Olfactory memory is a weird goddamned thing, the fact that a smell can sometimes trigger a better and clearer memory than a photograph or an accurate description never ceases to me amaze me. The comic is based on my reaction to the smell of a water-based lubricant because the smell reminded me of a different type of viscous goo. It’s a smell that took me back to childhood, and that’s not desired when wafting sex lube. It might be some people’s thing to mentally revisit their eighth birthday party in the middle of a romantic evening, but I don’t think I’ll be picking up that particular lubricant again. Maybe I’ll go for the one that smells like grape soda because I’m sure that won’t trigger anything.
This was one of the last comics I did in 2018, I continued the same pace throughout most of 2019 until I couldn’t keep up with the comic and school anymore. I was obsessed with keeping my GPA at an optimum level and I ran on four or five hours of sleep most nights, which isn’t the safest condition to be in when making long commutes to school and working two jobs. It was also toward the end of 2018 that I started to question why I was still working two jobs, and how it could be a good use of my time to sell televisions and computer parts to people. I kept putting out three comics a week partway through 2019, until I decided to focus only on school. There were a couple that I made in 2020, but most of what I created in the last few years were random art pieces and concepts for long-form comics.
New things are being created and will find their way here soon. I have several new comics ready to go when I transfer the old IG comics here. I’m not drawing three comics a week again at this point as I’m sometimes busy with my other work but will stick to two a week with a third post each week of a concept sketch or painting. It’s not worth it to return to next to no sleep because doing that for long stretches was doing weird shit to my brain. What’s oddly good for my brain though is my job, as I get to talk to interesting people with troubled backgrounds, and it also helps give my degree a purpose.
Friday will be a double post of artworks and comics, with more explanations of why these things exist. Zelda streams are still a thing when I have time and I hope to complete Breath of the Wild before the next one arrives at my doorstep. My Steam Deck also arrived and is more capable of handling my art applications than I expected, but there will be more time for those digressions later.