heliothaumic: updates tuesday and saturday

Kiyohara Takako, Ph.D., Sc.D., F.R.S. has rather a lot of tattoos. And, as time goes by, they steadily increase in number. Since she’s been wearing a suit for this entire chapter, she might already have a new tattoo!

But instead of me just sort of making something up at the last minute, let’s make things more interesting–

THE AMAZING INCREDIBLE DESIGN TAKAKO’S NEXT TATTOO CONTEST
I’m giving you folks a chance to make an mark on the comic! Also win fancy prizes.

Here’s how it works: Send an image of your design for Takako’s tattoo (including where it should go), along with a brief description of why you think Takako would emblazon herself with it, to BLRiley@gmail.com in an email with “Takako” in the subject line.

A Grand Prize Winner will have their tattoo in the comic basically forever. They’ll also receive a free, full-color commissioned drawing from me of whatever they want!

2 Runners-up will each receive a free, full-color commissioned drawing.

3 honorable mentions will receive black and white commissions.

The deadline is March 19th, and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter. Remember that Takako is a horrible nerd with no taste at all, so be as creative and weird as you like.

EDIT: Whoops, the original wording wasn’t clear. The design should be sent in the form of an image.

EDIT EDIT: Here is a reference of Takako’s current tattoos. NSFW since she’s naked and stuff. :V

whoops i miscalculated when i’d be less totally busy with stupid stuff

Perhaps this was obvious from the fact that the “Tuesday” comic went up on, like, Thursday or whatever. D:

It’s cleared up now but I need a bit to get back on schedule, so I’m going to delay the next comic until Tuesday, so from there I can be back on schedule, rather than just fall more and more behind and be off-schedule forever.

Hopefully from here on out it will be smooth sailing.

The fan art gallery us been updated with neat drawings of Takako from blaze and Travis Tye! Check it out!

Also it’s the end of the decade I guess.

For the first half or so of January, I will be horribly bogged down in various things– mostly related to graduate school applications and boring crap like that, but also a secret project which may interest some of you– so the comic will update on Saturdays only until January 19th, when (D.V.) the customary Tuesday page will go up. This only translates to three missed comics, but I’ll still be taking the donation buttons off the site for January since I don’t feel right accepting donations when I’m not living up to my schedule.

Anyway, I apologize for the inconvenience. Come back for a new comic on Saturday, where we finally see what Akira is up to while the rest of our cast eats croissants and rides around on the tube.

I am too exhausted to lift pencil to paper, and am going to have to miss the Saturday update in hopes of regaining the sort of sleep schedule a human being might have.

There is some neat new stuff for you to look at as you wait until the Tuesday page, though. The cast page, broken since the site’s redesign, is now back, entirely rewritten and brought up to date. There’s kind of a neat, passporty theme to it, so you can pretend you’re a mooring mast panopticon as you read profiles of pretend elves or whatever.

There are also shiny new forums, since the old forums were bloated and horrible and ugly. The new forum is fully integrated with the wordpress installation the rest of the site runs off of, so if you register on one you can post on the other with the same account.

ok time to fall asleep zzzzz