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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 21, 2009 11:49:22 GMT -5
At least that's all he's biting. :3 Or IS it? You can't see what Akagane's left hand is up to, after all.  |
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Post by milareppa on Jul 21, 2009 13:10:26 GMT -5
Well, it may be hard to envisage after you've focused us so completely on Akagane being hung up on Hisui, but we don't know what you're going to do with little Wan-chan's future...
I'm not a yaoi fan, but it would be stupid for me to ignore the history of the japanese upper classes when reading Japanese-based stories, just as reading Ancient Greek stories would be pointless if I wasn't willing to accept male/male erotica in the classics as well.
That was a really good piece of art.
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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 21, 2009 18:06:09 GMT -5
Well, it may be hard to envisage after you've focused us so completely on Akagane being hung up on Hisui, but we don't know what you're going to do with little Wan-chan's future... I'm not a yaoi fan, but it would be stupid for me to ignore the history of the japanese upper classes when reading Japanese-based stories, just as reading Ancient Greek stories would be pointless if I wasn't willing to accept male/male erotica in the classics as well. That was a really good piece of art. The fact that it turned out well was pretty much the only reason I felt the need to post it. I'm not a yaoi fan at all, either, and I assure you that the two of us are straight enough to be secure enough in our sexualities that I don't take a piece like this too personally, especially since it wasn't drawn in any seriousness. I was just in... a really weird mood last night. ^_^* |
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Post by ladyjanegrey on Jul 21, 2009 23:31:51 GMT -5
I refuse to speculate, on the grounds that it may incriminate me. ;D
I'm not against yaoi/yuri, but most stuff I've read is so over-the-top, it's ridiculous.
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Post by Taisira on Jul 24, 2009 11:03:36 GMT -5
Something just occured to me. Slightly off topic (okay, more than slightly), but is your navbar outsourced, or are you manually editing the links on each page? Same question applies to the drop down for the chapter menu of memoirs. I ask because that is a hell of a lotta pages to be editing manually if you are. EDIT: Okay, I kinda answered my own question. Your chapter menu is outsourced, but your navbar isn't. I'm pretty sure if you put your navbar code into a PHP file, and include it on the pages, it should work. That way if you ever have to update your navbar, you won't have to fix 50 bajillion pages. Not sure exactly why I thought of that just now.   (and sorry I put this here, I just don't know if you check other threads anymore) |
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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 24, 2009 13:31:31 GMT -5
Something just occured to me. Slightly off topic (okay, more than slightly), but is your navbar outsourced, or are you manually editing the links on each page? Same question applies to the drop down for the chapter menu of memoirs. I ask because that is a hell of a lotta pages to be editing manually if you are. EDIT: Okay, I kinda answered my own question. Your chapter menu is outsourced, but your navbar isn't. I'm pretty sure if you put your navbar code into a PHP file, and include it on the pages, it should work. That way if you ever have to update your navbar, you won't have to fix 50 bajillion pages. Not sure exactly why I thought of that just now. (and sorry I put this here, I just don't know if you check other threads anymore) Yeah, the chapter menu is a JavaScript file that every page references, so I just have to update the listing in that file and everything else updates accordingly. And, yes, the menu bar to the left is hard-coded to every page, and, yes, I have had a number of times where I had to go through and manually fix something on every page. I've attempted to toss the navbar code into an external file for every page to reference, but for some reason it never formats right and the images don't line up to the rest of the page anymore. Possibly because it's a table whose size is dependent on the rest of the page. I'm not really much of a web-coding guru, anyway. The page formatting was just done in Photoshop and chopped apart there, and it belched out all the code for me. The old Inu Goya site was hand-coded, so it's much simpler and kinda ugly. |
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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 24, 2009 18:26:28 GMT -5
Back on topic, and while I'm still piecing together the next arc... After reading through hanyou-no-miko's Enrai doujinshi, I was wondering... Is there any part of the Memoirs that people would like to see put into comic format? I'm not nearly so ambitious to try to illustrate anything too substantial, but perhaps something that could be depicted in five pages or fewer would be manageable on my part. If this is something people might want to see and if they have any scenes in mind, let me know. |
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Post by ladyjanegrey on Jul 24, 2009 19:42:29 GMT -5
Hmmm. That's hard. All of the story is so interesting, I would say Everything. ;D HaHa. But, really, I can't think of any part of the story that you could cover in so short a "space?" In a manga you know, it takes at least 18 pages to cover a chapter. And that often doesn't cover a whole plotline. It would feel unfinished. I think one of the funniest scenes is where Bokasano suggests that you go "piddle" on one of the other trees. Hehehehehehe...  |
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Post by Taisira on Jul 24, 2009 21:04:56 GMT -5
Yeah, the chapter menu is a JavaScript file that every page references, so I just have to update the listing in that file and everything else updates accordingly. And, yes, the menu bar to the left is hard-coded to every page, and, yes, I have had a number of times where I had to go through and manually fix something on every page. I've attempted to toss the navbar code into an external file for every page to reference, but for some reason it never formats right and the images don't line up to the rest of the page anymore. Possibly because it's a table whose size is dependent on the rest of the page. I'm not really much of a web-coding guru, anyway. The page formatting was just done in Photoshop and chopped apart there, and it belched out all the code for me. The old Inu Goya site was hand-coded, so it's much simpler and kinda ugly. Ah. Gotcha. Sorry it didn't work out well. I would hate having to hand edit that many pages. Back on topic, I, like ladyjanegrey, don't have much of an idea for something you could do in such a short span. I also caution you not to get too distracted. Split yourself in too many directions and you'll never get back to the story itself. I have fallen victim to it a few times. Heh. ^_^ |
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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 27, 2009 12:06:15 GMT -5
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Post by Taisira on Jul 28, 2009 13:25:14 GMT -5
I said it there and I'll say it here. That is just pure genius. You have skills, man. ^_^
EDIT: Once the story is over, if you're ambitious enough, you could publish a doujinshi of Memoirs. That would be AWESOME. Especially as (hopefully) the series is about to get a whole lot more popular again.
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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 28, 2009 13:41:00 GMT -5
I said it there and I'll say it here. That is just pure genius. You have skills, man. ^_^ EDIT: Once the story is over, if you're ambitious enough, you could publish a doujinshi of Memoirs. That would be AWESOME. Especially as (hopefully) the series is about to get a whole lot more popular again. It's a loooong way from being over, though. I've got this next arc to get through that's for shedding more light on what's up with my mother and kind of bigger things that are going on, then an arc after that where Akagane comes back, which'll eventually lead into me gaining my status, then some stories about dealing with that newfound responsibility, meeting Sessmom, having Sesshoumaru, meeting Izayoi, having Inuyasha, me dying... there's a long way to go. |
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Post by Taisira on Jul 28, 2009 23:10:01 GMT -5
True. I wasn't expecting it to be sometime soon. I'll still be here, no matter how many years it takes; I'll promise you that. I'm so glad that you've managed to get this far with it and still intend to move forward. In my experience, most good fanfic authors end up abandoning their stories long before this point. You have made me a happy person. ^_^
I can't wait until you get to meeting Sessmom. While the manga did give us an appearance, I would've liked to see more of her.
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Post by milareppa on Jul 29, 2009 5:38:15 GMT -5
I did think of a couple of examples that might be fun to see illustrated... but my internet connection went down and it looks like my post never made it through (I've given it over a day).
I think I thought of the time when our intrepid hero was wading through the mess that Akagane's home and found the broken sword. I thought that might interesting - not just to see the sword, but how you envisage the mess of his home.
The other was the moment when Akagane revealed himself before Hisui's father and suitor wearing Hisui's kimono. Wan-chan's attitude was funny and the scene itself lends itself to a moment of visual comedy.
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That said, I'm looking forward to your take on Sesshoumaru's mother, where you feel Sesshoumaru went slightly wrong in his path (okay, I'm British, known for classic understatement, so when I say "slightly wrong" you can guess what I really mean), the difficulties in your relationship with Izayoi (there must have been some, given how much youkai/human pairings are despised in both societies) and Inuyasha's arrival in the world.
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Post by Inu-papa on Jul 29, 2009 12:24:21 GMT -5
I really should be doing something more productive:  Work it, Mini-me! |
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