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[silvercat17]

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

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[silvercat17]

I finished a drawing! https://silvercat17.dreamwidth.org/140321.html

I thought I only had one more prompt for that list, but I forgot about one.

[zenigotchas]

That technique reminds me of how comics will draw after-images to denote speed or several movements in one panel. I really like that! It's like the character is pulling off the most epic, speediest face palm to ever exist.

I've never heard of a T-1 before! Can you tell me what it is? I'm not quite following what it is.

[silvercat17]

It was a technology, mostly for businesses I believe, from before internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier I mostly know it from a Weird Al song (All About the Pentiums -
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K )

[thepasteldyke]

That looks really cool! It' feels like it could be one of those pictures where you need coloured glasses to truly see it, it's really neat.

[ladythmpr]

that looks really cool!

[zenigotchas]

I made like 4 pages of my comic book and I blahged a bit about the process (mistakes were made and it was hilarious).

I read more Spawn and it's reaching delightfully batshit insane levels. I am officially invested in the characters even with all of their writings flaws :')

Worked a teeny bit on fan related things? I guess?

Almost relistened to all of Crowbar's album Broken Glass.

Important housekeeping was done.

Am going to make more comics tonight.......... :)

[thepasteldyke]

Four pages is, as we say in Swedish, not badly peed (it's a term to express being impressed, or something is well done, it's positive, despite how it sounds, I promise).

I don't know what Spawn is but I'm glad you seem to enjoy it!

[zenigotchas]

No it's okay I giggled when I saw it. It's been fun and a good exercise for my mind muscles! If you like to draw, give it a try sometime... It's difficult but that makes it a great learning opportunity.

Thank you! Spawn is many such things.... Mostly, it's a comic book with a bunch of awesome spin-offs under its belt :)

[thepasteldyke]

Lol I'm glad. xD I can imagine it is, there' so many things to think about when you're drawing a comic, it's really impressive when people make them. I might give it a try sometimes, with something really short, I haven't drawn comic pages in a relly long time, only like. The type where the panels are below each other. Panel placement is difficult to make flow right.

Oh that sounds cool! Nice. =)

[silvercat17]

I've never read Spawn, but I was into comics in the 80s and 90s and, phew, it surely was a time

[zenigotchas]

I like the comics but in good conscience I won't say they're the best written cape stories or that every element is tasteful. But if you like cheese, 90s edge and just want a comic that is surprisingly more chronological next to other cape stuff that's full of reboots and such, then it's pretty cool.

If you want a really good take on the universe that's written with more maturity and grace and got 2 hours to spare, there's a really cool animated series (starring the KEITH DAVID!!!). the first season is pretty good (I haven't watched the other seasons so can't say).

[ladythmpr]

Four pages is a LOT!

[zenigotchas]

Thank you! My wrist also agrees with you ;w;

[thepasteldyke]

I'm halfway done redressing (refurbishing? changing the upholstery???) on my desk chair, gonna finish that tomorrow. Cute fuzzy pink fabric let's go!

I've been writing a lot of fanfic, dreamwidth really has been the best place for me when it comes to finding prompts.

Against my better judgement, I've also made three (and a half) pairs of earrings, two (and said half) being themed after the character Takeuchi from the manga Mars Red. Against my better judgement cus it's kinda hard on my hands, but since I haven't been able to draw, I've been going stir-crazy.

[silvercat17]

It's amazing how many sources of prompts there are on Dreamwidth, and how varied they are

[thepasteldyke]

It is! It's so easy to get a good overview of them too, I find, it's really easy to find a prompt that sounds like fun.

[maevedarcy]

omg changing upholstery? you are my hero. I tried it once and the results were disastrous (granted, I chose a complicated project to begin with but still)

[thepasteldyke]

It's definitely quite the task! I put new fabric on my kitchen chairs several years ago and haven't done any upholstery since, so it was fun getting to do it again. I'm currently upgrading to a chair with those buttons in the back rest, that's gonna take a lot of work lol (Good luck if/when you try again!)

[dragonjournal]

/splats

Did the Saturday errands. Did the cat pans that are downstairs.

I have been writing a lot though! Been getting some good words down. Hope to continue.

Also... the heeeeeeeeat

[silvercat17]

Oh god the heat

[dragonjournal]

It's 85* right now. I'm ready for my heat nap.

[silvercat17]

It's only like 78 F in the house, but if I do ANYTHING I get uncomfortably hot. It's not fair.

[ladythmpr]

Go you!

[guildrone]

Currently riding the highs of both my (somewhat bittersweet) return from a two-week trip abroad, and a couple fortunate windfalls for my AO3 career—the latter of which including the first organic recommendation of one of my works that I’ve ever spotted out in the wild, much less off-site (so far as I can recall)—to enter what may be the last stretch of (the first draft of) an entry for a contest that I completely forgot about until its announcement going into last weekend.

Said contest, for any other Pokéficcers around here, is Thousand Roads’ yearly one-shot contest (and attempted zine at some point, though I won’t ask about what happened to that lmao)—with the current theme being “Weird and Wonderful (Pokémon lore, that is)”. I myself entered last year’s iteration, and while I may not have placed in the end, what praise my submission did get from its judges (and feedback besides, of course) was a heaping helping of the validation I so crave regardless…not to mention the exposure™ it granted either way (even as far as that aforementioned rec), which I’m hoping to capitalize on once again, with this year’s submission in part being penned as a bit of promo for a larger project of mine.

In the meantime, though, I’ll just get back to my immaculately scored writing sesh—for sake of a work whose title might be the one I’m proudest of yet.

[ladythmpr]

Yay for highs!

[ladythmpr]

I stress-knitted a lot in May... 12 baby hats, an ear warmer, a kerchief (that is way smaller than the designer's photo, so I dunno what went wrong), and a little butterfly.



I've already (stress) knitted another 4 baby hats this week.

[silvercat17]

Wow! That's a lot.

[zenigotchas]

Torn between saying "Wow that's tremendous" and "I'm sorry you've been so stressed."

[dianec42]

I finished a cross stitch project (Deer Trail).

Made a couple of spreadsheets for cross stitch projects and sewing projects with an eye towards clearing out my backlog, then ran out of steam.

Reprioritized my cross stitch queue slightly and have started the next project from the Cross Stitch In The Forest book. Have I learned my lesson about dark Aida, many similar shades of one colour, and fractional stitches? No. Have I learned to check HOW MUCH of each shade I'll need when using threads from my stash? Also no.

I also got out one of the backlog WIPs, and as a bonus found the missing Permin kit. I guess these were meant to be my travel pieces when we moved... over 2 years ago... le sigh.

I've been feeling very depressed and stuck and don't want to do anything. Today is the first weekend day when it MAY ACTUALLY NOT RAIN and I'm going on a group hike even though I kind of want to cancel.

[silvercat17]

There are lots of reasons to feel stuck right now, aren't there?

[dianec42]

Word.

Ugh, I remember why I stopped working on this. The white backstitch on the umbrella is nearly invisible, the angles on the long lines are impossible to subdivide, and thou shalt not even get me started on the tiny backstitches in the handbag ALL OF WHICH have to come up in the middle of the Xs.

Also, she looks like a chipmunk and her umbrella has no handle. :P

[zenigotchas]

Woah I like this

[dianec42]

Thanks! I've been staring it it way too long and I kinda hate it right now lol.

[ryl]

BEHOLD! The first big cross-stitch project I've finished in nearly nine years!


We're going to pretend I know how to iron.

Right now I'm just coloring because I ran out of yarn for my next blanket project and I'm waiting for the next skeins to get delivered.

[zenigotchas]

I love this quote

[lieutenantsanya]

*Beholds*

Sick project! Love the quote as well.

[maevedarcy]

I just published a short fic! I'm also preparing for sense8week because that's this week, so I've been making gifs, writing fics and even making the odd picspam. Feeling very creative lately.

[soc_puppet]

I'm going back to school to get my associate's degree; classes started a couple weeks ago, and I am very proud of myself for keeping up with homework (the bane of my existence) so far!

Also, summerofthe69 starts tomorrow, aaaaaaaaahhhhh! *flails frantically*

[maevedarcy]

omg yay for going back to school!!!! It's hard sometimes but it's worth it!

[cornerofmadness]

I'm trying to finish the last three stories for my getyourwordsout Yahtzee challenge and I need to get a few stories out to open calls

[lieutenantsanya]

I've started to design my own personal website. So many ideas, so few selves! If only I could duplicate myself to work on graphics and the code at the same time.

I'm also currently scanning and cleaning up a spin-off manga for my fandom. As far as I know, the only complete copy of it is buried in the Internet Archive and requires an account (albeit a free one) to view it; it's a library copy with dark pages full of gutter shadows. I microwaved and sacrificed my copy to free the pages from their binding. Doing this is making me nostalgic for doujinshi scanlations...

[zenigotchas]

That is a really cool thing to be working on!!

[maevedarcy]

this is so cool! I've been working on a personal website too but it's been really hard to keep up with it and to find the time to learn how to do it in the first place, so kudos to you!

Also, that project for your fandom sounds amazing and I'm sure many people will thank the gods for having a more accessible copy of it.

[verylongfarewell]

Finished two Danish short stories this week, both set in the same universe and featuring the samme main character. One is a smut fic, which I only write very rarely and have never written in Danish before and although I'm mostly satisfied with the result? It was a struggle writing it, for sure. Not sure I'll be doing more of that, maybe just fade to black from here on out, but we'll see.

I've begun reading a Danish book called something that translates to "Fleeting Words" and is an essay by political speech writer, Anita Furu, who has served not one or two but FOUR different Danish prime ministers until she recently retired to write full-time. It's very easily consumed and gives an interesting and very warm-tinted look at the workings at Danish parliament. I'm two chapters in, but will try reading a new chapter every day until I'm done (the book is 13 chapters).

I have also betaread. It's a novel, so 100k words and I'm not nearly done, but it's a good exercise for me, since I've never done it before on something so major in size. I really like the story, though, so in that way it's an easy job.

And I've just outlined a new short story in the same universe as the two I recently wrote. It'll be a text message-style piece and I'm kinda excited for it.