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summercomfort) wrote2020-12-31 11:41 pm
summercomfort) wrote2020-12-31 11:41 pm
New Year's Resolutions
Take my comicking to the next level.
I drafted 20 pages of Tisquantum to finish it up, but then got stuck on the inking phase, aka "this is a lot of work and I'm no longer in the same place I was 7 years ago." I did finish Rutabaga Project, although I'm missing the step of making a cover and printing some copies, and putting it up on a proper website, and possibly shopping it around to other people. I also faced my fears and spent about 1 Google of how the publishing industry works. Also, I've been making time to do creative work, if not daily, at least a few hours every week.
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Less FOMO, more "for me".
I think it's been ... all right? Everything is on Discord now, which moves too fast for me as far as a social space goes. But I've also had some good convos and collabs via Discord DMs, so that's been good, at least. I also had several successful Tuesday Night Zoom Streams where I draw and chat with whoever I rope into showing up. (I also had a few less successful zoom streams where no one showed up, but at least I got a solid 2 hours of art done.)
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Try to be/stay in good health.
The resolution said eat regular meals and drink water, which I've been doing! But I haven't really been exercising, and I've been chugging chocolate and drinking boba like nobody's business.
B-
Own up to your experience.
This is a weird one. I guess I'm doing all right in that? Not much of a chance in doing this tbh, although I just sent an email to HR to hint at a need to talk about my elective issue, so I guess that's something. It's that thing of constantly feeling like I need permission to do something, which may be connected to being Asian and Female, but fuck that noise.
All right, resolutions for the New Year:
Blog once a month. This is one that I'm doing joint with Spouse! :D We were talking about how nice it is to actually blog, longform. So we're going to make a thing of it!
Work on original work again. I need to have, like, a few solid chunks of time to really sit down and figure out where I'm going next, what I want to work on, etc etc. I'm drawing less fan comics and I want to get back into Actually Comicking again. I started The Rutabaga Project after a long time of not doing autobiographical stuff, but now I'm like "I want to do storytelling again!" So it's a matter of figuring out what story I want to tell.
Get back down to optimum weight. CW for weight talk, but basically for me: if I'm <140lbs, I get periods and ye olde reproductive system starts working again. If I'm >150 lbs, I don't feel great. I've been 155 +/- 5 for the last 2-3 years. I should really be at ~145. So, this is the year to make that happen.
That's it. Just 3 this year. I'm sure I'll do some fun collabs, phase in and out of online social spheres, feel the standard set of artist and human neuroses, etc etc, but that's just standard life.
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.... yeah, it's all a little weird up in my head
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If you do end up looking for anything, let me know and I'll send links.
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hmmm is there something I can do while scrolling through the internet?
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mmmmm we don't really have desks, per se. More like sitting on a mattress that is on the ground.... maybe resistance cords or something? I feel like I bought some once, and then hid them, and now I can't find them.