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nautilebleu

@nautilebleu@mamot.fr

If you see the glass half empty, use a smaller one🥛https://about.me/nautilebleu Ko-fi for supporting my comics https://ko-fi.com/nautilebleu 🤘 - French old school developer the day, wannabe comics artist the night - Speak French and English - He/Him I mostly post my art about my own characters Esther and Erie, my comics project. And also some fanarts, rock girls (huge fan of Band-Maid) and vintage models studies

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#wordweavers May 08 What behaviors does your characters' society discourage?

A ton of things.

  • Homosexuality is punishable by death in most countries (I did NOT make up these rules: Europe/Middle East in the 12th century).
  • Don't contradict the church.
  • Wife, don't contradict your husband (much, it's not quite as bad as 19th century).
  • Child, don't contradict your parents.
  • etc, etc, etc.

I'm so glad I did not live in that time, tbh.

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

nautilebleu,
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@anderlandbooks but if you were born in the 12th century, you wouldn’t find those rules bad because you would never have known otherwise

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1/5 Got tagged by @madikonrad over at Tumblr for the 'Questions For Your OC'!! – answer 3 questions as your main OC(s) – since we’re , we can write this as a narrative, first-person, or RPG style - anyway we wish.

When done, provide 3 new questions to pass on to the next creator. (you then tag others with 3 new questions)

My main OC’s are Aedan the Ancalite and Lucius Scipio Servius, and the following questions are from sapphic author, Madeline Konrad.

nautilebleu,
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@NaraMoore @AnnaSaultron I think it’s more subtle than that: when I was a teenager, half women were breast free on the beach, and totally naked people were not uncommon. The context makes it totally unsexualised. Now we’re in a more strict era, and we’re not helped by IA that strike a woman feeding her baby as if it’s p0rn

nautilebleu,
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@NaraMoore France being a latin/catholic country, we are less open than Scandinavia, Germany or Netherlands about public nudity but probably more than everyone else. @AnnaSaultron

nautilebleu,
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@NaraMoore @AnnaSaultron not sure the world is really open about letting France decides what is good and what’s not for the world (although we are totally ready to do it, in fact we already give our opinion even if people didn’t ask 🤣)

nautilebleu,
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@NaraMoore @AnnaSaultron last year I was attending a Nada Surf concert and the guy who were doing the opening (who came from Florida) was saying that US was about to have a new Civil War and he hoped to have a EU citizenship to be able to escape from all this mess. And things are not better since (but they are not really good here too, TBH)

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01/05/2024 OMG! What happened to your MC's parents?

  1. Esther’s father was one of the richest golden boys of his time. For most, he was a successful business angel...
  2. For his family, he was a demon: Obsessed with social recognition, we must be tools to help him rise higher and higher.
  3. Remove a small brick from the building, and the whole building is ready to collapse

[Illustration: 3 excerpts from Inktober 2023]

Excerpt from Inktober 2023 day 17 Esther’s father beating his son, in front of the rest of his family
Excerpt from Inktober 2023 day 26 After doing too risky investments, Esther’s father is forced to bankrupt. All newspapers have a field day with the news

nautilebleu,
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#writerscoffeeclub 07/05/2024 Do you add a copyright statement to your work? How comprehensive is it?

Yes, I just add the French typical copyright statement.

[Illustrations: screenshot of the copyright statement for the 1st issue of Esther and Erie]

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#writerscoffeeclub 08/05/2024 When writing technical or scientific detail, how much is plausible versus imagined?

That’s why I don’t do Hard Sci-fi, I don’t want someone who comes to explain me that this very small detail that appears only in one panel is not accurate.

nautilebleu,
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#writerscoffeeclub 09/05/2024 What's the minimum time you can work on your writing? Do you need a long, clear period?

Luckily no, because I never have such periods. I mostly work by microperiods (but thanks to the two days off, I have 2 long periods of… one hour for starting working on the chapter 2)

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#writerscoffeeclub 10/05/2024 Do you know any good sources for publishing information?

👀*

  • Looking for other participants answers
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11/05/2024 What character have you written that's the most unlike you?

Lady D’Arcy 😅 I hope not to be a sadistic narcissist sociopath (not to mention that she’s a woman)

[Illustrations: one of the oldest art of Lady D’Arcy, back from 2020]

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12/05/2024 How do you market your work?

I sell my books on ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/nautilebleu/shop the 1st chapter of Esther and Erie will be available soon ☺️

Also I do comiccons and I will be at 4th comics festival in Saint-Quay Portrieux next weekend https://mamot.fr/@nautilebleu/112426746713216290

[Illustration: official poster of the festival]

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#writerscoffeeclub 13/05/2024 When does AI cross the line between helpful tool and problematic tech for writing and publishing?

AIs using LLM raises several problems :
⁃ legal: it steals illegally content for training
⁃ environmental: it requires looooooots of energy
⁃ social: it relies on cheap mass labour

[Illustration: some tests with Esther, done with Dream up — Deviantart AI — from the most recent to the oldest]

Generated Esther : she wears a violet dress with golden jewellery. Her left shoulder is weird
Generated Esther : she wears a great dress with white hat and laces. Her eyes are weird

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14/05/2024 Do you have a sense of how much plot you need for how long a manuscript?

One A4 page for 20 pages

[Illustration: plot for the 2nd chapter]

nautilebleu,
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@sfwrtr Erf yes to ask my ideas, it’s easier if I don’t have to translate 😅

Gif of a dark skinned man with French stereotypes like the moustache and the berret in front of the Eiffel Tower

nautilebleu,
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@sfwrtr Once I attended a conf by Denis Bajram (a quiet famous French comics artist) who said that he was writer, dialogue writer, storyboarder, costume designer, decorator, lighting designer, FX manager, stuntman, all jobs that are handled by different people in a movie but in comics, you have to do all by yourself (for the minimum wage 🙃)

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#writerscoffeeclub 15/05/2024 Have you ever attended a writer artist's fair / festival to promote your work? Would you?

Yes I already did 2 festivals for my artbook in late 2023/early 2024, and I am about to do another one this weekend to promote the release of the 1st chapter of Esther and Erie https://mamot.fr/@nautilebleu/112426746713216290

[Illustration: I received the books yesterday!]

Cover of the 1st Chapter of Esther and Erié Esther is sitting on a Victorian-style sofa, she wears a vintage dress in gray silk, with red ruffles and many jewelry and hoop earrings. In her left hand, she holds a strange flower with an eye instead of the pistil. Erié is on his knees at his feet, in his servant outfit. Her hands are under Esther’s right hand, resting on the mistress’s lap. The two seem to look at the creature we see in the upper right corner, Esther as hypnotis, while Erie seems worried

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#writerscoffeeclub 16/05/2024 What's your target audience? Why?

Having sexy heroines and villainess, I was thinking most of my readers would be (middle-aged) men. It appears that my audience seems to be mostly women 🤗 What did I expect?

[Illustration: Esther’s sticker]

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#writerscoffeeclub 17/05/2024 Other than writing drawing, what's your go-to creative outlet

I voluntarily concentrate only on one artistic expression. I believe that in order to reach the quality I want, I must dedicate all my time and energy on becoming a better comic artist.

[Illustrations: then and now]

#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots #thenandnow

2023 vs 2024: changing brush as changed everything
2023 vs 2024: changing brush as changed everything
2020 vs 2022 1st page

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01/05/2024 Introduce your setting as if it's a character in your story.

The McAlistair mansion POV: “I’m currently the host of Esther and her strange little maid. Before I belonged to Esther’s husband, but he wasn’t with them when they came back from the colonies. Something has happened there, I don’t know what, but it makes Esther ill. The little strange maid tries her best to help.”

[Illustration: The mansion]

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#wordweavers 07/05/2024 What behaviors does your characters' society encourage?

As in the actual Victorian era, women are supposed to spouse a man and then to stay confined in the role of mother and home’s mistress. They are expected to be modest and discreet.

[Illustration: Esther and her old husband]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

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08/05/2024 What behaviors does your characters' society discourage?

For a woman : being a free and independent, someone who stands for herself instead of staying in the shadows of her man, someone proud of herself, someone sexually very active (and not shy about it), well, everything Lady d’Arcy is.

[Illustration: Esther meeting Lady d’Arcy in the 2022 version]

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#wordweavers 09/05/2024 Does your MC agree with 7&8?

At the beginning of the story, Esther was fully complying to 7 and she was very upset by Lady d’Arcy. But what happened in the undergrounds of the Chamberlain’s Seminary will open her new perspectives… but is it possible to take Lady d’Arcy’s freedom of without embracing all the bad sides? That’s one of the main questions of the story

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10/05/2024 Antagonist POV: What do you like the most about yourself?

Lady d’Arcy: «In all honesty, everything! I’m perfect now that I use dark magic to rejuvenate and enhance myself!»

[Illustration: Arts of Lady d’Arcy depicting her perfect curves]

Lady d’Arcy is lying on a couch, she wears a red silky corset, with matching underwear and gloves. She smiles in a mocking way. She caresses a depressed Esther who is lying her head on Lady D’Arcy hips

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#wordweavers 11/05/2024 Who is the best leader in your story?

Lady d’Arcy: best as «the most effective», because morally…: In her relationship with Sir James, she’s the leader, and she used his influence to create a sect of worshippers who participate in black masses and orgies.
After the exile, she creates the Seminary, and for this, she needs to train Erie and a few other leonines as maiden.

[Illustrations: Black mass with Lady d’Arcy]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

Zoom on the black mass: a pentacle in a circle is drawn on the ground, with candles: attendees, including Sir James, are welcoming a naked Lady d’Arcy

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#wordweavers 12/05/2024 Who is the best friend in your story?

Lady d’Arc… err no, not this time 😅 The best friend is probably Erié, although her official position is to be the maid. During the story, she will become closer and closer to Esther and ultimately, she will be far more than a friend.

[Illustrations: Esther and Erie walking on the seashore]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

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14/05/2024 What role do other writers have in your writing life?

Some have created interesting hashtags here on Mastodon :) Answering daily prompts helps me to refine my ideas (and keep in touch with some beings)

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