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As you may have noticed, it has been over a year since the last update of this comic. I’m not inclined to declare “Theri There” as dead, as people have been asking; it’s just… mostly dead, as they say in Princess Bride. I have a marvelously thick folder of sketches and scripts for upcoming pages, but producing finished work is something else. I’ve overcome some of my personal obstacles to working on the project, but some still remain. The comic may recover and continue, or it may not.
I do want to publish a paperback of the comics so far through Lulu.com, and it sounds like there are plenty of interested readers. I made a manuscript, but I reached a point where I didn’t know how to make it work. I did some research on how to solve some of its problems, but I expect that if I try to do it myself, or with the wrong software, that the book will end up with that awkward, unprofessional look that self-published books so often have. Is there some volunteer out there who has experience with designing books? Someone who could take my manuscript and polish it up until it would really work as a paperback? I think there’s not a lot left to do, other than making sure that page elements fall on the pages that they’re supposed to.
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a different Otherkin-related project: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1){kind=small}
otherkin_news (Otherkin News). So far, I’ve found articles about Otherkin themselves in a magazine about religion and also in a newspaper from Israel. I’ve also found news items on relevant subjects of interest to Otherkin: art installations about human-animals, a new dragon statue, discoveries about phantom limbs, sightings of werewolves and fairies, and the loss of websites about Otherkin due to the closing of Geocities.com’s website hosting service.
Read today's comic.
It takes so many years to get to know one another... everyone keeps so much locked up inside. There are all these things that are so important to us, and yet so vulnerable, and so we are made up of secrets. When meeting one another, we see only a superficial, outward persona. What if we could reveal, in an instant, all that we really are? If that was possible, would anyone be brave enough to do so, or to look when someone did? Could people survive an exposure so deep?
Further reading: an illuminated quotation, Secret Worlds, on xkcd... the Shout It Out Project originated by liliy and perpetuated by hundreds... the artistic anonymous confessions in Post Secret... and the surreal book Finder: Dream Sequence by Carla Speed McNeil. (Please note that each of these links have some contents that are not to be viewed by children, or are not safe for viewing at work.)
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Otherkin and Therian Art Collection
Before DeviantArt introduced the Collection feature, I was working on making a webpage listing the art. That was last spring, and boy am I glad that an easier way to manage all those links came along! It's as much a handy solution for the artwork as LibraryThing.com was for my therian and otherkin bibliography.
The collection is very long, and getting longer all the time. I add more artwork as I find it. Of the collection, I have a few favorite pieces that I featured in a post in my DeviantArt journal. I also have a section for some of the symbols that have emerged, such as the otherkin star and the theta-delta, explaining their background and showing a few examples of them by different artists.
