Puddle's Pond

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[puddlespond]

Hey there! I go by Puddle or Puddlino online. I'm trying to write a book and do little drawings of my characters. I'll try and start posting here so if you're interested, give me a follow! Here's a little pixel art of my boy Bao.

[puddlespond]

I started working on Chapter 9, and Ive made myself a schedule for Blue Mist's writing. I'm feeling a bit burnt out from a combo of life stuff and work but I'm determined to get this whole thing finished. Wish me luck!

[puddlespond]

Its a silly mockup but its not ai

This is kinda a mockup of what I might try and have done for the bookcover. I think I may commission someone to help me make this cause although I think I can draw the characters just fine, I'm terrible with the background stuff and could use some help there and with color choices. I also want all the architecture on the covers to be inspired by indigenous cities built with stone like Cuzco or Tenochtitlan, as I wanted to make an underground city inhabited by the Taino people where their main building material is stone.

Ill probably try asking some artists I enjoy to see what their prices will be. I'm expecting it to be expensive but publishing already is so oh well lol.

Though feel free to reply to this post or message me if you're interested and I'd be glad to negotiate prices. No AI THOUGH, THIS WILL BE AN AI FREE ZONE!!!! If you try and show me AI so help me.

[puddlespond]

I'm starting to wonder how I should go about "marketing" my book before release to see if people will be interested in reading it. What would y'all want to see from a book before buying it?

I'll probably have a book cover done soon as well.

[pariambod]

[puddlespond]

Maybe minor TADC finale spoiler:

Got home after watching TADC finale. Genuinely phenomenal ending, I understood so many character decisions afterwards, and Im really sad Gooseworx got treated the way she did cause I would love to see more work from her.

9/10 in my books. Some scenes towards the first half of the finale dragged on for maybe a bit in my taste and there was one character decision I feel like couldve been done different for more emotional impact but apart from that; amazing.

[happyroadkillart]

[puddlespond]

Some more tomodachi life screenshots I thought were funny

Also, Christine wanted to play coin spin and the coin stayed upright, which lead to this interaction which I think is neat.

[thegrayelephent]

Me when I write for 30 minutes: 1k words

Me when I write for 2 hours: 500 words

Me when I write for 4 hours: -300 words

[orbitingrook]

[puddlespond]

Twitter TADC fans are genuinely so incredibly vile. I knew it was bad but Ive actually been reading stuff and jesus CHRIST. Gooseworx deserves so much better.

[buttpoems]

[puddlespond]

Blue Mist Chapter 8 is done!

I actually finished it in a good state, at least good enough for me to continue from here.

The full chapter will become available to read after the full manuscript is ready. I am about 1/3 of the way done with the entire thing. Wish me luck! I will include a small snippet of a conversation that introduces vampires as a species in this world.

“Marco, what are you doing here? Don’t you know of our agreement to stay apart for a while?” he asked, whispering.

Bao looked back at the man, who rustled in his coat and pulled out a sheet of paper. He handed it to Bao, folded down and crumpled.

“I was in a hurry, Nando. The note will explain more. Read it when you’re safe, and be gone from here by 7:30 pm. I’ll be seeing you again soon,” he said, turning to leave.

“Oh, and a pleasure to meet you, Bao and Oliver,” he extended a hand to Bao, and Bao stared at it. It was a deep gray, like clay. Bao hesitated, before Marco scoffed and pulled away. His hood slipped down a bit, and Bao caught a glimpse of his long, pointed ears and pink, leaf-shaped nose. He whipped the hood back up, his long black hair flying in front of his face. He stormed off, and Bao looked back at Fernando, who had his arms crossed disapprovingly.

“You would do best to apologize to him the next time you see him,” Fernando said sternly. Bao nodded, and looked back to Oliver, who had drifted asleep. Fernando turned to face the sun, and extended his arms out, and breathed deeply.

[puddlespond]

Took me way longer to do than expected but I drew my OC marco holding his mii like that silly trend I kept seeing online.

Also dont mind the colors I havent drawn digitally in a LONG time so Im trying some things out lol

[puddlespond]

Been trying to finish chapter 8 of Blue Mist for a while but I think Im in a bit of writers block. I will try and get it done tonight. I wont share it publicly until I finish the entire book, but Ill post an update about it here as like a milemarker.

Very excited to finish it and start more on finishing Fair Winds and Following Seas, as well as a host of other books that I hope to publish over my life.

Thanks for reading, see yall soon!

[official-linguistics-post]

uh oh

"etymologynerd" is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something. the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact, but there's also a serious problem with the linguistics.

in a video shared on may 16, adam aleksic begins by saying: "i think we have to accept the fact that the 'r-word' [retard/retarded] is permanently coming back and it's functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people."

this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points.

this word never went away. what we're seeing now is an attempt at re-normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term.

we actually don't have to "accept" its return to mainstream use. for decades, disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term. the harm has not disappeared, and neither will this advocacy and its impacts.

now i'm just mad. how tf does it NOT refer to disabled people? the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person, group, etc. the assertion that the r-word has changed meanings is categorically false. at most, its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative, but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference.

he goes on to refer to the "euphemism treadmill," another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative. to quote: "...once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage, it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead."

which... what? what the fuck is he talking about? the words he uses as examples – idiot, imbecile, and moron – are definitely still offensive, if perhaps less impactful. "just becomes colloquial instead" is a nonsense phrase. are offensive words not colloquial? the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is "nice," which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term.

he ends by saying, "it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r-word right now are going to get old and die out, while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from." again, fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time. it rests on the assumption that we're all going to start or re-start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms, which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words. you think i'm just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad??

the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long-term semantic change.

tl;dr etymologynerd is wrong, we do NOT "have to accept that the 'r-word' is coming back," and we all need to read more crip linguistics.

[marsuk-06]

I’m hyped