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Review: Penguin Highway
(Originally posted on June 6, 2019 at Otakusphere.com) Let’s get the most important thing out of the way: the back-of-the-book blurb for Penguin Highway confidently proclaims “Everything made sense…until the penguins showed up!”, which may just be my favorite book summary of all time. In fact, I’m thinking of adopting that phrase as my personal motto. Now…
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Game of Thrones Showed The Failings of Punching Up
(originally posted on Otakusphere.com on June 4, 2019) Many viewers were disappointed by the final episode of HBO’s fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones, but I was not one of them. While invested in the story to some extent, for a long time, I’ve valued the series as a pop-culture phenomenon rather than a narrative, and in…
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Review: Good Omens
(Originally posted on Otakusphere.com on July 5, 2019) The book version of Good Omens occupies an odd place in my personal pantheon. I have great fondness for it, yet even at the time I first read it (sometime in the mid-90s), I wasn’t convinced it all came together that well. Like some of the middle volumes in…
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Book 5? What Book 5?
I have deleted Demonic Cafe Book Five, Always A Golem, Never a Bride from Amazon. I initially said I wasn’t going to do this and just learn to live with it the way it is, but I realized I couldn’t do that. The book got a 1-star rating on Amazon, which is not in and…
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Messy Bunny Girl
I felt bad that my previous Bunny Girl drawing was so stiff, so I decided to do some drawings that were more energetic, even if they weren’t in great proportion and whatnot. This was my favorite of the ones I drew. I think this is a good exercise and I should probably do a lot…
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Aeka Bunny Girl
I did an assignment for my Storyboarding class that involved Aeka dressed up in a Bunny Girl costume, and I liked the idea so much I wanted to draw it some more. There are a lot of problems here, things that I can see even through my pesky “proportion blindness,” but the point of the…
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More Sketches
Continuing with my “Drawing for the sake of drawing” project, here are a few more sketches, all of Aeka. She looks very masculine in #2, not sure quite how that happened, but there are things I like here. Drawing characters super-deformed (SD) is always fun for me.
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I drew something kind of cool
I haven’t been spending much time drawing because I’m bummed out that I lost the muscle memory for it that I used to have years ago, when I drew every day. It finally hit me the other day that “Having not drawn makes me sad, so I will continue to not draw,” was not a…
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Review: A Wizard of EarthSea
I realize the incredible chutzpah of deciding to “review” a seminal work that is foundational to its genre, many, many decades after it first made a name for itself. However, Review sounds better than “Karen prattles on about Earthsea for a few paragraphs,” so that’s what I’m going with. I’ve had a problem with the…
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ABCD, Part One
Writing Class Week One Preamble: I will write an ABCDerian piece in the first person that seems to focus on food, but the focus will really be on the narrator’s struggles with depression and OCD. A is for Arugula What is arugula, anyway? It’s a salad green, but is it one of the bland ones…
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Karen L. Mead 