Further Machinations

 Still plugging along...  working on 1,000 cubic LY of adventure possibilities.  More later.

Galactic Tribulations

 On the Machinations of the Space Princess front:

Well, the decision to have a galaxy 400K LY across has now been shaved down a bit.  I decided to go with a galaxy closer in size to our own and I made it a flattened galaxy not unlike one that NASA has found.

I went with a pancake-like galaxy (and a smaller one) to make it easier on me to map it.  I can now map my galaxy, sector by sector, in a 2D'd 3D way.  The galaxy is only 100K LY across but that will still leave me plenty of space to play with.

I call it the [REDACTED] galaxy.

More to come...

Update - 7/11/2021

 Hello everyone.

Recently I acquired a copy of "Machinations of the Space Princess" by James "Grim" Desborough and I think I have fallen in love.

I love the ideas he's using for alien creation and I'm thinking I'm going to be playing around with creating alien races for a while.

The galaxy that I am planning on using is not going to be the Milky Way.  I'm currently researching information about galaxies and am thinking of going with a large spiral galaxy around 400K or 500K light years across.  This will give me plenty of space to put stars in and plenty of room for other things as well.

I'm also thinking that this galaxy may be the home for my "The Bone Age" OSR game taking place in the distant past.  By the time that this MotSP campaign kicks off the Eure and the Aeskari (from The Bone Age) will be ancient races that may, or may not, exist.  We'll see what happens.

Independence Day

 Hello everyone!

Still don't have as much content for you as I would like but seeing that it is July and I said I'd try to start blogging again I'll blog about something that's been on my mind.

It seems to me that Hollywood is working on turning just about every comic property they can into a movie or television series and that is all fine and good.  I don't mind it at all.  I'm here today to vent about a POS named "Gus" that was part of not just one, but two partnerships involved in creating comics.

I had big dreams and aspirations for us and at one point, under the second partnership, we even had "B" working as our producer of sorts who was really excited about the three of us working together and bringing things to life.  I remember that "B" wanted us to be able to make it to the Chicago Comic Con and that would have been tremendous.

The problem lied in the fact that I hitched my wagon to a horse that wouldn't pull.  Well, wouldn't pull the wagon...  this asshat had no problem pulling himself off (and when "Gus" was my roommate I caught that wanker masturbating three times).  You'd have thought the moron would have learned how to close a door.

Anyways, while that seems like a digression that is actually the heart of the problem.  "Gus" spent more time playing with himself than playing with his pencil.  (Although I am sure folks could make jokes about that too.)

And while it may seem that I am bitter I am really just saddened that "Gus" never took anything we were working on seriously.  While it is true that I had some really crazy ideas and could, and still can write anything (apart from regular blog posts it seems - 😉) I really do believe that now, after what could have been nearly 30 years of working together we could have, maybe had, at least one property that could have been, at the very least, turned into an online animated web comic via YouTube or something.

I'm not worried about making Hollywood money.  Granted, who doesn't want their share of boats and hoes? - I kid people, I kid.  No, what upset me at the time and for a while after was that a guy who I thought was a good friend and who had my back just turned out to be another useless wanker.  How could you go to art school for four years and not be able to draw women?!?  That, my friends, and the whole sorted story is a story for another day.

Maybe I'll dust off some of these old ideas and do something with them yet...  if I do I may just share the whole story.  It can't be slander if it's the truth you are telling.

So, this Independence Day I take comfort in still being creative, still trying to make art, and not giving up and running away like "Gus" the wanker.  I also take comfort in being free of "Gus."  I haven't spoken to him for more than a decade now and it feels really good.

If there is a moral to all of this I guess it would be - Don't give up on your dreams and never let the bastards get you down.  

Take care, everyone!

Keep playing, keep dreaming, keep making art.

Wes