I just remembered that I can make real headers for my dates lol :)
We're doing work experience in college which I've been looking forward to for ages and it's pretty nice. We're designing for a new start-up in town, starting with the logo and then using that to make a style guide, woth an art director and everything. Generally sketching out designs is my favourite part of a design process, even if I usually only get like 5 good designs in before I run out of ideas. I've been taking the opportunity to try out new music: so far really love Ghost Mice, X-Ray Spex is pretty good, and relistening to Inside somehow hit me stronger than the first time I did when the pandemic was actually in motion. Maybe that's just because in 2020 I was 14 (ough.....) and I've gained Epic Wisdom since then. I think I should rewatch the special. Bo's brand of humour mostly isn't for me but I really like it's part in the whole narrative of Inside - that being the progressive downward spiral of Bo's depression/anxiety and his increasingly desperate attempts to hide it behind the #relatable sad-guy humour, with the facade slowly falling apart and it becoming more and more obvious just how bad he's doing, until everything crashes and you get the 3-hit punch to the stomach of "That Funny Feeling", "All Eyes On Me" and "Goodbye". In a way it reminds me of many peoples' shared experience during lockdown, the way everyone was making jokes and memes about toilet paper and whatever, acting like it'll be fun and won't be so long, until it just kept Going and the loneliness crept in for people and just screwed them up.
But not me. I was too busy deep in the trenches of my Hollow Knight hyperfixation to pay attention to anything else (including the news, my brain and all my schoolwork). Lol, lmao.
I dunno, maybe I'm sounding pretentious. Analysing the deep narrative of funny awkward white people: the musical. Maybe I like to be pretentious sometimes. I'm getting a headache right now so maybe I should try to put the blog into dark mode? But I don't know how and kinda don't feel like learning.
In other news: despite being a Hazbin Hotel hater the blasted sweary demon show has consumed my entire brain for one reason only. I started doing a few redesigns of my least favourite characters (I swear that show makes it's character designs the worst on purpose) and it got me thinking about how I would write the show instead if I were given the concept to work with. Because that's the problem with Hazbin, and Helluva too: amazing premises, terrible execution in every conceivable way. I'm by absolutely no means saying that I'd be a better writer than Medrano, but this has become a bit of an au I've only shared the info about with my most trusted right hand arm man + best friend + confidante + silly rabbit, Ozzy. I already think about my ocs more than I think about literally anything else, but this stupid au is slowly consuming my brain. I may share deets about it at some point, but not right now. I'd also share my art but I can literally never get images to work somehow. Either way, they're on my Tumblr.
I have more to talk about but I don't feel like it. I got a buncha library books and art ideas but it's already 5 to 11 and I guess I need a shower.