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Weekend Sketches #6 - Crawling Into The Tomb

4/24/2021

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A blueish black beetle with some reddish shine to its shell being over taken by golden resin that is flowing from the bottom left of the image. Both beetle and resin are on a light blue background.
Three women stand in a stark tundra with mountains off to the right of the image and light gold cumulonimbus clouds in the distance on the horizon. The woman to the far right (Camilla) foreground is wearing a beanie and coat. her hair is cut straight to jaw length and her skin is a dark tan. She has a skeletal hand perched on her right shoulder and is holding a metal instrument aloft with her left hand while she checks readings on a tablet in her right. The woman in the centre mid ground (Coronabeth) is taller, has light tan skin, and long voluminous and slightly curly blonde hair. She is wearing a headband and a coat similar to Camilla’s and is looking behind her and to the left at the woman who is in the far left background (Judith) who is similarly dressed in a coat and headband. Judith has darker tan skin and dark hair tied up in a bun. She has a crutch under each arm and looks haggard.
Coronabeth and Judith spooning in their shared cot with their dark coats spread out over the light sheets. Judith is the little spoon and is awake and not happy about while Coronabeth is sound asleep.
Coronabeth and Judith making their way through a lush green jungle. Coronabeth is in the left foreground in shadow with a machete drawn as she prepares to hack through some vines. Judith is small in the right background with a crutch under each arm and a bag strapped across her back that holds some sticks.
Judith (left mid ground) from only the neck up in front of some lush green ferns observing a beetle in the foreground get overtaken by some resin from a cut tree.
Coronabeth in profile from the chest up and facing towards the right. She is holding a thick stick her hands as if ready to strike. There is a manic look in her eye.
Haha hello! It's been a while!

I kinda fell of the posting wagon there pretty much all over the internet. I ended up taking a 3 week break from Twitter because it had put me in a bad brain space. I also decided to use this break to re-evaluate again how I want to use social media, and do a proper cut from platforms that just raise my anxiety.

One platform that I've been having a lot of fun on though has been Discord, because it's hard to be found over there and with it being chat rooms 2.0 it's actually about socialization rather than fighting the algorithm. I got invited to a fandom sever for The Locked Tomb Trilogy and I fell back into being in a fandom after feeling nothing but increased hostility towards them since quietly leaving the Star Wars fandom last year.

I had already read the first two books in the trilogy last year but hadn't interacted with anyone in the fandom beyond my friend Winter (who had a hand in getting me to finally pick them up). Then after replying to a couple fandom related tweets, in particular ones made by another friend Ren, I was invited to the server and I've fallen back into being in a fandom again.

Though this is different. Where my experience in the Star Wars fandom was just... people sending me inappropriate messages, the regular bombardment of racism, and then the disillusionment that comes from watching the franchise get bought up by a megacorp and then have the creative juice sucked out of it, being in a small book fandom is like a breath of fresh air. The air is especially sweet when the book series is explicitly queer. It's truly a whole other experience where I can enjoy a property that doesn't force me to pick at scraps.

Being in this small group has been fun. I have posted a few of my fanarts online, but most of my fandom interactions happens behind the closed door of the private server. I feel this is the best way to be in a fandom. In the free time that I've had between work I've also gotten back into writing fanfic and have imprinted on one of the rare pairs (typical). This is what the above illustrations are about. I might do a separate blog post about The Locked Tomb Trilogy. The third book has been postponed to early 2022 so I need to decide if I want to blog about the first two books and then do a follow up once the third comes out or wait until I've read all three.

Setting that train of thought aside, I've be approaching fanfic as practice for when I eventually pivot into illustrated novels once I finish my tryst with comics. I've seen some discourse about whether fanfic makes you a better writer or not. My take is I'm approaching it as a form of line making, the same way fanart got me to practice my drawing. There are ways that fanfic can help improve your writing, and ways it cannot. All in all it's been relighting the fire that went out when I experienced Burn Out #2 back in March.

This has gotten long so I'll cut this blog post here. I hope you all are keeping well.

Until next time!
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