That's me, shooting my eye beams at the logo

Well folks, it's Easter, but it's only just beginning to show hints of Spring. I'm not yet positive they even have Spring here, as when we came up in May last year it was in a state of Texas-style Winter (which is it is now) and then went straight to Summer within one day. Looking forward immensely to Summer. You know, we were determined to appreciate the snow, and we did, but the thing about seasons is they should each be appreciated at their proper times. It's time for Winter to be over now, okay?

It's my birthday, mwa ha ha! And tomorrow I'll be putting up the preview for the next chapter of Decadence on the Decadence tumblr: batman-decadence.tumblr.com/ because the chapter isn't finished yet. I've determined that the 25th of each month will be the target for updates; the two chapters that have gone up so far having done so on that date, that date being significant in those months.

Also working on another DC thing in my spare time, see this:

And now I'll reveal the title: All's Fair at the County Fair! This one is very different from Decadence. I'm thinking of getting yet another blogspot to house my DC doujinshi other than Decadence; I like that platform pretty well; it's quite customisable and they aren't always changing up how your pages look in terrible ways you can do nothing about.
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And I have many ideas for other DC doujinshi! I've listed them before, but it doesn't hurt to go over again and there are some changes: there's All's Fair at the County Fair, which may not technically be a comic since it's pictures and prose, no speech bubbles; a short one based on the Young Justice cartoon; a Blue Beetle one meant to be in continuity with the original comics; a Blue Beetle and Green Lantern one not in clear continuity with anything and the format heavily influenced by Homestuck; a very fairy-tale Superman one in a style like this: fav.me/d2o6pyx ; a very dark retelling of a certain Jimmy Olsen story; and some vague ideas: something dour with the Creeper, something with a Superman with a very reckless personality, and very vaguely possibly a Superman thing very vaguely in continuity with another, large, aforementioned project of mine...

But it's a bit of a concern: for a long time now, all my new story ideas have been for such DC fanstuff. That doesn't worry me in terms of general creativity; an artist could do all his work derivative of others' stories and it still be great and creative work.  The thing is, the money! I can't make money from fanstuff. I am… very tentatively toying with the idea of doing Beckyless as a novel. I did clearly envision it as a comic, and there are some moments that will be very difficult to pull off in prose, but… it's much easier, as far as I can see, to indie publish a novel than a comic, and there's a bigger prospective audience. If you have any thoughts about this, please tell me them. I guess better would be for me to think up another story and think it up as a novel. Tough when you generally think in pictures.

Finally, returning to the beginning, about Easter. Next year, we will be taking a trip back to Texas for the Triduum. This is wholly because of the liturgy. I've always had a problem with extreme Traditionalists and such, but man, heavens above, I simply cannot endure the kind of liturgy that is norm in rural Catholic parishes for the rest of my life. I'm not saying the individual people here are bad Catholics; I know little of their lives and cannot judge souls. I dare say it takes a very devout heart to still be devout in spite of such ugliness. But the ugliness itself is not true to the reality of the Faith, and looking at the world around me, it is clear that that Reality has not been conveyed to many, and that many are rebelling against it. The Church cannot change Her teaching, but Her ministers can choose not to teach it, and that's very bad.

Say, speaking of reality, you know the standard philosophical definition of Truth is: the conformity of the intellect to reality. Well, I didn't take too many philosophy classes, so I wonder: do they define Beauty and Goodness similarly? As in, Beauty could be defined as the conformity of the emotions to reality, and Goodness could be defined as the conformity of the will to reality. (Now, that may sound on the surface like I'm saying Goodness is just wanting everything to be exactly as it is, but that's not what it means by reality. It means the nature of things. Metaphysical and teleological. Not just how things are, but what they are, and why they are, both in the sense of what brought them about (efficient cause) and what their true purpose is (Final Cause))

But anyway, I myself simply could not endure to have the Cause of human existence, the Sacrifice of the Mass, that I assist at, be so shrouded in ugliness for the rest of my life. So in the long term, I look toward Duluth, and hope we will settle near there ultimately. But for now, we're going to go on pilgrimage back to Walsingham every year for a while. We will afford it by having a super strict Lent, which is a great idea, and I'm not being sarcastic.