Today's my dad's birthday! *confetti cannons* Besides giving him snacks (mainly things involving chocolate), we also found at Dollar Tree a tiny trash/recycle bin, only 6-inch-ish tall. He assumed it was for his desk for things like used tissues, but I'd personally been thinking he could pretend to put whatever BSs or idiotic things his boss and/coworkers said to him in there. *clear amusement at my own joke*
Today I started reading the new (or at least to me new) book Magnum Chase: The Sword of Summer this morning, and I'm really liking it. I was kinda like "C'mon, Rick Riordan, you can't get past the whole Percy Jackson plot and make something more different already? You're clearly just changing mythologies!" But, I mean, his work really is good and I love Sadie and Carter from The Kane Chronicles, so I figured it was worth a shot.
Seriously, I am amazed at how well that man can make realistic teenage protagonists. Magnus talks so much like a modern high-schooler, and I love it! From the first page I was already laughing and I was like "This is definitely gonna be good."
Today was the dedication of the Provo City Center Temple, so we watched that broadcast from our stake center. It was a nice experience, especially since the only thing I remember from when I last watched a dedication (or re-dedication, in that case) was the white handkerchiefs. The speakers were powerful, and reminded me again of how important it is to be going to the temple, especially since we're close to different ones. I'm not sure if I'm ready to go do baptisms with the Young Men and Women here, though, and my sis is too old to be doing them without a family name (apparently, there's some that we can do, if only we figure out more how to use the FamilySearch site and also complete more of my mom's side of the family). I hope we can all go soon, and it'd be so awesome if we could all do at least one family name. I haven't gotten to do that before.
There was also the yearly event of the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable, where people of different religions perform songs or similar things. Some of the acts are really interesting, and some of the music seriously brings a smile to my face. While there, I realized it was another thing that I could do with Coatrack and/or Carter, if they come at the right time of the year to Utah in the future. I think they'd love it. ...I hope they'd love it... *tear*
Throughout the week, I've ended up receiving more inspiration for WFAM, which is awesome. Mainly, it's been for Benji- the main bad guy- and for drawing the characters. (Cred to Carter for helping me think of Benji's motive.) I'd pretty much only had the old, tiny simple doodles for a few of the OCs starring in the story, and with Carter having done proper drawings of at least a few of his characters, I decided it's defs about time I should do the same.
So first I tried doing Ben, the character Carter gave me, since he hadn't given me any idea for appearance beyond a picture of his dog. With trying to take a few characteristics I saw in the picture, along with the description of personality and stuff, I did my best. Apparently, he likes it.
Every time I draw thick eyebrows, it either makes me think "Those are mine!" (especially if they are the same kind of shape) or it makes me think of obersten (Side-note: I reread a few of the Mud Grave fics someone wrote for him and told Carter about the AU- he was like "That... that's so messed up...") who usually draws thick eyebrows and once said "Arakawa's gotta learn how to draw eyebrows!" since her characters are usually drawn with really thin ones.
So here's the ones of Cami and Guinn I did a day or two later- with pen and everything! But the closest pen was blue... Oh well.
I can never draw Guinn quite right. If you don't know or remember that I drew her when she was first created... please don't try to find those old pics. Not super proud of 'em.
But Cami came out decent enough, even though I'm used to drawing bangs. I wish I hadn't tried to lengthen her hair more at the end, since it's so obvious I did so. I just was thinking I should do so because in the fic her hair's gonna be somewhere to her upper or middle back, a bit shorter than I have now.
The differences that now exist between me and Cami:
Her hair's completely straight. It couldn't wave on its own if it tried.
She doesn't need glasses; therefore, she is free to wear hair/headbands without them hurting her as much as they do to me- and she wears such accessories to school every day.
She's got normal eyebrows.
She wears makeup to school. It was originally gonna be that she instead wears makeup when doing shifty stuff (huehuehue), but I realized that it'd make more sense the other way around because it'd suck a lot more to be sweating and stuff with makeup on. Plus, it's less likely someone will recognize you right away if you usually have paint on your face and you go a day without it than vice-versa, right?
It's not necessary for her to be doing such things, but she still feels better with looking different at TAC than from everywhere else like school, just on the small chance that someone she knows sees a glance of her while she's on a mission or something. So at school she wears light foundation and blush and a deep lipstick, then when arriving to TaC she wipes all that makeup off, takes out her headband to let her bangs down, and pulls her hair up into a high ponytail. It's not really a disguise, but it's still enough that she looks about as different as she could from how she looks at school with minimal effort.
Appearance-wise other than those things, we're still similar, I think. She might be slightly darker, but we still have same eyes and face shape and stuff like that.
Since I just don't say much about WFAM here since that'd take a long time, I'll just go to the last doodle. Since Carter had made a character, I figured maybe I could ask Coatrack to make one too. I'd thought to ask earlier, but I never really told him anything about my writing since that's not his kind of thing. But he still made one! Sort of. I asked him a question at a time and a mildly silly minor character came out of it.
This is what happens if I draw on my phone hurriedly without really trying. *want to laugh and cry at the pic*
I later cleaned it up, so this should hurt your eyes less!
He was supposed to be a cool kid, but then I made the suggestion that maybe he secretly loves Backstreet Boys and Coatrack was all for it.
Welp, I guess that's it. I hope I can use Spring Break decently!!! Like for school stuff (lame, I know) and writing stuff and enjoying the weather!
K bai!
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