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Distant Gaze


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  • 278 weeks
    Closure: Full plot spoilers for Smoke here

    Consider yourselves warned: this whole post is a spoiler. We're well past the point that the only realistic thing is that Smoke is done, so for anyone who wanted to know what had been planned, well, may this post provide you some closure. I'm certain to have forgotten things or misremembered them. It's been a while. But Smoke has only relatively recently stopped attracting new

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  • 282 weeks
    Tumblr porn ban

    As most of you know, Tumblr's banning porn on the 17th of this month. Since Smoke is pretty well dead in the water, I won't be bothering to relocate any of the images or other content from the Smoke Tumblr. If you came upon this story after I quit working on it and weren't aware there were images, here's your chance to see them before they're gone. Otherwise, it's your chance to archive them

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  • 356 weeks
    Cut content

    So, about a week ago, while naked and wet (just a shower, sadly...), I actually felt a little like working on Smoke again. I haven't yet, and don't know if I will. Let's start off with the honest disclaimers: if you've been here, you know not to get your hopes up when I say anything, and I know not to make any promises. Which is why I didn't post anything that night--I had to dig

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    12 comments · 880 views
  • 386 weeks
    Still not dead.

    I received a PM from Rozen Knight letting me know that some of you were worried about me. That's flattering, but I'm okay. If you followed me two years ago, you know that I'm coming up on a terrible time of year for me emotionally, but that's not why there's been radio silence. It's just that there's been nothing to say. No progress, and I assure you that I'm as tired of making empty promises

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  • 417 weeks
    News

    Current chapter is progressing terribly. Can't claim burnout since I've not put out a chapter in months, but something's not working. Chapter's going on the back burner while I put together a piece that builds Smoke's events in parallel with the main story. Style will be different, trying to shift gears. Sorry for the abysmal rate of updates, guys. Once that's done, I'll pick up the

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Jul
8th
2013

I should really get an avatar. · 4:17am Jul 8th, 2013

It's one thing to use a blank avatar if you're not putting stories up, but at this point, between my work on LightMask's The Hypnotic Adventures of Blank Sheet and what I've written of Smoke so far, I'm at about 60,000 words up on Fimfiction. Not having an avatar seems silly. Unfortunately, I am the fussy sort, and want it to be related to what I write, not just a crop of a pony, a shot from Pony Creator, or anything like that. Ordinarily, that would mean I pay someone to make me one. But, with Bronycon coming up, August PACKED with games I want, two pieces of Smoke art already commissioned, and Christmas to be saving for, I'm sort of tapped out.

So, in what is admittedly a super long shot that I won't be trying to sell anyone on, and won't be bringing up over and over (I appreciate the folks following me and don't want to be a nuisance), I'd like to offer a trade--one Fimfiction avatar (SFW, but mind control related; I know what I'd like) for a ~6000 word story to the artist's specifications (probably two parts). There are things I just won't write, but for a trade, I'd at least haggle on some of my squicks. It could even be a PC chapter in Smoke, if it fits properly into the story. (Wanting an avatar or not, I'm not going to make a mess of what I'm writing--at least not on purpose.)

I don't actually expect any takers, and I AM fairly fussy about quality, but a Fimfiction avatar is what, 256x256? Small. I don't feel too awful offering a couple of hours of work for what I believe would be at most a couple of hours of work.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, let me know via PM and we can talk. As I mentioned above, this'll be the first and last time I bring it up--I don't want to pester those nice enough to follow me.

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Comments ( 5 )

It's times like these that I wish I could kick my procrastination in the balls for not practicing to draw pony.

Also Steam Summer Sale coming up this thursday, gotta get your wallet ready

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Those almost never cost me much. I tend to get games at full price. When the sale comes around, if I spend any money at all, it's on gifts for others.

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I've built such a big backlog that there's no reason for me to buy stuff at full price (unless it's a game I really want) so I just wait for those big sales to get everything on my wishlist (adding even more stuff to the backlog...)

Distant, you know I'd jump on the opportunity if I thought I could, but I can't draw at all XD
Well, I suppose that I've been practicing my pixel art lately, so I suppose I could try something with that... but certainly nothing hand-drawn from this user.
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