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In light of LJ changing hands YET AGAIN, and the TOS controversy, I will no longer be cross posting to here. Or posting here at all. I'm not deleting my journal, but it's only here for history, and to provide a breadcrumb for anyone looking for me.
I'm available here:
darthneko.dreamwidth.org
or
darthrose.tumblr.com
or even here
twitter.com/Darthrosen
though I check Twitter far less frequently than the other two. Feel free to hit me up and follow me there.
I'm available here:
darthneko.dreamwidth.org
or
darthrose.tumblr.com
or even here
twitter.com/Darthrosen
though I check Twitter far less frequently than the other two. Feel free to hit me up and follow me there.
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Tech Corporations: YOU DON'T NEED A LARGE HARDDRIVE ANY MORE! COME LIVE ON THE CLOUD!
Me: FUCK YOU. I will live on the cloud when your damned bleeding edge technology doesn't result in LOSING EVERYTHING I WROTE THIS MORNING due to a synching error!
....dammit, google, that was 500+ words you just poofed into thin air. Now I have to rewrite. >_<
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
Me: FUCK YOU. I will live on the cloud when your damned bleeding edge technology doesn't result in LOSING EVERYTHING I WROTE THIS MORNING due to a synching error!
....dammit, google, that was 500+ words you just poofed into thin air. Now I have to rewrite. >_<
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
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I'm playing this game right now, new enough to thinking that my brain operation might not be standard, where my brain occasionally tries to insert that no, really, don't be silly, my brain operation is TOTALLY normal and standard. No really. REALLY!
Yeah, no. No, brain. This doesn't fly when it takes me 20 minutes to drag my ass out of bed because I literally can't connect the dots from "turn off alarm" to "sit up". I'm not falling back asleep, I'm just laying there with my brain stuck mid way through the boot up cycle, blank screen of doom - white noise hum in my head and NOTHING, and no ability to find the damned gear shift to actually get going. At least, not until the cat jumped on me and meowed repeatedly in my face, and that finally kicked me into moving because Xena has a remarkable ability for a five pound cat to channel gravity through her paws into fiery points of heavy crushing pressure while she's standing on you, preferably on my tits. Ow. >_< Thank you, furry alarm clock.
And then I get up, stumble into the shower, and even that doesn't wake me up. I'm moving in slow motion in molasses, feeling like shit. And I vaguely remember oh, yeah, this was how every morning felt pre-adderall. Huh. Imagine that. Mostly I sit and go jfc, how did I ever get upright and functional? >_<
Now it's several hours later, I took my pills, they kicked in halfway through the commute when I started being able to string words together again, and now I feel 'normal'. But no, silly brain. NO. The actually legit 'normal' I'm feeling right now does not just spontaneously happen. 'Normal' used to be that really spectacularly sucktastic feeling I woke up with. Let's not call that normal, okay? Let's not hold that up as the standard. It sucks.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
Yeah, no. No, brain. This doesn't fly when it takes me 20 minutes to drag my ass out of bed because I literally can't connect the dots from "turn off alarm" to "sit up". I'm not falling back asleep, I'm just laying there with my brain stuck mid way through the boot up cycle, blank screen of doom - white noise hum in my head and NOTHING, and no ability to find the damned gear shift to actually get going. At least, not until the cat jumped on me and meowed repeatedly in my face, and that finally kicked me into moving because Xena has a remarkable ability for a five pound cat to channel gravity through her paws into fiery points of heavy crushing pressure while she's standing on you, preferably on my tits. Ow. >_< Thank you, furry alarm clock.
And then I get up, stumble into the shower, and even that doesn't wake me up. I'm moving in slow motion in molasses, feeling like shit. And I vaguely remember oh, yeah, this was how every morning felt pre-adderall. Huh. Imagine that. Mostly I sit and go jfc, how did I ever get upright and functional? >_<
Now it's several hours later, I took my pills, they kicked in halfway through the commute when I started being able to string words together again, and now I feel 'normal'. But no, silly brain. NO. The actually legit 'normal' I'm feeling right now does not just spontaneously happen. 'Normal' used to be that really spectacularly sucktastic feeling I woke up with. Let's not call that normal, okay? Let's not hold that up as the standard. It sucks.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
Observation
An observation brought about from something that crossed my tumblr dash (but which I won't talk about on tumblr because ugh, posting opinions on tumblr =P). Now that I'm trying to pay attention to how my own brain works? Helpful tips and encouraging posts about how to manage your time and stop procrastinating just put my hackles up and make me hiss and snarl. ( Collapse )
In short, I probably need to just not even skim helpful things aimed at the general populace, and concentrate on things that work for me. Right now, it's chemical help and breaking my time into schedules that are ALL THE SAME, so that each day is the same and things become habit so I don't have to think about them so much or rely on my brain to spontaneously manage to do things on its own. And that's okay.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
In short, I probably need to just not even skim helpful things aimed at the general populace, and concentrate on things that work for me. Right now, it's chemical help and breaking my time into schedules that are ALL THE SAME, so that each day is the same and things become habit so I don't have to think about them so much or rely on my brain to spontaneously manage to do things on its own. And that's okay.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
Hello tuesday
Things I currently am: FREEZING.
Things I am currently not: WARM.
And yet, the weather is supposed to be 70F today. I'm not sure I believe it. Either that, or they pre-emptively turned the air conditioners up to arctic blast at work already, and it is WAY too early in spring for that shit. My hands are ice cold. BRRRRR.
I finished an 18k fic (warcraft fandom) yesterday - I need to do edits before posting. Gdocs on the ipad and the computer use two different spell/punctuation checkers, which is odd. at least on my ipad it doesn't catch everything, so I have to do a second pass on the computer. And THEN I need to do a sweep for my own errors, because I think I changed the time frame several times in that way where "five days ago", "two weeks ago", and "over a week ago" are all supposed to refer to the SAME EVENT and I have therefore messed myself up and need to pick one and correct.
I will be posting one chapter at a time (there's 4 chapters and I'm already writing on the sequel as of this morning) with a day or two delay between chapters because of the aforementioned edits and also there is a surprise that goes with this fic (ART. Shocking revelation, it's ART.)
So yeah - y'all can look forward to that, if you care for a dose of some of my OCs and some fantasy rpg game based fic set in WoW at the start of the current expansion. Wheeee! (Now to finish the art. >_> I'm reduced to glacial speed in art production right now, I'm so out of practice. Working on it!)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
Things I am currently not: WARM.
And yet, the weather is supposed to be 70F today. I'm not sure I believe it. Either that, or they pre-emptively turned the air conditioners up to arctic blast at work already, and it is WAY too early in spring for that shit. My hands are ice cold. BRRRRR.
I finished an 18k fic (warcraft fandom) yesterday - I need to do edits before posting. Gdocs on the ipad and the computer use two different spell/punctuation checkers, which is odd. at least on my ipad it doesn't catch everything, so I have to do a second pass on the computer. And THEN I need to do a sweep for my own errors, because I think I changed the time frame several times in that way where "five days ago", "two weeks ago", and "over a week ago" are all supposed to refer to the SAME EVENT and I have therefore messed myself up and need to pick one and correct.
I will be posting one chapter at a time (there's 4 chapters and I'm already writing on the sequel as of this morning) with a day or two delay between chapters because of the aforementioned edits and also there is a surprise that goes with this fic (ART. Shocking revelation, it's ART.)
So yeah - y'all can look forward to that, if you care for a dose of some of my OCs and some fantasy rpg game based fic set in WoW at the start of the current expansion. Wheeee! (Now to finish the art. >_> I'm reduced to glacial speed in art production right now, I'm so out of practice. Working on it!)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
Also, health things
Going back to the 10mg dose of the Adderall. The 15mg dose just gives me insomnia but doesn't actually help any better with the focus that I can tell. Somewhat less, actually, because now I have insomnia, can't sleep until around midnight or 1am, and am dead tired when I get up at 5am, so that's less than helpful.
The doctor (not my long term usual one, this is a different one who's overseeing the Adderall for me) also finally felt it necessary to tweak at me about my weight. The wanting to check my weight I understand, because a side effect can be loss of appetite and too-fast weight loss. This is not the case for me - my appetite is fine, my weight remains exactly the same. ( Collapse )
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
The doctor (not my long term usual one, this is a different one who's overseeing the Adderall for me) also finally felt it necessary to tweak at me about my weight. The wanting to check my weight I understand, because a side effect can be loss of appetite and too-fast weight loss. This is not the case for me - my appetite is fine, my weight remains exactly the same. ( Collapse )
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
Monday thought
A monday morning thought, taken from streaming art practice last night -
It’s easy to say “That’s good enough”. It’s harder but more satisfying to say “That’s not good enough and I’m going to practice until it is.”
Actual context - I'm teaching myself to paint. Well, backtrack - I'm teaching myself Paintstorm Studio, which is an art program made BY an artist to include all the features he wanted/needed for digital painting and illustration. Not photo manipulation, but painting. It's cheap, light weight, memory friendly, and not the bloated glut that Photoshop is. It is, however, very much it's own beast, so starting there, I'm teaching myself the ins and outs of a new piece of software that does some amazing things but then doesn't do other things at all (there is no good burn/dodge or saturation tools that I can find, for instance.)
Additionally, I'm teaching myself to paint. Like, minimal or no inked lines left by the end of it, that kind of painting, not my usual "colored line art" that I normally do. Or used to do, because I haven't done any of it in years, so yeah, all new. And right now I stream the practice I'm doing on Picarto in the evenings, because my dragon likes to watch me do art but it would be very crowded to have us both hovering around my shoved-in-a-corner desk.
So last night I took a very rough "speed paint" (sloppy mix of sketch lines and color, done on a moving commuter train with all applicable bouncing around, but which came out with very decent mood colors) and started trying to finalize it. I inked over the sketch to nail down some actual lines, but kept in mind that I have every intention of painting over the lines as much as possible. Then I started painting.
Started on the background, ended up erasing and re-doing the sky outside the window multiple times. My dragon said it looked like an early morning sky from the sketch, and I grumbled that it was supposed to be late afternoon, we batted some reference photos back and forth trying to jointly come up with what "late afternoon" sun looked like, and I erased and re-drew, modified saturation with an overlay layer, erased and redrew some more, moved the clouds to a separate layer so I could erase and redraw THEM in assorted colors and shapes, etc, etc. Ended up not getting to the main figures because I fussed around with the background so long.
When I'm coloring a line drawing? I *LOATHE* repainting a piece. I absolutely loathe having to erase and redo, because dammit, I already did it. And really, when doing colored line art, I don't need to re-do that much - color adjustments can be done with select-modify, everything is on its own layer, easy.
Paintstorm? Doesn't have a color modifier like Photoshop does, at least not that I know of. So the only option is repaint. Erase and repaint. Erase again and repaint. The tops of the buildings that can be seen from the window? Yeah, I put those on their own layer after having to erase them multiple times, and thank goodness, because I need to do it again, the colors are too dark and the perspective is totally whack.
Erase, repaint. Erase, repaint. Erase until you're not afraid of erasing what you just spent the last 10-30 minutes doing. Repaint until the painting gets easier, until it gets better, until it WORKS.
It would have been really easy to say "eh, it's a sky, you can tell what it is, it's just supposed to be a quick throw away piece, a speed paint, GOOD ENOUGH". But now I have colors that actually work, clouds that look like clouds, and I will damned well have rooftops that look like rooftops before I move onto the main figure. And that's actually a lot better then "eh, good enough" and then having something that's okay but I can see all the flaws in it and end up hating it afterwards. So yay!
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
It’s easy to say “That’s good enough”. It’s harder but more satisfying to say “That’s not good enough and I’m going to practice until it is.”
Actual context - I'm teaching myself to paint. Well, backtrack - I'm teaching myself Paintstorm Studio, which is an art program made BY an artist to include all the features he wanted/needed for digital painting and illustration. Not photo manipulation, but painting. It's cheap, light weight, memory friendly, and not the bloated glut that Photoshop is. It is, however, very much it's own beast, so starting there, I'm teaching myself the ins and outs of a new piece of software that does some amazing things but then doesn't do other things at all (there is no good burn/dodge or saturation tools that I can find, for instance.)
Additionally, I'm teaching myself to paint. Like, minimal or no inked lines left by the end of it, that kind of painting, not my usual "colored line art" that I normally do. Or used to do, because I haven't done any of it in years, so yeah, all new. And right now I stream the practice I'm doing on Picarto in the evenings, because my dragon likes to watch me do art but it would be very crowded to have us both hovering around my shoved-in-a-corner desk.
So last night I took a very rough "speed paint" (sloppy mix of sketch lines and color, done on a moving commuter train with all applicable bouncing around, but which came out with very decent mood colors) and started trying to finalize it. I inked over the sketch to nail down some actual lines, but kept in mind that I have every intention of painting over the lines as much as possible. Then I started painting.
Started on the background, ended up erasing and re-doing the sky outside the window multiple times. My dragon said it looked like an early morning sky from the sketch, and I grumbled that it was supposed to be late afternoon, we batted some reference photos back and forth trying to jointly come up with what "late afternoon" sun looked like, and I erased and re-drew, modified saturation with an overlay layer, erased and redrew some more, moved the clouds to a separate layer so I could erase and redraw THEM in assorted colors and shapes, etc, etc. Ended up not getting to the main figures because I fussed around with the background so long.
When I'm coloring a line drawing? I *LOATHE* repainting a piece. I absolutely loathe having to erase and redo, because dammit, I already did it. And really, when doing colored line art, I don't need to re-do that much - color adjustments can be done with select-modify, everything is on its own layer, easy.
Paintstorm? Doesn't have a color modifier like Photoshop does, at least not that I know of. So the only option is repaint. Erase and repaint. Erase again and repaint. The tops of the buildings that can be seen from the window? Yeah, I put those on their own layer after having to erase them multiple times, and thank goodness, because I need to do it again, the colors are too dark and the perspective is totally whack.
Erase, repaint. Erase, repaint. Erase until you're not afraid of erasing what you just spent the last 10-30 minutes doing. Repaint until the painting gets easier, until it gets better, until it WORKS.
It would have been really easy to say "eh, it's a sky, you can tell what it is, it's just supposed to be a quick throw away piece, a speed paint, GOOD ENOUGH". But now I have colors that actually work, clouds that look like clouds, and I will damned well have rooftops that look like rooftops before I move onto the main figure. And that's actually a lot better then "eh, good enough" and then having something that's okay but I can see all the flaws in it and end up hating it afterwards. So yay!
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
image sparks
(because I still loose them rapidly if I can't get them down, the brain is unreliable, so I'm going to take notes while I can, before they slip away again)
1) Pandaren male (Ren) seen at a three quarters angle, from slightly above or below. Indoors, Stormwind architecture, a smallish room with a cluttered table top, papers and ink everywhere. Ren is in casual robes, loosely belted, one cub tucked in a sling against his chest, the other two at his hips. He is caught in shadow, backlit against the leaded glass window behind him, his face turned down, shoulders slumped, one hand cradling the cub against his chest, the other holding a crumpled and tattered piece of paper.
2) Ren, in traveling clothes/armor. Portrait seen from below, head turned up, against the backdrop of the snow covered Kun-Lai peaks. ALTERNATE - landscape, the monk temple at Serenity, Ren is a small-ish figure with a staff climbing the stairs to the main hall.
3) Two Pandaren (Ren and Hardwire) seated across from each other at a table, bowls and mugs spread out between them. Ren is highlighted by the light from a fireplace behind him, the room otherwise dark-ish. On the table, both have reached partway across, Hardwire's hand on Ren's wrist.
4) A scrying link (as seen in the MoP intro cut scene, Taylor's message to Varian) on a wooden table. Anduin's image is projected in it; from mid-chest up, in a half laced shirt, his hair loose, like he's been dragged out of bed. His expression is serious, unhappy, his eyes focused on something out of the panel; on the table Ren's hand can just be seen beside the link apparatus, fingers curled to dig the tips of his claws into the wood.
(These would be chapter heading images for the fic that's almost done, just quick sketches/speed paints. I don't know if I'll actually manage to do them.)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
bunnies - Feed a bunny
1) Pandaren male (Ren) seen at a three quarters angle, from slightly above or below. Indoors, Stormwind architecture, a smallish room with a cluttered table top, papers and ink everywhere. Ren is in casual robes, loosely belted, one cub tucked in a sling against his chest, the other two at his hips. He is caught in shadow, backlit against the leaded glass window behind him, his face turned down, shoulders slumped, one hand cradling the cub against his chest, the other holding a crumpled and tattered piece of paper.
2) Ren, in traveling clothes/armor. Portrait seen from below, head turned up, against the backdrop of the snow covered Kun-Lai peaks. ALTERNATE - landscape, the monk temple at Serenity, Ren is a small-ish figure with a staff climbing the stairs to the main hall.
3) Two Pandaren (Ren and Hardwire) seated across from each other at a table, bowls and mugs spread out between them. Ren is highlighted by the light from a fireplace behind him, the room otherwise dark-ish. On the table, both have reached partway across, Hardwire's hand on Ren's wrist.
4) A scrying link (as seen in the MoP intro cut scene, Taylor's message to Varian) on a wooden table. Anduin's image is projected in it; from mid-chest up, in a half laced shirt, his hair loose, like he's been dragged out of bed. His expression is serious, unhappy, his eyes focused on something out of the panel; on the table Ren's hand can just be seen beside the link apparatus, fingers curled to dig the tips of his claws into the wood.
(These would be chapter heading images for the fic that's almost done, just quick sketches/speed paints. I don't know if I'll actually manage to do them.)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
game recs?
I know a lot of us play clicky games for assorted reasons. I'm wondering if anyone has (preferably iOS compatible) recs? I'm looking for puzzles, I love matching ones, but here's the thing - I hate it when the levels get increasingly harder BUT they give you limited lives (in order to monetize it so you have to either wait, or buy more lives). Gate your gameplay, in other words. I want something like the old Bejeweled 2 zen mode, where the game wouldn't limit how long you can play.
Other options are CCGs, but I'd want to play offline against an AI, not PvP. Or things that just involve clicking for some reason and an easy reward, really - Tap Tap Fish is a favorite for me right now as a bedtime quick brain soother.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
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Other options are CCGs, but I'd want to play offline against an AI, not PvP. Or things that just involve clicking for some reason and an easy reward, really - Tap Tap Fish is a favorite for me right now as a bedtime quick brain soother.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
