Chapter 34 is up!

Y'all.  

Y'ALL.

NEED I SAY MORE.  ... AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE AWESOME THAT IS THE JUDGE.  

I  like what Irk did thar with his hair.  Might have to keep that for future works.  :3

So, I'm kind of sick tonight, so I'll leave off the references to masturbation and general glee-squealing, and just tell you to GO READ IT ALREADY.  <3

Chapter 33 - Girls Gone Wild!

New chapter up! GIT SOME, JENNY!

So! .... New chapter up. ^^;;

The sad part about a new chapter being up is that it means we're that much closer to the end of Novel 1. Not that it's the end of the novel that makes me sad... in fact, this chapter is where I started going OH HELL YEAH WOOOOOOO \m/ every five minutes or so until the end of the novel. It's just...

... Oh you guys, I was just distracted by some downright FRIGHTENING art cycling on my other laptop. (Yep, I work on two. Believe it or not, it helps me make my ADD into something productive.) I'm not going to share what, though. Just trust me on this: there are some things I'd rather not see again, but it's just part of the hazard of posting art on y!gallery.

OH RIGHT. It's just that it's the end of an era in a way. Kind of bittersweet and all.

Oh man. I think I'd better just go to bed. Who knew that Sleepy Time tea would actually, you know, make me sleepy?

Google Ad-ventures, Chapter update coming soon!

I find it interesting which Google ads tend to run on different chapters.  I've noticed a lot of makeup and cosmetics ads in most Lyric-centric chapters because he's a great big fag, for instance.

And then there's chapter 32, which at the time of my viewing had these two darling ads running:

You know, I was going to ditch that google ad banner once the Project Wonderful skyscraper was consistently making a bit every day, but this is too entertaining to lose.

I'm adding a banner or two at the bottom tonight, if anyone's looking for more adspace.  Or I might put in a rectangle ad somewhere just because I like that size and find few people who offer it.  I'm not gonna plaster the place with ads but I like seeing who decides to advertise here.  I've actually found some interesting and worthwhile sites through Project Wonderful ads (it's how I first found Meilin Miranda, for instance).  By the way, if you'd like to support our work, please consider buying some adspace.  The more that comes in through ads, the more I spend on advertising, which means more exposure for those ad boxes. ^_^  And of course for Peacock King!  I'm pretty happy with the readership so far!

Oh!  I just need to finish the chapter art and then I'll post tonight's update.  Let me go do that. nn;

... WHAAAT?!

I love my OTP.

I was SUPPOSED to be relaxing and just shaking loose after going all bonkers on the fonts, but a quick pose study ended up being this. ... Not that I'm complaining. Mistakes ahoy, but damned if it doesn't make me grin.

Oh oops there was a chapter update, too!

Chapter 32 - Pertinent Document Section II

Awesome, huh? G... gh... CAMDEN'S ARMS she's kind of awesome.

Also, Chapter 6 now has art:



That is also awesome.

BEHOLD.

Common Radian - Beta

You can download it here.

OMG. I am SO SO SO SO SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOOOOOO EXCITED. I'm STUPID with giddy. SERIOUSLY.

I'm going to make myself take a break before tweaking it, though. There's a few changes I already want to make, and I'm going to see if I can find another font proggie that will allow me to add points without having to redraw the entire damned glyph. 9_9 It should help solve some of the jaggedness issues.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Royalty

FWEE tossed out four sketches of the four main rulers in the story.

They're also being slapped on their profiles in the wiki.

Dunno. Might keep going through and do these for everyone... although I'll probably switch to head shots for everyone else. ^^;;

Holy BALLS, y'all.

I just totally put together a working writing system.  Holy b'geezus.  You can see working examples of it here and here and also here (no spoilers; those just link to the image files with the names written out).  More will go up as I write 'em.  I'm also in the process of outlining a wiki entry on how the system works, including a chart of the base characters and explanations on how things actually are written out.  There is a method to the madness!

Oh my GAWD this was so much fun to do.  Hellfire, I might even get up the gumption to work out the Aurocan system as well!  HEEHEEHEE I HAVE NO LIFE.  

Chapter update, Twitter

Chapter 31 is up, yo.

Looks like we stopped getting into the habit of posting chapter updates in here. Of course, if you RSS subscribe to the PK story blog, that's probably less of a problem for you.

However, if you'd like to be updated when I post a new chapter or, you know, breathe or something, I've got a twitter. And look! Char does too. I'll be posting chapter update status in mine as well as other PK-related stuff and the usual things you tweet about, so feel free to stalk me.

Er.

Weird.  I think 'Sy killed the page.  *searching through HTML*

Edit: Oddness!  Just a I suspected, this post cured the front page of its blankness.  I can't find anything wrong in the actual posts that would make the index to bork... *shrug*

So.  ... Back to work, I guess.

Spam!

Sketchin' instead of, you know, workin'.  As you do.  

Gerald and Gerude looking epic.  Except for the fact that they're Armed, so those stares probably mean something like "holy crap, look how big that horse's balls are!"

The Judge and his Hayfork Trident.

Elete, by some minor miracle sans crown. 

Dude, SAI is ruining my productivity.  Well, by some measurements.  I've pumped out more doodles in the past 18 hours than I have over the previous 3 months, and one of them even made it as far as a finished drawing!  At this rate, I might even catch up with Irk in terms of sheer bulk of works...

So, like, I draw and stuff on occasion?

But I forget to update here when it's Peek-related. ... Which is an awful lot lately.

So. Thanks to Irk's constant nagging and the irresistible draw of people LOOKING AT MY STUFF :D :D :D I have a y!gallery account. The downside? Boys-only club leik woah. The upside? Lots of drive to push stuff out because people LOOK at stuff there OMG!

There's a lovely pic of Erynn there, as well as 'Sy and Daemon giving each other the friendliest-looking stink-eyes ever. The best part? Nobody knows who Daemon is, or anything about the Velvet Hell! (Except Trav, because Trav is special and introduced us to the Hell.) It's still worth looking at, right?

... Right? ;_;

OH MY GOD LOOK AT MY STUFF AND LOVE ME I CRAVE APPROVAL.

Now that I've spammed up the news feed, it's time to get back to drawing! Because God FORBID I write another word. Ever. ... ¬_¬

The best Peacock King drawing in the history of everything that's awesome

Seriously, Char did this tonight while practicing in PaintTool SAI and it is the best goddamn picture of Ebrellin-i that will ever exist.

The Peacock King: A story with a lot of WORDS.

I put the whole text of the first novel into Wordle and here's the output: the words that I wrote the most.

It actually motivates some critique of my writing style since I've tried to eliminate words like "see" and "look" in my prose and instead just straight-out describe the surroundings.

So, check it out, it's a pretty cool-looking diagram!

Does anyone want to review The Peacock King?

Web Fiction Guide is a great site for online fiction.  It has lots of categorized listings and is very well-organized.  It also has a member reviews and rating system that's very useful.  I got The Peacock King listed there a few weeks ago and already I've had over fifty visitors from it.  That's pretty good considering most of the traffic I get here is from when we pay for advertising for the story.  Not too many people have linked us yet and I'm still getting my feet wet when it comes to the online marketing you have to do for this kind of fiction.

Anyway, Web Fiction Guide's registration is pretty quick and easy.  It's done through WordPress.  If you've enjoyed reading thus far, and if you have the time and the inclination, we'd really appreciate a review or rating for The Peacock King.  The listing is right here.  It hasn't been reviewed or rated yet as of this posting.

If you'd like to link to The Peacock King, but want a shiny button for it, I'll have some graphics handy in an upcoming post.  Thanks a bunch!

Artses

The continuing saga of our Valentine's Day art spree:


V-Day 2 - Rachella and Gerald by ~irk on deviantART



V-Day 3: Katherine and 'Sy by ~Karis-Surya on deviantART


I have another pairing that I want to do, too. It's an utter crack pairing, but it's cuter than HELL and also makes me squee a little inside with delight. Sadly, it's spoilery as all get-out because it reveals a character that's not been introduced yet and a character who... well, shit. I might do it anyway, because NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD (except Irk) would get what's going on there anyway!

But first, website work. ... Well, maybe after sketching a bit, but I really do need to work on the website today!

Waugh. Web design gives me gas, y'all. I did it for a living... like, a decade ago, and I think it shows. I'm rusty as heck and I'm worried everything will look dated and ugly and WAUGH. I need to do it anyway, or I will have forgotten the face of my Father or something.

New Peacock King Site Coming Soon!

I am making a Peacock King site instead of just leaving it as only a blog. That way I can have a better organized archive, a gallery, some static info pages, and a forum, and polls, and all kinds of cool stuff.  Lots of stuff for you guys to look forward to!

Sort of like Meilin Miranda has here.

I decided to use Drupal for it since it's been successful for her and she actually lists all the modules she uses so I can do just that.

Anyway I'm gonna be banging my head against that for...awhile. Whee! If you have any experience with Drupal and feel like chatting about it sometime on instant messenger, I'm cuisinirk on AIM and cuisinirk@gmail.com on Gchat. I keep Pidgin going pretty constantly.

Chapter 27 is up, plus new bonus art

Chapter 27 - Valued Servants

I sketched out a very unexpected bath scene today.

Yesterday, Char did the same.

Valentine's Day is coming, and we are celebrating the onset of VD in all its many facets, shades, and horrible rashes.

Also, I guess I should note that the end is nigh in Peacock King. There is really not that much story left to post! After that it's novel 2, which makes me pretty nervous. Mainly because uh, I'll have to start writing it faster, which is kind of intimidating. I've never written full-time before. I get distracted or brain-tired pretty easily. I'm not really sure how professional writers do it. At least I'm better at putting out these days than I was when I started. Less than a year ago I'd be lucky to write once a week. These days if I miss writing for one day, it means I must have some sort of mental problem or the day was bad enough that I was really tired.

Guess I'll try and push and see what I come up with, huh?