RavenclawProngs In reply to TavalyaRa [2011-02-14 03:52:29 +0000 UTC]

Back from a field problem and about to deploy in a few months. I'd be doing better if my boyfriend hadn't deployed the same day I got back, but at least I got to see him before he flew off. I'm doing pretty good, overall. And yourself?

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TavalyaRa In reply to RavenclawProngs [2011-02-18 03:57:18 +0000 UTC]

I guess you're both in the military then? (Forgive me if I've just been unobservant before!) I've had ups and downs, but doing pretty good myself. A promotion (yay!) got me placed onto night shift (boo!). Otherwise, it's my age old lament: "I'm not writing enough! Waah! I'll open up Word and address that right- ooo, new cartoon!"

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RavenclawProngs In reply to TavalyaRa [2011-02-27 07:54:38 +0000 UTC]

Nah, you're not unobservant this time. I don't talk about myself much here. I have enough journaling/social networking places to keep up with, I don't feel the need to update all of them regularly. This is just where I put the art I'm proudest of (if I ever get it computerised :shifty eyes: ) and stalk artists far more talented than myself.

I wish getting promoted meant I got the night shift, then I wouldn't have to put up with my dickish motor sergeant and I'd be on the schedule my body tries to put me on anyway. Seriously, every four-day weekend screws me up because I'll stay and get up later and later. My favorite time of day is dawn, but I like it to be the end of my day. I'd be completely nocturnal if I could.

I wish I were drawing more, but I haven't had any inspiration for a while. Same for my writing. Maybe one day I'll get back to the novel I've been working on for years. I think it wants to be a sci-fi conspiracy-theory mystery. (Certainly beats torturing my heroes for no reason just to have conflict and saves me from looking homophobic, since it centers around a gay/bisexual teen couple. And I don't want to write a romance. It isn't meant to be a coming-out story, either; there are enough of those, we need more incidentally gay/bi heroes in fiction.)

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TavalyaRa In reply to RavenclawProngs [2011-03-05 01:33:00 +0000 UTC]

To me, this is a place for fandom-related chatter. I don't reveal much about the responsible, grown-up nonesense that dominates my time while media obsessions dominate my brain.

I am good at staying up late and I had an ideal schedule- most days I worked 7 to 3 AM. The daylight hours when I woke up were mine, I came in around or shortly before sunset, went home and went to bed in the dark. A bed time around 4 AM was perfect. This going to sleep at eight AM is not working so well.

I hear ya! Right now, coping with some RL stuff has really killed working on even my fanfic. It's stupid how much I want to get back to that- if I want to write, why don't I just write? It's amount my mental state, really. Sometimes writing is a good coping mechanism for me and other times it isn't.

there are enough of those, we need more incidentally gay/bi heroes in fiction.

Yes, we do! We need more gay people in the media who are just being people. We need that for a lot of diversity catagories, actually, but "catagory" is part of the problem, isn't it? Because once you have a "catagory", you have requirements and standards and the sterotype baggage.

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RavenclawProngs In reply to Wicabeth [2009-09-03 12:48:33 +0000 UTC]

You do awesome work.

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Wicabeth In reply to RavenclawProngs [2009-09-03 15:53:32 +0000 UTC]

Aw, shucks *^-^*

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RavenclawProngs In reply to tragedyann [2008-12-05 04:40:54 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's me! It's a nickname that grew from a silly joke made at midnight in Walmart. (Midnight at Walmart: the time when all the weirdos come out. Case in point. ) So there's a good chance running across "Prongs" or "JRProngs" means you found me.

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