It's Personal...

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:09 pm

I've made it a full year and 1000 posts with my blog! Considering I don't always stick with projects, this is good.

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And I can see that people from here have visited on occasion, so thank you to the peeps that checked in.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:50 pm

Yay! Congrats!

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:30 am

Grr... frustrated. Spoilerblocked due to grossness.

A friend of mine has introduced me to BDSM. Turns out I really enjoy being a sub (opposite of what I would have figured, but we tried both as she's a switch). Anyway, due to reasons we can't play anymore, and now I have a kink that I can't find a partner to do. I don't know if this is the area I am in or what, but every single woman I've met except my friend want masters, not subs. Although there's a kink club locally, they couldn't be LESS interested in accepting yet ANOTHER single hetero(ish) male. The fact that I have almost no experience doesn't help, and even though I do alright by the ladies these days, I am fat and butt-ugly which turns people who don't know me off...

This is a nice case of "white whine" here, as I still do have a very active social life with several ladies I care deeply about. And I am certainly grateful of the attention I'm receiving, I do remember the lonely years I've been through, being stood up by ignorant Virginia holler honeys and am not unhappy by any stretch of the word.

I'm just sayin', it kind of sucks finding out you like something then realizing you're not likely to have it again without hiring a professional...I have seen some breathtaking cinema taken in German brothels, and I'm probably going to remain single for quite a bit longer...

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:12 am

Well, at least you're not another Sunstone convert?

Laertes · Post by **Laertes** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:12 am

Congratulations on coming out of the closet, Arioch. And yeah, finding a partner who shares your kinks is difficult, but it's so worth it when you do.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:50 am

Prak_Anima wrote:
Koumei wrote:But it's too far, and really, I'm 29, I'm too old to be doing tequila shots during the day. Which I assume is the main thing you do in Uni. It was when I was 20 and regularly showing up at a Uni to hang out with friends and occasionally attend lectures for the hell of it.
Wait, is that the cut off? Shit, I need to get on that in the next two years.

Well I feel like I'm too old to be doing that. Granted, some of the people I knew from Uni back then (ten years ago, when some of them were around 30) still hang out there. And still try to pick up first-years (who would be eighteen). That's a bit creepy, so by comparison, getting shitfaced on campus is probably acceptable for me.

Anyway, according to my case manager, I might actually get some extra money from the government once the course starts, as part of their "here, that covers books and pencils and things, or something, we're just glad you're studying and not rioting" deal. We're talking a one-off payment of around $200, which is basically what a passport costs, so that's pretty handy.

(Yes I know that's expensive, but Australia is a shithole, if they made it easy to leave, everyone would do it.)

Aharon · Post by **Aharon** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:57 am

Ancient History wrote:Well, at least you're not another Sunstone convert?

Are there many such converts?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:02 am

http://shiniez.deviantart.com/gallery/

Quite a few, yes.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:04 am

I clicked on the link, and I still don't understand, wtf is Sunstone?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:10 pm

It's a comic about two women who meet through the wonders of BDSM, but in a slightly more intelligent, thought-provoking, and romantic way than 50 Shades of Grey. It's very popular.

Laertes · Post by **Laertes** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:39 pm

Here's a fun game to play: Mention 50 Shades to kinksters and watch them froth at the mouth. I used to date a girl who did a page by page deconstruction of that book that slowly got more and more breathtakingly angry as the book carefully got every single thing wrong on every single level.

It is not a well loved text, is what I'm saying.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:45 pm

Spent a few hours assembling my nephew's LegoKRE O Optimus Prime. Wish I had Legos with ball joints and those circular things that can be used to build some parts sideways, slanted, etc when I was a kid. CURSE YOU FUTURE GENERATIONS FOR GROWING UP WITH NICER TOYS!!!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 12:12 am

What'll really piss you off is that it's getting to the point where kids can 3d print their own custom lego pieces now.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 12:57 am

I've been wanting to do a comic of one of my short stories for a while. I went so far as to convert it into a comic script, with page breakdowns and everything. Today, I sat down and tried to draw the first page. It's terrible. Really really bad.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:36 am

Which is bad, the art, the story, or the concept?

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:00 am

Ancient History wrote:I've been wanting to do a comic of one of my short stories for a while. I went so far as to convert it into a comic script, with page breakdowns and everything. Today, I sat down and tried to draw the first page. It's terrible. Really really bad.

I'm in a different boat that wants to sail similar waters. I've been stalled nearly 2 years making sporadic and limited progress in writing stories featuring mainly 2 characters in an After Sundown world.

Shorts featuring a Reborn of Solomon Kane, and a much longer story featuring a Khabit who befriends him.

I was planning on doing alternating comic+text shorts of the Reborn since Solomon Kane stories lend themselves to being shorts anyway. Find bad guys, bit of difficulty, then kill bad guys.

I started with this first panel sketch back in 2012. I think I fleshed it out more, and I had essentially the whole thing storyboarded, but that was the only one I scanned.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 12:42 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Which is bad, the art, the story, or the concept?

In this case, the art. My particular...style, if you're being generous...doesn't really adapt well, and I've never taken a lesson on drawing in my life, so I'm double crap at it.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:35 pm

Heh, my drawing skills are pretty shit too, and I've tried my hand at making comics before with similar results, so at least your not alone.

We could start a club with leather jackets and everything!

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:50 pm

Every time I feel bad about my art, I look at the first few Penny Arcade strips. Cheers me right up.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:15 pm

I can't actually draw that well.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:23 pm

Stick your chocolate in erik's peanut butter. Problem solved forever.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:21 pm

Ancient History wrote:I've been wanting to do a comic of one of my short stories for a while. I went so far as to convert it into a comic script, with page breakdowns and everything. Today, I sat down and tried to draw the first page. It's terrible. Really really bad.

I know the feeling. Drawing is hard if you haven't been doodling seriously since childhood.

My first recommendation is learning perspective. It helped me out immensely. I got some good advice on this thread: http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=55372

fectin wrote:Stick your chocolate in erik's peanut butter. Problem solved forever.

If you don't feel like taking the (possibly quite long, even if you practice regularly) time to learn to draw, working with an artist is probably a good idea.

Or you could pick an aesthetic that doesn't require you to draw well (e.g. xkcd, Order of the Stick), or at all (e.g. Irregular Webcomic).

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:08 pm

radthemad4 wrote:
Ancient History wrote:I've been wanting to do a comic of one of my short stories for a while. I went so far as to convert it into a comic script, with page breakdowns and everything. Today, I sat down and tried to draw the first page. It's terrible. Really really bad.
I know the feeling. Drawing is hard if you haven't been doodling seriously since childhood.

Oh, I doodle. I just got locked into a particular curvy-line style and I've never taken any actual classes on art, so when I try to do something...anything...it looks like crap.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:16 pm

I would volunteer, but I have a serious problem with following through on projects and commitments.

Which is kind of it's own post. I've got... what? Four started and never finished games on here? Plus an After Sundown supplement I started writing in word so I could have something at least semi-done before I posted it here? Plus I don't know how many story ideas I've started writing and never gotten more than ten or twenty pages on (though the problem there is that I write characters, not plots). Not to mention probably dozens of product ideas that I've never had the chance to even test out, due to lack of capital...

This probably wouldn't bother me so much if I at least had a day job, but I'm starting to think I'm a really unattractive employment prospect for some reason I can half guess at but am not certain of.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:16 pm

Ancient History: I don't think I've seen your coloring (shading?filling?) style anywhere except maybe Photoshop's stamp filter. Did you see it somewhere or make it up?