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Post by Diablo on Dec 20, 2005 17:28:41 GMT -5
Finally, one of Jim Farris' stories that I cana ctually afford At any rate, don't you think Lucifer's eh... accent was a bit cliché? >.>
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Post by Kilarin on Dec 20, 2005 21:57:47 GMT -5
diablo: You can get all of the Jim Farris your heart desires for only $4.50 each from right hereSo, if you have access to a credit card or paypal account, that's about one happy meal. I must be missing something obvious again. What accent? Other than perhaps the "boom baby boom" reference? Kilarin
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Post by Xaa on Dec 20, 2005 23:11:22 GMT -5
diablo: You can get all of the Jim Farris your heart desires for only $4.50 each from right hereSo, if you have access to a credit card or paypal Erm... What you're missing is that he's saying "if it isn't free, I can't afford it." While I appreciate all my fans, I'm also in this to try to make a living. For those of you who are wondering, you really CAN get my e-books for less than the price of a paperback of a Happy Meal from McDonalds, and since you can get a debit card from your local bank for free even as a teenager and the price for these books is already rock bottom, well, there we are. Bottom line: If you can afford to go online and surf for freebies, you can also afford to help make those freebies possible for yourself and everyone else. This current project is bascally evolving into an experiment. Maybe it will work out, maybe it won't. But I'll amuse myself while I work on it, at least.
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Post by Xaa on Dec 21, 2005 5:09:40 GMT -5
Incidentally, I'm currently up to page 61 in production, and I'm posting them at one page a day (like an online comic). Readers of more sensitive dispositions are AGAIN warned that there is VIOLENCE in this story. If you are SENSITIVE to BLOOD AND GORE, please remember that YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Oh - and yes, there is lots of nudity in this story, too, in case you hadn't noticed by now, so if you're sensitive about seeing bare breasts or buttocks, again, you were warned. Oh, and let's not forget - irreverent humor and pop-culture references (many are subtle and not easily spotted, but they're there). If you're looking for 100% dead-serious writing, read one of my other books, I'm doing this for fun. Also, the plot and characters are also heavily derived from biblical sources (in case you hadn't figured that out yet), which means that some of you MAY feel your faith is being challenged. It's NOT. This is just a STORY. It's being written entirely for entertainment value, there is no attempt to prosetlyze or to challenge anyone's faith. Think of this as a kind of "Life of Brian" work. Except with bare boobies, and not as funny. And again, for those of you who just HAVE to know if any of this is my own real and personal beliefs, the answer is "No." My own views on faith and theology are presented in my novel, The Ship's Cat.
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Post by Diablo on Dec 21, 2005 12:07:57 GMT -5
well, I can afford your books (kinda), but I don't have a bank account, nor am I currently able to get one (as it stands, I can't even copy my own bloody signature) Anyways, my friend got me one of your books, which I am hoping is the first of the Mage series and Jim, SENSITIVE to BLOOD AND GORE? come on now, this is the internets we're talking about.
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Post by Xaa on Dec 21, 2005 12:17:58 GMT -5
[quote author=diablo board=otherbooks thread=1134158693 post=1135184877and Jim, SENSITIVE to BLOOD AND GORE? come on now, this is the internets we're talking about. [/quote] True. This is the crux of the problem - people figure that the Internet means "anything I don't like, I get to whine about and everyone has to listen to me."
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Post by Diablo on Dec 21, 2005 12:47:40 GMT -5
and Jim, SENSITIVE to BLOOD AND GORE? come on now, this is the internets we're talking about. True. This is the crux of the problem - people figure that the Internet means "anything I don't like, I get to whine about and everyone has to listen to me." Yes that is exactly how it works
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Post by Xaa on Dec 24, 2005 10:09:03 GMT -5
Running a little behind schedule, sorry. Why? Well, I've been needing to go to the dentist, I *finally* have the money now, and then suddenly... www.pntonline.com/affidavit.shtml...he's been arrested on an open charge of murder.
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Post by Diablo on Dec 25, 2005 19:19:51 GMT -5
you should just move to Canada, dentists are free
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Post by Xaa on Dec 25, 2005 19:24:37 GMT -5
you should just move to Canada, dentists are free I hear the streets are paved with gold there, too, and that Canadian women actually LIKE sex.
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Post by Diablo on Dec 25, 2005 19:34:04 GMT -5
Yes it is all true
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Post by Kilarin on Dec 27, 2005 1:13:13 GMT -5
Xaa: Well, THAT'S disturbing. NOT something you want to find out about a guy who uses a drill on your teeth.
Kilarin
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Post by Kilarin on Dec 28, 2005 9:46:47 GMT -5
Well, I'd say our demon lord is short a few important parts. Which does, I suppose, make it much easier to do a graphic novel without making people scream about obscenity vs art. Although, one COULD say that the absent entity is hardly missing since it has already been present since near the begining of the novel. Kilarin
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Post by Xaa on Dec 28, 2005 11:00:21 GMT -5
Well, I'd say our demon lord is short a few important parts. 1) Interestingly, the model doesn't come with genitalia (called "gen" or "gens" in the plural by the Poser community). "Gens" are available that will work with him, but I don't want to pay $30 for male genitalia, sorry - I don't think I'd ever be able to justify that to myself. This is a trivial modeling issue I'll fix at a later point. Note, however... 2) From a story perspective, this form is the demonic equivalent of wearing pants. As we discover in future pages, "supernaturals" (demons, devils, angels, etc) have the ability to change pretty much anything about themselves at will, using what's called "Incidental magic". This was briefly mentioned by Lucifer early on, and is repeated again (and expanded upon) in later pages. As such, we can presume that when/if certain body parts may be required, he'll have them. 3) Even when I do fix this issue, you're still not going to see full frontal male nudity. For those who are crushed and disappointed by this news, I extend my apologies, but I have no real interest in making pictures of male genitalia. 4) For the same reason, Satin has no genitalia, either - just a very shallow indentation that sometimes when the shadows fall just right kind of suggest something under the fur. But, as you can see by the attached image, there's really nothing there. 5) As you can tell by the plot so far, this is not a children's story. There are some pretty deep theological elements (which probably flew right over some heads, but didn't with others), and near-constant toplessness by the main character (yes, there's actually a reason for it, but it's not going to be obvious to most). And yes, there is actually sex (coitus) in the story. However, I'm not writing porn, here. If I WAS, you damn well wouldn't be seeing it for free, you'd be paying good money for it. As such, since this isn't porn, that means I'm never going to do a picture for this story that shows erections, graphic sexual contact, coitus, or anything else along those lines; sexual contact happens "off camera." Use your imagination, because I'm not going to do the pics for it. 6) Given the above, that means photo-realistic, anatomically correct and posable genitalia have zero priority and are not likely to ever be seen in this story. Sorry, I already worked that joke for all it was worth on page 4 and 5.
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Post by Kilarin on Dec 28, 2005 18:36:30 GMT -5
Xaa: I'm surprised I haven't seen that offer in a spam... ;D Which, sexists as this sounds, will certainly improve my enjoyment of the story! Honestly though, I know I can't be a fair judge, I'm VERY heterosexual, and there is just no way to separate that fact and my cultural background out of the judgment. BUT, women, in my opinion, are just more artistically beautiful than men. Eroticism aside, the female body has nice curves and a well proportioned pleasing shape. Now an athletic healthy male ALSO has artistic merit, but once you take off the loin cloth, well, he just looks silly or rude. I'm not saying we should put a fig leaf on Michelangelo's David, just that women look better. Which SEEMS like an artistic statement to me, but, like I said, I KNOW I'm prejudiced. Kilarin
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