2024 Writing Log, Part Ten
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rynling- I finished the second section of Chapter 15 of An Unfound Door. Huzzah!
- Now that I’m getting into Bloodborne fandom, I’ve started following more FromSoft artists. I commissioned two of them - one who specializes in sinister mystery women and one who specializes in sad but handsome men - to draw the lead characters of An Unfound Door. This is exciting!
- I edited Chapter Nine of Lay the Gods to Rest and posted it on AO3 (here). It was nice to take my time with this chapter.
- As an aside: I assumed that no one was reading Lay the Gods to Rest. And that’s fine! This story is for me. But one of my older stories recently got a lot of attention, and I checked my Statistics page on AO3 out of curiosity. What I found in passing is that Lay the Gods to Rest has several dozen subscribers and even more private bookmarks. This is surprising, since the story has less than 30 kudos and only 4 public bookmarks. I’m honored that my writing is a guilty pleasure.
- I finished my series of BOTW+TOTK meta essays! The final essay, which is about Rauru and Ganondorf, is on AO3 (here). I also posted an annotated table of contents on Tumblr (here).
- The British Academy comics conference, “The Commercial Business of Comics,” now has a website, which you can find (here). I’ve slowly been plugging away at my conference paper. Next week I’ll start work on the fifth and final section.
- I’ve also been working on a short paper about Machiko Kyō for an edited volume. This week I finished the first section of the essay. Slow but steady!
- I really enjoyed the simple floral design of the sakura piece I posted last week (here), so this week I drew some spring flowers wreathing a Dark Souls style armor helmet, which I posted on Tumblr (here). The real-world reference I used for the armor (here) is amazing, by the way.
- I’ve been taking on extra freelance translation work and using the funds to reprint my zines, which I’m slowly putting back up on Etsy. I’ve also been buying other people’s zines (and stickers, and prints) and leaving positive reviews on Etsy. Haters gonna hate, but it’s nice to be an adult in fandom. When somebody on a Discord server posts an announcement saying that they have a shop, you can just go and support them. Living the dream.
I divided this week between trying to defeat a boss in Bloodborne and walking to various parks in Philadelphia to see the cherry trees. I can’t complain. 🌸
- Now that I’m getting into Bloodborne fandom, I’ve started following more FromSoft artists. I commissioned two of them - one who specializes in sinister mystery women and one who specializes in sad but handsome men - to draw the lead characters of An Unfound Door. This is exciting!
- I edited Chapter Nine of Lay the Gods to Rest and posted it on AO3 (here). It was nice to take my time with this chapter.
- As an aside: I assumed that no one was reading Lay the Gods to Rest. And that’s fine! This story is for me. But one of my older stories recently got a lot of attention, and I checked my Statistics page on AO3 out of curiosity. What I found in passing is that Lay the Gods to Rest has several dozen subscribers and even more private bookmarks. This is surprising, since the story has less than 30 kudos and only 4 public bookmarks. I’m honored that my writing is a guilty pleasure.
- I finished my series of BOTW+TOTK meta essays! The final essay, which is about Rauru and Ganondorf, is on AO3 (here). I also posted an annotated table of contents on Tumblr (here).
- The British Academy comics conference, “The Commercial Business of Comics,” now has a website, which you can find (here). I’ve slowly been plugging away at my conference paper. Next week I’ll start work on the fifth and final section.
- I’ve also been working on a short paper about Machiko Kyō for an edited volume. This week I finished the first section of the essay. Slow but steady!
- I really enjoyed the simple floral design of the sakura piece I posted last week (here), so this week I drew some spring flowers wreathing a Dark Souls style armor helmet, which I posted on Tumblr (here). The real-world reference I used for the armor (here) is amazing, by the way.
- I’ve been taking on extra freelance translation work and using the funds to reprint my zines, which I’m slowly putting back up on Etsy. I’ve also been buying other people’s zines (and stickers, and prints) and leaving positive reviews on Etsy. Haters gonna hate, but it’s nice to be an adult in fandom. When somebody on a Discord server posts an announcement saying that they have a shop, you can just go and support them. Living the dream.
I divided this week between trying to defeat a boss in Bloodborne and walking to various parks in Philadelphia to see the cherry trees. I can’t complain. 🌸
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Date: 2024-03-22 01:56 am (UTC)Congrats on finishing chapter 15, and yay for commissions!!
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Date: 2024-03-24 09:23 pm (UTC)And speaking of which, what a marvel it is that you can send money to someone and they give you a drawing in return. What an absolute miracle on this earth. I don't mean to come off like I'm high on life, but so many things could go wrong with buying and commissioning art, and it's amazing that they almost never do. If nothing else, I'm grateful that this one utopian aspect of the internet is still going strong, even as everything else burns.
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Date: 2024-04-04 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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