Crave-The-Bullet

I don't remember how to insert an avatar image, but a user named Omnivoyance tagged me in a post.

It's one of those ones where you're supposed to do a bunch of shit, but I'm not going to mess with it.  I'm just answering the questions posed to me because I assume they are actually curious about what my response would be.

1) What question have you always wished someone would ask you, why, and what would be your answer?

Would you like these billions of dollars?  Yes, yes I would.

2) Have you ever felt the need to leave an online community that you once truly loved being a part of, why and what change, if any, would have made you stay?

I don't really call myself a Bronie anymore because neckbeards ruined it for everyone.

3) If you could live in any country in the world save the one you are in now or the one you were born in which would it be and why?

Canada, it's like the U.S. but more polite.  Fun fact, Australia would be next because it's like the U.S. but with a better attitude.

4) If you lived in a world where government tests determined you were best suited to be, and therefor HAD to be, a farmer but you could choose WHAT to farm then what would you pick to farm?

Farming doesn't really work like that. Most of the time you rotate kinds of crops so the soil doesn't get ruined. Most people don't even raise one kind of animal.  I'd probably raise milo, corn, wheat, barley, or something like that.

5) You have lost the ability to perform the skill that you enjoy MOST in life (art, music, sales, cooking, crafting, whatever) for the rest of your life... what would you do to replace that hole or would you go on at all?

Masturbate.

6) They just perfected robotic clones that once imprinted on the original can think enough like you to do things mostly the way you would want them done. Would you get one of these copy slaves? And if so what would you have it do for you?

I guess. Might as well have a copy of my excellence for when they rise up and kill all humans. 

7) You have been given control over what your next dream will be. What will you choose to dream of tonight?

A world where I'm me but in better shape.

8) You can only speak three more sentences before your ability to speak is gone forever. What will they be and to whom will you say them?

Might as well just save them.  I communicate mostly through text at work, and I can just type on my phone until I learn sigh language.

9) You have been given the power to green light any one, and only one, movie project you wish to be made. Likewise you can take any one, and only one, movie that has already been made and blot it out of existence as if it never was. What are your choices and why?

I'd make Between Failures and remove... Meh, I don't know. I don't hate any movie enough to get rid of it forever.  Not off the top of my head anyway.  Maybe that Batman Begins, or whatever. That way the whole trilogy would never exist and people would stop cosplaying as HL Joker.

10) I don't know you and you don't know me. Further more I tried to pick successful artists with better things to do in life. Sooo, why did you choose to answer the Tag of a random crazy?? o.0)'

See above.

So, I've been researching the cosplay scene for future comic stories and I've noticed some things that might be significant, or might be happenstance.  So far, pretty much all the people I've tried to talk to have been super shy and squirrely.  They don't have much to say, or are not used to articulating their experiences in text maybe.  Anyway, my theory is that they're all kind of shy but as soon as they get the costume on it's like flicking a switch in their head and all bets are off.  There's probably a term for that behavior already but I don't know what it would be.  It's also possible that they just think I'm some weird creeper and don't want to talk to me.  I'd prefer to think that they're just timid, since six years of webcomics would hopefully illustrate my legitimacy.  

Anyway, if you guys know any talkative cosplayers I would appreciate it if you could point me to them, on the off chance that I'm just shitty at picking them myself.  Ideally they should have body types similar to Carol or Alex, but anyone is potentially useful to me.  Also this includes furries who cosplay.  Like, just wearing ears or whatever isn't quite enough.  They need to have a fairly committed attitude towards the concept of wearing a costume.  Adopting the persona is kind of what I'm after.  Like I said though, anything to do with the scene could be useful.  You can even post stories in the comments if you have just one, or whatever.

I was tagged by Wendy W.  wendyw.deviantart.com/  I don't know how to do the icon thing.  There are rules to this I will now ignore.  I will, however, answer the questions because of friendship.  The best ship of all.

1. If you had to pick three words to sum up your day (which you do) what would they be?

Waste of time.

2. What's your favourite album?

The family one, I guess.

3. Frantobelgrot isn't a real word, but if it was what would it mean?

To frantically garrot someone.

4. What time is it and how long have you been awake?

9:10 PM  I'm not sure how long I've been awake.

5. Other than my comic what should I draw next?

Fanart for something you like.

6. Who'd win in a fight, steam-punk robot ferret or nine foot radioactive penguin?

Assuming the penguin is a large, regular, penguin, and suffering from radiation sickness, I'd say ferret.

7. What was the last film you saw at a cinema?

I think it was Marvel's The Avengers

8. Elephant, zebra or Ostrich?

Zebra

9. What's the best film in the world beginning with the letter T?

Tron

10. What's a good name for a frog?

Billious Slick

I'm not sure how to start this line of thinking.  It's not just that it's hard to guess a person's actual gender, but also their sexual preference.  People peg me as a dude based on my art right up until they see my name.  Then they get confused.  I've even had a couple of advances obvious enough that even I realised that they were trying to ask me out.  (Which is a whole other thing...)  

I have a hard time guessing gender but not sexuality because people I know are pretty open about what they want to fuck.  Determining their layout is the hard part.  Several girls I know are perfectly fine with drawing sexy women.  Some to the point that you start to wonder if they have leanings.  (Well, other people do.  I know them well enough to know that they know what sells.)  (It's sexy women.)

I feel like if I laid out a random assortment of images people couldn't correctly guess gender, but they might do well guessing their sexual preference.  

On the internet we basically "look" like whatever gender our sexual stereotypes match.  If you draw a lot of sexy girls people assume you're a dude and so on.  

It's interesting because if you don't match up you get a look in on what it's like to be what you aren't.  I think that's interesting.