vagueing time!

so idk when the last time I mentioned it was, but I was probably at 14, because I just need to do 20 now to be done with the 15-20 stretch, because I want to reference for that one, but 21 i’m just like, whatever colorful background, fine, there’s hardly any references anyway of that one so just make some shit up.

also it gained a panel? technically? except I’m just calling it 15b since it’s no drawing, just words, and like 33/34 of those words are the same word. at least it’s something to scroll along to for like a minute of the song and go wow… that person really just sat there and counted the number of times that word was said, and then wrote them all down.

I didn’t… like have to… but sometimes when I see lyricstucks and the artist just skips past these big sections of just music with no words and that’s mildly sad, or there are panels but there’s no way of knowing what speed I ought to scroll at if I haven’t heard the song before, I just wanted something that could act as a marker I suppose, like, once the word starts repeating you can kinda just glance at each one and then when you hit the bottom thats when you progress.

there’s some stupid jokes I hid in these panels, especially in the earlier part, and since when I started this and now, I realize there’s an opportunity to add the menacing shorts guy in there somewhere. which could be fun.

i’m feeling good about it right now, sometimes I swing back and forth between my art sucks ass and nobody will like it, and this is great and colorful and I love it and people are gonna love my gifs, and at most I have some quibbles with anatomy that I am not quite sure how to fix, or at least, don’t want to spend more time on to try and fix. this is already SO LONG. I almost wish I was keeping track of the time I have spent on this, but I’m sure it’ll probably be something like 300 hours by the time I’m done.

what’s killing me the most now is restraining myself from posting any of the stills, especially like some of the pre-gif individual slides that goes into these panels because having to index the colors kinda mars the earlier slides more, cause I forgot about having to limit my pallet like that, and it shows the worst in the very first real panel (the title card panel is fine) where it got a lil artifacty. thankfully my sibling let’s me yell about it occasionally and show them my progress, which helps. they even promised to reblog it, which is really sweet since they really don’t care about homestuck at all, and basically only know what they’ve osmosis’d through tumblr and what I explain about it.

but like I have so many pieces of art that i’ve already sunk a lot of time into and I’m not even at the halfway mark yet but I want the praise now you know? I like this character, I love this song, and I love bright contrasting colors and I’m just DESPERATE to share it already. why can’t I be done already?