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Here’s a bit of art that I ALMOST! Forgot to put here, but here it is now!

Here’s the long, looooong description I originally published it on deviantArt with:

‘Precipitation’ + ‘Meditative’ = ‘Precipitative’. Obviously. xD
Anyway. Here’s a drawing I’ve been slowly picking away at for a good while. It started when I woke up one morning, maybe a month/month-and-a-half ago, feeling really sad, lost, despair-y, etc. And instead of trying to fight the feeling, I embraced it. I let it have me without resistance or self-judgment. And after a while, when I finally felt ready to get up… what do you know, I felt a lot more patient, charitable, tolerant, just generally like a less prickly human being!
It seems like often there is an inclination to beat off negative emotions with a club. But after the above moments with myself, I developed a hypothesis: What if the negative emotions THEMSELVES are not really a problem, and rather the problem is in the REACTIONS and/or RESISTANCE to them?
I mean, if you permit the fact that you are currently feeling sad, or mad, or depressed, or hopeless, or whichever ‘low’ emotion you identify with in a given moment… if you don’t judge or invalidate or beat yourself up for having them, if you don’t try to tell yourself you’re doing something wrong because you are feeling them… you’ll probably feel that much better already!I mean, “negative” emotions are what we call them, but at the end of the day, they’re really just human emotions. It’s perfectly natural and normal to feel them, just like any other emotion in the spectrum. And if we never felt badly, we could never even tell when we were feeling good.

This is coming from someone who has had anxiety/depression struggles for pretty much a lifetime. But what if I didn’t struggle so much? Someone, I think it was Jim Carrey, said that ‘depressed’ can be re-read as ‘deep rest’. And I honestly see why now. There’s something very cathartic about just surrendering to one’s sadness when it comes up… in a way that is safe, of course.

…A lot of philosophy today, ha. xD Personally I’m going to keep trying this method for a while, whenever I feel depressed.
Everyone stay safe and clean out there.
(PS: I am submitting this on an actual rainy day :3)

That moment WHEN YOU REALIZE IT’S BEEN MONTHS SINCE YOU LAST UPDATED YOUR OWN DANG WEBSITE in any way, shape or form!! AAGH. D: Ever since I moved away to university last fall, life has been topsy-turvy and it’s only seemed to get topsy-turvier (NOW it’s topsy-turvy for EVERYONE, with this whole virus-pandemic NONSENSE going around and putting a big ‘ol STICK in the cogs of peoples’ lives right and left! If you’re reading this during a point in time BEFORE the thing has blown over… stay safe, stay sanitary! That’s an order! ;3 )

AAAAANYWAY. IT’S LONG PAST TIME that I did a MASSIVE UPDATE-BLAST around here. So, what’s happened since October??

First of all, these three Yowler and Draggin pages came out! (As ever, you can read the whole comic here, or here).

Next, there’s a BUTT-TON of regular art pieces. I’ve updated the Art Page with a much-overdue ‘2020 Art’ gallery, as well as added some to 2019, as well. Among all those are included the following… I reckon I’ll just put a mini-gallery here instead of trying to list them all individually because there are so many. ^^; For specific descriptions of each of these, you can view them in my deviantArt gallery (which, for some reason, I managed to keep updated while neglecting my OWN BLASTED WEBSITE… >_<;)

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So, there you go! That’s the BIG update, and I goodness knows, probably have to update some other, smaller stuff around the site too. ._. It’s rough not staying on top of things, and I can only blame myself, ha! :’D (…Well. And school. And pandemics. And the way that they BOTH impede normal life functioning. xD )

Hello… it has been a while since I posted here. ^^; I transitioned to a new school and new town in late August and my brain has been totally hijacked by not only the classwork load (which is substantial from week to week) but just getting around the adjustment of everything around me being unfamiliar. But I’m here today with a bit of a backlog of arts. :’D

Here’s a design sheet I did for the characters in a current book-project of mine called ‘The Maiden and the Hermit’. Most of this stuff was actually done in 2017, with just the darker dragon’s pattern-details having been finished up this year! So, on the Art page, I added this one to the ‘2017 Art’ gallery. :’P (Definitely zoom in on this one; everyone looks very small otherwise!)

I basically just wanted to draw something quick, personal, and therapeutic so I did this happy li’l picture of Enigma the Crow and Radio the Mouse, characters from a story idea I have called ‘Flying Colors’.

More therapy-art, I think, and this time, it’s even more personal. xD Those who have been looking at my stuff for a really long time will probably remember Sekoiya the Kazzen? I dunno why, but I felt like doodling my old, blue-fuzzed alter-self again the other day. :’D

So yes, that’s about it for now. Hopefully I can keep stuff more regularly updated around here but no promises with all of this madness lately. ^^; I’ll do my best though!

First time posting on this site in just a wee bit more than a year, and GOSH it’s nice to have access to the inner workings around here again!! 😀

The reason I was gone so long was primarily because the site did not have a secure connection, and I therefore remained logged out. But NOW, if you’ll look up to the search bar, you shall notice the site is now ‘https’ instead of ‘http’!

Y’ALL CAN LOG IN SAFELY NOW 8D

In addition to this, some other updates, such as:

~A new domain name (‘sequoiathestoryteller’ in place of ‘imaginationsflightiestescapade’, because MY what a train wreck that one was! o_o; )

~The addition of Graphic Novel content, which was previously absent (the projects are relatively new :3 )

~Some rearranging/editing of pages in general (might do a little more, even)

~The installation of ‘Disqus’ for comments

Special thanks to Shawn and Bill, two awesome tech/web-savvy guys who helped me acquire the https and change the domain. ^_^ (Goodness knows I’m hopeless at the intricacies of stuff like that. x’D So nice to have some help)

I’ve begun creating a small graphic-novel story by the name of ‘Yowler and Draggin’. It is told in first-person by my dear character and muse Mask Face, detailing a notable event that happened one day in her life. I’m not yet sure how I’m going to deliver this comic on this particular website, so for now I will give you a link to where I have put the first page on deviantArt. :3

Here it is: Yowler and Draggin, page 1

I can’t say with any certainty that I will be able to update this on a regular basis nor with the frequency I would like, but I shall do my best, because it’s gonna be AWESOME. >:D

As the title implies, I’ve been quiet as a proverbial mouse around here for the last few weeks. ^^; To repair this, I have come along to post something. 😛 Let me show you what I have been up to… ‘Accidental Elemental’ is still under re-construction and recently I’ve done some character concepts/references for the story. I made these using some sketch templates for the two different types of dragons in this story-world at different ages (child, adult, young-adult, etc.) That’s why they all look a little copy-pasted. xD

(In other news, I also made a special deviantArt account just for this comic, because all pages, concept art, and teasers considered, it’ll end up being huge enough to require its own space. ^^; )

Anyway, here are the character references. 🙂 (Click on them to see them larger.)

 

I made this for a couple of different reasons: A) To practice with a drawing/coloring style I could potentially draw the new Accidental Elemental comic pages with, and B) To clear up some lingering confusion among my art-viewers taking this bright green dragon for Parch, the main character, as he will appear in the reboot. They’re in fact separate entities… let me stick them side-by-side to point this out, haha. 😛 Parch is the guy on the left, not the guy on the right. :3

More on the Art page, as ever! 🙂

I recently added a branch to the ‘Art‘ section of things with a gallery of stuff that I have drawn for other people.  You may see it here if you fancy. 🙂

Also, as the page itself mentions, I would at some point like to open commissions in a more widespread way by utilizing Paypal… all those currently in that gallery were, admittedly, done for people who are more-or-less local in my area. I’ve had one heck of a time with Paypal so far, though… I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually. ^^;

Hello, all. 🙂 I’m working on a sort of poem-thingy in the Pairetorian language. Nothing fills in missing words better than trying to write something coherent in the language you’re trying to build (not to mention what excellent brain-exercise it is, oh man). xD That’s how I generally build on my fantasy-languages… I just hunt for words as I need them. xP

This thing isn’t done… I’m just posting a progress shot on a whim. 😛 If you’re REALLY REALLY CURIOUS what it’s saying, you may have a scavenger hunt in the dictionary, and good luck to you (especially since I only have an English-to-Pairetorian version just yet and not the reverse). ^^; I don’t fancy translating this at the moment, sorry to say… but here it is anyway. =w=

Sarepha, desa ta kaed ipir kei.

Sarepha, desa craela ipir rhae.

Kraeyaya, kei trell, kei trell tri de.

Sarepha, desa ta kaed ipir kei.

Euraespilea.

Sarepha, de xaiyra.

De jorein kei jasseuriys.

Sa kei qann.

Oyairme kei ipir de trellikae.

~~Goodnight now! :3

Hi everybody! Recently I’ve been working on (what I hope are) improvements to my dictionaries for the Torian languages. Instead of just being one big alphabetized list of every word in each language, both of them are now sorted into categories based on what the words mean. For example, the word for ‘dog’ would be listed under the category ‘Life Forms’ and sub-categorized in ‘Animals’. I would like to thank my friend Tamsin, a.k.a. UnicornCrazy, for inspiring me with this idea. ^u^

Both these dictionaries are still works in progress (and goodness knows they’re ALWAYS works in progress with new words coming in as they will), so there’s always room for improvement. Hopefully this new way of presenting the languages is more comprehensive for people who might want to construct sentences in either of them. :3 I’m open for any suggestions on how to improve them further should anyone have any suggestions to give. ^_^

You can go to the dictionaries by clicking these pictures: