[Animated / Webcomic] Boots - Happy Queers Frolicking at the book fair.

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Chapter: 2 - Adventuring Academy Page: 20 Title: Oops!
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    • TW: White Noise Static @ 12 fps, Accidental Suicide










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    Marie Commits A Series of Errors.

    Author's Notes

    I was talking to a user about my plot plan, and it actually culminated in this scene, allowing me to cut a lot of cruft from the story to make it a tighter more eagle eyed narrative. They mentioned how real Uncle felt, and had asked if they were based on anyone I knew IRL, which led to today's author's note. Uncle is based on what I imagine a parent should be. I've never had a parent growing up in foster care (this'd make a great author's note,) but the idea of having someone human and flawed who loves you very deeply speaks greatly to me who when I was alone in my group home dealt with a lot of flawed parental figures that I'd wish were able to adopt me. Staff mostly. I kind of hope there are a lot of people like Uncle out there, and if he seems real to the world, that gives me a lot of peace lol.
     
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    • Chapter: 2 - Adventuring Academy Page: 21 Title: Inside her head
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    • The 2nd half of yesterdays update.









    Author's Notes

    A lot of the times in good story telling, you'll have moments of character growth, where the character learns something valuable about themselves, and change for the better in a satisfying resolution. I'd like to suggest that you can have the opposite, where a character is a huge irredeemable shit bag all the way through, and the only lesson they learn is how to be even shittier.
     
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    • Chapter: 2 - Adventuring Academy Page: 22 Title: Inside her head
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    • Marie sees the light

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    I love the more when it's done update schedule, especially for my health, plus it lets me pace this out better for everyone reading live, and gives me ''page breaks'' between ''pages.''
     
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    • Chapter: 2 - Adventuring Academy Page: 23 Title: Muffled
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    • Marie is also tired

    Author's Notes

    I'm so tired, though fun fact, Marie's current form is based on something I actually see regularly it's rare that I can capture the essence of one of my hallucinations, but they're not all scary. Some are just pitiful, and I'm glad I could capture that feeling to canvas.
     
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    • Chapter: 3 - No Page: 02 Title: Comeback
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    • Marie bounces back

    AUTHOR NOTES
    Hey so you may notice a complete change in tone and direction from what was previously in the comic. If not, then pat on my back for not making it noticeable. I was rushing towards a pretty shitty rock falls everyone dies ending. Spinnelope was going to be a serial killer who killed the other 4 while Marie was out and give her the core and be her dark queen.

    I've done this 2 or 3 times already, where I get scared of my story, or I have a psychotic break, or I get burnt out, and we enter a dream sequence, then rocks fall, story changes. I'm still on a sprint to the planned end and working on the new project (Can I do both at once?) But I'm going to do it right. If you're writing a story, a lot of the times it'll get to a point where it's hard and scary and I just wanted to bail so that I didn't fail.

    What's kind of funny, for me at least, is that I've unintentionally created a very accurate metaphor of what it's like for me to experience psychosis and delusions, momentarily. It's like someone pulls the trigger, and your life completely changes. Nothing makes sense, everything is melting, you're watching yourself be different, but you don't know you're being different, and then later you snap out of it just as fast and have to deal with the consequences. Now it's horifically problematic to depict a mental break like that by turning your character into a cackling villain, and I would never do that intentionally, but if Marie had all the same things happen, but thought the government was watching her to kill her family, that'd be pretty much the metaphor for what my life is like when shit gets bad.
     
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    • Chapter: 3 - No Page: 03 Title: Bounties
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    • Marie is finally famous

    Author's Notes

    50,000$ USD in the 1920s would be equivalent to about 1,000,000$ USD today, and 10,000$ USD would be equivalent about 200,000$ USD, or rounds abouts. Just to give you a rough short hand of what's going on here.
     
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    • Chapter: 3 - No Page: 04 Title: Mentor
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    • We have a new URL that is breaking embeds for a moment while the domain transfers. Mentor and I broke rss again, so the new rss feeds are comic specific /boots/rss.xml and soon to be /queen/rss.xml. I still haven't decided if I'm going to do two comics at once, it may be a bad idea, but I don't want to give up on Marie's story, so putting it aside every couple of weeks might be nice, I could also just go on hiatus for a week or two and work on Queen's story on my own so I have a big juicy story dump to drop when the new one comes out. Either way, I've completely renovated the site to work with multiple comics. The front page is now a library is a big change, and always shows the latest comic of a comic, or if it's finished the first page. It's pretty snazzy, so go check it out. Fanmail and credits are still all there, but I reworked the navbar to be a bit more wieldy, as before it was uh... Unwieldy. wieldly? whatever. It's not so chonk.
     
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    • Chapter: 3 - No - Page: 05 Title: Messy
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    • Marie is depressed.




    [-=Author Notes=-]
    Sad girl summer is officially over. I'm tired of sad women being sad and drawing sad people crying and angry. Now 'tis the time for fun and enjoyment. It's the time for Marie to be happy and have fun. I'm going to try to keep the tone light and fun for a while.
     
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    • Chapter: 3 - No Page: 06 Title: Kisses
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    • Spinnelope Explains.








    [-=Author Notes=-]
    That jokes old as hell, and if you've never heard of it, I'm really glad to be the person to introduce you to it. Now, let's talk about what I just wrote, because I can not shut up about my own writing. One of the reasons it was so important to not have humans in this comic is for scenes, or possibly just this scene, where we talk about the societal expectations of beauty, and gender. Why are people with bug eyes ugly, but skeletons aren't? That's kind of how I feel about my gender lol. Like, what the fuck makes a woman, who decides, why is that? So I created a world where the societal expectations would seem slightly absurd on their face. I'm hoping to make you feel a fraction of what I feel when trying to examine gender in any real way.

    Did I accomplish that? Fuck if I know, I'm terrified of this one to be perfectly frank with you, but you've stuck it out this far, so you're probably down with it. Unless you somehow started with this comic, which, I guess then heres the vibe check.
     
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