HerpetologyPosted by tw1stedgrudge Sun, March 15, 2009 20:23:49I've been working like mental over the past few weeks woodworking, getting shelves made in my room for my various consoles and for my computer setup as well, it's taken a while, but thank god, now its all set up. The computer table was the hardest, even though half of it came from a local furniture store, and the other half I had to get fixed myself. I measured it wrong like, four times, and had to keep taking it apart and resawing it, and at the end up I was literally shaking like hell and dripping with sweat. But its done. Photos going up someday soon of my whole new room setup, maybe. : D But anyway, thats not what this post is generally going to be about - it's about who turned up at our door Friday morning!
I was sleeping in the last Thursday and Friday of my holidays lately there, having finished my woodworking for my room, I went to bed at around four Friday morning, and intended not to get up until like, six that night, but it didn't work out that way. >o< My mom was downstairs and called on me to get up at like, nine in the morning or something. Half dead from tiredness, I stumbled downstairs, and it appeared that this big frog had decided to try and climb up our porch to the top step, and wait for someone to open the door. Although they can hop, I can't think for the life of me why it would climb the stairs to our front door.
Species is Common Frog (Rana Temporaria) and I'm pretty sure it was a female. Pretty durned bloated too, so maybe its one of the ones I put in the pond years ago as spawn having come back to spawn in the same area again or something? Anyway, was an interesting surprise to be woken up to at the crack of dawn, even though I suspect my mom didn't really agree. So I picked it up, and carried it over to our pond, and sat it on a rock in the rockery, but it wasn't having any of it, and leaped from the rock right into the pond, and sank/swam to the bottom. I haven't seen it again since, so I guess I'll have to go round and check sometime and see if we have any frogspawn or anything. Oh, length was 9cm, width was, I forget... >_< About 5cm maybe? I never wrote it down. Blargh. Anyway.
Froggah!! : O
Random UpdatesPosted by tw1stedgrudge Fri, February 27, 2009 18:20:05Recently finished a picture commission for one of my friends, Marie, of her character Rene for roleplaying sites. Also updated some of the website with brand new illustrations to snazzy the place up a little bit more. :D In a more recent turn of events, one of my other friends, Meg, recently bought a little troup of goldfish, and one of them was happened to be named after me! xD -Ego-swell- I am now Stephenfish! The one named after me is the white one, with its butt to the camera.
The normal looking goldfish is called Chasey, and the black and orange one is called Nessy. xD
AerthPosted by tw1stedgrudge Wed, January 28, 2009 00:13:07
So, this is the first post to the official Blogronomicon. : D I thought it’d be nice to introduce myself a bit first, and what I’ve been doing with my life, so, as is perhaps unexpected, the first post will be a rather saddening one to some people. Boohoo. I come from a small town just outside of Glasgow City in Scotland, called Port Glasgow. I’ve been out of high school for aboooouttt, four years now, and in and out of college courses just getting a lot of different qualifications under my belt. My family consists of my mom, my dad, a younger brother, my grandparents, and my aunt May and aunt Rosemary.
My grandpa on my moms side of the family was the one that really got me started in drawing, and I suppose he’d be happy to see me publish my work as soon as its finished. His name was William Campbell (1931-2001), and he was 70 when he died in 2001 from a malicious form of cancer. He was also the man that ran to the nearest health clinic when I started convulsing in my pram when I was just a little baby. My grandma on my moms side of the family took care of me from early childhood, along with my grandpa, and her name was Rose Campbell (1931-2009). She was 78 when she died in 2008, again, from a malicious form of cancer. So nowadays, I live with my mom in our house up into the upper Port, with my younger brother, my three tortoises, two terrapins, and other various exotic pets and plants that I have a habit of accumulating. : p
I do the web-manga Aerth Saga, which at first was to begin as two rather simple sister-stories, Isshuu Kara No Kuroneko, and Setterwynn – but over the past year it has begun to explode plot-wise into a full blown epic; two separate manga series, a four-part novel series, as well as a few other reading materials to do with; or tying into, the entire Aerth genre. Right now I’m intending to finish the entire season of Isshuu Kara No Kuroneko (shortened to IKNK by the readers) and this is going to be the first entire part of Aerth Saga to be fully published on the web as well as in book form. The graphic novel books will have added extras like sketches and character bio’s and stuff that otherwise would be unavailable online.
My intention is to have all of IKNK done by 2010, but if the series stretches into a sixth volume due to the climax of the story; then it may be sometime into the following year that it is finished and online.
Trust me; it’ll be worth it. My word is my bond.
Oh, and I’m intending on a special edition box set of all of the IKNK books to also be designed, and for some form of coloured editions to be brought into production as well – but for now – its best to just finish the series first, ne? <3<3<3
Anyway, more about myself. I was taught at Port Glasgow High School, and I used to live just along the road from the high school years before. Other schools I’ve been in were Boglestone Primary, James Watt College Finnart Campus and Reid Kerr College in Paisley. I’ve done a two-year HND course in Graphic Design; and after that, I did a years HNC course in Social Science, and after that, my latest course has been a NEBOSH Health and Safety course, which I found quite interesting. I read a lot of books, and among them, some of my favourites are books by Helen Dunmore, Michellle Paver, Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, David Almond, Derek Landy, Terry Pratchett, Paul Jennings and Jean M. Auel, amongst others, and in no particular order. As you might suspect, I like medieval fantasy, as well as modern fantasy, and I have many, many books on things like the unexplained, paranormal events, magic and the occult, religion, mysteries of the world and cryptozoology; also known as the study of the possible existence of mythical/legendary animals. (ie; Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster and Mokele Mbembe.)
Ah. I also like movies. Especially horror movies, which I collect too.
In my spare time when I’m not pulling the hair out of my scalp from all of the other stuff I have to do; I have my exotic pets and many Bonsai trees and Cacti and other such plants that I like to grow, and I also collect things like different kinds of coins from around the world, weird and ancient/old things, fossils and crystals, underground comics, and so forth. I like gardening, nature, animals, archery, fishing, herpetology and falconry. My star signs are the Sagittarius from the Western Zodiac, and the Oxen from the Eastern Zodiac, the elements from both being Fire and Water, making me (supposedly) an unbalanced (or balanced) personality, depending on how you look at things. xp
I like puzzles and secret languages, finding hidden meanings in things and symbols.
I’ve also caught a pigeon with my bare hands. Twice. Once in town when I was bored and it was in my way, and another time when I was in my garden and it was walking around.
I am a mighty hunter, RAWR.
Anyway, I think that’s all for now. I’d like to do a manga review on the Blogronomicon every two months perhaps, but for now, we’ll just see how things go, because I’d like to see how we get on with everything else first; after all; I need to finish the Tanshin.co.uk website first, don’t I? ^_^
Adiosu!
