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State of the Soltana Address - 2023-08-30 - Unpacking and Catching Up

Well, hey there internet.

I’ll try and go through this as painless as possible, but I know that with me gone for a bit, there’s a lot I need to address, including my absence in the digital world. Also, I’m posting this on Tumblr as oppose to the bird site, mainly cause this is kind of a mixed site between LJ and Twit for me. An unholy union. That said, let’s begin.

Where have you been?

So, right off the bat, I have been a little away from things for some time. Primarily due to some things in my life outside of the screen. This involves getting my work in order, finding a new job and getting married.

Sorry, Married?

Oh, right, yes, me and my wife (always feel like I sound like Borat when I say it) got married in June after being engaged for some time (longer due to COVID). I had to direct a lot of my energy and time into this as we both are anxious people and I hate planning things for large functions. Wedding itself was fun, lots of love and laughs. Great beautiful day and now I spend the rest of my life with my partner in crime. She’s stuck with me now, despite her knowing my insanity.

What Else?

Outside of the normal day to day stuff, we have been looking into adoption, due to some personal issues we both have. Won’t get into the nitty gritty of it, but it is due to health. Wife is telling me I would be a great dad and, honestly, I think that makes sense. I am at the point in my life where dad jokes do put a smile on my face rather than make me shudder. Then there’s just the upkeep of having a house, balancing work, and all the while, squeezing in moments for myself.

Seems Like You’ve Had a Busy Summer:

For the most part, it has been longer than a summer, but I will say yes. The problem is I’m finding smaller amounts of time to write and relax, and the time that I do have, I just want to decompress. As of late, my life is boring while at the same time being busy and crazy.

So, What is the “State of the Soltana Boss / Studio”?

Well, I’ll break it down as such:

I am currently working a personal omnibus for myself, in which I am about 90% complete. The details are basically a bunch of notes, original copies of all the stories I have done and references / guides that I managed to reorganize into a PDF.

I have been off and on with TFSU. As I said previously, Book 1 is fully fleshed out and I should be writing it, while the other books are in developmental stages. I’ll try and keep an updated log of this, but, for now, things haven’t moved

I have a couple of new projects I want to start, however, all I have now are concept ideas. They need a little bit of time in the oven before I can being the work on it.

I do have some stories of the Bing that I want to do, however, I’m treating them as low priority, due to, I don’t want to fall into familiar patterns.

What do you mean Familiar Patterns?

Lately, I have been stuck in the past. I didn’t realize that I was until I saw a story online that made me reflect on what I was doing. I was keeping the Bing on some ungodly life support, because I wanted to have the feeling that I had before of writing in a forum and talking with people or RPing in said forums. I was trying to recapture that feeling again, the joy that I had.

But unfortunately, I couldn’t. As dark as this sounds, we can’t go back.

That’s what I feel that the Bing was, a lifeline to try and pull me back into the past. I want to do new things with writing and not rely on characters that I know everything about and that every story about them has been practically done. I want to move forward with myself and write new experiences and characters.

What about TFSU?

TFSU is sort of a mixed bag. While it has a lot of Iris’s characters that I have worked on for a while, I see it as two things. One, an homage to a friend’s creativity and talent and two a new experience to write a different setting and bring in some new plots. I’m actually looking at TFSU as the first step in breaking out of these patterns and it is exciting.

Okay, so what’s stopping you?

Outside of the above? Well, I also managed to get myself a new Steam Deck. It’s the first next gen console that I have had in a while and I found I am actually playing some games. Speaking of games, I’ve also been sucked in to playing Gloomhaven a lot with my wife.

Gloomhaven?

Look it up, it’s a video game and a board game. Short of it, it’s DnD in a board / card game.

Anything Else?

Caught up on Geats , now I am taken a sabbatical, like I normally do, until next year to watch Gotchard

How was Geats?

[Inhales] Definitely not perfect, but it has been one of the best Reiwa Riders that I have seen. Ace reminds me of Tendou so much it hurts. I did feel that the last act kind of meandered, but overall it was a good season. I felt like I was enjoying it for what it was all the way through, unlike Revice’s second half where it kind of nosedived a bit. Some people might call me crazy, but, I put Geats in second place right now, as I think Zero-One still has that crown, in my opinion, as best Reiwa Season.

Also Geats IX? Best final form in the Reiwa era to date. I will fight anyone on this hill!

We good?

We good. I’ll try and post more online, but I might make more of these, just cause I find writing this easier than anything else.

Stay Classy Internet

- Soltana Boss

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State of the Soltana Address - May 18th, 2021

Hello tumblr,

Been a while, huh?

Well, I made it a mission to not post onto tumblr until I was finished a personal set of projects of mine. That was about what 8-10 years ago. Whoops!

Well, since I’m here I can proudly announce that they are done and I can finally unveil the following:

This is a set of stories that I have worked on for a good chunk of my life and I finally managed to re-master and update them. They are on Google Drive so here is a link to the folder where all 8 books are:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uB1rlHGPq-7aibAqMAW5rXK15UFhlna_?usp=sharing

As well, I have a memo that explains what these stories are and basically where I have been:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uB1rlHGPq-7aibAqMAW5rXK15UFhlna_?usp=sharing

In addition, as a bonus I have also resurrected and remastered another set of stories:

This is set of posts that were saved and updated almost two decades later, maybe less. This may not be for everyone, but for those interested here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LvJe10Vyrbpa5c4oUqb2H2hn9H9HHNDz/view?usp=sharing

And much like the above I have made a memo for those interested of what this is and why it was dug up after so many years:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xgb0xrAmQnAV9GSWyX76WTdLuzlN8yp1/view?usp=sharing

So yes, I came here to show off what I have done and if you like it, great, if not that’s okay too.

Will I make more posts here? I’ll try, I mean I have the format right? Might as well use it.

Well, until next time, you keep safe.

- Soltana Boss

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State of the Soltana Address - April 27, 2014

Well, I think that’s enough time without yours truly gracing the halls of Tumblr.

Hello there friends, and welcome to my little corner of the internet on this site full of re-blogs, Superwholock and nightmarish things only seen in Science Fiction. I am your master of all things ceremonial and destructive in Soltana, the Soltana Boss (a.k.a GLX, ULX, and Notorious B.I.G. as per JJBA). So I suppose some people who were here before are asking themselves, “What in the seven layers of hell happened to all your posts!?” The answer is, “I split them!”

So now I have three blogs (Which really don’t do anything outside of collect dust):

Soltana Studios (i.e This one) – [Update/Production Journal]

Bada Bing Stories (For all things related to that bunch of stories) – [Bar Tumblr]

Republic of Salmon Shirts (For all my Reblogs and general insanity) – [Insane Tumblr]

It was all me Austin, it was me allllllll along.

Next on the docket, what has been happening with my creative cycle? Well that, I am ashamed of, because everything has sort of halted to a screeching stop. As much as I want to try and get the Bing back and running as well as start work on my other projects, I made what I think a molehill out of Everest. Currently I am actually retooling the entirety of the Bing’s stories from story one all the way to the current ones I have planned out. Thing is, I’m now working on it as fully written stories as opposed to script style stories. In addition I am re-tooling every single character’s bios (Nick’s Gang included, to which I will need to contact him at some time to fix up his characters. Nick, if you are reading this, don’t worry I will be in touch. In addition, I have been working on some new covers for myself when I actually do post them onto the DA account. IN ADDITION! I have been working on trying to get some info to get some more commissions for some of my characters who are sort of faceless. So yea, I bit off way more than I can chew.

What’s worse? Is that the fact I have not been working on it for some time! *PROCRASTINATION IS AWESOME!* But on the upside, I have been catching up on some things I needed to complete. I have finished AC: Revelations, thus releasing me from duties under the AC franchise until I get my hands on 3 and 4, which will not be for a long ass while. I have finished watching all of Kamen Rider Kuuga, which I have to say it is always awesome when a series takes an incredibly dark turn at the last second. Plus CHOU HENSHIN! And Episode 42’s final fight. Just, yes! I finished watching all of Kamen Rider Agito, which I have to admit G3 has impressed me quite a lot since I first started. Also Gills is just psychotic! I love it! Clearly he is my favorite rider in that series. So with those two done, time for me to make a Journey through the Decade, if you know what I mean.

I also managed to read through JJBA up until Part 5, my views, the best scene in that part was Gold Experience vs. Green Day. If your uselessness is not intensified at the end of that battle, then I really have nothing to say to you! Ever!

Outside of that, I have been busy with life, work and the pursuit of happiness. I already know it isn’t in cheap hookers and booze. And that’s it, I do apologize for the absence, I will make an effort to try and post more on this journal. Even if it is updates and/or commentary, except for reblogs, that’s what the Salmon Shirts are for.

Anyways, Soltana Boss, signing off!