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I have chosen to listen to Media Club Plus by @friends-table without ever having listened to nor read anything Hunter X Hunter related. So far, I'm really enjoying it. This character is the one that I feel like I have a clearest grasp on what they look like


Keith: Well, I mean…have you seen how many gay people are in this show?

Jack: Uh, so far—

Keith: They’re everywhere.

Jack: Fucking loads of them.

Dre: Yeah.

Keith: There’s loads of them.

Jack: I don't think…now, let me think. Have I met a straight person in the show so far? [Keith laughs quietly]

Dre: Leorio.

Jack: No…

Sylvia: Mm…

Dre: Mm…

Keith: No.

Dre: Okay.

Jack: Tonpa?

Dre: Yeah.

Sylvia: Uh…

Keith: Yeah.

Dre: Yeah.

Sylvia: I don't know. You hangin’ out with three guys we’re calling the Blowjob Brothers? [Keith laughs]

Dre: That’s— you know what? [Jack laughs]

Keith: Giving them money for something?

Dre: You know what?

Jack: He’s hanging out with them in a straight way.

Sylvia: I'm just saying. [Keith laughs]

Dre: You make a compelling argument. [laughs quietly]

Keith: Covertly handing the Blowjob Brothers a stack of money. [Sylvia laughs]

Jack: Satotz is definitely gay. It’s a fool’s game to name the gay people.

Keith: Yeah.

Dre: Sure.

Jack: Because it’s all of them.

Keith: Oh, we didn't say, but every time a character is introduced, there’s a little popup underneath that says, “Gay. They’re gay.” [laughter]

Sylvia: Oh, yeah, we did forget to mention that.

Keith: Yeah, it’s sort of, like—

Sylvia: Sometimes it’s less nice about it, which is interesting, but…

Dre: Sure, yeah.

Jack: Yeah. Yeah.

Keith: Yeah, it’s sort of like in the manga how Hisoka’s got the suits of cards under everything he says. In the anime, it just says— reminds you that everyone’s gay all the time.

Sylvia: It says “gay,” whenever Hisoka speaks. [all laugh]

Keith: Yeah. Yeah, at first, it’s just when the main characters speak, and you're like, “This makes sense,” but then it starts spreading out to everybody else, and you're like, “Oh, okay, that— okay, sure. Interesting choice.”

Sylvia: Oh, green bean man too? Okay, sure.

Keith: Yeah.

Jack: Green green jellybean man?

Sylvia: Green green jellybean man. I really gotta keep up with the Jack naming conventions.

Dre: Mm-hmm.

Sylvia: My bad.

Jack: [laughs quietly] I love green green jellybean man. I think it speaks so much to the—

Keith: Well, he’s interesting, because he has a t-shirt that just says “gay” on it. [Sylvia and Jack laugh]


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in reply to @graham's post:

I’m curious about your approach to characters like the green green jellybean man now that they’ve gone back and given a much more detailed description. Is that something you’re interested in working with? This is all I was thinking about when I listened to them describing him again for the second time.

That's a great question. I'll admit I haven't been as diligent about avoiding character spoilers after drawing them, so I actually know what each of the characters I've drawn looks like just from people sharing that with me afterwards to compare.

I think when there's a really detailed description, I might be compelled to draw it even if I already basically know what it looks like. In the case of GGJBMan, I might try to take my original conception if him and follow it up with the same character design but with the new description?

On the other hand, I don't want to lead people to believe that I'm magically getting closer to the character design if the truth is that I have just looked at them at that point. That'd feel disingenuous, I think. Maybe there's some middle ground, or maybe I'll just make an exception cause I like GGJBMan specifically? I don't know

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