Today Was Cool! And Terrible.

Today was cool! And terrible.

Today was cool: 

Hey again! I still live. Still working on getting my work/life/etc balance in order, sorry I haven't been posting much at all for a while. Recently apartment hunting's been thrown into that mix, so. Someday I will be on top of my shit. Someday.. 

Got news today that tomorrow I'll be put onto my first instructional design interaction prototyping assignment! For Google?? I'M SCARED AND EXCITED. I'M HEAVY BREATHING CAT REACTION IMAGE. I'm real stoked to try my hand at it and it's awesome I'm being shifted towards more instructional design stuff in addition to the scripting, QA, and revisions I normally do. I also was part of some client conference calls this week and that was cool. I like my job a lot and I'm horribly fond of my co-workers. Today an email/im highfive chain made its rounds in our studio. I got a couple ims that just said "/highfive!" followed by an im instructing me that my new top priority was to send Tim an email with the subject "/highfive!" and paste this image into the body. Basically, I work with a bunch of kawaii as hell nerds. 

To people who follow me for game/otome stuff, azaraih and I have been getting pumped to work on the selkie game again, and I know tiny-shout's been doing some writing for Prince route on and off. 

There appear to be some new folks here who seem to maybe have been lead here by AFA? Hello? Haha welcome. Uh, like I said and as you can see, I haven't been posting much. Thanks for checking me out though! :]

Uh, sad stuff under the cut. Not related to anything else I said here, but..

Today was terrible:

Well, in the middle of writing this post I found out an amazing professor I had, Adrianne Wadewitz, has died. Prof. Wadewitz was such an awesome person that I honestly just don't even know how to believe that she's gone. She was seriously fucking cool, and brilliant, and nice. And I really don't know what to say, but this news is just...so incredibly awful that I felt it'd be somehow...really strange to post about cool things that happened to me today without mentioning this truly terrible thing that happened. So if you'd like to learn a little about (and maybe in some small way honor?) an incredibly smart and cool woman who did great things with digital and literary scholarship, and for whom I once helped build a rad website about the New England Primer, this was Adrianne Wadewitz. 

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11 years ago

Hey friends! Managed to do a fair amount of sketching today but nothing really to post at the moment. Reblogging this since we'll be wrapping up the rating period on 4/15. Here is my jumbly chaosblob of an entry for the design contest. If you dig the design, haven't yet rated it, and would be down to leave a rating, I'd much appreciate it if you left a rating on welovefine! Reblogs much appreciated as well.

Oh, and I guess if anybody wanted to see a larger version of this, I've got it up on da as well. 

To any homestucks, happy 4/13! :] Hope you're keeping busy during the gigapause. I'm pretty stoked about paradoxspace. 

My Entry For The Homestuck Design Contest Over On Welovefine! If You Like The Design, Please Go Rate
My Entry For The Homestuck Design Contest Over On Welovefine! If You Like The Design, Please Go Rate

My entry for the Homestuck Design Contest over on welovefine! If you like the design, please go rate it here! Ratings/reblogs/spreading the word is all appreciated :] There are a ton of entries so check all of them out!

I had fun doing this. Thanks for having a look!


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11 years ago

Hey friends! How are you? Hope y'all are swell. Sorry s'been real dead over here so soon after I just started this blog up. Bunch of stuff's happened with me recently, got contacted by a place I was really close to being hired by last fall after months of assuming I wouldn't hear back from them about another opening this soon if it all. Had a whirlwind week of interviews and meetings and then after being quickly hired at the end of the week, ANOTHER whirlwind of a first work week. Got immediately put on two projects, clocked in 54.5 hours that week. Thankfully that's settled down to a regular 40ish average now but it's still keeping me real occupied and sleepy. Going on my 3rd week now but still finding it pretty crazy to go from months of unemployment to sudden pretty much OVERemployment in no time at all. I'm actually loving the job despite how challenging it is though and my co-workers are rad and super nice and I like working with them!

But obv all that's meant my work/life balance struggle hasn't quite been in a place where I've been able to do as much art/post as much stuff here as I'd like. I'm workin on it, I'll get there! This past week I just wrapped up an shirt design entry for the Homestuck Design Contest over on welovefine. Yep I'm a Homestuck. (Although not really a Homestuck blogger, so if you want to talk Homestuck with me cool! If you're not a Homestuck s'all good.) So I'll throw a post plugging my design up here soon. If you like Dave Striders you're in luck? If you're here for game/otome stuff, I'm hoping to get more done with that soon! I miss it. You know who has been real productive on the game/ren'py/vn front lately though is my favorite person azaraih so if you're interested you should go check that shiz out.

Thanks! Take care! Art soon! :]


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7 years ago
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm
As Part Of Tryin To Get Myself To Draw More, Tried Doin Some Of These Quick Guys In Diff Colors Bc I'm

As part of tryin to get myself to draw more, tried doin some of these quick guys in diff colors bc I'm a kid & love colored pens


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10 years ago
Smokestone, Aka A Name I Picked By Looking At It And Combining Two Elements, Right Before I Needed To

Smokestone, aka a name I picked by looking at it and combining two elements, right before I needed to submit this. 

Cardstock, scissors, acrylic paint, colored pencil, a random mess of behind-the-scenes glue and tape. This was fun and I’d like to try more of this kind of thing.


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10 years ago
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands
Made This Guy From Stuff Around My Cubicle As A Side Project To Give Me Something To Do With My Hands

Made this guy from stuff around my cubicle as a side project to give me something to do with my hands when taking a break from staring at screens all day at work. 


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11 years ago
Another Round Of Characters From Our In-progress Selkie Game. Some Of The Island Villagers You Can Interact
Another Round Of Characters From Our In-progress Selkie Game. Some Of The Island Villagers You Can Interact
Another Round Of Characters From Our In-progress Selkie Game. Some Of The Island Villagers You Can Interact
Another Round Of Characters From Our In-progress Selkie Game. Some Of The Island Villagers You Can Interact

Another round of characters from our in-progress Selkie game. Some of the island villagers you can interact with. They may not be the primary route/attainable characters but you'll certainly run into them. You could probably use their help.

Sorry about your hands, Shopkeeper, I'll fix those later.


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7 years ago
Fixin’ Up Some Refreshments For A Tea Party

Fixin’ up some refreshments for a tea party

I’ve been drawing a bunch of fruits and herbs while @azaraih programs them with magic so you can drag & drop ingredients to the carafe and assemble these infused waters in our game. More kitchen fun to come!


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11 years ago
Another Selkie Game Preview, Mockup Screenshot Of A Conversation This Time. Sorry For The Roughness!

Another selkie game preview, mockup screenshot of a conversation this time. Sorry for the roughness! I kind of just have a separate psd where I occasionally drop updated versions of background/character/interface art so I can have an ongoing idea of how different elements are gonna come together eventually. So here's a sloppy wip of the Inn interior bg + not quite finished Selkie + idk what that expression the Storyteller has is, semi-amused pondering? + dialogue box I roughed out.

azaraih worked out the base perspective for the overall room and I've since taken over and I am WAY slower at fleshing this out haha. Oh well, I'm learning I guess? azaraih's also got some misc progress shots from selk gam, I think the initial sketch for this background and some interface/ui and coding stuff? So check that out if you're interested in seeing other selk gam  work! (Also I've been referring to this as selk gam just cause...that's what I call it in my head, it really isn't titled that haha woops)


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11 years ago
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When
So This Is, Oddly Enough, An Insight Into The Weird Shenanigans I Get Up To At Work. It Started When

So this is, oddly enough, an insight into the weird shenanigans I get up to at work. It started when Edmond imed me to ask if I had any Hostess Ho Hos at my desk. Explanation of convoluted work shenanigans under the cut.

I said no, and that since I had no car it would probably take me a while to walk to a store to get some Ho Hos. He asked me if I thought we could trick Ellen into getting some and I said, possibly. He suggested I fake a coma, and then they'd find a note in my jacket saying they needed to feed me Ho Hos to revive me. I said I wasn't confident in my ability to convincingly fake a coma. Edmond said he'd do it, but he'd already done it twice so it would be suspicious. I suggested he fake the coma and I pretend to be a doctor to legitimize his medical need for Ho Hos. So we did that. 

This whole Ho Hos thing inspired a pretty long email thread too, but I won't really get into that. At one point though, Ellen joked that we'd eat Ho Hos at our bi-weekly instructional designer jam session this week while Edmond would be out of office. Edmond told us adamantly not to eat Ho Hos without him.

We probably wouldn't have eaten Ho Hos without him, except that the next day, Ellen discovered a pack's worth of peeps hidden around her cubicle, including drowned in her water bottle. (The peeps are a whole nother Thing I won't even explain.)

A little revenge was, thus, in order. In addition to relocating the peeps to hiding spots around Edmond's cubicle (including the rescued drowned peep, now placed in a bowl and perturbingly still soggy a day later), we decided to eat Ho Hos at the jam session while Edmond was gone. 

And of course, if you're trying to make someone envious of your Ho Hos, they've gotta be damn magnificent. So we decided to try for some fancy plating. Ellen provided the Ho Hos (we've actually got an extra pack to give Edmond - after he sees the photos of these ones) and the little plate. I brought in the Torani sauce, glitter, and carved the strawberry roses.

tldr; my co-workers and I get kind of ridiculous and now I have gained the useful life skill of knowing how to carve strawberry roses.


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10 years ago

the kind of english major i am:

shipping the tragic betrayed ladies of literature with each other


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