Okay, just a quick word before I ollie off the internet and carry on watching Game of Thrones, but I feel like I need to get this off my chest.
Some of you might be wondering why I was making such a big fuss about drawing horses and being sad about it when the Jon’s horse ended up having a happy (and slightly predictable) ending after all.
Well, until yesterday, I didn’t know if it was going to be a happy ending. It was completely fifty-fifty between the ending you have seen, and a very different and very sad one. The fact was that I couldn’t decide. If I chose the sad ending, it was true to the war. The war was not made of happy endings. It was made of trench foot, starvation and fear. You met with death by exposure if you were unlucky and death by shell if you were. There were no victories- there were losses, and people who survived. Conversely this would not have been true to the band, or the message of the band. The message that music cannot be defeated, that hope must and can survive against all odds, and that nothing is impossible.
In the end, I flipped a coin. That is the only reason that the comic has this ending, and not the other. I’m almost glad, but I still feel that I should apologize if it appears that I took the easy road or tried to paint a pretty picture. If I write another story on the wars, I will feel more able to be more honest about it- but it seems that this was not the time for that story.
I suppose the reason this played on my nerves so badly is because I am afraid that we are forgetting. We remember the wars, but we have started to forget why we must remember them.
Part 7.
Now excuse me while I go to curl up in the corner and never draw horses again for the rest of my life.
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Oh my gosh what are you doing following me!
Ummmm HI! I’ma huge fan and wow, um , hi!
I love your art and you are just so cool uuuh yeah!
The real question is why wasn’t I following you before?
That’s right kids, it’s TPoH music feels time!
Again, this relates to a specific part of the story in my mind, but, again, we haven’t got there yet, and won’t for a very long time.
I also just really felt like listening to this today. So. There’s that.
Regarding David
I’m not going to say a huge amount, and I might even delete this later, but for all of you who know which post I’m referring to- can I advise something?
Please, be careful.
Telling someone to ‘ignore that nagging voice of doubt’ can seem helpful, but it can also seem patronizing. To be told how to behave from someone who doesn’t have the same past is difficult to accept. What he told us was complete, honest, and carefully thought out.
Yes, we must let him know that we love him, utterly and truly, and that we will support him always, in any way in which we can, but do not give him directions. He did not ask us for that. He wasn’t asking for anything; he was explaining, which is a very different matter.
It may sound ironic to hear me, then, giving you advise; but having grown up with two psychologists for parents and deep routed interest in the subject (not to mention a little experience in the roller-coaster-emotions-setting field), I just feel that as much as our enthusiasm and love must reach him, it mustn’t reach him in the wrong way.
Basically, think. Not just about what you want to tell him, but how he would feel with the manner in which you tell it to him. Language is a fragile art and can be written and received in completely different ways.
WOAH GUYS WHAT THE HELL WHY DOES THAT SKETCH HAVE 200 NOTES DUDE CALM DOWN HOLY CRAP
OKAY I GUESS I’LL FINISH IT SOME TIME THEN
