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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

writerobscura, to Writers
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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 #writers, 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.

#WritersCoffeeClub #writerdons

nautilebleu,
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@NaraMoore @sfwrtr @caointeoireacht thanks for tagging me ☺️ Is there a deadline ?

nautilebleu,
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Questions For Your OC: answer 3 questions as your main OC(s)

Then provide 3 new questions to pass on to the next creators.

I was tagged by @NaraMoore:

  1. If you could start over what would you do differently?
    As hard it is to admit, probably nothing because changing anything to make my life better at first would lead me to never cross Erie.

[1/3]

nautilebleu,
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  1. If you could go to any alternate universe and start over what would that universe be like?
    I learned that there’s universes like Valerian and Laureline or Star Trek in which a relation like mine with Erie wouldn’t be stigmatised. I would like to live in such universe.

  2. If you could instantly kill or save someone, including someone long dead, who would it be and why?
    I would save my brother, he didn’t deserve to take his own life so young.

[2/3]

nautilebleu,
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3 new questions:

  1. Life on Mars?
  2. Where is my mind?
  3. Should I Stay or Should I Go?

@AnnaSaultron
@Uddelhexe
@TheAuthorVivian

[3/3]

nautilebleu,
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@AnnaSaultron Yeep (and I already shared today a bunch of asses without anyway)

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)

18+ nautilebleu, to random
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#writerscoffeeclub 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]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

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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@NaraMoore If pictures are worth a thousand words, I just shared 133k words on those two pages. It´s not so bad I think 😉

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04/05/2024 What's the worst thing about being a writer artist?

According to Les Etats généraux de la bande dessinée (General States of the Comics), 33% of the comics artists were living below poverty level in France in 2017. Things didn’t change for the best since

A few months ago, a movement for a European artist status has been launched, including hashtags & I did a supporting art

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#writerscoffeeclub 05/05/2024 Is there a certain kind of story or arc that is easier for you to write as a short story than others?

Until now, and with the exception of the initial story, all Inktober have been prequels about the youth of a character:
⁃ 2020: Youth of the Chamberlain
⁃ 2022: Youth of Erie
⁃ 2023: Youth of Esther

[Illustration: first days of each Inktober]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

Inktober 2022 Day 01: Mrs Helen and her husband are travelling on a canoe to the Great North to meet the Leonines and evangelise them.
Inktober 2023 Day 01: Esther is dreaming about her teen years; the dream starts with her in the attic of her father’s mansion

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#writerscoffeeclub 06/05/2024 Have you ever copied a piece from another book or a movie as a homage to that work?

I do this all the time. It would require a long long thread to show all but here’s an example

[Illustrations: My interpretations of Serpieri’s Druuna covers]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

Left: Serpieri original art for Morbus Gravis, 1st issue of Druuna’s serie. Druuna is shown from her back, naked except a string, and looks over her left shoulder. She stands next to her lover Shaastar. His left arm is transformed into tentacles. Right: my version, with Lady d’Arcy in place of Druuna, and Sir James in place of Shaastar. Lady d’Arcy wears somewhat modern lingerie with corset, string and stockings.
Left: Serpieri original art for Creatura, 3rd issue of Druuna’s serie. Druuna is shown from her back, naked except a string, and looks to her reflection in a window. Behind the glass, there’s a monstrous creature with a big eye. Right: my version, with Esther in place of Druuna. She wears white lingerie with white corset, string, stockings and stilettos.

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]

nautilebleu,
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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?

👀*

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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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04/05/2024 answer has been posted at the wrong place https://mamot.fr/@nautilebleu/112381388231155658

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#wordweavers 05/05/2024 Are there characters or events that challenge your MC's belief system?

That’s the plot: the events at the Chamberlain’s Seminary will completely challenge the way Esther sees the world. I could quote @NaraMoore answer:
That the supernatural is real
⁃ The desirability of social conformity
⁃ That no one can be trusted (except Erié)
⁃ The world is a cursed place

[Illustration: cover of the 1st issue]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

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#wordweavers 06/05/2024 Who is your most fun character?

Hmm my story doesn’t leave much place for fun, but I would go with Lady D’Arcy. Being the villainess, she’s the one who can be the most funny, by her lack of moral limits and excesses.

[Illustration: the distracted boyfriend meme, but with my characters]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots #memes #distractedboyfriend

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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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#wordweavers 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]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

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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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#wordweavers 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]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

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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