Or My Brain Has Somehow Survived an Onslaught of Words
These have been a busy past couple of weeks. I’ll spare you the gory details and just provide the text below:
I’m working on three different websites: one for my tarot practice, another for my story projects, and the last one for research (you’ll see).
I’ve been cross-posting most of the tarot material on Ink Tippler. My original idea was to designate this older material by drawing new featured images on the newer blog—and then I regained my senses and decided to use the originals. I may still talk about tarot here, but when I want to get really into the weeds, you’ll find it over yonder. *gestures vaguely in the direction where blogs are supposed to exist*
The site for my stories will include comics, zines, scripts, and other fine experiments… all of which have to be created. So when the site goes live, there won’t be a whole lot to scour. But the fun of this sort of site is watching it grow over time. A major plus for me is that I get to code a static website again, thereby reliving the joys of the mid- to late-90s when Geocities ruled the internet. It’s my further contribution to the small web.
The research blog will be a public notebook of sorts for the things I’m researching or other neat things I’ve found that pertain to research, play, online culture, streaming, and… well, anything I find interesting and exists in my wheelhouse. This stems from my disappointment and frustration with academia and its habit of withholding precious information from the public… information that these very gatekeepers claim will help the masses.
Yes, it’s convoluted. The system designed to gather and publish information mostly exists to pamper these people’s own egos; it essentially exists for itself. If you want an idea of what I’m talking about, this video that my instructor in my arts-based research class is enlightening. Long, but enlightening. Dr. Leavy superbly demonstrates why academia needs to change, and how sometimes works of fiction encourage change more effectively than non-fiction articles.
Speaking of, art is also happening! I’m motivating myself to get drawing and finish what I started. I don’t have definite completion dates for the works currently in progress, but I hope this is the beginning of regularly posted comics and animatics. Regularly as in “a good one every month or so, allowing for other obligations, energy, and life itself”.
But I’ll show you my current inspirations for the animatics: