As you might know, I create digital fractal art. I have recently started using a very nice site for displaying and selling some of my work. If you have any interest in my work, please visit my site and browse. 🙂
Thanks for your interest and Happy Holiday Season to you!
The Fractal Art of Trenton Shuck
I found this interesting survey test that determines what D&D character you are. A link to it may be found below my results.
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I Am A: Lawful Good Human Sorcerer (6th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-12
Dexterity-14
Constitution-12
Intelligence-14
Wisdom-17
Charisma-13
Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment when it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)
From my new personal blog, Chronicles of an Intelligent Moron,
5/16/2013 – Inane and Irrelevant.
Sometimes just putting down what you think is all that you can do. I could try to be witty, or poetic, or a storyteller, but tonight it’s just not there…so here I am, blathering on and making nothing into something. I suppose that alone makes it a sort of act of creation, no matter how inane and irrelevant it might be. But then, who am I to judge what is irrelevant. For all I know, the Universe is compelling me to type these words and the very act of typing them is putting some great balance into order. It’s nice to think so I guess. On some strange extra-cosmic level, I could just be the savior of the Universe.
Trenton A Shuck
We are the lens through which the Universe reflects and experiences itself. Each of us a piece of it’s light, we sometimes get lost in the shadows of that light because we forget it shines from not outside of us, but from within.
Stay real, be who you are.
Emerging from the shadow of fears which have crippled, finding the strength and courage to face a world in which one’s place is not known. A daunting task which can overwhelm if one were to try to take it all in. One moment at a time, dealing with each thing as it comes, learning to ride the wave of possibility without expectation becomes a fact of survival.Â
There is always hope, there is always light, even in the darkest of times. Just open up to it.
Trenton A Shuck
The clouds and rain of the day clear away, much as the murk in my mind. A moment of clarity, like a chill breeze which follows the storm, putting it all into focus. Tomorrow the sun will shine on a day of new possibility, and the future will blossom like life in fertile ground after a spring rain.
Calm a midst the silent chaos in the eye of a mental storm.
Learning to surrender to it’s currents and eddies is the only way to be free of it’s ripping winds.
Cast fear aside and let go of control and let the storm be your teacher, for the Universe knows where you should be.
The past month has been arguably the most emotionally turbulent time of my life, and the ride is far from over. A quote keeps coming to my mind through all of this, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”, and I am actively trying to reinforce and make this a reality for myself. Â I have never felt so vulnerable and alone as I do right now and to my surprise, it’s not killing me. I am surviving it, and plan on continuing to survive. I know that the life I knew is gone forever now, and a future full of possibility is open to me , as hard a road as it might be, but those are the facts and I have never seen that as clearly as I do now.
I am beginning to wrestle my fears, and I am beginning to emerge from the shell I’ve been hiding in for so long, but then, as they say, I don’t have much choice at this point. Well I do have a choice, but the choice to stay withdrawn is no longer the desirable option so out comes the turtle. It’s sort of ironic that my grandfather’s little ditty name for me was Trenton The Terrified Turtle. I pretty much lived up to that. Not anymore..I am tired of being afraid, I am tired of that bleak darkness it creates within me so I think it’s time to face it.
I won’t lie, I’ve been out of this world for a long time and I’m not real sure what my place in it is. I could go on and on telling you why I am the way I am and blame this or that thing that has happened to me for it, but I”m not going to do that. I have made mistakes, and let my fears hold me back, but the past is not who I am, but a text book I can learn from. If ever there was a ‘test’ for me, this is it. Whether I pass or fail is up to me.
I am going to be using this blog a lot more as I believe it might be therapeutic and a way for me to organize my thoughts and situation a little better.
If anyone does actually read this, expect more details and disjointed rantings as I pour my angels and demons onto this page. Â I write for myself..an audience is a by product…though any ideas, thoughts, advice, or constructive criticism on anything is welcomed.
Until my next entry…
I love myself, I am strong, and I can do this.
Trenton A. Shuck
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