So, a quick heads-up in case you're interested:
If you have ever wanted to buy some of my art, that is now a thing that can be done! You can get prints or you can buy original stuff, whichever you feel like/have the budget for!
I just need to get myself together and actually put up a post on my sketchblog. I was going to add stuff to my Etsy but a) fees, b) I'm trying to move away from there, and c) ko-fi just opened up shop functionality, and I want to check that out to see what it's like.
I also plan to put up a tweet (or two) about it, so I'll link to that when I do, so you can actually see what's available. Also if there's anything you would like available as a print, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do!
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I watched a few Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice playthrough videos, though I haven't seen an entire LP.
I really like the look and feel of it! I do like games (and other things) with a strong Japanese aesthetic (I used to be a hardcore weeb, back in the late 90s/early 2000s, but I know I was obsessed by/interested in Japan even before then? I've been trying to figure it out, but I don't know what sparked my interest initially, but it defo wasn't anime because that wasn't a thing over here when I was younger!)
However, I will probably never play it since it's a) still £30 even for a used copy, even though it's been out well over a year, and b) it's a From Software game, and we all know how I feel about those, right?
Anyway, it led me to digging out a bunch of my history books about Japan, because it's been forever since I looked at them (and also my books of prints, because I've been meaning to pore over them for literal years at this point). It also made me think about trying to replay and beat Okami, because again, it's been literal years*, and I think I might be able to do it this time!
There's two reasons for this:
1) the soundtracks for both Sekiro and Okami are traditional Japanese sounding (and I like that).
2) the main character of Sekiro is called Wolf, which is Okami in Japanese.
(you can bet I was like, no way, I misheard that!* when I heard someone say it, but no, that's correct. That's why Okami is called that, because Amaterasu is a wolf. I mean, it's also a pun on Great God, too, which she also is).
So yeah, I might give that a go. It'd be nice to beat it, especially given I got pretty close to the end the first time.
ETA: I'm also going to watch Ellen from Outside Xtra play through Ghost of Tsushima, because I don't know why I skipped out on that when she was livestreaming it???? [/eta]
*Ten years (!!), according to my tag on here??? :O
**And also, like, I haven't done any serious Japanese study in years, so I'd forgotten the word for wolf anyway.
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Outside Xbox, Dicebreaker and Eurogamer did another multi-stream game of Among Us and it was just as hilarious as the first one (imo).
If you have ever wanted to buy some of my art, that is now a thing that can be done! You can get prints or you can buy original stuff, whichever you feel like/have the budget for!
I just need to get myself together and actually put up a post on my sketchblog. I was going to add stuff to my Etsy but a) fees, b) I'm trying to move away from there, and c) ko-fi just opened up shop functionality, and I want to check that out to see what it's like.
I also plan to put up a tweet (or two) about it, so I'll link to that when I do, so you can actually see what's available. Also if there's anything you would like available as a print, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do!
~
I watched a few Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice playthrough videos, though I haven't seen an entire LP.
I really like the look and feel of it! I do like games (and other things) with a strong Japanese aesthetic (I used to be a hardcore weeb, back in the late 90s/early 2000s, but I know I was obsessed by/interested in Japan even before then? I've been trying to figure it out, but I don't know what sparked my interest initially, but it defo wasn't anime because that wasn't a thing over here when I was younger!)
However, I will probably never play it since it's a) still £30 even for a used copy, even though it's been out well over a year, and b) it's a From Software game, and we all know how I feel about those, right?
Anyway, it led me to digging out a bunch of my history books about Japan, because it's been forever since I looked at them (and also my books of prints, because I've been meaning to pore over them for literal years at this point). It also made me think about trying to replay and beat Okami, because again, it's been literal years*, and I think I might be able to do it this time!
There's two reasons for this:
1) the soundtracks for both Sekiro and Okami are traditional Japanese sounding (and I like that).
2) the main character of Sekiro is called Wolf, which is Okami in Japanese.
(you can bet I was like, no way, I misheard that!* when I heard someone say it, but no, that's correct. That's why Okami is called that, because Amaterasu is a wolf. I mean, it's also a pun on Great God, too, which she also is).
So yeah, I might give that a go. It'd be nice to beat it, especially given I got pretty close to the end the first time.
ETA: I'm also going to watch Ellen from Outside Xtra play through Ghost of Tsushima, because I don't know why I skipped out on that when she was livestreaming it???? [/eta]
*Ten years (!!), according to my tag on here??? :O
**And also, like, I haven't done any serious Japanese study in years, so I'd forgotten the word for wolf anyway.
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Outside Xbox, Dicebreaker and Eurogamer did another multi-stream game of Among Us and it was just as hilarious as the first one (imo).
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