Two days late, but the 20th marks 7 years on this site. It's also not the first time I've nearly forgotten about the anniversary.

I can't believe another year has already passed; they seem to go by faster and faster. Let's hope it's better than 2016 was. I also hope my life situation greatly improves this year, because other than getting internet back and starting commissions, nothing much else has changed, and it's starting to wear on me.

Also, I do apologize for not uploading much art recently. A big part of that is, well, my art is not as simple to make as it used to be. A single pic could take weeks to finish, and it doesn't help that I get burned out after finishing one. I'm trying to avoid burning out so fast by not spending all my free time just working on art, and doing the other things I enjoy (and which I have been severely neglecting.) Another part is not being able to get up early in the day anymore (which I think is an impossible task for me now,) and not having much motivation; I'm not sure what to do about those things (at least, not without spending all my time on art and nothing else, which I don't want due to the above problem.)

I heard it is the cursed age for many famous musicians; a lot of them lost their lives at 27.

Today marks 10 years since I started making fanart; before that time in 2006, I was too afraid to even attempt it, thinking I wouldn't be any good at it. Despite drawing all my life, fanart (technically, drawing cartoon characters) was a new medium, and I had never done it before; the kind of stuff I drew before was very simple compared to it. But after seeing fanart done by so many others, I finally gave in and tried it; and found out I was pretty good at it! This is a redraw of the first ever fanart I ever made: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3647084/ (it's a redraw, because I stupidly threw away the original, among a few other first pics.) This was the start of a new part of my life...

I've come a long way since then. It all started with simple sketches drawn on lined paper (which quickly moved on to regular blank paper.) I went through shaded sketches, a few traditionally colored sketches, basic digitally colored pics, all the way up to digitally colored and detailed pics (details as in shading, backgrounds, shadows, etc.) and I'm still learning new techniques and perfecting old ones. I hope to continue improving, and make even better and more detailed art in the future.

It still feels like yesterday when I made that Clam pic, and the excitement I felt when I pulled it off...

https://inkbunny.net/Amidnarasu

It's currently a WIP; I'm only uploading my digital art there (for now,) and it's from oldest to newest (because I want to save the best for last.)

(I was planning on posting this journal tomorrow, but since my internet connection still needs some kinks worked out, I thought I'd post it now.)

(CAUTION: This journal is very long, and contains some venting and strong vulgar language.)

Only this time it was worse; they also cut off cable TV, so I wasn't able to keep up with all the shows I watched (at least I had that to do the last time this happened.) This, along with 3 deaths (2 pets and an uncle,) loneliness and isolation from being pretty much cut off from the outside world, a broken air conditioner and furnace, catching a flu-like bug that made everyone in the house sick, a seemingly unstoppable German cockroach infestation, fucking thieves stealing our shit, and unending hopelessness that things would ever improve has made the last 10 months a complete and utter nightmare. And it's all thanks to some asshole(s) that unknowingly upgraded our cable service to the gold package, which ran the bill up to unaffordable levels. I really wish I knew who these assholes were, because they deserve the full penalty of the law for putting me through this hell again...

Due to not being able to continue watching and stay up to date with almost all of the shows I liked over the last 10 months, I have ultimately decided to give up watching TV as a hobby; not just because I still don't have it (it was either getting TV or the internet back; and of course I went with the latter,) but because honestly, I really can't be assed with catching up on nearly a year's worth of missed episodes for dozens of cartoons, anime, and various live-action series, on dozens of different channels. It was hard enough catching up on nearly a year of missed shows on just Cartoon Network, that time they just suddenly went off the air when I lived in Savannah, and that took about a year; and I still hadn't caught up on some of them. I can't even imagine how long it would take to catch up with, well, everything I watched; especially now that I no longer have a DVR! I got so used to (and spoiled by) having a DVR that I just can't go back to watching TV without one; with having to stick to time schedules and endure commercial breaks (need I say that the commercial breaks are getting longer, louder, and more frequent these days; it's like they're trying to make people only use DVRs or watch TV online!) If I do decide to continue watching some (not ALL) of the shows I used to watch, it will be strictly online; and it will only be the shows I was most interested in. Much of the months were spent watching movies on DVD (and we nearly watched ours and the local library's entire collections,) giving us a reason to still use our living room TV, but we haven't been completely without TV channels; around October we got a few using digital antenna signals. However, they were very limited; mainly just the local network channels, and some channels that aired old 1970's and 80's TV shows (such as Emergency and CHiPs) and movies. And we could only get them on the living room TV; my bedroom TV is too much of a dinosaur to pick up digital antenna signals, so I personally was still without it (and I've hardly even turned it on since then.) I also tried to avoid seeing or hearing the news as much as possible, because I'd rather not hear about last night's local murder, or the recent school shootings and terrorist attacks; that shit just makes me more miserable, and makes me hate the world even more than I already do (and believe me, I hate it a lot right now...)

One of the few good things brought on by this situation was getting the moving trailer that had all our furniture and things back, unpacking it, and being able to see and use things we hadn't touched in 5 years; the bad thing is all of the trailer's contents are outside now, under an outbuilding's roof, as there is nowhere else to put it; meaning it's been subjected to hot, cold, and rain ever since (though it was subjected to the first two things within the trailer for the last five years, and it only gets rained on if it is very windy.) The worst thing, is that the trailer had a leak, so water got inside during rain for those 5 years; and the trailer was obviously sitting on an incline for long periods of time, since there were signs of it pooling up in the very back. Many things got water damage, but I'm afraid it's a lot of my things that have suffered the worst of it. I was utterly heartbroken to find that my old drawing notebooks, some as old as 15-20 years, not only got damaged, but mold seemed to have taken hold, although things dried out long enough to kill the mold. The boxes containing my notebooks were at the very back of the trailer, and on the floor; exactly where the water pooled up! I was looking through them for a while, and a lot of them were in good, almost pristine condition, but after finding so many whoses pages got stuck together, with blurred and smudged lines and the dusty residue of dead mold on the pages, I lost all desire to continue, and haven't touched those boxes again in months; simply out of fear of finding any more of my irreplaceable old drawings irrepably damaged and/or ruined. I'm afraid I may never touch my old notebooks again, as finding them in this state has greatly hurt me. If I do ever get the courage back to do so, I may upload some of the drawings as samples of the things I used to draw (and may draw again someday,) but it will be from the notebooks that haven't been damaged (which is about half of my collection) or those where the damage is minimal (such as on the very bottom of the pages.)

As I mentioned earlier, there were three deaths, with the first to go being Simon, who was our only remaining cat. We had him for around 10 years, and I believe that is over the average lifespan of most cats. Simon just got sick, mainly from injuries he sustained from trying to relieve himself of fleas; we did try to mend the wounds, but I think he was just too old for them to heal properly. The second pet we lost was Fleur, my sister's ball python. I'm pretty sure she died because we couldn't get the fucking food she needed, and by the time we could get it, it was too late. This death was made worse by the fact that it happened on Christmas Eve, and I'm afraid this may have forever ruined the holiday for me. The third death, and the biggest, was my uncle, who lived in the same house. He's been real sick for a long time, and has been to the hospital many times, though he always got better for a little while. His last hospital trip didn't seem any different, and he didn't seem that sick when he went, which was a week or so before New Years. But it was a few days after New Years that the hospital called, and said he had passed away. After hearing this, my despair hit rock bottom; because he was trying to help us get the internet back, and I felt that after he died, any chance of ever having it again died with him. This was one of many plans we had of trying to get the internet back, and every time one of these plans fell through, my hopelessness and depression skyrocketed, and I became more convinced that it was impossible (and the plan that finally succeeded almost met the same fate); I'm just glad that wasn't true.

The German cockroaches were a big part of my misery; I'm pretty sure it was one of the many strangers coming around here that ended up bringing those fucking roaches with them. The infestation got really bad; they were all over the house, and they were at their worst in the kitchen. It got to a point where I was killing at least a dozen of them on daily basis in my bedroom alone; I know they got the water they needed from my bathroom, but there was no reason they should have thrived back here as I don't keep food in here (at least not the kind they could get into.) I had to keep a fly-swatter next to me all the time, because I was seeing them that often. I was fearing for my electronics, as I heard cockroaches love to eat the insulation off of the wiring inside of them (not to mention laying their egg capsules inside of them,) though this species doesn't seem to be the kind that does that. They did like staying near some of the electronics for the warmth they put off, however (I can't count how many times I found a group of them hiding beneath my digital alarm clock.) I was also afraid of having open soda cans in my room, as I didn't want to swallow a roach or two that had crawled into it every time I took a sip; and when I did have such a container, I kept a watchful eye on it, and caught a few trying to crawl up into it sometimes. It got to where I had to put my cans on a tray on my bed, as the roaches could get to it everywhere else I usually put it (and at least I could see them coming, and kill them more easily if they crawled onto the bed to get to it.) Nothing seems to work on thinning their numbers either, and it took nothing short of a professional exterminator that finally got them under control; but even then, not even that got rid of them all. There always seems to be just enough left after each exterminator visit for them to bounce back, and I'm starting to think they will never go away completely, at least as long as we're in this house.

Then there were the thieves, a group of people that were supposedly my uncle's friends, and some strangers who were supposed to be helping my grandmother; but I believe they all took advantage of the situation (especially after my uncle's death) and stole a lot of things. They liked stealing even the most mundane things, like kitchen utensils and some old clothes. They mainly wanted my uncle's stuff, but things belonging to my grandmother and my own family were also stolen. It got so bad that I was fearing for my own possessions, though the only things I found missing were some rolls of toilet paper from my bathroom (this didn't mean I still wasn't angry about it; and like I said, mundane things!) This has been happening for a couple of years, and it stopped for a long time until my uncle passed away. Those idiots probably thought our internet router was also my uncle's, and took that too; this made me very angry, as this was another blow towards us being able to get the internet back. I think whoever took it is probably too stupid to know what a fucking router is, and just thought it was something they could sell for their precious booze and drugs! Though not long after this, things quieted down, with my uncle's thieving friends and all those other unwelcome strangers not coming around anymore for the most part; I say good riddance! I hope every single one of those thieves get brought to justice; and the I really hope the one who stole our router gets the worst sentence! If it wasn't for those thieves, we wouldn't have needed to get a new router; that was extra money we could have avoided spending if not for all these people that, honestly, should have never come here. We could have avoided losing the internet entirely (if not at least for a few more months) if it wasn't for some of these bastards!

Around late November or early December, is when the flu-like bug appeared (and I'm sure it was yet another nasty thing one of these strangers left behind for us); almost everyone got sick (including me,) though my uncle somehow managed to avoid it. The first day or two were the worst; I had no energy to do anything, didn't want to get out of bed because I just didn't feel like it, and I became so congested that it felt like the middle of my face would burst. Afterwards, its severity decreased, and I was able to continue doing my usual things (though the constant coughing and runny nose still made it miserable,) and eventually it went away, somewhat quicker than I thought it would. I hardly ever get sick, and this was probably only the second time it happened in 5 years; but it was certainly one of the worst (at least at the beginning.)

On a lighter note, we unexpectedly got a new member of the family a few weeks before Simon's death; a kitten that we named Centauri (or 'Tauri' for short,) though I was the one who came up with the name; just like with Nova and Aurora (and you can see I have a theme of naming animals after things from space.) He was actually someone else's cat (one of the strangers', actually,) though they left him behind, forgot about him, and decided they didn't want him, so they let us have him. He was just a little kitten when we got him, with a weight of probably less than a pound, and I don't think I've owned, or even seen a cat that young before. As Simon was still alive when we got Centauri, we were afraid they wouldn't get along; and it seemed that way at first, but he warmed up to him. Simon also acted as a teacher of sorts to Centauri in those few weeks he had left. Centauri's fur is mostly black, with white boots, chest, and one stripe on the lower right side of his face (I'll get some pictures of him soon.) He's also a bit of a troublemaker, as he likes knocking things off of tables and shelves, especially since he's a climbing cat; he can climb just about anywhere, even on top of the kitchen cabinets. We considered naming him 'Trouble' or 'Trubel' because of that. He's also a loudmouth, and likes to holler at the top of his lungs randomly; though I think it's mostly because he just wants some attention. He also doesn't like covering his business in the litterbox most of the time, and I or someone else has to cover it; especially if it stinks! The litterbox is the living room, right behind the chair I sit in, so the smell bothers me the most. He also tries to get outside the house whenever the front door is opened (and sometimes, if he's being held by one of us when it happens, he'll try to break free; and sometimes he'll do it rather violently); and he has gotten out a few times, though the sudden change in atmosphere and temperature scares him enough to keep him from running off completely. I wish I could have gotten some pictures of him while he was still a kitten, but I didn't have batteries for my camera; and apparently my camera won't accept still new, and still full store-brand batteries.

We also have an unofficial second cat who lives outside, whom we named Bobbi, and that's because she doesn't have a tail. Around mid-May she just started showing up, and we've been seeing her ever since. She's actually a neighborhood cat, but she hangs out around here so much people would think she was ours. She looks a lot like Centauri; you could say they were related, though she's around a year older, and her fur has a little more white-to-black ratio (and I plan on getting some pictures of her too.) At first she was very skittish, and wouldn't come near any of us; but she quickly warmed up to us, and especially to me. I could swear that Bobbi is Nova's reincarnation, because she shows me the kind of love and affection that Nova used to (not to mention she's got a rather loud purr, also like Nova,) and it's because of that that she has been a major source of comfort for me in these dark times (something I don't get from Centauri, who ignores me most of the time; though I hope his behavior changes when he gets older.) She greets me whenever she sees me outside, usually with meowing and running up to me (and I always pet her when I see her,) and she'll follow me everywhere I go, even if it's raining. And if I sit down somewhere, she'll jump into my lap, purring and kneading like crazy (I will say that her claws really need trimming; they are sharp!) She's also the only cat I've ever known that drools like a dog (and she does it with her mouth closed); she enjoys the attention she gets so much it makes her excessively salivate. And unlike Centauri, who always tries to get out of the house, Bobbi is always trying to get in. I usually just let her, then put her back out once I'm in, because she's just too persistent. Though sometimes I let her stay in, letting her into my lap and petting her before putting her back outside.

Regarding the internet: I've decided I won't be as active on it as I was before, and will try to spend much of my time doing productive things, rather than waste most of my time on YT and other time-waster sites; and if I do end up falling back into my old habits, I may just have to block those kind of sites for a while, if not indefinitely. I know it wasn't Charter's fault for losing internet again, though for a long time I put the blame fully on them (to the point that I threatened to never use their services again for as long as I live); but nonetheless, their billing and customer service really needs some improvement. First the bill started at $400, then it shot up to $600, a month AFTER the services were shut off, and I believe it rose to $1000 before they realized their mistake and dropped it to a more reasonable level (though it was still too much.) But I'm afraid this improvement will never happen, as this is just how cable/ISPs do business these days, and I'll never be a fan of Charter because of it. For a long time, we all thought we couldn't use Charter again, thinking they were a lost cause, so we tried to find alternatives. We considered HughesNet, which was about the only other ISP available in our area, and nearly went with them; but the thought of a 2-year contract, a measly 10 GB data cap, and the fact that the connection would go out if it was very cloudy or stormy outside (since it's satelite internet) ultimately made us decide against it. And because of the low data cap, I'd probably have to stop doing at least half of the things I use the internet for (with online gaming and video watching/streaming being the biggest,) and I don't think I could have lived with that. HughesNet did raise the data cap to 50 GB in the hours between 12 and 6 AM, but that would have made me become nocturnal (or a vampire, as my dad called it,) and I really didn't want that to happen. I do enjoy the day, and the mornings, though my sleep schedule is too shitty for me to get up early enough for it; but I'm hoping I can get my schedule turned around (and keep it that way) now that I have the internet again.

I don't have as much new art to upload as I did the last time this happened; only about 25 to 30 pics this time (and I'll only be uploading one a day because of this,) and I may have made more if I didn't go on a 3-and-a-half month hiatus from art, due to completely losing all motivation and desire to draw; I even lost interest in the pics I was working on at the time. I felt like things would never improve, and that I was just wasting my time making a bunch of pictures no one would ever see; and it's for this reason that I didn't bother doing any of the requests I had yet to start on (actually, they were the very last things on my mind.) And if things truly never improved, I may have decided to never draw again. It wasn't just art I lost interest in either; it got to a point where I had lost interest in everything I do for fun, and I just wanted to stay in bed and sleep all day every day. I sometimes wished I could do just that, because the daily necessities were constantly bringing reminders of things I don't have (or can't have, or no longer have,) or news that I didn't want to hear, which just lead to more and more misery. Another reason I didn't make as many pics is because I put a lot more work into them than I used to; almost all of them have shading, and about half of those have decent backgrounds. Some of these pictures are also the best I've ever made. With the 85 or so pics I made in the last outage, very few had shading (and it was just simple cel-shading; something I actually find harder to do than smooth shading,) and the backgrounds were very simple or half-assed. I didn't make any Halloween or Christmas pics last year either (I just wasn't in the spirit for either of those holidays,) nor did I stay up with the family to watch the ball drop on New Years; it was the very first time I've done that, and I just felt that this year was going to be exactly like most of last year, and that just was not worth celebrating. Although Christmas 2015 wasn't completely terrible; I did get some unexpected gifts (some proper batteries for my camera and all three of the Hunger Games novels,) but I still think Fleur's death the day before far outweighs even that, and I really don't think I could ever celebrate Christmas again because of it.

This has also been a major wake-up call; I need to get serious about my life and my future, and I just don't think I can afford to fool around anymore. This whole horrible situation has been very hard on me, and I've never been cut off from the online world and my friends for this long before. I'm afraid it has left some lasting scars; I already know I'm going to be more bitter and jaded about everything than before, and I fear I won't be as friendly, and that I'll be more easily angered by even the littlest things. This world is just getting greedier and more cruel (as well as very dangerous,) and people like me are always on the shitty end of the stick; and I don't think I'll ever live on my own in such a world. Many times over the last 10 months, I contemplated retiring from the internet; I just wanted to give up, abandon the life I had on it, and all the friends I had made, and move on, never looking back. I came very close to making that decision a few times; and I think I had actually made the decision once, until things actually improving made me change my mind. I had also nearly decided to give up on the life I have, and just start it over, pretending that I was a different person for the rest of my days. I really don't think I would have gotten far in life if I chose that path, but I'm afraid if it happens again I will be pushed past my breaking point, and do something as drastic as leaving the internet forever. Without the internet, I have no future, and now that I finally have it back, I want to make sure I never lose it again. That is why I will be starting commissions (and I wish I had done this a long time ago,) because I really need to start making money for myself, especially as I've never been to college/university, can't drive a car (and I've decided that driving would be too stressful and dangerous for me anyways,) nor do I have a job. It's too bad the most desirable jobs require a college education, and it costs a fucking arm and a leg to get into one these days; and to be honest, I really don't like the college/university environment and atmosphere, and I don't like the thought of living in a dorm. Nor do I want a job at some grease pit or to become a mindless cubicle drone (I should say I don't like the environment of office buildings either.) Actually, I hardly ever leave the house at all, and I certainly don't want to go somewhere that will likely be unenjoyable like school and jobs on a daily basis. I will try taking online college courses, and try to get a good stay-at-home job at some point (I've been told I should consider CAD work,) but for now commissions will become my job, and most of the money I make will go towards the internet bill; just to keep it from getting out of control again. I'm afraid I may not have the time or patience to continue doing requests as a result (and all the unfulfilled requests I have will either have to become commissions, or be cancelled entirely,) and I'll need to plan my prices (among other things) before I start.

Also, I'd like to be filled in on all that I've missed over the last 10 months; like I said earlier, I've been just about completely cut off from the outside world, and it was by choice that I avoided the news and any news media as much as I could. I can't even imagine all the cool and neat things that I've missed. The only things I have been kept aware of are the murders and the terrorist attacks and the other bad things that have happened locally and all over the world, and would rather not hear about those again (though I'll probably end up wanting a refresher on those things anyway.)

I'm very happy to be back, especially after it seemed so impossible to ever come back (I literally dreamed of having the internet again, and became convinced that it was always ever going to be a dream,) and I pray that I never have to go through another nightmare situation like this ever again...

Though it wasn't as eventful as past New Years, as we didn't do our tradition of eating pizza rolls and drinking apple cider (and champagne for the others) due to lack of money and mom being in the hospital (she's fine, btw.) I hope it will be a better year, without the tragedies and travesties of last year.

You may have also noticed I didn't post a Christmas journal like I usually do, and that's because we didn't really have Christmas this year, due to the aforementioned lack of money; it also didn't help that I caught some kind of 24-hour illness on Christmas Eve. Though I did get 2 new games (Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition and Shadow Warrior Classic Redux on Steam) and a new premium membership on DA, all thanks to my sister. But other than that, it's not going to be a very memorable one.

Though it's not as big a holiday as it used to be; too old to trick or treat, and where I currently live is so isolated that there's no trick-or-treaters, it's still a time to let loose with some more horror-type art.

I know I got more 'ween art done this year compared to last year, but not as much as I wanted to do. If you couldn't tell, I went with headless pics for the theme this year:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14730416/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14790307/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14790336/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14840180/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14861769/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14861788/

instead of zombies (which I did the last 2 years.) I have thought about doing more traditional Halloween art, with pumpkins, witches, etc. but didn't have any good ideas involving those things.

And though not Halloween-related, but for another event this month brings:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14861808/

Happy Halloween!

Whenever someone faves my pics, I usually go to their page to look through their gallery and/or favorites for something to fave myself. But sometimes, when I check their faves, it's empty? I don't understand that; despite getting fave notifications from them, there's nothing in their faves. This has happened multiple times in the past (latest was last night,) but only rarely. I want to know why that is; whether it's a glitch or something else...

UPDATE: Apparently disabling the viewing of one's faves is feature FA has that I never knew about. Though I feel that would kill the point of having favorites in the first place; the only exception I can think of is if they fave things they don't want others to see.

Gypsy, our dog, passed away today. But it was peaceful, as she passed in her sleep. I was told to expect it any day, as her health was deteriorating.

It's going to be lonely without her; as I've known her for over half my life.

R.I.P. Gypsy April 2003 - August 2014. Though we don't know when she was born, as she was a stray when we found her. She was a year or less old at that time.

And saying it that way makes it sound more impressive, I guess.

The things I got:
ORION: Dino Horde on Steam (which was a very early gift from my sister)
Serious Sam Complete Pack on Steam (thanks to my sister)
Just Cause and Just Cause 2 on Steam (also thanks to my sister)
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Animaniacs - Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (but not 4 yet)
Rocko's Modern Life - The Complete Series
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 Volume 1 and Season 1 Volume 2 (but no Volume 3 or 4 yet)
Tiny Toon Adventures - How I Spent My Vacation (movie)

Dunno if there are other things still coming, but we'll see.

But on another note; it's also been a year since Nova's passing. We've gotten used to him not being around, but I've thought about him almost everyday during that year...

I'm not sure how to go about asking this, as it's something I've never done. But I can't get it off my mind, and it's been on my mind for about a month.

I think it would be nice if some of my friends could do some B-day art for me this year? I've been seeing some of my friends get B-day art done for them, and I was hoping I could ask for some too. I know I haven't done much to warrant something like that, but I thought I'd at least ask.

I'll put down what subject(s) I want if this gets enough attention, but we'll see.

Although I'm 4 days late, the 20th marked the 4th year I've been on FA.

I heard it was also FA's 9th anniversary as well.

Now that Christmas is over, I've changed my avatar to the new general version. I based it off my old one, but this time it's more Okami-themed. I'll probably have this one for a million years, like the last one... (with the exception of holidays)

...I still can't believe it's already 2014. It feels like 2013 went by so fast...

Merry Christmas everyone! I still can't believe it got here so fast...

My stash:
New socks, underwear, PJ's, and a winter cap.
Auburn Tigers cap
A new MediaLink Wireless-N USB 2.0 Adapter (I've been using my dads adapter (since my old one was going bad,) which is the same brand and model. He wants his back because without it, he doesn't have internet or phone.)
Logitech S120 Speaker System (for my MP3 player)
Wreck-It Ralph on DVD (a movie I've been dying to see!)
The Stanley Parable (on Steam)
A wall/outlet charger for my MP3 player (the only way I can charge it is through a computer's USB port, and I don't think I'll have that luxury when traveling, etc.)
As well as a bunch of snack food and candy

Music:
Five Finger Death Punch - American Capitalist
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Trouble Is...
Kid Rock - Rebel Soul
Korn - The Essential Korn (became a fan after hearing 'Falling Away From Me')
Rob Zombie - Past, Present, & Future
Seether - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Christmas Attic
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve And Other Stories (with this and the last one, I think I have all of TSO's holiday music, as I already have The Lost Christmas Eve.)

Things on my list I didn't get (however, I've been told that there are still some things coming, so this is bound to change):
Fritz the Cat on DVD (which is the only X-rated animated movie ever made I believe. I remember watching this on YouTube (!?) a couple years back, and liking it.)

Music:
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions (I've become quite a fan of their latest album)
Jethro Tull - The Best of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection
Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget - The Best Of
Nickelback - Here and Now

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Also, I have not 1, not 2, but 3 Christmas related pics to upload! This may also be the first time I've uploaded art on Christmas Day.

EDIT 12/26: I got the Seether album today.

I also got The Stanley Parable on Steam as a last minute Xmas gift last night.

EDIT 12/28: The wall/outlet charger for my MP3 player came.

As well as a bit of a surprise; the first 3 manga books of Attack On Titan (which my sister is crazy about, and she wants me to get into it.)

After having the same, crappy avatar for like... forever, I've finally made a new one! Though this is the Xmas version, I'll whip out the standard version once Christmas is over.

It's also bigger than my old one as well.

I thought I would give this a try, seeing as a lot of my friends here do it. But I'm not sure if this is a strictly FA thing, or if I could also do this on DA.

But no NSFW questions please; at least of the personal kind.

Should I look into trying this? I'm completely bored of vanilla Minecraft now, thanks to Terraria, which just blows it away in terms of sheer content. I don't want to stop playing Minecraft, especially since its strengths are exploring and building, something I enjoy doing (whereas Terraria is more about exploration and combat, and I sometimes wish it had a peaceful difficulty, and a creative mode.)

But I've been afraid to try any mods, for one reason: Whenever the game gets updated, the mods you're using will also have to be updated, and your world(s) will be unplayable until that happens. They say that this issue would be fixed with the Modding API, but that's taking forever to come out. FTB sounds kind of like a modding API, though, so I wonder if that will work.

I've been watching the latest Sipsco Dirt Factory series, and I saw recent Achievement Hunters episodes involving the mod 'Galacticraft', and that has made me want to try mods even more. Just the thought of mining and building new blocks and ores, and building things that make the game more modern; even futuristic, greatly excites me. It would also add more life to the game, although I do fear I'll become too dependent on the mods, and could never go back to vanilla.

But I'm just not sure, so I thought I'd ask the community, and anyone who has used FTB in the past, what they think.

...and I hope you enjoy the pics I have to offer!

I wish I had more to show, but hopefully I'll be more prepared for next year!

For a few reasons. One is, I haven't been feeling motivated to draw lately (which was made worse by a recent incident.) Another is I've been kept busy with Terraria, thanks to the much-anticipated 1.2 update that came out at the beginning of the month (I also got the game a few months ago, and hadn't seen everything pre-1.2 had to offer.) There's also been a few smaller updates that added even more content to the already insane amount that 1.2 added. Also, Minecraft's 1.7 update came out 2 days ago, and that took up a little bit of my time; though I got bored quickly, and I think Terraria and it's ungodly amount of content was responsible for that. I've also been watching a lot of TV and Youtube (the latter is a habit hard to kick, though I've improved,) and of course the little thing called life.

I'll have at least 3 pictures ready, and I plan on uploading them on Halloween. I'm a little disappointed in myself, though I shouldn't be. And tbh, the stuff I have/had planned for Halloween doesn't strictly have to be uploaded around that time (a lot of it can be considered year-round actually.)

Today marks one year since my grandfather's (Paw Paw's) passing.

But it still feels like yesterday, when my mom came in to tell me the news...

 DemonDoom

This person is a troll! He left an insulting shout on my page (which I have since deleted.) Please block him before he gets the chance to do the same to you.

http://bad-mojo.tumblr.com/post/593.....king-awful-and

It seems the things SOPA would effect have been over-exaggerated; turns out it only effects YouTube and its videos. People were just overreacting, and made it seem to effect things that it didn't.

But that doesn't mean I don't hate it any less! YouTube is a nice thing to have around when your bored, and I don't want to lose that! I'm still very much against this bill, and all future reincarnations of it!

http://dippity-do-not-touch-me.tumb.....ime-its-trying (dunno where to find the official article, so...)

I am getting so sick and fucking tired of our government and all this bullshit they keep pulling! They just can't take NO for an answer!

This will be the end of deviantART, Fur Affinity, and so many other art communities if this passes (not to mention a big part of my livelihood!)

The petition to stop this shitheaded bill is here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe.....-2013/LMzMVrQF (however you need an account there to sign it)

I'm pretty sure it will crash and burn like every other failed attempt at SOPA, and so many others have already posted about it, but I feel the need to spread the word anyways...

If you ask me, the government needs to be nuked/wiped clean, and have more responsible and intelligent people put in its place! And the same goes for the big corporations that are supporting them!