#and a hunger that's never satisfied

[mylittleredgirl]

my favorite way of participating in some fandoms is from the bleachers. i'm in the nosebleed seats with a pair of binoculars watching a full on bloodbath in the arena below, having the time of my life.

[ohcorny]

so! it's been a year since i put never satisfied on hiatus, and 9 years since i started posting it, and rather than make you read everything if all you want to know is "when's it coming back?" the answer is still: don't know! but the answer has also shifted closer to "it isn't" the longer i've spent on break, and i think it's worth being up front about that.

i talked about it a little here a few weeks ago, but the long and short of it is that between taking on better paying work, writing better stories, and looking back at what i'd already done for never satisfied... i just don't think i want to continue it? the year off has been incredibly good for my mental health, and i can't see myself wanting to go back after the two-three years still ahead of me on my current project. that's not to say i never want to return to the characters or the concept, but if i did, i imagine it would be with something completely new, in a different form. after all, i started this comic when i was 21 years old, a lesbian, and a sophomore in college. i am now just shy of 30, a bi man, and overall a completely different person than i was, back when i was writing without a plan and putting all of my insecurities into the comic--insecurities i don't identify with anymore. lord i'm closer to rothart's age than i am to lucy's. hate that

anyway. you have all been extraordinarily kind for following never satisfied for as long as you have, for supporting it as much as you have, and being as patient as you have. whatever form never satisfied takes in the future (god willing, with a more cohesive story structure and A PLAN FOR THE ENDING, WHICH BY THE WAY I NEVER, EVER HAD) i hope to see you there!

in the meantime, as an update on where i'm at with the thing that made me stop working on NS: i finished it! all the pages for Hunger's Bite (if you remember it with a different title: no you don't) have been turned in and now it's just revisions and covers and then........ waiting a year until it can come out. because that's how it is in traditionally published graphic novels! nothing releases for a full year after you finished it! and you're even getting it earlier than was originally planned, because i'm a creature and finished it like three months ahead of schedule. i've also already started thumbnailing the sequel book which i can't talk about whatsoever and will now be working on that for the next two years and then HOPEFULLY the first book will have done well enough that i can sell a third! so you better buy it when it comes out next february!!!!!!

to ease you all into it, i wanted to do a little crossover to introduce the main characters. we have emery, whose design is fully and unintentionally just Seiji Again down to his color palette (but seiji would bully him if they met. like so hard. he's a wimp). then we have neeta, a girl who dreams of travel and cares deeply about worker's rights, and wick, a vampire agent investigating the mysterious and sinister new owner of the 1910s ocean liner emery and neeta call home. he's also gay. but sorry lucy, you aren't his type. you're not mean enough.

the best place to keep up with me these days is probably here, as this first book gets closer to release, i will probably be posting about it a lot. and i will certainly post about it here when there's an official release date and cover reveal! i hope you'll go read it. i really think if you liked never satisfied and its themes, you'll like hunger's bite!

thank you again for reading!!

[kaleida404]

collection of f&h termina doodles as I try to figure out how to draw these fuckers

[dnangelic]

the hollow nonviolence but nevertheless heavily palpable longing and empty vastness of daisuke's heart. post

[herearedragons]

...so I decided that Kyana was possessed by a Fear demon mostly because of The Aesthetic and because fear is a generic enough emotion but. like. what if it was actually a Hunger demon

pros:

4-year-old vampire Kyana

explains her eating spirits (and Sloth) during Lost in Dreams

maybe initially Irving decided to limit her social circle because he wanted to avoid a situation where she starts wanting things. in case that awakens something that may still be lingering

she does get pretty intense when she wants something

she's already pretty thin and angular and I could further play into that by making her post-consuming-the-demon-fragment design even Sharper (sharp teeth Kyana??)

cons:

I don't see any

[ihateyouvishal]

skinny but can eat my food and then your food and then you too

[motocorsas]

the smiths // joan mir in qatar, 2022 // alexandre cabanel // war of the foxes // joan mir in jerez, 2018 // shane mccrae // joan mir in qatar, 2022 // paul dunbar // deftones

[kitkatabasis]

I’m considering working on a Dracula retelling where Dracula is British and (pardon my MCU reference) sort of a Thor: Ragnarok Hela-esque figure trying to bring back “the Good Old Days” of open British imperialism, but I keep getting stuck at how to translate the parts of the plot that rely heavily on Dracula starting on a separate continent (the language barrier, the travel time, etc). basically this is just a little bit of venting/place for suggestions if people want to

feel free to ignore

[girlwithfish]

having horrible self image i just have to deal w it cuz like hwen am i ever happy with how i look or my body i just want to stop being at war w myself or at least w my looks cuz it just is such a downer always being unhappy with my physical self like im already unhappy w who i am as a person cn i at least be satisfied w how i look😔☹️idk i never grew out of the self hatred phase it just sucks. very ed sh tw in tags i guess

[antediluvianapocalypse]

daughter and mother.

[firein-thesky]

what sort of abilities do you guys think a god of hunger would have……………..

[fellhellion]

having more thoughts on the gay homophobic blorbo of my heart but. i think shiori instantly leaving the school after “stealing” the boy she thought juri was interested in gains a different flavour when you think about the fact that hurting juri isn’t a threshold she backs down from once she knows it won’t actually break their relationship. the impression i get therefore is that she left because she believed she’d irrevocably destroyed their relationship and left what shiori fears most: apathy. 

[snapjock]

JSJJDKDKDF MY BOYS REF IS FINISHED,,, ITS ME

[volot]

volo is a not a great person and completely remorseless about all of it and the lengths he'll go to get what he wants but damn if my boy is not fucked over from birth. what if you were born to serve a specific role and you spend your entire life fighting against fate because your entire existence is willpower and the human volition and causation for your actions and you refuse to accept the 'judgment' you were given because it doesn't align with what you spent your whole life believing but you are just meant to be a giant catalyst for the universe.

[coffincoitus]

I love her fake lisp I love her fake lisp so much

[magnoliamyrrh]

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