femslash prompts

I’ve posted a lot of fanart these past few days so I thought I’d make a slightly different post just to shake things up now that the slew of drawings is done for the time being.

First off, I’ve been rereading all the 92k+ words I typed for Under this roof as I mean to start posting the story on September 19th (!!!) and I need to make sure there are as few typos as possible. Now, I don’t know if this will be useful for anyone other than me but I thought I’d bring it up because it seems to have been helpful in my process: for my typo hunt, I decided to download the font used at Distributed Proofreaders, DP Sans Mono, since it was pretty much made for proofreading. It’s ugly, yes, but it’s efficient (or I think so, anyway). Maybe it serves you well when you sit down to proofread your own texts so I’m mentioning it. I did some proofreading on DP a couple years back and I’d do it still if my eyes hadn’t become so blah. Maybe I’ll go back once my fic writing inevitably slows down. It feels great to help books become more widely available! :)

[NOTE: as per my suggestion, Friend also got the font and Windows decided to tell her it was a virus. I’m not on Windows but it would seem that this is a common problem with the system raising a red flag when it shouldn’t, so, you know. Keep an eye out and don't panic.]

Now, for something totally unexpected coming from me, I’ve been watching this fascinating video on CRPGs: The Entire History of RPGs. You might have noticed I don’t play videogames and I don’t talk about them but things weren’t always like this – I’ve always had an interest in them and in their design, it has just waned with the passing of the years (and, one might add, with the perceived homogeneity of newer products and the bizarre growth of a competitive, rather obscene multimillion dollar industry gobbling everyone up). Still, I have spent many hours of my life on a PS2 and perhaps many more on a Game Boy Advance, whether with Devil May Cry or Burnout 3 or Pokémon Emerald or Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, to say nothing of all the random little demos I played on PC in the late 90’s to early 00’s.

RPGs, though, are a big area of interest for me. I’m mostly invested in tabletop but I won’t say the digital format is without its charm. A few weeks back I had even been obsessively looking into MUDs out of an inexplicable itch to try one out (and ultimately deciding maybe what I wanted was just a regular roguelike or something in the style of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup because, oh, girl, I do not want to roleplay with strangers…) and I have great memories of going to a school friend’s house to play Diablo II with him, to say nothing of seeing my mum play Diablo (the first one) on our PC. Meaning that when I stumbled upon this video, well, I had to see it and its 2,5+ hours, feeling nostalgic for those pre-3D times he mentions (my soft spot is the 90's, clearly; the 80's are a bit too old school for me, at least when it comes to computer games. I STILL want to one day set up a live table for AD&D 2nd Edition...).

Anyway. If you have some time to spare, it’s been pretty fun and interesting up until now so I’ll leave you to the link.

I ended up doing quite a few pieces for this amnesty round at femslashfete and this is another one of those. There's a last one I'll probably post here tomorrow, even if you can already find it at the comm :)

Title: Convince me, then
Fandom: Warrior Nun
Ship: Jillian Salvius/Mother Superion
Rating: G
Length: Approx. 17 x 13,5 cm
Warnings/Notes: Made with Chinese ink, mostly paintbrushes but with a detail in pen here and there. Made for the "argument" prompt at femslashfete.
Summary: Their ideologies are all but opposite and still Dr. Salvius and Mother Superion find themselves entangled in one another.

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