OH FRIDAY YOU SAUSAGE WAFFLE YOU.
( it was not a good day, mostly )
So that was Friday! (on the plus side I guess I walked 5K and did 8,000+ steps, so yay?)
~
I promised myself that I would write today, as I came up with an AU idea for my magical girl story, and I actually really like it. And then I was thinking about visual references for said story (as I'd still like to do this as a webcomic, and I have a clear-ish idea of how places look, but no references). I told myself that I did not need to go on Pinterest to make boards for this.
Except that I went on Pinterest at 10am and didn't manage to wrangle myself off till 4pm!
I like Pinterest, I really do. I think it works really well at collating Stuff. What I don't like, is when you pin something, and it has the pop up saying, "OH THIS WAS ALSO ON THIS INTERESTING BOARD YOU MIGHT LIKE TO LOOK AT!"
and I go, "yes, yes I might!" *right click > open in new tab*
and suddenly I have fifty tabs open and none of my boards are anything like I intended when I went on there, and I have five new ones for no apparent reason.
I do kind of wish it had a folder system, though, so I could have all my craft stuff in one folder, and my writing ideas in another, for example. And THEN have them divided by board. That would be nifty.
One thing the Pinterest binge did confirm for me is how disinterested I am in medieval-inspired fantasy worlds. It's one reason I tend to avoid WRPGs (and don't want to play D&D, for example**), and why I'll probably never actually read Icey Firey Songs properly. (Also yes, yes, I know I just played Skyrim, and I like Dragon Age, but I'm not head over heels about either of them, and part of that is the settings and their inspirations). I think a part of it is over-saturation to some degree.
At the time of writing/posting, I have done no fiction writing, other than copying traits out of an astrology book, for my characters, and gawping at how none of them are a "typical" anything (For example, Mara, my MC, is a Libran, but actually better fits the description for Aries. Cassie, one of her friends, is nothing like the descriptors for Aries, though I don't know what sign would better fit her. Maybe Pisces). That said, it did give me some ideas, though, so I suppose it wasn't time wasted.
Although apparently every single sign of the zodiac is manipulative as heck so that's nice. I don't know if the author of this book has a chip on their shoulder, but it certainly reads that way.
Anyway, I'm not changing my characters' randomly designated birth dates just because they don't agree with some stuff in a book. (I used a random number generator to determine their dates of birth, because otherwise I get biased about what dates I assign people's birthdays to). At least it gives me some kind of idea what sort of flaws to give them (I'm not great at assigning traits in general, even less so with flaws).
If you're interested, my boards are here, and the ones I added today were: concept art, mages, mage world inspiration, desert world inspiration, people in armour, interesting faces, and happy things. I didn't need most of those. I needed the mages, and the mage world inspiration, and that was supposed to be it.
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*I know there's a word for this in The Meaning of Liff, and it's been driving me mad trying to remember what it is. I know it's not Bradford, because those are the leather patches on the elbows of jackets. BRAIN WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
**Apart from that one weirdy setting that is a desert planet, I think? Because that sounds cool as heck.
***ETA: Apparently one cubic centimetre of water weighs one gram, so I was carrying around four to five kilos on my back. That's a lot, right?
( it was not a good day, mostly )
So that was Friday! (on the plus side I guess I walked 5K and did 8,000+ steps, so yay?)
~
I promised myself that I would write today, as I came up with an AU idea for my magical girl story, and I actually really like it. And then I was thinking about visual references for said story (as I'd still like to do this as a webcomic, and I have a clear-ish idea of how places look, but no references). I told myself that I did not need to go on Pinterest to make boards for this.
Except that I went on Pinterest at 10am and didn't manage to wrangle myself off till 4pm!
I like Pinterest, I really do. I think it works really well at collating Stuff. What I don't like, is when you pin something, and it has the pop up saying, "OH THIS WAS ALSO ON THIS INTERESTING BOARD YOU MIGHT LIKE TO LOOK AT!"
and I go, "yes, yes I might!" *right click > open in new tab*
and suddenly I have fifty tabs open and none of my boards are anything like I intended when I went on there, and I have five new ones for no apparent reason.
I do kind of wish it had a folder system, though, so I could have all my craft stuff in one folder, and my writing ideas in another, for example. And THEN have them divided by board. That would be nifty.
One thing the Pinterest binge did confirm for me is how disinterested I am in medieval-inspired fantasy worlds. It's one reason I tend to avoid WRPGs (and don't want to play D&D, for example**), and why I'll probably never actually read Icey Firey Songs properly. (Also yes, yes, I know I just played Skyrim, and I like Dragon Age, but I'm not head over heels about either of them, and part of that is the settings and their inspirations). I think a part of it is over-saturation to some degree.
At the time of writing/posting, I have done no fiction writing, other than copying traits out of an astrology book, for my characters, and gawping at how none of them are a "typical" anything (For example, Mara, my MC, is a Libran, but actually better fits the description for Aries. Cassie, one of her friends, is nothing like the descriptors for Aries, though I don't know what sign would better fit her. Maybe Pisces). That said, it did give me some ideas, though, so I suppose it wasn't time wasted.
Although apparently every single sign of the zodiac is manipulative as heck so that's nice. I don't know if the author of this book has a chip on their shoulder, but it certainly reads that way.
Anyway, I'm not changing my characters' randomly designated birth dates just because they don't agree with some stuff in a book. (I used a random number generator to determine their dates of birth, because otherwise I get biased about what dates I assign people's birthdays to). At least it gives me some kind of idea what sort of flaws to give them (I'm not great at assigning traits in general, even less so with flaws).
If you're interested, my boards are here, and the ones I added today were: concept art, mages, mage world inspiration, desert world inspiration, people in armour, interesting faces, and happy things. I didn't need most of those. I needed the mages, and the mage world inspiration, and that was supposed to be it.
~
*I know there's a word for this in The Meaning of Liff, and it's been driving me mad trying to remember what it is. I know it's not Bradford, because those are the leather patches on the elbows of jackets. BRAIN WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
**Apart from that one weirdy setting that is a desert planet, I think? Because that sounds cool as heck.
***ETA: Apparently one cubic centimetre of water weighs one gram, so I was carrying around four to five kilos on my back. That's a lot, right?
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