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Birthday, Found a Mistake, Commissions Happening
9 years ago
Currently closed for story commissions! See this journal for details if you want to look anyway.
Hey guys! I realized I never posted a journal to mark the occasion that the 8th was my 31st birthday. Whoops! :B
I had a pretty good day, spent some time with my family and went to see the new Captain America movie. Wasn't as mind-blowing as I hoped it might be, but it was still pretty rad.
I also wanted to mention that I noticed a curious mistake with the versions of Worlds Apart and Going Home posted here on Fur Affinity. For some insane reason, in a bunch of places where the letter E follows the letter U in a word, the E was removed, so tongue becomes tongu, unique becomes uniqu, and true becomes tru, among other embarrassing examples. This is the first I'd realized it in eight and six months, respectively, and I'm almost certain it has to do with the protagonist's name.
The main character's name is Yori Hartmüt, but the FA text display doesn't handle umlauts well (the ü in Hartmüt), just renders them as the ugly question-marks-within-diamonds that are the bane of every writer on FA's existence. So when I posted those stories here, I used find-and-replace to swap every ü with a regular u, and I think that must have somehow interpreted "ue" as "ü", because the mistake is so regular and so common it's the only thing I can think of, not to mention that the versions I posted on SoFurry and Inkbunny don't have that error.
So I wanted to sincerely apologize, both to
asdfjkl03, the commissioner of those stories, and to everyone who's read them here on Fur Affinity, since that's below my usual level of professionalism. I went and fixed all the examples I personally found the other night, but there might be more mangled 'ue' words hiding in the text that I didn't find.
Finally, wanting to end on a more positive note, I'll just mention that I've started working on commissions (funnily enough, the first one on the list is also for asdfjkl03), and that aside from stressing myself out as I contemplate some of the pitches I've received, things are actually going pretty well so far, knock on wood. Speaking of which, I'd better get back to it, since those words won't write themselves (even if it would be kinda rad if they did :B).
JOURNAL OVER.
I had a pretty good day, spent some time with my family and went to see the new Captain America movie. Wasn't as mind-blowing as I hoped it might be, but it was still pretty rad.
I also wanted to mention that I noticed a curious mistake with the versions of Worlds Apart and Going Home posted here on Fur Affinity. For some insane reason, in a bunch of places where the letter E follows the letter U in a word, the E was removed, so tongue becomes tongu, unique becomes uniqu, and true becomes tru, among other embarrassing examples. This is the first I'd realized it in eight and six months, respectively, and I'm almost certain it has to do with the protagonist's name.
The main character's name is Yori Hartmüt, but the FA text display doesn't handle umlauts well (the ü in Hartmüt), just renders them as the ugly question-marks-within-diamonds that are the bane of every writer on FA's existence. So when I posted those stories here, I used find-and-replace to swap every ü with a regular u, and I think that must have somehow interpreted "ue" as "ü", because the mistake is so regular and so common it's the only thing I can think of, not to mention that the versions I posted on SoFurry and Inkbunny don't have that error.
So I wanted to sincerely apologize, both to
asdfjkl03, the commissioner of those stories, and to everyone who's read them here on Fur Affinity, since that's below my usual level of professionalism. I went and fixed all the examples I personally found the other night, but there might be more mangled 'ue' words hiding in the text that I didn't find. Finally, wanting to end on a more positive note, I'll just mention that I've started working on commissions (funnily enough, the first one on the list is also for asdfjkl03), and that aside from stressing myself out as I contemplate some of the pitches I've received, things are actually going pretty well so far, knock on wood. Speaking of which, I'd better get back to it, since those words won't write themselves (even if it would be kinda rad if they did :B).
JOURNAL OVER.
Did you get the note I sent the other day?
Thanks for the well wishes, hehe.