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announcement!

Witching Hour is now available in PDF form on my Patreon for $15. Published in 2023 by Quindrie Press, it details the journey of teenager Esio into a strange, magical land.

For anyone still interested in these, this is an update.

Lineart and values have been done but, no joke, I have NO IDEA where to go from here. Color has broken me. I’ve been stumped for so long, leaving them and coming back.

But actually, it is not true: Intellectual property laws created the idea of original fiction. Fanfiction is the one that has always been there the whole time.

It seems possible that the idea of originality is stunting or damaging to storytelling. If there is a compelling idea or a cool character, we have to make it seem different, like we came up with it ourselves. But this means characters, worlds, and concepts are effectively siloed in their creator's work, and people who seek to write a story have to pretend to assemble these things from scratch, concealing and de-emphasizing the ways that they are derivative.

One result of this is that many "original fictions" are extremely shallow and have little iconicity or enduring capability. Characters who are "everymen" with few distinctive characteristics or abilities and not much depth or complexity proliferate. Instead of building upon what is already built, writers have to re-invent their own version of that which is iconic and compelling, and it rarely if ever is actually iconic or compelling, because someone else already "took" so many iconic or compelling ideas, and yours has to be "different from" those ones.

But, I think, building an iconic and truly captivating character, world, or idea is not easily done by a single individual.

I thought that fanfiction was a collection of works, each derived from a central work, the "canon."

Now I realize that fanfictions are just as much, if not more, defined by their relationship to each other as they are by their relationship to canon. This creates a dynamic, multi-branched, interconnecting web of creative works where storytellers are constantly expanding and iterating upon the strongest, most enduring elements of a collectively created story.

I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed…

I love Jacob Tierney!!

Description

The reason Disney's Robin Hood is a fox, and the Sheriff is a fat wolf is because it was originally going to be a Reynard the Fox adaptation

They changed their minds after realizing Reynard is a terrible role model. Like, lies to, cheats, and eats the other characters. Regularly is presumed dead, hears everyone talk smack about him at his funeral, then plans revenge. Sometimes on his wife for remarrying so fast.

Disney used Ken Anderson's designs for Robin Hood, instead.

Reynard the fox is a series of fables that parody Medieval Court.

In Wasteland

He disguises himself as Robin Hood to con the characters of Wasteland. Peg Leg Pete sends you to go get and arrest him. You have the option to either accept a bribe from Reynard, or turn him in.

Haven't done one of these in a while