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GUESS WHO'S BACK
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for like the thousandth time!
I'm actually going to start drawing again soon, haha. For now, though, I've got so much fucking old shame on this page to get rid of, it's really astounding. I don't even wanna think about it XD
I don't know how any of this works anymore XD just gonna delete stuff now I guess. Also I wish I could change my name, but I'm worried about breaking the image on the SCP Foundation website... it's actually on, like, a really popular page. I'll have to go onto the IRC chat (if it's still around) and ask if I can change my URL without breaking the image.
Anyway, yup. Probably back for reals this time :3 I'll update again when this roleplay sesh ends, and I'll hopefully start doing a bunch of cool shit after I finally get my little artist figurines in the mail. I hope they come someday...
I'm actually going to start drawing again soon, haha. For now, though, I've got so much fucking old shame on this page to get rid of, it's really astounding. I don't even wanna think about it XD
I don't know how any of this works anymore XD just gonna delete stuff now I guess. Also I wish I could change my name, but I'm worried about breaking the image on the SCP Foundation website... it's actually on, like, a really popular page. I'll have to go onto the IRC chat (if it's still around) and ask if I can change my URL without breaking the image.
Anyway, yup. Probably back for reals this time :3 I'll update again when this roleplay sesh ends, and I'll hopefully start doing a bunch of cool shit after I finally get my little artist figurines in the mail. I hope they come someday...
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Devious Journal Entry
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So. Since I refuse to speak at all about school right now, let's talk about what I'm gonna do after school is over for the semester:
I've got a few things planned for Winter Break, and nearly all of them involve art. So, to get in the spirit, I think I'm going to... well, first I'm gonna figure out my way around this new layout, holy shit. It's been so long since I've been on this site. Everything looks so FOREIGN and WEIRD.
Anyway, after that, I'm gonna clean things up around here. There's a lot of old art here, most of which I'm not proud of, and given the drawing videos I'm going to be watching, my art will probably look very different when I come back. I'm at least going to put it in a different folder or move it to scraps and kind of hide it away somewhere, you know? Maybe I'll just put a bunch of it together in one picture and post that in scraps? idk.
After that, well, I've got a secret Tumblr project I'm working on and would like to release on my 23rd birthday, if possible. I'll have to seriously brush up on my drawing skills if I'm going to be ready by that time, but given how my drawing has a tendency to be able to be picked up right where I left off, I think I'll be able to do it. I'm going to try actually UNDERSTANDING what I'm drawing instead of just drawing the same old shapes and building on them, like I did before, causing all kinds of errors and wonk. Nope, this time around I'm gonna do it right!
And I just realized that, between this and getting back into the bass this year, I'm basically reliving all the GOOD parts of high school. Yay?
Anyway, so, (not-so-)quick summary:
Gonna start drawing again, probably. Gonna keep playing bass, probably. I would like to do some more graphics and shit, maybe do another package design (or improve upon my old one, because eeeeesh. Looking back on my old one I'm just like "oooooh, you need some HELP, don't you?"
Gonna watch a SHITLOAD OF TV. I'm talkin' Doctor Who, Sherlock, whatever else my friends are gonna force me to watch, plus a lot of Netflix stuff and hopefully all of the Studio Ghibli movies (except Pom Poko because that shit is too weird even for ME.) And speaking of fandom shit, if all the drawing stuff goes well, I'm gonna draw some fuckin' NIGHT VALE. It's my new obsession and I regret absolutely nothing about that. It should be your obsession too. IT SHOULD BE EVERYONE'S OBSESSION.
I'm also gonna draw some of my old OCs, and some of my new OCs--I've got an OC band now, from NaNoWriMo this year, and they seem like they would be a shit-ton of fun to draw. The main character's appearance is based on a real person, so I'll at least have a photo ref for her, and I have a sort-of-kind-of picture to go off for the lead guitarist as well. Everyone else I get to make up! Should be fun.
I am really excited about this secret Tumblr project... I sent some fan mail to Portraits of Boston asking for advice about how to get started on a project involving random strangers, which is literally the ONLY thing I will say about this project, buuut they never replied to me :/ So maybe I'll ask Humans of New York? Or I'll just wing it?
Yeah, I'll probably just wing it.
Anyway, see you after that thing I won't talk about is over!
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Since I'm on here so infrequently now...
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...come find me on Tumblr!
spookyfactory2323.tumblr.com (until the end of October)
staticfactory2323.tumblr.com after that
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Selfish Syndicate: Oh, The Timing
5 min read
My creative energy is back!
And it's two weeks before final exams start!
...FUCK YOU, creative energy!
Anyway, I'm writing this story and it's two parts long and oh my god it's like the greatest thing I have ever written eeeveeeerrrr
It's about two guys. *waits for the homophobes to leave* Okay, moving on.
It's gonna be a slice-of-life story, maybe a series of vignettes or short stories or whatever the hell you call them, and so far it's just about these two guys, Thomas and... well, the other one's name is a little less set in stone--for now his name is Dominic, but I might change it, probably to Matthew or Derek--and these characters are basically writing themselves. It's awesome.
Seriously, this story is AMAZING--and I actually don't feel like I'm bragging by saying that, because I truly feel like the story is writing itself and I'm just along for the ride, there to put the story on paper and name the characters, and not much else.
They're gonna have a friend named Annis (named after a character from a Hilari Bell novel, although I looked it up and it is actually a name occasionally given to people in the US, so it's not a Mary Sue name), or An/Ann/Anne for short (haven't decided on the spelling yet). I was considering making her asexual, but I don't want her to be an author insert. She's gonna be Thom's neighbor (probably, or maybe just a friend), and I expected her to be more like an ally--a friend to them both, and everyone serving as a soft place for the others to fall when the world treats them like shit.
That is, if it does.
...I'm kidding, of course, because NO DUH the world is gonna treat them like shit! You should have expected that from my stories by now! The world ALWAYS treats the characters like shit--it's a requirement! Hell, the part of the story I'm working on right now starts with Thom getting mugged and beaten to a pulp. IT'S JUST HOW I ROLL.
(Don't worry, things get better for him later.
)
I might even give Annis a separate side-story, because if Annis were a real person, they'd have their own stories to tell. If ALL story characters were real, they would have a story to tell--or at least that's the way it SHOULD be--it might not be the case if the character is poorly-written, but I'm trying to make these characters as real and believable as possible. I'm trying to make these characters like someone you might meet on the street--you see their face, you might see their children or the car they drive or what's in their cart at the grocery store, but they have a story--no matter how straightforward or mundane it may be, they've got one. The stories I seem to be best at writing are those that are about ordinary people, stories that offer a sneak-peek into these ordinary little lives, and leave it to the reader to determine where the extraordinary bits are.
Consequently, all my stories are BORING AS SHIT!
But not this one. This one's different.
Hopefully.
And YES, I will totally post the story if I get the chance to edit it for non-suckage. I might just post the first part in two parts, to see what people think about it (I don't know if I'm gonna advertise it on my Facebook page, just... because. I don't know if I want (most of) my real-life friends to see what I wrote--just Sparklyshuichi42, probably!). I know it's unfair to promise such greatness and then not post anything, but let's be honest--it's probably not as great as it seems to me right now!
I will admit that it's more of the same, for now, so I guess just read through those Study HM-01 shorts I wrote a long time ago and, uh, I dunno, pretend one of the other characters is a guy. That ought to have you covered until I edit this story--or at least give it a name -__-
In the meantime, I've got tests to study for, bathrooms to clean and stories to write. G'BYE *leaps off*
And it's two weeks before final exams start!
...FUCK YOU, creative energy!
Anyway, I'm writing this story and it's two parts long and oh my god it's like the greatest thing I have ever written eeeveeeerrrr
It's about two guys. *waits for the homophobes to leave* Okay, moving on.
It's gonna be a slice-of-life story, maybe a series of vignettes or short stories or whatever the hell you call them, and so far it's just about these two guys, Thomas and... well, the other one's name is a little less set in stone--for now his name is Dominic, but I might change it, probably to Matthew or Derek--and these characters are basically writing themselves. It's awesome.
Seriously, this story is AMAZING--and I actually don't feel like I'm bragging by saying that, because I truly feel like the story is writing itself and I'm just along for the ride, there to put the story on paper and name the characters, and not much else.
They're gonna have a friend named Annis (named after a character from a Hilari Bell novel, although I looked it up and it is actually a name occasionally given to people in the US, so it's not a Mary Sue name), or An/Ann/Anne for short (haven't decided on the spelling yet). I was considering making her asexual, but I don't want her to be an author insert. She's gonna be Thom's neighbor (probably, or maybe just a friend), and I expected her to be more like an ally--a friend to them both, and everyone serving as a soft place for the others to fall when the world treats them like shit.
That is, if it does.
...I'm kidding, of course, because NO DUH the world is gonna treat them like shit! You should have expected that from my stories by now! The world ALWAYS treats the characters like shit--it's a requirement! Hell, the part of the story I'm working on right now starts with Thom getting mugged and beaten to a pulp. IT'S JUST HOW I ROLL.
(Don't worry, things get better for him later.
)I might even give Annis a separate side-story, because if Annis were a real person, they'd have their own stories to tell. If ALL story characters were real, they would have a story to tell--or at least that's the way it SHOULD be--it might not be the case if the character is poorly-written, but I'm trying to make these characters as real and believable as possible. I'm trying to make these characters like someone you might meet on the street--you see their face, you might see their children or the car they drive or what's in their cart at the grocery store, but they have a story--no matter how straightforward or mundane it may be, they've got one. The stories I seem to be best at writing are those that are about ordinary people, stories that offer a sneak-peek into these ordinary little lives, and leave it to the reader to determine where the extraordinary bits are.
Consequently, all my stories are BORING AS SHIT!
But not this one. This one's different.
Hopefully.
And YES, I will totally post the story if I get the chance to edit it for non-suckage. I might just post the first part in two parts, to see what people think about it (I don't know if I'm gonna advertise it on my Facebook page, just... because. I don't know if I want (most of) my real-life friends to see what I wrote--just Sparklyshuichi42, probably!). I know it's unfair to promise such greatness and then not post anything, but let's be honest--it's probably not as great as it seems to me right now!
I will admit that it's more of the same, for now, so I guess just read through those Study HM-01 shorts I wrote a long time ago and, uh, I dunno, pretend one of the other characters is a guy. That ought to have you covered until I edit this story--or at least give it a name -__-
In the meantime, I've got tests to study for, bathrooms to clean and stories to write. G'BYE *leaps off*
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SelSyn: Activism? Username change?
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Hey, long time no see.
No, I haven't done any new art in a really long time. I know. I don't even consider last year's NaNoWriMo "art"... it was a pile of massive fail. ...A fun-to-write pile of massive fail, but still.
So I live on campus now! It's pretty nice, actually, although I think my roommate might be getting a bit frustrated with me (she likes the door closed in the morning when I leave for class, but I have a habit of leaving my bedroom door at home open so the cats can get in and out. And I think she thinks I'm a slob).
Let's get the shorter topic out of the way first: username changing.
I think I'm gonna stick with StaticFactory on here, because I've been StaticFactory forever and it just seems easier. I know there was a band trying to call themselves Static Factory, but I haven't heard a peep from them since I blocked one of them on Twitter years ago. I found an old story I wrote with a username I made up "TheAdrift", and damn, doesn't that just sound cool? I don't know whether it only sounds cool to me or what, but it just sounds pretty fucking cool. (I think it came from a remark I made along time ago about being a Straight-Man-type character "adrift in a sea of crazy," which is not quite as cool. But still... the name sounds alright.)
I wouldn't look forward to getting all new accounts or changing all my stuff around, though... I mean, I'm StaticFactory or StaticFactory23 everywhere. Fucking EVERYWHERE. DeviantART, Twitter, YouTube, Cracked, even Apple's Game Center app, and countless more that I can't think of right now... everywhere!!
I guess I'll file that one under "Cross That Bridge When I Come To It".
Onto the next piece: I don't think I'll be becoming an "activist" by joining AVEN, but I think I'll join anyway.
I'll admit, I'm a little bit surprised that asexuality even NEEDS activists! I mean, WTF? Is our society really so sex-obsessed that the idea of NOT wanting sex is completely incomprehensible to 99% of the population?
Yes, apparently.
Who knew?
Anyway, it'll be nice to have a group to go to where I don't feel like I'm explaining myself to someone who doesn't get it, never has gotten it and most likely never will get it in the future. Sure, I'm probably going to have to explain myself a little bit (because even in the realm of asexuality, there are many different dimensions--it's more like an end of a spectrum than an entirely separate group), but at least I'll be explaining myself to people who either get it, got it or at the very least CAN get it. Before I felt like a bird complaining to a rabbit that its wings hurt... there is a fundamental piece of the puzzle that is just missing.
So anyway, yeah, considering joining AVEN's forums and all that good stuff, and, uh... oh! I started reading the SCP Foundation website again! I wonder if anyone remembers me but nothing artistic has come from that yet, so, uh... yep, that's about it! Until next time, Internet.
No, I haven't done any new art in a really long time. I know. I don't even consider last year's NaNoWriMo "art"... it was a pile of massive fail. ...A fun-to-write pile of massive fail, but still.
So I live on campus now! It's pretty nice, actually, although I think my roommate might be getting a bit frustrated with me (she likes the door closed in the morning when I leave for class, but I have a habit of leaving my bedroom door at home open so the cats can get in and out. And I think she thinks I'm a slob).
Let's get the shorter topic out of the way first: username changing.
I think I'm gonna stick with StaticFactory on here, because I've been StaticFactory forever and it just seems easier. I know there was a band trying to call themselves Static Factory, but I haven't heard a peep from them since I blocked one of them on Twitter years ago. I found an old story I wrote with a username I made up "TheAdrift", and damn, doesn't that just sound cool? I don't know whether it only sounds cool to me or what, but it just sounds pretty fucking cool. (I think it came from a remark I made along time ago about being a Straight-Man-type character "adrift in a sea of crazy," which is not quite as cool. But still... the name sounds alright.)
I wouldn't look forward to getting all new accounts or changing all my stuff around, though... I mean, I'm StaticFactory or StaticFactory23 everywhere. Fucking EVERYWHERE. DeviantART, Twitter, YouTube, Cracked, even Apple's Game Center app, and countless more that I can't think of right now... everywhere!!
I guess I'll file that one under "Cross That Bridge When I Come To It".
Onto the next piece: I don't think I'll be becoming an "activist" by joining AVEN, but I think I'll join anyway.
I'll admit, I'm a little bit surprised that asexuality even NEEDS activists! I mean, WTF? Is our society really so sex-obsessed that the idea of NOT wanting sex is completely incomprehensible to 99% of the population?
Yes, apparently.
Who knew?
Anyway, it'll be nice to have a group to go to where I don't feel like I'm explaining myself to someone who doesn't get it, never has gotten it and most likely never will get it in the future. Sure, I'm probably going to have to explain myself a little bit (because even in the realm of asexuality, there are many different dimensions--it's more like an end of a spectrum than an entirely separate group), but at least I'll be explaining myself to people who either get it, got it or at the very least CAN get it. Before I felt like a bird complaining to a rabbit that its wings hurt... there is a fundamental piece of the puzzle that is just missing.
So anyway, yeah, considering joining AVEN's forums and all that good stuff, and, uh... oh! I started reading the SCP Foundation website again! I wonder if anyone remembers me
but nothing artistic has come from that yet, so, uh... yep, that's about it! Until next time, Internet.
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