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I know I rarely do these journal entries, but I thought that it was time for a new one.   

On my end of things, my life has changed a bit.  Nothing too drastic, but enough to warrant a slowing down of art creation (oh yeah, I -know-. It's not like I update that regularly either, right? ).  What is that change?

I got a new job. After seven years of working for Tim Horton's as a hostess, I finally switched to something different.  It's not glamorous by any means, but it's a definite change of pace.  I went from running around in circles, getting coffees and making sandwiches to sitting down in front of a computer screen, training.  Most of my day consists of sitting on my rump so I've a feeling I might actually have to start exercising regularly again.  Well, once I get over the last dredges of this cold.  

Yep, I work at a call center now.  It's not too bad, and there are some rules I don't quite care for, but so far it's going well. I'm learning far more than I ever thought I would about credit cards. Hah.  Good thing is, in a few years time when I'm able to have one again, I have a good idea with what card I'd want.  

But for now, I need to get caught up with bills, and this job seems like it's a good way to do it.  They give bonuses and incentives if you work extra hard and long, and every week there's a draw to see who wins a big pot of loonies.  Haha, imagine showing up to the bank with a huge jar full of a few hundred Loonies!

Anyways, that's what's been going on on this end.  I'm still working on the Bigsley blog, so no worries to those new followers who watch me for that.  This next one might be a bit of a doozy.

Hope things are going decent for everyone else.  Feel free to tell me if you want--I love a good conversation.

All right, so I think the Assassin's Creed series of games has almost wholly consumed me as of late.  You see, a good year or so ago, I purchased edition of the first game from Future Shop for ten bucks. It came in a tin, with the game, a making of dvd, a little Penny Arcade comic, and a little figurine of Altair (who has, unfortunately lost a foot in a tragic accident).  

Sat down to give it a shot, and found the theory behind the Animus and DNA Memory fascinating. That part pulled me in--what didn't was the controls and Altair.  He seemed far too flat for me to be really believable.  So, I set it aside for a while.  At some point, I spied a second-hand Assassin's Creed II.  Purchased it, thinking that maybe the sequel would be better.   I adored Ezio, it's main character--and actually beat the game. By then, I was hooked, so that night I popped in Brotherhood which, by my luck, had also been in the AC II case. Hee.   A good chunk of the way through, I looked back over at AC 1. By now, I was used to the controls and thought that perhaps, I should see the whole beginning of the story--that, and I highly enjoyed learning more about Desmond. 

Fast forward to now.  I beat AC I, finished AC II Brotherhood, and now am doing a runthrough of Revelations.   A friend of mine is mailing up her copy of AC III for me to burn through, while I mail down Brotherhood for her.  I still need the DLC with Leonardo in it-- and oh, that man has stolen my little heart.  I loved the interactions between him and Ezio.    I could just go on and on at how RIGHT the series got things, while making it so that this version of history could've actually gone down, and how amazing the characters and writing really is.  

Like, for example, did you know Masyaf Castle was an actual headquarters for an Assassins?  Makes a person wonder.  Countless times, my spouse has sat next to me with her phone, looking up all the places our lovely Assassin visits.  It's like it's an interactive history. Yeah, it's a video game, but if it gets more people into history and really thinking about things.. so what? The main fact is, they're GETTING INTO history.  And that's pretty damned cool.

I'm looking into, perhaps, getting number 4 when it comes out, and I definitely want Liberation.  

So yeah, good lord I'm hooked.  Now, I just gotta figure out how to balance the Bigsley blog while steeping myself the Creed. 

Mainly because of work and because I'm trying to fend off both allergies and a cold.  But for those of you who watch me here and on tumblr, I'll try to keep up a normally steady pace of answers for Bigsley's blog.  

Thanks to everyone who's faved and commented.  I know I don't always head over to your page and say it, but I really do appreciate it.  Going into something like an ask-blog was actually nerve-wracking for me.  After all, I had no idea if people would have even wanted to ask Bigsley questions, since he's such a small character in a DLC of a huge game. I worried that my art wasn't good enough, or that my answers weren't always funny enough or too snarky.

 But happily, I was proven so wrong.  It's already been up for a little over a year now (the 'birthday' was back in June).  So here's hoping to another year!  So truly, thanks again.  

And for those of you who're mildly curious, head on over to www.ask-scribe-bigsley.tumblr.com/

Funny how you come online to do one specific thing, and then get distracted by something completely different.  After perusing my gallery, I've decided to clear out a lot of my older stuff.

So, if you did have them in your favourites, I apologize-- but it just had to be done.  Every time I looked at the pieces I deleted, I'd get a wash of embarrassment over me.  I left a few things from that time, but as I said, it's not a lot.  The comments some people made, and how I responded, just made me cringe, as well.

Not something good to keep around when you've grown so much as an individual since then.  As it stands, my Anthro art folder took a big hit because of it.  I've grown away from the 'community' of furs, mainly because a lot of the more vocal ones just make it so damned toxic.  I've always felt that there is a difference between the oversexualization that many people see, and the more animalistic races apparent in some popular fantasy media (Skyrim, for an example).  

The addition of these races can only add to the diversity of a world. They have all the thoughts and feelings that any individual has--and probably never really consider themselves 'beasts.' And while there is sexual-identity rolled up into it, it's not just [i]that[/i] that can make up a person.  It saddens me to think that places such as Fur Affinity, while full of good art  (if you know where to look) is only being used to put up adult, pornographic art.  It's because of the over-saturated subject, along with other reasons, that I've basically left (though I haven't exactly deleted my profile, yet.) It saddens me that the media, along with other anthro art-sites can truly sour a person away from that aspect of character creation.  

 Unfortunately, there is a very hard-to-define line that even I can't wholly explain.  And to anyone reading this, my thoughts are just of one person.  They're all conjecture and theories.  I would adore to hear other thoughts on the subject, as well.

I will also apologize to how much this entry derailed.  Sorry 'bout that.

Also, is still accepting colouring commissions! Give her a yell!

Hey everyone, my spouse, is taking on colouring commissions, if anyone's interested.  

Have some awesome lineart that you'd like coloured? Head over her way!  The link to her journal is here: tainted-petals.deviantart.com/…