Speedy-cut linogravure card printing reports

That's it. No more intensive linocut + printing in winter. If I want to make them, I better do them in the summer. The printing is horribly long. When I just started it seemed that carving was the long part and printing was the short part, but now it's the other way around.

Now the important parts. Printing with the specialised block printing ink is still the best. Trying with acrylic works, but it's hard. Why? Normal (used in this experiement: Pebeo high viscosity acrylics, no medium used) acrylics dry up way too fast for the same thickness of ink, which means it could be dry before I manage to apply the inked block to paper. It's also slightly harder to wash off than block printing ink, but not significantly.

Also, I suck at using x-acto knife for some reason. I can't cut the paper straight even after folding them. Maybe my hand-eye coordination is gay (sorry, worst joke ever). Really, I can cut according to a curve line relatively fine, but I can't cut straight, not even with a ruler (I'll just end up cutting the ruler).

Childhood friends Johto trio is my OT3

I'm so happy! I just read some excellent Johto trio doujinshi and they are so cute! It's kind of sad whenever Silver's involved though.


In one it's PokeSpe-verse. Silver and Blue part ways because Blue is going back to her parents. Silver didn't know his parents then, so he was alone. Gold found him and invited him home where Silver got to live as an ordinary boy for some time and Gold's mom treated him like her own son, but Silver knew he didn't belong and left in search of his real parents. The end is sort of No End with Gold and Crystal talking.

It gave off a very strong James + Sirius vibes IMO. I wanna read Harry Potter parents generation doujinshi now. In retrospection, maybe that was why I liked Silver so much: he was a bit like Sirius Black, being the rebellious son from an evil family, escaped to get his own life, found a friend in the Chaotic Good (somewhat, but still a jerk and not always nice) alignment, sentenced to prison (Sirius)/almost sentenced to prison (Silver), saved by a little boy arguably in the Chaotic Good alignment (Harry/Gold), a person related to the evil family he once had kills (in Sirius's case)/handicapped (in Silver's case, blinded and muted). Both had long hair at one point and short in others. Both are bit of deadpan snarkers. Both had history of non-human intelligent animals abuse. And actually, I believe the only reason Silver isn't dead yet is because it's a comic book for children (and that it got cut off before he could). And both are Gryffindor who tend to act like Slytherin. Sirius turns into a black dog and Silver was seen with a houndoom in the official art for the games.


In another it's ambiguously PokeSpe-verse and school AU. Silver tend to have different personality than his PokeSpe or games counterparts when it's school AU, probably because he gets a more normal life there so his personality tend to be more normal and less extreme/violent. In fact, he tend to be the calmest of the three in school AUs (but still bicker and fight with Gold). He's also the less visibly delinquent of the three. And Gold... I love when he wears hairclips. And of course when Yellow shows up wearing skirt over pants, Gold has to be the one making her show more legs (the result: white thigh-high socks + mini skirt = grade A zettai ryouki! No, he didn't say that, I did). Next he's planning to make her wear mini-skirt over black pantyhose... And try to make Silver wear the same (immediately turned down).

It's funny how Red's cellphone background is Green in maid dress and Gold has one of Silver waking up in the morning. They really love playing with their rivals (as in, pushing the boundary of their self-respect).



There's another doujinshi called 36 celsius, which is the only shipping doujin of the three with Gold/Silver. It wasn't very plausible to me so I just replaced Gold and Silver with Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus in my head. It sort of worked. Seriously, if the slashed couple are boys, make them act like boys! Not lesbians in boys' bodies.

...should have informed myself

I just found out that once an alcohol based marker goes over a pencil line, it's not erasable anymore. Why didn't anyone tell me that before (or maybe someone like lunatique did but I forgot).