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Lavender Clouds (WIP)

Added 2020-09-30 20:54:40 +0000 UTC

SO UM ;;;; for reasons that will become clear tomorrow if all goes well, I found myself in a position where I really needed to think of a title for this comic collection that I've been making...

I've been calling it 'mood' for the longest time because that's the title I went with when I did a small print-run of it last year. But back then, my comics were a bit more depression memey diary comics and a bit less melancholic and I hadn't really found my voice yet. So for a while now, I've felt like this name didn't really suit what my comics have become. And also there's the fact that 'mood' is slang and would probably date my comic pretty badly in a few years!

I had a massive longlist and still pretty long shortlist of titles and after a lot of intense thought and back and forth, the title I decided to go with is

Lavender Clouds

(with the tagline: Introspective comics about mental health, neurodiversity and feelings)

I was thinking about how a lot of the time it feels like I have a grey cloud above me, sucking the life out of everything and reminding me of just how much I can't do, and so I wondered if I should call this collection Grey Clouds, but A) I thought that was really cliche, B) I thought it was super downery and C) I would forever get people asking me why I spelled it wrong, the answer to which is that Grey is the UK spelling of Gray :')

But Gret Clouds didn't really quite sit right with me either. Most of my comics are pretty melancholy but overall I think of them as positive things. They allow me to express myself and connect with people, and hopefully readers will feel seen and less alone when they read them. So I really didn't want to go with a downery title. And I was still thinking about clouds and then I was like well... clouds are actually really pretty.... like evening purpley clouds... and so I came up with Lavender Clouds

To me, this title represents both the realities of mental illnesses and feeling like you're just different to everyone else while also acknowledging that there are good and beautiful things to be found in those differences. I think it's hopeful :>

So yes! Hopefully you like the title too haha :3