Hello and welcome to the Crispy Parsnips fortnightly update, this time brought to you live from a puddle of my own melted flesh! And let me tell you, the offerings we have for you today are more than skin deep! *Studio audience goes wild* *The tape the studio audience is playing on melts* *My microphone melts*
So it's been, and shall for the foreseeable be, really rather toasty over in the land of heavily-insulated, air-unconditioned brick-boxes. But that hasn't stopped me from making a modest amount of something or other. Like this.
Speaking of things getting uncomfortably hot, my work towards the start of the previous week was ever so slightly interrupted by a not terribly uncommon power outage. Our area's electrical grid isn't hugely reliable at the best of times, but on this occasion the issue was exacerbated by the small explosion that preceded it. This, itself, was exacerbated by the nontrivial amount of fire which elected to spread from what could have once been called an electrical box. I'd show a photo live from the scene but, y'know, privacy. So here's an artist's impression.
I'm not very good at impressions.
Anywho, this was compounded in the same week by ✨ Bad Brain Juice ✨ so I didn't quite have time nor beans to finalise some of the doodads I'd like to've. This includes the rest of this sneaky peaky master study I'm working on.
On the non-negative side the resulting existential and professional crisis did lead me to adding a bit more accountability and structure to my work life. This includes the (slightly frustrating) creation of a handy-dandy database of my work! This'll allow the ever-unreliable Future Crispy to keep track of if and when the accountability-avoidant Past Crispy has posted something to socials, how long ago that happened, and any information (such as alt text) that might be handy for future reposts.
With this they/I hope to kickstart and maintain a modest but consistent social media presence in the forthcoming, uh, time. Sorry, I ran out of marketing spiel there.
Not that this was all I managed, of course! I've been preparing bits and pieces for next month's issue of the Parsnip Supplement, including my first ever sudoku puzzle! It's veggie themed and everything! There are, in fact, two puzzles: The full 9x9 puzzle and a smaller, more manageable 6x6 for busy / less experienced puzzlers. Don't say I never do anything nice for you.
I also scribbled a bunch of faces.
Streaming, despite everything, still occurs. Our journeys through the tangled depths of Arx Fatalis are, we are reliably informed, still happening. We've apparently been near the end of the game for two streams now, and none of us can quite fathom how.
As a respite from such hard-fought leisure we've been beep-booping our way through Supermarket Together, ghostly spirits of Christmas notwithstanding. And naturally we've been indulging in our communal end-of-week doodle cleanse in the shared baths of Magma. It's more comfortable than it sounds.
So, you shriek, what can be expected from me in the next couple of weeks? Well, for the next couple of days, very little. Heatwaves and such. But all being well the next Parsnip Supplement should be complete by then, and with more than just a couple of sudoku puzzles! (I hope)
Impelled by my professional panic and impostor impulses, alongside databases I've rocked up upon the shores of a few new projects which will, in some nontrivial likelihood, help me in the search for professional work and provide entertainment for you good folks. It'll be a short while before they reach fruition, so until then I'll try to keep up with comics, highlight videos, OC doodles and illustrations. Oh, and I'll write another one of these before the next update. Of that we can all be certain.
Until then I wish you all the coolest, least on-fire time your personal circumstances can muster. Thank you as ever for your bewilderingly generous support, it's highly, tall-ly and, uh, altitudely appreciated. It pays for food. I like food. It keeps me alive.
Look after yourselves,
Crispy 💜