Hey all, Sam and David here.
Plans are in place, y’all. We are starting to get posts prepped and written. The regular posts are coming back in October. So for now, you’ll be getting the WIP Wednesday posts this week and next week, and the end of the month prompt share for Weekend Writer is coming next week as well. After that, we’ll be back to more frequent content. We’ve been working on Manga Monday and Tabletop Tuesday posts…and the books Sam has been reading in September will help give a good start to book reviews in October.
Anyway, each week we do this post to help ourselves keep track of everything we’ve done in the past week. That’s everything we read and watch and write and paint and craft and do. Some weeks we do more than other weeks, but it’s still always nice to have a place where we can keep track of everything.
This is also a place where you can share the cool things you’ve been up to as well, so let us know in the comments. Let’s celebrate our daily or weekly or monthly achievements with each other.
Let’s get started.
Sam
Reading: Duel with the Vampire Lord by Elise Kova, Eragon by Christopher Paolini
This feels like a small finished reading list, another week with only two books read. But when I think of how much time I spent reading/listening to the first Wheel of Time book, I guess it was still a really productive week. And I’m hoping to finish a re-read of the Inheritance Cycle in time for the release of Murtagh by Christopher Paolini in November.
I have this idea for a blog post, or maybe a TikTok video…where I compare the first books of the Wheel of Time and the Inheritance Cycle…because I noticed a lot of similarities when I was reading them. Let me know if you’d be interested…and if you’d rather have a written post or a video.
I got a few extra hours of reading/listening time in for The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan this week, so I’m like 80% finished…so hopefully next week I’ll be moving it over to the read column. But I never even got around to Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo or Heart of Night and Fire by Nisha J. Tuli because I got distracted by deciding to start a re-read of the Inheritance Cycle.
And then, at the store, I picked up Godkiller by Hannah Kaner. This book came out in the UK back in January, but it just came out in the US this week. I read all of two pages last night and I AM HOOKED. I had to set it down or I would have stayed up way too late and just read the whole thing. But, basically, if this book ends up being as good as I think it will be based on those two pages, I’ll be picking up book 2 when it lands in the UK in January, because I will not be waiting until next September to read it.
Watching: Still watching stuff, still enjoying stuff…have seen some trailers for some upcoming shows and movies that I’m really looking forward to…have introduced David to some of my childhood favorite shows…but yeah, still not talking about specifics until this WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike has concluded. Pay content creators what they’re worth. We consume enough of their content regularly; they should be paid for that.
Writing: My friend Signy Cullen got the 10th Anniversary Edition copies of her book Farther Side of Away in the mail, just in time for Cincinnati Comic Expo. I totally failed in my goal of getting Project Death: Resurrection revised and expanded in time…but that doesn’t mean that I’m giving up on a 10th Anniversary Edition. Technically it came out in Summer 2013 but as long as I can finish up my work and get the book out before 2023 is over, I’ll consider it still good.
So I’ve been doing more editing, more plotting, more dreaming, and more getting ready for NaNoWriMo. I’m actually one of the MLs for the Iowa Elsewhere region…and considering the region covers most of the state, I actually don’t even mind if people from outside Iowa join the region too. We have a Discord. Feel free to join in our writing community: https://discord.gg/jqbD26S48m
Other: I mentioned it in passing just a moment ago, but we’ve been spending time getting ready for Cincinnati Comic Expo, which is Sept 22-24th. We are working with our friend Signy Cullen at her Mousai Crafts booth. We are in Crafters Alley, Booth E16. Mousai Crafts has fabric pouches and headbands and jewelry and candles and wax melts, a whole bunch of cool geeky stuff. And we at Free State of Geek will have some of David’s 3d prints available. I’m sure he’ll talk about it in his section of today’s post.
Come by and see us, say hello…we’d love to see you.
David
Painting: Okay so a lot of painting again this week as well guys, I am hoping to finish a few more figures to show off at Cincinnati and maybe get some army commissions lol. I have almost finished painting the followers of Khorne. I have completely painted the Celestar Ballista, and I have 1 more Trogoth to paint.
I also finished up a terrain diorama for photos and the like so that was fun. I am probably going to need more basing materials if I plan to do some more of that though. I have worked with plaster fabric before so that was fun and messy. I ended up using some of my acrylic paints which I have not touched since the beginning days of painting miniatures. Except for when I tried painting nerd stuff on to a canvas topper for a shelter thing.
Printing: I have been printing some small stuff lately and have not been able to do any work on my goblin slayer cosplay yet. I did manage to make a few small models in tinkercad and am doing test prints right now to see how well they will work. I am printing paintpal shelves to organize my paints, coin display holders for the coins i printed. The coin holder I found on Cults 3d and the maker is Helionline.
So the models I made were simple business card holders, one is made to look similar to an old gaming controller, one is made to look like an open book but i am still making tweaks to that model. I also made a halloween themed can cozy with two handles and a pumpkin face on it. I even made an alternate version with one handle. I have not tested the can cozy yet but I will try to have a photo of how that goes soon enough.
All right, well that is all from us for today. We have to finish getting ready for Cincinnati Comic Expo. If you’ll be there, swing by Crafters Alley Booth E16–that’s the Mousai Crafts booth–and say hello.
And once again, thank you so much for stopping by. We’re happy to have you here and would love to chat, so let us know what you’ve been up to in the comments. We’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
Free State of Geek 