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Oct. 31st, 2019 10:40 am
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I'm still reading! Admittedly it is the same book, but I'm less than 100 pages from the end now!

I'm basically giving myself half an hour reading time before I go to bed, and it's working out well, I think. (I'm not particularly taken with the book, but it's going along in spite of nothing happening, so that's okay? I guess?)

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Still plodding along with Critical Role. I am still not caught up, much to nobody's surprise. Though I am only 27 episodes behind now! That's less than half a year!

Yesterday was the anniversary of the day I started watching, three years ago. I can't believe I'm still watching it and have never managed to drop it entirely from my life. I'm also kind of surprised I'm still on this three to four month binge that I started back in July.

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WRT the inktober sketches, I belatedly realised I could just link them here from twitter as that's what I've done in the past, so I will also try to remember to do that as well as put them on my sketchblog.

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Oct. 26th, 2019 11:41 am
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1. I looked back through my posts about Maggie Stiefvater's books yesterday and I've mentioned the girl gang book quite a lot. I mean, not that I'm bitter about its no longer existing or anything ¬_¬

2. I'm on my third of three days in a row off work and everything feels wrong. I've had to keep checking it's Saturday, because it feels like Sunday, and if it's Sunday, then I should be at work, not sitting under a blanket writing this!

But it is Saturday, thank goodness.

3. My villagers are up to date in New Leaf! I keep tinkering with the idea of starting a Wild World town, but I don't know right now. I'm not sure I could keep up with two towns at once (although I guess I'm managing a town and a camp right now, so *shrug emoji*)

4. I've sort of haphazardly been doing Inktober and posting it on my twitter and once the month is over, I'll upload the pics to my sketchblog and link it so you can see what the heck I did!

5. Saw a post on twitter that asked if you could pick any game to make into a TV series, what would you choose? I said my gut reaction was Mass Effect, but thought a 2D animated Spryo series would be cool. I can even kind of imagine what I'd like it to look like, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

I also thought an animated Mass Effect series would be good, after some thought. And I can kind of see how I'd want that to look, too, and it irks me somewhat that I don't feel I could translate either thing to a fake screencap for the heck of it.

6. Still feels like Sunday, dagnamit.

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Oct. 12th, 2019 11:51 am
muladhara: (koromaru)
I was sort of half-assedly doing Inktober (and not posting a lot because, well, a lot of it wasn't great*). I think I have been side-tracked by Other Things, though, now (and we're not even halfway through the month, which is usually when I give up!)

I got a book out of the library called The Mindful Maker, which has different things in it you can make as calming projects**. One of the projects is a stuffed cat. Which I decided I would make, and did. I finished it last night, although I made it slightly too small, but I can always make another one at a bigger size.

I also decided to watch some of Kasey Golden's videos about sewing things (I could swear I've watched at least one of the cactus ones before, but my watch history on youtube said otherwise). I'd sort of been avoiding them (although I'm not entirely through her backlog anyway) but I don't know why??

And it got me thinking about making felt versions of some of my own art, so I made Big Cat and Little Cat. I'm currently making a doughnut (although not in the right colour as I don't have any light brown felt), and I have a small list of other things I think I'm going to make.

Anyway, I'm really enjoying it, especially making my own things, as opposed to someone else's. Though I am going to do some fanarty things! I've got so much yellow I decided the best plan of action for that was a Chocobo. (And then I went and bought some more because I am an idiot).

Hopefully I will manage to get some of this up on my sketchblog soonish (along with a few other things I've done recently), so y'all can see what I'm up to!

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*One of the things I said I'd do was only share it if I was happy to do so. So that's what I did.

**Which is great, until you realise the author CAPITALISED words she wants you to take notice of, and it feels like she's yelling. Which is not calming in the slightest.

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Aug. 27th, 2019 11:53 am
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So because it felt autumnal, and I was in the mood for an SMT game, I restarted Soul Hackers, even though I was going to do my New Game+ on Digital Devil Saga. I don't know why, brains are weird.

Anyway, I only got an hour into it when I first tried it, back in 2016. I got put off by Nemissa's voice, which is weird because LAURA BAILEY, and also the voice she uses is pretty close to Rise's voice, so IDK what 2016 me's problem was.

I'm ten or so hours in now, and I don't really know what to make of it? Everything is incredibly nineties, but it came out in 1997, so this does not surprise me in the slightest. I haven't run into problems with the demon loyalty system yet, but I can imagine that might cause problems in the future. Also most of my demons right now are, unintentionally, a neutral-chaos skew, but only because I only just started encountering law-aligned demons in the most recent dungeon. I may yet have to go on a mission to Collect All the Angels™ (because that's what I always do in SMT games, because why not).

The only thing that really frustrates me about this game is the lack of money (like, I should be able to afford decent equip upgrades and I can't!) and that magnetite is used up by just walking around with your demons, as well as for summoning and healing them. But I suppose the thing with the magnetite is only annoying because I've not encountered it before. I guess I will just have to keep making visits to the Sea Ark to grind for it!

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Talking of which, I think I might do Draw a Random Demon/Inktober this year but I might start in September instead and, as usual, put no pressure on myself to produce a drawing every day.

I mean, it's not like I don't have plenty of ink and things to experiment with, right? Though depending on when I'm working/how much work I'm doing depends on how much experimenting I might actually get to do, but we'll see when we get there.
It has been forever since I checked here or posted (like nearly two weeks, but I can't be sure because DW wouldn't let me go further back than 100 entries. I guess there must still be problems with the database or whatever because it said you can't back more than 1000 entries at the bottom of the page and...I hadn't even tried to go that far. I suppose I should submit a support thing?)

Anyway. Um. I was going to write about why I've been so absent/non interactive, but I'm not up to it right now.

But I kind of will, even if it's the Cliff notes version.

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In other news, I think I've been drawing a lot recently, which is pleasing. I'm not doing inktober this year, as I didn't think I could give it the concentration it requires, and I'm glad I made that decision.

I mean, it would've been nice to do draw a random demon again, and I'm pleased with most of the stuff I did last year but it's also nice to have a break. So I'm just drawing eggs, for the most part.

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Crush still exists, is still attractive, and I don't even think they know I exist, but c'est la vie.
IDK if any of you want to swap friend codes, but drop me a PM if you do?

I have downloaded the Persona Q theme for my 2DS, because I am ninety kinds of predictable. I really like that the themes have different music for them! I was kind of weirded out that there is music everywhere on the operating system (except the internet), but I think the different themes having music with them is a really nice touch.

OH AND! I have enough points from Miitomo to get a 15% discount on the download of Persona Q! It's about £18, so I can get it for ~15 if I apply the discount. I don't know right now because I am forever indecisive, but the deal's good till the new year, so I've got a while to make my mind up.

I bought a copy of Tomodachi Life (which I am enjoying, but I kind of wish I had used the money for a different game instead). I have also bought and downloaded Soul Hackers from the eshop, so at least I've got that to play.

I got really into playing Pokemon Picross, but it is the worst example of a freemium game, so I'm going to get another type of Picross game to play instead (although not now, because I think I've spent enough money on games for the time being). I mean, you can grind for the in-game currency, but it's really skewed towards getting you to buy it.

On the other hand, I am also really into playing Pokemon Shuffle, which is also freemium, but way less annoying than its stable mate.

I haven't played Nocturne for a while, but that's because I often can't get a lot done in the two hour or so slot I get to play it and often I have to shut it off without saving because I'm nowhere near a save point. So obviously that is fun. (I'll get to the end eventually. I already have a save there! But this playthrough is much better, I feel. Mainly because I've been fusing mana refill onto as many demons as possible :D if only Hitoshura could learn it, I'd be laughing).

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I had to miss going to the comics meet last Sunday, which I'm not happy about, but there's nothing I can do about it. Hopefully I can go next month.

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I've stopped doing inktober, btw, so I will post the next batch of draws maybe tomorrow. (They will get linked to, though). I missed a couple of days because of having the 2DS, and decided to skip them altogether instead of getting worried about missing them. Then I did a drawing that I was ok with, but not pleased with, so stopped after that.

And, to be honest, I'd already done a month's worth of ninety percent inked drawings before I missed a day, so really I've already kind of done it without even meaning to! It just crossed two months instead of lasting for one.
Yesterday I was watching a nature documentary about the American landscape and I spent most of it squeaking, "This is like some of the levels in Inquisition!!"

There was an alkali lake, which reminded me of the Fade (because of the columns of mineral deposits), and parts of Utah, and Death Valley that reminded me of the Western Approach and The Forbidden Oasis. Now obviously I don't know for sure, but I find this sort of thing really interesting! On the other hand, I've always known that the north coast of Ireland was the inspiration for the Storm Coast. I have no idea about the Hinterlands, but the landscape is a lot like where I live/places nearby me.

Anyway, I wondered if there was anything online about the level inspirations. Admittedly, I did not google much, but I did find this entry on the Bioware blog, which confirms my suspicions about Utah being an inspiration. I think I'd probably find more info in the Inquisition art book, but I don't have a copy of that yet.

(For the record, my favourite level is Crestwood, mostly before you seal the major rift there. But that's because it's rainy, and I like rainy levels, as I noted on my twitter some months ago. There's just something about rain that I find comforting. I do like running around Crestwood after you seal the rift, but it's not the same).

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In entirely unrelated news, here's five more inktobers:

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I am really enjoying drawing random demons this year! (Well, I did last year, which is why I'm doing it again). And I like that so far I've had no repeats from last year, either.
I have picked up my Nocturne replay because it's autumn, and because it's nearly a freaking year since I played it!

I was stopped at Kabukicho prison, which was further along than I thought, so that was good. But ever since I have been getting lost (I keep trying not to resort to a walkthrough but oh butternuts Atlus does love dungeons with parts where you fall through the floor. SIGHS).

I have been trying to get to Asakusa for TWO DAYS NOW. But! I'm saved just by the last oni, so hopefully that should be it!

Now if only my demons would stop changing diarama to less useful skills, I will be happy. THREE OF THEM HAVE DONE IT NOW.

(I have no actual healers in my group now. Hitoshura does not know a healing spell, though he does have a skill that restores a little bit of HP after every fight, so that's slightly useful. Thank heck for Life stones and the lady in the fountain, I guess).

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Talking of SMT hijinks, I decided one day I'm going to take one for the team and play the Demikids games. Because I hate myself.

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OH YEAH. WHO WANTS MY FIRST FIVE DAYS OF INKTOBER? Since all I am doing is talking about Megaten anyway?

five pics of varying quality under here )
Cat update:

I saw a different vet this time, so didn't get harangued about radioactive thyroid treatment (thank frog).

The blood test results came back today, and now Jinny's thyroid levels are normal (and everything else is OK, too!) The vet I spoke today (not the one I saw yesterday, confusingly) said that I should continue medicating Jinny the way I am doing, and we don't have to go back for three months!

*spins*

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I decided that I'm going to attempt Inktober this year. It starts tomorrow and I have no idea what I'm doing! (Er, apart from what I've been doing for the past fifteen days, which is drawing).

I think I'm going to combine it with a thing I did last October, which was Draw A Random Demon every day. This involves going to the Megaten wiki and hitting random, and drawing a demon. Unless it lands on a non-demon entry, and then random must be mashed again.

(I decided on this because I started doing Draw A Random Pokemon, which lasted for exactly two pokemon, as I realised that since I've never played one of the games, I'm just not that into it. But, I said to myself, what are you into? Shin Megami Tensei, my brain replied, and I said, AHHHHHHHH).

I managed to keep it up for half the month last year, and I actually enjoyed it (I must have done if I'm considering it again, right?)

I will actually try to abide by the rules and tweet one pic per day, and probably crosspost here weekly. I'm making no concrete promises, though, as I am good at forgetting to do things. (See also: the zine. It's nearly a year since I came up with making that, and I keep not doing it because I keep changing my mind about it. SIGHS).

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