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[corpupine]

NemaTale Chapter Five Release Date

The long-awaited update post!

I have gotten so many sweet notes from well-meaning fans of the comic, and it's meant a lot that people are asking about how I'm doing.

(Side note, I have gotten a couple of extremely...passive-aggressive notes regarding the fact that Nema's story has been on hiatus. Please, my young friends--think before you send messages demanding things or giving ultimatums! That makes me feel icky! I am not a content machine! Please remember that your favorite creators are humans with lives you know very little about. But on the whole, most everyone has been very positive and sweet!)

So. how am I doing, really?

Much better now than I was nine months ago, let's put it that way! I gave birth to my baby daughter, and she's gorgeous inside and out--being a parent is such an all-consuming adventure that I haven't had much bandwidth for other things. But as she's gotten a little bit older and more able to sleep regularly (hallelujah *sobs*), so have I been able to recover my creative spark more and more. I'm ready to start working on Chapter Six. It'll be slow going, that much I'm certain of--but I really want to make it happen.

Which, of course, brings us to the release date of Chapter Five! I want to do things a little bit differently with the comic from here on out. I post it in three places--here, on Deviantart, and on Tapas. Tapas is well-suited to a vertical scrolling format, so I've been converting the comic pages to that format for Tapas. Before, I was posting two or three pages every two weeks. From now on, I'd like to shake things up and post four to six pages every month. It's the same amount of story per month, just all in one update! The first post will go live on Tapas on Friday, June 7th, and I'll post on the first Friday of each month after that. In the meantime, I'll get working on Chapter Six!

I think that's all for now! Thank you all so much for your support and continuing love of this lil comic. I'm excited to continue the story!

[utdrlibrary]

NemaTale

Author: Corpupine

Summary: In the aftermath of a neutral run, a kindhearted girl falls into the Underground, what trials await her as she tries her best to make it through and maybe make friends along the way?

Characters: Oc, Sans

Status: In Progress

[corpupine]

A Long-Awaited Update

I’ve been putting off writing this update for a while now. Not because I’m suffering or struggling at all—life is actually really good! It’s had some truly awful, crappy stuff mixed in, but for the most part my life is very happy. The reason I’ve been putting this off is that I really don’t know where to start. Most of you will have noticed that I stopped posting updates of NemaTale on here sometime last year. There are a couple of reasons for that that I want to explain, then I want to move on to life updates and what’s coming next for NemaTale.

First: Why did I stop posting on Deviantart?

There’s no special reason or controversy here. I post on three sites: Deviantart, Tumblr, and Tapas. Both Tumblr and Tapas offer a scheduling system so that posts can be queued in advance. I was able to schedule posts on those two sites, but Deviantart doesn’t have that function, so each time there was an update I had to go in and manually enter all the information. As my life got more and more hectic (which will be explained a little bit more in the life updates section), I found that I was forgetting to update on Deviantart. I kept on putting it off, figuring I’d get around to it eventually. But uh, whoops—the end of Chapter 4 has been posted everywhere but on Deviantart! I’ll get those last pages up and running soon, but I wanted to offer some sort of explanation before I did so.

(As a side note: I haven't been keeping up with updating the links between pages on Tumblr, for a similar reason. I'll hopefully get those up and going soon so you guys can read the comic more easily on here.)

Second: What’s going on with Corpupine?

So much, you guys. Soooo much, and most of it is—like I said—truly wonderful. I haven’t been posting updates about my life hardly at all, and I want to maintain privacy, but here’s a few fun things I wanted to tell you about:

-Got a big girl job working for a local publishing company (I’m an editor by day and I love it, but it’s very time and energy consuming)

-Helped my wonderful husband self publish a book (that I edited, naturally)

-Moved to a different city

-Finally, finally finished a draft for a novel I’ve been tinkering with for 9 years

Oh, and also, this:

Yes, in what may be the best (accidentally) kept secret ever, I’m a few months away from giving birth to a baby girl. That has been the main reason for my absence online as my husband and I have been preparing for her arrival. This baby has been very much something we have hoped for, and it took longer than we expected to get this far, so we are very happy. We are over the moon excited, a little freaked out, and ready to snuggle her sooo good.

So with that bombshell dropped, let’s talk a little bit more about the stuff you’re all really here for.

What’s next for NemaTale?

Months before I got pregnant, I had already finished Chapter 5. The script for chapter 6 is about 50% written—the broad strokes are there, I just need to nail down the dialogue. Then I started my big-girl job, and life started to get a little out of control. I was incredibly busy all the time with my job, and helping my husband with his book, and I really wanted to start using any free time just to rest and recuperate. I think that was the best choice for me; too much on my plate would have probably led me to have a nervous breakdown, haha. As it is, I’m doing well emotionally, but . . . I haven’t drawn anything since about June of last year. So we’ve got Chapter 5, totally finished and just waiting to be queued up; chapter 6, partially written; aaaaand then a big black void in front of me. (Why does that word feel so . . . familiar?) That should be scary to me, but it’s not. I’ve accomplished a lot, even if I haven’t progressed on the comic. I’m proud of myself and how far I’ve come. But what does that mean for you guys?

Here's the lowdown: I’m giving birth soon. I’m not going to be able to commit to any sort of comic goals in the near future. I’m not even sure what the future of NemaTale looks like, but I do know this: I still love this story. I don’t want to stop creating it, but now’s not the right time for me to be focusing on that. Sometimes life just gets too full to do everything on the list. I just can’t keep this at the top of my list for now.

Chapter 5 is, as I’ve said, completely ready to go (except for the chapter cover, which I haven’t made yet.) So I’m going to put this choice out to you guys. What do you want? Do you want me to go ahead and post chapter 5 over the next few months and then I’ll just see you all when I see you, somewhere down the line? Or do you want me to wait to post chapter 5 until there is also a chapter 6 officially on the way? That could take many, many months, so be aware of that.

I love the interactions I have with all of you. I’d love to keep having them, even if I won’t be able to post new stuff beyond chapter 5 for a while. But I really am okay doing whatever you guys think is best with regards to posting chapter 5. Just let me know in the comments below.

All right, I think that’s everything. I appreciate your patience with me in all this. In the past year, so much has happened. My husband and I have gone on adventures. I turned twenty-five and I’m finally starting to feel more comfortable in my own skin. I tragically lost one dear relative and for a while we thought we were going to lose another one—which, miraculously, we haven’t. Spring is here, and there’s a little girl kicking me in the ribs as I write this. Life is good.

[corpupine]

When du you think that you will be done with season 5 of NemaTale?

I'm actually already done with it! Just getting it all ready to be posted, haha. I'm planning on making a bigger update post tomorrow that will outline the whole posting plan, since it's gonna be different from past chapters 😊

[corpupine]

Hiya! Welcome back! How was ur trip? Also, the latest pages, OMG. I knew from the last pages that Sans was not going to be happy that Nema wasn't actually a dream, and was still there, but like, teleporting in front of her to snatch the picture from her, & saying human in such a cold-sounding (reading?) way, damn. +, my God, is Sans giving me mood whiplash this update. Going from pissed & frowny w/ Nema to actually happy with Paps (& trying to get him to leave) to a fake smile to Nema. Wow.

I was just clearing out my inbox and I realized I never responded to this :P so sorry you've been waiting on an answer for so long!!

The trip was awesome! It was over the top of my birthday, so it felt really special to spend that time with my family! We went and visited these beautiful gardens in British Columbia (look up the Butchart Gardens--seriously sooo stunning!)

And yeah, those pages of Chapter Four are a good illustration of what happens to Sans when he doesn't sleep well, is overwhelmed with new things, and is struggling with depression! I headcanon him as the type of person to switch between apathetic depression and angry depression. But that's just me! I'm glad you liked the expressions on that update! They were very fun for me to do, haha.

[corpupine]

PAPYRUS SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW, PAPYRUS—

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[corpupine]

Undertale hack: Waterfalls are perfect for covering up the sounds of you conversing with your dead-not-dead-kinda-soulless invisible friend. 10/10 would recommend

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[corpupine]

sans got his vibe shaken so much that he's not even teleporting out of there lol

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[corpupine]

man don't you just *hate* it when your siblings are right

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[corpupine]

*somehow, even though you knew that was how he felt, it hurts way worse than you thought it would.

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[corpupine]

did anyone else have that odd moment with ice wolf where you realize that him not wearing pants is weird, or is that just me

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[corpupine]

it all comes out.

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[corpupine]

How am I supposed to nap with all the suspicious lumps in my mattress smoothed out

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[corpupine]

. . . so how long do you think she was standing there

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[corpupine]

some things just don’t want to be fixed.

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[corpupine]

parallels, parallels everywhere . . . 

(btw that’s referring to this page in chapter two)

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NemaTale updates bi-weekly at 10am MST. Make sure to bookmark the comic so you never miss an update! Thanks for reading! (Shoutout to @deyawahdan on tapas, whose cute kitsune girl I turned into a fox monster for this page!) Thanks for reading! <3