Somehow I survived once again.
This time it would not have been possible without my amazing friends to whom I will never be able to repay the kindness, forgiveness and love that they've shown me.

It was a trying time and there was some pretty severe damage done, but overall I had an amazing time and it definitely lived up to how much fun I had at the last FWA.
Thanks again to everyone who purchased a badge from me! You guys helped me out a lot.

For those of you who received a laminated badge at FWA and would like a badge holder size instead, please send me a Note with your mailing address so I can mail one off to you asap.

Also, anyone who wants a digital copy to upload to their FWA or reprint or whatever, get in touch with me somehow and let me know your email and I'll send one to you.

Hope those of you that went had an amazing time, and those of you that didnt go are inspired to make it in the future.
This is one of the BEST run cons. The staff is very coordinated and chill and is always looking for ways to improve the experience. The location is great and the people that attend are far and wide incredibly fun and diverse.


Commissions are still open and I'd like to get them slots full so tell a friend!
Also, I have 4 spots open for UMVC3 themed badges (see above).
Had a lot of requests for another round of themed badges as well so stay tuned for more of me trying to kill myself with workload in the future.

If you have not already seen this please devote a minute or two of your time to check it out.
And repost it! The more attention it gets the better!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7585627/

Go forth, chickens! For justice!

If I do not personally know you and/or you have not made prior arrangements with me to have yourbadge picked up, I've sent you a note detailing how to collect your badge from me at the con!

Go check your inboxes!

Damn, I can't believe how many badges went out.
But thats a wrap, all the badge slots are full.

HOWEVER

If you still want a digital badge, you may order one at my con-rate as long as there are characters still available. (see journal header)


Thanks again you guys. Its been amazingly fun drawing these.

My breh breh be needin some support.
Click link, read info. Enjoy the amazing photography and if you can help him out, do it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects.....sis-exhibition

That is all.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/846938/

Check da info, send me a note!
My current queue will be finished pretty soon and then I'll open up another 10-15 slots.

I'm also gonna be doin badge commissions for FWA. They'll be themed badges with the theme being "sobriety is not an option."
I'll post up an example badge pretty soon but hop on the bandwagon n order yours now!

Tell your friends too!

I need money. ;_;

This time the category is song lyrics!
These are lyrics from bands, composers, video games, tv shows and cartoons.

Looking for the artist or composer.
Bonus points for song title, album and date of album release.

"Take this needle from my vein, my friend"

"mana du vortes... aeriea gloris"

"If I got no meaning, would you force me to a place where I make sense?"

"Across the sea a pale moon rises"

"I could see it as you turned to stone, still clearly I can hear you say"

"Stick it to 'em like a phoenix rise"

"That blanks the raw, that dang sho stank lit"

"...lone wolf don't run with the clan, only trust instincts and be one with the plan"

"This house is cold and empty, just a ghost of who I... I used to be"

"Oksana, Rita, Masha, Lyuda"

"And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me"

"This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect"

"Infected wound from a rusted ring, so what"

"Control your poison babe, roses have thorns they say"

"I've got Kitty Pryde, and Nightcrawler too"

"(Romaji) Ano Hi Mita Sora Akane Iro no Sora wo"

"In your creep, holdin my heart in a vice, turn it, squeeze me, leave me bereft"

"Revenge, its a kiss, this time I won't miss. Now I've got you in my sight"

"I've been in my mind, its such a fine wine"

"None will level on the line, nobody offered his word"

"Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy"

"But the things I've seen in those hazy dreams can't compare to what I'm seeing now"

Points'll be added to your previous score and tallied.
To the victor go the spoils!

Tips for success!
Dont use Google if you dont know an answer. Ask a friend instead!
Dont use other users responses. They might not have even got the answer the right.
Post your answers below.

Wooo!
Oh boy, I'll bet you're excited!
I sure am!

Golly gee! Well kids, the first one to answer the most trivia questions correctly gets a free pinup of their character!
Thats right!
Abso fucking lutely 100% free! :D
What a swell deal!

Lets kick it off!
The category this time is video game quotes!
Remember, kids, this is the honor system. Use Google if you have to, but know that you're a dirty, lying, butt-fucking cheater, if you do!

Name the characters (the year it was released in America AND the game the quote is from for bonus points) that quoth the following lines:

"You! Your that man!"

"All the foxy ladies love my accent. It drives them crazy!"

"...noble? Altruistic? *laughs* Don't be simple."

"Opal for harmony."

"You can't give up now! There ain't no gettin' off of this train we on!"

"I've never had such an EEAASY victory."

"There's darkness in you. And I know darkness."

"Look! A giant talking egg!"

"Once again, this isn't alcohol. Are you a pack of imbeciles?"

"You are required to do nothing, least of all believe. Shut one's eyes tight or open one's arms wide, either way, one's a fool."


BAM!
Post your answers in the journal below. Even if you dont know, take a guess.
I'll do one or two more journals like this.
Whoever gets the most correct answers between them all wins free art!
Oh boy!

Tell your friends! Tell your enemies!
Repost!
Free art for all! :D

If you haven't sent me a description yet, please do so whenever convenient.

If you'd like to rescind your commission, let me know via notes.

Thanks, that is all.

-NT

Updated my commission info with "must read" section.
As a standard precaution, all commissioners will need to read this portion before being able to commission me.

Scroll down to the Do's and Dont's section and read the indicated addendum if you are awaiting a commission or have yet to send me money via Paypal or have not yet sent me your Paypal email address.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/846938/

Thank you muchly

Updated Comission Info!
- added 5 more queue slots
- updated price list
- livestream info update
- hurrah! I'm doing adult work now. >:V

Everything can be found here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/846938/


Please spread the word. My only source of income right now is commissions and I need to really start cranking them out in the next two months.


Update:
As some of you may know, I had to move back to Oregon and I've been back here for 2 days now.
It sucks.
I hate this place.
I wish I was anywhere else.
Except maybe Nebraska.
Fuck Nebraska.
There are no jobs here. This state is a black pit of despair.
My plan, as it stands, is to get my SoP done for UW, sell my Integra, buy a fairly cheap craigslist SUV, get my tax return, make about 400 in commissions and get the fuck out of this state.
I may move down to California for a bit or I may try and find a place up in Seattle again.

The story of my endless stream of bad luck, salty roommate, HELLA salty landlord is pretty lengthy so I'll spare y'all that.
Ultimately I could neither afford the sanity, time or the money of living where I was and so I had to move back home where I can at least be free of expenses for a short time.

I don't know where I'll end up or when I'll get there at this point but the best I can do is spit in the face of adversity and keep going.
World means nothing to me and I don't intend to change my course. Not for anyone or anything but myself.
Hashtag Solidarity.

As usual, FC was the most ridiculous insane con of the year.
Between the 17.5 hour drive down, room juggling on the first night, drunken fursuit repair, pretend rollin, shoafin the boat, drunken dbz dance fighting, titty refusal, Creepy Joe creepin all up ons  akonite,  Tibolf and  recca, copious amounts of cigarettes, poop quest, Hydration, UHmazing sushi, tactlessly hittin on all the straight furs, trolling the dance comp, failing miserably to give  darkshift an edge, injectin banyas with  doryuu and  howee, sharing Jameson with Kishna (wut is that gurl's FA?), dealing with continuous obligatory con drama, the 18 hour drive home through salty as fuck lv 3 x-factor Storm's bullshit PMS apocolypse and just hanging out with all the people I love most, I'm pretty fucking content.

And of course, Team Salt.

I had an amazing time and I'll see all you fuzzbizzles at FWA.

HUUUUUUGE unbelievable thanks to  wolfpuptk  Metro  Forneus  ISOwolf  Tsukaza and Big (FA?).
Without their incredible generosity I would not have made it to FC.
Forevers in your debt I am.


So  CorranFox and I hit an apocolyptic snowstorm in the northwest on the way back, extending our return home by several hours (barring a quest for oil, GPS chicken wrap shenanigans, chili dogs, saturating the Walgreen's bathroom, getting sprayed in the mouth by an automatic air freshener, ghetto Loveline and salty beetles trying to kill us).
The reason for an early return being me having to be at work early Tuesday morning.
So of course, like a complete fool acting like someone who hasnt been around snow their entire fucking life, I ended up with my low profile, innertube racing tire, car, sideways in a 5ft ditch.
Because of the snowstorm, all state police and AAA towing trucks are on emergency calls only (injury, blocking freeway). Because I'm a worthless mooch piece of crap, I cant afford to have a local company tow it without my Paypal debit which of course is still in the mail.
So I've been at Corran's place, laying low and trying as hard as I can not to let this stress get to me.
Theres plenty of distractions and Corran and JD's generosity to help, which I greatly appreciate.

But... ugh... Its gettin hard to keep waiting...
They are doing a damn good job of stopping my last escape.


Also, with nothing better to do, I started playin FFXI again. >:V

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krist.....b_1190690.html

Really trully touching. Surprised that theres still some genuinely decent people out there.


FC badges!
20 dorrah!
Get em while they're hawt, drawn tonight, printed tomorrow, delivered in person at the con.
Post a reply here with a character description and you can either pay me in person or via paypal.
Free badge holder and clip.

DO EET!

Read, repost

http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html

So on top of the other catastrophies that have been going on non stop for the last month, I broke my right arm.

<3 life

Concise.
MFF was the shit. From the second I walked through the hotel doors and bumped into Diggy, Kendoro, Iso and a completely shit faced Enzo, I knew this con was gonna be legit as balls.
Few sober moments.
Tons of amazing drunken ones. Quality time spent with amazing friends that I dont get to see enough.
I love you all and miss ya hard core.

Normally when I get back from cons I have a job, relatively stable living sitch, but this time I moved literally the night before the con. My car almost died on the way up and I need to repair her before I can drive her again.
I live out in the boonies with BARELY one bar of cell reception in the best spot and my internet connection is so slow that streaming video or downloading anything is virtually impossible.
So, first world problems aside, things are kinda bleak now but I'm looking at a couple openings for new police officers/correctional officers in the greater Seattle area as well as any other small jobs I can find and hopefully I can get the tools to get my car repaired soon and be mobile again.

Miss you guys a lot. Cannot wait for FC.

Peaz out

-The Duke

Yeh yeh!
You guyses.
Hai guess what?! I b movin up there next Wednesday. Day before MFF. >:V

Moving up to Arlington, good ways north of Seattle, out in the boonies, with my bff Katie.
She bought a huge property up there with multiple pastures, a sand arena and a horseback archery range to feed her infinite love of the equestrian. And to house her 6 horses.
The property is on some beautiful BLM land with hundreds of miles of forest and mountain trails right outside the back gate.
The house itself is pretty big and really well kept.
We'd love to have you guys come hang with us now and then, and of course, I'll be in the area so we gots to get together like all the time. :V

Once we get situated we'll probably throw some kind of big get-together which I'll just send out mass texts for or something.

I'll be spending probably til next summer out there and then moving into Seattle proper for school.
Right now its a toss up between Seattle U and UW, both have good programs. Already finished transfer admissions stuff for both. Seattle U's criminal justice is a much more vocational degree that focuses entirely on the field of law and CJ.
UW's LSJ degree is a much more interdisciplinary liberal arts program.
Both sound interesting so it'll probably end up being which ever program I get offered first. :V

ANYWAY, Washingtron peeps, and even you crazy BC guys:  FamoPuP  jaegerhyena  jjmrpg04  lace  DisasterDog  pdawg  daiquiri  Phorphaux  Tigon  Corranfox and all the rest of you cuz I'm tired of typing, BE SEEIN YOU. >:V

-Duke

Change of prans!
Now I need a room for the whole con. :V

If you know anyone who has room space let me know! I would speak with them!

I floors!

Floors are comfy!

Fun fact: if I crash on your floor, you wont have to worry about space and that's one more person helping pay your expensive hotel costs!

Even funner fact: I kick copious amounts of ass. You know all those creeper furs that like to invite themselves into your room and then go stand awkwardly in the corner and start doing vile things?
Yeah, you dont have to worry about those with me around.

Just sayin. :V

HIT IT UP!!!


Badge offer is still open to.

Is next week niggas!

I only have a room for friday and saturday night but imma be there from thursday til the following tuesday.
Gonna need crash space for those other nights so if anyone has/knows of rooms that need an extra person for a night or two, let me know!
Otherwise I'll prolly be renting a car and just crashing in it or driving to a friends place for the last few days.

So yeah, let me know if you're goin and/or if you know of room availability, cuz I needs place to sleeps!

ALSO, if you want a badge from me, 20 bucks. Send me a note with the character you want and a ref if possible and I'll hand it to you in person at the con. Badge holder and everything!
See how awesome I am?

HIT IT UP!

Actually bein somewhat responsible and looking ahead of time.
Yes, I'll be goin to MFF. Time off: get, plane tickets: get.

I'll be there Thursday, leave Monday. Anyone have crash space/know of crash space available, let me know.
I have a bag and a small fursuit tub, I will happily sleep on the floor or a chair to drop the room cost.

Let me know. Thanks all.

-NT

RF was the shit. I'll spare the day to day recap and just say I had an amazing fucking time there starting with an awesome/horrifying drunk adventure with Skroy on the first night.
I was sore, tired and drunk most of the con and thats how I like it. Got to kick it with old friends, get to know new friends better and had the pleasure of meeting a ton of hella chill furs.
Couple peeps I wished I'd got to hang with more, but so it goes at every con. I'll definitely be hitin RF up again every year.
Those of you who could not make it were sorely missed and we even had a drunken crying circle for  Utosa,  DarkShift and  PapayaFruitSushi. We rove you all and hope to see you soon.
The roomies were awesome, the hotel was terrifying but awesome, the Canadians were every where and awesome and salt squad was again, hella salty, and awesome. Falling out vagina and rolled ankle aside, I would have loved to remain in Purgatorycon forever.
But aras, real life calls.

RF 2011: Great success!

NT out

See y'all up there.

LOLZ

As usual I waited until the last minute to look for a room for RF.
If anyone needs/wants a roommate, let me know. I am perfectly content with floor/chair space if for no reason other than to lower the room cost.

Let me know, otherwise the car will be my room.

Also, those of you going, shout out. I wish to know who all will be there.

That is all.

Its official, I will be moving to Seattle in about 3 weeks.
My bff just bought some large acreage in Arlington and wants me to come live with her and help her maintain the place and her 6 horses.
Additionally I will be transferring to UW Seattle campus this winter and finishing my undergraduate in Criminal Science and Law.

Been really stoked about moving out of Oregon for a while but not really sure where I was going. Had several different prospects and this was the only one that lined up perfectly.
All the paperwork has been finalized and everything is sorted, packed and ready to go. All thats left is to work for a few more weeks, save up some more money and drive up to the city.

Really hoping to get in touch with my friends up there that I rarely get to see and spend some quality time partyin' down.

huzzah!

I need extraction from LAX at 8:15ish tomorrow evening. Help? :V