2025 Writing Log, Part 46
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rynling- I wrote the third chapter of The Archives of Hyrule, a modern AU loosely based on Tears of the Kingdom. This chapter introduces the workplace dynamic between Zelda, Riju, and Impa. Impa in particular is going to be a fun character, I think.
- I was accepted to contribute a story to Gloriosa: A Sephiroth Zine, which looks like it’s going to be a small but interesting project. This week I wrote three story pitches... and then I went ahead and wrote (very) rough drafts of all three stories. I didn’t know I had feelings about Sephiroth, but there you go.
- I wrote the second (of four) sections for my Yuletide story. Making progress!
- I did a third editing pass on the eight stories for my Ruins zine and decided on the story order. The page formatting will determine what the illustrations need to look like, so I’ll get started on that this coming week.
- I published a review of a recently released graphic novel called The Corus Wave on Comics Beat (here). This is a cozy science mystery about a grad student who inadvertently tumbles down a research rabbit hole while writing her thesis about an unusual fossil. The story quickly becomes a low-stakes Da Vinci Code adventure with a lot of local color borrowed from the artist’s home in Cornwall, and it’s super charming. I really love this book.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Sympathy Tower Tokyo, a short literary novel about the sort of language-related culture wars that raged across Twitter around the time of the Shinzō Abe assassination back in 2022. This book is intellectually demanding but also very fun and readable; and, despite being set in near-future Japan, it has strong Jorge Luis Borges vibes in the best possible way. Many kudos to the translator, who’s done some brilliant work here.
- I commissioned the suave and stylish MadVal to create a set of alt clothing designs for Fhiad, my wizard detective OC. They took a lot of cool inspiration from Elden Ring and Bloodborne, and they posted the designs on Bluesky (here).
- I’m working very hard to finish a short comic + an illustration for an art exchange. I’m always so slow with everything, and I hope I can finish in time!
- I would never post this anywhere, but (here) is one of the grubs from Hollow Knight that is super friendly and wants to be picked up and petted. This is a study of the digital watercolor style of the marvelous ieafy, specifically (this art here), and I think I was able to get really close to the original. My hands are too clumsy to do anything with actual physical watercolors, so I want to try to figure out how to achieve the same effects with digital brushes.
Oh man. It’s been a week. I need a vacation.
I’m having a time of it, but I hope good things happen to everyone reading this. ☕
- I was accepted to contribute a story to Gloriosa: A Sephiroth Zine, which looks like it’s going to be a small but interesting project. This week I wrote three story pitches... and then I went ahead and wrote (very) rough drafts of all three stories. I didn’t know I had feelings about Sephiroth, but there you go.
- I wrote the second (of four) sections for my Yuletide story. Making progress!
- I did a third editing pass on the eight stories for my Ruins zine and decided on the story order. The page formatting will determine what the illustrations need to look like, so I’ll get started on that this coming week.
- I published a review of a recently released graphic novel called The Corus Wave on Comics Beat (here). This is a cozy science mystery about a grad student who inadvertently tumbles down a research rabbit hole while writing her thesis about an unusual fossil. The story quickly becomes a low-stakes Da Vinci Code adventure with a lot of local color borrowed from the artist’s home in Cornwall, and it’s super charming. I really love this book.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Sympathy Tower Tokyo, a short literary novel about the sort of language-related culture wars that raged across Twitter around the time of the Shinzō Abe assassination back in 2022. This book is intellectually demanding but also very fun and readable; and, despite being set in near-future Japan, it has strong Jorge Luis Borges vibes in the best possible way. Many kudos to the translator, who’s done some brilliant work here.
- I commissioned the suave and stylish MadVal to create a set of alt clothing designs for Fhiad, my wizard detective OC. They took a lot of cool inspiration from Elden Ring and Bloodborne, and they posted the designs on Bluesky (here).
- I’m working very hard to finish a short comic + an illustration for an art exchange. I’m always so slow with everything, and I hope I can finish in time!
- I would never post this anywhere, but (here) is one of the grubs from Hollow Knight that is super friendly and wants to be picked up and petted. This is a study of the digital watercolor style of the marvelous ieafy, specifically (this art here), and I think I was able to get really close to the original. My hands are too clumsy to do anything with actual physical watercolors, so I want to try to figure out how to achieve the same effects with digital brushes.
Oh man. It’s been a week. I need a vacation.
I’m having a time of it, but I hope good things happen to everyone reading this. ☕
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Date: 2025-11-26 10:44 pm (UTC)I have only once written about Sephiroth, from the POV of an elderly Wutain woman who encounters him when Shin-Ra invades their village, and I was surprised how much I enjoyed writing it. Sometimes those things sneak in.
*cheers you on for Yuletide*
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