Control is an illusion

29 - she/her - bisexual - argentina

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haaaapppy iron lung youtube day! here's a page as a gift. also another mini comic for how they got here \/

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PROLOGUE DONE. for more details on whats happening next in this comic go down into the read more

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close ups (+ notes) \/

EXTRA NOTES:

sooo prologue is over! im gonna take a break for a bit so i can catch up on the work ive been putting to the wayside. not abandoning this, certainly not, but if i post an update within the next week you should yell at me

from now on the comic is gonna be a mix of bigger arcs like this prologue and more doodles/slice of life bits. just random fun interactions i think of

i do in fact have a timeline semi planned out for the plot of this comic. whenever i lose interest in this (which will likely take a while) ill post the timeline so people know what the story plan was. i always hate when a fan comic or fanfic ends abruptly and i dont know what was gonna happen

big thank you to everyone who's sent me asks, i just figured out how to open asks and so far everyone has been very kind and very cool. i appreciate them all a lot, but i havent responded to anyone because it scares me. just know im really really thankful for all the support and ive read every one of them <3

soooo Teegarden's Star C is a real planet. It's another "planet named after the star but with a letter next to it". The star it orbits (teegarden's star) is a cooler star. which makes it more red. which makes the planet also red. which was a wonderful coincidence because i picked teegarden's star because of it's placement in the path back to Erid from Tau Ceti (based on a kinda shitty map i found of the phm journey, which may be wrong??). WHY exactly the Hail Mary is in this system at all is to be answered in the story

also apology to anyone who hasn't seen phm or iron lung, that last page must be confusing as hell. anyway it'll only get more movie-lore based so good luck to anyone who hasn't seen/read those stories

should i post this on ao3?? i have an account, but i havent posted anything on there ever. an ask mentioned it might be nice to have the comic compiled into one spot like that. but yeah ive never posted anything on there

UPDATE: AO3 link is here

thank you all again, the support's been amazing and i hope you all enjoy what i have planned <3

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yall are about to understand the weird amount of research i did for this dumb comic. anyway i hope the pacing doesnt feel too abrupt, im trying to finish out the prologue in the next few pages

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ok i got carried away, new page up

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yeah i cant let bad stuff happen to rocky i dont have the heart

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oof, sorry rocky. anyway i think rocky forgot what he was supposed to be doing

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this one was REAL hard to do closeups of

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i think i should put a warning in general for the rest of this comic: im a BIIGGG fan of body horror. this definitely doesnt mean anything for the next pages

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thank god i didnt have to copy paste that tree background again. anyway, not a very eventful page but an important one none the less

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ok i really need to slow down on comic making, i have responsibilities n shit. anyway, another one

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so fun fact i redrew these next few pages like 5 times because i couldnt decide where to take the story. anyway after a day of scratching down ideas in my notes app i now have a plan

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i think there's been a misunderstanding

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(also i should mention to not confuse people, i did change simon's outfit to be more like his movie-one. i just didn't like drawing the one i put him in. i hadn't thought too far ahead when making that first comic so now im kinda retcon-ing the "lore" to fit my new plan, as vaguely described below \/)

ive got a bit more of a plan now so i dooonnttt think ill need to retcon anything else?? also fun to realize im not stuck in my previous past mistakes because this is literally a fan comic and i can do what i want

close ups (+ the full prayer since people kept asking) \/

the prayer (which i should note, i made the fuck up in about 2 minutes):

"Our Father, blood in the roots, hallowed be thy name, thy forest grow, thy bring us home, in stars as we art in soil. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we feed those who trespass against us, and lead us not into your darkness, but deliver us from starvation"

you can note the specific emphasis on food, which comes from the fact that i think food is heavily important in post-apocalypse space and also food as a metaphor for love and community is my jam (pun intended)

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im getting way too invested in this comic. anyway here's the mini comic from before this scene \/

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buncha close ups down here \/

and the pre comic

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kinda continuation of my previous art. anyway i think grace and rocky watched a bit of WWE before this

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Haven’t watched either movie yet btw

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i would fuck him [remembers im talking about a real person] um [remembers its normal to be attracted to people] i would fuck him

[apeiron33]

Another one

[kirdoodl]

Uh oh... Someone doesn't remember...

Yeah yeah the Hail Mary is just a magnet for amnesia WHATEVER I just wanted to hit Simon a little too hard on the head, who can blame me?

(Don't worry Simon, you will remember the faces of those you've murdered before you remember your name, it's not that important!)