ShizukaHibiki

I have been on here around a year now and I have uploaded nothing. This is partly due to my insecurity involving my art, and that not all my characters are even physically designed (and some I doubt I can successfully---bustle dresses, how intimidating!), and another part of it is the annoyance of having to draw something, scan it, clean it up...But, now with the beautiful (free) FireAlpaca, I could try to put more up, except I'm very newbish when it comes to drawing and coloring digitally. 

Then there's the other thing; most of my characters ARE disabled and I didn't make them like that to get pity for them (pity is never right...). This includes Kira. I am disabled (that's all I'll state for now), and I am fully aware of stereotypes of disabled people (and there are A LOT) and I don't want the characters' disabilities to be used against them and against me for whatever reasons (Yes, they can consent, yes, they know what that means...etc). Yes, I worry and I worry a lot. I would love to be more open about myself and about certain characters, but it will have to be privately between those I'm close with because I am a private person and because of stereotypes and the many -ist "ideals" that are in past and current culture. 

So, now that I weirdly ended up getting that out of the way, the reason I titled this characters is because I plan to post things about characters not only from IYS, but from one of my future e-book serials about disabled people in the early 20th century (plus the ones from my fandom serial, about fandom---to be specific). One of them I have a decent amount of her background on, her name is Eva, and she comes from an immediate family of lower-ncome lasped-renewed-but lasped Catholics and is an Aquarius (Feb 9). She and Kira are disabled in the same way, except obviously born and raised in different times and cultures. 

So...yeah...

Blaaaargh!

So, I have come back from a time of not only recharging, but creating other projects that end up taking a good size of energy. They include planning e-books and e-book serials along with my main project with my co-writer plus attempting a blog on WordPress...

I also happened to get FireAlpaca, a free illustration program that has nice clean lines and can give pictures a painterly look...It's very nice, and I highly, highly recommend it. But, I know I have to just get better at drawing first before I put anything up...I'm not used to using the digital pencil thing, it's odd. 

I've also been trying to think of ways to work on TalesThroughTime better. Due to various schedule changes, unexpected things, the need to recharge, I was thinking that it might be good to have back up admins (contributors) if any one (or all of us) of happens to be away at any random time and random length of time so the group can continue to be be active.