Wrote most of this last night, so I can indulge myself and still have a link: https://picarto.tv/Rimme

Starting earlier, probably ending around the same time, because inking is ... long.


I admit, when I'm writing my comic, I feel like I have ropes pulling me in 4 different directions:

* One rope going "More TF sequences! More TF!";
* Another rope going "No, talking animals! Post-TF!";
* Yet another going "More character interactions! Friendship! Romance!"
* And another going "Tighten the plot! Tie off the loose ends!"

The first two have been pretty consistent over the years, but the last one has been weighing on me for a while now. Early on, adding new details creates more opportunities for gags and plot threads, but also adds complexity, up to this point where there are three main plots that threaten to overwhelm each other.

Honestly, the main problem is I'm torn in different ideas about what's "good" in a comic. Should I make it funny? Should I make it deep? Should I make it coherent? Should I make it simple?

I'm trying to nail down the backstory, and it keeps slipping away into the cracks. Just when I think I've found a permanent way forward, something happens to make me doubt myself. And I keep thinking, editing, pulling, revising, rewriting, and thinking again.

The next several pages are fairly fixed in what happens... but once I get to, say, #70, I have to make sure everything is settled for the next phase. I have to figure out what story I want to tell, and how I can put more TFs into it...