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I was reading about the Dewey Decimal System, and other library categorization criteria, last night… and I decided to come up with a semi-serious parody code system for organizing comics. The code has two parts: "Genre/Trope" and "Evil/Angst"- which is my indicator for grimdark / edgelord stuff… an important metric to know for modern comic readers, in my opinion. :P

Genre/Tropes are given a two-character letter code. "Moral Fable" (AA), "Wonder Tale" (AB), and "Medieval Fantasy" (BB)… and so on.

"LitRPG/Isekai," "Magical Girl," "Superhero," "Slice of Life," "Romance," etc… will also have codes I haven't decided on.

However, a book is not only organized by what genre/tropes (and I do mean they could have multiple) but a single digit 0-9 on how close they follow the genre cannon. 0 is "genre-defining." 9 is a "barely this at all, really, but I guess kind of matters."

So, lets say "The Hobbit" - a book I've described on the cusp of classic Medieval High Fantasy, almost starting the genre as it transitions from fairy tale. I'd give that a "BB1AB4" code. Lord of the Rings might be "BB0".

(Lower numbered codes go before higher numbered codes.)

Evil/Angst is the next part of the code, which defines the point on a grid with two axis.

"Evil" is how much bad, horrible, macabre, dark, etc…. stuff happens in the fiction. If it happens at all, if it's shown or mentioned or implied at all… that increases the Evil axis position from 0 to 9.

"Angst" is how the reader is meant to feel about the the evil in the story. Are we supposed to also feel bad about the horrible things- or are the horrible things a joke, or only meant to get us riled up so the heroes can stop it? 0 is "feel-good and/or comical" and 9 is "miserable lecture at you."

These are represented as (E,A). So, (0,0) is like… Care Bears. (6,2) would be around the ATLA level. (8,0) is Happy Tree Friends or Rainbow Factory.

If I assign codes to "Magical Girl" (idk… MG) and "Romance" (idk… RR) we can complete codes to Sailor Moon and Madoka Magica.

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Another illustration for work- for an upcoming big event themed on monster collection games.

Work asked me to illustrate a character from the war game, Quar.

Of all the war game characters I've drawn for work, Quar is the one I am most qualified to draw.

Last July, I made "THE BEES" as a "Tarot Booster Card."

Are you letting the little things become a swarm? Can you harvest the honey?

I really like the idea of Tarot Booster Cards… but they're kind of meaningless without the Tarot Starter Deck.

...so, I'm going to try to make at least the Major Arcana- we'll see if I can and go from there.

I want to use some classic Rider-Waite imagery, because that's what I imagined with THE BEES, but simply re-drawing it sounds boring as hell… so who knows how weird it'll end up being.

WIP of "THE FOOL"

One wants to collect every design I make for projects to do later- even though I have too many projects to ever really do.

The other wants to sell every design I make to possibly make a little money- even though I rarely sell adopts.

"Nothing bad ever happens to The Kindness Critters™"

I'm in a TTRPG based of a mock 80's toyline cartoon show (y'know how it is.)

I wanted to design the toy line-- originally I was thinking of a pillow-pet like look, but my character has a hand-puppet and I decided it would be really funny if she was a hand-puppet with a puppet. (Designs not final!)

The "animation" design for my character in the campaign, Cleversocks the Fox (and Bokbok the Sock, of course!!)

(I decided to make their cheeks heart-shaped!)