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Creations, creating
13 Mar 2019 22:07Today, I took a shortcut over the lake. It's frozen solid, but Google Maps (by which I've been navigating in this new city) assumes lakes are liquid. I think it's been over a decade since I regularly went on natural ice? It was nice, and saved me like 10 minutes of walking, 10/10 will do again.
If the muse is late, start without her. That was the principle that made me sit down and write Iguana Festival, which proved that yes, I can still write things! I can still be funny and entertaining and complete stories in one sitting! (My two current WIPs are sort of stalled in places where the next bits that need to happen are things I'm not that enthused by writing, so coupled with the sense of bleh I've been experiencing, I haven't been motivated. Waking up to lots of comment notifs in my inbox was very heartening! ♥
The icon battle is still running until 6th of April, but I submitted all my icons already and am still taking screencaps for the rewatchalong full of iconization opportunities, so I'm doing my own minichallenge of an extra ten icons per episode, and I'm not allowed to start the icons for round two (episodes 11-20) until round one is over. So far, I have 10 icons each for episodes 1 and 2, plus one icon for episode 4. Once I have 50 (10 each for eps 1-5) I'll make an icon post and link to the comm. I'm keeping an imgur album with links to the textures used, buuut imgur has the habit of delinkifying links by adding spaces, which is annoying. Nevertheless, I'll deal. Some icons I'm bleh about, some (like this one!) I'm proud of. I've played around with layer modes and layer masks, and slapped text hilarious and angsty onto things. The Hanyi Senty free Chinese fonts have been super useful for the occasions when I want to slap some hanzi on an icon. (I now have a better font collection for Chinese than for Latin, lol. Though since they all advertise having 拉丁字母 as well, perhaps I could just use the Chinese fonts for all my text writing? Testing it out, I could even write Finnish with the fonts, because they have all of Latin-1, but not pinyin with the tone marks, because e.g. ǎ and ā are missing.)
If the muse is late, start without her. That was the principle that made me sit down and write Iguana Festival, which proved that yes, I can still write things! I can still be funny and entertaining and complete stories in one sitting! (My two current WIPs are sort of stalled in places where the next bits that need to happen are things I'm not that enthused by writing, so coupled with the sense of bleh I've been experiencing, I haven't been motivated. Waking up to lots of comment notifs in my inbox was very heartening! ♥
The icon battle is still running until 6th of April, but I submitted all my icons already and am still taking screencaps for the rewatchalong full of iconization opportunities, so I'm doing my own minichallenge of an extra ten icons per episode, and I'm not allowed to start the icons for round two (episodes 11-20) until round one is over. So far, I have 10 icons each for episodes 1 and 2, plus one icon for episode 4. Once I have 50 (10 each for eps 1-5) I'll make an icon post and link to the comm. I'm keeping an imgur album with links to the textures used, buuut imgur has the habit of delinkifying links by adding spaces, which is annoying. Nevertheless, I'll deal. Some icons I'm bleh about, some (like this one!) I'm proud of. I've played around with layer modes and layer masks, and slapped text hilarious and angsty onto things. The Hanyi Senty free Chinese fonts have been super useful for the occasions when I want to slap some hanzi on an icon. (I now have a better font collection for Chinese than for Latin, lol. Though since they all advertise having 拉丁字母 as well, perhaps I could just use the Chinese fonts for all my text writing? Testing it out, I could even write Finnish with the fonts, because they have all of Latin-1, but not pinyin with the tone marks, because e.g. ǎ and ā are missing.)