Spiral Of Happiness

Gotta admit straight up, this sorta illustration is not what I expected. I have no idea how I saw all mild mentions of this comic and never even realized how perfectly suited to my tastes the art style is. This is............delicious.

An entire page devoted to just the actions of measuring and drawing. Absolutely no dialogue. Just the breath, the movement of the hands. ................yeah okay I'm a bit in love already. Even the way the hair falls! Ahhhhh!

Oh my dearest child. You got swindled. I love how this is so hardcore fantasy and medieval times, and yet she just goes 'yeah I got a pen' like weird dudes sitting around selling off-brand stationary is just a normal thing.

For some reason, before I started reading this manga I thought the point was that witches COULDN'T remove their caps/hats. But I guess it's just an identity thing?

But in that case, couldn't anyone just make a hat and pretend to be a witch? And just do, idk, sleight of hand?

😂 I thought she was going to tell them to cut it out, but she just wants to be involved. I love this child.

.............so the pen............is actually like. a thing then. that's not just a random one off. that's a. hm.

Fascinating thing about the magic circle too! This one has a lot of repetition, it seems. Most magic circles in fantasy tend to be overloaded with complex symbology. This one is just a buncha little Ts.

The relationship between her and her mom seems really sweet! Her mom seems more down to earth about magic, but that's not really because she's cruel about it. She's probably just that kinda person. I thought maybe Coco would run away to join the magic man, but that seems unlikely at the moment. She's not necessarily Oppressed in her household. She's happy!

................................................... in terms of storytelling, that's.....uhoh.

this is too fucking cute.

And yeah, DRAWING??!!? usually magic relies on verbal and somatic components. The idea that written components are the basis is a fascinating take too! I kinda heard about this before as well. The idea that magic is a metaphor for illustration?

I love it, but I AM biased.

oh no! She's fallen victim to the ease of tracing! She must be stopped!

(for legal purposes, this is a joke. tracing is a good way to train your hand into movements, so long as you're not passing off traced work as your own!)

oh shit.

but the mom didn't even have a side ponytail!

oh THAT'S fun.

sir, I trust you, but you are very high. Please put that child back down. do you know how to hold children?

.....................ah yes, and a new briar patch the size of a house won't raise suspicion and attract major attention...........at all..........

hang on is there another child here

SIR DO YOU HAVE A HABIT OF DOING THIS??????

SIR?????????

?????????? how did they know that so fast?!?! Mr.Quiff just got her here? Did it take over a week for them to arrive? How far did they travel?

Also, if you can't be a witch lest you KNOW THE SECRET then how do they get more witches? Do they just test people early on for like. Steady drawing hands? Or is this a bloodline thing? If ANYONE can do magic with the right knowledge, though, then why keep people separate based on lineage?

Something something, pen is mightier than the sword, something something.

This reaction is. Interesting. She was so scared of unfamiliar magic a moment ago, due to seeing what it did to her mother. Now she WANTS to see them?! What?????

hmmm............. so no magic tattoos, then....................

unless................

arrogant little boy, what is your damage.

okay, I know he's probably set up to be a rival/love interest/opposites type thing, but I legitimately cannot help but hate him a lil bit already.

Didn't have an idea what to do for the final update and I can't make serious and deep, smart things. Remembered that I had these pieces unfinished, and that one even had our old armor sets, that I wanted to leave them as a memory, and I liked this Warlock helmet till it got replaced with The Stag, which was a hard fashion-survival choice for me… in the Pit of Heresy. I don't understand how to like doing bgs and to do it good, and to make things alive

I thought the Tower will be full, but guess cause of servers not being consistent I was in the Tower all alone. They put my Warlock separately bc everyone hates him. Didn't play at all, just was looking through tabs and went to get new aspect. And does that mean that there will be no more events, even without new things? With no available old FoTL masks...

I want to add a silly video of us doing the Hefnd's dungeon from the Portal for the first time far before this update and failing (my Warlock was tortured to continue the final bossifght after a lot of losses. help)

The lifeguard armor set is hilarious, but I noticed the difference in shorts and socks between body types, and it felt a little weird and upsetting to me. Also it's cool that we can put legendary ornaments on the exotic ones, but I thought that it worked in the opposite direction too. Won't be a Stag with Nothing Manacles. That's for both Exo Hunters body types:

and did you see these Digital Devil claws

There also was a new cosmic shader that was for bright dust! (need to get a reptile one too for weird fits)