In theory this will one day be updated as I complete pictures.

But for now I still have a big backlog to go through. So enjoy the image dumps!

This whole being able to wear gear at any level, but it not being -optimal- until certain levels thing.. creates certain quandaries.

I like hats.


Does not everyone?



This is crafting in FFXIV.


Yes for real. AND I missed a couple of steps at the end (wood chips to logs, water to muddy water). Yikes!

I confess.

I have been playing Minecraft.



It is pretty fun. And by pretty fun I mean "oh hello 2am, when did you happen?"

I made some character skins today. Possibly this is WORSE in terms of fiddly "just let me get THIS right and then I'll stop..." than regular minecraft.

I had been feeling intimidated about making my own skin, because the file they give you to work with looks like this:

But eventually I got tired of being Vincent Valentine, and they didn't have skins of any of the female FF characters I really liked (no Celes?). So I gathered my courage, and took someone's Terra skin and colored at it until it looked more like Shade and less like Terra.


Then Jay wanted a skin so I made one of Ammon~


He has a pretty bow.


But now my Shadey skin looks crappy compared to this one, so I went back and fiddled with it for hours to make it better. I even eventually sort of figured out how the second head layer works.



Anyway, just to confirm, in case you needed my own judgement on it, Minecraft is indeed awesome. However, I recommend you do not purchase it, even though it is an incredibly affordable $15, because you like having free time, don't you?

New to you content!

Have you ever met my good friend Seyrr?


Now you pretty much have.

Fiddly bits are the hardest part of making things.

So, I can't quite figure it out... They're both basically me, and maybe its the heavier use of dialogue this time, but while Seyonne was mostly quietly earnest, mithra-Shade seems to be getting all of the lippy retardedness.


It's the perfect plan.

I figured Botany would be a good way to suplement Carpentry. However I found that I could not maintain the required focus.

I spilled water on this book yesterday, and was sad. Luckily only the inner cover was really affected. All of the regular pages are pretty much fine.

Good Fucking Design Advice

Okay this is apparantly old news, because I found it through an old entry of Mandy's, but I am in love.

Good Fucking Design Advice (it's dot com!)

Picture unrelated.

El Forto Adventures - FFXIV

The little sketchbook is perhaps the most fun thing about the game right now.


My brother is playing! Or he did!

For like a day.

Harder than it looks....


Double plus HQ.

I started playing FFXIV in September.

The collector's edition came with a little leatherbound notebook. But imagine my surprise, the pages are not lined. It is a SKETCHBOOK. Glorious.


After long long hours of remaking characters and staring at the screen in beta, I had finally decided to be a catgirl, and not an elfboy, in official release. Enter Shade Salahar, newbie adventurer supreme. She kills lots of marmots.


I really like the LS crests. I wish you could see peoples' LS names when you check them though. Maybe it'll be in the miracle patch.


I got a free hat with CE too! ... and immediately, desperately began the search for a different one.


Lightning reflexes too, I'm sure.


So, the game still needs a ton of work. But I am having fun filling up this little book. I've done a bunch of pages already, I will post more later.

Beaches and Ruins