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Priscylla, The Perverse, & The Fucked World - Building Density
🕑 Added 2025-02-24 20:27:33 +0000 UTC"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe"
-Carl Sagan
Hey everybody, it's update time!
Ummmmm..... UPDATE
So, where the fuck is the art, Ecchi? What bullshit sob story do you have for us this time? Did your family die again? Did your house flood? Did you find Jesus? Has he been hiding this whole time?
Nah, no, no, no. I've been working on Priscylla. Basically, going back over everything: all the stories, all the art done by myself and others, and all the notes I typed up forever ago. I've been working to tie everything together into a satisfying and comprehensive little bow. It amounts to creating a story bible for Priscylla related material that captures all the characters, creatures, narratives, and nonsense that puts me in a position where I'm comfortable writing, drawing, and exploring in that universe. It's a lot of work, and a lot of writing.
Where am I on this project?
A selection of the various OneNote Notebooks on the project. It's a beautiful mess and this ain't the half of it.
Personal Health Bullshit
On the topic of writing. I've been typing away so much with such frequency that, like Mina before me, and may others before and since, I've ruined my hands. Okay, "ruined" is a bit dramatic. To be clear, I've always had hand problems from living on the computer and doing all my work on these fiddly interfaces.
My left hand (dominant) has occasional flare-ups of De Quervain tenosynovitis in the thumb region from pencil grip pressure, and my right is trashed with carpal tunnel from mousing. I use a mouse for 10 minutes and I'm hurting for days. I've adapted, and use touch screens, trackpads, and the stylus. It does not work for everything, but it has worked well enough over the last decade that I can do most things in Windows.
So far, I've been fine when it comes to typing. Well, now the mouse related pain has evolved into typing associated pain and numbness in my right hand. What? RSI is evolving! Hit B! Stop it! Aggh! RSI has evolved into FULL BLOWN CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME!
What does this mean? Not much so far. As soon as issues started flaring up, I switched over to long-form writing and started filling a notebook. When my hand felt better, I switched back to keys.
To try and get ahead of the problem, I looked into ergonomic keyboards and found the Kinesis Advantage. It's one of many strange keyboards that's supposed to help with RSI, so I put down the $480 for the board and wrist rests, and started using it. (Yes, it costs that much. From my research this is normal for high-end keyboard devices.)
Hard Mode unlocked. WTF is this thing?
(Side note: Initially the keyboard was supposed to be for Mina, but she took one look at it, and basically hard passed it onto me. So I guess it's mine now???)
Using a slightly different keyboard layout… you'd think it'd be straight forward if you already know how to type, but it turns out you have to start from zero and relearn everything. The combination of a split layout, columnar keys, key wells, soft actuation key mechanics, and tenting, adds up to make the board feel completely alien to my laptop-qwerty-floaty-typist fingers. On top of all this, while most of the board is the same, many critical keys are laid out entirely differently.
Thus began my journey to keybr.com, a helpful online resource which uses a basic interface and algorithms to teach you to type, or retype in my case. I put in 30 minutes each day, and I've gradually gotten much of my competency back over the past month. I'm not quite as fast on this weird keyboard, but I'm getting to the point where the interface isn't a complete roadblock.
(How has it come to this?)
So that's been holding me back a bit on writing, but helping with the pain and numbness… maybe? Maybe? It's hard to say. Righty is feeling pretty bad typing this.
Speaking of pain, and in the spirit of getting ahead of problems, I had a visit with an orthopedic specialist that deals with carpal tunnel related issues. It's the same doctor who unfucked Mina's hands. I had my initial consult with the doctor's assistant about a week ago. She brought out the needle.
Just like that, we're onto stage one of treatment: corticosteroid injection into the carpal tunnel. That sucked. It wasn't so much the pain, as the fact that she stabbed the needle a bit too close to the nerve, which made my hand reflexively jump, which just made the needle hop… oh god! It only lasted for a couple seconds, but that really sucked. Haha! Afterwards, I was fine, though the hand and nerve have been tender for the past few days.
To be honest, I'm not even sure the injection went right, but she seemed satisfied with her work. If everything went as planned, this should take care of any inflammation for the time being. I'll continue on as normal over the next six weeks and we'll see if I'm okay.
In any case, this should, in theory, help. I'll see if any further treatment is required. And to be clear, I haven't really stopped working, regardless.
I'm hopeful with these changes and professional guidance, I'll be better. If not, there's always surgery somewhere down the line.
Back to Art!
Okay, enough of my physical pain and suffering. Let's talk about the joy (and suffering) of work!
I don't know how else to put it, I've been building density around an imagined world. It's been called many things over the years: Sexworld, Sexland, Super Cutepetland, Fucked, and now, finally we're calling it The Perverse. We're getting close to where the material surrounding the story and characters will hit an inflection point (Math people, is this the right term?) and we'll achieve ignition. It's close, but I don't want to flick the switch before everything is ready, otherwise the energy will just drain out in little bursts and the fire won't be self-sustaining.
As with the Priscylla character sheet, I'm trying to figure out the right balance between keeping the batter baking in the oven, and placing pastries on the table to consume. I don't want to waste time presenting half-baked treats, but likewise, I don't want to keep revising recipes and cooking test batches until I hit some impossible abstract notion of perfection. IDK, making shit in earnest is scary.
In summary, I need to get things to the point where they hold together. To that end, please trust me, I am working CONSTANTLY, despite not having much to show for it.
I'm committed to Priscylla, and all the others, to absorbing their exuberant spurts and culminating them together as the firmament for a dirty fantasy world. It's a place for all the dumb horny ideas I've been cooking up for a decade, but only a tenth of which I've shared, because I've never had the time or freedom to concentrate and get cooking. Well, this is my time!
BUT, that also doesn't mean I'm spending every second in the Priscylla-verse. Last week I helped Mina with some stuff. It's another one of those collabs. The story goes like this…
Mina Collab - Hi I'm...
Mina intended to do a drawing of Daisy, but wanted to do something more interesting than the standard attire. We started talking and I was like… I got it, Gerudo Daisy, and it was on. Anyhow, I guess I got a bit invested in the idea, because after I saw her character drawing, I was like, "Let me put a BG on this!" We got everything together, and since my brain is all keyed into writing mode, a little mini-story started forming in my head over the weekend. Ah, making things I can share, it's fun. I'll be posting up the files for that in just a second. :)
So that's it for the moment. Oh, I have the Priscylla - FUCK MORNINGS sticker sheet art too. I'll get that up soon as well.
Here's to 2025! I'm sure the year will suck, but maybe it'll be good for my art and your eyeballs despite that. I guess well see.
Bye bye for now,
Ecchi
Comments
Ecchi-Star
It's coming up on a week since the injection. I'm doing okay at the moment. Biggest battle is using that Advantage keyboard. The split arrow keys drive me crazy when editing text. I get what they're doing with the placement, but I might just need to give up and reassign them to a spot on the bottom right. Haha. My struggles. Anyway, looking forward to sharing some of this stuff as soon as I can. I'm having a great time working through the stories and art. I'll try not to get too indulgent.
CarameLatte
Take your time, I hope the injection does its work for your hands! Either way looking forward to seeing The Perverse come to life and the many unfortunate(?) adventurers of Priscylla in that world, lol.
