Tabenings - Post Release Edition

Hey, there's a title field up there! Only been using this Blogger thing for, oh, six months now and this is the very first time I notice I can actually title a post. Let's see what happens.

So, CORE #11 is out! You should go read it, if you haven't, but I expect anyone who is here reading this post already has. If not clicky-clicky for link:

And then hit the "Download" button on the right.

In related news, we'd really like to know what you thought about CORE #11, so you can leave notes here or you can fill out the official questionnaire. The questionnaire has the advantage that, if you fill it out, you will get your copy of CORE #12 early!

For questionnaire, clicky clicky:

And in unrelated news, Anaximanes has posted a video to his YouTube channel about me! And that is over here:

He had, not unreasonably, hoped that I would provide verbal responses to his questions, but sadly I only provided text, so you don't get to hear my 80s valley girl tones in the video. On the other hand, he got an actual voice actress to read my responses! So there are WAY fewer "um"s and "uh"s than there would have been had I done it. Altogether it's very nicely put together, and you should check it out.

I also have some questions of my own about your thoughts on CORE #11, but it's late and I'm bushed, so I shall save those for another post - which would mean at least two posts in a week! Woo!

Tabenings - Eleven edition

So it's done! CORE #11 will arrive on Wednesday for those prescient enough to provide feedback on CORE #10, and on Friday for the rest of you hoi polloi.

Me, I'm sore - got back to working out after six months of not, and now I am all achy and weak like a kitten. But it's a good weak, I guess. Also gym time always has that undercurrent of sexiness for me - witness 'Fitness' - there's nothing that hits one of my big red buttons like the idea of a muscular woman enthralled. That combination of strong body and enslaved mind, mmm.

Sadly I don't think we have any of those at the gym I go to - you have to go to Equinox for that, and I can't afford $200 a month for a gym membership.

Anywhoo, hope you enjoy CORE #11 - it's a little off-beat, and I think a little longer than it needed to be, but there are some hot scenes in there and some fun moments, and Uzobono's art is as gorgeous as ever. And after you've read it through a time or two, don't forget to read it through with an eye towards providing us with your feedback.

Tabenings - Shuffling Towards

CORE #11 continues to approach - I'm 2/3 finished with the final script edit, and Uzo has already done the first third or so of the postwork, so I'd say we're definitely looking at next week.

At this point I am as usual having the second thoughts. It's awfully wordy, lots of talking without action, maybe it's too boring, and is the resolution too pat? Am I drawing things out too much? I dunno, maybe people won't like it, why do I even bother.

You know, that sort of thing. The collective recoil from CORE #10 didn't help, mind you.

Anyway, it would be cruel... deliciously cruel... to keep it from you at this point. Being so very nearly finished. So close. But not... quite... available... yet. Could still change our minds.

:I

Tabenings - Tuesday Again Edition

Hey, I'm posting on time for once! How about that?

So CORE #11 is fully scripted and 50% edit complete. I wrote an additional scene because I had this really hot idea on how to implement it. So, uh, look for that.

Uzo tells me that postwork is gonna proceed at a steady pace, but the damned issue is crazy long (weird, given that nothing really happens - oh WAIT) so it'll be another two-ish weeks before it's all wrapped up. So look for it right around the turn of April.

Hmm, which means that now Uzobono will be back on Aria or Synthetic, or something, and I'll have to come up with something else to fill my time. Hmmm.

Tabenings - Cleanup Edition

Once again I forget a Tuesday!

Ah well. I have a good excuse, I was working on the final draft of CORE #11. As mentioned, after Uzobono has rendered all the things I go back through and re-match the initial text to the renders. There's a little tinkering here, a little re-arranging there, etc etc.

So I was working on that - Uzobono has only one section (out of sixteen) left to render. And now parts one through five are finalized and ready for postwork; I'll plug away at the next part right after this post. Or maybe I'll get some booze first. Yes, booze. Then smut.

Also, for those of you foolish enough not to regularly visit Uzo's DeviantArt page, the cover for Issue #11 is up now:

Prepare your body!

Tabenings - Ogrek Edition

Good news, everyone! You're all being sold for parts! No, wait, that's later. CORE #11 is done!

Well, almost. The scenes are all written, save for the last 1-2 pages which I am still phrasing. Now I need to go through Uzobono's renders and polish the script before the postwork and lettering goes in. I write the script, send it to Uzo, and then I get back individual renders matching each frame. Then I revise the script to best match the renders as they came out; often I don't need to do anything but sometimes I revise more or less heavily to get things to mesh as perfectly as possible.

So that's where we are, the last two scenes are in the render engine and I've got to get the script polished so that there's no holdup on the postwork. If all goes according to plan, you'll see CORE #11 before April!

Today's Edition comes from a comic strip called "Yamara" which used to run in Dragon magazine - I told you I was an old geek - which had a character named 'Ogrek'. (Who was a half-orc? Probably?) In addition to being a would-be boyfriend of the titular main character, he also the sort of NPC for whom everything always worked out swimmingly and he always wore the most self-satisfied smirk - not in a mean or supercilious way, just the perennially pleased expression of someone whose plans always come together.

Example: Yamara got ahold of a ring (or lamp?) of wishes, and after some skeptical fol-der-ol she realized that it actually was a really-o truly-o ring of wishes and made a wish that whenever she stole something (did I mention that she was a rogue?) no one would notice.

She then went on a crime spree, snatching purses and looting storefronts. Unfortunately for Yamara, it was a ring of limited wishes and the last wish had been the one immediately prior to her larcenous one, so basically she went on a really obvious crime spree and wound up in the pokey post-haste.

Well, her would-be boyfriend Ogrek strolls into the jail with his smirk on and pays her bail, leading to the following exchange:

Yamara: "You bailed me out? Where'd you get that much money?"

Ogrek: "I stole it."

Tabenings - Fingertips Edition

I'm not dead! I've just been playing Witcher 3, that's all.

See, this is what happens when you lose the benefit of habit. Tuesday night you play Witcher until Colbert is on, watch for fifteen minutes or so, and go to bed. Wednesday, getting ready for work, think "wasn't there something I do on Tuesday nights oh, shit."

Again!

Anyhow, not dead. Fetish-wise, let's see, Vice's update this month had more Xiim - mmm, Xiim - and is delicious. CORE #11 is on schedule for later this month (now that it's March). Um... probably some other stuff I've forgotten.

But there are a bunch of nekkers that need slaying before Mass Effect: Andromeda comes out, so that'll have to do for now.