In Friendship and Gratitude!

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I just noticed I'm hitting 100k pageviews in less than a month. :dummy:

Should I offer some kind of kiriban prize?

:new: So the 100k came and went and I found myself too busy to do anything with it... I've been working really hard on this story in Woohooligan - Amy's adventures in heaven and hell - as a kind of parody of Dante's Divine Comedy. That's been taking up a lot of my time, when I'm not busy with software engineering work, errands (I'm the only driver in a house of seven), and household chores. And people have been really enjoying it :la: for which I'm truly grateful. I've been working hard to transition from engineering as my main source of income to entertainment -- making you guys laugh, obviously! It's a really challenging road and I really actually can't see the road... I don't know how I'm going to get there from here... but I'm making steady progress and I'm going to keep going. :nod:

Also I'm truly grateful for all you guys, my wonderful DA family! :tighthug: I just got through going through the list of people I watch here and removed almost half of them. A lot of the people I removed haven't been active on here in a year or more. I know I've heard people here lately talking about DA being a "ghost town" and I don't think so... that's not how I would describe it. Most of the people who I've made good friendships with here are still here, so I think right now DA is more like the after-party at a convention. After all the casual fans have gone, the truly committed remain and have a great time! :nod:

The reason I found myself going through my friend list here is because I've been feeling kind of frustrated in the past couple weeks as I've worked on the last couple updates. These two strips that featured Ayn Rand in hell and I didn't want to just throw them together, I wanted my treatment of Rand to be reasonably close to reality, which meant I did a lot of research and reading on her beliefs and her life. Watched several videos of interviews she gave. And I have to say that, while I think I've done a decent job keeping my wits, studying Rand has been somewhat challenging. I imagine people who work in criminal psychology have a similar issue -- it's difficult to continually expose yourself to that kind of consistent negativity without it affecting you in not always desirable ways. In the last comic I tried in the commentary actually to humanize Rand, because I wanted to try and help myself and others have a better understanding of the apparently sort of tortured internal life she had. And I think the comic ended up being heavier than I wanted it to be...

Having this experience reminded me that I've made a lot of really good friends here on DA, and that I haven't talked to many of them in a while now. So I cleaned out my metaphorical closet and I sent notes to a handful of people I haven't talked to in a while... and hugs to people I'd like to know better. :nod: Being autistic, I often just forget to keep in touch with friends, so I'm trying to change that and be a better friend. :nod: If by chance you consider me a friend and I didn't note you, that probably means one of two things: 1) I think we talked pretty recently or 2) I just overlooked you in my friend list. In either case, feel free to drop me a note and I'll try not to let it sit in my inbox too long. :hug:

In other news I finally got a video up on my Patreon recently www.patreon.com/woohooligan and I put up a comic I made just specifically for the Patreon page as well... I have plans to make several more of those short strips for the Patreon page when I have time. In the meantime, I'm really grateful for the few supporters I already have over there. :nod: (Also I'm still considering switching the 20% discount and the access to the alt endings and bonus panels -- it's just that I'll have to go through about a hundred (?) updates and edit them each individually in order to make that happen, so it's another time issue.)

Oh, and yesterday's update is probably the last we're going to see of Ayn Rand for a little while... she was kind of an important plot point -- or at least related to one. Hopefully you'll understand in a few more updates ... there are at least three more major turning points coming up. :nod:

Also I'm really excited about Bernie Sanders campaign for the Presidency! :la:

Thank you all for reading and for being good friends. :hug:
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Droakir's avatar
Congrats man! Awesome stuff!