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Full time nurse, part time gamer, tertiary trait artist. If only those were reversed.

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@tuskforcearts Tagged me for some questions, so here are my answers!

1. What book/movie/videogame scared you the most?

Amnesia the Dark Descent kinda messed me up. Terrifying aesthetic and the helplessness you feel playing it. Yeah that’s a scary one.

2. Your most loved and hated fictional character.

There are so many amazing characters out there, it’d be hard to pick just one. I suppose my favorite all around character is maybe Kerrigan from the Green Rider series and my least favorite is probably Minfilia from FFXIV.

3. A thing you consider essential in your life.

I’d like to imagine I can drop all my worldly possessions at the drop of a hat. And not to sound corny, but the most important thing in my life would be my friends and loved ones. Love people, use things, not the other way around.

4. If you could have any skill (not superpower), what skill will be?

If I could gain any skill over night I might pick blacksmithing or carpentry. I’ve always been envious of those who can make practical art.

5. Favourite book/movie/videogame of all times.

Talking to Dragons was my first favorite book, and has defended it’s position quite well. Favorite movie is Mad Max Fury Road and my favorite game is Monster Hunter.

6.Something you will recommend to others.

Less is more, spend less on things and more on experiences. Spend time with friends, goto museums, learn and enrich. Stuff just bogs you down.

7.Something you won’t recommend to others.

Getting a job you have no interest in just because it’s practical. I have a good job and a good degree, but I hate every day at work because I have no interest in it. If I could go back in time to tell myself to never walk this path, I may infact do just that.

8. Cats or dogs?

Both and equal probably, however my lifestyle makes cats a more practical decision.

9. Something you consider kitsch but you love it.

Dad jokes? In all seriousness I love folk music too, music with cultural and historic significance to groups of people really catches my interest.

10. A horror film that made you laugh.

I’ll go with the Village. Mostly made me laugh that it had the worst ending ever, which made the rest of the movie feel like a terrible vessel made to specifically allow the shitty end to make sense.

11. If any fantastic creature  were real, what do you prefer and why?

I love me some gargoyles, their historic and cultural importance gives them a very real history to begin with. I also enjoy Quetzalcoatl, important, beautiful, and feathery!

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Some more coloring practice today. My d&d character Oren of the Silver Flame.

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Thomas the adventurer's guild cook and grounds keeper.

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Bought some colored pencils. Don't really know how they work yet though!

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Gotta make up for no art last week! Sketch of Linda Snowborn, the proprietress of the Stockton Adventurers Guild.

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Quick n dirty sketch of Bill the rigger.

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Captain Ceadeus, forgive my boredom!

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Coffee shop sketch of Tokumori, @deadgoliath's oc.

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A dwarf rigger, his name is Bill.

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Night shift doodle. Me playing paladin in ffxiv.

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Admiral Aelith Stormbreaker. Don't mess with her. Another npc from d&d.

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Joel Highmount, an npc from one of my dnd games.

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One of my d&d characters Karrick Keeneye. He's a blind bard bird!

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Drew a picture of Moloch, @tuskforcearts's character. Thanks for the inspiration, been a while since I opened my sketchbook!

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I was touched deeply to see the lovely @maverick-ornithography​ tagged me in a “get-to-know-you” post. I have a very small online footprint, but I’m willing to shout into the void, who knows perhaps the void shall shout back at me?

1. How old are you? Twenty-three and counting. 2. What’s your current job? My records may state that I am actually a registered medical surgical nurse, however my actual job is to be stressed out by sick people for twelve hours while charting it all on a computer! 3. What are you talented at? People say I have a flair for creativity. I’ve been making music and art since I could remember. I love to draw and still try to do that actively even though work tends to get in the way of that. I’ve got more musical instruments sitting around than any one reasonable person should have. I even love telling stories, which is sometimes overlooked by the creative crowd. I though, feel that one of my biggest talents is people. I’m pretty good at talking and actually take great pleasure in parlance. 

4. What is a big goal you are working towards (or have already achieved)? I think my current goal is to get out of my present job. It’s eating at my soul and that is no way to live. Ideally I would get into public health. I want to try and make an impact on this world, hopefully for the better. Stopping people from ever actually ending up in the hospital would be my dream. I also think we need more cool dudes like myself in the government. You know, level headed individuals who listen to all sides of an issue, appreciate research and analyze serious data.... oh and who have actually worked in healthcare and realize how effed up it is! 5. What’s your aesthetic? Lunch at your favorite restaurant, dad jokes, James P Sullivan, dancing to your favorite song, trying to act tough and failing miserably.

6. Do you collect anything? Apparently pens... Anyone who has been a waiter or a nurse probably does this too. If I were a dragon, my hoard would be a giant pile of pens I have hand chosen because they posses a certain sort of ‘je ne saia quois’.

7. What’s a topic you always talk about?   I talk a lot, just watch my friends and co-workers roll their eyes as I come beaming through the door excited about some new topic. I get obsessive over seemingly random topics and read all about them for like a week. I usually just want to share the “fun facts” with people. Aside from that I’m usually up for talking about the D&D game I’m running! 8. What’s a pet peeve of yours? ”I told you so” Oh how that phrase irks me so. Why go through the trouble of trying to convince someone something (probably for their own good) and throw it all away by taking an unnecessary stance of power. Maybe I’m just contrary but nothing makes me want to do self destruct more than someone saying “ I told you so”. 9. Good advice to give?   Listen to others, why learn something by experience when someone else already did the hard work for you. 10. What are three songs you’d recommend? Day Old Hate - Dallas Green (the obligatory sad song)

Now I Am an Arsonist - Jonathan Coulton (...also sad, but really great imagery)

Pretty Girl at the Airport - The Avett Brothers (what’s with all the melancholy)

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Look, another bird!

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Night shift doodle! How better to represent the Gross Blue Heron than with the V of Swords. He'll take everything you have and doesn't even feel a little sorry. Inspired by @maverick-ornithography​.