Journal XXI -- It's Time To Roll The Dice

Three cheers for overconfidence.
For once, I'm not (rather, wasn't) just backpedaling because I bit off more than I could chew. I really intended to follow up on the previous post, working on that old idea from years ago. More to the point, working from notes that I had begun to compile during all those years.
However, when November arrived, I could not find one scrap of those notes. I have apparently lost the binder full of those notes and many others, which I kept safe all through junior high and high school. Most distressing.
I still hold out hope I may find it, because it is not at all like me to throw things away, and my parents stopped trying to throw my things away years ago, but I cannot find it in my university dorm, and I did not see it last few times I went home. If I have to contend with it being entirely gone, then gone are all my notes for that story, along with old sketches, poems, etc. Generally nothing I would ever let see the light of day, but certainly nothing I would want gone forever.

Anyhoo, it just bothered me seeing that I'd said and done nothing on here since November, so I decided to update at least SOMETHING. I wish I could say there would be poems going up following the journal, but I'm afraid I have nothing of the sort to offer. I will say that the dice have been rolling in my head recently, so you never know when something new might finally break through.

Some of the things inspiring me are webcomics. I read quite a few of them, and without too much stretching one could probably guess at most of them (e.g. Questionable Content, Misfile, XKCD, pictures for sad children). My intent here is to give you readers a nudge towards not just them, but some of the smaller (in my mind, anyway) ones out there. (These comics all, at the present time, update regularly. If you are interested, check each site for an update schedule.):

Between Failures: I stumbled across this one months ago, read a few strips, and decided I was too busy to get absorbed in a webcomic. I think I might have bookmarked it, but time makes fools of us all. (And by "time", I mean "two hard drive reformats". Also, replace "us all" with "me". And "makes" with "make" if you want to get technical.) Regardless, I stumbled upon it again and read it cover to cover -- figuratively speaking -- in about a day and a half. The characters are incredibly well written, and if some of the interplay seems a bit campy or cliche, I can only imagine it was intended by the writer. Campy/cliche as it gets, it all still seems reasonably real; these are people I could see anywhere, even working in a store like that because of the hand life dealt them. His dA account can be found at Crave-The-Bullet (dunno why he has such a distressing account name >_>)
The Space Between: Compared to some of the comics I've read, this guy is clearly just getting his kickoff. True, he has another decent-length comic also at his .net, sitting at #128, around 8 updates short of finished if the comment is to be believed. I confess I have not read this other comic, and have no desire to. Its purpose, in my mind and perhaps in his, was to prepare him for creating The Space Between. He seems to have thrown heart and soul (not career, obviously) into the creation of these characters and this world, and neither his hectic life leading to sometimes sporadic updates nor his apparent love of possibly the worst movie ever made can stop me from keeping up. His dA account can be found at jellybeansniper
Treading Ground: A link I think I may have followed from The Space Between brought me to Treading Ground. Another little slice of life, peering into characters in a position like those in Between Failures, though with far less optimism and, perhaps, less hope. The author has insisted for some time (even throughout the strip's LONG hiatus) that it was a fixed tale, and would end when he had reached the end of his story. Now that regular updates have resumed, it's not clear how far off that end may be, but the cynicism of the characters clashing with the reader's desire to see the central love story work out (not to mention I personally have faced something similar) leave this in high regard. PLEASE NOTE: When he says the comic is "occasionally NSFW", he's not frickin' kidding. Be aware of your surroundings before reading. You've been warned.
Spinnerette: What I first saw as an obvious parody of Spiderman (and it is) has quickly become one of my favorite things to read when I see an update. The author has taken that simple Spiderman parody and made it an homage to the golden days of superheroes, perhaps poking fun at it, but always good-naturedly. The comic, in its early stages like so many of the ones I've mentioned, has excellent writing to back up its beautiful art, which come together to create a story that is part parody, part celebration of everything that superhero stories have to offer.

Until next time, this is BackslashEcho saying:

"Dovie'andi se tovya sagain."

And so we go.

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