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RFC2324 posted:Jeph is a sensitive type who can't take much criticism. I think artists like him are perfect for platforms that separate the artist from their audience as much as possible, since he just breaks down easily Mocking him for that never sat well with me because he'd always been open about having struggles with mental illness and stabbing yourself is such an obvious and destructive manifestation of that. Like he has a profound breakdown and seriously injured himself hahaha what a loser. Edit: For the hand thing, not for being sensitive in general. Mocking his bad comic is also fine, though it's really quite nonoffensively bad considering some of it's competition.
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Boba Pearl posted:This one took extra long, because I wanted to see how it looked when I used the line weight thicken and narrow tools in CSP. Then the Space Drawing took for loving ever, and the ocean isn't really easy to draw either lol. The line weight experiments are really improving the readability at a glance! There's definitely more of a sense of space.
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This is the second Junji Ito short i've read about a crazed mother peeling off skin, and yet they are so different from each other.
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It was extremely clear what she can and cannot accomplish. Cannot: Change Yukari's fate without involving Yukari. Can: Do absolutely anything that doesnt violate that rule. That's what the entire story revolves around. Ymmv may vary as to how well it was executed but to say we needed more rules about what her powers do entirely misses the point. It was never about her powers, it was about if you can save someone without respecting their agency as a person. That is why, at the end of the story, it is hopeful because now that Yukari is in on it, they have a chance. Basically, I think the comic tells the story it wants to which is: "A girl realizes that no matter what she does, she can't save someone without involving them, it's a mistake to treat her friend as an object to save and not an equal, and this is how she realizes it." I think some of the people who wanted a harder scifi exploration of powers and how the multiverses work are validly frustrated that the story did not turn out to be very interested in that, except as spectacle, but I do think that it wouldn't necessarily have done anything for the story the writer wanted to tell to do that. mycatscrimes has a new favorite as of 21:11 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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That's probably something where we just have different wants from a story, totally fair! I will say nothing is saying they aren't going to be taking direct action now that Yukari is in on it, she's very powerful with her robot thing. But I agree it would have been more satisfying for the story to show that happening at the end.
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Aug 9, 2022 21:26
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Echophonic posted:For me, at least, there's also some looking at it through a lens of multiverse media from the last 5 years or so and it not stacking up in terms of narrative coherence. Even though I personally enjoyed it, I agree with this assessment of the shortcomings its execution. Also it's nice to have a chat about where a story succeeds and fails!
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It's really hard to express how much the landscape for gay media has changed since 2009 or so, because iirc that's the era where is was unthinkable that Korra and Asami were allowed to hold hands at the very end of their kid's show, but also a time when things like that were becoming possible, and afterward things started to change very fast. But I couldn't possibly speak to the context of what the landscape was like for light novels in Japan. The query just made me think about how unreal it is that things changed so quickly.
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Aug 9, 2022 22:00
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Boba Pearl posted:Oh, oh no then I feel like a dick head, I wonder if representation has gotten so much better (still not great,) that I'm not really aware of how bad it was, if that's the case than please take back any criticisms of the GL, because it absolutely might have been the best they could do at their time. Oh I don't think you have any reason to feel bad, I think it's good people feel able to demand more these days. It's also not wrong to say 'this is good in many ways but I have different needs from a story', you know?
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The idea that someone who is a minor might be gay or have a same sex crush isn't inherently inappropriate because being gay isn't a fetish, it's not some adults only sex thing. That's seriously scary rhetoric. I definitely experienced crushes on older women as a teen. It shouldn't be seen as any less wholesome or taboo to depict or discuss that than the extremely normal trope of a kid with a heterosexual older crush. (Depicted in a way that acknowledges that it happens not in a way that suggests its age appropriate). That said, I get that the context here is this is all in the wake of that 'lesbian sub/dom' comment which was entirely beyond the pale and unquestionably sexualizing, and dealt with appropriately. But the comment after that which got probed doesn't feel great to see that get punished! It's not weird for a minor to be gay! I was a gay minor! The idea that gayness is sexual in the sense of always and only being about sex and acknowledging you can be lgbt and have those feelings as minor is inherently sexualizing and inappropriate is seriously harmful. Would the comment have been probed if the character was a boy and the commentator said it looked like he might be developing a crush? Fully, this is a sore spot for me and the rhetoric around it/book bannings/the new right wing moral panic is really weighing on me right now, so if I'm overreacting, I'm prepared to accept that. mycatscrimes has a new favorite as of 04:46 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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It just seems cute and harmless.
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They weren't saying BDSM dude had a point, they were responding to an earlier conversation about general gay themes in the mangaka's work. Please explain how they 'talked about being gay as something that can only happen as an adult?' I can say 'this seems gay' and mean 'this reminds me of my life experiences with gay feels', not 'this looks like these two characters are about to have sex'
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I do understand the context that the earlier comment was likely on the mod's mind, I'm dislike extending that to punishing an innocuous discussion for the crime of discussing lgbt themes after a creeper got hit.
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Perestroika posted:Okay yeah, now I am very much reminded of how somebody pointed out earlier in the thread that this comic would have some serious gay vibes if Shirley were an adult. I went back and checked the comment, and my bad for not remembering the last part, but it still doesn't seem nearly as sinister as you're implying. However, it does change the context enough that I understand more why it was hit, I suppose.
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Boba Pearl posted:I didn't like the post at all because it implied that gay stories can only be adult stories. I suspect we agree on a strong rejection of the idea that gay stories can only be adult stories. Anyway, as I said earlier, I fully cop to being both sensitive and anxious about this subject right now, so I'll step back. Thanks for having this convo with me. mycatscrimes has a new favorite as of 06:01 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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Boba Pearl posted:You wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, and I took it more offensively, that's fine, and I think it's Ok, and I'm glad we could talk it out. Same to you. I'm enjoying your comic by the way, the colorful art's really fun to look at.
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I have no moral issues with it, but to me it kind of visually clashes with the characters right now. I think all it would take to fix that is bringing some of your flat colors and strong lines into the backgrounds.
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I think there's officially been more discussion of whether people disliked the comic correctly or pushed back on the comment correctly than there was actual discussion of the panel in question lol. It was like, 2 comments about not liking the panel, 2 about not liking those comments, and a then about page about if those interactions were reasonable.
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Tree Bucket posted:That's fantastic, thanks so much! The potential of AI as a time saving measure for lone artists doing something labor intensive is really cool. Speaking as a lone artist working in analog processes that it's not feasible for, I'm pretty jealous lol. (I'm making some headway now that I have access to my university's fabrication lab, though). It's refreshing to step away from all the Discourse about ai art and see stuff like this being done with it.
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Domus posted:Ok, my first time really reading these. There needs to be less tell, and more show. Or the tell not divided up so much. Art’s good though. I like artichoke head. I'm going to disagree because I have been reading them and this story start is the first one that felt like it gave me a sense of the setting and conflict. I think it would be too much tell for every episode, but as a cold open, and in contrast to the amount of tell we've been getting, I was very happy to get some setup.
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Narts and the teakettle samurai are my favorite comics itt.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:hmmmmmmmmmmm I mean. Teens get pregnant sometimes. I don't think it's inherently sus for a character to have a mother who has a mom that was a teen mom, that's a lot of actual people in the world's experience, and part of their life? The comic is pretty matter-of-fact about it.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yeah, like I said I'll see where it goes. And at this point I trust the comic to treat the subject well, and I trust Tenebrais to not post something that takes a sudden left turn into creepsville. But yes, while teen pregnancy does happen in the real world, this isn't a real world thing, and people writing stories about sensitive topics can make mistakes, or be blind to their own weird attitudes about this or that. Also, teen pregnancy is not a topic I would ever think to include in a magical girl story (even one that's about trauma and survivor's guilt), so, like I said. It's just a weird curveball that I didn't see coming, and it has me wary, just because of the ways authors and artists can be weird about such topics historically. Fair enough. I've read the comic and it is pretty matter of fact and nonweird about this particular plot point, if that makes you feel better. I understand wanting to judge for yourself.
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Emzedoh posted:Anyway, this was the inciting incident for me to post Shinozaki aside from the general conceit, which I do like. I'm just a big fan of low/urban fantasy and real world/secret world settings. Plus I just think the art is really well realised - Hazakura's teleportation effects, Shinozaki's weird starry insides. I haven't had much to say about it because it's pretty lightweight, but I've been enjoying this comic, thanks for posting it.
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Rue and Zoe are my favorite part of Sleepless Domain by a mile.
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Girl Genius will never end, or meaningfully progress. It is eternal.
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They seem to be living their best lives writing the story of their hearts, so good for them and all.
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:right. but. friend. gunnerkrigg court started in TWO THOUSAND AND FIIIIIIIVE. Between Paranatural, Gunnerkrigg, and Cucumber Quest, I've basically stopped actively reading unfinished story-bases webcomics. Sleepless Domain is currently an exception, but I'm not getting too attached. (I also don't feel any like, resentment over the three I named, fwiw. Just realized hanging in there through a multiyear serial story by one creator that moves slowly frequently doesn't pay off).
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I've read long-form comics that tell a satisfying story! I think it's a particular challenge for webcomics for a few reasons, mostly coming down to what a tremendous amount of work making a comic is, which means for a (probably) one person creative team, the pace of updates is necessarily extremely slow and they aren't usually able to make it a job, slowing even more. Furthermore, the format precludes editing the work as a whole, the work is released as finished- and in general the lack of an editor can lead to bigger quality dips or more directionlessness. And even if you nail all that, you have to retain the drive to tell the same story, very slowly, over the course of likely more than a decade. That's a big ask for many people, few of us can maintain that level of passion and interest in one specific creative work at a time. I can't blame someone for losing their passion to tell a story that they started as a teenager when they are thirty, for instance- that hypothetical writer is a very different person from who they were when they started the comic. mycatscrimes has a new favorite as of 22:16 on Apr 13, 2023 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Happy 4-13 indeed. My 11 year old bought a sweet bro and hella jeff shirt for a friend's birthday, and has decorated her schoolbooks with troll pictures. Homestuck lives, even in 2023. I wish you luck! Despite the odds, I think it's worth doing. You'll doubtless get a lot out of it as a writer and artist. : )
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Kit Walker posted:What's up with Paranatural, anyway? I fell off it back in like...2015, probably, and had been meaning to catch up at some point Zack reached a point where they can't continue drawing the comic and maintain their wrist health. Unlike Cucumber Quest, they seem to have transitioned fairly successfully to a prose story with illustrations- for me it ended my interest in the story because Zack's art and comic scripting was a huge draw, and their prose just really isn't for me. But it still has followers and fans, so if you loved it, it might be worth giving a shot? There's a thread on it in BSS with people who are still following.
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GKC is really... Rough right now. I wish Tom was able to put it to the side and come back when he isn't burned out. ) :
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the holy poopacy posted:hot take: art that takes longer than like a couple years to make is still art, the fact that long-form art will shift and evolve over the course of its execution is a feature rather than a bug. I agree. Even if I think it's harder to do successfully as an independent artist, it's art worth making, and it's always better to create something than decide it isn't worth trying. Short and long form comics are all good comics to make.
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Being able to navigate to the start of individual chapters is really useful.
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War crimes mean nothing to Chako. She cannot be constrained with international law.
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Emzedoh posted:Shinozaki's Daily Maintenance I love Bikke-san.
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Some extremely adorable cat art in the latest batch of Shinozaki. :3
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Giant Ethicist posted:Re: LTTP Sleepless Domain chat: Personally I'd always assumed HP not recognizing Tessa was because of some kind of memory mind fuckery, the same kind of thing that makes nobody remember Anemone. But I guess theres no actual in-text reason given to think so. I hate that I had no idea what this song was in the first two comics, then instantly recognized it in the third.
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skeleton warrior posted:I’m getting major tonal whiplash off those Little Rascal covers. The cutesy anime style of faces vs. the clear ‘70s-action-movie-villain scarring, tattooing, and shading on the faces; the small child proportions on shirtless men wearing tight-cut flared pants and high fashion boots; the Archie comics style faces on the left side of the cover and the title “Little Rascals” implying funny childish antics while they actually stab each other and blood pools and entrails spill out It's kinda Go Nagai ish!
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:creepy scary page, well done. the side characters really steal the show mosttimes. Yeah, I personally like Undine and HP, but the story really is more interesting when we're following the other characters, especially Rue, Tessa, and now Vedika.
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