Just Create - Syllabulary Edition

[silvercat17]

It's the weekend again!

What are you up to? What have you gotten done?

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[wyld_dandelyon]

Here's a link to my most recently-posted public patreon post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/he-types-into-80307464

What I'm currently up to is trying to make sure I haven't missed anything for my taxes, so I can get them done despite having bronchitis. It's not nearly as much fun as the songs over on Patreon, but it's necessary.

[facethestrange]

What a wonderfully snarky song! :D I love that photo of you at the link too, the hat is fabulous!

Good luck with the taxes! ♡

[soc_puppet]

I don't... think it's the weekend yet?

I'm working on a cloth doll for a friend's nibling's birthday. It's been a while since I made anything plush with cloth, so it's a learning experience!

[silvercat17]

D'oh! It FEELS like the weekend because my parents left for two weeks.

[soc_puppet]

😂 No worries; I'm in food service, so even when it is the weekend, it doesn't always feel like one to me.

Also, since my last comment, I have sorted and put away my clean laundry!

[facethestrange]

Yay for laundry! :D

[alexseanchai]

yeah I blinked at this like, "while I admire your optimism, today is Wednesday"

anyway if providing a visual aid for the four generals from early Sailor Moon is not sufficient either to cue a Miraculous Ladybug server to which canonical character design I'm referencing or to get anybody in the WIP Big Bang server to agree the resulting mental image matches the guy in the gifset I already linked, then "he looks like if one of the four generals from early Sailor Moon were a Disney prince" is not a line that gets to stay in the draft, is it

[soc_puppet]

...Catwalker?

[alexseanchai]

you understand why I am pleased with the line! but it has a job to do and it doesn't seem to be doing it!

[soc_puppet]

Yes, I can definitely see that 😂 Anyway, I know you usually prefer to let the readers make their own connections/do their own work, but you could potentially keep the line if you were willing to let the readers do a little less work. Like, spend a couple of sentences or so describing Catwalker, then throw in something like, "The effect was rather like if someone had taken one of the four generals from early Sailor Moon and turned him into a Disney Prince" or similar. That might be leaning a bit too far away from your personal style, though.

[facethestrange]

As soon as I googled Catwalker, the line made PERFECT sense, and I'm not even in any of these fandoms! I think it's an awesome one! :D

[silvercat17]

The sad thing is, I *watched* Dad take the trashcans out (which I totally could've done myself) so I know tomorrow's Thursday. And yet.

There have been a few people on the WIP Big Bang server that annoyed me (which could definitely be a me problem), but overall their advice is probably about right, unfortunately. It's a damn good line.

[facethestrange]

Have fun with the doll! :D Is it based on a character or just a regular doll?

[soc_puppet]

Just a doll; some speculative "this is what the recipient's soon-to-appear younger sibling might look like" mixed in, but otherwise no specific model.

A part of me does wish I were doing this with crochet, but it's good experience to branch out into other crafts sometimes, and I have some prior experience with sewing, at least.

[facethestrange]

Oh, that's a very cute idea! :)

I sewed a dog plushie as a kid in school, and a really simple cat plushie about 7 years ago, and that's where my experience with making soft toys in any medium ends. xD So I find it super cool that you can do it in multiple mediums!

[cornerofmadness]

making a lot of exams, that's what I'm up to

[facethestrange]

Good luck! Have fun? I'm not sure if that's a fun activity, but I hope it is! :D

[cornerofmadness]

My students would say it's less fun and more torture but they did pretty well on it

[facethestrange]

I love that it's Thursday morning (in my timezone - even earlier in other timezones). :D :D

I had to change computers because my old one died a few days ago, and this one doesn't seem to cooperate super well with my drawing software and/or hardware? I haven't tried it for more than a couple of minutes yet (I took a break from drawing for these few days because this sounded a bit too stressful to deal with), but I really want to go back and see, maybe it will be okay after all. :D I already miss drawing, and have some really exciting ideas! ♡

There have been a few exchange reveals of my art recently:
Cat Paradise (Star Trek: Lower Decks, T'Ana, G)
Flower Queen (Star Trek: Picard, Raffi, G)
Ritual (The Hunger Games books, Katniss & Prim, G)

[silvercat17]

oh my gosh, such cuteness

[facethestrange]

:D Thank you! ♡

[haptalaon]

We had no electricity all week - I'm an old hand at being really conscious of how I use the internet/screen time under normal circumstances anyway, but it was a pleasure all the same to discover *just how much more* being cut off entirely is. Childhood boredom. Motivating enough to dig out some drawing books and actually do the basic activities.

I'm using How To Render by Scott Robertson & Thomas Bertling. Rendering is 'light and shade of objects' and I can now do some pretty impressive 3D boxes in different colours. It's amazing how fast you learn when doing basics so long as the explanation is concice and clear, I can feel my brain rewiring around the new skills and it's fab.