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hey, come over here!

let's try something: as well as offering a creative challenge over the weekend, how about a post that serves as an end-of-week virtual gathering? just a chill zone to share what's on your mind creative-wise, pass around a bit of enthusiasm and energy?

iiiiif that sounds good, pull up your favourite item of imaginary mismatched furniture, and tell us what you're up to and what's been inspiring it.

starter questions but take it in any direction you like!

  • what's your current artistic obsession?
  • what music have you been working to this week?
  • what's something that brought you unexpected inspiration?
  • who else's work has been influencing your own?

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my main creative endeavour this week has been starting this blog! offering inspiration and facilitating others in making stuff is a creative discipline to me in its own right but one i haven't had much opportunity to do in years, so i'm feeling so BOUNCY and BUZZY from the fact that people have been receptive and from seeing responses to prompts coming through :eggbug-smile-hearts:

i have also been trying to write some poems about whales and went down a very fun rabbit hole about cetacean microbiomes

soundtrack as it often is has been NTS radio

I don’t know if it’s quite collage, but I've been doing a lot of “tearing up old paper and art, gluing it to a canvas, and painting over it.” I’ve been in a declutterring mood, but I have a hard time throwing things out, so this kind of gives me a way to use all this stuff in a more productive way. Helvetic’s Blanc’s sigil paintings have been really influential in this regard.

The music I’ve been listening to is a lot of Japanese music. I like to put it on in the background while I study Japanese, so it’s kind of in the air. Yellow Magic Orchestra has been cool

my artistic project for the week has mostly been chipping away at my novel draft— at about 15k words now, so gaining some momentum. my album of the week has been Dream Merchant by Tottomori, sort of a cozy but slightly dark or melancholic score that's been good for what I'm writing. not sure about influence or unexpected inspiration this week... honestly, it's been a little dreary and soul sucking with the ol' 9-5 lately— not a lot of brain space left for artistic enrichment— but lots of bike rides and walks by the lake have helped, though!

My current artistic obsessions have been photography and painting on polymer clay. I've been putting together photo albums of the things I snap 📸 for purely sentimental reasons, and I'm hoping to create clay pins, beads, trinket dishes, etc. to sell! I've immensely enjoyed doing both for months now, with no end in sight

I'm continuing my Sisyphean struggle to actually find/create a solo RPG I want to play. Since I discovered that itch.io has a Summer Sale parallel to Steam's, I bought several which were on sale instead of doing my normal Steam purchases (since I have plenty of games I've never played or finished on that side of things anyways). Even if I don't actually play one, I discovered that I like a few of the concepts in Wail and will probably be borrowing them for the weird patchwork I'm slowly developing over time to satisfy my desire for a "traditional RPG-style game with extremely glossed-over combat and more focus on talking".

It's weird, wanting to have the "heroic fantasy" experience but actually finding combat to be a slog. Either there are way too many rules or the entire thing is built around not fighting. Still working on finding a "goldilocks" ruleset, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be frankensteining one from scratch instead from the bits I like out of others. Ah well.

This week I've been listening to a lot of synthwave 80s stuff. Good background ambient for working.

ooh yeah that's a tough one. solo play is obviously so individual and finding the games that hit the right spot out of so many options has definitely led me to browse and read for ages rather than actually play something pretty often. i do find it fun to pick apart what i think works and what i might eventually steal for my own projects though. good luck with the process!!