~kingtut98

I've heard mixed things about this update- but personally, I love it. AFTER ALL, YOU CAN READ THIS WITHOUT CLICKING ON IT!

Oh dear, I really have been posting a lot of journals recently...

The thumbnails in the deviantWATCH area are just brilliant- honestly, I don't have time to look through everything from everyone I watch. At least this way I can get a glimpse of what I'm missing.

The only real complaints I have so far are that it's a bit 'big' in some ways (some text gets chopped off in places) and that one of my "replies" went missing (it said "could not display") which is annoying since it was on Chapter 1 of Fair Game. If you wrote anything on that recently and are reading this, be sure to let me know.

Overall, however, I like the new separation of comments and 'replies.'

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As a reminder, the new end-date for my "Fiend" competition(esque) thing is the 20th of July.

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For other news:

I have managed to get somewhere with the coke cans, but it needs perfecting.

The deer has (or have- we think there might be more than one) been back in my garden regularly, and we recently found that one of our barbecues had been smashed. We think the deer kicked it over. That animal is a real nuisance, but we love it anyway. Such flippy ears...

On a good note, the development nearby has ground to a halt for as of yet unexplained reasons, leaving a big patch of unused land which I assume is what's been bringing in all the wild animals.

Finally, I have started work on a chainmaille gauntlet. The glove part is set to be in a ludicrously small, tight weave, but I'll weave that into a vambrace of a much more sustainable ring size. If I finish this gauntlet, it will eventually have two methods of fastening- a shoulder strap for wearing it on its own (This will be a whole-arm deal) and a system of hooks and clasps for bolting it onto, or into, my steadily growing chain shirt. Eventually, I hope to have a whole suit. It should be quite interesting in terms of construction, since I've found that I can bear to wear weaves that are slightly heavier than recommended. That is, the weave will be doubled in key places.

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I have pleanty of free space left, so I'll post this as I said I would. Leave a comment and I will:

a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,

In return, you 'must' post this in your journal *coughbutI'mnotexactlygoingtocheckcough*.