Way back in June of last year I was having a conversation with some friends online about what characters from Sailor Moon the cast of Final Fantasy VII would cosplay. Eventually I got around to drawing some of those ideas. Some of these are really rough because not gonna lie, I didn’t want to spend … Continue reading
Category Archives: Life Stuff
Whatever It Takes
July 5th through 12th was AeriSeph Week. I had an idea for a 4-panel comic but between working on a different piece and dealing with repeated basement flooding—essentially we’ve lost a whole floor of utility & storage space, and are going without a water heater until the foundation can be inspected & repaired—I couldn’t participate … Continue reading
Happy Halloween 2020
I’ve been using Photoshop in some form, mostly Elements, for about 15 years now. The majority of that has not been for actual photo editing. Still, I feel dumb for just now learning about dodging and burning. All this time, I’ve been thinking, “I wish there were a way to lighten just one specific part … Continue reading
exist†trace – DECIDE
Long introduction. Jump to lyrics here. I’ve really been enjoying The Only Garden and was thinking of jumping to a few tracks from there, but it seems lyrics have not been officially released to online sites, and since I bought the EP from iTunes I don’t have the liner notes. Assuming the physical copy came … Continue reading
Same Character
Or, How It Started How It’s Going, 24 Years of Drawing Sephiroth And I guess I’m counting 2020 as being over given my math up there. ^o^; I’d change it here too if I could edit my tweet about it. Things I realized putting this collage together: I apparently became a Sephiroth fan before playing … Continue reading
exist†trace – I feel you
Edit, July 20, 2021: I’ve written an updated version of this post, which includes a translation of a miko blog I hadn’t read when I initially posted this translation. The translation itself is almost entirely the same; the change I did make I had already written as a possible interpretation in the footnotes here. I’m … Continue reading
Art / Life Stuff / Play Time
Sephiroth Candidate Dresses 3/3
¡Spoiler Warning for the original Final Fantasy VII and Remake! To avoid writing spoilerific things right at the top, let me start with a slight tangent. When I was in elementary school, I asked my mother to buy me a three-book set of How to Draw books from the Scholastic catalog. While I don’t remember … Continue reading
Sephiroth’s Journey Through Fukuoka
One time for my 30th birthday my friends and I stepped out from dinner at the Fukuoka Hard Rock Café, which back then was across from Yahoo! Dome and next to Zepp Fukuoka and Hawks Town Mall, and saw a balloon artist with a sign that said he could make anything. A friend suggested I … Continue reading
exist†trace – TRUE
This is the song that made me an exist†trace fan. Like “Unforgive You” from Twin Gate, this song’s lyrics seem so specific to me. I thought it had to be about some specific event, or perhaps some particular law or practice within society. Who are the hypocrites and the good people who stand by and do … Continue reading
exist†trace – Daybreak ~Juu-san Gatsu no Shikisai~
Things in the US have both changed and remained the same since the last time I posted something. They’ve changed because of the protests going on. But the protests are happening largely because things have stayed the same: we continue to see unarmed Black people murdered in this country at the hands of armed law … Continue reading
Warped Frost 