Eat Your Heart Out

Eat Your Heart Out

Things can get weird when you’re born under the Sign of the Atronach. Like, you can cast amazing spells that most could never even dream of! But you also spend all your time THINKING about magicka and scrounging for magicka potions/ingredients and clearing out all the Mage’s Guild’s supply chests and budgeting your magicka and obsessing over it.

Sometimes (early in the game) I even found myself seeking out bandit caves, thinking “bandits usually have at least one mage in their group…” then finding said mage, and just standing there letting him bathe me in flames so I could absorb some magicka back.

And yes, I have chowed down on raw daedra hearts. Void and frost salts are just TOO DARN RARE! And I almost always did have, like, 50 lbs of daedra hearts. Sooooooo…

(Of course, once I installed the Blood Moon expansion and there were just piles of belladonna berries lying around on the ground, things didn’t feel quite so lean…)

Julie d’Aubigny

So I did this year’s 24 Hour Comic Day about my own personal hero, Julie d’Aubigny. AKA Mademoiselle Maupin.

Fencing and kissing. Fencing and kissing.

I’m less happy that I didn’t come up with my own original story for this year’s comic, but I just was hitting a block so I just started drawing Julie d’Aubigny’s life story. It is something!

Other people seem to like it well enough, though. It is hard to go wrong with fencing and kissing on every page!

Seen Any Elves?

Seen Any Elves?

One of the things that Nords apparently love to say over and over is “Seen any ELVES??” And then they burst out cackling like they just said the funniest thing in the world.

And I just don’t get it. At all. Like, is it supposed to be a threat? Is it supposed to be funny? What is going on?

I don’t think Master Aryon understands what the Nords are going on about, either, but Steen just needed to vent. And I’m sure Aryon has… opinions on Nords.

I’ve also just noticed that apparently, in this comic, Mistress Steen and Master Aryon live in the Desert Golfing world. This was unintentional, but this is my headcanon now.

Also, I’m going to go do 24 Hour Comics Day tomorrow… and I’m super nervous. I don’t know why I put myself through this every year, but I’m always glad that I do.