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Theodore "Teddy" Logan, my Call of Cthulhu character, as depicted by Keanu Reeves in A Walk In The Clouds.

Call of Cthulhu: An Enemy Falls – But At What Cost?

March 31, 2026

We’re back for our Call of Cthulhu game, and the shitteth hath hitteth the fan. Eth. If you will recall, in our last adventure, we finally found Jack Brady, source of (we hope) many answers – and then our loyal young local bodyguard, Li, SHOT HIM. Somerset, attempting to heal him, rolled a critical success – only Somerset is in truth the evil bastard Edward Gavigan, who unbeknownst to us, has shapeshifted into Somerset – and VERY NEARLY SUCCEEDS IN KILLING BRADY! Only Caliope‘s magical interference saves him, at great…

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Pompeii!

March 2, 2026

We went to Rome last week, and while it was all incredible, the highlight was the day trip we took to Pompeii. That was bucket list stuff for me, and guys…I was not prepared. Pompeii is huge, and much less haunted than I imagined it would be. Even the visit to the plaster cast of one of the bodies wasn’t so much haunted as heartbreaking, and the city itself is so…it’s so well preserved that I think the state of preservation itself eradicates the hauntedness. What I could not get…

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2026: Looking Forward

January 12, 2026

…so you can guess what I’ve been doing lately… :) In actual fact I did most of this several weeks ago and it’s absolutely horrifying and every time I look at it I do in fact get stressed out. So I added up the wordcount, which… well, it’s 420K before the Heartstrike books, and having just come off a 450k year, I know I can pull off 420K. The goal is to do so in a less stressful manner than last year, and the structure for doing that is to…

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art project: 101 hours?

December 27, 2025

WHAT NEXT? :D So I’ve got four more Udemy courses, I think I mentioned that: “how to actually use clip studio paint in a functional way” manga character design/drawing manga more generalized character design superhero anatomy and… oh, no… …I went to Udemy to make sure I remembered what courses I’d gotten, and the two anatomy courses I’d been eyeing were on sale, along with a bunch of other things, and I accidentally bought a two-part anatomy class a gesture drawing course and a ‘how to draw everything’ course from…

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art project: 100 Hours Wrapup

December 20, 2025

I’m declaring myself DONE with the (first?) hundred hours drawing project! I think I’ve improved some, less than it might seem from the outside – I regard a lot of what I’ve worked through to be reawakening old skills more than learning new things – but still, enough to be satisfied with. I’ve definitely improved on proportions and perspective, and I think I’ve also improved in my ability to see what I’m doing wrong, although the ability to then do it correctly seems to be lagging behind that awareness somewhat.…

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