(Oh, I should remember to check DW more often! I missed the whole discussion. Though this is the first free time I've had all week.)
I try to be patient with commenters even when they get argumentative but that question kind of threw me off guard. I thought she might be asking because there is a good bit of unexplored story in X-2 that might be interesting to address in comic form but nope! She just wanted to see the baby. :| I mean, I understand a lot of people following me don't know me well enough to know that the stupid baby plot is dynamically opposed to everything I hold dear about FFX, but even so that was a bit oblivious. (If you get a chance to see the stuff I put up on Patreon this month . . . I have some emphatic anti-Vidina opinions, haha.)
It's tiring sometimes - especially when there's a Tuna Tsunami suspiciously soon after I post certain pages - but it's rewarding to see there ARE some people who understand and appreciate what I'm doing even if they are few in number. So thank you for championing Guardian as always. :) All I can do is hope that by the end more people will understand that it's not just a novelization-type straight retelling but an exploration of all of the reasons WHY Lulu volunteers to become the Final Aeon, which I feel is the defining moment of her character arc and also not given nearly enough emphasis in the game. (As I know you well know and understand.)
Sister Claire really is an excellent comic in terms of representation. It has a large, diverse cast of characters, most of whom, since the main plot arc is about a war between witches and magical nuns, are women. So naturally there is a very satisfying amount of time spent exploring different types of female relationships and there has been since the beginning. Also, as I've mentioned before, NONE of the main characters are straight. (And not all of them are lesbian, either; there are bi, ace, trans, and genderfluid characters as well.) But, although it's gotten a lot of criticism for being soapboxy or "trying too hard" to be representative of different sexualities, I think it's a good example of a story where the characters' non-heteronormativity isn't their defining trait or what's driving the plot. (It's not a comic about a bunch of gay nuns; it's a comic about a bunch of nuns who happen to be, among other things, gay.) And even if the diversity point does come across a bit forcefully, it's one that needs to be made.
But when people started complaining this week about Azi the wolf-witch offhandedly mentioning she had a girlfriend because "there are no straight romances in this comic that we can relate to!!" I literally yelled out loud "Well now you know how we feel!!" :P
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Date: 2016-03-12 02:54 am (UTC)I try to be patient with commenters even when they get argumentative but that question kind of threw me off guard. I thought she might be asking because there is a good bit of unexplored story in X-2 that might be interesting to address in comic form but nope! She just wanted to see the baby. :| I mean, I understand a lot of people following me don't know me well enough to know that the stupid baby plot is dynamically opposed to everything I hold dear about FFX, but even so that was a bit oblivious. (If you get a chance to see the stuff I put up on Patreon this month . . . I have some emphatic anti-Vidina opinions, haha.)
It's tiring sometimes - especially when there's a Tuna Tsunami suspiciously soon after I post certain pages - but it's rewarding to see there ARE some people who understand and appreciate what I'm doing even if they are few in number. So thank you for championing Guardian as always. :) All I can do is hope that by the end more people will understand that it's not just a novelization-type straight retelling but an exploration of all of the reasons WHY Lulu volunteers to become the Final Aeon, which I feel is the defining moment of her character arc and also not given nearly enough emphasis in the game. (As I know you well know and understand.)
Sister Claire really is an excellent comic in terms of representation. It has a large, diverse cast of characters, most of whom, since the main plot arc is about a war between witches and magical nuns, are women. So naturally there is a very satisfying amount of time spent exploring different types of female relationships and there has been since the beginning. Also, as I've mentioned before, NONE of the main characters are straight. (And not all of them are lesbian, either; there are bi, ace, trans, and genderfluid characters as well.) But, although it's gotten a lot of criticism for being soapboxy or "trying too hard" to be representative of different sexualities, I think it's a good example of a story where the characters' non-heteronormativity isn't their defining trait or what's driving the plot. (It's not a comic about a bunch of gay nuns; it's a comic about a bunch of nuns who happen to be, among other things, gay.) And even if the diversity point does come across a bit forcefully, it's one that needs to be made.
But when people started complaining this week about Azi the wolf-witch offhandedly mentioning she had a girlfriend because "there are no straight romances in this comic that we can relate to!!" I literally yelled out loud "Well now you know how we feel!!" :P