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Blatant Thievery of two pieces. But I like how they meshed.

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You just can’t trust American tourists. 

Website

Tapas

Patreon (still on pause this month!)

Ko-Fi!

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Poor Dan. Sticks his neck out a little and he gets a gun pressed into it.

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That girl with the metal arm is now a horse with a metal leg

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You know, this is really timely for my pony cyberpunk game set in Bath’s Semantic Error CYOA. 

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Some of these are actually funny if you saw them in context. 

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Let’s play

WELCOME TO THE HIATUS!   While Bath is away, the ponies will play.   So let's play us some CyberPonyPunk!  I'm a shadowrun DM looking for a group of players to take another stab an online role playing over rolld20.net  (or alternatives, if you know any).  We'd be using shadowrun 4th ed rules with some minor homebrew tweaking to get it more or less shoe-horned into Bath's Semantic Error setting. Only unicorns have a magic stat, EarthTribe gets a +2 BOD bonus, Pegasi can FLY.  Orcs are griffons, trolls are minotaurs. Bug spirits are changelings. That list will probably keep growing. Pre-made characters if you want them. Don't be a rules lawyer and I'll try to be fair. Let's keep it fun.

On the REAL off chance anyone reads this here and wants to play, contact me however you want. and I’ll get you what you need for the discord server, roll20 game, character, and rules. 

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So.... There’s a guy making a CYOA story where the crowd decides what the main character does. 

Bath is making Semantic Error https://www.anonpone.com/semanticerror

One of the characters hair struck me as looking like a turkey.    ....and I guess I’ve just never let the joke die. So I routinely make edits to his story  and insert... turkeys. I’m the turkey guy.   yeah. 

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Update on Hagwarders, Update on Me, with complete transparency. Lets talk.

Hey guys, long time no see. It feels that way, like I’ve been in limbo. I think its time to explain exactly whats been going on and what i plan to do. I can’t apologize enough for being inactive this past year, and even longer.

Shortly after OTill and I decided to start the Hagwarders Comic, i went into a job as part-time, that was manageable. Pretty quickly, that grew to almost full time. Its a pretty demeaning job and the pay is terrible. Over the past 2 years I’ve been balancing my art and my job while failing at it. Not providing content to you guys is the real failure here. I’d go to work, come home, eat, draw a bit, repeat. Most days i wouldn’t even draw with being so miserable. I hit rock bottom a few days ago and realized i’d been that way for a long time. Can’t let that happen again.

It may not look like it, but we haven’t given up on Hagwarders and i haven’t given up on my Patreons. I just haven’t had the energy or time to dedicate myself to it. That was a blunder on my part, i underestimated how much work it would be.

So here’s the situation.

I’m going to quit my job. 

Don’t worry, the job/pay sucks anyway and i have some savings that i can fall back on and i don’t have too many bills to pay. My Patreon helps towards the rent, i can manage ok. Ill cut back a bit, that’s all. I set myself a goal of normal working hours each day dedicated to the comic. Its been 9 months since the first chapter. 9 months. That is unacceptable and i’m so sorry for that.. I want to go for a chapter a month, i think that’s entirely doable.

I’m going to work on this comic and blog everyday.

OTill and I started Hagwarders out of passion. We feel like we have a story that’s worth telling. I want to do that justice and work full time on it, even if it fails. I don’t want to go on in this lifestyle of not fully committing. Worse case scenario, my savings run out and i have to get another shitty part time job. Nothing can be worse as what i’m doing now.

OTill and I are going to update regularly and answer questions through this blog and the Hagwarders Blog

We want to start updating with information and even short stories relating to Hagwarders. 

Thats about it. I realize after this amount of time has passed, its like a lifetime on the internet, but i hope you still have interest in the story of Hagwarders.  

 I’d like to hear from you guys. 

-Dis

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I know how you feel. I think most people do. We go to work, earn a paycheck, get home exhausted, burned out, social batteries drained, or otherwise ready to finally relax.    So we watch some TV, some netflix, a movie, browse Reddit, MLP, EQD, webcomic... even tumblr of all places. Maybe we tell ourselves it’s just for a bit. Then to... chores, dinner, obligations... but after that, this time I swear it’s going to happen. I’m going to get to the thing. Going to make something.   But It’s easier to consume than to create and at the end of the day we just want something easy. Work does that. If people wanted to do it, they probably wouldn’t pay.    And I don’t know where other people get all that energy from. That get up and go.  Maybe they’re all meth-heads and cocaine addicts. Maybe they’re just more disciplined. Maybe their creative fires just burn hotter than mine. 

Props to you for getting up and going. Quitting the job has to be scary. That’s tempting, who hasn’t thought about quitting their job and following their dreams.  But that’s just not viable for some of us. Me? Personally my job’s too sweet of a gig to give it up. Suck my life out, but it pays well. And I’ve got responsibilities. I got out of patreon a while ago, but I think I might get back into it. From me to you. I’m buying a little piece of inspiration. And that’s honestly what drew me here in the first place. I wanted to ride those coat-tails of inspiration and ride that wave to....  just being productive with my own shit. 

Stick to it. Keep it up. I’m depending on you to be my shining beacon in this fog of apathy and despair. Light that fucker up. 

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can you destroy my INNER demons please ;-;

I’m afraid the only one who can slay your inner demons is you alone. Take it from me, as long as you stay positive and strong and you will overcome them! I believe in you! Rip and tear those negative thoughts until your mind is clear and you are happy! You have my support.

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Some things are actually worth reblogging

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https://falloutequestriaillustrated.tumblr.com/   Is making FO:E doodles. They look great.

Yes, I realize the irony of coloring a picture titled “Grey”.   

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Looks like someone tried to get off the ride.

http://askahobopony.tumblr.com/

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http://southernbelleaj.com/  

I’m certainly getting faster at all this shenanigans. I remember painting some of his other stuff and the open-line style drove me nuts. 

A helper line layer, adjusting the magic wand threshold, accepting that some things need to be done by hand, letting the paint fill do the rest, and a background layer to catch the rest-est.  Definitely faster. 

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MOOOORE!!

EDIT: Color corrections

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Ask Raider and Kid is updating again!

http://ask-bulletholes-and-slug.tumblr.com/

Uhhh...   and that was a while ago.... so...

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I like coloring Kalemon’s work.   

Still no idea what I’m doing with backgrounds.

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CORRECTIONS!

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Sketch from http://builtforpower.tumblr.com/ needed some color.

Yeah, it only took like a month.  This is the current rate of production when you’ve got life tackling you like a mofo. 

Still not sure about line cleaup or how to deal with fuzzy lines. 

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Pom dressed up as a little Lambo.

Check out the campaign by the Mane6 to fund their game:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/them-s-fightin-herds#/

I dunno guys, I took it kind of hard when the Hasbro corporate lawyers brought the hammer down on a fan-made project. I was half-way through building an arcade machine with plans to paint it up.   But I guess the lawyers and managers didn’t quite get that lesson on sharing and kindness. I’d like to think that the little guys can stand up and make something on their own and get enough traffic and eyeballs to make it viable without the need of a giant soulless corporate media giant. But I don’t know.   There’s only a couple days left, and I’m not sure they’re going to make it.   

Early on I was kinda hoping for that linux build.  Now I’m just hoping the dream doesn’t die again.