Aura-Chimera

For the past few weeks I've once again fallen out of love with my comic, but thanks to a cold weather snap and a new fanfiction to read and tumblr, I missed drawing time. Three days worth of it. So after an six hour shift, once I chilled at the computer for a very (for me) brief time slot, did the chores requested, and ran to walmart for artist fuel, I had to catch up on lost time.
I camped on my bed, turned on over an hour of nostalgia critic to draw to and hunkered down to work. First of all, I'm excited that I did clank out this page in a day because I didn't think I actually could muster the will do do it. I haven't even been able to keep up the will for a third a page a day lately.
One of the things that's been bothering me about my comic lately is its direction. I don't think it has one right now. I dislike the main conflict because it's so liner and boring until quite late in the plot. I know my characters enough to be bored by them. The new insights I do get, with one exception, have made me like them less. But perhaps I stumbled upon a solution for now.
See, I want to write epically. I want to produce the kind of story that can make you sob at the death of that one guy you hate. I want to write dramatically. So that's the mood I'd been going for. I wrote out a page which was intended to make you begin to feel the rising panic, the trepidation of the fate of a character in trouble.
And then Gash-Danged Espurr Wolf came in! This background character just hopped out of my pencil looking perfect for the mood. But once I started the laborious task of coloring and shading, to make the page horrific, she Narmed all over it!
An now I like it better for it...
Gosh danged characters... She'll live to Narm another page. I like her look. Espurr wolf made me like a page that was 'meh'ing at me.

    So, do you ever have those assignments that you don't want to do? That's my Roegerian argument essay for English Composition 2 right there I'm describing. The point of a Rogerian argument, it seems, is so that instead of two opinionated people arguing and neither changing their stance, you compromise on both of them to find the middle ground. See, I take issue with this idea on two points.
Number one: if it's worth arguing about, I have an opinion on it, and with me it's often derived from morality. I will not compromise on moral issues.
Number two: My teacher herself was sasying that 'she's read dozens of great Rogerian arguments, and althouhg they never convinced her to change her mind at all-' Let me stop you right there. If it doens't get you to change your opinion at all, and it doesn't get you to compromise, then what is the point of bothering to write it?
    Now, I was fuming and fretting over this assignment, not being able to think of anything I already know about, and would be willing to write a compromise about. The current political issues ruffle feathers for a reason. The things I don't have much of an opinion on, I'd have to spend time reaserching about and 'finding all sides of the issue' and whatnot, and even then with no assurance that I was sure about the argument I was making since I wouldn't really care.
    So then I'm out for my daily walk with my dog when I find my compromise between not wanting to do any research and not wanting to use anything I really care about. I could do an essay on pet overpopulation. It's not something I myself am overly concerned over, but it is an issue most people have heard something about. Perfect on that count! So what's the kicker?
The essay took less than a half hour to make it fit with her specification.
Because I wrote the essay last year for English Compsition 1.

So, I missed a few comic updates because our power and internet were on the fritz, but seem to be back to normal again.

I have also started College. this mean buying required textbooks. I got a used one for fifty bucks. You know how, as a joke, comedies may have a book about how to read? Yeah. That's my textbook. It is literally reading up on how to read...
The at the zoo, I got a wooden model bat. The instructions were crud. I gave up on them, assembled the figure in a pattern that looked like the picture. Now my bat looks great, stands properly, and fits together well. I even had some parts left over, I assembled it so well!
And I found the best, most random music video I've seen yet, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqk… .

How're y'all lately? Also, does anyone know how I might get any readers I have to just tell me if they read my stuff? Just introduce themselves? I'm curious to know if anyone (Who I don't know) reads them.

I think I know a good mass prank for April fools day, or something. Here's what you do...
First, gather a crowd of people. I'm thinking, like, twenty to fifty people or something. Go find a restaurant that all of you like to eat at, that has some tasty but infrequently ordered item.
The next step is to go to said restaurant- Not all at once, mind you, but every few minutes. This way, whoever has the job of preparing that item will have to stop what they are doing every few minutes to go and prepare it over and over and over again!
I think that it must have been coordinated that the Cinnamon Raisin Biscuit, (which we sell less than thirty of, even on a good day) was ordered over sixty times today. So every five minutes I have to stop my prep work (I don't get to go home for the day until I have prepared all of the supplies for lunch) To pop a half dozen C.R. biscuits into the oven, stop again to take them out and ice them, and then try to go back to getting the prep done.then, someone else comes in wanting them, so I have to stop again...
This went on and on until finally breakfast ended!  Why on earth did everyone want a cinnamon raisin biscuit today?!