warm up doodles combined = hey what if some meany stole Sherl and the ot3 had to go through Crazy Puzzle House Trial to prove they’re worthy enough to get him back (look im soft I just want. stupid sappy dramatic scenes like this why do you think I like the Layton games in the first place. come on)
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RE: that last doodle comic I got some confession/admitting to do for you and myself and these tags someone made really nailed it and I feel embarrassed but
The truth is the first pass of the story had the villain actually just wanting to destroy all magical animals because he was a purist scientist- He was putting logic before everything else and the fact that magical creatures just don’t fit in with the scientific logic of their world really annoyed him and he just wanted to get rid of them to balance the equation. He kept referring to them as ‘pollutants in the genetic field’ and ‘anomalies that nobody wants’ and such, which actually fits better with the whole ending part about purity.
I am not sure when or why I started to change that aspect of his motivation exactly but I think I was just so hurt and angry about Current events and that it kind of blind-sighted me and I wanted to make it more relevant to the whole Brexiteer/billionaire playing with lives for pure profit and ‘fun’. He’s bored and does it just because he can and doesn’t care about or understand the repercussions of it- which in hindsight would have led to a very different story if it was the Big Deal of the narrative. I think I was also worried at this point that I being way too heavy-handed with the underlying message.
This all kind of got lost somehow, perhaps because I was so busy and increasingly in pain, and realising this now is very much after-the-fact so it doesn’t benefit anyone. At this point I don’t know if I can be Bothered going back and changing the script back to what it was originally, I certainly can’t right now because my hands are way too sore. Whether I do or not though, I was already planning on bringing Leo back as a character who now has a real burning passionate Hatred of magic and of Magica herself, so hopefully you’ll get a future story with more of that angle which gives her more stardom? but yeah I think this is just a shortcoming of myself as a writer- my tendency to let the story push me around and be fluid during the process can sometimes work against me in this way because things the pop into my head during production that don’t actually jell with the original vision. My emotions sometimes jump in the middle and mess things up a bit, when I should be more focused!
Anyway, Yeah that’s basically what I wanted to say- and if at some point you go back to read it and the script has changed to be more about this, that’s why!
EDIT EDIT EDIT UPDATE one of my Consultant Friends just hmu on this and pointed out that I dodged a big white Stupidity Bullet here because, while it wouldn’t have been the intention, people might have thought I was comparing magical creatures (i.e. exotic animals) to minorities and like WOW YIKES NO. That’s. Really Not Cool and wasn’t AT ALL the intent of the thing I didn’t do anyway BUT HEY UH, MAYBE EVERYTHING WORKED OUT FOR THE BEST.
the final part! I can’t tell you how emotionally draining this one was and how anxious I was about getting it right, but the response I got from yesterday’s post was incredibly positive and touching. I’m so glad that people felt connected to it and I’m very moved so many people wrote to me to express that. Thanks for reading! I’ll do my best to get better from my tendonitis and make more soon!
The whole thing is now up on my website if you want to have the complete full size experience!
part four! I could talk about this part but I’m hoping it talks for itself. As ever, new tabs are best for reading clarity!
Thanks so much to my friends for all the feedback they gave me while working on this part, it was very important to me that I got it right and sent it to enough of the culturally relevant parties to confirm it was working and that I was getting the words across in the most appropriate way.
Part three! I think this is gonna be a five parter just because of tumblr’s 10 image limit so hold on in there we still in this and the next part is the actual Spicy Take so uh yeah head’s up for that
Part one is here / Part two is here / Part four is here!
as ever open in new tabs for best reading but if you want to read it all in full size I’ll post it on my website on Saturday when it’s all finished :Tb
Part two! Thanks for hanging in there with this one despite that weird opener- hopefully it will just make sense as it goes along but here’s a link to the original Trail of the Unicorn story in case you want to scope that out first! (warning: that website has some gross adverts so be sure to have your adblock all suped up)
also again sorry this one is so wildly scribbly but I was a) trying to save on time and b) my hands died partway through making it like, really bad. whelp.
Part one is here / part three is here!
if you want to read the whole thing full size in one go I’ll be posting it up here when it’s completed!
OKAY SO THIS. WAS UNEXPECTED bc I wasn’t planning on putting this up today but it’s National Unicorn Day and I really can’t get around the fact that it’s probably the most appropriate day ever to start posting this so. I’m going to.
This story is weird and I was terrified of making it but a couple of Good Friends to whom some of the topics are Relevant have been very kind in helping me to refine the script and get it as good as I can make it, broken hands aside, but literally I had no choice bc it wrote itself in my head over like a day and then I had to make it (very much like TPoH only like, not as huge thank goodness). Sorry for all the waffle, I’m just anxious- I hope it works out and you enjoy it!
This is part one! Part two is up here!
Read a lot of other duck doodle comics which are more chill over here!
urgh, the most galling thing about my hands still being wrecked is I was SO CLOSE to finishing this next doodle comic (if I was able to work normally I’d finish it in like, 4 days max) and I have cold too now?!?! weak. anyway here’s some costume design/colour prep for the next NEXT doodle comic
also bonus super scribble deleted scene from the end which has changed now but heck I still think it’s cute even without context so fight me
A collective of miscellany and mirth. Also sometimes I draw stuff.