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Welcome to Bits and Widgets!
A webcomic about a girl who does things and then other people do things too. It’s all about life and deep meanings and stuff.
With that quality introduction, this is the wrong way for archival reading, and you should go the other direction. There is not much past here to see.
For questions regarding the story, mod, or anything that doesn’t fit into the narrative flow, ask them here,...
April 2013
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Procedure Explanation
The way I intend to write Bits and Widgets is a bit irregular. Here, I intend to explain a bit of the thought process behind it. The 3 pillars are the usage of sprites, update schedule, and writing organization.
tl;dr: Sprites mean more updates, I need to build a huge backlog, and I like to write short stories. Actual thoughts under the break.
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First, sprites. I intend to use fairly...
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Farewell
ask-paradoxium:
At the request of my brother, this blog and all its subsidiaries will be deleted in about 24 hours.
However, he does want to let you know that he a) is massively enjoying his mission, and b) encourages you all to get in contact with any local missionaries, and in his words, get baptized.
It is important to note that he did not anticipate resuming this particular blog ex post...
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Biologically Sunny Disposition
A short story I wrote last night. It mostly just plays with a character idea that I’ve been bouncing around in my head for awhile. It doesn’t really have anything to do with Bits and Widgets, but it’s here anyway.
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A garden lay, pristine, healthy, and full. It was a glorious entity, large and sprawling, with green neatly arrayed in crawling patterns between patches of...
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Minor Update
I’ve edited the blog page so that it can actually support archival reading. Tumblr is not terribly well-optimized, but with a bit of basic coding and blunt force customization, a tumblr can be made suitable for the purpose.
The first few pages have been scripted, and some of the panels are done. I think it’ll be in a good launch position by, say, 4/28. Saying that because I like the...
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Lichdom
A certain undead sorcerer
finds he does not like his new accommodations.
Vibrance and color do not suit his complexion.
Nor do plains of emerald grass, mountains of crystal, and especially not that pristine, white citadel to the (East? West? There where no solar bodies to help him distinguish). Something would have to be done about that. Much to bright. A few shades darker would suit it.
And...
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March 2013
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Provenance Alpha
witsandbidgets:
I’ve been seriously considering beginning Provenance proper, i.e. the final version. If you recall, I never really expected what I’ve written heretofore to be the final iteration of the story.
As such, I’m doing a lot of planning and semantic work, and will be determining if I can comfortably move onto this next stage of Provenance, especially since it entails a complete...
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SPRITING
I have composed sprites for the four main humans. Expect them extremely soon.
February 2013
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((Sorry I’ve been a bit slow. I’ve been pretty pre-occupied with debate work and whatnot. I hope to get at least one thing out this week, and after a few weeks, I’m going to find myself in a plentiful blessing of time))
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But just over the hill
a few automatons did not care for the Lich’s actions. The Fields Beyond the Court were meant to be perfect.
Somehow, etching arcane symbols into the earth with a black finger did not align with their perception of that perfection. They felt it was time to lodge an official complaint.
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The sorcerer
…looks about, at the cystalline towers and the white walls. He to mutter to himself, interlacing common speech with dead languages.
His bony hand reaches down and begins scratching intricate designs in the dirt, his finger leaving a black scar to better mark its path. To a casual observer, it would seem to be the work of a madman, which would be a fair complaint, considering it is a lich....
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A certain undead sorcerer
finds he does not like his new accommodations.
Vibrance and color do not suit his complexion.
Nor do plains of emerald grass, mountains of crystal, and especially not that pristine, white citadel to the (East? West? There where no solar bodies to help him distinguish). Something would have to be done about that. Much to bright. A few shades darker would suit it.
And by shades darker, he...
January 2013
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Addendum
Because I always fail to mention something, here’s a brief note as a consequence of yesterday’s post.
1) I am renewing my attempts at spriting. I’m making some headway and may produce an operational design soon.
2) I want to be more deliberate in my writing. For example, the compilation post for Mythos had a few revisions. The most recent version of anything will always be more...
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Bits and Widgets Refocus
Mod: Taking into account some writing advice, a bit of experience, and some other constraints and considerations, I have decided to alter the paradigm of BnW.
It’s all encapsulated in the phrase, “Don’t write your dreamchild first.”
(Seriously, it’s good advice)
Keeping this short, because I’m all too aware of my love of text walls, I’m switching to...
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Mythos
It was from that original growth of time that led to the origin of reality, so far as we are concerned.
As time cut through the still void, the infinite and ethereal masses coalesced, waves rising in the wake of the passage of time. At their crashing were the planes born, expanding beads containing the seed of universes.
Like the source from which they were drawn, these first planes did...
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What has changed in those courts, I wonder. When we were once such allies, what type of enmity does she now feel towards me? In what mood are her compatriots caught? Are any others of my allies seen in her halls? Perchance we will know soon, when the inventor and the mage report.
Not as if the mage even knows his purpose yet, he’s only now been brought straight into the wilds. I would...
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They are already assembled. Collected from four of my own planes, some were mighty in the ways of their worlds, others plain and raw. Fell or valiant, each would come to merit their respective positions among the rising generation.
Of course, only one would come to know his own art. The others were required to make it possible for the one, practicing their own crafts, as an essential function of...
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If you must know, I myself am one such entity, a lord from the beginning. A creature almost ethereal, elemental and pure. I stand in the highest councils, unparalleled in might among the rulers of planes.
While we are humble in regards to our superiors, our duty is both essential and unique. Long have I toiled to create planes of beauty and order. Over time, I have grown such in power as to claim...
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From the beginning, there was life appointed to the ruling of these young planes. These, who had always been intelligences became lords and rulers, crafters of reality. By their work were the planar seeds truly made the source of creation, as they guided the formation of planes derived from their own, and directed more intelligences to take up lordship there. The second level would repeat,...
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It was from that original growth of time that led to the origin of reality, so far as we are concerned.
As time cut through the still void, the infinite and ethereal masses coalesced, waves rising in the wake of the passage of time. At their crashing were the planes born, expanding beads containing the seed of universes.
Like the source from which they were drawn, these first planes did not know...
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Provenance Reboot
((Quick Mod Post: Expect some PROVENANCE stuff. Not a continuation of the previous arc, but some good stuff nonetheless. It’ll be clear when you see it.
Also, I’m still working on follower appreciation. Don’t feel like I’ve forgotten that. Though this reboot kind of serves as appreciation to those who don’t really have anything I can draw. Sorry, but unless I have...
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Bits and Widgets in 2012
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Back in February, I started this blog, with very little idea of where it would go. I had no tablet, little skill in Adobe Illustrator, and a few ideas I fancied writing about. I named it Bits and Widgets because I liked the name, and other names had already been taken. Considering the failed titles were more inclined to philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, I count myself fortunate...
December 2012
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November 2012
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Sorry I haven’t been an attentive or active tumblrite (is their a proper name for tumblr bloggers?) recently, either in updating this blog or my NaNo project (which I fear has fallen fatally behind).
I’ve been a bit caught up in life recently, between school projects, extracurriculars, other projects, college apps, my Eagle Scout project, and other time consuming events. Even though...
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Today (A Mod Post)
Significant events that occurred today:
A copious amount of stairs.
A fair amount of waltzing
Some flag processions (I carried the flags of Jamaica, Slovakia, and [probably] Azerbaijan)
Never saw the sun
14 hour work day
Lots of theology reading (Truman G Madsen)
Massive cultural celebration (the largest ever done by the LDS Church)
Got to listen to President Monson of the LDS Church (the...
Some Words of Modly Reassurance
Don’t worry, things are getting done, even if it doesn’t seem to be the case. Post ex November and Thanksgiving, I anticipate I will find myself a wellspring of time. Just bear through, and I’ll see about uploading any non-spoiler art I create (which, unfortunately, excludes almost all of it). My NaNo is frequently being updated, slow but steady, so feel free to check it.
