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How would you feel about famous-artist style commissions?
Posted 10 years agoStill revising my prices. I'll want to open for commissions sometime next week, when finals are over and the month of madness will settle down again.
I could finally have time to figure out how to get comics flowing out of me again. I love comics, but it's such an ass to set up.
But one thing does intrigue me - I've observed that we humans are indecisive beings when not given examples.
So I was wondering - I've been wanting to practice stylistic synthesis sometime. Like, as in, "draw something in the style of X."
And so many ideas have come to mind - from Gerald Scarfe to Toulouse-Lautrec.
I could do Toulouse-Lautrec and draw your characters calligraphically in Belle Époque fashion.
I could do René Gruau and paint bold minimalists of your character in the glamour they deserve.
I could do Boucher and do those delicate rococo things of your characters on jaunty excursions in cute outfits.
I could do Fauvist versions of your characters in insane, wild colors.
I could do Gerald Scarfe and fill your characters with whirlwinds of slashing lines and fury (some characters it works perfectly for!)
I could do El Greco and elongate your characters and put them in cool lighting.
I could do cartoonists of any style or kind.
Is this something anybody could picture? Before I decide on the style, of course, I'll paint a sample so you guys know what you're getting into.
And on a lighter note, I dropped my hard drive and it broke. I'ma have to rescan most of my traditional art, and shed a tear and fond farewell to all the digital art forever lost.
Wish me luck!
I could finally have time to figure out how to get comics flowing out of me again. I love comics, but it's such an ass to set up.
But one thing does intrigue me - I've observed that we humans are indecisive beings when not given examples.
So I was wondering - I've been wanting to practice stylistic synthesis sometime. Like, as in, "draw something in the style of X."
And so many ideas have come to mind - from Gerald Scarfe to Toulouse-Lautrec.
I could do Toulouse-Lautrec and draw your characters calligraphically in Belle Époque fashion.
I could do René Gruau and paint bold minimalists of your character in the glamour they deserve.
I could do Boucher and do those delicate rococo things of your characters on jaunty excursions in cute outfits.
I could do Fauvist versions of your characters in insane, wild colors.
I could do Gerald Scarfe and fill your characters with whirlwinds of slashing lines and fury (some characters it works perfectly for!)
I could do El Greco and elongate your characters and put them in cool lighting.
I could do cartoonists of any style or kind.
Is this something anybody could picture? Before I decide on the style, of course, I'll paint a sample so you guys know what you're getting into.
And on a lighter note, I dropped my hard drive and it broke. I'ma have to rescan most of my traditional art, and shed a tear and fond farewell to all the digital art forever lost.
Wish me luck!
Does anybody else's eyes hurt looking at the Beta's leading?
Posted 10 years agoNot too impressed with the beta interface. I really hope "Classic" stays an option, this feels like New Coke or something...
Honestly, I can't even see what you need to improve - fA is a nice little oasis of stability in the shifting graphics of the internet, with a consistency of font and a spare, de stijl set of rectangular layouts. It amazingly doesn't have anything that really DATES it. There's no shiny buttons, no horrid Japanese-style webpage design. And it's basically the only place left on the internet where knowing html makes it more unique.
Simple is beautiful, man.
Sort of like that new concept art website whose entire homepage is just tiles of art that grow and shrink according to user votes. The kerning is okay, but the LEADING. Dear god, the leading. It made my eyes THROB just trying to read a wall of text. I can't fucking read it. The colors are too harsh when you make the lines that thick. Definitely not going back.
The spreading around of the My FA stuff wasn't too bad an idea, it is awfully unintuitive as it is, but it'll be another tormentuous adjustment.
I'd no more ask for the ability to read something in those font sizes than somebody would invent 10-second Vines or 525-pixel tumblr posts (OOP). We've all made things for this format, and I think we sort of like them that way. I'm the minority?
No, seriously. FUCK THAT LEADING.
Honestly, I can't even see what you need to improve - fA is a nice little oasis of stability in the shifting graphics of the internet, with a consistency of font and a spare, de stijl set of rectangular layouts. It amazingly doesn't have anything that really DATES it. There's no shiny buttons, no horrid Japanese-style webpage design. And it's basically the only place left on the internet where knowing html makes it more unique.
Simple is beautiful, man.
Sort of like that new concept art website whose entire homepage is just tiles of art that grow and shrink according to user votes. The kerning is okay, but the LEADING. Dear god, the leading. It made my eyes THROB just trying to read a wall of text. I can't fucking read it. The colors are too harsh when you make the lines that thick. Definitely not going back.
The spreading around of the My FA stuff wasn't too bad an idea, it is awfully unintuitive as it is, but it'll be another tormentuous adjustment.
I'd no more ask for the ability to read something in those font sizes than somebody would invent 10-second Vines or 525-pixel tumblr posts (OOP). We've all made things for this format, and I think we sort of like them that way. I'm the minority?
No, seriously. FUCK THAT LEADING.
Who wants to share their "gender and art" experience?
Posted 10 years agoAnybody want to answer a quick questionnaire on judging artworks by gender stereotypes? I have an essay and I need "interviews" to "cite." I need quantity.
Comment or note me with a place to send it, I'll send it and hide the comment if you request. <3
Comment or note me with a place to send it, I'll send it and hide the comment if you request. <3
Guys, stop erasing your pictures...
Posted 10 years agoThe stuff after the sale is the same stuff in every user agreement. They do not, from what I've seen, claim copyright and ownership of the art, only the right to use the art in its own stuff. It CANNOT sell your stuff to a third party, like the famous Adventure Time Totoro thing. That was Hot Topic stealing the art under the website's nose. There's no reason to suppose this would appear the same.
The irony is that all the people that I follow deleting things are the guys who draw the sort of disturbing fetish art that there would be no profit for the company to steal for some other purpose... No, your naga vore comic probably won't end up on a T-Shirt anytime soon. I find that horrifyingly ironic.
If your stuff's super sensitive, then do what you want with it, but this doesn't warrant the panic it's apparently begotten. Really, it's much better for yourself to deal with one theft after it happens, than to delete your entire goddamn gallery. That kind of stuff alienates fans, too. There's a level of paranoia that seems way out of proportion to the fact that we have a community of TALKING ANIMAL PEOPLE DRAWING AND WRITING ART. There's really nothing here to monetize... and hopefully, if they do stupid shit like the Tumblr Staff's been doing (seriously, you can now implant a virus straight into a post, nobody thought that was a bad idea? Or the tangents? Or the giant size?), we'll find a way around it.
Anyway, I'm https://www.weasyl.com/~liimlsan on Weasyl... and I like the site for the artist's community. I probably won't upload much there, it's just to stay in touch and watch all the people who left FA LAST time shit like this went down.
The irony is that all the people that I follow deleting things are the guys who draw the sort of disturbing fetish art that there would be no profit for the company to steal for some other purpose... No, your naga vore comic probably won't end up on a T-Shirt anytime soon. I find that horrifyingly ironic.
If your stuff's super sensitive, then do what you want with it, but this doesn't warrant the panic it's apparently begotten. Really, it's much better for yourself to deal with one theft after it happens, than to delete your entire goddamn gallery. That kind of stuff alienates fans, too. There's a level of paranoia that seems way out of proportion to the fact that we have a community of TALKING ANIMAL PEOPLE DRAWING AND WRITING ART. There's really nothing here to monetize... and hopefully, if they do stupid shit like the Tumblr Staff's been doing (seriously, you can now implant a virus straight into a post, nobody thought that was a bad idea? Or the tangents? Or the giant size?), we'll find a way around it.
Anyway, I'm https://www.weasyl.com/~liimlsan on Weasyl... and I like the site for the artist's community. I probably won't upload much there, it's just to stay in touch and watch all the people who left FA LAST time shit like this went down.
I CLICKED NUKE SUBMISSION COMMENTS FUCK FUCK FUCK.
Posted 10 years agoIF YOU GAVE ME A SUBMISSION COMMENT IN THE LAST TWELVE HOURS RESEND IT BECAUSE I CAn'T FUCKING SEE IT.
WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME WHAT IT DOES I WAS JUST TRYING TO DELETE EXTRANEOUS HIGHLIT MESSAGES
anybody know a way to undo it? Like, is this gone from the servers or can I ask an admin for them back? OCD much...
WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME WHAT IT DOES I WAS JUST TRYING TO DELETE EXTRANEOUS HIGHLIT MESSAGES
anybody know a way to undo it? Like, is this gone from the servers or can I ask an admin for them back? OCD much...
Happy Birthday to Me
Posted 10 years agoI belong in a tree,
I had an infection
and it hurts when I pee.
Happy birthday to you,
you belong in a zoo.
You had an abortion,
and your kid's in hell too.
(The catholic school versions of schoolyard rhymes are always metal ones. Technically it'd be in limbo, but hey. You can substitute "I'm a hundred and two" or "I'm a hundred and three" for either of the second lines.)
March 8th, such a stereotypical Pisces am I!
Embarrassed to say my age, because so many of my friends on here are so much older... but hey, I have an IQ of 152, an expansive vocabulary, knowledge of the grammar and slang of multiple countries and periods, and broad cultural, historical, media, economic and topical knowledge of most every recent decade, so I can usually on the internet pass as whatever age I deem appropriate. *evil laugh* I must only use these powers for... Aaaah, who am I fooling? Get off my lawn.
I had an infection
and it hurts when I pee.
Happy birthday to you,
you belong in a zoo.
You had an abortion,
and your kid's in hell too.
(The catholic school versions of schoolyard rhymes are always metal ones. Technically it'd be in limbo, but hey. You can substitute "I'm a hundred and two" or "I'm a hundred and three" for either of the second lines.)
March 8th, such a stereotypical Pisces am I!
Embarrassed to say my age, because so many of my friends on here are so much older... but hey, I have an IQ of 152, an expansive vocabulary, knowledge of the grammar and slang of multiple countries and periods, and broad cultural, historical, media, economic and topical knowledge of most every recent decade, so I can usually on the internet pass as whatever age I deem appropriate. *evil laugh* I must only use these powers for... Aaaah, who am I fooling? Get off my lawn.
TMI Tuesday
Posted 10 years agoKnock yourselves out~
Meme meme
Posted 10 years agoStolen from 
Nicnak044
What was your:
1. Last beverage: Red Ruby Squirt
2. Last phone call: Merida (Nicole, but all my Nicole friends have nicknames because I know way too many of them)
3. Last text: My mom
4. Last song: No Quarter - Led Zeppelin
5. Last time you cried: On the train, sobbing uncontrollably while pondering my workload, the futility of life, and the final scene of "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Note to filmmakers - you can make anyone cry simply by having a chorus sing the theme of a movie at the end.
Have you ever:
6. Dated someone twice: Nah
7. Been cheated on: To my knowledge, no
8. Kissed anyone and regretted it: A couple of them had awful breath...
9. Lost someone special: Yep
10. Been depressed: Always
11. Been drunk and threw up: A couple times. Not really a drinking girl.
List your three favourite colours:
12. Ultramarine blue - like, so deep it hurts your eyes, Yves Klein-ish
13. Goldenrod
14. Greenish turqoise
In the last year have you:
15. Made a new friend: Quite a few, actually, thank god.
16. Fallen out of love: I don't really fall in love, I just fall out of it x3
17. Laughed until you cried: Yeah...
18. Met someone who changed you: Yeah... I keep needing prods in the right direction.
19. Found out who your true friends are: Do I have any? what does this question prove...
20. Found out someone was talking about you: ...No. Fuck.
21. Kissed anyone on your FB list: I don't even know, I haven't checked facebook in half a year. Too many racist relatives. But probably. (Not the relatives.)
22. How many people do you know on your FB list: See above. Most of them are people I do know and wish I didn't.
Randoms:
23. Do you have any pets: A very VERY elderly Wheaten Terrier name of Duffy.
24. Do you want to change your name: I already have, but only halfway. I couldn't go through with it.
25. What did you do for your last birthday party: I think that time, my cousin took us for Peruvian food and gave us the culinary spiel. It was nice.
26. What time did you wake up this morning: About five. PM, not AM.
27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Drawing with a tablet and trying to get all my files off my computer before I take it to the shop...
28. Something you can’t wait for: An upcoming Cinema Slapdown, and of course summer vacation. I got an offer from a job I may actually ENJOY for once, instead of losing weight from stress...
29. Last time you saw your mother: Last weekend, while sick...
30. One thing you wish you could change about your life: I want to be much, MUCH more efficient and robotic. When I'm late or off schedule, it's a matter of hours, if not days. My brain can't switch gears very easily. I also want to be alloromantic so I can enjoy a romance, because you fuckers look like you're having so much fun and I'm on the outside looking in and sobbing. And, of course, the gender stuff. I feel so trapped in my body all of the time. And my depression. Fuck, everything. I hate everything.
31. What are you listening to right now: A Dragonforce playlist, the animator's secret weapon to help them work at a faster speed. It gets repetitive, though...
32. Have you ever talked to a Tom: My uncle count?
33. What’s getting on your nerves right now: My computer. It busted itself during a stream two nights ago, and I went over my phone data plan trying to watch it.
34. Most viewed webpage: Furaffinity, Tumblr, Cracked, and I'm trying to get back onto Deviantart. I want to whore my art out SOMEPLACE.
35. Nickname: Rapunzel (friends), fuckhead (my roommate)
36. Relationship status: "Pickering - I find the moment I make friends with a man, I become desperate, catty, clingy, and a damn nuisance. And whenever a man makes friends with me, I find he becomes... exploitative and boorish. So here I am! A confirmed old bachelorette and likely to remain so."
37. Zodiac sign: Pisces. It means I'm creative, depressed, and take long showers.
40. College: Columbia College of Chicago.
41. Hair colour: Dusty Blonde
42. Long or short: Down to there, hair like Jesus wore it, hallelujah I adore it. Oh say can you see my eyes if you can then my hair's too short! (I have no idea where the punctuation lies in that sentence.)
43. Height: 6'3". Give or take half an inch. I'm pretty Dutch.
44. Do you have a crush on someone: A couple... they're probably straight, though...
45. What do you like about yourself: I can draw and I don't really judge people ever... and I can twist my arm 240º. That's good for a panicked scream.
46. Tattoos: Want, but can't afford. My grandparents are paying for my college, and they're of the attitude that they pollute God's creation... I'm not gonna fucking risk it! I draw sharpie and get henna whenever I can, though...
47. Right or left handed: Right.
48. First piercings: Ears.
49. First best friend: When I was in kindergarten, I had a friend who was so unresponsive that his parents took him out of the class after two months and stuck him in an asylum or something. I liked him. Everyone else was too loud. That tell you anything?
50. First sport you joined: After an early childhood of softball and chess, I swore off team sports and have mainly played Tennis since then...
51. First vacation: Tampa
52. First pair of trainers: The fuck... (googles) Gym Shoes? Why the fuck would I remember them?
53. Eating: Earlier, some cheap-ass chocolate chip muffins...
54. Drinking: Water.
55. About to: Clean my tabs. My computer's starting to slow down.
57. Listening to: the Smiths, "William it was Really Nothing"
58. Waiting for: My inevitable death. And the giant oil abstract I'm planning out...
Your future:
59. Want kids: I'm probably infertile, actually... and no. I'm awful with kids.
60. Get married: I guess?
61. Career: Animating things is still super fun, so I hope that lasts.
Which is better:
62. Lips or eyes: Lips. Eyes are creepy. So much emotion and they jiggle when you look at them.
63. Hugs or kisses: Hugs. Someone hug me now. I sorta need it.
64. Shorter or taller: Taller (all three of you)
65. Older or younger: I can't be picky.
66. Romantic or spontaneous: Romantic. Spontaneity terrifies me.
67. Nice stomach or arms: See 65.
68. Loud or sensitive: Sensitive. Loud things shatter me easily..
69. Hook-up or relationship: Both, goddammit...
70. Trouble maker or hesitant: A troublemaker to compensate for my fear of everything.
71. Kissed a stranger: Not sure where the kiss has to qualify...
72. Drank hard liquor: Sure
73. Lost glasses/contacts: Never for more than a few days
74. Had sex on a first date: I'll first need someone who wants to do it... I say why not? Any excuse you can get for sex, take it, sex is awesome. If it's awkward afterwards, that means you're not comfortable around each other to have sex, which I've always found to be a horrible sign for your relationship...
75. Broken someone’s heart: Fuck, I hope not.
76. Been arrested: Nah.
77. Turned someone down: I did once, just to prove to myself I could.
78. Cried when someone died: Yep
79. Fallen for a friend: Not really.
Do you believe in:
80. Yourself: Never
81. Miracles: Not really
82. Love at first sight: I wouldn't know if it did happen...
83. Heaven: I can't bother to do that...
84. Santa clause: Like I believe in love...
85. Kisses on first dates: Not a kiss person... it's that uncomfortable danger zone when it's too personal to enjoy and not personal enough to be enjoyable. But a good snog is a nice way to close...
Nicnak044What was your:
1. Last beverage: Red Ruby Squirt
2. Last phone call: Merida (Nicole, but all my Nicole friends have nicknames because I know way too many of them)
3. Last text: My mom
4. Last song: No Quarter - Led Zeppelin
5. Last time you cried: On the train, sobbing uncontrollably while pondering my workload, the futility of life, and the final scene of "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Note to filmmakers - you can make anyone cry simply by having a chorus sing the theme of a movie at the end.
Have you ever:
6. Dated someone twice: Nah
7. Been cheated on: To my knowledge, no
8. Kissed anyone and regretted it: A couple of them had awful breath...
9. Lost someone special: Yep
10. Been depressed: Always
11. Been drunk and threw up: A couple times. Not really a drinking girl.
List your three favourite colours:
12. Ultramarine blue - like, so deep it hurts your eyes, Yves Klein-ish
13. Goldenrod
14. Greenish turqoise
In the last year have you:
15. Made a new friend: Quite a few, actually, thank god.
16. Fallen out of love: I don't really fall in love, I just fall out of it x3
17. Laughed until you cried: Yeah...
18. Met someone who changed you: Yeah... I keep needing prods in the right direction.
19. Found out who your true friends are: Do I have any? what does this question prove...
20. Found out someone was talking about you: ...No. Fuck.
21. Kissed anyone on your FB list: I don't even know, I haven't checked facebook in half a year. Too many racist relatives. But probably. (Not the relatives.)
22. How many people do you know on your FB list: See above. Most of them are people I do know and wish I didn't.
Randoms:
23. Do you have any pets: A very VERY elderly Wheaten Terrier name of Duffy.
24. Do you want to change your name: I already have, but only halfway. I couldn't go through with it.
25. What did you do for your last birthday party: I think that time, my cousin took us for Peruvian food and gave us the culinary spiel. It was nice.
26. What time did you wake up this morning: About five. PM, not AM.
27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Drawing with a tablet and trying to get all my files off my computer before I take it to the shop...
28. Something you can’t wait for: An upcoming Cinema Slapdown, and of course summer vacation. I got an offer from a job I may actually ENJOY for once, instead of losing weight from stress...
29. Last time you saw your mother: Last weekend, while sick...
30. One thing you wish you could change about your life: I want to be much, MUCH more efficient and robotic. When I'm late or off schedule, it's a matter of hours, if not days. My brain can't switch gears very easily. I also want to be alloromantic so I can enjoy a romance, because you fuckers look like you're having so much fun and I'm on the outside looking in and sobbing. And, of course, the gender stuff. I feel so trapped in my body all of the time. And my depression. Fuck, everything. I hate everything.
31. What are you listening to right now: A Dragonforce playlist, the animator's secret weapon to help them work at a faster speed. It gets repetitive, though...
32. Have you ever talked to a Tom: My uncle count?
33. What’s getting on your nerves right now: My computer. It busted itself during a stream two nights ago, and I went over my phone data plan trying to watch it.
34. Most viewed webpage: Furaffinity, Tumblr, Cracked, and I'm trying to get back onto Deviantart. I want to whore my art out SOMEPLACE.
35. Nickname: Rapunzel (friends), fuckhead (my roommate)
36. Relationship status: "Pickering - I find the moment I make friends with a man, I become desperate, catty, clingy, and a damn nuisance. And whenever a man makes friends with me, I find he becomes... exploitative and boorish. So here I am! A confirmed old bachelorette and likely to remain so."
37. Zodiac sign: Pisces. It means I'm creative, depressed, and take long showers.
40. College: Columbia College of Chicago.
41. Hair colour: Dusty Blonde
42. Long or short: Down to there, hair like Jesus wore it, hallelujah I adore it. Oh say can you see my eyes if you can then my hair's too short! (I have no idea where the punctuation lies in that sentence.)
43. Height: 6'3". Give or take half an inch. I'm pretty Dutch.
44. Do you have a crush on someone: A couple... they're probably straight, though...
45. What do you like about yourself: I can draw and I don't really judge people ever... and I can twist my arm 240º. That's good for a panicked scream.
46. Tattoos: Want, but can't afford. My grandparents are paying for my college, and they're of the attitude that they pollute God's creation... I'm not gonna fucking risk it! I draw sharpie and get henna whenever I can, though...
47. Right or left handed: Right.
48. First piercings: Ears.
49. First best friend: When I was in kindergarten, I had a friend who was so unresponsive that his parents took him out of the class after two months and stuck him in an asylum or something. I liked him. Everyone else was too loud. That tell you anything?
50. First sport you joined: After an early childhood of softball and chess, I swore off team sports and have mainly played Tennis since then...
51. First vacation: Tampa
52. First pair of trainers: The fuck... (googles) Gym Shoes? Why the fuck would I remember them?
53. Eating: Earlier, some cheap-ass chocolate chip muffins...
54. Drinking: Water.
55. About to: Clean my tabs. My computer's starting to slow down.
57. Listening to: the Smiths, "William it was Really Nothing"
58. Waiting for: My inevitable death. And the giant oil abstract I'm planning out...
Your future:
59. Want kids: I'm probably infertile, actually... and no. I'm awful with kids.
60. Get married: I guess?
61. Career: Animating things is still super fun, so I hope that lasts.
Which is better:
62. Lips or eyes: Lips. Eyes are creepy. So much emotion and they jiggle when you look at them.
63. Hugs or kisses: Hugs. Someone hug me now. I sorta need it.
64. Shorter or taller: Taller (all three of you)
65. Older or younger: I can't be picky.
66. Romantic or spontaneous: Romantic. Spontaneity terrifies me.
67. Nice stomach or arms: See 65.
68. Loud or sensitive: Sensitive. Loud things shatter me easily..
69. Hook-up or relationship: Both, goddammit...
70. Trouble maker or hesitant: A troublemaker to compensate for my fear of everything.
71. Kissed a stranger: Not sure where the kiss has to qualify...
72. Drank hard liquor: Sure
73. Lost glasses/contacts: Never for more than a few days
74. Had sex on a first date: I'll first need someone who wants to do it... I say why not? Any excuse you can get for sex, take it, sex is awesome. If it's awkward afterwards, that means you're not comfortable around each other to have sex, which I've always found to be a horrible sign for your relationship...
75. Broken someone’s heart: Fuck, I hope not.
76. Been arrested: Nah.
77. Turned someone down: I did once, just to prove to myself I could.
78. Cried when someone died: Yep
79. Fallen for a friend: Not really.
Do you believe in:
80. Yourself: Never
81. Miracles: Not really
82. Love at first sight: I wouldn't know if it did happen...
83. Heaven: I can't bother to do that...
84. Santa clause: Like I believe in love...
85. Kisses on first dates: Not a kiss person... it's that uncomfortable danger zone when it's too personal to enjoy and not personal enough to be enjoyable. But a good snog is a nice way to close...
Stomach Flu
Posted 10 years agoWorse than you expected - I'm shitting blood and mucus, we think the infection's bleeding inside my butt. Cramps mean food and water isn't passing into my intestines, so I'm super dehydrated and vomitous. Any tips from the last time you guys had it?
Sex Meme
Posted 10 years agoLet's do this! Jesus says fuck fuck Mormon!
Stolen from
Nickers and 
Foxjump concurrently.
1. Do you watch/read pornography?
Read, yeah, but I don't watch. A friend basically learned to draw by copying porn frames, she's been trying to get me to study it a few times ("Like, the straight stuff where there's no body fat on anyone and those insane jackhammer poses. None of the lesbian ones that are really just straight girls acting like they don't know where a clitoris is."
2. Would you ever consider making (acting or directing) a porno?
Directing, maybe! Acting, no. I do have enough stamina for actual sex but I don't have the athleticism to reach those poses.
3. Are there any friends you've thought about sex with?
A couple... most of my fantasies are friends of friends, which is much less awkward.
4. Any of your friends you HAVE had sex with?
Yes, I did it on a train! (I have not done it on a plane. Nor with a goat.)
5. Someone famous you would have sex with?
I wouldn't know... I'm not as into actors as I am into politics, and very few of them are sexpots. Yul Brynner, Hugh Jackman, Albert Finney, any famous guy with a deep voice and strong hands. Alan Cumming. Jimmy Page. Barbara Stanwyck, maybe? You'd want me to say Audrey Hepburn but I'd just want to have coffee with her or something. Naya Riviera. Darren Criss. Denzel Washington.
6. Attracted to (men/women)?
Why not both?
7. Do you masturbate?
Who doesn't?
8. Would you rather oral or anal?
Oral, I guess. If their hygiene's bad they'll both be worse.
9. Would you rather be the dominant partner, or the submissive partner in a relationship?
I'm a complete switch. I don't like staying the same for long. It boils down, in practice, to "dom when I feel like I want to try something fun out" and "sub 90% of the time." Only to a gentle master, of course. Some of my fantasies are deplorably submissive...
10. Would you ever want to be tied?
Ankles, maybe. Or a leash or chain around my neck... murrs...
11. Would you ever want to tie someone up?
I'm good! I may have been a scout but my rope skills are mediocre.
12. Ever offered to tie someone up?
Never come up.
13. Anyone ever offered to tie you up?
I wish. (Like Frisbee Golf, I wanna try it once.)
14. Would you rather your sexual partner be shaved, or unshaved?
Either as long as it's trim and clean - and I do like bush quite a bit (and acknowledge that it's much shittier to shave), but you do realize the purpose of pubic hair is to smell bad? Musk? I'll err on the bald side.
15. Are you a flirt?
SHAMELESS AND WHORISH.
16. Do you own sexy underwear?
Boxers and T-Shirt bras for this one, lace doesn't do much for me. (I bought a pair of St. Patrick's day Novelty Green Garters last year only to discover it doesn't go around my hips. Nor the garters my thighs. Trans girl stuff is hard when NOTHING FITS.)
17. Pee games?
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeegh *wiggly hand gesture* I'll try it once if you beg me, darling, but I'll hate it a LOT and you will owe me BIG. It does nothing for me and feels really really gross.
18. Your weakness?
Deep sexy voices - a confident air, a supple face, a healthy emotional range, sensitive strong fingers - to its logical extent, William Shatner.
19. Favorite features on a sexual partner?
For guys, strong hands and arms, a soothing voice, a smooth face (Something about a guy with baby soft cheeks)
Curves on a girl, makeup game, boobs, often her arms. I am not a butt girl and I don't quite understand it...
20. Your best features are?
I have a very breathless, velvety baritone and I've gotten so many compliments about it...
Arms, hands... hair (takes extra care)... I have an inconveniently large penis, and that's a pain in the ass. I will never get why straight boys want it. I can't fit it anyplace. But if you're a size queen you might have some fun with it.
21. Would you have sex with music playing?
Of course!
22. If yes, what song?
Currently, this one really sultry orchestral version of "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets..." Oooh! Can I get the Red Army Choir behind me? Just anything rich and really drawn out and vaguely tormented - Wagner makes great fucking music. I mean, "Parsifal" is basically orgasm denial in musical form.
23. Favorite word for sex (fucking, humping, shagging…)?
SHAGGING.
24. Whispering or screaming?
Low tones. Sultry vibrating voice box. Just above whispering.
25. When you want to have sex with someone, what do you do about it?
Ask them brazenly... I don't like lying to people about why I talk to them, I can't stifle my laughter even reading soft sell copy.
26. Would you consider tying up someone and hurting them / being tied and having someone hurt you?
I hate myself enough for both of us, darling. S&M isn't in my trick bag.
27. Would you consider tying someone up and tickling them / being tied and having someone tickle you?
...seems kinda pointless?
28. Would you rather be on top?
Frankly, the less I trust someone, the more I want to be on top.
29. Sex on a holiday? (Easter/Halloween/etc..)
What, in an easter bunny costume with candy canes up your butt? How is holiday sex any different?
30. How much would you do for your sexual partner?
I'll be their footstool for tolerating me as long as it takes to have sex x3
31.Threesome?
Harder to keep everyone happy, but the part I love about threesomes is the no-bullshit part.
32. Sex before marriage?
Yes
33. Something that's important in sex that most people overlook?
Communication, mutual respect, foreplay, the female orgasm, and aftercare...
34. Pussyfart.
Honey, it happens.
35. Tongue in your private area?
Aw ye.
36. Tongue in your bellybutton?
They taste disgusting. I'll pass.
37. Tongue on your other private areas? (female)
My nipples are mediocre.
38. Zodiac sign?
Pisces.
39. Tips to turn you on?
Massages. Lots of massages. Praise me, give me confidence. Give me something simple to perform that I can feel proud of myself for doing. I also find cunnilinguis super fun, so if you ever need a tongue...
Stolen from
Nickers and 
Foxjump concurrently.1. Do you watch/read pornography?
Read, yeah, but I don't watch. A friend basically learned to draw by copying porn frames, she's been trying to get me to study it a few times ("Like, the straight stuff where there's no body fat on anyone and those insane jackhammer poses. None of the lesbian ones that are really just straight girls acting like they don't know where a clitoris is."
2. Would you ever consider making (acting or directing) a porno?
Directing, maybe! Acting, no. I do have enough stamina for actual sex but I don't have the athleticism to reach those poses.
3. Are there any friends you've thought about sex with?
A couple... most of my fantasies are friends of friends, which is much less awkward.
4. Any of your friends you HAVE had sex with?
Yes, I did it on a train! (I have not done it on a plane. Nor with a goat.)
5. Someone famous you would have sex with?
I wouldn't know... I'm not as into actors as I am into politics, and very few of them are sexpots. Yul Brynner, Hugh Jackman, Albert Finney, any famous guy with a deep voice and strong hands. Alan Cumming. Jimmy Page. Barbara Stanwyck, maybe? You'd want me to say Audrey Hepburn but I'd just want to have coffee with her or something. Naya Riviera. Darren Criss. Denzel Washington.
6. Attracted to (men/women)?
Why not both?
7. Do you masturbate?
Who doesn't?
8. Would you rather oral or anal?
Oral, I guess. If their hygiene's bad they'll both be worse.
9. Would you rather be the dominant partner, or the submissive partner in a relationship?
I'm a complete switch. I don't like staying the same for long. It boils down, in practice, to "dom when I feel like I want to try something fun out" and "sub 90% of the time." Only to a gentle master, of course. Some of my fantasies are deplorably submissive...
10. Would you ever want to be tied?
Ankles, maybe. Or a leash or chain around my neck... murrs...
11. Would you ever want to tie someone up?
I'm good! I may have been a scout but my rope skills are mediocre.
12. Ever offered to tie someone up?
Never come up.
13. Anyone ever offered to tie you up?
I wish. (Like Frisbee Golf, I wanna try it once.)
14. Would you rather your sexual partner be shaved, or unshaved?
Either as long as it's trim and clean - and I do like bush quite a bit (and acknowledge that it's much shittier to shave), but you do realize the purpose of pubic hair is to smell bad? Musk? I'll err on the bald side.
15. Are you a flirt?
SHAMELESS AND WHORISH.
16. Do you own sexy underwear?
Boxers and T-Shirt bras for this one, lace doesn't do much for me. (I bought a pair of St. Patrick's day Novelty Green Garters last year only to discover it doesn't go around my hips. Nor the garters my thighs. Trans girl stuff is hard when NOTHING FITS.)
17. Pee games?
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeegh *wiggly hand gesture* I'll try it once if you beg me, darling, but I'll hate it a LOT and you will owe me BIG. It does nothing for me and feels really really gross.
18. Your weakness?
Deep sexy voices - a confident air, a supple face, a healthy emotional range, sensitive strong fingers - to its logical extent, William Shatner.
19. Favorite features on a sexual partner?
For guys, strong hands and arms, a soothing voice, a smooth face (Something about a guy with baby soft cheeks)
Curves on a girl, makeup game, boobs, often her arms. I am not a butt girl and I don't quite understand it...
20. Your best features are?
I have a very breathless, velvety baritone and I've gotten so many compliments about it...
Arms, hands... hair (takes extra care)... I have an inconveniently large penis, and that's a pain in the ass. I will never get why straight boys want it. I can't fit it anyplace. But if you're a size queen you might have some fun with it.
21. Would you have sex with music playing?
Of course!
22. If yes, what song?
Currently, this one really sultry orchestral version of "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets..." Oooh! Can I get the Red Army Choir behind me? Just anything rich and really drawn out and vaguely tormented - Wagner makes great fucking music. I mean, "Parsifal" is basically orgasm denial in musical form.
23. Favorite word for sex (fucking, humping, shagging…)?
SHAGGING.
24. Whispering or screaming?
Low tones. Sultry vibrating voice box. Just above whispering.
25. When you want to have sex with someone, what do you do about it?
Ask them brazenly... I don't like lying to people about why I talk to them, I can't stifle my laughter even reading soft sell copy.
26. Would you consider tying up someone and hurting them / being tied and having someone hurt you?
I hate myself enough for both of us, darling. S&M isn't in my trick bag.
27. Would you consider tying someone up and tickling them / being tied and having someone tickle you?
...seems kinda pointless?
28. Would you rather be on top?
Frankly, the less I trust someone, the more I want to be on top.
29. Sex on a holiday? (Easter/Halloween/etc..)
What, in an easter bunny costume with candy canes up your butt? How is holiday sex any different?
30. How much would you do for your sexual partner?
I'll be their footstool for tolerating me as long as it takes to have sex x3
31.Threesome?
Harder to keep everyone happy, but the part I love about threesomes is the no-bullshit part.
32. Sex before marriage?
Yes
33. Something that's important in sex that most people overlook?
Communication, mutual respect, foreplay, the female orgasm, and aftercare...
34. Pussyfart.
Honey, it happens.
35. Tongue in your private area?
Aw ye.
36. Tongue in your bellybutton?
They taste disgusting. I'll pass.
37. Tongue on your other private areas? (female)
My nipples are mediocre.
38. Zodiac sign?
Pisces.
39. Tips to turn you on?
Massages. Lots of massages. Praise me, give me confidence. Give me something simple to perform that I can feel proud of myself for doing. I also find cunnilinguis super fun, so if you ever need a tongue...
New Twitter! (anxiousounce)
Posted 10 years agoBowing to the combined pressure of staying in contact with friends and publications (a few I'm hoping to submit more art to soon) that have rightfully abandoned facebook to the great-aunts of the world - "Uncle Bob's hernia got worse. Keep him in your prayers" and "Life is happiness indeed, I have everything I need!"s - and this whole journal here of people arguing pro-twitter, I've gotten one!
I'm http://twitter.com/AnxiousOunce , drop by sometime! (a name I adopt in places like my tumblr, fetish fA account, etc. where I want to keep it furries only).
Which, actually, I'll spam here - FetAffinity and Furry Tumblr, because those could use more eyes. Couldn't we all...?
I don't have a game plan... I'll probably post wips and sketches, I've been looking for a place to put all that art I draw and don't finish - and retweet amusingly fluffy anecdotes, but I do intend to keep it quite furry. I want to become more active in this community, the bustle of it, and there's so many more of you than I thought.
Follow me while you can, because I guarantee you I'll quit in rage and despair within a week x3
Of course, not just rookie mistakes, like typing the whole message into the recipent's bar and following my newspaper (boom, my timeline has two posts a minute, I had to unfollow fast or I couldn't see anything), but HOW DOES ANYONE DO ANYTHING WITH THIS. There's so many people, and constant conversation turns to noise soon enough - to say nothing of the character limit. Every one of my regular sentences goes over the character limit - as a speed reader, speed talker and a speed typist I lean towards the verbose and bloated. It feels like I'm whittling down my own brain to fit my thoughts into 140 characters. It's maddening - aggravating - to try to acronym and cut short every syllable I utter. Garn... you use proper English, you're regarded as a freak!
I'm http://twitter.com/AnxiousOunce , drop by sometime! (a name I adopt in places like my tumblr, fetish fA account, etc. where I want to keep it furries only).
Which, actually, I'll spam here - FetAffinity and Furry Tumblr, because those could use more eyes. Couldn't we all...?
I don't have a game plan... I'll probably post wips and sketches, I've been looking for a place to put all that art I draw and don't finish - and retweet amusingly fluffy anecdotes, but I do intend to keep it quite furry. I want to become more active in this community, the bustle of it, and there's so many more of you than I thought.
Follow me while you can, because I guarantee you I'll quit in rage and despair within a week x3
Of course, not just rookie mistakes, like typing the whole message into the recipent's bar and following my newspaper (boom, my timeline has two posts a minute, I had to unfollow fast or I couldn't see anything), but HOW DOES ANYONE DO ANYTHING WITH THIS. There's so many people, and constant conversation turns to noise soon enough - to say nothing of the character limit. Every one of my regular sentences goes over the character limit - as a speed reader, speed talker and a speed typist I lean towards the verbose and bloated. It feels like I'm whittling down my own brain to fit my thoughts into 140 characters. It's maddening - aggravating - to try to acronym and cut short every syllable I utter. Garn... you use proper English, you're regarded as a freak!
Kink Test
Posted 11 years agoStolen from 
ShyCrestedGirl. I'm apparently much harder to pin down than I thought... and this ain't exactly perfect, since I really dislike being movement impaired and bondage has always frustrated me in practice. Perhaps I need a more experienced master sometime.
ShyCrestedGirl. I'm apparently much harder to pin down than I thought... and this ain't exactly perfect, since I really dislike being movement impaired and bondage has always frustrated me in practice. Perhaps I need a more experienced master sometime.
== Results from http://bdsmtest.org/ ==
93% Non-monogamist
84% Experimentalist
80% Bondage Receiver
79% Exhibitionist
79% Switch
76% Dominant
75% Voyeur
68% Submissive
67% Primal (Predator)
66% Brat Tamer
64% Girl/Boy
63% Bondage Giver
63% Daddy/Mommy
61% Brat
57% Primal (Prey)
51% Slave
50% Master/Mistress
48% Pervert
46% Masochist
46% Sadist
46% Vanilla
45% Degradation Receiver
36% All-Rounder
29% Degradation Giver
See my results online at http://bdsmtest.org/result.php?id=52725Quotes you might enjoy...Harbison's "Deliberate Regression"
Posted 11 years agoI'm reading this great analysis, Robert Harbison's "Deliberate Regression: The disastrous history of Romantic individualism in thought and art, from Jean-Jacques-Rosseau to twentieth-century Fascism," as this guy tries to claim everything about the ninteenth century's European art was a surrender to the dark torments of the dreary side of life, from Rosseau to Revolutions to Romanticism to Ruskin to Reich, the ultimate expression of "there is no absolute truth except what the individual says it is, or a myth or a child or a feeling." It's so joyously intense and full of horseshit, I love it. But it's an invaluable resource to how people project their own bullshit into their art. I thought you'd enjoy some of the better quotes -
"A nearer example than Homer of a naively materialistic world, the Nibelungenlied, lays over bare possession and maintenance a powerful mythology of waste. Expenditure is heroism there, sign of a craving within the limited confines for largeness. The Kalevala, by contrast, is remarkable for its sober contentment with cleanliness as a measure of civilization and for concentrating on its dark corner without pretending to prefer it to sitting by the window." The antonym of that is Romanticism incarnate.
"The unthinking jingoist with an instinctive loathing of aliens only becomes dangerous when allied with a theorist of differences [Jakob Grimm] who has systematized his idea of Germanness and begins to legislate contamination, seeing all mixture and alteration of boundaries as disease rather than growth."
On Pugin's Gothic: "One of the sweeping effects of the new style is its regressive influence on legibility - plates and plans labeled in and public inscriptions written in black letter... an adherence to the past which adopts literally obscuring features like this is perhaps superstition as much as aesthetic revival, and the enthusiasm for decorative lettering ranging from lips of chalices to cornices and ceilings is far from an interest in clarity and explanation: it attempts to drag language back into a dark tangle of emblem and charm and inscrutable blob-shape. ...All visions of the past have less diversity in them than the quietest present, and in Pugin's middle ages everyone feels the same thing... His rationality, which seems to some now his most progressive quality, is the kind which finds reasons for things too easily."
On national icon - "The Germans even manage to lay claim to night and bad weather, Italy already having spoken for sun and clear skies. The Nachwachen von Bonaventura, Novalis and Wagner are seen in retrospect great German patriots of night."
On Blake: "Trying to present sweetness Blake makes a sickly pastoral, vague Gothick adorned with vegetable ringlets. His beauty is always more compelling when confused with terror, so his respectable old men are tyrants, God obscene in oriental splendor, power felt as fear... Nebuchadnezzar's muscles flow over him like a deluge, or cover him like tree bark, the flow pattern of his beard as much geological as fluid, the conflicting arches behind solid as roots and flexible as rivers... Though their principles can be explained, in some sense Blake's designs cannot be understood, because the clearer one becomes about their structure the less sense it makes, which places him in the class of authentic primitives whose language is spoken beneath the threshold of translatability."
I fucking love this type of book, the ones with a masochistic joy in wallowing in memories it would rather be left unsaid. Last good one of these I remember was Christa Woolf's "A Model Childhood," the one about a woman on vacation to her childhood home in Communist Poland with her husband and daughter, recalling her childhood when it was a part of Nazi Germany. It's one of the most compelling autobiographies I've ever read, since she basically drags you into the soul of a ten-year-old girl, with all the sadism that implies, then throws that up against the wall of history...
"A nearer example than Homer of a naively materialistic world, the Nibelungenlied, lays over bare possession and maintenance a powerful mythology of waste. Expenditure is heroism there, sign of a craving within the limited confines for largeness. The Kalevala, by contrast, is remarkable for its sober contentment with cleanliness as a measure of civilization and for concentrating on its dark corner without pretending to prefer it to sitting by the window." The antonym of that is Romanticism incarnate.
"The unthinking jingoist with an instinctive loathing of aliens only becomes dangerous when allied with a theorist of differences [Jakob Grimm] who has systematized his idea of Germanness and begins to legislate contamination, seeing all mixture and alteration of boundaries as disease rather than growth."
On Pugin's Gothic: "One of the sweeping effects of the new style is its regressive influence on legibility - plates and plans labeled in and public inscriptions written in black letter... an adherence to the past which adopts literally obscuring features like this is perhaps superstition as much as aesthetic revival, and the enthusiasm for decorative lettering ranging from lips of chalices to cornices and ceilings is far from an interest in clarity and explanation: it attempts to drag language back into a dark tangle of emblem and charm and inscrutable blob-shape. ...All visions of the past have less diversity in them than the quietest present, and in Pugin's middle ages everyone feels the same thing... His rationality, which seems to some now his most progressive quality, is the kind which finds reasons for things too easily."
On national icon - "The Germans even manage to lay claim to night and bad weather, Italy already having spoken for sun and clear skies. The Nachwachen von Bonaventura, Novalis and Wagner are seen in retrospect great German patriots of night."
On Blake: "Trying to present sweetness Blake makes a sickly pastoral, vague Gothick adorned with vegetable ringlets. His beauty is always more compelling when confused with terror, so his respectable old men are tyrants, God obscene in oriental splendor, power felt as fear... Nebuchadnezzar's muscles flow over him like a deluge, or cover him like tree bark, the flow pattern of his beard as much geological as fluid, the conflicting arches behind solid as roots and flexible as rivers... Though their principles can be explained, in some sense Blake's designs cannot be understood, because the clearer one becomes about their structure the less sense it makes, which places him in the class of authentic primitives whose language is spoken beneath the threshold of translatability."
I fucking love this type of book, the ones with a masochistic joy in wallowing in memories it would rather be left unsaid. Last good one of these I remember was Christa Woolf's "A Model Childhood," the one about a woman on vacation to her childhood home in Communist Poland with her husband and daughter, recalling her childhood when it was a part of Nazi Germany. It's one of the most compelling autobiographies I've ever read, since she basically drags you into the soul of a ten-year-old girl, with all the sadism that implies, then throws that up against the wall of history...
Typing this from historic Savannah, GA
Posted 11 years agoI'm in the South! And you can smell it in the air. Saltwater, refinery fumes, dead frogs and humidity. It brings me back.
I have no idea what we're doing besides all the old houses and cemeteries, but I'd love to wander around SCAD. I never got the chance to tour it (but judging by the refineries upwind of it, I think they get their creativity from the fumes).
Still, Christmas was fun! We had lovely times, good times with relatives, and gifts are always nice (my father found a DVD of "The Tune," which he hasn't seen since it was in theatres and is still stuck in his head - it's a night for us). This was one of those things that we didn't actually plan, we just threw stuff into bags and booked the hotel from the road. We're seven states down - it's 11 PM and we've been driving since 5 AM from Grand Rapids. We're all cracked.
I've been having a lot of internal crises over what I want to be doing...
I want to animate but I don't have the energy to complete all the films I've storyboarded, not even one of them.
I want to be selling adopts, and I have the designs, but I don't have the courage to throw it out there and I don't have the friendship of the sort of people who buy adopts (everyone else I'm competing with has been doing this since they were fifteen).
My draftsmanship is starting to plateau, after life drawing gave me some horrible habits (I gained confidence and anatomy skill at the expense of being able to take a drawing slowly and see what works) that I'm still trying to break.
I REALLY want to have enough OCs to write stories and get fanart and start my own weird world of interacting characters, but I throw away more than I create. Then I want to sell those so I can, you know, pay rent and everything, but I don't.
In short, all I know is that "I can draw" and I don't really know what I'm going to do with it.
I finished a lot of furry sketches on the drive down, though, so that's fun! I'll post them as soon as I can get to the scanner.
On a lighter note, I really wanted a place to reblog my furry friends on tumblr, and to post all my sketches and garbage until I'm established enough to put those behind a patreon or something. anxiousounce.tumblr.com
I have no idea what we're doing besides all the old houses and cemeteries, but I'd love to wander around SCAD. I never got the chance to tour it (but judging by the refineries upwind of it, I think they get their creativity from the fumes).
Still, Christmas was fun! We had lovely times, good times with relatives, and gifts are always nice (my father found a DVD of "The Tune," which he hasn't seen since it was in theatres and is still stuck in his head - it's a night for us). This was one of those things that we didn't actually plan, we just threw stuff into bags and booked the hotel from the road. We're seven states down - it's 11 PM and we've been driving since 5 AM from Grand Rapids. We're all cracked.
I've been having a lot of internal crises over what I want to be doing...
I want to animate but I don't have the energy to complete all the films I've storyboarded, not even one of them.
I want to be selling adopts, and I have the designs, but I don't have the courage to throw it out there and I don't have the friendship of the sort of people who buy adopts (everyone else I'm competing with has been doing this since they were fifteen).
My draftsmanship is starting to plateau, after life drawing gave me some horrible habits (I gained confidence and anatomy skill at the expense of being able to take a drawing slowly and see what works) that I'm still trying to break.
I REALLY want to have enough OCs to write stories and get fanart and start my own weird world of interacting characters, but I throw away more than I create. Then I want to sell those so I can, you know, pay rent and everything, but I don't.
In short, all I know is that "I can draw" and I don't really know what I'm going to do with it.
I finished a lot of furry sketches on the drive down, though, so that's fun! I'll post them as soon as I can get to the scanner.
On a lighter note, I really wanted a place to reblog my furry friends on tumblr, and to post all my sketches and garbage until I'm established enough to put those behind a patreon or something. anxiousounce.tumblr.com
What's my ethnicity?
Posted 11 years agoStolen from 
Lionus http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6330850/
BRITISH
[] You drink a lot of tea.
[x] You know what a brolly is.
[] Deal or No Deal has taken over your life.
[] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[x] You use the word "bugger" or the phrase "bloody hell".
[x] Fish and chips are yummy.
[x] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[x] You dislike Emos almost as much as you dislike Chavs.
[] It's football.... Not soccer!
5
AUSTRALIAN
[] You wear flip-flops all year.
[] You call flip-flops "thongs" not flip-flops.
[x] You love a backyard barbie.
[x] You know a barbie is not a doll.
[] You love the beach.
[x] Sometimes you swear without realizing.
[] You're a sports fanatic.
[] You are tanned.
[x] You're a bit of a bogan.
4
ITALIAN
[] Your last name ends in a vowel.
[] Your grandmother makes her own sauces.
[x] You know how a real meatball tastes.
[x] You know Italian songs.
[] You have dark hair and dark eye color.
[] You speak some Italian.
[] You are under (5’7¾”)
[] Pizza/spaghetti is the best foods in the world.
[] You talk with your hands.
2
SPANISH
[] You say 'member' instead of remember.
[] You speak Spanish or some.
[] You like tacos.
[] YoU TyPe LiKe ThIs On YoUr CoMpUtEr
[] You are dark skinned.
[x] You know what a Puta is.
[x] You talk fast occasionally.
[] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[x] You know what platanos are.
3
RUSSIAN
[] You say villain as: Vee-lon.
[x] You have more than one vodka bottle in your house.
[] You know the difference between channel 1 and RTVI.
[x] You know of somebody named Natasha.
[x] You don't get cold easily.
[] You get into contests all the time.
[x] You can easily make do with the cold weather.
[] You can speak some Russian.
[] You love listening to techno
4
POLISH
[x] Your parents let you drink.
[x] You know what a pizda is.
[x] You have Pierogi at least once a week.
[] People always ask to see your "kielbasa" checking if you're Polish.
[] People randomly call you their best friend.
[x] You have made/know what pisanki are.
[] You laughed when Poland beat the USA in the 2002 World Cup
4
IRISH
[x] You think beer is the best.
[x] You have a bad temper. (From time to time)
[] Your last name starts with a Mc, Murph, O', Fitz or ends with ay, on, un, an, in, ry, ly, y.
[x] You have blue or green eyes.
[x] You like the colour green. (So long as it isn't orange)
[x] You have been to a St. Patty's day party.
[x] You have a family member from Ireland.
[] You have/had red hair.
[] You have/had freckles.
6
ASIAN
[] You have slanty/small eyes.
[x] You like rice a lot
[] You are good at math.
[x] You have played the piano.
[] You have family from Asia
[x] You laugh sometimes covering your mouth.
[] Most people think you're Chinese
[] You call hurricanes typhoons.
[] You go to Baulko.
3
GERMAN
[x] You like bread.
[] You think American Chocolate is good.
[x] You speak some German
[x] You know what Schnitzel is.
[x] You hate it when stupid people call you a Nazi. (Feminazi? Yes.)
[x] You went to Pre-school.
[] You're under 5'4".
[x] You have been to Germany
6
CANADIAN
[] You like to ride 4 wheelers.
[x] You love beer.
[x] You say eh.
[x] You know what poutine is.
[x] You speak some French.
[x] You love Tim Horton's.
[] At one point you lived in a farm house.
[x] You watch(ed) Degrassi.
6
FRENCH
[x] You like French toast.
[x] You love wine.
[x] You speak a little or are fluent in French. (I can't pronounce the language but I know how it works.)
[x] You have eaten a snail.
[x] You like fashion.
[] You have been to France.
[] You are either a Catholic, a Muslim, a Protestant or a Jew.
5
AMERICAN
[] You like fast food.
[x] You call football football and soccer soccer...
[] You can trace your ancestery back to Ellis Island... (Nope. My dad's side came through Montreal in the blight, and my mom's side came to New Amsterdam, that's how far back that one was.)
[] You watch way too much TV
[] You are obsessed with the royal wedding
[x] You have a dog
[] You have a cushy job
x] You were sad when Steve Jobs died
3
NORWEGIAN
[x] You know what lefse is.
[] You can speak some Norwegian.
[x] You love trolls.
[x] You know what lutefisk is.
[] You have been whale hunting/seeing.
[] Food made with potatoes and flour rule.
[] Fish is a huge part of your diet.
[x] You have blue or green eyes and have blonde or brown hair.
[x] You know how to fish or have fished before.
5
BELGIAN
[] You grow some small vegetables in the yard.
[x] You like french fries.
[x] You think Belgian chocolate rules.
[] You know that the official best beer in the world is Belgian.
[] You speak both Dutch and French.
[x] You like Belgian waffles.
[] You call a pub or bar a café.
[] You fully realize and acknowledge that your football team sucks.
[] You drive/own a French or German car.
[x] You have a lot of comments on your government.
4
DUTCH
[x] You like the color orange.
[] You are a football enthusiast.
[x] You often go to 'coffee shops'.
[x] You know what is meant by 'coffee shops'.
[x] You tend to overreact and show your emotions.
[x] You have a cheerful nature.
[x] You like the sea.
[x] You are good at building handiwork projects. (does being an artist count?)
[x] You tend to favour the megalomania. (I don't support them, but they're so fun to watch.)
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ARAB
[] You say "3ngleezy" instead of "english".
[] You laugh at other accents, especially Egyptian
[x] You beckon at things with your forehead or eyes.
[] You like seafood, especially fish, more than any other type of food.
[] You are tanned.
[] You have black hair.
[] Your last name starts with "Al" or "bin"
[] You like showing off, especially with new cars and clothes.
[] You dislike reading. (I will never understand this stereotype, since I went to high school in the local muslim neighborhood, and we all read voraciously.)
1
RESUME:
British 5/9
Australian 4/9
Italian 2/9
Spanish 3/9
Russian 4/9
Polish 4/7
Irish 6/9
Asian 3/9
German 6/8
Canadian 3/8
French 5/7
American 3/8
Norwegian 5/9
Belgian 4/10
Dutch 8/9
Arab 1/9
It works - I AM Dutch!
Lionus http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6330850/BRITISH
[] You drink a lot of tea.
[x] You know what a brolly is.
[] Deal or No Deal has taken over your life.
[] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[x] You use the word "bugger" or the phrase "bloody hell".
[x] Fish and chips are yummy.
[x] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[x] You dislike Emos almost as much as you dislike Chavs.
[] It's football.... Not soccer!
5
AUSTRALIAN
[] You wear flip-flops all year.
[] You call flip-flops "thongs" not flip-flops.
[x] You love a backyard barbie.
[x] You know a barbie is not a doll.
[] You love the beach.
[x] Sometimes you swear without realizing.
[] You're a sports fanatic.
[] You are tanned.
[x] You're a bit of a bogan.
4
ITALIAN
[] Your last name ends in a vowel.
[] Your grandmother makes her own sauces.
[x] You know how a real meatball tastes.
[x] You know Italian songs.
[] You have dark hair and dark eye color.
[] You speak some Italian.
[] You are under (5’7¾”)
[] Pizza/spaghetti is the best foods in the world.
[] You talk with your hands.
2
SPANISH
[] You say 'member' instead of remember.
[] You speak Spanish or some.
[] You like tacos.
[] YoU TyPe LiKe ThIs On YoUr CoMpUtEr
[] You are dark skinned.
[x] You know what a Puta is.
[x] You talk fast occasionally.
[] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[x] You know what platanos are.
3
RUSSIAN
[] You say villain as: Vee-lon.
[x] You have more than one vodka bottle in your house.
[] You know the difference between channel 1 and RTVI.
[x] You know of somebody named Natasha.
[x] You don't get cold easily.
[] You get into contests all the time.
[x] You can easily make do with the cold weather.
[] You can speak some Russian.
[] You love listening to techno
4
POLISH
[x] Your parents let you drink.
[x] You know what a pizda is.
[x] You have Pierogi at least once a week.
[] People always ask to see your "kielbasa" checking if you're Polish.
[] People randomly call you their best friend.
[x] You have made/know what pisanki are.
[] You laughed when Poland beat the USA in the 2002 World Cup
4
IRISH
[x] You think beer is the best.
[x] You have a bad temper. (From time to time)
[] Your last name starts with a Mc, Murph, O', Fitz or ends with ay, on, un, an, in, ry, ly, y.
[x] You have blue or green eyes.
[x] You like the colour green. (So long as it isn't orange)
[x] You have been to a St. Patty's day party.
[x] You have a family member from Ireland.
[] You have/had red hair.
[] You have/had freckles.
6
ASIAN
[] You have slanty/small eyes.
[x] You like rice a lot
[] You are good at math.
[x] You have played the piano.
[] You have family from Asia
[x] You laugh sometimes covering your mouth.
[] Most people think you're Chinese
[] You call hurricanes typhoons.
[] You go to Baulko.
3
GERMAN
[x] You like bread.
[] You think American Chocolate is good.
[x] You speak some German
[x] You know what Schnitzel is.
[x] You hate it when stupid people call you a Nazi. (Feminazi? Yes.)
[x] You went to Pre-school.
[] You're under 5'4".
[x] You have been to Germany
6
CANADIAN
[] You like to ride 4 wheelers.
[x] You love beer.
[x] You say eh.
[x] You know what poutine is.
[x] You speak some French.
[x] You love Tim Horton's.
[] At one point you lived in a farm house.
[x] You watch(ed) Degrassi.
6
FRENCH
[x] You like French toast.
[x] You love wine.
[x] You speak a little or are fluent in French. (I can't pronounce the language but I know how it works.)
[x] You have eaten a snail.
[x] You like fashion.
[] You have been to France.
[] You are either a Catholic, a Muslim, a Protestant or a Jew.
5
AMERICAN
[] You like fast food.
[x] You call football football and soccer soccer...
[] You can trace your ancestery back to Ellis Island... (Nope. My dad's side came through Montreal in the blight, and my mom's side came to New Amsterdam, that's how far back that one was.)
[] You watch way too much TV
[] You are obsessed with the royal wedding
[x] You have a dog
[] You have a cushy job
x] You were sad when Steve Jobs died
3
NORWEGIAN
[x] You know what lefse is.
[] You can speak some Norwegian.
[x] You love trolls.
[x] You know what lutefisk is.
[] You have been whale hunting/seeing.
[] Food made with potatoes and flour rule.
[] Fish is a huge part of your diet.
[x] You have blue or green eyes and have blonde or brown hair.
[x] You know how to fish or have fished before.
5
BELGIAN
[] You grow some small vegetables in the yard.
[x] You like french fries.
[x] You think Belgian chocolate rules.
[] You know that the official best beer in the world is Belgian.
[] You speak both Dutch and French.
[x] You like Belgian waffles.
[] You call a pub or bar a café.
[] You fully realize and acknowledge that your football team sucks.
[] You drive/own a French or German car.
[x] You have a lot of comments on your government.
4
DUTCH
[x] You like the color orange.
[] You are a football enthusiast.
[x] You often go to 'coffee shops'.
[x] You know what is meant by 'coffee shops'.
[x] You tend to overreact and show your emotions.
[x] You have a cheerful nature.
[x] You like the sea.
[x] You are good at building handiwork projects. (does being an artist count?)
[x] You tend to favour the megalomania. (I don't support them, but they're so fun to watch.)
8
ARAB
[] You say "3ngleezy" instead of "english".
[] You laugh at other accents, especially Egyptian
[x] You beckon at things with your forehead or eyes.
[] You like seafood, especially fish, more than any other type of food.
[] You are tanned.
[] You have black hair.
[] Your last name starts with "Al" or "bin"
[] You like showing off, especially with new cars and clothes.
[] You dislike reading. (I will never understand this stereotype, since I went to high school in the local muslim neighborhood, and we all read voraciously.)
1
RESUME:
British 5/9
Australian 4/9
Italian 2/9
Spanish 3/9
Russian 4/9
Polish 4/7
Irish 6/9
Asian 3/9
German 6/8
Canadian 3/8
French 5/7
American 3/8
Norwegian 5/9
Belgian 4/10
Dutch 8/9
Arab 1/9
It works - I AM Dutch!
In light of the Chlorine Gas leak at MFF...
Posted 11 years agohttp://vimeo.com/84460389
(If anyone has a place to watch the full film, I'll be your slave for life. I saw it at IFF and it was incredibly damn funny.)
(If anyone has a place to watch the full film, I'll be your slave for life. I saw it at IFF and it was incredibly damn funny.)
Mighty slow around these parts - plus genetic hypochondria
Posted 11 years agoIt's been super slow these last few days... literally, only one piece of art uploaded yesterday in my dash. I suppose it's only fair, since I have shit I ought to be doing. Including two final projects which I still have yet to finish. I do hate working in film, because there's no way to speed things up when you're familiar with the material. (The fact that executives see films so many times that they demand they go by faster is part of the reason so many films are hard to watch these days.)
And audio work, which I SHOULD be a natural at, with my heightened sense of hearing and perfect pitch. But I can't wrap my head around actually doing it. I suppose it's like that with everything I try. Mechanical work, organization, programming, it terrifies me. Too many steps.
Here's the hypochondria bit.
I've been reading a bit of biology, then learned about Klinefelter's Syndrome - the condition of having three chromosomes, XXY, a spare chromosome from either mom or dad. It's apparently quite common.
I DO fit every symptom -
*AMAB
*high chance of genderqueerness
*poor testosterone
*abnormally tall
*low muscle tone
*fragile bones
*thick head hair
*high chance of ASD
*youthful build and face
*slight body hair
*gigantic fucking hips
*poor coordination
*low energy levels (nail right on the head)
*heightened color perception
*puffy lymph nodes
*gynecomastia (I used to think they were just man boobs, but I realize that when I gain and lose weight all over my body, they stubbornly remain an A cup, even though I'm the thinnest I've ever been, and I feel tissue under them)
*an endomorphic body type
*disproportionately long limbs (I can't find sleeves that go over my wrist in shirts my size)
*language deficits
*flat feet
*depression
... and as I mention above, I have awful executive functions. There's "Armchair Diagnosis," and there's "Holy fuck, there's one simple, plausible explanation for every unexplainable thing wrong with me in my life, and there's a word for what I am."
I don't have the hypogonadism, that I'm aware of - I'm a grower, not a shower. (Even more so than normal - it goes from 2" to 6", and it's pretty damn thick and unwieldy. It's actually been a hindrance during sex that I simply don't fit, and my perineum is so fucking gigantic that I literally can't tuck. Heaven knows I've tried, but there's no space for your balls.) But this is all in proportion to my gigantic fucking body. Next to my 40" hips (mostly bone), it looks like Michelangelo's David. But hypogonadism isn't measured in physical size, anyway. So I have no actual way of knowing.
Neither do I know if I'm sterile. Sometime I'ma wank and throw it under the microscope sometime, and see if there's anything screwy. At least I don't plan to donate sperm anytime soon... or have kids, period. I'm awful with them, I'd screw one up for life.
So, to cap, I have no way of knowing the actual "A-ha!" symptoms without running any sort of test - for hypogonadism, sterility, or my chromosomes. So I probably won't afford that anytime soon. So there's something to keep me awake a few nights, wondering if it's true or not. Wondering what the hell I am.
Ironic that my fursona isn't a calico, in light of this.
Also, I plan to swing by MFF saturday. Just a heads up.
And audio work, which I SHOULD be a natural at, with my heightened sense of hearing and perfect pitch. But I can't wrap my head around actually doing it. I suppose it's like that with everything I try. Mechanical work, organization, programming, it terrifies me. Too many steps.
Here's the hypochondria bit.
I've been reading a bit of biology, then learned about Klinefelter's Syndrome - the condition of having three chromosomes, XXY, a spare chromosome from either mom or dad. It's apparently quite common.
I DO fit every symptom -
*AMAB
*high chance of genderqueerness
*poor testosterone
*abnormally tall
*low muscle tone
*fragile bones
*thick head hair
*high chance of ASD
*youthful build and face
*slight body hair
*gigantic fucking hips
*poor coordination
*low energy levels (nail right on the head)
*heightened color perception
*puffy lymph nodes
*gynecomastia (I used to think they were just man boobs, but I realize that when I gain and lose weight all over my body, they stubbornly remain an A cup, even though I'm the thinnest I've ever been, and I feel tissue under them)
*an endomorphic body type
*disproportionately long limbs (I can't find sleeves that go over my wrist in shirts my size)
*language deficits
*flat feet
*depression
... and as I mention above, I have awful executive functions. There's "Armchair Diagnosis," and there's "Holy fuck, there's one simple, plausible explanation for every unexplainable thing wrong with me in my life, and there's a word for what I am."
I don't have the hypogonadism, that I'm aware of - I'm a grower, not a shower. (Even more so than normal - it goes from 2" to 6", and it's pretty damn thick and unwieldy. It's actually been a hindrance during sex that I simply don't fit, and my perineum is so fucking gigantic that I literally can't tuck. Heaven knows I've tried, but there's no space for your balls.) But this is all in proportion to my gigantic fucking body. Next to my 40" hips (mostly bone), it looks like Michelangelo's David. But hypogonadism isn't measured in physical size, anyway. So I have no actual way of knowing.
Neither do I know if I'm sterile. Sometime I'ma wank and throw it under the microscope sometime, and see if there's anything screwy. At least I don't plan to donate sperm anytime soon... or have kids, period. I'm awful with them, I'd screw one up for life.
So, to cap, I have no way of knowing the actual "A-ha!" symptoms without running any sort of test - for hypogonadism, sterility, or my chromosomes. So I probably won't afford that anytime soon. So there's something to keep me awake a few nights, wondering if it's true or not. Wondering what the hell I am.
Ironic that my fursona isn't a calico, in light of this.
Also, I plan to swing by MFF saturday. Just a heads up.
Going Back Over Things - How do I improve my compositions?
Posted 11 years agoI've recently been frustrated at my recent art. I seem to be losing my skill at composition, losing my skill at negative space. I'm moving out of the theoretical world and the more I draw, the more bloated it gets. My shapes are mishandled andI'm starting to lose (most terrifyingly) my ability to stage panels or pictures. In both animation and comics, that's a pretty fucking vital skill. I'm super glad at what I've learned out of life drawing, and my speed has picked up, but my ability to sit down and overthink something is getting flabby.
I've checked out, over the thanksgiving weekend, some of the classics... Arthur Wesley Dow's "Composition: Exercises in Art Structure," Johannes Itten's "Gestaltungs- und Formenlehre," just trying to get my brain in shape. Literally, shape. Just to make SHAPES again. That's something I miss. I've been drawing THINGS for the last few months, and it's starting to fuck me up. As I start using easier and easier design pieces, I'm getting less graphic. It all comes to a head with the page of a comic I'm writing - I spent several days hand-calligraphing various signs and picking the colors up - typography and color theory are two of my obsessions now - and absolutely destroyed the composition of the main panel by slapping texture over the color. Wake up call.
I also mean to finally start checking my deviantart again - and posting all my old stuff from HERE onto THERE. Assuming it's erectionless. I've gotten used to such freedom - hell, my most-viewed piece on here is from a fetish most people don't know has a NAME - it's gonna be tough.
I figure it's easiest to schedule when I visit. I wonder when it'll be. Tuesday evenings be my "Deviantart checking day?" Make that mandatory for myself? I haven't viewed it since I vowed to start viewing it two months ago. All the artists I was gushing over are either on tumblr or here.
And it's hilarious and yet scary to find them again. "Wait, in the six months since we talked, you have a thousand watchers and a bustling commissions list?" I really, really want to get some sort of professionalism into my art, and I still haven't figured out how paypal works.
Also, I have an art tumblr myself now -> waxmenagerie.tumblr.com
I've checked out, over the thanksgiving weekend, some of the classics... Arthur Wesley Dow's "Composition: Exercises in Art Structure," Johannes Itten's "Gestaltungs- und Formenlehre," just trying to get my brain in shape. Literally, shape. Just to make SHAPES again. That's something I miss. I've been drawing THINGS for the last few months, and it's starting to fuck me up. As I start using easier and easier design pieces, I'm getting less graphic. It all comes to a head with the page of a comic I'm writing - I spent several days hand-calligraphing various signs and picking the colors up - typography and color theory are two of my obsessions now - and absolutely destroyed the composition of the main panel by slapping texture over the color. Wake up call.
I also mean to finally start checking my deviantart again - and posting all my old stuff from HERE onto THERE. Assuming it's erectionless. I've gotten used to such freedom - hell, my most-viewed piece on here is from a fetish most people don't know has a NAME - it's gonna be tough.
I figure it's easiest to schedule when I visit. I wonder when it'll be. Tuesday evenings be my "Deviantart checking day?" Make that mandatory for myself? I haven't viewed it since I vowed to start viewing it two months ago. All the artists I was gushing over are either on tumblr or here.
And it's hilarious and yet scary to find them again. "Wait, in the six months since we talked, you have a thousand watchers and a bustling commissions list?" I really, really want to get some sort of professionalism into my art, and I still haven't figured out how paypal works.
Also, I have an art tumblr myself now -> waxmenagerie.tumblr.com
Re: the Grand Jury decision: where are your local protests?
Posted 11 years agoEveryone add to this with where your protests are going on, that locals may know.
Here in Chicago, the protests are meeting at Jackson and State tomorrow morning, rather orderly. Dress for extreme windchill. 7-11 daily for the future. It's a swell bunch and I recommend you fuckers come on down if you can.
There was also a group a few hours ago marching from the police headquarters, and another group holding vigil at the headquarters itself.
Up in Milwaukee, you guys I hear are at Red Arrow Park.
In Toronto, I believe you guys are massing at the U.S. Consulate.
Whoever knows a closer location...
File this under "Shocked and disappointed and kinda sick but not at all surprised."
Here in Chicago, the protests are meeting at Jackson and State tomorrow morning, rather orderly. Dress for extreme windchill. 7-11 daily for the future. It's a swell bunch and I recommend you fuckers come on down if you can.
There was also a group a few hours ago marching from the police headquarters, and another group holding vigil at the headquarters itself.
Up in Milwaukee, you guys I hear are at Red Arrow Park.
In Toronto, I believe you guys are massing at the U.S. Consulate.
Whoever knows a closer location...
File this under "Shocked and disappointed and kinda sick but not at all surprised."
UGGGGGH
Posted 11 years agoI have two major multi-image projects I want to get done soon... one a full-color digital comic, the other a cohering of several sketches. My daily schedule is ridiculously ragged - since the animation building closes at 10 PM, my late sleep and busy day keep me from lightboxes. My work is thus restricted to what I can do between ten and three AM, which is my target for falling asleep on non-early-shift days.
In the absence of being able to animate anything with goddamn paper, I've been trying to improve my digital art at night.
I'm not a traditional purist, in fact I really hate those guys, but I mostly got into animation for that aphrodisiacal feeling of paper under my hand. Only the wondrous maw of digital color can alleviate this for me - I adore being able to fish out any color I should need. So I spend a fuckton of time on that until I have it perfect.
Either way, after working from about seven to two on some of these pictures, iTunes freezes my entire computer. I have to reboot it.
Now I find that the files I saved are no longer in my folder - and the screen captures I took as backup did not save to desktop, fuck knows why. Gone.
The entire night's work is gone, just when I'm getting productive.
These were not easy things to lose, mind you. One had hundreds of local and tonal color swatches (which I thought I had saved but apparently not), out of which I had to adjust the palettes of four characters in three lighting schemes. And I don't just slap on a transparency and call it done, I adjust the hue and leaning of each color to preserve and interest the saturation (so that, for example, under a slightly magenta light her green eyes don't turn completely gray). I'm an absolute whore for color theory.So that's fucking off.
Another was a complete color script for a sixteen-page comic with lots of subtle harmonies and two diurnal shifts, including a broad sweep (that I was pretty proud of) that comprised highway scenes, interiors of a backwoods office, a '70s motel room, and a nighttime winter national park. And everything harmonized with everything else. I was so fucking proud of that.
Still another was a fully inked comic page.
Currently, the only thing from this session that actually saved was a doodle I did to test one of the color schemes.
The worst part? I spent an hour simply drawing, for the comics page, a close-up of a road sign in chunky sans serif modern font, that I decided to draw by hand for texture. So, basically, Helvetica by hand. I spent an hour reworking and erasing white letters until I had them perfectly kerned, perfectly smooth, made of right angles and perfect curves. IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED TO ADJUST TEXT BY HAND, YOU DON'T KNOW THIS TYPOGRAPHER'S PAIN.
WAY too fucking discouraging. And I can't even play loud music to alleviate my grief, the walls are paper thin. I hate my internal clock. YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY ROUND ROUND RIGHT FUCKING ROUND.
In the absence of being able to animate anything with goddamn paper, I've been trying to improve my digital art at night.
I'm not a traditional purist, in fact I really hate those guys, but I mostly got into animation for that aphrodisiacal feeling of paper under my hand. Only the wondrous maw of digital color can alleviate this for me - I adore being able to fish out any color I should need. So I spend a fuckton of time on that until I have it perfect.
Either way, after working from about seven to two on some of these pictures, iTunes freezes my entire computer. I have to reboot it.
Now I find that the files I saved are no longer in my folder - and the screen captures I took as backup did not save to desktop, fuck knows why. Gone.
The entire night's work is gone, just when I'm getting productive.
These were not easy things to lose, mind you. One had hundreds of local and tonal color swatches (which I thought I had saved but apparently not), out of which I had to adjust the palettes of four characters in three lighting schemes. And I don't just slap on a transparency and call it done, I adjust the hue and leaning of each color to preserve and interest the saturation (so that, for example, under a slightly magenta light her green eyes don't turn completely gray). I'm an absolute whore for color theory.So that's fucking off.
Another was a complete color script for a sixteen-page comic with lots of subtle harmonies and two diurnal shifts, including a broad sweep (that I was pretty proud of) that comprised highway scenes, interiors of a backwoods office, a '70s motel room, and a nighttime winter national park. And everything harmonized with everything else. I was so fucking proud of that.
Still another was a fully inked comic page.
Currently, the only thing from this session that actually saved was a doodle I did to test one of the color schemes.
The worst part? I spent an hour simply drawing, for the comics page, a close-up of a road sign in chunky sans serif modern font, that I decided to draw by hand for texture. So, basically, Helvetica by hand. I spent an hour reworking and erasing white letters until I had them perfectly kerned, perfectly smooth, made of right angles and perfect curves. IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED TO ADJUST TEXT BY HAND, YOU DON'T KNOW THIS TYPOGRAPHER'S PAIN.
WAY too fucking discouraging. And I can't even play loud music to alleviate my grief, the walls are paper thin. I hate my internal clock. YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY ROUND ROUND RIGHT FUCKING ROUND.
Taking Commissions now (and by now I mean soon)
Posted 11 years agoUnfortunately I've forgotten to save my price graphic to my drive, it's sitting on a library computer (Bang-up job, past me).
And I'm not trying to pay the bills for this. I just don't want to have a resume gap for the month of September, and thought "artist for hire" would look damn good. I was fired in the first week of august and don't want a monthlong resume gap.
So officially I'm taking it, although I won't actually do anything for a day or two.
Summer has come and past, the innocence can never last...
On a side-note, time to celebrate! After I pruned some dead accounts from my watch list, I now officially have MORE WATCHERS THAN WATCHEES. Thank you
Mela-Ceroses for spanking through!
And I'm not trying to pay the bills for this. I just don't want to have a resume gap for the month of September, and thought "artist for hire" would look damn good. I was fired in the first week of august and don't want a monthlong resume gap.
So officially I'm taking it, although I won't actually do anything for a day or two.
Summer has come and past, the innocence can never last...
On a side-note, time to celebrate! After I pruned some dead accounts from my watch list, I now officially have MORE WATCHERS THAN WATCHEES. Thank you
Mela-Ceroses for spanking through!OC Meme
Posted 11 years agoTagged by :NicNak044:
RULES :
1. Pick one of your OCs.
2. Fill in the questions/statements as if you were your OC.
3. Tag four people to do this meme! (Optional)
4. Tell people that they been tagged with a link from your journal
OC picked: Liam-Anne the Ounce
1. What is your name?
Liam or Liam Anne or whatever ye please, sir.
2. Do you know why you were named that?
Well, "Liam" because it was the Irish form of William, as a birth name. "Anne" because it runs in the family.
I invented "Lsan" as a fantasy homebrew RPG handle at 11, and kept using it for my works. I didn't realize until I was in high school that, you know, this ties in; my mother's name is Lies Anne and my sister's Anneliese. Dutch names, they repeat every generation. I tried all the feminine middle names that ran in the family, but "Liam Lorraine" and "Liam Frances" didn't have the right impact, and made me sound like I was in my seventies. "Liam Anne" was simple enough.
I also tried "Liam Finn" for some time, to carry on my father's pen name (from his mother's maiden name), but William Finn is already a famous Disney animator and I didn't want to be confused with him.
Here, Buy my father's books and help pay for my college. I'm still amazed how many people remember the first book...
3. Single or taken?
Single and horrible at dating and therefore likely to remain so for some time ^u^"
4. Have any abilities or powers?
I have perfect pitch and can play most any song on the piano by ear, provided it's tonal enough. And I can always look at a book page just at page 100 or 200, it's like a shitty sixth sense. And I can date any color trend of the last hundred years into palette and period.
5. Stop being a Mary Sue!
Oh, but how can I, when I am it?
6. What's your eye color?
Some weirdly shifty green-gray-turqoise thing.
7. How about hair color?
Dirty blonde.
8. Have you any family members?
Not on HERE, thank god! X3 Nah, but I can go on about them all day. My entire extended family is full of stereotypical tropes.
9. Oh? How about pets?
Erm, the family's taking care of our Wheaten Terrier, Duffy, but he's blind and old and pustulent and probably has a year left in him...
10. That's cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don't like.
Awful popular music, from any era. And... dare I say it? Dubstep. Really, mediocre versions of anything. MRAs, racists, sexists, transphobes, homophobes, Putin, Boehner, the American Republican party and overarmed police forces. Whatever your ideology, the fact that the Republican party as a political force can still function under the weight of its own slime just kills my faith in humanity.
And "The Brothers Karamazov." If there's any book that you should not believe the hype on, it's that. So incredibly padded!
11. Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do?
I draw, tumble, read, play music, and repeat. I want to say "camping," but I have bad memories of the Boy Scouts, you understand...
12. Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before?
I wouldn't know, if I did it was probably by neglect, knowing how little I value human contact.
13. Ever… killed anyone before?
On or off the record?
14. What kind of animal are you?
A fluffy, stylish snow leopard! I picked it... literally because I didn't want to add color to my sketches.
15. Name your worst habits.
I'm a bit of a hoarder who can't throw things away, I have a habit of leaving things where they are because I assume there's a reason everything's lying there (even my own, my roommates complain about me leaving my underwear in the bathroom). And I can't keep a coherent schedule. If I'm to make tomorrow's classes, I should be asleep right now; I slept into the first 7/8 of a study abroad presentation my parents were counting on me to make this mo-afternoon. My internal clock is 30 hours.
16. Do you look up to anyone at all?
Well, just anyone who's doing something with their life... my cousin, who managed to make a living in a band, I'll forever respect him for that; some of my friends on here who can sell artwork and designs as a regular spending money deal, much less operate a print shop and sell at cons 0.0 (seriously, I don't know where you people have the energy for it); in fact, I have a peculiar fetish with anyone describable as "productive," or "dependable," or "perfect machine," or in general the type of person who anyone'd want to hire. I never had a libertarian phase... I've always been fascinated by the part of me that's attracted to the perfect machine of a person (being her, mainly).
All my fantasies are of being literally perfect. Maybe it's because with all my good grades as a kid, this is the only way I feel validated? My anxiety leaves me unable to imagine people loving me for me; instead I simply imagine a me that they don't have a reason to hate?
17. Are you gay, straight, or bisexual?
It ain't no lie, baby bi bi bi (bi bi)! I actually do wanna be a player in the game for two.
18. Do you go to school?
Yeahh...
19. Ever want to marry and have kids one day?
The thought of being tied to one person gives me chills, much less the thought of spawning life. Who knows, if I meet the right person... (though my uncis fertility by that period may not be up to par!)
20. Do you have fangirls/fanboys?
I hope I don't, otherwise I'm failing you X3
21. What are you most afraid of?
Crowds, failure, and tight spaces.
22. What do you usually wear?
Sweats, jeans, tees, lesbian sweaters, weird things like oversized T-shirts and silk lounge robes.
23. What's one food that tempts you?
Sushi. And milkshakes. And kebabs.
24. Am I annoying you?
It's getting old, and I need to do homework and sleep for the class I have in six hours.
25. Well, it's still not over!
Well, bless your heart.
26. What class are you (low class, middle class, high class)?
Everybody'll say middle. Middle, I'll say, though I have relatives who are higher and lower and therefore don't have a good frame of reference.
27. How many friends do you have?
Quite few! Like, twelve total across several places. I'm only counting meatspace, because while I have some great and amazing friends online, I don't know where the dividing line is on "friends" and "not-friends" on here, because I'm so open to everyone when I'm not embarrassed by myself.
28. What are your thoughts on pie?
It's a wonderful day for pie, you can ask any bird in the sky. Especially peach! I have a peach pie weakness. And apple - simple but classic.
30. Favorite drink?
Grapefruit juice, gingerbeer, milkshakes, red wine.
31. What's your favorite place?
My room / libraries / record shops.
32. Are you interested in anyone~?
I want friends first and foremost. I have the worst gaydar ever, and usually the genderfluid thing is kind of a turnoff - so I don't feel like risking my happiness to be turned down.
33. That was a stupid question.
Hey now...
34. Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean?
Lakes. Michigan's very, very good for lakes. I fucking love to swim, and freshwater, still lakes are sorta the perfect size for me. Water's much more predictable slash scary than land, but so exotic... although being a mermaid would leave me bored as hell...
35. What's your type?
Experimental, sorta muscly and androgynous. I don't really have a type other than "has good hygiene." That's my dealbreaker.
36. Any fetishes?
Hmmm... I'm pretty fucking unabashed that I enjoy a few things... transformation's easily my top choice, though chainplay comes in a second. I'm mostly interested in being perfect to the core; the talented whore or the probing maid or the dom queen or the rubber dolltoy or the chainslave fuckslut. If you don't insult me and let me think I'm doing it right, I'm a very, very grateful kitty. (Holy balls, am I still talking?)
37. Seme or uke?
My computer's too slow to take the quiz, so I'll say "Uke" to clear things up. I have that pleading big-eyed look, and 6'3" me loves the idea of being small and delicate sometimes.
38. Camping or indoors?
Indoors. I was a boy scout once and have some bad memories of camping. I like the sunsets and the Tom Thomson thing, but I'm a prissy fag who doesn't like to suffer or get dirty, ever, and who finds a gallery more enjoyable than a forest. Much as I love animals, I really hate nature. Civilization I may hate, but I can IGNORE that I'm in it. Nature, you can't.
And I tag...
Rahir 
WolfMama
usaf2222 
Maxi-Rover all of you mainly because I'm curious. If you don't do these, you can ignore them.
RULES :
1. Pick one of your OCs.
2. Fill in the questions/statements as if you were your OC.
3. Tag four people to do this meme! (Optional)
4. Tell people that they been tagged with a link from your journal
OC picked: Liam-Anne the Ounce
1. What is your name?
Liam or Liam Anne or whatever ye please, sir.
2. Do you know why you were named that?
Well, "Liam" because it was the Irish form of William, as a birth name. "Anne" because it runs in the family.
I invented "Lsan" as a fantasy homebrew RPG handle at 11, and kept using it for my works. I didn't realize until I was in high school that, you know, this ties in; my mother's name is Lies Anne and my sister's Anneliese. Dutch names, they repeat every generation. I tried all the feminine middle names that ran in the family, but "Liam Lorraine" and "Liam Frances" didn't have the right impact, and made me sound like I was in my seventies. "Liam Anne" was simple enough.
I also tried "Liam Finn" for some time, to carry on my father's pen name (from his mother's maiden name), but William Finn is already a famous Disney animator and I didn't want to be confused with him.
Here, Buy my father's books and help pay for my college. I'm still amazed how many people remember the first book...
3. Single or taken?
Single and horrible at dating and therefore likely to remain so for some time ^u^"
4. Have any abilities or powers?
I have perfect pitch and can play most any song on the piano by ear, provided it's tonal enough. And I can always look at a book page just at page 100 or 200, it's like a shitty sixth sense. And I can date any color trend of the last hundred years into palette and period.
5. Stop being a Mary Sue!
Oh, but how can I, when I am it?
6. What's your eye color?
Some weirdly shifty green-gray-turqoise thing.
7. How about hair color?
Dirty blonde.
8. Have you any family members?
Not on HERE, thank god! X3 Nah, but I can go on about them all day. My entire extended family is full of stereotypical tropes.
9. Oh? How about pets?
Erm, the family's taking care of our Wheaten Terrier, Duffy, but he's blind and old and pustulent and probably has a year left in him...
10. That's cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don't like.
Awful popular music, from any era. And... dare I say it? Dubstep. Really, mediocre versions of anything. MRAs, racists, sexists, transphobes, homophobes, Putin, Boehner, the American Republican party and overarmed police forces. Whatever your ideology, the fact that the Republican party as a political force can still function under the weight of its own slime just kills my faith in humanity.
And "The Brothers Karamazov." If there's any book that you should not believe the hype on, it's that. So incredibly padded!
11. Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do?
I draw, tumble, read, play music, and repeat. I want to say "camping," but I have bad memories of the Boy Scouts, you understand...
12. Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before?
I wouldn't know, if I did it was probably by neglect, knowing how little I value human contact.
13. Ever… killed anyone before?
On or off the record?
14. What kind of animal are you?
A fluffy, stylish snow leopard! I picked it... literally because I didn't want to add color to my sketches.
15. Name your worst habits.
I'm a bit of a hoarder who can't throw things away, I have a habit of leaving things where they are because I assume there's a reason everything's lying there (even my own, my roommates complain about me leaving my underwear in the bathroom). And I can't keep a coherent schedule. If I'm to make tomorrow's classes, I should be asleep right now; I slept into the first 7/8 of a study abroad presentation my parents were counting on me to make this mo-afternoon. My internal clock is 30 hours.
16. Do you look up to anyone at all?
Well, just anyone who's doing something with their life... my cousin, who managed to make a living in a band, I'll forever respect him for that; some of my friends on here who can sell artwork and designs as a regular spending money deal, much less operate a print shop and sell at cons 0.0 (seriously, I don't know where you people have the energy for it); in fact, I have a peculiar fetish with anyone describable as "productive," or "dependable," or "perfect machine," or in general the type of person who anyone'd want to hire. I never had a libertarian phase... I've always been fascinated by the part of me that's attracted to the perfect machine of a person (being her, mainly).
All my fantasies are of being literally perfect. Maybe it's because with all my good grades as a kid, this is the only way I feel validated? My anxiety leaves me unable to imagine people loving me for me; instead I simply imagine a me that they don't have a reason to hate?
17. Are you gay, straight, or bisexual?
It ain't no lie, baby bi bi bi (bi bi)! I actually do wanna be a player in the game for two.
18. Do you go to school?
Yeahh...
19. Ever want to marry and have kids one day?
The thought of being tied to one person gives me chills, much less the thought of spawning life. Who knows, if I meet the right person... (though my uncis fertility by that period may not be up to par!)
20. Do you have fangirls/fanboys?
I hope I don't, otherwise I'm failing you X3
21. What are you most afraid of?
Crowds, failure, and tight spaces.
22. What do you usually wear?
Sweats, jeans, tees, lesbian sweaters, weird things like oversized T-shirts and silk lounge robes.
23. What's one food that tempts you?
Sushi. And milkshakes. And kebabs.
24. Am I annoying you?
It's getting old, and I need to do homework and sleep for the class I have in six hours.
25. Well, it's still not over!
Well, bless your heart.
26. What class are you (low class, middle class, high class)?
Everybody'll say middle. Middle, I'll say, though I have relatives who are higher and lower and therefore don't have a good frame of reference.
27. How many friends do you have?
Quite few! Like, twelve total across several places. I'm only counting meatspace, because while I have some great and amazing friends online, I don't know where the dividing line is on "friends" and "not-friends" on here, because I'm so open to everyone when I'm not embarrassed by myself.
28. What are your thoughts on pie?
It's a wonderful day for pie, you can ask any bird in the sky. Especially peach! I have a peach pie weakness. And apple - simple but classic.
30. Favorite drink?
Grapefruit juice, gingerbeer, milkshakes, red wine.
31. What's your favorite place?
My room / libraries / record shops.
32. Are you interested in anyone~?
I want friends first and foremost. I have the worst gaydar ever, and usually the genderfluid thing is kind of a turnoff - so I don't feel like risking my happiness to be turned down.
33. That was a stupid question.
Hey now...
34. Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean?
Lakes. Michigan's very, very good for lakes. I fucking love to swim, and freshwater, still lakes are sorta the perfect size for me. Water's much more predictable slash scary than land, but so exotic... although being a mermaid would leave me bored as hell...
35. What's your type?
Experimental, sorta muscly and androgynous. I don't really have a type other than "has good hygiene." That's my dealbreaker.
36. Any fetishes?
Hmmm... I'm pretty fucking unabashed that I enjoy a few things... transformation's easily my top choice, though chainplay comes in a second. I'm mostly interested in being perfect to the core; the talented whore or the probing maid or the dom queen or the rubber dolltoy or the chainslave fuckslut. If you don't insult me and let me think I'm doing it right, I'm a very, very grateful kitty. (Holy balls, am I still talking?)
37. Seme or uke?
My computer's too slow to take the quiz, so I'll say "Uke" to clear things up. I have that pleading big-eyed look, and 6'3" me loves the idea of being small and delicate sometimes.
38. Camping or indoors?
Indoors. I was a boy scout once and have some bad memories of camping. I like the sunsets and the Tom Thomson thing, but I'm a prissy fag who doesn't like to suffer or get dirty, ever, and who finds a gallery more enjoyable than a forest. Much as I love animals, I really hate nature. Civilization I may hate, but I can IGNORE that I'm in it. Nature, you can't.
And I tag...
Rahir 
WolfMama
usaf2222 
Maxi-Rover all of you mainly because I'm curious. If you don't do these, you can ignore them. Fear meme 1 - Afraid of 19 out of 72 fears.
Posted 11 years agoStolen from 
Zippers
Are you afraid of:
[ ] the dark
[x] staying single forever
[x] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[x] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[x] closed spaces
[x] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants
Total so far: 5
[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[x] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's dad
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's mom
[ ] rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] snow
Total so far: 9
[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[x] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[x] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[XXXXXX] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes
Total so far: 13
[ ] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[x] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up
Total so far: 17
[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[x] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[x] falling in love
[ ] super secrets
Total: 19
If you wish to post this journal, it's been requested that you title it, "I'm afraid of __ out of 72 fears"
if you get more than 30, I highly suggest counseling
if you get more than 20, you're paranoid
if you get 10-20, you're normal.
if you get under 10, you're fearless.
ZippersAre you afraid of:
[ ] the dark
[x] staying single forever
[x] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[x] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[x] closed spaces
[x] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants
Total so far: 5
[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[x] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's dad
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's mom
[ ] rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] snow
Total so far: 9
[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[x] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[x] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[XXXXXX] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes
Total so far: 13
[ ] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[x] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up
Total so far: 17
[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[x] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[x] falling in love
[ ] super secrets
Total: 19
If you wish to post this journal, it's been requested that you title it, "I'm afraid of __ out of 72 fears"
if you get more than 30, I highly suggest counseling
if you get more than 20, you're paranoid
if you get 10-20, you're normal.
if you get under 10, you're fearless.
Fear meme 1 - Afraid of 19 out of 72 fears.
Posted 11 years agoStolen from Zippers
Are you afraid of:
[ ] the dark
[x] staying single forever
[x] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[x] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[x] closed spaces
[x] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants
Total so far: 5
[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[x] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's dad
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's mom
[ ] rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] snow
Total so far: 9
[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[x] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[x] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[XXXXXX] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes
Total so far: 13
[ ] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[x] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up
Total so far: 17
[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[x] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[x] falling in love
[ ] super secrets
Total: 19
If you wish to post this journal, it's been requested that you title it, "I'm afraid of __ out of 72 fears"
if you get more than 30, I highly suggest counseling
if you get more than 20, you're paranoid
if you get 10-20, you're normal.
if you get under 10, you're fearless.
ZippersAre you afraid of:
[ ] the dark
[x] staying single forever
[x] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[x] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[x] closed spaces
[x] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants
Total so far: 5
[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[x] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's dad
[x] girlfriends/boyfriend's mom
[ ] rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] snow
Total so far: 9
[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[x] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[x] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[XXXXXX] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes
Total so far: 13
[ ] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[x] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up
Total so far: 17
[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[x] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[x] falling in love
[ ] super secrets
Total: 19
If you wish to post this journal, it's been requested that you title it, "I'm afraid of __ out of 72 fears"
if you get more than 30, I highly suggest counseling
if you get more than 20, you're paranoid
if you get 10-20, you're normal.
if you get under 10, you're fearless.
TMI Tuesday
Posted 11 years agoFigured I'd do one of these, for shits and giggles. Whatever you may ask.
