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

"blog"? do you mean the void?

wowie I have no idea what the fork I'm doing. I'm 17, sheltered, and the word blog looks like a typo to me. I feel like it should just be "log". Anyways, I shouldn't even be here. The only form of social media I've had for 5 years is Pinterest and honestly that's enough for me. I guess I'll just shout into the void and hope to feel like a normal teenager or something. If you interact with me I will become immensely confused but go along with whatever at this point. I think this'll just be my cringe compiling of thoughts I don't care to put in even my journals. Oh, and have a lovely 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

Eh, mostly done anyways. Thought I might as well throw it up here since I don't have much else done. Have no idea how I'm going to go about all the photographs in this darn book; might paint/draw them, might print them all out at once. Or I could just look up what other people did, but then I would just be seeing people who are much better than me doing the same thing and I would like to not crush what little ego I have thank you very much.

Anyways If you look at the 'E' in Eyeballs you can see my failed attempt at using glow-in-the-dark paint for the blacklight entry. Didn't think to test it out first and it immediately bled... lesson learned. Anyways I'm getting better at the writing part of these entries so future posts will include better laid-out cursive (still hate it though).

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