New Character Art: The Huddleston Players

Monday, December 19, 2011

These folks, the Huddleston Players, are Basil's friends from boarding school and university. Of particular note is William Conrad, the blonde in the upper-right corner - he was Basil's Eton roommate. They repeated this arrangement at Oxford.

Clockwise from Will, we have Algernon Huddleston, Quinby Perch, Norval Larkin, Reginald Prescott, and Edward Griswold. In terms of redesigns, I made Griswold's hair a lot lighter because otherwise he bore a resemblance to Adolf Hitler and nobody wants their good guys to look like the most evil man in history. I also updated everyone's hair because I can draw it better than I could in high school.

Oh, and Algy somehow got hot. I'm not going to complain or anything, but how the hell did that happen?

New Character Art

Saturday, December 17, 2011

I'm redoing all of the character designs for Londinium since I can draw a lot better now than I could back when I was a sophomore in high school. Here are my redesigns for the two main characters:

I'll add more redesigns as I draw them, so keep your eyes on this site!

I have now been enabled to write here.

Monday, May 23, 2011

For whatever reason, this site does not wish for Thatcher to also contribute. I suppose there is some sort of karmic reasoning behind this.

At the very least, I suppose I am only writing this so you know that I am able to update the site now. My name is Basil Theodore Remington, and I am the heir to an earldom who enjoys writing things. I am also in this book, which makes me somewhat relevant to its success as a story.

I really have nothing else useful to contribute at present, but I just supposed it was a good thing to inform those who read this that I can actually update this website now. (Website is the correct word, yes?) That being said, greetings to all of you, and I eagerly await the opportunity to connect with you all.

Victorian Jersey Shore

Thursday, April 28, 2011

These are all-around brilliant. I love when people do these sorts of things.












This is pure genius. These are the sorts of things I want to use Basil and Dustin to do. I just love these kinds of things to death. So you should go and watch these videos. Just because they're really funny.

Messing with a good thing is stupid

Friday, April 8, 2011

The Daily News gave the Arthur remake 1 star.

The New York Post gave it 1.5 stars.

MSNBC didn't like it, either.

All is right in the world. I'm sorry, Brand, but Dudley Moore forever reigns supreme over all.

I will now go back to editing my senior thesis, which is about soldiers who pretended to have arthritis to shirk duty during the American Civil War. If you want to read it, feel free to inform me of this.

Random updates, and that sort of thing

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Added Basil's tweets to the sidebar, as well, because it's no fun to just hear from one of those two and not the other.

I think I'd just like to lodge a complaint over the fact that there's, well, a new Arthur movie. How can you remake a Dudley Moore film? You don't. Seriously, just watch this and tell me the remake is going to be anywhere near this. It won't be. I can tell you that right now. It just won't.



This movie is very near and dear to my heart. I even borrowed the line 'sometimes I just think funny things' from here as a nod to it. That's been my mantra ever since I heard it. I just don't understand why you would take this brilliantly funny, absolutely adorable film and remake it with Russell Brand.

I also spent this morning watching cricket. I swear I'm an American. Really. But it's always a good point of reference to know how some of your characters' favorite sport actually works.

I finished chapter eleven. That's a surprise.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

As I've moved up through the grade levels in college, I've found less and less time to actually write for myself. However, I've actually finished a chapter for the first time in a while, which is a pleasant surprise to me, considering that this semester I was working on a capstone paper (which I am polishing off as I post this - I need a break from writing academically every now and then).

I'm actually typing up the beginnings of chapter twelve, as well, whilst I watch the horribly inaccurate film The Patriot on TV. It's really just unpleasant when historical films are so grossly off from what actually happened. It's okay to stretch the truth a little bit to make the characters' adventures more fun, which is what most of us historical fiction writers do from time to time, but to actually change history too much...it becomes unrealistic, and you lose your readers and viewers that way.

With Londinium, I know that certain things are somewhat of a stretch - Basil and Dustin's friendship is a tad unusual, though not unheard of in Victorian times - but I've been doing my very best to make sure they're still believable people. The key to historical fiction, after all, is to keep it historical, but make sure you're telling the stories of real people (your characters become real when they appears in your pages!).

I suppose I should get back to finishing up my thesis now. Well, that and mocking The Patriot. C'mon, do some research before you put these things out, seriously!