Fanfiction 10/4/13

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website. Arthur, King of Time and Space and journal cartoons in separate posts. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers.

( Featuring characters and/or images from DOCTOR WHO, STAR TREK, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and SHERLOCK. )

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Arthur 10/4/13

Here are cartoons from Arthur, King of Time and Space since last Friday. Fanfiction cartoons and journal cartoons in separate posts.

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Journal 10/4/13

Here is this week's Creative Process which updates Fridays. Fanfiction cartoons and Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in separate posts.

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My tweets

• Thu, 15:32: For months there was hardly anything I wanted to draw a #year50 about. Now they're coming twice a week and I wasn't ready.
• Thu, 20:08: Hero of Three Faces update: memory lane. http://t.co/aZb3yGljPn #btvs #doctorwho
• Thu, 21:34: So this is why I've been doing one-panel reused-art AKOTAS all week.
• Thu, 22:55: #AKOTAS update: when Morien met Pellinore. http://t.co/C70XKEQO9M #webcomics #kingarthur
• Thu, 23:56: This is the episode when the Doctor says, "I deny this reality and replace it with my own!" ... http://t.co/9d4Wo8vxgz
• Fri, 06:15: Creative Process update: vision. http://t.co/bmMpiVL6SV #webcomics #CreativeProcess
• Fri, 08:43: Since Name Of The Doctor it's been much easier to visualize the Shalka Doctor as a live action character.
• Fri, 09:02: Kept hearing about an epilogue in SHIELD 1.02 about a fishtank. Was expecting a cameo by Namor. #notexactly
• Fri, 10:12: I suppose I'll never find out for myself whether Our American Cousin was any good.

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I want to take a moment to reassure the AKOTAS readership that there is no expectation at this time to halt production before the story conclusion, currently scheduled for May of 2017.

It's true that I’ve taken to going through occasional, even frequent, public fits in which I complain that I wish I'd never started the AKOTAS project and that I ought to give it up and go back to my first best destiny, fanfiction, in its current form of The Hero of Three Faces. It's true that I worry I'm not doing the project justice anymore and that I'm certain I'm not doing it justice many cartoons out of any given week. (Though, granted, that has as much or more to do with outside factors than with any waning of interest on my part; which waning itself is at least partly, and may be wholly, attributable to pressure from those outside factors. Those outside factors are generally summarized in realtime at Creative Process.)

(Another factor is that we're winding down to the end of the story, which is sad. (Well, in the baseline arc it's sad. (I can't say any more.)))

(Also, I hadn’t reckoned on Arthur becoming president at a time when the government makes me so angry. I’m not accustomed to being angry.)

One of the things that keeps me going (not the only one; e.g., there's also that the non-baseline arcs' endings will never play out if I quit) is reader feedback. Audience consensus seems to be that I'm still doing the project justice, on average if not necessarily with every cartoon. However, that doesn’t mean it’s a case of my continuing the project for others instead of myself - which would be a recipe for disaster - so much as it's a case of realizing that things must not be as bad as I often feel they are.

I appreciate it whenever I go on a rant like this about it and there is reader response indicating that AKOTAS remains something of value. This time, though, it’s my turn to respond to a reader comment that more or less came of out the blue, encouraging me to keep calm and carry on. If there’s one of you thinking it, there are probably others.

While the bonds with fanfiction are strong, if or when I would leave AKOTAS it would be only because the bond with AKOTAS was broken, and the work being done on the project showing it. Things are not that bad. For the next three years plus there will probably continue to be, as there has been recently, moments of doubt; a lot of reused art supporting one-liners that are either topical comments or puns; on bad days, sketches and fillers; and, on stretches of bad days, "hiatus" formats. But, on really good days, real gags with new art. Somewhere in the rough there will also be the rest of the stories I started out to tell.

Thanks for reading.