Notices by Nautile Bleu (nautilebleu@mamot.fr)

@kaia thanks 🙏 I’m not sure to understand if you’re talking of Esther (the mistress) or Érié (the maid)

Erie helping Esther to dress

A few days ago, a question on Mastodon about still images inspiration makes me realise that I never did an art inspired by Charles Dana Gibson, one of the main inspirations for Esther and Érié’s aesthetic

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#silentsunday the Eiffel gangway has been removed for restoration at the Kermezen manor #brittany #eiffel

@HauntedOwlbear oh nice, I didn’t thought there were someone else living in France on WritersCoffeeClub/WordWeavers !

@HauntedOwlbear oh you’re French ? @Clundoff @InterzoneMag

My first review on Amazon :)

The first chapter of Esther and Erie is now available on Amazon (just in digital and in English for now) Many thanks for this kind review ☺️

https://mybook.to/EstherNErieChapter01

#amazon #review #firstreview #comics #indycomics #steampunk #victorianaesthetic #digitalcomics #lifeachievement

#wordweavers 01/05/2024 Introduce your setting as if it's a character in your story.

The McAlistair mansion POV: “I’m currently the host of Esther and her strange little maid. Before I belonged to Esther’s husband, but he wasn’t with them when they came back from the colonies. Something has happened there, I don’t know what, but it makes Esther ill. The little strange maid tries her best to help.”

[Illustration: The mansion]
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#wordweavers 02/05/2024 What are your MC's living conditions like? Are they better or worse than average?

Esther’s material conditions were pretty good, she had everything she wanted and even more (poney, dresses, jewels)
But it was at the price of terrible psychological conditions

Lately, her material conditions suddenly became precarious after the return from the colonies and her husband’s death
[Illustration: excerpts from Inktober 2023]
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#wordweavers 03/05/2024 MC POV: What do you dislike about yourself?

I’ve been far too innocent and naive. I didn’t want to see that my father was leading us directly to the disaster

[Illustration: excerpts from Inktober 2019 and 2023]
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04/05/2024 answer has been posted at the wrong place https://mamot.fr/@nautilebleu/112381388231155658

#wordweavers 05/05/2024 Are there characters or events that challenge your MC's belief system?

That’s the plot: the events at the Chamberlain’s Seminary will completely challenge the way Esther sees the world. I could quote @NaraMoore answer:
That the supernatural is real
⁃ The desirability of social conformity
⁃ That no one can be trusted (except Erié)
⁃ The world is a cursed place

[Illustration: cover of the 1st issue]
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#wordweavers 06/05/2024 Who is your most fun character?

Hmm my story doesn’t leave much place for fun, but I would go with Lady D’Arcy. Being the villainess, she’s the one who can be the most funny, by her lack of moral limits and excesses.

[Illustration: the distracted boyfriend meme, but with my characters]
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#wordweavers 07/05/2024 What behaviors does your characters' society encourage?

As in the actual Victorian era, women are supposed to spouse a man and then to stay confined in the role of mother and home’s mistress. They are expected to be modest and discreet.

[Illustration: Esther and her old husband]
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#wordweavers 08/05/2024 What behaviors does your characters' society discourage?

For a woman : being a free and independent, someone who stands for herself instead of staying in the shadows of her man, someone proud of herself, someone sexually very active (and not shy about it), well, everything Lady d’Arcy is.

[Illustration: Esther meeting Lady d’Arcy in the 2022 version]
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