[ SECRET POST #2665 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2665 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/R0VlVlD.png

[(Anonymous)]

When it comes to webcomics, "hiatus" is very often synonymous with suicide. The only surefire way to resist that end is to never try it.

[dreemyweird]

thiiis.

Instead of wishing for people to go on hiatus, I'd wish for them to plan their goddamn work and to be realistic about finishing it.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, to give an example of what I mean, one of the artists I'm talking about is now in art school to learn how to draw better. She keeps trying to keep up her weekly update schedule, and she keeps apologizing every time she misses an update or puts out an update with no backgrounds. It's pretty clear she's not going to be able to maintain a weekly schedule so long as she's in art school, and one way or another, she'll need to adjust to that eventually. I just don't want her to burn out before that.

Re: OP

[dreemyweird]

I can understand that. Here we have a change of circumstances which requires the author to re-examine their original plans. So maybe a hiatus (if they know how long it is going to take them to finish their studies) or a different update schedule would make sense.

I guess the situation I was thinking about was an artist's starting a comic and then beginning to struggle midway through because of RL and other seemingly minor factors. If that happens, a hiatus pretty much means the death of the project. And it is likely that they failed to properly plan their work.

ETA: in fact, maybe suggesting a different schedule could work?

Re: OP

[dinogrrl]

Yeah, this. A few comics I follow take planned breaks after each chapter/arc, or while the artist is in school. Waiting for the next update really sucks but I can deal with it. I'd rather an artist recognize their own limitations and RL constraints ahead of time (or recognize them as circumstances change) and account for them, than be caught by surprise/realize they have poor time management skills and burn themselves out trying to balance everything.

[(Anonymous)]

Also this. (I just came up with this metaphor, so it might not be exactly apt) It's kinda like the myth about going to sleep with a concussion: If you stay under for more than a set amount of time, irreparable damage or death is bound to follow. I mean, there's this one webcomic I followed that the author took a hiatus in like 2006/2007, and basically Murphy's law kicked in, tried a reboot in 2011, that didn't pan out, and now she's trying to get it going again like at the beginning of March, and its starting to squeak along again. Then there are just those that suddenly stopped and haven't been touched for years.

[(Anonymous)]

...wow.

No a webcomic going on hiatus (and possible never coming back off hiatus) is nothing nothing nothing like a person killing themselves. Wow way to be gross.

[dreemyweird]

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[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I think you may have that switched up, that the point is supposed to above them/their head, unless you were going for a slight twist or variation on that saying.

[dreemyweird]

"you went above the point"? "the point went below you"? lmao

I meant to picture "missing the point", so I didn't really think as to what order I should put them in. Maybe I did mix it up.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
Guess its just a semantic/cultural thing, because whenever I see stuff like this, the point is above the person, usually meaning that the point went over their head and didn't get it. Kinda like that see in the Jurassic Park movie where Laura Dern does a hand motion over her head and to signify to Jeff Goldblum that what he said didn't make any sense to her at all.

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, it wasn't a part of my cultural background. None of us did anything fancy with the idiom. If it was used, it was in its traditional form. So my using it is an Internet thing rather than something I habitually do.

Thanks for your comment, anon! The more you know :)

[(Anonymous)]

hiatus = death for a webcomic (or fanfic or whatever) for most people. Myself included; I can't tell you how many projects I had that I couldn't keep up with, which I eventually put on hiatus and then never ever even thought about returning to

[ex_mek82]

Eh, this is why if I ever do a webcomic, I'm getting the entire thing (or at least one story arc) done before I post it online.

As for hiatuses, I agree. I was following a webcomics by a couple artists I follow on Tumblr ('Broken' and 'Lost in the Vale', I believe they were called), and then they suddenly went on hiatuses (the former ended up getting hired by Boom! Studios for pro work; the latter... I'm not sure what happened after tablet problems) and then subsequently dropped off of my 'must read' grid altogether. And I gave up 'Ava's Demon' cold turkey during this current hiatus, because I realized the story was still going nowhere 800+ pages later. I'll probably binge read that in the summer (unless the author goes on yet another hiatus), though, because I hate myself like that. lmao.

tbh, between all of those and past comics I tried to get into -which again, met the "permanent hiatus" fate-, I'm pretty much done with the webcomic medium altogether. =/