Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher,
vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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19.2.11
14.2.11
Valentine's Day
Eric: May I sit down?
Aurora: Certainly.
Eric: Thank-you.
Aurora: Eric, why do you have a bear?
Eric: He keeps me company. I feel somewhat melancholic because today is Valentine's.
Eric: A large group of Regrets has decided to pay me a visit, and I feel half buried under all the luggage.
Aurora: And this bear is helpful to you under these circumstances? May I see him?
Eric: You may hold him, if you like.
Aurora: He has a white heart on his shirt.
Eric: Please be gentle, he is a bit fragile.
Aurora: What a nice little bear. He feels very soft!
Aurora: I can see why you like his company.
Eric: May I have him back now?
Aurora: Of course.
Eric: I suppose I seem very strange.
Aurora: Thank-you for letting me hold him.
Eric: I just feel more calm with something in my arms.
Eric: It is embarrassing and childish, but it's so much better to have him with me.
Eric: He won't think ill of what I do, or grow bored and leave.
Even if everything else is wrong, I can trust he will still be there.
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7.2.11
Building A Mystery
On Friday, my order of wigs and eyes arrived from Luts. Afterward, I felt just reckless enough to take a swing at Chrom's face-up.
About about half way through the process.
All finished!
As desperately as I wanted a Chrom, once he arrived, his default face-up troubled me.
I used to love everything about that face-up, but the more interesting things that I saw other people doing with the sculpt, the less I cared for the default.
In person, the problem was even worse: for as skillful as the artist was, and as lucky as I felt to have a soom limited face-up, to me, he just looked angry all the time. I would glance behind me to see him, and think: Yikes! Why is he so upset?
I also could not think of a name or much of a character for him. He was still so much a 'Chrom' from soom. All of my other resin people have some literary connection and most of them have a song that I associate with them. It may sound a bit silly, but I like how those things give one a sense of character.
So at last, while working away on the face-up, I was listening to grooveshark, and there was the song for my Chrom. It was not at all what I expected it would be.
Shortly thereafter, I decided that, for extremely convoluted reasons, Eric would be a suitable name.
And here he is:
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About about half way through the process.
All finished!
As desperately as I wanted a Chrom, once he arrived, his default face-up troubled me.
I used to love everything about that face-up, but the more interesting things that I saw other people doing with the sculpt, the less I cared for the default.
In person, the problem was even worse: for as skillful as the artist was, and as lucky as I felt to have a soom limited face-up, to me, he just looked angry all the time. I would glance behind me to see him, and think: Yikes! Why is he so upset?
I also could not think of a name or much of a character for him. He was still so much a 'Chrom' from soom. All of my other resin people have some literary connection and most of them have a song that I associate with them. It may sound a bit silly, but I like how those things give one a sense of character.
So at last, while working away on the face-up, I was listening to grooveshark, and there was the song for my Chrom. It was not at all what I expected it would be.
Shortly thereafter, I decided that, for extremely convoluted reasons, Eric would be a suitable name.
And here he is:
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