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Wow...
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Holy crap, I remembered my log in information finally...
It really has been some time since I updated...I haven't died. I swear. Since my last update...
It's been nearly two years since I legally married the love of my life.
I've been on T for nearly the same amount of time. My voice has deepened considerably & I even have some facial hair, along with other changes brought on by the T.
I'm no longer serving. In fact, I was done with serving about three months from that last post. I was hired at Starbucks. I'm currently a barista trainer with things really looking up for me moving into a shift position when one comes open. After some ups and downs, I've come to really love my store & I can't wait to grow more in it. I've even had, semi-joking, talks with my manager about my plans to take over the store when she's ready to move on & about the plan for my wife to take over her respective store eventually, making us a power couple in the city as we work in the same town on opposite ends.
We did move back to the town of our Alma Mater, albeit a year after that post. We've been here over 6 months now & it's pretty great.
I have a lot of art but most of my time has been dedicated to physical merchandise such as earrings because I found I have a knack for it. I'll hunt down my sketches & upload them, maybe today. Who knows?!
It really has been some time since I updated...I haven't died. I swear. Since my last update...
It's been nearly two years since I legally married the love of my life.
I've been on T for nearly the same amount of time. My voice has deepened considerably & I even have some facial hair, along with other changes brought on by the T.
I'm no longer serving. In fact, I was done with serving about three months from that last post. I was hired at Starbucks. I'm currently a barista trainer with things really looking up for me moving into a shift position when one comes open. After some ups and downs, I've come to really love my store & I can't wait to grow more in it. I've even had, semi-joking, talks with my manager about my plans to take over the store when she's ready to move on & about the plan for my wife to take over her respective store eventually, making us a power couple in the city as we work in the same town on opposite ends.
We did move back to the town of our Alma Mater, albeit a year after that post. We've been here over 6 months now & it's pretty great.
I have a lot of art but most of my time has been dedicated to physical merchandise such as earrings because I found I have a knack for it. I'll hunt down my sketches & upload them, maybe today. Who knows?!
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Life Updates
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Ok guys...lots and lots of updates.
My wife and I are now legally married!!! And have been for over a month. It's nice to finally have that piece of paper that forces everyone to recognize what me, my wife, and our friends have known for almost five years.
I'm still serving but I'm actively trying to be moved around in the company.
We might be moving back to the city where our Alma Mater is, which would totally be awesome!!!
I'm about to start T!!! That means finally being able to pass as a male.
Oh, & apparently I have strep right now.
Anyways, I'll get around to updating my art some day.
My wife and I are now legally married!!! And have been for over a month. It's nice to finally have that piece of paper that forces everyone to recognize what me, my wife, and our friends have known for almost five years.
I'm still serving but I'm actively trying to be moved around in the company.
We might be moving back to the city where our Alma Mater is, which would totally be awesome!!!
I'm about to start T!!! That means finally being able to pass as a male.
Oh, & apparently I have strep right now.
Anyways, I'll get around to updating my art some day.
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Devious Journal Entry
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I have need to actually scan in my crap, but between work & trying to fit in as much time with my wife as possible, I haven't been able to. I have so many. Last night I broke through a terrible case of art block & an OC apparently had some things to get off his chest. Anyways, it turned out to be an amazing piece...at least I think so. I haven't looked at since last night.
Other than that, my life has been progressing normally. I must find time within the next couple of months to visit the W so I can visit my wonderful friends.
Other than that, my life has been progressing normally. I must find time within the next couple of months to visit the W so I can visit my wonderful friends.
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Sebastian Runs a DnD Campaign
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That never ends....
It goes on and on my friends!
Some people started playing and...
Yeah, well you get the picture. I decided that- read Masa decided- that it was high time for Ianis to find a cure for his brother so I devised a plan of an in-game 10 year long campaign of these two fifteen year old boys traipsing through the Orient, befriending lords of provinces in order to to receive a single cherry blossom picked by the lord's hand. This is also a race against time since they entered into an agreement with a "face-stealer"- who is, unknown to them, a tainted spellcaster- that whoever collects the 25 blossoms & the first fallen blossom from the imperial city receives from the other party, the second half of the spell required to cast a very complicated wish spell that will heal the literal hole in Alexis', Ianis' twin brother, heart.
Masa's such a temperamental little diva! Already, after only "one year" he has decided that he has a propensity to cross-dress (ok I admittedly should have seen this one coming as he cross-dressed on their first adventure to hitch a ride to a town), must be a geisha (despite growing up hearing his father warn not to get involved with them), & decided that he's perfectly ok with a balanced menage-a-trois with a man a good ten years older than them (yes, I know this is D&D but both Ianis and Masa are effectively human as far as current age and mental state).
Of course, I really want to draw him with his two loves, but I'm being- and now we get to the heart of this post- driven so hard to crank out adventure after adventure, trying to keep a moody 19 recent high-school graduate entertained. I'm so creatively and mentally drained it's not even funny. I just want to be able to enjoy my summer off!
Ok sorry about the whine fest. All in all it's not that bad if I think about the fun times we've had on this campaign...(Don't' judge. I mixed so much of Japanese history it's not even funny. It's all for fun though.)
Example:
Party goes on fishing trip, dressing one female up as a mute boy in order to gain passage. They would have angered the lord if it had not been for the massive amount of fish they hauled in, but as punishment for bringing a female aboard his ship and upsetting his sailors, sends them on a mission to clear out a horde of kappa. Me, as a DM, tired of hackey-hackey Daenerys Targaryen rip-off (played by my sister, who was a lvl. 5 at the time with a +5 scimitar & +3 adamantine armor forged by one of her former party members as well as a cloak of charisma +2, circlet of persuasion, & a bag of holding IV...any experienced players will note that this is an absurd amount of magical items for a 5th level character, I mean at level 3 mine & my wife's are playing with masterwork equipment)...anyways, tired of every monster I've thrown at them so far have been easily dispatched by mostly attacking the one with the hackey armor & failing while the tank of a cleric Ianis knocks out huge chunks of their HP, I throw a half-black dragon kappa at them. This proved to be a significant challenge as they almost died but they overcame it. They bring the head of this giant horned kappa into the lord's war room/captain's quarters and throws it onto his table in front of a visiting war lord. The visiting warlord, so impressed with their display of bravado, challenges Ianis to a sparing matching. Using only bokken, they fight, the lord holding back as he knows he's more skilled and will most certainly win. However, he doesn't, and barely scraping by, Ianis brings the warlord to his knees. Impressive but not that funny until later...
The party is camping outside a dungeon after going in and almost getting drained of their strength completely when at the request of my wife to shut my sister up about always having to play her characters' own love interest (it's only natural that despite our best intentions to do otherwise, my wife's characters and mine are intrinsically drawn to each other), I introduce the Eroka Regulatory Squad, loosely based on the Shinsengumi & more based on the Shinshengumi of Hakouki thus giving me an easy personality and description reference. While they are camping with the party for the night, through much drink and revelry, it is revealed that Ianis bested Lord Gou of Dai, a fearsome and reckless young warlord already known for his battle prowess. Shojiro (loosely based on Hajime Saito from Hakouki), an Iaijutsu master (drawing of the sword so quickly that it in and of itself is an attack) challenges him to a duel, no restraints, using only the backside of their katana (Ianis borrows one at this point). I figure that Shojiro will easily knock this character who is 5 levels lower than him out with one draw of his katana. (I even, as a mean DM, give him all the advantage of using his Iaijutsu strike.) Needless to say, I roll crap & while he does hit and does a considerable amount of damage, he barely makes a dint on him. Ianis' turn. He deals out an appropriate amount of damage for his level. This is going to be easy. Shojiro strikes again, dealing much less damage due to the loss of his Iaijutsu bonus since Ianis is no longer flat-footed. Ianis' turn. He crits Shojiro knocking a 10th level samurai/Iaijutsu master out cold in two strikes, & so I sit there with a dumb-founded look on my face until I decide there's nothing left to do but laugh & so the rest of the squad joins in while Ianis frantically tries to heal the nonlethal damage he's caused & fretting the whole time about how Shojiro will wake up and kill him in the middle of the night for dishonoring him. Cue constant antics by Ianis over the thought that he's signed his own death warrant. Shojiro, on the other hand, feels as though he's made a life-long companion as Ianis is the only person to have ever beaten him so soundly, and has even offered to mentor Ianis in the way of Iaijutsu.
Now that I've bored you with my lame D&D story, I think my download is almost complete & I can get some more sleep.
It goes on and on my friends!
Some people started playing and...
Yeah, well you get the picture. I decided that- read Masa decided- that it was high time for Ianis to find a cure for his brother so I devised a plan of an in-game 10 year long campaign of these two fifteen year old boys traipsing through the Orient, befriending lords of provinces in order to to receive a single cherry blossom picked by the lord's hand. This is also a race against time since they entered into an agreement with a "face-stealer"- who is, unknown to them, a tainted spellcaster- that whoever collects the 25 blossoms & the first fallen blossom from the imperial city receives from the other party, the second half of the spell required to cast a very complicated wish spell that will heal the literal hole in Alexis', Ianis' twin brother, heart.
Masa's such a temperamental little diva! Already, after only "one year" he has decided that he has a propensity to cross-dress (ok I admittedly should have seen this one coming as he cross-dressed on their first adventure to hitch a ride to a town), must be a geisha (despite growing up hearing his father warn not to get involved with them), & decided that he's perfectly ok with a balanced menage-a-trois with a man a good ten years older than them (yes, I know this is D&D but both Ianis and Masa are effectively human as far as current age and mental state).
Of course, I really want to draw him with his two loves, but I'm being- and now we get to the heart of this post- driven so hard to crank out adventure after adventure, trying to keep a moody 19 recent high-school graduate entertained. I'm so creatively and mentally drained it's not even funny. I just want to be able to enjoy my summer off!
Ok sorry about the whine fest. All in all it's not that bad if I think about the fun times we've had on this campaign...(Don't' judge. I mixed so much of Japanese history it's not even funny. It's all for fun though.)
Example:
Party goes on fishing trip, dressing one female up as a mute boy in order to gain passage. They would have angered the lord if it had not been for the massive amount of fish they hauled in, but as punishment for bringing a female aboard his ship and upsetting his sailors, sends them on a mission to clear out a horde of kappa. Me, as a DM, tired of hackey-hackey Daenerys Targaryen rip-off (played by my sister, who was a lvl. 5 at the time with a +5 scimitar & +3 adamantine armor forged by one of her former party members as well as a cloak of charisma +2, circlet of persuasion, & a bag of holding IV...any experienced players will note that this is an absurd amount of magical items for a 5th level character, I mean at level 3 mine & my wife's are playing with masterwork equipment)...anyways, tired of every monster I've thrown at them so far have been easily dispatched by mostly attacking the one with the hackey armor & failing while the tank of a cleric Ianis knocks out huge chunks of their HP, I throw a half-black dragon kappa at them. This proved to be a significant challenge as they almost died but they overcame it. They bring the head of this giant horned kappa into the lord's war room/captain's quarters and throws it onto his table in front of a visiting war lord. The visiting warlord, so impressed with their display of bravado, challenges Ianis to a sparing matching. Using only bokken, they fight, the lord holding back as he knows he's more skilled and will most certainly win. However, he doesn't, and barely scraping by, Ianis brings the warlord to his knees. Impressive but not that funny until later...
The party is camping outside a dungeon after going in and almost getting drained of their strength completely when at the request of my wife to shut my sister up about always having to play her characters' own love interest (it's only natural that despite our best intentions to do otherwise, my wife's characters and mine are intrinsically drawn to each other), I introduce the Eroka Regulatory Squad, loosely based on the Shinsengumi & more based on the Shinshengumi of Hakouki thus giving me an easy personality and description reference. While they are camping with the party for the night, through much drink and revelry, it is revealed that Ianis bested Lord Gou of Dai, a fearsome and reckless young warlord already known for his battle prowess. Shojiro (loosely based on Hajime Saito from Hakouki), an Iaijutsu master (drawing of the sword so quickly that it in and of itself is an attack) challenges him to a duel, no restraints, using only the backside of their katana (Ianis borrows one at this point). I figure that Shojiro will easily knock this character who is 5 levels lower than him out with one draw of his katana. (I even, as a mean DM, give him all the advantage of using his Iaijutsu strike.) Needless to say, I roll crap & while he does hit and does a considerable amount of damage, he barely makes a dint on him. Ianis' turn. He deals out an appropriate amount of damage for his level. This is going to be easy. Shojiro strikes again, dealing much less damage due to the loss of his Iaijutsu bonus since Ianis is no longer flat-footed. Ianis' turn. He crits Shojiro knocking a 10th level samurai/Iaijutsu master out cold in two strikes, & so I sit there with a dumb-founded look on my face until I decide there's nothing left to do but laugh & so the rest of the squad joins in while Ianis frantically tries to heal the nonlethal damage he's caused & fretting the whole time about how Shojiro will wake up and kill him in the middle of the night for dishonoring him. Cue constant antics by Ianis over the thought that he's signed his own death warrant. Shojiro, on the other hand, feels as though he's made a life-long companion as Ianis is the only person to have ever beaten him so soundly, and has even offered to mentor Ianis in the way of Iaijutsu.
Now that I've bored you with my lame D&D story, I think my download is almost complete & I can get some more sleep.
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An Update on Sebastian's Life
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Ok...so life has gotten worse and better all at the same time since I last wrote a journal.
I made it through my first semester of cosmetology just fine. In fact, I made the president's list.
I'm not going back this summer because my mom lost her job at the college because of some douche with a Napoleon complex.
We finished the Little Mermaid & it was wonderful! Got really close to the kids so it was an emotional last performance for everyone. I think I caught a cold from our Ariel though. I've had the same symptoms she had for the last few days.
So, I'm on my own for the next couple of months, getting to do whatever I want. My plan is to collect all the pokemon minus the like 10 special event pokemon I'll probably never get my hands on, & do a couple of plushie commissions for a few extra bucks.
I made it through my first semester of cosmetology just fine. In fact, I made the president's list.
I'm not going back this summer because my mom lost her job at the college because of some douche with a Napoleon complex.
We finished the Little Mermaid & it was wonderful! Got really close to the kids so it was an emotional last performance for everyone. I think I caught a cold from our Ariel though. I've had the same symptoms she had for the last few days.
So, I'm on my own for the next couple of months, getting to do whatever I want. My plan is to collect all the pokemon minus the like 10 special event pokemon I'll probably never get my hands on, & do a couple of plushie commissions for a few extra bucks.
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