W-what the... did Hanna! just update twice in twenty-four hours WHAT IS THIS. Look, I'm not complaining, far from it, but... a girl could get used to this, you know.
In other news!
1. Check out
this Tessa Stone interview by
Monique Jones.
2.
Nice Guys Finish Last: a battered!Lamont artwork. (I never knew buying that Cobra Starship CD would pay off so handsomely in Hanna!terms!)
3. I love
We Make It Look So Easy.
4. AAAAND... wait wait HANG A SECOND:
The post
here says she's been working on
During REM (now renamed to Instead Of Going Up) and she'll post some of the work on dA/wordpress!
... torn between shrieking YES! and being very cautiously enthusiastic, because if you'd asked me to pick any one of her other works I was most excited about (she has a really interesting
back catalogue, you should check it out) I'd have picked During REM (... largely for the Very Obvious Reasons, and also because I think the character concepts were really, really fascinating and always felt a bit sad that nothing more (I thought) was going to be done with them).
BUT. I don't get excited about things which I don't think are going to happen (in these respects and with fandom, head over heart every time), and I'm not the kind of girl who likes getting her hopes up about something which has an over-90% probability of not happening, so it's easier for me to simply not think that any of her previous works were going to be picked up again.
But! I can't wait.
It's mentioned in the
interview, too:
-Any other comic ideas that you plan on working on?
I have been working on another project with my sister. I’m pretty excited for it, and it takes a lot of self control to not jump straight into that one too. It has one of my favorite characters to write for, on top of it all! It has a dark theme to it, but I’m fairly sure that everything I write/draw will have that going on. I can’t help it! I’m completely fascinated with dark subjects.
Unlike Hanna though, it’s in a more fantasy world where space age technology and magic are more established. Floating colonies and spaceships, hooray! That means it’s a lot harder for me, but I’ve always loved that kind of stuff. It’s basically about a really stuffy, alcoholic alchemy professor creating something amazing that everybody loves until it’s misused and ends up killing a few innocent people.
He becomes the scapegoat, and the elixir he made is banned and all recipes of it are destroyed. The only person who knows how to do make it anymore is him, which basically brings up a bunch of shady people wanting to get their hands on his mind.
Sounds like
Macsen. The name actually makes me think of
narugami 'cause of her OC. Also Macsen is clearly proof that looking like that is the fastest way to being the series' whipping bitch.
... in my highly spurious defence,
TVTropes ruined my language.
... also I totally wanted to pair
Sawyer up with
Lamar. With
THIS kind of backstory HOW COULD I NOT:
Lamar likes to laugh things off, even when things aren't really funny. If he stubs his toe on a chair he'll laugh hysterically. It's how he copes. He is very much a people person and takes solace in company and hates being alone. He would rather share an apartment with someone who gets on his nerves than to have an empty bedroom.
Currently, he's rooming with Sawyer. They're pretty good friends and have been since highschool, when Sawyer first started turning 'weird'. Sawyer withdrew from everybody during highschool during a huge bout of paranoia where he thought everybody was going to get him.
:D
Hanna Art!Meme Recs
Also in Further Hanna!Art Recs You Must See - I love the way these artists draw bodies.
1.
This Hanna!meme has princess!Conrad and a really effective Hatch Family Portrait. Also, Finas/Adelaide!
2. And
this one has a hilarious take on the Queen song question, with Lee and Veser. *LAUGHING FOREVER* Also the last one has a really sweet tag with Ples (God, I'm going the same way for him that I did for Yamamoto).
The
Fandom Meme by way of
futuresoon (well, it's my shorthand for it, anyway). Do it if you want. :) If you ask me, I'll just ask you to do it for (1) So there's
this one webcomic... (2) Supernatural (3) Reborn.
01. The first character I fell in love with:
02. The character I never expected to love as much I do now:
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't:
04. The character I love that everyone else hates:
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer:
06. The character I would shag anytime:
07. The character I want to be like:
08. The character I'd slap:
09. A pairing that I love:
10. A pairing that I hate:
11. Favourite character:
12. My five favourite characters:
13. My five least favourite characters:
14. Which character I am most like:
15. My deep, dark, fandom secret:
01. The first character I fell in love with: 02. The character I never expected to love as much I do now: 03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: 04. The character I love that everyone else hates: 05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: 06. The character I would shag anytime: 07. The character I want to be like: 08. The character I'd slap: 09. A pairing that I love: 10. A pairing that I hate: 11. Favourite character: 12. My five favourite characters: 13. My five least favourite characters: 14. Which character I am most like: 15. My deep, dark, fandom secret: You get three guesses which series I'm gonna do it for, and the first two don't count.
01. The first character I fell in love with:
Conrad. For this reason:
Also this:
Aww.
02. The character I never expected to love as much I do now:
... OH. MY. GOD. THAT IDIOT ON THE RIGHT:
THAT STUPID SELKIE BOY. LOOK HE IS NOT MY TYPE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.
The only thing he's got in common with the types I usually go for is the green eyes. THAT'S IT.
... I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I LIKE HIM SO MUCH.
LOOK I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS EVER. EVER.
I just know I started liking him in
mid/late February. It was the whole crying-and-being-strong-and-sensible thing that really did me in, and then after that I was his hook, line and sinker.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't:
... Sorry, Ples, this is not a fair question for you to be an answer to, because it's not like I've even decided that I won't love you, it's just that I don't think I know enough about you yet to say for sure whether I even like you or dislike you.
Also it never helps that I'm of the contrary bent and if lots and lots of people love a character and I don't have the same level of overwhelming, unqualified love for them, I sort of take a step back and do the Castiel head-tilt. It doesn't stop me from liking them or loving them later, but it does make me a lot more cautious and a much harder sell, and definitely more difficult to win over.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates:
... So as I was saying to
futuresoon, a lot of people dislike Lee, and a fair bit of that stems from the Zombie-possession. Or as I said to
demoerin, when Lee did the whole GIVE ME YOUR (SECOND) CHANCE - *CLIMBS DOWN ZOMBIE'S THROAT* act.
I think I kinda really started liking him from the
cast page description that Lee was really the only parental figure in Veser’s life, but he failed to really understand how much Veser needed him. That is, until he died.
... also this is supremely superficial, but:
(1) He's blond and blue-eyed;
(2) He is nice to my favourite (except for the whole Keep me company bit, that was creepy, Lee, and also not very nice: I actually have less problems with the Zombie-possession act than the fact that I think ghost!Lee could cheerfully have gone and killed Veser so Veser could keep him company);
(3) In ghost!form he is one of my favourite shades of blue.
(I like cyan and electric blue and all his shades of blue)
No idea who drew this, and that makes me sad.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer:
NO SUCH PERSON.
06. The character I would shag anytime:
... UM, NOBODY, GUYS.
07. The character I want to be like:
... um. Probably nobody, if I want to take the whole package? I think I'd like little bits of everybody, though: I want a network like Lamont's, and the ability to get pretty much anything I wanted; I want Hanna's indomitable never-let-life-or-death-or-undeath-or-anything-in-between get you down attitude; I want Veser's resilience and strength, and in particular his ability to pull himself together and do the most sensible thing and be the most sensible person in the face of a really bad thing happening to him (this trait is probably one of the biggest reasons I love him, it's
here); I want Zombie's calm unflappable steadiness; and I'll probably want one or more traits from Ples once we figure out more about him, too.
08. The character I'd slap:
... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA is this like the
which character would you punch poll? (I am a terrible person, I found the way she described the rationale for punching Ples so seductive, but I voted Casimiro.)
I VOTE ADELAIDE. :D She was not very nice to my first favourite. Failing which I vote Casimiro! BECAUSE HE'S SUCH A BULLY and he was ALSO not very nice to my first favourite.
... There is a definite pattern here.
Veser's Daddy does not count because we know nothing about him. Other than he beats Veser! And has kept his wife prisoner for years!
09. A pairing that I love:
... do you really want to get me started?
HANNA/CONRAD. FOR REASONS SET OUT IN MY ANSWER TO #1.
Also I am so for the Zombie/Hanna/Conrad. :D Veser can come too. :D
Also
Casimiro/Hanna! :D Also Ples/Conrad. And Toni/Conrad (because of
these sketches).
OH Veser. I think Veser/Conrad is hilarious, and I think Hanna/Veser would be fun. Though Veser/Lee (or vice versa) is definitely one of my major No It Actually Doesn't Make Me Feel Guilty joys, I love them interacting ordinarily.
... I don't know how I feel about Lamont/Worth. I definitely like them as friends, but having them compared to Wilson and House, if they were CRIMINALS, kinda puts a different spin on Lamont/Worth or Worth/Lamont.
10. A pairing that I hate:
I don't hate any pairing, but... um. Ples/Veser (a) I'm still sitting on the fence for, as long as I haven't made up my mind on Ples / until we know more about Ples; (b) ... unsettles me on a subconscious level for deeply personal reasons set out in my answer to #15. It really has nothing to do with the pairing itself, it's not the pairing, IT'S ME. IT'S ME AND I ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY FEELINGS.
11. Favourite character:
Stupid Half-Selkie Boy Veser, hands down. Lee comes second. Conrad comes third because we haven't seen him around much, but he was my hands-down Chapter 1 favourite.
12. My five favourite characters:
Oh look I've already sort-of answered this!
1. Veser
2. Lee
3. Conrad
4. ... actually, Ples shows some promise. We'll see. Also because putting him at #4 is a pun in another language.
5. Lamont!
13. My five least favourite characters:
1. ADELAIDE (although yes she is very important plot wise, etc. etc. etc.)
2. Casimiro why you gotta be such an @$$hole (although a very prettily drawn one) (yes I understand there must be antagonists)
That's about it. Unless I remember more.
14. Which character I am most like:
... HAHAHAHA OH GOD. Hanna, probably. Tiny and lively and looking-way-younger-than-I-actually-am. Same star sign, too. I could probably draw up the next longest list of similarities with Ples, though.
15. My deep, dark, fandom secret:
*TAKES A DEEP BREATH*
So I said one of the reasons I was still sitting on the fence for Ples/Veser was that I haven't made up my mind on Ples, and the other was that it unsettles me on a subconscious level for deeply personal reasons that have nothing to do with the pairing itself, and that reason is this:
... the way Veser interacts with Ples in the sketches puts me so much in mind of the way my youngest brother is with me. :/ It's to the point that I can look at some of the sketches and go, "... WE HAVE HAD THAT DISCUSSION."
Even though our relationship has a lot in common with THIS dynamic:
... but yeah, actual 'discussions' I have had with him:
I COULD TOTALLY SAY YES.
... except he would not believe me.
I think he genuinely has that ANNOYING PEOPLE = EXPRESSION OF LOVE thing inside his head,
especially when it comes to me, because
we are currently based in different countries,
and every time before we are to be separated
he always spends the last two weeks ANNOYING ME ALL THE TIME
and once he let slip his rationale:
"Since I'm not going to be around to do it for [ ] months,
I'll have to make up for it by ANNOYING YOU EVEN MORE NOW."
:/
About the fact that he ANNOYS ME SO MUCH OF THE TIME, we had this discussion:
'You love it really,' he said.
"NO I DO NOT," I said.
'Yes you do," he said.
...
When he most likes to annoy me, LOOK CAN'T A GIRL READ IN PEACE.
Except I'm not as nice as Ples. :D
Also neither of us can play chess, this was about something else.
and in the most throw-face-of-throw-face situations:
We were in Japan when I saw this guy who really really looked like
Mukuro's voice actor from Hitman Reborn
and he looked really interesting
so I stared at him
when he wasn't looking
a lot
(by the way it was at an onsen resort and we were all wandering about in yukata)
and then when I turned back
there was my brother
staring at me
with the exact same expression Veser is wearing in that artwork up there
and this happened:
him: " YOU WERE CHECKING HIM OUT. "
me: "NO I WAS NOT."
him: "You were SO checking him out!"
me: "..."
him: "IT'S OKAY IT'S A PERFECTLY NORMAL THING TO DO :D :D :D"
me: oh god i'm going to kill you (I told you I'm not as nice as Ples seems to be)
but you see, explaining to your youngest sibling that you were staring at a guy
because he looks like a voice actor from an anime series
is even more embarrassing
than having him think you were just checking him out
so that was the end of it.
Heh. It's funny: though he's the sibling that makes me mad the most, he's the one I worry about the most as well. A friend of mine who knows me quite well thinks I love him the best, but that is NOT TRUE because I like to think I love my siblings equally. AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON LOVES THE ONE THAT IRRITATES THEM THE MOST THE MOST, that's just like ANIME/DOUJIN LOGIC.