rustydragonfly: Drawing of a dinosaur drinking tea, captioned "tea rex" (tea rex)
Oh hi guys, you just showed up in time for my birthday! Have a Mini Roll. They're tasty.

I'm 32, which sounds depressing until you remember it's ten years left until the Answer, which is really cool. So there. And I got the little birthday message in my Pokemon games which was really awesome.

It also means I've crossed that sort of metaphorical gateway to NaNo. Once the birthday's over and done with the season's started for real. So if I talk about nothing but NaNo for the next few months you know why.
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a giraffe from xkcd.com, captioned "standard giraffe: 5 meters" (xkcd giraffe)
It felt like summer this afternoon. I got some nice outdoor time. But it comes around this time of year. The weather's a little cooler, the evenings a little darker... and before you know it you're in a coffeeshop, hunched over a keyboard, while about thirty other people do the same, and the caffeine's flowing, and you've barely slept but you don't care...

It's NaNo and there's no getting away from it.

And I think this is the most indecisiveness I've had over a NaNo? I have about three ideas battling it out, nothing developed much beyond a basic premise. I thought I was sure which one I'd pick but last night I became sure again, and I think it'll be down to the wire. Maybe whichever one wants to be written when November rolls around. They're all fun ideas, just I haven't had one in particular jump out and really want to be written.

But it's NaNo time no matter what.

I think I should get some hot chocolate.

wibble

Sep. 2nd, 2015 07:02 pm
rustydragonfly: Photo of a penguin standing in a snowy landscape (penguin)
I just gave blood so everything's a bit wobbly right now and I'm in a lounge around in leopard pyjamas and drink tea sort of mood. Words may not make sense.

cut because blood )

I still want one of those tilty chairs they use.

And I just took the xkcd survey. I'm sure it's perfectly safe.
rustydragonfly: Photo of a starfield (SPACE)
I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of how 90s this is. (Warning, will play audio. It's damn fine audio though.)

I can't help myself, I find this shit beautiful.

(See if you can find the Petz dog!)
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a dinosaur drinking tea, captioned "tea rex" (tea rex)
Random and Pilcrowe's investigations bring them to a staple of Novembers past and present. Meanwhile. Tildeworth has some advice for the oncoming storm that is Week Two.

"This is literally the worst pirates versus ninjas scene ever," whined Steve the Ninja, in the background.

The hardest thing with Random is balancing the cracky silliness with the serious side of things. I think that's an issue with a lot of these types of story. You don't want to be all grimdark because you're dealing with a silly concept, but nor do you want the silly to overload the fact that you're dealing with what are hopefully rounded characters with fears and hopes.

Semi related I took a trip out last night to see a late showing of Inside Out. So many feels. Sniff. But it's exactly the sort of movie I hope Random is as good as, if that makes sense. The sort of genre that inspired it. Take a weird idea, and make a damn fine story.
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a giraffe from xkcd.com, captioned "standard giraffe: 5 meters" (xkcd giraffe)




I just completed these as a commission for [livejournal.com profile] koobine of his world Dimentiara. Which you should all love because it has monsters. Discovered while drawing this that I've become not half bad at eyeballing climates on a world map. Not sure what to make of that. It's not the most marketable skill in the world.

I love drawing maps but I never get the chance to do them, so when I got this commission I jumped at the chance. And yes, I will do these if you ask all nicely. You want your deserts to go where your deserts should go? Call me. I have a geography qualification and I'm not afraid to use it.

(speaking of which I half want to post these to Cartographer's Guild but but those people are pros who really know their stuff. And I'm shy.)

FLAILYARMS

Aug. 8th, 2015 09:15 pm
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a giraffe from xkcd.com, captioned "standard giraffe: 5 meters" (xkcd giraffe)
GUUYYYS.

GUYS IT'S MY BIRTHDAY NEXT MONTH YOU KNOW.

CAN I HAVE ONE OF THESE?

COME ON GUYS I PROMISE I'LL BE GOOD.
rustydragonfly: Dragonfly in flight (Default)
Is there a definition of 'pathetic' in which, having realised you're out of tea, you just boil up some plain water and drink that?

(extra definition: it's actually kind of nice)
rustydragonfly: Photo of a starfield (SPACE)




I go through the park on my way home from town. Tonight was that sort of cool summer moth-filled dusk, and I thought I'd stop by the hedge maze dragon. Cause we have a hedge maze dragon. It felt like the sort of night where he might come alive.

He didn't, but hey. It felt like he could have done.

Mmm I slept forever last night and I needed it.
rustydragonfly: Photo of a black cat wearing a tux/bowtie collar (tuxedo cat)
Happy Ice Age ending day, everyone!

(Certainly feels like it out there. I'm going to go pass out in front of the fan.)
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a dinosaur drinking tea, captioned "tea rex" (tea rex)
I am so whacked today, thanks to the conference call that would not end. If I find who invented meetings, they are dead at my hands. I swear.

Some stuff:

Moar Ryll. World stuff, new places, plants, animals, and some stuff about the Archetypes (super powerful NPC guys, you no can has, mine all mine, ah ha haaaa, etc).

I'm doing a map commission! Fun!

It struck me when I was adding stuff to the Ryll site that there's got to be a significant drop in people online who've ever made a webpage, or even know how. They probably think of it as some weird, unknowable thing... and that's sad, because HTML is not scary and CSS is not scary. But when I showed some people at work what I was doing while working on some work related pages, they just looked perplexed. Not so long ago, if you were online, you probably knew something. Now... it's just nonsense. It's sad. Doesn't have to be this way... also, I feel old again.

Cool stuff now. I've been on Meetup for a while but to be honest it's kind of worthless when sending me anything I might be interested in. Until recently when I got a note about a starter friendly D&D group starting up in Brighton. I know sod all about D&D apart from what I've picked up from Order of the Stick, but... what the hell. I put my name down, because I wanted to see what it was like. There should be a session on Saturday, if the guy organising it can find a venue. I hope it's fun. I'm nervous and clueless but I know I'd regret it if I didn't give it a try.

I also think I'm the only girl on the confirmed list, but eh, what the hell.
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a giraffe from xkcd.com, captioned "standard giraffe: 5 meters" (xkcd giraffe)
I gotta announce these things when they go up. Anyway! Before I go to bed, have another part of a thing, what I wrote.

Chapter summary: Random gets to doing some more science (of the highly scientific sort, of course), and Pilcrowe investigates. Meanwhile, the Personification of Communications is bad at... well, communicating. Also, there's a cat.

"I know it looks like phone jammed into a pile of chopped up kitchen appliances, but that's because it is. But it's also a lot more scientific than that!"

Sunday

Jul. 12th, 2015 08:19 pm
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a dinosaur drinking tea, captioned "tea rex" (tea rex)
Being an adult is overrated. Come join me. We can all sit on the floor wearing leopard pyjamas and playing with pretty coloured inks!
rustydragonfly: Photo of a black cat wearing a tux/bowtie collar (tuxedo cat)


Did this one specifically as an excuse to get out the coloured pencils again. It was awesome. I feel like a kid again! Honestly, I love this pic. It's like my really old ~2000 Animals of Farthing Wood influenced look, but good.

Speaking of Kiarrcats... I mentioned in my last ramble I was thinking of doing a forum. So I set one up. It's basic right now, just the base skin and one board. But do feel free to say hello. Honestly, I'm just happy that it's there. I've never managed to set something like this up on my own without having to ask HOW I THING every five minutes!

I'm still not 100% sure about forum vs live RP... buuut I think it'll help to have both options. I hope.

The website is still moving along too. Been putting up some updated species descriptions, more stuff about the world. All the background set making stuff. It's all go around Ryll right now!
rustydragonfly: Photo of a penguin standing in a snowy landscape (penguin)
Friday over here.

This is a bit of a long one so I waffled for a while over the post! In the meantime, the official write up is here! And has been for a while... I'm just being lazy for mine. I also found a write up from another fan that perfectly captures the ahhh how is this happening adrenaline and caffeine fueled madness that is Dimension Jump.

As for my write-up, Saturday's the one full day of the con so this one's long. Here's an expert to tempt you in:


'I had a moment of oh crap oh crap I'm about to ask the co-creator of one of the best TV shows ever to sign a bit of paper tied to a cat's bum, what am I doing and how is this my life? but a guy a few places in front of us got a plastic dinosaur signed. So that's ok then.'


In which I run into people without realising who they are, and ask 'how is this my life?' on an hourly basis. )

Inkbook

Jun. 28th, 2015 07:38 pm
rustydragonfly: Dragonfly in flight (Default)
[personal profile] pointytilly has been getting me into pretty inks and notebooks, and I received an awesome package of them yesterday. It was Penmas. There is no going back.

Here's some pen doodles! I like ink drawing, it's daunting not being able to erase, but also very... definitive? Something. Photoreffed critters.







Yay! Ink is fun!
rustydragonfly: Dragonfly in flight (Default)
It's been so long since I posted any kiarrcat stuff, but I should rectify that. I still want to try and set this up as a sort of RP, if I can, but I'm still not sure about the logistics.

Anyway, art first!



The god-host for the Cave species. He's a quiet, solitary type who hangs out in his den full of odds and ends and makes stuff. Often that stuff explodes. Big boom.

MOAR )
Some stats musings )
rustydragonfly: Dragonfly in flight (Default)
but look look LOOK what I found chilling in a secondhand place over the weekend.



That's the original, 90s version of Catz. The game series that is the reason I wandered on to the internet in the first place. I would not be who I am without this game.

Your call as to whether or not that's a good thing, but still. It's strange to think of such odd, seemingly things as being pivotal to a person's development, yet it happens.

Other stuff:

-I got a Raspberry Pi! I don't know what I'll use her for yet, but I'm not passing up a cheap emergency backup computer since this laptop is getting on a bit. Her name is Muffins.

-I'm randomly really missing RP again. I don't even know where to GO for good RP. I know Dreamwidth has a strong community, but it seems to skew heavily toward fandom. I guess it's time to get the kiarrcats up and running already. If I can get over my fear of stats anyway!
rustydragonfly: Drawing of a dinosaur drinking tea, captioned "tea rex" (tea rex)
I know I'm being super late to the party, but everyone, drop what you're doing and go see Home right away because it is amazing. I decided to go on a whim because I'd heard good things about it, and I was sick of never seeing Dreamworks stuff in the cinema and later on finding out they'd done another great film with bad advertising. Don't regret it one bit. I cried so much.

Every day is best day ever.

Other stuff, I'm trying to get my doll art out and around more places, so I brushed the dust off the G+ account I got shoved into creating. Clicky. Seems a reasonable place and I figured I should get around to using it since they dropped their legal name only rules last year. Which, by the way, I'm very grateful for. It's good to see somewhere get rid of a harmful policy despite the cried of "wahhh trolls."

Was still pretty miffed to find that it whined at me when I put up "Leopardcorgi Creatures" as a name that I wasn't getting "the best experience" or some such crap. Same when it complained that my profile picture didn't include a face. You can ignore the "warnings" but I still found it pretty rude to suggest such things. For me, an internet full of legal names is nowhere near the best experience. Try telling that crap to the scared teenager I used to be, who ventured online and began to find out who they really were when they weren't just a bullied schoolkid. Again, I seriously appreciate backing down on the name rules, but the warning rides right over years of online culture and honestly, makes me feel a bit displaced. As if a bunch of strangers just muscled into my home...

I was also pretty alarmed to find a photo tagging feature, but very relieved that I could turn that crap off rather than have to manually untag things. Less impressed by the fact that I stumbled upon that setting by accident. Something like that should be obvious. And man do I get bored with uncustomisable pages. White and grey boxes, everywhere. How dull.

Aside from that it seems pretty good and usable at least...and honestly most of my gripes are with current social media design trends all over rather than G+ specifically... so I'll at least keep on going there for now, and I could see myself continuing to use it. Happy to say hi there if you like!
rustydragonfly: Photo of a starfield (SPACE)
clicking randomly through reocities because my hands are cramping up too much to do more. (physio appt in June, can't come fast enough)

start to wonder, since it was very much rusty's first internet fandom, 'hey, how long before I find a petz site?'

done.

it's so blindy... but also kind of weirdly beautiful? eh, I guess you had to be from that era. but I do think it's sad hardly anyone makes pages anymore. they have so much personality.

(hint hint - you should try neocities, it's awesome. 20 megs free hosting, html, css, js, nowt else. go nuts and have fun. I made one, you should too.)

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