Annotated 20-10
So the question becomes, if we didn’t do sex very often, why did we feel the pull to do it here?
Partly to try something new for the series, but more, I think, to firmly distinguish this relationship from Byr’Nj, whose sex lives are, again, healthy but a little more comfortable than passionate. These two feel younger and more physical as individuals, so it stands to reason they’d be more primal together.
There was also a little extra incentive to put up something eyebrow-raising because it was around here that we bumped up our schedule to five times a week, trying to raise our comic’s overall stickiness and profile during our seemingly endless ramp up to the Kickstarter.
And maybe I was also a bit motivated to show (ahem) certain writing partners that I could handle this. Phil and I are ten years apart in age and I’m a lot more genteel and self-conscious than he is, so it could be hard for him to parse me as a sexual being, let alone one capable of writing love scenes. Hopefully we did all right.
(Illustration artist unknown.)
I mean, it’s not exactly like Faans! was chaste and demure with its poly triad front and center
Let us not forget that one of the characters in that triad was full-on into S&M.
Well, all three of the characters, eventually, once they got comfortable with it.
Quite, quite all right. Mmm yes indeed.
“Manic smiling is a big turnoff, though.”
It may look like Scipio carelessly flung his cigar across the room, but no. The cigar is self-propelled, and it decided of its own free will that this was a good opportunity for some aerial reconnaissance. Sometimes, a cigar is not just a cigar.