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Today's News:
It is NOT required reading for this story arc, BUT! They're referencing a canon event from the EGSNP storyline Double Date. An inevitable "wait, what" moment will prompt elaboration at some point.
Though the EGSNP story is there, as is the specific moment:
This sort of thing is why I'm more hesitant to have canon EGSNP storylines of significance, though this sort of "it happened in a side story" does come up sometimes in a lot of series, but it can make me nervous.
Anyway, it's been at least a week in-universe since Catalina had to be saved by convoluted magickery. That's genuinely not super critical information, I just know someone somewhere will wonder. That does mean it took quite a while for these four to finally go on a double-date after Rhoda "suggested" it, but to my mind, that's a realistic thing that happens with people.
"We should do this thing!"
—One million years later—
"We're doing the thing!"
Maybe I just know a lot of procrastinators and socially awkward people, but it feels legit to me.
Names!
It was only after I had finished a LOT of this page when I realized that, even after previous pages of making sure names got used, not a single name was used on this page.
Not wanting to redo a bunch of it, I decided to resort to the name narration labels.
Though, now that I think of it, I didn't due that with Ellen and Elliot in the last page...
BAH! I'm making sure people remember what Lucy's name is. If people forget Ellen and Elliot's names, or are jumping in mid-story, that's just going to be a thing for now. Besides, they've got flightless winged elephants to think about.
Tiredness and distractions (non-comic commentary)
This page was delayed due to me not feeling well, mostly due to tiredness.
I think one reason for that is that I simply haven't been allowing myself actual rest for months now. I've been taking breaks, but I've always been doing something. There's always background noise, there's always browsing social stuff, looking up things... I haven't been properly disconnecting from constant distraction for a while now, so even my "resting" hasn't really been proper resting.
If there's constant input, that's just more and more for the mind to process. I believe this results in a mental backlog and increases stress, which pretty much affects everything. Time needs to be taken without so much input.
This is something I've believed for a while, and I was working on reducing constant distractions and background noise.
After I had to take a break a while back due to personal tragedy, however, I felt like I needed those distractions. It became habit again.
I'm writing this in part because maybe it will help someone else, but also because sharing this sort of thing makes me feel a greater obligation to do better. Is it good to rely on perceived social pressure for such a thing? I don't know, but humans are social creatures. Maybe that's just how we roll sometimes.
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