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[mmiotw]

Working on the comic recap video and this frame is sending me

[weepingpineapplechaos]

I know that literally nobody cares but every time that I get into something or remember one of my interests I always get the most intense urge to make a rain world AU with it and that is exactly what is happening right now with camp camp

[mmiotw]

hrngggg... hiatus post

Quick update on the comic.....

It's been a great year for the comic. I made a lot of strips that I'm proud of and even made two larger stories. As much as I'm happy with my output for this year, there is room for improvement. I've had a lot on my plate in both real life and creatively. I'm coming to realize that I do my best work when I'm completely focused on one project rather than multiple. Multitasking has had an effect on the comic, where it feels like I'm making creative decisions based on what will get a comic out fastest rather than what will make for the best end product. When my illustrations have been improving at a steady pace, it feels like my comics have stagnated. The ultimate goal with this project was to improve on my fundamentals and it's hard to do that when I'm dead set on maintaining a queue. I want to put my best foot forward with this project and deliver something incredibly, something no one's ever seen before. Like a lot of my past projects, the ambitions of this comic have grown astronomically, but its more exciting because that dream seems more obtainable.

I got a couple projects I have to finish up before I can completely commit myself to this project. It won't be completely radio silent. Depending on where you're reading this, there still might be a few more comics in the queue that will post this month. I'm currently working on a large video covering my progress with this comic targeting the end of this year. I'm also still drawing TGAMM fan art, which I may post here. If I'm able to sort everything out, I might be able to come back around April, hopefully sooner.

Alongside all of this, I also have some concerns about where I'm posting these comics. Earlier this year, I made a twitter to mirror the comic. I'm sure all of you are aware of the state of the site and its enthusiastic embrace of AI generation. I don't feel too comfortable posting the comic there and I'm hoping to maybe try and mirror it on Blue sky. The site hasn't developed any scheduling features, so you can check out my main blue sky site for future details.

Thank you so much for sticking around! It's been a real dream come true receiving comments, asks and making you guys laugh! Hoping for the return to be a big one!

[mmiotw]

A couple of dreams for the comic:

Making a physical collection of the comic

Someone doing a fandub of one of the comics

Getting Tracy Yardly (or really any sonic comic artist) to do a commission of Realm Shaper Molly

Making an adaptation of the comic in the form of a [REDACTED] that takes inspiration from [REDACTED] and acts as a tribute to [REDACTED] and Disney’s long history with [REDACTED]

[mmiotw]

haha matching

[mmiotw]

It's been a hot minute since I re-watched The Owl House. Do trains exist on the boiling isles? Has a train ever appeared on the show? I have an idea for a comic but it hinges on the concept of Gus and Hunter not knowing what a train is.

[mmiotw]

Molly McGee ending has got me thinking about the comic a bit, more specifically the timing of its inception. It doesn't feel like the show's been around for a while, but for some reason I feel like the fandom is about to enter its twilight years. Is that even possible? Do fandoms really die? I post a lot of TGAMM art but I wouldn't say I have a pulse on the fan base or anything.

This also extends to the other shows featured in the comic. It's interesting that Molly McGee and Big City Greens are the only currently running shows featured in the comic and I haven't even drawn any BCG comics. Are the fan bases for Owl House, Amphibia, and Gravity Falls even active anymore? I also wonder what the reception of the comic would be like if these shows were replaced with more active shows like Hailey's On It or Kiff. I'm sure those shows are great; I just haven't had time to watch them.

I just keep thinking about a scenario where 5 or 8 years from now, I'm able to successfully make a physical collection of these comics and they're completely incomprehensible to a new generation of disney channel fans. This scenario might be even more exacerbated with another Molly McGee adjacent project I'd like to do long after the comic ends. I just wonder if Molly McGee or any of the shows I'm making fan art for will still be remembered by that time. And if not, will I or this comic have any impact on the legacy of these shows?

Mad Interesting...

[mmiotw]

I think its really funny that Andrea is the only character that hasn't been formally introduced to Scratch.

[mmiotw]

I'm hoping next year to graduate my comic about disney characters hitting each other with big sticks to disney characters hitting each other with big sticks except one has jojo stands and the other has minecraft creative mode. This is a spoiler and you will not be able to guess who these characters are. DO NOT TRY.

[mmiotw]

Honestly kind of surreal that Molly McGee is ending soon. In a few weeks, she'll leave this mortal coil and I'm not sure how I feel about it...

[mmiotw]

Schedule Update

TLDR; There's going to be AT LEAST one comic every Wednesday. They're just may be more than one comic a week.

I've been having a mental shift when it comes to making projects. My life is very busy, so my main strategy has been to make anything I create in batches and schedule them out for the foreseeable future. I have one comic scheduled for every day of the week for the rest of the year. This approach has been essential for how I post things on social media, lest I become irrelevant to the public eye. However, it can be kind of exhausting constantly making stuff just for the sake of having a backlog. It also stinks having to wait forever for a post that you're super stoked about to drop. To keep things short, I have a ton of ideas for the comic that I'd like to have out now, so my new strategy will be a mix of posting in the moment and creating a lite backlog for the future. You're going to see more comics in the week in general. This new strategy is mostly in service of future "story arcs". Whenever I have an arc, I'll likely post it all at once or have each page post daily.

Things are going to be less formal around here. I'm going to still have comics scheduled for once a week on the Tapas site, so comics will likely come out sooner here. I also have a ton of disney fanart I've drawn on my main blog that I'm planning to reblog here as well.

Overall, thanks a ton to everyone who has commented and rebloged the comics I've made! I'm pretty new to the medium of comics so I'm glad I making something people can get into! Expect big things in the near future! Time to fulfill that "stupidest disney channel crossover fancomic" promise I made a while ago!

[mmiotw]

Honestly toying around with deleting the webtoon for the comic. It honestly a cumbersome site to work with on desktop. The biggest issue is that I can't rearrange the scheduling of the pages without deleting posts ahead of when I want to schedule. This means that the pacing for the webtoon mirror is obnoxiously slow and I can't re-arrange to cater to the pacing of the story.

I probably wouldn't even bother with webtoon or tapas if I could use a functioning webcomic theme on tumblr. I remember back around 2012-14 when I first joined, there were tons of great webcomic themes you could use. The three I tried on this blog don't seem to work properly. I have no idea if that has to do with my pinned post or tumblr's infrastructure deteriorating by the second. As much as I go on about how big and grand the story is going to be, this is suppose to be a chill project to practice comic making. I really don't want to be worrying myself with maintaning a site.

Do any of you use webtoons? Do you read the comic there? I only have 9 followers on the comic so maybe it won't be a big deal...

[mmiotw]

Asks should be up now so you can send in a request if you'd like! WE ARE GOOD TO GO!!!!!!!!!

[weepingpineapplechaos]

i might just make a blog for indigo park because my poor rain world followers over here might get spammed with a random mascot horror