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Pet owners often joke that they can use the collected wool to make a second pet, but what about your characters? They may have all synthetic clothes, but weren't there woolen items? Where could they have come from? How do we film posthumously? (Don't Google it.) Could Sandy or Lucy, for example, in their prime, make Mike a scarf from their wool? Just imagine a completely shaved and miserable Lucy and Mike giving each other a scarf and a bow.

Veronica: Hahaha this is a funny concept but unfortunately this is delving more into worldbuilding stuff which I have ZERO interest in.. I don’t even want to entertain it because I don’t want my off-the-cuff remarks to be taken as serious Word of God lol

Anyway I like this Mike and Lucy gift of the magi shtick haha. Lucy’s got a huge tail so you’d get a lot of fur from that!

Veronica: it was on purpose because people speak like that

Veronica: Paulo hates Augustus because of how he treated Daisy in freshman year. Nothing to do with Lucy, all to do with Daisy!

The reason he served Augustus at Burger-Tron is because he was on shift and was not going to put his job at risk by lashing out. And in Witch Hunt Paulo was basically only going to do something about Augustus if he started coming onto Daisy, which he never did.

A lot of Paulo’s behaviour regarding this situation is influenced by Abbey, honestly. Paulo didn’t like how protective Abbey was and so wants to be different, he wants to trust Daisy. Paulo doesn’t want to make a scene. The last time he made a scene, High Expectations happened.

If Augustus pulled a stunt things would be very different, of course! But Augustus hasn’t given Paulo an actual reason to step in.

Thats a fun sort of commentary on perspective of men vs women being victims of sexual harrassment. And that people REALLY seem to overlook what Lucy's endured which is a common theme.

Veronica: I do wonder if me editing Paulo’s touching in the omnibus has contributed to that, like he did some serious NASTY touching in the original version. But he still.. touches Lucy a lot! Just because he caresses her face more often than her chest now doesn’t mean that’s suddenly nothing..

Thinking back to Inuyasha it really is.. jawdropping how far Miroku goes my goodness lol. I was like “oh that’s why I used to write like that” and now when I see the show I’m like.. horrified by Miroku. I don’t want people to be completely horrified by Paulo.. you’re certainly meant to have negative feelings about him when he messes with Lucy’s boundaries and says nasty things, but I rather it be.. hormonal teenage sins than predator-core shit. That’s why I toned it down in the omnibus. But I guess now people think Lucy hasn’t gone through enough to justify her behaviour retrospectively?

Veronica: Haha I admit I can’t offer any suggestions because it’s something I genuinely struggle with, myself! I don’t think I ever figured out any solution other than “well, people seem to value my style so perhaps there’s a charm to its awkwardness”, and I’ve kinda worked with that. People love the scrappiness and the blobbiness, I suppose! I should just be thankful people like my drawings enough to throw money at me! No use punching a gift horse in the mouth!

Also the more you treat your art like shit and self-deprecate the more people will fall into the same mentality about your art. Nobody likes a negative nancy. If you want people to get excited about your art you should get excited about it yourself! And see it as an opportunity to learn rather than a permanent roadblock.

If I am struggling with a pose or struggling to reach a certain goal, I just look up references! Or inspo that helps me get to what I want! I see it as less “I could never be as good as this other art” and more “oh I see how they did that/I can see what I’m getting wrong now that I have a reference in front of me, I can apply it into what I want to do.” The whole wide world is a reference! Use references at every point!

I might have drawn crossed arms 20 billion times but I always still look it up if I’m struggling with it.. the more you research and apply your research the better you’re gonna get!

me now: this.... this isn't simple at all. oh no

Good morning! Thanks for the reblog, it was unexpected and sweet. You mentioned changing the plot once because a character, like Mike in Eternal Flame, wouldn't have done it that way. Were there other times when characters disagreed with you and you had to change your plans? Or when readers revealed your plans ahead of time and you were like, "Damn, I'll have to change that!" or something like that?

Veronica: Some changes I can think of are Paulo and Daisy getting together much earlier and Abbey/Daisy breaking up twice. Abbey and Daisy were supposed to break up only once and wayyyyyy later in the comic, but while I was writing Happy Hour I was like.. Abbey has too much self-respect (and rage) for this.

But I needed Abbey and Daisy to stay together! So I made them get together again under strenuous circumstances.

I also didn’t plan for Lucy to confess her feelings for Mike so early in the comic. She was supposed to confess her feelings more around the end of the comic, isn’t that crazy? How the hell did I think to pull THAT off?