Ellie Coral's online workbench… mind the mess.
I’d made plans to post last week and share a couple of images from my updates for the game. Instead, I foolishly agreed to update my iPad to iOS 26. Long story short, Apple’s precious attempt to fix what was never broken ended up breaking my post-warranty iPad. Several attempts to update via iTunes and…
There’s been a lot going on recently, and I’m amazed that my efforts to develop a tabletop game haven’t gone to pot. How many months has it been since I decided I wanted to make a game and have it play tested at Unpub? It’s less than two months away, and I’m still going. I’m…
Note: In the interest of supporting the tarot/occult community and its artists, I’ll be using custom tarot decks to illustrate some of my readings. Although I see AI as a tool that can be used and abused just like any other, I know some people seethe at the idea of it. I cannot guarantee that…
It’s still early in the new year but I’m feeling something different about 2026. A cleansing, a disappearing, a vanishing of something that’s been hanging around my psychic space like an albatross for the past two-ish years. But it’s gone, or at the very least, rapidly fading. This may sound like a big mystery for…
It’s a short, but working on this made me realize something: the camera also contributes to action and emotion. Here’s a GIF of this animatic, at the full resolution: Your eyes don’t quite know where to land, do they? This was going to be the video itself, but something told me to use a camera…
The YouTube algorithm sometimes gifts me random videos that bring joy or new project ideas. Recently it started feeding me collective tarot readings. Or “collective readings”. Well, they’re more like vague horoscope readings with performance antics and glitzy imagery, but that’s probably a rant for a future video essay. Anyway, the idea stuck with me.…
Motherfucker this semester is finally done these ivy league wannabes can suck my nonexistent nutsack Well, this certainly was a trying semester, but I’m sure this will all be worth it when I finally become a professional whatever the hell it is I’m trying to become. Seriously, there’s a need for what I want to…
Or Short Timewasters for Librarians to Appreciate In Between Their Various, Soul-Crippling Tasks In between my own various, soul-crippling tasks (coursework, internship, the grind of mundane living), I manage to complete two shorts. I’m debating working on a fourth before making that channel go live, but that sort of feels like a delay tactic. I…
I could go into excruciating detail about my first conference trip, but most of it’s pretty academic and therefore sand-blastingly dry—trust me, you don’t want the blow by blow—but Board Game Academics was possibly the best first conference I ever could have had. Considering I was the only librarian/information type person among 75 people, I…
Don’t get me wrong, it is nice in a way to return from a four-day trip and find familiar sights and experiences waiting for me. But all at once… Such a nice, blustery, tropical stormy day. There goes my intention to experiment livestreaming with my iPad. I could give it a go, but then I’d…