Meme

[potofsoup]

stole a meme from minoanmiss, with some tweaks:

I have 57 public works on my AO3 account (discounting RBBs where I drew the art but someone else wrote the fic.) Give me a number between 1 and 57 and I'll tell you something about that numbered piece (favorite line/panel, creative process, aspect I wish I'd done differently, etc).
1 = most recently posted work, 57 = earliest posted work.

(Note: I recently posted a bunch of my old stuff in the Great Tumblr Fuckup, so some of the more recent numbers might actually be earlier works.)

Comments

[nyctanthes]

46!

[potofsoup]

That's ... [Comic] Dinner with the Red Cross gals. It was in drawing this comic that I realized the difference between passing the Bechdel test and having a narrative that centers around women. (Namely, one of the women talks about her brother, but it's in the context of her own emotional and character needs, and not his.)

I'm pretty proud of the first panels with the transition from seeing the Howlies drinking with Peggy in the window, to Peggy going into the restaurant.

[nyctanthes]

I like that transition as well; and the faces are all nicely differentiated.

Also, I like Peggy's dress, and that she wore it for herself.

I know what you mean re: not just the Bechdel test. When I write scenes with women in it, even when it's from a woman's POV/when the woman is the narrator, I ask myself if this is about her or just a way to get information across/move the plot forward (i.e., am I passing the lampshade test?). And in some instances (e.g., when the story is m/m) it's taken me a few tries to get it right.