Just Create - Obscure Edition

[silvercat17]

Next week we're moving on to a different letter

What are you working on? What have you gotten done? Are there any events, challenges, or other cool things you want to share?

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[silvercat17]

I'm trying to get caught up on promised stuff at rainbowlounge and I'll probably work more on the character designs for the isekai I'm poking at.

Mostly I've worked / pretended to work because there's no actual work, and I've been reading more. I just finished The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair, which is an adaption of a column she did talking about the history of specific colors. It was really interesting and she cites her sources really well so now I have a dozen more books in my 'want to read' list

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with the promised stuff

[spiralicious]

Good luck with the promised stuff.

That book sounds really interesting.

[lb_lee]

What's this about an isekai?

[silvercat17]

I've been watching Inuyasha while riding the stationary bike and of course ended up thinking about what I'd do differently (like having Kagome NOT running around in a school girl outfit in feudal Japan for pete's sake).

I haven't come up with a title yet - it's going to be someting like 'The Lion Prince and the Warrior Girl' or 'I Fell Into the Split Tree's Puddle and Now I'm in Another World'. Being me it's also inspired by Thundercats and my conlanging for Thundera.

The Inuyasha equivalent is the ninth son of the King, an arrogant, 13-year-old boy named Merolik who gets exiled (for some reason) to a much more rural area (which happens to also be where I've done the most extensive conlanging). The Kagome equivalent is Adisa, a 14-year-old archer from the Treetop Kingdom on Third Earth. She falls into a puddle around a sacred tree in the forest while she's rushing home from the men's village where she was visiting her dad. She ends up in the same area where Merolik has been exiled - and can't understand what the cat-people are saying and thinks she's in Fairyland. They use magic to translate and Merolik, his chaperone, and Adisa head off to another town to try to get her home.

On the way, Merolik is an idiot and gets him and Adisa magically chained together so they can't be more than like 30 feet from each other.

Their chaperone is the area chief's son, who is supposed to keep Merolik out of trouble/from being killed. Like everybody around there he looks a bunch younger than he is. He looks about 14 but is 18, and is our weary 'I can't believe I have to deal with this idiot' character.

There will be no love story.

[lb_lee]

Cool! Will they end up sucked into big epic shenanigans and quest stuff in the prpcess?

[silvercat17]

I haven't decided the overarching plot, but Merolik definitely has to do something to get un-exiled and at some point they'll go to the Treetop Kingdom and meet Adisa's family.

I'm definitely not going to draw it out like Inuyasha...

[silvercat17]

I consolidated my loans and applied for the new income-based plan. I may actually not need to pay anything more? It was a pain in the ass because first the federal student loan site was slow as hell on Saturday and then they wanted to people they could get my contact info from if I wasn't paying and, like, I don't know people! The only people I talk to regularly are online and most of them don't know where I live or what my phone number is (the only exception I can think of is LB and I'm not going to get them involved)

I ended up doing my uncle and one of his kids. I don't have a lot of living relatives that I have okay relationships with.

[lb_lee]

Omg financial reference LB talk about fools leading fools!

[the_broken_tower]

Finally putting together a couple of series posts.

Most of the current art for those isn't going to be used - they're portraits, and as realistic as currently possible, but the features are a lot harder to get right (especially working from memory and close-enough models). They're good practice, still.

- Athis (he/him)

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with it

[spiralicious]

Good luck!

Facial features are tricky.

[soc_puppet]

I finished that bunch of marble mazes I was working on, and have them up for sale at a convention art show this weekend! I also added some headbands and hair clips to some crocheted Futurama-style brain slugs to sell at the same event.

This week, I aim to finally write up a pattern for these cat charms:



I'm hoping to offer the pattern as a donation incentive for relief in Gaza, though I haven't quite decided on how to go about it yet. I don't know of any official fandom fundraisers for it, and even if I do well at the convention art show I'll be shorter on cash than I'd like, but I can't do nothing. I'll figure something out, I'm sure.

[cornerofmadness]

Oh those cat charms are adorable

[soc_puppet]

Thanks! Adorable is kinda my style 😉 These cat charms are pretty quick to make, and might also be good stash busters, so I'm hoping I'll get some takers if I offer the pattern for proof of donation to a relevant charity (with personal info taken out, of course).

[cornerofmadness]

I think it's a great idea

[spiralicious]

Congrats on what you got done!

The cats are adorable.

[soc_puppet]

Thank you, on both counts 😊 I think I managed to get the pattern nailed down, and now I just need to get someone to test it.

[spiralicious]

Nice!

[cornerofmadness]

I'm still working on my spook_me story while dealing with some bad health news

[spiralicious]

Sorry to hear about your bad health news.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[spiralicious]

As usual, I have overloaded my plate, but this week I would like to:

Finish cleaning and wrapping for storage the paintings that didn't go up for my art show.

I'm doing the 2023 mitt-athon, and this week, I'd like to finish sewing up the two I have knitted and finish knitting the one in progress (it's 2 different pairs).

Finish setting out the Halloween village pieces that don't need work done to them.

And try to see how many of my October writing prompts I can get done for the drabble challenge at the froday comm (and maybe make some headway on my spook me fic).

I feel like I am missing things, but I just started a new job and this is already a stretch, so I'm going to pretend I'm not.

[aleteoryx]

Got a pretty big essay to write, spent all of yesterday playing with an experimental operating system(EasyOS) instead. Gonna get it all done today.