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Remember that kitty I rescued that someone abandoned in front of my appartment about four months ago? I ended up adopting her. I just haven't posted any pictures of her yet. Her name's Mimosa.

Well, people around here must have heard I rescue cats because just earlier today someone went and dumped a very small, about one month old kitty literally on my doorstep.

Someone took this small, little kitty from her mother and went and dumped the poor little thing on my doorstep. God, but I hate people.

Well, I guess I have to take care of her now. I don't know if I'm going to adopt her. This would be my sixth cat. God help me. I don't know if I can take care of six cats.

There's so many things I'd like to talk about, and so little time, and I do tend to go on for too long when I do this.

I'll try to be brief.

Here's a brief summary of my art plans for now:

1- Continue Marc Brunet's art course. Keep working on doing clothing for now. There's a couple of illustrations of Batman villains in a how-to book I have that I'd like to do that I think would be good practice for this. And more Cammy, of course.

2- Design clothes for Cammy and Juni, and do more art of the two of them. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, and I'm doing the clothing part of Marc Brunet's course precisely for this.

3- Celebrate Cammy's beauty and sexiness. I was talking to the other day. He does erotic Cammy art. I've always been really bad at this kind of thing, and I've always preferred to focus more on Cammy as a cool and/or cute heroine in my art. She is an inherently sexy character, however, so fanart of her is bound to be sexy even if that's not the original intention. I have been thinking, and while I believe that Cammy is much more than just a sexy character, the fact that she is beautiful and sexy is not a bad thing and should be celebrated. In this day and age, where the tendency in gaming is no longer to seek beauty and escapism from reality, but rather has taken a turn towards "representation" and character designs have become a celebration of ugliness and mediocrity, I think Cammy's beauty is more important than ever. So I am planning on doing more fanart of her focusing on her beauty and sex-appeal. I intend to keep it classy, however, as that is the way I like it, and it will for the most part be SFW.

I have also wanted to do an artistic nude of her for many years now. I will get around to this, but probably not in the immediate future. I want it to be as beautiful an illustration as I can make it. I will do it when I think I'm ready.

4- the Cammy Wins series. This is a big one for me, and one that I've been working towards for years. I plan on doing a series of illustrations depicting Cammy beating up every character that's ever beaten her in every appearance she's ever made.

I have a list. And a very long memory.

I want to make these illustrations as professional-looking as possible and use advanced techniques like forced perspective. I want these to be as good action shots as I can possibly make them. I will get started on this when I feel that I'm ready.

"That which is wrong with the world that we cannot fix with the blades of our axes, we shall surely avenge!"

- Thorgrim Grudgebearer

And, of course, always keep working towards becoming a better artist.

Thank you for putting up with me for all these years. I hope that you will continue to enjoy my art for many more years to come.

Eidt: Hey, I completely forgot, I'll forget my own head next.

I'm also planning on doing at least one B/W illustration, or greyscale, not sure yet, in the style of old school D&D art.

And armor. I need to learn to draw armor properly.

And I have a few coloring books just lying around, too. I want to color something.

Man, there's so much stuff I want to do.

It has come to my attention that there are people out there who are concerned that I may get angry if they make Cammy fanart that shows her losing, especially if said fanart is of a sexual nature.

No, I won't. I won't care. I don't care what art other people make and if I don't like it I just won't look at it. And if I really don't like it, I can just block it. I'll block the thumbnail, not the artist themselves. Adblock lets you do that.

Is there something you don't want to look at? Do you have Adblock? Right click on the thumbnail, select "block element". That's it.

I will block people posting the scene where Viper tortures her, though. It's like that fucking thing chases me. To this day people are still posting that stupid anime on Youtube. I've recently started sharing my art on Facebook again. One day I think to myself "let's see if there's any more Cammy stuff here". So I type "Cammy" on the search bar and I scroll down. And what's the third thing that appears?

Go on, take a guess.

But no, I don't care what art other people make. I'm not here to tell anyone what art to make or how to live their lives, and I don't see why anyone should care what I think anyway.

No, I'm angry at *Capcom*. I'm angry because I'm so disappointed, because Cammy's such a great character, and she had so much potential, and I mean "had" because it's never going to be realized. And it used to be I really looked forward to seeing where her story would go, and what kinds of things she would get to do, back when I still looked forward to things.

But instead Capcom decided that she was there to be used as a stepping stone for whatever new female character they wanted to promote in the game, and to get beaten up, tortured and publicly humilliated. Honestly, I wish she wasn't even in Street Fighter anymore. I really honestly wish Capcom would retire her. I know Street Fighter has a new creative team, and I do like what they've done with her so far, and I love the relationship she was with Juni now.

But I'm still expecting Capcom to do something to ruin it for me, because that's what I've come to expect from them, and at this point I'd rather just we quit while we're ahead.

I swear to God the day Capcom even announces a new Street Fighter anime I'll quit the game again and this time I won't come back. I won't even look at the trailers. I'll just spend the rest of my life avoiding anything having to do with Street Fighter like the plague.

I never really talk about my other favorite characters. I do have other favorite characters, it's just that Cammy's really special to me, and I have an affinity for her that I don't have for other characters. But there have been, throughout my life, other characters I've admired and looked up to. And what happened to them?

My favorite Star Wars character was Luke Skywalker. He was the kid who never gave up. He never gave up on his dad, even if he'd turned into a monster, and he finally ended up saving him.

And then The Last Jedi came out, and he gave up.

I have not watched any Star Wars content since. The Last Jedi disappointed me so much I just completely gave up on Star Wars. I hear The Mandalorian's great, at least the first couple of seasons. I can't bring myself to watch it. I've just completely lost interest in Star Wars.

My favorite X-Men character was Beast. I was a huge X-Men fan during the 80's and 90's. Those were the good days if you were an X-Man fan. I loved Beast. I loved his personality and his sense of humor. I loved that he would fight for peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants and even though he looked like this blue furry, well, beast, he was a great guy, and you shouldn't judge him by his appearance.

And then Marvel bought Fox and reset the X-Men continuity and they turned him into a monster. He's an asshole now. He's the exact opposite of why I used to like him so much. He's pretty much Dark Beast from Age of Apocalypse and I hate it.

I hear X-Men 97 is great. I really ought to watch it, but I hate so much what Marvel's done with the X-Men and especially with Beast that I've just completely lost interest.

While we're on the subject of Marvel, I also used to love the Punisher. I didn't admire or looked up to the guy because he's not really a character anyone should admire or look up to, but I always thought he was one of Marvel's best, most interesting characters. I love Garth Ennis' Marvel Max Punisher run. Those are some of my favorite comics.

So of course Marvel sicced their in-house assassin Jason Aaron on him to completely ruin the character, and I do mean completely ruin him, and after giving him the absolute worst ending ever, they retired him. They couldn't just retire him, they had to first give him to a writer who clearly hates him and completely destroy him.

By now I never want to even pick up another Marvel comic again for the rest of my life. I'm never giving these people another red cent of my money.

When I was a kid I used to love GI Joe. I watched the cartoon. I read the comics by Larry Hama. I loved the comics. And my favorite character was Snake Eyes. He never appeared in the cartoon because he was mute and never spoke so the writers didn't know what to do with him, but the best stories in the comics were about him. And I thought he was cool and mysterious and awesome, and his story was that he was this soldier who was recruited into a ninja clan and even though he was a foreigner and everyone looked down on him he gave it his all, and he never gave up, and eventually he rose through the ranks and was chosen by the clan's master to be his successor but the master was assassinated by Zartan and everyone blamed Storm Shadow and that started this whole conflict between them and I thought the whole thing was great.

And then a few years ago IDW decided that Snake Eyes couldn't be a ninja master anymore because he was a dirty foreigner and he had to be replaced by an Asian character and they retired him, but first they had Quick Kick, the other GI Joe martial artist, give him a beating to put him in his place.

I have since completely lost interest in GI Joe. I can't even be bothered to cancel my subscriptions to GI Joe channels on Youtube. I just never look at them anymore.

I recently told someone my life is an endless parade of disappointments. It is. And by now I just expect disappointment out of everything and I can't seem to get emotionally invested or interested in anything.

I am emotionally invested in Cammy, though. Very much so. I am also very pessimistic. I do not expect good things for her in the future, and by and large I've completely lost interest in Street Fighter, and fighting games in general.

You know who's another one of my favorite characters? Conan the Barbarian. As a kid I read Tower of the Elephant and I loved it and became a fan. They haven't ruined him yet. But when Titan comics bought the license they got Jim Zub to be the writer. I do not like Jim Zub as a writer. I am not interested in Conan comics currently, either.

So that's the state of it. I just expect disappointment out of everything now. I hadn't really talked about this before. I figured I might talk about it now.

Some kind anonymous soul just gave me a core membership. I want to say thank you. I also have no idea what to do with it.

I don't want to seem ungrateful. Thing is, I actually hate DA. I'm the sort of person who can hold a grudge for decades, and I have a grudge against this place, for reasons I'm not going to go into now. I swore I'd never give another red cent of my money to DA years ago, so it's highly unlikely I'll renew this core membership I have now. The only reasons I didn't just leave ten years ago are that I run the Cammy fans group here and I didn't want to abandon it, and at the time I didn't want to lose touch with the friends I'd made here, whom I ended up losing touch with anyway because I've become a very solitary person in general since.

I suppose I might as well see what I can do with this membership while it lasts.

I love RPG games. I have talked about it before. Both tabletop and computer RPGs. I don't even play fighting games anymore. The last fighting game I played was Ultra Street Fighter 4.

I don't like JRPGs as much, I prefer American and European RPGs where you get to customize your own character.

I'm sure I don't have to tell you who I always make my character.

As for tabletop RPGs, I have been playing since I was 11. I've currently managed to find one player who has the personal policy of not doing sidequests and just charges blindly on through any adventure I throw at him. It's a miracle he's survived so far.

I tend to back smaller RPG projects on Kickstarter, usually ones that cost a couple of dollars. Sometimes I will back something a little more expensive. For instance, I recently backed this:

1001 Nights: D&D One-Shots by Bradley Horton — Kickstarter

And one of the backer rewards for this project is that you get to customize your own quest.

I'm certain you know where this is going.

In the survey you're sent, you get to customize a main character, one or more sidekicks and an antagonist. When the product is delivered in May, the world can now look forward to having an adventure with Camille Whiteblade, a brave and stoic but impulsive knight, who used to be an assassin for an evil cult but rebelled against them and now fights to protect the innocent, and her loyal sidekick June, the jovial and merciful but naive rogue who was rescued from said cult by Camille and has fallen in love with her but hasn't worked up the courage to tell her, as they are pursued by the mysterious and cunning but stubborn assassin Vargas, who works for the same cult Camille rebelled against and is obssessed with her.

You'd think I might make Viper the antagonist here, but no. I hate her so much I'd rather never have to even look at her again. Besides, Vega makes more sense in the context of Cammy and Juni's shared history.

I'm actually feeling rather pleased with this. I just hope the people making the quest won't say anything about all three characters being European humans. Like, my cast of characters isn't diverse enough or something. I'm kind of expecting something like that, but we'll see.