Quick Thoughts
1/24 Ugh, I need, like, three colors I don’t have to finish this picture. This picture of a person that is essentially monotone.
1/18 It occurred to me yesterday that Trowa has a pixie cut.
1/16 Just got a spam email promising me pictures of my wife (naked), and realized too late that I should have looked at it, since it’s obviously prophetic and I’d like to have some clue as to what type of woman I’m going to marry.
1/13 Finding a position where the pain is not so bad is like having a cat on your lap: you’re afraid to move in the slightest lest it gets up and leaves.
1/12 When Chuck Norris makes an ACNH island, the native flower is lily of the valley.
1/5 I saw a headline today that said, “If I were GM of the Broncos…” And I immediately pictured the entire team clustered around a table rolling for initiative.
1/1 Time to start my six-months’ term of writing the year incorrectly!
12/26 Oh, hello, Valentine’s Day. Huh. Christmas must be over.
12/21 A new picture that I drawed!
12/19 For the second time in my life, someone just asked me for my phone number (like, for dating purposes).
12/14 Working on site stuff for most of the day, putting all these old RK stories into the newest format, I’ve been hit by the first spontaneous Saitou & Sano idea I’ve had in… I don’t know how long. Years, I think.
12/9 I think what he saw in the Pit was just 2020.
12/7 It’s important to remember during this festive season that if someone is drunk, they cannot consent to being chained up and walled into a niche in your family catacombs.
12/1 Apartment/condo/townhouse complexes are barely designed with the convenience of their tenants in mind. They are absolutely not designed with the convenience of visitors (including delivery people) in mind.
11/26 Every time I do something in just graphite, I remember how many points I’ve put into my graphite skill.
11/24 One by one, each of my lazy villagers has realized that they too need to contribute to the Turkey Day meal; it’s been amusing to watch the wave of knowledge sweep across the island.
11/18 It occurs to me that I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone that didn’t like The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
10/31 Happy Halloween!! For your treat this year, you get a site full of broken links!
10/15 Bear with me while I try to get the site running properly again at its new host!
9/2 Happy birthday to me!!!!
TWIP: LA’s and some silly stuff
02/18: You may protest that I have taken and posted this precise photo multiple times in the past. The only thing I would have to say in response to that is that my dog is incredibly cute, and it's fun to see my character wall progressing. Then look at these two...
To Sketch: To Suggest
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir: On seeing a new set of Nathaniel’s drawings with a new subject, Chloé’s at it again.
PL: TLY, NQF, A Lois Date, ASZz, BC, HoH, ABCDEFG, websitely, Rose Pale, palette drawings
Well, it's been, like, six months since my last Productivity Log, so I hardly know what to say XD There's no way I'll remember everything I've wanted to mention about everything I've worked on, so this is likely to be a little random and scattered. To start with, the...
TWIP: Disneyland and some cats
01/20: I try not to take pictures of every single cute outfit I wear; I really do. But this scarf matched my springy green dress soOoOo well, I just had to document it. OK, we went to Disneyland, the way we do. This time Mostle and Jakebii came with us, but brother...
TWIP: Animals and selfies and lots of Piper
12/29: I pulled out of the garage and saw this guy just chillin' beside the fence. He was there for so long, sometimes asleep but sometimes startled by human comings and goings, that I kinda worried about him. It was super cold that day, and the spot didn't seem...
A Lois Date
DC Animated Universe: Lois is too sick to join her boyfriends on the date she had planned. And though they, of course, enjoy each other’s company in any context, can they enjoy the type of evening she had in mind without her?
TWIP: Cats, ties, and random crap (long post to catch up!)
11/13: It looks like I forgot this one in the last TWIP entry. I just thought these clouds looked cool on the way to work: 11/18: And here's my adorable dog enjoying the bed in various states of the linens being changed. And wot about Piper sneepin' on the laptop!! I...
Paperback now available
The proof copies came a lot sooner than I expected (that is, than Amazon originally said they would), and I love they way they look. I think for a future edition I will make the gutter margins a little wider, and there is at least one spot where the word processor did...
My relationship with RK
Because of the hideous behavior of its creator, I have stepped away from Rurouni Kenshin. I don't have active plans for new stories in that fandom except as pertain to my ongoing stories Aku Soku Zan(za), Blood Contingency, Heretic's Reward, and my His Own Humanity...
IT’S TIME YOU GUYS YOU GUYS
Yes, that's right: my darling sister finished drawing the cover illustration for this novel, which is now in the process of publication. The link above leads to the official site, where there are purchase links to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. At the moment only the...
AEL – The Wine-Dark Sea, SW I-II Novelizations, The Tin Woodman of Oz, Bambi/Bambi’s Children, Netflix, The Clone Wars, VLD, Miraculous, Castlevania
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian -- One thing that's really sweet about these books is that they're unexpectedly slice-of-lifey. The lives happen to be very unusual by the standards of the modern American reader, but we get looks into the everyday and often...
The Longest Year: Monsters Like Me
Matías Soto Perez, a very normal human teenager from Earth, suddenly finds himself living a double life, but not the cool kind where he’s a superhero or something; instead, he’s just one of several “monsters” magically summoned every night to another world by a power-hungry alien to help in conquering neighboring villages… and in more mysterious pursuits. Awake in one world whenever he’s asleep in the other, Matías is first catastrophically distracted and then approaching the verge of mental exhaustion. He and the rest of the monsters must find a way to stop the summoning before it makes an even bigger mess of their lives!
TWIP: Mostly cats, as usual, including my new Little Miss
Aight, catching up. Again. 10/08: Yes, it's blurry, but it was so cute. Galileo is always so helpful with the laundry. 10/11: I've mentioned before that a sweat shirt or jacket or coat on the end of the couch (where some of us always temporarily drape these things) is...
The Phenomenal Improbability of This Coincidence
Disney: Three lonely years after returning to England, Jane Porter longs to find Tarzan again. And though she’s able to set out as a consultant to Elsa and Anna of Arendelle, who plan to search the same area for any news of their long-lost parents, will she be able to explain to them what she believes is the missing piece of the puzzle that brought them together on this voyage?
Blind Repair
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Zuko, Sokka, and Toph attempt to fix the swimming pool at the old Ember Island estate.
Displaced, of Unknown Provenance
A woman that’s spent all her life in fruitless search is ready to give up the quest and her only remaining symbol of it.
Her Own Words
Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon (anime): Yaten’s lyrics reflect her internal struggles.
Escape From Reality
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir: Ladybug and Chat Noir face off against an enemy that shows them a variety of unpleasant possibilities… and one that may be a little more pleasant.
Failure, Horror, Shock, Heartbreak
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir: Staying in her ‘cousin’ Marinette’s room, Cedulie from Pontrieux learns a tragic secret.
A Legion of Hideous Minions
Gargoyles: Angela finds the castle overrun by unexpected enemies.
November Quick Fics 2018
For November this year I wrote the following prompt-based fics, totalling 25,635 words: A Legion of Hideous Minions (Gargoyles) Failure, Horror, Shock, Heartbreak (Miraculous) Escape From Reality (Miraculous) Her Own Words (Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon) Displaced, of...
AEL: The Madonnas of Echo Park, three Oz books, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Truelove, the Greensky Trilogy, Peter Pan, The Midwife’s Apprentice, The Spirit Lens
Of course I'm no stranger to long-delayed AEL's, even if the reason is usually laziness or whatever rather than all-consuming obsession with something else XD So this'll be the usual thing: quick reports trying to catch up, at first based on what notes I managed to...
TWIP: I live!
Getting back on track in a new month. 07/29: Waybee always likes that kind of surface. 08/01: I happened to be reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame just when this cat came in, and I couldn't get over how many visual points he had in common with Quasimodo: 08/07: A...
Productivity Log Lite (a.k.a. What’s Going On Around Here)
1 week 'til I turn 38! Yes, I've barely posted anything lately, even non-artistic stuff like photo logs. There's a great big fat reason for this, and that is TLY. This book is a hair's breadth from being finished. In fact the edits I'm making at this point are so...
AEL: Tik-Tok of Oz, Watership Down, Tales from Watership Down
29 days 'til I turn 38! Now for some bookities. Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum -- When I was a kid reading these books, I abandoned the series after this installment. It just made me so angry that Baum seemed to be out of ideas and repeating himself. This time, as an...
I only have one grandparent left
My mom's dad died this morning. I don't need sympathy; I'm just documenting the event. He was an abusive husband and father and one of the most annoying people I've ever met. He was never worse than incredibly obnoxious to me, but I didn't like him. I often have to...
TWIP: LA’s, stuff I saw while working, some other things
Two Weeks In Photos: Little Animals, stuff I saw while working, some other things
AEL dump (again)
Art Experience Log: A very, very brief set of thoughts on the last 30 or so books/plays I’ve read/listened to.
PL: Life update, NQF 2019, Castlevania fic, ASZz x2, BC 25 (and 7 and a little 24), After-Dinner Brandy, CS 3, New story, Site stuff
Ha ha ha ha ha, remember how last time I made one of these logs, I was like, Oh, I’ll have so much more time to work on stuff going forward! Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
His Own Humanity: After-Dinner Brandy
Trowa promised Bernard and Catharine he would tell them the whole truth about himself one of these days. How will his long, tragic story change their feelings about him, and about him dating their son?
Visual Art: Exchange Art Etc.
I was an active participant in multiple art exchange communities for many years; here you can see the least terrible images I came up with for other people. Also, my favorite exchange pictures drawn for me, as well as gift art, commissions, etc.. This last is the most...
Visual Art: Miscellaneous Collections
Here you will find a showcase of my favorite pictures I've done, that I love drawing animals, and a collection of previews/detail shots/photos for scale/etc..attachment_tag='visual-art-collection-favorites' orderby=title order=DESC size=large columns=3...
Visual Art: Browse by Content
My Gundam Wing fanart is not quite a big enough collection to have its own gallery. Some of my original art is of characters you won't recognize from old stories. There is probably more Rurouni Kenshin fanart around the site that isn't yet tagged correctly to appear...
Visual Art: Browse by Medium
Watercolor Pencil (CretaColor Aqua Monolith) is my favorite medium. I also enjoy graphite. Prismacolors frustrate the hell out of me, though they certainly have beautiful results. I used to work with a tablet quite a bit, but these days fibromyalgia makes that...