Why does everything fall apart...

It occurred to me that it would be polite to explain why I haven't been able to write much of anything lately. Part of the reason is that college is a pain in the ass, mainly because I don't own any of the programs at home and I have to stay at the school until closing to get things done, more often than I would like.

During November I was participating in NaNoWriMo. Unfortunately during this time my grandmother died. My father also started chemotherapy for his cancer because the surgery failed to get rid of all of it.

Just as I was coming to terms with that, I received more bad news. Many of you know that I have had to walk with a brace and cane for the last year. The doctors and I thought that it must have been a lingering injury from a few years ago from when I rammed my knee into a steel wall. However, it turned out that only caused my left knee to deteriorate faster than my right knee (I assumed the minor pain was from overcompensating in my gait). It turned out I have a degenerative knee condition, officially making me handicapped for the rest of my life. Surgery won't do any good, and while the supplements I will have to take twice a day from here on out may help regenerate my knee...the chances are pretty slim.

To put it simply I've been feeling depressed.

I'm currently forcing myself to get back into something of a normal routine by working on a couple of challenge fics which should be out around the end of the month, but it will be a while before I'm regularly writing again. I am trying though. You may only see OneWord.com entries for a few weeks but it's something.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The week between Christmas and New Year's is traditionally the lowest-traffic week of the year for my site, and I'm gonna be out of town anyway, so I thought I might try something a little different this year. Here's a teaser for my idea:



I've already got the basic idea for the story and will hopefully start working on it before we drive down to Maryland (one advantage of driving down is I can actually bring my big Cintiq with me) for the holiday. Of course, going over my outline and idea list, this might end up being MORE work than the usual QC strips >.<

So uh I no promises yet I guess, but hopefully I won't puss out and will actually get this done.

We are getting very very very close to full funding of Everything Dies through Kickstarter.  If you have been keeping up on the Pages in Sequence blog,  you’d know that the production of Everything Dies 1 and 2 is nearing it’s completion and we are less than $500 away from the publishing being fully funded. On this holiest of weeks, might I suggest that you help to fully fund this project?  It’s very holy.

i hate that woman.

She's fucking senile and paranoid.

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Alignment

The alignment of the stars was wrong. It was an ill-omen to see them lined up as they were. The young man shook his head and looked down at the sleeping form in his bed. Was it wrong to indulge in his lust, after watching and wishing for so long? He bit his lip and could taste blood.

No, that couldn't be right. What they had...it wasn't only lust, it was love. The ill-omen had to be for something else.

He leaned down and petted though the dark, thick hair. "I love you."

See the world from a different perspective everyday.

Renew yourself.

Live.

My Grandfather wrote a book called The Parallax View. All my life I'd heard about it, and a lot of my grandfather's other plays and novels, but this one always came up the most. It's a political thriller, centered around the Kennedy assassinations, and I'd known distantly that it had a bit of a cult following, as every so often fans of the book would track my grandfather down to ask him about it. He mostly took this with annoyance, as my grandfather was always a very private man who liked to keep his own counsel, and never coddled anyone who wasn't, well, a dog or a grandchild. These were the two beings in his life he would be very warm to. Still, I respected his privacy and never asked about the book. I didn't think much about the book, until one day I stumbled across a review of.... one of those big name action flicks? The Interpreter, I think it was, with Nicole Kidman. And in the review it said 'In the tradition of The Parallax View. and so for the first time I looked into my grandfather's book. Apparently they made a movie of it. Apparently it had Warren Beatty in it and it's considered yeah, a cult classic. And apparently my grandfather's name was quite known from his era. He was a talented writer, a deeply intelligent man and I'd always hoped that I'd figure out how to get published while he was alive, so I could dedicate my first novel to him, because everyone in the family always told me I got it from him, and from everyone in the family he was the only one who truly believed that I could really do it.

...and I waited too long. I don't really know what else to say about it. It hasn't quite sunk in.

Firstly,



Just getting that out of the way.

So, The Princess and the Frog has perhaps what is now my new favorite Disney Princess. For the simple fact that all I could think during this movie is finally, a princess who's a good role model for a modern girl. Her dream is owning her restaurant! Wishing on a star only gets you so far! Work hard, don't give up, but also know that even when you feel down and out the people who love you will be there for you! All your sacrifices DO mean something, in spite of how bad things might seem, and no matter how sometimes it seems like some people are just born luckier than you, even if it seems sometimes like you just weren't born with the chance, if you work hard it won't matter. It's something very very resonant especially in this time of recession. It hit a chord, I don't know.

Also the fact that this movie was just completely teeming with 20s music and 20s clothing and 20s dancing and... remember when I have a big hard-on for the 1920s aesthetic? I have a big hard-on for the 1920s aesthetic. In fact, I had this conversation with coworkers: "...what do you think of zoot suits." "... ... .... I think they're hot. ._."

(also ( was I the only one who )

The health care thing is really freaking me out. As an artist who is frequently sick in one way or another, I'm on tenderhooks about the public option, but the allotment of coverage is really really scaring me. Especially because while the rights and money for women's care (including abortions and birth control) are being disappeared, meanwhile this health care bill will totally cover Viagra!
Aaaaugh.

Speaking of insane ladymedicine things, yesterday I received the single most disturbing piece of mail to ever cross my hands.
What list am I on that I get this kind of thing?

Every winter, my internet service gets cranky in the cold, so I finally got my service back this morning after almost a week. To fill my need to stare at screens while I was internetless, I watched movies. I doodled my way through Harry Potter 6-- You can see my silly drawings here: Harry Potter Doodles

I have a neat interview up over on the Hideous Energy Comics Blog. We talk music, books, all kinds of stuff!

This semester has been beaten down into hell.

Good riddance.

Tubgirl staggered and finally collapsed. "You...you have defeated me," she gasped.

"No," Fart-chan replied. "It was you who defeated yourself."

Here's to a new beginning *raises glass*

if you are in dallas i will be there seeing family for christmas and doing a signing at lonestar comics on dec. 23rd. okay

i will be closing book orders on thursday morning i think so i can finish shipping and not think about that over christmas. i will reopen them early january

animal tropical - 20 miles

Whoo! #200 next week, and a bonus comic December 28!


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I wasn't in a particularly good mood today and I come home. I find out my hamster died. I don't know what happened. I even played with him for a bit last night and he seemed fine.