Mood: Not sleepy yet.
Hey guys! TheO's been pretty dead lately, huh... I check up on here everyday, but not much has been going on. ;u; I might start doing more blog-y posts, though, just for the heck of it. Haha.
Not much has really been going on with me, though. Just got through midterms about a week ago, and everything is going QUITE SWELL! I also think I've decided on Linguistics as my major, so YAY. ACTUALLY DECIDING ON DOING THINGS... I think I could potentially combine my Japanese and Linguistics into some job in the future (probably teaching), so yeah. Career path, woo. I'd still love to do something with drawing, but I'm cool with keeping it a hobby forever. Maybe I could do freelance stuff, idk. STILL PLANNING ON BOOTHING AT A CON ONE DAY, THOUGH...
Also, I just had a weird moment re-reading those couple sentences I just typed. I can't believe I just talked about CAREER POTENTIALS on theOtaku. xD Do you know what my first post on theO was about? It was about not having a scanner. And the next one was about an idea for a mini comic (WHAT COULD THIS COMIC HAVE BEEN??? That's a real question. I don't know.) I've been on theO for more than 6 years, now. WHOA. o_o
Since I guess this post is going in this direction, I'm gonna get all reminiscent-y on y'all. :V Maybe, idk. I'm kind of just rambling, so idk where this is going.
I feel kind of bad, but I haven't touched my Rock Band or A Life Like This characters in so long (ie: Dare, Rick, Tim, Michka, Zack, and Loyal). I doodle one of them out of nowhere every couple of months, but that's about it. Occasionally I have a desire to revamp the story, but I lose the desire after about a day because I don't feel like I have the ability to bring anything important out of their stories. Actually, Dare's story (which could be centered around comparing and contrasting perspective, rather than being a band story) I could probably still pull something out of... But Tim's story is centered around stuff I don't understand (alcoholism, being unemployed, popularity, low-income living), while Rick's story (centered around coming out) is becoming increasingly anachronistic as time goes by.
I started actually writing A Life Like This back in 2011, and I remember thinking constantly about scenes between Dare, Rick, Tim, and all that crew. :V But now I think about them barely at all. Like I said earlier, I only draw the characters every several months.
The reason I mention this is because my disinterest in A Life Like This makes me SUPER PARANOID ABOUT THE CHARACTERS I HAVE AN INTEREST IN NOW....!!! I'm always worried that one day I'm just not going to have an interest in drawing Stefan, or something. ;0; WHICH WOULD BE SAD, FOR ME...
I also have a similar paranoia when I make new characters! 8D You probably remember that over the summer I randomly created Nerdy and Jock and made a whole bunch of stuff about it, and then just stopped. :V;; The reason I slowed all of a sudden was because I got nervous about losing my interest in my other characters (OFAV, characters related to Noland) in exchange for Nerdy and Jock. That's pretty much what happened when I made OFAV... or mostly started drawing lots of Stefan and Gabe, where I stopped drawing the A Life Like This characters as much. So yeah, I was afraid that was going to happen;;; I think I'm pretty balanced between OFAV, Teach Me Something Good, and Nerdy and Jock right now internally, though.
Speaking of things I haven't done in a long time (I guess), I need to update OFAV. I SWEAR THE NEXT STRIP IS SKETCHED... I just worry about the quality of the humor in the comic. orz I was rereading the script I was working on, and I feel like a lot of the jokes either a) don't make sense unless you're me, or b) just aren't funny.
THIS IS TURNING INTO A STRESSFUL POST! *U*;;;;;; I always stress myself out with what I want to draw... I really should take things one step at a time and finish one thing before I move onto another, but I'm reallllly kind of bad at that. orz Idk.
BY THE WAY, in case you were wondering for some reason, I am SO CLOSE to finishing that SteGabe comic. I have one page left, but I really don't like the last page... I'll try to post all the pages I've finished REALLY soon, and then figure out something for the last page eventually. ;A;
/aha does anyone even remember the comic;;;
....yeah, I think that's about it. I haven't talked about story stuff without pictures in a long time, but it's nice to get this out somewhere! Aha. I don't talk about my characters and stories as much as I'd like to, these days. I'd like to get into writing so I could more easily see what direction I'd even want to go with these stories, but I'm not the biggest fan of writing as an art. I just dislike the way that the things I write sound inelegant yet pretentious to me when I look at them. :T I like keeping things light and fun as far as fiction goes, but it's something I have trouble translating into writing. I was doing a sort of experimental writing with Nerdy and Jock over the summer, but I didn't get too far at all.
Anyway, idk what that was about. Enough talking about whatever. -u-b
I GUESS THIS IS THE END OF MY RAMBLY POST! Thanks for reading, if you did.
