Hiatus and moving to a new location...

The day has finally come... or at least the ball is finally rolling, I've talked about moving this blog elsewhere in the past, just wasn't quite sure where to start. However, via The Wrambling Webcomic Review, I followed this very useful guide on setting up a website and am finally in the process of uncoupling this lot from Google. At last, we're on the road to success!

This means no more wrestling with a shite post editor, no more worries over what is and isn't going to get flagged as 'too naughty' to go on the blog and being realistic, no more pondering when the Sword of Damocles is going to come slamming down on Blogger. Maybe I'm just taking an excessively dim view of things but yeah, it doesn't exactly strike me as the most jumpin' platform in 2026, let's put it that way.

It also means more flexibility on how I display, organise and format things, which is ideal! It's all up in the air right now while I re-learn HTML, but I've had some ideas on different sections of the site and how things could be presented there, to make it easier to find specific things (i.e. a dedicated art section with subsections for different projects, a section for gaming-related stuff, and an area for photos from my wanderings, among other things.) Of course, there's also the lure of old-fashioned internet stuff with decorated headers, little page badges (brace yourself, because there will be Farkas!) and, perish the thought... an actual navigation bar that isn't hidden behind a temperamental little drop-down menu. Don't get me wrong, I like a bit of minimalism here and there but for fuck's sake mate, hiding away the navigation in order to make something look neater is just so grating. Give me a damn menu and make it visible right there on the page. Can't speak for anyone else but with my eyesight problems, y'know, sometimes finding the butty menu icon or the three dots is a task.

The downside is that I can't automatically port the guts of this blog over, so everything is going to have to be transferred manually.

One post at a time.

Bloody hell.

This does mean there won't be any further posts here until I'm ready to announce the complete move, because I have a lot on already without adding more things that would need to be doubled up on my new site. Still, it will be worthwhile once it's all sorted, and I'm looking forward to presenting my art and other things all in one place with more of a personal touch, and better, easier navigation for anyone who might want to have a gander at it.

For now, I'm off to go get another cup of tea. 

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Further rambling

Twa Thousand Corbies

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Going to start this post with an illustration, because of this blog layout, posts lacking images tend to look a bit pants. The art here is by G. Howell-Baker. A while back, I was joking about gathering together as many versions of Twa Corbies as possible, and finally, here we are. This is going to be a continually evolving list, so if you know of a version that needs to be included, or if you've recorded one of your own, then by all means, let me know. You can put a comment here or e-mail me at looksinnocuousnenoughchaps [at] gmail [dot] com. Part two, with versions 50-100 can be found here . Let's begin! 1.  Folly Bridge - My personal favourite, performed completely a capella with some beautiful, eerie harmonies. 2.  Hamish Imlach - A live version, and a very close second favourite. Hamish's distinctive voice works wonders here and we're treated to some elegant sitar as well. 3.  Ayreheart - This one features the lute and a passionate vocal performance, it's qui...
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Fridayposting

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It is Friday, continuing the theme of the spooky video games, I'm currently revisiting Still Wakes the Deep and trying to finish up the blog post about that (it's a good job this isn't an audio effort because noone needs to hear yours truly going "Fuckin' 'ell, McLeary!!!" in an incredibly questionable Glaswegian accent whenever the mood so takes me.) Sod's law, I completely forgot to actually get the pictures off of Mariner... it was late at night. For now, it's time to return to the comfy slippers of The Callisto Protocol, not in chronological order and not really with a theme in mind either, just a bit of fun for today. Starting with these artfully arranged Crunchy Creatures, with a bit of an HR Giger kind of vibe. I also appreciate the elegantly flowing mist around here. Hmmm . (This one's off the PS4 version, I redid it on the PS5 but a big cloud of mist was obscuring one of the monsters and we can't have that.) This hexagonal effort...
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Some doodles from last night

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I went on a bit of a spree last night, trying out some different brushes in Rebelle 7, trying to work out what approach I might want to take for reviving Facts About the World, and here are some of the resulting doodles. First, a swoonicorn investigating Blarglflorp, the tiniest comet in the cosmos. Ara, done entirely using ink brushes with varying degrees of water. It's been a bit of running joke that their markings are different every time I draw them, and this time is no exception. (They were initially based on a striped dolphin but at this point, it's anyone's guess. Cynosure was a futuristic thing with cyborgs anyway, so what kind of dolphin Ara resembled wasn't exactly a pressing logical concern.) And one from the end of the night, which didn't end up being coloured because I'd been up since 3am again and needed to go to bed.
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