Whelp, so here I am, doing my homework at the last minute again. I'm displaying some artwork at Swancon tomorrow, and had a 'what if people ask where I post my art' moment. Which I totally haven't been doing. Sorry. If it helps, I've been feeling at least a little bit guilty about that? AI definitely knocked the wind out of my sails when it came to posting 2D art. Which I still paint. Professionally even! But putting it up just ~feels~ harder. Like, I'll have to deal with AI scraping or people being unsure if my digital art is real? Feels bad, hey. But I have been getting into ceramics over the last couple of years. I'm finally at the stage where I have some pieces I'm genuinely proud of, and those are going into the art show. So I'll post a few here, hope you enjoy them! This little guy is a baby rhino-dragon, I just love his chunky little haunches. I sketched him at last year's Swancon, so it seems fitting he'll be at the next one.

Got 3 games in, lots of interested attendees asking about the game, how to play it, where to find the rules, etc & had some really interesting stuff made at the crafting session afterwards when I dumped crates of bits, modelling putty, glue, snips & tools on the table & told them to have at it.

My own regiment , the Pheasant Pluckers, who (allegedly) killed an avian Root Horror, but probably shouldn't have eaten it afterwards.

Isle of Dogs, the new film from Wes Anderson is filled with stunningly beautiful stop-motion animation and it’s incredibly funny. 

Anderson, who has directed many films including The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, returns to stop-motion animation for his latest outing.  This is Anderson’s second stop-motion feature following 2009′s Fantastic Mr Fox.

Music in fandom panel:

Miles to Go by cupidsbow

Blue Planet by cupidsbow

I wanted to talk about why I chose the music for these, and how once I did so, the songs became linked forever more to my love of these sources.

Carrie and Gary - A Better Son Daughter by eruthros

MULTI Starships, bironic

SGA This is How it Works, Lim

HERC HoldingOutForAHero, MaryCrawford

MULTI The Glass, thingswithwings

I wanted to talk about how iconic vids ended up making the music have special meaning because of that fandom connection.

Fanfic panel:

These are the stories I had listed in my notes. I tend to re-read them or they stick in my mind for one reason or another. This isn’t an exhaustive list of my faves, but these are stories I thought exemplified particular tropes or themes that would be interesting to talk about.

ST-E, Trip/T’Pol, The Rainbow’s Foot, Shouldknowbetter - http://triptpolers.houseoftucker.com/fiction/author_shouldknowbetter_a_logical_proposal.shtml

VOR, Gregor/Miles, A Deeper Season, lightgetsin and Sahiya - https://archiveofourown.org/series/1516

SW: R-1, Cassian Andor/K-250, Unorthodox Modifications, Bright_Elen - https://archiveofourown.org/works/9689687

Merlin, Merlin/Arthur Pendragon, Evil Overlord Inc, Footloose and mushroomtale - https://archiveofourown.org/works/11782308

ST, Reboot, Kirk/Spork, Spocktoria, screamlet and waldorph - https://archiveofourown.org/works/125770

TW, Derek/Stiles, Doesn’t Add Up, Goldenpetal13 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/597525

TW, Derek/Stiles, Random Craigslist Missed Connections, inkjunket - https://archiveofourown.org/works/502677

TW, Derek/Stiles, Divided We Stand (actual match https://archiveofourown.org/series/85570) & With or Without You (faking it https://archiveofourown.org/works/1070471), Kourashi

TW, Derek/Stiles, A Simple Life, Survivah - https://archiveofourown.org/series/48750

SGA, McKay&Sheppard, Candle in the Dark, Sholio - https://archiveofourown.org/works/4072582

SPN, Dean/Castiel, Not Part of the Plan, Annie D (Scaramouche) - https://archiveofourown.org/series/56211

SPN, Dean/Castiel, A Room of One’s Own, NorthernSparrow https://archiveofourown.org/works/1417834

TW, Jack/Ianto, A Matter of Time, demotu - https://archiveofourown.org/works/198258

Just have to share my latest project with my partner! You can even check it out in person if you like! http://shadowmint.com/swancon2020/ A local convention had to cancel due to Covid19. Swancon’s the first convention I ever went to - it’s a small non profit speculative fiction convention run by fans. They mentioned they wanted to do a small online con and I jumped at the chance to help out! My thought was to make a 3D gallery space for all the amazing artists and it just grew from there. 

You can dress up and see others in the gallery, but it also works as a hub for other events. There’s ‘panel room’ doors which link out to the various video streams and a programme guide built in. My partner, Doug (shadowmint) helped out massively by doing the coding & networking, while I tackled the art. It was a great chance to skill up in Blender! I must have made about 100 quick models for the character creator and environment. As it all runs in a browser, everything needed to be as paired back, few textures and such, so I went for a low poly flat colours look.  At the last minute one of ladies helping organise asked if we’d like to do an online Masquerade, so I added in dance emotes and a dance floor! We all tuned in to a shared playlist of geeky tunes, danced and chatted - It was just super lovely!