Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

seagull-laugh-girl asked: Hy Mod! My friend asked me when you started drawing TPOH and I...I thought that was a good question? I'm guessing its around 3-6 years but I haven't got a clue @~@ would you mind telling us??? Maybe a story on how you started developing your ideas or something? Idk

dang I can never remember, uh, well it was partway through the year after I graduated from VFS so… partway through 2012? I think??? yikes. that’s a long time huh. Hilariously the whole story hit me like a bad/good fever dream I literally doodled RGB as part of a Persona meme (no, really, folks who’ve followed me long enough know this is true) and then the following 3 days I was like, subjected to this tsunami of ideas while the whole story kinda wrote itself??? and I just had to sit there like 8U okay wow this is happening. My roomie thought I was sick lmao anyway, that’s the gist of how it happened! Obviously I refined it after that initial surge and I keep doing that- joining up parts that were written in a fugue state and tidying up things, but very alarmingly often the story does that of its own accord? It has been and continues to be the most organic and spontaneous piece of writing I’ve ever done, and when I say the story is in charge of itself not me I probably sound bonkers but it’s absolutely true. I am doing my best to do it justice and listen to the characters and the world and represent it all without getting in the way too much!