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I didn't do what I said I'd do in the last journal, avoiding the internet except for posting and social engagements. I just didn't have the willpower. It's not a sin, so I'm not going to spend regret on it, but I still need to figure out a way to find the time to accomplish all that I want to accomplish, strengthen my will and do it. I'm working an additional day at my day job and it's really hitting me that I'm thirty years old! Thirty! And I haven't accomplished much in the way of artistic works. The great painters of the renaissance did most of their work in their twenties!
As an old maid in a time when nunneries are so modernist-infiltrated and under attack as to be inviable, (do you know that putative pope Francis made it a rule that postulants must wait NINE YEARS before making any vows? (The old waiting period was usually six months) Try to convince me he's not out to destroy religious life. Just try.) I must find my own way to directly dedicate my life to the glory of God. I'm hoping art and stories can do that. I'll keep working at trying to spend less time on the internet and get up earlier. I need to do some oil painting, and that suggests itself to religious works. Summer is the time to oil paint, winter is the time to sew. That's because the sewing room gets awful hot (and is occupied by parents) and the fireplace spews out ashes into the air. And as well as more drawing and writing, I've had the need to reorganize large parts of the house, and there's a big awesome amount of reading I have to do before Christmas! (but that's a secret) More coffee! More covfefe!
Story List
Beckyless
No new progress.
26 Palaces Under the Sea
Making a better outline and continuing to read sailing books.
The Last Haunted House
No new progress.
Paper Doll Veronika
I've got the first major arc outlined. This story is different because it will be more episodic and I don't know how long it's going to go on! I'm designing characters, have gathered all my supplies, and started preparing the backgrounds. And written the first few chapters! The first chapter made eightcrows burst out laughing multiple times so that's a good sign.
The Maze of the Warlord
No new progress.
Mary's Mazes
No new progress.
Fanworks (all DC)
Batman: Decadence
So sorry there wasn't anything, not even a preview, in June. Decadence is my main present concern in trying to find more time. If I could just work on it a little every day, that would be satisfactory for now!
All's Right with the World
The county fair in this county is in decline, which is too bad. So it didn't really inspire me with the rush to finish the first story that I had hoped, but I still hope to do so soon.
The Curse of the Scarab
No new progress.
Justice League de Coeur
Aha! New thing in here! This is my silly idea for a dating game. I've found a program that looks easy to make interactive visual novel games, and I know the general overview. Inspired by all the romantic tension in Lois and Clark, I'm thinking up the plots of the particular paths now! The main question with this one is, is it worth the time? It'd be very fun I think, but if I'm going to make a game, it kinda seems like a waste to make it something I can't make money from. Maybe it could be practice if I want to make interactive novel games a thing I do. Should that be a thing I do?? Midlife Crisis! Hmmm.
It will be mostly Lay of Leithian/Tale of Tinuviel
I just finished reading The Silmarillion for the first time and I want to draw a bushel of illustrations. The condensed form of it, as opposed to the novel form of The Lord of the Rings, really spurs one to want to fill in what isn't described in great detail with what one imagines. And I want to use a style that's very different from how people usually draw Tolkien characters. Almost everybody these days is influenced by the look of Alan Lee's work and the Peter Jackson films. Now I have no problem with that, but it's not at all what I want to do. Since The Silmarillion really surprised and delighted me with how much it wasn't just noble high fantasy, it had many parts that were very fairy tale, even whimsical, I want to go for the look of a fairy tale storybook for children; plus influence from 1980s illustrations of toys for girls, like Lady Lovelylocks and Peppermint Rose; and just a touch of 1970s psychedelic graphic design. I don't know whether Tolkien would approve, but it's
Well that explained NOTHING
I'm being hyperbolic. It did explain a few things. I'm speaking of course, of Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, which I just finished playing. For a long time, I vehemently refused to consider playing this game, and rejected it as part of the Professor Layton canon. And I developed a personal animosity towards the character of Alfendi. How dare he claim to be the Professor's child, which he couldn't possibly be? But then along came the Katrielle Layton game and anime, another character making the same claim. And as it turned out, these were absolutely wonderful, and explained in a totally satisfactory way how Katrielle is the Professor's child. So I grew willing to give Alfendi a chance. I knew, however, from basic descriptions I'd read, that Mystery Room does not explain how Alfendi could be the Professor's child. So I came at it with the specific goal of settling, based on whatever information the game did provide, on a theory. Possible theories, both acceptable and unacceptable
Where once was Walden
I have a secret sewing and lolita fashion blog, purposefully hidden. There, I've made fanciful allegories of various web platforms as buildings. Tumblr I described as a city of strip clubs and public gallows, now mostly empty since the strippers were outlawed. Livejournal is an abandoned library--not a majestic classical library, but one like the public libraries of my childhood, with office-industrial tile and carpet and glass-block wall segments--in a forest, with ivy growing into it. Instagram is a fun-house mirror-lined carousel whose round-and-round motion spirals down into a consuming vortex. So what is Deviantart? The obvious answer is an art gallery, but imagine being in an art gallery: quiet high-ceilinged rooms of well-lit paintings, carefully curated and organized. It's not like that at all. No, I think it's a shopping mall, with all that implies in our cultural context: it was once fun, full of teenagers both dippy and angsty, with arcades and subculture-based clothes
Listening to fireworks from a garret room
A year ago this night, I was working frantically on the last page of Issue #2 of Clockwork Dancer, and I finished it as 2021 rang in. Many people were adamant that 2021 must be a better year than 2020, but on a certain level it has been much worse, as genetic agents are injected, poisoning the hearts of many, and become the basis for totalitarianism. But even as things fall apart and people reveal their true colors, both years have been very good to me personally, particularly in time spent with nieces and nephews. Once again, I'm working on the last pages of Issue #2 of a comic. This time, it's Bovodar and the Bears. But I'm not likely to finish by midnight. I'm away from home on this New Year's Eve, and I don't know how long I will remain so. It's for a good reason and I'll miss it when it's over, but I don't have much time to work on art. When I do, it's an hour in the early morning, by the windows in a garret room. If and when I return home, I hope to resume a rigorous work
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you should do it, yes. pallida and I were talking just a bit ago that more stuff needs to be completed by us!