Hello! Hi! Good day! Hoi! Guten Tag! Bonjour! Aloha! Ciao! Auf Wiedersehen! Tot ziens! Goodbye! Hang on, what happened there? We fell off the rails a bit. Let's start again.
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Before we hop into the slippery slope of this fortnight's output chute I thought I'd provide a brief safety announcement in the form of two excerpts: The first choice cut comes from the previous Patreon update:
"Very much a burst of creativity this time, which I can only hope to somehow capture and release in moderation to keep me going through the periods of drought. Some sort of inspiration reservoir perhaps. 🤔" ~ Crispy, two weeks ago
And the second nugget, fresh-off-the-bone comes abridged from my little journally 'Have-Done' list:
Mon 09-09: Patreon Update #19 [...]
Tue 10-09: Semi-bad day [...]
Wed 11-09: Bad day [...]
Thu 12-09: The bad days stop soon, I promise [...]
Seems like that civil enthusiasm infrastructure could've come a little sooner, eh? 🥴
Now in order to assuage some fears of misspent support, I can confirm I have done something. This something:
September has glittered and flourished their way into existence and is well on their way to having a comic of their very own! In fact several comics, since I may have spent some time writing some little origin stories for the Calendar family. But hey, let's get through this batch first, eh? 😅
In an unsatisfying mix of 'oddly' and 'unfortunately' a non-trivial amount of my fortnight has been spent noodling with the aforementioned Starship Titanic rewrite, tentatively titled 'Hotel Oberon' in a move that critics are calling 'copyright-evading'.
In this vein I've relearned what I knew about the Ink markup language (more on that later) and have implemented some rudimentary puzzles, as well as an updated room code system and pneumatic tube delivery network. Very much the sort of thing Ink was not built to do, but I'm a tough ol' veggie. Need a little more blanching, probably. I've also been rewriting the whole backstory and coming up with ideas for characters and such. Basically I'm writing a game. Another one. Great.
This has, of course, enabled me to shirk my NOctober duties. I have, admittedly, only finished one new illustration since the last update, but I promise you it's a doozy! Until then, here's a flurry of entries I've shared since last time, including a brand new one for this morning! Thrilling!
I also finally pulled up my gym socks and completed the supplementary comic for last month's introduction of August, namely Tori's introduction to August. Many other shenanigans have floated around m'noggin regarding those two doofuses, but time and enthusiasm will tell how far that goes.
Streaming occurs! This may seem a passive statement, but then I suppose the whole exercise is. In a rare moment of concision the last two weeks of Tuesday and Wednesday evening streams wholly encapsulated a playthrough of Void Bastards, whether Twitch let me call it that or not. This week those streams will consist of us messing around in Ink (I said there'd be more on that later), noodling a little game for fun, and filling the time between now and the forthcoming howls of Spooky Season!
Otherwise everything continues as before: Saturday Elder Scrolls Online, Sunday friend doodles and morning Calendar comic work trundle along with all the reliability and excitement of the 13:28 to Knutsford.
And, naturally, we have the standards being chipped away at in the back rooms: October Noir continues to be stripped down and built up; Musical projects keep getting splashes of a new coat of paint on order to approach seeming presentable; In an effort to secure a new drawing tablet I've been preparing one of my unloved guitars for the sale it's been awaiting for the last 7 or so years. All exciting stuff, I'm sure.
But for now I suppose it's time to actually get on with some work for once in my gosh-darned existence. I'd describe my current mood as somewhere above dour and somewhere below chipper, so that's a start. Let's see if I can't funnel some of the frustration at my inefficiencies into work energy. That'll be a reliable, healthy use of brain power, right? Right? 🙃
Anywho, have a grand one everybody! Thank you so much for the support, through feast and famine, it's greatly appreciated!
Look after yourselves,
Crispy 💜