#iothera

[rincewitch]

I loved Iothera! Any plans for continuing it?

first of all, thank you for enjoying my work!

i guess the answer to do i have any plans for continuing it is. It's Complicated? iothera's story and characters are very special to me, and it feels wrong to just abandon them. at the same time, i was very, very burned out on comics as a medium, and also the bottom kind of fell out of the whole scene around webcomics-as-i-knew-them (e.g., the webtoonification of internet comics). so i've been thinking about other means of continuing the story, but i'm not really sure what that would look like

this is further complicated by. um. current events in the world of online content creation? like, if even the likes of itch.io are being forced to crack down by right-wing payment processors who have finagled their way into being the internet hays code/comics code authority/etc etc, things are getting dire. the internet is becoming pretty rapidly a more and more hostile environment for the kind of adult content that's an integral part of iothera. so sometimes i wonder if there's even room for something like that anywhere? although i don't know how much of that is just anxiety and despair and how much is a rational appraisal of the situation. so if you, dear readers of my tumblr, have any idea for the ideal venue for a story that's like half science fantasy worldbuilding and half trans girls fucking nasty, i'd love to hear it

so i guess like. i don't know. but i still post about the various art and writing i do at iothera.tumblr.com (and also on this tumblr, although there's much more nonsense reblogged in between), so if there's any movement on iothera proper or some related project, it'll be there

[rincewitch]

yes, i know iothera (and therefore the byzLP mirror) is down right now-- i am trying to rectify the situation. even if i'm not updating iothera i do want to keep it online in a readable format

[rincewitch]

I've loved reading and rereading Iothera for years. Is it officially done, or do you think you'll return to it?

i really want to do something with iothera, even if i feel like i've been terminally burnt out on comics specifically for years now

i'll maybe have more clarity on this after i finally finish byzLP so i don't have to hold two sprawling and complicated projects in my head simultaneously lol

[rincewitch]

I revisited Iothera recently and found that I'm still in love with it years later. Thank you for making it!! Do you have any plans to continue working on it?

i want to either return to it or at least revisit those ideas and characters in some form or other (as i've mentioned on here a few times, i have very complicated feelings about comics as a medium-- and even more complicated feelings about the current state of webcomics but those also apply to basically every form of telling stories on the internet in a way and in a place where people will read them)

but at the same time it's not really realistic to think about that too much until i'm done with byzLP, since right now that's consuming most of my 'telling stories with words and pictures' energy so taking on a second project on that scale is ill-advised

but. some day. some day i want to do something.

[rincewitch]

testing out the community flagging with something a little less spicy than the thing i posted before

(it's a panel from one of the iothera twine games, but it's also just art i'm really happy with as a standalone piece)

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[rincewitch]

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and finally two alternate future versions (from the bad future and the good future, respectively) of hogwarts AU RP takako, because RPs are fractal, and compound upon themselves