Backburning Figure Eights

Good morning. K has returned from plaguecamp and there is, as of yet, no plague in sight. 10-14 window of anxiety shifted forward with each passing days without end.

Burkeman's FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS has led me to shift The Comics Thing to the backburner. Simply too big to work with what I'm trying to work with; I'm not doing it––or The Main Thing––any favors by spreading the fictive brainspace thin; trying to keep to three main projects at once: The Main Thing, TSR/this space, and the NonFic/Comics Thing I want to explore, the latter being a potentially more beneficial––in numerous ways––path forward.

Brief word on social media: from now on, I'm only posting News items, new TSR episodes, or other major project releases to Twitter. Photos / etc will mostly be posted to Insta (maybe, when I feel like it), while everything else - Links, Status, pieces, etc – remain here, the comment system and email - tww(AT)parentheticalrecluse(DOT)com – my main modes of communication. I still follow Twitter to keep up with what artists and writers and humans I admire are working on (to share here), but via private lists in Reeder. Everything’s available via RSS.

If anyone ever found my cardboard scrap / makeshift rulerthing I keep on my desk, they'd think I'd gone nuts, whatwith all those eights scrawled over it. Simple explanation, really: it's how I keep my Lamy 2000 nib from getting too scratchy: drawing figure eights on cardboard - or a paper bag - act as a sort of über-fine grain sandpaper to keep the nib smooth and less skippy.

The more you know. The day awaits; back to work.