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Changing focus and no longer sharing LM stuff
4 months ago
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Contrary to what I said in my pervious journal about me still wanting to share my LM stuff along with Universe 29A regardless of the LM scene in it's current state. I've recently been thinking about my position in the whole living machinery scene, and after much consideration and thinking about everything that has happened over the last six months that I've seen. I have come to one final decision.
It is with regret for me to inform you all that after fourteen years of sharing 29A and my LM characters with you all, I'm no longer to going to be sharing any of my living machine/sentient vehicle art and stuff on here or any of my other socials anymore, as I've decided that I'm done with the online living machinery scene.
Don't get me wrong I still like anthropomorphic trains and other vehicles, and I will still hold them close to my heart and appreciate every living machinery piece of media out there from Thomas, Cars, etc and appreciate what the creators of those things made along with the few LM artists that I still respect, and all the support my followers have given my LM stuff over the years. But I've now come to conclusion that even outside of the drama coming from the LMC and other similar communities involving LM, my happiness for the online side of things is simply no longer existent and that it's time for me to have a change of creative focus on what I want to share with the world and at the same time will make me happy, one which still involves trains, and another for my more art and worldbuilding related desires.
It's a real shame, as I've always enjoyed sharing my living machine characters form my trains OCs and all, and it's sad that it has to come to this, as it wasn't a decision that I wasn't willing to take at first. But even though I'm no longer a part of the LMC, even as an independent living machine artist/creator/worldbuilder while it was good for me at first, due to the fact that I no longer had to deal with any of the dramas from any of those communities. Over time I began to see that the entire LM scene online has been becoming less and less interesting over the years, while there are still some good LM creators and artists out there and some I hold high-respect for and inspire me. I've seen many leave the LM scene in the past ten years, and most of what is made in the LM scene and communities these days is either not very good, generic, or simply very repetitive, and therefore I feel there isn't that much from the LM scene on here for me to be inspired by LM wise anymore. At least not something that is truly amazing.
Also to be very honest, as a living machine creator and artist while I still want to draw and make stuff involving living machines, I now just want draw and do stuff with my living machine OC's and Universe for myself. As to put it bluntly, I've been feeling very restrained from posting my art involving them for you all to see for so long. Plus I haven't been able to get any new living machinery related art and things out as lack of motivation has meant that I hardly have anything to post, not even a new chapter of my novel Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead.
The reason being that my train related art and all is very time consuming to make as it can take me days or months for me to come up with an idea for a piece that features whoever train character that I have whether they'd be Danwood, Sanworth, Kyle, Silver Lady, Golden Anglia, etc and then to draw up and bring that piece to life, this means that I cannot get that much art and other lore related stuff out in a timely manner, and unless I simplified my characters designs, writing and art style like a TON! There is no way I can get much out in terms of living machine stuff. Though whenever I draw a car OC, it is a bit faster, but can still take me a long time to complete and get out there for you all to see.
Whereas other living machine artists, especially those in sentient machine related fandoms can get stuff out regularly as there either doing stuff related to Thomas or Cars, or just have characters designs that are easier to do, Whereas my art is very detailed and therefore requires a lot of time to do with my train characters needing the most attention to detail. Thus leaving me in constant art droughts with nothing to post monthly, and honestly it's starting to become tiring for me. So, therefore I now want to keep my living machine characters and their Universe 29A as a personal thing for myself, so I no longer have to feel pressured to constantly get something LM related out and allowing me to take more time with my living machine related art for my own personal enjoyment. Also sadly, I realise now that there are many ideas I have that I can't translate into a train or any other mode of transport.
So, where does this leave Universe 29A and Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead, now that I'm no longer going to be posting or sharing any living machine related content anymore? Well, the good news is for myself at least, is that Universe 29A and all of my characters that inhabit it will still live on in my personal endeavours, and I will be continuing to develop their universe and it's lore as something for my own personal enjoyment and I will be continuing to work on Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead as a series of personal stories for myself and to share with other people IRL around me. As I find that I've developed it to a point that it's too good for me to throwaway completely.
However, since I'll no longer be posting any new chapters of Tarmingham to FA or DA, and while it hasn't been officially cancelled. I'm afraid that they'll be no more chapter updates on book 1 for the foreseeable future, and the novel will be placed into a state of limbo and indefinite hiatus. Despite this, what I've already uploaded of the novel so far will remain in their current states as I've last updated them in the form their currently in, so at least you all can still read what I have written of that story so far, and feel free to come up with your own take on how it continues. But as far as I'm concerned in my own development of 29A, your interpretation won't be considered canon to my vision or any 29A lore going forward (though not online).
Also the 29 multiverse thing that was mentioned in the prologue of Tarmingham book 1, well because of me no longer posting anything relating to 29A and since that multiverse was dependant on it. I've chosen to scrap the idea, and this also goes for any future worldbuilding projects and their universes that I'll be doing, as I now would rather treat them as taking places in their own separate little universes and not part of some shared multiverse where their all connected via one main universe, and I've always found doing things that way to be much easier to keep track of them and their characters too.
All living machine art I've have done over the years and have shared publicly online will remain for those of you out there who still enjoy them, but if I ever do post another LM piece. It'll mainly be reuploads of old art I've done in the past for archival purposes. Just don't expect any new LM stuff to appear anytime soon, because as stated before I'm done sharing my living machine universe and train OCs publicly.
With all this now out of the way. What will be my new creative focus online now that I'm no longer sharing my living machines OCs and my LM universe publicly on any of my socials. Well I'll still be doing something involving trains and railways as those things will always be part of me and my interests, and so I've decided to on the thing that will help me continue with that hobby.
Sometime ago, I started work on another railway related worldbuilding project that I began sharing on BlueSky back in November of 2024 of my progress of a Trainz route for it as this one is an entirely Trainz related project. This project is known as Kanton Railverse and it involves a fiction country called the UK of Kanton that is set on a fictional mega Earth planet and focuses the lore and history of it's railway system that is based on the UK railway network along with railway systems in other countries within that universe.
The first route currently being worked on and is progressing nicely for it in Trainz is known as the Dadale Network that focus on the railways of the county of Dadaleshire with other routes focusing on other parts of the network that I will be creating in the future, and what I plan to do with these routes is do a series of Trainz videos that showcase and focus on various aspects of this fictional countries railway system and it's history.
This one will mainly be a BlueSky and Tumblr based project, so as part of this I'm going to be renaming and rebranding my main BlueSky profile and Tumblr page to focus entirely on the entire Kanton Railverse as a whole. So if your into trains, worldbuilding and Trainz related videos. Then all of you who follow me for my train related stuff head on over to my BlueSky and Tumblr when I eventually get around to rebranding them, and I'll be including a link to them in a separate journal. Note this worldbuilding project will mainly be featuring normal trains, so if you want ones with faces, please go somewhere else.
Also, I'm no longer going to be solely focusing on train related stuff, and this pretty much goes for what I'll be doing with my artwork. As I'll still be uploading stuff featuring trains, but it'll be stuff featuring normal trains not anthropomorphic ones. But I'll also be doing another non-train related worldbuilding project, two in fact. So, you know Patrick and Grace, my persona and his wife respectively who were part of 29A. Well you had read their bio in their original reference sheet uploads and go right to the end, their is a little detail in there that was originally going to be an idea I had for 29A, well I've decided to recycle that idea and with that idea I'm going to be separating Patrick and Grace from 29A and developing their own universe which involves around a group of time traveling immortal alien creatures from the far future who live in the human world of the past. So, you'll still be seeing a lot of Patrick and Grace, mainly on BlueSky and Tumblr.
The other project I had in mind is one involving around a snake character of a snake species who live in a fantasy epic world and is a prince of royal bloodline of snakes who's ends up falling in love with a human woman from another world and gives her a better life, after her original one was destroyed. This one evolved out of something I was originally doing with Grace, but I've decided to make this snake his own character, and this going to be a furry type of worldbuilding project (that's right I'm going furry!) as I've been wanting to do something with anthropomorphic animal characters for a long time now and this snake character will be perfect for getting me started doing just that, and who will be filling the gap left behind by my living machine characters here on FA and my now planned return to DA.
How, I want to keep my art separate from my Trainz stuff on my main BlueSky and Tumblr accounts, so on those places I'll be make separate pages for my artwork, while my FA profile will be getting a complete revamp to show my new focus on my upcoming snake character, and I'll be relaunching my presence on DA with a new account under a new name. So, to those on FA if your into anthro animal characters and want to see snakes in a fantasy epic style world, then this will be the right place for you, and by doing this I will be able to offer new things I haven't been able to do in sentient train/vehicle only work.
This a heavy journal for me to write, but I hope you all can understand by decision to no longer share my living machine stuff with you all, and wanting keep that and my sentient machine characters to myself from now on. As it's time for me to bring that chapter to an end and keep those characters and their world for myself and myself only! If however, I do ever decided to return to posting living machines in the future, then I'll be sure that by then I will have a much better living machine universe that is fully flushed out and is better developed. So, to all of those who have enjoyed my LM stuff over the years, I will like say thank you for fourteen years support for them and the 29A Universe from my early DA days to where I' am now with them. Never stop being you and remember...
Cordia and the Sentients will be with you, always... ❤️❤️❤️
And always a living machine creator, forever a living machine creator. Cheers folks! 😉
It is with regret for me to inform you all that after fourteen years of sharing 29A and my LM characters with you all, I'm no longer to going to be sharing any of my living machine/sentient vehicle art and stuff on here or any of my other socials anymore, as I've decided that I'm done with the online living machinery scene.
Don't get me wrong I still like anthropomorphic trains and other vehicles, and I will still hold them close to my heart and appreciate every living machinery piece of media out there from Thomas, Cars, etc and appreciate what the creators of those things made along with the few LM artists that I still respect, and all the support my followers have given my LM stuff over the years. But I've now come to conclusion that even outside of the drama coming from the LMC and other similar communities involving LM, my happiness for the online side of things is simply no longer existent and that it's time for me to have a change of creative focus on what I want to share with the world and at the same time will make me happy, one which still involves trains, and another for my more art and worldbuilding related desires.
It's a real shame, as I've always enjoyed sharing my living machine characters form my trains OCs and all, and it's sad that it has to come to this, as it wasn't a decision that I wasn't willing to take at first. But even though I'm no longer a part of the LMC, even as an independent living machine artist/creator/worldbuilder while it was good for me at first, due to the fact that I no longer had to deal with any of the dramas from any of those communities. Over time I began to see that the entire LM scene online has been becoming less and less interesting over the years, while there are still some good LM creators and artists out there and some I hold high-respect for and inspire me. I've seen many leave the LM scene in the past ten years, and most of what is made in the LM scene and communities these days is either not very good, generic, or simply very repetitive, and therefore I feel there isn't that much from the LM scene on here for me to be inspired by LM wise anymore. At least not something that is truly amazing.
Also to be very honest, as a living machine creator and artist while I still want to draw and make stuff involving living machines, I now just want draw and do stuff with my living machine OC's and Universe for myself. As to put it bluntly, I've been feeling very restrained from posting my art involving them for you all to see for so long. Plus I haven't been able to get any new living machinery related art and things out as lack of motivation has meant that I hardly have anything to post, not even a new chapter of my novel Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead.
The reason being that my train related art and all is very time consuming to make as it can take me days or months for me to come up with an idea for a piece that features whoever train character that I have whether they'd be Danwood, Sanworth, Kyle, Silver Lady, Golden Anglia, etc and then to draw up and bring that piece to life, this means that I cannot get that much art and other lore related stuff out in a timely manner, and unless I simplified my characters designs, writing and art style like a TON! There is no way I can get much out in terms of living machine stuff. Though whenever I draw a car OC, it is a bit faster, but can still take me a long time to complete and get out there for you all to see.
Whereas other living machine artists, especially those in sentient machine related fandoms can get stuff out regularly as there either doing stuff related to Thomas or Cars, or just have characters designs that are easier to do, Whereas my art is very detailed and therefore requires a lot of time to do with my train characters needing the most attention to detail. Thus leaving me in constant art droughts with nothing to post monthly, and honestly it's starting to become tiring for me. So, therefore I now want to keep my living machine characters and their Universe 29A as a personal thing for myself, so I no longer have to feel pressured to constantly get something LM related out and allowing me to take more time with my living machine related art for my own personal enjoyment. Also sadly, I realise now that there are many ideas I have that I can't translate into a train or any other mode of transport.
So, where does this leave Universe 29A and Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead, now that I'm no longer going to be posting or sharing any living machine related content anymore? Well, the good news is for myself at least, is that Universe 29A and all of my characters that inhabit it will still live on in my personal endeavours, and I will be continuing to develop their universe and it's lore as something for my own personal enjoyment and I will be continuing to work on Tales from the Tarmingham Overhead as a series of personal stories for myself and to share with other people IRL around me. As I find that I've developed it to a point that it's too good for me to throwaway completely.
However, since I'll no longer be posting any new chapters of Tarmingham to FA or DA, and while it hasn't been officially cancelled. I'm afraid that they'll be no more chapter updates on book 1 for the foreseeable future, and the novel will be placed into a state of limbo and indefinite hiatus. Despite this, what I've already uploaded of the novel so far will remain in their current states as I've last updated them in the form their currently in, so at least you all can still read what I have written of that story so far, and feel free to come up with your own take on how it continues. But as far as I'm concerned in my own development of 29A, your interpretation won't be considered canon to my vision or any 29A lore going forward (though not online).
Also the 29 multiverse thing that was mentioned in the prologue of Tarmingham book 1, well because of me no longer posting anything relating to 29A and since that multiverse was dependant on it. I've chosen to scrap the idea, and this also goes for any future worldbuilding projects and their universes that I'll be doing, as I now would rather treat them as taking places in their own separate little universes and not part of some shared multiverse where their all connected via one main universe, and I've always found doing things that way to be much easier to keep track of them and their characters too.
All living machine art I've have done over the years and have shared publicly online will remain for those of you out there who still enjoy them, but if I ever do post another LM piece. It'll mainly be reuploads of old art I've done in the past for archival purposes. Just don't expect any new LM stuff to appear anytime soon, because as stated before I'm done sharing my living machine universe and train OCs publicly.
With all this now out of the way. What will be my new creative focus online now that I'm no longer sharing my living machines OCs and my LM universe publicly on any of my socials. Well I'll still be doing something involving trains and railways as those things will always be part of me and my interests, and so I've decided to on the thing that will help me continue with that hobby.
Sometime ago, I started work on another railway related worldbuilding project that I began sharing on BlueSky back in November of 2024 of my progress of a Trainz route for it as this one is an entirely Trainz related project. This project is known as Kanton Railverse and it involves a fiction country called the UK of Kanton that is set on a fictional mega Earth planet and focuses the lore and history of it's railway system that is based on the UK railway network along with railway systems in other countries within that universe.
The first route currently being worked on and is progressing nicely for it in Trainz is known as the Dadale Network that focus on the railways of the county of Dadaleshire with other routes focusing on other parts of the network that I will be creating in the future, and what I plan to do with these routes is do a series of Trainz videos that showcase and focus on various aspects of this fictional countries railway system and it's history.
This one will mainly be a BlueSky and Tumblr based project, so as part of this I'm going to be renaming and rebranding my main BlueSky profile and Tumblr page to focus entirely on the entire Kanton Railverse as a whole. So if your into trains, worldbuilding and Trainz related videos. Then all of you who follow me for my train related stuff head on over to my BlueSky and Tumblr when I eventually get around to rebranding them, and I'll be including a link to them in a separate journal. Note this worldbuilding project will mainly be featuring normal trains, so if you want ones with faces, please go somewhere else.
Also, I'm no longer going to be solely focusing on train related stuff, and this pretty much goes for what I'll be doing with my artwork. As I'll still be uploading stuff featuring trains, but it'll be stuff featuring normal trains not anthropomorphic ones. But I'll also be doing another non-train related worldbuilding project, two in fact. So, you know Patrick and Grace, my persona and his wife respectively who were part of 29A. Well you had read their bio in their original reference sheet uploads and go right to the end, their is a little detail in there that was originally going to be an idea I had for 29A, well I've decided to recycle that idea and with that idea I'm going to be separating Patrick and Grace from 29A and developing their own universe which involves around a group of time traveling immortal alien creatures from the far future who live in the human world of the past. So, you'll still be seeing a lot of Patrick and Grace, mainly on BlueSky and Tumblr.
The other project I had in mind is one involving around a snake character of a snake species who live in a fantasy epic world and is a prince of royal bloodline of snakes who's ends up falling in love with a human woman from another world and gives her a better life, after her original one was destroyed. This one evolved out of something I was originally doing with Grace, but I've decided to make this snake his own character, and this going to be a furry type of worldbuilding project (that's right I'm going furry!) as I've been wanting to do something with anthropomorphic animal characters for a long time now and this snake character will be perfect for getting me started doing just that, and who will be filling the gap left behind by my living machine characters here on FA and my now planned return to DA.
How, I want to keep my art separate from my Trainz stuff on my main BlueSky and Tumblr accounts, so on those places I'll be make separate pages for my artwork, while my FA profile will be getting a complete revamp to show my new focus on my upcoming snake character, and I'll be relaunching my presence on DA with a new account under a new name. So, to those on FA if your into anthro animal characters and want to see snakes in a fantasy epic style world, then this will be the right place for you, and by doing this I will be able to offer new things I haven't been able to do in sentient train/vehicle only work.
This a heavy journal for me to write, but I hope you all can understand by decision to no longer share my living machine stuff with you all, and wanting keep that and my sentient machine characters to myself from now on. As it's time for me to bring that chapter to an end and keep those characters and their world for myself and myself only! If however, I do ever decided to return to posting living machines in the future, then I'll be sure that by then I will have a much better living machine universe that is fully flushed out and is better developed. So, to all of those who have enjoyed my LM stuff over the years, I will like say thank you for fourteen years support for them and the 29A Universe from my early DA days to where I' am now with them. Never stop being you and remember...
Cordia and the Sentients will be with you, always... ❤️❤️❤️
And always a living machine creator, forever a living machine creator. Cheers folks! 😉
