I have googled my life away. I have read bible verses. I have studied the ohilosophical meaning behind the numbers. I have become a modern Gallup trying to ask people to help me figure this out. What the FUCK does it mean.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here it’s like I’m someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could walk around I swear I’ll leave.
Won’t take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
I’m not generally comfortable digging up old drafts for several reasons ((which surprisingly don’t include how poor the characterizations were or how awful the narrative was))— I don’t mind talking about the changes and referring to things that used to be, but digging through deleted scenes themselves is always hit & miss. It took me so long to be happy with the story that I try not to upset that mental peace, y’know? But I’m halfway through a second bottle of wine and this’ll distract me from throwing my external harddrive out the bedroom window.
Imagine the obligatory disclaimers/warnings: skewed characterizations, terrible editing, non-canon interactions, etc etc etc. These scenes are from 5~6 years ago, so they’re a bit rough. o___O
Dude I had to stop reading halfway through the third dialogue. I just. They just. It was wrong wrong wrong all wrong. Sort of like seeing your own doppleganger and being like THE FUCK THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE and then you whip out your Highlander blade. Good job @korakos for the revisions. I love to hate that bastard Kevin and it was was weird, W E I R D, to see him.. with feelings.
#how many metamorphoses did these boys go through before they were done
However many can fit into ~17 years of rewrites :D Three comics and then a metric ton of stories. Andrew & Neil have shifted the most over the years, but Kevin did a bit of recent sliding. Taking Riko out of his bed–and, by extension, Andrew and Neil–did wonders for his characterization. This is the first time I’ve ever been happy with Kevin. He never seemed quite right before.
1 - I very often zone out when people are talking to me and have no idea what they are saying until they get mad at me. Also quite often when someone asks me a question, they get mad at me for not answering and I argue that I did answer but it turns out I only answered in my mind :|
2 - I twitch a lot in my sleep and I sometimes wake myself up
3 - I have a strong dislike for the movie Dirty Dancing - I always have
1 - I very often zone out when people are talking to me and have no idea what they are saying until they get mad at me. Also quite often when someone asks me a question, they get mad at me for not answering and I argue that I did answer but it turns out I only answered in my mind :|
2 - I twitch a lot in my sleep and I sometimes wake myself up
3 - I have a strong dislike for the movie Dirty Dancing - I always have
Does andrew end up talking to neil more often? (Since he got off the drugs he became so quiet) Do they like.. converse? Whether it's them together in private or out together running errands or on a holiday?
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Oh, yes, they’ll get better at it. Andrew’s chattiness level is–for now–directly dependent on how trustworthy his audience is. Next year he’ll be practically mute in front of the new kids, content to be the silent scary executioner in the corner, but he’ll worry less what the current line-up thinks of what he has to say. He’ll always be more talkative when it’s just Neil. And Neil, bless his heart, will eventually learn to talk about things that aren’t Exy.
((One day he’ll even learn how to talk to the cats.))
This is why I did not junk my old computer when I got the new one: I just turned on my external drive ((which has all of my documents on it–my new computer literally has nothing but games and the internet right now, whoops)), and my computer said “Hey, you know you need to format this before you use it, right?”
and the external hd is empty
eyyyyyyyyy.
((Trying to remember if the old computer has my music & digital pictures on it or if I shifted them off when the computer started acting up. Not like I needed to keep those 4000 pictures of Japan forever, right?))
so the answer is no, the digital pictures were not stored anywhere else
whoops.
Good thing I brought two bottles of wine home with me.
Well shit.
But not all hope is lost!!!
I had the same problem once: when I plugged in my external harddrive it told me it needed to be formatted. But there are programs that save previously deleted data, and they are able to save data in such cases as well! I bought a new external harddrive (because you need a place to copy all that data to) and the program (which was only available in combination with a computer or harddrive, but I’m sure there are programs you can buy by themselves), and it took quite long to find all the data and copy it, but it worked! (And somehow I still haven’t formatted my original external harddrive to this day, oops!)
And of course there’s the option to let a professional do that, but that’s really expensive compared to a program.
You should give it a try!
Thanks for the tip! I’ll grab @wasdplz as soon as she gets home from work tonight and see if she can figure it out. She’s got an external, too, and she understands the hardware bits of computers a lot better than I do, so hopefully she can dig up the right resources to work some magic.
I could live without the music, and I could even live without most of my documents, but 11 years’ worth of photos are a bit too much to swallow, ha! There were five countries and four states in that time period, including four years in San Francisco and two in Japan. If those are gone for good I’mma need a third bottle on hand. :D
On the bright side, I have hella space available on the harddrive now.
if you may, can you give us a small idea of an A/K/N scene draft you had when they were supposed to be a thing?
A
I’m not generally comfortable digging up old drafts for several reasons ((which surprisingly don’t include how poor the characterizations were or how awful the narrative was))— I don’t mind talking about the changes and referring to things that used to be, but digging through deleted scenes themselves is always hit & miss. It took me so long to be happy with the story that I try not to upset that mental peace, y’know? But I’m halfway through a second bottle of wine and this’ll distract me from throwing my external harddrive out the bedroom window.
Imagine the obligatory disclaimers/warnings: skewed characterizations, terrible editing, non-canon interactions, etc etc etc. These scenes are from 5~6 years ago, so they’re a bit rough. o___O
This is why I did not junk my old computer when I got the new one: I just turned on my external drive ((which has all of my documents on it–my new computer literally has nothing but games and the internet right now, whoops)), and my computer said “Hey, you know you need to format this before you use it, right?”
and the external hd is empty
eyyyyyyyyy.
((Trying to remember if the old computer has my music & digital pictures on it or if I shifted them off when the computer started acting up. Not like I needed to keep those 4000 pictures of Japan forever, right?))
so the answer is no, the digital pictures were not stored anywhere else
whoops.
Good thing I brought two bottles of wine home with me.
Well shit.
But not all hope is lost!!!
I had the same problem once: when I plugged in my external harddrive it told me it needed to be formatted. But there are programs that save previously deleted data, and they are able to save data in such cases as well! I bought a new external harddrive (because you need a place to copy all that data to) and the program (which was only available in combination with a computer or harddrive, but I’m sure there are programs you can buy by themselves), and it took quite long to find all the data and copy it, but it worked! (And somehow I still haven’t formatted my original external harddrive to this day, oops!)
And of course there’s the option to let a professional do that, but that’s really expensive compared to a program.
You should give it a try!
Thanks for the tip! I’ll grab @wasdplz as soon as she gets home from work tonight and see if she can figure it out. She’s got an external, too, and she understands the hardware bits of computers a lot better than I do, so hopefully she can dig up the right resources to work some magic.
I could live without the music, and I could even live without most of my documents, but 11 years’ worth of photos are a bit too much to swallow, ha! There were five countries and four states in that time period, including four years in San Francisco and two in Japan. If those are gone for good I’mma need a third bottle on hand. :D
On the bright side, I have hella space available on the harddrive now.
This is why I did not junk my old computer when I got the new one: I just turned on my external drive ((which has all of my documents on it–my new computer literally has nothing but games and the internet right now, whoops)), and my computer said “Hey, you know you need to format this before you use it, right?”
and the external hd is empty
eyyyyyyyyy.
((Trying to remember if the old computer has my music & digital pictures on it or if I shifted them off when the computer started acting up. Not like I needed to keep those 4000 pictures of Japan forever, right?))
so the answer is no, the digital pictures were not stored anywhere else
whoops.
Good thing I brought two bottles of wine home with me.
This is why I did not junk my old computer when I got the new one: I just turned on my external drive ((which has all of my documents on it–my new computer literally has nothing but games and the internet right now, whoops)), and my computer said “Hey, you know you need to format this before you use it, right?”
and the external hd is empty
eyyyyyyyyy.
((Trying to remember if the old computer has my music & digital pictures on it or if I shifted them off when the computer started acting up. Not like I needed to keep those 4000 pictures of Japan forever, right?))
I wanted to do a comic about a high school sports team, but using a real sport required extensive research & playing by the established rules. I was like “eff all that work, I just wanna draw dudes kissing” so I made up a sport in a fit of “I DO WHAT I WANT”.
