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Published: 2009-05-06 05:52:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 6053; Favourites: 283; Downloads: 89
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Our lazy gecko has delusions of grandeur.I hope I can keep doing these. I've always wanted to have my own comic strip. And leopard geckos are an untapped goldmine of material...Atleast in my eyes.
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My gecko does this, then looks at me as if he's not doing anything weird at all
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made my boyfriend read this he loved itΒ
fantasticΒ
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so this is why my leopard gecko does this hmmmm he needs a psyciatrist
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i think things like this everytime y see my nile monitor posing in his terrarium...
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Awwww I have two leopard geckos myself, and they're so fun :3 I love geckos <3 This is adorably done. The simple coloring makes it look so cute :3
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Thank you. And yes, they're a lot of fun. <3 I love feeding mine which is probably why she's so fat. lol
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Feeding them is fun. Sometimes when they miss something like a mealworm when handfeeding them and latch onto your finger instead, they won't let go and you have to gently tug them along the sand/substrate until they do xD Their nubby little teeth are just funny- they don't even hurt. Mine are called Athena and Fleck. Fleck is the typical yellow with spotted head and tail, but Athena is more like a snake- she's got dark brown bands on her body. They're my babies <3
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Aww. I've only ever had the finger biting happen once with my hi-yellow, Tiamat. I had to tap her on the head to get her to let go. lol
And very nice names. 
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Hi-yellows are actually a lot what Fleck looks like, minus the body spots x3 I'm almost positive they're both female, actually. I didn't know that when I first got Fleck though, and I sat on my bed staring at her for like an hour before the name just came to me and I was like "Woah. Perfect." I think it still reasonably fits, though. It's not a clearly gendered name like Jeff or Bob at least xD In a few years I'll probably get a mack super snow- I've always loved how they have that beautiful black and white spotted look :3
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Mine do this :') I've recently made a background for my leo's viv, with big rocks and ledges
Little Snit, who loves to climb and jump, scaled the vertical rock face, sat ontop of the highest point in the viv.. and pooped.
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Such majestic creatures aren't they? XD Also "Little Snit" is a great name!
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Lol, my Gertie would always lord it up from a high spot-her coconut house XD. The little "RAR" at the end is so adorable 
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lol Thanks. My Tiamat actually did try to roar one time, but it sounded more like a croak.
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Gertie aqueaked once, like a chew toy. For no apparent reason.
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cute...poor is who has never fantasy of omnipotence xD
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Wow...
It reminds me of the comic-Calvin and Hobbes
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Unconscious influence, I'm sure. lol I've always really liked how those comics explored imagination.
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this described my leopard gecko to a "t".
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lol I'm sure all reptiles fancy themselves dragons. Just as all cats think they are lions.
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I suppose this is true. every time my gecko, strider, comes out of his cave he stares, seemingly, disdainfully at all the crickets as though he were about to launch into a diatribe of how pitiful and weak they are compared to him.
Reptiles arr the best pets EVAH!
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lmao Nice image. My Mandarin (on whom Lazy is based) comes out whenever she hears the superworm box being disturbed. It sits on top of her tank. And she gives me the Cricket Face. Basically, O___O . Not so much a dragon, I guess, but still cute. lol
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yes, when I buy crickets they come in a bag tied by a rubber band and when ever I start to open it Strider peeks out of his cave, he gives me the exact same face. I love it. The lazy comics are so factual it's hilarious.
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lol Thanks. I love the Cricket Face. XD It's been a while since I've done any Lazy Gecko though. Life just gets in the way and I'm working on a novel with plans for another comic some time in the future (I hope), so Lazy's kinda been put on the back burner. 
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well, I am anticipating the next lazy strip with gusto.
But, I do understand, life is hectic. it's my first year of college classes and I am thoroughly disgusted with the work load.
oh well.
...may I ask what your novel is about?
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Well, I'm sure you've noticed the overabundance of werewolf art I've been churning out recently. XD My novel is about werewolves. It's basically a horror/gothic/romance...kinda. (More emphasis on the gothic rather than romance, mind you.) I've been using some of the characters in RPs as a means of exploring them a bit (and as an excuse to draw them as I really need to work on drawing humans anyway). Mainly, this guy [link] and her [link] , who is the main character. Again, because I've been so busy with art in general as well as university classes I haven't had much time to write. >.< They are a little different in my novel than they are in the RPs though. I've had to change them slightly to fit in better with the groups.
What are you taking in college, if I may ask? X3
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Oh, that makes sense,I remember wondering if you were writing a story with the characters in your gallery. I really like autumn, she looks very unassuming.
Would you define Gothic for me? it is a word that I find hard to define correctly in most situations.(lol, how lame, right?)
As for the courses I am taking; I am in running start, a program, if you don't already know, that you can take in high school where you get to go to a local community college and take classes (and the state pays for tuition, YAY!). It used to be that you could take as many credits at the college that you wanted, but this year the legislature changed the rules (darn them) and now if you the maximum amount of credits you can take at the college is 15; BUT if you take any classes at your high school the amount of credits you can take lowers. So, I am taking two classes (Modern Hebrew, and Pottery 2) at my high school and English and Geology at the college. I WAS going to take Japanese... drat.
woah... that was really ramble-y, sorry
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I think we had a similar program when I was in high school except that they offered the college level classes at the school.
Gothic is a lot of things but basically think Edgar Allen Poe or Bram Stoker's Dracula. Dark, dreary settings, supernatural creatures that may or may not be real, psychological thriller-type stuff. The genre itself usually refers to stories that were written or take place in the Victorian era when it originated and so is usually associated with old Victorian mansions, castles, graveyards, virginal main characters and Byronic heroes, the villains are usually aristocratic like Dukes or Barons, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, basically logic versus illogic, the unnatural in nature, insanity, etc. I'm in two classes right now that is covering the genre through different academic lenses and the more I learn about it the harder it is to really nail down in a single definition so forgive me if I ramble as well.
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yeah, the amount of definitions is daunting and more than slightly cumbersome when trying to explain it.
But I catch your drift. I thought it might be something along those lines.
So, are your OCs the protagonists or the antagonists?
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I don't really have any real antagonists though I suppose Hayden would probably be the closest thing. lol But that's mostly because he just isn't a nice person. Well, that's not entirely true. I have characters that go against or try to impede the main character but they aren't necessarily villains in the mustache-twirling sense of the word. Autumn's foster father, who is a scientist and a doctor, holds her against her will in order to study and hopefully 'cure' her although as time goes on he becomes more interested in her condition rather than her well-being. I've titled it 'The Monster of Amber Peace' as a sort of obvious metaphor. Everyone in my book is a monster to some degree but it doesn't necessarily make them antagonists or protagonists exactly.
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Ah, so an small under laying commentary on society?
It sounds like an interesting read. How old is Autumn?
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Pretty much, but it's nothing that hasn't been done before.
The book spans most of her life. It pretty much picks up around age 14, and then kinda jumps ahead to when she's 18. It takes place in the 1930s.
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That's awesome, you have so much to work with in that era; so much is going on!
And I don't know about the "nothing that hasn't been done before" thing, I, for one, have never read a story about were-wolves in the 1930's. (yay for innovations!)
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I was mainly referring to the social/psychological commentary but it's reassuring that werewolves in the 30s may be relatively innovative. lol
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well, yes, that particular aspect (the commentary) has an long history already, but, if it is written well it won't matter.
I am getting very excited about your novel....
I suppose that is the danger of talking about something awesome, you become very interested in it. lol what is Vance's character?
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lol I'm very glad you're interested. I'm always afraid of boring people with my stories and stuff.
As for Hayden (or Vance. I typically call him Hayden for some reason.) he's of the main supporting cast and is the one that helps Autumn get out of Amber Peace Asylum and away from her mad scientist foster father. lol He and Autumn develop a kind of odd relationship that I'm not entirely sure how it ends up as, but I'm thinking it will be platonic. People whom I have RPed Hayden with will probably balk at that (as he's something of a womanizer and it's probably difficult to imagine him sharing a platonic relationship with ANY female) but it's all part of his character development. There's also the novelty of female werewolves being extremely rare in my lore so he kinda touts her as an accessory at first. He also just loves antagonizing people and likes to make a show of putting the moves on Autumn just to annoy Asher. [link] <--this guy, who is Autumn's REAL love interest....though that's debatable as well. Asher has his own set of problems that he has to learn to deal with even though he's probably my most psychologically stable character out of all of them. lol I don't like to plan too far ahead in my stories as I'm afraid I'll become bored of them. I've pretty much written the first book, though I intend on rewriting it as everything has matured so much that it would just be easier to rewrite the stupid thing rather than edit my first draft all to hell. >_<
Anyway, Hayden is probably one of my most favorite characters. He's fun to write because he's such a bastard. XD He's also a bit challenging as he's British and uses a lot of slang (so not only am I having to do research for 30s slang but BRITISH 30s slang. XD) I've taken some liberties with that though. Each section of the book is told from a different point of view so I've had to become quite adept at learning how to write dialogue that accurately reflects the character. At the same time, he's been one of the most challenging because he is perhaps furthest from my personality. It's very easy to make him a one dimensional, womanizing sociopath but he's actually far more complex than that, as his relationship with Autumn shows..../rambling. Sorry. >.<
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KEEP GOING! (this interests me quite a bit)
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Um...I don't know what else to say? lol
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that's ok. so I was looking at the picture of Asher (love that name) and I was wondering if you knew that it is against dogma for a priest to have a love interest; a;though I totally understand if that is a part of the conflict.
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That is part of the conflict, yes. lol I have done research on Catholic dogma and priesthood for this character. Though he's not really a priest any more after the first book. He kinda blows that.
Unlike Hayden who has completely embraced his lycanthropy, Asher is burdened with it. He's one of the unlucky ones where he remains alienated from his wolf even if he does have some control over it. It still pretty much rules him and he has to lock himself in the basement of the church three times a month, when the phases of the moon are at its apex, so that he doesn't go out and maul someone. He 'exorcises' his wolf through pain and religious discipline to the point of carrying around a knife that he blessed himself which he uses to harm himself if he feels a change coming on. My biggest regret with this character is that he's so frickin' emo, but I kinda like him that way. lol
I should note that the werewolves in my story can change at will but have less control over the transformation and the influence of their bestial Id when the moon is full. Conversely, when there is no moon, they feel the most human, in a sense. It still takes a lot of discipline though. A change looms whenever they get really upset, frightened, angry, and even aroused depending on the person. It's part of the reason why Hayden is such a success unto himself because he has a hard time feeling emotions at all and therefore pretty much has his finger on the trigger the entire time. I'm still debating on some laws like if my werewolves should be sensitive to silver or not. Technically, the whole silver thing was made up by the 1940s Wolfman movies and isn't really canon...but then according to traditional lore, werewolves don't have tails either, but whatever. lol My lycanthropes are their own species and aren't just humans afflicted with a virus. They don't stop being what they are in the company of humans. They just hide it really well. XD So I think that gives me a bit of leeway.
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