the title!
How do you name a project?
I have a habit of spinning up a lot of new projects, sometimes with all of the reactionary thought-process of throwing a bunch of ideas at a wall. When I spin up so many new ideas and things to do, eventually I've found that I don't want to spend a bunch of time trying to come up with an amazing name for every single thing that might not go anywhere.
Lately, when I set up a new account/device somewhere or start a new project, I usually pick an internal project name or theme the project around whatever fictional girl my mind's fascinated with in that moment. Sometimes it's obvious who the girl is to an outsider, other times less so.
Garbunkle focused on one of my OCs, Showrunner. My recent restoration project of an iMac G4 got the Julie Bruin codename. My NAS goes by another one of my OCs, Eglantine. Another restoration project I've had in the wings for a WinXP computer still needs a girl codename (maybe someone from the early/mid 2000's to fit the time period might work?) My private Piggybank blog on cohost went under Snow White... you get the idea.
This project? I might go with Stacey Pilgrim. I love shining a spotlight on the characters that no one else is talking about, and Stacey's maybe my favorite of the girls from the Scott Pilgrim books.
I'm also really tired of seeing Kim Pine everywhere lol, this series is full of great ladies but everyone's defaulting to her and
ANYWAY here's some miscellaneous thoughts about other things I'm mulling over lately (that I can talk about):
I'm working on a new short film! Pre-production is almost done!! Two of the four characters have recorded dialogue, and designs are almost complete. Currently waiting to hear back on more voice acting help. Would love to have pre-production finished for mid-October, will see if that happens~
Was scratching my head a bit over the closure of multiple ask box websites lately: retrospring and curiouscat. At least one of them (curiouscat if I recall) said it was due to financial burden. The financial burden of... sending text, I guess?
If it's related to uploading files/images, that I can definitely understand. It's weird to see these places collapsing when all I assume they're doing is mostly sending text back and forth. There's probably some good reasoning for both, but I don't know what it is at the moment of writing this and it's getting too late at night for me to be trying to pretend like I'd know anything about two services I've never used. why am I even typing this
It makes me wonder what it would take to set up my own ask box on a website, no middleman needed. You take text someone types in a box, and save it somewhere that only the receiver can read. It's like email, but I guess most people think they can't use email for fun things anymore (like how people also decided you can't send a letter in the mail for fun anymore either, apparently), so a text box now gets that casual/fun title?
actually now that I'm writing this out, what is wrong with using email for that? Is email now considered too formal for such things?
I may be overthinking all of this. In fact, this blog post went off the rails the moment I stopped typing about Stacey Pilgrim.