This is only for the first half of my Uploaded Fairy light novel. The graphic novel adaptation of part two will likely be website exclusive.

I'm thinking of either switching my videos to my blog, or using a self-hosting solution. It's become harder and harder for me to even really grow my channel properly on Youtube, without engaging with other livestreamers. And considering I mostly do these for myself anyway, to me it's not super worth it.

I slowly starting to piece together why I might be recommended Hey Arnold, although I think what weirds me about it as I didn't specifically intend my web comic and short film as a Hey Arnold or Charlie Brown variant. Superficially the idea seems completely ludicrous to me, despite being a fan of Craig Bartlett.

It isn't so much that Hey Arnold isn't dark in its own way, but paranormal romance pairings isn't really what's implied in shows in Nickelodeon. At least not in your typical Family Friendly show. Plus as I'm learning over time, intentionally or not, it seems like a significant chunk of my readers speak Spanish. Despite the fact I'm learning Francais.

With the kind of character Hemato-Tomato is, I think my fear is that people would misinterpret Hemato and Ehena ( Japanese for Helan or Anna ) as a darker variation of Arnold and Helga.

I'm not even sure if "Hey Arnold meets Elfen Lied" would even be a good hook.

( For context, I considered the idea of working as an apprentice for an established animator in US TV. )

When switching from manga style storyboard to 4 koma, I ended up with some color changes. I'm still not entirely sure how much of these was thematic or just personal taste. Here is the chart:

( I know those look like underwear patches, but those are charcoal swatches. )

For example mineral green, the closest to black that I could get with calligraphy pens, shifted to more of a brownish black. A dark sepia like orange shifted to to more of a blood red. I have a vague idea about how the shades of cyan and baby blue came about, and to an extent red and blond. But I'm still not entirely sure how the specific shade of purple came about.

Hemato is suppose to wear all black, and sometimes feature blood red. Ehena is suppose to wear khaki pants and birkenstocks, and baby blue tees, with a large blue bow. Mostly I'm not sure how much of these colors are going to translate if I were to ever shift to network television.

The closest ( genre wise ) show I can think of, Hey Arnold, was published back when Nickelodeon was still Nick. But my color palette is very different from the standard slice of life.

Ironically, the original palette would be more fitting for Nickelodeon, despite the darkness of the web comic itself.

Silent Manga Audition seems to have a scriptwriting audition. I'm considering the idea of mainly working on those, so that I can spend my own time improving my artistic abilities free from the pressures of conforming to a manga standard.

For those who've seen my art style, is differs from manga in a few ways, being closer to Manhwa ( but not webtoon necessarily ) from back in the 2000s era.

The main difference is in the color palette, but also how I draw faces. But submitting scripts will free me up, while getting my name out there.

I've been meaning to do a blog post on this for a while, but making some new Jekyll themed websites on Github. If you have any good Unfiction and Webnovels to recommend, do get in touch on WeirdSearch.

On that note, I've decided to market my content in a slightly different way: it's roughly analogous to the "graphic novel of comic strips". In this case, the flow would be similar to an American comic strip, but would be a continuous narrative similar to what you would find in a "limited series" in the comic book world:

Limited Series ( Comics )

It would follow a format similar to text comics: Text Comics But with one major difference: because the strip is arranged into two columns of two panels, and yes even read right to left ( this may change with my conlang ) the "gutter space captions" are either placed below or above the panels. For example, in larger panels, I often need to replace the caption above the panel. I like to call these "strip novels", and specifically Four Frame Novels. This format would be used to tell more adult narratives, rather than the gags you'll find in newspapers. And generally distributed straight to trade paperback rather than syndicated in print.

I'm also finding because I'm working with a constructed language, that means there isn't a commonly known font ( but there is one I made ) for lettering comics. This meant for a long time I had to return to hand lettering. Although now I'm able to use a font for that purpose.

How this will impact my publishability I'm not sure, I may need to format a website specifically for such layout. This will also impact how I adapt short stories set in the same world as Uploaded Fairy.

If the reading order changes, it will be top to bottom and left to right, the horizontal inverse of what I'm doing now.

The eventual goal for this is for western comics sort of like what Boilet did for French comics, becoming an entity that wasn't quite BD or Manga. But for American comic strips.

Impact On Other Media

This means for other multimedia I enjoy like visual novels and unfiction, I'm going to be rebranding visual novels as "interactive webcomics", and have more of a panel per panel layout. I'm also experimenting with a form of unfiction based on a Jekyll pages blog, that tells a novel length work in blog posts, videos, podcasts, and audio-visuals that need to be read in a specific order to get the full narrative.

I'll plug the youtube channel for that later on.

This is loosely based on an old novella I had, though I'm expanding the story somewhat in this graphic novel.

Lately I've been having group stalking issues by CG / GC type people on Twitter. Individual gamers and comic people aren't the issue. Bleeding Fool has gone into the changing goals on comicsgate. But it's making it kind of a problem to focus on my work lately do to this kind of online harassment I've been having. I had this same kind of harassment by Breadtube as well, so don't take this in a partisan way: both sides do this.

It's made it almost impossible for my channel to really grow, because I have to worry about like having my videos age restricted, despite it not really involving anything that actually that "obscene", I've been talking about machine learning and programming, and a little art for the most people.

So I ended up having to switch to peertube, just to not have that problem of group harassment. Not really sure how to handle the problem at the moment. What I know is the online left hasn't really not done anything meaningful to really solve the problem.

But once I get this resolved, hopefully I can go back to a normal routine.

Going to be changing up things to focus on my Uploaded Fairy webcomic, but this will extend well beyond the original novella, and including the terms "The War", "Perpetual War", and "Franco-Japanese Wars".

-- The War, is used to denote the general "War On Terror" that gradually built up steam to today.

-- Perpetual War, used to denote the long 20-21st centuries of American mainland history during the first and second cold wars.

-- Franco-Japanese War, a colonial war after American permanently spit into two nations: Japanese controlled territories, and French controlled territories, between 2019-2085. This is also sometimes also includes the Coup De Etat France performed against what remained of the US government prior to the colonial wars.

If in a story I say The War, generally that story is referring to the War on Terror. Because I will likely use all the plot lines from all my short stories and novellas, I may end up using all three terms, expanding on various characters, and so on.

I will also go into the conlang I'm working on later.