I usually don't like talking about my personal life. I find such talks to be depressing. However something really recent happened and I wanted to just get it off my chest.

I have a stepdad, he isn't bad, cracks bad jokes, and has the patience of a saint.
He also has congestive heart failure, his kidneys have failed to the point that he needs dialysis, and his legs are swollen up so badly he can hardly walk.
Anyways my Mom calls me asking if I want to stay over, for a full week because my stepdad's legs have gotten so bad he can't get out of the couch or chair he sits in without help.
I agree but I meet with someone three times a week so we work out a plan and life goes on.
On the Monday I'm supposed to go over my Mom calls me saying it's cancelled because Don is in the hospital. When I ask her for more details she refuses to say anything more. I call Thursday and still nothing.
Desperate for info I notice that Mom has changed her facebook status so I check there. Apparently Don hasn't been home for awhile since he's been bounced back and forth between the hospital and a nursing home. The way she wrote the post (my mom's bipolar) makes it sound like she's depressed.

Anyway just wanted to say something about that.

You know the saying 'don't feed the troll'? Well in this case it was 'give baby his bottle' I went for my second tourney today same kind, roughly about 30 minutes from the last one where a troll called me a noob for beating him and to 'go die'. Well I get to this one and see a very familiar colored DK on the other side. I win my way up to the semis hoping it wasn't the person I thought it was, however murphy's law seemed to be conspiring against me because lo and behold there he was, again. I tried to play it cool, I lost but still took out one of his lives. Baby got his bottle, he shouldn't be sore this time around. Still worries me that i'd run into the same guy in two seperate tourney's.

So I've been playing smash tourneys ever since they released a tourney mode for smash bros. (online but still) after a dry run I finally reach the finals (using charizard of course. I'm kicking the guy's butt no problem. He quits midmatch but I don't worry. Nintendo thought ahead about ragequitters and the match continued after a pause we continue. I win, the game says my character won, I wait for the champion screen...and nothing.
After a bit it says I was removed due to time out....seriously?!? You think far enough ahead to keep the match going in the case of ragequitters but you don't think far enough ahead to keep the tourney from dropping both players if a single one ragequits RAARGH *insert incoherent dragon rage here*

Edit: I just got my first trolling sore loser, not naming names but he sent me a friend request which said 'way to do 80% on a single move noob, go die.' Pfft scrub, he was spamming an upb move that pulls you in too. Idiot.

It's the common lament of the fetish-loving furry. You have an idea for something great, something big, but you don't have any cash to make it happen.

I'm keen on seeing a charizard devour a machamp and then absorb it, losing it's gut and gaining an extra set of arms and a shitton of muscle, but that requires a highly-skilled artist (i'm super picky over having the entire thing in sequence) on top of that I want to leave it open ended so my hybrid can continue to vore and absorb (vore/tf anyone) problem is as the title says i'm flat broke, I can't afford anything especially something high end like that even if it wasn't colored!
*sighs* When you have a massive amount of fetishes and no cash it's a royal pain.

My internet was out over the weekend, after it came back on I nonchalantly looked up miiverse, there was an announcement

"thank you for your kind words regarding the passing of our president Satoru Iwata"

I froze rereading the line

"passing of our president Satoru Iwata"

The president of Nintendo was dead?!? Why?!? He was perfectly fine a few weeks ago, I check the news headlines.

"Bile duct growth"

What the flying fuck was THAT?!?

More searching "Bile duct growth is a rare type of cancer and is incurable" Cancer?!?

Cancer always seems to take people too soon, but this one seriously stung.

I'm reading the memorial they have set up and the comments have already reached maximum. I can't really say anything that hasn't already been said but....may he rest in peace.

I'm just putting this down here so I don't forget about it.

You know about Mario always beating Bowser up for kidnapping Princess Peach, my idea is to go behind the scenes.

The plot (paper thin as it is) is you taking the role of a new recruit in Bowser's army. To make things even more impractical (or show that Bowser is getting desperate) you're a new human recruit in his army.
Gameplay is similar to the sims with some differences, instead of taking care of yourself you have to build up a 'rep'. Your rep is determined by everyone's attitude towards you.
There are three attitudes that someone could have towards you
indifference/cluelessness (meh don't hate him but don't like hime either' or 'who's this guy again?)
hatred (I want this guy GONE )
or admiration/friendliness (i'd like to have this guy over for a few games/chat/drinks)

aside from reps you can also gain titles or labels, little things that people notice about you regardless of their attitude towards you. These can be gained through simple dialogue trees and might help push your rep towards one way (remember some people like or dislike the habits of other people unconsciously)

Of course you'll have tasks, duties, etc assigned to you. You can exercise both you body and mind (and increase your stats) through minigames reminiscent of Mario Party games at designated training areas in the castle, there's also a casino, be warned spending too much time there will get you hit with either a 'slacker' label or 'no self control' label. The first will get you yelled at by the higher ups and have several gain the hatred attitude towards you, the latter is typically gained after you've done all other duties beforehand and typically won't effect anyone's attitude towards you but you will be occasionally checked up on (pranksters love to send boos and dry bones to do this because it startles you).

When you first start out it will obviously be at Larry Koopa's castle. If you do well enough you might be reassigned to the other koopaling's castles. Try to earn your way up to head honcho Bowser's castle!

As you might guess you'll run into either Bower jr., the koopalings, or Bowser himself depending on which castle you're assigned to. Exploring while off duty will make this more likely to happen.

I'm not too sure on the details, will continue to edit this as I think up more.

Woke up yesterday and threw up what looked like liquid shit, feel much better today but am light-headed and weak due to lack of food. Trying to make up for that by stuffing myself.

In this one funny book I read a post where someone said they were doing jumping jacks without a bra and nearly knocked themselves unconscious.

Considering the amount of braless big-breasted furries/scalies I can only imagine the hilarious slapstick potential of this. Like a long line of furries doing aerobics smack themselves in the face
with their breasts all at once, next shot is them all on the floor out cold.

Ok what has a trio of cookies and cream smelling singing gomamons, a tiki statue that depending on your choices can turn you into a boshi, and some random nonsense from a pinball game you played at the beginning of the month?
I know that sounds like a lead-in to a joke but that's been what my dreams have been containing. I can't control them (apparently you shouldn't experiment with lucid dreaming because you can't tell apart the dream world from reality but with how messed up my dreams are well....) oh did I mention the gomamons were made of goo and wanted to be a quartet, and there was a bit of tfy nonsense that was like goo tf or something like that.
I don't remember too well, this was last week. Anyways oh and also yoshis like to hide in tiki jars when they're trying to duck responsibility apparently.
Tl?DR well I hope my dreams start making more sense eesh.

Well I finally ran into two mewtwo players who got their mewtwos early for buying both versions of the latest smash game. One didn't know how to use him at all, played six matches I won four he won two by spamming shadow ball. The next guy was much better but I still won both matches against him before he took off. I used Ludwig which isn't even my main (that's charizard) I use him more often because I have a tendency to cream anyone with charizard every time I use him meh.

So I came back home from Easter, got a new laptop, with a new (working!!) keyboard but also with windows 8. I'm trying to tiptoe around any problems I might have and just breaking it in currently, already got all of my apps in all that's left is to transfer the files from my portable flash drive onto my laptop.

Well my Hulu has been acting up ever since we upgraded to Ultra TV from Wowway. Unfortunately as soon as we did my Hulu began acting up, after trying several things with no success, I finally did a speed test that I got from an e-mail and found out that my download speed is too slow (the minimum has to be 3Mbps for HD and 1.5Mbps for SD, my download speed was 1.45Mbps which doesn't even qualify for the minimum for SD let alone HD) yeah that new modem does not work for my Hulu my old one was better.

My laptop's keyboard is completely wrecked. I'll have to give it a few days for it to work right before I get back on it. On a side note hulu on my wiiU isn't working properly, I still don't have enough for a new laptop, and my parents being dumbasses are considering raising my rent so I can get more bridge card money when that isn't even going to be reviewed until MAY (and that's being GENEROUS!) *sighs* the only good news is I can sign onto my FA account from my wiiU but the quality....isn't great.

Ok.....why is everyone freaking out over this site sale. As far as I see they've had the site sold since January, nearly three months ago, in all that time hardly anything happened of note. No real site changes, just the usual amount of drama, etc, etc, you get the idea. It's like people are panicking to panic, heh it's kind of amusing now that I think of it.



Anyone have popcorn, and water balloons to throw at the drama llamas?

According to my userpage, Friday is the anniversary of when I tracked the vore god spencerdragon to this site and became a registered user. My 9 year anniversary to be precise, i'm loyal that's for sure.

So I waited for an auction to end, I wait until the last minute to bid, and I still lose at the last second (why I don't know i'm pretty mad right now) so I had to settle for a game at a slightly lower quality but I still got it back but i'm mad now because of how that auction went because i did everything right.

oh....SCREW IT, i'm playing smash bros. the internet is ASLEEP and it's putting ME to sleep I just wish I could crash with Axia have 'cuddle times' while being the dragon version of what he likes to make him happy MY BOREDOM IS DRIVING ME UP A WALL

Just informed that it's my birthday. I grumpily informed my stepmom that I don't count midnight as my birthday day but only count it once i've gone to bed and gotten up again (preferably after 8AM). Still it's my birthday, i'm going for....uneventful because it happened the day after smash brothers came out.

Copied and pasted from the actual homestuck website.

Let's see if I can "tldr" a few things up top, since this news item might begin to nose dive dramatically through the vertical space of this web layout. Am I finished HS yet? Um, nope. But I think enough is probably enough on the site's indefinite period of hibernation, so it's likely I will just start posting some stuff I have anyway, starting next month. Either mid or late October, let's say.

I said it would be a long pause, didn't I? Let's face it, a gigapause is just one big ass pause. It contains the smaller word "giga", which, in addition to literally meaning "one billion", you will find to be the root of the word "gigantic", which as we all know, means super huge. This intriguing fact reminds us that in our culture of words, we hold the number one billion as the indivisible quantum of general bigness, as a matter of principal. Food for thought!

We're coming up on almost a year since I paused. So that means I got like, SO much done on the story, right? Wow, no. Innumerable unspecified problems happened which badly prevented this from being true. I'd estimate out of those 12 months, I maybe squeezed in a grand total of 3 months worth of work on HS in there. Kinda dribbled across the year in the most frustrating way possible. So, I'm just gonna cry uncle on this dogshit pause and start posting stuff, but probably in a regimented way so I don't blow through everything I have too fast, thus giving me some time to work on the rest.

Back at the onset of the pause, I said I'd just post everything at once. (I was oversimplifying. I had always intended to stagger the final content to whatever extent, so as not to destroy the server.) But also that "post everything at once" idea was predicated on actually sorta... having it all done. Which as I have already culpa'd, is not the case. So I'm improvising at this point. I'll (probably) relaunch the story next month, come up with some kind of update schedule, and we'll see how it goes.

What have I been doing all year? Let's chalk it up to, in this order of relevance, a swirling multitude of Daunting Life Challenges, a flurry of accidental weird adventures causing me to thrash wildly across the nation, and the escalating complexities of running a business while tending to peripheral creative projects, not the least of which has been overseeing the development of an expensive video game. Actually, all things considered, I'm surprised at how much I actually HAVE gotten done this year. It just happens that "making a ton of HS pages" isn't one of those things.

What were the problems? What were the adventures? Sorry, nothing to see here. Me and the General Public just aren't that tight, and wild sob stories ain't my bag (unless they pertain to visits to the Olive Garden). Well, maybe I'll mention some things some day. But definitely nowhere in the proximity of a virtual stage adjacent to the sphere of rhetoric which could conceivably be construed as a series of excuses for why a mammoth load of free entertainment hasn't been finished yet. Did you follow that? Look over there. (When you look back at me, I am slowly rolling into a pile of trash.)

The good news is, I'm still all about horses. Did you know that about me? It's true as shit. Horses; wow. Pretty good weird big animals? Or pretty GREAT weird big animals??

What else should I say here. Oh.

We've also been chipping away at upgrading the server over the last year. It's been surprisingly complicated and slow-going. Actually, prior to the pause, it was one of the most difficult things about updating, having an insufficient server that was GUARANTEED to crash every time I posted something. This was even after many, many upgrades over the years. It gets a little demoralizing trying to make tons of cartoons every day for a small nation of lunatics when the server constantly struggles to keep up with the ever-burgeoning readership, no matter how much I upgraded it. This was one of the (lots of) factors which contributed to me finally just saying, fuck it, time to pause.

Hopefully it can handle it now, but guess we'll see. It all runs on fancy clouds and such now. Which has been tricky to configure for such a complicated site utterly dependent on all the garbage ass-backwards code I've written over the years. Maybe... maybe once I start updating again, nobody will notice?? Man, wouldn't that be sweet. It will just be me and like a cozy little clique of 50 randos and 10 web bots, just like the old days. We'll bring this sucker home together, then hit up the local bargain Italian restaurant to celebrate. (Then a horse nuzzles me out of my sleepy dream fantasy, and the hammock flips over and dumps my screaming body on to the lawn.)

Feels a little odd even TALKING about revving up this monstrosity again. It's been pretty serene on the web these days. I've been reluctant to even drop a pebble into the pristine glass-like state of the fandom, before being good and damn well ready to. Why wake the beast prematurely? We'll enjoy more than our share of blistering pandemonium when all is said and done. We are slowly building to a particular moment I foresee on the horizon. It's not just characterized by the end of the story, though that should be a factor. It's more than that. Things I have planned, and some other things we'll say may be fortuitously aligned. Invisible pieces of a heinous machine all snapping together, mechanically congealing with a grim sense of purpose. I'm tentatively branding to this moment as The Rapture, and it will be more than you can bear. More than anyone can. And everyone won't.

How has your year been?

Ok any questions besides this being the biggest stupid journal i've made.

I had the best dream ever, it involved tf, growth, and vore. And the ending was funny.

So erm....this is hard to explain, some sort of sentient computer or nanobot thing takes over one of my game controllers, the result is a robot roughly around the size of a 20 oz. bottle of soda pop (really tiny) I suddenly get this tutorial screen saying that this robot was mine and for now I controlled it with the game controller. OK so I start to play with it, we meet a green robot roughly around the same size and shape as my own robot.

Well here's where things get interesting. When my robot wins it swallows the other robot whole, allowing it to grow and expand (not to mention power up). It's first power-up form, was a small dog....don't worry it gets better.

I don't really remember what happened in-between but it grew again, this time into a saber-tooth tiger style voltron bot, anyways that's when it merges with me transforming me into the bot, another tutorial screen pops up saying that when the robot gets big enough it can merge with it's owner for extra power. Here's where things got fun, I fought more robots, swallowing them and making my robot suit huge (I actually felt my jaw straining when swallowing the robots).

Anyways the next upgraded form is a gryphon bot (deemed a 'flight mode suit' by the tutorial).

The last few part I remember more clearly, a cache of enemy voltron tiger bots (Including a palette-swapped variety that was red instead of yellow) takes me and my suit on. We must've been merged on the organic level because the last power-up mode was a feral rhino bot. It was swallowing the tiger bots so easily that I actually set one tiger bot on it's end, stretched my mouth as far as it could go, and swallowed the thing in one bite.

Here's where things get funny, I get back home, separate from my awesome feral rhino bot suit and say hi to my dad who comes in.
How does my suit hide? BY PERFORMING A NINJA CEILING CLING. As you might imagine as soon as my Dad turns around there's a loud scraping sound followed by my rhino bot falling from the ceiling with a resounding CRASH that shook the building I was in.
Obviously I decided since my dad was busy wondering where that noise came from i'd find a bathroom and make myself scarce. The dream ends with two cats running around one of the hallways and my dad coming out with the biggest "WTF" expression on his face i've ever seen. That was hilarious.

According to my homepage i've been a member since January 17th, so i've been a member for over eight years (woah), I'd do an anniversary thing but i'm a bad artist so meh.

Since I have a hard time repeating what I say to someone else exactly i'm just going to copy and paste what I wrote to one of my friends on steam explaining it.

Rainbowdragon: had a weird dream
Rainbowdragon: probably because of playing mario kart before bed
Rainbowdragon: ludwig made me....massage his feet, but not before he let it pass that I managed to run my hands through his poofy hair (it felt like cotton candy, seriously)
ScavengerDragon: lol it sounds like a fun dream to me
Rainbowdragon: yeah then my dad burst in trying to be fun but I never even gave him the chance before I snapped at him that he 'always ruins my fun' and ran off
Rainbowdragon: ludwig then followed me to some sort of gift shop
Rainbowdragon: (yes bowser's castle has a gift shop go figure)
Rainbowdragon: Ludwig then says he knows what it's like to be annoyed by a father (I don't even bother to tell him that Bowser isn't technically his dad) anyways he tells me that my dad isn't trying to INTENTIONALLY ruin my fun but it just seems to happen. Then he wrecks the touching moment by telling me to get back to the foot massage...sheesh

The last panel in this comic,
http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1765
A pikachu, piloting a spaceship and failing miserably, but still a pikachu in a star trek style spaceship piloting it THIS HAS TO BE DRAWN!

Went to this one party that had old school NES consoles. They had bubble bobble so I played that on one-player and beat it. I only got the bad end since it was one player but it was a nice bit of nostalgia.

So I get to my first day of online classes, the first thing I find out is the bookstore gave me the wrong stuff for one class, and the other class is using a website which I have no clue how to navigate or what to do. The first problem is easily fixed by going back to the bookstore but i'm not sure how to work with the problems with the other class since it's not my fault there are a ton of errors from there.