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General | Posted 13 years agoSorry the Jack pages have been late lately...Dave usually gives them to me in month blocks, and I letter them over my weekend. The last couple times he's dropped a month block on me, either work's been ridiculous and I haven't had the energy to do much of anything except drop into bed when I get home, or...as is the case with this latest block of them...I was flat-on-my-ass sick for a couple of weeks. (What's this? FLU is evolving! CONGRATULATIONS! your FLU is now EYE INFECTION, TONSILLITIS, and EAR INFECTION!)
On the plus side, they finally made me permanent so I have a reliable schedule now and can better plan my agenda. On the downside, they've given me the "cursed" area, where apparently they haven't been able to keep anyone for longer than a few months because they either quit or get kicked out. It's not a BAD area, really...but since it's the recovery area and the minor procedure OR's, they expect you to be on your game and keep up on everything. Which means wiping everything down in the procedure rooms nightly to keep dust off of it, moving all the furniture to mop underneath it (because they can and often do end up with stray needles or blood spots underneath stuff), and peeling off the operating table pads to scrub under and between them.
The guy who had the area before me, I guess, tried to get away with doing all of that once a week instead of nightly. ....it went about as well as you'd expect >_>
In addition to THAT, the doctors in the recovery area have their own special set of demands. Eight garbage bags on every can. new toilet paper rolls every night in the bathrooms regardless of whether they're getting low or not, all the foot mats and computer stations arranged in a square, all of the beds get made with the left guard raised and the blanket draped across it. Do not feel like doing these things? God help you. Also, they won't tell you they want them done. You'll hear all about it when you DON'T do it, though and they'll give you a pass for being new, but tell you they expect it from now on.
It really sucked the first few weeks trying to cram all of this into a four hour shift, but I'm getting the hang of it now and have my "milestones" set up for what time I should be where if I want to get finished by ten.
Now if I could just convince them to stop leaving the break room looking like starving wolverines tore through it every day...
On the plus side, they finally made me permanent so I have a reliable schedule now and can better plan my agenda. On the downside, they've given me the "cursed" area, where apparently they haven't been able to keep anyone for longer than a few months because they either quit or get kicked out. It's not a BAD area, really...but since it's the recovery area and the minor procedure OR's, they expect you to be on your game and keep up on everything. Which means wiping everything down in the procedure rooms nightly to keep dust off of it, moving all the furniture to mop underneath it (because they can and often do end up with stray needles or blood spots underneath stuff), and peeling off the operating table pads to scrub under and between them.
The guy who had the area before me, I guess, tried to get away with doing all of that once a week instead of nightly. ....it went about as well as you'd expect >_>
In addition to THAT, the doctors in the recovery area have their own special set of demands. Eight garbage bags on every can. new toilet paper rolls every night in the bathrooms regardless of whether they're getting low or not, all the foot mats and computer stations arranged in a square, all of the beds get made with the left guard raised and the blanket draped across it. Do not feel like doing these things? God help you. Also, they won't tell you they want them done. You'll hear all about it when you DON'T do it, though and they'll give you a pass for being new, but tell you they expect it from now on.
It really sucked the first few weeks trying to cram all of this into a four hour shift, but I'm getting the hang of it now and have my "milestones" set up for what time I should be where if I want to get finished by ten.
Now if I could just convince them to stop leaving the break room looking like starving wolverines tore through it every day...
Where the hell have I been?
General | Posted 13 years agoThis year's been a right pain in the ass. But things are looking up, finally.
After a stint of being unemployed, I was finally able to find work at Dave's security guard company, which I did for a good piece of the year. I was told at the start it might take a few months to find me a permanent site (AKA a steady paycheck) and I told them no problem. I was willing to wait it out.
Of the many places they stuck me that weren't so bad, they were fond of putting me at a place I couldn't stand at all. Gordon Trucking was an incident waiting to happen. Picture, if you will, an unarmed 5'3 female guard sitting in a giant truck lot by herself in a dark shack (before you tell me its my fault for not arming myself, we were not ALLOWED to arm ourselves. We could get fired if they found out we had a stungun, pepper spray, a knife, etc.). On one side of the shack, there is a whole lot of shadows and storage buildings potential ARMED miscreants can hide among. On the other side of the shack is a big-ass yard of trucks, many with the truckers still inside of them. Most are decent, but there's a big handful of creepy guys interspersed among them just to make it exciting. Part of my nightly patrol entailed walking up to each and every truck in this friggin lot in the dark to write down its number and make sure the lights inside were turned off. Behind the shack, there was a big open field of scrub, and I was warned not to go too near it because the coyotes were out. I WISH I WERE MAKING THIS UP.
But I put up with it and the sporadic paychecks. And I waited. And I applied for sites that had open positions just to get passed over in favor of the old guys who had more seniority than me. And then one day they called me. They had a permanent site for me! ....At Gordon Trucking! I told them politely to find another guard to fill the spot and I would keep waiting. They stuck me at a temporary spot at a specialty clinic that was currently being remodeled and needed a nightly fire watch guard, while still desperately trying to convince me Gordon Trucking was the bee's knees (ie - no one else wanted to take a pay cut to do the work of two guards in a skeevy environment either).
While I was at the specialty clinic, I made friends with a lot of the employees. The cleaning staff in particular since they were usually the only folks around overnight. A couple of them were curious about my job, and I wasn't afraid of telling them the truth about it - it was a dead-end job meant for old farts who didn't feel ready to retire yet. No room for promotions, no raises, crappy benefits, and a lot of office drama. BUT, it was better than nothing.
As my time at the clinic drew to a close, I got a call from the office telling me that they had nowhere to put me when it was done so I'd be on-call again. Translation - I'd be back to making $120 paychecks again if I was lucky. I reminded them that we were closing in on a year and I still didn't have a permanent site, and asked if they had queues anywhere they could toss me into. Nope, sorry. Oh, and by the way, they were putting a brand new hire in the permanent guard position that had just opened at the clinic no one had told me about.
I was pretty livid, and I broke down at one of the custodial staff I talked to pretty regularly about how even though I'd been working nearly a year, we weren't any better off than we were when I wasn't because my pay was so sporadic. And it was making it impossible for me and Dave to get out of the hole we'd backslid into. She calmed me down and told me that there were some openings in her branch, and I should go talk to her boss in the basement. So I did.
He didn't seem very keen on me at first and said he had enough cleaners, but I told him I preferred graveyards and was willing to work holidays and weekends, and that seemed to completely 180 his opinion. He told me to go put in an application online ASAP. I did that as soon as I got back upstairs. And, long story short, I was soon employed.
Being a medical custodian is...really not all that bad now that I've gotten used to it, even if it doesn't leave me a lot of time during the week to get anything done. Its definitely a lot of work, and a whole lot of "DO NOT WANT" sometimes, but I leave every night feeling like I've accomplished something. Group Health takes very good care of their employees as well. $14.27 an hour to start with a yearly $1 raise, a retirement plan, an excellent health package, a mandatory 12 hour turnaround between shifts to allow people time to rest (unlike NWP who would call you just as your head was hitting the pillow after finishing one shift to ask if you'd mind filling an eight hour shift in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in...oh....NOW), and a cooperative learning program where, while employed with them, they will pay for your schooling to learn to fill other positions in the clinic with the agreement that you will work for them for the next five years in exchange. Like...seriously, if you wanted to, you could decide to study to be a pharmacist while mopping floors and they'd eat most of the cost.
I brought home my first four-figure paycheck this last week, and it felt really good. I'm hoping this will finally be a turning point for things.
After a stint of being unemployed, I was finally able to find work at Dave's security guard company, which I did for a good piece of the year. I was told at the start it might take a few months to find me a permanent site (AKA a steady paycheck) and I told them no problem. I was willing to wait it out.
Of the many places they stuck me that weren't so bad, they were fond of putting me at a place I couldn't stand at all. Gordon Trucking was an incident waiting to happen. Picture, if you will, an unarmed 5'3 female guard sitting in a giant truck lot by herself in a dark shack (before you tell me its my fault for not arming myself, we were not ALLOWED to arm ourselves. We could get fired if they found out we had a stungun, pepper spray, a knife, etc.). On one side of the shack, there is a whole lot of shadows and storage buildings potential ARMED miscreants can hide among. On the other side of the shack is a big-ass yard of trucks, many with the truckers still inside of them. Most are decent, but there's a big handful of creepy guys interspersed among them just to make it exciting. Part of my nightly patrol entailed walking up to each and every truck in this friggin lot in the dark to write down its number and make sure the lights inside were turned off. Behind the shack, there was a big open field of scrub, and I was warned not to go too near it because the coyotes were out. I WISH I WERE MAKING THIS UP.
But I put up with it and the sporadic paychecks. And I waited. And I applied for sites that had open positions just to get passed over in favor of the old guys who had more seniority than me. And then one day they called me. They had a permanent site for me! ....At Gordon Trucking! I told them politely to find another guard to fill the spot and I would keep waiting. They stuck me at a temporary spot at a specialty clinic that was currently being remodeled and needed a nightly fire watch guard, while still desperately trying to convince me Gordon Trucking was the bee's knees (ie - no one else wanted to take a pay cut to do the work of two guards in a skeevy environment either).
While I was at the specialty clinic, I made friends with a lot of the employees. The cleaning staff in particular since they were usually the only folks around overnight. A couple of them were curious about my job, and I wasn't afraid of telling them the truth about it - it was a dead-end job meant for old farts who didn't feel ready to retire yet. No room for promotions, no raises, crappy benefits, and a lot of office drama. BUT, it was better than nothing.
As my time at the clinic drew to a close, I got a call from the office telling me that they had nowhere to put me when it was done so I'd be on-call again. Translation - I'd be back to making $120 paychecks again if I was lucky. I reminded them that we were closing in on a year and I still didn't have a permanent site, and asked if they had queues anywhere they could toss me into. Nope, sorry. Oh, and by the way, they were putting a brand new hire in the permanent guard position that had just opened at the clinic no one had told me about.
I was pretty livid, and I broke down at one of the custodial staff I talked to pretty regularly about how even though I'd been working nearly a year, we weren't any better off than we were when I wasn't because my pay was so sporadic. And it was making it impossible for me and Dave to get out of the hole we'd backslid into. She calmed me down and told me that there were some openings in her branch, and I should go talk to her boss in the basement. So I did.
He didn't seem very keen on me at first and said he had enough cleaners, but I told him I preferred graveyards and was willing to work holidays and weekends, and that seemed to completely 180 his opinion. He told me to go put in an application online ASAP. I did that as soon as I got back upstairs. And, long story short, I was soon employed.
Being a medical custodian is...really not all that bad now that I've gotten used to it, even if it doesn't leave me a lot of time during the week to get anything done. Its definitely a lot of work, and a whole lot of "DO NOT WANT" sometimes, but I leave every night feeling like I've accomplished something. Group Health takes very good care of their employees as well. $14.27 an hour to start with a yearly $1 raise, a retirement plan, an excellent health package, a mandatory 12 hour turnaround between shifts to allow people time to rest (unlike NWP who would call you just as your head was hitting the pillow after finishing one shift to ask if you'd mind filling an eight hour shift in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in...oh....NOW), and a cooperative learning program where, while employed with them, they will pay for your schooling to learn to fill other positions in the clinic with the agreement that you will work for them for the next five years in exchange. Like...seriously, if you wanted to, you could decide to study to be a pharmacist while mopping floors and they'd eat most of the cost.
I brought home my first four-figure paycheck this last week, and it felt really good. I'm hoping this will finally be a turning point for things.
Digital vs Traditional
General | Posted 13 years agoIn posting my art progression meme, I got a couple PM's inquiring about my migration from traditional art over to digital. They were not nasty queries, but just a couple of people wondering whether one was easier than the other or produced better results.
My answer to that is - for me, it does. Not every artist will tell you the same, because everybody has their own thing that works for them and they're comfortable with. I do not particularly think in the case of traditional/digital, one is really superior to the other or measures the worth of an artist. There are some people out there who do things with colored pencils that are breathtaking and others who work photoshop in ways that would make Courier & Ives jealous.
Now as for why *I* made the transition from traditional to digital? Because I am an impulsive artist who is very impatient when I've got a bee in my bonnet about a project. I want to start it NOWNOWNOW and I want to see results yesterday. Photoshop is very forgiving in that sense. I don't have to spot-check my supplies before I get started, throw a fit because one of my markers is dying, or try to figure out where the cats hid my sharpies when they knocked them off the desk, Everything's right there and ready to go every time I open the program.
I am also in kind of a transitional phase where I'm trying to improve my anatomy structure as it's always been a very weak point of mine. Being able to work on a piece for awhile, walk away from it, come back to look at it with fresh eyes and go "AUGH, her torso is too long! D8" is beneficial to me because I can fix it with minimal fuss. It's teaching me to have a better eye for my mistakes without the added frustration/punishment of "GOOD JOB, JACKASS, YOU RUINED THAT PIECE. START ALL OVER." while I'm learning.
This is where you say "You can do that in traditional art too, Karma. Just erase the sketch and redraw the parts you gaffed". Well...I'd agree with you, but coming back to that whole "I am impatient" thing, most of my drawings don't have any sort of process backing them. if I can make enough sense of the rough sketch, I will start throwing coloring, shading, and final lines down in no particular order. I really have tried to treat art as a process and follow the correct steps to a refined piece, but I usually just end up giving up and following my muse where it wants to go.
Sometimes with embarrassing results. I will cite the piece I'm currently working on as an example. Part of the reason I wanted to do this piece was because it features a lot of things I fear drawing because I am ass at them - hands, feathered wings, human faces, and graphic sex. But anyway, I was determined I would rock this picture and was giving it my best go.
Me: So remember that pic I said I was going to do for you like two years ago? I'm actually working on it now.
Friend: :O!!! Can I see?
Me: Sure! Still have a long way to go, though *sends WIP of what is currently being worked on*
Friend: *long pause*
Me: I usually hate showing stuff half-done, but I'm happy with how this is coming out so far.
Friend: ....I guess that's meant to be a spoiler as to what I should be paying attention to most in the final product? >.>
Me: ?
And then I realize that the only part of the entire piece at that point that was colored, and lovingly detailed/highlighted/outlined were the genitals. Just sitting there proudly on a big fluffy nest of blue scribbles that vaguely looked like the characters they belonged to. My reasoning for doing this was because I felt it was going to be the part of the piece I would have the most trouble with and I felt I should just get it over with first. It made perfect sense to ME, but took some explaining to get her to see it my way.
But getting back to the point - yeah. That's why I've started doing digital art more often.
My answer to that is - for me, it does. Not every artist will tell you the same, because everybody has their own thing that works for them and they're comfortable with. I do not particularly think in the case of traditional/digital, one is really superior to the other or measures the worth of an artist. There are some people out there who do things with colored pencils that are breathtaking and others who work photoshop in ways that would make Courier & Ives jealous.
Now as for why *I* made the transition from traditional to digital? Because I am an impulsive artist who is very impatient when I've got a bee in my bonnet about a project. I want to start it NOWNOWNOW and I want to see results yesterday. Photoshop is very forgiving in that sense. I don't have to spot-check my supplies before I get started, throw a fit because one of my markers is dying, or try to figure out where the cats hid my sharpies when they knocked them off the desk, Everything's right there and ready to go every time I open the program.
I am also in kind of a transitional phase where I'm trying to improve my anatomy structure as it's always been a very weak point of mine. Being able to work on a piece for awhile, walk away from it, come back to look at it with fresh eyes and go "AUGH, her torso is too long! D8" is beneficial to me because I can fix it with minimal fuss. It's teaching me to have a better eye for my mistakes without the added frustration/punishment of "GOOD JOB, JACKASS, YOU RUINED THAT PIECE. START ALL OVER." while I'm learning.
This is where you say "You can do that in traditional art too, Karma. Just erase the sketch and redraw the parts you gaffed". Well...I'd agree with you, but coming back to that whole "I am impatient" thing, most of my drawings don't have any sort of process backing them. if I can make enough sense of the rough sketch, I will start throwing coloring, shading, and final lines down in no particular order. I really have tried to treat art as a process and follow the correct steps to a refined piece, but I usually just end up giving up and following my muse where it wants to go.
Sometimes with embarrassing results. I will cite the piece I'm currently working on as an example. Part of the reason I wanted to do this piece was because it features a lot of things I fear drawing because I am ass at them - hands, feathered wings, human faces, and graphic sex. But anyway, I was determined I would rock this picture and was giving it my best go.
Me: So remember that pic I said I was going to do for you like two years ago? I'm actually working on it now.
Friend: :O!!! Can I see?
Me: Sure! Still have a long way to go, though *sends WIP of what is currently being worked on*
Friend: *long pause*
Me: I usually hate showing stuff half-done, but I'm happy with how this is coming out so far.
Friend: ....I guess that's meant to be a spoiler as to what I should be paying attention to most in the final product? >.>
Me: ?
And then I realize that the only part of the entire piece at that point that was colored, and lovingly detailed/highlighted/outlined were the genitals. Just sitting there proudly on a big fluffy nest of blue scribbles that vaguely looked like the characters they belonged to. My reasoning for doing this was because I felt it was going to be the part of the piece I would have the most trouble with and I felt I should just get it over with first. It made perfect sense to ME, but took some explaining to get her to see it my way.
But getting back to the point - yeah. That's why I've started doing digital art more often.
$5 Manga Studio
General | Posted 13 years agohttp://www.amazon.com/Manga-Studio-...../dp/B001NK395Y
not sure who might be interested or how long it's going on, but it's on sale for $5 today and is usually $50. It checks out as legit on the DA forums, a few friends and I have downloaded and it seems fine. JUST FIGURED I WOULD SHARE.
not sure who might be interested or how long it's going on, but it's on sale for $5 today and is usually $50. It checks out as legit on the DA forums, a few friends and I have downloaded and it seems fine. JUST FIGURED I WOULD SHARE.
*props eyelids open*
General | Posted 14 years agoAh, the 24 hour virus, you are truly the improv of the workday.
"Okay, here's your scenario - its your first shift on your new job tonight, you are expected to stay alert and mobile for seven hours, being well-rested is important to make a good first impression, your husband spontaneously starts exploding out both ends in the middle of your counseling appointment this morning and continues to do so throughout the day - and ACTION!!"
This'll be an interesting shift :P
"Okay, here's your scenario - its your first shift on your new job tonight, you are expected to stay alert and mobile for seven hours, being well-rested is important to make a good first impression, your husband spontaneously starts exploding out both ends in the middle of your counseling appointment this morning and continues to do so throughout the day - and ACTION!!"
This'll be an interesting shift :P
New Years Resolutions
General | Posted 14 years agoAll right enough being emo about my life, let's try and fix it this year.
BY 2013, I WILL:
1. Find a job - JOB GET
2. Enroll in math credits needed for vocational apprenticeship
3. Be able to lift and carry at least 50 lbs
4. Resume dieting and exercising
5. Pursue Counseling - IN PROCESS OF
6. Stop being my own worst enemy
BY 2013, I WILL:
1. Find a job - JOB GET
2. Enroll in math credits needed for vocational apprenticeship
3. Be able to lift and carry at least 50 lbs
4. Resume dieting and exercising
5. Pursue Counseling - IN PROCESS OF
6. Stop being my own worst enemy
New Years Meme
General | Posted 14 years ago1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Had surgery
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I made no resolutions because I didn't think I could keep them. I was right.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Both of my grandmothers.
5. What countries did you visit?
This one.
6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
a vocational apprenticeship
7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
December 6th, nunya bizness
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
making it through
9. What was your biggest failure?
Money.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Both
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Death Note DVD set
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My sister's
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My mother's, some chick I know on plurk
14. Where did most of your money go?
the doctor and utilities, probably
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
nothing really comes to mind.
16. What song will always remind you of 2011?
Fix You - Coldplay
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier?
fffff no.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Working
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worrying
20. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
At the computer
Had surgery
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I made no resolutions because I didn't think I could keep them. I was right.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Both of my grandmothers.
5. What countries did you visit?
This one.
6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
a vocational apprenticeship
7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
December 6th, nunya bizness
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
making it through
9. What was your biggest failure?
Money.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Both
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Death Note DVD set
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My sister's
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My mother's, some chick I know on plurk
14. Where did most of your money go?
the doctor and utilities, probably
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
nothing really comes to mind.
16. What song will always remind you of 2011?
Fix You - Coldplay
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier?
fffff no.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Working
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worrying
20. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
At the computer
New Years Meme
General | Posted 15 years ago1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
- Made a costume
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
- I lost 50+ lbs, going to try to get down to my goal weight this year
3. How did you spend New Year's Eve?
- Alone
4. What countries did you visit?
None
5. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
- A job
- More friends
6. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- December 3rd - got a call from my mom saying gran had died
7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- Taking responsibility for my unstable mood and getting on antidepressants
8. What was the best thing you bought?
- A Gears Of War lancer replica for Dave for christmas.
9. Where did most of your money go?
- Bills, food, hospital expenses
10. What song will always remind you of 2010?
- Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
11. What do you wish you'd done more of?
- art
- writing
12. What do you wish you'd done less of?
- Warcraft
- feeling lonely
13. What was your favorite TV program?
- Whitest Kids U Know
14. What was the best book you read?
- Lisey's Story by Stephen King
15. What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Lady Gaga
16. What was your favorite film of this year?
- Hell, I don't know. It was a bad year for cinema. Inception, I guess
17. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
- 29 and not much
18. Who was the best new person you met?
- Robert Axelrod
- Made a costume
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
- I lost 50+ lbs, going to try to get down to my goal weight this year
3. How did you spend New Year's Eve?
- Alone
4. What countries did you visit?
None
5. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
- A job
- More friends
6. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- December 3rd - got a call from my mom saying gran had died
7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- Taking responsibility for my unstable mood and getting on antidepressants
8. What was the best thing you bought?
- A Gears Of War lancer replica for Dave for christmas.
9. Where did most of your money go?
- Bills, food, hospital expenses
10. What song will always remind you of 2010?
- Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
11. What do you wish you'd done more of?
- art
- writing
12. What do you wish you'd done less of?
- Warcraft
- feeling lonely
13. What was your favorite TV program?
- Whitest Kids U Know
14. What was the best book you read?
- Lisey's Story by Stephen King
15. What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Lady Gaga
16. What was your favorite film of this year?
- Hell, I don't know. It was a bad year for cinema. Inception, I guess
17. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
- 29 and not much
18. Who was the best new person you met?
- Robert Axelrod
Dammit, family.
General | Posted 15 years agoOr rather mom and aunt specifically.
I don't claim to understand all the reasons for why you guys carry on like you do. I don't personally see the logic in a 20 year grudge with your brother because you didn't approve of the woman he married right up til the day he died. I think it's pretty sad Gran had kept trying to get you guys to bury the hatchet because "I don't want my funeral to be the family reunion" and you wouldn't have it.
Aunt, I don't know why you're 50-something years old and still a giant child who can't take care of herself. I don't know why you can't recognize you are violently insane and need help...you would think the fact you have no friends and no one calls you ought to be a hint. Does it ever keep you awake nights that you are a friggin' MD yet your life is so poorly organized and you blow all your money on animals you don't want to take care of, that you needed to move in with your mother and bitch at her and guilt her until she bought you a house just to get you to go away? My guess is no, because your first question after hearing Gran wasn't long for this world was to wonder if you were still in the will. My god, you are like some sort of bizarre Saturday morning cartoon villain.
I'm glad Gran went peacefully. I'm glad we had 90 years with her. I'm especially glad she doesn't have to put up with this petty BS anymore.
I'll miss you, Granny. I'm sorry you never got your family reunion.
I don't claim to understand all the reasons for why you guys carry on like you do. I don't personally see the logic in a 20 year grudge with your brother because you didn't approve of the woman he married right up til the day he died. I think it's pretty sad Gran had kept trying to get you guys to bury the hatchet because "I don't want my funeral to be the family reunion" and you wouldn't have it.
Aunt, I don't know why you're 50-something years old and still a giant child who can't take care of herself. I don't know why you can't recognize you are violently insane and need help...you would think the fact you have no friends and no one calls you ought to be a hint. Does it ever keep you awake nights that you are a friggin' MD yet your life is so poorly organized and you blow all your money on animals you don't want to take care of, that you needed to move in with your mother and bitch at her and guilt her until she bought you a house just to get you to go away? My guess is no, because your first question after hearing Gran wasn't long for this world was to wonder if you were still in the will. My god, you are like some sort of bizarre Saturday morning cartoon villain.
I'm glad Gran went peacefully. I'm glad we had 90 years with her. I'm especially glad she doesn't have to put up with this petty BS anymore.
I'll miss you, Granny. I'm sorry you never got your family reunion.
Thanks for making my decision for me, dudes...
General | Posted 15 years agoSo since we've been home, I've been on a happy high from the convention. Having people add me on facebook because they saw my costume tagged in the morphicon photos, getting to chat with Robert over Email, seeing random tweets from different people about the costume saying they liked it...that was all great. I felt like the time I'd spent on it really meant something.
Before we'd gone to the convention, I'd signed up as a candidate for a medical study in depression going on up in Seattle. I'd started to think these past few days "Yanno? Maybe I don't need that. I think I'm finally learning to like myself."
I went out for an evening post-rain walk last night to be alone with my thoughts and some fresh air. No sooner did I step out of the complex and cross the street than a car pulls up beside me and someone inside pegs something at me and they drive off laughing. I'm dumbfounded and my jacket is suddenly covered in goo. Motherfucker threw an egg at me.
And just like that, it was like the last few days had never happened. I went back home feeling subhuman and upset. Thinking rationally, I know it was nothing personal. They didn't drive out with a plan in place to specifically find me and ruin my night. They were just drunk assholes pegging whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the street at the time. But it made me realize just how fragile my good moods have gotten lately, when something like that can tear down one of the happiest weekends I've ever had and shove me right back into hating myself.
I ended up going to my evaluation today after all, and was professionally diagnosed with depression and placed in an eight-week study that starts tomorrow. Hopefully I'll come out of it a better person.
In the meantime, dudes who do that sort of shit to random people? Seriously, stop and take a minute to think. If someone's out walking alone when its starting to get dark out, chances are they're doing it because they don't want to be bothered. A lot of them probably have issues or at least a lot on their mind. You're likely damaging a lot more than their jacket =/
Before we'd gone to the convention, I'd signed up as a candidate for a medical study in depression going on up in Seattle. I'd started to think these past few days "Yanno? Maybe I don't need that. I think I'm finally learning to like myself."
I went out for an evening post-rain walk last night to be alone with my thoughts and some fresh air. No sooner did I step out of the complex and cross the street than a car pulls up beside me and someone inside pegs something at me and they drive off laughing. I'm dumbfounded and my jacket is suddenly covered in goo. Motherfucker threw an egg at me.
And just like that, it was like the last few days had never happened. I went back home feeling subhuman and upset. Thinking rationally, I know it was nothing personal. They didn't drive out with a plan in place to specifically find me and ruin my night. They were just drunk assholes pegging whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the street at the time. But it made me realize just how fragile my good moods have gotten lately, when something like that can tear down one of the happiest weekends I've ever had and shove me right back into hating myself.
I ended up going to my evaluation today after all, and was professionally diagnosed with depression and placed in an eight-week study that starts tomorrow. Hopefully I'll come out of it a better person.
In the meantime, dudes who do that sort of shit to random people? Seriously, stop and take a minute to think. If someone's out walking alone when its starting to get dark out, chances are they're doing it because they don't want to be bothered. A lot of them probably have issues or at least a lot on their mind. You're likely damaging a lot more than their jacket =/
How a trip goes from bad to awesome in one day
General | Posted 15 years agoAs Dave has already covered in his journal, our road trip to California was met with many bumps. There was the ER fiasco beforehand that made me leery of being in the middle of nowhere with Dave for hours, financial setbacks, and the car getting a bad tire 135 miles from our destination that resulted in a lot of dirty roadside tire-changing and missing the first day of the convention.
By the time we got to our hotel, I was feeling kind of run down as it was and giving serious thought to chickening out of my cosplay. Things weren't helped when I slipped getting out of a shower and landed right on my wrist and...if not sprained it, at least zinged it to the point of making my right hand near-useless (without yowling in pain).
We went and scoped out the convention this morning and it seemed a little discouraging. Most of the actors I'd hoped to meet hadn't yet shown up and there weren't many cosplayers. Dave noted on a posted schedule that the costume contest was tonight and not tomorrow as had been originally posted, and asked, one last time, if I was going through with it or leaving it at the hotel.
I opted to go through with the costume. I'd worked months on it right up til the last minute before we left, and I figured that if people near to twice my size could put on spandex and parade around without being self conscious, I could certainly put on a foam mask and denim apron for a few hours. So we made a trip back to the hotel to pick up a change of clothes, get me dressed, and went back.
I'd been dreading all sorts of things up to this point. I've never costumed before, I'd never MADE a costume before, and I was worried I'd get a lot of "Who are you supposed to be?" and people nitpicking the inaccuracies in my outfit. Instead we barely got in the door and I was mobbed for pictures.
Two other MMPR villains had shown up by that point and I found myself in the company of Rita Repulsa and Scorpina for most of the day. We'd all come as singles and opted to enter the contest as a group since we agreed it made more sense to have them be a team than separate. In the meantime, we continued to be mobbed all day for photos. Rangers beating us up, us beating up rangers, us cowering in fear from small children making threatening gestures, us pretending to attack unwitting posing people from behind....I've never done anything like that before.
Ed, the guy who wore Lord Zedd's costume for the show, came over to chat at me and Rita for awhile and asked about how I'd made the mask. He said it was in better shape than the one they'd used on the set (Post-season 3 I'd probably agree but I think he was just being nice)
Robert Axelrod and Barbara Goodson, Rita and Finster's voice talents, stopped us for a few pictures at one point which was pretty...well, I was feeling kinda starstruck.
The time came for the costume competition, which seemed pretty hastily thrown together. We were to walk onstage, strike an in-character pose, and leave again. We kept things as in-character as we could, given the fifteen minutes we got to plan in the hallway. In the end, the Megazord won for singles, and a mother/son rangers team won for group. The judges (all actors from the show) were each given a trophy of their own to take home for participating.
But here's where it gets interesting...one of them opted to give his away to a close runner-up for singles who had lost the tiebreaker. ...which then prompted Rob to ask for the microphone and say he would like to give his away as well, to Finster. ...there were no words. seriously. I got a hug, my costume got kissed on the nose, and the entire auditorium was chanting Finster's name. This prompted a chain reaction and the other actors gave their trophies away to their personal favorites as well. Honestly, that was even better than actually winning, in my opinion.
When it was over and Dave was helping me peel off the pressure cooker my mask had become in the hallway since my wrist was still gimpy, I told him I was going to need to find Rob tomorrow and thank him. I get told "No need, he's right here." and look up to Mr. Axelrod coming toward us. He thanked me for the tribute and for entertaining him.
Was it worth months of getting high on spraypaint fumes and getting frustrated with a mask that, several times, looked like it was doomed to failure? Yes. Was it worth all the headaches and setbacks? Hell yes. Will I be wearing that costume to any function again anytime soon? ....not for a LONG time. Eight hours straight in that thing is enough to last me awhile and these are memories I'm going to treasure forever.
AND NOW, SLEEP
By the time we got to our hotel, I was feeling kind of run down as it was and giving serious thought to chickening out of my cosplay. Things weren't helped when I slipped getting out of a shower and landed right on my wrist and...if not sprained it, at least zinged it to the point of making my right hand near-useless (without yowling in pain).
We went and scoped out the convention this morning and it seemed a little discouraging. Most of the actors I'd hoped to meet hadn't yet shown up and there weren't many cosplayers. Dave noted on a posted schedule that the costume contest was tonight and not tomorrow as had been originally posted, and asked, one last time, if I was going through with it or leaving it at the hotel.
I opted to go through with the costume. I'd worked months on it right up til the last minute before we left, and I figured that if people near to twice my size could put on spandex and parade around without being self conscious, I could certainly put on a foam mask and denim apron for a few hours. So we made a trip back to the hotel to pick up a change of clothes, get me dressed, and went back.
I'd been dreading all sorts of things up to this point. I've never costumed before, I'd never MADE a costume before, and I was worried I'd get a lot of "Who are you supposed to be?" and people nitpicking the inaccuracies in my outfit. Instead we barely got in the door and I was mobbed for pictures.
Two other MMPR villains had shown up by that point and I found myself in the company of Rita Repulsa and Scorpina for most of the day. We'd all come as singles and opted to enter the contest as a group since we agreed it made more sense to have them be a team than separate. In the meantime, we continued to be mobbed all day for photos. Rangers beating us up, us beating up rangers, us cowering in fear from small children making threatening gestures, us pretending to attack unwitting posing people from behind....I've never done anything like that before.
Ed, the guy who wore Lord Zedd's costume for the show, came over to chat at me and Rita for awhile and asked about how I'd made the mask. He said it was in better shape than the one they'd used on the set (Post-season 3 I'd probably agree but I think he was just being nice)
Robert Axelrod and Barbara Goodson, Rita and Finster's voice talents, stopped us for a few pictures at one point which was pretty...well, I was feeling kinda starstruck.
The time came for the costume competition, which seemed pretty hastily thrown together. We were to walk onstage, strike an in-character pose, and leave again. We kept things as in-character as we could, given the fifteen minutes we got to plan in the hallway. In the end, the Megazord won for singles, and a mother/son rangers team won for group. The judges (all actors from the show) were each given a trophy of their own to take home for participating.
But here's where it gets interesting...one of them opted to give his away to a close runner-up for singles who had lost the tiebreaker. ...which then prompted Rob to ask for the microphone and say he would like to give his away as well, to Finster. ...there were no words. seriously. I got a hug, my costume got kissed on the nose, and the entire auditorium was chanting Finster's name. This prompted a chain reaction and the other actors gave their trophies away to their personal favorites as well. Honestly, that was even better than actually winning, in my opinion.
When it was over and Dave was helping me peel off the pressure cooker my mask had become in the hallway since my wrist was still gimpy, I told him I was going to need to find Rob tomorrow and thank him. I get told "No need, he's right here." and look up to Mr. Axelrod coming toward us. He thanked me for the tribute and for entertaining him.
Was it worth months of getting high on spraypaint fumes and getting frustrated with a mask that, several times, looked like it was doomed to failure? Yes. Was it worth all the headaches and setbacks? Hell yes. Will I be wearing that costume to any function again anytime soon? ....not for a LONG time. Eight hours straight in that thing is enough to last me awhile and these are memories I'm going to treasure forever.
AND NOW, SLEEP
Hrm...
General | Posted 15 years agoAnyone know a good sort of paint to use on foam? The squishy upholstery stuff you use to make fursuit heads out of. I was told Krylon H20 spray latex was a good choice but the foam's soaking it up and its not giving me a color at all. I don't mind doing it by hand if I have to, I just don't want to add more weight to this thing than I really need to at this point.
Hrnngh
General | Posted 15 years agoI hate when you think you've come to an agreement with someone you're commissioning on what it is you're looking for. You've explained it as best as you can, shown them diagrams of what you want, shown them photos as well, then pay them and turn them loose...
...and what you get back is not at all what you paid them for.
And its not that they were lazy or anything, they clearly invested time and effort into it, but....
*sigh*
What I'm getting at is...
....lady from Etsy? I appreciate artistic liberties and all, and I know you've been making custom aprons as a side-job for years....but when i say I want a bulky denim apron that's sturdy enough to hang some tools from and comes down to my ankles? ....what in GOD'S name am I going to do with a frilly, petite kitchen apron that barely comes down to my knees? =__=;;
I'm cosplaying as a little old dog-dragon, not as Donna Reed, ffs.
...and what you get back is not at all what you paid them for.
And its not that they were lazy or anything, they clearly invested time and effort into it, but....
*sigh*
What I'm getting at is...
....lady from Etsy? I appreciate artistic liberties and all, and I know you've been making custom aprons as a side-job for years....but when i say I want a bulky denim apron that's sturdy enough to hang some tools from and comes down to my ankles? ....what in GOD'S name am I going to do with a frilly, petite kitchen apron that barely comes down to my knees? =__=;;
I'm cosplaying as a little old dog-dragon, not as Donna Reed, ffs.
To those who watch me because they also watch Dave...
General | Posted 15 years agoWell, we've had a bit of an incident....
After three years or so of not having any episodes, Dave had several seizures all in a row last night to the point of needing to be sedated and taken to the ER by 911 paramedics. His Dilantin levels, apparently, were abysmal. Also, apparently, his health coverage stopped covering him at some point and did not inform us of this fact.
A fun and informative time was had by all. I will spare everyone the gory details.
So all of that in mind, Dave is in a lot of pain right now from over-straining pretty much every muscle in his body and can barely move. And last we spoke, he's still pretty soupy from the entire incident. I'm not sure how long that's going to last since he's never had multiple episodes like this before, but it may result in delays and absences as far as Jack is concerned. I realize this should probably go on the jack forum or in the newsbox or something but I'll level with you guys - I'm exhausted, and I have no idea where his laptop ended up tossed in the confusion, so I have no passwords for that stuff at the moment.
Your patience is appreciated.
Katie
After three years or so of not having any episodes, Dave had several seizures all in a row last night to the point of needing to be sedated and taken to the ER by 911 paramedics. His Dilantin levels, apparently, were abysmal. Also, apparently, his health coverage stopped covering him at some point and did not inform us of this fact.
A fun and informative time was had by all. I will spare everyone the gory details.
So all of that in mind, Dave is in a lot of pain right now from over-straining pretty much every muscle in his body and can barely move. And last we spoke, he's still pretty soupy from the entire incident. I'm not sure how long that's going to last since he's never had multiple episodes like this before, but it may result in delays and absences as far as Jack is concerned. I realize this should probably go on the jack forum or in the newsbox or something but I'll level with you guys - I'm exhausted, and I have no idea where his laptop ended up tossed in the confusion, so I have no passwords for that stuff at the moment.
Your patience is appreciated.
Katie
RAGE MEME
General | Posted 15 years agoGanked from 
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ebonyleopard because I love an opportunity to rage 8D
Furry Rage.
10. Negative Media Whores - The people who run in front of the nearest television camera to tell everybody that the fandom is all about having sex in a tubful of pig filth while wearing a Bugs Bunny costume because that's what they, personally, are into. The world doesn't need to know what turns your crank, and I don't appreciate you weirdos speaking on mine and my friends' behalf and making it a little more awkward for me to have to explain to my friends outside of it that, no, seriously, its not like that.
9. Passive Aggressive Hate Art - If you're angry enough with someone to draw your character disemboweling a character that looks like theirs, and then post something angrily cryptic as the caption, would it honestly kill you to have just aired your dirty laundry to the person directly? You're just inviting people to ask what's going on and turn it into a much bigger production than it needs to be.
8. Stream Art Leeches - when someone comes into a stream channel where the artist clearly has no shortage of people willing to pay them for their on-camera doodles, how can you not see it as ridiculously rude to ask them if they'll do a freebie of your kawaii fox murrsona? Repeatedly, for that matter....
7. Claiming Copyrighted Characters - if you happen to like a character from a popular show/movie/series, chances are other people like that character too. Just because you've drawn your character boinking the other in every imaginable pose does not put a personal claim on that character for you. Freaking out at anyone who draws that character with theirs or writes stories about them just makes you look like an utter jackass. Quit it.
6. I WANTZ ATTENSHUN - The chatroom is lively and people are having a good time? Time for someone to come in and "*SIGH*" and "*CURLS UP IN THE CORNER*". Because clearly its too hard to garner attention onto yourself by contributing to the conversation and being pleasant. The whole room has to stop and ask you what's the matter.
5. Elitists - if your art/stories/fursuits/commission concepts are really great, hey, more power to you. Congratulations to you for honing your skill for so many years to be awesome. You've earned your prestige and reknown. (I say that with all sincerity btw :3) That does not give you the right to look down on everyone and everything around you just because you portray a dog cock better than 80% of the fandom or YiffyMcWolfass paid you $400 to draw him a picture of him humping his cat. You are also not a pillar of life wisdom just because you have a circle of yes-men who agree with everything you spew in your journal. You do not have the right to tell someone just starting out that they should never draw again or throw your uninformed opinions around about people you haven't even properly met as solid fact. In short, some folks are really talented artists, but utter wastes of a human being.
4. No Respect For Relationships - Taken is taken. Married is married. Maybe they're being honest with you, maybe they're just saying it to get you to stop creeping them out with your awkward attempts at flirting. Either way, that should be your cue to back off. Don't grill them for particulars on the extent of their relationship and look for loopholes that you think may end up with you scoring. I especially don't want to hear you belching your retarded logic about "WELL UR FURSONA IS A *insert animal here* THEY TAKE LOTS OF MATES IN THEIR LIFETIME :V" ....that's great for my character, I guess, but I'm a human. You're a human. If it WAS an open relationship and I was interested, I'd have let you know. People aren't obligated to sleep with you just because you happened to show up at the same furry con.
3. Casual Suicide/Harm Threats - You people have made it almost impossible for me to take anyone seriously who says they're depressed/suicidal over the years. Someday I'm not going to believe someone who was serious about it, and I am going to blame each and every one of you jackasses I've dealt with who toss around idle threats to their well being because they were a little depressed and wanted attention.
2. Creepy Lingerers - if I stopped talking to you years ago and have not made any effort to get back in touch with you or answered your attempts to get back in touch with me, chances are I don't WANT to get back in touch with you and am hoping desperately you will figure that out for yourself without me having to get in your face and tell you to fuck off.
1. Two-Faced Furries - people who actively speak out against the fandom and its "furfags" while they, themselves, adamantly draw furry art, attend conventions, and own a fursuit. Just....huh?
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Anime Rage.
10. Terrible American Voices - I am not a freak who demands that every anime be pure and untouched in its original japanese form. I can and will happily watch dubbed anime. But why take a relatively dignified character who had a perfectly normal voice in the original cartoon, and give him an incredibly nasal, annoying, whiny voice in the English dub that turns him into a parody of himself? D:
9. Tragic Ending Out Of Nowhere To An Otherwise Light-Hearted Series - Petite Princess Yucie, I'm looking at YOU >=/
8. Random Chibi Moment - I dunno why but this has always really bugged me. The anime you're watching has more or less of a serious tone, the people are the type that bleed when they get hurt and don't squash and stretch, and yet there's sometimes that random 5 seconds where everybody in the scene becomes little screaming, flailing fingerpuppets to....I dunno....get their surprise across? It really ruins the story immersion and makes me want to punch someone.
7. Screeching Young Girls - I understand that a lot of anime features young girl characters who are boisterous and full of life, but the continual inability to speak in a volume that is not yelling NO MATTER WHAT THEY'RE SAYING makes me want to drive a spork into my ears.
6. "Anime Is Superior To Any Other Animation" - no. Anime has its time and place. There are some movies and stories that are greatly enhanced by the style. There are also some movies that would have been utterly ruined by it. Please deal with the fact that not everyone shares your vision of an all-anime-all-the-time world.
5. Hardcore Yaoi Fangirls - No, I have nothing against yaoi art/fiction. If that's your thing, you go hog wild. I DO mind, however, if you like it to to the point that you feel the need to attack people who choose to draw het anime art or write het pairings in their fanfics. Live with the idea, maybe, that not everybody believes that your bishie boy of choice gargles cock...? I dunno, might make life easier.
4. American "Anime" - I miss the days of cartoons where, no matter how crappy they were, they had to actually invest some time in their frame-by-frame animation. Now we have these half-assed flash cartoons that try to market themselves as being psuedo-anime just so they can get away with two-frame reaction bullshit and overly-recycled shots. Just cut the middle man and say you're being cheap. Its not anime just because you gave the characters big eyes, and its definitely not quality. Where the hell is my Tiny Toon Adventures and Darkwing Duck?? >=/
3. Anime jargon/cliches in things that are not anime -- "facefault" and "sweatdrop" are not verbs that should appear in stories unrelated to the genre. Aragorn should not be talking about how kawaii Legolas is. Thrall should not be yelling SUGOI! as he charges his orcs into battle. FUCKING STOP IT.
2. Series That Drag On And On -- We get it, DBZ. They're totally having a big man-sized fight with lots of sweating and heavy breathing. MUST IT BLANKET SIX EPISODES??
1. Weeaboos -- the people who join the community college Japanese class solely because they want to better appreciate their animes and pretentiously talk over the teacher like they're an expert on the country of Japan. The people who dye their hair ridiculous colors with Kool Aid to look more like whatever anime character they're wishing they were and wear their cosplay stuff in public just to whine when they get made fun of. The people who name their firstborn Goku. The people who live and breathe goddamn anime to the point that earth has packed its bags and divorced itself from them and they never noticed because their face was buried in the glow of their bootlegged Inuyasha DVD's.
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Real Life Rage.
10. Yellowjackets - they are the utter assholes of the insect kingdom. They KNOW it. They know you're afraid of getting stung and they get right in your goddamn face daring you to do something about it. Little shits.
9. Selectively Inattentive Parents - don't pretend you don't see your kid making a mess in the grocery store. Don't pretend that he isn't harassing some stranger. Don't turn your head to the side when he's flinging food at the people behind him in the restaurant you've inflicted him on. You know he's doing it, you know its pissing off everyone around you, and you think you get a free pass because you're a parent. Either make an effort to discipline your kid, or please stop bringing him into public....or eventually he's going to meet someone who WON'T keep their mouth shut and he's going to get a very rude awakening to the fact that not everybody thinks he's an adorable little scamp.
8. Loud, Repetitive, Noise - I will ram that pencil right up your nose if you can't find something better to do with it than drum on the tabletop and lampshade.
7. Narrow-Minded People - its fine to believe your opinion is the correct one. But if you refuse to even hear out other viewpoints or respect people who have an opposing position to yours and dismiss people who don't agree with you as ignorant morons, fuck you.
6. Assholes that Blast Their Stereo - doubly so if you're doing it in an apartment complex. Namely mine. Its great you like Ranchero music, dude, but I don't. Especially not at 3 AM and at chest-rattling volumes. I can't imagine anyone else does either.
5. Honking The Horn Instead of Ringing The Doorbell - Is there seriously a reason you feel the need to sit in someone's driveway leaning on your car horn for 20 minutes? Is it really that taxing to park your car and walk ten yards to the door to ring the bell and see why they're not ready yet? But at least the whole neighborhood knows that you're there to pick them up now! Asshat...
4. Cheaters - if you're not happy in your relationship, have the stomach to break it off with the person you're with. No, "I don't want to hurt them" is not an excuse. Think of how they'll feel if they catch you at what you're doing or hear it from someone else. The time you spend orchestrating affairs, lying, and sneaking around could have been spent having a frank discussion with your partner about how its really not working out anymore, and then you could screw around with whoever you wanted whenever you wanted.
3. Animal Abuse/Neglect - if you don't want to take care of your pets, don't have them. How hard is this?
2. Pretentious Religious Jerkwads - Who are you to speak and act for whatever god you worship? Who are you to decide who's going to hell and who's going to heaven? That's for whatever entity there is to decide. You're just a guy who read a book and liked it enough to live your life by it.
1. Getting Up Early - nothing fills me with rage faster than being the only one chilly, groggy and awakened by an alarm clock in a houseful of people who are still warm, comfortable and asleep. Petty, I know, but RRGHHHH
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Video Game Rage.
10. Dramawhores in MMO's - You really can't just be happy with the fact you're in a guild that's being nice to you? Do you really have to nitpick the management and the fact you're not an officer to the point that you cause grief and upset all around you and turn what used to be a happy environment into a strained and awkward one? Next time just leave if you're not happy instead of dragging everybody down to your level.
9. Chatty Idiots On Vent - the raid leader is trying to give us all instructions for the upcoming fight. We don't care about the time you and your brother and his friend got shitfaced in the woods and woke up with no pants. We also don't care you're having burritos for dinner. Please shut up before the other chatty idiots join in with THEIR menu for the night and nothing gets done.
8. People Who Treat Games Like A Job - Its a game. It shouldn't be work, and you shouldn't hate it. Put the damn thing up if you're tired of it and play something else. Just because the achievement is there doesn't mean you HAVE to get it.
7. Not Doing Irrelevant Sidequest = Bad Ending - I don't like investing hours of my time into a game, just to get a middle finger in my face when I complete it because I was supposed to have picked up Ye Holy Fleshlight back in level 2 and taken it around the entire Ye Olde World to be fucked by each of the ten immortal gods and my failure to do so means that the entire universe is now over despite my having completed all the puzzles and beaten all the bosses.
6. Girl Gamers Who Won't Shut Up About Being Girl Gamers - Yes. Girls like video games too. Stop the goddamn presses. Why must the fact you have tits derail every conversation? Do you ever get tired of talking about how similar you look to the busty she-elf you made as your character (when in actuality the only similarity you probably have is the fact you're both blonde)? God damn, you guys are the reason I always make male characters and avoid the topic of gender. =/
5. Slow-As-Fuck Load Screens - this is mainly my fault for still playing Morrowind. I want to eat my own face when every TIME I go through a damned door, I have to sit there for 30 seconds waiting for it to sloooowly load the next room. Bonus points if you press the wrong button and go right back out through the door you just came in from. Haha *shoots self*
4. Text-Based Adventure Games With Obscure Commands - if you describe there being a stone in the middle of a fetid swamp that looks sturdy enough to be jumped to, the command "jump to stone" should suffice. Don't fuck with me by having the command be something like "leap to sturdy rock".
3. Loot Drama - We did not spend three hours doing this raid and dropping this boss just for you, dude. I'm sorry that the loot you really wanted dropped and you don't get a free shot at it, but there's nine other people here that it would be an upgrade for as well. If you lose the roll, well....so did eight other folks. Better luck next time. Throwing a tantrum and pouting just makes you look like a douche.
2. The Black Screen Of Death - I dunno what this is but I get it in WoW frequently. You'll be tooling along, minding your own business, the game will suddenly lag and the entire screen will go black. Sometimes in the middle of a fight. The only way to fix it is to exit the game and reload it. Sometimes that doesn't fix it either and you have to restart the computer. Its awesome when it happens in the middle of a dungeon and you make everybody wait >_<
1. Games That Encourage Your Teammates To Be Assholes - its funny for a little while, but when you're trying to get something done, and the people you're playing with would rather be dicks instead of cooperate, you're just asking for someone to end up with a controller cord wrapped around their neck
duo by way of 
ebonyleopard because I love an opportunity to rage 8DFurry Rage.
10. Negative Media Whores - The people who run in front of the nearest television camera to tell everybody that the fandom is all about having sex in a tubful of pig filth while wearing a Bugs Bunny costume because that's what they, personally, are into. The world doesn't need to know what turns your crank, and I don't appreciate you weirdos speaking on mine and my friends' behalf and making it a little more awkward for me to have to explain to my friends outside of it that, no, seriously, its not like that.
9. Passive Aggressive Hate Art - If you're angry enough with someone to draw your character disemboweling a character that looks like theirs, and then post something angrily cryptic as the caption, would it honestly kill you to have just aired your dirty laundry to the person directly? You're just inviting people to ask what's going on and turn it into a much bigger production than it needs to be.
8. Stream Art Leeches - when someone comes into a stream channel where the artist clearly has no shortage of people willing to pay them for their on-camera doodles, how can you not see it as ridiculously rude to ask them if they'll do a freebie of your kawaii fox murrsona? Repeatedly, for that matter....
7. Claiming Copyrighted Characters - if you happen to like a character from a popular show/movie/series, chances are other people like that character too. Just because you've drawn your character boinking the other in every imaginable pose does not put a personal claim on that character for you. Freaking out at anyone who draws that character with theirs or writes stories about them just makes you look like an utter jackass. Quit it.
6. I WANTZ ATTENSHUN - The chatroom is lively and people are having a good time? Time for someone to come in and "*SIGH*" and "*CURLS UP IN THE CORNER*". Because clearly its too hard to garner attention onto yourself by contributing to the conversation and being pleasant. The whole room has to stop and ask you what's the matter.
5. Elitists - if your art/stories/fursuits/commission concepts are really great, hey, more power to you. Congratulations to you for honing your skill for so many years to be awesome. You've earned your prestige and reknown. (I say that with all sincerity btw :3) That does not give you the right to look down on everyone and everything around you just because you portray a dog cock better than 80% of the fandom or YiffyMcWolfass paid you $400 to draw him a picture of him humping his cat. You are also not a pillar of life wisdom just because you have a circle of yes-men who agree with everything you spew in your journal. You do not have the right to tell someone just starting out that they should never draw again or throw your uninformed opinions around about people you haven't even properly met as solid fact. In short, some folks are really talented artists, but utter wastes of a human being.
4. No Respect For Relationships - Taken is taken. Married is married. Maybe they're being honest with you, maybe they're just saying it to get you to stop creeping them out with your awkward attempts at flirting. Either way, that should be your cue to back off. Don't grill them for particulars on the extent of their relationship and look for loopholes that you think may end up with you scoring. I especially don't want to hear you belching your retarded logic about "WELL UR FURSONA IS A *insert animal here* THEY TAKE LOTS OF MATES IN THEIR LIFETIME :V" ....that's great for my character, I guess, but I'm a human. You're a human. If it WAS an open relationship and I was interested, I'd have let you know. People aren't obligated to sleep with you just because you happened to show up at the same furry con.
3. Casual Suicide/Harm Threats - You people have made it almost impossible for me to take anyone seriously who says they're depressed/suicidal over the years. Someday I'm not going to believe someone who was serious about it, and I am going to blame each and every one of you jackasses I've dealt with who toss around idle threats to their well being because they were a little depressed and wanted attention.
2. Creepy Lingerers - if I stopped talking to you years ago and have not made any effort to get back in touch with you or answered your attempts to get back in touch with me, chances are I don't WANT to get back in touch with you and am hoping desperately you will figure that out for yourself without me having to get in your face and tell you to fuck off.
1. Two-Faced Furries - people who actively speak out against the fandom and its "furfags" while they, themselves, adamantly draw furry art, attend conventions, and own a fursuit. Just....huh?
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Anime Rage.
10. Terrible American Voices - I am not a freak who demands that every anime be pure and untouched in its original japanese form. I can and will happily watch dubbed anime. But why take a relatively dignified character who had a perfectly normal voice in the original cartoon, and give him an incredibly nasal, annoying, whiny voice in the English dub that turns him into a parody of himself? D:
9. Tragic Ending Out Of Nowhere To An Otherwise Light-Hearted Series - Petite Princess Yucie, I'm looking at YOU >=/
8. Random Chibi Moment - I dunno why but this has always really bugged me. The anime you're watching has more or less of a serious tone, the people are the type that bleed when they get hurt and don't squash and stretch, and yet there's sometimes that random 5 seconds where everybody in the scene becomes little screaming, flailing fingerpuppets to....I dunno....get their surprise across? It really ruins the story immersion and makes me want to punch someone.
7. Screeching Young Girls - I understand that a lot of anime features young girl characters who are boisterous and full of life, but the continual inability to speak in a volume that is not yelling NO MATTER WHAT THEY'RE SAYING makes me want to drive a spork into my ears.
6. "Anime Is Superior To Any Other Animation" - no. Anime has its time and place. There are some movies and stories that are greatly enhanced by the style. There are also some movies that would have been utterly ruined by it. Please deal with the fact that not everyone shares your vision of an all-anime-all-the-time world.
5. Hardcore Yaoi Fangirls - No, I have nothing against yaoi art/fiction. If that's your thing, you go hog wild. I DO mind, however, if you like it to to the point that you feel the need to attack people who choose to draw het anime art or write het pairings in their fanfics. Live with the idea, maybe, that not everybody believes that your bishie boy of choice gargles cock...? I dunno, might make life easier.
4. American "Anime" - I miss the days of cartoons where, no matter how crappy they were, they had to actually invest some time in their frame-by-frame animation. Now we have these half-assed flash cartoons that try to market themselves as being psuedo-anime just so they can get away with two-frame reaction bullshit and overly-recycled shots. Just cut the middle man and say you're being cheap. Its not anime just because you gave the characters big eyes, and its definitely not quality. Where the hell is my Tiny Toon Adventures and Darkwing Duck?? >=/
3. Anime jargon/cliches in things that are not anime -- "facefault" and "sweatdrop" are not verbs that should appear in stories unrelated to the genre. Aragorn should not be talking about how kawaii Legolas is. Thrall should not be yelling SUGOI! as he charges his orcs into battle. FUCKING STOP IT.
2. Series That Drag On And On -- We get it, DBZ. They're totally having a big man-sized fight with lots of sweating and heavy breathing. MUST IT BLANKET SIX EPISODES??
1. Weeaboos -- the people who join the community college Japanese class solely because they want to better appreciate their animes and pretentiously talk over the teacher like they're an expert on the country of Japan. The people who dye their hair ridiculous colors with Kool Aid to look more like whatever anime character they're wishing they were and wear their cosplay stuff in public just to whine when they get made fun of. The people who name their firstborn Goku. The people who live and breathe goddamn anime to the point that earth has packed its bags and divorced itself from them and they never noticed because their face was buried in the glow of their bootlegged Inuyasha DVD's.
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Real Life Rage.
10. Yellowjackets - they are the utter assholes of the insect kingdom. They KNOW it. They know you're afraid of getting stung and they get right in your goddamn face daring you to do something about it. Little shits.
9. Selectively Inattentive Parents - don't pretend you don't see your kid making a mess in the grocery store. Don't pretend that he isn't harassing some stranger. Don't turn your head to the side when he's flinging food at the people behind him in the restaurant you've inflicted him on. You know he's doing it, you know its pissing off everyone around you, and you think you get a free pass because you're a parent. Either make an effort to discipline your kid, or please stop bringing him into public....or eventually he's going to meet someone who WON'T keep their mouth shut and he's going to get a very rude awakening to the fact that not everybody thinks he's an adorable little scamp.
8. Loud, Repetitive, Noise - I will ram that pencil right up your nose if you can't find something better to do with it than drum on the tabletop and lampshade.
7. Narrow-Minded People - its fine to believe your opinion is the correct one. But if you refuse to even hear out other viewpoints or respect people who have an opposing position to yours and dismiss people who don't agree with you as ignorant morons, fuck you.
6. Assholes that Blast Their Stereo - doubly so if you're doing it in an apartment complex. Namely mine. Its great you like Ranchero music, dude, but I don't. Especially not at 3 AM and at chest-rattling volumes. I can't imagine anyone else does either.
5. Honking The Horn Instead of Ringing The Doorbell - Is there seriously a reason you feel the need to sit in someone's driveway leaning on your car horn for 20 minutes? Is it really that taxing to park your car and walk ten yards to the door to ring the bell and see why they're not ready yet? But at least the whole neighborhood knows that you're there to pick them up now! Asshat...
4. Cheaters - if you're not happy in your relationship, have the stomach to break it off with the person you're with. No, "I don't want to hurt them" is not an excuse. Think of how they'll feel if they catch you at what you're doing or hear it from someone else. The time you spend orchestrating affairs, lying, and sneaking around could have been spent having a frank discussion with your partner about how its really not working out anymore, and then you could screw around with whoever you wanted whenever you wanted.
3. Animal Abuse/Neglect - if you don't want to take care of your pets, don't have them. How hard is this?
2. Pretentious Religious Jerkwads - Who are you to speak and act for whatever god you worship? Who are you to decide who's going to hell and who's going to heaven? That's for whatever entity there is to decide. You're just a guy who read a book and liked it enough to live your life by it.
1. Getting Up Early - nothing fills me with rage faster than being the only one chilly, groggy and awakened by an alarm clock in a houseful of people who are still warm, comfortable and asleep. Petty, I know, but RRGHHHH
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Video Game Rage.
10. Dramawhores in MMO's - You really can't just be happy with the fact you're in a guild that's being nice to you? Do you really have to nitpick the management and the fact you're not an officer to the point that you cause grief and upset all around you and turn what used to be a happy environment into a strained and awkward one? Next time just leave if you're not happy instead of dragging everybody down to your level.
9. Chatty Idiots On Vent - the raid leader is trying to give us all instructions for the upcoming fight. We don't care about the time you and your brother and his friend got shitfaced in the woods and woke up with no pants. We also don't care you're having burritos for dinner. Please shut up before the other chatty idiots join in with THEIR menu for the night and nothing gets done.
8. People Who Treat Games Like A Job - Its a game. It shouldn't be work, and you shouldn't hate it. Put the damn thing up if you're tired of it and play something else. Just because the achievement is there doesn't mean you HAVE to get it.
7. Not Doing Irrelevant Sidequest = Bad Ending - I don't like investing hours of my time into a game, just to get a middle finger in my face when I complete it because I was supposed to have picked up Ye Holy Fleshlight back in level 2 and taken it around the entire Ye Olde World to be fucked by each of the ten immortal gods and my failure to do so means that the entire universe is now over despite my having completed all the puzzles and beaten all the bosses.
6. Girl Gamers Who Won't Shut Up About Being Girl Gamers - Yes. Girls like video games too. Stop the goddamn presses. Why must the fact you have tits derail every conversation? Do you ever get tired of talking about how similar you look to the busty she-elf you made as your character (when in actuality the only similarity you probably have is the fact you're both blonde)? God damn, you guys are the reason I always make male characters and avoid the topic of gender. =/
5. Slow-As-Fuck Load Screens - this is mainly my fault for still playing Morrowind. I want to eat my own face when every TIME I go through a damned door, I have to sit there for 30 seconds waiting for it to sloooowly load the next room. Bonus points if you press the wrong button and go right back out through the door you just came in from. Haha *shoots self*
4. Text-Based Adventure Games With Obscure Commands - if you describe there being a stone in the middle of a fetid swamp that looks sturdy enough to be jumped to, the command "jump to stone" should suffice. Don't fuck with me by having the command be something like "leap to sturdy rock".
3. Loot Drama - We did not spend three hours doing this raid and dropping this boss just for you, dude. I'm sorry that the loot you really wanted dropped and you don't get a free shot at it, but there's nine other people here that it would be an upgrade for as well. If you lose the roll, well....so did eight other folks. Better luck next time. Throwing a tantrum and pouting just makes you look like a douche.
2. The Black Screen Of Death - I dunno what this is but I get it in WoW frequently. You'll be tooling along, minding your own business, the game will suddenly lag and the entire screen will go black. Sometimes in the middle of a fight. The only way to fix it is to exit the game and reload it. Sometimes that doesn't fix it either and you have to restart the computer. Its awesome when it happens in the middle of a dungeon and you make everybody wait >_<
1. Games That Encourage Your Teammates To Be Assholes - its funny for a little while, but when you're trying to get something done, and the people you're playing with would rather be dicks instead of cooperate, you're just asking for someone to end up with a controller cord wrapped around their neck
Dear Wiifit...
General | Posted 15 years agoHi, its me.
We've known one another a fair amount of time by now...since December, yes? You might remember me as the fatty who hid in the car, shamefaced, while her husband went into the Gamestop to buy you because she was scared to death of anyone commenting.
I fed you batteries and set you up, whereupon you merrily informed me I was obese, made my little Mii into the shape of a box, and made labored little grunts when I'd step on the board. Its okay. I deserved it. A 5'3 girl packing 231 pounds can no longer call herself "chubby", after all...
It is now almost five months since you came to live with me. I've dropped 40+ pounds since we started working together. I'm a weight I haven't been in the last seven years. I think that's some good progress, don't you, Wiifit? Well, even if you don't, you have to admit it IS progress, right?
SO HOW ABOUT YOU STOP ACTING LIKE GODDAMN GODZILLA STEPPED ON THE BOARD WHEN I GO TO DO MY BODY TEST?? >=/
No love,
--Me
TO DO LIST:
1. Rifter's Headshot
2. Female Outlaw inks/colors
We've known one another a fair amount of time by now...since December, yes? You might remember me as the fatty who hid in the car, shamefaced, while her husband went into the Gamestop to buy you because she was scared to death of anyone commenting.
I fed you batteries and set you up, whereupon you merrily informed me I was obese, made my little Mii into the shape of a box, and made labored little grunts when I'd step on the board. Its okay. I deserved it. A 5'3 girl packing 231 pounds can no longer call herself "chubby", after all...
It is now almost five months since you came to live with me. I've dropped 40+ pounds since we started working together. I'm a weight I haven't been in the last seven years. I think that's some good progress, don't you, Wiifit? Well, even if you don't, you have to admit it IS progress, right?
SO HOW ABOUT YOU STOP ACTING LIKE GODDAMN GODZILLA STEPPED ON THE BOARD WHEN I GO TO DO MY BODY TEST?? >=/
No love,
--Me
TO DO LIST:
1. Rifter's Headshot
2. Female Outlaw inks/colors
Headshots/Icons
General | Posted 15 years agoWell, looking on the bright side of recent events, at least it got me back into arting.
And since things are looking a little tight, I thought I might open a few headshot/icon slots and see if anyone's interested :3
Price - $7
What you get - A neck-up, or shoulders-up (usually depends on the type of animal and whether they're anthro or not) colored picture of the character you provide me.
What I need from you - references help me A LOT. If all you've got to go on is a textual description, that's okay, but please try and make it detailed so I know what goes where.
Payment - please send it AFTER I'm finished. I work better if I'm not under pressure with money already in-hand. For some reason this really discourages me...I'm not sure why. I will contact you via note with the picture and where to send the fee :3
How to get one - please reply here and then send me a note with what you'd like. Once that's finalized, I'll put you on the list.
Note - more slots will likely open after these five are done. I just don't want to get overwhelmed from the get-go
1. Kitch (done!)
2. Gareeku (done!)
3. Rifter (sketching...)
!!!NOTE!!! -- I'm sorry these are taking longer than expected. I was kind of ambushed by a time-sensitive project and was scrambling to get it done. Back to work now.
!!!ANOTHER NOTE!!! -- Robert Axelrod (AKA voice of Lord Zedd, Finster, Armadillomon, Wizardmon, and many others) is looking for followers on Twitter :) http://twitter.com/RealLordZedd
And since things are looking a little tight, I thought I might open a few headshot/icon slots and see if anyone's interested :3
Price - $7
What you get - A neck-up, or shoulders-up (usually depends on the type of animal and whether they're anthro or not) colored picture of the character you provide me.
What I need from you - references help me A LOT. If all you've got to go on is a textual description, that's okay, but please try and make it detailed so I know what goes where.
Payment - please send it AFTER I'm finished. I work better if I'm not under pressure with money already in-hand. For some reason this really discourages me...I'm not sure why. I will contact you via note with the picture and where to send the fee :3
How to get one - please reply here and then send me a note with what you'd like. Once that's finalized, I'll put you on the list.
Note - more slots will likely open after these five are done. I just don't want to get overwhelmed from the get-go
1. Kitch (done!)
2. Gareeku (done!)
3. Rifter (sketching...)
!!!NOTE!!! -- I'm sorry these are taking longer than expected. I was kind of ambushed by a time-sensitive project and was scrambling to get it done. Back to work now.
!!!ANOTHER NOTE!!! -- Robert Axelrod (AKA voice of Lord Zedd, Finster, Armadillomon, Wizardmon, and many others) is looking for followers on Twitter :) http://twitter.com/RealLordZedd
We all learn the hard way...
General | Posted 15 years agoSo I guess my lesson for life that I've learned recently is...
- When a High School friend approaches you and asks if you'd be willing to provide paid art for a project her spouse is working on...
- And that spouse is running a fledgling gaming company who "can't afford" to compensate you immediately...
- And he promises you that if the investor bites on, you'll be getting $1500 a month for three months' work
- And if that project falls through mysteriously, leaving you with a lot of work you've done for no compensation...
Do not trust that person when he immediately puts you on another in-house project he was doing with promise of royalties from the finished game. My reward, apparently, for giving him what he wants and meeting his short-notice deadlines for the last few weeks was to be left in the lurch with a bunch of unpaid art I have no use for and a game that's not going to be made because he dropped his company entirely to pursue another job.
I would not even be so angry about this, except he has known since yesterday that he'd be getting this new job, and that they had told him he would need to ditch his gaming company to work for them, and he was online on Facebook and AIM mobile all day to warn me about what was going on. Instead he let me keep working, waiting for it to be delivered this morning, to say "oh, by the way..."
If you're wondering, he HAS produced games before and sold them through i-phone, which was why I even had faith in him to begin with. The one I was working on was a sequel to one of his already-released titles.
FML. >=/
- When a High School friend approaches you and asks if you'd be willing to provide paid art for a project her spouse is working on...
- And that spouse is running a fledgling gaming company who "can't afford" to compensate you immediately...
- And he promises you that if the investor bites on, you'll be getting $1500 a month for three months' work
- And if that project falls through mysteriously, leaving you with a lot of work you've done for no compensation...
Do not trust that person when he immediately puts you on another in-house project he was doing with promise of royalties from the finished game. My reward, apparently, for giving him what he wants and meeting his short-notice deadlines for the last few weeks was to be left in the lurch with a bunch of unpaid art I have no use for and a game that's not going to be made because he dropped his company entirely to pursue another job.
I would not even be so angry about this, except he has known since yesterday that he'd be getting this new job, and that they had told him he would need to ditch his gaming company to work for them, and he was online on Facebook and AIM mobile all day to warn me about what was going on. Instead he let me keep working, waiting for it to be delivered this morning, to say "oh, by the way..."
If you're wondering, he HAS produced games before and sold them through i-phone, which was why I even had faith in him to begin with. The one I was working on was a sequel to one of his already-released titles.
FML. >=/
That marriage meme thingie
General | Posted 16 years agoI'M IN UR JOURNAL STEELIN UR MEMES, VINCH
1. Who eats more?
I'm sure I do. I need to remind him to eat and bring him food half the time or he'd be happy to subsist on a cup of noodles once a day :P
2. Who said “I love you” first?
I honestly can't remember. I think we were in an awkward limbo for awhile where both of us wanted to be with each other but neither wanted to be the one to say it. It may have been me, though XD
3. Who is the morning person?
Dave is. He is much more graceful about getting out of bed early than I am.
4. Who sings better?
Me, but he's getting better :D
5. Who’s older?
He's older than me by about three years
6. Who’s smarter?
I think that depends entirely on the subject. When it comes to world events/politics/storytelling/intellectual debate, he will usually smoke me. When it comes to behavioral discussion or common sense, I usually have an edge.
7. Whose temper is worse?
I think we're about evenly-matched there. We never really blow up and argue with one another, save for rare occasions, but we both get pissy about little annoyances (noisy neighbors, cats destroying things, etc.) and snap and stew about them for hours sometimes.
8. Who does the laundry?
Usually Dave when he's on his way out to run errands
9. Who does the dishes?
Whoever gets tired of looking at them first.
10. Who sleeps on what side of the bed?
He sleeps on the left, I sleep on the right. At the time this was established, it was because it was the side against the wall, and for some reason I had a hard time not falling out of his bed on the other side when we'd first moved in together. Now its just comfortable and familiar.
11. Whose feet are bigger?
His are definitely. I'm an 8.5 womens, he's about a 12.5 men's
12. Whose hair is longer?
Mine definitely.
13. Who’s better with the computer?
Again, depends on what aspect of it. He knows a lot more about them technically, but usually I can get the internet working if he can't.
14. Do you have pets?
two cats and two pygmy frogs.
15. Who pays the bills?
He does
16. Who cooks dinner?
Generally when there's cooking to be done, I do. Though usually since our tastes are different, we each make our own.
17. Who drives when you are together?
He does.
18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?
On the rare occasion we go, either he does, or paypal picks it up.
19. Who’s the most stubborn?
I think we're about evenly matched there. Sometimes we're both equally willing to say "screw it", and then sometimes neither of us will stop beating a dead horse.
20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Usually me. I hate conflicts, and I'll apologize for my fault in things, even if its not my fault just to make the tension break.
21. Whose family do you see more?
His. Mine are a few states away.
22. Who named your pets?
I did.
23. Who kissed who first?
I...think it was me. Because I remember him being very nervous when we first met face to face.
24. Who asked who out?
We went straight into the online relationship thingie, I believe. No room for asking out.
25. What did you do on your first date?
He picked me up at the airport, we spent an hour driving back to his place, and then we went to sleep because it was really friggin late at night and we were both exhausted. ....I guess it wasn't much of a date.
26. Who’s more sensitive?
I am...and over stupid things sometimes. He's constantly got to remind me not to let the turkeys get me down. I'm trying, honest :P
27. Who’s taller?
I'm 5'3, he's 6'1. Your call.
28. Who has more friends?
Don't know, honestly. Dave has a lot more people he talks to what with all his readers (I'm not sure how many he considers friends, though), and I'm kind of reclusive (privacy settings on AIM ftw!) ...though I've amassed my own list of folks I talk to on a daily basis from WoW/Gaia/Rangercrew
29. Who has more siblings?
He has four, I have two.
30. Who wears the pants in the relationship?
He'll tell you I do, but I think he's full of it :P
1. Who eats more?
I'm sure I do. I need to remind him to eat and bring him food half the time or he'd be happy to subsist on a cup of noodles once a day :P
2. Who said “I love you” first?
I honestly can't remember. I think we were in an awkward limbo for awhile where both of us wanted to be with each other but neither wanted to be the one to say it. It may have been me, though XD
3. Who is the morning person?
Dave is. He is much more graceful about getting out of bed early than I am.
4. Who sings better?
Me, but he's getting better :D
5. Who’s older?
He's older than me by about three years
6. Who’s smarter?
I think that depends entirely on the subject. When it comes to world events/politics/storytelling/intellectual debate, he will usually smoke me. When it comes to behavioral discussion or common sense, I usually have an edge.
7. Whose temper is worse?
I think we're about evenly-matched there. We never really blow up and argue with one another, save for rare occasions, but we both get pissy about little annoyances (noisy neighbors, cats destroying things, etc.) and snap and stew about them for hours sometimes.
8. Who does the laundry?
Usually Dave when he's on his way out to run errands
9. Who does the dishes?
Whoever gets tired of looking at them first.
10. Who sleeps on what side of the bed?
He sleeps on the left, I sleep on the right. At the time this was established, it was because it was the side against the wall, and for some reason I had a hard time not falling out of his bed on the other side when we'd first moved in together. Now its just comfortable and familiar.
11. Whose feet are bigger?
His are definitely. I'm an 8.5 womens, he's about a 12.5 men's
12. Whose hair is longer?
Mine definitely.
13. Who’s better with the computer?
Again, depends on what aspect of it. He knows a lot more about them technically, but usually I can get the internet working if he can't.
14. Do you have pets?
two cats and two pygmy frogs.
15. Who pays the bills?
He does
16. Who cooks dinner?
Generally when there's cooking to be done, I do. Though usually since our tastes are different, we each make our own.
17. Who drives when you are together?
He does.
18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?
On the rare occasion we go, either he does, or paypal picks it up.
19. Who’s the most stubborn?
I think we're about evenly matched there. Sometimes we're both equally willing to say "screw it", and then sometimes neither of us will stop beating a dead horse.
20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Usually me. I hate conflicts, and I'll apologize for my fault in things, even if its not my fault just to make the tension break.
21. Whose family do you see more?
His. Mine are a few states away.
22. Who named your pets?
I did.
23. Who kissed who first?
I...think it was me. Because I remember him being very nervous when we first met face to face.
24. Who asked who out?
We went straight into the online relationship thingie, I believe. No room for asking out.
25. What did you do on your first date?
He picked me up at the airport, we spent an hour driving back to his place, and then we went to sleep because it was really friggin late at night and we were both exhausted. ....I guess it wasn't much of a date.
26. Who’s more sensitive?
I am...and over stupid things sometimes. He's constantly got to remind me not to let the turkeys get me down. I'm trying, honest :P
27. Who’s taller?
I'm 5'3, he's 6'1. Your call.
28. Who has more friends?
Don't know, honestly. Dave has a lot more people he talks to what with all his readers (I'm not sure how many he considers friends, though), and I'm kind of reclusive (privacy settings on AIM ftw!) ...though I've amassed my own list of folks I talk to on a daily basis from WoW/Gaia/Rangercrew
29. Who has more siblings?
He has four, I have two.
30. Who wears the pants in the relationship?
He'll tell you I do, but I think he's full of it :P
Ah loves me a bandwagon...
General | Posted 16 years agoWhat do you, as the audience, think that my art style says about me personally?
What type of feeling do you get from it, and what kind of feeling does that give you about me?
(These next two questions assume you actually know me. Only a few people on these boards do. So you may skip these last two.)
Do you think it describes my personality well?
If not, what do you think would reflect it better?
What type of feeling do you get from it, and what kind of feeling does that give you about me?
(These next two questions assume you actually know me. Only a few people on these boards do. So you may skip these last two.)
Do you think it describes my personality well?
If not, what do you think would reflect it better?
Robot Unicorn Attack
General | Posted 16 years agohttp://games.adultswim.com/robot-un.....line-game.html
I am never going to get anything done. Ever again.
Damn you, Kami XD *fistshake*
I am never going to get anything done. Ever again.
Damn you, Kami XD *fistshake*
About Me Meme
General | Posted 16 years agoStolen from Rembrant because I am bored tonight :B
Basics:
Name: Katie
Nickname: Katie, Karma, Kana, and Finster to people who went to high school with me
Fursona: Karma Leafbarer
Date of Birth: October 26th, 1981
Birthplace: Dearborn, MI
Current Location: Lakewood, WA
Eye Color: Dark brown
Hair Color: Dark brown with red highlights
Height: 5'3
Heritage: Italian/German/Polish
Piercings: One in each ear when I was younger, have let them close
Tattoos: None, though I am open to consideration
Favourite:
Animal: Indian Peacock
Band/Singer: At the moment I am letting Lady Gaga and Billy Joel hump my eardrums
Song: It changes like...every other day =/
Movie: Murder By Death
Disney Movie: The Emperor's New Groove (And then I'll put that box inside of another box and then I'll MAIL IT TO MY HOUSE and when it arrives....hahahaha.....I'll SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!!)
Disney Show: I guess MMPR falls into that category now? But not the remastered crap =(
Disney Character: Finster
TV show: MMPR (hurrhurrhurr)
Pizza topping: black olives
Ice-Cream Flavor: Chunky Monkey
Pocky Flavor: not too fond of pocky
Drink (alcoholic): Don't drink alcohol
Cookie: Peanut Butter Blossoms
Store: ..don't think I really have one
Clothing Brand: Whatever fits
Shoe Brand: Whatever fits and doesn't wear out easily
Season: Early autumn
Month: October
Convention/Holiday/Festival: Halloween
Flower: Lily of the Valley
Board game: Shrieks & Creaks
This or That:
Sunny or rainy: Rainy
Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
Fruit or veggie: Fruit
Night or day: Night
Sour or sweet: Sweet
Love or money: What situation are we applying this to?
Phone or in person: I'd say phone since I'm painfully shy, but in-person gives me less opportunity to chicken out
Looks or personality: Personality
Coffee or tea: green tea
Hot or cold: Cold. Its easier to warm yourself than it is to cool off.
Your:
Goal for this year: My immediate goal is to finish the promised art for Power Morphicon. Otherwise, not sure.
Most missed memory: visits to the Wildwood, New Jersey boardwalk and beach with my family when i was very small
Best physical feature: my eyes
First thought waking up: What time is it?
Hypothetical personality: eh?
Preferred type of surgery: the type I'm asleep for
Sesame street alter ego: The Count, apparently...
Fairytale alter ego: If Dave is to be believed, The Princess And the Pea. I toss and turn a lot before I fall asleep...its hard for me to get comfortable if I'm not drop-dead tired.
Most stupid remark: "Weather says its about 24% humidity out there today." "THAT'S ALMOST 25% :V" "....." "What?" "God dammit, Katie."
Worst crime: Leaving my window open when I was younger and letting my pet rat at the time catch pneumonia from the draft and have to be put to sleep. I'm sorry, Wayne :<
Greatest ambition: To leave my mark on the world after I'm gone
Greatest fear: Deep murky water
Darkest secret: >_>
Favorite subject: Creative Writing
Strangest received gift: Someone who shall remain nameless mailed me a lovingly-rendered colored pencil drawing of a My Little Pony with a wang for an upper body...
Worst habit: Nail biting
Do You:
Smoke: No
Drink: No
Curse: FFFFFFFFFF--yes
Shower daily: Yes
Like thunderstorms: Yes
Dance in the rain: When I'm sure I'm alone
Sing: Yes
Play an instrument: Used to play violin, but I don't anymore
Get along with your parents: ....working on it.
Wish on stars: No
Believe in fate: Occasionally
Believe in love at first sight: No
Basics:
Name: Katie
Nickname: Katie, Karma, Kana, and Finster to people who went to high school with me
Fursona: Karma Leafbarer
Date of Birth: October 26th, 1981
Birthplace: Dearborn, MI
Current Location: Lakewood, WA
Eye Color: Dark brown
Hair Color: Dark brown with red highlights
Height: 5'3
Heritage: Italian/German/Polish
Piercings: One in each ear when I was younger, have let them close
Tattoos: None, though I am open to consideration
Favourite:
Animal: Indian Peacock
Band/Singer: At the moment I am letting Lady Gaga and Billy Joel hump my eardrums
Song: It changes like...every other day =/
Movie: Murder By Death
Disney Movie: The Emperor's New Groove (And then I'll put that box inside of another box and then I'll MAIL IT TO MY HOUSE and when it arrives....hahahaha.....I'll SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!!)
Disney Show: I guess MMPR falls into that category now? But not the remastered crap =(
Disney Character: Finster
TV show: MMPR (hurrhurrhurr)
Pizza topping: black olives
Ice-Cream Flavor: Chunky Monkey
Pocky Flavor: not too fond of pocky
Drink (alcoholic): Don't drink alcohol
Cookie: Peanut Butter Blossoms
Store: ..don't think I really have one
Clothing Brand: Whatever fits
Shoe Brand: Whatever fits and doesn't wear out easily
Season: Early autumn
Month: October
Convention/Holiday/Festival: Halloween
Flower: Lily of the Valley
Board game: Shrieks & Creaks
This or That:
Sunny or rainy: Rainy
Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
Fruit or veggie: Fruit
Night or day: Night
Sour or sweet: Sweet
Love or money: What situation are we applying this to?
Phone or in person: I'd say phone since I'm painfully shy, but in-person gives me less opportunity to chicken out
Looks or personality: Personality
Coffee or tea: green tea
Hot or cold: Cold. Its easier to warm yourself than it is to cool off.
Your:
Goal for this year: My immediate goal is to finish the promised art for Power Morphicon. Otherwise, not sure.
Most missed memory: visits to the Wildwood, New Jersey boardwalk and beach with my family when i was very small
Best physical feature: my eyes
First thought waking up: What time is it?
Hypothetical personality: eh?
Preferred type of surgery: the type I'm asleep for
Sesame street alter ego: The Count, apparently...
Fairytale alter ego: If Dave is to be believed, The Princess And the Pea. I toss and turn a lot before I fall asleep...its hard for me to get comfortable if I'm not drop-dead tired.
Most stupid remark: "Weather says its about 24% humidity out there today." "THAT'S ALMOST 25% :V" "....." "What?" "God dammit, Katie."
Worst crime: Leaving my window open when I was younger and letting my pet rat at the time catch pneumonia from the draft and have to be put to sleep. I'm sorry, Wayne :<
Greatest ambition: To leave my mark on the world after I'm gone
Greatest fear: Deep murky water
Darkest secret: >_>
Favorite subject: Creative Writing
Strangest received gift: Someone who shall remain nameless mailed me a lovingly-rendered colored pencil drawing of a My Little Pony with a wang for an upper body...
Worst habit: Nail biting
Do You:
Smoke: No
Drink: No
Curse: FFFFFFFFFF--yes
Shower daily: Yes
Like thunderstorms: Yes
Dance in the rain: When I'm sure I'm alone
Sing: Yes
Play an instrument: Used to play violin, but I don't anymore
Get along with your parents: ....working on it.
Wish on stars: No
Believe in fate: Occasionally
Believe in love at first sight: No
MMPR vs. Zyuranger
General | Posted 16 years ago(JUST FOR FUN - you can read this aloud in the Simpson's Comic Guy's voice for added effect on just how ridiculously nerdy this entire thing is. Go ahead. :B )
I was told recently that in order to truly appreciate Power Rangers, you need to trace it back to its Super Sentai source. I've heard this countless times before about various things. Like that The Ring was terrible in comparison to Ringu, for instance. So i was prepared to put this in the same vein as I put dubbed anime versus subbed anime -- basically watching the same thing with different voices and a few line changes here and there.
However in this particular case, I was wrong. Zyuranger is vastly different from its American counterpart, and in a good way. Let me firstly say that I love the Power Ranger series....I honestly do, and have for years. Yes, I should grow up etc. etc. (It isn't my lifestyle, ffs. I don't secretly believe in the morphing grid, its just a guilty pleasure I'm not all that ashamed of anymore). Anyway, I love it for its campiness and its diverse cast of characters....but its always lacked one thing I really desired to see - some strong character evolution.
There WAS character evolution, don't get me wrong....but it was usually pretty sporadic and poorly-done. Or sprung on you out of nowhere. That and it seemed, in some cases, it was less evolution and more devolution (my fellow fans would be quick to point out Goldar's steady journey from Badass Warrior to Bumbling Dumbbell....or maybe Zedd's backslide from Scariest Kids' Villain Of The 90's into Skinless Comedic Relief Man Who Yells A Lot.). Anyway....the characters (the villains especially) had little drive for what they did. They were evil for the sake of being evil and dammit they loved their job no matter how badly they failed at it.
Right away, Zyuranger differs in this aspect. The main villainess, Bandora (who was dubbed into Rita Repulsa), has big reasons for why she does the things she does. Driven insane by the death of her son, she made a pact with Dai Satan (best name ever) to turn her into a witch so she could properly avenge her boy's demise. The price for this pact was he wanted her to destroy Earth's children, which suited Bandora fine because the loss of her son had made her bitter toward seeing happy families. Many of Bandora's plans, therefore, are focused on meddling in the lives of kids....and most of them were utterly ridiculous. In this aspect, they were not shy about pointing out that she was, in fact, INSANE. Her henchmen, many times, seem to be well-aware of the fact they're setting sail for fail, but none of them really have the guts to try and get HER to see that.
Even the henchmen have more dimension to them. Puripurikan (Finster) is an eccentric artist who is....actually a pretty moody little fella. He's the one person in Bandora's court who's not afraid of telling her to STFU when she tries to rush him on his projects, to the point of actually YELLING at her sometimes. He gets upset when his monsters are destroyed, because he honestly does see them as his "art" and not just as throwaway creations made solely for pleasing his queen. If you ever wondered why it seems like Finster is making a lot of violent head/hand gestures in earlier footage when he's saying something appropriately meek and submissive, its likely because Puripuri was cussing Bandora out in the original footage :B
Totpat (Baboo) is a vampire who's never tasted blood. It is speculated that this is why his wings are crippled and undeveloped, and he's a bit on the stupid side. He's tried on a couple of occasions to taste the blood of a youth and been stopped.
Griffazor...or is it Griffazer? (Goldar) is a griffin warrior (which makes a lot more sense than him being a monkey, given his design). For several episodes, he was mute, refusing to speak in anything but grunts and growls. It was not until his wife, Lami (Scorpina), was returned to him that he finally spoke because he was saving his voice for her to hear. Griffazor is less of a growling badass and more of a "let's get this crap done" sort of character. He is not shy about the fact he dearly loves his wife, but he does not let it blind him in battle or distract him from his duties. But apparently when up on the moon and not fighting teenagers in spandex, openly cuddling with Lami is not out of the question.
As far as the Rangers themselves go, they were not randomly appointed by a floating mage's head in a tube. They were the five strongest warriors from the five original tribes of humans that existed since the time of the dinosaurs. With their combined forces, they were able to defeat and imprison Bandora for millions of years, after which they were placed into magical stasis to be awakened should she ever escape so that they could defeat her once again.
Geki, Mei, Boi, Dan, and Goushi stick out like sore thumbs in present day. They dress in their old tribal clothing, they are unfamiliar with the ways of the world, and really aren't shy about butting into other people's personal business because they come from a time when people weren't quite so private about their lives as the tribes took care of one another. The fact they're the Zyurangers is not really a secret, its just that people don't really seem to stop in awe of them as they're too busy PANICKING ABOUT THE FUCKING MONSTERS ATTACKING THE CITY.
....that's another thing. The monsters. They're still campy foamrubber suits, yes, but they are campy foamrubber suits that are actually made to be formidable and probably would have scared the crap out of me if I was a small child when I was introduced to them. King Sphinx...hardly worth a mention on the American show. He growled a lot and blew a few people into another dimension when he flapped his wings. On Zyuranger, his reign of terror spanned two episodes in which he artfully divided his time between being an effeminate man who cornered children to ask them riddles, and if they got the answer incorrectly, would assume his monster form to blow them away and entrap them in trees that were slated to be cut down. And he filled an entire forest with crying, mewling trees....this damned sphinx was set to commit mass murder here. The Zyurangers finally tricked him by turning his riddles around on him and getting him to reveal where his weak spot was so that they could destroy him.
Pudgy Pig? MMPR's episode featuring him has become iconic with how ridiculously hilarious it was. He ate a food festival and made a few people's day crappy. The rangers made him barf by feeding him spicy food and saved the day. In Zyuranger, this pig caused a bit more trouble....it moved too quickly to be seen by the human eye, so as far as people were concerned, their food supply was just rapidly diminishing for no reason. It bred distrust and anger toward one another and caused people to start fighting one another while STARVING IN THE STREETS. The rangers placed its source as a beast called a Circe that originally appeared in Greek mythology and found that it had been destroyed by feeding it a Mola root, which was poisonous to it. The only mola root was owned by a gnome in the woods who refused to give it to them unless they beat him in an eating contest. The reason Bandora neglected to MAKE MY MONSTER GROOOOW this time? She was too weak and dizzy to throw her wand to earth because she'd been on a crash diet starving herself.
....
NOW...aside from all of the darker aspects of Zyuranger, it also manages to recognize that its purpose is to entertain children. It makes little attempt to take itself seriously and is, by and large, a very silly show unless its trying to pound in the gravity of the world being in peril. No "what have we learned today?", none of that. If you want further proof, go watch Episode 23 for some hot Man-on-Motorcycle Sidecar action. The combination of character quirks and ridiculousness make it, honestly, a delight to watch. I would happily watch this with my kids if it were a show on TV today.
Its worth a look, and about 20 of the episodes have been subbed by the fan community and put on Youtube. I'm still making my way through the series, but liking it quite a bit. XD
...and....well....I don't really know where I was going with this I just felt like yammering about it. *slithers back into her hole*
I was told recently that in order to truly appreciate Power Rangers, you need to trace it back to its Super Sentai source. I've heard this countless times before about various things. Like that The Ring was terrible in comparison to Ringu, for instance. So i was prepared to put this in the same vein as I put dubbed anime versus subbed anime -- basically watching the same thing with different voices and a few line changes here and there.
However in this particular case, I was wrong. Zyuranger is vastly different from its American counterpart, and in a good way. Let me firstly say that I love the Power Ranger series....I honestly do, and have for years. Yes, I should grow up etc. etc. (It isn't my lifestyle, ffs. I don't secretly believe in the morphing grid, its just a guilty pleasure I'm not all that ashamed of anymore). Anyway, I love it for its campiness and its diverse cast of characters....but its always lacked one thing I really desired to see - some strong character evolution.
There WAS character evolution, don't get me wrong....but it was usually pretty sporadic and poorly-done. Or sprung on you out of nowhere. That and it seemed, in some cases, it was less evolution and more devolution (my fellow fans would be quick to point out Goldar's steady journey from Badass Warrior to Bumbling Dumbbell....or maybe Zedd's backslide from Scariest Kids' Villain Of The 90's into Skinless Comedic Relief Man Who Yells A Lot.). Anyway....the characters (the villains especially) had little drive for what they did. They were evil for the sake of being evil and dammit they loved their job no matter how badly they failed at it.
Right away, Zyuranger differs in this aspect. The main villainess, Bandora (who was dubbed into Rita Repulsa), has big reasons for why she does the things she does. Driven insane by the death of her son, she made a pact with Dai Satan (best name ever) to turn her into a witch so she could properly avenge her boy's demise. The price for this pact was he wanted her to destroy Earth's children, which suited Bandora fine because the loss of her son had made her bitter toward seeing happy families. Many of Bandora's plans, therefore, are focused on meddling in the lives of kids....and most of them were utterly ridiculous. In this aspect, they were not shy about pointing out that she was, in fact, INSANE. Her henchmen, many times, seem to be well-aware of the fact they're setting sail for fail, but none of them really have the guts to try and get HER to see that.
Even the henchmen have more dimension to them. Puripurikan (Finster) is an eccentric artist who is....actually a pretty moody little fella. He's the one person in Bandora's court who's not afraid of telling her to STFU when she tries to rush him on his projects, to the point of actually YELLING at her sometimes. He gets upset when his monsters are destroyed, because he honestly does see them as his "art" and not just as throwaway creations made solely for pleasing his queen. If you ever wondered why it seems like Finster is making a lot of violent head/hand gestures in earlier footage when he's saying something appropriately meek and submissive, its likely because Puripuri was cussing Bandora out in the original footage :B
Totpat (Baboo) is a vampire who's never tasted blood. It is speculated that this is why his wings are crippled and undeveloped, and he's a bit on the stupid side. He's tried on a couple of occasions to taste the blood of a youth and been stopped.
Griffazor...or is it Griffazer? (Goldar) is a griffin warrior (which makes a lot more sense than him being a monkey, given his design). For several episodes, he was mute, refusing to speak in anything but grunts and growls. It was not until his wife, Lami (Scorpina), was returned to him that he finally spoke because he was saving his voice for her to hear. Griffazor is less of a growling badass and more of a "let's get this crap done" sort of character. He is not shy about the fact he dearly loves his wife, but he does not let it blind him in battle or distract him from his duties. But apparently when up on the moon and not fighting teenagers in spandex, openly cuddling with Lami is not out of the question.
As far as the Rangers themselves go, they were not randomly appointed by a floating mage's head in a tube. They were the five strongest warriors from the five original tribes of humans that existed since the time of the dinosaurs. With their combined forces, they were able to defeat and imprison Bandora for millions of years, after which they were placed into magical stasis to be awakened should she ever escape so that they could defeat her once again.
Geki, Mei, Boi, Dan, and Goushi stick out like sore thumbs in present day. They dress in their old tribal clothing, they are unfamiliar with the ways of the world, and really aren't shy about butting into other people's personal business because they come from a time when people weren't quite so private about their lives as the tribes took care of one another. The fact they're the Zyurangers is not really a secret, its just that people don't really seem to stop in awe of them as they're too busy PANICKING ABOUT THE FUCKING MONSTERS ATTACKING THE CITY.
....that's another thing. The monsters. They're still campy foamrubber suits, yes, but they are campy foamrubber suits that are actually made to be formidable and probably would have scared the crap out of me if I was a small child when I was introduced to them. King Sphinx...hardly worth a mention on the American show. He growled a lot and blew a few people into another dimension when he flapped his wings. On Zyuranger, his reign of terror spanned two episodes in which he artfully divided his time between being an effeminate man who cornered children to ask them riddles, and if they got the answer incorrectly, would assume his monster form to blow them away and entrap them in trees that were slated to be cut down. And he filled an entire forest with crying, mewling trees....this damned sphinx was set to commit mass murder here. The Zyurangers finally tricked him by turning his riddles around on him and getting him to reveal where his weak spot was so that they could destroy him.
Pudgy Pig? MMPR's episode featuring him has become iconic with how ridiculously hilarious it was. He ate a food festival and made a few people's day crappy. The rangers made him barf by feeding him spicy food and saved the day. In Zyuranger, this pig caused a bit more trouble....it moved too quickly to be seen by the human eye, so as far as people were concerned, their food supply was just rapidly diminishing for no reason. It bred distrust and anger toward one another and caused people to start fighting one another while STARVING IN THE STREETS. The rangers placed its source as a beast called a Circe that originally appeared in Greek mythology and found that it had been destroyed by feeding it a Mola root, which was poisonous to it. The only mola root was owned by a gnome in the woods who refused to give it to them unless they beat him in an eating contest. The reason Bandora neglected to MAKE MY MONSTER GROOOOW this time? She was too weak and dizzy to throw her wand to earth because she'd been on a crash diet starving herself.
....
NOW...aside from all of the darker aspects of Zyuranger, it also manages to recognize that its purpose is to entertain children. It makes little attempt to take itself seriously and is, by and large, a very silly show unless its trying to pound in the gravity of the world being in peril. No "what have we learned today?", none of that. If you want further proof, go watch Episode 23 for some hot Man-on-Motorcycle Sidecar action. The combination of character quirks and ridiculousness make it, honestly, a delight to watch. I would happily watch this with my kids if it were a show on TV today.
Its worth a look, and about 20 of the episodes have been subbed by the fan community and put on Youtube. I'm still making my way through the series, but liking it quite a bit. XD
...and....well....I don't really know where I was going with this I just felt like yammering about it. *slithers back into her hole*
The 65 questions meme
General | Posted 16 years ago((Stolen shamelessly from rabbitom))
1. First thing you wash in the shower?
My hair
2. What color is your favorite hoodie?
I don't own a hoodie
3. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?
Yes
4. Do you plan outfits?
Only if I have somewhere important to go. Otherwise fashion's not a big concern in this house :P
5. How are you feeling RIGHT now?
Kinda sick for some reason
6. What's the closest thing to you that is red?
Lord Zedd on the shirt I am wearing
7. Tell me about the last dream you remember having?
It was about running away from something in the darkened and empty halls of my high school in the middle of the night. Can't remember what it was but I woke up terrified.
8. Did you meet anybody new today?
No.
9. What are you craving right now?
A turkey sandwich
10. Do you floss?
Yes
11. What comes to mind when I say cabbage?
Corned beef
12. Are you emotional?
Depends on what's evoking said emotions, and what time of the month it is.
13. Have you ever counted to 1,000?
Yes. I've done this several times when I don't feel good. Lying awake in bed slowly counting backwards from 1,000 is an oddly good way to distract yourself from nausea.
14. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it?
Lick it. Biting it pisses off my fillings
15. Do you like your hair?
Its too coarse for my liking. I wish it was straight and silky.
16. Do you like yourself?
I'm really trying to learn...
17. Would you go out to eat with George W. Bush?
Hell yes. Dude may not have been a stellar president, but I bet he's awesome to go to BBQ's with
18. What are you listening to right now?
"Don't Stop Believing" - cover by Sam Tsui
19. Are your parents strict?
They were a mix of the two. They were lenient until it started to backfire on them, and then they'd crack down out of nowhere on things that had been okay previously. Childhood was confusing.
20. Would you go sky diving?
Not a chance in hell.
21. Do you like cottage cheese?
omgyes
22. Have you ever met a celebrity?
I've met Dan Quayle, Weird Al Yankovic, a few local celebrities in the Colorado Springs area, and this summer hopefully going to go meet Robert Axelrod
23. Do you rent movies often?
Not since Netflix.
24. Is there anything sparkly in the room you're in?
The water in the bottle next to me is kind of sparkly...
25. How many countries have you visited?
Canada, Italy, Switzerland, England, France, Germany, Austria....I guess seven
26. Have you made a prank phone call?
My brother and I counter-pranked someone who pranked us when we were little...until their parents called to bitch.
27. Ever been on a train?
Yes
28. Brown or white eggs?
White eggs seem to crack open easier for some reason. But I don't see a difference otherwise.
29.Do you have a cell-phone?
Not anymore
30. Do you use chap stick?
Yes.
31. Do you own a gun?
Not at this time
32. Can you use chop sticks?
Passably well :3
33. Who are you going to be with tonight?
Probably whoever Warcraft tells me I'm going to be with via the random group finder.
34. Are you too forgiving?
I used to be. I've since grown a spine and decided to nix the people from my life who were making it unbearable for me. I'm tired of apologizing to people for things that were their fault in the first place.
35. Ever been in love?
Yes.
36. What is your best friend(s) doing tomorrow?
Beats me.
37. Ever have cream puffs?
I have! But not for a long time
38. Last time you cried?
Watching Say, Marimo on youtube a few days ago
39. What was the last question you asked?
"Is this the sort of thing you had in mind for headshots on your website? *showing Crayfish a Finster bust she just drew*"
40. Favorite time of the year?
Early Autumn when its first starting to get brisk out, but everything isn't dead
41. Do you have any tattoos?
No. Have considered one.
42. Are you sarcastic?
Sometimes, most definitely >:3
43. Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect?
No
44. Ever walked into a wall?
Haha...yes. *shamed*
45. Favorite color?
pastel purple
46. Have you ever slapped someone?
Yes, and they'd had ample warning, and deserved it.
47. Is your hair curly?
Mostly straight, but has some waves in it
48. What was the last CD you bought?
Hell I don't even remember. I think Weird Al's last album.
49. Do looks matter?
Whether you like it or not, looks are the first thing you notice about a person and in that aspect, they matter. However, once you get to know them and get beyond the first impression to know who they really are, not so much anymore.
50. Could you ever forgive a cheater?
Depends on the circumstances. And what they were cheating on.
51. Is your phone bill sky high?
No.
52. Do you like your life right now?
I'm content, but things could be better.
53. Do you sleep with the TV on?
I don't watch TV
54. Can you handle the truth?
Yes.
55. Do you have good vision?
I have glasses to bring things into snappy focus at a distance, but I don't wear them very much.
56. Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people?
Its hard for me to truly HATE someone, but yes. I think there's at least three on that list, and a hefty handful I dislike.
57. How often do you talk on the phone?
Not much anymore. A couple times a week. Most people harass me on AIM.
58. The last person you held hands with?
Dave
59. What are you wearing?
Black jeans, a Lord Zedd T-shirt, and white socks
60.What is your favorite animal?
I've always thought peacocks were beautiful animals, but I'd have to say overall, big goofy huggable dogs are my favorite animals. There's no better reassurance after a crappy day than giving your Labrador a bear hug.
61. Where was your default picture taken at?
huh?
62. Can you hula hoop?
Yes. And then watch me do it on the Wii and make you wonder why I ever claimed I could.
63. Do you have a job?
Finding work where I can at the moment.
64. What was the most recent thing you bought?
mild tofu pad-thai and some beef teriyaki for Dave
65. Have you ever crawled through a window?
Yep.
1. First thing you wash in the shower?
My hair
2. What color is your favorite hoodie?
I don't own a hoodie
3. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?
Yes
4. Do you plan outfits?
Only if I have somewhere important to go. Otherwise fashion's not a big concern in this house :P
5. How are you feeling RIGHT now?
Kinda sick for some reason
6. What's the closest thing to you that is red?
Lord Zedd on the shirt I am wearing
7. Tell me about the last dream you remember having?
It was about running away from something in the darkened and empty halls of my high school in the middle of the night. Can't remember what it was but I woke up terrified.
8. Did you meet anybody new today?
No.
9. What are you craving right now?
A turkey sandwich
10. Do you floss?
Yes
11. What comes to mind when I say cabbage?
Corned beef
12. Are you emotional?
Depends on what's evoking said emotions, and what time of the month it is.
13. Have you ever counted to 1,000?
Yes. I've done this several times when I don't feel good. Lying awake in bed slowly counting backwards from 1,000 is an oddly good way to distract yourself from nausea.
14. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it?
Lick it. Biting it pisses off my fillings
15. Do you like your hair?
Its too coarse for my liking. I wish it was straight and silky.
16. Do you like yourself?
I'm really trying to learn...
17. Would you go out to eat with George W. Bush?
Hell yes. Dude may not have been a stellar president, but I bet he's awesome to go to BBQ's with
18. What are you listening to right now?
"Don't Stop Believing" - cover by Sam Tsui
19. Are your parents strict?
They were a mix of the two. They were lenient until it started to backfire on them, and then they'd crack down out of nowhere on things that had been okay previously. Childhood was confusing.
20. Would you go sky diving?
Not a chance in hell.
21. Do you like cottage cheese?
omgyes
22. Have you ever met a celebrity?
I've met Dan Quayle, Weird Al Yankovic, a few local celebrities in the Colorado Springs area, and this summer hopefully going to go meet Robert Axelrod
23. Do you rent movies often?
Not since Netflix.
24. Is there anything sparkly in the room you're in?
The water in the bottle next to me is kind of sparkly...
25. How many countries have you visited?
Canada, Italy, Switzerland, England, France, Germany, Austria....I guess seven
26. Have you made a prank phone call?
My brother and I counter-pranked someone who pranked us when we were little...until their parents called to bitch.
27. Ever been on a train?
Yes
28. Brown or white eggs?
White eggs seem to crack open easier for some reason. But I don't see a difference otherwise.
29.Do you have a cell-phone?
Not anymore
30. Do you use chap stick?
Yes.
31. Do you own a gun?
Not at this time
32. Can you use chop sticks?
Passably well :3
33. Who are you going to be with tonight?
Probably whoever Warcraft tells me I'm going to be with via the random group finder.
34. Are you too forgiving?
I used to be. I've since grown a spine and decided to nix the people from my life who were making it unbearable for me. I'm tired of apologizing to people for things that were their fault in the first place.
35. Ever been in love?
Yes.
36. What is your best friend(s) doing tomorrow?
Beats me.
37. Ever have cream puffs?
I have! But not for a long time
38. Last time you cried?
Watching Say, Marimo on youtube a few days ago
39. What was the last question you asked?
"Is this the sort of thing you had in mind for headshots on your website? *showing Crayfish a Finster bust she just drew*"
40. Favorite time of the year?
Early Autumn when its first starting to get brisk out, but everything isn't dead
41. Do you have any tattoos?
No. Have considered one.
42. Are you sarcastic?
Sometimes, most definitely >:3
43. Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect?
No
44. Ever walked into a wall?
Haha...yes. *shamed*
45. Favorite color?
pastel purple
46. Have you ever slapped someone?
Yes, and they'd had ample warning, and deserved it.
47. Is your hair curly?
Mostly straight, but has some waves in it
48. What was the last CD you bought?
Hell I don't even remember. I think Weird Al's last album.
49. Do looks matter?
Whether you like it or not, looks are the first thing you notice about a person and in that aspect, they matter. However, once you get to know them and get beyond the first impression to know who they really are, not so much anymore.
50. Could you ever forgive a cheater?
Depends on the circumstances. And what they were cheating on.
51. Is your phone bill sky high?
No.
52. Do you like your life right now?
I'm content, but things could be better.
53. Do you sleep with the TV on?
I don't watch TV
54. Can you handle the truth?
Yes.
55. Do you have good vision?
I have glasses to bring things into snappy focus at a distance, but I don't wear them very much.
56. Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people?
Its hard for me to truly HATE someone, but yes. I think there's at least three on that list, and a hefty handful I dislike.
57. How often do you talk on the phone?
Not much anymore. A couple times a week. Most people harass me on AIM.
58. The last person you held hands with?
Dave
59. What are you wearing?
Black jeans, a Lord Zedd T-shirt, and white socks
60.What is your favorite animal?
I've always thought peacocks were beautiful animals, but I'd have to say overall, big goofy huggable dogs are my favorite animals. There's no better reassurance after a crappy day than giving your Labrador a bear hug.
61. Where was your default picture taken at?
huh?
62. Can you hula hoop?
Yes. And then watch me do it on the Wii and make you wonder why I ever claimed I could.
63. Do you have a job?
Finding work where I can at the moment.
64. What was the most recent thing you bought?
mild tofu pad-thai and some beef teriyaki for Dave
65. Have you ever crawled through a window?
Yep.
What a way to break my quiet...
General | Posted 16 years agoWritten yesterday, but didn't get around to posting til today because I was out cold for a good portion of time.
Dave tells me I'm to recount my dental visit for you folks...and as we all know, there is no better time for one of these than when the drugs have not worn off yet.
I would like to start by thanking the people who supported this venture, and also to apologize for it. I don't want you folks to get the wrong impression -- I do not neglect my oral health. I brush twice a day and floss/rinse with mouthwash before bed. However, its been forever and a day since I've seen a dentist, and I was a hardcore soda junkie during that time, wherein laid the problem. I have since switched my binging to green tea...at least that's supposed to be good for me.
Our journey begins at 6:50 in the AM when we pull up to Lakewood Community Health Clinic. You can tell immediately after going inside that you have arrived at the right place by the friendly Hungarian woman at the door with the cattle prod separating the walk-ins from the appointments.
After assuring them that, yes, I had been here for an evaluation, no I was not a figment of their imagination, and yes I was aware I'd be paying for the services immediately after they had been rendered, I was ushered into the back, administered enough Novocaine to numb me clear up to my sinuses, and told to await my doctor.
Dr. Thorn believes in quiet practice...and by that I mean he and his assistant did not say a word to me, or to one another the entire time. Not that you're especially in a position to hold a conversation with a suction hose in your mouth and an old man up to his knuckles in your face (its like youth symphony all over again!) ...but still, a little reassurance would have been nice. I'd have even been happy with a 'hello', for as nervous as i was.
I mean, wouldn't you like to be assured that the dude running a file between your front teeth was doing it for a reason?
But I digress.
What followed was about an hour of drilling, crunching noises, and tasting a lot of interesting things on the back of my tongue briefly before the friendly hose darted back to retrieve them. All in dead silence.
The minute he finished with me, the assistant was left alone to clean up the mess and he had lit off to the dental cubicle next door to check out a guy who had come in with an abscess (how do I know he had an abscess? Because he'd been wailing from the minute he came in that he needed treatment before anyone else). Oddly I did not get the usual lecture about "Make sure you floss better, and your toothpaste you're using is crap". I can only guess if you've resorted to coming to them, they assume you already know your mouth is fucked.
The assistant, breaking her vow of silence, told me that they had taken care of three of the four teeth that needed treatment and that I will need to make a follow-up for the last since they just did not have time today.
She seemed nervous when she told me to head to the billing office, wherein I waited for ten minutes while she and one of the receptionists talked outside. I couldn't make out what they were saying save one stray "Well we're not even sure she brought that much, do we want to talk a payment plan?" After you've just had your face drilled by The Stoic Ninja and his lovely assistant The Stealth Hose, this is not especially what you want to hear...
They send not one, but TWO billing consultants into the room to speak to me, who bicker with one another over who broke the calculator for a few minutes before finally getting around to telling me I owe them $650 for the work rendered that day. To which I say "All right." and go for my wallet as they watch me with the intensity of people who are expecting a gun. I pay them their money, which results in entirely new bickering between them, and several trips to the front desk to make sure I really DID owe that much.
"Did you know he did composite fillings? Those are more expensive than regulars."
"Well, those are the white ones, right?"
"Yes. On your front teeth."
"Well okay then that's fine."
"That's why they were more expensive."
"That's all right."
"Let me run the numbers again."
I was a little baffled at this point, and assumed that they'd gotten so used to being yelled at and argued with by their patrons that they were somehow mishearing "that's all right" and "okay" as "GO TO HELL, LADY, I'LL LAWYER THE FUCK OUT OF YOU!!".
My suspicions on this were confirmed after paying when I went back into the waiting room to find Dave, who informed me I'd missed two very pleasant people who'd been under the assumption it was a free clinic and stormed out after calling the receptionist a canid of the female persuasion and suggesting she perform anatomically impossible acts on herself.
I think they put something in Novocaine that fills you with the urge to talk to people when your face is frozen up and you make no sense because I yammered at Dave all the way back to the apartment about my encounter (he may have understood a few words...).
We get back home and I realize....I'm kind of terrified to look at my teeth. After all that drilling and suctioning and filing and crunching, i can only imagine it looks terrible in there. Plus the inside of my mouth tastes like blood and how I imagine licking an Office Max would taste, so this results in me sitting at the computer desk in a paranoid huddle, attempting to navigate tea past my still-useless lips and succeeding more in taking a bath in it.
Dave takes his leave of the insane, drugged woman to go spend the afternoon with his brother and once he's gone, I finally muster up the nerve to go have a look in the mirror. I mean the doctor wouldn't horribly mangle my mouth and just let me go home that way without a word, would he...?
So I take a peek at the area that's kept me from wanting to smile for the last few months and....well, to be frank, I almost burst into tears. And not because it was BAD either. Normal white teeth looked back at me. Not weirdly-spaced, not turning ugly around the edges, just normal. I am so happy.
As I finish this off, the numbing is starting to dissipate so I'm sure I'll be paying for such a lovely repair job shortly, but I really can't say enough how much of a relief this is to me, and I again want to express my thanks. I suck at closing paragraphs so I'm going to go lay down for awhile...
Dave tells me I'm to recount my dental visit for you folks...and as we all know, there is no better time for one of these than when the drugs have not worn off yet.
I would like to start by thanking the people who supported this venture, and also to apologize for it. I don't want you folks to get the wrong impression -- I do not neglect my oral health. I brush twice a day and floss/rinse with mouthwash before bed. However, its been forever and a day since I've seen a dentist, and I was a hardcore soda junkie during that time, wherein laid the problem. I have since switched my binging to green tea...at least that's supposed to be good for me.
Our journey begins at 6:50 in the AM when we pull up to Lakewood Community Health Clinic. You can tell immediately after going inside that you have arrived at the right place by the friendly Hungarian woman at the door with the cattle prod separating the walk-ins from the appointments.
After assuring them that, yes, I had been here for an evaluation, no I was not a figment of their imagination, and yes I was aware I'd be paying for the services immediately after they had been rendered, I was ushered into the back, administered enough Novocaine to numb me clear up to my sinuses, and told to await my doctor.
Dr. Thorn believes in quiet practice...and by that I mean he and his assistant did not say a word to me, or to one another the entire time. Not that you're especially in a position to hold a conversation with a suction hose in your mouth and an old man up to his knuckles in your face (its like youth symphony all over again!) ...but still, a little reassurance would have been nice. I'd have even been happy with a 'hello', for as nervous as i was.
I mean, wouldn't you like to be assured that the dude running a file between your front teeth was doing it for a reason?
But I digress.
What followed was about an hour of drilling, crunching noises, and tasting a lot of interesting things on the back of my tongue briefly before the friendly hose darted back to retrieve them. All in dead silence.
The minute he finished with me, the assistant was left alone to clean up the mess and he had lit off to the dental cubicle next door to check out a guy who had come in with an abscess (how do I know he had an abscess? Because he'd been wailing from the minute he came in that he needed treatment before anyone else). Oddly I did not get the usual lecture about "Make sure you floss better, and your toothpaste you're using is crap". I can only guess if you've resorted to coming to them, they assume you already know your mouth is fucked.
The assistant, breaking her vow of silence, told me that they had taken care of three of the four teeth that needed treatment and that I will need to make a follow-up for the last since they just did not have time today.
She seemed nervous when she told me to head to the billing office, wherein I waited for ten minutes while she and one of the receptionists talked outside. I couldn't make out what they were saying save one stray "Well we're not even sure she brought that much, do we want to talk a payment plan?" After you've just had your face drilled by The Stoic Ninja and his lovely assistant The Stealth Hose, this is not especially what you want to hear...
They send not one, but TWO billing consultants into the room to speak to me, who bicker with one another over who broke the calculator for a few minutes before finally getting around to telling me I owe them $650 for the work rendered that day. To which I say "All right." and go for my wallet as they watch me with the intensity of people who are expecting a gun. I pay them their money, which results in entirely new bickering between them, and several trips to the front desk to make sure I really DID owe that much.
"Did you know he did composite fillings? Those are more expensive than regulars."
"Well, those are the white ones, right?"
"Yes. On your front teeth."
"Well okay then that's fine."
"That's why they were more expensive."
"That's all right."
"Let me run the numbers again."
I was a little baffled at this point, and assumed that they'd gotten so used to being yelled at and argued with by their patrons that they were somehow mishearing "that's all right" and "okay" as "GO TO HELL, LADY, I'LL LAWYER THE FUCK OUT OF YOU!!".
My suspicions on this were confirmed after paying when I went back into the waiting room to find Dave, who informed me I'd missed two very pleasant people who'd been under the assumption it was a free clinic and stormed out after calling the receptionist a canid of the female persuasion and suggesting she perform anatomically impossible acts on herself.
I think they put something in Novocaine that fills you with the urge to talk to people when your face is frozen up and you make no sense because I yammered at Dave all the way back to the apartment about my encounter (he may have understood a few words...).
We get back home and I realize....I'm kind of terrified to look at my teeth. After all that drilling and suctioning and filing and crunching, i can only imagine it looks terrible in there. Plus the inside of my mouth tastes like blood and how I imagine licking an Office Max would taste, so this results in me sitting at the computer desk in a paranoid huddle, attempting to navigate tea past my still-useless lips and succeeding more in taking a bath in it.
Dave takes his leave of the insane, drugged woman to go spend the afternoon with his brother and once he's gone, I finally muster up the nerve to go have a look in the mirror. I mean the doctor wouldn't horribly mangle my mouth and just let me go home that way without a word, would he...?
So I take a peek at the area that's kept me from wanting to smile for the last few months and....well, to be frank, I almost burst into tears. And not because it was BAD either. Normal white teeth looked back at me. Not weirdly-spaced, not turning ugly around the edges, just normal. I am so happy.
As I finish this off, the numbing is starting to dissipate so I'm sure I'll be paying for such a lovely repair job shortly, but I really can't say enough how much of a relief this is to me, and I again want to express my thanks. I suck at closing paragraphs so I'm going to go lay down for awhile...
