#lumanae

[forecast0ctopus]

omg... i might be going crazy but... is your new handle a paranatural reference...

i assumed fooligan wasn't a paranatural reference but but forecast octopus is REALLY specific. i swear to god if it is i am going to combust. you specifically will have an unfathomable amount of overlap with my own interests. skilled artist who knows about "wii sports is a good game. it's 5 good games" will actually kill me dead (in the best way possible)

IT TOTALLY IS!! you have no idea how psyched i am that someone recognized it !!! paranatural has been my favorite comic since like 2012 haha :D ive been using forecastoctopus (among other pnat handles as well) on other socials throughout the years but its never been available on tumblr 😔 and fooligancity is a pnat reference as well!! the “city” part was just me tho lmao

i used to do a ton of pnat art back in 2014 when i was in highschool and ive been meaning to get back into it…so maybe someday ill return with some cool pnat art 👀 heres some of my stuff from back then though its so crusty dhfkg

[artistfingers]

do you read paranatural? your sense of humor reminds me of it a lot (IN A VERY VERY GOOD WAY, I LOVE PNAT), and i figured i'd reccomend it if you hadn't. adore all your work; hope you're having a lovely day :)

YESS YES YES YES I ADORE PARANATURAL i am totally honored by this comparison

allow me to get on my little soap box for a moment and talk about the comics that directly inspire mine because this is something i honestly think about a lot

Paranatural by Zack Morrison

the humor!! the timing, the punchlines. the COLORS. it doesn't get higher quality than this. it really really doesn't (source)

Sakana by Mad Rupert

I seriously adore Sakana in a major way Holy Shit. i own all 3 volumes and a ton of pins and stickers, if that conveys how much. but in particular for making comics, I often think about Mad's How To Sakana tips (x and x in particular) - panel variation and dynamic speech bubbles are two big takeaways for me here. also, making one-color backgrounds so dynamic??!! wizardry (source)

anything ever made ever by pseudonymjones (IG | twitter)

pseu's comics make me wanna go apeshit in the best way. the composition!!! such expressive characters!!! good god i could quite honestly stare at her comics for a year straight (source)

Welcome to Hell by Erica Wester | welcometohellfilm

finally, this isn't a comic, but but an animated short! its little punchlines throughout and the movement of the characters are things i look at, as i try to emulate character movement in a more static medium.

it's impossible for me to not at least mention W2H, since it was insanely huge for me back in the day. i feel like you only have to look at my art style to see that now haHAH. but, yeah, it was a big jumpstart for me drawing comics and i feel like my current comics are a still-evolving version of those 2013 pages.

allrrirghty well there's a lot more media i could go on and on about (and maybe I will one of these days?) but i'll call it here for now because i think i've spent more than one real-world hour compiling this post already, oops

[rogueofrageedits]

can you do panel 7 of paranatural chapter 7 page 4, specifically Ed :}

[ID: a transparent image of baby Ed from Paranatural. End ID]

babie...

[nooshka-arts]

A10 FMAB ling???

<3 <3 <3

[maryluis]

Is there any chance you'll ever put the 2020 calendar pdf up for sale? (・o・) I love all the pictures so much but my copy is a bit wrinkled, unfortunately, and personally I'd be more than willing to buy a digital version! (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

Hi lumanae! I’m not going to sell the pdf but I put many drawings of my calendar on redbubble! :) if you want to give it a look~ 💘💘💘 ---> maryluis.redbubble.com

[ladylynse]

Thanks, you two! I appreciate the input. I might just warn people before I start to move most of them so they can unsubscribe. (I remembering seeing sapphireswimming’s apology on here when they were moving over a bunch of work from elsewhere, here and FFN, which incidentally is another thing I need to do. Oops.) I’ve backdated stuff, but like you said, I think it just pushes it back in the archive, not necessarily doesn’t send out an alert for it.

I am vehemently against the giant wall of fandoms from the multi-fandom drabble collection--my reaction is entirely scroll faster because I haven’t tried out that userscript to hide them yet--but I hadn’t noticed the ones where each drabble is posted as a separate story within a collection. I could see that being terribly difficult to sort through if you’re looking for a specific one you liked and have no idea where to start. 

[kikaiz]

Hey man! Hope things are going alright for you. I know you were goin through a hell of a lot of stuff a bit ago and i do sincerely hope things have gotten a bit better. Admittedly i do forget the details but i do remember being legitimately horrified at the amount and tier of things you were dealing with. You deserve times that are pleasant and I do hope you're a bit closer to that nowadays, Current Events be damned. All the best!! ( ◜‿◝ )♡

things are ok.. on my end. manageable. my friend is going thru a very rough year so it’s not without tears and im very very worried about her. 

its also kinda hard to remember what life was like before 2016. i miss talking a lot online and i miss drawing stuff for myself. i don’t remember how to i think. 

oh and i twisted both my ankles back in september. left’s ok now but my right still hurts a lot, i think its the achilles tendon so that sucks but at least i can walk. 

im in a bad spot atm typing this, but most times are alrighty and im fine. lots of tidying or gaming. finally got a 5 star island in animal crossing after 975 hours lol. its not there yet but i put a lot of work in im happy with.

thanks for checking in. it means a lot. even the lil emoticon made me really happy and the night a lil better. ♡

[alzheimersparrotroute]

Steve did not die. He just didn't want to go bald on national children's television

yeah i think there was a bit of a rumor floating around that he died. im glad to see he’s well and alive and killing it