Featured art: “Momo” by Coco-Sweet
I spent last weekend drafting fifty pages of Jake and the Dynamo, but, unfortunately, the pages I drafted are for the final chapter rather than for the next one.
I was having some trouble with the next chapter because I was trying to decide if it should be the one that advances the plot, or the beach episode. But I think I’ve figured it out now.
Featured image: “Magical Girl!Feferi” by AwesomeBlossomPossum
Featured image: “Nyo!England Magical Girl” by black-feather1013.
Tonight is maintenance night for me. I’m going to do some rearranging and see about updating some of the other hosting sites, which have been languishing.
I intend to have new content up tomorrow. No, really.
Featured image: “Magical Girl She-Ra” by weremole.
I’m way behind where I want to be on reviews, but I’m struggling to adjust to a new schedule. The little spare time I have, I want to devote mostly to Jake and the Dynamo.
The site’s also due for an overhaul. I might go rearranging things this weekend. Nothing too drastic, but some improvements in organization. I’m still mulling over changing the theme, but the ones I would want cost money I don’t have right now, and the present one is fairly versatile, if unadorned.
Featured image: title and artist unknown.
Editing the twenty-first chapter of Jake and the Dynamo took me longer than I expected, so it doesn’t look like I’ll get another post up today …
… but I’m gonna go ahead and post the chapter early. Expect it in thirty minutes!
Featured Image: “Magical Girl Marisa (Miss America)” by PencilTales.
Crazy week for me. Sorry for the absence.
Chapter 21 of Jake and the Dynamo is almost ready to go. Dana and Chelsea finally square off in Magical Girl Rumble, and the winner in the contest will get a kiss from T.B., the effete yet rakish idol of Juban High!
If Dana wins, will her short-lived magical girl career end in unrelieved pining? After all, they say a lot of girls are wasting away because of T.B. And what of Chelsea? Will this destroy her relationship with Jake? They say once you’ve had T.B., you never really get over it.
Y’know, I don’t think I realized when I started writing this that Dana was going to pick a fight with everyone she met. Jake really can’t take her anywhere.
Featured image: “Thailand Magical Girl Malai” by shijyu.
I’m afraid I’ve nothing new to report. I’m running short of time tonight.
Yesterday’s post featured art for which I could not find the source because it had already been traded around like a cheap whore.
But reader Tom Geraci, whose Google-fu surpasses mine, discovered that it was the product of one CKYM, an apparently Korean artist. CKYM has a cover image for his site so good, I stole it, too.
In other news, although I typically refrain from talking about personal matters with strangers on the internet, I have a job. It’s not quite the job I wanted, but it’s a real job that pays real money. I’ve also been accepted in the university program I’m entering for retraining. When I got out of college, I entered a field that was volatile, but where I could easily pick up a new job within two weeks whenever I lost one. But the last time I went job-hunting, it took me two years to find a position. Now the market’s even worse, and I’m not going to go through that again. So I’m changing careers.
I’d tell you who did the featured image, but I can’t find the original source. But I can tell you that it’s Sugar Sugar Rune
Sorry for the slow week here. Things are moving along on Jake and the Dynamo. I have a draft of chapter 22, but chapter 21 is still incomplete. Funny, huh?
Pretty soon, I’m going to rearrange the blog. The menu at the top is getting so long, so I’ll be creating a separate page for the Jake and the Dynamo table of contents.
I’ve got various non-blog things going on as well. I should have a new review up tomorrow after I get my act together.
I was going to post another video I wanted to show you, but I previewed it and … yeah, I can’t show that here. It overstepped my vague semblance of family-friendliness.
I need to be writing something else, so I’m afraid you get another art post.
Here we see a Pocky-themed magical girl, Pocky being a chocolate-covered biscuit stick that’s popular in Japan and appears frequently in manga and anime. As usual, Pinterest screws up my image searches, but I tracked this down to the official Pocky website, apparently an entry in a contest. This same artist, who I believe goes by the name of Mr. RoboT, appears also to have done the magical Pretz girl:
