Re: Balthazar Loves Ceres
Jul. 11th, 2021 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI also want to say that it's wild to try to construct an elaborate epic backstory for characters who are, in the current chapter, mainly interested in making jokes about oral sex.
This is also why I'm going to have to learn how to draw these characters myself instead of commissioning comics. I would never, not in a million years, ask anyone to draw porn, and it turns out that I'm also extremely hesitant to ask someone to draw two characters standing next to each other and making jokes about porn.
I have fantasies about writing a comic script, hiring someone to draw it, and then Kickstarting the project like a proper graphic novel, but I'm deeply embarrassed about going up to someone I've never met in real life and being like, "Hey, I love your art. How do you feel about drinking and dick jokes?"
I blame YA fiction tbh. Every time I try to dip a toe into, like, ask blogs about publishing genre fiction, I always nope right the fuck away. Even though what I'm writing isn't remotely YA, the YA fiction purity police somehow manage to get their sticky fingers into everything, and that whole scene is like evangelical Protestant Christianity on steroids.
I just want to write about tired working professionals in their thirties finding common ground in awful dad jokes and horrible dirty humor, is that really so wrong.
This is also why I'm going to have to learn how to draw these characters myself instead of commissioning comics. I would never, not in a million years, ask anyone to draw porn, and it turns out that I'm also extremely hesitant to ask someone to draw two characters standing next to each other and making jokes about porn.
I have fantasies about writing a comic script, hiring someone to draw it, and then Kickstarting the project like a proper graphic novel, but I'm deeply embarrassed about going up to someone I've never met in real life and being like, "Hey, I love your art. How do you feel about drinking and dick jokes?"
I blame YA fiction tbh. Every time I try to dip a toe into, like, ask blogs about publishing genre fiction, I always nope right the fuck away. Even though what I'm writing isn't remotely YA, the YA fiction purity police somehow manage to get their sticky fingers into everything, and that whole scene is like evangelical Protestant Christianity on steroids.
I just want to write about tired working professionals in their thirties finding common ground in awful dad jokes and horrible dirty humor, is that really so wrong.
