Month: February 2014

state of the gab: february edition

important things:

comic

  • the website (dangerouscute.com) is no longer broken
  • I’m finally working on the new design drafts for it so it’ll stop being ugly, too
  • oh and I have been gathering the like 30 strips I’ve drawn so I can scan and post them
  • also still intending to get the print book out some time…

commissions

  • believe it or not I have been working on them
  • woah

writing

conventions

  • I am only signed up for one con this year so far what is up with that
  • it’s sabakon in vegas – you guys should come
  • maybe a break is good? I couldn’t get tables for the other ones I wanted to go to plus I am mega broke. 
  • I also need to make all-new stock

art

  • trying to remember how to draw for me
  • it is surprisingly difficult
  • good news for commissions, though, I guess?
  • I need a break… and to study. so frustrated with my current skill level.

me

  • still feeling depressed/moody/listless/unwanted/easily replaced/abandoned/trapped/etc (so much stress + poor + winter)
  • ongoing toothache… need to find a cheap dentist to get it pulled
  • hanging in there anyway, somehow

I also liked this one because it’s Hakuba and BBC Sherlock…

(there was this roleplay thing going on, you see, and)

which reminds me I need to finish the Shinichi as Sherlock and Hakuba as Watson picture…

…later

whiteknighthakuba:

((SAI on the left, then after Photohsop on the right… gonna leave it here for now. It has a lot of tweaking to go, and I’ve gotta come up with a cover composition… but it’s fine and pretty for the time begin. Now! To alternate between RP replies and commissions…))

was working on this thing, but it’s been put away for now (as the above description states) – I think when I come back to it that I’ll re-draw it on top, ink, etc… and repaint using these colors. There’s just so much that I am not satisfied with in the face… blonde prince of egypt character instead of anime I tell you what.

nico-di-angelcake:

making up your own fictional universe

creating an entire history for it

creating characters who have complex back stories

RESEARCHING NAMES WITH MEANINGS THAT CORRESPOND TO THE HISTORY AND UNIVERSE AND BACK STORIES YOU’VE COME UP WITH

then never writing or doing anything with it at all ever

or doing all of that

actually writing it

then writing other stories and creating other worlds and characters

that reference the previous ones

O__O 

For fat women, being stylish isn’t a luxury. It’s often a necessity to get hired, to get access to healthcare, to get treated like a human being.

Fat women have all kinds of narratives about sloppiness, laziness, dirtiness to overcome. Sometimes heels are a crucial part of looking “put together” in a way that sufficiently convinces people that we care about ourselves, that manages to counteract pervasive cultural narratives that fat people don’t care about ourselves. That we have “let ourselves go.”

Being “put together” is part of the way many of us convey to a judgmental world that we are worth caring about.

I get treated completely differently at a $20 hair salon if I’m dressed up or dressed down. Two totally different experiences. I get treated differently at the doctor’s office, and at the emergency room. I can’t go to the ER in sweatpants, because I’ll get shittier treatment. In an emergency, I have to worry if I am dressed up enough to prove that I deserve respect and care.

Melissa McEwan: Fat Fashion  (via albinwonderland)