#schedule update

[bookinit02]

hi guys i know i was supposed to have a script out this week but my cat passed away this morning so understandably i will be postponing it💗 i will try to have it out sometime this month, and sometimes grief makes me extra productive, so fingers crossed!! for now the estimate will just be sometime in july🫶🏻 thanks guys

[benzgarfield]

PitBabeTheSeries Twitter update September 21, 2024

Pit Babe 1st Anniversary "Level Up" November 17

[incorrect-potc-quotes]

Unfortunately there will be no incorrect quote today. This blog has been going on for over a year now, and I greatly appreciate the support, but I'm starting to get burnt out from doing posts every single day, so I'm moving the schedule to once a week to give myself some breathing room. Thank you for your support and understanding. The next incorrect quote will be posted this Saturday at the usual 8 am Pacific Standard Time, and new posts after that will always be posted on Saturdays

[incorrect-dnd-hat-quotes]

Unfortunately there will be no incorrect quote today. This blog has been going on for over a year now, and I greatly appreciate the support, but I'm starting to get burnt out from doing posts every single day, so I'm moving the schedule to once a week to give myself some breathing room. Thank you for your support and understanding. The next incorrect quote will be posted this Saturday at the usual 8 am Pacific Standard Time, and new posts after that will always be posted on Saturdays

[dreadnotau]

Happy three years everybody! As always, there’s a lot to say on the occasion, so pop in at the end of the post for the tl;dr if you don’t have time for my detailed diatribes, haha

Boy, time flies, huh? Feels like the second anniversary was just yesterday, but maybe that’s just the several long hiatuses getting to me. I’ve been scarce on uploading anything anywhere for a while now, even though I promised I’d actually pick up the slack this time around. What gives? Well…

For one, college hell, and for two, a lot of unfounded anxiety about putting my art out there. Allow me some theatrics for a moment and I’ll actually get back to the comic at hand… I’ve never had an exceptionally supportive environment for making art. It wasn’t suppressive, not in the slightest, but it also wasn’t… encouraging. It was always treated as a hobby or a distraction rather than something I was allowed to be fully proud of, especially because a lot of my art focused on more cartoon-y and fantasy ideas, rather than still life studies and painting (which people generally outside of the art sphere tend to value more, arbitrarily). Couple that with a childhood full of being bullied over minute shit you hadn’t even considered could be an issue before, and you get a teenager hellbent on never sharing his interests or ideas with anyone, mostly due to the fear of rejection.

I’ve grown, thankfully, but that paranoia and fear doesn’t go away overnight. As I’m sure you all know, Meowchela was the one who originally encouraged me to post this comic, and the only reason she succeeded was because she was the first person in a long time who listened and engaged with my interests and my art in a meaningful way. It’s kind of obvious her friendship had a profound impact on me, and I’d cite her as one of the reasons I was even hopeful enough to apply to an art college in the first place! This comic, and that bond with another person, proved that maybe these things I’m so passionate about weren’t duds, and weren’t something I had to keep to myself.

So, fast forward a few years. About three years, in fact.

During one of my classes, right before this hellish two weeks of exams started, one of the class assistants talked me into showing my comic pages to one of my professors. He’s generally a pretty open guy when it comes to new mediums, but I’m always… apprehensive about showing my less “traditional art”-y things to professors, but, he ended up being genuinely proud of it. Specifically, I showed him pages 85-87 (because they’re my favourites) and, he didn’t read the text, just the visuals were enough for him to say “good job, keep it up” (which is HIGH praise from that guy). When I mentioned I’ve been meaning to simplify the visuals because I didn’t have time to work on the comic very often because of college and classes, he dismissed it on principle. I was honestly caught off guard. Heavily paraphrasing, he suggested that worsening the visuals for an arbitrary deadline was counterproductive to making something that’s Good™.

That’s kinda stuck with me. For a good few years now I was more focused on optimisation rather than visual improvement for the comic, and though it HAS contributed to better visuals in some ways (cutting corners sometimes makes for a less pointy and jagged end result), it’s kind of weird I’m treating an art project that way, isn’t it? I set a lot of… arbitrary deadlines and standards for myself, in the form of expectations and what I “should” or “shouldn’t” be doing at certain stages in my life. I’ve thought of Dread Not as a passion project second and a stepping stone first, if I’m being honest. As if it was too… fandom-y and derivative to be treated with more gravity than that, like it’s an immature project because I was still a child when I came up with it. As if it was something I’m making to Build Up to Something Else, something Bigger and Cooler and More Important, and… the more I think about the future of Dread Not, and even my future career options, the more I realised that’s, ironically, a really immature way to think about it.

If there’s one thing going to this art college has taught me, is that there’s no “right” way to make art, and there’s no “right” way to success as an artist. There’s no clear-cut paths, just more commonly treaded roads, but even those are heavily overgrown. Why should I try to box myself into thinking I have to make things from complete scratch to be taken seriously? What’s so bad about Dread Not as a story and as a comic that’s caused me to vaguely keep it under wraps when conversing with people in my day-to-day life? Why wouldn’t I put all these skills I’ve acquired to improve and expand this project that’s Right There, WAITING for me to finally get off my ass and get pages out there again?

I wish I could say I’ve used all this time away in a particularly clever way, but I really haven’t - at least, it feels like I haven’t. My art has undoubtedly improved over time (though admittedly the art for this post was Very rushed, fuckin exams), and while I’ve been working on projects in the background, chipping away at them in a VERY disorganised way, I haven’t been posting that progress anywhere, and I haven’t made any good progress on my biggest project, Dread Not, because of the other ones. And, honestly? Admitting that kinda stings. This comic means a lot to me, and I wish I actually gave it the time and attention it deserves instead of letting it sit out hiatus after hiatus because I keep failing at structuring my time.

So, my new plan is a little more abstract: find a way to work Dread Not into my school schedule, and slowly build a habit of working on it more often. No clue how long that’ll take, but I think it’ll be worth it to consider it as an option, and hopefully finally end these long, drawn out hiatuses with short bursts of uploads in-between. HOPEFULLY. Building habits was never my strong suit, so please bear with me while I figure this out in what will probably be the most hectic upload schedule in this comics history, which is: no schedule at all.

From now on (until the end of Act 1), I’ll upload pages when they’re ready, and depending on how the weeks go and how complex the page is, they could be weeks or days apart from one another. Hell, some might even take a month to finish if school stuff gets REALLY hectic (god knows Hellish Exam Week number 1 and number 2 won’t be giving me much time to work on the comic), but I’m determined to do this. I want to be able to put my all into this project again!!

(And hopefully finish Act 1 by the end of this semester…)

TL;DR: College is giving me life lessons I didn’t expect, and because of them I’ve decided to give myself a non-existent upload schedule for Dread Not: Pages will be posted when they’re ready, and the spacing between pages could wildly vary depending on circumstances and the actual complexity of the page itself.

As always, thank you for being here, thank you for reading, and thank you for being patient!

If all goes well, there will be new content very, very soon.

[f1bb]

F1 Big Bang 2024 Schedule + Announcements

HERE WE ARE AGAIN FOLKS

Welcome Welcome Welcome to the F1 Big Bang of 2024!

There are a few changes this year, so please be sure to read through this post.

Firstly, we have a mod change! @nobrakesdown will be helping us out this year both in admin stuff and the discord! They will have the tag mod!cove on any posts.

Secondly, we are going to (attempt) staggering fic release dates this year. This means that after proposals are claimed and matches are made, teams will be able to pick their preferred posting date (more information will become available for this process when we are a bit closer.)

Third, we are also planning on opening the collection for amnesty posting after all the teams have posted their works. This means that if you have signed up but are unable to submit a proposal, and still complete a work, you will be able to post that work to the collection during that period.

Speaking of the collection, through technical difficulties, this is the correct AO3 collection for 2024. Unfortunately Tabs has had to take a leave of absence from the event, and as such we are unable to access the first 2024 collection that they made, nor are we able to access the parent collection. If this changes, an announcement will be made, but for now the right collection is (f1bigbang_2024) on ao3.

Finally, we have moved the schedule up but have not shortened it. It is as follows:

• Writer + Artist Priority Signup: March 15-30

• Writer + Artist Late Signup: April 1 - June 7 (writers) OR June 14 (artists)

• Checkpoint #1: May 7 (optional)

• Writer Proposals Due: June 15

• Writer Proposals Preview: June 18

• Priority Artist Claims: June 19-20

• Second + Late Artist Claims: June 21-22

• Checkpoint #2: July 31 (mandatory for artists)

• Final Works Due: August 27

• Collection opens/works revealed starting: September 1

As always, if you have any questions the ask box will be open or you can join our discord and as questions there as well!!

Thanks all!!! Happy writing!

[yandereunsolved]

— ☘︎˚｡Update post! ☘︎˚｡ —

major updates:

the update schedule will be changing. my regular schedule is picking up once again. unfortunately writing on Tumblr won't pay bills or get me an education. I am not going on hiatus. I am keeping a schedule that will give me enough time to do everything IRL, while being able to write. — there's a poll below for you to take on what days you want me to release smth.

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minor updates:

I am working through my inbox. The tidbits you all send me are so amazing. 🥺 Just be patient with me.

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acknowledgements:

A big thanks to everyone who supports me. An even bigger thanks to my moots. The biggest thanks to my close friends for loving my lil brain and Tumblr page.

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[blot-squisher]

A few quick announcements! Sunday's update will be a few hours late. I have to get up early for work so I can't stay up to post at midnight like I like to. Boo. There will not be a STG update this Wednesday (May 1st) due to, once again, work. Boooooo. And lastly, both STG:L2 and Whispers of Insanity will be going on a two week break (most likely) early to mid May. It looks like I'll finally be going back down to Texas to get all our crap out of storage, finishing this hellish move. More details on the break will be posted when I have actual dates locked down.

[darkcarnivalcomic]

argh i forgot to post this here. starting this week i’m going back to 2x a week uploads again! pages will go up every monday and thursday for a few months likely until i start school again

[bloodmoonzine]

❤️ Schedule Update! ❤️

There's been some adjustments to our schedule, so now we'll be opening Preorders on February 15th!

We hope you're excited!! 🤩

[bookinit02]

hey guys!! for anyone following my s5 series, i’ve decided to delay today’s chapter by a week, because i’ve been extremely swamped with school & work, and it’s also just not been the best week for my mental health in general. i could rush through and post today, or in the next few days, but i really want to take my time and post something that i’m proud of! thank you all for understanding🫶🏻 the next chapter of the end is here will be up next friday, 11/24, and then we will return to our regular schedule!🥳 have a good weekend!

[benzgarfield]

BenzGarfield Schedule Update:

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans FIRST PREMIERE Friday, July 5, 2024

[sintheticskull]

Scheduling Update! Get more consistent updates at my discord server!

[marbleleague]

We also have a schedule update! Snow Drag will be later today, and Biathlon will follow on the 9th, before we return to a one-every-two-days schedule.

[dreadnotau]

Its been a decent couple of months of productive work, so it's sadly time for a schedule change. I'll be posting pages two weeks apart again. Details provided below if you're curious as to why.

In all honesty there's no big dramatic reason this time around. I've just slowly lost drive to work on Dread Not as often and as thoroughly as I used to be able to. As I said in one of my previous posts (that sounded suspiciously like this one), I want to focus on other projects as well. One of those is my personal art blog, which I've neglected even though I've had art on the backburner that I've been meaning to post for AGES. Kingdomrune is another one of those, where I have shit I could post that I just... never did. Dread Not takes a lot of time and I miss being able to dedicate that time to consuming media instead of just grinding and trying to produce my own. One of the most important things to do as an artist is to broaden your horizons and take in as much art as you can, to diversify and expand what you know and what you can make. But, when all day every day I'm just sitting and drawing my own thing, it's like I have tunnel vision and my creative resources run dry. It's starting to feel weirdly soulless on my end, because I don't feel nearly half the inspiration to make the pages as I did when the big hiatus ended. It's all dependent on time and exposure, and I can only crunch for so long before it starts to feel damaging to me instead of fun and creatively fulfilling.

So what does this mean, practically speaking? Well, for one, I'm spacing out the page upload for the rest of Act 1, as previously mentioned. I'm well aware this will kill the pacing and it'll drag out longer than it theoretically needs to, but I'd even rather that than trying to rush out a page in the Two Days I have free this week (yeah, ONLY two days free out of the ENTIRE week. Don't ask me why it's not even my fuckin' fault this time). If pages become even more scarce than 1 page per 2 weeks, blame it on college. I'm getting new subjects and I don't even know the class schedule yet. Concerning Act 2 though, I'll be changing the structure of the pages from their core. I'll be switching to a different drawing software (probably Krita, suck my dick Photoshop) so it'll take some getting used to. I can't even promise bonus content or anything during the necessary break between acts because of that shift in software happening, I've never done a massive technical move like this. However, it'll allow me to, not only work on Dread Not better, but expand my art overall, so it's definitely worth it. I've wanted to get into animation for YEARS and Krita seems like an okay place to start (the gif on this post WAS made with Photoshop, but shitty gifs are about all I can make as animations in Photoshop). Act 2's style will, predictably, differ heavily from Act 1 and (with how long writing the dialogue alone for it is taking), it might end up being Longer than Act 1, too. Visually, it'll probably be something like cleaned up and coloured sketches, with simpler colour palettes and simpler (big airquotes) visuals overall, and it'll speed up the process and possibly allow me to post more than one page at a time. Possibly. That's not a promise.

I'm sorry if that's disappointing to anyone, but I physically can't make myself continue the current artstyle across all acts. It's just not feasible.

For those curious about the FARTHER future of Dread Not, I have plans to turn Act 3 into a series of fics rather than full comic pages, and something maybe a bit more insane for Act 4. I don't have everything figured out yet, and I don't want to make any false promises or give any grand ideas I won't be able to commit to, since only time will tell how my creativity will flow years from now. If you all want more content from me specifically, again I'm planning on reviving my art tumblr like a half buried zombie, and you'll probably see more there than you bargained for once I actually get into the habit of posting things. If you're mayhaps interested in my original stuff, keep your eyes peeled for a guy called Duro, I might start posting about him some time soon.

As always, thank you for your patience, and apologies again if this news was disappointing to anyone. I'm just one guy and this comic is a titan of biblical proportions. I'll keep you all posted on any further developments and plans for the future! Stay tuned!

[fantasyakeshuakezine]

🏰ANNOUNCEMENT⚔️

Greetings to all our eager phantom thieves! Due to possible holiday-related delays, we have updated our schedule to reflect more accurate estimates of the zine's completion!

Look forward to preorders beginning in January of next year ✨

You can find our updated schedule here!