Spinning in circles talking as fast as I can

We're only gonna look at the shiny things...

[corwinideas]

Next Chapter: Tiny Chaos

Several months ago, I wrote the first KataNerd post to grace the pages of the internet in a LONG time. It was on the tail end of a hectic weekend of karate that DID result in a video of me hotfooting my way through a Disney resort going from shady spot to shady spot because I had lost my sandals the night before.Don’t worry, they were found. THEN, I made the promise I would write more and told…

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[corwinideas]

Howdy

It’s been a whole handful of minutes. Moment of honesty – I didn’t flip back through whatever the last post was on KataNerd, I just jumped into writing a new one while sitting at a bar and feeling like I should be doing something productive. Y’know, that feeling all of us get at bars. So I pulled out my COMPUTER (which is always with me, and has made appearances in SO many bars, coffee shops,…

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[corwinideas]

The Thing About Dragons...

There was a time when I wrote 200 words a day, every day.There were musings, drunk rants, sleepy stories, and even a few quality pieces that jumped out and slapped me, once I read back through them.  There were also oceans of text that meant…nothing.There were just little soldiers in a row holding up an idea that being a writer was about putting as much ink onto the page, or text into a Word…

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[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[corwinideas]

Loud Environment:

Life is LOUD - and that's ok.

I got an Apple Watch this last Christmas. Well, by “got.” I mean “bought from a friend.” And really, “bought from a friend” translates into “a long con from my fiancé to get the watch that I was wearing by convincing me to buy the better and newer watch so she could ‘inherit’ the old one.” This means, everyone now has an Apple Watch and is happily altogether too connected. ALL OF THAT TO…

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[myjetpack]

for New Scientist

[obviousplant]

[corwinideas]

Despite Common Thought:

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[crow-folio]

TIME TO REST  

A short comic about Tiffany Aching and Sam Vimes, ​two of Discworld’s hardest working characters. The recent conversation about crunch inspired me to make this piece.

[corwinideas]

In case we need a reminder, I know I do.

[corwinideas]

Travel

When I was younger I traveled a lot. My parents were always taking me on trips to far-off (to me) locales. I still travel quite a bit now, do now, but the farther you go and the more you do, the more it feels as if the world gets smaller. Now, hopping to Florida or Atlanta isn’t the big experience it used to be. It’s still fun, still something I enjoy, but not the paradigm shift of yore.  I’m…

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[taikova]

my SU art from 2020, there's stuff with light going on in them that i like.

[corwinideas]

Backwards

This whole idea of progress.

It’s July already. And it’s not just July. It’s THE END of July. This means it’s essentially Thanksgiving and Christmas. Basically, the world is already in 2023 and I’m stuck here in the dregs of July convinced it should still, somehow, be April. And that’s sorta what this next bit is about. This whole idea of expecting to be anywhere at all in life. Last post I was talking about getting to a…

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[corwinideas]

There WAS a plan.

Sometimes plans take on a life of their own. And that's ok.

Though, I feel like that’s what I always say. And to be fair, there always was. It’s just usually forgotten somewhere along the way and I end up making it up as I go along. Case in point, I STARTED this post about a month ago. At which point I had a plan to write a whole slew of funny things that have been going on. But, I’d forgotten what most of those were and was gently twitching as I imbibed…

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[corwinideas]

Forgotten Realms is My Philosophy...Apparently

Forgotten Realms is My Philosophy…Apparently

Bear with me, we’ll get there. I’m not quite sure what to start this with. There are times where the clock has passed into the wee hours and the general rational filter that exists in the from of your brain switches off. All this to say, the last few months have been nuts. Between losing power, the dojo flooding, and living at various people houses and sampling a wide and interesting variety…

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[corwinideas]

And All of a Sudden...

And All of a Sudden…

It’s July. Last year at this time we were limited to 8 people in the dojo, masks were everywhere and the tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. Last year I had just moved to Milwaukee and spent a fair amount of time bringing stuff to Ohio. Last year at about this time we also had the big split. Only a year. ONLY?! In some ways, it’s felt like SO much longer. Years, decades, small…

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[corwinideas]

Here Be Monsters

This post is about maps. Not in any important type of way. But it references them in the same way that you might reference “research” while actually quoting a TikTok you watched last week. Hey, we all do it. I do it. But, getting back to the maps, have you ever actually looked at those sketches of the world according to the author in the beginning of some fantasy books? They can be either…

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[corwinideas]

2 (Failures). 1 (Day).

2 (Failures). 1 (Day).

This whole sequence of countdown posts was a half baked idea 6 months ago. Back then I knew what the ending was going to be, but now that I’m actually there, I’m a wee bit nervous. Which is a good thing, that same adage that I started the first post of the sequence with – if it scares you, it’s probably the right choice – is one that I STILL fully believe. That doesn’t make it any easier to…

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