Okay so I have to start off by telling you how much I love your art style, cause I’ve been thinking about it for a while. It feels like… like there are so many styles out there that feel like candy (which isn’t bad, I love candy) but your art feels like *meat*, like something I get to chew every time I see it. Major inspiration for where my own style is going. I love how you draw bodies and faces and the awkward and powerful ways that people stand and move. Awesome.
Now, No Homo: Fantastic, I want to know more. Context, conception, creation, whatever you wanna share I am so so curious and would love if you elaborated.
Was it really a witches curse? The OC sheet you shared seems to imply there’s something more, but maybe that’s later or earlier in his story or just a different stage of character creation.
And the tension… What is going on between them? Embarrassment, confusion, intensity… being aromantic I am always extremely excited for complex and non-standard relationships that aren’t explicitly romantic, but whatever is happening to them is certainly interesting one way out the other. It’s got the caption ‘A comic about friendship’, and maybe you have more to say?
Okay I think that’s all for now I have to get back to work but I’m gonna be thinking about this all day.
you have no idea the absolutely mad scientist cackle i bursted out reading this. this is exactly precisely the type of reaction that i look for when i post my art. im so happy that i grew enough as an artist to be able to reliable get this reaction out of people with my work. being able to capture a strange and specific and uncomfortable feeling that resonates with people and makes them obsess over it.
so, answers. fair warning there is going to be a lot of curtain pulling going on here, there is always a lot that goes into even the smallest of my projects and i could talk for hours and hours about any of them. but i fear that over explaining myself could ruin the magic or the liminality of what makes my work so compelling. with that said...
im going to get candid but this is to be expected given the content of the comic itself. this, like many of my best ideas, started as a sex fantasy i came up with while masturbating. except this one didnt go away once i was done. i kept thinking about it and obsessing over it in the ensuing days and then i realized i had an idea for a story in my hands. which is good because i had been looking for an excuse to get back to comics after a long time not working on them.
i talked in the past in other spaces about how as of late i have been obsessing with the idea of like "straight" guys exploring their sexuality, i really want to tell someday the story of the perfectly generic slightly nerdy straight dude (picture an isekai or a shonen protagonist) who one day gets a crush on another guy and has to deal with this. and i dont want the story to be about how deep down they always knew and they were actively repressing it, i want them to be completly blindsided by this. how do you react when you find out you like this new thing that you never even imagined you might ever conceibably like and you feel weird about it. i love stories about people discovering new things about themselves and having to process it.
i saw a hint of this in dorley and i want more, i want the real deal, i dont want them to go all "and then they were girls" about it.
anyway, so those where kind of the thoughts that were cooking in the back of my head as i came up with this. another motivation for it is that ive been reading a lot of erotic comics on bluesky, and notbjust erotic but like extremely "problematic" erotic art by geniuses like null and huntersmut and bedtimecreature who love to play around with non con and toxic relationships and other such fucked up material and by sheer dint of absorbing so much of it you want to eventually give it a try yourself, so that also contributed.
next question: it is a faeries curse which was just a quick and dirty justification that i came up with on the spot for the premise of this story. the character sheet is from all the way back in 2020, at the time i think the guy was going to be just some trans/femboy twitch streamer with a secret identity. all that was ditched for this story. i will very often come up with an idea for an oc and then years down the line i will cannibalize their design if i need them for a different story or if i can think of a better spin on them. such was the case here.
whats going on between them is just the inherent homoeroticism of playing videogames with your bro made explicit. fir the guy with the long hair is just as simple as monkey sees monkey does. if your best bro suddenly has a coochie are you not going to tap that? you never pass the chance for good pussy and if your buddy has it then all the better, you are already close, you already trust each other and you dont have to do the whole cumbersome ritual of going on dates and courting and whatever other hoops women need you to jump through, you can just have some casual sex between bros and its not a big deal.
as for the guy in the hat. he was not there at all but like, i imagine he never really played it with what he had between his legs because he was too ashamed of it, and he was not for experimenting at all. but then when he realizes just how good it can feel, well, it can be hard to deny yourself that, so he just let himself be carried away by the feeling. i genrally feel that all men should try having a vagina and taking it out for a ride at least once, just for the sake of expanding their horizons and also to help them chill down a bit with the whole gender thing.
i dont figure they will be super ashamed of it afterwards. is not like theyre going to be talking about it outloud, but they can recognize a good thing when they have it. theyre probably going to keep casually hooking up ocassionally until they get real girlfriends or the novelty wears off.
this is the second time i deliberatly and explicitly try writing non con material and i was a bit nervous about it. in particular i was nervous because while this is all spicy and titillating for me it was also a bit uncomfortable and made all the more unconfortable because i can imagine that this is a genuine and sickeningly plausible nightmare that a lot of trans men had. but i was not going to put warnings or anything because i didnt want to call attention from whatever tumblr algorithm catches porn so. if i made anyone uncomfortable i apologize, keep in mind if youre following my blog that i might post more stuff like this in the future although not very often.
so yeah. whew, those were a lot of thoughts! thank you thank you thank you so much for this ask, comments like this are a million times more valuable to me than any comission or money ammount. if you gave me a choice between getting paid a 100 dolllars or reading someone analizibg my work i would choose the second option without hesitation. dont ever doubt on sending me more questions or thoughts about my work!
