| This Week's RW + Christmas Eve Updates |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
screenChaos433 and 434 are up!
I'm really behind on comic-making; but, it is Christmas.
The Christmas Day comic will probably come this Sunday, or later, depending on when I can find the time to do it; I don't want to spend the rest of my free time this year doing nothing but RWs, especially with the timing of comic updates and holidays this year. I already feel burned out on spending so much time on these comics as it is ...
Anyway, enjoy the comics! I hope you have a merry Christmas! |
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[Dec. 26th, 2009|11:20 am] |
So, my brother in law traded his netbook for $6 and something from my husband that I cannot remember. (said brother-in-law just got a macbookpro)
So... I have a computer again. I've actually just been using my iPhone for the past few months, which is cool and all, but I do miss being able to actually type and stuff. Holidays have been nice. Spent time with Jon's parents and my own. It's been very nice.
Going to Dauphin Island for New Years.
Felt really good lately. Enjoying time.
Jon and I are looking at apartments. There's a complex in Millbrook that my coworkers said is nice, and is fairly cheap. I'm excited for that. I bought some bowls with lucky cats on them, and colored plates. :) We need a couch, kitchen table, chairs. I want a two-bedroom apartment, so that we'll have an office/workspace.
I miss painting. I haven't had any ideas for doing in a long time though. Or knitting. I picked up knitting a few months ago and turned out to be pretty good at it, but stopped a while back. Why do I always start things and then stop? |
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| HOLY CRAP I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|11:57 am] |
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| | CALL IT CABIN FEVER, HAR HAR HAR | ] |
IT'S SNOWING.
IN TEXAS.
ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
December has been dry and cold, and only occasionally cloudy. Then, early this morning, it started to rain, a lot.
A few hours later, that turned into sleet.
Then it turned into full-blown snow.
And not just a mild drift--we've got a blizzard warning! We have at least a foot of snow on the ground out here, and it's still snowing--forecasts say the snow will continue to fall until 6:00 PM tonight.
Much of the town and local cities have closed down due to the snow, church services cancelled, and such. Wise choice, given how people out here can not handle lesser snowfall. Up north in Oklahoma, a nearby county has asked residents to ration water because the snow knocked out their water services.
This is freaking crazy! We not only have a white Christmas, we've got way more than we can chew!
I think this might be enough snow to build a snowman! I haven't done that in a decade! |
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| a new love |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|12:12 am] |
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Originally published at d r a g o n f l y . n u. You can comment here or there. A year ago we were blessed with the little girl we almost decided not to have. We had been trying to conceive another child for so long that we thought something was wrong and maybe I was unable to have another one. Having your first child via emergency c-section can make you all sorts of paranoid.
( Read the rest of this entry » ) |
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| Because Theogrin intended this to happen: |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|08:03 pm] |
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| | SILLY MUSIC. | ] |
Theogrin: ... good lord. "A 1.5 Terabyte hard drive". That just hit me.
Theogrin: I could contain every work of fiction written in the English language within that and still have room for a sizeable amount of porn. |
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| Friggin' ... Okay, Ragnarok Wisdom is a week late, but it's up. |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|11:56 pm] |
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| | Street Fighter 4 - Abel's Theme | ] |
Okay, NOW screenChaos432 is up!
Yes! It's actually up now!
I'm gonna take a page from Freeman's Mind and say, "OH MY GOD THAT WAS STUPID. WHY DO I KEEP DOING STUPID THINGS?"
Namely: "I should do a comic involving the Terminator! It'll only be a few panels, it should be easy!"
As you can tell ... I was wrong. Oh so very wrong.
I wound up being late by a whole week on this comic ... Especially due to spontaneous trips to meet relatives, as well as Lunaris badgering me to enter Team Fortress 2's art contest. (Which, by the way, you can see my submission here. The winning entries utterly smoked mine.)
I honestly don't know if I have it in me to make a comic for this week's Ragnarok Wisdom. If I do, it's going to be pretty short, considering Christmas is this week, too. I'm running out of steam on this! |
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| Well, THIS is what I wound up doing. |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|08:14 am] |
And I hope it was worth it.
TF2 Poster - FREEDOM by ~trevmun on deviantART
The recent update for Team Fortress 2 is a war-themed contest between the Soldier and Demoman. Whichever class kills the most of the other side gets a special fourth unlockable item.
Soon after the war began this weekend, Valve announced a "propaganda poster" art contest--multiple prizes to be given out, with the grand winner getting to name a special hat (which, as of this post, I ASSUME is that fourth unlockable).
Lunaris (my fellow Ragnarok Wisdom staff) has urged me to enter--ironically enough, to make a poster for the Demoman, despite the fact that he loves Soldiers (especially BLU Soldiers, and the BLU Soldier is the poster boy for Soldiers everywhere during this war event). He says he supports the underdog.
Well, I had an idea, but I had no idea how little time there was to do it--until Lunaris began hounding me on it. I didn't have much time to draw out my idea, so I took a different approach ...
First, I recreated the idea I had in mind with Garry's Mod. Then I took a snapshot of that scene and digitally painted over it with the GIMP, including adding in the recently-announced Demoman unlockables (the Eyelander claymore and Chargin' Targa shield), making a new backdrop and simplifying the colors of the characters present. Then I popped the picture into Flash and trace-bitmapped it to give it a look that seemed kind of like propaganda art.
It's not how I was planning to go about this picture, but it still conveys the idea I had in mind. The only difference between this version of the picture and the one I sent to Valve is that this one has my name on it (and it's bigger). I submitted my poster minutes before the supposed deadline, and I'm not even sure if I made it in time. I guess we'll find out!
(... If only I'd taken the time to specify that I didn't want a Small-sized t-shirt ... ) |
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| IT NEVER ENDS! |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|05:09 pm] |
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| | Phantasy Star Zero - Undefeated Heart | ] |
screenChaos432 isn't up yet. Again!
I'm gonna take a page from Freeman's Mind and say, "OH MY GOD THAT WAS STUPID. WHY DO I KEEP DOING STUPID THINGS?"
Namely: "I should do a comic involving the Terminator! It'll only be a few panels, it should be easy!"
As you can tell ... I was wrong. Oh so very wrong.
Unfortunately I think this is going to end up like last week, especially since Lunaris wants me to take care of something else that ends today before finishing RW.
(Bwahaha! Now you've got the RW fanbase to answer to, Lun!)
Ahem. Anyway, guys, uh ... give me some time! I'll have it done this week. |
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| I really ... REALLY ... |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|11:56 pm] |
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... Should not have elected to work on a comic involving the Terminator. @_@ |
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