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Where I have been
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OK so it's been a while since I have been on DA, but it appears that some people are still following my page + some new watchers even though I haven't uploaded anything since 2012. Given that, I have decided that it is past time I let people know what is going on.
First of all, I just got married earlier this year. It was the result of a long distance relationship, using an online match making website (shaadi . com in case anyone is interested). I brought my wife all the way from India in order to dodge the bullet of feminism and the general corruption and lack of values which is pervasive among my generation in what is left of western civilization. So I had my wedding, honeymoon, and all that.
I also spent some time looking for work in my field, so that I could have a better paying job, but I failed at that. Thankyou Democrats, for improving the economy so much that it's easier than ever before to find work. Lot's of change but no hope.
On a brighter note, I have succesfully published my first book. I want to try to become an author. If I can't have my first career of choice then I would like to have my second career of choice, which would be writing. I have been working on the story and illustrations during the time I was absent from DA. But I didn't post any of the new artwork here because I'm publishing under a false name. I'm going to have a secret identity, like Batman, and for similar reasons. I am opening another DA account for that identity, which will contain the full color illustrations I created for my story and links to places where my books can be purchased. If you are interested in seeing that then please send me a private message. Given how paranoid I am I will probably only share with a select few, but do let me know if you are interested all the same.
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First of all, I just got married earlier this year. It was the result of a long distance relationship, using an online match making website (shaadi . com in case anyone is interested). I brought my wife all the way from India in order to dodge the bullet of feminism and the general corruption and lack of values which is pervasive among my generation in what is left of western civilization. So I had my wedding, honeymoon, and all that.
I also spent some time looking for work in my field, so that I could have a better paying job, but I failed at that. Thankyou Democrats, for improving the economy so much that it's easier than ever before to find work. Lot's of change but no hope.
On a brighter note, I have succesfully published my first book. I want to try to become an author. If I can't have my first career of choice then I would like to have my second career of choice, which would be writing. I have been working on the story and illustrations during the time I was absent from DA. But I didn't post any of the new artwork here because I'm publishing under a false name. I'm going to have a secret identity, like Batman, and for similar reasons. I am opening another DA account for that identity, which will contain the full color illustrations I created for my story and links to places where my books can be purchased. If you are interested in seeing that then please send me a private message. Given how paranoid I am I will probably only share with a select few, but do let me know if you are interested all the same.
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Projects
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Hey guys, I know I haven't been around in quite some time, so I thought I would specify why exactly that is. The main reason I have been away is because I have been working on some projects. One of them is a new webcomic that I am trying to develop with a partner, and the other project is my story. I have been working on a novel for the last 2 or 3 years, and this year I have been especially busy with it. At present, it's in it's final stages, but it's taking me some time. The package deal I got actually calls for a lot of illustrations, so I'm working on getting those done, and I may also do a final read through before publishing. So I have been doing art, but nothing I would care to publish here as I will be using an alias name to publish. I have to protect my privacy and what not. I really hope this works out. I have been struggling with financial issues for years and things are getting pretty intense for me now. None of the things I have tried to make my situation better have actually worked, and it has been said that insanity is trying the same thing over and over again while expecting it to produce different results. So I'm going to try something else to try to get a career (or a side career) going for me. Anyways, I am going to try to start getting back around on DA, the key word being try.
Now there is one other thing I wanted to say on a different topic. Since coming back to deviantart and browsing around I have been seeing a lot of Little Pony "art". I know there is a lot of weird stuff on DA, and for the most part I have learned to ignore it. But seriously, Little Pony? Alright, "My Little Pony" came out when I was a kid, and by that I mean my age was in the single digits. There was no internet back then so I didn't get to see a wide ranged of ridiculous behavior published all over the world for everyone to see, but as a 7 or 8 year old boy I knew that My Little Poney was for little girls and I had no interest in it whatsoever. I didn't have to think long and hard about that because it was obvious, and it should be obvious to any sane and rational adult. Now, I don't advocate censorship, and normally I don't try to rain on people's parades if they want to enjoy something from their childhood again for the sake of nostalgia. That much is understandable, especially if your life circumstances as an adult are on the dismal side, but it is my understanding that the current Little Pony series is new, and that there is a wide fanbase of 20+ year old people of BOTH sexes following it. No one old enough to use the internet without adult supervision ought to be doing fanart of that series, which is a stupid concept anyways. When you put up fanart and fanfics for a series designed for 8 year old girls it gives off the impression that you are developmentally stunted, both emotionally and mentally. I shouldn't be seeing drawings of cartoon horses from a pre-teen girl series or other characters rendered in the style of said cartoon horses popping up in my sidebar on a site that has a lower age limit of 17. It makes me wonder what kind of people these people are. Makes me think they are going to live out the rest of their lives on some kind of assisted living.
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Hey guys, I just wanted to take a moment to recommend a book that was recently published by a fellow deviant SlayerSyrena. When I ordered "The Spyder in The Cracked Mirror" I had no idea how it was going to be. Normally I am not particularly sanguine about amateur authors, because most of what I have read so far has not been very good, but this one is definitely professional quality literature in my opinion. I can safely say that it is better than at least 90% of whatever you may have read in English class (which may not be saying much), and it's even better than some of the books published by some of my favorite authors (which is definitely saying something).
The story is about an orphan left behind on a human colony world. His city was decimated by a war with arachnoid type aliens, and he is left scrounging and starving in the ruins. Just as he is about to be eaten alive by a wild animal he is rescued by one of the aliens belonging to the species that decimated his hometown. The question of why the alien took him and what he wants him for is dealt with through a series of adventures and situations of peril. Like any good sci-fi story the elements of problem solving, adventure, and peril are all there.
The author wastes absolutely no time in getting down to the story, and once the story starts it never lags, it just moves on from one thing to the next and has a good flow to it. I finished reading this book in three days. I have read a lot of books in my life, and most of them were put out by major publishing companies, and a lot of books I have read contain filler content which creates a lull in the story. Sometimes they start off slow with a lot of pointless stuff (eg. Wheel of Time) which could have been intended to establish a particular mood or feeling, or to create some level of familiarity with the character, but mostly what it does is just take up space before the real story starts. Or they have some lull in the middle of the story to focus on some minute or irrelevant detail (Moby Dick). I hate all that kind of stuff. I would rather have the story be used to establish the character and settings rather than long rambling exposition.
So if you like fast paced stories that get started quick and don't slog down then you should definitely give this one a chance. Another reason why you should give it a chance is because there are lots of good authors that never get the attention they deserve because a major publishing company doesn't know about them, and on the other hand there are crappy books which ought never to get any attention but somehow get turned into major franchises and movies (like Twilight and Hairy Potsmoker). So we should help out the good ones that are trying to get started.
If you are looking for something to read then I recommend this one, and you can find the purchasing information here:
fav.me/d5bsnxk
I will of course be writing a full review on Amazon.com. I will also be illustrating a scene from the story at some point in the future, not sure when yet.
Professional authors I like include Isaac Asimov, Edger Rice Burroughs, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and Frank Herbert.
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The story is about an orphan left behind on a human colony world. His city was decimated by a war with arachnoid type aliens, and he is left scrounging and starving in the ruins. Just as he is about to be eaten alive by a wild animal he is rescued by one of the aliens belonging to the species that decimated his hometown. The question of why the alien took him and what he wants him for is dealt with through a series of adventures and situations of peril. Like any good sci-fi story the elements of problem solving, adventure, and peril are all there.
The author wastes absolutely no time in getting down to the story, and once the story starts it never lags, it just moves on from one thing to the next and has a good flow to it. I finished reading this book in three days. I have read a lot of books in my life, and most of them were put out by major publishing companies, and a lot of books I have read contain filler content which creates a lull in the story. Sometimes they start off slow with a lot of pointless stuff (eg. Wheel of Time) which could have been intended to establish a particular mood or feeling, or to create some level of familiarity with the character, but mostly what it does is just take up space before the real story starts. Or they have some lull in the middle of the story to focus on some minute or irrelevant detail (Moby Dick). I hate all that kind of stuff. I would rather have the story be used to establish the character and settings rather than long rambling exposition.
So if you like fast paced stories that get started quick and don't slog down then you should definitely give this one a chance. Another reason why you should give it a chance is because there are lots of good authors that never get the attention they deserve because a major publishing company doesn't know about them, and on the other hand there are crappy books which ought never to get any attention but somehow get turned into major franchises and movies (like Twilight and Hairy Potsmoker). So we should help out the good ones that are trying to get started.
If you are looking for something to read then I recommend this one, and you can find the purchasing information here:
fav.me/d5bsnxk
I will of course be writing a full review on Amazon.com. I will also be illustrating a scene from the story at some point in the future, not sure when yet.
Professional authors I like include Isaac Asimov, Edger Rice Burroughs, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and Frank Herbert.
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The Hobbit Movie
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Last night I went out and saw the Hobbit movie, and I have to say, for a movie it is OK, but for a book adaptation it is terrible. If you have never read the books then you would probably enjoy the movie, but any true Tolkien fan is going to have a problem with the movie. If you thought LOTR was distorted the Hobbit is distorted even moreso. I recognize that for movie adaptations some things have to be left out, and sometimes dialogue has to be added in to fill in holes that might have been filled by 3rd person narration in the book, but which is of course absent from the movie. But what I do have a problem with is when they change the story, and add things to it that run contrary to the story itself.
On the upside, the visual aspects of the movie are very good. They do a good job rendering the charactars, costumes, and settings. That being said, there were so many gross distortions in the movie that by the time it was over I had a headache, and before it was over I was wanting it to end already. Let's go over a few:
1) There was no condemnation of greed or divine right in the book. It is a well known and established fact that dwarves are greedy, but not in a dishonest or slinky way, they just like treasure and making stuff with their hands. Everything they have the work for, and they use their skills to generate wealth. There was no talk about wealth being a source of corruption that attracted the dragon. The dragon doesn't care, he just wants treasure, and also, I don't want to hear any movie producer talk about greed or negatively about having wealth. Also, there was nothing in the Hobbit about divine right to rule, or that being a bad thing. If you read Hobbit and LOTR by themselves you get the impression that there is a Supreme Being and that he has a plan (as opposed to the evolutionist backdrop that a lot of other authors opt for), but you don't see him referred to directly unless you read the Silmarillion.
2) The elves of Mirkwood never paid homage to the dwarves, they are wood elves, they don't involve themsleves in much and they don't care.
3) Dwarves and elves had mutual distrust and dislike well before Smaug came, and the coming of Smaug had jack all to do with that. The problems between them came about as a cumulative effect from a series of events in the 1st age. Thorin doesn't have anything against the elves, he just doesn't care for them because they're elves, and they feel the same about him.
4) Azog the orc was never in the Hobbit, nor did he chase the dwarves, nor was he even alive at that point. Azog actually can be found in the Apendices at the end of ROTK, and the story was quite different there. The dwarves aren't trying to get revenge on Azog, they just want their stuff back.
5) The Great Goblin was killed in his throne chamber by decapitation.
6) The trolls caught the dwarves a few at a time as they came to check on what was taking Bilbo so long. Most of them were caught before they could put up a fight, and it was Gandalf that confused and delayed them not Bilbo.
7) Bilbo never fell down a pit or shaft in the caves, he simply got lost and separated, and he came across the ring while groping in the dark.
8) Radagast was not in the Hobbit, nor was Galadriel or Sauroman, although that meeting was alluded to.
9) When the dwarves are chased up the trees by wolves Gandalf throws down burning pinecones, and the wolves are running around helpless until the orcs come and put fires beneath the trees, but at that point the eagles come to save them. There is no fighting there or falling off the cliff, and no one gets down to fight the orcs or wolves. Also the way the wolves are depicted in all of the movies is wrong.
10) Sauron did not make the spiders in Mirkwood, nor were they a new addition to the forest, nor was the title "Mirkwood" a new one.
On the other hand, one thing they did right was show Sauron as an actual physical being rather than a floating eye (as they did in the LOTR movies). I hated that floating eye so much. That thing was so stupid, and it had jack all to do with the books. The books never say that he was a floating eye, that was just Peter Jackson trying to be clever, but now, because of those movies a lot of people are drawing him that way and browbeating others for not doing so.
But all in all PJ added so much to the Hobbit that wasn't supposed to be there, and distorted it so badly. I don't know if I'm going to see the next Hobbit movie, and I really hope they never make any Silmarillion movies. Someone needs to remind PJ that people are going to see the movies because of Tolkien, not because of him, and that he should stay true to the books. By the beard of Durin.
In general I am not too sanguine about movie adaptations of books, because they are often full of painful distortions due to the arrogance of the director, and I don't like seeing my beloved books distorted or dragged through the mud. I stopped seeing the Narnia movies for that reason. Too much pain involved there. All I can say is that at least it wasn't a Bible movie. Bible movies are often the worst, and that is something that people really do need to be careful about distorting.
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On the upside, the visual aspects of the movie are very good. They do a good job rendering the charactars, costumes, and settings. That being said, there were so many gross distortions in the movie that by the time it was over I had a headache, and before it was over I was wanting it to end already. Let's go over a few:
1) There was no condemnation of greed or divine right in the book. It is a well known and established fact that dwarves are greedy, but not in a dishonest or slinky way, they just like treasure and making stuff with their hands. Everything they have the work for, and they use their skills to generate wealth. There was no talk about wealth being a source of corruption that attracted the dragon. The dragon doesn't care, he just wants treasure, and also, I don't want to hear any movie producer talk about greed or negatively about having wealth. Also, there was nothing in the Hobbit about divine right to rule, or that being a bad thing. If you read Hobbit and LOTR by themselves you get the impression that there is a Supreme Being and that he has a plan (as opposed to the evolutionist backdrop that a lot of other authors opt for), but you don't see him referred to directly unless you read the Silmarillion.
2) The elves of Mirkwood never paid homage to the dwarves, they are wood elves, they don't involve themsleves in much and they don't care.
3) Dwarves and elves had mutual distrust and dislike well before Smaug came, and the coming of Smaug had jack all to do with that. The problems between them came about as a cumulative effect from a series of events in the 1st age. Thorin doesn't have anything against the elves, he just doesn't care for them because they're elves, and they feel the same about him.
4) Azog the orc was never in the Hobbit, nor did he chase the dwarves, nor was he even alive at that point. Azog actually can be found in the Apendices at the end of ROTK, and the story was quite different there. The dwarves aren't trying to get revenge on Azog, they just want their stuff back.
5) The Great Goblin was killed in his throne chamber by decapitation.
6) The trolls caught the dwarves a few at a time as they came to check on what was taking Bilbo so long. Most of them were caught before they could put up a fight, and it was Gandalf that confused and delayed them not Bilbo.
7) Bilbo never fell down a pit or shaft in the caves, he simply got lost and separated, and he came across the ring while groping in the dark.
8) Radagast was not in the Hobbit, nor was Galadriel or Sauroman, although that meeting was alluded to.
9) When the dwarves are chased up the trees by wolves Gandalf throws down burning pinecones, and the wolves are running around helpless until the orcs come and put fires beneath the trees, but at that point the eagles come to save them. There is no fighting there or falling off the cliff, and no one gets down to fight the orcs or wolves. Also the way the wolves are depicted in all of the movies is wrong.
10) Sauron did not make the spiders in Mirkwood, nor were they a new addition to the forest, nor was the title "Mirkwood" a new one.
On the other hand, one thing they did right was show Sauron as an actual physical being rather than a floating eye (as they did in the LOTR movies). I hated that floating eye so much. That thing was so stupid, and it had jack all to do with the books. The books never say that he was a floating eye, that was just Peter Jackson trying to be clever, but now, because of those movies a lot of people are drawing him that way and browbeating others for not doing so.
But all in all PJ added so much to the Hobbit that wasn't supposed to be there, and distorted it so badly. I don't know if I'm going to see the next Hobbit movie, and I really hope they never make any Silmarillion movies. Someone needs to remind PJ that people are going to see the movies because of Tolkien, not because of him, and that he should stay true to the books. By the beard of Durin.
In general I am not too sanguine about movie adaptations of books, because they are often full of painful distortions due to the arrogance of the director, and I don't like seeing my beloved books distorted or dragged through the mud. I stopped seeing the Narnia movies for that reason. Too much pain involved there. All I can say is that at least it wasn't a Bible movie. Bible movies are often the worst, and that is something that people really do need to be careful about distorting.
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Dino Dave
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Guys, I am in the process of starting to start a new project. For about a year I have been toying with the idea of bringing back a hero a created when I was in middle school, 7th grade to be specific. I ran this character from 7th to 9th grade. His name is Dino Dave. I'm not going to give away too much about the character beyond his name, but basically what I am going to try to do is stay true to the original tone of the comic and character (a middle school-ish tone), which should not be hard for me because part of my mind is still stuck in middle school. It used to always make me happy to work on Dino Dave when I was young, so I figured I would bring him back and as a result bring some happiness into my life, but I will also share that happiness with all of you. When I was in middle school I used to turn out episodes of DD pretty quick. I could one done within a week if I wanted. My drawing speed was pretty fast back then, although the trade off was that the quality of my art was really low. In theory I could produce them that quickly even now, but I would be drawing with a middle school level of technique, and that would just be lame.
HOWEVER, this time, I have a partner. I am partnering with The-M-Man, so the work load will be split in two, which means that things should actually get done. What we are doing to do is trade off. For one episode he will do the art and I will do the coloring, and then we will switch. We haven't decided what our rate of publication is going to be. Don't know if it will be one page a week, one strip a week, or something every two weeks. we haven't decided that yet. Right now we are in the idea and concept art stage. Meaning that we have some ideas and concept art, and are in the process of working on more. I'm going to put up some completed character art for everyone to enjoy and to get a taste of soon-ish. My partner is also contributing an OC, so there should be lots of humorous dialogue as our witts play off of one another. That is of course assuming that other people are capable of appreciating our humor. For the most part is probably going to be mostly light hearted weirdness, with a few serious themes thrown in just so that it has some sort of skeleton.
Anyways, we shall see how it turns out. When I was in middle school people made fun of me for Dino Dave, but those people lacked vision. This time I have a feeling it's going to be a hit, assuming we can put them out at a semi decent rate.
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HOWEVER, this time, I have a partner. I am partnering with The-M-Man, so the work load will be split in two, which means that things should actually get done. What we are doing to do is trade off. For one episode he will do the art and I will do the coloring, and then we will switch. We haven't decided what our rate of publication is going to be. Don't know if it will be one page a week, one strip a week, or something every two weeks. we haven't decided that yet. Right now we are in the idea and concept art stage. Meaning that we have some ideas and concept art, and are in the process of working on more. I'm going to put up some completed character art for everyone to enjoy and to get a taste of soon-ish. My partner is also contributing an OC, so there should be lots of humorous dialogue as our witts play off of one another. That is of course assuming that other people are capable of appreciating our humor. For the most part is probably going to be mostly light hearted weirdness, with a few serious themes thrown in just so that it has some sort of skeleton.
Anyways, we shall see how it turns out. When I was in middle school people made fun of me for Dino Dave, but those people lacked vision. This time I have a feeling it's going to be a hit, assuming we can put them out at a semi decent rate.
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