…with the introductory character. Izzi Zoza was originally going to be an older mentor figure for the Steeple brothers (and still may be down the road), but over time I’ve had an idea to introduce her at a younger age and as a mentEE. Still getting her younger design down, as well as teaching myself how to work my Huion tablet… But consider her the symbolic introduction of MagIXimous finally launching as we near 2025!
…with the introductory character. Izzi Zoza was originally going to be an older mentor figure for the Steeple brothers (and still may be down the road), but over time I’ve had an idea to introduce her at a younger age and as a mentEE. Still getting her younger design down, as well as teaching myself how to work my Huion tablet… But consider her the symbolic introduction of MagIXimous finally launching as we near 2025!
Izzi Zoza has magic dreams
Where nothing is quite what it seems
Heroes and villains and kings and queens
Otherworldly creatures and beings
But when the dreaming stops
Reality is all she’s got
And when she tries to spread the word
To friends and family she goes unheard
They tell her not to be absurd
But she remains undeterred
She holds onto the thoughts
She knows they aren’t for naught…
I basically need to re-learn how to draw… looking forward to it. I want to get back to drawing and writing and using both to tell stories. Got me a whole website here where I could have been doing that this whole time (especially after that $1K auto-renew right after I got back from Mania weekend, BLUEHOST). It’ll take some time, but I’ll finally get this place up to snuff. In the meantime, I can pound some keys and scribble on paper and get back to doing what I love to do the most.
Besides eating.
Thru the Nines!
Took some time off to consider that top-to-bottom reset/reinvention/upgrade/sexygroovemojo… I’m back now.
Thru the Nines.
‘Twas a challenging month to be sure.
Started great; got to go to Wrestlemania for the first time, courtesy the most awesome person on this earth, my brother. The travel was tiring, Night 1 was incredibly cold, but ultimately I’ll remember the experience fondly.
The rest of April? Very, very challenging. I’m physically, mentally, and ESPECIALLY financially drained. Spiritually I’m okay, though that could improve too. Maybe sometime down the road I’ll get into specifics, but right now I’d just come off as complaining or whiny. I’m really making this post as a point in time I can look back on. I need a reset. Just a top-to-bottom-and-back-again self re-evaluation and (dramatic as it sounds) re-invention. I’m definitely overdue to loosen some self-imposed fetters. And to have a bit more faith in self. And to have my own back when no one else does.
Except of course, said awesome brother 🙂
I digress. Brass tacks, the old/current way isn’t working. It hasn’t worked for a long time; the stop-start nature of this site is evidence of that in its own way.
It’s time for something new. Or maybe time for something that has always been there to finally come to the fore. Maybe a little of both. Maybe something I haven’t even imagined yet. Whatever it is, I’ve got to make room for it. Bye-bye, same old mistakes. Hello, brand new ones.
Thru the Nines.
Know the moves and make ’em. See the chances and take ’em. Got yourself some claims? Stake ’em. Folks sleeping on ya? Wake ’em!
What a month it’s been, and we’re barely a week in. Dune Part 2 made me happy. Akira Toriyama’s passing made me sad. I’m writing poetry that’s sappy. Money problems driving me mad.
I’ll take the good along with the bad. It’s inescapable, an innateness. I’ll enjoy and endure the experiences to be had on the March into Greatness!
It’s February 29th, a day we only get every four years and the FIRST one since I started this site! Although “started” may not be the word I want to use for whatever I’ve done here up to this point. The paradox of choice: not knowing if this is to be my art gallery, my story hub, my online journal, my therapy session, all of the above, none of the above…
But something about today, this wonderful phantom day, had me feeling extra reflective. Had me remembering YET AGAIN that this site can be whatever I want, that I don’t need to make a manifesto but do need to DO SOMETHING with this space. Shoot, I’m about to eat another yearly charge in April… might as well at least make it worth it!
So let’s go full “throw stuff at the wall” and find my purpose the old fashioned way. I haven’t taken the eponymous giant leap quite yet… But today’s the day!
Thru the Nines, baby!
…
And yes, I know the phrase is “to the nines”… But why stop there?
Izzi Zoza has magic dreams
Where nothing is quite what it seems
Heroes and villains and kings and queens
Otherworldly creatures and beings
But when the dreaming stops
Reality is all she’s got
And when she tries to spread the word
To friends and family she goes unheard
They tell her not to be absurd
But she remains undeterred
She holds onto the thoughts
She knows they aren’t for naught…