I’m not a greedy man. I like having money, sure. And who doesn’t like material goods (besides Buddhists)? I don’t want for a whole lot from others, though that doesn’t stop me from asking for help from time to time.
This is one of those times.
Don’t worry, I’m not asking for donations or money. Hell, if I did I’m sure that most of you would laugh in my face - and then those that AREN’T my friends would join in. All I’m asking for right now is one thing: a click.
The facts are these:
I recently entered a competition on DeviantART. You know, that art site that you always find after an hour on StumbleUpon, and you say “Hey, I’ll totally come back here later and check out some more cool stuff,” but you never do, or when you do it’s nothing but crappy Manga drawings? Yeah, that’s the one.
Anyway, I entered a T-Shirt design competition. There are two tiers of voting: popular vote and judges’ vote. Three finalists are chosen by the judges and are awarded $1,500 each, as well as 20 prints of their shirt. All that’s required for me to move on to the next level of voting is an unspecified number of votes by DA users. This is where you come in.
I need my friends, any and all, to login to their DeviantART accounts or make one for this one-time use, cast their vote for my entry, and be done with it. If you have friends with an account, or if they’re pretty cool, ask them to vote. Share it, link it, make posters, whatever you want.
All proceeds from this competition will go to fund my classes for Summer and Fall semester (that which financial aid won’t cover anyway), so it’s a click for a cause… kind of.
So be kind, rewind. Be cool, stay in school. Stay off drugs, drink your milk, and vote for my T-Shirt. It’s what Jesus would want.
There should be a rule - do not write when you feel depressed.
Most people would tell you to write, that it would allow you to properly express your emotions. They hear it out loud and believe it to be sage-like advice and they think to themselves, “I should have a talk show,” and then Dr. Phil was born.
I digress.
Writing when you’re depressed is a bad idea. Like the fools that tell you to write, you believe your scribbles to be something important - perhaps even the very essence of YOU. Then, a year later, you find that work in a shoebox in your closet, or on your Facebook note archives, and you face-palm. Big time.
It should be a rule - do not write when you’re depressed. But it’s not, so here I be.
You look at me, and you see a guy with a bunch of pointy sticks. You think ‘He’s no Superman,’ and you shrug me off. That’s one point in my favor.
The other comes in the take down. It’s not in hurting you - though that’s plenty fun. It’s when the people, the masses, see a normal guy - as normal as a guy in green long-johns gets - overcome a bruiser like you. They know that we can be more, we can be better. That’s two, and that’s my win.
Everybody tells me what I should be. They say I’m going to be a great wizard or a terrible sorcerer or something. I say it’s all bollocks.
I think Popeye got it right. “I am who I am.” I’m not great and I’m not terrible. I’m human.
Well… maybe human-plus.
I’ve been recently neglecting to write anything. I can’t really nail the exact reason why. Maybe I’ve been lazy or, conversely, I’ve been too busy with school and Broken Frontier stuff to bother. Whatever the reason, I need to nip that in the bud.
It’s been two years since I started my webcomic, Carbon and Space. Since then, I’ve posted strips off-and-on. I’ve gone on hiatus occasionally, sometimes due to being burned-out on work and sometimes because my host site, DrunkDuck (now “The Duck”), has been down.
Regarding the former, I was burnt-out due to writing myself in a corner. I locked myself into a seemingly never-ending arc that just went on and on and on. I was tired, so I stopped. I won’t attempt to completely justify my actions, but needless to say I’m attempting to change my wicked ways. This leads me to the latter situation.
DrunkDuck has recently changed over to a new server, with a new look and name to match. This change has been met with challenges - the site as it stands is glitchy at best, and it was down for a total of two and a half weeks. I’ve kept a positive outlook the entire time, but the whole situation has made me realize that it’s time to start taking those first steps outside of the safety-net of free site hosting.
So, I’m happy to say that I’ll soon have a dedicated Carbon and Space website.
So far, things are still in the abstract - the site is being designed, ideas are being kicked around. But rest assured that CarbonandSpace.com is coming. Hopefully by the end of the year.
