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[unluckyadept]

//I felt inspired to make another set! (Previous: 1, 2) This one is for @coetuselementorum.

Stats:

Made using GraphicConverter 12.0.8 on a 2023 MacBook Pro using a touchpad, 1px cursor, and 2000% zoom. Still not as good as the earlier version, but bearable once you know the tricks to navigate its finicky nature.

Set base (the Jayden_hu_neutral expression, top left) took about 1 hour and 24 minutes. The rest of the set and the sheet above (which was put together as I was making the set, which may have slowed things down) took 2 hours exactly.

This was a fun base to make. The ears and fluffy hair were an interesting challenge. I like how it turned out! :}

—T.

[revui]

life update: it is just about 4 am, i want fettuccine alfredo but the last time i tried to cook i set my sleeve on fire, and also i'm now listening t o the cotton eye joe edm remix on repeat because it sounds extremely bad and also i'm not wearing . pant

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[theonewhere-shewrites-blog]

Pantser No More || Writing Journal Entry #1

I am a completely dedicated pantser. I often created my characters, found some picture inspiration and I was gone. That was. simply put, just how I wrote. I didn’t plan anything. I had a general idea and sat down at an empty word document and just started. This worked well, normally. It got me through dozens of journals of poetry, and it had gotten me a few short stories, and even started a really good number of novels…

But that was the problem. In the great goal I had of writing novels, only starting novels was all I ever got from being a pantser. So, when NaNoWriMo 2016 came and went, and I hadn’t finished my novel - albeit, there were other outside influences that impacted my inability to write far greater than having no written out ideas - I had to change. My NaNo’16 project rose my incomplete novels to 10 incomplete stories. Double digits. That was completely unacceptable. I had to do something different, something that would help me finish. Then I heard the advice from @shaelinwrites in her outlining videos suggesting that if writer’s block constantly gets you stuck, and you find yourself incapable of continuing more frequently than you write, then you need to start plotting because you are not a pantser.

So, while I did spend my first day of the new year doing nothing but marathoning The Honeymooners and The Twilight Zone (and cuddling), the second day I started the long, and very unfamiliar process of outlining a novel. I had gotten myself a brand new marble notebook, and I just started brainstorming, writing everything down. As of now this is where I still am, and I think this is where I will be for quite some time…

If any of you are plotters, please give this newbie some advice. Or even feel free to just tell me about your experience.

[unluckyadept]

//For the first time in a couple years, I made a thing, lol.

This is for @venusadeptintraining. 🌱

Stats:

Made using GraphicConverter 12.0.8 on a 2023 MacBook Pro using a touchpad, 1px cursor, and 2000% zoom. This version of GraphicConverter quite frankly is extremely user-unfriendly for me. So needlessly cumbersome. Much time was wasted trying to get the program to execute extremely basic commands, and the manual was of no help whatsoever.

Set base (the _neutral expression, top left) took about 2 hours and 39 minutes to make over the course of two days. This time is heavily bloated by the unwieldy nature of this version of the program. I finished the other expressions over the course of another 1 hour and 51 minutes. Putting the sheet together took an additional 35 minutes.

This was good practice for using this version of the image editing program. I'd say overall, it was a good experience once I finished making the base and was able to start making the other expressions. However, if anyone knows of a more user-friendly program for Mac for amateur hobbyists (I don't do this often enough to justify spending a lot of money on anything fancy), I'm open to suggestions.

—T.

[unluckyadept]

Sunlit Sails

As the Sun rose again It revealed the road to dawn A brilliant path upon still waters To be traversed with full sails

Just beyond the shore was a vessel Bleached a brilliant white From many lifetimes of waiting Underneath the fall and rise of sunlight

Shining bright as the Moon It bore the elegance of a bygone era Before nations were born Before empires crumbled into dust

From the shore, a song could be heard Of a heart that loved, a heart that yearned To be free of the pounding rain and storms And permitted to reach what lay beyond

As the dew lifted in the morn After the great feast had subsided The fleet that patrolled the coast Saw the ship on the horizon

Starlight had filled the sails Of the aged beauty And a gentle sigh Snapped the anchor from the seabed

Oh! What a Voice to command That such a pearl be called To far-off silver shores To behold the endless Light!

[unluckyadept]

Beaming Sails

The morning brought with it The light of the road to dawn And through the mists they saw The beams upon the sails

The anchor wrenched from the seabed Heaving once, and again Until at last the ship was underway To tread the waters to the sunrise

The phoenix saw the sails unfurled And sent the vessel forth anew To see the silver shores To which it had been called

Along the shores where they ran At the news it had set forth They found a plume set aflame From the captain’s parting smile

[unluckyadept]

Miriam Stockley - Perfect Day ((HighQuality - rare version))

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Toy Sails

The Sun was shining overhead When the road to dawn appeared And the distant horizons parted To reveal the silver shores

A little toy boat slipped by Unseen by the wider world Carried by the waves That all but hid the sails

The world would never see The cargo in the hold Yet across the sea, there waited A port for it nonetheless