Lacquer & Lavender

So excited to announce and soft launch my graphic novel I’ve been working on! The character of Neuro was originally invented for a TTRPG back in 2020 and has since been reincarnated into a separate narrative that I wanted to tell for quite some time. Animation work has kept it on the back burner, but I’ve been slowly chipping away at it! I’ll soon be launching a new Patreon dedicated to the project and will keep you all updated once that’s ready! I’m so excited! 🌱🤖

The fandom:

For one the story is getting repetitive, drilling these "plot twists" into your head without them meaning anything. I get that the stakes are ridiculous now and fyodor is oh-so smart and cunning, but it gets to a point. The weight of fyodor's actions don't affect the reader or fill them with genuine dread anymore, especially with how quick each ruse is being dismantled.

I also don't understand why theyre trying to kill him even after they miraculously found out what his ability was? Whatever. Also don't get me started on the whole ueda ordeal.

There's also a lack of coherence between each transition of an event, it's very sloppy and comes off as a toddler show lol. But maybe that's not as bad as characters like verlaine and tsujimura making their very first appearances with no introduction box, while Margaret gets a second one? What's up with that.

Last nitpick has to do with the paneling. The art is fine, and harukawa's paneling skills weren't godly but they were clear and made perfect sense. Ever since asagiri took hold its been a huge mess. Too many closed panels on every page, and a difficulty with following the line of action. I dont know if he's done this to take some weight off harukawa’s shoulders, as she's mentioned wishing for good health recently, but it's doing the story a disservice.

No no, I think I am going to talk about it because it pisses me off personally

I’m a research technician and let me tell you the whole “research” scene in tm9a killed me. (Not because I think it was bad writing or done poorly. I think it absolutely served the narrative purpose of characterizing Trent, Essek, Astrid, and Eadwulf as well as giving us more plot information about the Beacon)

But like…Essek was right. You just killed a guy for nothing!! You’re not taking any notes! You have two perfectly capable research assistants right there and no one is writing anything down! Instead, they’re just clean up crew and subject transport. There are no qualitative notes being taken and no quantitative data being measured either! Do you have any demographic information for your subject? Would the relationship between a subject and a divine source influence the outcome of the experiment? Are you controlling for the way that you kill them? Does killing them with a magical weapon vs a non-magical weapon have an effect? Are you taking into account exhaustion from the researcher opening the beacon? Are you just trying to replicate the first experiment or are you going to change something to actually experiment instead of doing the DEFINITION OF INSANITY?! Are you even making sure that any of this is replicable? Where are your control trials? Or are you comparing what’s happening here to previous consecuted deaths? (Which I doubt there’s any actual research on)

“I am going to create an experiment that is so unethical” Yeah, to do so, you would have had to CREATE AN EXPERIMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

just want to make sure that I'm not inadvertently being annoying

I believe I speak for most authors when I say they’ll never be annoyed by any positive comments from their readers

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