a ducc
So on the alexace discord there’s a user that kindly makes duck related images for others. I wanted to reward her kindness with a drawing of her ducc self, so here it is. A little yellow duckling with a wacom.
Oops! All Corpses!
Sometimes, your Cap’n gives you all crunchberries. Sometimes, it’s all corpses. I spent a cool 8-11 hours, I don’t know how long really, hyper-focused on turning every piece of Crewmate art in Among Us into a walking corpse. Animated and everything. I didn’t get to the “How to Play” section, but I did do all…
“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
This was originally written before the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic was full blown in the US. It feels extremely petty now and I’ve lost all steam on finishing it. Suffice it to say, I enjoyed this book and do recommend it to all to read, even if the troubling times depicted seem prescient to the current situation….
Video Games for Social Justice
Oftentimes, the reader that could benefit from reading a work of literature that is intended to develop empathy for a particular plight is not likely to pick up a book that clearly advertises itself as being about that hardship. Many authors have tackled this obstacle in the past by writing speculative fiction rather than a…
A Room of One’s Own
The below text was written for a class on British Literature, focusing on Virgina Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”. Lately, I feel like I’ve been living the reality that Woolf describes regarding women and fiction – obligations from being a woman, a mom, an aunt, etc, have to be juggled with my schoolwork, my…
ART – “Baby James Franco”
For the last three years or so I’ve been going to a weekly trivia at The Side Quest. At some point early on, I started drawing things (usually related to the team names we chose) for the host of the quiz. Each one of them kept the drawings (as far as I know) and took…
ART – “Hearts”
More art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily or something close to that. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are custom art rewards! I don’t know why I painted hearts. Jonas says they are a normal heart and a cool heart….
ENG 363 – “The Argonauts”
I’m stuck on one line Maggie Nelson wrote on page 37. “I cannot hold my baby at the same time as I write.” This is something that I feared when I became pregnant, when I decided I wanted to have children. I wanted more than one before I had one; but having one has made…
ENG 350 – “I’m With The Bears”
While I plan to finish the entirety of I’m With the Bears shortly, I am still on a deadline because this is for a class. I spent yesterday at a relative’s house for a family reunion, in the 94°F (34.4C) heat (“feels like: 100°F” (37.7C) says the Weather Channel) when outside, in something significantly cooler but…
ART – “Emma”
More art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily or something close to that. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are custom art rewards! Just like the previously posted Emmett statue, I made a statue of Emma, my father-in-law’s & step-mother-in-law’s pupper….
ART – “Emmett”
More art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily or something close to that. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are custom art rewards! Back in 2013 I took my first (and last) ceramics class. I felt like I needed more than…
ART – “Nott the Brave”
More art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily or something close to that. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are custom art rewards! After an episode of Critical Role wherein Nott expressed she’s like a mother to Caleb, I envisioned her…
ENG 350 – “The Water Knife”
Last Christmas, I think it was, I bought a copy of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife for my brother in law (it was on his wishlist) and didn’t bother to peek inside. I know now that if I would have, I would have ended up giving him a used copy. I often wonder how I got…
ENG 363 – “The Rules Do Not Apply”
I will admit, I did not read the whole of The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy. I have been busy at work, getting back into the swing of things after being off for a week recovering from surgery. I skimmed the book, found a few short chapters that struck my interest, then ended up…
ART – “What’s Inside”
Most recent of the art I haven’t uploaded lately. I plan to start putting stuff up daily. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are art rewards! I’ve been doing a lot of art related to what’s (scientifically) under…
ART – “Fencing Practice”
More art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily or something close to that. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are custom art rewards! This is drawn from a photo of my son and the cub scout troop he is in at…
ART – The Power of Friendship
More art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily or something close to that. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are custom art rewards! This particular piece was inspired by the frienship fist bump between Arnela Bektas and I that was so…
ART – Veinity
So here’s some art I’ve neglected to upload. I plan to start putting stuff up daily. I’ve also made a givinggrid donation page to help me pay for tuition. There are art rewards! I’ve been doing a lot of art related to what’s (scientifically) under my skin lately. This piece is from last fall and…
ENG363/ENG350 – “THINKING ABOUT BLOGGING”
A quote from last week’s email from the professor for this course: THINKING ABOUT BLOGGING As we hit the midway point of this course, it may be valuable to you to blog about blogging: what is it like to write online about your writing, in this (somewhat) public way? Have you blogged before this course?…
ENG 350 – “Future Home of the Living God”
In her novel Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich grasps and explains some rather important parts of the apocalypse: Humans known not the scale, and indeed prefer to not know (even with all their clamoring to just know), the scale of the end of life as we know it. The format of the novel…