A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

Discussion (9) ¬

1. 
   Miki

   July 12, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

   Yeah, maybe you could double up just this once to get us past this scene.
2. 
   scribblerworks

   July 12, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

   Such an impressive use of parallelism, Colleen! Niniri using the soft-ploy on Liana while Emeris is using … well, something else on Seren. It’s all very creepy.

   But under that, I also like the fact that Liana actually has known the very real love of a real mother. And she knows that Niniri for all her soft ways is nothing like that. There’s a satisfaction (for me, at least) that Niniri doesn’t really know what “being a mother” ought to be, other than the speech Seren gave her earlier.
3. 
   Gemina13

   July 12, 2011 at 9:09 am | #

   I’ll be glad too. This is ripping my heart out for both Seren and Liana.
4. 
   Colleen Doran

   July 12, 2011 at 10:17 am | #

   Can’t really stand it anymore. This scene could run until Tuesday, but I’m going to wrap it up on Friday.
5. 
   Miki

   July 12, 2011 at 8:03 pm | #

   Thanks – I don’t know which is worse – watching Seren suffer or guessing what Liana must be feeling.
6. 
   Colleen Doran

   July 12, 2011 at 9:27 pm | #

   I’m having trouble visiting my own website with this scene running.
7. 
   Gemina13

   July 12, 2011 at 10:19 pm | #

   Oh, bless you. I can’t imagine how you felt drawing this.
8. 
   Arlnee

   July 13, 2011 at 4:42 pm | #

   I was wondering the same thng… it’s enough to see it, but to actually put it together? Yikes. I mean I’ve done it in prose, but you know prose has that extra layer of separation where it’s all in your imagination where the words take you. In graphic arts, the picture connects it for you. A lot harder to move past an image than a string of words…
9. 
   Colleen Doran

   July 13, 2011 at 7:24 pm | #

   It’s actually worse reading it years later than it was to draw. I am totally creeped out by this scene. Can’t wait to be done with it.