Okay, as far as life stuff goes, I'm back at school, my grandmother is doing better (thank you for your concern without making a huge deal out of it), should be around a lot more now. Not a whole lot more to say there.

As for artistic whatnot, I have a number of scraps which I'm currently debating posting. Why? Because, well, most aren't that good. Also a few step outside of my normal comfort zone for material. The biggest deliberation right now is on a short, unfinished transformation comic I made about... a half year ago(?) To post, or not to post. That is some question with a tad of pertinence for a small collective of individuals...
Also, I scanned in a little giftart I made for  Rogerbeanz some time ago, but forgot to attach it to the e-mail to myself... Oops. Sorry, Rog.
As far as nice, mostly finished works go, I've got a silly vore series of two pictures coming up, and a very nice picture of Reed and Avolc, which will get nowhere near the right amount of attention and favourites. I'm estimating between 13 and 17, based on past numbers.
Oh well.

Critically, I've got a couple little things. First, Avatar. Now, there's a decent amount of dispute about this one, it seems. I mean, everyone agrees that it's very shiny, but there's a ton of dispute about the quality of things like the story. Here's my opinion on that. It's not the kind of film you can go into expecting for it to be like a film, per say. That's simply not how it's designed. If you go to see Avatar and keep yourself distant and critical, you will not have much fun, it will seem mediocre, and a kltten somewhere will start to cry. Quite frankly, and this may sound strange coming from me, but you're doing it wrong if you take Avatar critically. The plot is admittedly somewhat simple, some of it is a tad hoaky (Unobtainium, because hardto-obtainium just doesn't have the same ring to it.), and the whole thing is essentially what you would get if Dances with Wolves got drunk one night, had sex with the whole Matrix Trilogy in one blur, and returned home only to discover a week later that it was pregnant and had to find a way to explain that to Fern Gully when he got back from his business trip. But, again, if you focus on that, you're not watching it right. It's supposed to be taken as an experience. You're supposed to slip yourself into everything that they do (... No, I'm not rephrasing that, and as far as I'm concerned, that scene counts.) View it like that, and it's difficult to resist it's charm. View it too seriously, get upset about it's success because of its flaws, and you're probably not going to heaven. Yes, I'm looking at you, Pope Benedict.

As for gaming, PS0. Oh, PS0.
Good effort.
It's not the games it tries to live up to, the original Phantasy Star Online series (-3), but it tries awful hard. In a lot of ways, too hard.
The Combat being more action oriented was an interesting choice, and it could have had potential... That is, if you weren't forced to become a sitting duck every time you wanted to use something that wasn't in one of your six action slots. And to avoid many attacks it's necessary to keep the dodge roll in there. And you can't use spells that aren't there at all. And spells have charge time for their Ra forms now, as well as costing more to cast when charged. Don't worry, though, because forces (Mages) aren't at a hinderence at things things because they do more physical damage than Rangers. And at a longer range too. Also, they're pretty durable now. I usually just take the hits that I can't dodge without the roll, because they do so little compared to what my resta heals, and the stupid thing would take a slot for one of my techniques otherwise. And what's up with alresta (heal all) not costing any more tp than regular resta? That seems like it should be the one thing that DOES cost more, since it's really one of the only things where the effect is a straight upgrade from its uncharged.
The story's pretty "meh" too. As opposed to the usual, simple, "You're a hunter, go kill things to make the world safe and we'll pay you," you get the the anime cliche of THE ULTIMATE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP thrown at you. A lot. In fact, you get a lot of anime cliches thrown at you. A lot. Hell, there's even a scene where the young girl fighting monsters with you (Which is a cliche in and of itself) gets... Well... Um... Let's just say there are tentacles involved. And that you're given the option to help her or wish that you had some popcorn. Actually, it's quite funny... until they play that same angle for about three quests.
Which brings me to the quests. They're rather bad. Each one is essentially going through a field, boss and all, with dialogue. It's all well and good until you go through the wetlands for the umpteen-bazillionth time. You're expected to respond to things NPCs say every now and then too, but none of the option even affect dialogue past a sentence or two.
Also, whoever's bright idea The Eternal quest was, I will kick you so hard in the face if I ever meet you that it'll wake up your dentist. Other people who've play that quest will join me, I'm sure.
I'd be lying if I didn't say that by-in-large, I've enjoyed PS0, though. It's not PSO 1,2, and 4, but it's still got some of the charm of the originals drizzled over it.

On a... Fine-al note (Too easy.), I'm apparently owe $35 on this new meme floating around, unless I discredited myself something. Yes, I am entirely too straight-edge, thanks for asking.