On Doing Ciphers In Public

On Doing Ciphers in Public

Okay so I journal a lot, right? And in public places a lot too, specifically at church. Now because of where I sit in my high school group there are people behind and above me, so I become paranoid that they're going to read my journal. So to fix this I. I decided to just. Use Ford's substitution cipher whenever I wanted to vent or write private things. I memorized it a while ago and I can do it pretty fast.

Con: It takes me over twice as long to read entries in cipher.

Pro: They can't read what I'm writing, because even if they watch the show I doubt they have it memorized. Mission accomplished!

Con: It probably looks like I'm writing in some sort of witchcraft language, which isn't great in a church.

Pro: I get to see some baffled looks sometimes whenever I look behind me or write on a whiteboard.

Pro: Some people ask about it which means I get to infodump as much as I think I can about ciphers and codes before they realize their mistake. This is great, especially since my church has whiteboards scattered around sometimes.

In conclusion, there are more pros than cons, and I see no problems with this. Be weird, everyone!

Warm regards,

Sam

Hello! First actual post; thought I might as well put it out there that I'm recreating Journal 3 from Gravity Falls. I am not a hardcore fan, on account of the fact that I don't even know what that entails or know a whole lot about any piece of media. I like the show a lot though, and like crafts. Still trying to figure out how to do the blacklight portions, cause I tried glow-in-the-dark paint and accidentally smudged some ink :/

This isn't a great page, mostly cause I was still trying to find the best way to set up the cursive sections. Also, I don't actually have a physical copy of the book and instead trying my best with a pdf version.

I've got more pages done but progress is slow so I'll just post whenever. If you want to chat (chat? message?) go ahead; still trying to figure out how the interweb works though.

Warm Regards,

Sam

What to do with this

I think I'm just going to keep making posts because I'm bored and it's Sunday. Uuuuuhhh I guess I should tell the Tumblr void about myself... right? Sure. Sounds about right.

So yeah I'm 17, and have been homeschooled for almost my whole life. It's nice, so long as you don't care to have a normal social life or teenage experiences. My brother, who's 15, is also homeschooled but somehow has a normal social life because of all the theater he does and makes connections there.

Let's see. I'm asexual, agender/gender-neutral, and definitely on the aromantic spectrum. Not sure if I'm demi-aro or grey-aro, but suffice it to say I'm lacking a lot in the attraction department. My brother calls me gay whenever people aren't looking, and I'm too tired to correct him at this point. I prefer they/them pronouns, but I think I would enjoy the occasional neopronoun (as a treat).

In terms of what I like, I'm inconsistent with my media consuming, but I enjoy art (even though I'm horrid 95% of the time, the other 5% is great), journaling (I'm on my 7th, I started in 2022 as a New-Year's resolution), and traveling. Traveling is a favorite of mine, though it's not like I can do that every day.

Anyways yeah. Have a nice day.

Warm Regards,

Sam

Hello! I did this drawing for a DM/friend a while ago, and thought I'd post it here cause I think it turned out nice :)

My friend created the creatures and I took his descriptions and facts and came up with this design; he was very happy with it. Unfortunately the campaign they were used in was cut off cause no one could find the damn time to do sessions (freaking choir people, they have no time for life I swear). Anyways, I really like drawing in this style even if it took a while.

I feel like so many people on this website do digital art but I don't have any of the stuff for that so I will only be posting physical art I've done; apologies that I'm not great at taking pictures of them (as you can tell from my previous posts).

Warm Regards,

Sam

I don't consider myself a writer but...

Me today: hmm, I wonder how many words I've written. I mean, I don't write much but I have a decent little collection of this one storyline.

Me, copy-pasting all the random chapters and stories into one doc, watching the word count go higher and higher: hmm...

Me, seeing that I have over 52 thousand goddamn words for a fanfic with a damn OC/self-insert: what the H-E-Double Fork.

Me: huh, wonder what that means for my little side project then, cause that one's barely anything, right? Just one I dabble with every now and then, nothing more.

The "little" project in question: 22.5 thousand words.

Almost done with these pages :) I'm not done with the Cursed Doors pages quite yet (or at least enough that I would want to post) but still wanted to put somethin' out there. I hated drawing this man's damn hands (both the portrait and the damn x-ray), but ya know it's not horrible so it's okay. I also like to think that my cursive is getting better, but after a bit my hands always get shaky :/

I'm not quite sure how to do the brown shading that's on these pages (and lots of others) but I can always come back to them later to touch them up.

Warm Regards,

Sam