Anonymous asked: I have had really bad anhedonia for a long time but your exuberance for cartoons and comics helps me look forward to something. Thank you for being so wonderful!
oh my, I’m sorry to hear you’ve been struggling with such a difficult thing- I hope you keep strong and I’ll do my best to keep making stuff! which I love! and I love you too!
Anonymous asked: imagine if Recebbeecea Sugar knew who you were and actually did just make an OC out of you but didn't acknowledge or confirm it to keep you safe from unhealthy attention from fandom but just like. Did That
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also am I gonna have to make a penny jar for ‘hey are u that gem’ like the one for every time someone asks if I am real/a cartoon and if Neil Gaiman knows about TPoH yet
Anonymous asked: I can't believe this you already has Blue Zircon as a SU cameo (GEE MOD HOW COME YOU GET TWO CANON GEMSONAS)
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Anonymous asked: Hi! Since your characters have the most beautiful and well-defined personalities, I wanted to ask: how do you do that? How can you create such a wonderful and astonishingly realistic thing? What's on your mind while creating and then developing new characters? P.S.: I'm sorry - I apologise for any grammatical errors... I'm Italian :)
yikes, hard question- because I’m not sure, because I let the characters do all the work for me! I guess I’ve always observed people, how they talk and act when they’re feeling certain ways, and I’ve always been very empathetic- meaning that I often don’t just correctly observe how people are feeling, but I actually end up feeling the same way as they do (which can be exhausting and I have to be careful with!). Basically I just create a thought experiment: create a scenario and put characters into it, and see how they react. I can only do this with characters I feel I understand very well, obviously, but really I just sit back and let it play out in my head and my heart. When I think I have enough of a grip on it in my mind, then I start roughing out the comic.
Much of the framing and layout stuff has come just by doing it for a lot of years (working as a storyboarder certainly helped), so the best way to pick that stuff up is to read lots of comics, watch lots of visual media, and draw draw draw. For the acting out of personalities, I can only assume the same, but if I can’t feel or ‘naturally’ feel what a character would do in response to a situation then I have to reconsider things, or simply just wait, or backtrack- is there something else that happened before this that does not flow naturally? Is there someone else who did something that feels ‘out of character’? Is this the way this character REALLY wants to react, or have they got another angle?
In terms of creating characters with personalities, again I feel I cheat, because I usually am partly ‘approached’ by them rather than making them up from start to finish. Time’s rather abrupt and stark, panel abusing personality just appeared as a consequence of what he is and how he exists, mixed in with the behaviour of his acquaintances the Mad March Hare and the Mad Hatter. The fact that he has an Aussie accent in my head is a total surprise to me.
Uhhhh basically SIT AND THINK. THINK THINK. BUT NOT TOO HARD because the character is the one who thinks. You listen. Writing people is about listening to the people in your head. Yeah.
Anonymous asked: god please make dated-for-like-one-week-when-in-highschool Glarioca a thing
I KIND OF HEADCANON IT NOW TBH but I also now have to like. figure out where and how they could meet bc I still feel like Jose and Donald only meet much later like in the cartoons they’re both their regular lookin’ selves? maybe a few years earlier than the ‘comic dad Donald’ age (bc in The Three Caballeros Ride Again it’s a reunion after a few years of being apart and the kids don’t know about them/haven’t met them before)… so like yeah now I have this ‘did Gladstone meet and know Jose way before Donald ever did’ angle to potentially work with which is hilarious in itself. Also I’m 100% on the theory that Gladstone did and does travel a huge lot so it’s plausible that he met Jose in Brazil on a trip which makes them meeting up on home turf EVEN WEIRDER and look there’s. there’s a lot to play with here
Anonymous asked: Pardon my asking, but how old are Goosetave and Daphne when they meet in The White Balloon? Asking for reasons
good question! I think they are about 16/17- young enough for Goostave to be deeply under the thumb of his parents but on the verge of going to college and really starting to be able to break away and be independent. I imagine they met, then went their separate ways, but kept touch as pen pals for all the time they were apart and eventually met back up in their twenties.
Anonymous asked: hey so im slow and only just chewed my way through TPoH (which is SO GOOD THANKS) and something occurred to me when RGB is getting his wooden horse shoes- is the fact that they use copper nails significant? bc I recall the copper nails can be used to kill trees or prevent them regrowing and such
welcome aboard, and good spot! there’s a few reasons but the main ‘logic’ reason was, because of that tree-killing quality of copper nails, I thought they would be more likely to end up in the Market, as they would more easily have some imbued thought, memory, and significance in a narrative sense. Killing a tree is a big deal and so I rather liked the ceremonial nature of copper nails, alongside the connotations that brought with using them to attaching wooden horseshoes (part of a dead tree) to his feet in order for him to traverse the desert. Copper also has neat alchemical and spiritual symbolism attached to it and is used in wiring for electrical appliances like TVs so I mean, bonuses all round.
Anonymous asked: Hey, I just thought you'd like to know (though you may already) that the first part of "Enough Time To Fall" isn't showing up. Victim of tumblr bots?
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what do I do?! I haven’t had any notifs that any of my art was blocked… do I really have to upload it all again? I mean I will but that is so rude
edit: hmph. looks like they just straight deleted it and I didn’t get any notification about that >:C if that’s happened to any other work do let me know, and I’ll get around to re-uploading that comic later today if I have the willpower…
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.
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…