customers’ trust in almost a total stranger. I felt pressured that I could not let them down and lose that trust. It probably didn’t help that I watched a documentary on Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) that day.

So, I prayed every single day that nothing would go wrong. I’d check my spreadsheet constantly for any mistakes. It was a little obsessive, but I would rather be that than overlook something.

I began collecting cardboard boxes. My plan was to cut them up to protect the books during transit. I would have preferred hard envelopes but they were a bit pricey. If I have to do more work myself, so be it.

I’ve been getting nice DMs from some buyers. I think my invoice due date scared them… I really did not intend to be strict, but I wanted people to pay now if they can rather than forget about it. This happens at work all the time, so the best thing to do is have it due immediately. It would not look good to have to wait on stragglers when I close pre-orders, so I’ll probably reach out when there is one week left. - My Kratos stationery arrived! Aww it is SO CUTE!!! My babies… I have a lot of notes to write so I got started right away. It’s going to be a lot of work trying to come up with creative ways to say “thank you,” but I don’t mind. I said I was going to put my all into the zine experience so I will.

At long last, the charm order has been put in motion. My friend said it could take a while… I hope it won’t be longer than 3 weeks. I really do not want to keep everyone waiting. I may ship out the ones who did not win a charm first. I mean, there is no reason to make those guys wait. I should ask the charm winners if they still want to wait and see if anyone wants to give it up for someone else who is more patient. Hm. - I finally stopped by the post office today to collect customs forms. I have my work cut out for me since I’m filling all of them in by hand. D:

I’m not used to international addresses so I think I’ll ask for help in checking them for spelling errors and typos. Heaven forbid I mess up on the very last part of the zine experience.

In my nervousness, I decided to reach out about invoices early on. If someone wanted to cancel, I would rather find out sooner rather than later. Everyone was really nice about paying and thank goodness they’re still excited.

Feeling kind of overwhelmed by all the things I need to do, but it’s a good thing. If I don’t know what to do, I can either: cut cardboard, write letters, type shipping labels, draw more Kratos for a… possible volume 2? Someone I talked to today already said they’ll pre-order a second book if I make one. Omg I think I’ll die. But we’ll see. It’s just a joke right now haha… - Preorders end today. I had another nightmare last night that the books could not be printed properly and there was nothing I could do. Why do I keep getting nightmares about the zine! I had one a few days before about people canceling their orders when I asked them about the invoices. I’ll take these dreams with a grain of salt. I’m probably just stressed/worried but everything is going to be okay. When I open my eyes, nothing is on fire.

I received my final proof a few days ago. With all of the artwork completed and changes applied. The book looks good, no doubt about it. There was only one thing I was nit-picky about but it can be fixed. The press operator offered to print another book for me to inspect. I’ll go see it on Monday and then submit the rest of the orders. I also asked to to have a meeting with the press operator so we are on the same page. It would be beneficial to have an understanding of how my book is made so that I may be more helpful to him.

I spent the day preparing shipping labels. I hate to admit, I am not too familiar with the format international addresses so I had an address validator open as I was typing them in. For the most part, everyone was helpful in already formatting their addresses in the preorder form! - My parents called me the day after preorders were closed. They wanted to say congratulations on my success. No one thought it would do this well. I couldn’t be offended by that since I was also guilty of it. I’m happy though. It feels like my love spread across the world and was contagious.

I tried to think of what advice I would give to others. Obviously, genuine love for the subject and hard work were a necessity. But it would be good to consider value. If I were selling it at this price, I had to make sure my pieces and presentation looked the part. I ask myself, if someone else sold it, would I buy it?

I sent out messages to all the charm winners in the morning. I wanted to apologize profusely at the ridiculous amount of time it has taken to get them made. But no, I’ve got to stop apologizing. I stated the facts and left it at that. Everyone was really kind and patient⁠—to which I was thankful for. I don’t usually get that when I’m working customer service. - All the books were done printing in one day. Wow! I went to pick it up immediately of course. I can’t believe all of this is coming to an end. I finished preparing the mailers. All that was left was to stuff and seal the domestic orders. They were the easiest to do so I’m going to ship those first. The rest will need customs forms, which I haven’t filled out just yet. It’s going to be a while for those…

The mailers were quite sturdy with the cardboard cutouts I slipped in them. I have nothing to worry about. I’m sure my babies will be okay! - I took a whole box of domestic orders to the post office today. Wasn’t sure what to expect. But my clerk had to input every single address one at a time while I checked for errors. Omg, why are the post office shipping labels SO HUGE. I thought it was going to be half the size. And they’re ruining my designer labels! Slight panic but oh well…

I had a long long line behind me. I’m so sorry, people. Luckily there were two clerks or I would be really sweating. Despite my intimidating box of zines, the clerk and I had Synergy and we managed to ship all of these in about 15 minutes. I received a very long receipt and quite the bill lol. - Shipped the international orders today. I was kind of a mess since I had no idea what to do. I keep wondering if I can help speed up the process in any way but I don’t think I have the option to ship first-class at home.

When shipping international, keep the post office copy of the customs forms together with the package since they use that to type the address info into the system. Also, we get free tracking, which I did not know about. The other clerk told me that we did not get tracking for international first-class but I guess he was misinformed. It’s good to know for next time. - The charms finally arrived!! And THEY’RE HOLOGRAPHIC?! It was pretty awesome, but it makes picture-taking kind of difficult!! Anyway, I was a tiny bit disgruntled that they got my order incorrect, and I even asked for a reprint. But they said no, so I left it at that. Besides, it seems the holographic effect was well-received.

I like this size that I made. It’s really cute! Larger than your normal charm but not too huge. It’s almost like an Instax photo! - There was one customer who I found lives near me! I asked her if she wanted me to hand-deliver it to her in a public setting and she agreed (to my amazement). We finally met a few days ago and talked for hours and hours lol! I’m glad to have finally made a new friend here in this town but of course she’s moving away in two weeks. <:’3

We’re going to meet again to make the most of her time left. - I shipped the rest of the orders on the following Monday. I HAD to get these out. The poor guys have been waiting over a month! I think I picked a bad time to go because I had a huge line behind me and only one guy working. People in line were getting antsy or mad. The clerk at the other post office was super fast but not this guy…

For some reason shipping to the UK and Japan nearly doubled in price since the last time I checked. RIP. T_T - Omg I finally made a mistake. I wrote a letter to the wrong person. And the contents of that letter are too personalized!!! I am dying of embarrassment!!!!! Screams!! Had to apologize to both customers too!!! Luckily they were good sports about it but I’m seriously kicking myself AAAAAAAA!!!! - The most rewarding part after sending all my babies away is seeing the commentary on my project. It is so so nice to receive positive feedback. People are happy! Happy with something I created out of thin air. Everything was worth it 1000 times over. I can die happy!

I’m especially thankful to those who show understanding for how much effort went into it. It definitely wasn’t easy and I poured way too many hours into it… not that I regret that.

I don’t want to jump the gun but I would really love to make a volume 2. Because I know I can do better than last time. New and improved art and comics! But we’ll see if I make enough pieces for another book. I was against printing 40 pages before but now I kind of like it. It feels more worth it than a 25-page zine. If i’m going though so much effort, might as well bring in the entire package.

I’ll be printing more of this volume for Aselia Con 2020. Now I know people will appreciate it.

[katzirrart]

Art Growth Compilation

I really enjoy doing posts about improvement in art.

It makes me feel better about my work, especially with how busy I am these days.

I wanted to compile all the comparisons I’ve made over the years and kinda discuss the posts, for myself or others.

I thought it’d be funny to start with comparing how I first drew on a tablet, using dodge and burn tools, to how I do now which is using layers and actually painting. It’s funny to look back on that, you know?

I linked the post I made, compiling all the month to month memes from 2003-2017 that I try and do yearly. And everything else is under a cut ;w;’‘/

Most artists have done a drawing of themselves and a few Pokemon, or their team. I did that in 2010, and was dissatisfied with my work...

I took a crack again in 2013 after I’d learned to draw more animals and not be so Edgy(tm) I really liked the results. I still didn’t use references though, because I was lazy. I just didn’t want to. I still was on that boat feeling like I was CHEATING. I wasn’t being CREATIVE if I looked at references.

Artists get stuck on using reference and it’s AWFUL. USE THEM. USE TWENTY. LEARN!! It’s so HELPFUL, I wish I had started sooner.

In 2014 though -

I tried again.

I had gotten better at anatomy, but most of all, I started to work off references more. I started to really focus on not stylizing so much, but to work on actually making things look like things. I started to work on caring about COMPARISON sizes. Composition!!

While Pokemon reference sizes are -wiggle hands- and while my team changed up, I was satisfied that I could draw Arbok ACTUALLY like a cobra now, Meowth is easy given it’s just a noseless cat so to speak, Haunter is literally a triangle cloud - I was satisfied having drawn that team.

My secondary team in the new games? I was excited to draw them. It was fresh and new and FUN and it turned out PRECIOUS.

I learned better how to proportion things in an image for layout, and just... making characters feel COHESIVE in the same space.

It was a nice thing to keep visiting. I have a sketch in the works for an update even hopefully.

These pieces are kind of interesting to me too, because they’re towards the end of my era of THIN lineart?

My lineart has gone from this, and THIS,  to this.

Literally I use to not believe in line weight, I can still do thin work of course, but I’m not a fan of trying to FORCE it like I use to? Even the second link, I went from the SMALLEST brush in Sai, to using a marker brush that had barely ANY give, to a custom brush on Sai that acts like a Paint Chat brush I use to use with friends online!

That’s what I mean about style too, like you may reserve yourself about things - like not coloring black in and outlining with white, or certain ways you do things. But the growth and changing and figuring FUN ways to color that black etc is where the fun of art comes in, to me??

Learn. EXPERIMENT. PUSH!

A few months ago, I did my first redraw. Of this piece from 2012.

Six years difference.

This was interesting for a number of reasons. There’s aspects I like more in the old one, but not many. I really like the pose a bit better, but I like the casual closeness that I did in the new one because that’s more my Shepard.

But technically speaking, it’s worlds better because I took time. I paid attention to details. I did fun things instead of rushing. I took time with my coloring and didn’t SMEAR it around. I had a friend who use to complain I drew so fast and they felt so SLOW, but I love what that taught me. I started taking more time on my art, and enjoying it more since I caught more mistakes and vastly improved. By leaps and bounds.

It’s amazing what a difference six years makes in not only style, which is often a FOCUS of these things? My style has come awkwardly and naturally to me over the years of critically picking certain things apart? but I really love where it’s gotten.

I have things I want to get back to, but I love... where it is, and CAN be?

But it’s wild to me how much change happens in technical handling? It’s a hand in hand thing, you can’t focus on one or the other only, or the other suffers.

Honestly this has been my favorite improvement to notice though?

Kisame was a character I felt I should be able to draw EASILY? Not so much. Itachi? ALSO EASY. Not so much??

Kisame has weird eyes to grasp how to draw? Thus focusing on them kept making them wonky to me!! On top of that, he’s everything I’ve been use to drawing for AGES because he has a muscular body, with a smaller waist? ... that was something I was use to drawing? I still was awkward getting back into the swing of that... Drawing HIS HAIR though? NOT SO EASY....

But like, Itachi should have been easy, but I have a thing about him appearing too feminine as he gets drawn because his eyelashes, and I’ve really found a nice... medium at this point?

But even still like my face styles and eye styles are finally to a comfortable point for me? I have stopped focusing on some weird things with Itachi’s hair and just... DO IT? But even still like...

The improvement here is literally just if I don’t know how to do something, or I’m not satisfied with how I do it? I just keep at it.

It’s a theme of this post honestly... repetition, persistence.

Keep drawing it. Keep trying to figure out what it is that’s catching you off about how you do it. Don’t like how you do eyes or how they fit on the face? Look at facial structures and references and figure it out. Draw them separate and figure out how to apply them to what you are.

Remember there’s a skull in there. I draw the holes in the skull like the eye sockets, and the nose area to help my proportions for SURE.

I’ve also gotten to a nice marriage in my lineart? The piece before the recent one, those lines feel HARDER or HEAVIER? The newest piece seems...softer? Like I’m lighter handed again?

I really like critiquing my own growth on what is good or working better for me? Older pieces it looks like I’m putting lineweight for SAKE of it versus where it goes now?

INTERESTING.

Like this lineup -

My style shifts so RAPIDLY, it still is noticeably MY style to people, but parts shift so VIOLENTLY because I’m constantly picking at what I don’t LIKE.

It’s funny too in the case of Kisame and Itachi because consistently I’m drawing the SAME character over and over - can make you REALIZE how you’re doing something wrong?

Like, here’s a difference of eight years, and it’s all the brush I use now, and it REALLY shows how my style has changed - in the aspect of one point of reference?

I have a childhood favorite character too, of Daisuke, and I use to be bad at drawing boys, and I use to be SUPER bad at drawing fluffy hair?

It was something I specifically started to learn to do? And I started to draw Daisuke every few months or years for a while. Especially when I started to first REALIZE I didn’t like my style that much?

But the middle one was July 2009, top left is less than 6 months later, and the last one is about a year later. DRASTIC DIFFERENCE. But next -

This one was in 2012, when I started to do more with teeth, or first dipping my toes into anatomy. I started to focus more on HANDS too, I was super bad at them. Overall I started to focus more on making my art have...ages? Like a boy versus a man. Facial features being DIFFERENT.

I can look at this boring little bust and see that he comes off more of a teenage boy to me now. I need to work more on figuring how to draw asian features especially the eyes. Sometimes I hit the mark, other times I don’t.

but between this and 2012? Not too much has changed. I do hair fluffier now, and I angle the eyes better. The teeth not being outlined doesn’t give that weird effect where I might give him TOO MANY TEETH....

People do that and it’s easy but whoof.

So there’s still learning and adapting to do in QUICK drawings, you know? but I can still see there’s good things. That took me like 5 minutes to draw? Not bad honestly.

In it’s own bracket is original characters though too?? But also divergent of STYLE shifts because like...

OKAY. Nightmare Syndicate’s story.. started for me in 7th or 8th grade, that was when I was...14? 15? I’ve been fleshing it out for like 13 years, that’s wild haha!! I love my kids and all.

But okay so SIALI. She’s still fairly similar but I restructured her face for SURE. She’s gotten less edgy, she’s.... a teenage girl.

FELIX?? CHRIST. He’s been such a long journey!! More on that later?

Rot and even Cor?? Rot and Cor are a shorter span of development, but Rot started in Highschool so almost 10 years ago, and Cor has been fairly solid - but even just DRAWING him over three years? Go look at how much he changes.. I’m not married to concepts easily. haha!

People act like making a character you’re STUCK with it. Like Oh boy, I better make this character good, from the get go!!

I only worry about that with small potatoes like my Pillar(Gods) designs I just made for the comic?? Even still, small things will change with them I’m sure.

But not only has Felix and Siali changed, but they’ve GROWN with my style and DEFINED it even. I’ve had to adjust my style to support Felix’s look honestly a LOT. Bend my rules. Break my anatomy stickler attitude - and honestly, that’s the thing.

You have to learn the rules and anatomy BEFORE you can break them. A style built upon broken anatomy will fail you down the road if you just excuse everything with style.

Learn to draw the hands. Learn to draw the feet. Figure out the face. Bones exist. You can break the FUCK out of it once you learn how to do it, you know? Like I’ve seen so many styles I LOVE who are cartoony and BROKEN AS FUCK, but there’s still some STRUCTURE to it. Most of those people can still structure a face just fine, and the reason exaggeration works so well is because there’s like unwritten rules for what works and doesn’t based on that?

Idk.

Felix has a very elongated torso, he’s like 7′ or 8′ tall so I mean?? He’s... broken anatomy, but he’s... lanky - but his muscle is LITHE and stretched. It makes contextual sense. That’s the important part.

But even designs, it’s important to understand designs YOU make, or like... to understand they’ll CHANGE and that’s growth within your art too?

Like okay, example. Felix has a millipede inspired monster form. But with designing that? I still have to know how millipedes and SNAKES work because there's bones and vertebrae in there??

But there’s also the difference of like... CONCEPT, versus execution. You can design a fucking badass character, but understanding your own concept is SOMETHING.

I had no idea how this would play out, until I was mapping out his ‘midsection’ spikes? and man. MY STYLE WAS MADE FOR THIS CHALLENGE NOW. Which is so interesting how smooth my style has always been? Felix has defined ANGLES in it, and it’s hilarious tbh?

But even too, I’ve had to work with Felix’s monster form FACE, to break the rules to make it WORK the way I need it too?

On the anatomy subject too, like when I first got into Marvel comics 6 years ago or so? I had no idea how to do muscle structures?? I was so BAD at it.

I can look at this left image and CRINGE so badly at how NONE of those are muscles?? THOSE ARE THINGS I PERCEIVE AS MUSCLES. Like...

A course I took taught me to draw what I see, not what I know. That’s the whole point of that post that goes around about drawing a shrimp. Look it up. It’s hilarious and cute.

But it’s like, asking an artist to draw a bike, you can tell who uses reference and who WINGS it. It’s funny, but like it’s what you know versus what you see.

I started to study anatomy like crazy and was seeing improvements days at a time. The right image was done like... a month later? already I can see the muscles under the pectorals? those look normal now. the abs aren’t dough lumps under the skin in a perfect 6 pack, they’re the actual plane shapes.

I was trying to find a good reference for myself of learning to make men ‘thicker’ too in terms of the waist etc since the left is really...thin.... but...

A bit better, but even still, comparing these two - they’re 2 months apart? and I can see understanding more about arms and how they connect to the body, where the planes ACTUALLY lay for the chest and obliques and such?

I can see improvements from July 2012 up there, to - WHOOPS. I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE YEAR LMAO... TO FEBRUARY 2013...omg

I mean, I could go on and on about improvements I see, when I go through my art though? Gosh.

Like I’m seeing so SO many bad hands and feet in my old stuff, and just CRINGING because tricks I learned for myself by now?

I give so many pointers and streams and screenshares on discord still to help people with art and it cracks me up?? Like...

I dunno. I’m pretty mediocre tbh, but god damn.

[theinsanecrayonbox]

the great FOP review mega dump

ok so apparently the rest of s10 was aired at the end of June through July of this year. now granted, i do not get NickToons and used a friend’s DVR to record it, so there’s a margin for error, but i don’t recall any of these episodes ever getting recorded. i could be wrong, my memory sucks, BUT TVGuide is stupid and has a habit of putting the wrong names/numbers on things and if the guide doesn’t list the episode as new because half of it already aired, then it wouldn’t get recorded. so again, huge margin for error.

basically, i hadn’t posted these yet because i didn’t realize they’d aired; i was trying to avoid spoiling anything for people. Nick sucks at their programming schedule. these first viewing reviews are nearly a year old in some cases, since it was about a year ago that i was given links to watch some of these online after they’d aired in other countries. so yeah, probably a little dated, might not hold up, but here they are so we can be done with this.

Which is Wish:

 Chloe is a vegetarian??? Has this been said before??

 I feel like everything in the garage there was in the attic when Dad made Timmy clean that out before…not that that isn’t plausible, since that’d be one way to “clean” the attic lol. Just thought it was a neat commentary.

 But yes Chloe, unleash your organizational skills. Color coded labels are awesome! Cleaning sucks, but labels lol

 And yes, switching bodies always works so well doesn’t it Timmy…but heehee he called Chloe pretty XD though in fairness…doesn’t this mean Chloe is still eating the meat, because Tim’s in her body…or do they just *look* like one another? See, that’s the gray area…

 Ok I do not like all these moments of Dad seeing Cosmo and Wanda; they’re glossed over yes, but still. That should break Da Rules though, because they’ve been revealed (not to mention Crocker knows about them a million times over I know). it just seems like a cheap gag that they don’t need, and it’s annoying.

 “Chlimmy Turnermicheal” lol, I need to draw a fusion of my Opals now XD;;;

 Ok yes, they’ve body swapped, not glamoured, so Chloe *did* eat the meat after all, thank you for explaining that

 Seriously, it’s Cosmo loosing the wands (for the umpteenth time) that is going to cause the problems here -.-

 Yay more Chloe parents! They aren’t 1 or 2 offs! Though…why were they absent up until this point? Did they decide to take a sabbatical from work after the booby incident? That’d be nice

 OMR Danny, Vlad (wait nasty Dan? Hu oh well), and Dudley puppets. That is too cute for words!!

 And a Little Shop joke. Eeeeeeee!!! I know they’ve done man-eating plants before, but still!

 Chloe’s dad faints at failure? Hm, that could be useful.

 Tim admitting he’d miss Chloe is sweet, especially since it wasn’t with any mention of loosing his fairies

 Hahahaha dressing up as each other/themselves, that’s great. Cosmo’s head blowing up is getting old though.

 All in all I give this episode a huge A+. It is a cliché trope of a plot, but I feel it was executed really really well!! Nice balance of magical aspects with non-magical ones I thought, and gave development to both kids and their families.

Fairy Con:

 Ok first of all, I thought Fairy conventions were held every thousand years or so, and was actually just for the fairies. Granted, this “Fairy con” could be a different event OR they changed the event after Timmy’s bathroom one, since that could’ve been the first time a godchild was involved? Also, Timmy is you go “every year” that shows that this is at least 2 years after you got your fairies (because you had Cosmo Con, then assume one after that, then at minimum this one), so why are you still 10?????? (and don’t go saying “the time stopping wish in secret wish” because uhg)

 Crocker in the fridge….ok…but adding in Crocker to crash the Con…yeah this is a complete plot reusing of Cosmo Con, just updating it a bit

 Look Girlfriend the cat isn’t dead!!

 If you’ve had their hair samples for that long why haven’t you cloned them before?? But “off brand cloning machine” is sorta funny. Also, Kenny G? that a Spongebob shout out or not?

 Ok if it merged the cat DNA with the fairy why didn’t it merge the fairy DNA together too? Also, missed your mark to have a real “fairy cat” show up (though no Sparky so we don’t need it anymore I guess)

 Oh but Chloe’s enthusiasm over her first con, I am so happy at that ^^ I just had my first comic con, and I was spazzing like that too when I wasn’t freaking out over being ditched and lost.

 Ok that is yet ANOTHER unique birthday for Timmy. He’s up to what, 5 now since the series started? (Boys in the Band, Birthday Bashed, Birthday Battle, the one mentioned in Birthday Battle about the dinosaurs) the kid is at least 14 now, he has to be!

 I like all the backgrounders. Some look super squashed, but still neat.

 Tooth fairy returns! Yay! We had mentions of Cupid and Mother Nature before, so it’s nice to see the magical celebrities are still around and not forgotten.

 Ahhh! The return of the Crocker Pot which captures fairies!! Ok I am giving this writing team an A- on doing their lore homework because they are getting so many things right (though the Fairy Con being thrown off is still deducting points sorry)

 There was a blonde fairy that looked like Samantha in the background O.o

 “Chloe Carmichael, any normal person would give up right now. But you are NOT normal!” - omr Chloe I love you and your “never quit” song was good and humorous, I still love you

 Timmy how can you not know what Crocker is up to? He’s always up to the same exact thing. If he’s in Fairy World, I’m fairly sure there is a 1000% chance he’s there to capture fairies. Geeze.

 OMR Princess Morebucks was in the seats at Cosmo’s panel, I’m not joking.

 All in all, it wasn’t a giant impacting story, but it was a good one, even though it was a total reusing of a plot. I feel like the writing team did their homework pretty decently (for the most part). Plus, the magic of cons ^^

The Hungry Games:

 This is the B-Story to Fairy Con…interesting choice…more fangirl!Chloe…

 I love her “Katniss hair”, heck I just love seeing alternate hair on her

 Heh “Ketchup Everdream”, wow, ok, sure

 That might be the wrong movie, but it sounds interesting. What movie was that Cosmo?

 Aw Chloe lost…but yay call back to screaming in her closet

 Lol Crocker is once again, king of dystopian world. That is perfect. This is all perfect.  Maybe it’s because I liked the Hunger Games movie that I can thoroughly enjoy this parody, idk. But this is great. I am loving this episode.

 And cue the pointless Dad part…wait Mr Bickles?? Where have you been?? Why are you here???

 I like the blonde/pink haired backgrounder

 I really loved this episode! It was so nice how Timmy did this for Chloe and stuck with it even when it was bad for him, then she turns around and does something nice for him at the end. It let Chloe fly her freaky fangirl flag on so many levels. Like I said, I liked Hunger Games, so this was a great parody that was loads of fun. I really really enjoyed all of it.

 As a whole episode, these two really show us what a geeky girl Chloe is I think. She’s not just the over achieving little Ms Perfect she was at first, she’s got her weird hobbies and obsessions too. And the fact that she was so into Fair Bears AND dystopian doomy future really says a lot about her, and really speaks to me on many levels. It’s just solidified my love of Chloe even more.

Dimmsdale Daze:

 And we start off with jokes about barfing…well it is a roller coaster so I can let it slide…just don’t spiral out of control with them…

 Heehee “vines” joke, that’s great. Because it highlights their age AND that they are more naturalist

 Oooo Connie said “shyster”, that’s pretty borderline…

 Chaining yourself to the tree in town…wouldn’t that be the same tree that Tootie did the same thing to in the first live action movie? I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing…

 Did Chloe’s middle name change? O.o but lol to the “when you’re a parent you can make the decisions” because I head canon them meddling after Chloe’s divorce, but I know that line is the plot fodder, so I’ll just push the head canons away for now

 Lookit that adult!Chloe though!! I’m not that far off the mark with my design (plus you know, there are several older!Timmy designs and none are more true than the other, so my older!Chloe being short and bustier is still plausible). And hey lookit! Cameo of the adult!Timmy from Big Problem AND confirmation that if one of the godkids breaks Da Rules they both loose the fairies TOGETHER

 Neither Clark nor Connie really look too much like Chloe as children (ok Connie *does* but when you consider they made child Dad look exactly like Timmy before, it’s not quite enough)…just another tick in my adopted column, just saying…

 Why did that child in the bounce house have lipstick O.o

 Chloe’s earring is like, in the wrong place and it’s bothering me…

 “But I have the mind if a child” “It’s true, he’s been tested” – I…wow, just…yes?

 And of course Connie and Clark get assigned Cosmo and Wanda, I don’t know why I didn’t see that coming honestly ^^;;

 You know, even though this is sort of a rehash of Big Problem and The Switch Glitch I thoroughly enjoyed this one! Single mom!Chloe was great, it feeds my future headcanons. It proved that Tim and Chloe do share the negative effects of the fairies. And it was just a really good Chloe episode that Timmy was just a supporting character in. I really did like it. A+

 As a whole, I think both parts (this is meant to be paired with Spring Breakup) work nicely together. It’s a lot of Chloe and her family, so if you want some serious Carmichael development, do for this set most definitely.

Chip off the Old Crock:

 Ok before getting into this one, I just gotta state that since I read the description for it, I’ve been ITCHING to see this. How does Crocker have a nephew if he has no siblings? (*current thoughts: i’ve since this review come up with a plausible scenario*) What would this child be like? How could I use him for Superverse conveniently?? And then I saw screencaps and saw that he was a mini Crocker and got disappointed…

 But now we are to watch so let us see how that unfolds…

 What’s with that redheaded backgrounder?? He looks like a Lebowitz!! *files that away for layer usage*

 Still laughing that he’s named Kevin since that is a “name of evil” in our games and what not ever since my brother used it as a placeholder name for a badguy in a storyline; ever since then “Kevin” had been the badguys who are sorta pointless lol

 But still…”study abroad” um…you still could’ve used that since Crocker obviously has family in Canada; studying in California would then be considered “abroad” if he was Canadian. And that way, he wouldn’t have to be his literal nephew, but his 2nd cousin, but they just call each other uncle/nephew because it’s easier. That might sound confusing, but at least it makes more sense then just randomly implying he has siblings when he never has. I’m gonna headcanon this from now on, and no one can convince me otherwise. (*current thoughts: again, i’ve figured it out since writing this; i’ve left the original thoughts though to prove my though process from point A to point B*) Plus you miss out on Canada jokes this way…

 Awww Kevin, I’m starting to love you…that’s weird…

 Everyone pick a partner-no one pick Kevin, classic. However…redhead boy had 2 partners, why didn’t Crocker notice and stop that? There’s no reason why Chloe and Tim needed to pair up with him aside from plot relevance…

 Ah sweet Chloe, standing up for the misunderstood and outcast, trying to find the good in them and make others see it too. I love you sweetheart ^^ go make friends with Francis now please

 Why isn’t Dolores fawning over Kevin? You’d think she wouldn’t let her *grandson* out of her sight, considering the coddling we’ve seen her give Denzel at times. Unless she’s busy with her *other child* I guess…but in that case why isn’t she belittling Denzel for not being like *his sibling* and having kids and not living in her basement? I’d love to see Denzel look like a looser compared to this *sibling* he suddenly has, and it suits the family dynamic as we know it. Or perhaps the *sibling* is more of a looser, but Dolores still sings their praises because they did move out and have a kid, unlike Denzel who has a steady job and whatnot because *sibling* is a total bum. I mean, I get that it would only slow down the storyline, but it just feels out of character, plus the sudden introduction of a *sibling* just is wrong too…I should stop analyzing the Crocker family and just go back to the actual plot

 Kevin wants to be a dentist??? O.o are you related to Dr Bender??? That…would explain nothing honestly, idk why I went there

 “Sorry I’m too busy being a loner” haha that’s a good one

 Hey callback to Crocker wearing ladies clothes. Nice.

 “It’s a blueprint so shouldn’t it be blue?” hahaha that was funny

 Chloe how did you get to the top of the rock wall without a rope?? Did you boulder your way yup there?? And Tim! You should never rock climb without a belier(sp?) geeze, rock climbing 101 there dude

 And toilet joke…but I will let it slide because I am actually enjoying Kevin

 “Unleash your inner looser” omr yes best line

 Ah the build up to the betrayal “aw you guys actually like me” “well yeah you’re not evil” *does the evil thing* “we hate you now because you are evil after all”

 Unsuspecting Van is back whoot!

 Ninja!Chloe and Tim with a light saber; nice, but what a missed opportunity…also Chloe has a ninja suit…she really is replacing Tootie isn’t she…

 And Kevin saves the day by wishing none of this ever happened…just like Chester did in Fairy Idol hm…

 But at the end of it, I’m actually very surprised how much I liked this despite all its flaws. It’s riddled with clichés and huge plot holes/continuity errors, but I genuinely liked Kevin (and whole heartedly look forward to writing him into Superverse…also would it be too weird if he was Kyler’s father? I think it’d be weird…). I think it’s a nice B-story to Cat and Mouse and together they make a pretty good episode.

Space Ca-Dad:

 Off topic a moment here; rewatching the theme and it just dawned on me…maybe there’s a “fairy shortage” because no one’s enforcing the rules over fairies being revealed/discovered. I mean, if everyone Timmy knows knows about his fairies and yet he keeps them, then other kids must be doing that too you know. Just saying Jorgen, you caused this problem yourself man…and honestly, why not outsource the fairy jobs then to other magical creatures, since Fairy Idol proved any magical creature can be converted to a fairy godparent. It’d be a great way to bring Norm back if you stop and think about it, or a way to get the Pixies back in there too. I’m just saying, the “fairy shortage” story is pretty weak…still think Jorgen just did this to them because they’re good for each other…

 Ok back to the episode itself

 Yay Chloe is still a Squirrely Scout, good for continuity! And you love food puns? i love you more Chloe, you so are a Catman related heroine aren’t you ^^;

 Did he say “Mrs Lipshitz” or “Mrs Libwitz”? it was really hard to tell, so idk if that’s a Rugrats shout out or someone I have to add to my  Lebowitz family tree (cause slurred sound…and the witch/mental thing does suit the family…)

 Dad you had the rank of “flying squirrel” why is this confusing??

 Ok there are “Pickles” living on the street, I’m going with Lipshitz. So many Rurgrats shout outs.

 Whinny kid, Kid with issues (aren’t you Kevin?), and Stuart…so we are going with the latest (and suckier) Squirrel Scout troop line up. Kay.

 Chloe as a jr. astronaut though and knowing how to fly space ships ^^

 Heehee “Space Jam” how many more thinly veiled references can we have XD;;

 (maybe Squirrely Kevin is Kyler’s father…that’s doable…)

 Ah yes, Dad throwing the fairies out just when the kid/s need them. Yup, never seen that plot device used before nope. And how can rocket fuel destroy magical wands? They’re fairy magic, why are they so easy to ruin??

 How did you find a planetoid when you were heading towards the sun??? I don’t…right, why put logic into things, my bad

 The Glorg. Florgatron-5. Hm…*files that way for layer usage* Bakersfield???

 I loved all the aliens at the restaurant though.

 Over all, this episode was…meh. I didn’t dislike it, but it was a very pointless Dad episode. Seriously, you could’ve had them go to the Planet of the Dads and do pretty much the same thing, but at least keep that storyline going (since I think it’s the longest running one now). I’m unimpressed, but I’m not disappointed. So lets see if the B-story can save the episode as a whole.

Summer Bummer:

 “The looks of psychotic anticipation” lol, well we’re starting off with some good

 Also it’s summer vacation yet again. Mk…this makes it at least the 4th summer vacation Tim’s had, what with School’s Out, Shelf Life, and Microphony being the others I can easily site off the top of my head. So again, these children should be like 14-16 now

 It’s the return of Dad in short-shorts. Oh man, run and hide now.

 Chloe getting a summer internship/scientific program is very her. Must always be learn…wait did she say the corner of a basement?? O.o that’s concerning child…

 Oh hey that pink clad teacher is from s1 I think. Wasn’t she in Timvisible at the water cooler?? That is a very nice and wow throwback guys. Major points to you.

 Chloe is 10 and a half???? So she actually IS a year younger than Timmy, since he was already 10 when he had his birthday (and we ignore the previous like 5 birthdays he’s had >>) and they share a birthday…but wait, your birthday is in March…summer vacation starts in June/July, that isn’t 6 months later…ok so on the one hand, your math is all wrong, but on the other my headcanon that Chloe is a year younger seems to be proven fact. I don’t know what to do with this information!!

 Oh this is the sleep wishing episode I heard about! Wow took a while for the plot to show up…but you know, even though this has been used before, I feel like this is being used in a different context and for a different character, so I’m allowing the reuse of the plot idea. Let’s see how twisted up Chloe’s subconscious is…

 “Gender neutral Jesse” is sorta weird…I like the fact that Chloe did play with baby dolls though…

 Timmy you can’t unwish Chloe’s wish! We’ve been over this-we had a whole episode dedicated to it!! URG!! Did they just throw that out because it’s easier for them to just fix each other’s mistakes that way? I mean, if this was the only time, I could buy that since she didn’t *consciously* make this wish, it could be undone by Tim, but the other times they’ve pulled this she’s been in her full faculties. So uhg! You can’t even keep your own continuity you establish in the same season >> (but…you guys have been doing better than expected, so…it’s not *as* negative points as I’d usually give…or maybe it is but you’ve just racked up enough positive ones to be at the standard by now I guess)

 Hey Dr Rip Studwell, long time no see XD and…you made a manscaping joke…wow, I…wow

 And a poop joke…but you have a pirate ship…but still…

 “Took one to the crow’s nest” is that a crotch shot joke? Wow this episode is just…wow

 Omr the mini shoulder Chloes are adorable! I love valley girl!Chloe and german science!Chloe. Didn’t like the second poop joke in a minute, especially since Dad really *shouldn’t* have heard science!Chloe say that…

 She wished the doll big again…I think Chloe’s repressed feelings are about not wanting to grow up

 And look Da Rules FINALLY decide to kick…oh no, Chloe wished it to be unwishable...yeah, because that’s the only way to stop Tim from fixing it >> and yet at the same time, he did wish the monster to stay until he stopped lying about who set Chompy free, so…formula…

 “There’s free ice cream all over the street! It’s like delicious roadkill!” ok that is the best line ever

 Wait, you’re wishing yourself into Chloe’s mind?? Because that worked so well when you went into your own…and why does it remind me of Mabel’s dreamworld/mind? I expected less pink, more purple honestly. Preschool!Chloe is so adorable!! Totally called the plot though, not that it’s hard.

 Cosmo confirmed as queer, because even when he thought Wanda was “Weird Dude” he still had a crush on him. Wow, I am floored they did that, good for you

 And we end it by promoting cannibalism? Oh wait no; we scratch the 4th wall instead. Ahha. Yeah. You totally missed the opportunity to have “Kids just being Kids” playing somewhere-possibly remixed-because I feel the message suited Chloe’s mentality too right now.

 Over all, I’m glad it was Chloe centric but…I feel like this could’be been done in half the time maybe? They ignore their own continuity, but they do tackle real stuff in a minimal magical way. I guess like the A-story, I’m unimpressed but not disappointed. I feel like both of these should not have been paired together because as a whole the entire episode is lacking; they both needed a stronger story to counter balance them. It’s a good watch once through, but I doubt it’s an episode you’ll want to rewatch.

Dimmsdale’s Got Tallent:

 Ok…I feel like this plot has been used before…and not necessarily thinking Fairy Idol either, but I just can’t place which episode I’m thin king of…

 TOOTIE!!!! THEY DIDN’T SHIP YOU OFF TO BOARDING SCHOOL OR WHATEVER!! OMR!!! Sadly you were just a backgrounder cameo, but still…now I just need to find Francis then my main favs will have all appeared to be not dead (*spoiler: Francis does not appear anywhere*)

 More Bickles…huh…

 Mom’s stage name is “Madame Sasha”…is that a hint that her first name is Sasha?? Most times when you make up “magic names” they’re either your real name in between “the” and “magnificent” or they’re some super exotic/fake/fantastical sounding thing like how Dad was “Dadracadabra”

 And more about Chloe’s one-woman show. That’s so neat that this is something that they’re developing for her, instead of using as a toss away one shot gag.

 Kevin!! Dressed as a dummy for a comedy act lol. It’s an old and over used plot idea, but I’ll run with it. I like it. Cause Crocker now has 24 hour access to a child, he of course has to think of other ways to use it. “I’m telling my mom you made me do this” because that is Denzel’s sister so it is a legitimate threat…though you’d think Dolores would object to this too…why have we not had any interaction of Kevin with his grandmother yet??? I’d love to see Denzel get jealous over the attention his mother is giving Kevin that he never received

 Haha Dad stealing Chloe’s idea, and still breaking the gender norms, nice. Where did Bickles get the coconut bikini top and grass skirt though?

 Oh baaaaaad lesson to be teaching kids there guys. If the authority figure won’t give you want you want, you shouldn’t do them favors to try to bribe them into giving it to. Especially in the entertainment industry. That’s how bad situations happen….

 Um those remote control tap shoes shouldn’t work because they would be helping Tim to win a competition, which is against Da Rules…not that Da Rules seem to matter anymore…

 Ok Mom, you claimed to be a “Pet Psycho” yet you’re using only wild/non-pet animals. I think that’s probably the easiest way to point out that you’re doing this wrong

 “I love me some snake and mongoose” ok…lets go see if that’s a euphemism on google…hm, nope, just a drag racing movie. That’s nice…wasn’t Bickles a race car driver at some point??

 Doug Dimmadome returns! And “curious life partner”??? the Mayor and Chompy are a thing??? O.o???

 Good boy Kevin, stand up to Crocker ^^

 “That was a Dimma-dud” so simple and stupid, but probably the most fulfilling line thus far ^^;

 love Chloe’s gold gown

 ok I lied, “Dimma-dope” is now the most fulfilling line in this

 heehee Dudley Puppy and Crimson Chin balloons in the parade. So headcanoning that TUFF Puppy was a show on tv in FOPverse

 so this episode was….well just really pointless filler too. We got like minimal focus on any of our main characters. Have they forgotten how to write Timmy and Chloe?

 Together these two (this was paired with Knitt-witts)  were not a good match. Both were pointless filler with not a strong plot in either of them. Too many guest cameos, no character development. It was just barely enjoyable enough to not hate it, but just barely honestly. Weak episode all around.

Goldie Crocks and the three Fair Bears:

 Ok I’ve been looking forward to the return of the Fair Bears since the episode titles were released.

 Interesting to see the Squirrely Scout troop back again, still the same B-team line up including Chloe. Thought you already had that patch…but then again that could’ve been with the A-team troop lineup, so…the records were all destroyed when it was disbanded maybe?

 Thanks Tim, we all were asking that. But how does using Mom’s shampoo make your hair blonde? Luscious and even longer I could buy without complaint, but blonde??

 More over achieving Chloe lol (poor girl is gonna crash when she burns out). But wow, she fought King Neptuna…so why didn’t he remember her? Is Supergal now enemy to the merfolk??? Though that plays into the Merfolk vs Glamazons wouldn’t it…

 And now we turn into the clichéd camping storyline where Character A decides to go use non-wilderness to camp in luxury. But Tim, you used to like camping??? Also, still not seeing how the episode title plays into this plot yet…

 Cosmo has been right/made sense on more than one occasion though, why is it that surprising?

 Ok now we get the title…Crocker’s mother has a cabin in the woods? Buyable, sure. Crocker somehow brought the Fair Bears back into reality??? Uh…what now? Wait, they weren’t sent back to TVLand?? And Crocker knows all about their origin?? HOW does that not break Da Rules huh? Is it because he doesn’t know who wished them up, so it’s not against Da Rules?? Why wouldn’t they tell him that; wouldn’t that be a fair thing to do?? He’s in a blonde wig because they’re going to be Goldielocks at a theme park, yeah sure, ok I can buy that. But HOW did he get the bears in the first place???

 And Dad is blonde to be Goldielocks…wow…

 Chloe breaking the 4th wall a little there

 Gah even more middle names! Chloe how many do you even have????

 NO! YOU CAN’T UNDO THE OTHER’S WISHES! URGH!!! You established this rule right off the bat, yet you keep breaking it and they let you keep breaking it. Timmy wished for the camping stuff-Chloe should not be able to wish it away. Yes the plot is stalled, but really, what is the plot at this point??? If you’re only going to enforce the rules when it suits you, well, anarchy for all then please

 And you wished away the magic…yeah, that’s going to go super well

 “Mr Crocker’s unsightly twin sister” ok on the one hand, that works because of Kevin granted (even though she’s not a twin persay, but he has suddenly got a sister), but on the other…this is all saying that guys can’t have long hair and I don’t like that. I love guys with long hair. Between that comment on Crocker, and the comments earlier about Dad, why is long hair automatically girl now?

 Dolores dated Shaggy??? O.o i…I am very unnerved by that…wasn’t she already a full blown adult with a 10 year old child when Shaggy was a teenager roaming in the van with the Mystery Inc crew?? O.o

 Omr yes. Referencing the “original German version” as a darker one. Talking about basting and eating people. This turned dark super fast and I love that. why TrollLOL’s face is on the oven idk, but I’m rolling with it because I love this part.

 “I’ve already got 2 strikes from the school board” uh…yeah that’s the wrong side of dark I think…but it’s Crocker, it was probably the fork in Waxelplax’s fanny, and the flour incident or something fairly similar.

 Yes Tim, yell at Chloe that this is all her fault. We know it is, but pointing it out won’t help. But it totally is; you wished for no magic and you got into trouble-not surprising.

 HOW is it nearly midnight??? It was like, what, noon at the latest when this started?? You have not been out in the woods-in the daylight-for 12 hours-of daylight. Chloe hunny, you’re the smart one, why are you failing telling time??? I know its dark outside the house now, but it wasn’t in the scene before. Cosmo I think your clock is right. And how is “poof us out of here” bring you to a spot where it is, once again daylight; that seemed to suggest instant teleporting so you’re at the same time. Unless this next scene is a cut away to hours later BUT STILL! It should not be midnight.

 Oh Dad, yes, I’m sure no one cares about your troop anymore.

 “let’s send the Fair Bears back” uh you should have done that the first time and this whole mess would have been avoided. It’s like leaving the door to the comic book world open all over again.

 And yes, cause unnecessary harm to Crocker, why not. Not to mention all the innocent patrons at the theme park…

 Also why has no one mentioned Dimmsdale had a theme park before now?

 All in all, not a good episode. I was looking forward to the return of the Fair Bears, and it felt like they weren’t even in half of the episode. The rest was another boring camping storyline, which these two seem to do a lot of huh?

 Paired with Fancy Schmancy, as the production order says, I think the whole 30 min episode is completely weak and not great. This one was bad, the other was filler, so together they are just not meshing well at all.

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Hand-Lettering – Best ‘How To’ Books and Lettering Supplies

You could also be coming to a spot in your coloring the place you need to add your individual elaborations or personalize a few of your favourite colorings for presents for others with hand lettering. You can all the time hint one thing you create out of your pc however most of us that get pleasure from creating artsy issues might need to be taught to do that a part of the craft ourselves.

Luckily, there are a number of wonderful calligraphers and hand lettering consultants on the market to assist.

Hand Lettering “How To” Books

Hand Lettering 101

An Introduction to the Art of Creative Lettering from Paige Tate. To begin off with, this e-book is simply tremendous cute with its polka dots and measurement. It’s spiral certain so it opens flat for you to have the ability to do the workouts you might be given.

Includes: • Hardcover, outsized gold binding and gold nook protectors  • Step-by-step directions for find out how to create varied fonts and designs  • Thick premium paper, excellent for lettering • Beautiful espresso desk e-book and sensible workbook

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Hand Lettering (An Interactive Guide to the Art of Drawing Letters)

This 160-page e-book has the most effective opinions of any lettering e-book on Amazon.

Learn 5 main hand-lettering kinds, then remodel your writing into artwork.Practice pages enable you area to grasp every letter in each model.Sections exhibit find out how to embellish your letters, combine totally different kinds for emphasis and flare, add ornamental results like shading, and mix textual content and illustration.Easy-to-follow tutorials and sections to hint, coloration, or full make hand-lettering approachable for anybody.Project concepts exhibit methods to brighten on a regular basis objects, create placing artwork, and add a significant contact to presents by way of hand-lettering.

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Hand Lettering for Relaxation

 An Inspirational Workbook for Creating Beautiful Lettered Art by Amy Latta. While hand lettering can look intimidating, artist and blogger Amy Latta has a pleasant and down-to-earth strategy that gives you the arrogance to attract spectacular designs after observe. This e-book incorporates 46 workshops that can assist you progress by way of the steps of hand lettering.

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The Ultimate Guide to Modern Calligraphy & Hand Lettering for Beginners

This is a brand new e-book in 2019 by June & Lucy. They present a reasonable Learn to Letter e-book of their Hand Lettering Workbook with Tips, Techniques, Practice Pages, and Projects. You also can discover them on Insta to share your work and ask for ideas.

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Happy Hand Lettering: An Inspirational Guide for Creating Beautiful Words of Life

This e-book has nothing however 5-star opinions! WOW! The writer says ” We will not be aiming for perfection, we’re aiming for Joy and by hand lettering scripture verses, optimistic messages and life-giving phrases, inventive hearts can launch their inhibitions, feeling free to make errors, attempt once more, and have fun the journey– each in lettering and in life.” This e-book is massive eight x 10″ & spiral certain.

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Pretty Simple Lettering

Modern Calligraphy & Hand Lettering for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide to Beautiful Hand Lettering & Brush Pen Calligraphy Design. This e-book is Spiral Bound 11 x 10 with 126 Pages.

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The Art of Whimsical Letter by Joanne Sharpe

This was one of many first books I picked up on the subject of hand-lettering and it’s nonetheless one among my favorites. Her examples are each simple to observe and simple to adapt to your individual model.

Joanne then demonstrates twenty artwork strategies for creating quite a lot of lettering kinds utilizing many alternative instruments. She supplies you with fifteen primary alphabets, starting from easy pen-and-ink renditions to more and more elaborated texts that reference calligraphy, classic fonts, and doodle artwork, amongst different kinds. Joanne additionally teaches you find out how to flip prosaic lettering into web page artwork itself, merging textual content into illustration, or ornamenting phrases with ornamental drawings.

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Joanne Sharpe additionally has simply revealed a e-book entitled The Art of Whimsical Stitching you probably have ever taken your favourite coloring e-book artists to material, that is the proper accompaniment for you.

Chalk Lettering is SUPER widespread proper now and this e-book is wonderful. It has a observe chalkboard constructed proper into the e-book.

The Complete Book of Chalk Lettering: Develop and Create Your Own Style

In over 60 classes, be taught the ABCs of lettering (actually) and primary kinds: serif, sans serif, and script. Next, find out how to format a design, mix varied kinds into one cohesive piece, add shadows and dimension. Master extra superior letter kinds, from faceted to ribbon to “vintage circus.” Use banners, borders, thrives.

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Zenspirations Lettering and Patterns by Joanne Finke

This is one other of my private favourite books that’s full of nice info to take primary block lettering to one thing actually particular to brighten your initiatives.

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Creative Lettering and Beyond

Inspiring ideas, strategies, and concepts for hand lettering your method to lovely artistic endeavors

This e-book has 4 sections that includes totally different artists, Gabri Joy Kirkendall, Laura Lavender, Julie Manwaring, Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn every share their very own specialties within the e-book. After a quick introduction to the varied instruments and supplies, lettering fans will discover ways to grasp the artwork of hand lettering and typography by way of partaking, easy-to-follow step-by-step initiatives, prompts, and workouts. From the essential form and type of letters to cursive script, spacing, and alignment, artists will uncover find out how to remodel easy phrases, phrases, and quotes into lovely works of hand-lettered artwork.

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Dawn Nichol runs an exquisite hand lettering group on Facebook and Instagram the place she posts a lettering problem a day and invitations these new to the artwork to share their photos with others on social media. In her first e-book, she goes into some fundamentals and provides you fairly coloring pages to observe and another initiatives to have enjoyable with.

Words to Live By – Creative Hand Lettering, Coloring & Inspirations

This e-book could be very primary and consists of fairly a bit of fabric in it that isn’t strictly lettering workouts or classes. If you might be model new then it is a good e-book to start out with however you’ll need to transfer on to one thing else for a extra in-depth introduction or be part of her on Facebook right here. She additionally affords freebie observe sheets on her web site.

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If you have got a creative youthful member of the household, Dawn has created a e-book only for them as nicely. Adventures in Hand-Lettering 40 Exercise to enhance your Hand Lettering abilities Many of the opinions say it’s a terrific e-book for starting adults as nicely.

Hand Lettering Supplies

Hand lettering provides will be as easy & cheap or as complicated and dear as you need, identical to all different artsy endeavors we pursue as adults. We have pulled out our private favorites and crowdsourcing from our socials for what lettering provides folks love probably the most. If we have now missed your favorites, please tell us within the feedback.

Hand Lettering Paper

You will want good paper to observe your lettering initiatives onto so that you just don’t mess up your precise venture and to be taught the method. This huge pad by Strathmore is 11×14 with 50 spiral certain sheets. The paper is appropriate for lettering, drawing and blended media initiatives. For lettering, you don’t need to use your watercolor paper because it has a texture that makes it laborious to kind easy traces you will have in your lettering. I additionally actually just like the Visual Journals by Strathmore that are available a number of sizes and forms of paper. Either artist paper or blended media paper works nice. Canson Multimedia Paper is one other nice possibility.

You can use Tracing Paper over samples within the e-book to get a really feel for the shape and construction of the letter. Inexpensive pads of graph paper are nice for practising your sizing and spacing of letters in addition to getting a deal with in your ascenders and descenders.

Hand Lettering Pencils

I first discovered about these ridiculously lovely pencils from Dawn Nichol referred to as Blackwings, they really are a step above in case you are an artwork provide junkie like I’m. Harder pencils will work higher than a primary #2 you might be used to as a result of they gained’t smear and are simpler to erase after you ink on high. This is a superb chart to determine which pencil will work finest for you. Koh-i Noor Mechanical Pencils are a terrific selection in addition to common cheap mechanical pencils.

Hand Lettering Pens and Markers

Prismacolor Hand Lettering Kit

Prismacolor has come out with a terrific set that features every part a newbie must get began.  2 pencils, 7 illustration markers, 2 dual-ended artwork markers, an eraser and a ideas & methods pamphlet.

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Tombow Hand Lettering Pen Kit

Each set consists of two Dual Brush Pens, Fudenosuke Calligraphy Pen, MONO Twin Permanent Marker, MONO Drawing Pencil and MONO Eraser.

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Micron Pigma Pens

This is my favourite set of six totally different nib sizes. It is barely appropriate for element work and embellishing your hand lettering.

Faber Castell Pitt Pens 

You might have already got some Pitt Pens since they’re our favourite pen to make use of in Coloring Books as a result of they don’t bleed by way of the paper. Tombow Brush Pens and cheap double-ended Sharpies work nicely too. 

Best Brush Pens for Hand Lettering

Waterbased Markers 

Tombow Brush Markers

Durable nylon brush tip can create wonderful, medium or daring strokesIncluded colorless blender pen softens and blends colours, making a watercolor impactThe water-based ink is non-toxic, blendable, non-bleeding, and odorlessTips self-clean after mixing – Color Options

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Brush Lettering for Beginners – Tips from Tombow

Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen

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Kuretake Zig Brushables

24 Pack of twin tip brush pens, 48 coloursEach twin tip brush pen affords two colours, making them excellent for mixing and shadingWater-based Pigment, Acid-Free, Lightfast, Odorless, Xylene FreeThese work fantastically for coloring books as nicely

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Koi Coloring Brush from Sakura

Alcohol Markers

Alcohol markers do NOT react to water however they’ll mix fantastically by both mixing them collectively for an ombre impact or utilizing the colorless blender.

Copic Markers

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[comicteaparty]

July 27th, 2017 CTP Archive

The archive for the Comic Tea Party chat that occurred on July 27th, 2017, from 5PM - 7PM PDT.  The chat focused on Aether Eternius by Novasiri.

Featured Comment:

Chat:

RebelVampire

Good day everyone~! This week’s Comic Tea Party is now officially beginning. Today we are discussing Aether Eternius by Novasiri~! (https://tapas.io/series/Aether-Eternius) For those new to CTP, discussions about the comic are freeform, so please feel free to bring up whatever you wish. However, every 30 minutes I will be dropping in a discussion question to help those who would like a prompt. These questions are totally OPTIONAL to answer so pay them no mind if you wish~! Remember, constructive criticism is allowed, but the primary focus here is to have fun and appreciate the amazing comics that the community makes~! Each chat a top comment will be picked and featured on an ad for this chat, so let’s have a great discussion~! With that said, let us begin with this first question~!

QUESTION 1. What is your favorite scene in the comic so far and why?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yay!

Novasiri

Oh boy, this outta be fun. <3

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

let's see...

I like that part when Mak throwed a temper tantrum and turned red

Novasiri

Dawww, when they got pissed at Aion?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yes

I wonder how many colors can they be?

Novasiri

I had a lot fo fun planning, and eventually drawing that scene too. Originally Mak didn't change color, that was a more last minuet decision.

They change color based off feeling extreme emotions. So, all the colors of the rainbow. -uo(edited)

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

gah i have to look up names >.>

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

ooooh would love to see that

her hairstyle changed a bit too

really cool aesthetics there

XD

RebelVampire

i hope mak never has a crush on someone and becomes green with jealousy. thatd be very embarrassing

Novasiri

I'm glad ;u;

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LMAO

that would be so obvious

Novasiri

Oh my gosh

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

XD

Novasiri

There's always Evny. -uo

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

mine is any scene with isilmo in it... all the extra dialog and little thought bits were very amusing

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I hope all the colors will be shown eventually

Novasiri

they will.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Isilmo is so cute

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

especially the "no licking" lol

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LMAO

RebelVampire

i liked the scene with madda-rakt cause i felt it was a mix of being both intimidated and underwhelmed cause madda-rakt was so polite

Kabocha

I pretty much love any scene with Aster. Gimme giant awkward starry person -- they're pretty nifty, I think.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL that

XD

wishjacked

Haha that temper part with Mak was my fave, too!! It had all the best things-- fun colors, snarky Ira, jerks getting mauled

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

poor them

Kabocha

Also Ira is pretty fun too.

Novasiri

I'm glad I got an underwhelmed vibe with Madda-Rakt. It was the ideal point. Since their focus isn't supposed to be intimidating.(edited)

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yis Ira

also Nova, I'm glad you made the texts larger in the recent pages. One of the reasons why I took so long to read was trying to consume all the texts. XD

Novasiri

Yeah, it's a big reason I also plan to redo the first two chapters; increase text size.

wishjacked

BUT ALSO, OH, I love all the scenes with Umbrage!! They're kinda dadlike with their dialogue but also. So strong. Love it

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yeah i had to zoom in on every panel in the beginning

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

totally glad I took the time to re-read it yesterday

Kabocha

I didn't find it too much of a problem, but I also read stuff on a huge-ish monitor?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

legit took me 2 hours

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

its easier for me to read on my phone... since i normally binge read before beds

Novasiri

I'm glad you like umbrage, Chloe. They're very much the big, intimidating, dad character

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Umbrage is so adorable

Kabocha

(also, Isilmo? The dragon? more please)

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yus!

Novasiri

there will be more isilmo soon. XD (And he's getting his own side comic)(edited)

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I never expected them to be so nice since you know, the initial description is that they maul people

RebelVampire

i agree with the others that the pages were a little smallish for text. not unreadable by any lengths. but it did take a while to get through.

Novasiri

They did maul people tho. :3

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yeah but only bad people

Novasiri

Yeah, it's definitley on the list of 'needs rework'

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

but let me say what i've said a million times before... nova you have the BEST character designs!

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

they were so nice to Mak

Novasiri

sdjfhjkl

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yus

totally adore those character designs

and the sparkels

Novasiri

Thank you so much

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

even inspired me to do better with mine

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

so far my fav is Umbrage, Ira, and Mak

would totally love to be buddies with Umbrage

wishjacked

SAAAAME the character designs are all SO UNIQUE AND APPEALING,,,,, hashtag goals

Novasiri

Umbrage would be good buddies, just not Aion.(edited)

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

would give umbrage all the hugs ^^

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yeah

Aion is jerk

RebelVampire

i like how the elemental types are all really unique in design but also share thematic similarities

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yis

Novasiri

Ah, you noticed that? I'm glad.

Kabocha

STAAAAAAAARS

wishjacked

I was a lil surprised by how good and kind Umbrage was, too, but I actually really liked it?? Like, PLOT TWIST, this fella mauls people BUT they're also totally a good guy! surprise!

Loved that

Novasiri

Each element has it's own aesthetic, but there are things that fit them together as a species.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

ALL THE STARZ

Novasiri

Voids and their staaarrsss. XD

Kabocha

Sorry, I rather like stars, so y'know

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yus

Novasiri

ilikestarsalottoo

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yisss

stars and sparkels

Novasiri

Umbrage was a big twist of a character. I wanted to keep their personality in the dark, so when we finally met them, it was a shock.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

well you did a good job there

Novasiri

Just like how we thought Aion would have been the good guy, but turned out to be a total sleezeball

wishjacked

I think it really worked!!

Novasiri

It's also a parody of the whole Light = good, Darkness = Bad

RebelVampire

im not sure i assumed aion was a good guy because arrogance is not exactly a positive trait

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

not really I really thought Aion is a jerk from the start

Kabocha

@RebelVampire I agree. XD But then again, you could be a jerk with a heart of gold

I'm glad that wasn't the trope in play

Novasiri

Interesting, cause a lot of people liked Aion at first XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Umbridge is I thought really some kind of monster who mauls random creatures

Novasiri

Nah, Aion ripped the gold out of themself(edited)

Kabocha

lmao umbridge

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I see

I read that XD

Novasiri

Umbrage is an interesting one though, but I'm glad you guys like them over Aion.

Means you'll hate me less in the coming chapter

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

RebelVampire

in the coming chapter where theres a happy ending for everyone and they all use mak's color changing ability to have a rave party?

Novasiri

Pfffffhh XD

Ah, a happy ending would be nice.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Mak turns into a disco ball

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol rebel

Novasiri

We'll get to see Mak strobe eventually, in Act 3. It's a while off, and its more trauma induced

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

don't kill umbrage

Novasiri

:3

Kabocha

... o_o

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i also love how easily it is to get immersed in the world

the backgrounds and scenery really pulls you in

Kabocha

Strobing? like... is this going to be animated

Novasiri

I'm going to attempt it. Yes

Kabocha

>:D

EXCELLENT.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

something like this

Novasiri

More like glitching trainbow

Kabocha

I'm imagining a single page of Mak on a black or transparent background. just.... all the colors

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

would be awesome

XD

Novasiri

But it'll be cool, horrifying, but cool.

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

I forgot this started around this time

Novasiri

But expect animated bits, at least gif wise in act 3(edited)

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

I love the comic, still reading it so I don't know much and am slow at reading it

wishjacked

I can't believe nova is threatening her characters right here in the chat and nobody is screaming yet

Novasiri

Awww, take your time~

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

So far the characters are very expressive

Novasiri

Chloe... you have no idea the horrors that await

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

screms

Kabocha

eh, everyone threatens their characters

and if Draco's around, spoilers get dropped

Novasiri

XD

Kabocha

It is the way of comic tea party. :3

Novasiri

I'm keeping it as vague as possible~

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

its in the by-laws xD

Novasiri

But i may drop a few hints if anyone has specific questions

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

draco = spoiler

the elf

Novasiri

Phineas?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

he's shuspishus

wishjacked

LALALALALALA NOPE THEYRE ALL GOOD THEYRE HAPPY THEY LIVE IN A BIG HAPPY HOUSE TOGETHER NOVA

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yis

Novasiri

Good

-pats chloe-

Cause he's gonna get a rather large reveal here very soon

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

that part when Madda Rakt talked to him. There's something going on.

Novasiri

So you may hate him more, or feel really bad for the guy

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LEGASP

wishjacked

ohhhh

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i am just very suspicious of him

Kabocha

Phineas is responsible for the entire plot

Novasiri

Mmmmmm rrrrrr.... You're on the right-ish track.

Kabocha

OH NO

Novasiri

But he's not personally responsible

Kabocha

I was just guessing o_o

Novasiri

But something involving him is.

Kabocha

oh dear

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

Kabocha is best guesser

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

OGM

Kabocha

Apparently lmao

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Kabo is scary

Novasiri

But it also has to do with a character showing up soon.

Kabocha

So he's prolly partly at fault for the trauma Mak's gonna go through ain't he

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

legasp x2

Novasiri

The hint is already in the comic, more so on ch4's cover page. As for Mak, no, the trauma comes a bit later and for a different reason.

Kabocha

(now for the out there part) ...Mak is secretly Phineas' future son.

Novasiri

And it has to do with Gavin, who was mentioned by Aion.

Nope. XD

Kabocha

I had to throw a really bad one in there.

Novasiri

Lol it's okay

Tbh that'd be so much nicer/happier than what Mak's background actually is.

Kabocha

I look forward to learning more about Gavin a bit more though.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

cheks the cover

Novasiri

We'll get a lot of it soon.

Kabocha

It's kind of interesting seeing how much of a hot-button that is for Mak. It's like, dude.

Mak, it can't be thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat bad can it? (clearly it is)

Novasiri

For them it is, of course. XD

Mak's insecure enough as it is, after all. :3

RebelVampire

QUESTION 2. At the beginning of Chapter 2, the Matter Lord, Madda-Rakt, pulls aside Phineas. In their private conversation, they refer to Phineas as a “magister” and accuse Phineas of potentially tricking Makumbo. While Phineas assures Madda-Rakt he isn’t “working for them” anymore, Madda-Rakt’s suspicions are not allayed. Who or what do you think magisters are? Why would this cause Madda-Rakt to assume Phineas was trying to hurt Makumbo?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

awww poor Mak

Novasiri

Speaking of which

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Yis Phineas is suspicious

squints

Kabocha

Don't trust elves, yo

Novasiri

Pffh

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I think their intention is to kill null primordials

Novasiri

it isn't, anymore.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

personally i think he was one of those undercover spy types who betrayed somekind of useful information at some point

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

legasp\

O_O

wishjacked

wHat

Kabocha

Mak also doesn't want phinease touching him? WHAT DID YOU DO PHINEAS

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

oh yeah

Novasiri

Mak's got personal space issues, and doesn't enjoy being touched in general. But Phineas... Mharz is on the right track, but something happened to make that change

Kabocha

wow I can't type

@Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies -- welp.

Novasiri

And such a job wasn't personal choice either.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I think Phineas is an assassin who's mission is to kill Mak

Novasiri

I could have been, but something happened~ :3

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

nah i actually think he's trying to right his past wrongs now...though im still suspicious

Novasiri

good deduction AE~

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

maybe he was tasked to kill all the nulls

Novasiri

Not nessicarily just nulls, but there is a reason for that.

And it has a lot to do with 'Them'.

Kabocha

dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

legasp x3

Novasiri

XD

RebelVampire

i feel like the best assumption is that the magisters were partly responsible for the shattering

Novasiri

Bingo~

Kabocha

So, is Casmir just not so fond of Aster because of Aster's silence?

or is there history

Novasiri

there's history between the two.

Which will be shown eventually

Kabocha

>:3c

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

wonders what that book thing Madda Rakt gave to Phineas

Novasiri

-whispers- it's actually a tracking device.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

gasp

huh interesting

Kabocha

nobody trusts phineas

Novasiri

And nobody should. :3

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wow

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

he's absoulutely suspicious

Novasiri

As I said, the coming pages will determine most peoples outlook on Phineas. you'll either hate him outright, or feel bad for him.

Cause there's blood on those hands.

RebelVampire

i trust phineas.....to put some pizza rolls in the microwave for me to eat.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh no blooooood

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

waits for a couple of months... screms

hopefully he didn't poison the pizza

Novasiri

XD

Kabocha

:3

the pointier the ears, the less you should trust 'em

Novasiri

Pffffh

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Kabo, your Aster has pointy ears..

Kabocha

:3

WELP.

Novasiri

XD

But yes, I'd personally say trusting Phineas is typically not the best solution, at this moment in time.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL nope

wouldn't trust him to carry stuffs

Novasiri

XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

or anything really

Novasiri

But his past will come back and bite him in the ass, eventually.(edited)

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

hopefully Kana keeps him in check or something

Novasiri

And it's still up in the air if he lives or not

-minor spoiler-

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

ooooo

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

gasp

totally looking forward to eet

RebelVampire

phineas has to live long enough for his past to be revealed

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

gonna wait for the pages to pile up

Novasiri

Mhmm.

He will live long enough for that. XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yeah it will be the life flashing before his eyes type of thing XDDDD

Novasiri

Hahaha nooo, it'll be slow.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

OMG

Novasiri

and grueling

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Nova so sadist

LOL

Novasiri

:3

RebelVampire

i felt a bit sad that after dragging phineas and kana with, mak had to end up alone anyway

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yeah

Novasiri

Mhmm, part of it was to show Mak's actual self away from the rest, the other part was also to give some material for the side comic(edited)

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I'm also curious how Kana is related to Mak when she's human and Mak is primordial

Tho Ira did asked before how old is Mak when they "died"

Novasiri

Well you don't need to be blood related to be family~

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

true

Novasiri

But kana met Mak after they had died.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I'm curious how did Kana wound up in the shattered lands

Novasiri

She actually followed Makumbo there.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

oh

I was thinking the outsiide world is lilke earth

where there's no magical mumbo jumbo happening

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol read 'mumbo' as 'makumbo'

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LMAO

RebelVampire

hmmm

then who is this older brother that kana mentioned that gave mak timo?

Novasiri

the Earth Kana and Mak come from actually does have magic, infact it's canonically the Earth in my friends comic, #Wafflefry

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

oh

Novasiri

The older brother is actually a secret. -uo(edited)

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

huh interesting

Novasiri

Yeah, I'm a sucker for interconnecting worlds.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

me too

Novasiri

As for the older brother, their name is actually Theodore. They will not be freatures by name or image in the comic however.

This is due to the fact that Kanami is created by a friend of mine, who gave me full permission to use the character. Theodore is also owned by someone else, but they did not give me permission to have him in the comic. Simple as that.

So they're more mentioned in passing.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh wow

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

that's really cool! wow

Novasiri

Many threads, yus~

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

must be real nice to have webcomic friends that you can connect universes to

XD

Novasiri

But a lot of the past between Kana and Mak will be explained in act 3 specifically

As with the reveal of why mak died

And what caused the Shattering to begin with

So.. lots of bomb shells

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

ogm and we're still in act 1

wishjacked

Hey, made it back, sorry!!

Novasiri

Welcome back Chloe~

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

how many chapters in an act?

Novasiri

at least 4-5 chapters

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I see

Novasiri

Act 1 is exactly 5 chapters

wishjacked

Oh, I'm SO INTERESTED in knowing how the primordials and afterlife work in this world....

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yus!

Novasiri

We'll get a lot of that Chloe, in the next act

A lot of that

but if you have specific questions, you can ask about it

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i wonder what the null lands looked like

Novasiri

with the rework of ch1/2 we'll see breif glimpses of what it is now, AE.

wishjacked

the worldbuilding seems to be built a lot on death and I really want to know how it ties together hahaha.

Novasiri

Cause i'm adding a scene or two

RebelVampire

QUESTION 3. The comic’s world is vastly characterized by the Shattering, which greatly damaged the Planes and resulted in Null being wiped out completely. Despite Makumbo being reborn as the new Null Lord, though, there is still much chaos present. Why do you think Makumbo, of all people, became a Null? Does the Shattering have anything to do with why seemingly new primordial types are coming into existence? What do you think happened to the All-Father who was partly responsible for the Shattering?

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yay

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

maybe mak is a reincarnation of the All-Father ./shots

Novasiri

Ooohhh man...

Nah Mharz, that lazy ass is still around somewhere

Kabocha

...in pieces?

Novasiri

Noooo ouo

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

huh I see

Novasiri

I am curious to hear the theories tho.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

really a lazy ass?

Novasiri

The All Father's identiy has been hinted at, you jsut gotta read between the lines a bit. -uo And put together some dots

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

for some reason i feel like null has some kind of bigger purpose in the grand scheme of things...something more than the other primordials....something that is contrary to what we think when we think of the word null

almost like a balance

Novasiri

Good guess~

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

or constant

Kabocha

IT'S PHINEAS

wishjacked

well I hate to keep beating my death horse this but my theory is that the null lord creation has something to do with type a of death

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

damn

XD

Kabocha

(no, I know it's not)

Novasiri

Chloe

on the nose

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Mak was a human initially before turning into a Null lord

Novasiri

A lot of primordials are, however. Including Dunkan. But he's a Void. -uo

but Chloe is on the right track, how, when, and why you die make a BIG difference

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

that's very interesting

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wut 0.0 omh

omg*

Novasiri

I'm actually alowed to spoil this, as it's world building, not so much integral completly to the story.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

wishes I can make stories as twited as that

Novasiri

Primordials are created from a certain type of soul.

A 'Lost' soul.

A soul that's unfit for their determined afterlife

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

your allowed to spoil what you want...its your story XDDDDD (couldn't resist)

wishjacked

EEEEEEEEEEEE??

Novasiri

How they died, who they were, how old they were all play factors into what element they become

Null has very, specific, parameters

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wow that's REALLY neat

wishjacked

OK THAT WAS PART OF MY GUESS TOO

Novasiri

Very.. grim... parameters

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yis

wishjacked

YIKES

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

flails!! more excited now

Novasiri

Because for a Null to be formed, it has to be a childs soul.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

null and void makes me think of programming. XD

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh no how sad

Novasiri

So we're talking someone has to be below the age of 10, even stillborn... and has to not just die, but their soul has to be lost to the unknown. Which is extremely rare as many 'gods' tend to shelter these types of souls.

So something usually goes 'wrong' when a Null forms

RebelVampire

hmm that does give context for why ira auto thought to ask mak how old they were when they died

Novasiri

Mhmm

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

isn't Mak 11 when they died?

Novasiri

Makumbo was no exception to the rule, however, HOW he died played a major part in why he's a Null.

And yes, he was.

But

wishjacked

My theory was that the reason null has so few souls is because the death is so rare and bizarre. But I couldn't think of why the previous null lord would be much more impressive than Mak (according to freaking Aion) if they were both children's souls

Novasiri

Again, the hows kick into play here.

wishjacked

AWWW BABY

MAK

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

huh interesting

Novasiri

I will spoil it here, but only here.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

is on the edge of her seat

Novasiri

Makumbo's parents were researchers, specifically on the element of Null.

wishjacked

someone give this Lord a cup of cocoa and a warm blanket stat

ohhhHhhooooooooooo

Novasiri

At the age of 6, he was disowned for not being adept in magic.

And then used as a living experiment

to artificially create a Null Primordial

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

WHOA

thats CRAZY

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

wow

Novasiri

Now, Primordial energy + A living body is bad, really bad.

It literaly turnes into a cancer

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Nova spilling all the stuffs

Novasiri

And eats ytou from the inside out

wishjacked

I was about to say I was really glad to be in this server so I can get all the spoilers but I just changed my mind this is the worst I'm cry

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

ouch

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

we do have a spoiler chat

Novasiri

So Makumbo actually 'died' internally, but was kept alive through artifical means.

wishjacked

nova dude

Novasiri

:3

Makumbo's actualy death was around the age of 8, but it took 3 more years for the energy build up to finally go nuclear.

Which it did.. and wiped out the complex, and his family..

And essentiallym freeing him. But he was concious the whole time.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

OMG

wishjacked

my poor baby

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

that sounds majorly tramatic

Novasiri

It's gonna be fun to depict in the comic when the time comes. But yeah.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

and traumatizing

RebelVampire

well this got dark

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Rebel brings the popcorn

wishjacked

brb I'm going to hell the beat his parents into jelly

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

it got DEEP

Novasiri

that explosion of null magic is what alerts Kana to Makumbo's location, she tracks him down, and it's how they meet; she winds up smuggling him to america to protect him.

And hilariously only reason Kana was close enoug to see it, is because she was being a brat and testing demolition tools

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

Novasiri

But yeah....

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol brats ftw

Novasiri

And to think, that's just Mak's death... It's no where near as bad as Gavin's.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

brb

Novasiri

which i will not be spoiling

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

no wonder Mak is so timid

RebelVampire

gavin melted in a pool of acid for 100 years

Novasiri

But enough about my blabing, back to the question at hand. XD

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

i think this atmosphere just inspires spoilers x3

Novasiri

XD

there's some things I won't spoil, like the All-Father's identity. That you have to figure out yourselves

As for Astrov and Zenith, aka Possitive and Negative. It does have to do with the shattering in a way.

More of a by-product of the Planes trying to 'fix itself'.

Not saying the whys and hows, but it does have to do with one another.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i love their clothing

Novasiri

Thank you, their inspiration is very heavily on 'Life' and 'Death' thematics

RebelVampire

so if astrov and zenith are a byproduct of the planes trying to fix themselves, this makes me wonder if theyll be okay if void and null are restored to proper order. since if theyre sort of fixed their existence may no longer be needed.

Novasiri

-eyebrow waggles-

And we'll get to see what happens, eventually~

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh noooo not one of those sad fading into the midst ending scenes cries

Novasiri

hahaha no, none of that

There will be fighting, and bickering, and probably some deaths

Kabocha

comes back to holy crap spoilers

Novasiri

XD

Kabocha

MAK YOU PRECIOUS LIL THING

Novasiri

It's most character spoilers, not major plot spoilers, so I'm more okay with some things coming out

Gavin's stuff is major plot spoilers, so... I be hush hush

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

spoilers are spoilers...we take whatever we can get XD

RebelVampire

as for all-fathers identity....my first guess would be ira cause despite ira calling all-father lazy for jumping ship and leaving everyone to clean the mess up, ira seems to have mysterious goals, can change form, and somehow paralyzed aion. but i feel that may be too obvious of a guess and theres plenty of flaws to the idea. theres another guess i may make but i need to check something first

Novasiri

Hmmmm~

Kabocha

I look forward to learning more about Gavin. This would probably explain why Mak reaaaaaaaaally hates getting compared.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh interesting thought rebel

Kabocha

And hm. Ira as the all-father? I'll hop on that train.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i actually hadn't thought about who it might be

Kabocha

though Ira seems a little... irate about having to clean up after him.

Novasiri

Hmmm indeed~

I'm choosing to be silent here, cause I know.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

RebelVampire

but at the same time ira is sort of cleaning up after him by helping mak

so i could argue that the all-father is cleaning up his mess just in secret sort of an in a hands off way

and in disguise cause if i was a primordial i dont think id be too happy with all-father

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i actually like this thought

Novasiri

So hard to hold my tongue right now

It's very hard

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

hahahaha

Novasiri

Please continue tho

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

hands nova superglue >.>

Kabocha

Ira's just watching, though. I dunno, I suppose we'd have to see how it goes. ....Also how likely is Phineas to get severely injured by the guy tailing them?

Novasiri

Very likley

Kabocha

Madda has NO trust in the guy

Novasiri

Almost guarenteed

Kabocha

losing a limb?

Novasiri

une is very, very dangerous.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Ira seems to have a very suspicious power they used at Aion

Novasiri

Mhmm~

RebelVampire

QUESTION 4. Act 1 is focused on Makumbo helping Madda-Rakt pick a new Void Lord. However, the choices are pretty slim. Makumbo can either pick the pompous Aion or the bestial Umbrage. Who do you think will become the new Void Lord? Speaking of which, what does Ira have to do with everything that’s going on in regards to Void? Is Ira just that helpful or is Ira up to something?

wishjacked

I bet the mimic is the all-father. XD

Novasiri

LOL, nawww. Timo is just timo~

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

would love it to be umbrage personally

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

umbrage!

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

umbrage is so adorbs

Kabocha

Umbrage seems more fitting to do the job at hand

Novasiri

XD A fun tid bit, originally I was planning to host a Patron poll to determine who would become the Void lord, however, this has now been set in stone, and chapter 5 will be the deciding method of who gets the job. But it's not about to be on a handshake.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oooo

Novasiri

one of them is going to die.

Kabocha

plz be aion

and plz be explodey

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

was thinking that at some point Aion and Umbrage would merge

LOL

Novasiri

It will also be the first introduction on death for Primordials.

Cause it's not good.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

that would be cool to see mharz

Novasiri

You'd be on the right track, Mharz. However neither will be going down without a fight.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

omg

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

0.0

Novasiri

The death is more along the lines of the personality dying, while the other reabsorbs the power.

Chapter 5 is literaly a giant Duel.

Kabocha

well then

they get the power but not the decency

or asshattery

Novasiri

Not going to say who wins, however.

Also breif BRB, pizza just got here.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yay pizza

don't let Phineas touch it

Novasiri

I may not be back by the time it concludes, but if I don't, I'll still hang out to answer questions if you'd like to ask them

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

waits for a year for all pages to be posted

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

dont let silver touch the pizza either XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

nah Silver will just eat the pizza

all of them

if she can eat

RebelVampire

regardless of who becomes void lord, the question is will they be able to take on the eldritch horror thats consuming void.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i dont think they can do it alone

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yee

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

mak is going to have a major role in that

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I think the three of them are, including Madda-Rakt

RebelVampire

lol im not sure i could picture madda-rakt getting that involved. they seem more like a sit in the background eat popcorn and give moral support type of person XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

RebelVampire

granted im sure madda-rakt is powerful

just

if madda-rakt was so forward idk why madda-rakt didnt go reign in aion and umbrage

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

hey you two can do this, I'll just sit back right here

RebelVampire

decided "man ya know whats a great idea? asking the new null lord ive never met"

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

good point

they're pretty protective at Mak too

RebelVampire

granted im sure theres reasons besides that. XD

just madda-rakt seems more likely to leave stuff to the youngins

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

unless there is something about the situation that only a null can do

RebelVampire

yes thats a possibility too

or madda-rakt is partly testing mak

thinking that null isnt going to make a comeback if the new lord sucks

Kabocha

madda said something about not being able to interfere, I think?

RebelVampire

maybe. but i take ppl saying i cant interfere with a grain of salt XD cause i find its usually a coin clip between cant and just wont

and to be fair

the story did seem to indicate that in the hierarchy of power null beats void

so there seems to be a rock paper scissors thing going on i guess?

where elementals have advantages and disadvantages against certain types

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

huh that's pretty interesting

meanwhile nova is watching while eating the pizza

RebelVampire

assuming phineas didnt get to nova first

rip

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

dang it Phineas

but I think Null is the powerful out of all them

RebelVampire

that could be too

that nulls in general just badasses

with them strobes

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

one of the reasons why they're eliminated becos probably some find them very threatening

RebelVampire

could be although gavin seemed to be pretty respected in a way?

so since theres only 9 mins left does anyone have any closing thoughts?

Kabocha

MORE ISILMO

RebelVampire

crack theory: isilmo is the all-father

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

LOL that would be best plot twist

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

OM

Novasiri

-munching cinammon sticks- :U

Kabocha

that's it, story's over

get your fire dragons to fix the world

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I want Isilmo to grow big and strong

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

Novasiri

I read up, yes, there is a sort of power-triangle, or rock paper scissors ordeal. But.. there's also a big rule. Cause a Lord can't Kill another Lord. Madda-Rakt may be pwoerful.. but they can't go after ulhamig alone, cause they wouldn't be able to kill it even if theyw anted to.

Isilmo is gonna get big... He's jsut a baby right now. When he's fully grown, he'll be the size of a clydsdayle

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

maybe Isilmo will save everyone

Novasiri

XD

RebelVampire

so does that mean mak also wouldnt be able to beat ulhamig alone?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

also curious where Isilmo came from

Novasiri

Mhmm. Mak wouldn't be able to.

It's gonna be a combined effort.

isilmo came from an egg.. lol

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

they all are going to break the rule together?

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

Bookmarked the comic for later, but I really have to say I love the dynamic of the characters so far :3

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

egg

duh

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wait wait

WAIT

Novasiri

Like... Isilmo is only 6 months old. Tops.

He's a babu

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

the wind lord seems to be a dragon too

Novasiri

Shit

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

hahahahaha

Novasiri

Forget I said that

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

O_o

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

applauds

Novasiri

-deleted it- :I

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

O_O

Kabocha

bwahaha

Novasiri

Wind is a big dergon~ A special type of dergon~

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i wanna dragon

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

dergon

:3

Novasiri

Yus~

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

still rooting for umbrage

Novasiri

:3

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

so nice and big and adorable

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yus

RebelVampire

Unfortunately, the scheduled Comic Tea Party is now complete~! Thank you everyone so much for joining this week’s chat~! That being said, if you would like to continue discussing the comic, we encourage you to do so~! We want to give a big thank you to Novasiri, as well, for volunteering Aether Eternius for our reading queue. If you liked the comic, please be sure to support Novasiri’s efforts. If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions about CTP, please feel free to PM me, or e-mail me at RebelVampire@startfaire.com.

With that said, next week’s Comic Tea Party will focus on The Cat, the Vine, and the Victory by wnqs. Please use this week to read as much of the comic as you would like. Hope to see you next Thursday (August 3rd) from 5PM to 7PM PDT~! Until then~! Comic: https://tapas.io/series/The-Cat-The-Vine-and-The-Victory(edited)

[thedappleddragon]

Day 126 (Friday July 17)

I woke up and played animal crossing for a while. My friends reminded me that we were going to have a dnd session over discord, and I had completely forgotten lol. I worked on the second fish plush for a little bit until we were scheduled to start. We played for over 2 hours I think, and discord crashed on us like twice. It was a ton of fun, even tho I’m ass at rollplaying and improv. A quick synopsis of our session;

We left 42069 blazin street and went to the mechanic robot repair shop. I had my little robot from the beginning of the game upgraded with laser eyes and LEDS, borrowing money from Elwin, and we checked the security tapes to look for signs of the princess. The tapes showed her being led out of the store by a shadowy figure with a ponytail and feminine frame and we smashed the security system so Elwin could steal. Realizing we didn’t know enough about where to go next, we went to the mcdevils next door to order food and check their security tapes. We saw that the kidnapper had red tattoos and drove an orange Lamborghini, driving east. We walked all the way to New Ork, stopping by to see Toni’s parent figure/mentor Papa Pastorelli at her roller skate pizza joint job. We got pizza and checked the tapes, seeing the Lamborghini park across the street and the princess and kidnapper enter the sewers. It was at this point Sam pointed out that the princess wasn’t struggling against her kidnapper, so theories started flying. We broke into their car and stole the princesses phone and a baggie of PCP, heading to the UnderDark, and illegal marketplace thingy in the sewers. We traded the pcp for info from Joe Biden the 600lb changeling drug dealer, who turned us to Barbra Streisand the knife seller to read the notes written in sylvan. It was a shopping list for a dark cloak, pcp, a knife, and white hair dye. At this point we all theorized that Sahara and the princess were running away to be gay lovers. We searched through the phone some more and called Sahara at the castle and the king Venmoed us some money. The session ended on a cliffhanger with the phone ringing.

After the session, I finished the fish plush, but I don’t remember much else about the day lol.

Day 127 (Saturday July 18th)

I played a LOT of animal crossing, and spent like 5 hours making custom clothing designs, mostly sweaters. I didn’t know you could store custom designs!! Now I’m gonna make so many that I’ll never buy clothes again >:) or not because I’m not very good at anything that’s not a sweater. I’ll probably upload the at codes tomorrow. I can’t now because the able sisters shop is closed, and I can’t time travel because of turnips. I don’t like time traveling anyway. I thought I was going to have an open house this day, but it turned out to be he next day. I don’t really remember much of yesterday other than animal crossing and feeling really cute for no reason. Is it wierd that I feel the best about myself when I’m in a baggy shirt with semi-messy hair? I feel best like that and with a normal t shirt and black high waisted jeans and when I tie my shoes really tight. Anyway I remember before I went to sleep that I wanted to make a teddy bear backpack. Also my guts hurt for no reason. OH WAIT NOW I REMEMBER! I stayed up until 4 am making dumb tiktoks lol

Day 128 (Sunday July 19th)

I instinctively woke up early today because I didn’t want to sleep in too late and risk missing the open house. I felt like shit and my guts hurt in the morning, so I was worried about if I should go or not, but I felt fine after a little while. I played animal crossing and debated on weither or not I should play the stalk market, and ended up buying an inventory full of turnips last second. In a rush of selling things to empty my inventory, I accidentally sold my silver net :( I know I can buy another from the museum, but I have to wait for it to show up which might take a while :/. I showed my friends the tiktoks I made, and one of them reached out to me asking if I could draw some of her characters from her story. I said yes, and I wasn’t planning on drawing them today but I read the outfit description for one and got really inspired. I ended up drawing 3 full bodies of 3 very pretty ladies and 2 headshots of someone’s parents because at that point I was tired and running out of space on the page but wanted to sketch out my thoughts. But then I had to get ready for the open house, so I took a super quick shower and got dressed, stressing out over my dad taking so long to get ready and what time I should arrive and blah. It turned out fine tho, and I had a nice time just sitting and talking with friends. Now we’re mutuals on tungle.hell :) hi steph. I came home and drew some more and spent way too long on TikTok. I played a little more animal crossing and saw that retail was offering extra for perfect peaches, so I sent out a post on amino offering to let people come sell their peaches in my cherry town for the most profit possible in game for fruit. No one accepted in time tho. My guts started hurting again for no reason. But when I passed by my reflection in the mirror I felt cute as hell and punched the air and did a little dance I was so happy. I was wearing my one pair of short shorts too, since I wore them under my dress at the open house and just kept them on, and they boost my confidence 500% for no reason when I’m home alone. If I wore them in public I would cry, but for some reason I feel like a god at home. Then I laid in bed and almost fell asleep watching a compilation of those scale mail gauntlet videos, spent too much time on TikTok and YouTube.

[filosofablogger]

Welcome to the Monday before Christmas Thanksgiving, my friends!  Today is partly a redux of a post I did in 2017 just ahead of Thanksgiving, with a few humorous additions!  Thanksgiving is 3 days away, and I have not prepared a menu, a shopping list … nothing.  I’m lacking motivation and inspiration this year, for reasons that are no doubt obvious to most of you.  Still, however, I tried to rally to the cause this morning, and with Jolly’s help have prepared you a mini-Thanksgiving snack array, so help yourself and then lets find a reason to smile, shall we?

Benjamin’s juice boxes — but he’ll share if you ask nicely!

Next week brings Thanksgiving here in the U.S. Most of us both in the U.S. and abroad know about the traditional Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, that “officially” kicks off the Christmas season, and the turkey/stuffing/mashed potatoes and all the rest, topped off by traditional pumpkin pie, followed by football and people falling asleep with their mouths open.  But I thought it would be fun to kick it up a bit … see some of the stranger parts of the holiday … and top it off with a bit of history.

Food:

  Tofurkey & Gravy Soda – If you’re a big soda drinker who loves Thanksgiving dinner, then your wildest dreams have come true. Jones Soda Co., which is famous for its limited-edition holiday concoctions, offers Tofurky & Gravy Soda this season. Based on the vegetarian Thanksgiving meal, the Tofurky flavor is vegan-friendly and sugar-free.

Turkey dinner layer cake – The ultimate one-stop Thanksgiving meal. What looks like a cake is actually alternating layers of stuffing and ground turkey mixed with instant oatmeal, “frosted” with mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, and topped with lightly browned mini marshmallows.

Pumpkin Pie Fortune Cookies – If you’re feeling lucky this Thanksgiving, try these pumpkin pie–flavored fortune cookies from Fancy Fortune Cookies. Made with real pumpkin, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg, the cookies come covered in dark, milk or white chocolate and contain one of five custom fortune cookie messages inside.

Turkey Gravy Cranberry Cupcake – Made by Los Angeles–based Yummy Cupcakes, the treat features a turkey-flavored cake that’s baked with savory turkey gravy, filled with cranberry relish and topped with cranberry cream cheese.

Lay’s Turkey Potato Chips – This savory chip is only available in China, and according to a contributor at Taquitos.net: “They really do taste like turkey with gravy…It’s like combining the best parts of Thanksgiving dinner, all in one bag.”

Roasted Turkey Doritos – What’s better than roasted turkey? Roasted turkey-flavor Doritos. What’s better than roasted turkey-flavor Doritos? Roasted turkey–flavor Doritos in the shape of a Christmas tree, of course! Though these festive snacks aren’t available in the U.S., you can easily find them in Taiwan.

Mashed Potatoes And Gravy Jelly Beans – Part of the unusual Harry Potter Bertie Bott’s Jelly Beans Bag, the Mashed Potatoes and Gravy beans are just two unusual flavors in a mix that includes everything from ketchup to sausage.

Facts:

President Thomas Jefferson thought making Thanksgiving a National Holiday was “a ridiculous proposition.” – Thomas Jefferson was not a fan of Thanksgiving. Despite being first proclaimed by George Washington in 1789, Jefferson believed a national day of thanksgiving was not consistent with the principle of separation of church and state and refused to recognize the holiday in any of the eight years in which he was president of the United States.

The Turkey was Ben Franklin’s vote for the national bird. – After the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, it next tasked Benjamin Franklin—along with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—with designing a seal to represent the new country. Given the opportunity to choose a national symbol, the Founding Father never suggested a turkey.

The night before Thanksgiving is the single biggest day for bar sales in the U.S. – Four reasons:  1) Nearly all Americans have Thanksgiving off; 2) No one wants to entertain the night before hosting a big Thanksgiving meal; 3) Everyone is home for the holidays and wants to see old friends; 4) Thanksgiving dinner is a perfect hangover cure.

The first-ever Macy’s Day Parade actually took place on Christmas of 1924.

Macy’s employees dressed as clowns, cowboys, and other fun costumes, and traveled with Central Park zoo animals and creative floats a lengthy six miles from Herald Square to Harlem in Manhattan.

The parade was meant to draw attention to the Macy’s store in NYC, and the gimmick worked – more than 250,000 people attended the inaugural Macy’s Day Parade. It was decided that this NYC parade would become an annual NY event in Manhattan.

In 1927, Felix the Cat became the first giant balloon to ever take part in the Macy’s Day Parade. In 1928, Felix was inflated with helium, and without a plan to deflate this massive balloon, NYC parade organizers simply let Felix fly off into the sky. Unfortunately, he popped soon thereafter.

The Macy’s Day Parade continued to let the balloons fly off in subsequent years, only these balloons would have a return address written on them, and whoever found the balloon could return the balloon for a prize from Macy’s. However, the results of this experiment weren’t exactly successful.

Then there’s the time a lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn’t find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, “Do these turkeys get any bigger?” The stock boy replied, “No ma’am, they’re dead.”

The Turkey Popped Out of the Oven

The Turkey popped out of the oven and rocketed in to the air; It knocked every plate off the table and partly demolished a chair. It ricocheted into a corner and burst with a deafening boom, Then splattered all over the kitchen, completely obscuring the room. It stuck to the walls and the windows, it totally coated the floor, There was turkey attached to the ceiling, where there had never been turkey before.. It blanketed every appliance, it smeared every saucer and bowl; There wasn’t a way I could stop it; that turkey was out of control. I scraped and I scraped with displeasure and thought with chagrin as I mopped, That I would never again stuff a turkey with popcorn that hadn’t been popped.

Written by Jack Prelutsky

And, we cannot have Jolly Monday without a ‘toon or two, can we?

I even found a video of cute animals enjoying their own Thanksgiving feast!

And with that, I must be off, for Thursday is Thanksgiving, in case you didn’t know, and we will be sharing ours with our friends & neighbors, Maha, Ali, and their three boys.  So … this ol’ Filosofa needs to get to the grocery and buy ingredients, plan a menu, and try to find some inspiration somewhere.  I hope you all have a wonderful week, and please, remember to share your gorgeous smiles with others!  Love ‘n hugs from Filosofa!

Jolly Monday Before Thanksgiving Welcome to the Monday before Christmas Thanksgiving, my friends!  Today is partly a redux of a post I did in 2017 just ahead of Thanksgiving, with a few humorous additions! 

[cutiecrates]

Cutie Reviews: Doki Doki 19 June 2017

Hello Cuties! I’m a few days later than I would have liked with this review but I had some other things on still, including some tummy sickness that seemed to stubbornly remain while I was trying to work on video game recording for youtube.

At any rate, the lighting is a bit different in this one. I noticed when I don’t have a bigger light source, the coloring appears more “realistic” with the products in person (as well as my skin when it rarely shows up). You’ll have to let me know if you like this style or not.  

This months cover is by: JenChen

( ˘▽˘)っ This months theme is: Daily Essentials! 且_(・_・ )

Also, I felt it was worth noting that the Doki Doki Crate box has changed/upgraded. It’s essentially the same, but bigger in shape, a bit darker in color, and has some minor design changes, nothing too extreme.

Here are the monthly Suteki Crate items. Including a My Melody Purse, Hello Kitty and My Melody Bowls, Hello Kitty Chopsticks, Gudetama Hand Towel, Hello Kitty Desk Basket Set, Animal Crossing on 3DS, a Nintendo 2DS, and a Gudetama Pass Case.

(I really like the basket set, bowls, and purse~)

Without further ado, let’s get into it ♡

To celebrate the upgraded Doki Doki Crate, a mystery candy snack was included :D Now, I’m not sure if everyone got the same thing, or if this is a permanent inclusion now; but I love a little mystery~

I got Ring Candy in Strawberry. It resembles the cola one I got from Tokyo Treat a few months back, so I'm pretty sure they were from the same brand. It pretty much looks like the Ring Pop’s we have here, although I find the ring shape to be a bit cuter in Japan with it’s flower base ♡

However, where there is good lies bad. Anyone who read my previous T T review featuring the cola ring may recall that I hated it. This one fared a bit better than that because of its artificial strawberry flavor. It’s pretty to look at, but I can’t say it matches the packaging at all either.

In the end, I decided to give it a 3.5 out of 5 cuties. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it.

I decided to work backwards with this review; so next we have our monthly Hoppe-Chan in Sakuranbo theme. This simply kawaii Hoppe-chan is based on the wonderful cherry flowers, when they begin to bloom and cherries are in season during May.

Honestly- as much as I complain about Hoppe-chan when she’s really simple in style like this... I actually really like this one ♡ It’s simple, but very sweet. So maybe I’ve been spoiled by the fancier looking ones? 4 out of 5 Cuties.

(Speaking of, I believe I have 10 Hoppe-chan by now so I’m pretty much set to make my Hoppe-Chan top 10~! But maybe I’ll wait until I get a few more~)

Sticking with the cute, daily essentials theme, we get this adorable My Melody Bag Set. In each crate, everyone could receive a medium or large sized set of these bags featuring the ultra-kawaii My Melody and other precious designs~

As a set, so many are included per pack- which is probably a good thing because I think I got the medium size and these things are actually fairly small looking. Like, about the size of the mini-bags Walmart uses for very small items.

As much as I love the design, I’m not sure I would be willing to use these. I’d be too worried they would rip and I still have two other reusable bags (A bunny from the December Doki Doki, and a Neko Atsume from Yume Twins), so I’m pretty much good for now.

However, if you’re worried about grocery shopping with these- they also provide other benefits; such as carrying some spare clothing, giving a gift or presents, and lunch :D I’m also delighted by the prospect of this kind of item, because it is important to respect the world and learn to reuse shopping bags, especially if you have to shop a lot (and trust me, we do. We have bags FULL of these bags!). 4 out of 5 Cuties.

Next we have this adorable little Hello Kitty Stamp Case. As the name would imply, this is a set for holding stamps, but you can also use it for other little items or trinkets.

(Funnily enough, it resembles a mirror and brush compact I have. I got them mixed up a few times already!)

I don’t have much to say about this one sadly, but it works great for organizing and holding items, like medications (which is what I used it for as a “trial run”), and it could come in handy for carrying in a small purse. Which I also think is nice.

I actually kinda wish we got stamps tho... I mean, I think that would have been more fun. But again I like that Doki Doki though about daily use items. What are you more likely to use anyway? A stamp kit, or something small you can put important things in?

I give this 5 out of 5 cuties. It’s small, but highly practical.

Now I think most Cuties would know by now how essential tea or coffee can be sometimes, so to cutify them a bit we get some Gudetama Latte Art Sheet Set!

These are simple little sheets reminiscent of latte art that you place on top of a drink. You can sip them, spoon them up, or watch it dissolve. This Gudetama set also features a custard pudding scent (although to be honest it smelled like a yummy, but smelly cheese to me...), that adds a little sweetness to the drink.

You get 10 of these per pack, which is good if you really like them, and not only that; but who wouldn’t like a cute little cutie in their cup now and then? 3.5 out of 5. I like these but I can’t say they are my thing.

My Melody continues to grace us in this crate, and not only does she bring bags, but she brings us the  My Melody Sticky Notes set.

I pretty much have the same opinion I always have on these; they’re so cute! But for me, they’re not practical.

5 out of 5. They’re pleasing to the eye and they have a good length to them. You also get many in the pack which I think is nice. I can’t just say they’re bad because I don’t have a use for them at the time you know? 

Our last item is the one I liked the most ♡ a super-practical, ultra-kawaii Mocchi-zuu Big Size Face Bag. Available in 5 designs, you can get Chick, Panda, Cat, Polar Bear, and Bunny. Out of the available, I definitely lucked out- although I love cats, panda, and pink bunnies~

I pretty much fell in love with this on the spot. Not only is it roomy and includes a shoulder string, but it’s also plush and cuddly~ I was just looking for a small-ish purse I could use to carry stuff in when I go to the mall or store and I got this in GREAT timing!

However roomy it is, I feel like the image in the book exaggerates a little. The drawing depicts Tomomi (the mascot girl of Doki Doki) and what she keeps in hers. This includes: Headphones, Cell Phone, Note Book, Keys, Wallet, Gum, Pencil Case, Make Up Bag, and her Instax Mini.

But in mine, I could only fit 2 lip products, inhaler, eye drops, cellphone, hand sanitizer, hair bands, small body spray, and one or two other things I’m forgetting. You can fit a decent amount of stuff in it, but definitely not everything that drawing claims.

♡ Cutie Ranking ♡

Quality - 4 out of 5. The theme was spot-on with the items, but I felt like there could have been better choices.

Content - 3 out of 5. I think I liked this one slightly more than the last one. As much as I LOVE the purse, nothing in it really got me excited or super-eager to write this review. Which was kind of another reason I put it off, I was hoping my opinion would change but it kinda didn’t...

Practicality - 5 out of 5, given the theme that these are essential items for daily use the practicality has to be there. It really is, I’m not denying that. But in my case as I already noted, I honestly believe it would be a 2 out of 5.

Total Rank: 12 out of 15 Cuties. As I said, this box fared better than the previous one by a great deal. But nothing about it got me excited or praising it unconditionally... It’s almost been a year since I started to get these (September), so I’m really hoping the quality will go back up because I thought they were doing really well as of late.

♡ Cutie Scale ♡

1. Purse - Come on, it’s a giant kawaii cuddly animal head ♡

2. Sticky Notes - I love adorable pastel designs~

3. Hoppe-chan - Sometimes simple is best. Especially when you’re simply covered in cute pinkess with fruity ornaments~

4. My Melody Reusable Bag Set - Really cute and sweet, I’m surprised by all of the detail they bothered to put into it.

5. Hello Kitty Case - As much as I love Hello Kitty, it’s just a generic Hello Kitty head.

6. Ring Pop - It’s a big gem made of candy on a ring!

7. Gudetama Latte Sheet - Nothing to say really. Gudetama is cute, but I felt like these items were cuter.

Well, that does it for another review. I’m sorry if I appear to lack luster or anything- it was hard to get excited for this review and truly focus on it. I really couldn’t think of much to say DX I also hate the the fact that it was a June box that took me forever to get to.

But now I am officially moving into July boxes and I’m way more excited for them! Until then, stay Cutie!

[comicteaparty]

July 13th, 2017 CTP Archive

The archive for the Comic Tea Party chat that occurred on July 13th, 2017, from 5PM - 7PM PST.  The chat focused on Soul Hymn by Draco Plato.

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RebelVampire

Good day everyone~! This week’s Comic Tea Party is now officially beginning. Today we are discussing Soul Hymn by Draco Plato~! (http://khyatix.com/soulhymn.shtml) For those new to CTP, discussions about the comic are freeform, so please feel free to bring up whatever you wish. However, every 30 minutes I will be dropping in a discussion question to help those who would like a prompt. These questions are totally OPTIONAL to answer so pay them no mind if you wish~! Remember, constructive criticism is allowed, but the primary focus here is to have fun and appreciate the amazing comics that the community makes~! Each chat a top comment will be picked and featured on an ad for this chat, so let’s have a great discussion~! With that said, let us begin with this first question~!

QUESTION 1. What is your favorite scene in the comic so far and why?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

i think mine would be when eirk is hanging out with his bro and niece(edited)

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

One of my favorite scenes was when celeste (i think) first blows Erik's cover about being a goat XD

Kabocha

My favorite scene was when Erik and Arrow started getting acquainted in class. >w< It was really adorable! ...Also Celeste getting paranoid was humorous in its own way. ...Although justified.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

that was really adorable

DracoPlato

Yis~! My favorite scene is the same as Delta's haha

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I read it yesterday for once

XD

RebelVampire

i enjoyed celeste getting paranoid considering she was all critical of erik just revealing himself to her earlier

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

it was so cute

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I read it in 30 miins

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wanted to throw popcorn at celeste

DracoPlato

LOL

Kabocha

@RebelVampire I know right?

DracoPlato

it is a fast read, i think it takes me ten minutes to read it all

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

also, i didn't catch it when reading it before but arrow is gay as hell for erik(edited)

Kabocha

but on the other hand, you can get why she was a little freaked out. What if Erik wasn't really Erik or something

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

i noticed arrow is gay as hell for erik

DracoPlato

arrow totally gay as hell for erik, lol

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

yeah

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

arrow and erik sittin in a tree /shot

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

love at first sight

Kabocha

Well, at least he's not being lewd about it.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

unlike his previous life

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yus!

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

then celeste comes along, and its gets a little wierd

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i appreciate that bit

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

cuase draco did say erik marries twins

DracoPlato

arrow isn't really lewd though as a character

mathtans

I made it. ^.^

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

aw man i missed spoilers again

maths!

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

they're teens... you'll never know

DracoPlato

people gonna be dropping all the spoilers here, lol

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well considering you can easily get most info from draco about the comic, it was easy to learn that

mathtans

Fave scene would be when Erik's cell phone went off in class. Because 1) speaking as a teacher, teacher reaction worked; 2) I immediately knew she was calling him to check his identity; 3) When he was just "huh, don't know the number" I literally facepalmed. It was great.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

hell draco just blurted that out(edited)

Kabocha

this particular chat should be marked as "spoilers all day all the time"

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh yeah

DracoPlato

haha i'm really loose with spoilers

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

you are

DracoPlato

i like that scene too maths!

RebelVampire

in retrospect, i wonder how many numbers erik would actually recognize

cause i doubt erik has friends

mathtans

Spoilers for what now?

DracoPlato

Erik has no friends, that's true

mathtans

Rebel: Erik has family. ^.^

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

makes note to talk to loose draco more often XD

DracoPlato

he does have a large family!

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

at least 6 siblings

Kabocha

oh man

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yus

Kabocha

how does one handle that many siblings

DracoPlato

i'm always forgetting the number of siblings he has tbh

RebelVampire

im sure his fam must know hes in class. maybe. unless they are like "nah its fine erik doesnt need to learn."

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

would give Erik all the hugs

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I like it when Erik showed a family photo and Arrow is like "why are all of you goats?"

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

LOL

DracoPlato

erik's parents would call him during class XD they don't care much about school

mathtans

Heh, that was amusing. Fun with cosplay.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow eriks parents, great job

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

the family that cosplays together, stays together

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

...

DracoPlato

for sure XD but they probably don't really cosplay, lol

mathtans

So, there must be glamour magic already to hide the goat thing, on top of the alien magic, yeah? Wonder if it all comes from the same source somehow.

RebelVampire

i laughed at the fact arrow just accepted that oh yeah, they put on plays. very normal sure.

DracoPlato

the magic to make him human is different than the one he uses to transform

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

not sure it alien magic, maybe its just magic

mathtans

So there's flavours of magic....

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

well you know...

maybe it's family tradition

DracoPlato

well, for magic in general all magic has the same logic behind it

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i think the powers were given to them by angels...they just think they were aliens

DracoPlato

but the magic to make him human isn't from the three space people at least

mathtans

AW - Both begin with A.

Kabocha

So, if the magic came from Angels

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

those space people are wierd

Kabocha

is silver involved somehow

DracoPlato

LOL

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

one of them just took control of erik with no warning, dick move

DracoPlato

the three space people are more like gods than angels though

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

Kabocha

XD

Are they -spoilers-

DracoPlato

was it a dick move tho?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well gods are dicks then

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oooo

Kabocha

lol

but seriously, are those space people their future incarnations or what

mathtans

One wonders why Celeste was chosen but not her brother? If gender stereotyping isn't a thing?

DracoPlato

Arrow has a different role is all

mathtans

He doesn't look as good in a skirt?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

to be gay for erik, thats his role

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

-snort-

DracoPlato

maybe he's just even more special

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yeah

DracoPlato

100% not a gender thing tho

RebelVampire

nah they just dont like ppl with glasses

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

the world may never know

in 10 years

DracoPlato

the hint to arrow's role is that he and Hope have the same bubble color

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yis

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

OH GOD REALLY

mathtans

Oooh, I wasn't paying close attention to the bubbles. Well, aside from the beginning, to figure out the flashback.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

same as this other guy

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow arrow was made to be gay for erik

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

the bubble color back history keeps me eternally confused XD

DracoPlato

hahaha, but it's so spoilery

the bubble colors

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

the bubbles betray so much

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yeah...trying to put it with the nifty patreon excusive thingo >.>

Kabocha

o_o

DracoPlato

Oh! The life chart

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh i loved when Erik got possessed by vijaya

and yus

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

dick move

DracoPlato

Ooooooh I like that too, that's probably my fave actually

mathtans

Wait, when was that?

DracoPlato

i was really excited to draw his eyes like that

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

and the whole conversation that led up to it

mathtans

(I read this over the weekend... memory fail...)

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

very inpiring in a way

DracoPlato

http://khyatix.com/soulhymn/issues/issue15/iss15pg2.shtml

was that page

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

you can re read it again

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

inspiring even

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

it's pretty short

mathtans

Oh, riiiight.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

took me 30mins

so proud

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

we can tell lol

DracoPlato

it is a pretty fast read, haha needs more pages

mathtans

All in good time.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well its 4-5 pages a month

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

still loves hopes design

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

...wait thats the normal rate of most comic creators

RebelVampire

i like how hope's response to vijaya possessing erik and watching them was basically of course he's watching them

DracoPlato

yis, basically a page a week

I think Hope felt relieved by it

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

stalker LOL

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

just what hell did decebal do to hope

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i think so too

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

jk

magic

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

bad magic

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

just like everything else

RebelVampire

decebal invited him to join his punk rock band the pillars

DracoPlato

cause even Hope had some doubt but he knew he had the right person then

DracoPlato

decebal not even in the band, tch

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yeah hope was very unimpressed with their fighting skills XD

RebelVampire

no hes the band manager

well erik did almost get choked to death

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

decebel sure is a creeper when he popped up during mickeal's phoning someone

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

all you need is training that is all(edited)

RebelVampire

i would not be very impressed by that

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

yeah that was odd

why didn't the little girl say anything about him being there

DracoPlato

they couldn't see Decebal

not even Erik could see him

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh

ok

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yeah that's what I thought

RebelVampire

decebal is a ghosty ghost

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

DracoPlato

yis, he was in an astral body

but it's hard to tell

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i like his design too

RebelVampire

plot twist: decebal just lives with them so its not strange to see him

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

likes lots of draco's character designs XDDDD

DracoPlato

:"D

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol rebel

mathtans

I like twins... I'm a sucker for that after I've used them myself...

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

it was hard to tell

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

isn't decibal an angel

that makes sense

DracoPlato

I really like that they're twins too! There's a lot of humor behind that

maybe just to me as the creator tho

Kabocha

on another note, Mickeal pretty much seems to have a recurring thing of not actually wanting to manage full custody of his kids in any life, does he XD

mathtans

They know each other well though. You got that across when they were introduced.

DracoPlato

:"D!!

Kabocha

at least this time he's far away from Arrow.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LMAO

DracoPlato

and lol! In Decebal's defense it's not that he doesn't want full custody he just travels a lot so it's hard

I mean Mickeal's

pffffft

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i was about to say

THAT was a big spoiler XDDD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

HA

DracoPlato

what even brain

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

well travelling is tiring

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

bubbles

bubbles riun things

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I pretty sure draco just want to spill everythang

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

Kabocha

Draco, it's okay

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

if you look deep enough you can learn a lot though the bubbles alone

mathtans

I don't always notice the bubbles.

Kabocha

any spoilers you wanna leak, I'm cool with

DracoPlato

I was like I'm gonna be good and not spoil things today

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

and then the chat began

XD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

draco your the loosest jar of spoilers

its a matter of time

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

spoil all ye want

RebelVampire

is a good girl who sips soda and doesnt spoil all the spoilers

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

spoil away because i missed most of it normally >.>

DracoPlato

rebel knows everything, lol

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

rebel gets a gold star

DracoPlato

got my sad erik all ready

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

why do you have a sad erik

DracoPlato

cali made me a bunch of erik's for today

Kabocha

Does he really baa

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

he does

DracoPlato

yus, he baaas

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and he eats cans

Kabocha

ahahahahah

DracoPlato

yus, depression can eating

mathtans

So is Erik related to Mr. Tumnus from "Lion, Witch and Wardrobe"?

DracoPlato

LOL

DracoPlato

not in canon XD

but I do love Mr. Tumnus

mathtans

Heh.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I'm still looking forward to the day he eats cans

mathtans

Erik, doing the can-can.

DracoPlato

lol, need to make it a wallpaper XD

can-can, shoving multiple cans in his mouth

Kabocha

that was baaaaaaad

mathtans

It's different from Tin-Tin, that's french.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

DracoPlato

I don't know if he'll eat cans in arc 1 though

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LMAO

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

can he scale a mountain like a goat

mathtans

If he has tracing paper and a ruler?

DracoPlato

He probably could but I don't think Erik is that athletic

lol!

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well he can fly anyway

DracoPlato

which is funny cause Erik's character was originally very athletic as his main trait before I made him a Damon life

but now he's not really that athletic

Kabocha

Oh wellll

mathtans

I figure hooves make that trickier.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

just being a damon life makes you more of a shlub

DracoPlato

Yeah, and then on feet he's not used to regular feet that well

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

who needs to be athletic when you can fly

DracoPlato

damon himself is very athletic tho, haha

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

actuly mat goats a suprinlgy good at scaling mountains

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol aww

Erik trips often as a human XD

mathtans

He should stay away from the drugs.

DracoPlato

This is actually Erik's first time as a human

cause he's never had much of a need of it before

DracoPlato

since he grew up and lived mostly in the country

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

wow

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

goat magic(edited)

DracoPlato

yeah, goats are awesome climbers!

Kabocha

Wait, he was literally a goat

DracoPlato

so good luck with that erik

Kabocha

I had figured he was a satyr or something. XD

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

imagines erik just walking along the side of a cliff

DracoPlato

he's a faun

haha

Kabocha

ahhh

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

draco draw that

mathtans

Can Erik take on the form of things other than human? Like, could he appear as an elf?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I imagine erik doing the spiderman on the mountains

mathtans

"Why do you have pointed ears today" "Just variety."

RebelVampire

QUESTION 2. Early on in the comic, there is an ominous scene depicting Decebal watching Erik’s brother, Mickeal. What interest would Decebal have in Mickeal? Will Mickeal be used against Erik somehow or is something bigger going on?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

YES

DracoPlato

With what he's using right now he couldn't, it's something the fauns use that have a spell already in it that makes them human. But it wears off cause it charges by the sun and he hasn't used it long enough for it to have a good charge

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

SAME COLOR SPEECH BUBBLE

mathtans

Draco: Ahhh, cool. Explains why he had problems in the subway.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

You just KNOW the two have history

Kabocha

Decebal doing bad things with Mickeal? Say it ain't so

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

he's intigating mickeal to do his intentions

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

does everyone here know about the coloed speech bubbles

DracoPlato

I mentioned it earlier, haha

mathtans

Wait, there's speech bubbles?

Kabocha

Is he gonna start doing the same thing as Rex, @Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

DracoPlato

Hahaha, Rex is mentioned in Soul Hymn

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

yes mat, the speech bubbles

DracoPlato

Decebal knows about Rex

mathtans

I be silly. ^.^

Maybe Mickeal's also magical?

DracoPlato

Mmmm Mickeal is important but not magical

beyond being a faun

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

you'll never know

DracoPlato

well I mean the fauns are magical in the sense they can captivate people with singing

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

maths doesn't know what the same colored speech bubbles mean x3

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

i predict decebel's gonna make mickeal join the dark side

mathtans

Oh, what was with the small animal...

DracoPlato

Naples is Erik's pet from home

mathtans

AE: I do, I just choose to be silly.

RebelVampire

mickeal is important cause he provides the roof over erik's head. granted if erik didnt have a house then arrow could be like "STAY WITH MEEEEEEEEE"

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

oh

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

just checked, mic and decebal have the same color bubble, I WAS RIGHT

DracoPlato

yus, they have the same speech bubble color, haha

mathtans

Right, maybe Naples is related?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

maybe mickeal's voice is hypnotic

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

can that soul stop fucking with life, jesus

DracoPlato

Nah Naples really is all that he seems, a talking flying squirrel

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

hope and arrow have the same color too

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

so decebal wants to use mickeal to influence ppl

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

they do

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

is hope gay as hell for erik

DracoPlato

hope less gay for erik, lol

mathtans

"Here, sing this."

Kabocha

ahahahaha

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

or does hope have is own damon life

RebelVampire

see i was right then, decebal is a band manager and picked mickeal to be lead singer

mathtans

Hopeless gay?

DracoPlato

oh noooo XD

lol omg

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

"sing this totally not world ruining anthem for your fans ok cool"

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yis

DracoPlato

the power of music to corrupt the world

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

he may not be magical but his voice is powerful

mathtans

"I don't know why it's in a minor key, just sing it."

DracoPlato

they say music is the highest art because it can stir the emotion in humans and bring them to action

RebelVampire

need a pic of decebal in sunglasses drinking starbucks

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh god

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

and then erik would have to learn guitar and singing so they can have a magical singing battle

DracoPlato

omg that'd be amazing XD

mathtans

"He hit me with a rest!"

DracoPlato

original erik played guitar

hahah

until i revamped him

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

that is actually what soul HYMN is about

Kabocha

oh wow

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

Kabocha

original erik is kinda hot

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow hope looks so suprised there

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

wow he looks less tan

Kabocha

UM, WHOOPS I MEAN

DracoPlato

yeah he had lighter skin originally

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

so did damon

Kabocha

He's a bit of a bishie. Yep.

DracoPlato

damon did too!! everyone gets darker skin, lol

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wow to that original erik

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well people draw what they want sometimes and draco loves bishies

mathtans

If Hope got darker skin, what was it like before...

DracoPlato

Oh Hope still has light skin

Kabocha

ahahaha

DracoPlato

I actually have a cut out of him on my wall from an older version

Kabocha

pic? :3

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

really

DracoPlato

see if i can find it

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

also yah that older version of erik is very hawt

Kabocha

oh geez

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow

Kabocha

that is gorgeous

mathtans

Nice pose.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

THAT LOOKS GREAT

OMG

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

beautiful!

DracoPlato

haha thank you X3

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

whats the bird

DracoPlato

originally the story was about him and arrow

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

ogm

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

theres more

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

OMG

Kabocha

so you're selling prints like this right

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

Draco!!! that's ....im stunned!

mathtans

Humm. So it was like that before Erik?

DracoPlato

yeah erik was a really recent change

but the story always struggled to come together until I made that change

like I had parts of a story but could never tie it all together

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

awww

mathtans

Needed more magical boys/girls, I guess.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

it bes that way sometimes

DracoPlato

weeeeeeeeell I did the magical girl boy thing cause I thought that'd appeal more to people

mathtans

Nothing wrong with that if it fits.

DracoPlato

little chibi arrow

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

so cute

and cranky

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

daw

DracoPlato

i had to make his bangs less like the majority of my other characters, lol

Kabocha

man, that is just so pretty

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

huh he looks different

and looks more like this guy right here

DracoPlato

another old one of Hope

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

SPARKLES

DracoPlato

yeeees, was way too into sparkles

Kabocha

Draco used Stunning Artwork! It's super effective! Chat is confused!

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

is still way too into sparkles... eyes her comic >.>

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

RebelVampire

sparkles make everything better

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

sparkles for everyone!

DracoPlato

yis~ ;3

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

though i kinda like hopes current design more XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DracoPlato

omg that's cute XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

RebelVampire

i cant not picture arrow as lewd cause of that version of the story where he made umm....NSFW robots

DracoPlato

haha back when he made sex bots

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

black and whiteeeeeeeeee

RebelVampire

my how the tables have turned. as arrow flirts and hits on erik so fast

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

LOL

arrow got influenced

mathtans

He made dolls?

DracoPlato

hahah i feel bad a lot of arrow's robotic stuff was sidelined

mathtans

He's still good with computers.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

i leave for 5 minutes, the fuck did i come back too

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DracoPlato

Yeah Arrow will still make robots too

but that'll be explored in arc 2

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

wow

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

boobs

lewd

Kabocha

oh dear

Arrow seems a little guilty about it(edited)

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

where are all this old files

O_O

I must see them

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

LOL

mathtans

He could make a playmate for Celeste.

DracoPlato

on my harddrive XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

rip

DracoPlato

LOL

Kabocha

(release it on gumroad or something)

do it

DracoPlato

I don't think Celeste wants a playmate

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

hacks draco's hard drive

mathtans

Pity.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

0.0

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

suddenly omake where celeste gets a boy robot as a present

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

or does she

DracoPlato

Nah Celeste isn't interested in dating or boys or sex

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

plot twist the robot is erik

DracoPlato

looooool

mathtans

She likes girls! Knew it all along.

DracoPlato

nah celeste isn't interested in girls either

mathtans

Robots?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

really draco, cuase she seemed kinda like a flirt when erik met her

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

would be fun if it's like that

I mean celeste liking girls

DracoPlato

well she is a flirt

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

mharz wants the yuris

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

mharz wants all the yuris(edited)

DracoPlato

celeste does like girls more than boys probably, lol

mathtans

Mharz: Would fit with her brother liking boys, amirite?

RebelVampire

celeste is only interested in becoming the pencil poking champ.

DracoPlato

yus

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

yus

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well its humble

DracoPlato

she does flirt a lot though, haha

cause she has a flirty line coming up later too

mathtans

She wants to get to know more magical people.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

in magical ways

mathtans

For her own ends.

Or for that.

RebelVampire

celeste just wants to steal their power

become magical girl queen of the world

DracoPlato

she'd like that actually XD

mathtans

Celeste has ego.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

the fuck celeste

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DracoPlato

hahah she is a little sinister at her core

loooooool

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

figures

XD

DracoPlato

arrow trying to sleep she comes in and pencil pokes him

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

pencil poking queen

mathtans

"Not in the ear!"

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

"eyes closed celeste what are you poking me with now" "erik's dick "

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DracoPlato

his dick is bigger than that XD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh my

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

rip

mathtans

I hope it's still attached to him. O.o

DracoPlato

for reals

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

either way thats a wierd secene

Kabocha

oh dear

um.

RebelVampire

the lewdness slowly escalates

Kabocha

yep

Who let lyall out

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

arrow

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

the inner lyalls come out to play

DracoPlato

t-this story isn't even the lewd one

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

https://giphy.com/gifs/editingandlayout-anchorman-that-escalated-quickly-ToMjGpjpXMFPshSYGLm

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

the best kind of escalation

DracoPlato

fffft

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

always the lyall

DracoPlato

would say this is the least lewd of all my stories

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

least lewd; more likely to get lewded

Kabocha

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/reverse.gif

mathtans

So the dolls won't be making a come back then.

DracoPlato

They will!

arrow is still into robotics

RebelVampire

but will they be sex bots

mathtans

Ohhhh.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

lewd robots(edited)

DracoPlato

but it's not the main focus atm, but it will be later on

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

maybe for enough money they will

DracoPlato

Arrow didn't want to make sex bots, but that's eventually what it became due to his backers

mathtans

Can robots be imbued with magic?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

made a robot and named it Lyall v1

RebelVampire

well somebody does have to pay for erik's cans

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i love robotics

DracoPlato

they can be, but magic is separate from the robotics

Kabocha

compared to your other stories, how long is Soul Hymn meant to be?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and arrows booze

DracoPlato

Soul Hymn is shorter than Zenchav but longer than Witch Carnival

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

why call it soul hymn

DracoPlato

Cali helped me name it~!

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

its a middle child XD

mathtans

Arrow makes a robotic Erik so that he can be seen alongside his magical self, thereby proving they are different people.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

because they will be singing

it is a battle of songs

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

ok, that explians a lot

DracoPlato

Because it's a story about their soul connections and there's music as one of the central themes as well as religion

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

ERIK IS MAGIC BATMAN

DracoPlato

omg XD

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

perfect name

DracoPlato

yus, I really like the title, Cali helped me get a good one~!

It used to be called Revelation

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

i almost name my 3rd arc that XD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow, thats as biblical as freds last name(edited)

DracoPlato

yeah, I wanted to change it cause it's pretty common

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

since the first two are genesis and exodus XD

RebelVampire

QUESTION 3. Celeste and Erik both mention they received their powers from “three space people.” Why do you think these three space people are interfering when nobody else is? Did they choose wisely or will Erik and Celeste be defeated given their inexperience? Why is Hope insisting Arrow come along when he didn’t talk to the three space people?

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

i went through the thesaurus a lot to help with the name looooooooooool

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

it's not vijaya?

DracoPlato

They chose badly, much badly, story full of fail

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

i feel like celestse souls ends up as a space person and that why shes chosen

RebelVampire

it is but i write these questions with the idea ppl arent going to rain spoilers down XD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

same for erik

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

MAYBE ARROW WILL BE CONTACTED BY THE SPACE PEOPLE

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

rip

DracoPlato

put on your space cap arrow

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

well draco said they are more like gods...so that debunks my entire thought process XD

mathtans

Erik, Celeste and Arrow ARE the three space people. It's time travel, they give themselves their own powers, but Arrow was all "no, I got robots, I'm good".

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

its like a normal cap...but in space

DracoPlato

if you've read OoO you'll know tho

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

imagines arrow building a mecha suit for himself to help with fighting

DracoPlato

lololol

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

MECHA

DracoPlato

lol! well he could

but he can't afford the parts atm

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

I WILL DRAW THIS

DracoPlato

omg XD

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

omg

DracoPlato

that's also why Arrow isn't currently doing the robotics is he can't afford the parts, so he's only been working on the AI software atm

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

OoO is the only one i haven't read >.>

mathtans

Maybe Erik and Celeste should train by fighting each other.

DracoPlato

that'd be a good idea!

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

ooh that be cool(edited)

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

cue Be A Man playing in the bg

mathtans

"Not the hair!" "Not the horns!"

DracoPlato

celeste can out man erik any day

RebelVampire

poor arrow not invited to train

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

or hope gets so disgusted he trains them himself XDDD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I read OoO earlier in the week

DracoPlato

hope like why do you suck so much

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well erik is the ultimate house wife

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DracoPlato

Erik is the ultimate housewife, haha

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol draco

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

ERIK USE HOUSEWIFE POWERS

RebelVampire

im suddenly sad that erik's attacks arent like...house cleaning refs

DracoPlato

I shall cook you a meal and clean your clothes and then you will be a clean and happy demon

DEITY CALI OF BISHIE WISHIES

should transform his staff into a broom

DracoPlato

man i wish i'd done that now

if i make a parody comic

mathtans

He can sweep Arrow of his feet, ah ha hah.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

he fights with cleaning and food, perfect

DracoPlato

The boiling water attack XD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

erik best maid

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol maths!

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

FIST OF THE CLEAN SHEET

RebelVampire

his magical boy costume needs to be a maid outfit

DracoPlato

aaaaaah missed opportunity!!

that'd have been better XD

mathtans

Save that for when Erik and Celeste accidentally switch costumes when they transform together.

Kabocha

lmao

DracoPlato

I'm going to clean up these streets!

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

DracoPlato

omg math(edited)

i want that to happen now

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

do it

it can happen

DracoPlato

it can

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yus

DracoPlato

i can make this happen still

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

believe in you that believes

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and arrow will only get gayer then

DracoPlato

arrow gets better looking

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

FIST OF THE CLEAN SHEET

DracoPlato

I'm so sad, this is the comic that could have been

mathtans

Heh, Naples.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

DracoPlato

naples says this is ridiculous

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

naples so cute

DracoPlato

I think naples is the same soul as Little Bee in OoO

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

thinking of that attack make me think of bo-bobo

DracoPlato

looool

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

ha

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

flies off

RebelVampire

i am sad you have prefaced that soul statement with "i think"(edited)

DracoPlato

haha you noticed that

his soul is not one i think about a whole ton

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

draco why

DracoPlato

I think he's draco's son too

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

god the soul connections make shit wierd(edited)

DracoPlato

yis

but that soul is Erik's astral pet

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

on so many fucking levels

DracoPlato

so he always gets some subservient life to erik

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

the squirell?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

thats kinda fucked up

DracoPlato

yus

mathtans

Does Celeste get a pet later?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

is draco's son?

wow

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

no the soul

DracoPlato

Draco has a son called Pal

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

whatever

DracoPlato

Celeste doesn't

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

still the same soul

DracoPlato

the squirrel isn't related to erik's powers

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

is so lost XDDD

DracoPlato

However he gave naples the ability to speak when he used his powers for the first time

mathtans

Celeste could rent Naples when she wears Erik's clothes though.

DracoPlato

lololol

maybe she can get a pet when she visits Erik's family out in the country XD

maybe a raccoon(edited)

mathtans

The pencil is her pet.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

she doesn't need a pet she has erik already

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and her sword

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

goats can be pets too

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

mharz, erik is person

DracoPlato

erik is her pet, that's accurate

her fluffy butt

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

people are not pets

RebelVampire

Erik: Celeste what is that? Celeste: My pet raccoon I found eating your garbage in the middle of the night.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow draco thats fucked up

DracoPlato

Erik: I don't know if that's safe Celeste

Celeste: It's okay, I gave it a muzzle

at least she didn't just put a leash on one of his younger siblings and call it a pet

Kabocha

oh no lmao

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

...

DracoPlato

celeste may not be the best pet owner

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

or best person

at all

mathtans

I wanna know why she keeps leashes.

DracoPlato

she doesn't really XD

she's not into bondage i promise

I want her to have a pet raccoon now tho

I love raccoons

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

doesn't have racoons here

DracoPlato

http://elelur.com/data_images/mammals/raccoon/raccoon-01.jpg

jazz hands

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

nor squirrels

only cats and dogs

DracoPlato

we don't have them here either

mathtans

Oh well. I figured maybe the leashes were for the robots.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

one of the few animals to have thumbs

DracoPlato

ooooh, I think arrow uses chains for the robots

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

kinky

mathtans

(But no whips, phew)

DracoPlato

well arrow isn't doing kinky things with his robots, lol!

he's just doing what will get funded

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

that you know of

mathtans

Putting the FUN into funded.

DracoPlato

nah arrow only loves erik

omg XD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and erik bot

RebelVampire

well maybe he has to chain erik up in the yard so erik doesnt wander off

DracoPlato

there's actually going to be a huge problem if arrow does anything with someone not Erik, but I won't say what

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

50 shades of arrow

mathtans

So, somewhat back on track, is Erik's family cursed?

DracoPlato

my fluffy butt goat needs to be chained in the back yard

nah, they're not cursed, they're just fauns

just how they are

mathtans

So are there others like them in the world we don't know about?

DracoPlato

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/232408315328462850/335216942023442432/image.png

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

Ah I'm late

I love this comic though :3

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

Feather!

DracoPlato

yus~! there's other fauns and supernatural/non human creatures

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

there are lots of hybrid people there tho

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

AE! :3

DracoPlato

Hiiii Feather~!

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

Hi draco :3

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

REMEMBER THE FISH BABIES

mathtans

Oooh, interesting. But I guess that's not common knowledge.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yay finally a comic feather likes XDDDD

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

meh

DracoPlato

Nah, they tend to hide from regular society, that's why his family lives in the country

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

yet his bro is a famous singer

way to hide

DracoPlato

they have a large area of land so they don't see other people that often where they live so they just live as themselves vs. pretending to be human

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

well he uses disguise

it works

RebelVampire

he has a famous sister too

DracoPlato

yeah if they live in the city they use disguises

erik's parents lived in the city and were singers too when they were younger

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

I'm pretty sure goat ears and horns fits in operas

mathtans

"We hide by encouraging paparazzi. ... Wait."

DracoPlato

well it's okay if they don't mess up

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

is mickeals kid a faun too

mathtans

As long as they get enough sunlight.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

oh this is just a fashion headband

yes

DracoPlato

yeah she's a faun

mathtans

I think she was shown fawnish at one point.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

she revealed her horns on the part where decebal appears

delta observe

DracoPlato

well Mickeal and his sister have had their human transformer things so long the charge isn't really at risk of running out

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

cuase i swear she had the goat ears out when at the studio

DracoPlato

yeah she's a faun, she's too young for the transformer thing

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

mickeals wife is human right?

DracoPlato

she's human and not his wife, haha

they had sex once in high school

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

just a baby mama

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

oh

DracoPlato

yus

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

rip

Kabocha

oh dear.

DracoPlato

she's a figure skating instructor currently

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

teenage pregnancy man

Kabocha

Talk about bad luck

DracoPlato

Mickeal wanted to be involved in the sciences as a researcher

mathtans

Oh. Oh my. That's gotta be a conversation you have before the birth. "Will it be a boy or a girl, do you think?" "Okay, um, let's talk species first..."

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

but sings intead

DracoPlato

but he had to get a job when he was going to be a teen dad so he went the easy route of being a singer

YEAH! So sam didn't know he was a faun, lol

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

it's not obvious becos she wears a hat

DracoPlato

so she was not happy when she found out

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

the ears though

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

the ears can just be somekind of earmuffs

Kabocha

so how old is Mickeal now?

DracoPlato

coughs

I need to look

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

it's believable

Kabocha

teen dad + small child = ....20ish?

DracoPlato

yeah he's in his twenties

mathtans

I feel like "not happy"'s an understatment. Makes the ultrasounds interesting.

DracoPlato

i've changed his age a lot so i don't remember off hand exactly

Kabocha

lmao imagine finding a doctor who didn't want to study that

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

probably early 20's

wait how old is child

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

erik is 16 right?

DracoPlato

he's 15 I think

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

she looks 4-5

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

i can't tell with dracos art

mathtans

I like that she talks in pink.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

her soul must be pink then

DracoPlato

she has the same soul as Damon's mom, fun fact

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

soul connections, so wierd

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

daw

DracoPlato

hmmm i can't find my thing with their ages on it

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

ikr

DracoPlato

i may have to do math

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

was observing who's color is who

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

not math

mathtans

Yay for math!

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

let maths to the math XD

do

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

math summons mathans

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

yus!

they'd be glad to help

DracoPlato

nooooo not math, lololol

okay i found it

cause it's in start faire

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

XD

DracoPlato

so mickeal is 21

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

damn

DracoPlato

oh hey he already had a bday, lol

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

awww I'm older than mickeal

Kabocha

I'm older than all of his siblings lol

DracoPlato

me too XD

so mickeal's daughter is 5

mathtans

Is Naples wearing Gurren Lagaan glasses?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

she smol

DracoPlato

yus

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

GURREN LAGANN

GET NAPPLES A DRILL

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

Kabocha

MY DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS

Feather, Duke of Comedic Timing

Anyways, I really enjoyed the comic, and how I ahve to go qwq

DracoPlato

you go naples, pierce those heavens

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

HIS DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT MADE THE SPACE PEOPLE

DracoPlato

awwww thank you for coming Feather~!

Kabocha

oh nooo

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

it pierces everything

mathtans

Arrow makes the robots, he should have the drill.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

AUDIBLE MOTHER FUCKING GASP(edited)

DracoPlato

lol, arrow would have the drill

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

ARROW CAN MAKE NAPPLES A MECH(edited)

DracoPlato

fffffffft

that'd be awesome XD

I need to remember that

tiny squirrel mecha

mathtans

A mech that looks like a raccoon.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

with a drill

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

OMG

DracoPlato

naples says but i'm not a raccoon, how dare you

Kabocha

ahahahahaha

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

it's okay napples

racoons can be squirrels too

Kabocha

I have to keep doing a double-take every time someone says napples

RebelVampire

QUESTION 4. While Hope reveals the increase in demons are the result of Decebal’s plans, not much else is revealed. What do you think Decebal’s plans entail? What does this have to do with turning Hope into Despair?

DracoPlato

celeste's raccoon can be Naples for halloween

yeah we kept reading naples as nipples

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

decebal gonna kill eveyone in hope of cause despair

Kabocha

Decebal probably noticed that people turn to god whenever things get bad

DracoPlato

he said he was making hope one of the pillars in the beginning

Kabocha

"We're praying for you" lololol

DracoPlato

yus, hope says that too

Kabocha

Yeah

So I mean, I think it's pretty transparent

DracoPlato

yeah, hope really already said decebal's whole plan

Kabocha

If the world needs an evil, then he'll be that evil if it means making god love everyone

erm

everyone love god

DracoPlato

yeeeeees, that's perfect

mathtans

Decebal wants people to send him hopes and prayers?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

yep

DracoPlato

this applies to Rex too, that logic

Decebal wants people to turn back to God

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

doesn't see that in Rex >.>

DracoPlato

cause he is first and foremost an angel

Rex wants the same tho

Kabocha

Quick someone do a version of Servant of Evil with Decebal

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

throws much popcorn at rex

RebelVampire

but the question is more how he intends to do this. cause saying you want ppl to suffer is different than ya know, actually doing it and making it happen

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and rex has the same souls as decebal

DracoPlato

Yus

Rex loves god the most

Kabocha

You know, I dunno that it's entirely clear how, aside from making people just miserable. Cause chaos, destruction, floods, teenage pregnancies

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

tells damon to stop eating her ammo

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

that explains the preist get up

DracoPlato

yus, he's not dressed as a priest just out of sarcasm, lol

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

mindblown

0.0

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

but sarcams is part of it?

DracoPlato

wait he says it clearly in a special i wrote

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

dies

RebelVampire

no dont die you must live!

mathtans

Maybe some of the demons get away from him.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

dies twice

DracoPlato

oh and that

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

his intentions wasn't bad

DracoPlato

he says it clearly there

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

the execution tho

mathtans

Someone gets executed?

DracoPlato

yeah rex is misguided for sure

rex/decebal

but he has good intentions

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wow rex, preteniuos dick wad(edited)

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

flails

DracoPlato

but he just sees it as a role

mathtans

role 1d6.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

still a dick wad(edited)

DracoPlato

rex originally had wings too but he ripped them off, fun fact

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

no mat its a d20

mathtans

Ow... isn't that painful? O.o

DracoPlato

only fallen angels have wings

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh i get it

DracoPlato

it was painful but he didn't want giant wings, hahah

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

has a character whose wings get ripped off >.>

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

mathtans

"Anyone wanna buy some giant wings? I don't need these any more."

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

hes litteraly playing as the devil right down to the look

RebelVampire

he didnt want to get stuck in doorways like poor drake

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

giant wings are hard to stage

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

trust me I know

DracoPlato

Well erik technically- wait that's a spoiler

Kabocha

ahahha

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

>.>

mathtans

Ink gets spilled all over giant wings.

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

<.<

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh now you put a lid on it

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

nuuu!

DracoPlato

a lot of damon is the karma for erik tho

even tho erik is a future life

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

HOW DOES TIME WORK THERE THEN

DracoPlato

everything is the eternal now?

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

god damn it, theres no free will in dracos world

DracoPlato

oh that's not true

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

....

DracoPlato

there's free will

just there's the law of karma

so it's your choices that dictate your karma

your karma is basically what creates the scenario

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

interesting

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

getting punished for some that will happen that hasn't does not help the free will existing side

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

yay life is strange

mathtans

How much karma are the main characters banking so far?

DracoPlato

oh that's impossible to gauge since they have so many lives and each life creates karma

everything in a way is karma

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

now is this hindu karma or budduist karma(edited)

DracoPlato

closest to hindu i'd think

mathtans

Does the karma run on regular unleaded gasoline or diesel.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

so the good karma

premium mat

DracoPlato

karma is neither good nor bad really, it's just the outcome of your choices I think

mathtans

Yeah, I can see that.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

just like life

DracoPlato

but like rex is a product of his choices

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

well in buddihism, all karma is just bad

DracoPlato

oh no it's not that

mathtans

If rex is a product of it, he's multiplying.

DracoPlato

it's like, all of creation is a play, so the souls are actors in lives

but they exist outside of the play as well, so the events within the play are in a sense neither good nor bad as it's just the story

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh its super mario 3

DracoPlato

lololol

mathtans

Do they keep the same colour speech bubble?

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

XD

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

yes

DracoPlato

yes~!!

so i don't have to keep picking new colors, LOL

but i like people being able to identify them too

I think it's cool to see the progression of the souls since that's really what it's about

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and becuase time travels a thing, the same souls can talk to itself

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

gotta observe all colors

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

yes you should

DracoPlato

yus, some lives talk to themselves more than others, lol

damon talks to himself the most

RebelVampire

that sounds right for friendless damon

DracoPlato

Damon: cries

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

be more socail then

mathtans

Possession makes things interesting then.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and stop sleeping with your unlce/half mom its wierd

DracoPlato

yes! Notice that Erik's bubble color didn't change when he was possesed

everything about damon is weird

RebelVampire

damon lives sure like to interfere with each other

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

they do

and nadia lives too

DracoPlato

well in Vijaya's sense he uses his other lives as a tool

cause it's part of his job

nadia lives are pretty horrible most of the time, hahah

in their deviousness

RebelVampire

vijaya plz thats rude

DracoPlato

Nadia and Sam have the same bubble color(edited)

mathtans

So the big question... are they gonna get a detention at school for skipping class.

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

its pretty fucked up taking control of your past life man(edited)

DracoPlato

looooool

sadly they won't

they should have tho

Arrow and Celeste's parents would be pretty mad

RebelVampire

nobody noticed they were gone

mathtans

They'll forge some notes?

RebelVampire

were like "ah man theres not twin shenanigans in class today this is great."

DracoPlato

yus, they probably forge notes a lot XD

people were glad they left, lol

i dont' think celeste and arrow have a ton of friends

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

maths is a teacher...he will tell XDDD

mathtans

>:)

DracoPlato

well at least they're good students cutting class

RebelVampire

i cant see celeste having friends cause shes umm....decently mean >_>

DracoPlato

but nah, in canon she has 0 friends atm

mathtans

But she's good looking.

DracoPlato

she thinks she is, lolol

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

rebel, theres gotta be some guy in her shool that wants be her friend

mathtans

Well, I like the hair braid. ^.^

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

its really long

mathtans

TWSS.

DracoPlato

:"D she has really long hair

RebelVampire

maybe all the guys have met her and know about her meanness

DracoPlato

she was probably super mean to them XD

i have a story where her soul is the bad guy, haha

she always teeters on the edge of good and evil

mathtans

She doesn't seem super upset about her life though. Maybe she's glad that no one can figure out her magic identity.

DracoPlato

Yeah! She really doesn't mind not having any friends tbh

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

oh well shes not getting into heaven anytime soon

DracoPlato

cause she doesn't respect other people

but she's pretty chill

awwww

well there's technically no heaven or hell in the usual sense

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

you know what i mean

i make it simple for others

mathtans

lifts eyebrow Oh, that was a euphamism?

DracoPlato

but delta

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

i know

and there no time to explain

mathtans

Why'd you gotta go and make things so complicated.

RebelVampire

technically theres 7 mins to explain

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

DracoPlato

cause if it wasn't complicated i'd spoil it all

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

that just draco mat...

DracoPlato

then there'd be nothing to find out

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

damn it rebel

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

7 MINUTES 7 MINUTES

THAT BARELY TIME ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING(edited)

DracoPlato

Hell is probably just suffering in general

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDGw3PU0uxw

DracoPlato

heaven is freedom from suffering, lol

looooool

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

SEVEN MINUTES

wow the clip goes longer than i though

DracoPlato

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/232408315328462850/335215969968455700/image.png

RebelVampire

so does anyone have any last thoughts they would like to share?

mathtans

I wonder if Arrow likes Aero chocolate bars. Erik could buy him one. "I thought of you."

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

arrow is hella gay

and a lyall soul

DracoPlato

awwww that'd be be sweet

arrow at least had hetero porn mags

under his bed

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

they live in what year

DracoPlato

whispers I've no idea

RebelVampire

well theyll be thrown out soon and replaced with erik pics

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

wait nevermind he had a labtop

DracoPlato

that's true, lol

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

and he has mags

DracoPlato

Around ours

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

man so behind in the times

DracoPlato

more or less

mathtans

Also there's a subway.

DracoPlato

he's on a different time cycle than ours

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

cant wait for more soul hymn

DracoPlato

hehehe

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

and now i have a lot more to go back and re-read after this chat >.>

mathtans

Soul Hymn & Him.

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

LOL

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

ha

DracoPlato

so many spoilers, I failed

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

lol

DracoPlato

Arrow's quest for Erik's fluffy butt

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

no, you were you draco

RebelVampire

Soul Hymn & Him sounds like the sitcom spinoff

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

just like normal

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

draco can't hide spoiler

DracoPlato

cries

AngelicEmpyress of Chromacity

we set you up to fail

XD

DracoPlato

you did, i was doomed from the start

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

be like me draco, who has no spoilers

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

me on the other hand throws spoiler hints and hope no one would notice(edited)

mathtans

I can't spoil mainly because I don't know what I'm doing from week to week...

DracoPlato

I know alot of spoilers tho for Mharz, muahaha

SirDelta God King of Mecha, Time

i do too

Mharz of Angels & Punchy Ladies

that's becos I already told you

DracoPlato

i figured most people will be so confused by my spoilers they'll forget

RebelVampire

Unfortunately, the scheduled Comic Tea Party is now complete~! Thank you everyone so much for joining this week’s chat~! That being said, if you would like to continue discussing the comic, we encourage you to do so~! We want to give a big thank you to Draco Plato, as well, for volunteering Soul Hymn for our reading queue. If you liked the comic, please be sure to support Draco Plato’s efforts. If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions about CTP, please feel free to PM me, or e-mail me at RebelVampire@startfaire.com.

With that said, next week’s Comic Tea Party will focus on There was a War by aislinn e. Please use this week to read as much of the comic as you would like. Hope to see you next Thursday (July 20th) from 5PM to 7PM PDT~! Until then~! Comic: https://tapas.io/series/TWAW