all made up with nowhere to go

Note: you may have seen a previous version of this post, as I accidentally posted before I'd finished it.

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I went to see Jackie yesterday, to give her her (very late) birthday present, which was a picture I'd done for her with gnomes on (I may have mentioned this; I can't remember right now). She loved it! Which is good. I thought she would, but you know how doubt can be so niggly sometimes.

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There's a comics group meets near me, and I'm hoping I have enough guts to go to the next meeting! Also you're not required to actually be a producer of comics/an artist, you can just nerd about them if you want to, which suits me fine. I can nerd about comics all day long, if required. Well, I think I can.

Jackie was actually the one who told me about the comics group, because she knows one of the people who set it up. I knew about it anyway, because I read about when they had their first meeting, but I didn't know they were still going because I haven't seen any advertising anywhere! (I saw their first poster in quite a few places, I think, and there was a bit about it in the local paper, but I've not seen any posters since). I am now following them on twitter and wordpress, so at least I will know about future meetings! I just need to stop being a shut-in loser and actually go to the next one!

Although it's a slight pain in the arse, because it's on a Sunday, and buses are only once an hour. So either I catch a bus both ways and miss the first half hour (it's two hours altogether), and maybe have to leave a little early so I don't miss the bus home, or I walk into town (three miles) and still leave a little early and/or hang around for an hour *drags hands down face*

I hate going to things where I don't know anyone, but I know I can do this! I used to be way better at it! I went to college when I didn't know anyone. My first convention was FULL of people I didn't know! I went to uni where I ALSO didn't know anyone!

I suppose I could make comics about my anxiety about going??

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Talking of comics, I tried reading The Last Cowboy at the weekend. I gave up, though, because it wasn't really grabbing me. That said, I liked the one race of aliens that were kind of bird-like, and I liked (predictably) the translator dude (who was one of said aliens).

But I dunno, I just wasn't really feeling it. The art was nice, and I'm sure the story's good, but it just wasn't for me.

(Which reminds me: I never posted about Blood-Splattered Socks! I read the entirety of what was available online at the time, despite not liking the art, and the story was really interesting!)

(Also: I totally lost interest in finishing From Eroica With Love. Oh well).

If you have any webcomic recs that are not Cucumber Quest, Paranatural, Namesake, or anything previously mentioned in my general comics tag, I'd be happy to hear them! :)

(I have a webcomics tag! Who knew?? Though I'm about to alter it to comics: webcomics, and I think I'm going to alter all the manga ones to comic: manga name. Because they're all comics at the end of the day).

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PSSSST! The zines are nearly finished! Sorry it's taken, like, six months to get them done!

You know what? I nearly didn't post this. Tumblr and its "this shit is problematic and you're problematic for liking it!" attitude has really made me wary. Not because I willingly ignore problems within media I enjoy, because I don't. But because it's so prevalent over the site, and I'm sick of seeing it. I'm not stupid, I know problematic shit when I see it, but it's not going to stop me from enjoying a thing if the problematic thing is not what the whole thing's about.

So yes, I know this has off-putting content. I'm well aware of it. I don't excuse the character's behaviour AT ALL.

(I'll stop being defensive about it eventually; the longer I'm away from tumblr, the better).

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Today I want to talk about From Eroica With Love, because I want to share the absurdity I've been reading recently.

However, it comes with a couple of caveats:

( things that may well put you off, and rightly so )

ON THE OTHER HAND!

( things which are good! )

I don't really have a conclusion, this is mostly me writing down stuff so I can remember it (I don't do that enough).