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I think I referenced it briefly in either Debaser or WoM? Either way I do have tentative plans to write a future oneshot where they sort of roleplay Hitcher, I think they would fucking love it.

It's gay as hell, like I don't know how to explain how much this movie feels like flirting and foreplay. Cat and mouse game in cars with a serial killer shot better than it has any right to be. A man strokes another mans bloody face with the butt of a shotgun. Knives are used to caress cheeks.

we spend the series seeing sidney through a very billy and stu skewed lens (duh) so im wondering if you have any author insight into sidney, her relationship with tatum, the night it went down, etc... if so i would love to hear!! i hope you are having a great day!

Hey thank you so much! Honestly one of the big challenges in this series is writing any of the women (including Nancy). Having to write them through Billy or Stu means passing them through a misogyny filter but I also try really hard not to actually write their characters in a misogynistic way? Idk I hope it's working, Billy and Stu's views of these women are not meant to come across as trustworthy.

Billy and Sidney as mirrors

Anyways yeah I've thought a lot about Sid, in my mind her and Billy are sort of mirrors. They're both real gay and so closeted they may not even be aware that gay is an option for them. They're both secretly yearning for their blond best friends, both missing their moms (in very different ways obviously). They're both the slightly quieter friend, both a little more serious but fully capable of being silly when they let loose, both a little artistically inclined (Sid goes to theatre school and Billy's personality is basically film major).

Similar to my perception of Billy, I think Sid's gender expression in high school is also a little more conforming than her preference. They're both trying to be what they think they're supposed to, both in terms of sexuality and gender presentation.

For Sid it's subtle, in the first movie she wears baby blues, a little red floral shirt, light, neutral makeup and long hair.

She has the stereotypical good girl wardrobe, and we see her struggling with that identity throughout the movie, its sort of a central theme. She's afraid she's going to turn out like her mom, she literally says so before her and Billy have sex.

To contrast, in scream 2 she cuts her hair short, starts wearing red lipstick and eyeliner. Her wardrobe shifts towards darker colours and neutral tones, she even gets herself a leather jacket.

It's still femme but its a little edgier, it feels more like Sid, and her style stays closer to that for the rest of the franchise. Billy does a similar transformation.

Sid and Tatum

In terms of her relationship with Tatum I imagine they became friends in middle school or junior high. Tatum's always been the more extroverted and I think Sid has looked up to her for that. Sid is also socially capable but when she was younger I think she definitely envied how outgoing Tatum was, probably got upset and confused when Tatum started dating first. She was worried that Tatum would leave her behind for whatever boyfriend she had at the time but if anything Tatum prioritizes her over boyfriends.

Tatum is the only person who Sid feels totally understood by, totally comfortable with. Tatum was her first kiss because Sid got scared about not knowing how to kiss when she first started dating Billy and Tatum volunteered to help her practice because that's just what girls do for each other right? It's all Sid can think about the first time she kisses Billy but she chalks it up to Tatum being more experienced than either her or Billy.

I think Sid imagined the rest of her life being with Tatum, even when she thought they were both straight. Like they'd both get their husbands but they'd buy houses right next to each other and see each other everyday. Basically she always knew Tatum was the love of her life, even before she even knew she was gay.

The night of the massacre

I don't even know where to start with this. She starts the night trying to be brave, to put the past behind her and stop being haunted by her mom. That's why she has sex with Billy, it's barely about him. And then she thinks she sees him get murdered right in front of her eyes, and once the panic of the chase wanes a little the guilt sets in. She feels horrible for suspecting him before, feels the complex loss of losing someone you 1) have been dating for years and 2) just had sex with for the first time.

And then of course he reveals himself. She runs the gauntlet of emotions- shock, fear, betrayal. She feels stupid for having talked herself out of distrusting him, for having slept with him, for staying with him at all. And then him and Stu start monologuing about their plan and everything turns into rage. It reignites the pain of losing her mom and that becomes rage too. It unlocks a version of her that she hasn't seen before, the version of her that survives over and over. The version of her that taunts the killer right back.

She isn't afraid in the end of the movie she's livid and she has every right to be. It sucked to kill her off at the end of Debaser I wont lie. The movie is as good as it is because she wins in the end, I was just writing a different kind of story. She has every right to her rage and she has every right to fuck those twinks up bigstyle.

In the Debaser version she also of course figures out that Billy and Stu are fucking. I think its not actually that much of a shock when she thinks about it, the kind of thing that seems obvious in retrospect. I think that realization pisses her off even more because she would have been chill, supportive even. She would have kept Billy's secret, probably would have stayed with him as a beard. She would have hyped him up and been there to talk to about Stu.

But nah that little motherfucker just had to get stabby about it.

Hey yall, I’m pretty sad to have to make this post but I need to face the facts that trying make art on a regular schedule for patreon is not good for my health. At this point I cant draw without significant pain, even when If wearing my braces, and whenever I do draw my wrists dislocate way more after. My physiotherapist has told me point blank that I will cause permanent damage to my hands if I keep going this way, so I’ve come to the decision that I need to shut down my patreon.

I’m incredibly grateful for the support my subscribers given me there, you all literally helped me to feed myself and my partner last year when I didn’t have a job and I will never be able to thank you enough for that. I've always wanted to be able to share my art and partly support myself with it, so even if it has to end now it means so very much to me that I got to do it at all, and you folks made that happen. I have some hope that I’ll be able to reopen the page someday when I’m healthier, but I can’t guarantee that will be possible.

For any paying subscribers I’ve had billing paused this month as I didn’t want to charge you when I couldn’t post, and billing will remain paused until June 7th, which will be the last day my patreon will be up. I want to give yall enough time to get the link to the drop box where I’ve hosted the exclusive works posted there. Most of those works will remain exclusive to you, so I’d like you to keep having access to those if that’s something you want. I would still really like to complete the second part of the last comic I posted as well, so when I'm (hopefully) well enough to do so I will post it there so you’ll still be able to see it.

Oh hey dude thats so exciting!

Id first want to say there's nothing wrong with short chapters. To me it's most important that a chapter is as long as it needs to be to tell the story it contains. I think especially earlier on in a story when you haven't built up as much of the plot/world yet, short chapters can work better. My earlier chapters in Debaser are much shorter than later ones or the ones I'm writing for WoM.

Otherwise in terms of figuring out when a chapter ends I find it helpful to have a mini-arc in mind, one that is just for the chapter. Basically an emotional change/event or something like that that needs to happen by the end of the chapter, and then the chapter is as long as it needs to be to get there. I usually end the chapter after that emotional change/event, usually with a little bit of falling action to illustrate the outcome.

Im not sure how clear that is so I'm going to give a specific example-

In chapter 5 of Debaser, the end goal was to have Billy and Stu actually get off in the same room for the first time, while still not taking it as far as kissing. It represented a major barrier shift for Billy, and he needed to be in the right state of mind to let that happen. With that as a starting point I fill in the rest of the chapter, with the intention of getting Billy to that state.

We start at Sid's family barbecue because I wanted to create some contrast and also to illustrate the direction their relationship has taken since the last scene I wrote with them together. Then they go to the party and Billy gets jealous of Tatum, then he gets high, lowering his inhibitions enough to try something with Sidney.

He doesn't find it revolting but he also doesn't really want to keep doing it, so he's even more pissed off and emotionally vulnerable when he witnesses Stu demonstrating actual attraction to a woman. That prompts him to storm off, which allows me as the writer to put an emotional, slightly intoxicated Billy Loomis in a locked bathroom with Stu, and that's the set up for my end goal for the chapter.

After they have their cutting/dry humping moment I give them their falling action. In this chapter we see Billy fumble to regain his dignity, do a little after care, make excuses to get them out of the party that involve him caring for Stu, and then actually sleeping in the same bed as him. Essentially, we see that he's also letting Stu get closer in other ways that aren't sexual.

In my opinion that falling action doesn't need to be all that long, but I think it works well to wrap things up.

The other option is if you want to do a cliff hanger- in that case I usually have a big event, a little falling action, and then a short scene that sets up the next big event, serving as the cliffhanger.