Animus-Seed

~WickedStar (https://www.deviantart.com/wickedstar) is a pretty cool guy. eh makes his own game and DOESN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING. So yeah. Vocabulary-stuck-in-internet mode aside, WickedStar and a few of his fans are working on a pen-and-paper version of the RPG he's been drawing for us here on dA, called "Bellaya QUEST" for now after the original story and protagonist. The content is all user-driven, comment-based, collectively decided. You can see what's going so far here: http://wickedstar.deviantart.com/journal/26014466/ and http://wickedstar.deviantart.com/journal/26109271/ Because a few people have contributed by drawing their ideas, I wanted to help there too. Except t

I like comic books, but due to the nature of the companies behind them (lots of books coming out each month), I always fall really behind on what's going on. Sometimes I never really catch up, but just read summaries online. Occasionally it's years before I finally read a famous story. (Would you believe I still haven't read Kraven's Last Hunt, even though I know how it ends?) Yesterday I finally read the semi-recent Spider-man: Back In Black storyline. Mostly for the title, to be honest: I do happen to think that Spider-man's famous black costume is cooler looking than his classic one, but whenever he puts it on it seems the writer's feel o

I just got the syllabus for the summer class I'm taking, and HOLY CRAP is it front-loaded and busy busy the whole way through. Here I thought I'd get to take a bit of a break before leaving up north. Nope. As it is, I'll be lucky if I survive the next seven days. (3 papers due already? Oh, fuck-and-a-half.) Still, for all the sudden feeling of a gun at my forehead, I'm still excited about the class, and the prof has even mentioned being willing to work with me as a "special needs" - in other words, a writer - student. By which he means, while everyone else will be writing essays, I'll instead write stories or plays that deal with the broader