2019 Weekly Writing Log, Part 3
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rynling- My Haunted Haiku zine is printed and in my hands! I sent a bunch of copies to friends and then created a listing for it on Etsy. Creating four zines in four months feels like an accomplishment!
- I also applied to the DC Zine Fest just about as soon as the application went live. Tables are distributed according to a lottery, and I have never won anything in my life, so I probably won’t get in, but wouldn’t it be great if I did?
- I’m still working on putting together a Wind Waker haiku zine, and this week I made a bunch of art for it and got started on the layout. It’s going to be a really cool book when it’s finished, if I do say so myself.
- I commissioned one of my favorite Dragon Age artists, @geezmarty on Tumblr, to draw Balthazar and Ceres from The Demon King. Their illustration is gorgeous and super cute, and I love it! I’ve been sending artists various descriptions of the characters and the novel, and it’s been a lot of fun to see how they’re interpreted. Once the semester is over and I have a bit more free time, I’d love to start drawing all of these designs myself.
- Speaking of which, I’ve also been working with @evaisonart on Twitter to design Zelda and Ganondorf for my newest Zelgan fic, Malice. This has been an incredible experience, and it deserves its own post, so I’ll write more about it once the finalized designs have been posted.
- I also worked on another commission with a Zelda fandom artist whose work I just discovered a few months ago. We had a great conversation via Twitter and email, and she created a phenomenal illustration, but she never posted it. Since she’s very active and friendly, I was a little surprised, but then I went to her Twitter and saw that she recently made a series of tweets about how people in fandom should just ignore other people in fandom who like characters and ships that they don’t like, and… This could just be me being paranoid, but I get the feeling that something unpleasant went down. I linked to my account on Tumblr in my initial inquiry email, so I don’t think the artist has a problem with me specifically, but I can’t help but think that I unwittingly dragged her into some sort of stupid fandom discourse. I’m not gonna lie, the possibility that this is what happened hurt a lot, and I feel awful for the artist (even if what prompted her tweets has nothing to do with me). In any case, what I think I’ll do is wait a few months and then ask if she’s okay with me posting the piece myself.
This week I had my mandatory annual in-person Title IX training seminar, and it triggered the shit out of me. I don’t object to sexual assault prevention education in principle, of course, but the way the State of Virginia handles it is far from ideal. “Compliance” took just about all of my energy, and I wasn’t able to write.
But I did have some great conversations with artists I admire, and I was able to spend some quality time with Photoshop while listening to the Game Grumps playthrough of Skyward Sword. This wasn’t the best week, but somehow I made it through.
- I also applied to the DC Zine Fest just about as soon as the application went live. Tables are distributed according to a lottery, and I have never won anything in my life, so I probably won’t get in, but wouldn’t it be great if I did?
- I’m still working on putting together a Wind Waker haiku zine, and this week I made a bunch of art for it and got started on the layout. It’s going to be a really cool book when it’s finished, if I do say so myself.
- I commissioned one of my favorite Dragon Age artists, @geezmarty on Tumblr, to draw Balthazar and Ceres from The Demon King. Their illustration is gorgeous and super cute, and I love it! I’ve been sending artists various descriptions of the characters and the novel, and it’s been a lot of fun to see how they’re interpreted. Once the semester is over and I have a bit more free time, I’d love to start drawing all of these designs myself.
- Speaking of which, I’ve also been working with @evaisonart on Twitter to design Zelda and Ganondorf for my newest Zelgan fic, Malice. This has been an incredible experience, and it deserves its own post, so I’ll write more about it once the finalized designs have been posted.
- I also worked on another commission with a Zelda fandom artist whose work I just discovered a few months ago. We had a great conversation via Twitter and email, and she created a phenomenal illustration, but she never posted it. Since she’s very active and friendly, I was a little surprised, but then I went to her Twitter and saw that she recently made a series of tweets about how people in fandom should just ignore other people in fandom who like characters and ships that they don’t like, and… This could just be me being paranoid, but I get the feeling that something unpleasant went down. I linked to my account on Tumblr in my initial inquiry email, so I don’t think the artist has a problem with me specifically, but I can’t help but think that I unwittingly dragged her into some sort of stupid fandom discourse. I’m not gonna lie, the possibility that this is what happened hurt a lot, and I feel awful for the artist (even if what prompted her tweets has nothing to do with me). In any case, what I think I’ll do is wait a few months and then ask if she’s okay with me posting the piece myself.
This week I had my mandatory annual in-person Title IX training seminar, and it triggered the shit out of me. I don’t object to sexual assault prevention education in principle, of course, but the way the State of Virginia handles it is far from ideal. “Compliance” took just about all of my energy, and I wasn’t able to write.
But I did have some great conversations with artists I admire, and I was able to spend some quality time with Photoshop while listening to the Game Grumps playthrough of Skyward Sword. This wasn’t the best week, but somehow I made it through.
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Date: 2019-04-20 09:22 pm (UTC)You got a lot done!
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Date: 2019-04-25 02:37 pm (UTC)I was recently stuck in traffic on the beltway behind a giant SUV with one of those yellow "Don't Tread On Me" NRA license plates. They also had a "Co-Exist" bumper sticker, which seemed like an interesting bit of mixed messaging. When I got closer to the van, however, I saw that the letters of the "Co-Exist" bumper sticker, instead of being formed from the symbols of various world religions, were formed with various guns and rifles. Fun times!
People keep pressuring me to move from DC to the Virginia suburbs, but listen.
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Date: 2019-04-26 03:06 am (UTC)Yeah, I. I don't ever want to move out of a blue state, tbh. I mean, ok, Illinois is only blue because of Chicago, but I LIKE my bubble.