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Whenever I seem to talk about “my blogs,” I tend to only mention Post Crusade and Ponyville Diaries and not Ask Rain Catcher.

And though my relationship with that blog is complicated, it’s not because I don’t like RC.

It’s mainly because I’m only the writer, while Sam is the artist. We both share the work on it so I don’t feel comfortable referring it as solely “my blog” anymore.

Like I wouldn’t consider Sweetie Belle’s B&B as “my blog” because it’s a group project with other people working on it as well.

A blog is about to be updated. Guess which one. o2o

If I think about it too much, my pony OTP (specifically in the flavor I created because :U) would only consist of a bucket of sad fried chicken

and

It’s 2015, where’s the new horse?

Semester finals wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

*wheeeees all the way to the dump*

(Source: rorygiimore, via tlatophat)

It really shouldn’t be a surprise that people with radical/extreme thoughts and ideas agree with or even support other people with similarly radical/extreme thoughts and ideas.

And yet I’m still surprised. Every time.

And the more it happens, the more disappointing it gets.

It appears that someone who isn’t me tried to log in to the Gmail account that is tied to Diaries.

Again.

:Y

In which I evaluate myself, talk about things that could’ve been.

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This year is a critical year because it will be the last year before I make to the move to college.

So I reeeeeeeally need to get shit done.

• Get somewhat close to the end of PC Story 2
• Get somewhat close to the end of “Mailfilly” series in the new Diaries revision
• Bonus: Create an honorary “start” of PC since it has never got a formal intro.

And maybe something else on the side

• Make my first $800 dollars working a job
• Lose 25 pounds
• Ace the shit out my final semester of high school
• Visit chaotic-conundrums in PA
• Bronycon, perhaps.

It’s a long shot, but I think I can at least get half of these things done. 

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On the topic of self-evaluating my art style, there’s this.

The way I draw with tons of layers was designed to be easy to edit characters for comic panels, kinda like puppet rigging in Flash. This involves a lot of transforming (moving, rotating, and resizing layers).

But SAI does a thing where the more you transform a layer, the lower the quality it attains, creating these annoying fuzzy edges coupled with a dark line that runs along them. The line can be erased with an opacity lock + brush passover, but the fuzziness remains and gets worse with more transforming and soon I’d have to redraw the layer.

I’m handicapped to SAI so I really can’t avoid this, but even after years of drawing in it, this quality drop still pisses me off.

I wonder if this happens in Photoshop, too…

I haven’t changed the way I draw in “lineless” in ages. Last big change was when I switched from airbrushed shadows (to divide limbs) to actual lines and that was around a year ago. Which isn’t that long in general but, in art terms, that’s a long stagnation.

But now suddenly, EYES. With pupils! And shine!

PC was recently hit by a small wave of referrals from some shady-as-fuck websites. Antivirus blocked them, so I’m guessing that it’s probably a spam site so don’t try to go there, ya nuts.

In other news, samrosemodblog is still the top referrer of Five Angry Horses for yet another straight year, beating out myself in two instances. Which now leads me to believe that Sam is a bot himself.