#raikoh14

[mycorrhizastar]

Hi there! I was wondering if you could tell me your barrissoka discord or watevre is called? I'm interested in join.

Sup!

I’m keeping the Contrasts discord closed until I start updating the next chapter of Contrasts, which will be late April or early May.

I’m keeping it small and casual for now because I can’t handle any new personalities in there while I’m finishing up this chapter.

We’ll see you there in a few weeks!

[lledra-fanstuffs]

What type of story or storytelling do you like the most?

That is a fantastic question! Ah, I guess I’d have to say that I enjoy personal stories best? I adore a lot of independent movies that rely on a small cast. It doesn’t need to be big and flashy to be entertaining to me. I just like seeing weird little moments of peoples’ lives? “The Station Agent” with Peter Dinklage was a movie I highly enjoyed. I don’t want to say nothing happens it it because things do, but it’s a movie that very much embodies what I love most when I’m wanting to find something to watch for pure relaxation.

I suppose that answers why I also like “Slice of Life” so much. Character moments and interactions are totally my jam.

Which is, as an aside, something I wish I could get more of with Star Wars? And it’s also why my comic is very much how it is. I live for the interpersonal moments and inner struggles.

As for stories, in a more broad sense, I’m very much a lover of someone leaving their home, whether in a large way or even a small one like going to a familiar place in town and getting into an adventure or stumbling into it. I hope I answered your questions, and thank you for them! If you wanted me to expand on anything feel free to message me again~

[ekjohnston]

What type of story or storytelling do you like the most?

um....Compelling ones?

I’m not being facetious (okay: I am being facetious, but I’m also being honest, and also I’m pretty pleased that I got to type “facetious” three times, because it’s one of English’s more ridiculous words). I really do love stories in a variety of styles: spoken, read, TV, plays, movies, songs, the bizarrely fragmented way my 4yo nephew recounts events. People have been telling and re-telling stories for longer than almost anything else, and I’m super pleased that I get to keep experiencing them (and telling my own!).

[mylordshesacactus]

Hello there, I got a question that I've been wondering. Do you take fic requests?

I do not, I don’t even have the time to write all the fics I already want to get down!

You’re more than welcome to drop ideas, an image/premise you’ve got in your head, etc into my inbox and maybe I’ll do something with it, but like, I’m gonna be totally honest here, it will probably not come to anything? It’s nothing personal, I just don’t generally get inspired on the scale of an entire fic from an unsolicited prompt. I don’t mind them though! If it completely doesn’t interest me, the worst that’s gonna happen is I just won’t respond to it. 

Most likely scenario is I just post the ask with something like “oh man that’d be cool”, maybe add on to it a bit, and invite my followers to take it and run if it interests them, so like. I’m not opposed to sharing ideas but I don’t generally speaking write fics from prompts/requests.

That being said, the Disney Barrissoka AU project exists, so you never know!

[lledra-fanstuffs]

raikoh14 replied to your post “It’s a little shocking for me to think about, but I’ve created 256...”

how in the world did you managed that? I tried to make a continuos series myself, but I just couldn't do it so I gave up on it

It is truly a labor of love. I know there have been times (more than a few) when I have cried in frustration while working on this comic. Sometimes it’ll be heading into midnight, and I have gotten next to nothing done the entire day due to reasons, and I’ll be the most miserable ball of a person. BUT, the enjoyment I’ve ultimately gotten out of creating it and being able to tell the story I’ve wanted to tell has kept me motivated through the whole thing.

Even if I fail at doing it now, just due to having difficulties with it, I did have a buffer when I started. I knew if I wanted to do this that with how my health is, that I would need a massive buffer. For lots of people, that only helps prevent people from ever really starting, but for me, I needed it. And had I not had 60 completed pages going into this (all of chapter 1 completed, and then some of chapter 2), I doubt I would have been able to find my stride the way I have.

Really, the key to this, for me personally, is that I had to both realistically look at what I thought I could do in a week (page wise), and feel that the story I wanted to tell was something I already fairly knew in completion. Not that I’ve written it down or anything, it’s all in my head. And it’s changed a lot as the comic has continued, but you get a feel for it, and for what’s right.

I also didn’t tell anyone about it until I was farther along. And even then, it was only a single person. It helped keep the pressure off while I was doing my first chapters. It kept it fun and not an obligation or a labor, and I think that’s another reason I ultimately found success.

I’ve had failed comics before. So undertaking this was a big thing for me. Especially since my health at that time was a lot less stable than what it is now. But I’m happy I did it. Even if it demands probably a good 5 and a half whole days out of my week to do 2 pages. lol It’s exciting and fun to do, and I know there will be a bittersweet void in my life once it’s done.

[rainbowfeatherreplies]

Reaching the dig, Ardeth says, “Here we are my friends. Be careful, there are many ancient artifacts.” “Artifacts like sleeping robots from lost civilizations...?” Feather wonders...

“.... no, definitely nothing like that,” the llama states.

Art by @kartoonkorner

[rainbowfeatherreplies]

“UNLEASHING FIREPOWER!”

Art by @raikoh14

[rainbowfeatherreplies]

Old friends and new!

“I met Midnight and Lavender just months after moving to Ponyville... Quartz Horn moved in a year and a half later, and it was most of another year before we became friends! But now we’re all besties

Art by FauxSquared and @raikoh14 respectively