Homestuck

Okay, this is really not that Tyrian-related, but I made another fancy linkback button. You see, the other day I was on Charahub, and noticed that Homestuck seemed to be misspelled on the main page where they have links to all the popular fandoms. I Googled it just to make sure Homestuck was the proper spelling, and in doing so, stumbled onto the actual story and started reading it. And then I became a fan, and made a nice linkback button of deappearifying pumpkins.

(Wait, did I just say pumpkins? That must have been a typo... I'm pretty sure there never were any pumpkins. ;) )

So, yeah. I'm thinking about drawing up some fan commands, which I'll post on my deviantART, and who knows what else. Or maybe I won't draw up any of that, and will actually focus on my own stuff again for once. Only future me knows! ;)

Political Map and the Bao Zodiac!

I didn't think I'd be able to sit down and do a political map this soon, but somehow I did! Or at least I got started... it's about half done right now. XD

I've also started working on a zodiac for a country called Baoguo—as you can guess, it's somewhat like the Chinese zodiac, but a lot of the animals are different and accordingly have different stereotypes. For example, instead of a tiger, there's a snow leopard, and in addition to the other farm animals, there's a duck.

The next post I make in a few days will have some finished drawings and descriptions for both of these. Erm, I guess not! Whoops.

New linkback buttons

Yesterday, I wanted to put a Subeta linkback button on this blog to honour the best virtual pet site ever. But it seemed kind of out-of-place on its own, so I decided it needed a friend or two. The two most obvious ones to put next to it were Valenth and Charahub, two other projects by the same company. But I couldn't make just one Valenth button—I had to make six!

And then I couldn't decide on a single one to use, so I had them rotate via javascript! Take a moment to refresh the page or look at some of the other pages on this site, and you'll see what I mean. Isn't it cool?

I also made the Charahub button (though not the Subeta button). Maybe I'll make a Sangkara button later for anyone that wants to use it!

Gingivitis?

Okay, I just managed to find something in my traffic stats today that one-upped the last one: somehow, somebody got here from one "getdentalimplantsinfo.com", under the tag "gingivitis". What the...?! o_O

I could not even find a link to this blog on that site, not even under the tag 'gingivitis'. Talk about labai keista.

o_0

Keista, Labai Keista

Okay, looking at my traffic sources, I found something really, really weird today: somebody on Lithuanian Google found this blog by searching for a reference sheet of one of my characters that I'd posted before. I'm not sure where else they would have found the image to put it into the search bar (other than maybe my deviantART, or some sort of weird photobucket cross-reference), but somehow they did, and ended up back here. Now I am totally confused.

If you are said person in Lithuania, would you please explain to me what you were trying to find? Because I frankly think this is really weird, and will probably wonder about it for weeks or months if I don't get some kind of solution to this mystery. And maybe, just maybe, I can help you find whatever you were looking for when you searched for this image. Perhaps? o_O

The image that started it all

The Voltaria Leijonörn

Yup, I've been at it again, doing everything but drawing my actual characters. But hey, this time I made a fairly cool design: the Voltaria Leijonörn. It's the emblem of the Voltaire family, used as a heraldic charge among other things, and I meant it to be a sort of fierce-looking lion-eagle without being a griffin.

I didn't think about whether these were its "proper" colours or not when designing it, but I'd assume they are since they don't neatly fit the narrow set of heraldic tinctures. When actually using it as a charge, the entire thing would probably be just be recoloured grey and black like this:

Argent, a Leijonörn displayed ash-grey, maned and queued sable.

I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out.

Tyrian Music Update

All the songs in my previous post are now up on my Photobucket account as videos so you can listen to them before you download them. That is all.