wallwalker

It's been a few months, my attempt at monthly updates hasn't gone well. Currently sitting at home and not working, thanks to the dreaded virus (yes, that one,) which has finally caught up to me.

It sucks. ( mild tmi, very mild, but still )

Anyway I'm doing okay other than that, still sketching random things, posting most of them on my Pillowfort (which is very slow, even more so than here, but has image hosting that's useful.) Seems like a good idea to step clear of Tumblr a bit. Gaming-wise I finally finished Endwalker base game in FFXIV and am slowly working through post-EW so that I can actually play the new stuff, hoping to get through DW before the next expac comes out. Also replaying Yakuza: Like a Dragon in Legend NG+, which is much harder than I anticipated with me at lv 91.

They keep giving me more and more responsibility at work and I keep getting sick and having trouble with it. It's a hell of a stress test. I've been doing. Ok. Just tired.

Prompt: Misunderstanding.

More Sedoretu worldbuilding. Shirya tries to get out of the house and find more friends at a mingle for people in her moiety, but finds her intentions misconstrued in a very offensive way.

( Misunderstood )

Somehow I'm not vibing with the prompts, but I still have other ideas for these folks. More of the Sedoretu worldbuilding idea, this time about one of those shows where people argue with each other a lot, like Crossfire.
(Kris is NB but legally is Shirya's wife. The debate on the show is about another consequence of the same law, which said that people don't have to be legally or biologically a particular gender to register as "wife" or "husband." )

( Interview )

Prompt 2 for the Sedoretu story: Hope. (What is a Sedoretu?)

I didn't mean for these parts to be continuous, and the next few parts probably won't be. I just wanted to write exposition to set up the main issue of the story. This one refers to character death and sacrilegious relationships (in-universe.)

( Hopes For the Future )

Prompting for threesentenceficathon wrapped up today so I'm going to take a break and probably write for some other challenges for a while, and also work on some rainbowfic posts that I have half-finished.

Roundups of things I did for it:
Fanwork roundup
Original work roundup

I'm trying to do some original fiction fills for threesentenceficathon, and this is the post for them, as fanworks are on the other journal. (Trying to make sure I have a record of them for GYWO. Not quite meeting my goal yet for this month, but I'm pretty close.) Some of these are probably getting crossposted to rainbowfic sooner or later.

( Read more... )

Managed to update a few things (including making my welcome post sticky for a change) for the snowflake_challenge for day one. We'll see if I stick with this longer than I normally do. (A lot of it might be on the other journal.)

I'll make some goals later. I technically should be working right now.

More Endwalker reactions. I'm at Travelers at the Crossroads now (lv. 87.)

( spoilers )

I've watched a fair number of art conversation videos, just because it's satisfying to me how to the paintings look after they're cleaned and retouched. The guy I usually watch tells a lot of Dad jokes, talks a lot about the process, and is very vocal about how much he dislikes when people try to cover up small mistakes with tons of paint.

Example: This one,  which is just titled Art Restoration Fail, because the previous attempts at "fixing" the picture had turned into overpainting the entire thing. (This post title is related to the painting, trust me.) Painting over someone else's work and presenting it as an original is really weird to see in traditional media.

(To be clear, if I had seen the original painting on its own and not as an overpaint of someone else's work, it would've looked fine. It's the "paint over this to 'fix' it and pass it off as the original work" part that isn't great.) 

Still, whenever he talks about how natural resins are fallible and synthetic ones aren't, I can't help but think that eventually we're going to find some drawback to them, in a few hundred years, and if there are still art conservators then they'll be just as annoyed with some of those materials that he's used, as he gets about some of the older ones.

My husband actually suggested I might try oil painting, if I want a creative outlet, but I don't see how it could work. About the only place that we COULD do it is on the balcony, because we live in a small apartment and I am fairly sure that you have to have a lot of ventilation for those.