I’ve read the cutest fic ever by @toedenandbackagain and decided to draw a comic based on it!
Please, read it:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/19840567
The Wear The Mask zine’s shipped, so I can finally post the comic I did for it!!
This was a bit stressful to do, but I’m really glad for the chance to challenge myself. This is the first time I’ve ever colored a comic properly, which coupled with the three different art styles for the three characters made balancing the whole thing something else entirely. I’m honestly really proud of this comic!!
“Ghosts aren’t real. Ghosts are just… an alternate reading of the information! You, we, me as I am, standing right here with these appendages and this hair color and this jacket I chose today - we aren’t equipped with the appropriate translator. The– apps to read the file format of the bodies out there. Our brain runs the input information through, and ghosts and visions and mismatched imageries come out the other end. I don’t know anything about how smartphones work.”
“So you– you have the same brain? Human one? And not– I don’t know, elder god… goop… matter?”
“Yes! and it is marvelous. I look at Fate and it’s just golden strings trailing from one stop to another! It is bea-utiful. Can you believe it! I look at things and find them beautiful! I am never letting go of this brain.”
IT’S HERE’S IT’S FINALLY HERE so so sorry about the big delay but THE TPOH TOPATOCO SHOP IS OPEN so now you can go buy the things! That were made! With Make That Thing!
Mr. Gaiman, do you have any advice to spare for a 21 year old who is absolutely terrified of screwing up her twenties so irreversibly that she won't amount to much of anything? I keep reading that your twenties are "the formative period," and that so much of our lives end up defined by the choices we made in that span, and I feel like I'm already royally fucking it up.
That’s why the twenties are formative. You do things, fuck up, deal with the consequences. That’s what forms you. It’s also how you learn and how you grow and how you change. You aren’t meant to go through your twenties (or indeed through any of your life) with it all figured out. Get out there, do stuff, choose the wrong things, fuck up, fix what you can, don’t hurt people if you can avoid it, be kind, and fuck up better and more interestingly next time.