As it turns out, I can use the power of my mind to control people's actions. I wish I would have discovered such a power before, because I'd probably have gotten a new job more quickly. I'll work on that after I'm done with this post. The important part is just that I have perfected the art of mind control via pixels.

How did I get this power? To be honest, who cares? It just matters that I have it and I'm going to abuse the heck out of it. Before I do that, though, I guess I'll explain how I discovered this amazing power.

I was chatting with Gabriel Gadfly about his recent sicknesses. Like all poets, Gabriel regularly comes down with consumption as a way of drawing inspiration from the looming shadow of Death. Also, he steals Death's wallet in times of reader donation slump.

Moved by his plight, I was struck with an idea, and decided to give him the best book design he will ever have:

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This week I'm starting a little game for my WebLit homies out there. The game is: name a webfiction (meaning fiction published on the web) character in the comments, including a description (or copy-pasting a pre-existing one in). Also, link to the story they're from, and let me know who the author is.

The first five complete (as in, enough for me to do a drawing based on) descriptions get a sketch (the theme, pose, subject matter and whether it's chibi or more realistic are all up to my choosing) from me. I'll post it in the blog here and link to the story, and it'll mean that the audience here gets exposed to some new stuff, which is always good.

Rules:

Above this post is the first drawing I ever did of Lotus, back before I even knew his real name was Lyric. I don't have a date for it, but I know I drew it before November 26th, 2004. That's because I know I drew it before the first attempt I made at writing The Peacock King, and I still have that first attempt as a tiny text file, and I just told you the date of its creation (and last modification).

That's right, 2004. Pretty crazy. That's six years ago, isn't it?

Man, I almost feel like I should explain its lateness. ...So I will. I'm going to warn you that this gets to be a long post, since it's how the dang Trilogy started and how it came to be ended. I'll talk about the individual books in later posts.