5 question meme
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alias_sqbr5 question meme from hokuton_punch. I am going to be terrible and not offer 5 questions to people who ask, because I know my brain would have trouble with it. Though if you like these questions and want to use them that would be fine! (With me, at least. hokuton_punch might sue for mis-use of their bespoke questions ;))
1) What are your favorite parts of a drawing/other piece of art to work on?
2) Where would you go for a vacation/holiday if there were no financial or other considerations?
3) What are some of your favorite character types or traits?
4) What's the most recent video game you've completed?
5) Do you have a current favorite poem?
content note: the poem I quote contains child harm
To stop myself getting caught up in over-literal "But is it my very favourite? Am I forgetting something??" I'm going to just answer off the top of my head.
1) What are your favorite parts of a drawing/other piece of art to work on?
Hmm! I've been thinking about this for a few days and it really depends. I guess my favourite moment, and one of my motivations for drawing at all, is when I feel like the essence of the idea in my head has been captured and I have this feeling of YEAH, THAT'S IT! But when that moment kicks in depends on the idea. For silly comics, it can be the basic thumbnail. It often happens when I finish the first draft of the lines. But sometimes my Vision requires the combo of colouring and textures etc to feel at all captured.
In terms of the basic act of drawing I quite enjoy the simple satisfaction of drawing the final linework, especially now that I have my system down.
2) Where would you go for a vacation/holiday if there were no financial or other considerations?
My brain, immediately: AN ALIEN PLANET!!
But being a little more practical, hmm. I want to see real snow but don't think I'd like being somewhere so cold for very long. I'd like to visit big famous cities like London or New York. I like the idea of seeing all sorts of Cool Nature, but I especially really like little islands where you can really feel you're on a little island, with other little islands nearby. I'm not sure where would be best for experiencing that, though (even ignoring the inherent not-wheelchair-accessible-ness of that sort of setting) . And of course I'd visit all my international friends!
3) What are some of your favorite character types or traits?
Sympathetic characters with a deep self hatred that the narrative neither fully endorses nor fully dismisses as unwarranted.
Robots, aliens, etc who have an unusual way of thinking/being and have a complicated relationship with the idea of being (like a) human or even a person.
Genderfluid characters, especially if they cheerfully shape-change to suit their whims.
Other things, but I can see myself getting distracted from actually posting, so. Moving on!
4) What's the most recent video game you've completed?
I play a lot of games where "completed" is ambiguous but I did at least see an end to You Wake in The Void, an interesting but sometimes kinda disturbing little text game. I gave up after a few tries at the good ending but a friend gave me some advice and I mean to try again.
The most recent I can think of where I saw an ending and don't intend to play again is Dragonquest Builders 2, which was a lot of fun.
5) Do you have a current favorite poem?
Not that I can think of. I don't really get most poetry, to be honest (I respect it! My brain just isn't wired to click with it), but there are some I like. And of course none are coming to mind, but here's the most recent poem from my tumblr poetry tag, which is pretty good:
Good Bones
Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
hokuton_punch. I am going to be terrible and not offer 5 questions to people who ask, because I know my brain would have trouble with it. Though if you like these questions and want to use them that would be fine! (With me, at least. hokuton_punch might sue for mis-use of their bespoke questions ;))1) What are your favorite parts of a drawing/other piece of art to work on?
2) Where would you go for a vacation/holiday if there were no financial or other considerations?
3) What are some of your favorite character types or traits?
4) What's the most recent video game you've completed?
5) Do you have a current favorite poem?
content note: the poem I quote contains child harm
To stop myself getting caught up in over-literal "But is it my very favourite? Am I forgetting something??" I'm going to just answer off the top of my head.
1) What are your favorite parts of a drawing/other piece of art to work on?
Hmm! I've been thinking about this for a few days and it really depends. I guess my favourite moment, and one of my motivations for drawing at all, is when I feel like the essence of the idea in my head has been captured and I have this feeling of YEAH, THAT'S IT! But when that moment kicks in depends on the idea. For silly comics, it can be the basic thumbnail. It often happens when I finish the first draft of the lines. But sometimes my Vision requires the combo of colouring and textures etc to feel at all captured.
In terms of the basic act of drawing I quite enjoy the simple satisfaction of drawing the final linework, especially now that I have my system down.
2) Where would you go for a vacation/holiday if there were no financial or other considerations?
My brain, immediately: AN ALIEN PLANET!!
But being a little more practical, hmm. I want to see real snow but don't think I'd like being somewhere so cold for very long. I'd like to visit big famous cities like London or New York. I like the idea of seeing all sorts of Cool Nature, but I especially really like little islands where you can really feel you're on a little island, with other little islands nearby. I'm not sure where would be best for experiencing that, though (even ignoring the inherent not-wheelchair-accessible-ness of that sort of setting) . And of course I'd visit all my international friends!
3) What are some of your favorite character types or traits?
Sympathetic characters with a deep self hatred that the narrative neither fully endorses nor fully dismisses as unwarranted.
Robots, aliens, etc who have an unusual way of thinking/being and have a complicated relationship with the idea of being (like a) human or even a person.
Genderfluid characters, especially if they cheerfully shape-change to suit their whims.
Other things, but I can see myself getting distracted from actually posting, so. Moving on!
4) What's the most recent video game you've completed?
I play a lot of games where "completed" is ambiguous but I did at least see an end to You Wake in The Void, an interesting but sometimes kinda disturbing little text game. I gave up after a few tries at the good ending but a friend gave me some advice and I mean to try again.
The most recent I can think of where I saw an ending and don't intend to play again is Dragonquest Builders 2, which was a lot of fun.
5) Do you have a current favorite poem?
Not that I can think of. I don't really get most poetry, to be honest (I respect it! My brain just isn't wired to click with it), but there are some I like. And of course none are coming to mind, but here's the most recent poem from my tumblr poetry tag, which is pretty good:
Good Bones
Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
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Date: 2022-11-26 04:27 am (UTC)ALIEN PLANET *_________*
I love that poem. ♥
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Date: 2022-11-26 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-16 10:48 am (UTC)They were fun to answer :)
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Date: 2022-11-26 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-16 10:47 am (UTC)Yes, it's such a great metaphor!
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Date: 2022-11-28 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-16 10:32 am (UTC)Yes!
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Date: 2022-12-02 06:32 am (UTC)My brain, immediately: AN ALIEN PLANET!!
Reading this after your SW:TOR post was an odd experience. :D And I love the idea of small islands where you can feel that you're on a small island -- I've never had that experience before. O_O
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Date: 2022-12-16 10:25 am (UTC)I have mostly seen it in pictures but once I was in Nelson New Zealand, in the middle top of the south island, and there was this current parallel to the shore of the beach which caused all these little sandbars to form, with shallow channels between them. I had an absolute ball jumping between them until I got worried about being stuck out at sea and regretfully returned to the maths conference I was at. It only happened on that one day but was really magical!
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Date: 2022-12-21 07:58 pm (UTC)(Also, I grinned a bit at the "returned to the maths cnoference" - it seems very sqbr. :D)
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Date: 2022-12-03 11:44 pm (UTC)Oooh, I love that poem - the ending really lingers.
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Date: 2022-12-16 10:19 am (UTC)I would definitely not say no to tiny alien islands :D