I seem to have been forgetting to put my prices in my journal again. lol But yes, I've never closed up shop, and I don't doubt I will. These are pretty base-line prices and can change a bit depending on content and complexity of character... Obviously, things like heavily armoured or mechanized characters with a lot of detail are going to be a bit more simply because of the time it takes to do such things. lol But hey, here you go.

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

References/character sheets/whathaveyou - Roughly $40, depending on content.
Desktop backgrounds - $30-50, depending on content.

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), and I'm open to a limited amount of trades. My preferred method of payment is through the mail. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure. I will take Paypal if the postal service is no option for you.

Note!: If you use snail mail, you may get a thank you surprise in return to your address! :D

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I may just put this in my header or footer or something... That way I won't forget.

http://www.wimp.com/irritatinginstrument/

WHAT IN THE HELL?? I... I WANT ONE SO BAD!! XD My face... It exploded! AND I WOKE UP EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE!! XDDD

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3663650/

To all those, including myself, who believe they have had a rough month so far... What's your fucking excuse?

Send this woman your love, prayers, well wishes, anything... Jesus.

I finally got some rain!! 8D My well was drying up, the hay fields all around were starting to burn, and all of my pasture was all dried up and inedible, so this is seriously a godsend in every sense of the word. My room cooled down immensely to around 80^o and everything smells good... *goes out and joins Lita in her dance*

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of now I am learning the ins and outs ot Paypal... So yeah, open to that, too. :P But I still do snail mail! Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

I can't say I'm of much monetary use to this situation, but please have a look for yourselves.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3551868/

As I don't really have enough time to say what I want to say about this artist, please look through her gallery and think about commissioning her. She does some amazing work, especially in the fashion department, and she's also one hell of an awesome person.

Any relevant information is in her journal there... Please consider lending a hand.

My sirness is simply fed.

http://www.wimp.com/ofortuna/

Hifox, would you do me a flavour and show this to Tenshi? lol

Okay, I know you're likely tired of seeing flack about the ME3 endings, but I made a finding that pretty much made me do the "oh shit, DUH" face.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/t.....ndex/9727423/1

It's all part-in-parcel to the hallucination theory, specifically as a result of indoctrination, and Lookingglassmind's explanation of the whole event is bloody perfect... But what got me was at the very end of the post there, in Nighthunter's snapshot mashup. It's quite obvious when you see the lineup, especially when you compare it to the world environment as you limp weakly toward the beam after getting hit by the massive lazer. As the photo shows, the "control" side matches up with a Mako that's just there. The "synthesis" beam is solidly in the middle, right where the teleporter beam is. And as for "destroy," the only side that involves Shepard using a gun... Wasn't Marauder Shields standing there after a small group of husks?

You know, Lookingglassmind said it best, and that's how godly Bioware will be seen in the RPG realm if this is truly the explanation. They will have indoctrinated all of their devoted gamers if it's true... And if it's not, they better pull a Sayn and pretend it is. I still have that waiting feeling, and I'm sure tons more do as well.

On a side note, I'm seeing several usernames speak of this Vakarian Family Content pack... I've got full and confident reason to believe this is nothing but a fanmade pipedream to make themselves feel better, but I can't help but wonder where everyone's picked up the same term all of a sudden... Granted, all of the "content" I've seen listed is very fangirlish, varying from user to user, and just plain silly, which is the reason for my 90% doubt of its existence. Plenty of room for doubt, but I think I remember this exact term being mentioned before the Resurgence pack came out... I dunno. Alcohol-influence thinking, by this point in my day...

But anyway, if anyone wants to go multiplayer with me, send Shifty009 a friend invite with your FA name so I don't accidentally confuse you for a clanner. lol I'm good for just about any run by now, including gold run strategies against the geth... Get a team of krogan vanguards going and I'll pick mine and we'll do a silver run against the reapers... It's fun gangbanging a banshee with that many krogan. lol It's a krogan belief that asari are "squishy..." I guess they stay that way after indoctrination, as well.

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), and I'm open to a limited amount of trades. My preferred method of payment is through the mail. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure. I will take Paypal if the postal service is no option for you.

And away from all that fucking sand. I hate sand... *bristles* But I'm back, and snuggling my Ori... So all is well. House is a mess, will unpack later... For now, I speak of horseshoe crabs! 8D I met one on my last hours on my trip and was... Incredibly delighted. lol The leeeeegs... THE LEEEEEEEEEEGS, MY SISTERS!!! ! There are so many... And they wiggle! And they're SOFT in the middle!! X3 It was so much fun holding the fella, I'm going to do a brief comic about it and how derpy I allowed myself to look in public with the little guy. XD No, seriously... Total breakage of my usual seriousfaceness...
...Anyway, Secondlife.

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

SAND... And wind. Lots and lots of wind... Not exactly my favorite combination, but I'll deal with it... Because I have a brand new baby niece that smiles, laughs and tries to crawl at five days old. Five of five hearts. Elenore Grace Clifford... Most adorable little niece ever. Will submit a picture or two when I download them after I get home.

This two-week vacation was supposed to be an outing to VA for a few days, then down to Mobile, Alabama for the remaining days... Though that last bit may be curtailed, as my oldest brother suffered an aneurism on his heart and will be scheduled to undergo heart surgery within the next week and a half before the damn thing dialates only slightly more and instantly kills him... So... Part epic excitedness for my new niece, part doomish worry for my brother and his heart condition... Bit torn between what I should be feeling, seeing as my usual behavior seems to piss people off.

More personally, I still have no job. My tax break may have saved my life, but it's running low once more and it's my bet hope that what I have left will last me until mid-May... Which is when that job that was promised to me will be open to take me back again... If, that is, they take off the hiring freeze by that time. I'm away from my own personal desk and am taking a very brief time on my brother's laptop to check messages and things, so it would be obvious to say that I'm unable to complete commissions at this time... If I had any. Though, if anyone at all is interested, my relatively amazing price-listings are smattered around my journals and I am still and have always been open to taking them. Should anyone bite, I'll take a list and happily work on them once I return home.

But anyway... Price list repost, for the hell of it.

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

- You’ve so far learned of the domesticated show fokkle, called the noh dog, and of the wild fokkle from which all fokkles originated. One is bred for its appearance and mild temperament, another has adjusted its genes around a mysterious predator… The avian fokkle seems to have been bred to be the opposite of both.

- As the wild fokkle will average out to be around seven feet tall to the forehead, the male avian will average out to a towering nine feet to the forehead. All fokkles have markings, be they bold or intricate. Avians’ markings, however, are known to be more complicated and have less solid shapes than any of their relative species. With a stretch beyond scientists’ understanding, these massive apex predators have developed a third set of limbs; fully functional and very powerful wings. It’s said that it is impossible to take down an avian fokkle once it takes flight. While the avian is extremely elusive, there is one time of the year that scientists take advantage of to pull off the rare sightings; every spring, migrating wild fokkles crossing the lower parts of Russia seem to be “escorted” by avian fokkles. These wild fokkles are the largest fleets in the world and this is supposedly due to the appearance of these avians. Whether or not the avians are actually protecting the wilds is uncertain. One claim that the avians were preying on the others’ young was raised, but sightings of friendly interactions between the two branches successfully debunked this claim. It is only known that the avian branch is best known in tandem with the wild fokkles. There have only been three sightings of avians without their smaller cousins. Unlike the rest of their genetic relatives, avian fokkles are very vocal whether they are happy or angry. One of their most famous sounds is a deep, ghostly howl that almost seems dual-toned and can be heard for miles. It is said avians can feel a full range of emotions and that this cry occurs when the fokkle is feeling sorrow. Their trademark cry, however, is often referred to as a battle cry or victory howl. Instead of a long howl, the avian will rear its head back, open its mouth wide, and shout a long, loud scream that has gone through generations of horror stories. This call can be heard from nearly fifty miles away, which labels it the equivalent of a territory marker.

- Known in old folk tales as the “painted beast,” it is said that once you become lost in the deepest forests of Russia, it is not up to you anymore whether you survive or not. A rough translation includes the legend of a man who followed the sound of the fokkle’s cries to escape a forest…

A man so bold entered her forest.
[She] knew of that world and so hated it.
“Leave! Leave!” He heard, but was lost in fear.
The man cried. “Kill me! End my suffering!”
[She] smelled the blood of many on him.
“Come! Come!” He heard, and followed death’s voice.
[The moon] was bright above his world to show the way home.
The painted beast flew above.
“Leave!” The forest cried in anger.

- Tellers of this legend refer to the avian’s wit and how it seems to know what its prey is thinking, whether it wants to directly kill it or not, and by using the man’s willingness to die, allowed the fokkle to simply get him out of “her forest.” Another interpretation could be seen as man’s intrusion into nature and that the forest itself is speaking to him through the fokkle, telling him to get out before it destroys him. Most of the legends told by supposed witnesses refer to the painted beast as some kind of spirit. Other old tales tell of the avian’s general anger, teach young boys not to wander around at night, or how the painted beast will snatch children out of their rooms at night if they don’t hide under their bedcovers… This doesn’t help for how a curious fokkle will stand still and stare into windows at night to see if there is food to eat.

- Not much is known of the avian fokkle simply because of the creature’s elusiveness, but what scientists do know from the yearly study is interesting to say the least. An avian is not only larger than a normal fokkle, but they are also much more aggressive. A fully grown male is strong enough to maul other predators, such as bears and tigers, with ease… And still have the energy to fight for dominance in their fleet. Unlucky predators that wish to prey on an avian’s young will be met with a swift and painful death from the entire fleet, if it catches their attention. On the flipside, this branch of fokkle is as patient as it is aggressive. One lucky study noted that an avian will wait for nearly two hours in stillness so as to be invisible to its prey. If it is in flight during its hunt, it will seem to play with its prey, keeping it running in circles until it tires out. If the prey is large or too lively, the fokkle will poison it with a deadly ten-inch stinger hidden at the end of its tail. This poisonous barb is flat and serrated, working like a double-sided steak knife to cause massive tissue damage and blood loss.

- Social behavior between the two branches shows how similar the breeds are to each other. The common sighting most scientists seem to achieve, however, is that of the wild fokkles playing with the avians, trying to tackle their massive genetic cousins. It is learned that an open mouth is a sign of friendly interactions, similar to a smile. Touching with their front paws seems to be an act of friendship, while touching with the lips is noted to be an obvious sign of affection, as is rubbing their face on another. A trait the avians seem to share with their smaller relatives is how they seem to adopt other species. Be it male or female, an avian will adopt a different species into its fleet. The most common creature to see walking through a fokkle fleet is the drazi, which has been adopted by both branches as some sort of migration partner. While this reptilian feline is allowed to walk among them, they can be mauled by any passing male they may have the bad luck of offending. This type of empathetic response is seen in elephants and humans as well, and the possibility of a language with their level of intellect is possible.

- On June 3rd, 4036, the first avian fokkle was captured. The capture was clean and caused no injuries to it or the staff, but the scientists returned the next morning to discover the fokkle was dead. There was no sign of accident; in fact, the damage done to its body was so deliberate, the only logical conclusion was that the fokkle used the poisonous stinger at the end of its tail to kill itself. This was recorded as one of the few species that has the mental capacity to self destruct. What scientists found out from the body, however, is more impressive. The impressive kite-shaped wingspan only has two rows of feathers, which are closest to the body. All the rest of the pinions that were believed to have been long feathers are actually a long, stiff membrane most similar to that of the lionfish. Only four of the pinions are poisonous, however: The three longest pinions protruding from the elbow and the single pinion situated between the thumb and forefinger. The large antlers come forward over the brow, which puzzled most scientists until they discovered how fragile the structure of the nose was, leading to the explanation of why they rub their sensitive faces on others... It just feels good. This is probably why avian fokkles fight with their extremities more readily than they bite. Ironically, fokkles have an unusually shaped set of canines that split, letting one half grow inwards and the other half grow normally. This is said to be a tool against struggling prey. The most interesting feature on an avian fokkle, however, has to be the fully functioning set of dewclaws on its hind legs. These long, curled talons are very powerful and can pivot front to back over 180 degrees and lock in place. No one has ever seen an avian sleep, but the running joke is that they sleep upside-down like a bat using these powerful hooks.

- The most frightening features of the avian fokkle other than their intellect or their long-reached destructive temper are the redundant and sympathetic nervous systems to match it. When enraged or panicked, the avian fokkle will feel no pain. Many fights witnessed during the spring migration showed that a severely injured fokkle will continue to fight even as its body begins to fail. This can either be the deciding factor that will allow the fokkle to fight long enough to be alpha or hide serious injury long enough that it will die from exhaustion. One strong trait that applies to avian fokkles that the others lack is summed up in one word: Guts. Even though they travel together, wild fokkles have developed a fight or flight system of behavior when it comes to dealing with their mysterious predators. Avians, however, have not. Aside from their ability to fly, avian fokkles have the same adaptations to predators as their grounded cousins, but have yet to show any implication that they are threatened by them. At the nearest notion of a threat, avians will rush to the scene whether they are alone or with others with hackles raised, ready to kill whatever is causing the commotion. Most frightening of all is the shared genetic defect in females, referred to as “cutthroats.” Only two cutthroat avians have been discovered, but the implications to the already aggressive species are frightening alone. Even during human research, these flying fokkles will directly confront any possible dangers and destroy them. One expedition went down in record books as the most expensive failed experiment in the company, simply because a single avian found and destroyed their night vision camera, waited for the scientists to retrieve the device, then came back at night with more of its fleet to attempt to destroy the apparently offensive site.

- For all the years spent studying the avian fokkle, many will say it has all been for naught. Every year, a different fleet of avian fokkles are distantly seen following the spring migration of the wild fokkles across Russia’s southern territories, and the avian fokkles that were seen the previous year are never seen again. Some say the avians are like their smaller companions and their markings will slightly change from year to year. Some say avians never travel the same route twice. Some even believe avian fokkles don’t live past their first migration. There are no bodies, no trails, nothing. Every fokkle that has ever been recorded share no similarities with the ones that came before them. No one has even seen a young avian. So where are they going? How long do they live? Are they truly the spirits the old tales portray them to be? Until the first fokkle’s den is discovered, no one will truly know what becomes of the mysterious painted beast of Russia.


http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7848711/

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Now may you all have nightmares of massive beasts staring hungrily into your windows at night.

Also, small dashes because such a massive wall of text is hard to read and FA's journal system doesn't seem to understand paragraphs...

Had a wonderful meal, had some wonderful drinks, and made a wonderful avatar on Secondlife... Day was wonderful. lol

Only one more day till Easter... This means two seriously awesome things. 1) I can DRINK, and 2) I can SECONDLIFE. lol
http://randomgiffolder.tumblr.com/post/17060017947

...Is there anywhere I can buy Digimon World for the PSX? Don't tell me Amazon, because it's listing as $225 there. A regular Google search will pull it up as $50. I don't trust internet pricings on old games simply because DW3 is selling for $180 and I got mine in the dollar bin at Game Exchange. So... Know anywhere I can get a cheap copy of the very game that introduced me to the Digital World? :3 .........I want my Megadramon back. lol

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/_.....o_to_sleep.png

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images.....t-dad-ever.jpg

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

So, that awesome job got back to me this afternoon... Said they wouldn't hire me until mid May. So now I'm all sweaty from walking around a few towns all day. I'm also apparently a leftist because I want to sell my art, according to my mother. But anyway...
Anyone know anything good to watch on Netflix? It's apparently such an awesome thing to have,* but I can never find anything good to watch on it. The only good things I've found on it is a series called Lie To Me and that awesome animated movie, The Book of Kells. The way I see it, there's a $9 bill at the end of every month just for the series and an anytime viewing of The Book of Kells... Not exactly worth it. Not unless I find something good on it... And don't any of you say anime. All of the anime on there is in english and... Well, we all know the storyline loses depth when they change the translation.
Also, I'll be updating the fokkles pretty soon. There will also be a short story explaining what skraines are at some point, and maybe a profile on the drazi, should I get to drawing more of those pretty little things... All of my creatures are tied together in nature, actually, save for the noh dogs. There's a lot more mythology to the drazi, though... There are sorts of "clan battles" between all the others. Symbiotic relationships, and all.
But anyway... Copypasta commission details.

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(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

Now that I've had time to cool down and rationalize what exactly happened (or didn't happen) in the endings, I can post some of my thoughts on the matter. I'm sure many of you have already heard of these conclusions or come to them yourselves, but this is just me brainstorming...

PLOT HOLES/MYSTERIES

>What are the Keepers?
-Living antennae for the Reapers?
-Indifference to human corpses? (one is seen fiddling with the bodies in the final hallway)
-There was a "Keeper Twenty" in the Shadow Broker's video logs... What about that one?
>Was the ending a dream sequence?
-Moments like the Illusive Man shooting himself in the same manner as Saren and the Catalyst appearing in the form Shepard recognizes as failure hint to the fact that the final moments were too personal to be a reality.
-The typical paragon/renegade choices were seemingly reversed in colour at the end, as if to try to fool Shepard into choosing indoctrination over destruction... Was Shepard being indoctrinated the whole time?
-The boy's projection seemed to break its unfeeling facade and show displeasure when Shepard chose to destroy the Reapers... Was he simply a Reaper trying to get into Shepard's head by using a personal image?
-The blue choice (commonly seen as paragon) followed in the Illusive Man's path of choices, leading to indoctrination, while the red choice (commonly seen as renegade) showed your dear friend Anderson destroying the reapers... Why is your enemy showing paragon and your ally showing renegade? In the "perfect" ending, the green choice (supposedly Shepard's "own choice of action") leads more or less to the indoctrination of all life in the galaxy [supposedly] without the nasty mutations we commonly see... Blue - indoctrination. Green - indoctrination. Red - destruction.
>Were the Reapers in control the whole time?
-If most information is to be believed, destroying a relay results in the fallout and destruction of an entire system... If all endings lead to the destruction of the relays, did Shepard effectively destroy the galaxy for the Reapers anyway?

PONDERINGS/POINTS OF INTEREST

>In a good playthrough, Shepard ends up with pretty much all races in the galaxy in the Sol system, fighting against the Reapers... If the relays were somehow destroyed in a "harmless" manner, this means all life in the galaxy is confined to a single system, one not supporting the necessary rations and habitation for all of it. Even if races tried to leave, they would either run out of fuel or become lost in space due to the relays (now defunct) being the only means of communication and (supposedly) galactic mapping... Once the races die off in the Sol system, the following "cleanup" would be catastrophic.
>The sloppy failure to find closure in the endings was supposedly a direct result of the prior script leak as some sort of [immature] vengeful backlash... Confirmation, anyone?
>Anyone romance Tali? ...Anyone notice the horrible stock photo in Shepard's cabin?

Any further brainstormings can stem from here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....MV/MassEffect3

Also, this guy will be remembered forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo

So, minus the Five Stages of Grief, I still have some faith that Bioware will make amends to the fans (their true source of income) with some DLC... Even though it's going to be overpriced, if things are to be believed. It's still my personal opinion that being led on through an entire universe, breaking the fourth wall as a series base rule and forging seemingly legit relationships via your own choices, and saving races... Only to have our hearts broken by having no choice in your efforts... Is a bit cruel. Though if this is all a demonstration of "this is why we can't have nice things" in result of the leaked script, I will call out the decision-makers of the franchise on being immature and self-destructive on the matter. If that's the case, I'll have lost all faith in the franchise.

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On a more personal note, I'm still open for commissions. It's taking an uncomfortable amount of time for my previous job to get back with me and another college loan comes out this month... When it does, I'll have less than $100 in my account to sustain me. That's the only money I have, so I'm going to list my revised prices again for people to see.

(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

So there you go. My commission pricelist, hopefully to relieve some of the stress I'm under living with these... People. Sad part is, with all that's going on and things that are going to happen in the near future, I have no choice but to stay with them... As much as I'm not going to enjoy this, and most of you can feel free to rage and scoff at me, but it's become a matter of survival. If you want warnings, note me or something. I'm not going to make this journal into one of those.

http://off-white.eu/soon.html

MASS EFFECT FANS CLAMOR FOR CLOSURE.

http://social.bioware.com/poll.php?.....;poll_id=29101

GOOD FUCKING GOD, BIOWARE. Just... What the hell were you thinking, Mr. Story Writer? You want your company's entire fanbase going up in flames JUST BEFORE THE HALO 4 RELEASE? Bungie sold the rights to you lot... What about Master Chief? YOU GOING TO FUCK HIM UP TOO? Goddamn... Just... No. Fix it. I fell in love with all your stories and depth and beautiful creations just as you loved us enough to work so hard on creating such a lovable, attractive universe... I'm sure you've been reading around, guys. Your fans are NOT pleased. I'm having trouble finding reasons to keep your games, but some faint hope for reprise in future DLC has me hanging onto it. That guy up there in the second line of my journal? Just there? He's got the idea. Just look how many places that poll is featured. Gamefront, Destructoid, Technologytell, MSNBC... Come on, people. Fix it or watch the decrease in sales, and I don't even want to know what it's going to look like when the Halo freaks start listening to us. They're already mistrusting of you, this doesn't help... If this failure to please and reward your gamers and the end of a very beautiful game series bleeds into Master Chief's universe... God help you, because we won't.

To be nicer, ME3 was a very accurate description of what war truly is: Ugly, depressing, tiring, and utterly emotionally taxing. Now, I've only used this phrase once before in serious talks, and (whaddya know) it was, in fact, about ME3... It's just a game. Now, you'd think that would be translated into "stop whining and play," but it's actually meaning "it's not a real war, and the gamers that fought valiantly to end a galactic war and fell passionately in love with one of their teammates want a reward." You want people to say "OMG, I WANT TO PLAY IT AGAIN!!" Not... Goddamn, that's depressing. And those are my words as well as many others'.

FIX YOUR BLUNDER, WRITERS. Jesus...

**EDIT** Look, I love you guys... I really do. You birthed my favorite game series... Well, ever. I was happy for the Assassin's Creed series, but you guys made the Mass Effect series and effectively blew them out of the water. I love you guys, just... Please reward our love? <:(

This is what my attempt at Memphis felt like...
http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/.....tick_horse.gif
So now I'm back in Arkansas... Hoping to get my old job back... Fuck.

So it's written somewhere... Until Easter, I won't be drinking, swearing, secondlife-ing, and... Some other things that don't need to be posted on the internets. The no swearing thing is... Well, it's failing. Pretty hard. The no drinking is going to suck when Easter hits and I experience another horrific drop in alcohol tolerance, but the take off of secondlife is pretty damn easy so far. So far... I'm seeing what I can do to get my sleeping schedule back in order, so the absence of secondlife should help. Other than that... Still no job, bank account drastically anemic, and tension levels rising... Haven't been able to write much in either Ghost Makers or the Pokemon fic, but I hope the corrected sleeping cycle will fix at least some of that... Just things aren't looking good right now. Losing a lot of faith in the plans I've made so far.

I can just imagine this guy telling people about his time at this...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1tuv6.....re_beer_video/

"I went to that crooked store, but I couldn't find the floor, so I just grabbed a bowl..."

I'm still on the job hunt, getting a bit pissed off about how everyone handles their shit online these days... No one gets back to you. At all. Very impersonal, no one knows exactly what kind of person they're hiring... Who knows, could be a great people person. Could be someone with outstanding leadership or detail-oriented skills. Never know. Can't know with the multiple choice bullshit they do all the time. The way I see it, I have until mid March or so before I have to pack up and go back to that shit hole I came from. Deal with everyone laughing at how I'll never leave, how I'm not good enough to pull out of that sand trap of a garbage pit long enough to settle a job. Mainly deal with the basic biased "I told you so" and "you should have stayed with mama." Fucking bullshit... I'm used to taking care of people, not feeling like I'm uselessly mooching off of people to survive. I'm not a fucking leech...

Not getting online often these days simply because I don't own the computer and I'm not going to waste my sister's college time to do something as unimportant as doodling or getting on SL. I'll get on every now and then to check emails, see if I have any job offers (no responses since November), clear messages on FA, trying to be polite and sounding happy... Gets hard when I'm trying to work with other people's schedules, and I don't mean roommates' schedules. I mean business schedules. Things like "call us back and we'll update you on the position offer" and "the manager is out today, come back next week" is leaving me in the position of "well, what the fuck am I doing for the next couple of days?" Which usually leaves me filling out more silent online applications in my futile struggle to be employed... Wait, this content was already covered in the first paragraph.

So yeah, commissions are... Well, they've always been open. Always. I'll eventually find time to do them in between much more important things. Need to brush up on Paypal details, since I apparently still don't know how it works... Isn't that what EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU use when you commission people? I dunno, I still need to learn. I haven't yet been put in the position of "I just got commissioned, now how am I supposed to be paid for it?" So I figured I should learn before that actually happens. I'll eventually (with some outstanding luck) get the money to upgrade my laptop so it can handle Photoshop without simply dying. I think the last graphics card I bought was around $100, but that was for my parents' old desktop, which is sexy and I don't have it... It was cheap, but extremely efficient and it seems that'll be the best I can find on an unemployed budget. Food is more important, though... Should I be hired, I'll likely spend maybe my third paycheck on that... And I need to stop talking about my financial situation in paragraphs other than its own. >_>;

Well, I preordered Mass Effect 3 earlier this week. That's good news, right? :3 It was only a $5 charge, so I went ahead and did it. It'll be $60 when it comes out, I bet, but that'll be easy once I'm... Fucking... Goddammit. >__>;;

(Sort of a follow-up to this http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2553884/ Only better... And very much in the narriting style of Dogs 101)

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As you know, fokkles are broken into three groups: Domesticated, wild, and avian. Today we will be covering the domesticated fokkle, most commonly known as the “noh dog.”
Noh dogs are not only smaller than their wild counterparts, but are bred for showing and as a result are much flashier. The typical noh dog can average out to be around four feet in height to the top of the head and have much smaller antlers than the rest of their relatives. Through careful breeding, colours and patterns can be genetically passed down and mixed to make the most desirable coat. Most noh dogs have very large, bold markings that stretch down their back and sides, but don’t travel down the legs. But what they lack in the typical black designs, they can easily make up for in colour. A wide range of colours can be bred into their thick silky coats, even some shades that don’t seem natural can occur in a finely-tuned show specimen. One atypical difference that noh dogs have against the rest of their kind is that either gender can have either a white or black coat. Since black coats don’t allow their colours or patterns to shine through, they are typically not desirable. A “perfect coat” by show standards is white with a clean, bold design and at least two vivid colours underneath it, symmetrical on both sides. Noh dogs that have been altered with dyes cannot be entered in shows and are effectively banned until their false coats wear off.

Noh dogs have a thick, dense coat that rivals the cleaning routine of a fullblood malamute. It takes a devoted owner to maintain a healthy, fluffy fokkle. The average noh needs at least one brushing every week to keep its coat shiny and full, and baths every month are necessary for a perfect, silky feel. A noh dog will also periodically chew on hard plastics, shoes, and other objects to keep itself occupied, but a simple chew toy or regular dental treats will keep a domesticated fokkle appeased until it feels the need to chew again. Keep strong locks checked on all cabinets and garbage cans as a noh will learn to go through various items to find something tough enough to chew on. The last grooming tip an owner needs to know about their fokkle is how to keep their nails in check. Noh dogs aren’t fully canine in behavior and will tend to scratch their nails on anything that keeps them entertained… Whether it’s alive or not. It’s a common habit of all fokkles to touch with their paws and not with their noses. This can lead to social scratching as a result, which may end worse for living creatures than inanimate objects around the household. It’s a wise idea to keep a noh dog’s nails trimmed and clean so as to avoid accidental injuries and ruined furniture.

Noh dogs are very social creatures and are by far the friendliest of their kind. Years spent fine-tuning the breed have taken the fight out of them so they would be easier groom, treat, and show off among other nohs. While this makes the fokkle easier to handle, it also requires a lot of attention on the owner’s part. A domesticated fokkle will get depressed and destructive if left on its own, so having a full-time job with few others in the house is never an effective way of raising one. At least four hours of play in a day are needed for most nohs, not including a scheduled feeding routine and walks. Noh dogs are high maintenance and have a lot of energy that needs to be spent in play or they will become destructive out of boredom. It is always wise to have another noh around the house for company… If you can handle it. Another aspect of the fokkle is how much the breed loves to be touched. A fokkle will love to be groomed, bathed, and brushed, which makes grooming easy without so much as a collar. Spending time with your noh dog simply by petting or brushing can forge a long-lasting relationship between an owner and their fokkle.
The last concerns any noh dog owner should have are health-related. Noh dogs are prone to ear infections due to the extensive breeding to keep them large during domestication. Since large ears are desirable in a show noh, many genetic traits were overlooked when turning the breed into a pet. Keep the inside of the ears trimmed and free of dirt and loose items and you’ll have clean ears all year round. The other problem domesticated fokkles share coincides with their chewing habits. Since nohs are more canine than their relatives, their diet is much more specific and needs to be maintained. Things like chocolate and other similar substances are considered poisonous and must be locked away where the noh won’t be able to reach or break into.

As they say, the way to a fokkle is through its trust. Keep a close friendship with your noh dog, maintain its fluff and nails, and keep track of its diet and you’re sure to have a lifelong companion. Like all fokkles, noh dogs are very protective of their families and can get aggressive to others if they feel there is a threat, so train them early and socialize them with many to avoid conflict. The average lifespan of a noh dog is roughly forty years, so keep that in mind when choosing your noh as they will form a permanent relationship with their owners. While noh dogs have the same gestation period of a normal dog, breeders advise adoption before breeding because of the long lifespan. Some unfortunate cases involve a noh dog outliving its human companion, making them harder to adopt and socialize. This typically ends in tragic decisions, often in abandonment or euthanasia. Never take on a newborn noh dog if you don’t think you will outlive it.

Stay tuned for more info on the types of fokkles. In the next episode, we learn about the rare and aggressive avian breed of fokkle, known to most countries as the “painted beast…”

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EDIT: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7219030/

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The way it was meant to be.