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TL;DR - I will no longer give myself deadlines, and we will be blending formatting and thumbnailing together in order to get the ball rolling on the comic.
I joke all the time and say that if I don't want to follow through with something, I should set a deadline. This joke has been a way to avoid beating myself up after another project goes on hold, or another plan isn't followed. I suppose I am unreliable—I'd moan, only to realize this usually applies to personal projects I do for fun and not the other aspects of my life.
Fawn, and every fanfic I write, should be for fun.
I can say it currently is fun, but recently I feel myself growing stressed whenever I think about it. I've been dreading creating posts—absolutely hating the idea of it, so I've been avoiding it altogether. Social media has never been my specialty, and the few times that I forced myself to give it a try I often got caught up in the numbers, the engagement, and the thirst for attention. It's bad for mental health, so I taught myself to put it away, to use it only as a bystander and not as a "content creator".
I don't want this to be that way. I genuinely want to see this comic to the end if only for myself and no one else. It would feel good to look at 30 or so pages of finished artwork, and say, "yeah, I created that." Now that, that is what I crave, so I'll keep going.
What I won't do is what I did last week and give myself 7 days to draw something I loathe without any guidance. Not only did I decide to not do that, (instead, I spent my free time writing a completely unrelated fanfic) but I lost a lot of the motivation that held before.
So! From now on I won't give myself deadlines.
I want to speed things up. There's been a lot of beating around the bush, and not actually drawing the comic, so to fix that I will be blending stages 2 and 3 together. There is absolutely no reason not to create the thumbnails as I'm doing the page formatting.
I'm closing the current poll as well. I'll announce the results in my next post. The good news is that Tumblr introduced polls directly on the site, so I'll be sticking with that the next time I run one of 'em.
Lastly, I still want to thank you for sticking by, liking the posts, or simply viewing them. I will be turning my personal notifications off for everything beyond asks submissions, since I don't want to get into the slump of feeling like I'm doing this for notes, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate you taking your time out of your day to peek into my little bubble.
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And here concludes scene 1! I went back last night to make a few tweaks to the previous pages, and I'm likely going to make a few more as we progress, just so I have less work for myself in the future. I feel pretty motivated currently, so fingers crossed that scene 2 will be started and concluded in a timely manner.
Here's to another 6 pages!
Ignore that. The poll is still available…
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I went to my first convention this past weekend. It was definitely an experience seeing people in cosplay in real life—I even dared to dress up. While there, I came across so much inspiration for my art that sparks flew through my brain. It was definitely a much-needed trip.
So enough of that! I have finally gotten around to sketching out different ideas for Frisk. These are just rough drafts that mainly play around with hairstyles, (she will still wear the signature bangs and bob. Option B is simply my fun little way of showing her face) and skin shades. I'm open to keeping her a Simpsons yellow too so anyone can easily see themselves in her—or maybe not considering her circumstances lol!
Either way, I think it would be fun to vote on it! (once I figure out how to create a poll, that is).
The previous poll appears to be neck and neck with a suggested AU and an original AU (based on the comments and the poll numbers). We will create from scratch to keep things simple while heavily referencing Underfell, that way we are technically doing both options. Below are the results.
Thanks again to everyone who voted! Once I figure out how to embed a poll in this post I will make an edit to include it. In the meantime, if you like any of the options, feel free to comment, and your vote or suggestion will be noted.
Edit: I’m stupid, all I had to do was edit this post to get a poll in—not create a whole new one. Hahaha…
just a question, ive been seeing lots of discourse in the comments of immature interest. whats ur thoughts on it? i mean, is your story meant to erotic? is it meant to be critical of the actions of the characters? cause theres some people saying "its like that to show how fucked up they are" while other people are like "i wanna see them do this taboo thing". just curious, as the author, where u stand in all of this.
Absolutely none of my stories are intended as smut unless I state otherwise. I think people tend to grow confused because I depict situations in a detailed and graphic manner, and we’re often in the heads of the predators and how they view the situation.
I tend to hope that my depicting the harmful psychological effects the victim’s suffer through afterwards, how the world around them reacts to the events (ex.: Knuckles going to the cops after Sonic tells him he raped Amy despite him not wanting to see his best friend go to prison) and just the antagonistic nature of the predators make it clear the story isn’t praising them. We’re supposed to hate Sonic and Shadow in Immature Interest. We’re supposed to feel uncomfortable when Sonic fantasizes about harming Tails. We should despise Vanilla for what she did, and we shouldn’t want Shadow to succeed in the end.
I don’t often care to moderate my comments as people are free to call me and my story gross all they want, or praise it, or I guess ask that Tails have his prostate stimulated by the doctors or whatever.
Personally, my fanfics are outlets, and I find comfort in writing the things that I do. Just because I can write these detailed horrific situations doesn’t mean I fantasize about them, or want them inflicted on anyone, quite the opposite actually. That is like stating all horror authors are serial killers because they write about murder. Clearly, this is not true.
Thanks for this ask, btw! I hope this clears up a lot of confusion. :)
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Heya! Just wondering what your discord name is so I can message you
Hey! My name on Discord is @homemovies. Somehow I lucked out when they made me do the tag change and I got to keep this name without having to add an extra “s”.
Chara, as the split personality, could still play a significant role, in my opinion. I vaguely recall her taking command once she was alone in the house and proceeding to search for weapons and plot potential escape routes. I believe that if Gaster's cult remains as it was, it would certainly spice things up if Gaster began noticing total 180s in Frisk's demeanor through his cameras. It could be like a psychological game in which the two try to outwit each other. Chara wants out, G wants control
I really like this! You also make a good point about Chara occasionally taking over to attempt to escape, and I did originally have plans regarding her killing Papyrus when I first started writing Lugubriousity. Not to say that she will or won’t since that would be spoiling the story!
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I think we’ll keep Chara as a voice in Frisk’s head.
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I know I just posted last night, but instead of finishing up packing for my flight, I decided to make a few quick sketches of Sans. Not just one Sans, as you can see, but two! This leaves me with the question of whether or not I should stick with Underfell or just the OG Underground as a starting point.
Decisions, decisions.
I shall now discuss some of my headcanons for this character (yay)! I personally imagine Red as more animalistic compared to his counterpart. He’s bigger, cruder, and an addict—at least in this story. He’s exactly what would happen if things went extra sour Underground and Sans was nothing but a violent, depressed, pervert.
In Fawn he will remain as his degenerate, unlikable, self. I intend to make his motives a bit more consistent, though. Of course, I’m super open to suggestions and ideas, especially this early into the project.
I wanted to design the Sans’ anatomy in a similar fashion while still adding Red’s more unique characteristics. Comic is like bland bread when standing in the shadow of Red. I’m also leaning more on realism with the artwork, so we get pretty human looking skulls―well, sort of. That also reminds me that, seeing as the opening comic will only be the first chapter of the fanfic, I can’t say for sure if we’ll ever get visuals of Red with his pants down, so no comparing that between the two.
I guess no skeleton dicks...
..for now.
when is a new chapter of immature interest coming out??
Good question! I’m attempting to have all last ten chapters written before I post the next one, but I might release a few a little earlier just to knock em out of the way.
So as of right now? I’m not sure. 😅
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In this artwork we have future Frisk in different clown costumes—or maybe it's the attire of the cult, but honestly, what's the difference? Badum tss!
And we have reached the end of October! It has been an eventful month for writing. I managed to write over 30k words between 2 fics and 8 chapters! Unfortunately, most of the art goals haven't been met. I will make up for that though!
Soon I will be releasing a larger post explaining the future of FAWN and any related stories, but for now, I'm going to give my brain (and creative fingers) a bit of a break.
The many versions of summer…erm—Frisk lol.
The Salt Circle https://archiveofourown.org/works/35240278/chapters/87819139
Gah! UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Everything is perpetually under construction…18+For Context Read "Lugubriosity"
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