Fruit Incest

Ah November is here. Year 2 is official now and it’s time to get to hard work getting Fruit Incest in tip top shape. Now, for the first order of business, what the hell is wrong with my scanner! First it decides it no longer knows how to be a printer, but seeing as I rarely need to print things, I let it slide. Then it starts to randomly crop my images, no matter how many times I rescan it or even where I put it on the scanner screen itself, but this seems to be isolated events, so I let it slide again. Now, it seems to randomly give me trouble every week or two and I’m honestly starting to get a little worried, since my luck doesn’t tend to go well in situations like this.

You know, I bet this is because I managed to get brand new drawing equipment for all under ten bucks. The world is not satisfied with me saving money, so it’s slowly working towards making me have to buy a new printer/scanner. Keep in mind I already had to fork over $700 to get a new computer overnight when my old one exploded on me. None of this would be a problem if it weren’t for the fact I’m still out of a “real” job and my FI profit has barely reached a total of three dollars by my one year anniversary. I am so poor I can’t even think of a proper joke to end on.

Anyways, I’d hate to resort to begging, but I do need as many views as I can. Who knows, maybe someday I’ll be making a whole ten cents a day and I might be able to afford instant noodles. Fruit Incest needs to expand people, and we need you to spread the word! Maybe once I get a large enough fanbase I can beg for stuff without feeling like I’m begging to what largely consists of friends and neighbors, but for now you’ll have to deal with a sad Miss Hedgey, who’s gonna turn 19 in a few weeks. A wee lass, I am, who just wants to make people laugh and make money in the most lazy way possible. Help a hedgehog out. Please, think of the lolis.

Let’s do some math here. The last day of September was on a comic update day, meaning October 1 was just one day off from being on an update day. So skipping straight ahead to the next update, and all the ones that follow, the month of October has exactly 13 comic days, with that last one, October 31, being on a Sunday. Just one off day would’ve ruined all this, but I not only get a comic up on Halloween day, but I get such a nice number of updates, it’s all a sign. And that leads us to the lovely Halloween Special, which shall take up the entirety of October. It may seem early now but by the time we get halfway through you’ll be seeing Christmas ads on TV, so enjoy the spookiness while you can.

Oh, but this is more than just a celebration of the best night in the world. Nope. If you could just scroll your eyes over to the side to that Fruit Basket and look at the bottom of the list, could you please tell me what you see. Oh what’s that? October 2009? That’s exactly one year ago isn’t it? That means FI turns a year old this month! When will that be? Well it’s a bit of a tricky thing to pinpoint it to one day. From the time it took me to draw my first comics, upload them onto the Internet for the first time, purchase the domain and hosting service for FI, set up the site, cry in the corner when I couldn’t get the site up overnight, and post my first official update of FI, the exact birthday for Incestuous Fruits is a bit vague. Well since I can’t decide where to start, let’s make the entire month of October our one year anniversary special!

But wait, we already have something going on in October don’t we? Well, I guess I’ll just have to make a 13 part anniversary special Halloween comic! And guess what, the very first comic in the special is comic number 150. Can you believe it’s been 150 comics already? October is the greatest month ever! Knowing my luck next year will have everything be off by one day, but 2010 has been super convenient and I’m not letting it go to waste, so let’s get started!

Oh, but the good news just keeps coming. Today also marks our very first fan work! If the two or three of you who feel like drawing stuff for me is worth the effort feel like contributing, you’re welcome to email your own fanart along with any other name or links you want me to plug for you cause you’re all so awesome and got me past my first year of comic making. Can you believe a year ago I was 17 year old nobody, and now, one year later, I’m an 18 year old nobody, with a cult following! Thank you all so much and enjoy your comics and cocktail and all the free fruit punch you can drink, cause we earned it!

And on a lesser note, I got a decent spam blocker so I can probably go back to not having to manually approve each individual comment if you guys would like. If I get no comments on that I’ll just leave it as is then since no one seems to mind apparently. But hey, it’s a super month of Octobery goodness! Everyone get out your mugs of cat beer, give your lolis a big loving hug, and toast to a job well done. To Fruit Incest, Fruit Incest and lolis!

One thing that’s bothered me recently was the little comments feature. No, I’m not talking about the comments themselves (although those who do leave them thank you very much). I’m talking about comment approval. Comicpress allows comment authors to be automatically approved after their first time, which is what most webcomics do from what I’ve seen. I, on the other hand, have tried to approve every single comment. It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s that I want to read every individual comment as soon as possible, so having a big red dot saying that comments need approval is a nice way of getting me to hurry. Still, I guess it would be better if you guys had a chance to have your own discussion, even if there rarely is discussion in the comments. Anyways, I’ll switch to the more traditional method for now, but only cause I like you and the OCD monster was stalking me again. Not just for the comments thing, but also for never actually making blog posts, so I get to kill two birds with one stone, right? Well, okay, I guess it’s more like catching two birds and tying them both to your hand, but at least we have a nice set of pet birds! Be sure to give lovely pets to your lolis.

Edit: Boy is my face red. I make a big deal over this comments thing and I conveniently forget that in order to accommodate for the manual approval thing I didn’t make e-mail and names mandatory. And obviously if I want to only approve comments once Comicpress needs to know who you are. Silly me. I’d inquire if switching to the traditional method is necessary, but no one reads this, so I’ll just ask for some verification for a while before I get bored and force everyone to wait for me again. Teehee.

Not that anyone ever checks it, but the Concentrate page recently got this little doodle. It may not seem like much but anyone who noticed it got the first look into my next little project based on my very own FIth gen. This little story arc will include quite a lot of parts and take up several comics, and that’s after I compressed and cut out a lot of stuff in it. To be honest, I was kind of hoping to save this for when I was better at all this, but since Nintendo decided to be competent and release the Fifth Generation of Pokemon games now they sort of pushed up my deadline since my delicious pun will only be relevant for a little while longer.

So just what shall you expect from all this? Well, don’t say I didn’t warn you when I said it’s a lot of parts. I’m sure by the end of this I’ll be sick and tired of Pokemon and will be anxious to drawing four panel jokes about a whale that takes two seconds to draw. Hopefully you guys will tolerate it a bit more. I had plenty of concentrate stuff planned to be released alongside this whole thing, but knowing me I’ll probably leave those till the last second. You know how I am with Concentrate.

So for now, enjoy the adventures of the unnamed Pokemon Trainers and their new journey into the world of badly planned fan expansion of your childhood memories, and give thanks to all the kind folks at Nintendo and Game Freak for creating the wonderful universe I’m about to butcher. I’m sure many happy people there go to bed at night feeling satisfied knowing they’ve provided nerds like me a chance to show off their super awesome pokeymons. Your help and motivation will be especially appreciated here to keep me going. So wish me and your new main characters good luck, and remember that you gotta catch all lolis.

Well it’s been some time since the site was unpresentable, so I think an update is in order, simply to change the technical difficulties. So far the only thing that hasn’t been fixed is the fact that the comment button and comment names are bolded, but that’s easily ignored.

In terms of comic updates, I apologize in advance if I get any lesser comics done or do a bunch of simpler ones all at once. I hate to be honest, but I’ve been a bit depressed lately. Yes, your happy hedgehog does lose her bubbly personality from time to time, but don’t worry about me. A rough patch for me shouldn’t mean no more funnies for you, so your incestuous relations shall continue!

I’ve had some projects in the works for some time, and I mean some time considering it’s been several months. I think it’s fair I give some sort of hint at least. So here’s a checklist of some of the things I need to do.

• Concentrate- I wanted to do at least one or two new doodles each month but that clearly hasn’t been done right. I’m not the type to get fanart either, so don’t expect too much in the just-add-water department.
• Special Art- I don’t want to spoil too much, but if you like some classic characters and color, along with 100×100 squares, then you’re in luck. I’m about three eights done with this thing so there’s some progress at least.
• Other Special Art- This is yet another Concentrate project I’ve had in the works for a while. It’s further down on my to-do list so don’t expect much in the near future.
• Blog Special- A very minor, hardly thought out project, but if I ever get around to it then this blog would be getting some work done on it. Or not. My biggest concern is regular updates getting lost in special blogs, as rare as they are, so this is yet another thing to add on the Concentrate list.
• FIth Gen- Unlike other things, this one does have a deadline, so expect me to bring great shame to my family if I don’t have this one done by mid September.
• Not Sucking- This one might take a while.
• Make an Egg Salad Sandwich- Haven’t had one in quite some time, so expect me to eat lunch in the near future and not talk about it. You want sandwich updates go to Twitter or something.

Good luck to all and good luck to me. Remember to love your lolis folks.