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Pause on Updates until 2nd week of October

Accidentally chipped a tooth and exposed an abscess. Tooth needed to be pulled, but couldn't. Even double injections of anaesthetic didn't take, nerve remained too sensitive.

Now I have to live with a constant dull pain from the pressure of a temporary tooth cap and an antibiotic regimen for a week until I can come back and have it extracted. Better than blinding pain at an accidental bite or touch with the tongue though. 

Pain and anti-pain meds a bit too distracting for cre...

Maria Clara Interlude - yea or nay?

This assumes you have caught up to the story via http://karavanir.com/noli-toc .

There is a planned outline for Noli Me Tank in a Mall, but after Crisostomo's recent bout of mania in-story, there have been clamors for a Maria Clara response chapter to this. It may delay the progress of the next chapter though.

Do you want one?

End of the Month Report

Regarding MerStory:

It's pretty obvious that MerStory's very simple art style is to evoke a storybook atmosphere. 

Actually there's a significant difference between Book1 and Book2 coloring methods. Book 1 was done with Paint Shop Pro 9, Book 2 all done digitally with Paint Tool Sai.  Unfortunately I don't quite remember anymore the methods I used to get that soft dreamy style...

Everything's on Fire and This is Fine (Feb update)

Here's what happened this February.

• Writerblog is back up.  My friend has decided to quit his job and focus on finishing his novel. I've posted some articles about my writing process up there too.
• Book 1 of IAWJM 2019-03-01 23:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post

January Updates and plans for February

If you're here for Shinji and Warhammer40k, rejoice! It's been updated.  780k words in, that thing is going to finally end. 

If you're here for MerStory, rejoice! There's been a lot of updates and the Main Index has now been fully updated to the recent chapter. We're up...

They're All Coming Back To You Now

Merry Christmas! 2018 has certainly been a weird year and it feels weirder that it's almost done.

While I haven't been updating this Patreon page, the projects have been proceeding apace at the usual sites.

• For now, have daily updates of MerStory again until New Year!
  Book 2 is actually done, just need to color in all those clips and make the story posts.
  
• 2018-12-25 20:16:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Solarboy Returns! (2)

It's amazing how much we take for granted even though we've survived well enough without them before. 

Don't you remember CRT televisions and monitors? Big, heavy, blurry glass boxes. For most of a century, the television set in its electron gun form has dominated the culture war. No other instrument shaped society so completely other than the gun. 

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a moving picture is worth a million lines of speech. 

It is THE very image of ...

Solarboy Returns! (1)

Right, well, it's super clear by now that I love solar power. 

But it's not the FREE power that really tugs at me, but the freedom of power. To finally be protected from stupid power flickers, to be able to continue writing and digitally painting even when the lines are dead.

Otherwise, what do you expect me to do, use a typewriter? :p

(Real typewriters are oddly expensive now, for some reason.)

It's the ultimate expression of free power, unchained and ...