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Aaaah this is so good, I really like it! It's so full of details, of information, and now with colors too! It's amazing, Ten!

You're showing all your expertise, and it's great to learn so many cool facts! (As I expected, the number of kanji in Japanese is staggering! It's always surprising to me that it's possible to learn and remember them all!)

Great! I'll be confirming with that friend then, to see if my server is currently in Europe: because if it is, and you see no noticeable latency, that is great! Thank you so much for all the help, really! 💜

Ah, now I understand! Hah, too bad for her, then!

Yes! Also, I don't want to take too much time from you, so I apologize for asking one last question, but... did the name change from Sagiko to Eruko then, or did I miss something? Either way I love the character for sure!

I live in Italy, yes! But I imagine that doesn't mean disservice for *visitors,* right? For example, for all I've always known OVH is based in France but people from all over the world have never had problems accessing my site, so that shouldn't be affected, right?

That is absolutely beautiful!! I told you that your calligraphy is beautiful, didn't I? And I meant that in cursive English/Italian as well! Not even I can write that well in my own alphabet, haha! Thank you so much for sharing a breakdown of the meaning of the kanji, too!

That's a great idea, so you have a reference always in front of you when you draw! And oh my, that character is so full of strokes that it appears as a dense blob of indistinguishable lines on my phone... kanji are fascinating, but they're also hard. I couldn't even remember it, let alone write it!

OVH is actually where my website currently sits... but on basic webhosting, not a VPS, and it's sort of shared with a friend in terms of the actual contractual plan. If I were to get a VPS on Hetzner (I've been thinking about them more than Netcup lately), do you think that would be a good choice?

The inking looks great! You have a pretty good idea of which lines should be thicker and which not, and that's all that matters! Plus, I really like this reference sheet: cool character (she's the one from the previous illustrations), nicely rendered size... and even your calligraphy is good, Ten!

Oh! You got a commission from Atrium, nice: and you did such a great job with it too, you know I always enjoy seeing your characters and these two in particular!~

I should have gotten one long ago, but I couldn't convince myself and this happened... do you have them on OVH? I was hesitant because I didn't know what the best provider was (especially for a first-time user), so I waited... until prices went up, unfortunately! 🤭

Komasan, hello! Thank you so much, it was a fun day that I spent with family (but I was also working on manga at the same time, hehe)!

Thank you so much, my friend!! It's been a fun day, and now I can relax a bit too!

Don't worry, it's okay! Grazie mille, Ten!! It's something that sometimes even I forget about: for example I have to keep working on the manga today, so it's actually a day like any other, haha!

Yes, this is it! It's exactly what I'd always seen in manga: what a cool place for a giant girl to sit and relax! Now I'm going to bed, since it's 4AM in Italy... the 4AM of Feb. 19th, that is. That's my birthday, and just seeing these pics counts as a wonderful gift! Thank you so much, Ten!!

This might surprise you, but by the way your characters stand and move and act, their facial expressions and all, I would say you're already much closer to a real manga style than I am, for the most part! So when you improve the technical details too, it'll become even better to a surprising degree!

Haha, there is a whole story here! I found it surprising when earlier you said that the quality of the work is low; a drawing isn't mainly judged by details such as line art or inking: those can enhance a pic, but the most important thing is composition and emotion. And you're always great at those!

Poor house!! But yes, that's what I meant! I see, I didn't know that: rivers here in Italy are comparatively more boring, we don't have anything like those grassy embankments (possibly because it's rare for our cities to have very wide rivers). Of course, Venice with all its canals is the exception!

Noooo! Not there!! But... oh! This reminds me of something! In anime and manga, I've always seen those slopes of grass near a river in the city. Are those in Tokyo? Because I've always thought those would be perfect places for a giant to go and sit and rest for a bit!

That's very cute! As always, I love how you're able to express this much with so few lines!

If they know I draw, then it's pretty easy to put two and two together... I hope they don't get angry and leave! 👀

Yeeeees, good choice!! (And now that I've started working for Japan too, due to the professional manga I'm starting, I hope that the manga industry will be a lot more relaxed and kinder to me compared to a typical Japanese black company, haha!)

Oh nooo, that would be a terrible fate!! Being forced to work for a company that overworks you... at that point, you only have two choices: if you're tiny like them then you can run and hide, otherwise you can just destroy the whole building like your office lady did, haha! Thank you so much, Ten! 😄

I'll send you a message, so we can write there~ And... yeah, it's not the sort of universe where all girls are big and all boys are small (in fact, the presence of Mai and Saya alone disproves this). Some may be disappointed, but as early as episode 3 the context already implies this is the case!

You can find on my Labbacomics website (in my bio) if you ever feel like checking it out, like if you want to read something before going to bed one day... but the general world building is that tiny people exist and live together with us (think of it like a recessive gene or something?): that's it!

It's something I often think about, you know? How for example in HIH (you know, my manga) I've got tiny micro girls, but not boys... although, to be completely fair, I lack micro characters in general, since I pretty much have Mai and Saya in that series and that's it. In general, I need more!

Roy! You've been following me for a long time, so you should know I'm still really bad at drawing boys... but I gotta learn! So next time I draw a borrower, it'll be a boy: and I think I know what sorta scenarios you'd enjoy at that point! 🤭 But thank you for commenting, really!

Haha, Atrium, hello! Doesn't this teach us all an important lesson? Something like, uh... any code you see on GitHub could secretly come from a bunch of two-inch-tall girls, and there's nothing you can do to disprove it in theory! Thank you so much, anyway! 💜

Three micro borrower girls having discover their own picture on BlueSky.

The three tiny programmer girls from a while back, now finding out they've been immortalized on BlueSky~ #sizedifference #sizesky