#felid post

I've always enjoyed making my OCs through a lense of "if this were a story I were publishing this is how I'd write it", I have a lot more fun when I have that sort of direction to work with as opposed to having OCs that purely live in my brain and exist just for me to play with by myself

for a long time I had resigned myself to never actually making anything real with them as I don't enjoy writing prose and just had no idea what else I could realistically do, but in 2021 I started following two cat comics two of my twitter mutuals had just started posting: meandering & the exiled!

these comics made me realize that webcomics are just A Thing Anyone Can Do, but in my mind "Anyone" was more like "Anyone* (*only people who already draw A LOT and know they can keep up with regularly making pages)", so I still didn't try making a comic because I drew pretty infrequently and rarely made finished works, I assumed that any comic I tried making would get maybe 5 pages done a year at the pace I drew at

in 2024 I started reading what lurks beneath, which I enjoyed so much that it caused me to pick up and read a ton of other cat comics too (and sometimes different xenofic but I've always been a very cat focused guy...)

following all these different comic authors meant I got to see a lot of different takes on the question "do you have any advice for starting a comic", and the advice I kept seeing often was "just start drawing it, stop waiting for the perfect moment to start it, you'll figure out things as you go"

so I did exactly that and just kind of. started drawing pages for IFTC. like one day I just snapped and became "A guy that makes a comic", and it was honestly extremely weird because I always thought that was supposed to be a more long drawn out planned process but no it just happened one day

our totals are:

chapter 1: 89 smolderpaws (including the comic cover) chapter 2: 74 smolderpaws chapter 3: 124 smolderpaws chapter 4: 80 smolderpaws (including unposted pages) gift minicomic: 19 smolderpaws