straw men burn and leave no bones

______T h e
The Poet Rosalyn
Prince Kobias always wanted to explore the abandoned Brine Family Theatre. After investigating every secret within the four hundred and forty-four rooms of his home at Castle Oversalt, you would think his talent for uncovering hidden passages would help him sneak into some run down playhouse. 
 
 
Dewlap the Gat
But boards and mortar block every window and door, leaving the prince and his friends to merely speculate about why the building has been left in disrepair (and what remains inside).  
 
 
High Executive Arch
One evening, Kobias notices a man walking through the theater’s wall, but even after a close inspection, there is no telling how he did it. The next morning, 15 years after the last closing of curtains, the theater is suddenly being reopened by the mysterious thespian, Ehro, with a new staged play titled, “The Ratking’s Unraveling.”
 
 
A kudanite
Anticipation builds throughout the city, yet even Prince Kobias never imagined that this would be a performance to die for. 


A vectorman

My novel, The Unraveler, is a 90,000-word YA fantasy that aims to bring readers a fun adventure through a theatrical world and under. This website is dedicated to my journey to seek representation and, with any luck, publication. 

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Clink Robots



Making the world a little more fun




Hello, my name is David Harrison Aye, and I'm a writer/artist. Halloween is my artistic spirit.
 
 

The Unraveler is a novel I'm working to get published.  Interested literary agent? Learn more about this project here... 
 
 



This blog is all about my thoughts on writing, other art I'm working on, happenings in my life, and more. 
 
 

I have a few samples of my writing and art online. Let me know what you think!

new painting project

Part 1 - the project begins


Part 2 - mostly just doing the bottom color layer so far, no textures
I'd say I'm 15% done. I'm going to take my time and enjoy the process


Part 3 - been snowed in so I've taken time to paint
25% done currently, background is mostly complete. She's in a fancy theatre, POV is from backstage looking out towards an audience. The flashing is my surreal idea of her imagination picturing people adoring her from the empty seats, which can barely be made out because the house is dark.
Haven't worked on the actual woman part, other than flat back coloring so don't judge her too harshly yet.

Where does Jon Snow go after the ending of Game of Thrones?

This is a short story I wrote that is my idea of what would happen after the ending of the Game Of Thrones TV show. 

SPOILERS FOR Game of Thrones BOOKS, PREVIEW CHAPTERS, & SHOW AHEAD!



Drawing 2


previous: drawing 1

This is an abstract dog. I like to put body parts out of order when sketching. Some famous artists focus on teeth or ears. I don't have a focus, so it jumbles up.

I like this one. Really just started drawing this with new pens of varying stroke widths. Mother and son, I suppose. 

I also like this one. It's an eyeball (maybe that's my focus, huh?) that is also a rain cloud. 



Drawing 1

This one was a failed experiment with color. I don't really like how it turned out, but failure is a learning experience. Tried to use odd colors for shaders.

The messed up thing on this one is that bird legs bend the other way. I still like what I was going for. Still, a color experiment. Eyeturtle. 

I drew this for my mom. She likes giraffes. 


next: drawing 2

2018 Game of the Year

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Want to know who won in other years? Here’s the 2017201620152014, and 2013 list.

Played some games this year. Shout out to Planet Coaster, Breath of the Wild, Plants VS Zombies 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Tower Defense King, Pokemon Go. Guess I didn't play all that much. I've been pretty busy (going to Japan, running shows, writing...).



The Oxyborb Blog Game OThe Year for 2018

Dungeons & Dragons 5E - Planar Sphere

This is an unusual year for GOTY on my blog. But I have to say that my choice is the D&D sessions I've been playing with my friends, namely my DM Kyle. Dude has been putting his heart and soul into making one insanely epic tabletop game! He has about a billion people playing together (many different groups converging). It's been a blast to sit and roll dice with a bunch of cool artsy-peeps. 


My character is Jor R. R. Molken. He's a gnome wizard, specializing in conjuration. He loves grease, web, and other ridiculous spells. He used to be evil, but he's since had a change of heart (witnessing a few other player characters doing absolutely bonkers stuff). 



Thanks for stopping by my blog!

School's Out For Snow

Feeling a bit lonely this morning. It's cold. The Midwest is going through some negative twenty degree windchill, and I'm just sitting around and thinking. Maybe some of the things I've got boiling in my brain are better said with a guitar. I don't know.

Vague rhymes with plague. Not sure that matters, but I've typed the second enough yesterday. I miss sledding.

This is my second snow day in a row, sorta. Yesterday was more of a cold day. But, I miss going sledding. Haven't been since I was a kid. Don't own a sled. It snows less than it used to. I've noticed that you never see those orange-jack-o-lantern garbage bags to bag leaves with in stores anymore, mostly because the leaves don't change in October anymore. Used to be, there'd be nearly a week of snow days in a row. Now, there's only usually one a year, and it ain't even that bad.

Was supposed to work a Shakespeare play this morning, but that got cancelled. Would have been nice to enjoy it. Macbeth. In the state I live in, I only ever talk to people about work. When snow blocks the bridges over the Mississippi, I am behind the moat.

Snow days were for video games. Today, games get harder so that you'll spend money to buy fake currency so that you can buy boosts that allow you to win. Weird. Used to be bonuses were unlocked by entering cheat codes, now you enter credit card numbers. Sledding was free, what happened to that?

It's nice to have someone to go to the movies with. But it is cold.

VIDEO: Journey to Japan

So, back in June, I went to Tokyo with my girlfriend. Click this to see a blog post I wrote awhile back! 

Recently, however, I had time to finish compiling a video. I took a billion hours of footage, but I wanted to trim it all down into one well-edited video of my entire adventure to Japan. 

This video is still 38 minutes long, but it goes day-by-day over the ten I stayed there. 

My fav highlights: Monkey fight, cat karaoke, and our plane rolling on our flight home. 


 

Six Pics from my Month

autumn selfie

my workshop, cleaned mid construction

bought my mother these as a birthday gift, hid them in her cabinet

true art

oh yeah it snowed and the school I work for shutdown for the day


the musical set I worked for months on! Whew!

"Bakkaddit Ballet"

I drew a ballet, of sorts. It kind of sums up my life at the moment.

Sometimes I call myself the master juggler. I just get called upon to do all sorts of random things. Not to be vague, but it's true. When you're fat, and you try to get back into working out, your body fights against you. The pains come. You worked too hard too fast and you pinch a nerve and cannot move. You give up.

That's not exactly what this drawing is about, but similar. I want to do all the things, but I know success, true sky climbing success, comes from tunnel vision.

"Where I want to be" perhaps never should be where you are, in a way. If you're exactly where you want to be, then what point is there to going anywhere? What do you look forward to? I guess I'm not yet where I want to be, but I'm where I need to be right now. Dancing between the tiles, avoiding hot lava where I can.

Just gotta figure out how a master juggler can have tunnel vision. 


/____________.

I am
is a powerful statement, right?
Declaring who/what you are.
Period. Air tight.
____________.
Label.
I suppose creating yourself
is a better way, right?
I am ____________.
for/against
status
day
/
night
title
here/there
long hair
when to care
I am the authority on me
I will be
I can be
whatever I say
____________.
I am a man.
I’m not perfect but I try hard
wherever I can.
I am an artist,
a writer,
long hair
an autumn spirit
a run-on sentence.
I tend to hear it
said I’m I’m
Air tight.
I’m letting myself go
/____________.
But, no,
you’re right

JAPAN! Journey overseas!!!

there's a blog at the bottom of this post detailing my trip
at a Pokemon Center under the Skytree
A giant robot snake fighting a robot tank
a shrine on a mountain
one of the buildings on the mountain

I went to Japan back in June, and it was an amazing experience. I stayed mostly in Tokyo. Here's a blog of my adventures:

A blog of our day-by-day adventures:

June 9: Flight there - 1 hour and 40 minutes to Canada, then 13 to Tokyo

June 10: Our plane landed in Tokyo and we ate food and went to bed around 9:30.

June 11: Cari, Rachael, her kids, and I went to Joyopolis, which was like a Dave & Buster's place, because the museums we initially were thinking were closed, it was very rainy. We ate awesome donuts in the subway, very Japanese style. Later that night, we went to sushi with Dan and his son.

June 12: Cari and I took the eldest son to the Meiji Jingu shrine. Later, Dan took us to Akihabara, which is like he center of Tokyo's geek culture.

June 13: We wanted a slower/rest day before Disney tomorrow, so we did more close-range stuff. Rachael and her kids took us to an amazing restaurant where you order through a vending machine. We accidentally ordered 2 beers which we meant to order chicken, but the beers were really fantastic so it was a happy accident.

June 14: Disney Sea! A Disney park only in Japan! It was literally the perfect Disney day. Cloud cover enough to keep it cool but still be bright, parking right up front, first in line to go into the park, no waiting in hardly any lines for any ride (except Tower of Terror), and we won a ticket lottery for a special show and got seats in the front! A wonderful day!

June 15: We went swimming and hot tubbing at a hotel. Very relaxing after a Disney day. Cari and I did a solo walking tour of Shibuya, eating a bunch of random things.

June 16: The whole family went with us to Mount Takao. A mist covered the mountain as we climbed, vanished as we descended. We reached the top and rang a bell at a shrine. Saw real monks. Also, we got to feed monkeys. Truly a special day, one of my favorites.

June 17: Rachael was an amazing planner, and did a tour for us of a beautiful city garden, followed by a boat tour down the river, and then ending at the Skytree. We did some shopping and the mall got evacuated for a fire, haha! Saw the Pokemon Center.

June 18: Rachael and her kids took us to an arcade and then to Karaoke. I played Mario Kart with her kids and more claw machines. We sang a bunch of Disney songs after. Later, the adults went to the Robot Show in Shinjuku. It was really ridiculous and amazing.

June 19: Cari and I took one last solo trip through Shibuya and ate lunch at a noodle place. Then we did a 12 hour flight back to Cananda, 2 hours to STL. The flight home was better but left us jetlagged. Cari's folks picked us up and took us to Denny's. Whew!

Truly, this was an amazing trip, one we'll never forget! Thanks to Rachael and Dan and their kids for hosting us and making this special!

f l o a t 2 0 1 8

went on a float trip

Blue Springs Ranch, very good spot

I swam most of the way, to be honest. Felt good to swim

Ghost Tour - Lemp Brewery areaI don

I don't believe in ghosts, but I find them fun

smallest STL haunted house, Aquafina bottle proves ghosts live here

I like this pic I took, that cloud

didn't see any ghosts, but I hold out hope

Lemp Mansion is a Pokemon gym