/sigh

Alt raid didn’t happen, not enough people online. Looks like I came over at just the right moment – for everyone to get engaged/get married/visit family/play Skyrim/etc.

I think I may actually be a little distressed about the whole server/faction/guild move.

Staying in worgen form all the time on Arioch helps. I can just pretend that his other form is still green-eyed and pointy-eared. I honestly have no idea what his human form looks like. Any time the thought crosses my mind, my brain squeezes its eyes shut, sticks its fingers in its ears and yells, “lalalalalalaICAN’THEARYOUlalalalalala.” Immature, I know, but it’s my brain after all.

Selwynne… not so much. Maybe I should have gone Worgen with him too. I don’t know. I like the /waggle, but I feel like I’m losing touch with him.

I find with all my characters I’m spending more time zoomed out, focusing on cast bars, raid frames, anything other than what my character is doing or looks like.

Eventually, I imagine that this will lead to a total disconnect between myself and my characters. I won’t care about them as individuals, just as a collection of pixels with achievements crossed off a list.

Hopefully this is just a temporary “out of sorts” feeling until I’m more comfortable with the guild and server.

In an attempt to combat the “disassociation blues,” I’m throwing myself into some more creative WoW-related projects – namely, it’s time to update my banner image.

I’ve found a different theme on WordPress.com with a larger banner spot and allows for a custom background. (I don’t do the whole CSS or whatever crap, so just nice, simple themes for me.)

No idea what I’m going to put in either, but it’s nice to know the parameters of my canvas.

I’ve already picked out my new font for the header. The few peeps on Twitter that weren’t already asleep the other night got to listen to me babble about the difficulties of font selection. I wanted something that looked like Arioch would have written it casually. I have precedent set for his writing to be normally neat and tidy (hey, it may be a small snippet, but it’s still there), and I wanted it to have some “script” feel to it without being overly rigid and measured.

There are a couple ideas bouncing around with what I want to do with the design. One involves a little more technical know-how than I had in Photoshop, but that’s why I have the book. Of course, trying to describe the effect you are after to a book when you don’t know the proper terms for the technique is a bit difficult. It’s actually fairly difficult to explain anything to a book, regardless of how well you know the subject, but you get what I mean.

Luck was on my side. This has NEVER happened to me: I opened the book to a random page and it turned out to be precisely the page I needed. Which was good as it would have taken me eons to figure out what it was that I was looking for. Now I feel sort of obligated to use the technique…

But I’m lacking inspiration.

I want to *DO* something, but I don’t know what that something is. But when I figure it out, just you wait! I’ll *DO* like I’ve never *DONE* before!

Or something.

I’m not absolutely sold on the banner only reflecting Arioch, I suppose after all this time I can add a nod to my priest. I’m working on an awesome animation, but running into software issues with my incredibly outdated Photoshop Elements 5. An upgrade is in order, but not willing to spend oodles on an application that is for intermittent amusement.

Maybe if I could just settle on a color palette I could make some progress.  I keep drifting to purple out of respect to my loyalty to the arcane spec… but I haven’t been able to make it pop.

Anyone got any color combinations to recommend?

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