Baby Lou Tattoo
I need my ink injection!
I'm leaving in an hour or so to go to Austin with
malkontent. We're gonna crash at his parents' place overnight, and tomorrow at noon I have an appointment to get a new tattoo. I told my dad today (He and J skyped via ipad from bed in the middle of a tropical storm that had knocked out their power for 9 hours - gotta love modern technology!). Dad: "No! :(" Me "Yes. :D"
I can't remember if I posted anything much about it here - I am starting work on a sleeve of black and red spirals, and I may get another bran in there as well. Under the cut is the image I sent the artist:
In other news, I had another friend over yesterday to watch True Detective, and we got through the first five episodes. And then after he left, I want and watched most of the extras on the DVD set (which I bought when it was on sale for $25 on Amazon because GIMME). So now my head is all full of it again, and full of other things as well after listening to the writer and director comments on the episodes (not full commentaries - there are two and I haven't gotten to them yet). So what does this mean? It basically means that I probably will eventually finish the meta I started writing after the final episode. I'd been trying to sort out my impressions, and I think part of the reason I was finding it hard to write was just that it gave me *so much* closure that I was a little bit at a loss. I really loved that show, and I really hope that the next season is as good.
For whatever reason, I woke up this morning with the dark elf character I played for Underworld on my brain, and she's still there, poking around at me, reminding me that she exists - or existed, at least. I formally retired her a few years ago, when I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be making it back to Toronto and didn't have the time or energy to keep up with playing her only on the forums. She was really interesting to me, even though she was not very engaged. I got complimented when I retired her, though, which tells me that even though she was sort of tangential in many ways, I was Doing Something Right with her.
I think she was in my brain for two reasons - first was something I read on the internet a few days ago about making roleplaying characters which advised you to make characters who Do Things. She was not a character who did things, for the most part. She was a character that watched. Also one of the deleted scenes for True Detective was a full version of the sermon that Joel Theirot gives, and I think that it (and all the star references in the show) reminded me of the sermon I write for her that no one ever actually saw her give. Anyway. She was very fun to explore, and I have a secret fantasy that if I ever got to go back and play Underworld, that I might get to NPC her. Pipe dreams, they are a fun thing ;p I have a related pipe dream that i can get a museum job in Canada next year in a nice central location for seeing all the people and doing all the things. Then I could play UW again and maybe make a new PC, but I think it would be hard to recapture what i had invested in that game with Chal. She was intense.
I'm leaving in an hour or so to go to Austin with
malkontent. We're gonna crash at his parents' place overnight, and tomorrow at noon I have an appointment to get a new tattoo. I told my dad today (He and J skyped via ipad from bed in the middle of a tropical storm that had knocked out their power for 9 hours - gotta love modern technology!). Dad: "No! :(" Me "Yes. :D"
I can't remember if I posted anything much about it here - I am starting work on a sleeve of black and red spirals, and I may get another bran in there as well. Under the cut is the image I sent the artist:
In other news, I had another friend over yesterday to watch True Detective, and we got through the first five episodes. And then after he left, I want and watched most of the extras on the DVD set (which I bought when it was on sale for $25 on Amazon because GIMME). So now my head is all full of it again, and full of other things as well after listening to the writer and director comments on the episodes (not full commentaries - there are two and I haven't gotten to them yet). So what does this mean? It basically means that I probably will eventually finish the meta I started writing after the final episode. I'd been trying to sort out my impressions, and I think part of the reason I was finding it hard to write was just that it gave me *so much* closure that I was a little bit at a loss. I really loved that show, and I really hope that the next season is as good.
For whatever reason, I woke up this morning with the dark elf character I played for Underworld on my brain, and she's still there, poking around at me, reminding me that she exists - or existed, at least. I formally retired her a few years ago, when I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be making it back to Toronto and didn't have the time or energy to keep up with playing her only on the forums. She was really interesting to me, even though she was not very engaged. I got complimented when I retired her, though, which tells me that even though she was sort of tangential in many ways, I was Doing Something Right with her.
I think she was in my brain for two reasons - first was something I read on the internet a few days ago about making roleplaying characters which advised you to make characters who Do Things. She was not a character who did things, for the most part. She was a character that watched. Also one of the deleted scenes for True Detective was a full version of the sermon that Joel Theirot gives, and I think that it (and all the star references in the show) reminded me of the sermon I write for her that no one ever actually saw her give. Anyway. She was very fun to explore, and I have a secret fantasy that if I ever got to go back and play Underworld, that I might get to NPC her. Pipe dreams, they are a fun thing ;p I have a related pipe dream that i can get a museum job in Canada next year in a nice central location for seeing all the people and doing all the things. Then I could play UW again and maybe make a new PC, but I think it would be hard to recapture what i had invested in that game with Chal. She was intense.