For what reason are you telling your story?

Oh my goodness this is fun but also reminds me the reason I started to write this monster:

Lets see I had started spring semester of college and I was only in one class, my favorite professors creative writing class. At the time, I was going through a lot of things because I wanted to be someone else. I didnt want to be me because in my head, the me at the time wasnt up to standards of what I wanted if that makes sense.

So I started to change. I started to dress better, dye my hair, open myself up to more friendships. The complete opposite of how I use to be. However, during that time, the past where I use to hurt people started to follow me. Stalk me constantly. It never left me and dragged my guilt threw the mud.

Whenever I succeeded in going out with people and having a good time some how some way, an old ex friend would find me and tear me down or something I did would be brought up and I tried to play it off but the more I started to try and stray away from what I truly was, the more my past would haunt me. Belittle me. Tell me that I was nothing more than trash.

So I would sit down and listen to "Price of Freedom" by Dday One. I started to think that, I wasn't the only one who was running away from their past. At some point, everyone tries to hide who they really were at one point because they appeared to be an ugly person or they did some terrible things. And one day, I was in tears from something, I had asked myself "What is the price of freedom?" What does it take for us, who made mistakes in the past, to be free from that.

And then the story was born XD

It took a while for me to get to the point of making it a comic, but I had been tossing around the ideas that would eventually become my comic, Alansbeeville1, for years.

Since I was little I liked to think of story ideas for things like movies, tv shows, comics and the like. Stuff I was interested in. My comic started as a bunch of little ideas that eventually morphed into it's current form after an extended period of time. I didn't think of doing it as a comic at first. I didn't even know if anything would come of it. The ideas could have stayed in my head and never materialize into anything as far as I knew.

As I got older I started having an existential crisis, not knowing what to do with myself. That's when I finally decided to sit down and give it a go, knowing I at least tried to do something with my life. I may still have problems with my life, but I don't plan to give up the comic anytime soon.

The reason “Bloo & I” was created is to inspire and encourage people to be positive in their daily lives. Being able to share our thoughts with other people through art is one of the greatest things in life.

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well.. I had some stories in my head that I made drafts of but I ended up evolving them multiple times until I finally made my actual comic. I also like seeing my art improve as I upload more pages and I mean I have a LOT of ideas for it later on that I want others to see

At the time we conceived of Midwinter, I was getting tired of a lot of the common tropes I would see in manga, specifically shonen. I liked them a lot for being character driven, but wanted more nuance and relationship building. So, I set out to do a story about an already-powerful protag THAT WASN'T A GOSH-DANG TEENAGER where battles were more tactical and relationships were explored (and romance wasn't two characters dancing around each other until they got together during endgame).

So I guess I'm doing it for myself and for anyone who wants the kind of story I did. It turned out kind of niche and expansive--it's going to take me at least another 10 years--but I'm excited to be doing it.

Was sketching out various characters when I was 15-16 who all were in the same narrative of being cursed with a specific magic and then found one that seemed the most interesting. I wanted to explore his backstory more and expand. I really wanted to tell a new story, one that would actually be interesting to read as my other stories have for the most part been too long and all over the place. I also wanted to very subtly explore whats it like exploring an identity and society in the modern day with a fantasy spin, a kind've homage/remake to an older comic I made a decade ago that took place in the same universe.

I watched anime and fantasy movies and wondered if I could come up with entertaining stories.

That's about it. I just want to make stories and have people enjoy them.

I started my series to improve my sequential art but it was also for myself in that there are moments or words that I've encountered which I thought would be nice to share with others

Oh dear, with multiple comics, I'll have to explain my impetuous decisions.

[COMPLETE ONESHOT] First comic I posted was a university creative writing class final project. I didn't think too much about the idea and remembered an idea that I read on Tumblr a long time ago about "NOPE, the anime". I drew a slightly more detailed version of that and used it as a final project. Although I only drew 9 pages for the original (due to project criteria), I liked the premise enough to want to expand and draw bonus stories for the side characers.

[COMPLETE ONESHOT] The second comic I posted was ALSO a university final project, where in my Modern Japanese Lit class, we had an option of drawing a manga instead of writing an essay. I based this story off two stories we had to read in class. One was a story about a woman in her thirties with creepy sexual fantasies including BDSM and child abuse, while the other story was about a narrator who discovered a girl living alone wearing a rabbit costume.

The third comic I posted was inspired by when I found out my childhood IRL friend also had a Tapastic comic: a SOL series that pretty much was a diary of the little events in her life. I somewhat reconnected with her a bit through this, and also started my own so that we could keep up with each other's life events despite having moved far away from each other (She moved to a neighbouring city for school, and then for work). This became my casual, unscheduled diary comic.

[CH1 COMPLETE] The fourth comic I posted was my own personal wish. I was itching to draw a purely plotless, BL comic since I read so many of them and it's pretty much 80% of what I read. I also lamented having so many characters that I created for old DeviantartRP groups that didn't get enough development, so I took a few that had similar settings and threw them together into one comic for them to develop. I also figured out while writing this one, that a porn-without-plot still needs a basic plot so they have a reason to start doing the sexy.

The sixth (The fifth is just an empty placeholder comic) was somewhat unplanned. I felt like drawing a furry comic. Not just what I usually see around FurAffinity (which were mostly all NSFW), but I wanted to draw a SFW, cute furry comic that was just... cute. I also wanted to update my furry characters that I created back in university, and remade them with the concept of Phantom Thief and Police Detective, since I was REALLY into Magic Kaito 1412 at the time. Readers read it and thought it was based on the Persona 5 hype, but really, it was based on Magic Kaito.

[COMPLETE ONESHOT] My latest series is one more "final project" during my grad program. We had to present our self-directed research project/thesis presentation in a creative way, so I decided to do what I'm used to doing: making a comic. This one was to highlight burnout, stress, social/cooperation of colleagues, etc. of the teaching career. Some research did not make it into the comic, such as "burnout and depression symptoms tend to crossover, and some critics believe that there is a correlation between the two" and that "burnt out teachers tend to lead classrooms with higher rates of student dropouts, student depression, and student suicide." (My conclusion is that burnt out teachers end up teaching in a way that causes burnt out students, like a top-down reaction)

Stress relief, and also to practice drawing. And also becaus I always wanted to do a webcomic lol.

Let's see if I can state this in as few a words as possible XD

The characters in Hybridor have been in development for YEARS, as fun little roleplay characters I'd use for rping with friends online. They use to be Sonic FC's (mostly). But then one day I touched bases with an old dear friend of mine, and over the course of a year and some months, we Rp'ed a story that I fell in love with. I loved it so much that I wanted to make it a comic. But to make it have some sort of sense (and to keep it from being a typical FC fest), the characters needed a visual redesign and some world-building groundwork made. So thus I began making the first Era of Hybridor (Era II is the actual story).

Me and my old friend (who's now my boyfriend and happily have been so for a while) are now co-making this project. We both love it and feel it's cool enough that others will enjoy reading it as much as we do. It might not be the most original of concepts at face-value, but I feel there's enough twists and rarely touched upon concepts in it that by the end of it, people will feel fulfilled, thought-provoked, and glad to have experienced our little slice of fantasy.

TL:DR Came for the fun rping, stayed for the passion.

Actually in the process of re-writing mine, but I'll share mine too:

It was a few years ago when I got back into it again and just thought 'Hey, why not make it about fighting games?' There's a lot of potential in it with e-sports on the rise and loads of topics to explore.

The process of writing so far has been a massive voyage of self-improvement. The challenges posed in creating a comic like plot, character, scheduling, marketing, research etc. can all be applied to daily life too.

I one day hope to be a part of (or even start!) the rise of fighting-game comics/manga.

A long time ago, like some others I've seen here, I made Sonic FC's that became my intro-characters for roleplaying online. I had a fun time and met new friends while using these characters to just make stories. But they we're always using Sonic material.

Fast forward a few years, and my fandom for the Sonic has dwindled. But my FC's had evolved to being somewhat their own thing, outside of their designs. I had created some new characters for fun on other projects, but collectively, I just had a bunch of characters with loose backgrounds that were rooted in more popular franchises.

One day, I reconnected with an old talented rper, and we made Hybridor, a fun rp that started as a 'what if' one shot but then quickly bloomed into a huge story that I fell in love with. By the end of it, I knew I wanted to share it's story visually, but to make it it's best, I knew I had to redesign my characters and do some tweets. And now here we are. Hybridor now has characters that are rooted in nothing but my own work, a world that is all my own, and has a story and characters that I love so much that I wanna share it with the world.

TL:DR It's a rp story I made with someone else that I loved so much, that I wanted to turn it into a comic.

Um... People have deep, sentimental, and thoughtful reasons here but for me... I don't know? I just write it? I just want to know what people think about it.

This actually kind of my experiment story, its concept has been standing the longest but kept being rewritten and reformatted that only some of the old things stay. Karana means endeavor in ancient language, so maybe it is it.

Garden Variety started purely as a way to escape my retail job. At the time, I was following a certain artist who made his living doing purely NSFW stuff, and I thought I could do that as well. I couldn't. The artwork was bad, the writing was bad, my heart wasn't in it, and I felt like a total sellout. Plus I thought back to all the other things that inspired me over the years, and I just wanted to make something ANYONE could enjoy. The characters grew, I got attached to them, and I eventually wanted to share their stories with anyone who would listen. That brings us to the present, and things are just getting better and better.

I wanted to get the ideas festering in my head on paper, and hope that my words can make at least one person's heart.