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Directember: Practical Advice
🕑 Added 2024-12-22 21:30:43 +0000 UTCI think out of all the characters in my comic, Willow is the one I most wish I had more time and opportunity to focus on. Her personality, attitude, and character design are all just so fun! But as it stands she's kind of peripheral to the periphery of the main cast, if that makes any sense. I expect that to change, or at least I hope it does. As fun as it is writing awful gremlins (Liz, Marigold) and dumpster fires (May, Ayo, Anh...), there's something even more fulfilling about writing a character who is Just A Goober Trying Their Best.
I think I might start drawing comics again tomorrow. We'll see!
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Kenneth Fair
She progressed past Dumpster Fire to Goober Trying to Do Her Best, and is now at Badass Who Doesn’t Realize It (with Dora, Bubbles, and Claire).
enchantedsleeper
They should DEFINITELY meet!
ValdVin
In one scene at Union Robotics didn't Bubbles expound on the practical limits of AI physiology? That would explain why AIs might like yoga, and how it may prove a challenege. (Plus cool worldbuilding.)
Sean Kinlin
Power Gas Cooperative Energy
Clarence the Liar
The comic began with Marten as Just A Goober Trying His Best and it's gone pretty well for him all things considered.
Tonda Anderson
I love Willow. I get her. More Willow, please.
Hugh Eckert
I love all these characters, and the yoga stories in general.
Hugh Eckert
PGCE seems like an acronym for a power company...
David Sowa
I have quite enjoyed the December commentary and would be happy to have it be an annual tradition. Jeph you are clever and thoughtful creator and I continue to look forward to seeing what you have come up with each day.
MayLaBelle
I think we've seen (tall) Momo doing yoga at least once
Miyaa
I’ve never understood that expression. I do understand that Willow & Melon should never meet just as Emmett and Liz should never meet.
Melissa Wilson
As in bright & warm & crackly & wildly unsafe?
enchantedsleeper
She does right up until she gets stuck, anyway.
enchantedsleeper
Given that Anh probably has a mansion, I think they'd move in with her x3
William Cole
Iris enjoys being "better" at it than any meatsack.
Barty
I want only three of them to rhyme, just not the ones that do.
Carl Fink
Remember when Hannelore was a dumpster fire?
Patrick
I have been really loving these Directember posts. I hope they become a regular thing. Both because I enjoy the behind the scenes peeks, and because Jeph deserves to take time off.
Jose Alfredo Villalobos
I forgot what Marigold looked without glasses. I thought it was a new character I forgot about.
Amelia Lewis
"Like"?
Doc Gumby
Willow is a strong and Dangerous person.
John H
Would robots enjoy yoga?
SilverbackRon
But it is so fun to watch Iris stumble and fumble while Willow goes blissfully on.
SilverbackRon
I loved that story line. So relatable!
Clifton Royston
Solemn voice: All of us, even the greatest among us, are just goobers trying our best.
ValdVin
AWOOOOO!
Ursus Ridens
Aw, I never thought of Marigold as an awful gremlin..as we met her, she seemed just someone very intelligent but with practically no social confidence, and overwhelmed by some aspects of life that others deal with routinely (e.g., keeping one's quarters minimally clean). Liz, on the other hand....
Holly Nelson
Like, screaming, running, roofs falling in?
Kith penDragon
"Just a goober trying their best" is a mood and a half!
SheepFace2000
Willow is probably my second favourite of the “new cast” just behind Liz. I’m partial to gremlins and cinnamon buns what can I say.
Miyaa
When does Ahn Dang move into the household?
Nicolas Demers
The English language is always a wild ride :D
Hope Power
The bit where everyone thinks she's hitting on them was, like, my entire growing up and being trans without knowing it. I just wanted to be one of the girls and it was the highlight of my week to meet new femme folks. I never realized how it looked.
Chris Warren
I still love the dumpster fires the most. :)
Sean Kinlin
Pass Gas Class Embarass I want all these words to rhyme, but they don't.
jonesnori
That's not a bad idea! We'll see what Jeph thinks, though.
BookBeard
It never occurred to her! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4757
Mer W
Same here!
BookBeard
It might be replaceable anyway, I mean we know robot noses are a thing, albeit with certain limitations. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2938
BookBeard
It was a collaborative effort between Willow and Pintsize. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4555
Jessica Kotarski
The one where she realises people might have gotten the wrong idea when she "chats people up" to make friends is one of my Willow favourites.
Waffles the Mooose
Didn't Willow invent my favorite word ever? Tijubas? Tijubas Tijubas Tijubas.
Populuxe
I think I want that on my tombstone: “He was just a goober trying his best.”
Sarah
Ah, Willow. The reason my legal middle name is dragonfang.
Michael Steamweed
Willow and Moray remind me of each other. Similar positive outlooks on everything.
Mitsuki Ayane
Willow is another character in my will they wont they list that I really wish we got more of, her and Iris getting into a relationship will probably never happen as Iris is too Tsun and Willow is... oblivious ~<3
Claudia D.
Rob A & Devin>>> GREAT idea(s)!
enchantedsleeper
The caption on this particular comic is amazingly grim 🤣 I'm gonna headcanon that they were an AI instructor and the eye was replaceable
Freid
I LOVE Directember! 💕🤛
Mark
I love the way you write goobers trying their best, and Willow is my favorite one!
enchantedsleeper
(I could see a comic where Willow gives Beeps pick-me-up advice)
enchantedsleeper
Omg yes, Willow and Beeps could have a goober-off
Ben R
Try a peripheral characters ball...er, party
Lyman Green
I like willow
Devin Gates
Yeah, like 4 days of new, then two commentaries to round out the sched
Rob A
I’m with you. Friday Commentary throwback, give you an extra day a week to recharge creatively?
Víctor A. Torre
I have to say I wouldn't mind if you would keep doing these kind of commentaries after you resume the publication.
Wynn Donivan
Beepatrice is my favorite Goober Trying Their Best
enchantedsleeper
I'm here for more of the Chaos Household, which is Willow, Iris, Yemisi and Ayo xD (Pintsize, Marten and Faye's flat used to be the Chaos Household but things have chilled out a little with the addition of Claire and Bubbles)
Captain Button
Awful Gremlins is a good name for a band.
Egos
Willow is a whole vibe
legobil
Willful Goobers Trying Their Best: Beeps, Elliot, comes to mind 🥰
Orion Rhine
Willow is an absolute disaster, and that's why we love her.
Matthias Urlichs
I vehemently disagree WRT the "awful gremlin" part.
Vilinda
No rush! Willow is great though!
Wednesday
Good luck!
Rosilin
Willow and Melon need to meet, they'd get a long like a house on fire!
