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Breaking news : local married couple ate a lesbian flag themed cake was a wedding bet

LOLOL had a few people say it looks like they're eating the flag and you know what, I own it. Reminds me of this Simpsons gif lol - RJ

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Have a lil doodle of Hopeful and Storm for Lesbian Visibility Week! - RJ

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Did I post this here? I can't remember, so go comment on it anyway!! - Cat

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Hey look, more Quiet content! Get those tissues out before watching. - Cat

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Some fan characters for @ihopesocomic! These are Clever, Careful, and Vicious's siblings! I may make a post detailing them. More fan characters to come in the future!

Since they aren't important to the overall story, this is all I have written for them so far:

Clumsy: Clever's littermate. He's a trans lion! He left the pride to become a traveller, and adopted a cub named Tornado (my I Hope Sona (for now))

Witty and Placid: They also aren't too important, and they left the pride too, but they travel together!

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Hope has so many relatives she will never meet. And since they are very big lions, If they had all remained in the pride, they would be a powerful pride. Edge would probably want to "work with them" rather than having to deal with someone like Jasper.

It's just perfectly normal for lions in the world of IHS to not stick with their family group throughout their entire lives. Just like lions irl. Not to mention that these relatives just aren't important to the story so yeah, there just had to be a reason they're not in the equation storywise. lol

We also wanted people to have a chance to make their own non-canon relations to some of our main characters too so we've kinda left some foundation for that. Hence why characters like Carefree and Clumsy are marked down as "non canon". You don't have to abide by what I've laid out with them if you don't wanna.

I'm also sure there are plenty of lions that Edge would rather have worked with now rather than Jasper. Clever included. It's just that he wasn't to know that things were going to go so wrong when Jasper began working for him. oof - RJ

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Also Hope would've had no reason to wander out and meet Storm because she would've had a buttload of cousins to play with so we wouldn't have had any lesbian couple either LOL - Cat

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Clumsy gives me such Uncle Radley from Bluey vibes so bad!! I would die for him. :)

I was certainly aiming for the 'cool uncle' look so thank you, that's such high praise, anon. lol - RJ

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So, I don't believe I've ever posted these guys here and well, I wanted to post the second dude and figured I may as well include the other.

My first guy is actually a Merry x Careful boy I made a while back. His name is Carefree but he also goes by S'mores (yes, he joins a pride with dessert-themed names because I don't think plants and minerals are whacky enough: deal with it) and yeah, he's just Merry 2.0 in terms of personality because this is an ongoing theme with the characters we kill. I just have to reincarnate them in some way or another. lol

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Secondly, we actually have Clever's littermate: Clumsy aka Haydevil. Whereas his father, Wild, is a bit prissy and proud of his appearance, Clumsy is the exact opposite. His mane is super floofy and out of control and he just loves it. It matches his personality, man. It cannot be contained!

Obviously, Clever does her best to make her brother look more presentable so he doesn't get chewed out by Mum and Dad but it never works out. One such incident actually results in him smelling of rotten eggs for a week (because raw eggs is a natural remedy for messy hair - look it up) and that's when Clever decides to finally throw in the towel.

Naturally, he eventually leaves the Grove and adopts the Traveller name of Haydevil. Thus, he's just your average drifter: unkept but good at singing and telling stories. - RJ

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If I might toss my hat in the character analysis ring, one similarity between Fade and Diamond is they're both being raised/trained by someone outside their family who they look up to. Alight and Obsidian might be very different but they do also both worry about their charge's ability to rule, and hey! There's another similarity, they're borh being mentored by their parents' knight!

Yep, that's completely valid. There's a clear lack of parental guidance in both of their situations... just for varying reasons oof - RJ

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What are all the similarities between Fade and Diamond? Some seems like already appear in the comic, but specifically which ones are they?

A lot of readers feel the major one is that they're both having to take up the mantle of King and have uncertainty/misgivings about it. Which we feel is a fair observation.

As for listing "all" of the similarities: we want folks to be able to work out stuff like this on their own and arrive at their own conclusions when it comes to characters and how they connect to each other and what similarities they share. We may provide little hints here and there but that's about it. It's more fun that way. c: - RJ

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Is this right?

Hope: Hunflepluff because she is patient and kind

Storm and Adamant: Gryffindor because they are both brave

Diamond: Slytherin or Ravenclaw because I'm not sure if she's more ambitious or smart, but I'm sure she's a good king lol

How about just no to any of this? Normally, I'd delete this but just in case anybody is even remotely thinking of doing this:

We do NOT want any of our characters depicted in the HP universe in any capacity.

The author is an unapologetic transphobe and it was only this week she's been in the media spotlight for trying to drag the reputations of anybody she knows who stands by trans individuals.

This is a comic with trans characters in it that is also trying to appeal to trans readers. Please think before trying to do crossovers with content made by bigots who are actively trying to take away their human rights. I don't care if you want to "separate the art from the artist": read the room. Even with that said, the books themselves also have their fair share of shit going on that is pretty offensive. No, we're not going to discuss it any further. There are plenty of articles and a video on YT by Shaun that goes into it. Thank you. - RJ

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agreed with what you said about the ihs fandom!! Even in fandoms for kid's shows, I never feel fully safe or at ease because of the way some adult members behave and while you putting up boundaries may not be appreciated by some, i truly admire how you've always placed the safety of minors and people with triggers in your fandom before being popular or well-liked. You just don't see many creators doing that. Hardly any actually, so a massive thanks for maintaining a standard. :) <3333

Ahh, thank you, anon. It's really no trouble. <33

Considering the type of content we're producing and the fact that we do appeal to minors on top of it all, the type of people who feel that we shouldn't accommodate people's safety and triggers in our community aren't the type of people we don't want enjoying our content anyway so yeah, no big loss!

Folks need to realise there's a time and a place for being considerate of others vs. just feeling they can behave however they please. Whatever these people want to do in communities where that's not a priority is their business but we just feel not having folks feel safe and heard in our community would just contradict what we're trying to deliver with this comic so it all goes hand-in-hand. c: - RJ

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This might sound like a question with an obvious answer but, what would you say is the proudest achievement you both have had with the comic?

If it doesn't sound too pretentious/obnoxious, I'd say making people feel happy and/or brightening their day with a story I'm writing? idk I've just always liked making people around me laugh and feel good. c: - RJ

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Every chapter has been an achievement. But also giving people some lion content that isn't homophobic or ableist or excessively violent. - Cat

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And that's also not tied to a certain family IP and its fandom. Like we've been able to build up a community where everybody is respectful of each other and people feel safe and appreciated. Pretty proud of that too. - RJ

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Hey there! I've been reading this comic since the season finale of MP and I must say, It's been an amazing story so far. It has quickly become one of my favorite webcomics to tune into and I really love how you guys tackle some of the topics in the story! Forgive me if you've already answered a question like this before, but I can't help but be a bit intrigued by the BTS work. Since two people seem to be working on it at any given time how do y'all divide the work and how do you guys problem-solve the obstacles of collaborating on a webcomic? How do you align your thought process with the story? Do you ever plan on posting a thorough breakdown of that process? Apologies if anything in this ask is worded a bit weirdly... But also thanks for your time if you read and answer this :)

Thank you very much for your kind words, anon. So happy to hear you're enjoying the story so far. <33

As for your question, generally what happens is thus:

I'll write out a script and we'll go over it together and edit it for comic form as needed because sometimes not everything in a script can work in comic form.

Cat will then draw out the characters. I colour and shade. We tend to share background duties. Others may take on colouring duties (who are paid for their time, of course), so I'm just left with shading and whatever backgrounds I contribute.

Cat handles editing and final tweaks.

As for problem solving, we're just very blunt and open about each other's limitations. We've known each other nearly two decades so nothing is really held back. If I have to throw out whole chunks of a script to accommodate what Cat can deliver, then I'll happily do that, for example.

Because honest discussion beats burn out and all that jazz. lol

But yeah, there's really nothing deeper than that. Doing page-by-page updates has certainly given us more breathing room to do things at our own pace, I gotta say.

Hope that clears things up! Thank you again for your support. c: - RJ

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I think it's really neat how the Thundering Mountains not only parallels the Golden Grove but also Edge's Kingdom too. It's made up of various lions from all walks of life but, unlike what Edge is running, they're free to arrive and leave and they're also free to live as they wish and it's obviously a welcoming paradise for those who probably would not make it in a pride belonging to Edge. Really looking forward to seeing more of it!

Yeah, Obsidian runs a good ship!! I love hearing Thundering Mountains praise. It's a place I'd certainly want to hang if I were a lion, hence why Garnet - my IHopeSona - hangs there. lol - RJ

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We aren't exactly sure what/who this is so we'd rather you didn't, anon. Thank you.

Also, responding with a screencap so I can black out the tag. If you need to send anything like this in future, please do so off anon so we're not forced to tag a random person publicly and can respond privately instead. Thanks again. c: - RJ

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About the thundering moutains , is everyone realted or is just random lions who opal and obsidian took in or lions finding a new home? Very curious

Not just curious, very curious lol They're not all related. There's some families, but a lot of the pride is made up of travelers passing through or ex-travelers who end up joining the pride. Some of this can be gleaned from how different everyone looks from each other. - Cat