And so, they went to the beach.

Lessons for me, in case I forget later.

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-even though I've been thoroughly, dangerously, stupidly invested in my own characters for decades, this investment alone isn't enough to compel me to consistently produce. After all, no matter what I am or am not creating, the show goes on in my mind. Without some kind of external reinforcement, it's not like I stop making "content" entirely - it's just that it becomes rare, because it really is just being made for me at that point.

-Overrendering is the mind killer.

-It doesn't have to be naked to be horny.

-It doesn't have to be horny to be porn, as evidenced by the kind of pornographic shorts people often like to buy.

-It's tiring and lonely and the kind of work people will do with you, is often the kind of work you don't want to do. See: unhorny porn.

-It's important to have SOME collaborative creative outlet. I never thought I'd play Dungeons and Dragons because numbers? combat? who cares? but now I'm in two games and back making my comics, not just unhorny porn. Sure, the players probably aren't interested in my comics, but the creative buzz of them being consistently interested in some, any aspect of what I'm doing is helpful. I'm a human. Surprise. I need some kind of feedback.

-Try to stop fading out of existence when brain sucks.

-You're good at something. Take it. Push it. Run with it.

-If you're so cool, take up some fucking space and quit whining about why you shouldn't have to.

-Respect yourself enough to focus.

-Focus.

-Focus.

that normal problem where you’re like “yes this comic looks nice, yes, the character acting is great, but nobody will know what the fuck’s going on because I skipped way ahead of the webcomic plot for funsies”

I mean SOME DAY it will make sense. but for now, aside from like 3 people it’s like “stick that shit in a time capsule, man”

have I ever mentioned that modus operandi is notoriously, yes, *notoriously* difficult to make

for a glass cannon wizard, Bob kinda looks like he belongs at the beach, right? he should go more often.

It's very low pressure and people have actual conversations.

*smokey and the bandit theme on the kazoo*

also sometimes you can't do shit you want in dnd so I just went and inked this old-ass pic of OG Bob because I can do anything I want in the terrible, terrible world of MO.

ah yeah I finished this . influences are ottoman and kievan rus (and Art Deco, always Art Deco)

in the whimsical world of dnd, bob is a noble and a wizard. he eats responsibility and dreams of 360 noscoping with fireball. the dm has been nice enough to allow me to manually enter graviturgy spells in Foundry so I can have bob specialize in weird shit like gravity magic

anyway his friend probably inadvertently ended bob's noble house so he likely won't have many excuses to wear this noble garb that nobody in the party has ever seen him wear

I'm an ARTEST

it only now occurs to me that I might be able to incorporate my 3D pen (imagine the extruder nozzle on a 3D printer, but your hand is the controller) into mold-making. It might allow me to make better, more precise vents. The wax I got for that purpose is much too thin.