Vagrant-Verse

I'm admittedly half posting this here to for my own benefit, but I figure it still wouldn't hurt to share.

I've been hard at work putting the overall narrative of the Fathom Files together, and now that I've actually started writing the narrative itself, I now realize that a lot of my original plans would work better rearranged or in some cases completely revamped. Now, as for the file images themselves, that's gonna mean a few changes. I don't know how deeply those who follow me like to dig through my archives, but you may have noticed Umbara got a slight redesign and a new bio template. That's the first big one, I've been working on those for a while and plan eventually to swap all of my current designs over to that particular build. The good thing is very few of my current designs won't fit in that, so it'll mostly be a few odd file edits.

But a few of them, about... half a dozen of the current files, I'd say, will be going through some bigger tweaks. The narrative has grown, boys and girls, and with that comes some spring, or rather autumn, cleaning. Four of the current roster will be getting a significant size reduction as well as some reclassification, and about the same number will be getting redesigns to match my new level of skill and to better work with the dimensions of the new bio template, which is much bigger.

And also... there's been one particularly sizable change to the story, one that I'm sure people will be all for. I won't spoil what but you can expect that revelation over Labor Day weekend, possibly even today.

So, I think that covers everything, but let me post up a quick TL;DR patch log below, showing what you can expect. Oh, and for now, just ignore the file numbers, that's an amount of tedious wetwork I'm NOT willing to get into.

1. Post ???? 
2. Relocate Okidu and Meeraj due to resizing
3. Continue File Series, (We're almost done with Part 1!)
3. Resize/Redesign Amminots, Takraw, Entch, Doradon and T'Zakka
4. Update Art to new templates, redo art and writing when necessary

For all you HWE folks out there, I figured I'd join on the fun and do one of these things for Horvath, Paul, Allison, Frank, Faris, Vita and Oliver. I will spoil nothing, but feel free to broach any topic you like. I could use the fleshing out.

Hey everybody! For those who haven't been in the know, I've been a real ghost on the internet in general these past six months. The reasons for that are many, and range from being very personal to very financial.

Well, I can now say that the overwhelming majority of those issues are behind me. I've got a new place, miles away from the inlaws I've had to stay with, a job that allows me to afford it, and my own internet connection! So, for the most part, consider this an official announcement of my return to the interwebs.

The only remaining hiccup is that I'm still working off of an older computer. My tablet works on it, but the jury's still out on my old art programs running worth a crap on it. So art might be a little later in coming, and it'll probably involve a lot of stuff starting from scratch again. Hopefully, though, everything will work out.

Here's looking at you guys! See you again soon! 

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I suppose I should go ahead and add this in since a couple people already know and the comments may confuse others.

My grandma passed away yesterday morning. She'd been surviving ALS for the past 3 years, an unusual form of it that started at her neck and chest and expanded out to her limbs, and now, after three years of slowly watching her wither away, her ship's finally come in. Thankfully it was peaceful and painless. I've had those three years to process and grieve this, way longer than most ever get, so at this point... I'm feeling relieved more than anything. We were very close, and at a very vulnerable point in my life, she took care of me like no one else could have. I'm not the only one who can say that, either. So, we all hoped and prayed it would be like this, that she'd pass quietly without fear or pain. She earned it.

I've never known, and may never know again, a spirit as strong as hers. She kept smiling through everything, and you knew she meant it. Even when her muscles no longer allowed her to, her eyes said it all. 

So, I'm bummed, but relieved at the same time. I don't know the arrangements yet, but most likely I'll be off for a few days. Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone. 

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Hey again guys. I'll be honest, a good chunk of why I'm writing this is just to get my last journal off the top of my page. I'm including a couple of details about where I'm at and all, but nothing too serious.

While not everything from the last journal is completely resolved yet, many aspects of it are infinitely better than they were this time two months ago. There was a lot of family drama that's subsided, and Sarah and I will be moving sometime in the next month into a new, much nicer apartment. I've been blessed by my in-laws letting us stay here rent free, but the cabin fever of living out of one room is getting to us. And my sister in law and her fiance moved out a few weeks ago, which has pretty much nipped the squabbling in the bud. I know I don't talk much on here and a lot of this information might be news to most of you, but its been this way since march of last year and no one is happier this era is coming to an end than I am. Its nice to feel like you can function in your day to day life and actually succeed at your work and play. Really nice, I'd almost forgotten it.

Computer-wise, I'm still down for the count as far as digital art's concerned. Moving and all the saving up that requires supersedes getting a new computer or tablet or whatever I'll wind up with. But, I have a lot of unexpected free time this week due to my wife taking a trip to see one of her friends for a few days, so who knows, you may just see what I've been cooking up soon. I'm not promising any modern masterpieces, but it might shed some light on what my plans for Fathom and beyond are. 

Oh, and my birthday went really well, too. Not much in the way of celebration, I just laid down, had my favorite food and spent time with my favorite people. It was one of the better ones I've had in a while. I wasn't expecting any gift art due to my lack of presence here in the last few years, but the well wishes and kind words meant a lot, so thank you all for that. Here's hoping for a better on next year!

Til next we meet, folks!

For future reference and to keep myself accountable.  

I plan to start pumping out inked sketches of each of these soon, so stay tuned for updates. Things will change on this list.

Kaiju:

-Grorn

-Phadron

-Uthegar

-Amminot (Polyp Stage)
-Amminot (Faetal Stage)
-Amminot (Rasqet Stage)

-Guaiar (Instar)
-Guaiar (Imago)

-Vindicho

-Stormback

-Doradon

-Abject

-Matahn

-Qrolvar

-Karuzaku

-Baigar

-Dedun

-Muerdon

-Ceanaq

-Edifice

-Streega

-Tarshis

-Gath

-Takraw

-Sceront

-Czolgosz

-Rohv

-Enkch

-Syyd

-Yusudys

-Zeaubhar

-Xgiozas

-UNUM

MECHA

-Rigel

-Uruk

-Simmah

-Aldebaran

-Rasalas


That's it for now, expect this to be updated occasionally.