#no guarantees but I'm curious

[deoidesign]

Hello! I just discovered your blog and I immediately became captivated by your webcomic, but I'm unsure where to read all of it. I know it's on Webtoons, but I can see it hasn't been updated for a while, and you still post about it.

Are your physical novels just prints of the webcomic? Are they a continuation? Is the story complete? Thanks in advance!

Hi there!

Glad you found me and are enjoying my comic!

It's only on webtoons, and the story is not complete yet! We're 2/3 of the way through right now. It's currently on hiatus, and it's scheduled to come back in about 2 months!

I'll explain why it's been so long if you're curious, but also for my followers who might also be wondering about it under the cut. Sorry, it's pretty much just me complaining haha

I took a month off I took 2 months to get the books printed I took a month to prepare my next comic and I took 2 months to write the rest of the series (I knew the character arcs I wanted, but not the time periods or mysteries!!!) I've been working on actual episodes since then

I had to take some time off because of some pretty extreme burnout due to the sheer amount of work it was to draw over 800 pages and write 6 complete stories in a year and a half... I was getting sick almost weekly due to the overwork, it was really really bad honestly. I was having to work 60+ hours every week just to keep up...

The nature of the comic itself is also difficult... Each of the arcs is a complete, self contained story which can be read (ideally) without context, and my arcs need to be about 10-13 episodes each... And since I have an exact number of episodes to work with, it's even harder.

It takes a ton of planning and a ton of refinement, and working week to week with no breaks I was forced to put out second or even first drafts, so I just wasn't happy with the work I was doing... And to do that for the rest of the series? I wouldn't be proud of the work I did.

Plus... To be entirely honest, webtoon has treated me quite badly IN MY OPINION... They deprioritized me before I launched (I had to beg for more promotion, I'm not exaggerating), they outright denied me the opportunity to even ask for a raise, I don't make any money on fast pass and they pay me less than my partner makes working at trader joes. My first editor left me completely hanging, my second editor (who I loved) was fired... And they told me I wouldn't get a third season before my first season even finished. So it was just repeatedly completely demoralizing.

I'm sorry it has taken so long, it'll have been 10 months by the time I come back. But I realized... I won't get promotion either way. I won't get more episodes either way. I won't get more money either way. So to finish everything, to make it feel good, to make it something I'm proud of, I chose to take longer to make it better.

I am fully aware I will lose a significant amount of my readership for this and it might genuinely affect my career moving forward. But it's what I had to do! So I'm sticking to my guns on it, and I'm confident long term it'll be worth it. It never could have been this good if I didn't take this much time.

[numbuh424]

Please hear me out..... Jdrama!Light and Musical!L.

[a-tale-of-legends]

Larry is great, he's straight, he's bi/pan, he's gay, he's married with a kid(s), he's divorced with a kid(s), he's just divorced with no kids at all, he's aroace, he's in an old man yaoi trouple, he genuinely just never thought about being in a romantic relationship once in his life.

I <3 him.

[squillflower-art]

Contemplating outfits for the mighty nein reunion liveshow 👀

[mermmarie]

I'm curious...

This is by no means me taking request, but more of suggestions.

Is there anything you'd guys like to see me write x Reader wise?

If so, please let me know with a reply or ask.

[sophieswundergarten]

I don't understand the Ten Men's poison gum????

I've been thinking about it for years, but how are they supposed to use it?? Offer it to whatever person they're trying to take out? Is it even lethal, or does it just make people sick??? It just seems so impractical, what are they going to do?? Force whoever they captured to chew gum until it makes them ill???? Who even invented it?? It's not mechanical in the way most of their other stuff is, and poison is a pretty different ballgame than chloroform handkerchiefs. Who created the Ten Men's weapons????

I HAVE QUESTIONS

[stellamusing]

Life sure likes it's little jokes some times

During my last year of college, I got some books for free. One of them was a coffee-table book I'd been helping to copy-edit during an internship with a publisher, and the other three were nonfiction books they'd previously released that I thought looked interesting, including one about sewing. All of them were put on my shelf and then promptly forgotten about.

Flash forward ten years, and I'm finally learning how to sew, something I've been idly meaning to do since I was like 15. I'm on reddit looking for fitting advice, and there's this one book I see mentioned frequently. I ignore it for a while, because I'm mostly looking for free articles and youtube videos, but eventually I get curious and look up the book, and--

Wait just a diddly darn second

I have that book. It's sitting on my shelf in between those other books I haven't touched in almost a decade. It's the same book. The book that keeps getting recommended. The book I was just thinking of buying. I already own it. I got it for free ten years before I knew I wanted it.

wtf

[pinkprimrose05]

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Bold of you to assume I'm organized enough to make a folder.

Got tagged by @the-evil-authoress for this lil game- thank you meda! I appreciate it :D

Here's the WIP jail list of working titles that I will surely, surely finish one day (in no particular order):

1) Felicitations to Wandering Cloud

2) Iter Exitium: On Dreams and Deception

3) Iter Exitium: The Bunbun Conundrum

4) Dungeons and No Dragons

5) Operation: Touch Grass

6) Genesis, Emptiness, Finality

These are not counting the.... *checks notes* 6 other concept works that I haven't started yet, so there is a teeeeny tiny bit of hope that none of them will be scrapped. Yaaaaay.

Ask me about any title(s) and I'll drop the summary or a snippet of the respective fic! And a hypothetical wordcount (so I can look back on it when the actual fic is published and either do a victory dance or laugh at my naïvete).

If you're lucky, you might hit one that's part of a series (not that there isn't a very obvious case of it already), and if you do I'll also drop the general idea for said series. Now for the tags, hmm...

@team-frightfur, @stardust-maiden, @phantomknights, @nettleshuttle, @angel-of-sweet-revenge, @entermages

[alchemistdetective]

[whysamwhy123]

Stealing this from Katy because I'm all over the place lately, only able to write little bits and pieces from various bad ideas and not making any major progress on anything. So, for shits and giggles, if you're so inclined, let me know - if you could get me to write anything, anything at all, what would YOU want me to write? I'm curious but also, who knows, maybe this'll actually give me the boost I need to pick something and then actually finish it?

[sylviareviar]

Curious but how did you come up with your OC? Is she her own fandomless OC you have verses for, or has she always been one in the Persona universe?

Truth be told, Sylvia is a self-insert OC. I have other verses of her, and her background is usually different in every one, to better explain her circumstances. It's just, her Persona verse is the most active one I have on Tumblr. I came up with her in middle school, when I was at my lowest point, and Sylvia became my go-to comfort character ever since, because... she helped me escape.

But the truth is, I have lots of verses for her. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is one (which I don't actually use on here since I don't have any 5D's moots, but I am writing a fic about it on Wattpad-- it's the kind of fic that I'm not really proud to have, but I'm too attached not to write it, so into the trash bin it goes, I guess). I also have verses like Pokemon, in which she only accumulates her trauma after going out on a Pokemon journey, or Fire Emblem, where she's a glass cannon mage tasked with defending her lord (and maybe falls a little ill because of all the magic she's got inside her).

There are others, of course, but at the moment I can't think of many, since right now I'm hyperfixated on the Persona series, but if there are any other fandoms I like that I want Sylvia to be a part of, chances are she's there, with at least a basic background that I can build on if I start focusing on it again (like My Hero Academia). Oh, but I don't actually watch popular anime like One Piece, Bleach, Death Note, or Demon Slayer. Especially not Fullmetal Alchemist; I watched it when I was younger and got traumatized by the chimera dog. It's a little bit tricky, but I mostly find myself attracted by JRPGs, which is when I start to wonder, "I wonder what it would be like for Sylvia here? What kind of background would she have? How would she interact with the characters?" Building her up from there, coming up with funny scenarios with other characters, creating mischief and angst and blending the two into a believable character... It's all a lot of fun for me.

Sylvia being a self-insert doesn't mean that I take everything personally when I RP. Instead, the way I act with her feels more like she's a "doll" or an act that I play with. If other characters have personally hurt her, that's not an attack on me, nor is it an attack on her. It is an in-character interaction, much like how two actors who act out characters on stage that fight one another doesn't mean that the actors themselves are fighting.

The way she looks and is as a character is built in ways I can relate to, and it helps me to cope with the real world and real traumas I have. In a way, Sylvia could actually be my own personal Persona-- a mask I wear to get through the real world.

Sylvia's appearance is based purely on what I would find ideal on myself, and is sorta like what I think my personality looks like if it were a person. Her background, though, is something I have fun playing around with and building with the world, and I do my best not to break the boundaries of whatever world she's in, but bend them a little bit to make her seem unique without trying to take attention away from other, more important characters.

I guess you could call Sylvia almost a "trauma response," but I prefer to think of her more as a "special interest," because through her, I can learn better how to write, how to behave myself, and simply have fun interacting with canon characters.

Also, exhibiting some of my own personal habits through her helps me identify my faults as a person, and figure out things that I need to work on versus what things may be cute or fun in an objective sense, which I could leave alone after a bit of moderation. Such as...

...m-my habit of rambling. Or my dislike of loud noises.

But not everything Sylvia does is the same as me! For example, I don't actually live on a farm like Sylvia does in both the Pokemon and Persona 5 verses. My home is actually in a suburban area. Sylvia's location also isn't exactly the same as mine, and depending on the verse, her skillset isn't the same as mine either-- the only things that remain the same are her like of drawing, singing, and writing. Sometimes it isn't possible for her to play a flute, or to play video games, or even to just ride a bike. So really, how close she is in depiction to the actual me depends on the verse, but all of it is simply to have fun.

I hope that explained Sylvia as a concept sufficiently. I know a lot of people are uncomfortable RPing with self-inserts, so I'm already very grateful for the people who are willing to RP with her, and who haven't dismissed her as cringe or disgusting. Believe me, I've tried to let her go years ago, but every time, it never worked. So I'm sort of stuck. But I think if I practice with Sylvia long enough, I could start writing other characters with their own silly nuances and overly specific habits too.

[draakart]

There's so much stuff I want to do this year!

Mosiacs, martial arts, 3D modelling, ceramics, more traditional art, hiking, mechanics, coding, etc!

I'm so excited! Now just need to figure out how to actually do the things...

And not get overwhelmed while at it, naturally.

[acemapleeh]

If anything was going to finalize me not staying in education as a career, it's having the parent of one of your students coming to the school after threatening you and your wife (also a teacher) that they will hurt us so they bring their entire fucking family to the school and we had to be safely escorted to our car to go home.

If I need a Master's degree to have a decent paycheck in this field, I might as well get that degree in a job I actually want to do.

I've been on the fence for months but this is fucking it for me.