endless yammering

A new side block to stop flooding people's feeds. Expect this one to though. Gonna post my headcanons, bullshit and writing on here instead. Will also reblog my drawing onto here.

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IZ fast food au

The Empire the store and it's just out on this space highway. All of the workers are planet bound. The Tallest unexpectedly become the gms by the control brains orders (corporate) with all the invaders working under them and they're massively struggling, but loving the benefits of their new positions

I think this is the mindset I need to use when writing the Tallest

Like young adult managers who probably got there through nepotism, not prepared for any of this but do try sometimes and love the perks

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So since I started with my Art Progress file and started doing lla little write up for each entry I've been thinking maybe I should do something similar with my writing stuff.

Now like the big old writing file is what inspired the Art Progress file, but there's one big difference between the two. And that's the fact that I don't have any sort of review system for my writing aside from checking word and entry count

So I started a Writing Process file and moved the entry count to that.

I'm breaking each entry into three parts: the summary of what I actually wrote, the intention I had going into it and notes on if it came out how I wanted it to, if I like it, what I can do to fix it in the future and questions on stuff I've yet to sort out

My writing today was a bit rough. Which was pretty clear as to why in the reviews. It's my intentions not lining up with the execution. Mostly because I was shaky on what the intentions were going in. But some were just kinda fumbling the ball while writing. Was super fucking hot while getting everything down

But yeah, think I'm slowly gonna go back through and do this for as much as I can if I have the time

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I've never put much thought into it, but Doll Maker is a textiles merchant beyond just being a designer/tailor. It's not just the fact that he's been around forever that makes him a prominent figure. It's the fact that he has his hands in so much of that market that makes him recognized by so many leaders in Thymes

The arachne as well likely are tolerated in Bluecastle because of their silk production despite the strong anti-fae leanings of the majority not only Bluecastle but the neighboring countries

Like I didn't have any idea of the importance of textiles throughout our history when I made him or really until recently after I'd stopped really touching Thymes at all. But it works so well. Doll Maker has quite the grip on that throughout the continent (or the central and northern part) as well as the underground and The Doctor has the most advanced understanding of medicine. Both owning the mines and fields required to keep their shit functioning. That's why Doll Maker is fucking everywhere he's making sure this fields and mines continue to function

The fucker is almost certainly the one of the richet characters on Thymes

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Trying to make little titles for the big scenes that have been in my head forever. That way I have a list of specific stuff to pick at while actively trying to write if nothing is immediately coming to mind so I can keep up this momentum I've had lately

I have put a few of them to paper and it's been awesome. The ones with Korokay almost made me cry. I don't know if that's cause they have been with me for so long or if it's because their execution came out far better than I was expecting

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Decided on making a doc for my art progress. It was easy enough to figure out how to format things in this program

And I wrote some notes what I did for the piece I worked on and my thoughts behind what I did which was soothing

Made some comments on stuff I'm not sold on. Luckily there isn't really anything I dislike about this piece at all

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I finally wrote part of the GIR pie scene and I think I got across what I envisioned

So GIr, Setna and Road Hog get stuck in the underground caverns with a bunch of man eating mothmen. I am undecided on if Keef'll be there

Setna and Keef both hang out with Gir and Road Hog but never seemingly at the same time. Which kinda makes sense. Setna is super busy and only has time for shenanigans when she should probably be in bed. And Keef despite not having a curfew tries to be home when his sister is off work

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Setna is supposed to have pretty small pupils but I wanna show the hazel more

Need to work on Seti's and Maliph's redesigns together to make sure they look distinct. Might not change much but I wanna experiment with some possible changes

Not awake yet. Gonna sleep more

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There's absolutely no context in this entry and I don't remember what they were talking about, but I think the named speaker is Narinder even though I wrote she instead of he...

This is just squabbling but I didn't get to hear the first part. It's actually maddening

Like maybe it Heket, but highly unlikely but I did also write "her". But she wouldn't know and couldn't talk so smoothly...

It doesn't make sense for it to be my character either

The first line and the last line imply something very specific was said before this.

I still don't fully know what they are talking about but I fleshed it out a bit because it was bugging me

Like it has to be Narinder. He is the only mind reader aside from maybe maaaaaaybe Shamura #2 who this makes sense for, but actually the middle line throws Shamura out of consideration

Okay okay

He thinks she's plotting against him? I think

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Once again I come across an entry with absolutely no context and yet this one has a unique project title...

I have no idea who this mystery person is calling the Tallest scum and I wrote it! I must know. I yearn to know

Is it Hobo? Cause I thought I dropped the Hobo plot years ago

Highway Amongst the Star...

Someone calling the Tallest scum to their faces

A comms high jacking

Someone the Tallest are familiar with

Maybe the Kraang?

Doubt it's the Resisty

Definitely not Tak since Purple outright states they aren't irken

Maybe the other 777

Someone that makes Red instinctively stand up straight to appear more intimidating.

The Producers don't give enough fucks to call irkens scum and the Tallest aren't going to be familiar with them

I did have that delivery fic once upon a time but that doesn't mesh with any of the contents of this...

Maaaaaaybe Dib? But "There are things that need to be discussed, Tallest."

OH! It's the planet jackers! This is the broken treaty!

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I'm positive that's what it's about but that title doesn't connect at all man. I'm gonna double check it's the only entry in that project and move it to either Deadline or Candy Colored if it is.

Also there's the potential of putting it under 2 Cute although 2k has like nothing to do with this

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There's absolutely no context in this entry and I don't remember what they were talking about, but I think the named speaker is Narinder even though I wrote she instead of he...

This is just squabbling but I didn't get to hear the first part. It's actually maddening

Like maybe it Heket, but highly unlikely but I did also write "her". But she wouldn't know and couldn't talk so smoothly...

It doesn't make sense for it to be my character either

The first line and the last line imply something very specific was said before this.

I still don't fully know what they are talking about but I fleshed it out a bit because it was bugging me

Like it has to be Narinder. He is the only mind reader aside from maybe maaaaaaybe Shamura #2 who this makes sense for, but actually the middle line throws Shamura out of consideration

Okay okay

He thinks she's plotting against him? I think

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Once again I come across an entry with absolutely no context and yet this one has a unique project title...

I have no idea who this mystery person is calling the Tallest scum and I wrote it! I must know. I yearn to know

Is it Hobo? Cause I thought I dropped the Hobo plot years ago

Highway Amongst the Star...

Someone calling the Tallest scum to their faces

A comms high jacking

Someone the Tallest are familiar with

Maybe the Kraang?

Doubt it's the Resisty

Definitely not Tak since Purple outright states they aren't irken

Maybe the other 777

Someone that makes Red instinctively stand up straight to appear more intimidating.

The Producers don't give enough fucks to call irkens scum and the Tallest aren't going to be familiar with them

I did have that delivery fic once upon a time but that doesn't mesh with any of the contents of this...

Maaaaaaybe Dib? But "There are things that need to be discussed, Tallest."

OH! It's the planet jackers! This is the broken treaty!

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I'm tallying up my writing entries and doing some edits on a few of them. Which is really fun honestly. I kinda rereading things just to make sure they are under the right titles and everything. Had like on instance where two scenes from entirely different projects were under the same entry but that was easy enough to clock

May had 46. Crazy

I'm back to early April

Renamed some things. Detangled some projects

Anything with Maliph before the Battle Nexus is under Myth & Malice, anything for Setna before the Nexus is under Unethics and the stuff during the Nexus is under On a Whim

I haven't gotten to most of my fanfic stuff aside from Two Deaths. And some random RaPr stuff which is going under Candy Colored as a bit of a catch for that for now

Even with the ideas I scrapped I could probably make writing I have for them work with what I'm planning now, since I never actually got to the points I wanted with the old stuff. Like it's pretty good stuff even before the line edits. Even better afterward

I keep thinking about actually writing for the irken fast food every time I see my pinned post but haven't actually gotten to it yet

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Got side tracked fully rewriting a scene (and gym). Went from a small paragraph to a page. But I finished tallying up April. It had 17 entries

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Another Rapr fic I am working on is Deadline and I adore the few scenes I have for it

Forgotten gods, my other cult of the lamb fic is so fucking good. I need to work on it more. Like it's a bit of a catch all too but the whole guardian out of time thing is super fun.

I have kinda lost the plot on Two Deaths focusing it more on my character then anything, I adore her, but it's got good bone I've yet to really dig into

I've edited 11 entries today on top of just the normal writing

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There's absolutely no context in this entry and I don't remember what they were talking about, but I think the named speaker is Narinder even though I wrote she instead of he...

This is just squabbling but I didn't get to hear the first part. It's actually maddening

Like maybe it Heket, but highly unlikely but I did also write "her". But she wouldn't know and couldn't talk so smoothly...

It doesn't make sense for it to be my character either

The first line and the last line imply something very specific was said before this.

I still don't fully know what they are talking about but I fleshed it out a bit because it was bugging me

Like it has to be Narinder. He is the only mind reader aside from maybe maaaaaaybe Shamura #2 who this makes sense for, but actually the middle line throws Shamura out of consideration

Okay okay

He thinks she's plotting against him? I think

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I can't keep doing big rewrites. I need to focus on the tallies

Like I am having fun, but I don't have the time

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I'm tallying up my writing entries and doing some edits on a few of them. Which is really fun honestly. I kinda rereading things just to make sure they are under the right titles and everything. Had like on instance where two scenes from entirely different projects were under the same entry but that was easy enough to clock

May had 46. Crazy

I'm back to early April

Renamed some things. Detangled some projects

Anything with Maliph before the Battle Nexus is under Myth & Malice, anything for Setna before the Nexus is under Unethics and the stuff during the Nexus is under On a Whim

I haven't gotten to most of my fanfic stuff aside from Two Deaths. And some random RaPr stuff which is going under Candy Colored as a bit of a catch for that for now

Even with the ideas I scrapped I could probably make writing I have for them work with what I'm planning now, since I never actually got to the points I wanted with the old stuff. Like it's pretty good stuff even before the line edits. Even better afterward

I keep thinking about actually writing for the irken fast food every time I see my pinned post but haven't actually gotten to it yet

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Got side tracked fully rewriting a scene (and gym). Went from a small paragraph to a page. But I finished tallying up April. It had 17 entries

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I have written more than two and a half times the amount this week then I have written in my second most successful writing week

Like that's total nuts

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I've written more this week then I have any other full month this year

I've written more today than any other week this year

What the shit man and it's all good???

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I'm tallying up my writing entries and doing some edits on a few of them. Which is really fun honestly. I kinda rereading things just to make sure they are under the right titles and everything. Had like on instance where two scenes from entirely different projects were under the same entry but that was easy enough to clock

May had 46. Crazy

I'm back to early April

Renamed some things. Detangled some projects

Anything with Maliph before the Battle Nexus is under Myth & Malice, anything for Setna before the Nexus is under Unethics and the stuff during the Nexus is under On a Whim

I haven't gotten to most of my fanfic stuff aside from Two Deaths. And some random RaPr stuff which is going under Candy Colored as a bit of a catch for that for now

Even with the ideas I scrapped I could probably make writing I have for them work with what I'm planning now, since I never actually got to the points I wanted with the old stuff. Like it's pretty good stuff even before the line edits. Even better afterward

I keep thinking about actually writing for the irken fast food every time I see my pinned post but haven't actually gotten to it yet

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I have written more than two and a half times the amount this week then I have written in my second most successful writing week

Like that's total nuts

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Last time I checked my spreadsheet said I had written 57 days of the year and drawn the same.

One of those things did not feel true but both are kind of remarkable for that much I haven't in the past. Even though that like less then half of how many days have passed already

The interesting thing is like this isn't an I drew on every day I wrote cuz I have not it's just a coincidence that's the same number.

But yeah it feels really bad that I've drawn for that many days and have gotten like one thing done.

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Anyway I think this is partly because I don't really know what it was I was working on for a large chunk of it, like I wrote it down, but that's different from seeing progress.

With the writing stuff, it's all in one big ass file. Each day I write starts with a black highlight of the date in white text and each time I just to a different scene or project I write the name of that project underlined as a preface to it. Right under that I place the word count for that chunk of text once I'm readying to move on and when I'm done for the day I have to lines at the end one with a tally of the word count for each scene and the last with a full word count for the day. If I go back and edit something from an earlier day I add (+n words m/d/y) with n being the difference of the word count to the end of the original to what ever I edited and (+n words) on the current day so I remember to count it.I'll add examples later cause this probably doesn't make a lot of sense.

What I'm getting at is it's very easy to see my progress with writing. The goal for writing on my spreadsheet isn't to finish anything, it's to fucking write. And I think that's really working out. I'm finally at a place where it's easy to do. Like it's probably not good, but I don't feel like I'm wrestling with something. I'm actually having fun with the writing part instead of just the daydreaming part. And pretty consistently too. Like it's just been a week so far since I really seemed to breakthrough this wall but it's been for every word I wrote

For sewing progress is super easy to see. At least the shit I do. So any time I do it I feel really accomplished. My lack of progress is from lack of knowledge, strive to do projects beyond my skill level and just not having the tools. My sewing machine has one setting and it seem like everything I want to do requires a special stitch that would be on any other machine. But like I emptied a bin of repairs in a day with hand stitching. If you've only cut something today that's really apparent. If you shoved a few pins in something, the pins are clearly there, a few stitches and suddenly this fabric is coming together even more

With drawing things typically either start out shit and stay shit or start out well and then I'm beating my head against a wall and it doesn't feel I'm making any progress a good amount of the time.

A part is this is likely just disorganization. My art files are kinda all over the place, I have a tendency to do multiple sketch in the same file on different layers but also just make new files as well. When I was doing that big sketch file things were kinda apparent but I also didn't tend to put much work into the sketches afterward I'd just move on and I didn't do anything to complex because I wanted to limit it to the same layer. I didn't want in progress things in there

Way back for a very short amount of time I was screenshoting my drawing progress everyday and I think that is a really good idea

But I don't think that's enough on it's own though

I want some kind of timeline I can look back on as I go. And like if i was super on top of it I could probably sort by dates with file manager, but I'm fucking not. Especially with my dedicated tablet. I could nest some folders by week of month but also I'd have to dig to see them then.

I'll figure something out