@igneriss Unfortunately I had to delete my post T_T but yes I do have some interesting stories.
Well, you still can PM me ( :
(and I fortunately managed to read your post, that's why I asked for more c: )
Films! When I still wasn't busy with uni stuff, I'd always watch at least 2-3 films in a week. It helps me a lot with building dialogue and capturing atmosphere of scenes. So sometimes, when I storyboard, I think using a film mindset vs a comic mindset. Haha.
But for interests that aren't really related to webcomics at all, I love watching crime drama series like Castle and Lie to Me, both of which I've started just recently. I watch anime as well, but I'm really picky about it. The series that I immensely enjoyed this year out of everything I've seen is definitely Yasuhiro Nightow's Kekkai Sensen.
I'm into a lot of video games too, mostly on the 3ds like fire emblem awakening and pokemon OR , as well as bioware games like ME and DA. There are a lot more but these are the only ones I can think of atm.
I also like reading horror stories and scaring myself silly. But that aside, I love picking a horror story apart and studying / researching on it from a cultural and scientific perspective. I can't really say that I do believe in 'em but I believe that it's definitely an interesting thing to study.
@Wognif Thanks! It's because at that time the only colors available for the XL were red and blue. In our group many bought the red one so I just had to change the color of mine. ^u^
@Lirelya Thank you! If you are interested,I can give you a link on the other stuff I painted and the painting process. 
Seriously? XD Okay then!
The late Western Roman Empire was having a SERIOUS CRISIS. I'm talking, like, a century of chaotic warfare and invading barbarians and rogue legions declaring a new Emperor every five minutes. I'm not kidding - they went through 26 emperors in something like 50 years. It was a MESS. And of course, not only was it immensely damaging for the structure of the empire, it was also stupidly expensive, because everyone had to keep bribing each other to stave of assassination.
So when Emperor Diocletian finally rose to power and the whole ridiculous crisis ended, he decided to clean house and do some serious reorganising. So he did. Not only did he increase the number of imperial officials, he also reorganised the administrative structure of the empire. He created more administrative regions, grouped them together in diocese, and gave the people in charge of these regions more power - not just the right to collect taxes, but to dispense justice, and to be in charge of the military as well.
This meant that even as Diocletian himself was kind of an absolutist - he was the one true ruler of the Empire, no pretending he was "of the people" like previous rulers - it effectively decentralised his power, and broke the Empire up into smaller, self-contained parts. He also reformed the tax-system, going from payment in coins to payment in kind - if you were a pig farmer, you could pay your taxes in pigs or pork. If you were a weaver, you could pay your taxes in bolts of cloth - meaning that those higher up the ladder were entitled not just to a share of your income, but to a share of your actual goods.
And finally, he made sure that peasants were tied to the land they farmed, and that people in various trades - bakers, cobblers, candlemakers, etc., - had their positions made hereditary, instituting an early form of the later medieval guild system and restraining people's upward social mobility.
So, in short, when the Western Roman Empire fell, it already had a bunch of pre-established administrative regions which were taken over by a.) the church (the Catholic church still refers to its various regions as "diocese") and b.) secular rulers, who could just turn around and declare themselves princes or kings of whatever power structure they were sitting at the top of. The payment-in-kind form of taxation became entrenched as well, and medieval princes could take their brand new goods and sell them to other princedoms, or keep them as they saw fit. And the guild-system was fairly strong in medieval Europe, leading to a social stability, even if it sometimes created stagnant economies.
And that, in a nutshell and shipping a lot of the details, is how a Roman Emperor accidentally caused feudalism. Mind you, "feudalism" is a debated concept, and not all historians like it.
.... You can have your thread back now. >.>
I wish I talked to you when I was preparing my bachelor degree thesis, that part with Diocletian introducing (or rather, going back to) payment in kind would really fit there!
That was really interesting, thank you for sharing your knowledge ( :
When I'm not making webcomics I'm usually
- Playing Video Games. Currently I'm attempting to beat Metal Gear Solid, Dragon Age Origins, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Every Thursday my friends and I get together and we each play a game we've never played before. I just finished Life is Strange.
- I have a very big board game collection that I'm very proud of. They've helped me become a better host and now I don't feel as nervous whenever I invite new people over.
- I keep up with Markiplier and the GameGrumps on YouTube, I watch a lot of movies and Tv shows on Netflix, and I even watch anime from time to time. So far, I keep up with One Punch Man and I wish I could get into more recent stuff.
- I'm also into sleeping
Play video games I'm into RPG games like Final Fantasy and Pokemon. I'm also a huge fan of Assassin's Creed Series. I would've finished AC: Rogue if my controller hadn't broke.
When I am not making comics I:
Draw digital art or traditional.
Bake something(cupcakes most of the time)
Take a walk
or game(my favorite being Skyrim)
Making music with friends in the way of writing lyrics and singing. I've read lots of fantasy novels, not as many lately. Really into a variety of cartoons.Oh and playing DnD. At the moment drawing is what I'm trying to focus on.
Wargaming, Dungeons and Dragons....Transformers... the Vanguard card game...
Oh.... gotta think of something to soften this list of colossal dorkness.....
nope, there's nothing.
All things Marvel from tv shows to film XD I work full time so i can't do too much especially with keeping up with the craft. I'm okay with it though, other than making comics I take figure drawing workshops twice a week 3 hours each session. I like making my own stitch punk stuff too 
1) Exercise (its weird to write that, but in the last 6 months i've gotten serious about losing weight, so i run every day)
2) Reading (I try to read 2000-4000 pages per week - comics, webcomics, graphic novels, novels, enovels, newspapers, digital news - constantly absorbing)
3) Acting (I do stage plays and radio plays - I like imitating voices/impressions/doing odd characters)
4) Writing (In addition to my graphic novels, I am writing a radio drama series right now which I hope to record ala Blackjack Justice or other such shows - working on the 3rd episode now)
5) Puzzles (Video Game Puzzles, NYT Crossword, LEGO, puzzle boards, mysteries, whatever - I love solving stuff)
