“What I’ve started I must finish. I’ve gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story.

The Neverending Story is one of the most important novels of my life, and while Bastian is obviously the most important characters in the story, I've always been drawn to Atreyu, the young boy tasked with trying to save the world.

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🎉💻 Behold, the most necessary #innovation of the century: a digital doodle of Tolkien's imaginary playpen! 🌍✨ Now you can pointlessly click around an unlicensed internet map to revisit fictional events you’ve already read about—because who wouldn't want to measure the distance between #Rivendell and #Mordor during a coffee break? 🙄📚
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"A Dry Martini. One. In a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordons, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."
- Ian Fleming, "Casino Royale"

I love James Bond, and the original Fleming novels are such fun and dark little noir espionage tales. Bond is a real bastard in those books, and he's fascinating.

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“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

I'm a huge fan of private eye stories, and my all-time favorite is Raymond Chandler's perpetually put-upon detective, Phillip Marlowe.

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"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
- Agatha Christie "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Oh Hercule Poirot, what a little weirdo. He's always such a jolly little man, even when he's about to explain why someone is a murderer. And, no, this whole series isn't just going to be fat mustachioed men.

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"“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”

I realized I have really fallen off drawing, so I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge. I'm going to draw characters from some of my favorite novels. I'm starting off with my favorite book of all time, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, with his incredibly unlikeable protagonist, Ignatius Reilly.

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I recently played a one-shot with my D&D crew, and got to play my usual one-shot character, Zuko the Burly! He's a moronic dwarf monk who fights like a bare-knuckle boxer, has an intelligence of 6, and is just the friendliest doofus in the world.

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