{"id":707,"date":"2011-11-08T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipinbottle.pepsaga.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:02:01","slug":"long-live-lovemagic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipinbottle.pepsaga.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Lovemagic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a comic again and it is a strange feeling. On the one hand, I am getting out ideas that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been sitting on for an eternity and a half and on the other it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just odd. I planned on abandoning this comic, then redrawing this comic and now I am continuing it. Funny, when I thought about doing something beyond my Filthy Figments work it never occurred to me to pick up where I left off. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s common sense. Sometimes I am violently allergic to common sense though. After looking at Lovemagic, there may be a reason for that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So on deciding to continue Lovemagic, I forced myself through the archive and oddly got embarrassed. Not because of all the sex and rampant nudity. Only because of my lack of skill but I noticed that the further I got, the better it looked. By the end of it, I could no longer deny that I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t improved (hopefully there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enough double negatives in there to say I improved). This inspired me to rocket out of the miserable artistic rut I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been in and lead me to draw again. I could start anywhere since LM never had a story. It does now but I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coherent\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6okay maybe it is but I did inject the whole deal with liquid batshit. Sometimes I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d write a script just to do the opposite, or I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d forget there was a script until the last minute. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m such a strange, strange lady sometimes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then other ideas poured forth. Well, one idea came up that I wanted to do out of amusement. I wanted to make a love pillow. So if Lovemagic becomes popular\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6like really popular, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make love pillows and then people can hold my characters at their own risk. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more ideas but I probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do them. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so sheepish when it comes to my own abilities. It may not sound like it but I really am. Merch can wait. Someday it will happen. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make my own love pillow\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6oh wait, I have a husbando. There is no need for love pillow. He is a pretty good one despite being a little on the bony side.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of the husbando, he was the one who convinced me to move on. I was obsessing over redrawing my comic when he was all \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhy?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. That was it. But for the sake of writing, well pretend a sword duel on a moonlit beach was involved. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a trained artist with a commercial degree so I come to him for a lot of questions, advice, and flatting. I suck at flatting my pages but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ridiculously thorough. Even when I flat something, I always ask him to take a second look and he does because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chill like that. Anyway, he is my in-house expert. He appraises my stuff and expresses approval\/disapproval\/where the hell did that laser come from when I have need for it. He liked the comic. In fact, we kinda met because of LM\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6NOT LIKE THAT! It was somewhat innocent. I drew a character that vaguely looked like him and I thought I heard something about people accusing me of drawing him. I thought he was saying that but it turned out I was misunderstanding a comment. I tend to do that. But then he was all \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclol u draw porn. I like porn.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Then I was like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI like porn too.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Then we dated for about five years and we even find a way to to try a sex doll since there are some amazing dolls on the market now which are shockingly realistic, see this great guide<\/a> for more information . Surely, this was a romance of the ages!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another thing about Lovemagic was the problems it brought me. I lived with my mother at the time and she is a very conservative, fundamentalist Christian. So her oldest daughter drawing porn didn’t go over so well. There were a lot of arguments that ended with me getting covered with olive oil. It’s symbolic so it wasn’t like my mom just put me in a headlock and dumped oil on my head. Also, my step-dad was not so conservative and I found out he’d been secretly reading my comic whenever I was away from the computer. At least he was until I started clearing the history and turning off auto-complete. It was a cyclone of religious awkwardness. If I were more cynical, I could had fun with it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The thing about Lovemagic now is that I know what to do, how to do it, and why\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6or at least I think I do which is more than what I had when I started. It won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be the same as before but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve lost sight of my roots and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great. You should never lose the memory of where you started even if it was drawing original Sonic recolors on deviantart. Progress is progress. But I think that whole deal about knowing the past to know the future was a little true. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very, very excited for the future now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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