On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Okay, I'm still here. Job search is ongoing. I found something new advertised by a former employer that looks interesting this afternoon and started filling in questionnaires. Not finished yet, since there's one section that looks like a deal-breaker and I'm not sure that I can qualify under its terms.

I'm waiting to get a follow-up e-mail from one of the placement companies about a lead from last week. It sounded interesting if confusing over the phone, and I still want to know more.

I did another visit to the care home this morning. All's as well as can be there. I might yet discuss that under friend-lock.

Good arts thing: I made time for illustration practice and watched a couple of tutorial videos by David Finch last night while I was at it. I have to admit to preferring the "cel" brush by "Iridescent Delirium" as published at DeviantArt to a lot of the others I've accumulated. At least for now. The tightness of the brush works for me.

I'm still working on map projects with various members of the Tranquility Press fanfic gang. I hope to upload a few more excerpts or full WIPs later in the week. Not sure if I'm going to move them from Affinity Designer 1.10.whatever to Affinity 3 yet.

I think that's it for the moment.

Looking for informed opinions on any or all of the books in this bundle:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/visual-design-branding-mastery-quarto-books

I've bought a 3D design tools bundle from Humble already, and am considering this as well. In addition to my question about the specific books, I'm considering that this may be one of the few legitimate ways for a Canadian to support the ACLU right now.

Chores.

That's my word for today.

Bedding-laundry, shopping, computer-mouse replacement, new colour-pencils for Mom, and if I can push myself the rest of the way, new storage bins to keep the basement reorg process going. Not sure that last item is going to be doable with today's local weather. Hot and humid.

Talked with the writer of San Francisco 2161 last night about proposed maps for his now-finished Trek-inspired fanfic project about the negotiations to co-found the Federation. What maps should there be attached, what forms they should take, that sort of thing.

I'm also toying with an idea for a prose fanfic project of my own centred on one of the participants in that story and a prequel, In the Raptor's Claws about the Coaltion-Romulan War that preceded the Federation. Specifically Nathan Samuels, whom Enterprise-watchers may remember as portrayed by Harry Groener. Not sure if this is going to go anywhere beyond maybe a couple of paragraphs before getting derailed by a job offer or loss of housing or whatever.

We'll see.

Working on multiple maps of the same region of #StarTrek 's version of our galaxy is fun. It's also research-intensive and time-consuming, especially where keeping the various maps consistent with each other is concerned.

From last night's progress to such ends in support of several Tranquility Press fanfic projects...

Works in progress, all, uploaded to DeviantArt a night or two ago:

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Dominion-War-Base-Map-28-March-2025-1176423191

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Coreward-From-the-Izar-Zakdorn-Line-28-Mar-2025-1176427032

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Taurus-Reach-And-Beyond-28-Mar-2025-A-1176436890

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Edge-of-Midnight-Disputed-Zone-28-Mar-2025-A-1176439292

https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/RomulanZoneBaseMap-28Mar2025-A-1176456387

Feel free to use it:

I'm trying to find a font that's a good match to Breakaway because I'm looking at these Japanese words in kanji and kana...


宇宙
Uchū

アウタースペース
Autāsupēsu

So a new offshoot from my Tranquility Press fanfic map projects takes me rimward in the direction of Auriga, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Orion and so forth. The Hyades, Pleiades, the spinward side of Gorn-claimed space, rimward of the Klingons...and the Delta Triangle.

Created for the first animated Trek series episode "The Time Trap", it was a region known for the same kind of mysterious disappearances as Earth's Bermuda Triangle until Jim Kirk and company went digging around in the neighbourhood and found out where some of the vanishing spacecraft of multiple star nations across the centuries had ended up.

Based on material from Star Charts and Stellar Cartography, I picked out candidates for two of the three "anchor" stars of the Triangle, and now I'm working on filling in the surrounding neighbourhood with continued help from HYGMap.space...

Noting that, aside from Bellatrix, the other two stars I chose are not necessarily locked in. I'm open to alternative candidates.

A sense of what I'm working on for fun right now.

https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine/113181955177986765