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[foxinthestars]

Yesterday went badly* and I flaked out again. As of this morning that left me three pages behind with nine days to make it up, so I figured it was time to get serious, and got two pages today (I can do it! I know I can!!).


While I don't think it had really hurt yet, I started feeling like I was skipping too hurriedly through the story and that it was time to relax, take a breath, get into somebody's head, plus that might be easier for me to draw quickly and catch up, and also I was talking to kineko in comments about some of my characters' motivations and thought I should actually put that stuff in the comic, so...





How Adrian's hands got hurt at some point in the recent past, I'm still thinking how to work that in...


DW/LJ-only NOTES:

*Art Guild Days have been rough the last couple of weeks, although I still really like the people. Still, it's gonna take more than people saying "Oh, no, that's cool," (or worse "I don't see why we couldn't hang that on the wall") to make me as an aspiring/budding comics artist feel like I fit in with all these painters.

I also wanted to mention this, despite some fear that my dwircle/f-list would just polarize on it, but... What do you do when your artistic motivation is undermined by feeling like a bad feminist? It's the "OMG, I stuffed (or am planning to stuff) a woman in a refrigerator!" thing, and yeah, when big name writers whine about people silencing them by complaining, I don't have any sympathy, but perhaps hypocritically, for myself I think if I really can't think of a good story-alternative, creating flawed art is better than creating no art (and at least in my version Lisa gets to do something besides die, even if I am tempted, when I get Trevor's mom in here, to send them off on a tangent for no other reason than to squeak through the Bechdel test; it might be my last chance for awhile...).

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[quicksilver_ink]

I also wanted to mention this, despite some fear that my dwircle/f-list would just polarize on it, but... What do you do when your artistic motivation is undermined by feeling like a bad feminist? It's the "OMG, I stuffed (or am planning to stuff) a woman in a refrigerator!" thing, ....

Here's what I think: stuffing people into fridges is a trope that creates victims of both sexes (see TVtropes for examples) and is not inherently anti-feminist; what makes it problematic is that it is that most frequently it's female characters dying to advance the stories of male characters.

Since you're conscious that you're using the trope in its problematically-common form, and have clearly thought careful about its necessity to the story, going ahead and using it is not OMGbadfeminist!!!11. And if you're still feeling like a Bad Feminist, then make a note that later on you ought to write a story with the gender-swapped version of the trope, to maintain parity. :)

[foxinthestars]

Thank you! On the level, I think with fanfic there may also be a comparison with canon issue---like, Castlevania has been known to fridge women in the instruction manual and give them no actual screentime, and once not even an in-game mention, so maybe there's something to be said for taking the lemon and fixing it up even somewhat.