Spoileri decided to move a cd tower to a slightly different location in the room



whoops it fell over whoops all the cds fell out whoops i guess i better check them for cracks before sorting them back out and putting them back into the cd tower (which i removed before taking this picture) after of course finding a more stable location for the cd tower

and yeah thats annoying but this is somehow the second time this has happened tonight and i guess that part of the floor is just, despite all appearances, completely lobsided can't expect to support a thing upright for more than say an hour at a time whatever was i thinking

for bonus irritation because i admit this isn't the worst thing thats ever happened just an especially egregious series of events, all my headphones are dead bar the worst ones that have a cable of about a meter and its the middle of the night so if i'm gonna sort through them all i'm gonna have to do it in silence because my stupid headphones can't manage to the other side of the room

and its not as if i even use these fucking cds anyway god this is all so incredibly unnecessary, all because i wanted to open up a little space next to the radiator so i could sit and be warm and comfortable and be in range of my stupid tiny range headphones to play pokes and listen to music but nope i'm dealing with this, and dealing with it for the second time in a couple of hours.

(for reference when i decided to put the cd tower back up in almost the same location i reasoned what happened the first time is that it must have been sitting slightly atop a wire which imbalanced the tower and i made sure that was out of the way, i didn't reckon upon the tiniest indentation in the floor from where i had to move a piece of furniture god damn this rant is petty but honestly)

SpoilerSo here I was, working on my new adventure. I've felt like I already messed it all up by making it a fan adventure and not executing the beginning as great as I could've executed it, but gosh darn it I was determined to make it work SOMEHOW. Too many projects have gone to the dust mites and even if this was going to be the thing that breaks me, I might as well finish it in the end.

So I opened MSPaint and worked for a gosh darn hour on the placement and sketch of Panel 1. After it was all done and good, I did the selection tool, wrapped that shizzle around my fudging sketch, and tried to move it like I had done the last million times: with the arrow keys instead of the mouse because the arrow keys were a whole lot more specific.

But I was holding down the control key while I was doing it and instead of a nice and tidy translation, I got something that looked like a piece of modern art.


This. Except with more color and better graphics.

Apparently, holding down the Ctrl key while dragging around an image makes a copy of that image every pixel you move it, making some sort of protruding hellscape that is immune to the wonders of Ctrl-Z if you don't catch on quick enough that it happened.

So yeah.

I was tempted to punch my laptop until it said sorry, but instead decided to shove my anger into tolerance and redo the entire panel. I managed to get another half hour of work done before going "fudge it" and banishing the unfinished shiz into the depths of my recycling bin. Then I went to sleep because sleep was good and kicking the wall until it made an indent was not.

The good news is, this mis-hap managed to inspire me to base the story about someone other than the MC because fudge that person. Fudge them and the panel they were first in.

SpoilerI say pretty sure cuz, like, it doesn't seem like good intentions count for much without some actual affirming words or even gestures to back it up. If all the negative litanies in your head about what an awful person you are and how much you detest objectively harmless shit don't count for shit until you act on them, why are positive emotions any different?