Anonymous asked: After reading White Balloon, I went back to read Reflections again, so now I’m wondering if you got your headcanon in mind way back then?
oh no I had that head canon a looooong time ago. like. when I was thirteen? fourteen or something? yeah.
angelblack3 asked: So I remember reading somewhere that fae folk also follow the mathnomania thing, but I hadn't heard of it being poppy seeds, I thought it was salt granules/sugar, hence why ppl would think salt could protect them from malevolent forces. Is that different?
I think the poppy seeds were only for vampires, at least I don’t remember that being mentioned for other creatures? Salt seems to be a universal supernatural-things-don’t-like-that or at least it’s considered so special that making a barrier with it can protect against lots of things (well I mean it works on slugs, so \o/)
In terms of other specifics I was told that the way to run away from Leprechauns is to throw all your shoes at them, as they can’t move on until they’ve fixed all of them up to be the best they can be! I also seem to remember something about pins and witches- that if you drop a box of pins the witch has to pick all of them up and put them back one by one? But I’m not sure if that’s just a local thing.
foreverwildstar asked: wow “died of overeating” sounds like a company cover up story lmao you really caught every little thing drawing that balloon comic up bravo mod
Anonymous asked: I absolutely love The White Balloon, it's such an emotional comic, I've cried twice reading it. I was just wondering why you put Gladstone and Daphne's birthday in August? I don't know the duckverse comics very well, is it from that?
it’s simply based off the first time Gladstone appears in the comics! But I also just think he really suits being a Leo…
anthrotmnt asked: I just read the last page of the comic and I have so many feelings. It's probably one of my fave pieces from you (and that's saying a lot because I love like everything you do and especially the Magicstone works) now. One thing though that hit me when I reread part 2 was that, timing wise, Goostave's argument was the last time he spoke to his mother and just kind of cements further the difference between her and Elvira, who didn't even get any 'final words' with her daughter. Just, so many feels
yeah, I also wanted it to be more unstandable why we never hear anything about Gladstone’s relatives from the Gander line- after that argument I figure they, and he, practically cut themselves off from one another. He kept his Gander surname because it keeps him connected to his father (and also prolly a little out of spite).
it’s a mixture of canons and my own take on it- this from the Disney Wiki entry on Gladstone;
- while no duck canon is ever truly solid (there’s just that much of it that conflicts!) it just made sense to me to blend these options. As Don Rosa’s more recent family tree is generally accepted as canon (especially as it is used in the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck), I decided to keep his canon that Goostave and Daphne are Gladstone’s true parents along with adhering to the visual he gave them. It made sense, however, that Gladstone’s parents are no longer part of the scene, as they never appear in any stories outside of the past. I also felt that this sort of tragedy fitted with the psychology of Gladstone, and explained in part why he didn’t know about the Triple Distelfink for a long time.
For those asking about why I made Goostave the way I did (and being very complimentary! thank you?! glad you all love him too), there’s literally only one picture of him and that’s the grouchy portrait in Don Rosa’s family tree poster so I was like, do I go the bad-grumpy-too-stern-dad angst route? but I decided against that because a) Daphne’s luck would prevent her from marrying a total grump and b) wouldn’t it be nice to tie in how Gladstone is like both his parents by making one of them grouchy on the outside but soft on the inside?
This ‘white balloon’ story will eventually be followed up by another about Gladstone’s childhood after this event, where he went and how Ludwig Von Drake became a significant figure in his life. :Tb
I like the poster’s implication that the producers of Sesame Street did not put a counting vampiric count on a children’s educational series to teach kids how to count; this was just an incidental side effect of their fidelity to obscure vampire folklore.
