I'm back, and a poll, and stuff

[sigune]

I was away from LJ for a while, due to work-related RL horrors (well, nothing seriously horror-y, it was just me stressing out), and I have some catching up to do - including answering some 50 comments to my "Knave of Spades" post. Life should be a bit more quiet for a while, and I'll do my best to reply :-).

In the meantime I have a poll for you. I guess - well, I have set up a blog for my original work over at Blogspot (it's here, and it has one viewer, if a very dear one *g*), and I am trying to make out how I am going to develop it, and whether I will double-post. So far there is nothing there that hasn't appeared here first, but I might change that. The poll is just to gauge your interests and satisfy my curiosity, not about how I can increase my readership or something ;-). So if you feel like ticky boxes...


[Poll #1088754]

Thanks! :D

Comments

[sander123.livejournal.com]

Hey I wasn't aware of your graphic-novel-plans! Unfortunately I have not clicked on the "War in Gaul" - (I thought that's one of the cool TV-series we tend to have three years after they were broadcasted elsewhere), so count my voice for that too. I subscribed the feed of the comic-blog.

I'm so happy that you don't plan to show the celts as ragged brutes - but as the artistic and sophisticated people they were (bellum gallicum is propaganda! archeology shows a different side).

I'm already in love with Volca :)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I guess I posted my graphic novel entries some time before you joined my flist - and RL prevented me from posting any more since... It's great to hear you're interested :D! I fell in love with the Celts ages ago, when I started wondering as a thirteen-year-old why we were always being taught about the Greeks and the Romans, but never about the people who lived here before the legions arrived. It's true that the influence of Greek and Roman culture was immense, but I find it offensive that we were encouraged to think of the Celts as barbarians, whereas that is clearly the standpoint of the coloniser.

I would love to hear how you were taught about the Celts in Switzerland! Since both Hallstatt and La Tène are situated in your country, I should hope the Swiss view is a bit more generous... In Belgium we have rather few Celtic artifacts too. There is a very nice museum in Tongeren, but it is closed for revamping at the moment, and there is another one in Marimont (in the Ardennes) which I would love to visit.

Glad you like Volca! I'm always very happy when an original character finds favour :D...

[sander123.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to posts about your graphic-novel! :)

About the celts and Switzerland (Hallstatt is in Austria ;))... It's a bit complicated, because the Allemanni (a german tribe, they came much later in our area) are actually more important for their influence to Switzerland, but because of our a bit strained relationship with Germany (especially in WWII), in schools and museums they concentrate too much on the celts and how they lost against Cesar (the Helvetii wander out and Cesar beat them in today's France and they had to wander back)) to emphasise the difference to Germany. As far as I know (but those times are not my speciality) today's research about the period suggest that the celts and romans blended peacefully together (trading, religion).

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

I do definitely want to see more of "War in Gaul" and more original stuff; I would also totally love to see more (both fic and drawings) of Severus, Brynhild and the children. Where's teenage Xander? :)

I would actually like to see more on Oscar Wilde, too, though he wasn't one of my top picks. But he's definitely interesting to me.

As to the original stuff (particularly "War in Gaul", which I'm hoping you'll find a publisher for someday), at the publishing seminar I attended, I was told it was generally better not to post more than approximately ten percent of any novel/book you hoped to publish 'officially". But I''m sure sketches would be okay.

Basically, I like your stuff. And I strongly approve of anyone who gives Severus a future and a life outside that little box called "Deathly Hallows".

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I know that most people watch my page just for Snape; but if I ever want to do anything with my drawings, it's not going to be Snape-related, and it's great to know that some people are interested in that too *g*.

I see why I should not post too much of what I hope to get published, but I do wonder how realistic it would be to hope for publication at all... But you have a good point, and I will certainly give that issue thought when I start to produce actual pages. At the moment I am still firmly in the preparatory stage - there is so much I need to learn, write and lay out before I can even think of drawing the first page! :D The historical side alone requires a lot of research, and then there are the techniques I still need to master... Until my craft is good enough, I don't stand a chance of publication anyway.

[kaskait.livejournal.com]

Very nice site. I'll put it on my blogroll.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Squee! Thank you :D!

[veradee.livejournal.com]

I seldom have a look at blogspot, because I know next to no one who has one, and have never really figured out how it works. It looks so complicated compared to LJ. Often I don't even find people's user info. Anyway, I set up one for myself now, because your post inspired me that it might be a good idea to have a second blog / LJ if I should ever manage to write any fics in German.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I'm still getting used to Blogspot; so far it doesn't seem like it could replace LJ for me, their purposes seem so different. It doesn't look like Blogspot was designed to give you the community thing that LJ has - you can't friend people (or if you can, I haven't found out how), and so it feels more isolated. I set it up as a kind of showcase, in the sense that I want a place where I can send people who are curious about my work, but whom I don't necessarily want all over my fan stuff or personal messages.

Where can I find you at Blogspot? I'll add you to my Google Reader thingy :-).

[veradee.livejournal.com]

I haven't found out yet how to follow people's blogs either. I suppose RSS feeds might help, but I've never bothered to find out what they are.

What's a Google reader thingy?

The blog address is http://buch-staben.blogspot.com/ and I've set an LJ under the same name. As a "showcase" the blogspot looks much better, but I know my way around LJ much better. The community idea behind LJ is much more attractive, although people writing in German are rare. I suppose I will give both the blog and the LJ a chance and see how it goes. But I might delete again one of them in a few weeks.

[todayiamadaisy]

I ticked "other" for all of them, and my very unhelpful explanation is going to be
"whatever you want to post".

I've subscribed to your blog too - it looks very interesting.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

I set the blog up in order to have a non-fannish place, with a new alias - I decided against using "Sigune" for my original work. I am not entirely sure why, but I thought it might be best to keep fannish and original work separate. So far I haven't decided to what extent I'll go on posting original work here... It appears from the poll that more people are interested in my original things than I expected there to be. Maybe I'll double-post after all.

[the-bitter-word.livejournal.com]

I mostly clicked "other" and now what do I say? Anything you post, the whole gamut, is interesting to me. You're a remarkably talented person, and I feel lucky to be reading/viewing your thoughts and work. Not much help, am I?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Well, what you say is certainly nice to hear! Thank you for that :-).

[shaniah.livejournal.com]

I just love everything you made, so I just want to see more art, Potter, Wilde, everything, I just love you!

(And I love Wilde and Snape and Orchid!)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much :D!

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

I checked everything because I find everything you post interesting. And I read your blog because I like you, so if you just post 'lalala', I'll read it too. ;)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

*g*

I'll spare you the 'lalala' though ;-).

Thanks a lot! :D

[lewlinx.livejournal.com]

WELCOME BACK! *waves*

How's Ms Mientje doing?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

She's doing really well, though she likes to pretend it is not so :D... Never content, that one! How does Tera like Spain?

It's good to be back... I have a lot of catching up to do!

[bettyboop-comic.livejournal.com]

Ha!
I knew I was first. Take that, HP-community! Guess it'll get crowded, now the word's out...
You know I couldn't care less about HP & related, but it is you on here, so anything's fine. This is still the finest teh intarwub has to offer, so just pics of Miep would be fine with me either way.
Of course, being my sequentials-addicted self, the other Sleeper's Den does have my preference, mainly because I have the RL privilege.

Be seeing you
--nout

[sigune.livejournal.com]

LOL! I doubt it will ever get crowded... I did send in that bloglink for mentioning on the Plots site, so who knows, when that thing is finally up, maybe some people will find me that way? Mind you, the thing should have been up for a week or two now, and a far as I know it still isn't.

If I do a decent job, the other Sleeper's Den should be the better place, but of course it is rather hard to rival JK Rowling's appeal on my lonesome ;P... I will still keep this here den for my personal and fannish outpourings, also because Blogspot doesn't have the same community feel.

I'll try to get some scanning done tomorrow and post more Gauls. Have I shown you my attempts at colouring-with-pencils? I don't remember. In any case, these are supposed to go up soon too.

[lunafish.livejournal.com]

I clicked "other" for all three questions because, though I initially came for Snape back after HBP, I've come to think of you as a friend, and so enjoy it all--RL, art, photos (the orchids are lovely, btw), and anything else you're willing to share (for example, this morning I quite enjoyed hearing the story of the bizarre suitor who seems to have lost the object of his affection, poor guy)! I haven't had much free time this semester, so I haven't posted/commented much, but I still do go back and catch up on all your posts so I don't miss anything.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I can totally relate to your busy-ness... *hugs*

Blogspot and LJ are so different in concept that one cannot replace the other, so I'll certainly keep posting here; I was just wondering (and actually still am) whether there is a point in posting my original stuff here. Most of my flist watches my journal for Snapey things.

You'll keep us informed about your grad school life, won't you? :-)

[lunafish.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about Blogspot: I have one, I think, but I never use it. In fact, I have difficulty switching over to anything else, even the journals like LJ, but that's probably because I'm just too preoccupied right now to make the transition into something else new. Needless to say, I was pretty freaked out when people started moving in protest of LJ this summer.

And I'll definitely let you all know how grad school's coming along, but probably very infrequently during the actual semesters until I get into the swing of things. I feel so overwhelmed all the time, although, to be honest, I haven't had a very difficult class load or anything. I just haven't been managing my time all that well. I'm very much looking forward to Christmas break! (Speaking of which...I'd definitely like a Christmas card featuring your artwork again this year, if you're willing! Is that call for requests still open? Do you need me to resend my address?) :-D