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You know, it’s interesting, I always felt—and still do feel—like I give female characters preferential treatment, but at the same time, whenever someone would ask me who my favorite character was in the original comic, I’d say Giovanni. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that he only started appearing right before the comic actually got good—Blackthorn is where I say the comic actually got good—so there was very little footage of him not being interesting. One of my favorite things about the rewrite so far is that I get to give these characters not just a proper ending, but a proper beginning, since I’m starting out from the place of understanding that I ended at with each character, and knowing a lot about where I want them to go over the course of things. Hm. Now that I think about it, let me do some math here.

The rewrite so far has greatly, greatly expanded the roles of Elm and Falkner, both male characters. Now, everyone has an expanded role, because a whole lot more stuff happens on screen, but Elm and Falkner have been incorporated far beyond what they were in the original. Their stories are largely tributary to Candace and Whitney’s, though. Eusine as well, notably, has graduated from brief antagonist to major supporting character over two thirds of the second part of the story. Again, this is more or less entirely tributary to Candace’s, but overall I think it’s perhaps a function of having grown into my actual gender that’s made me more comfortable with writing the one that I no longer have to be.

Well, as of earlier this week, we are *officially in Goldenrod* and making rapid progress! The story is just over 30k words so far, no idea what it'll be when it's finished, but a lot of stuff has been fleshed out, clarified, and added from the original, this is, I would say, a new story with the same bones as the original at this point and we are MOVING!

Shinon! Hi!!!!!

i am so fuckin happy to see you!!!!!!

I can’t even fucking believe how eggy AJ was. A teenage lesbian has to share her brain with a hyper-masculine god that wants to destroy her and take her mind for his own use, she doesn’t know how much of her strength is hers and how much of it’s his, and the only way she can control him is by claiming ownership of her body through her own pain.

Or, on the flip side, Whitney, a woman who uses classically feminine clothing and fashion as a way to assert her own agency and cling to sanity, find joy in a world that demands she be things she would rather not be.

Christ, I had a full beard the entire time I was drawing this comic.