Waiting ... waiting ...
So no baby yet. I am approaching the size of a small brood whale. I am very, very very tired of being pregnant.
I want to go fight. I want to go dance. I want to go to the gym. This enforced inactivity (because walking for more than 10 minutes at a time makes my ankles swell up like grapefruit, and my back start spasming. My build is not suited for being preggers.) is driving me absolutely bonkers. I can't even paint because my stomach won't fit properly between my scribal desk and leaning forward compresses things in a distinctly uncomfy way. (I tried a couple weeks ago. I ruined a shirt, AND smeared my blank. And swore lots.)
Granted, I am probably not helping myself by listening to my "Fighter Chick" playlist on my nanopod.
Last night I decided to rearrange all my scribal books and supplies to properly fill up the bookcase next to my scribal desk. This included trimming the furry parts off the home-made goat parchment Tom the Drumbuilder gave me at Ymir. (Very generous gift, his request was that I tell him how usable it was. It's somewhat rough-tanned (not surprising given that it was done by hand), and it's a little thicker than the professional stuff I snag from Talas. (By the way, their South American stuff is verrah nice and priced cheap for parchment.) I may recommend that he attempt a bleaching step (I know they did some form of chemical bleach though not precisely what. Probably some form of salt treatment.) and not be afraid to stretch / scrape it thinner. But I'm still looking forward to playing with it for something.
I also found a roll of heavyweight perg I forgot I had, as well as a half-sheet of lightweight. Along with several pads of Bristol.
I'm also feeling cranky re: research.
Look, it doesn't HELP to read the resources, and cite the resources, if you don't USE the resources. Seriously, what the hell?!
If you want to make a (purely fictitious example here) 15th century German piece, and there aren't any fairy unicorns in the source pics you find, then citing the source piece, while stating you wanted to use fairy unicorns so you did anyways does NOT COUNT as documenting the fairy unicorns. If you decide to use fairy unicorns, you don't get points for finding a source that does not support your fairy unicorns. That is not documentation. All you are accomplishing is showing that you have found evidence that your fairy unicorns are not historically accurate.
I'm not saying that you can't use fairy unicorns. But don't hand me your documentation for fairy unicorns which has no fairy unicorns in it. Admit your fairy unicorns were a personal, undocumentable choice. We can both move on.
Now, if you go through more source pics, and find some fairy pegasi, and indicate that you made a minor adjustment to turn them into fairy unicorns, go through the trouble to determine that fairy unicorns were found in some medieval bestiaries, and might have been known to the artist at the time period or were used in other temporally consistent forms of artwork like tapestries or pottery, and could theoretically have been used instead of fairy pegasi, you know what? Ok. I'll buy that. That's documenting the POTENTIAL of fairy unicorns, to the best of your knowledge, and that's cool. In fact, that's awesome.
But seriously. Come on now. Telling me you know that something was done a specific way in period, but you didn't do it that way, without giving me your reasons, logic, justifications, something, does NOT COUNT AS DOCUMENTATION. That just tells me you know what the historically accurate method was, and that you don't care.
*grumble*
I want to go fight. I want to go dance. I want to go to the gym. This enforced inactivity (because walking for more than 10 minutes at a time makes my ankles swell up like grapefruit, and my back start spasming. My build is not suited for being preggers.) is driving me absolutely bonkers. I can't even paint because my stomach won't fit properly between my scribal desk and leaning forward compresses things in a distinctly uncomfy way. (I tried a couple weeks ago. I ruined a shirt, AND smeared my blank. And swore lots.)
Granted, I am probably not helping myself by listening to my "Fighter Chick" playlist on my nanopod.
Last night I decided to rearrange all my scribal books and supplies to properly fill up the bookcase next to my scribal desk. This included trimming the furry parts off the home-made goat parchment Tom the Drumbuilder gave me at Ymir. (Very generous gift, his request was that I tell him how usable it was. It's somewhat rough-tanned (not surprising given that it was done by hand), and it's a little thicker than the professional stuff I snag from Talas. (By the way, their South American stuff is verrah nice and priced cheap for parchment.) I may recommend that he attempt a bleaching step (I know they did some form of chemical bleach though not precisely what. Probably some form of salt treatment.) and not be afraid to stretch / scrape it thinner. But I'm still looking forward to playing with it for something.
I also found a roll of heavyweight perg I forgot I had, as well as a half-sheet of lightweight. Along with several pads of Bristol.
I'm also feeling cranky re: research.
Look, it doesn't HELP to read the resources, and cite the resources, if you don't USE the resources. Seriously, what the hell?!
If you want to make a (purely fictitious example here) 15th century German piece, and there aren't any fairy unicorns in the source pics you find, then citing the source piece, while stating you wanted to use fairy unicorns so you did anyways does NOT COUNT as documenting the fairy unicorns. If you decide to use fairy unicorns, you don't get points for finding a source that does not support your fairy unicorns. That is not documentation. All you are accomplishing is showing that you have found evidence that your fairy unicorns are not historically accurate.
I'm not saying that you can't use fairy unicorns. But don't hand me your documentation for fairy unicorns which has no fairy unicorns in it. Admit your fairy unicorns were a personal, undocumentable choice. We can both move on.
Now, if you go through more source pics, and find some fairy pegasi, and indicate that you made a minor adjustment to turn them into fairy unicorns, go through the trouble to determine that fairy unicorns were found in some medieval bestiaries, and might have been known to the artist at the time period or were used in other temporally consistent forms of artwork like tapestries or pottery, and could theoretically have been used instead of fairy pegasi, you know what? Ok. I'll buy that. That's documenting the POTENTIAL of fairy unicorns, to the best of your knowledge, and that's cool. In fact, that's awesome.
But seriously. Come on now. Telling me you know that something was done a specific way in period, but you didn't do it that way, without giving me your reasons, logic, justifications, something, does NOT COUNT AS DOCUMENTATION. That just tells me you know what the historically accurate method was, and that you don't care.
*grumble*