{"id":16939,"date":"2024-08-24T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:56","slug":"glow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2024\/08\/24\/glow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Glow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m unreasonably happy about this drawing &#8212; because <em>it glows in the dark!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/2024\/08\/img_20240824_085212795020470052785930.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16937\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I stuck it on the little notebook I always carry, and now it shines from my bedside table at night, keeping me safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, admittedly the glowy paint markers I used look patchy and uneven in the dark&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/2024\/08\/img_20240822_21474722391257632715804371.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16938\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but looking at this still makes me happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve started work on my story for the next Charlottetown Comics Club publication, which has a hard deadline, since we want to launch it at this year&#8217;s local zine fair. So I&#8217;m feeling a lot of pressure to work on that, which is squishing out diary comic and Marsholes strips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize I don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to participate in this, but I like the story I&#8217;ve come up with and it&#8217;s something a little different for me, so&#8230; I just need to crank it out for a bit. With the time constraint, I&#8217;m just going to draw it in pencil, which is different and scary, but I hope will be quite expressive in the end. In high school I did all kinds of little doodles for friends*, and I loved the variable lines and shades that are possible with a pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/2024\/08\/img_20240824_0926255279637010757665407.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16941\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thumbnails for the story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*Through the years, folks have often said to me, &#8220;Remember that drawing you did for me of&#8230;?&#8221; No, no I do not. Sorry. But I&#8217;m sure I loved doing it for you at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A work colleague pointed out a glitch in one of my illustrations for our latest book, which has gone to press and can&#8217;t be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(If you&#8217;re a reader and catch it&#8230; I dunno, I owe you a prize or something.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, I am dying a death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I can do is commit to checking over the PDF preview next time. (Details are a challenge for me. I should also enlist extra eyes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is feeling bad about this mistake required? It won&#8217;t help anything and certainly isn&#8217;t good for me. And yet it feels like skipping that step would suggest that I don&#8217;t care. (I do care.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that regularly feeling mortified about my public self is an ADHD thing (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria). But maybe I could&#8230; just not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I have your permission?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our car lease is up soon, so Craig and I are off to a dealership later this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We both hate this kind of life administration stuff, and I dread high-pressure sales situations. So this should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m unreasonably happy about this drawing &#8212; because it glows in the dark! I stuck it on the little notebook I always carry, and now it shines from my bedside table at night, keeping me safe. 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