#December WIP Cleanup
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Team Star's founder... The person who's caused all kinds of misery at the academy... If we don't take them down, I'll lose what I treasure most in the world.
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Weekly Update December 15, 2023
Finals week is done. I’m still worried about the one class but I’ve done everything I can. Next week I have some doctor appointments but otherwise am good to rest up and hopefully get more work done. I have tonight and tomorrow morning also before I have to do a long drive, so maybe I’ll finish off some other projects.
TRGA: 1-4 Tim’s tweens are done, and I have what I think is a faster strategy for tweens now as well, so all that should be moving faster. I just need to do Tim’s face and clean up his joints and he should be good for the shot, I can make and add in props and I’ll post the wip. I’m planning to do backgrounds all in one go at the end so they stay consistent from shot to shot, and sketch lines as well. I’ll probably do some of the more tedious work (exporting and reimporting sketch lines, and cleanup) in the evenings and the more brain intensive work like props during real free time.
Still chipping away at late drawing prompts. I got the rest of the Inktober set sketched, I’m nearing the ‘easy’ prompts for the cringe set, and the gore set I just haven’t had motivation for but I can maybe try to finish that one off in the next few days. Also haven’t gotten comic thumbnail stuff done since like 2 weeks ago but I might get cracking at that in the car ride tomorrow, or definitely after, there’s a lot more interest in my OCs than I thought so I really should be prioritizing that higher.
Music: real close on the one song, and recorded pieces for a piano arrangement of another thing. I wanted to doll it up with real instruments, and maybe I still will but I can also do a just piano version and throw that out. The main original I’m working on is close to done instrumentally, I was going to record the breakdown tonight but I’m a bit tired because I decided to do some chores, so maybe it’ll be tomorrow or maybe I will do it tonight. Also started poking around Melodies for a second song before realizing my retro sound chip plug-in set is a pain in the neck and will only play one note at a time so I need like 5 or 6 layers to do what I want and also the gameboy chip has hella delay for some reason. Not unfixable but annoying. Theoretically I should be moving to a new computer soonish so maybe I can try out some voice synths for the main song I’m working on since I don’t think I can sing.
I’m kinda hitting that tiredness wall but I should hopefully be able to get some rest in the coming week, get some stuff together to post, and be nice and ready. I should also mention I have a surgery coming up too which should take me out of commission for some time, idk how long, doesn’t sound very long though, at least not as long as the last one. That’s not until the week of christmas though so I should still be good to do stuff until then. Maybe I’ll draw tonight, maybe I won’t since it’s already late. I’ve been getting weird bouts of restlessness where I just decide to do a bunch of things at once, but I think I already got one when I decided to do chores. Oh well always tomorrow.
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a year in fic
Rules: Share 1 line from each fic you wrote this year.
thanks @oknowkiss for tagging me, this is so fun! (everyone, go read oknowkiss's brilliant writing here) i'm tagging @whimsymanaged @indreamsink @ambpersand and anyone who wants to join in!
In 2022 I wrote: 60k words over 16 works. I'd never done any sort of creative writing before January 2022 so this was a pretty weird, fun, special year for me.
January
the phoenix connection (co-written with @dumbledoodlewriting!) | dramione | 7.7k (wip)
“Sorry, Granger, ‘hot as fuck’ doesn’t rhyme, and I can’t jeopardize the poetic integrity of my magnum opus.”
February
the distraction | dramione | 5k (wip)
Draco cleared his throat again. “Ah—yes, I absolutely can, ah, take care of that”—he shifted in his seat once more—“when we hear from Titston—pardon me, Triston—next week.” He held his hand up to the side of his face, blocking her from view.
March
a shoulder to fall through | dryrtle | 7.5k
Draco freezes. A hundred conflicting compulsions rise up in him at once—to comfort, to run away and leave her with her tears, to defend himself, to lash out in the instinctive anger that immediately follows his guilt, to disavow everything the mark on his forearm represents, to join her in her wailing, to stand up and scream until his voice is gone and every last feeling leaves his body and he is nothing but a cold empty shell.
April
statistical survey | dramione | 500
"I thought about every pair of legs I’ve seen, and I compared them all to yours, and then I decided yours were the best. Extremely rigorous science."
May
leave the door open | dramione | 4.5k
While she contemplated the pros and cons of the Outer Hebrides (pro: isolated, con: very windy—terrible for her hair) versus Liechtenstein (pro: temperate climate, con: not sure it’s a real country) there was a knock on the shared door. Fuck.
June
ask me | dramione | 1.4k
"I have received unbelievable grace for things I’ve done, and I know how hard it can be to accept. But please don’t belittle my forgiveness by rejecting it."
July
a bloody idiot | dramione | 8.2k
He couldn’t see where he was going, and thus there was a geospatial disagreement between his left foot and the top step, and in a show of solidarity, Draco’s body entered into a geospatial disagreement with the rest of the stoop.
August
beef bourguignon | dramione | 810
“But my beef,” Draco said mournfully.
September
cleanup on aisle 9 3/4 | dramione | 3.8k
With his luck it was probably a bag of iceberg lettuce, but as Theo liked to say, better to have tasteless salad than a public indecency charge.
October
no soliciting | dramione | 13.1k
“Do you know how to make a Sex on the Beach, by any chance?” he asked her, wrinkling his nose slightly as he said the name of the drink.
“Two or more consenting adults, one beach, and a lot of sand up the minge usually does it.”
November
an unposted wip that i started in february and hopefully will start posting early next year | dramione | 95k
Who knew birds were so fucking horny?
December
lattes and larceny (will be posted towards the end of the month) | dramione | 6k
Wearing a tux on a Saturday morning to go get coffee was walk of shame material, but he didn’t mind. Walk of honor, more like. Hermione Granger took him to bed last night. Let the whole world know.
#honestly surprised i had something every month#those wips really are going to be finished#dramione#eveningstruggle
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fortnight, recent, ancient, hours, wednesday
fortnight: what wip do you plan on posting next, if at all?
ideally, the next daily prompt ... it's "cleanup site" for sam, but i haven't exactly started yet, lol
recent: the most recent fic you have posted online?
actual fic wise, you know what it is, though i can't say that here for reasons, lmao. but in terms of this blog, it's yesterday's daily prompt, "orion," for sadie.
ancient: the first fic you ever posted online?
in terms of actual fic, i actually don't remember. i think it was a very early prototype of the fic i'm most known for (lmao at the idea that i'm "known" for anything, except for among friends). but in terms of this blog, my first vignette was "the backyard," originally posted on main in december 2021. it needs an edit (or a deletion), since it suggests lucy and will aren't even dating in the summer of 1984, when you and i both know they got married in november 1983. but that was the first one, before the universe developed and canonized.
hours: longest wip or completed fic?
in terms of actual fic, that's ... i'll tell you later, lol, though you might already know. but in terms of this blog, it's the first of may series.
wednesday: name a fic which you have posted which you think is underrated?
this is the first one i thought of: myroblyte! though i think anything with lucy is underrated, tbh.
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30,724 words at the stroke of midnight, December 1st!
11 days of writing, three WIPs continued, one of those WIPs plotted in full, started four more, one at the very last minute (by which I mean like 10:30 PM on Nov 30th), and ten short pieces in five fandoms.
I didn’t win, but you know what? I did good.
Also I learned I can write 1k in about 20 minutes if I’m motivated enough. So that’s kind of cool.
Writing plans for December at the moment:
Getting on the fandom stocking type events on Dreamwidth and filling some requests
Possibly trying to keep up with the Harcest prompt event going on? Since that’s still devouring my damn brain.
Taking a good look at some of the short pieces and deciding about how/if to fix them and put them on AO3. (And not letting the two of them that want to become longer fic become longer fic, goddammit.) Possibly seeing if I can get someone else to take a look too.
Taking a good look at the completed draft of the first Night Vale Allison story, deciding if I can fix it up and post it.
Also maybe going through what’s written up so far for the Diego/Vanya fic and the Ben timetravel fic. They’re the two I am most determined to get finished and posted, and I feel like they both need reigning in from the wreckage of NaNo.
(the Luther/Vanya fic and the Sigyn fic are the next tier of determination, but I’m still trying to work out if ‘clean up then continue’ or ‘just try to continue freestyling it and edit it all later’ are gonna work better, so, hmm.)
Also hitting up Chocolate Box noms when they go up.
but also, now that I’m done with NaNo, I picked up a couple games I really want to play that were on heavy discount and would like to dive into one of them, I want to get back to knitting and possibly playing with calligraphy-style things, and also once we finish the cleanup and get past the inspection on the 8th, I’m going to see about planning for the CYOA thing. Also, Solstice! So I probably won’t write quite as much this month, but that’s okay by me.
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Excerpt from this Grist story:
In early January, members of the Chesapeake Bay Commission sat in a gray conference room in Annapolis, Maryland, for a routine meeting. The 21-member legislative body, with representatives from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, convenes regularly to coordinate interstate efforts to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. But as the meeting drew to a close, EPA Chesapeake Bay Program director Dana Aunkst got up and delivered a demoralizing message to the group.
“The TMDL itself is not enforceable,” he said. He was referring to the Total Maximum Daily Load, a set of science-based limits for three pollutants — nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediment — flowing into the bay. The states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed have agreed to achieve the TMDL by 2025, and the EPA committed to enforcing it under the terms of a 2010 settlement. But Aunkst went on to describe the TMDL as merely “an informational document” that was “aspirational.”
Aunkst’s comments were jarring to some in the room, but they weren’t entirely out of left field. Pennsylvania, by far the largest source of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, has failed to meet its pollution reduction benchmarks for years, with little response from the EPA. This single state’s negligence threatens the success of the entire regional program.
The Chesapeake is the largest estuary in the United States, a nationally significant economic resource, and a crucial habitat for thousands of species. But the influx of pollution from upstream sources has led to fishery declines, recurring “dead zones” where pollutants starve aquatic animals of oxygen, and regular algae blooms that suffocate underwater plant life. Even after nearly 10 years of strategic planning and implementation of these pollution reduction plans by neighboring states, its overall health is still poor.
And Pennsylvania seems increasingly to blame. In August of last year, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection released its third and final Watershed Implementation Plan, or WIP. The plan admitted that PA was only about 30 percent closer to achieving its target for nitrogen pollution than it had been in the 1980s. Not only was the Keystone State entering the final phase of the cleanup far behind where it should have been, but the state’s plan for phase three still had it falling 25 percent short of the 2025 target. That underwhelming plan also had a funding deficit of about $324 million per year. In December, the EPA signed off on the plan with no indication of imposing consequences.
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Weekly wordcount: 1,181
@jojoscoffeeandwriting asked: "For the writer accountability team: what accomplishments from the past week are you the most proud of ?" This week was more cleanup for me than new progress - a little of that but not as much - and I've actually got all the snippets and research for TMC in one document (using scrivener to keep track of everything) for the first time since I started back in December, with everything in the same tense and voice, so I'm happy to have things better organized than before.
@igotablankpage asked: "For WIP Progress Sunday- what scene are you most proud of this week? Can you give us an excerpt?" I finally got out a transition scene that's been giving me issues bc I didn't want it to be boring, so I'm glad to have that out of the way. No excerpt, sorry - I'm on mobile and don't have access to my scrivener files right now. I'll try to answer these on Sunday while I'm at home to be able to post next week!
@cogesque asked: "For WIP Progress Sunday: Is your story going where you expected it to, or is it taking you somewhere entirely different? If it's taking on a mind of its own, are you happy to let it take off and see where it goes, or are you trying to steer it back on course?" It's early days yet for TMC, so I'm open to new ideas and directions if they present them, but so far I'm pretty on track with the skeleton I had planned out. I don't do a ton of pre-planning anyway.
Thanks @jojoscoffeeandwriting @igotablankpage @cogesque, and to @mvcreates for organizing this whole jam! I promise I'll actually *send* some asks next week as well as just answering. 😊
#weekly wordcount#writeblr accountability team#wip progress sunday#jojoscoffeeandwriting#igotablankpage#cogesque
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Paging Dr. Scully, chp 8: Space
In which my WIP Paging Dr. Scully rises from the dead after 4 months in the grave! Catch up here: Paging Dr. Scully 1: Squeeze / 2: Jersey Devil / 3: Shadows / 4. Ghost in the Machine / 5. Ice / 6. Ice (2) / 7. Ice (3)
She wakes up in a clammy sweat, her pulse in her throat. The room is dark and unfamiliar. There’s a split in the heavy curtains which faintly illuminates the four-poster bed, its gauzy drapes curled around the posts like vines.
Boston. She’s in Boston.
It takes a minute for the last images of her vivid dream to slip off her eyelids, but she knows they’re the same torrid memories that have been haunting her for a month now. The heat of Mulder’s breath at her temples, along her neck, the way his nimble hands had grasped her ass and pressed her into the metal shelving, her body growing heavy and thick as her fingers threaded through his sweat-damp hair.
Then always, always, the noisy interruption of Hodge and DaSilva, the BANG BANG BANG against the metal door that had stopped them cold.
Mulder had almost dropped her, and she’d gone rigid, frozen mid-kiss, her chest heaving at the loss of his mouth from hers. She remembers wiping her arm across her mouth, smoothing the sweaty curls at her forehead and pushing back from him with a warning look. Mulder had gulped and stepped away, sheepish but understanding, and given her a slight nod. And then Scully had gone ahead of him to open up the door.
In the month since returning from Alaska, all her dreams have ended as abruptly as reality had. Most of the rest of the trip to Icy Cape has since dissolved into a blur of frenzied chases, the chaos of breaking glass, the flesh-memory of holding down DaSilva as she struggled against the worm. Adrenaline has blunted Scully’s memory of the incidents and she’s not eager to dwell on any of it, given what has happened in the days since.
The only clarity she retains of the expedition are those moments in the supply closet, when she and Mulder’s breath seemed synchronized and their collision absolutely inevitable. Her dreams replay his kiss and her body responds, but every time she wakes to the imagined sound of a clanging door — as if even her subconscious warns against venturing any further down that path.
She and Mulder had spoken very little on the trip back, beyond what was necessary to make their way from tiny planes to shuttles, to the Anchorage airport, and finally back to DC. Mulder, to his credit, had been able to read her undefined discomfort, the confusion that had settled across her face when they’d learned the base was torched and anything worth knowing from their work was lost to fire. For her part, she could read the anger and resignation in his expression, realized that this kind of final scene was more typical an outcome to his work than not.
But this wasn’t her job, or her passion, and while up until now his quests had sparked her natural curiosity, the frequent futility of it all was clearer to her now. And she felt pity. Pity, and a healthy dose of simply wanting to get home.
He had driven her home from Dulles, carried her bags up to the door, but seemed to understand implicitly that she would not invite him in. Nor would there be a repetition of earlier events. The taut string of tension that had been pulling them together was slack, but neither one of them could tell who’d dropped their end.
“Mulder,” she had lingered at the door before he left. “I know that probably wasn’t the trip that you’d envisioned…”.
“You could say that,” he laughed anxiously.
“But,” she paused to choose her words, “thank you anyway for inviting me. I don’t think I would ever have imagined doing anything like that on my own.”
A disappointed look crossed his face as he heard the goodbye lurking in her tone. “I’m sorry it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, Doc. I would never have…”
“It’s okay,” she cut him off. “It’s okay. There’s no way you could have known.”
“But I never should have put you in that position,” he confessed. “This is MY work, not yours. I should have considered all the risks.”
She shook her head, wanting now just to disappear behind her own front door. “No, really, I’m a grown up. You don’t need to apologize.”
He had nodded, swallowed hard and placed a hand on her shoulder. “I’ll call you later?”
“Okay.” She’d answered hoarsely, nodding, but not meeting his gaze as she stepped inside and closed the door.
That had been a month ago. She felt unbelievably foolish.
And since she had this leave of absence from work, there wasn’t much to fill her days. She dodged her mother’s calls and went for longer runs. She set about redecorating her apartment. The living room furniture was now settled into its fourth configuration in as many weeks.
It wasn’t that she wasn’t drawn to him — as her recurring dreams reminded her too often — but it was evident that Mulder was not just unconventional, he was risk personified. As much as she might be attracted to him, and to the novelty he represented, the better angels of Dana’s nature kept throwing up red flags. Even an amatuer dream analyst could decipher all this coitus interruptus as her body’s way of telling her to let him go. One empty weekend, she even dialed Rob, listened to his phone ring twice before quickly hanging up.
Mulder had said he would call, but all she hears from him are voicemails, somehow only left on her answering machine at the infrequent times she’s actually left the house. First there’s one while he’s in Houston, and then another from Wisconsin. In both of them, he’s cryptic and hurried. In the first, he breathlessly describes a shuttle launch and sabotage and ghosts. In the second, he sounds crazy. He apologizes for not calling, mentions something about days he’s been in lockup for obstructing a military cleanup operation, and rambles on about an abductee with implants. Max, she thinks his name is, has suddenly gone missing, and Mulder wants to press the government for answers. In both his messages he apologizes for being so busy, for always being out-of-town. He doesn’t say he misses her.
With Liz’s mid-December wedding looming, “Dr. Dana Scully and guest” had mailed her RSVP for one.
Which is how she finds herself awake in the early a.m. darkness of the 14th floor of a Boston hotel, a slight headache from too many rehearsal dinner cocktails the night before pressing between her eyes. It’s when the thudding of her heartbeat and her head dissipates, she tastes an acrid smoke in the back of her throat, and smells something burning.
#paging dr. scully#mywriting#x files fanfic#xf fanfic#msr fanfic#x files aU#x files: space#happy weekend everybody!
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The plan to protect the Chesapeake is failing, and it’s Pennsylvania’s fault
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In early January, members of the Chesapeake Bay Commission sat in a gray conference room in Annapolis, Maryland, for a routine meeting. The 21-member legislative body, with representatives from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, convenes regularly to coordinate interstate efforts to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. But as the meeting drew to a close, EPA Chesapeake Bay Program director Dana Aunkst got up and delivered a demoralizing message to the group.
“The TMDL itself is not enforceable,” he said. He was referring to the Total Maximum Daily Load, a set of science-based limits for three pollutants — nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediment — flowing into the bay. The states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed have agreed to achieve the TMDL by 2025, and the EPA committed to enforcing it under the terms of a 2010 settlement. But Aunkst went on to describe the TMDL as merely “an informational document” that was “aspirational.”
Aunkst’s comments were jarring to some in the room, but they weren’t entirely out of left field. Pennsylvania, by far the largest source of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, has failed to meet its pollution reduction benchmarks for years, with little response from the EPA. This single state’s negligence threatens the success of the entire regional program.
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The Chesapeake is the largest estuary in the United States, a nationally significant economic resource, and a crucial habitat for thousands of species. But the influx of pollution from upstream sources has led to fishery declines, recurring “dead zones” where pollutants starve aquatic animals of oxygen, and regular algae blooms that suffocate underwater plant life. Even after nearly 10 years of strategic planning and implementation of these pollution reduction plans by neighboring states, its overall health is still poor.
And Pennsylvania seems increasingly to blame. In August of last year, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection released its third and final Watershed Implementation Plan, or WIP. The plan admitted that PA was only about 30 percent closer to achieving its target for nitrogen pollution than it had been in the 1980s. Not only was the Keystone State entering the final phase of the cleanup far behind where it should have been, but the state’s plan for phase three still had it falling 25 percent short of the 2025 target. That underwhelming plan also had a funding deficit of about $324 million per year. In December, the EPA signed off on the plan with no indication of imposing consequences.
According to Harry Campbell, the Pennsylvania executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a nonprofit that works closely with watershed states on the cleanup effort, there are a few reasons the state is having such a hard time making progress.
Of all the sources of pollution going into the watershed, Pennsylvania has already tackled the lowest-hanging fruit — wastewater treatment plants. In fact, the state met its 2017 pollution reduction goals for wastewater treatment plants three years early. But the vast majority of PA’s contribution doesn’t come from these easy “point source” targets, it comes from “non-point sources,” like stormwater from the thousands of municipalities in the watershed, and runoff from 33,000 small farms.
About 80 percent of the nitrogen Pennsylvania needs to tackle comes from those farms. And convincing 33,000 farmers — who are already operating on razor-thin profit margins because of trade wars and a poor farm economy — to shoulder new conservation practices is a time- and labor-intensive process. “You have to work with individual farmers, meet them at their table, oftentimes provide the technical and financial assistance necessary to actually design and implement those practices,” said Campbell.
Part of the problem was also the planning process the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection employed for its earlier WIPs, which was not very inclusive of the various communities and entities whose buy-in was necessary for success. But according to Campbell, a lack of funding and leadership from the legislature have also plagued the state’s performance. “If the legislature and the administration invested in implementation of those plans, we’d be in a far better place than we are right now,” Campbell said.
When it came time to draw up the WIP for phase three of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, the state finally made an effort to start from a more grassroots level. It created workgroups for each sector that included farmers and county commissioners. But Campbell, who was on the Local Area Goals Workgroup, said that even though the process was improved, the funding gap hung over the proceedings. “We just see it every day — whether it be the local county conservation districts or the partners on the ground, like watershed groups and land trusts — this persistent and consistent scarcity-like mentality, that we just don’t have enough to get the job done,” he said. “And so everyone was able to sense it, feel it, or otherwise acknowledge it.”
The governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat Tom Wolf, has proposed a tax on natural gas extraction in the state to raise money for infrastructure projects for five years straight. His latest proposal, the Restore Pennsylvania Plan, would raise $4.5 billion and fund many of the water pollution reduction strategies written into the WIP. But the tax is unlikely to make it through the Republican-controlled legislature.
Over the years, the EPA has penalized Pennsylvania for its lack of progress in small ways. It has objected to permits for wastewater treatment plant expansions, temporarily withheld funding, and most recently, redirected funding in order for it be used more efficiently. But those consequences have not been enough to get the attention of elected officials who continue to devalue the program, putting the entire cleanup effort at risk, said Campbell.
One of Pennsylvania’s neighbors has had enough. Following Aunkst’s comments at the meeting, the Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, who’s administration has spent a record $5 billion on Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts, directed his attorney general to sue both Pennsylvania and the EPA. But it’s unclear whether EPA can be held liable for not enforcing the TMDL in Pennsylvania.
In response to the lawsuit, Governor Wolf’s office suggested that Hogan’s time would be better spent using his sway as a Republican to help Wolf secure more funding for the program. “Instead of protracted litigation that will take resources away from our efforts to improve water quality in the watershed and undermine the partnership that has helped make progress, Governor Hogan and the foundation’s time would be better spent convincing Republicans that control the legislature in Pennsylvania to support Governor Wolf’s plan,” said J.J. Abbott, a spokesperson for Wolf.
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It's Penny! The Pokemon one, not the Wario Ware one.
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This was the year that I finally re-read One Piece for the first time since high school. I'm still working on finishing the Manga, but I can actually draw a bunch of One Piece characters with fondness in my heart now
#One Piece#fanart#Luffy#Zoro#Nami#Usopp#Sanji#Chopper#Vivi#Robin#no I am not going to put in last names#December WIP Cleanup#I'm around....chapter 600 or so? I've been taking a break the last few months
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I wanted to use December as a chance to clean up my collection of WIPs and unleash then into the world so I can have a fresh start for 2024.
Starting off with my favorite lesbians Becky and Dina from the webcomic Dumbing of Age. I spend a lot of brain space thinking about everyone in this comic, I'm surprised I haven't drawn more of the cast.
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Oh, Utena-sama. Didn’t you know…how much I’ve always despised you?
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As it gets darker and darker in the northern hemisphere, I turn to Doshin the Giant's excellent OST that I listen to on it's own all the time to remind me of sunnier days.
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Fabricant No 100 is a shonen manga series about a race of frankenstein-esque monsters called Fabricants, all made by a single scientist attempting to create the Ideal Human Being. Upon his death, the fabricants are left to seek their own paths to becoming the ideal human, which translates to them murdering humans to steal their body parts to graft onto themselves. Upon murdering the entire family of a young boy, he strikes a deal with the strongest of fabricants, No 100: if she helps him kill every single other fabricant, he'll sacrifice his body to No 100 when he turns 18.
It ends up becoming a series that explores sociopaths trying to find meaning in their existence, questioning what it means to be human and questioning if self sacrifice is as noble an act as it sounds like.
The series ended earlier this year; I'm bummed, but not too surprised. The series could be obtuse at times and hard to grasp at first read, and I had a hard time really caring for anyone in the fabricant hunter guild they end up joining, and that's supposed to be a major emotional core for the protag. It felt like a series that was forced to end much earlier then it would like, but the creators seemed to have known the end was coming early enough to make a proper ending, which I'm thankful for.
Regardless of it's flaws, I'm still really enamored with the ideas it had and with No 100 herself, if this page of doodles and this unintentional essay is any indication. It's a series I highly recommend, flaws and all, and the fact it's a complete story now will hopefully make for a smoother read. I'll probably be thinking about No 100 for a long time.
TLDR;
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Life and Times of a Biology Major and Duran Duran fan