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Well fuck been going on a year since my last journal entry. So spoilers, I'M PRETTY MUCH DONE WITH DEVIANTART. Yep. My DeviantWATCH gave up trying to count how many deviations all the people I watch have submitted (it froze at 10,023 about six months ago), and I pretty much come on here to check a couple folks' journals, and to delete comments and so on.

IT'S BEEN FUN GUYS. If anybody is even reading this, myself and a friend of mine have started a shitty Youtube channel right here, Two Awful Guys. We play games and stuff. It's pretty terrible. Outside of that, I am part of the Saving Progress Fans community on Steam, and I'm on Facebook as Madd Byrd. That's about it.

Thanks guys for giving me something to while away my high school years on, and for being some pretty cool peoples. I won't delete my account or anything, but if I ever start posting new stuff on here I will be fucking amazed.

Cheers guys.
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Goodness it's been a while. How long has it been? Since April 19, jesus. Okay well if any of you cared at all, I obviously didn't get to writing in the "very near future" like I said I would, but don't worry I am now!

Sort of a mid-year resolution, I'm going to endeavour to do some writing every single day via Jerry Seinfeld's "Don't Break the Chain" method. Need to get me a wall calendar, and today is the first day of July so it seems like a good time to start. I've got a couple of ideas for stories that I've had rattling around in my head collecting dust and mucus for a while now, so hopefully I'll be able to get them out and onto digital paper. So yeah, maybe look forward to that if I end up uploading any of it which isn't guaranteed! Hooray.

As for Deviantart in general, I've been pretty not-active huh? Currently over 10,000 deviations in my deviantwatch and I just cannot bring myself to be bothered thinking about going through them all. So yeah that laziness has happened.

Um library job! Is continuing and being awesome and moneyful, so no complaints on that front. My contract is up later this month I think but hopefully they'll just roll it on. I assume I haven't done anything drastically wrong.. god I hope they just roll it on.

AVCon is also later this months, so that'll be funtimes I'm sure. Going with my constant broseph Mutton-Chops-Mitch, and Hallwardo is even going to be there a day and a half. So good fun!

So yeah that's about it. Don't expect too much of me because if I'm anything I'm a noncommittal slag, also I really really need to go to the bathroom so I'm just trying to wrap this up as quickly as possible. Toodle-pip, folk. Assuming any of you are still watching me anyway!
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So hey, okay, wow, been nearly three months since my last one of these. A bit has happened in the mean time. Um. I can't remember any of it though.

Well for one, my car (Sera) died at the end of February. Was very sad panda around then, and although I now get carried around by her cousin, Constance (I'll upload a photo actually), Sera was still my first car, and I loved her dearly. Very sadface, but oh well. I'll soldier on.

Just after Sera shuffled off this mortal coil, me and :devmitchello-man: had Ross Noble to attend to. More specifically, we had 4 shows over 5 nights, and they were all fantastic. kingkrapp, yorricksfriend and Aaron (WHO DOESN'T HAVE A DEVIANT ACCOUNT JEEZ AARON) also accompanied us on various nights, and it was over this period that I discovered a few things. I love 24 hour bakeries, you spend a lot of petrol driving back and forth to Ashford five or six times, and I am creepily familiar with on-stage people. I also gained another couple of nicknames from beloved Ross over the few shows, the main one of which being "Super Bogan", a title I share with yorricksfriend. Good times.

Um. Oh, had another Devmeet with the Adelaidians, which was as riveting as ever. Not much else to say about that.

Been working at the library, it's been steady and continuously awesome. Warhammer 40k is continuing as expected, expensive and time consuming, although I downright refuse to paint my IG at this stage, to the point where I'm going to employ Hallwardo to paint my shit for me. Because fuck Imperial Guard. I might try painting my Eldar, who are my next army! Yay. Also, Mitch and Aaron and I are getting into Warmachine/Hordes, so that'll be fun times. Looking forward to some awesome wolf-on-jack action, with me playing Orboros and those two Menoth and Cryx respectively.

DeviantART wise, I'll probably start uploading some writing in the very near future - I'm slowly wearing myself down to the point where I'll start writing properly again, so yeah. That'll be happening. Other than that, the usual (i.e. nothing much), but definitely watch this space. If you want, whatever.

Oh, and I got threatened by a truckie with a metal pipe last week, so that's a first for me. Good times.

Have a good one.
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Hey all, nothing really on the art front, but on the creativity/general dicking around front? Boy howdy.

Allow me to introduce you to Leap and William's Leapfrog Adventure. This is a funny thing that me and my friend kingkrapp are doing where we swap a Skyrim save file back and forth and record what happens, keeping it secret from the other person. There are four hours of it up at this point, with a fifth on the way. Here, have a copypaste of my introduction.

Okay! I've been told to write an introduction for a thing I only just had the idea for about ninety seconds ago, but whatever. I've got this down.

Hello, the three and a half people who will eventually maybe find this whilst looking for Skyrim fanfiction on Google, and welcome to whatever we're going to call this. It's a tossup between 'WilLiam Plays Skyrim', 'Liam and William's Leapfrog Skyrim Adventure', and 'Liam Fucks William in the Ass with a Rusty Steak'. Anyway, I'm Liam, William is the other guy, and we're going to do a blog of that Elder Scrolls thing where you swap a save game back and forth and continue it each time. So, that'll be interesting. William is currently doing the first hour as I type this, so this is all going rather too fast for me already. I was asked to cut a cake today and nearly had a breakdown because of the pressure. No matter.

The way this is going to work is that we take it in turns to do hour-long segments of play, sending the save file to the other person at the end, who then continues where they left off. Each of these hour segments is going to be chronicled in a post on this blog, which the following player isn't going to be privy to, thus maintaining the surprise and mystery of it all. Maybe you'll be walking around in Whiterun, hand the save over, and when you get it back you'll be naked, surrounded by dragon corpses and just vaguely on fire. Or maybe you'll be in Whiterun because, let's face it, everyone loves Whiterun.

Rules!
-No fast travel
-No cheats
-No reloading saves (except for death)
-No saving in a hopeless situation (i.e. when a Dragon is about to breathe fire on you, and you have 2HP)


So yeah, people seem to like it - Reddit is going a bit crazy over it, but I mean, Reddit is Reddit. Go look at it or don't, and happy Australia Day.

Oh, and incidentally, happy birthday to myself.
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