Deadline...

Well... schedule dictates less than a day to go... and must... stop... editing... :/

Imperator: Italia will go on 'sale' Saturday 30th March, yet someone must come along to kick my inner pessimist...

Thinking of other things... Girls und Panzer finally finished this week, and I've been repeatedly watching the Black Forest final match... ¬_¬ And I think my comments on Escapist rather make clear my sentiments... don't think I'll reiterate them here otherwise I'll wax lyrical about it indefinitely...

The steampunk idea just doesn't stop growing... I'm rating ships and designing artillery pieces now (not how they look, how the firing mechanism works & how they can misfire(!))... *hrk*

Anyway, IMDG course starting soon... or whenever I can feel like it (work related stuff that I've been trying to get going for a while... finally can). Things moving... after a fashion...

Bubi

Ah, Mes Travailles...

The GPU on my PC has died... so waiting on its replacement...

Haven't written much lately, except for a freaking new idea... steampunk Enlightenment Europe! Woohoo! ¬_¬

Concepts down for a series of at least twelve, so I must be rather nuts at the moment to think I can get that much research & material down on the page. *hrk*

In different news, pretty much done with a first full draft of Imperator: Italia... just one conversation to complete and a long month or three of editing... pray for nameless me, nameless folks... -_-

Bubi

Oh... the pain...

Chapter 18... half done... not sure how long it's going to end up, but... eh... still, 215 came and went quite quickly, and 214 is going just as quickly, think only a couple chapters for each year. Need more elections to keep it/me 'sane'... -_-

Ah well...

On a lighter note...

Bring on the Tiger I's! -_- Won't appear for a few episodes yet, but never mind.

Progress... or not...

Well, I just realised the layout for Italia has been thrown clean out the window. Ah well, still going OK... finally gotten past Cannae, and may the fiction begin... sort of...

Starting sketches for Iberia now as well, done one on the prologue to Carthago Nova but needs a massive overhaul... *sigh*

Anyway, on a silly note:

WWII tanks = great, moe anime girls = just as great, combine them and...

Yes, Girls und Panzer...

Bubi

Compilation required...

Running out of possible scenes I can write for the first part (Italia)...

Only two left that I can think of... and this will make absolutely no sense out of context... but I'll note them down before I forget them...

1. News from Iberia... talking about Dertosa... during Publius' quaestorship...

No sense right? Right... ok... moving on.

2. Introducing the lictors!

-_-

More time to be wasted at work... which is increasingly annoying me but ah well...

On a different note: Escapist Expo's Hour of Love!

Bubi

*derp*

Huh... *looks further down blog* ... woops... didn't realised already indicated at the aforementioned framing device... ah well...

Here's a silly picture to tide you over the next month... -_- (bugger... September already...)

Bubi

Official... & Yet Another Idea...

Let's consider this properly shall we, just so as I have it written somewhere for the sake of posterity...

As you know, a few sketches (OK, I don't know why I use that word, considering I read it with respect to Beethoven on his walks around the southern German woodlands when trying to find inspiration) around here have been about the experiences of Gaius Laelius. I'm now trying to tie the whole lot together and make it look plausible as well as historically accurate with respect to events, characters (woohoo, thank you Titus Livius Patavinus for giving me a complete main cast!!), most of the interactions and especially Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (to use his full name in retrospect). However, some of the theatricality in this first part is starting to make me weep, though how the hell am I supposed to fill out eight years of story when little happened in reality?! *sigh*

Anyway, the framing device I haven't touched upon properly and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what to put in all those conversations, and considering the narrator is Laelius, it should be kind of obvious what the framing device is: Polybius interviews Laelius, 160BC. Thus, question: to involve the younger members of the Scipionic Circle in these sections or not to involve them? *dramatic shrug*

On another note... sci-fi time... haven't done anything space-y in ages. So, here we go: cross between of the Napoleonic Wars & the Second Punic War (shut it, it's fiction!)... in space (well d'uh). So, how obvious a reference is the central character's name: Stafford?!

No?

*shrug* to lighter things then:

Momiji! I like her... she's silly! Plus, Kana Hanazawa voicing a complete psycho is hilah-rious! Oh yeah, and Miyuki Sawashiro as Cerevisiae in Moyashimon Returns is amusing...

-_-

Bubi