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🌲 Julie Campbell

💸 Chris Manson

🍜 Jack Devereaux

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ariadnearca replied to your photoset “Yes, Reki, well, as it happens, they have read or seen a media or two,...”

I WISH bad weather was rare enough here to be portentuous, Glasgow gets less than 200 days of not-rain per year let alone sunshine.  as for actual thunderstorms, they're more a cause for interest/excitement because ours are rare and feeble to boot... the first time I experienced a proper thunderstorm in mainland Europe I was ECSTATIC

I feel incredibly spoiled by where I live because we have such consistent sunshine and also we get something like ...20 or so thunderstorms a year? Maybe more? But we have the dramatic temperature changes it takes to MAKE a thunderstorm (and occasionally thundersnow) so there’s definitely a lot more clothes taking up the closet. 

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I love your comics and especially the use of negative space in your panels! SO GOOD

ahh thank you!!! i’m a huge sucker for the Void bc 1) i love that sensation of a heavy loaded silence and empty space that is instead filled with tension and emotion and 2) less drawing HAHAHA

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✨ I’ve finally launched a Patreon! ✨

Up until now, thanks to my 9-5 day job, I've had to save my creative energies for either producing comic pages, or producing prints that people will buy at conventions (which usually means fanart of characters from big franchises, rather than from Fault Lines or my original stories). This doesn't leave much time for the more self-indulgent fun stuff I’d like to do, like cute character interactions, or writing about my creative process and behind-the-scenes trivia, or even playing around with concepts for future stories. 

That's where this Patreon comes in! It's primarily a tip jar, for those who have enjoyed my comics/art and want to throw me a few dollars - but it's also an experiment to see if there's an appetite for bonus content.

So if you'd like to see more drawings of Kite Four hanging out together, or an explanation of what makes Azurite tick, or even just sneak previews of what's coming next, please consider subscribing!

✨ April Bonus Content ✨

$5 Tier:

Fully rendered art of Jasper, Rhodonite & Topaz in their ~fanciest~ of fancy outfits 

Blog post discussing my scrapped first idea for Fault Lines, "Gem Inquisitors" 

$3 Tier:

Weekly bonus sketches, including page previews and new character designs!   

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A work in progress for my new original comic, Wellheart.

Coming soon. 

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ariadnearca replied to your post “Designated Survivor”

This one is still so, so beautiful.

Thank you! I’ve always loved this one. 

tymp3st replied to your post “Designated Survivor”

So much feelings. Like, I had to pause several times to not cry over Michiru reminiscing over the past and every one who had gone before her. This was beautiful though, for real

Thank you so much!

thoughtfulfuri replied to your post “Designated Survivor”

I'm not going to be able to do this credit but it was so beautiful. I haven't really sat down to get caught up in another world in a while and I needed that. Felt good even if EMOTIONS!!! Good lord. And uh the ghost gala definitely evoked the scene of Doc playing at the tuned piano for me. I love this AU so much even tho you hurt me with it =P

ahhhhh thank you!

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ariadnearca replied to your post: Actually the first manga I ever read was Fruits...

I saw a misleading fanvid that implied Yuki was a woman, was immensely disappointed when it turned out this wasn’t the case, and somehow managed not to realise I was into girls for another half decade.

OH MY GOD, I got angry all over again thinking about Miraculous Ladybug, seriously, this is the stupidest fucking thing, but I will NEVER LET THIS GO. I totally thought Chat Noir was a butch girl, and I was going to watch the show in PURE DELIGHT even if it was objectively stupid as hell, BUT THEN!

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I'd love to hear your commentary on "Shatter"!

Shatter

Shatter was a commission I did for @rhiorhino based on : Where are the senshi now and how are they coping with being broken? ANd I laughed when I got it, but I knew it would probably be MaS, and I knew that it would be a really good opportunity to do stuff in the very beginning of MaS, which I hadn’t really played around with as much, i’d only done it in Pop. 

I knew from the beginning I wanted to close with Usagi, and so I sort of worked my way back from there. 

Mako was hard for me because I don’t write her very much, but I knew I wanted to bring gardening and flower imagery into it, something she’d always loved, and make it mocking, make it something that has been taken away from her, if only for the moment (Mako grows up to get married and have a bakery and twins and a huge garden she’ll be fine) and I was always really pleased with the way that worked in this

What would she even yell at them for, if she could, if her voice could carry as the scent of rose and honeysuckle? For daring to grow, and daring to bloom, and daring to be something she loved that was still alive, out of all the things she had loved, that had been the one blooming and smiling and

But flowers grow from death and decay, don’t they? That has always been true, you know that, Mako. You are a rose of perfect beauty, grown in the rich fertilizer of your loss.

I’ve thought about that a lot, how it’s the decay of other things that makes flowers grow, and how that’s applied to so much of Mako’s life, and so I was really delighted to have a chance to use that imagery. 

For Mina, I really wanted to focus on the guilt of the situation–Mina really struggles in this AU with the fallout longest of all, emotionally, and it’s a solid decade before she manages to work her way through the pain of it, and I wanted to really work with that sense of things. That, as leader, she should have been hurt. She should have suffered. She’s taken so much pride in her skill before, but now it all seems so hollow. 

One thing i OFTEN like to dig into is the idea that having been chosen to be a Senshi is not necessarily the most positive thing on earth, and I really am proud when I can go there in small symbolic ways like this:

She snorted to herself and crossed her arms across her chest, the gold band hitting against the inside of her arm and pinching tight.

I love those tiny moments, I think they tend to serve things the best. 

With Rei I got to play a lot with Seeing and seeing, and how right now she can really do neither. She’s still bandaged, and her powers are gone (I always have her and Michiru both keep tiny tiny slivers of them: Rei knows when the phone is about to ring, for example) and it was kind of a gift to Jetty to have Rei blinded in battle and continue to fight that thing like a complete badass. I think I like this spot the least, though. 

Usagi’s I really liked. I don’t ALWAYS research my fics, but for this part I went down a really bizarre hole about Japanese vending machines. I don;t know, I’m a complete weirdo, and so then I used it for the idea that it was something Usagi would memorize, and sort of assign to each of her Senshi, and I think that actually worked really well as something Usagi would know and pay attention to. 

It was my plan for a long long long time in MaS to have Michiru essentially decline to speak with Usagi for a pretty lengthy period of time. To hand in a very formal resignation, and it’s really only after Rei and Mina marry that Michiru even thinks about being a bit kinder to her, about being generous with her, but by that point Haruka is happy and they have their first daughter and so she feels far more charitable. But in the beginning, she’s just furious in her Michiru way. And she rejects Usagi, over and over. 

What I liked about playing with Usagi is this idea that she’s no longer the princess and so she no longer rules, she no longer has full reign over her power, and her healing is gone, she’s only Usagi now, and how does that work with a girl who’s used to getting her way in these matters? 

So much of Usagi’s life goes awry when it all ends: I actually have her marry Mamoru shortly after this because she wants SOMETHING good to happen, and they’re destined and they love each other, right? But Usagi suffers, and then she learns and I promise she ends up just as happy as everyone else. 

Thank you so much for sending this!