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mypoisonedvine · 5 years ago

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I Never Danced Until I Met You- Chapter 2

[Chapter 1]

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Word Count: 4.1k (and it’s allllll banter lol)

Rating: still T……….. for now

You were already on horseback when he approached you in the courtyard. “Where’s my horse?” he asked as he saw you.

“You can walk beside mine,” you suggested.

“Oh no, I get enough of that with Geralt,” he protested, already climbing up onto your saddle, “I’m sharing with you.”

Before you could stop him, he was sitting behind you, his form enveloping yours. You swallowed dryly.

“I bet this is what you wanted all along,” he postulated in a provocative tone, speaking quietly since he was already so close to your ear. He smelled of soap and leather.

“There were no spare horses in the stable,” you replied, and though you were telling the truth your voice came out a little shaky.

“Riiiight.” You couldn’t see his face but you assumed he was winking or smirking or something.

Instead of continuing to defend yourself, you shook the reigns, prompting your horse to begin trotting towards the gates.

“To the east are the training fields,” you explained as you motioned in their direction, “where my troops prepare for battle. To the west, the furthest wing of the castle.”

“Where are your quarters?” he asked suddenly.

“I’d nearly forgotten how forward you are,” you replied with an eyeroll that he couldn’t see.

“I couldn’t forget how lovely you are,” he waxed poetically, “but regardless, I was just making conversation.”

“Some conversation,” you scoffed.

“You doubt my honour?” he asked with surprise (and a hint of sarcasm). You tried not to laugh, but it didn’t work.

“If you must know, my quarters are just outside the Queen’s. I am expected to come to her aid first in case of an emergency,” you explained.

“Not much privacy there, I’d imagine.”

“I’ve no need for it,” you replied with a touch of surprise. You hadn’t even really considered that aspect.

“Sounds like a boring life,” he mumbled

“To you, I’m sure,” you responded, “but I live a life of integrity, which I have found demands little privacy to be conducted.”

“I think integrity is something people think they have until they’re challenged,” Jaskier philosophised.

You didn’t respond right away, and he suddenly seemed very proud of himself. “Ah, left speechless by my incredible accuracy?” he teased.

“The idiocy of your statement was so severe, I required a moment of silence to process it,” you replied coolly.

“I know why you’re so hell-bent on antagonizing me, you know,” he said, his voice getting quieter.

“What’s that?” you pressed.

He leaned in closer to your ear, his breath tickling against your skin.

“You have to convince yourself you hate me, because you lead the sort of life where you can’t develop those pesky ‘feelings’ you’ve managed to avoid all this time,” he posited, “and the only emotion you’ve ever been allowed to have is anger. So you’re angry with me in lieu of being attracted to me, which- hate to break it to you- isn’t a choice.”

You swallowed dryly, thankful he couldn’t see your facial expression in that moment as it would’ve surely given you away.

You scoffed weakly, realizing a moment of silence wouldn’t do you any favors.

“Men like you always have some ridiculous story to explain how every woman who isn’t interested is secretly weak in the knees for them,” you deflected.

“Then tell me it isn’t true,” he offered. “Just say I’m totally wrong, and I’ll believe you.”

You almost considered confessing that he was entirely accurate- more right about the situation than even you had been up until that moment. But then you remembered this was your life and not a fantastical story, that you were a knight and not a duchess, that he would leave the castle in a few days and have his choice of the women of the world (so long as they were of comparable social standing) and you would be forever tied to your duties.

“It isn’t true,” you lied confidently, “you’re totally wrong.”

He was quiet for a moment.

“Nah, I still don’t believe you,” he pshawed.

“What? You said you would!”

“I thought I would, but now that you’ve said it, I’m sure more than ever that it’s true.”

You sighed, kicking the horse gently to keep up its pace as you continued trotting through the castle grounds.

“It’s not true,” you repeated after an awkward silence.

“I know, I know, you’re a cold heartless warrior whose only business is breaking bones,“ he sarcastically agreed.

“Is that what you think warfare is?” you snorted.

“I just wonder how many hearts you’ve broken,” he continued, ignoring your question.

“None,” you responded, looking south towards the mountains and appreciating their beauty even having seen them every day.

“Preposterous,” Jaskier scoffed.

“I’ve never had a suitor, or secret admirer or anything of the sort,” you shrugged.

“How could you know if you had had a secret admirer? Wouldn’t it be, you know, secret?”

“I just know,” you frowned. “No one acts like they have any interest in me.”

“Maybe they’re just very subtle about it,” he considered.

“Subtle? I didn’t think that word was in your vocabulary,” you mocked.

“It used to be,” he smiled, “but my affections for you are too strong to be suppressed.”

“How many women do you say that to?” you asked deridingly.

“How many women are knights?” he returned.

“Just me,” you sighed.

“Just you,” he repeated, his tone sounding more thoughtful and serious suddenly.

You pondered that briefly but thankfully the silence was broken as your horse took you over the crest of the hill, overlooking the entire city. You heard him gasp a bit as he looked out, and you lifted yourself off the saddle and onto the ground.

“Great view, isn’t it?” you commented as you looked out over the cobbled streets and thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.

“Lovely,” he observed, following you onto the grass and taking in the scenery.

“You’ve probably seen more extravagant places in your travels,” you hedged.

“Perhaps, but extravagance isn’t all there is to life,” he explained as he sat down on a rock. “I can appreciate the simple beauty of a quiet town. It must have been nice growing up here.”

You took a seat on the ground nearby, as sitting next to him on the rock would require getting closer than you were ready for.

“It wasn’t this nice when I was growing up here, actually,” you recalled. “War-torn, crime-ridden…”

“What changed?” he asked.

“New management,” you smirked, motioning behind you to the castle.

“She seems like a good leader,” he considered.

“She’s incredible. She turned this nation around, truly.”

“Well, I’m sure she didn’t do it by herself,” he assumed. You gave him a quizzical look. “Someone had to enforce the new laws, clean up the streets,” he clarified.

“Oh, well, yes, the cavalry did some policing; nowadays we have constables for that,” you remembered.

“You make even more sense as a copper than a knight,” he chuckled.

“How’s that?”

“You’re laying down the law with me every five minutes and you ask why I think you’d make a good police officer?” he scoffed in reply.

“I don’t usually need to be so uptight,” you defended, “it’s the criminal in you that brings out the cop in me.”

“Me, a criminal? Look at this innocent face,” he pouted. “If anything, I’m the victim: I’ve recently had my heart stolen.”

“I’ll give you one thing, you’re persistent,” you groaned.

“I didn’t say it was you,” he noted. Your head whipped around to look at him, and he started to chuckle.

“Relax, love, of course it’s you,” he reassured as you felt your cheeks flush. “You’re not as stoic as you think.”

After several moments passed in reverent silence, something you weren’t sure before was possible with someone as talkative as Jaskier around, you decided that sitting quietly let your mind wander further than you wanted it to go.

“How’s your archery?” you inquired suddenly, standing up and dusting the grass off of your trousers.

“Haven’t held a bow since I was eleven,” he answered, following suit by getting up off the rock, “so I’m sure it’s spectacular.”

“Frankly I’m more of a swordsman myself, so I can’t promise to be the greatest teacher you’ve ever had, but maybe you’d enjoy a refresher course,” you offered.

“You’re too kind,” he replied, jumping back on the saddle. “I promise to be a worse student than you are a teacher.”

“Elbow up,” you instructed. His elbow did go up, but then it shot out to the side, throwing off his entire posture again. You used two fingers to push it back into place.

“Realign your shoulders,” you added, “your back keeps slipping forward.”

“That’s because this posture is rather uncomfortable!” he whined.

“Yes, well, hitting your target will ease the pain.”

“Not for the target,” he mumbled as he readjusted his position.

You stood beside his bow and made little adjustments, moving his hands and back where they needed to be for accuracy.

It wasn’t until he looked at you that you realized the bow created a sort of barrier which prevented you from realizing how close to him you were standing. If he faced you, which he just had, your faces would be just centimetres apart. You used your hands to move his face back to facing downrange.

“Take the shot,” you encouraged quietly, and he did, the arrow zooming past both of your faces as it whipped the air with its feathers.

You watched the arrow hit just west of the bullseye, and Jaskier turned to you with a smile, relaxing the bow. You stepped back so you wouldn’t be standing so close anymore.

“Hey, not so bad!” he observed.

“Quite excellent, actually,” you corrected.

“You’re a better teacher than you let on.”

“No, I fixed your positioning but that shot was all you,” you explained, “most people flinch when the arrow fires, which makes it impossible to keep steady. You were fearless.”

“Fearless? That’s not something I get called often,” he replied in shock.

“You asked a knight on duty to dance. Clearly you have no fear of death,” you smirked. He chuckled, pulling another arrow from the quiver.

“Speaking of death, think I can make a bullseye this time?” he asked as he prepared his shot.

“I’d be surprised.”

“Would you be impressed?” he asked with that tone that made you nervous for what he would do next.

“I… suppose,” you responded hesitantly.

“I just know there are stories about knights performing physical tasks to win the affections of princesses and whatnot,” he remembered, “and I wondered if I could win a knight’s affections by hitting a perfect bullseye.”

“Affections aren’t won, they’re earned,” you replied sternly.

“Earned?” he repeated, relaxing the bow and looking at you again. “Then, there is some way to get you to fall for me.”

“I didn’t mean it quite that way,” you corrected.

“So then there’s no way for me to get through?” he asked.

“Yes, exactly,” you frowned, getting more frustrated.

“That doesn’t make any sense!” he protested.

“It makes perfect sense to those of us who can accept the fact that you and I will never be anything more than acquaintances.”

“If they’re not won, and they’re not earned, then they’re just random. Just the unstoppable will of destiny. You didn’t strike me as the type to believe that sort of thing,” he explained.

You thought about that for a moment, not realizing before how quickly your logic on love could fall apart.

“Destiny, if it’s real, wills for me to be alone,” you scowled.

“Just because you’ve been alone so far, doesn’t mean you need to be alone forever,” he replied, his voice gentler and softer than before.

“Maybe I want to be alone,” you suggested.

He smiled, facing back downrange and pulling the bowstring back.

“And yet, here we are,” he whispered as he let go and made the shot. You watched with a dumbfounded expression as the arrow landed right in the center: a perfect bullseye.

You looked back to him and almost wanted to hide your shock, but it wouldn’t have worked anyways.

“How did you make that shot?!” you asked, entirely flabbergasted.

He relaxed the bow, looking back to you with that effortless confidence you envied so much.

“Must have been the will of Destiny,” he shrugged.

You were almost ready to go to the main hall for dinner, needing only to brush your hair a bit after a long day outside. The Queen had requested you join the staff and guests for dinner off-duty, even though you normally ate alone when you weren’t expected to attend as the Royal Protector. She had actually recommended that you wear a dress but truthfully you didn’t even own one.

Being ready early, you snuck into the kitchen to get a glimpse of what they’d be serving that night. You knew it would be quail because you’d see a servant going to the coop just a few hours ago, but what you were curious about, as always, was dessert.

Entering through one of the staff corridors, you breathed in the wonderful smells of bread and spices. It was hot in the kitchen, almost too hot to be comfortable, but it was worth it when you saw an abandoned tart laying on a countertop. It looked to have burned a bit on one side, meaning it was probably abandoned without plans to be served. The good news? The unburnt half was up for grabs.

You made sure that no one was too close before you grabbed a ladle and went to town. It was sort of shameful, but at least you didn’t use your hands!

“Hey, you’ll spoil your appetite!” A kitchen maid scolded.

“What’s an appetite for if not stolen desserts?” you defended, your words muffled by the food in your mouth.

“A kitchen’s not for eating,” she frowned, “take your quarry outside, at least.”

You made a face of displeasure as you grabbed the tart and carried it into the hall. You heard a few sounds of people moving towards the hall where dinner was set to begin shortly, but figured you could find an alcove of relative privacy.

You weren’t even properly surprised when Jaskier appeared, at this point you expected him to show up at your most embarrassing moments. And you didn’t have the energy to stop eating over it, either.

“You do have a wild side,” he observed as you scooped tart into your mouth unceremoniously.

“Who said I didn’t?”

“Oh, I always knew it, don’t get me wrong,” he winked, “just didn’t know I’d be seeing it so soon.”

“Is it everything you dreamed?” you asked sarcastically.

“More jam than I imagined,” he replied with a quirked brow.

You shuddered to consider what he had imagined as your “wild side.” Somewhere between a good and a bad shudder… and up until now you hadn’t realized there were good shudders.

“I have a soft spot- just the one- for dewberries,” you explained.

“Rest of you’s steel?”

“Of course,” you confirmed, “any other fruit, I’m impenetrable.”

You regretted that choice of words. You looked at his face to see if he caught it, but his expression was hard to read. Definitely not creepy or conniving or anything of that nature; soft, maybe even thoughtful. Sad but not like sad sad… okay, you weren’t great at emotions.

You were just about to look away, thinking you’d been looking at him too long, but then you started to wonder how bad it would be if you just let yourself look at him. What’s the harm in that? You let your gaze scan his body, something you had simultaneously longed to do and dreaded the idea of. His outfit was more practical than you expected, less glitz and glam and perhaps more traditionally-masculine… though still plenty scandalous in its own ways. His chest hair peeked out from his collar, not that it had to be very low for that to happen, but it was plenty low anyhow. He had traded in his doublet for a tunic, more traditional in your kingdom, which was fortunately and unfortunately much tighter. You’d seen men in a variety of states of undress before, you used to sleep in the barracks after all, so there were surely no surprises under there. And yet, you felt so tempted to see more. You knew he was pretty strong from his archery, but you wondered if he was strong enough to-

You caught yourself going down a dangerous path and stopped while you still could. Your eyes shot back up to his, which were looking at you with darkness, hunger. He didn’t say anything and yet his face already said it all.

“Want some?” you offered nervously, holding a spoonful of tart out to him.

You had expected him to grab the spoon but instead he lightly touched your hand, guiding you to feed him. It was oddly intimate, his touch so delicate and electrifying that it almost tickled. His eyes stayed on yours as his lips wrapped around the silver spoon, pulling his head back to get the food off of the utensil. A little of the filling got onto his bottom lip, and you watched, enraptured, as his tongue darted out to lick it off.

“What do you think?” you asked, your voice much shakier than you preferred, as you set the tart down on the nearby credenza.

“Delicious,” he answered softly, his eyes piercing right through you.

You heard more people moving through the nearby halls and realized dinner must be starting any moment.

“Still hungry?” you asked, intending it to be an offer to go to the dining hall.

“Ravenous,” he replied in a low voice, low enough for the bass of it to seem to shake right through you.

He stepped forward, bringing you much closer together. It was terrifying and yet so wonderful. Instinctively you reached up to push him away, but then as you did you regretted it, so you ended up just wrapping your hands around his arms without actually holding him back. He returned, placing his hands on your triceps which was an oddly personal part of your body.

Right as you realized you had no idea what to do next, Geralt appeared from around the corner.

You jumped back, sort of an instinct when caught in an intimate moment. Maybe it wasn’t that intimate, but by your standards it was rather scandalous.

“Am I interrupting something?” Geralt asked in a way that seemed perchance a bit mocking. Before you could answer, he looked at the credenza and made a face of confusion.

“What’s the pie for?” he grimaced.

“Consumption?” you offered. What else would it be for?

“Right,” he affirmed. “‘Finger in every pie,’ as they say.”

“…Huh?“

"Dandelion has a lot of fingers in a lot of pies, that’s all.”

You didn’t know how to react to that, even how to interpret it. He walked away, and you gave Jaskier a confused look as you followed.

Dinner was delicious, but you were too distracted to properly appreciate it. Not distracted by good conversation, certainly- the dukes harassing Geralt for details about the day’s hunt was not intriguing- but by your own thoughts. Jaskier made you so angry, so confused, made your heart race and your head hurt and your stomach all loopy and nervous. He still felt like a stranger to you in many ways, though talking to him had more in common with a conversation with an old friend than an acquaintance- not that you knew all that much about what it was like to have old friends. You weren’t sure if it was normal to feel jealous when you saw your old friends chatting up other women. He was making some duchess laugh like she’d never heard a joke before- even the servant girls thought he was charming. It took you a while to realize that it was the cause of your feeling sick, not something wrong with the food.

Just after the final course was served, you figured it not too early to excuse yourself. You stood, hoping to make a quick and mostly unnoticed exit, but Jaskier stood as soon as you did. You stopped, expecting him to say something, but he didn’t.

“Are you also retiring?” you asked him, confused.

“Men are obliged to stand when a lady enters or exits a room,” he said, like it was obvious. And you were suddenly surprised it wasn’t obvious. The table had been obeying that etiquette for the other women who had entered when dinner began.

“Oh, yes,” you agreed nervously.

Jaskier looked around the table, seeming a bit frustrated.

“Am I wrong?” he asked rhetorically.

The men at the table stood, begrudgingly, even Geralt.

“That’s better,” Jaskier sighed.

“I’m retiring for the evening, thank you,” you said with a quick bow as you rushed for the doors.

You almost expected him to chase after you, just because he seemed to follow you everywhere. Instead you didn’t see him until much later when he knocked on your door.

“You found my quarters,” you observed.

“I wanted to apologize, if you felt scrutinized at dinner,” he explained. “I didn’t think I would draw any undue attention to you. I just… assumed everyone else would stand, I suppose.”

“No one here thinks of me as a woman,” you replied with a sigh. “You’d do well to remember that.”

“Do you think of yourself as a woman?” he pressed.

“I-” you began, but then stopped as you realized that you really weren’t sure how to answer. You didn’t even really think of yourself at all, generally. Since meeting Jaskier, you certainly thought of yourself as a woman a lot more than you used to.

“You don’t really have that luxury, do you?” he prompted solemnly.

You nodded.

“You deserve to be treated better,” he announced.

“I tell my troops not to use words like ‘deserve.’ They don’t really mean anything.”

Jaskier crossed his arms, seemingly unsatisfied with your philosophy. “It means that it would only be fair if you were given the same respect you give to others.”

“‘Fair’ doesn’t mean anything either,” you smirked.

“What about ‘love’? What does that mean?” he asked, his tone more serious.

“Doesn’t mean what you think it means,” you scoffed. Maybe you were being too combative, but you didn’t like that he was throwing ‘love’ around and you really didn’t like how your heart skipped a beat when he said it.

“And what’s that? Please, enlighten me,” he requested sarcastically. You frowned.

“This might blow your mind, but ‘love’ isn’t something that happens overnight, let alone at first sight,” you explained.

“Just because I’m a romantic doesn’t mean I’m an idiot,” he deflected.

“Just because I’m practical doesn’t mean my life is devoid of meaning or something,” you countered.

“Just because you’ve been burned before doesn’t mean you should give up on ever being happy!” he shouted.

You didn’t even really mean to slap him, it just sort of happened. You didn’t even hit him nearly as hard as you know you could have, thankfully.

“I’m happy the way things are! I’m happy being alone!” you asserted, slamming the door in his face.

You turned and held your face in your hands, fighting back tears. You couldn’t remember the last time you got so angry, or the last time you’d cried. You hated that he was always following you around and you hated that he was always saying some stupid thing like he talked in poems and you hated that he was always right, that he saw right through you. Had it always been this obvious? Had everyone else in the whole nation figured out that you actually weren’t happy, and just never thought to mention it? Or, had no one else ever cared enough to notice?

Ashamed of having punished him for doing everything right, you opened your door and hoped you could still catch him as he was heading back to his room and apologize. Instead you found him still standing there, in the same place, waiting patiently. You jumped, wiping your tears.

“You’re still here?” you asked in surprise.

“I’m still here,” he assured. It felt like a promise, like something important.

“Do you want me to go?” he asked, but you knew he knew the answer, and he just wanted to hear you say it. You decided to afford him this one little gift, just this once.

“No,” you answered, “I don’t want you to go.”

He looked at you expectantly.

“Please stay,” you requested.

“All right,” he agreed, and stepped into your room.

[next chapter]

#jaskier x reader #jaskier x oc #dandelion x reader #the witcher #witcher fic #my writing

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bentchcreates · 7 years ago

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Beyond Light and Darkness, A Kathbute Anthology (Part 2)

Let me begin 2018 with an awesome review of our awesome book! I’m very proud of this – I was part of the new writer judging, the editing, and I wrote the preface! – and if you want to know this book’s journey from conception to publishing I wrote a lengthy blog on that last year.

In this second part of the #BLaD blog posts, I’ll be reviewing it as a reader and I’ll try to review it as objectively as I can. ;) Here’s what I think of the 11 stories by the Kathbute Authors, because while a general review of the book is appreciated, it always feels great for anthology authors to read about their works individually.

I. Love Bits

1. The Watch Repairman’s Son – H. Bentham Prompts: A broken wristwatch, peppermints, and a hug that goes too far.

LOL at reviewing this objectively! XD This is my work and for me it’s the best! Hahaha!

Anyway, a trivia about this story: This is actually my first Sancho de Guerra story. I finished writing this almost a full year before “Guide for A Day” appeared in Summer Feels but this took a while to see the light of day. The town I envisioned here is a wee bit different from the one I imagined for the later story, but you wouldn’t really notice. All the bits that got published can go together, and as of this writing, I declare it as canon. ;)

2. Can I Stay? – Nigel Libranages Prompts: Tarot Cards, the coming winter, a pair of old leather boots

This is more of a romantic fiction than romance but the feels, especially the melancholy, is on point. The tone seems levelheaded, but there’s something subtle in how it’s presented that tugs at the heartstrings just right. I must commend both the clever interpretation of the given prompts and the vivid visualization of the settings. Sandra’s characterization is also well fleshed out, justifying her decisions through the end of this short story.

II. Spell Crafts

3. Potion Lunacy – Irina Jean Prompts: The first day of school, a love note, a recipe with a significant mistake

The YA Fantasy theme in this one is cute and reminds me so much of quirky 2000’s anime. Feisty Portia is stubborn but also a bit insecure and her love interest, Gelen, is just the right amount of clumsy and torpe to be endearing. The fun and fast-paced banter depicts the youthfulness of the characters accurately. And the magic parts, though light, are solid and well thought of.

4. Etienne and Amelie – Johanna Lee Prompts: A supporting fairytale character, a lake, pretenses

This retelling of your favorite fairytales retains the fantastical magic of our childhood reads. I’m not going to say which tales get beautifully mashed-up because I think the figuring out is part of the story’s charm. The visualization and choice of words are commendable, as well as the surprising twist at the very end. You have to read this carefully. Blink, and you’ll miss it.

5. Man in Between – Trix Luna Prompts: old train, jewels, an inconvenient truth

This story wasn’t in the original manuscript I got to read in the editing phase so reading it for the first time in the book is quite an experience. It is told in the second person POV, something I rarely get to read and the spec fic theme is also somewhat fresh to me. I don’t know how best to describe it without spoilers except that I thought it felt transcendental. The choice of words really got to me and it was…unsettling, in the way good fiction affects readers even after the story ends.

III. Distortions

6. The Time Banker – Raine Rillera Prompts: A name, a prison cell, music

The sci-fi/spec fic concept for this one has been wonderfully executed, and the interpretation of the prompts, though subtle and downplayed, were key elements in the advancement plot. This is one of the stories chosen after our writing contest and I remembered that even the rough draft of this one was solid so the edited version in the print made for an awesome reread.

7. The Trial of the Tainted – Trix Luna Prompts: A heroic villain, an old parchment, an unforgivable sin

Space and time-travelling were the themes of this interesting short story. I loved the world-building in this one and the twist and turns it took to get to that ‘heroic villain’ bit. There is also an underlying subtheme of a familiar story that everyone knows by now so the marriage of sci-fi elements to that story kind of updated the mysterious plot.

8. Word Wisp – AlaraChan IDA Prompts: aerobics, a secret diary, something unpleasant under the bed

With prompts like those, familiar stories immediately come to mind about monsters and inner demons, yada, yada…but this interpretation of the boogeyman trope is fresh and brilliant. The monster here isn’t a thing, more of a concept, and it doesn’t kill, but rather consumes something everyone often takes for granted. I especially loved the world apocalypse scenes and the people’s reactions to it in this story’s universe.

IV. Penumbra

9. Allegro – RK Sanchez Prompts: A name, a prison cell, music

Our cover artist also contributed a story here, and it is one on the darker themes. This time the mystery is more psychological and less fantastical but is just as interesting as all the other stories. The author takes a different turn with the interpretation of the prompts and offers a sweet twist toward the end.

10. Thirty-Seven – Yelle Felicenny Prompts: A stolen ring, fear of spiders, a sinister stranger

This was one of my anticipated reads in this book because I only got to read the first part during the editing phase. There’s a bit of action, adventure and mystery here but what really got me was the dark turn of events at about the final quarter of the story.

11. Darker Than Night- AlaraChan IDA Prompts: a campfire, a scream, a small lie that gets bigger and bigger

This is uniquely written in epistolary style/journal entries, and is a dark but captivating read. I don’t read a lot of horror stories (everyone knows I’m a coward, lol) but I couldn’t put this down! I wanted to know what happens to the aswang and the military party that’s pursuing it!

5 of 5 Stars. Because I’m super proud of our work, and it is an honor to have worked on this with awesome writers and awesome people!

Blurb: The 11 stories in this anthology showcase the interpretations of the Kathbute writers to the theme of light and darkness in the genres of Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery.

Buy Links:

Right now it’s only available in print here: bit.ly/BLADBatch2

I’ll update this when the Kindle version is released. J

For the meantime, put it in your GoodReads TBR shelf? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36995364-beyond-light-and-darkness-a-kathbute-anthology

About the authors:

Nigel Libranages Nigel Libranages is a licensed chemist but dreams of becoming a marine biologist and take care of sea turtles. Born as a genuine sinker, the closest that he can do about his dream is own an aquarium. He has pitcher plants for pets, and he loves reading about myths and folklore. He writes before he forgets. Dedication: To those who are strong enough to hold on, and brave enough to let go.

Wattpad: @libranages

Raine Rillera Born and raised in Baguio City, Raine has a natural affinity to cold weather and “vintage” clothing (i.e. ukay). Her first paying job was as a puppeteer, when at 8 years old she staged her own puppet show at a birthday party. Since then, she has been telling stories through whatever medium was available.

Wattpad: @purple_porpoise

H. Bentham H. Bentham was born and raised in the Philippines but now resides 1,481 miles away from home. He battles homesickness with his various hobbies and (mostly) procrastinating on the internet. When he's done being bored, he writes stories; and when he's feeling particularly profound, poems. He adores turtles and bettas, enjoying the slow, quiet companionship they provide.

Wattpad: @bentchbites|Facebook: H Bentham Writes | Twitter: @bentchbites| Instagram: @bentchbites

Irina Jean Irina Jean is an elusive mushroom who indulges in anime, manga, video games, and most of all, art. She believes that writing is a unique form of art too, for she can express herself with words as her paint and her laptop as her canvas. When she's not writing, she's usually binge-gaming with friends. She dreams of being a webcomic artist and, if possible, a space witch. (Actually, any kind of witch would do.)

Wattpad: @Cygneux|Facebook: Irina Jean

Trix Luna Trix is the self-proclaimed duchess of the East of the Sun and West of the Moon, a place where there is always light when you need it. She’s still waiting for her Hogwarts acceptance letter even though she is already sorted to Ravenclaw. She’s not adept at any game ending in –ball (basketball, football, volleyball, etc.) other than Quidditch and Scrabble. She has a one-sided relationship with music and strongly opposes to divorce with it, believing that music will learn to love her singing voice…eventually.

Wattpad: @lunatrix|Facebook: Trix Luna | Twitter: @3xLuna

AlaraChan IDA AlaraChan IDA is a kabute who like books, cats, and hot chocolate. She takes long quiet walks, bike rides, and binge-watching a number of TV series to keep her muse alive and kicking. She dreams of becoming a pod racer, a dragon-tamer, and a space pirate. She recently took up watercolor painting and is now torn between writing and the arts.

Wattpad: @AlaraChan| Instagram: @alara_arts

Johanna Lee Johanna Lee is a Filipino writer based in Western Australia who writes poetry, and fictional stories in the genre of Chicklit, Romance, and Paranormal. A published Tagalog Romance author, Radish Fiction writer, and a Children’s-storyteller-wannabe. She finds joy in her collection of toys, books, stationery, and old-fashioned writing tools.

Twitter: @ilivewritenow| Instagram: @ilivewritenow

Yelle Felicenny Felicenny is an awkward melange of multiple extremes: an artist hemmed in a thriving tycoon’s body. While business is her field of study and training remote communities is her passion in public service, her heart belongs to art, poetry and travelling. Bus rides, sunsets and coffee shops are among her favorite things, for the untamed muse beckons the most - inked on bus tickets, receipts and table napkins.

Wattpad: @Felicenny| Facebook: Yelle Felicenny

R.K. Sanchez R.K. Sanchez is a teacher by profession, but is fond of learning a lot of things from her students. Her hands are often dirty as she is a right-handed artist and guitarist, often having guitar string marks on her left hand fingertips and paint stains all over her right hand. She is an introvert who has always been afraid of meeting and approaching new people, but never afraid of approaching stray cats and dogs.

Wattpad : @PrivateHeroine| | Facebook: Skribsinner | Instagram: @skribsinner

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August 2nd, 2018 CTP Archive

The archive for the Comic Tea Party chat that occurred on August 2nd, 2018, from 5PM - 7PM PDT. The chat focused on Woohooligan! by Samuel Dealey.

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✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

COMIC TEA PARTY START!

Good day everyone~! This week’s Comic Tea Party is now officially beginning~! Today we are discussing Woohooligan! by Samuel Dealey~! (http://www.woohooligan.com/) For those new or in need of a reminder, discussions about the comic are freeform, so please feel free to bring up whatever you wish. However, every 30 minutes I will be dropping in a discussion question to help those who would like a prompt. These questions are totally OPTIONAL to answer, and you can pay them no mind if you wish. If you miss out on any though, they’ll be pinned for the duration of the chat once they’re posted~! Remember, constructive criticism is allowed, but the primary focus here is to have fun and appreciate the amazing comics that the community makes~! As a bonus, each chat a top comment will be picked and featured in the archives and on an ad for CTP! All that being said, let’s get started and have a great discussion!

QUESTION 1. What is your favorite strip in the comic so far and why?

SamDealey

Hey, everybody! I'm Sam! Don't worry about me being here. You can ask me questions, give advice, dog on things you didn't like, or just ignore me, however you prefer.

Also, feel free to contact me if I can help with any of your projects (research, promo, tech, etc.) -- and you can get me on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/datafaucet

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

glad you could be here again sam!

lets see. i think my favorite strip is actually one of the ones that was super early on: http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/4 as a fan of perspective, i really just enjoyed that play on words since ive always thought vanishing point was a....strange choice of terminology for the concept. so i enjoyed seeing it taken super literally XD

SamDealey

A lot of people have said they relaly prefer either the early stuff or the late stuff... my style has changed a lot.

Yeah, that vanishing point strip isn't very widely popular, but a lot of artists really enjoy it.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i can see why theres that preference difference. the switch the late stuff was a bit awkward since it became more focused. but i think both sides have their merit. though admittedly in this case i do think a lot of my fave strips were the ones earlier on.

http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/23 that one as well was one my favorites. my family is 1) both cursed to never understand technology and 2) generally unwilling to listen to me. so man do i wish i was that guy who would reply so sarcastically and lead them astray. XD too identifiable

SamDealey

I also went through several visual style changes that were caused by changing tools... I switched to all digital when I couldn't find an affordable wide-format scanner in 2009, did some stuff for a while in Adobe Illustrator (and colored in Photoshop), then switched to Manga Studio 4.5 ... even the upgrade to MS 5 I think unexpectedly changed some things.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

WLLO

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

its bound to happen naturally anyway for a comic as old as this one. ppl change, but that also makes it interesting to watch. especially since your comic is one that will tackle current activities so it can be an interesting time capsule of sorts to see how humors and situations changed.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Oh hey Sam!

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

welcome super~!

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Thanks!

Sorry I'm a few moments late, was catching myself up on some art but I'm here now!

SamDealey

Hey, Justin! I think you might be the first one here.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

lol

Looks like I am

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

any favorite strips youd like to share super?

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/313

This one's pretty good.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

that one made me feel bad for telemarketers XD if only cause most of the ppl calling are sadly just trying to make a living. but i do enjoy that disintegration image XD

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

For a sec i thought that was a guy using a fidget spinner.

SamDealey

lol @ fidget spinner ... yeah, it's been shared a few times, but I hadn't heard much commentary on it... I don't really have anything against the people who work in telemarketing either, I just thought it was a fun joke about what sometimes feels like our societal priorities.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Lol

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

ah there is one strip i wanted to ask a question about

while youre here

SamDealey

Please do.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Also sharing another one I thought was pretty clever

http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/308

though I would never replace a computer with an iPad

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/238 this one with ayn rand. was there a lot of dialogue on this page just because there needed to be a lot of dialogue or was this intentional as an homage to the fact that ayn rand's novels are chalked full of monologues?

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

brb, need to go do something real quick

I'll be back!

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

QUESTION 2. Besides characters in Amity’s storyline, there have also been several other recurring characters over the comic’s history. Whether old or recent, were there any characters that you particularly connected with? If so, what about them connected with you and/or made you laugh? Are there any characters you’d like to see make a return in some fashion, and in what way do you think they might still have potential? Lastly, in regards to Amity’s storyline, what other famous people do you think might pop up in hell and what do you think will happen with them?

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Hiyo... I made it, but I only had a chance to read the series through to about comic #120. ^.^

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

thats okay. at least thats something

glad to have you here math

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

My fave comics are actually the ones with the parenting. I particularly liked the "grow a beard" one (I don't recall the number) as it ended up having a callback in a later entry.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i really miss that sophisticated zombie who was fighting for zombie rights. for the shallow reason i really enjoyed his personality.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Nigel was cool!

SamDealey

I wish I had been that meta on the Ayn Rand pages... heh... they're super-wordy like that because I had a hard time figuring out how to make her explain her "philosophy" more succinctly

Thanks, Math!

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I obviously gravitated to the parenting ones what with handling the 6 week old here, with a name very similar to 'Alex'. ^.^

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Oh hey a Math!

SamDealey

Ayn-Rand Libertarianism was very deliberately added to that story though -- it's a part of a longer meta-theme in that story about Heaven and Hell and our concepts of morality

Oh, yeah, the conversations with my oldest daughter. heh...

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/306 How'd I find this strip

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I'm leery of the political ones, I admit. I get the reasoning for them, of course (I tend to read the commentaries too, which is a large part of why it takes me a while to archive browse) but they make me facepalm more than smile.

That said, Nigel as an avatar for immigrant/racist tendencies was kind of genius.

I like when it's subtle that way.

Well, subtle in my dictionary.

Oh, and to be clear, I'm not facepalming over the comic, it's over the sadness of the world we live in.

SamDealey

@✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨ Question 2 - ummm... I don't know that I'm any more connected to any specific recurring characters than others -- I think I can see splashes of myself in most of them but in a really generic way, like basic humanity type stuff

Thanks for the clarification, Math!

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I guess I've enjoyed Alex as a recurring character.

SamDealey

Oh, yeah, I don't relate to my daughter at all.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Lol

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

ah that strip was definitely topical @Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨ . reminds me of waking up everyday seeing trump in the news doing something. @SamDealey darn it. ah well. it kind of works as an homage to rand's monologues anyway. thank you for answering though.

i did enjoy the strips about alex though. i thought that was just nice and heartwarming

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Yeah, Trump's life is like, documented to end and back

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I wonder if it'll be in my future.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Have millions of people documenting every single pun you make?

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

No, conversations with my daughter related to my writing and math comics.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

probably. O_O i mean you have a daughter so step 1 down that road is complete

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Sounds reasonable

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I remember when I first started reading, I was amused by Death in a couple of the comics. With using the opportunity of a reaped psychiatrist for a session, and commisserating with Rudolph.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Death vs a super badass Rudolph

sounds like some kind of sitcom

SamDealey

@✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨ - Are there any characters you’d like to see make a return in some fashion, and in what way do you think they might still have potential? The princes of hell haven't appeared much lately with the exception of Lucifer -- they do have some involvement in the continuing Hellbent story. I've also thought about more Nigel strips where he struggles to work with other people on a PR campaign for zombies that involves the creation of a TV sitcom about a zombie family

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes. zombie family tv sitcom

that would be amazing

especially if theres a forced laugh track

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

By the way, what was the deal with some of the comics saying "alternate ending in the comments"... was that only on deviantart?

I want to make a Rosanne joke, but I think I'd regret it.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

The world must have zombie sitcom

heck if we got a sitcom about dinosaurs what's stopping the undead from getting a chance to shine

and the jokes would be built around them being undead and general horror tropes

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

(The Rosanne joke is about the zombie sitcom, not alternate endings.)

I've been reading onwards in the background, and just got to the Klingon section. Ohmygawd, Klingons with doe-eyes.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i enjoyed the klingons strip. i just really enjoyed how it was framed cause i think it made the jokes work well

SamDealey

@✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨ - Lastly, in regards to Amity’s storyline, what other famous people do you think might pop up in hell and what do you think will happen with them? The current official title for Amity's story is Hellbent (I know it's not readily apparent). Most of the famous people in Hell are there as a counterpoint to show that anyone who's remotely interesting doesn't get into heaven. They mostly don't plug into the plot in a meaningful way, but just are there to remind you that the interesting people are in hell, like Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe playing poker with Pappy, or Freddy Mercury who was just a punchline. It's implied that Amity slept with Jimmi Hendrix and Katherine Hepburn has become an odd kind of mother-figure to her (though Hepburn avoided having children throughout her life). The only other historical figure I currently plan to include for plot reasons is Nietzsche (god I can never spell his name)... I don't want to give too much away, but remember that he talked a bit about "the soul" and Ayn Rand really idolized a kind of misconception of his idea of the ubermensch -- "superman".... oh, and related to that also Atlas and I think Hercules, but they're only going to be on one page.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Ayn Rand meets Superman I could see.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes i was hoping for nietzsche!

throws confetti

QUESTION 3. Though much of the comic series is non-sequential humor, the latter half of the series features a continuing story line involving Amy/Amity and her experiences in Heaven and Hell. What do you think will happen with Amity now that she is pregnant? Will she keep the baby, or will she decide having a child with Lucifer is too difficult? If she keeps it, what do you think the consequences will be? Do you think Amity will ever see her grandmother again, or will her grandmother stay in Heaven? Additionally, do you think Amity’s new reputation might get her into trouble, and if so in what manner? In general, what do you personally take away message wise from this storyline?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

alas not the question for you math XD

cause this is the latter half

SamDealey

@MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑 re: Klingons - Thanks! re: alternate endings -- for a long time I published alternate endings as voting incentives on TopWebComics -- you could only see the latest one. I still do it occasionally, but the bonus panels or alt-endings are now on Patreon, where all the backers have access to the whole archive. A lot of those alt endings and bonus panels are also in the books whether printed or electronic.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Yup, I'm not that far yet.

SamDealey

I also give out vol #1 for free to subscribers on my Woohooligan Weekly Dick Joke Advocate newsletter. http://woohooligancomics.tumblr.com/freecomic

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Ahhh, I see. Incentives is clever... it's nice when you have enough of an audience for that.

Though I suppose this is a heck of a looong runner. I'm impressed by that.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

in regards to question 3, i think amity will keep the baby. and i look forward to the baby shower. O_O gotta invite everyone who can make it entirely too awkward

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

The Vegas strip I just got to reminds me of the Yuri/Yaoi one from much earlier. I liked that one. (Those who know me know I'm always up for some yuri.)

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

since math is still on earlier strips. http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/123/ i liked this skyrim one cause thats not where i expected the joke to go at all. never know what to expect when it comes to the arrow in the knee meme

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

....I phrased that very badly.

SamDealey

@✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨ That's a lot of questions, but I think I can answer them in pretty short order here: - Amity is currently worried that she's carrying the antichrist -- I think that's warranted -- I don't want to give too much away about that plot, but Lucifer confirmed it's his son in the latest couple pages. - Keeping the baby and/or consequences, well -- spoilers. -- which of course means now you know the baby will be born - Amity will see Nanna again -- it's an important plot point, followed by some fun sex jokes - So far the trouble Amity's reputation has gotten her into has been largely self-inflicted -- she's become paranoid that Lucifer's billions of children are going to mob her, except that Delilah, who she knows is one of Lu's kids has already said basically "you get used to a lot of bullshit rumors around my dad -- it happens". But with her now carrying the baby in particular, that doesn't mean Amity's going to be less paranoid. - Messages taken away from this story? ... I don't know about "taken away" since I'm writing it, but I will say that I know what will be on the last page, and I bawl every time I think about it. It's not sad, just ... I hope it will be moving for others as well.

@MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑 re: long running - Thanks! I feel like I've not done a great job of keeping up with it -- like, when I did my latest Kickstarter I had it on hiatus for about a half a year. I'm fulfilling it now and just getting back to creating new pages. That's why it's only 317(?) pages after 12 years. If I'd published 1 a week consistently, it would be over 600.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Oh wow

also that comic

This is why you wear knee guards

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Eh, real life happens. I've had my comic on and off a bunch.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah no shame in that. its better to do projects like this at your own pace, whatever that pace needs to be.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Agreed(edited)

SamDealey

Oh, you meant "I'm always down on some yuri"

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

>Two females interacting >"Is this yuri?"

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i was glad that amity bonded with delilah. but i also just like delilah cause she was a surprisingly down to earth character.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Pfffft.

Now I'm at the Nerdgasm set. I have been to some of those kinds of panels.

SamDealey

@✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨ Aww! Thank you so much, that's such a complement re: Delilah.

SamDealey

Delilah is a succubus and although she's not central to the plot, I hoped I could do some justice to addressing kink-shaming and sexual double-standards.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

ooh?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i really enjoyed in nerdgasm that part where they were like "the homestuck panel moved" and then suddenly the room empties. it reminded me of how 2 real that was back in the day where everyone and their mother was into homestuck and cosplaying trolls.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

A succubus as a recurring character sounds interesting.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah i really like delilah all around. cause i do think shes a good avatar for sexual double-standards and i also like her dynamic with amity cause of the whole dating her grandfather thing XD

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Makes family reunions awkward.

SamDealey

There will be a baby shower -- it won't be large, mostly the princes of hell, or... well, 4 of them will be there... Leviathan (Envy) won't fit in the room but will send a gift (snake oil) - Satan (Wrath) doesn't do babies, but will go half on a gift with Scratch (Greed) of war bonds. Bubby (Gluttony) will give her a live pig (he thinks it's better fresh), I'm not sure yet what Mody (Lust) will give her, but suffice to say it will be creepy... Lucifer will get her something as well, but I'm also not sure what yet, and Belphegor (sloth) won't be there, because Cthulhu fhtagn

Pappy, Delilah, Hepburn and maybe Nanna will be there...

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

maybe Nanna?

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Asmodeus?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i dont think this will be a relaxing baby shower

will grumpy cat be invited? O_O

SamDealey

Asmodeus is Mody -- Lust

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

QUESTION 4. Though many of the comic’s strips revolve around nerd culture, there are also tons of strips that are topical to life, current events, and history. Were there any of these kinds of strips that you felt were personally relevant to you? What did you think of some of the more serious strips (like the one about trickle-down economics)? Regardless of strip type, were there any titles that caught your eye and made you see the strip differently? Finally, since we’re speaking on humor, were there any jokes that you struggled to understand?

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Anything Trump related, lol

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Ahhh, I see.

Oh, I'm pretty sure I miss a large chunk of the jokes. It's a bit different from my sense of humour.

SamDealey

Yeah, tackling trickle-down economics was interesting, because it's one of those subjects where you can kind of expect to not get much traction, but as I get older, I feel like that's one of a handful of subjects not getting enough attention, and I thought if people enjoy Adam Conover, then I should be able to get people interested in important subjects like that

I just now realized a lot of those questions aren't directed at me.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i really liked the visuals you used for the trickle-down economics one. i think they were well-chosen and well-placed to help explain things

thats ok

SamDealey

Thank you!

I am a huge fan of Conover's work by the way.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I've reached Canada Day. We try.

I found reading your answers to the questions interesting, for what it's worth!

SamDealey

Thanks, Math!

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

ive overall enjoyed the breaks into the serious. i think theyve been interesting and well-researched. and sometimes its also just nice to break from comedy for a second

SamDealey

@✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨ Did I throw you with any of the titles?

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Wait, there's alt-text on these too?! When did that start? (Sooo much depth to all this...)

SamDealey

lol -- I don't remember when I started adding alt text... and I'm not sure if my most recent pages have them either...

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I'll echo Rebel on the well-researched part. It's the sort of thing that stands out if it's not there, but is easy to miss when done right.

SamDealey

Oh, I've also started publishing more comedy in other mediums lately as well -- prose on my Tumblr, and some YouTube videos -- currently working on a YouTube about free speech

Here's a recent one about alt-right propaganda

https://youtu.be/Xy0Barrlw3U

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

nah i wouldnt say thrown. i thought they were interesting for some of them and just had good plays on words. http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/80/ like that one for instant since its playing on the phrase "to hell with TOPIC HERE" and turning it into a jersey joke. XD

SamDealey

I know -- it's not comics.

Oh, yeah, back to Jersey

I'm not sure how many people noticed me using "rigor" as a slur to tie it to the word nigger

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

That's exactly the sort of thing I'd miss.

SamDealey

short for rigor-mortis, but convenient that it rhymes

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Did someone say YT videos?

You should try to see about making dubbed/animated versions of strips

SamDealey

The YT vid I'm working on right now is way too long -- I need to kill about 50% of it to get the length down to reasonable

I'm not sure if I'll delve into trying to animate any of my strips ... genuine animation is too labor intensive (I know, my oldest daughter, Alex does it), and I feel weird about still frame panels with voiceovers

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

thats fair enough. animation is a lot of hard work.

i didnt notice the rigor thing sadly. mostly just cause my mind read it as "generic insult slur"

like if you yelled banana angry enough you could probably turn that into a slur

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Maybe you can hire Alex to do it.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

so didnt connect with what it was standing in for

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Banana republic?

SamDealey

I love the phrase "GOAT SUCKER!" as an insult

It's the literal translation of the word "chupacabra"

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

Things I learned from watching the X-Files.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah. goat sucker always struke me as a funny insult cause of that XD

SamDealey

Ha! I didn't even know that was in an X-Files episode... I've seen a lot of the series, but not all of it

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

http://www.woohooligan.com/comics/209/ this is another strip i liked since ive been trying to find some of my faves. this taps into every problem ive ever had with zombie movies, particularly that last panel.

SamDealey

I never did see the fluke man

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

I tend to either see all of a series or very little. It was a fluke. ^.^

No Nigel cameo there?

I've reached 200, woo.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i have to admit i was expecting nigel there

but then nigel didnt come

and i shed a tear inside

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

The reversal of expectations.

SamDealey

Nigel cameo in what?

Oh, the zombie movie thing

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

r.i.p. Nigel

SamDealey

Yeah, Nigel doesn't really fit in zombie movies -- he would just be giving it bad reviews on Yelp.

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

SJ: That's zombie humour for you.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Yup

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i hope his reviews sound overly fancy with lots of big words

ah this reminds! i also liked see moneybags a lot. what a perfect stand in for basically rich corporations.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Cools~

SamDealey

Oh, Uncle Pennybags from monopoly?

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

I was surprised to see him actually

SamDealey

I always draw him with a monocle -- he's never had one in any of the official Milton Bradley merch

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

One of the things I want to address before the end here is the obvious passion. Not only in terms of some of the details in the comic art (from fake twitters to shading) but also the commentary afterwards. Lots of work went into this.

Kudos.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Seconding that, there's lot sof entertaining fun to be had with this series and I hope you never let anything stop ya, Sam.

SamDealey

Thanks, Math!

fake twitters?

Thanks, Justin!

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

One of the comics I saw in the last hour or so had a fake twitter feed... all about foodstuffs.

I remember the most random things.

Superjustingo of ✨Time🕑&Space☄✨

Np!

SamDealey

I've found often that the pages where I have lengthy commentaries end up being shared a lot more -- like, I was really nervous doing a passage where Amity talked to Trayvon Martin, but those pages ended up being shared a bunch

MathTans the Pun 👑Prince👑

You have a pretty amazing fanbase.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

COMIC TEA PARTY END!

Unfortunately, the scheduled Comic Tea Party time is now up~! Thank you everyone so much for reading and joining this week’s chat~! We want to give a special thank you to Samuel Dealey, as well, for making Woohooligan! and volunteering it for our reading queue. If you liked the comic, please be sure to support Samuel Dealey’s efforts however you’re able to. All that being said, if you would like to continue discussing this week’s comic, we highly encourage you to do so~!

For next week, Comic Tea Party will focus on Himawari Share by Harmony Becker. As always, please use the next several days to read as much of the comic as you would like. We hope to see you next Thursday on August 9th from 5PM to 7PM PDT for the chat~! Until then, happy reading~! Comic: https://tapas.io/series/Himawari-Share

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