Welcome

Hello friends, long time no see. Do you like the website? Are you very confused as to why I made a website? Understandable.

I mostly just got tired of being fed 10 videos a day on "How to optimize your posts for the algorithm!!!" I just want to upload images I'm so tired. I miss Livejournal and checking my favourite Blogspot sites. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but being able to customize things again feels so nice lol.

I'm refraining from adding a bunch of tiled blingee text to the background. For now.

Rabbit's Kingdom

So! I'm posting a new comic here that is Not Rabbit's Kingdom. About that.

First of all I'm sorry to anyone who was keeping up with RK. I was really passionate about it going in, and I do still want to continue once I can get everything organized for it again.

I did, for the longest time, have the entire script written down, chronological, and ready to go. I had around 60 more pages fully lined and ready for text. And all of the text was in a Notion database where I moved plot points and dialogue around. The problem with this method is that if I hit any of the built-in functions like "sort by date" or "sort by name" then the entire sequence of story events becomes completely randomized with no way to return it to the state it was in before.

So yeah I now have a bunch of empty text bubbles, and no idea what text was supposed to go in them. I can sort of piece it together, but there are joke panels with no punchline. Conversations where I have no idea what one person is saying. Places where I knew I was foreshadowing... something. It's a mess. I'm gonna have to go back in and rewrite/redraw the whole thing.

I could've just started over but I was so disheartened. I wrote the story when I was working part-time, and had whole days free to plot things out. I figured that once I was working full time, I could just reference my plot document, and draw without thinking too much. I had, in theory, enough comic script ready that I wouldn't have to start writing again until I took my vacation.

And of course once I was working full-time, my plot points got randomized. And then my weekends got busy with my idol group. And a new partner. I just did not have the brainspace to hold all the plot points in my head long enough to restructure the plot.

I am still planning to pick it up again with a slightly different art style, and also with a physical notebook holding my plot instead of a big house of cards.

I know it's been a while. Sorry about not posting an update on the actual comic page, I felt so incredibly guilty about it. My other projects are making me more motivated to return and pick up the pieces, at least. I love making comics and RK is a project I know at one point I was very excited about.

The other problem I ran into was that I started working with a guy with the same name as one of my characters, and that made writing romantic dialogue Really Awkward

Ongoing projects

I have two comics and a game demo I'm working on at the moment.

Like a lot of artists these days, my worry about AGI taking over the creative space is affecting all my decisions whether I think about it or not. So much of the AI anime art going around looks like it's specifically trained to spit out fascimiles of the most detailed Korean webtoons. Do I want to make comics that look that well illustrated? Of course. Do I feel significantly safer when my comic style is 'messy watercolour halftone shit'? Yeah. "I'll make messy comics so that it'll look different from AI comics!" "I'll make pretty rendered comics even if it's a bad idea, because I want to!!" Both of these thoughts are living in my head these days. Thus the two projects.

I'm gonna be experimenting with some different rendering styles and different genres. Everything will be BL of course, but maybe the anime men will be thinking about kissing in a fantasy village or a minimalist modern apartment. (I am very jealous of the people drawing BL webtoons where the background description is 'brutalist minimal interior'. And yet I continue to make all of my characters hoarders who have never touched an ikea skubb).

Anyways! I am also learning pixel art, animation, and Godot. Is the game space also oversaturated and full of AGI worries right now? Yes. But coding is fun. So I will keep working on things. Maybe Rabbit's Kingdom will be a videogame. At least the game engine will keep my text organized.

Thanks for reading my rambling. I'm going to keep doing it I think. God I miss livejournal.