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pluralthey · 2 days

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if Jessie drew a comic strip in her notebook and then snapped, what would happen?

i've briefly thought about what jessie could do with art powers like the writing powers, but, to be honest, i think nothing would happen... i mean, if she gave herself art powers, then yes, it would become real, probably in a way similar to her commandments. but, by default, it would do nothing, not even the dialogue.

#not art #ask #asks

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pluralthey · 12 days

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it's idletry's birthday today :)

#idletry #idletry strips #art #sequential

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pluralthey · 2 months

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page 5 of a NofNA emulation comic... the letters on the previous pages hurt my hand, so i had to take a break.

page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4

#idletry #art #sequential

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pluralthey · 2 months

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would you ever upload the comic you did for the tabula idem anthology?

nah, i really don't like it, i don't think i brought my best to the comic and i wasn't skilled enough to build a good story in the specified amount of pages

#ask #asks #not art #i have a habit of running my mouth at length and it shows in my stories--

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pluralthey · 2 months

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how would a character explain what it feels like to know they're being "snapped" to do something by jessie? (for example, shiloh getting jessie's soda.) would it feel like an involuntary physical movement, or would they perceive it more as their own choice, etc.? i really adore your work!

thank you. they feel like it's their own choice. i think the best example is a big old spoiler involving her parents:

emily alludes to it in this strip, and she is correct -- the snap will alter the character's values, memories, and personality to whatever degree is necessary to make them believably comply with the snap.

jessie doesn't need to write her mother apologizing or come up with a reason that she'd apologize; evelyn's character does that on her own. however, if the snap is egregious enough, contradictory enough to their character, it just psychologically obliterates the old them, and jessie has to write the character's new personality instead, which act 3 addresses more...

another example is when she snaps shiloh to get the can for her, i think their thought process would be something like "alright, alright, i've teased her enough" or "fine, if she really wants the can that badly" etc.

usually, "i have to listen to her or she will harm me" is sufficient enough rationalization to make the character act on the snap without further alterations. in the above two examples, the characters are close enough to her to believe that she won't seriously harm them, and they are both resolute enough to believe standing their ground is worth the consequences.

although, there is one instance where it's totally involuntary for the humor of it:

#idletry spoilers #ask #asks #not art

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pluralthey · 2 months

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a bunch of snarling jessies from various points in time... i can't capture the energy that i did with the first sketch pages, before mawkish died. the worst ones were drawn With a lot of references at hand, lol.

the large drawing with the snapping hand is based on one scene:

but the rest are just random, which makes it more difficult for me to draw, since i have no context...

#idletry #art #compilation #idletry spoilers #too much anxiety about will she look like legend now if i use a guidance circle for the head and so on #in fairness the ones with references i also drew with hand pain

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pluralthey · 2 months

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If Jessie says that a previous wish never happened or travelled back in time so the wish did not happen would that function the same as if the wish was never made at all? Like if Jessie kills someone and brings them back would she have to write them forever, or could she say that they never died and avoid that?

she can go back in time and avoid the consequences, which she does multiple times in the story, but if she said "they never died" i want to guess that she would have to write them anyway because the "canon" that's still in motion from the previous god is essentially halted entirely. the only way to set it in motion again would be for her to push it herself. it's one of those "intricacies" about the power that i'm still making a decision on in my head.

#not art #ask #asks

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pluralthey · 2 months

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page 4 of a NofNA style emulation. fight scene part is finally over, though it wasn't much of a fight. more of an assault

page 1, page 2, page 3

#idletry #sequential #art #high contrast

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pluralthey · 2 months

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page 3 of a NofNA style emulation... page 1, page 2

#idletry #sequential #art #high contrast

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pluralthey · 2 months

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second page of another nofna style emulation comic. tumblr is not going to like the fact that i didn't make enough straight line borders to chop it up into smaller png's... page 1

#sequential #idletry #don't worry it gets explained later--#art

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pluralthey · 2 months

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drew another legend and pegging comic (even though it's only two panels) because. because. worse than the last one because, frankly, i do not draw foliage as well as Zachary. I think he enjoys drawing it very much, and i do not

#art #idletry

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pluralthey · 2 months

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Legend's factures... not all of them, but some of them

#art #idletry

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pluralthey · 2 months

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another comic emulating the style of NofNA, which will feature Legend and Pegging meeting. page 1 of 8.

#art #sequential #idletry #i have a feeling that the C letter doesn't have a dot in the middle option which i'm pretty sure is supposed to represent putting your #tongue a specific way in your mouth which you should be able to do with a C mouth shape if you can do it with a < mouth shape #but i could not find an instance of that in the reference pages i used for the alphabet

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pluralthey · 3 months

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Did yall delete your most recent comic?

don't think so. if you meant the grey one with shiloh and their friend, it was a reblog of an old comic, but i only reblog art to my main blog, so i deleted it. it's still there further back

#ask #asks #not art #if you mean the one with snowglobe guy it's definitely still there

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pluralthey · 3 months

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when Jessie’s upset with Shiloh and leaves their apartment does she just burst a Jessie-shaped hole in the wall?

she flies head-first, so it would just be a circular hole the size of jessie at her widest point. also, she uses the ceiling because it will cause shiloh's upstairs neighbors to also be pissed off at them and it's harder to fix

#not art #ask #asks

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pluralthey · 3 months

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Do you have any tips/did you use any specific references for drawing Felix's crutches?

no specific real life reference, but they do have a literal, drawn reference. i looked at a decent amount of crutches and followed the general shape. you can compare the drawn shape to some real crutches -- these are closed cuff forearm crutches. due to the general utility of these devices, they are going to have similar proportions.

#felix #ask #asks #designing quincy's chair has been a headache though... in no small part due to the fact that she has a Huge Fucking Tail that needs support

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pluralthey · 3 months

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God's place is in suffering.

I wanted to draw out a comic with Jessie in Act 3 of Idletry, which I'm struggling to script currently. Her behavior and personality are substantially different in the last act compared to the majority of the comic. You can compare it to the other snowglobe monologue comic...

#art #sequential #long post #gore #blood #et cetera #idletry #idletry strips

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