batty

and it’s also nice from the other end. i don’t get the sense that my audience worries too much about what they’re “allowed” to say, feel, draw, write about my thing. we’re both secure in the knowledge that i get to make it and you get to feel things about it without anyone being punished.

i don’t personally run into this issue much because i think i’ve made my stance clear and i have a very respectful and intelligent audience for my comic. i understand that being very small time helps with that, and that’s a pretty nice thing about making something passionate but niche.

it’s important to be appreciative to those who support you and kind to everyone you can be kind to but i see that as different from, as artist, doing anything “for” your audience… i am doing it for me and letting you watch and i think most audiences actually like for an artist to do that!

bleak !

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it)

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it)

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it)

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it) (she doesn't look very evil in this one)

i think a good full time job for me would be if some mysterious entity paid me to draw chloe and clair like those classic CLAMP illustrations all day

when i think of the amount i'm able to do in HFHH in a single year for completely free, on my own, with no help from anyone, so that i can provide it, also for free, twice a week on average, it does make me wish more story-hungry people were willing to read as well as watch

i think the average person would be shocked to find out what the monetary and time expense is to create even 11 minutes of animation. episodes (expensive) are layered in a pipeline so you can do multiple at once—but that requires a full paid crew and each episode still takes ~a year to complete

it was even better this time

oops i accidentally read all of Kasane again

editorializing on my thumbnails lately

i’m also not willing to compromise my time at the expense of new comics so i have to find a way to do it alongside continuing my 100 updates a year streak. i’m trying to schedule for it, we’ll see how that pans out…

it’s something i’m vaguely planning for at this point. i would like to release the first 500 comics in two volumes. self marketing isn’t my natural strength though i would need to gather everything in my resolve to make a kickstarter lmao

seems like any time something is good, the ultimate compliment from well meaning fans is “this should get an indie pilot! i’d watch this as a show!” which, maybe i’m the odd one out in thinking it’d be more of a compliment to enjoy it as it currently exists, as good enough already.

animation is actually pretty limiting to get into because it is so expensive and time consuming to produce. if you care about an auteur vision (which not all works have to be ofc) animation doesn’t allow fully for that. and you have major time constraints on a story when you’re animating it too.

as someone who loves animation with all my heart, enough to pursue the borderline crazy choice of making it my career: i’m actually pretty sick of everyone always acting like the final form of any idea should be animation. sometimes a comic or prose or illustration series is already in its best form

there's barely money in this shit to begin with, trust me.

would be cool to be currently employed by the industry i still appear to be a part of.

fucking rent is fucking going up too much and im pissed off maybe ill try to blast through $900 worth of comms to cover the increase for the rest of the year so i won't be so pissed off. fuck it dammit man fuck damn it bro fuck

all i want is to live in enough peace to make art and for everyone else to live in enough peace to enjoy art

just gonna reimode with gauze + medical tape for awhile. it's a fashion statement. i can't help being a gainax girl

fucked up and gave myself an accidental gnarly steam burn right after midnight so great 1st bday present to me from me

i need to weed through my icloud shit and decide what is and isn't actually important to be on there and manage accordingly, but that goes under "actually thinking about it, so bored i'm comatose"

currently have a daily time machine backup to a local external + manual backups to the same external (when i remember to manually back up. every couple months or so) + both iCloud and local storage for main files. so im unlikely to lose anything. but iCloud is filling up &i dont wanna pay to upgrade

both i guess. the problem is that im deathly afraid of losing anything, but im so incredibly bored by thinking about the logistics of preventing it, that i just slap a bunch of precautions together and don't think about how it could be more streamlined/efficient

sitting like what

YouTube video by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Topic Walking to Do

now this one is for sure all pepper all the time www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Yi...

YouTube video by Oberhofer - Topic Eye Lv U

looking over my playlist and really struggling to remember who or what this was meant to be in reference to but any excuse is good cause isn't it just cutieful www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzP...

YouTube video by starsandspit The Posies - Under Easy

had this on my comic playlist as a chloe clair song but now that im doing this mars pepper scene i feel like it could be that too... it's so fun to find songs where lyrics are flexible enough to fit a lot of situations while still being pointed enough to resonate youtu.be/ai75GHqbn64?...

little kitty alert!!! you are a little kitty!!!!!!!

im so glad it's her arc because i love her so much