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Let me first say thank you. Thank you for the thoughtful and kindhearted comments on my last post and definitely a huge thank you to and for keeping my chin above the water. You really did help me out, so thanks. A whole bunch of crud has been piling up lately and came to a head, but I think I've worked out some things. I'm actually in a fairly good mood today, so please don't be offended if I wait a few days to respond. I just don't really want to face depressing things again today and want to enjoy basking in some emotional sunshine.

So, I thought I'd use my not-depressed state to my advantage and be productive since I've been a horrid roof hopping-circle crying-soul menstruating recluse lately. Though being down gives you good band names. Like "soul menstruation". I can definitely see a female emo band called that.

Em, yes. This is a character sketch for a nasty little poodle who shows up in much later issue of Double Helix. I never can seem to plan these out in order, but hopefully I'll be able to connect everything in the end. He works at an animal shelter (which means birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians, um, I suppose insects and such too as only mammals have gotten off their lazy rumps and gone bipedal). He smells like snake pee, is a dingy yellowish grey due to cigarette smoke stains, tends to wear lame 70ish clothing, has chest floof and disturbing amounts of knuckle hair, and basically looks and acts very little like a poodle. In Double Helix, dogs came about from social breeding, so this guy has a huge ego problem since poodles were originally aristocratic (sure standards were originally bred for hunting, but hey, nobles like to hunt) where as he is a working dog who can't even get his fur pearly white. He's something of a scrawny runt as well. He honestly creeps me out, but I suppose that is a good thing since he is supposed to.

Since I'm picking this comic back up from High School, I had to decide what was best for it in terms of staying anthro, or switching to people. I think anthro will work best as:

-It allows me to play around with certain concepts which wouldn't work with humans, or at least, wouldn't function in the same way (like the "were-wolves")

-It deals with some disturbing stuff, and I for one can concentrate better on the message or theme when it deals with something other than humans. Anthros are one way to distance yourself while still being able to relate. Ie. A human being chopped up would only leave me thinking "sick" and have me closing the comic, while a talking giraffe being hacked to bits wouldn't bother me nearly as much and would still allow me to focus on the story.

-It allows you to deal with issues such as race and social classes in a way that wouldn't single out anyone or leave them feeling insulted. No one knows if a hippo is white, black, purple...so you can touch on topics of race and such in a general matter without having to talk about specific races or specific problems and tensions.

-I get bored drawing people over and over again. At least with animals you can mix it up a bit.

Problems with keeping it anthro include no one taking it seriously enough to read it. ...Or only reading it because they think wolves are, uh, sexy. Also, topics involving sexuality of any kind would be tricky to cover tastefully with talking animals. Thoughts?

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Let me first say thank you. Thank you for the thoughtful and kindhearted comments on my last post and definitely a huge thank you to and for keeping my chin above the water. You really did help me out, so thanks. A whole bunch of crud has been piling up lately and came to a head, but I think I've worked out some things. I'm actually in a fairly good mood today, so please don't be offended if I wait a few days to respond. I just don't really want to face depressing things again today and want to enjoy basking in some emotional sunshine.

So, I thought I'd use my not-depressed state to my advantage and be productive since I've been a horrid roof hopping-circle crying-soul menstruating recluse lately. Though being down gives you good band names. Like "soul menstruation". I can definitely see a female emo band called that.

Em, yes. This is a character sketch for a nasty little poodle who shows up in much later issue of Double Helix. I never can seem to plan these out in order, but hopefully I'll be able to connect everything in the end. He works at an animal shelter (which means birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians, um, I suppose insects and such too as only mammals have gotten off their lazy rumps and gone bipedal). He smells like snake pee, is a dingy yellowish grey due to cigarette smoke stains, tends to wear lame 70ish clothing, has chest floof and disturbing amounts of knuckle hair, and basically looks and acts very little like a poodle. In Double Helix, dogs came about from social breeding, so this guy has a huge ego problem since poodles were originally aristocratic (sure standards were originally bred for hunting, but hey, nobles like to hunt) where as he is a working dog who can't even get his fur pearly white. He's something of a scrawny runt as well. He honestly creeps me out, but I suppose that is a good thing since he is supposed to.

Since I'm picking this comic back up from High School, I had to decide what was best for it in terms of staying anthro, or switching to people. I think anthro will work best as:

-It allows me to play around with certain concepts which wouldn't work with humans, or at least, wouldn't function in the same way (like the "were-wolves")

-It deals with some disturbing stuff, and I for one can concentrate better on the message or theme when it deals with something other than humans. Anthros are one way to distance yourself while still being able to relate. Ie. A human being chopped up would only leave me thinking "sick" and have me closing the comic, while a talking giraffe being hacked to bits wouldn't bother me nearly as much and would still allow me to focus on the story.

-It allows you to deal with issues such as race and social classes in a way that wouldn't single out anyone or leave them feeling insulted. No one knows if a hippo is white, black, purple...so you can touch on topics of race and such in a general matter without having to talk about specific races or specific problems and tensions.

-I get bored drawing people over and over again. At least with animals you can mix it up a bit.

Problems with keeping it anthro include no one taking it seriously enough to read it. ...Or only reading it because they think wolves are, uh, sexy. Also, topics involving sexuality of any kind would be tricky to cover tastefully with talking animals. Thoughts?