COMIC: A Month in the Life of Sad Spinster Sirius Black

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Title: A Month in the Life of Sad Spinster Sirius Black: In Which he Unwittingly Stars in a Sexy Mechanic Soft Porno (except, not really)
Team: The Travelling Nightshirt (cmajalis, dustmouth, epithalamium & nerak_rose)
Tropes: Mechanic AU
Rating: PG-13
Warnings/content: Highlight to read *fur seats. a ridiculous obsession with cats. an overuse of emoticons. hairy arms. butts.*
Medium and/or word count: Mixed media
Summary: Sirius breaks his car, oh no. Sirius meets the hot mechanic who fixes his car, oh no. Sirius breaks his car again, oh n-nevermind.
Notes: One of the artists traced a car instead of drawing one. They apologise. Another artist definitely also traced a car. They also apologise. (Cars are hard.) A third artist came out of the woodwork and also admitted to tracing a car. That leaves one upstanding specimen of the human race on the team. The final artist wishes that they had known about all this car tracing business earlier- or better yet, that they could remember who came up with all of this car nonsense in the first place... All the artists would like to thank the mods for the extension! Much appreciated. We had a tremendous amount of fun creating this and couldn't have had a better team. *circle-jerk back-patting ensues* P.S. This is really not a soft porno. P.P.S. Really.

A Month in the Life of Sad Spinster Sirius Black: In Which He Unwittingly Stars in a Sexy Mechanic Soft Porno (except, not really)

Comments

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooh! So cute! You had me from the very beginning with that hilarious parody of bad romance novels. (No offense if anyone really enjoys romance novels.)

And, as someone whose Instagram is heavily populated by cats (or, at least, my cat), I can totally relate to Sirius there. BTW, the whole Instagram framework was very clever, not to mention sexy. Well, the Remus parts were sexy, not so much the cat parts. I'm not that much of a crazy cat lady! The comments people made (Lily and Fabian's bingo references? Brilliant!) were so like tiny treats scattered through out this comic and, at several points, I actually had to put down my beverage so I could read without compromising my keyboard.

Seriously, though, this made me laugh and smile and giggle and totally made my day. The build-up was exquisite; you could just feel Sirius' anxiety and frustration, made all the worse by everyone else egging him on. I'll even forgive the tracing of cars - which, is mildly ironic because I can barely draw a stick figure much less an actual car. I'm also uber impressed with how well this worked as a collaboration. All those beautiful styles melded together marvelously to tell a wonderfully funny, awkward, touching story.

Thank you for creating this!