6/15/2025: The Third Anniversary of These Freaks, Important News, and the Future
Today, June 15th, of 2025, marks the third anniversary of the creation of this project.
If all had worked out.
Yeah, you remember that outline I was so happy to have finished back in like April of this year or something? Well, having worked a little bit on what was previously intended... it really bit me in the ass. That outline essentially had everything I wanted for this story in it, presented in an easily presented way as I wanted it when I wrote it. For other folks with less demanding schedules, and certainly for other folks who actually hire others to make the comics they write out, this would be quite nice. As a one-woman team, though, this really kicked this entire ship in its metaphorical ass. Again, I wrote nearly everything I wanted for this comic as it stood back in February for this outline. Which led me with next to nothing to actually write/draw/create about when I began work on the actual comic. If some of you reading right now remember, I made a simple pilot comic earlier in the year called War on Drugs that I later distributed to some conventions in the area to drum up a little attention to what I was planning to do-hence, why some of you are on this blog in the first place. That comic was made extremely efficiently, even by my standards. Sure, it wasn't exactly perfect, the formatting was a little weird and the characters didn't look quite right, but... 2 pages made in one day? Quite hot bazooka, if I must say so myself! On retrospect, I think the reason I was so efficient is because I was actively building on the story as I made it; every night after finishing a few pages, I'd think about what would happen next in the story, and the next day I'd write it out in a few pages and start the process again. Very nice, very enjoyable system! Fast forward to about a month ago. I had finished up my story's outline with everything I wanted for it in it, school was finally winding down for the year, and I was ready to go into production! I made a few promotional things for Tumblr, I wrote out a few early production jokes, and... then it slowed to a crawl. I was lucky if I could even write out 3 new panels for the actual comic. I started to panic. I left the Tumblr blog for a while, then left most of the internet for a while, thinking that it would boost my production. It did not. I started to really think about what I was doing then that really boosted productivity, and I tried to apply it to what I was doing now. Still nothing more. Then, only a few days ago in fact, it hit me: I had already written out the comic in the form of the outline. All of the story, all of the jokes, it was there in the outline. I didn't need to think about what I was going to draw. I just had to draw out what I had already wrote in the outline. This is why the actual production was not on the same level as what I had when I made War on Drugs; I couldn't think on any new ideas for the story to keep it going, it was already set in stone, and putting in new ideas would collapse the entire rigid structure and the project would fail, like many other ideas of mine have done before. This, I have come to believe, is a symptom of what is known as "ambition creep." I thought what I wrote for the outline kicked ass! I thought that if I actually produced this comic, this other worldly comic, it would shake up the entire industry! Many would copy my motives, wishing for my success; I would just tell them that they should do it their own way. I fantasized about collecting all I wrote for this, regardless of its quality, into a hardback coffee table book and selling it for big money. I really thought I had something great on my hands. I thought this was on the same level as the greatest works of pop culture offered. Then, when I couldn't deliver on what I had planned, I began to worry intensely. This is ass! I'm insulting what could've been the greatest comic ever! If I were to ever publish this swizzle, I'd be in the ranks of the lowest rated ever. This is ass, so I must be ass.... and so on and so forth. Only until now did I realize that this wasn't going to be good. I had already kicked myself in the ass, there was no need to continue kicking myself.
I decided to put down my plans for Anchor Point Grey, as they didn't seem to be working anymore.
Sorry if you were really hoping to see more comics about furries doing drugs, but the production system had become too rigid; it did not allow the flexibility it grew on, so it must be gone. Now, don't panic. I still have all of the files tuckered away on a USB drive and some folders for the real papers, so don't go to the Lost Media Wiki and put me next to the several lost snuff tape pages-if you want to see my files, you could simply just ask nicely. And no, I'm not giving up entirely on what I have planned. I just want to radically change it because of how infuriating it had become to work on. I don't really want to say what I have planned now, since it'd be a little nice if it were distanced from this and also since a majority of the new plans are still quite up in the air, but don't read this as the end of my creative works! It's only just getting started! As I said in the beginning of this text, change is necessary for growth. The change I have planned will not only let myself grow, but it will also let my creativity and appreciation for the entire artistic community as a whole grow as well! In the meanwhile, just sit back and keep a steady eye on what I have next, because I'd love it if you could see it! See you again soon!
riley vernonica scout, 6/15/2026
(ok yes the date is wrong on the first few parts HAHAHAHAHAHA yeah i know sadly i can;t change it and you'll have to deal with it)
