The next thing I did this week was create my social media accounts. I created a Flickr account, created a SoundCloud account, and edited the name of my YouTube account. I also added five photos, one sound snippet, and one video to the accounts, respectively. I completed all of the parts of this assignment, including linking to the accounts on my subdomain, well enough as it was an easy task. I was surprised to learn about Flickr, as I had never heard of the social media site before, but it looks interesting. I did not customize the accounts with any banners or icon photos, however, because I did not want to add a picture of myself to the accounts at this time. Once your image is out on the Internet, it is out there forever, so I am careful where I post my image. I do not think that I would do anything differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing I did after that was create my post about who I am. This post is in my “All Other Assignments” category, and it is titled “Who am I?” It can be found using this link.<\/a> This post was incredibly fun to make. I am a Creative Writing major, so this really allowed me to stretch my creativity in a creative nonfiction piece. I started with the title, and the title gave me the idea to write a piece around introductions and what my brain goes through when doing them. I added extra space with dots around “My mind goes blank,” to mimic the freezeframe moment when I don’t know what to say. Then, I saw the Details block, so I thought it would be an interesting way to add the information that comes naturally to me. For the conversational text that I added after that, I think I could have added more space to make the emphasis on that conversation clearer. I love the columns I used to convey the decision that I always have to make between being honest about the pain my disability causes and the social rules of our America society which dictate that you can’t share bad moments in average conversation. Those columns are my favorite part of the piece. Then, I added the embed posts from my social media. However, I wanted to incorporate the embed posts in the actual story of the piece. In order to do that, I made the social media posts progressively get more personal. I started with one of my favorite symbols, the moth, then moved on to what I named myself after. I wanted some personal information that was less personal to transition to my SoundCloud snippet, so I wrote a sentence fragment with general information about me to make it seem like a conversation’s progression was sped up. Finally, I added the SoundCloud snippet about my thoughts on my voice. Ending the piece was the hardest thing to do, but I made a simple ending that I hope makes people think a bit about their personal identity. My normal method for adding alt. text to images did not work with the embed content, so I created captions instead for each piece of content. This piece was, essentially, a look into the Autistic mind. Masking, for me, can be pretty hard, and this is my thought process in trying to make conversation with almost any person who is not Autistic. This piece talks about the social expectations that surround us in American society and how those expectations can be hard to accomplish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first of my Daily Creates was for the prompt titled “Life is a wheel; make that picture.” The Daily Create can be found using the tags #tdc4981 #ds106 Life is a wheel; make that picture.<\/a> The Daily Create I made is the image below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Daily Create was fine to make. It wasn’t my favorite to make this week, but it wasn’t bad or hard to make either. I used Clip Studio Paint Ex for this drawing. I drew a spiral coming out from the center of the canvas first, and then wrote all the text I wanted to include. Since the version of Clip Studio Paint I was using doesn’t allow you to wrap text around a shape, I had to manually take each word and rotate it. I started at a size twenty font, and for each word, I added one to the font size and rotated the word to fit the spiral I drew. I like how changing the font size adds some dimension to the piece. Then, I deleted the layer with the drawn spiral so that all that remained was the spiral made of words. Next, I filled the text with colors using a mask layer; I added the colors yellow, green, and blue because they remind me of nature which the writing evokes. I mixed those stripes of colors together using a Gaussian blur. Finally, I made the background using circles of color getting lighter towards the center and mixing them with another Gaussian blur. The colors of the text made it a bit hard to read on the background, so I altered the luminosity and saturation overall using a tonal correction editor. I think this image did get my creativity flowing, but it was very frustrating to make because of all the tedious rotating. I didn’t learn any new skills, and I would use a different program if I were to make this image again in order to not have to manually rotate each word. The larger idea this piece is trying to engage with is nature in general and the passage of time. The text is speaking to nature in the way that a haibun or haiku might. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/ds106.acemolloy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ace-Molloy-Daily-Creates-Wheel-of-Life.png\")
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