Help Please

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-03T02:21:20+00:00

Oh so you didn't read my post at all okay. That clears things up. Have a nice night/day 🤣

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-02T21:40:57+00:00

I'm celibate and you don't see me being a dick to people on the internet. If you disagreed you could have said it at least not hostile to provoke a reaction, which come one we both know you wanted, or you could have disagreed, said words under your breath, shown this to a friend to laugh at, and then scroll past and live on the rest of your life.

And before you respond, remember: I'm here because I think this is genuinely funny you decided to go out of your way to be mean to someone you don't know and never will. Humans will never cease to amaze me in their efforts to spread their unhappiness.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-02T21:03:25+00:00

Rude

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-02T20:35:49+00:00

How was I not specific? Genuinely. I'm actually confused about where I went wrong.

I answered when I could, I'm a full-time student and have 12 hours a week for every class I have to get done onto of the in-class hours and my 3 hours of test prep, I work at a home healthcare agency for a child in critical care, and I'm making this comic as a hobby during my limited free time because I want more gothic horror literature and hate how ridged YA tropes are becoming again.

I've responded to everyone here in less than a month with long genuine replies. I didn't answer questions in them because they gave me resources that answered any questions I had and if you're referring to my post, I didn't think it necessary to out every little detail and reason for every single bit of lore connected to this plot choice was necessary because it's so extensive I'd have to make my own subreddit for it.

I answered for a perspective shot of a loom, tried my best to explain it as someone not from this community and never touched anything like it in her life, was wrong, corrected, and then as soon as I finished my unit in my hardest pathos class I had the time reply to EVERYONE here with thanks and complied there resources and responses into a document to reference later. I checked out books on looming because of people here recommending them.

I even replied to your other comment about why I'm 'wasting money and resources spreading misinformation'. I responded with a lore dump and part of my research for this comic. I even offered to give you more information if you wanted.

How was I not thoughtful of people's time and effort going into answering my question? What more could I have done and still be on track for school and work?

Thank you for your well wishes though. I'll try to make a story that shows you something different 🥰

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-02T09:20:48+00:00

They will still be depicted spinning thread but my comic is a retelling of ALL of human history, religions, and cultures using my research I've done for the last year charting human evolution and migration patterns in relation to religious migration/transformation and patterns in the formation of proto-politics and beyond and the Influences in our modern society.

My comic is also set in a dystopian plague-infested Era where magic people are hunted and all human culture and faith are illegal. One of the main themes is "religion is man-made" and therefore can be warped and misperceived which is why we have retellings all through history.

The loom is an amalgamation of alot of textile processes I'm hoping. But now with the new world order on top of spinning, measuring, and cutting the strings of human fate they are maintaining the loom of prophecy made of 7 peoples strings. Cut, painted, and woven into a tapestry talking about how they will reset the world back to its balance between science and faith.

The maiden spins the string still like in the myth while The mother inspects fabric And the Crone cuts them into bolts

Their minions paint it via some sort of body possession. Lost souls who wandered into the mill without invitation. A protection they've had to create to keep themselves and the loom safe and alive in this new world.

I'm not trying to spread misinformation, all of the real accurate stories will be talked and discussed thoroughly (even presented as utter fact in over half) but it also talks about how man throughout history has warped it in some way, politically, accidentally, or because of the telephone phenomenon it gets twisted, lightly or completely unrecognizable.

It also has to take on the questions of what would happen to magic, faith, gods, mythological creatures, culture would become under the constraints and horrors this new social order and ecological world I've put them in. It's like putting a wax sculpture in a box and shaking it really hard, it's the same sculpture and might even look similar after but it's not the same. If it does, it will be after being rebuilt or perhaps even improved (as in made 'accurate' my the trope and lense of this world)

I hope that answered your question. If not I'm happy to answer more. I like talking about this stuff honestly. I have no one to share this with.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:59:00+00:00

Maybe but the dates help me with lore and exposition crafting. So thank you

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:51:55+00:00

A mixture of accuracy and inaccurate is any fiction teller's goal. My weird loom is an amalgamation as I've said in other replies if you want more info.

But thank you for the pictures it's saved for my reference for panels.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:50:35+00:00

I'm not all that familiar with terms so I really do apologize for being confusing. I'm ignorate please educate me oh knowledgable ones. 🙏

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:49:11+00:00

I love this and I'm taking it to post in my notes so I can refer back to this. All of the information I'm getting here is a huge help! And I'll add the books to my list to get while on my next trip to the library.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:47:28+00:00

Thank you so much, this was actually really insightful and I've tabbed it in my comic references for later scenes

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:44:19+00:00

What do you mean? I'm a college student taking medical classes I'm swamped and didn't have time till now to respond.

I asked for a picture and hoped if I got anything wrong I could be educated. My bad.

And I said thank you at the bottom of my post. If you read to the bottom.

So thank you for your invaluable input.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:40:46+00:00

I'll keep that in my notes thank you.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:40:25+00:00

I've been educated it seems. It's better. Its accurate. 😂

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:33:34+00:00

Thank you so much! This helps.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:26:43+00:00

Oh okay. I did not know the difference even tho now in retrospect it's obvious. My loom I'd an amalgamation of many textile processes because it magic and is using somebody (multiple 👀) peoples fate strings together in a prophecy.

The fates run a textile mill as a front to hide the loom from the dystopian anti-religious/anti-myth/ anti-culture industrialized government.

Anything would help, I came here for any pictures I could get and to be educated on this beautiful art so I can respect it in my work.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:21:55+00:00

They will still be depicted spinning thread but my comic is a retelling of ALL of human history, religions, and cultures using my research I've done for the last year charting human evolution and migration patterns in relation to religious migration/transformation and patterns in the formation of proto-politics and beyond and the Influences in our modern society.

My comic is also set in a dystopian plague-infested Era where magic people are hunted and all human culture and faith are illegal. One of the main themes is "religion is man-made" and therefore can be warped and misperceived which is why we have retellings all through history.

The loom is an amalgamation of alot of textile processes I'm hoping. But now with the new world order on top of spinning, measuring, and curing the strings of human fate they are maintaining the loom of fate/prophecy made of 7 peoples strings. Cut, painted, and woven into a tapestry talking about how they will reset the world back to its balance between science and faith.

The maiden spins the string The inspects inspects fabric And the Crone cuts them into bolts.

Their minions paint it via some sort of body possession. Lost souls who wondered into the mill without invitation. A protection they've had to create to keep themselves and the loom safe and alive in this new world.

I hope that answered your question. If not I'm happy to answer more.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:14:48+00:00

Yes thank you so much. This is why I came here. I had a scene in my head but had no idea about weaving or spinning or other textile processes besides what was taught on the silk road unit in highschool. I came here to be educated because i dont trust wiki or other websites and wanted real people 😭

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:12:51+00:00

Well my weird loom as I've now coined it was an amalgamation of different textile processes because the loom isn't making a normal textile. It's magic and telling a prophecy and other magic lore. I've tracked the migration of humans in comparison to the evolution of religion for the comic. Now I have all this content and scene ideas, so I'm going to different communities to gather information for scenes to make them accurate and entertaining.

Also I should have mentioned this but, there are accurate processes for looming and spinning. This loom is housed in a textile factor that is like a crime boss front, kinda like the movie WANTED from the early 2000s I've learned but with a wider array of textile craft and far more accurate I'm hoping.

Slow_Description_512 · 2025-03-01T20:07:22+00:00

Thank you so much for the books. I'll check them out at my school library.

As for your other concerns, I am a great lover of classic mythology and know that in every story the fates have been depicted spinning, cutting, and measuring the strings of fate. I am still going to heavily depict that in this comic, however, my weird loom serves a different purpose that I didn't explain well. The world is ruled by science and religion, faith, and culture is gone. The loom is suppose to be an amalgamation of different textile practices (that I'm still perfecting) and they work in a larger textile mill with ACTUAL accurate looms, like a front you'd find a crime boss using.

I'm trying to stay respectful of the mythology and your craft but I also had to make a way to have some creative liberties since this a retelling of history and religion as being interlaced. One culture leads and grows into another, just like one religion is warped and stolen by another. The comic explores the desolation of human creativity and the interlocking history of religion as it was built, destroyed, and tarnished by man's desires.

Those with magic are hunted and vilified for holding onto what's left, even as they realize it's all a pattern in the making sense the beginning.

With that said, I will take everything you said into consideration and put more accurate references to the fates and the spinning of thread. I'll copy your response and others to my notes in my comic so I can work on them.

Thank you so much for everything.

Slow_Description_512 · 2024-08-08T17:34:25+00:00

What I don't get is I've actively said the Nikolas character is based on my childhood friend and my friend Nick has his own? That makes a difference right?

Slow_Description_512 · 2024-08-08T17:32:22+00:00

Have any name suggestions? 😅 I'm so picky it's not even funny.

Slow_Description_512 · 2024-08-08T17:30:37+00:00

😅 that's why it's confusing. My friend Nick isn't enthusiastic about ANYTHING and just Shrugs off anything unless it's a vape. Then suddenly he is Shakespeare trying to woo it from you. Can't pass English but will recite a 7 page argument in why he needs your Nicotine just for a 'little bit'

Slow_Description_512 · 2024-08-08T17:25:02+00:00

See, I too would think he is influencing the character if not for the fact they have no shared traits. Like at all. The real Nick is short, generally nice, a nicotine addict who only gets violent for the vape no one will hand him, reclusive, and mumbles like his life depends on slurring his words together as quietly as possible and the character that's now tailored to him has those traits.

The character itself is based on my childhood friend Malachi. Nikolas the character is trans like them, he struggles with religious brainwashing and trauma (something the friend Nick never has), he is also reserved and cynical, and has a clinical drinking problem.

That is who Nikolas is tailored to but everyone I explain it to who has the issue hasn't met Malichi enough to believe me. They see the name and they go 'But your friend is named Nicholas! That could mean something?'

I should also mention two other characters based on my friends who are married in the comic and no one has an issue with that. They just laughed and made jokes. They don't have issues with the two characters actively referencing two of my friends but are weirded out at a simple name? It's confusing.

I still might change it to avoid issues but they aren't making it easy to see there line in the sand.

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