I Love The Onion Sometimes

06 Jun, 2008 | Rose | Leave comment - 0

Right now there are two articles that I particularly appreciate. The first Love Letters From U.S. Troop Increasingly Gruesome has a disturbing and serious undertone, and th other Liberty City Police Force Allegations of Incompetence, Brutality can't fail to amuse anyone familiar with the Grand Theft Auto games.

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Ratings, Violence and Sex

23 May, 2008 | Rose | Leave comment - 1

I've been thinking about As We Know It (a comic about the end of the world) and come to the conclusion that my original plan of sticking to a PG13 rating might not be workable. I don't have anything planned for it that I feel would be unsuitable for a thirteen or fourteen year old to read, but then I have a different opinion of what is suitable for a fourteen year old than many other parents do. Mostly around sex.

It should be noted that I am aware that my fourteen year old daughter reads and writes slash. I suspect when she first told me this it was in the hopes of getting a reaction out of me. Since I remember being a teenager who thought about sex a lot I wasn't surprised. I also wonder if the Internet had been around when I was her age if I would have done the same. I can't say for certain that I would have, nor that I wouldn't have.

I'm not going to make As We Know It and "Adult Comic", but neither am I going to go out of my way to avoid sexual content if/when the story requires it. I don't know, beyond a handful of things which must happen, exactly where the strip will go. The story has already altered significantly from what I originally had in mind. This is a good thing, because the changes are, overall, for the better. It just means I don't know what's going to happen.

If I decide to create a strip about Modren's story I might need to include sex, though I suppose I could fade to black. The thing is there are certain elements of his story wherein sex and sexuality are important. Including that he was the lover of an Arcanian Prince. I know some idiots consider the merest mention of homosexuality to render something unsuitable for children and teens.

I'm also intending for the violence to be brutal rather than romanticized- largely because some of my favorite works (both books and film) depict violence in gory glory. They can be hard to read/watch, but are much the better for the nasty reality they include. I'm thinking it would be interesting to make the comic mostly black and white, but with the addition of red in the battle scenes. I'm not sure about that one yet, but it was a thought that I had.

A New Computer Would be Nice

08 May, 2008 | Rose | Leave comment - 1

I've decided to record "Bingle Jells" and make it available online, along with some other spoonerised songs I have yet to work out. Unfortunately the voice recording software I was looking at requires a better system than I have. *grrr* Oh well, the secondary computer will probably prove sufficient. Of course a Spoonerised winter song might not be a good one to put out in the spring, but since it's the only one I've figured out so far (Although there are verses I have yet to mangle with my bardic spoon) it seems like a good place to start.

And since someone will probably wonder which recording software I was looking at it's Audacity.

What to call them...

06 Apr, 2008 | Rose | Leave comment - 2

Right now I"m stalled on my script, so I'm going to make a request of anyone reading this. I need a name for one of the intelligent species, they're sort of elf-like and sort of dryad like. Here's something I wrote from the perspective of someone who is essentially one of them.

I was raised by my mother and her sibs- there were eight of them, including my mother. There are rarely more than five or fewer than three. Three were differentiated [gendered] and two were juvenile trees, having planted themselves at a young age.

Mother was, biologically speaking, my father. She was a switch and had became female during puberty. After my human mother died in childbirth my (dryad) mother became female in response.

There's more, but I don't feel like typing it up and it has more to do with his love life than with his one parent species.

"Sibs" are siblings born at the same time, and they tend to be very close.

Tristan (who comes from Toronto) will tend to think of Torell as a half-elf, but I want a name that they call themselves, rather than just calling them elfs.

As We Know It: Some Thoughts/Ideas

24 Mar, 2008 | Rose | Leave comment - 2

Right now I'm planning a webcomic which I intend to start posting at the end of October. This should give me plenty of time to get a three month buffer in place. I'm thinking the frequency of updates will be related to the size of the buffer I build.

It is the story of two young women and their lovers working to avert The Final War in which Humanity Will be Destroyed. A Seer known for being uncannily accurate has predicted that one of the women (who happen to be twins) must retrieve The Sword of Lord Owen- also known as "Skewer". (Lord Owen wasn't the brightest of people, fortunately his wife was.)

The Story begins with Bronwynne traveling back to Nexus from our world (or at least one very much like it). She is followed by the annoyingly impulsive Tristan and they are informed that the Seer has Seen the two of them have a good chance of at least delaying The Final War and The End of the Worlds.

There is some discussion and concerns about Tristan going along, but the Seer is adamant that the group needs to include him. (I'm working on the exact wording as the Seer predicted Tristan's arrival at nexus- all I know is that there will be mention of him being a follower of a One Eyed God.)

Peasant Soup

26 Feb, 2008 | Rose | Leave comment - 0

Tonight we are having what I like to think of as peasant soup, so I told Dianna that I want her to go out and get me a peasant to put in the soup :D

Seriously though, it's just the liquid left from the roast we had last night with some vegetables added in. When I put it on this morning I did so with the assumption that I would be at work all day and it would be nice to come home to a nice hot meal. However since the snow has scared people from getting their cars washed I came home early.

I'm also thinking that I might want to make this a regular thing, as in make up a roast in the crockpot on Monday and use the broth for soup on Tuesday. I like roasts, and I like soup. I don't know how Mark and Dianna will feel about this suggestion, so I think I will do the shockingly sensible thing and ask their opinions.