So I wanted to push that journal off my userpage, since I'm pretty much back in the swing of things, but I don't have anything in particular to make a journal about, so I'm going to tell you about a dream I had last night.

So I was at the airport. And I was a vampire. Or rather, I was starting to turn into a vampire. It takes a while, you see. Gradual process. I still had a reflection at this point, but if I stood up close to the mirror, my reflection was partially transparent. Kind of unsettling. Which is why it was a problem that the elevated tunnel I was walking through at the airport was lined on one side with mirrors. So I'm hugging the wall and trying not to stare at my reflection to make sure it was still solid (incidentally, I noticed at this point that I had a rather 80's mullet, wondered when that had happened, and made a mental note to go get it cut to a less ridiculous style before I became a vampire and could no longer go out during the standard hours of a hairdressers.), and finally left the weird-ass tunnel and headed out into the main terminal.

You see, I was heading out into the arrivals section to meet my good friend, Avery Brooks. Yes, that Avery Brooks. After wandering around for a short while getting lost because the signs kept changing, I finally bumped into him, but before we could really get to talking, he set me on fire as a joke.

Yes, I know. Just go with it.

I'm not quite sure how he did it, as I was looking away at that exact moment, but suddenly there's a big gout of flame and I'm running out into a parking lot full of buses. Realizing that I was no longer burning, I think that on the one hand it's a good thing that I'm not a vampire yet since running into an open parking lot at noonish would be quite stupid then. On the other hand, vampires would probably heal up a lot faster than mere mortals would after being set on fire. It was okay, though, apart from my jacket being singed, I was fine. Idly wondering if my hair had been burned to a more era-appropriate 'do, I headed back towards the airport to give Avery a good stern talking to.

And then I woke up. The end, no moral.

No, I don't understand it either. Just felt like sharing with y'all.

Hey guys, quick update:

I got my compy back. Fuck yes.

But I have to reload all the programs. Fuck no.

It'll take me a bit to get my hands back on MS Office, but I might see if I can wrangle MS Works into writing a decent story.

Ažurirati preko.

Hey guys, I just noticed that I am now officially up to 100 watchers.

Holy crap.

Unfortunately the silly non-canon story I had in mind to celebrate this momentous occasion will be delayed by my computer issues, but I'll get it out, even if it takes until I reach 200. :P

I reached the big three digits thanks to Mr.  Demonwhisper, but I wanted to thank each and every one of you for deciding I was cool enough to watch, whether it was because you like my writing, you enjoy my charming personality (yeah, right) or because you got confused and thought I drew Star Gazer or I Love You Twice.

You guys are awesome. Every time I get a fave I smile, and I feel oh-so-proud when someone posts a comment to let me know how much they enjoyed one of my stories. n_n

Hell, to this date, I've never received a 'LOL u suck' comment or any trolling, all of my comments have either been totally positive or constructively critical, and I really appreciate that, even if it is just because trolls don't take the time to read.

You're a great audience and I hope I can continue to write quality stories that you'll enjoy.

Once again, thanks much.

Yours truly,
-Green.

Hi, guys. I've got a problem.

There was a big old storm up here today, and it involved many, many split-second power outages. My computer is designed/set/whatever to automatically reboot after a power outage, and I think that might have something to do with the fact that it's now, to use the technical term, "totally fucked". Hint: I'm not writing this from my own computer.

I turn it on and it goes through the usual boot-up sequence. Then it shows an error message for a nanosecond. Then it restarts. Repeat ad nauseum until I manually kill the power. I tried booting it up in safe mode, but that had the same exact effect. I tried this "Repair computer" option in the safe mode menu, and that looked promising, but after performing mysterious actions for about forty-five minutes, nothing had changed.

Also, system restore straight-up failed, which I've never seen before.

I'm worried that the repair thing not working might mean it's a hardware problem, which would be just great.

I'm not writing this journal just to bitch, or to ask for donations or whatever for a computer repair fund. I got that covered if it does come to that, God forbid.

I'm writing this because until I get this fixed, I'm not gonna be able to participate much on FA, or do much work on my stories. Yes, I keep all my work on an external hard drive, and I could just hook that up to another machine and pick up where I left off, but I wouldn't really feel comfortable writing furry porn on someone else's computer, eh?

So maybe I'll have it fixed tomorrow, maybe it'll take a month, I have no idea. I just wanted to let you guys know that if I vanish, there's a very good reason for it. Anybody got any suggestions, I'd be very glad to hear them.

One: I think the last journal I made is going to make a lot more sense if you watch this video. It's an excerpt from Giant Bomb's E3 podcast, where they're talking about Nintendo's press conference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOI4XJecOc0

Two: The more I look at the August banner, the more it looks like Fender's getting road head. Am I crazy, or does anyone else see this?

EDIT: For the benefit of any people in the far-off future who might see this journal:
August 2009 Banner: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2603841
The last journal as it was meant to be seen: http://s1011.photobucket.com/albums.....fthefuture.jpg

:TastesLikeGreenicon::TastesLikeGreenicon:

That is all.

So as of right now, I'm only 10 watches away from the big 100, and assuming people keep enjoying pornographic stories, it's pretty safe to assume I'll reach that lofty number. Me being lazy, I didn't do anything when I hit 50 watchers, but letting three digits pass by without some kind of celebration doesn't seem right.

Unfortunately, I can't think of anything clever to do. I believe the standard celebration for an artist is to draw one of their characters covered in spooge with a big number over them, but that just doesn't translate to stories somehow.

For an example of the last time I did anything like that, I remind you of the ridiculous MSPaint wang I drew when I reached 1000 pageviews. :P

So, uh, if anybody has any suggestions on cool stuff I could do to celebrate 100 watchers, let's hear them, and hopefully I'll be able to do something less stupid more impressive than a badly-drawn penis.

Actually that should be "meme". :B

So yeah. Since my house wasn't destroyed by a tornado today, I thought I'd push that journal off my front page with a quick meme. Three positive comments and three negative comments about my own art. (Writing does too count as art! :P)

Oh, and I stole this from  Beeboi.

The Good
1. I'm good at writing jokes and such that are actually funny and make people laugh.
2. It seems when I write sex scenes, they come out really, really hot. u_u
3. Readers easily connect emotionally with my characters; despite all the no-pants action, people are reading for more than just hot, hot sex.

The Bad
1. I tend to be quite verbose, using really big words when smaller ones will do, and writing extremely long stories.
2. I usually only write about perverted things like incest and people who turn into other people when they fuck.
3. I take forever to finish stories, if ever, and sometimes I just let things sit for days without working on them at all.

Okay so I'll admit Bad Thing #2 was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but then my writing is one of the only things about myself that I'm really, totally proud of, so it was difficult (but interesting) to find major flaws with it. Oh, and I still have trouble writing dialogue around "he said"-type lines, but my stories work the way they are, so I don't think of that as a major flaw.

MINOR SELF-ANALYSIS OVER.

So it's rainy and thundery out today, nothing unusual there. The bit that's new is that apparently a local tornado warning has been put in place.

The hell?! This is southern Ontario, not freaking Kansas! We're not supposed to get weather like that!

I don't really think there's much danger of a twister actually wrecking up my shit, but just in case I pissed Nature off somehow, I've removed my computer's external hard drive and am carrying it around with me. Everything I've written in the past year and a half is on this hard drive, and if I'm gonna be huddling in the basement, I'm gonna be doing it with my writing safe at hand. u_u

So I probably won't get much done today, I'll let you know if all my worldly possessions are scattered to the winds. :P

-Green.

UPDATE: Everything is fine, nothing is ruined. n_n

By  Mushi_Crosshairs, to be precise.
So here's that things-about-me meme then.

1) Post these rules
2) Post 8 true things about yourself
3) At the end you must tag 8 people and post their icons
4) Go to their page and send them a message saying you tagged them
5) NO TAG-BACKS

1. I am actually a big dude. Six foot nothing, 200 lbs. And if it's fat, it doesn't show. :P
2. I am also naturally sketchy, so that 2/3 pictures taken of me make me look creepy as fuck.
3. I love the hell out of video games, and my favourite console this generation is the 360. Can't wait for Brutal Legend and Halo ODST.
5. I only dance in public when I am very, very drunk, and I always dance the same way (i.e. not very well), to the point where my friends refer to dancing like that by my name.
4. Whenever I'm driving my brother anywhere, if there's no one coming in the other lane as far as the eye can see, I'll shout "BRITISH STYLE!" and start to drift to the left. And he still hates driving enough to make me do it.
6. Despite my charming personality, I have never had what some people refer to as a "girlfriend". There have been girls in my life, but nothing serious, unfortunately. :(
7. I write about such antics a lot, but in reality, I would never mac on my own sister. I had a dream once, though, that made it hard to look her in the eye for about a month. ;>_> (/TMI)
8. When I was very young I wanted to be a comic strip artist when I grew up, only to realize that I enjoyed making up the stories way more than I enjoyed drawing the pictures, which I later realized I sucked at anyway.

Be honest, did you notice I switched #s 4 and 5 before you read this sentence?

Hmmm, I'm not sure I even know eight people on FA well enough to tag them with this meme.

Let's see, how about  Eoso,  MollyDraggy,  Buck7,  Dogmeat-the-Conqueror and (why not)  Tacki123. I suppose if you twisted my arm I could find some more... Until then,

JOURNAL OVER.
P.S. Speaking of memes, apparently I am the Moon.

Hey guys. It's 1:21 in the morning right now, and that means it's technically July 20th. I post this journal for reasons that are, for once, important rather than silly. I wanted to bring attention to the fact that, unless you believe a bunch of shifty people on the Internet, today is the fortieth anniversary of human beings walking on the Moon for the first time in our entire history as a species.

I'm not one for politics or such, so I don't care for the aspect that it was basically the Americans thumbing their noses at the commies, but even someone as cynical as I tend to be has to admit that getting people onto the goddamn Moon is a pretty awesome thing if you think about it.

So Mr. Collins, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Aldrin: Nice going, that was rad. I salute you. u_u

Anybody else here a fan of Futurama?

Were you as excited as I was when I found out they were bringing it back for more seasons?

Yeah, well forget that, it seems Fox doesn't know how to run their own damn show.

Oh, they're still doing it... they're just doing it without any of the original voice actors.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR11.....1&nid=2565

Why even watch the show if it's not gonna be the Futurama I remember? :(

Oh well. At least there's always cute things on the net to cheer me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS5h3cX8sHI

I feel fairly alone tonight. It's been building for a while now, actually. I haven't seen any of my friends in months, I don't really chat with anyone anymore, and my family feels distant, somehow, despite being all around me.

Adding to the problem is that sometimes, releasing stories on the Internet feels like I'm just screaming into the ether and nobody can hear me.

I'm used to feeling alone, though. I've felt alone in varying degrees for most of my life. I'm the guy who can be in a bustling party and feel like he's the only person there.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, really. This isn't a cry for help or whatever, you don't need to worry or feel bad for poor old Green. I'm sure in time I'll feel better. I always do, eventually. I like to describe it as like being tied to a really big wheel: sometimes you're at the top, sometimes you're at the bottom.

But it helps, for me anyway, to remember a line from a novel I read a very long time ago, by an author named Lisa Unger. I don't even remember which book it was.

"Writers are first and foremost observers. We watch. We lose ourselves in the watching, and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel in the fringes, on the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe."

So I read that, and I feel slightly better about my solitude. Then I live up to it by spending my time alone writing, preferably something light-hearted with a happy ending. That too, makes me feel better. It's not much, but it helps me get by. Honestly, I have no idea why I'm sharing this with you guys, I just felt like writing it down I guess.

I'm working on a Dave and Kelly story as we speak. Like I said; light-hearted, happy ending. So we have that to look forward to.

I'll probably put something more positive up here before too long.

-Green.

So I surprised myself the other day when I realized I was genuinely interested in Left 4 Dead 2, the upcoming sequel to everybody's favourite zombie shooty co-op thing. I had two major reasons for not picking up the first one, the first being that my computer wasn't strong enough for it and Valve had already proved that they don't care about the 360 crowd by not bringing their Team Fortress 2 improvements to the Xbox version of The Orange Box. This issue has since been removed since I now have a much more powerful computer. (I have named her Angelica. u_u) The other reason, though...

Well, it's really three lesser issues that combine, Voltron-style, into one understandable problem.
a) The game is entirely dependant upon non-local co-op.
b) I don't really know anybody who's into the online gaming scene, so I would be heavily reliant on random matchups.
c) Experience in this area (Mainly from Halo 3) has taught me that an awful lot of people who are into online gaming are complete and utter shitheads.

Here's the thing: since then, I've noticed that a hell of a lot of people here on FA are big, big fans of L4D, judging by the fact that Zoey/Witch porn exists. (TF2 is even more mad popular. I wonder what the connection is between Valve and furries...) It's possible that if I did get Left 4 Dead 2, there would be a large group of vague Internet acquaintances for me to play with.

And hey, I never got the first one, so I don't feel betrayed that they're releasing a sequel like a year later! :D

So I'm curious, do any of you have experience fighting the zombie hordes? Is there some kind of furry clan? Are random match-ups more or less likely to include griefers? And most importantly, is anyone even reading this? ;>_>

The game doesn't come out until November, so I've got a while to think it over, and by that time I'll probably have Halo: ODST/Brutal Legend/both anyway, so I won't be lacking for gaming fun if I decide to pass on L4D2.

ZOMBIE MUSING OVER.

(I was so close to calling this "State of the Greenion", so count yourselves lucky)

It's the start of a new month, which means a new FA Banner and a new picture on my calender. This year my personal calender is Heroes-themed, which means we go from a whole month of Micah Sanders to a whole month of... that annoying Mexican chick whose eyes turned black and killed people when she got upset. Great. Ah well, I've also got a desk calender with an adorable kitten on it.

It also means it's Canada Day today, celebrating the greatness of the awesomest country on the planet in the best way we know how: barbecues and fireworks. u_u
This is when I give a shout out to everyone else on the  CanadianFurs list and hope they have a good one.

Posted a new story yesterday, 's called "A First Time for Everything" and it's about Eric and Milo Thompson, the other incestuous siblings I write about. I understand that brother-on-brother isn't what a lot of my watchers are looking for, so if Eric/Milo isn't your thing, don't worry, there'll be a new Vincent story along before too long, and you can guess what that entails .

Oh, and July 1st is also apparently Molest an  Arsis Day, so feel free to go nuts with that if you want to. n_n

New month's looking pretty good so far, I hope you all have a great one!

-Green

Well it's not really Transformers 2, it's 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'. Hollywood seems to be a little number-phobic all of a sudden when it comes to sequels.

But yeah, apparently I am in the exact centre of the target audience for this flick because I gotta say, it seems like every critic ever hates this movie and while I can sort of see where they're coming from, I don't agree with most of what they're saying at all. Yes, the interactions between the humans can be corny, but they're believably corny, and it works for the most part. There's one human character who comes off as way, way unnatural, but it turns out they did that very deliberately. This movie blew my mind.

I don't remember if I've mentioned it here before, but the first movie was my favourite film of all time, I adored Optimus Prime as a kid, so seeing him thirty feet tall in live action (with the same voice actor no less) made me feel ten years old again.

This? This had more of the same, in a good way. They listened to the fans and spent a hell of a lot more time focusing on the robots in the sequel. The Decepticons especially come off as way more sinister and dangerous because they spend a lot of time establishing exactly how little they care about the human race. (Minor spoiler: Hell, there's a scene where they straight-up murder one of their own for use as spare parts)

On the other hand, I found it odd that they almost totally ignored most of the Autobots; other than Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and the Twins, none of the good guys really get much screen time after the first twenty minutes. They're there, they're just not doing anything. Ratchet and Ironhide get even less screentime than in the first movie, and I found it especially unsatisfying the way they used Arcee. They specifically left her out of the first movie because they didn't want to have to take the time to explain robot gender, but now they just throw her in for the hell of it and barely use her at all.

Oh, and the Twins are nowhere near as racist as some people say they are, they happen to talk like (very stupid) rappers, and one of them has a gold tooth, but that's about it. It's not like they're talking about how much they love Earth food like fried chicken and watermelon.

This is running longer than I thought it would. >_>

Bottom line: If you liked the first movie, you're gonna like this one. And I loved the first movie, so I'm prolly gonna go see it again.

PSEUDO-REVIEW OVER.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, before the movie started, the random-loop-of-theatre-sponsored-crap started up a Miley Cyrus music video, prompting most of the audience to boo or go "Oh come on, really?" And then, about five seconds after she actually started singing, the screen goes black as they hard-cut to the trailers on the actual filmreel. To thunderous applause and cheering. They could very easily synch it to start the film at the end of whatever segment is playing, so I'd really like to think someone up in the booth did it on purpose.

In my latest Dave and Kelly story, the more observant among you may have noticed that Dave is referred to as 18, not 17, and there's a throwaway reference to his birthday.

This is not a mistake. My original plan when I wrote the Kelly's Birthday story was that I'd write a sequel about her brother's birthday within a couple months. That was in November, and here we are in June with no story in sight. So I figured screw it, I'll just pretend it's already out there. So that's what I'm going to do until I finally get around to writing "Dave's Birthday". It just takes place at some point in between Kelly's Birthday and First Date.

<_< That came out more confusing than I'd have liked.

Eh, don't worry, it'll be the very next D&K story I write, srsly. :P

Sometimes I wonder if I'm really any good at what I do, whether the people who say they like my work mean it or not.

In these times I like to give myself some perspective.

I recently stumbled across a story. "Sister Catches Brother". It is about a girl who walks in on her brother masturbating and ends up sleeping with him. Of course.

This makes it perfect for my purposes: comparison. I read that story, then I read one of my stories about Dave and Kelly Parrish, a brother and sister who end up sleeping together, and I feel better again.

Now, I don't normally go out of my way to be a douche, but let's face it - the story consists entirely of dialogue, like a radio play - which can work, I've seen it done... just not like this. It also contains lines like "You're sodomizing me.. Your sister... Your own flesh and blood... You're sodomizing my slutty asshole... We're committing sodomy... Sodomy and incest...", so I think me being a douche is the least of this guy's problems.

Well I'll put it this way. If you are this 4BIDDEN chap, and are offended, I'll take this journal down.

Just one bit of advice:

Don't quit your day job.

DOUCHERY OVER.

I didn't notice it until just now, but it's been a little bit more than a week since May 22nd.

Well, obviously I knew that, it's just I only just remembered the significance of May 22nd. See, it was on that day last year when I decided I no longer wanted to be an invisible watcher, only here on FA to look at other people's porn. That was the day I posted Meet Vincent, the original concept for my main character, as well as a journal on this subject called "</lurk>".

Kind of a lot's happened in that one year. Some of it was bad. Some of it was terrible, actually. But most of it was good. Somehow I'm still optimistic about the future. I mean, I've met quite a few interesting people, posted some stories I'm very proud of, and somehow actually gained a small circle of fans. :3 And hey, if nothing else, I've definitely written more for FA in this last year than I'd written for anything in the year before that.

So thanks, Fur Affinity. It's been great so far, and I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

Cheers,
-Green.

P.S. - I'm almost up to 60 watchers, which blows my mind. Thanks to each and every one of you. You guys have any suggestions on how I should celebrate when I hit the big number?

I know I just posted a journal t'other day, but I wanted to share this with you.

Yesterday, having nothing better to do, I went to see Angels & Demons with my brother and his girlfriend. I didn't like the Da Vinci Code the book, but that was because my Writer's Eye kept noticing that Dan Brown uses some truly atrocious grammar and sentence structure, I thought the movie was okay, nothing to write home about. I hadn't been planning on seeing Angels & Demons at all, certainly not in theatres, but it was their idea and I was trying to get some stuff off my mind, so I figured there were worse ways to spend two hours.

Turns out it was actually really really good, it doesn't even have any of that spicy anti-Catholic controversy from the first one, if that bugged you - it was prominently about the idea of religion coexisting with science. But apparently I only liked it because I haven't read the book. My brother and his Significant Other spent the entire car ride home discussing how terribly they had butchered the book, with all kinds of details changed and characters removed and such. But if you aren't a huge fan of the book, I'd say give it a try, at least a rental when it goes to DVD.

When I went to bed, I thought it had been a pretty good night.

I say thought because I discovered this morning that at some point after paying for my ticket, I had lost my wallet. Fun!
Let's see what I've lost, shall we?
- A five dollar bill and lots of assorted change
- driver's licence
- health card (you need one of those for the fabled Canadian free healthcare)
- debit card
- blood donor card
- a $20 gift card for EB Games, which was a present from my sister on my birthday
- my social insurance number card, with which it would be quite easy to steal my identity
- loads of other stuff that doesn't readily come to mind

Today we searched the van and did not find it, and me and my brother went back to the movie theatre to search for it. They told us that they check every theatre at the end of the night, and hadn't found a wallet. We checked it personally anyway and came up with squat. I think ours was the last showing of the night, so I don't think that means someone stole it. I'm pretty sure it didn't fall out when I was getting back in the car, because it's quite heavy, and the noise it would have made falling onto pavement would have been quite audible over our light conversation. Naturally I've torn my room apart, but haven't had any luck. So my theory is that it was stolen by Gremlins and taken to another dimension.

What a bummer.

Hey everypeoples, doing another silly meme because I've got nothing relevant to say. Blatantly stolen from  Krat.

Centaur:
[ ] You are rather wild, and let your instincts run you.
[ ] You get drunk a lot.
[ ] Bravery and boldness is second nature to you.
[ ] You have a deep love for astronomy and the universe.
[x] You like to read your daily horoscope. (I dinnae take it seriously though)
[ ] You have a high level of pride in yourself.
[ ] In the woods is the best place for you to be.
[ ] You are spiritual. (I'm not sure what you mean by that)
[ ] The horse is your favorite animal.
[x] You are possessive and territorial.
Total: 2

Elf:
[ ] Your ears are slightly pointed at the tips.
[x] You are very intelligent. (And amazingly humble. u_u)
[x] Your five senses are extremely keen. (Nobody except me hears the static in our old TV's speakers)
[ ] Your weight is quite a bit lighter than the average person at your particular height. (I'm quite solidly made.)
[ ] You always wear elegant clothes and speak as politely as possible. ()
[ ] You are most at peace when you are gazing at something beautiful, like nature.
[ ] You look very young for your age.
[x] You rarely get sick. (Swine flu? I laugh at your swine flu! Ha ha ha!)
[x] You are a very hard worker. (Motivation is the problem you see)
[ ] Above all other superpowers, you would love to read minds or see the future.
Total: 4

Fairy:
[ ] You are happy a lot of the time. (I tend to give off that impression, but then I do it on purpose.)
[ ] The best superpower to you would be to fly.
[x] You are very shy.
[x] You love the forest and plant life in general. (I once literally hugged a tree when I was high. In front of a police car doing a speed trap.)
[x] You are always willing to help others, even if you might not be the best to offer aid. (Absototalyutely)
[ ] You are young and short. (I'm six foot nothing. I don't think that counts.)
[ ] Dancing is one of your favourite pastimes. (Only when I'm drunk)
[ ] If someone ticks you off, you are very clever with getting them back. (sometimes I am, sometimes I just puncha they face.)
[x] Your clothing isn't always presentable, but you are comfortable with what you wear.
[ ] Circles are a wonderful symbol of unity to you. (I don't even know what that means.)
Total: 4

Gnome/Dwarf:
[ ] You are excellent with crafts and handiwork.
[x] In social situations, you tend to be a little awkward.
[ ] You are short for your age.
[x] You are an isolationist. (I like to be alone a lot, is that what they mean?)
[ ] You love to play practical jokes on people.
[ ] You are extremely fascinated with jewelry.
[x] You look older than your age. (My hair will prolly be totally grey by the time I'm 30.)
[ ] You love the woods and the mountains.
[ ] You are well off, or come from a family that is well off.
[ ] You have a short temper. (But when it does go off...)
Total: 3

Harpy/Siren:
[ ] You are best at talking bad about people behind their backs and not to their face. (Makes me feel like a huge douche.)
[X] When you are annoyed, you will go to a great extent to torment whoever did so to you. (Capital X, motherfucker.)
[ ] You often take things that aren't yours.
[ ] You are easily angered.
[ ] Death fascinates you.
[ ] You are female, or a feminine-looking man. (I'm quite hirsuite actually.)
[ ] You associate yourself with the wind element.
[ ] You can switch quickly between your light and dark side. (as Roast Beef once said: man what)
[x] You love to trick others. (Nobody ever falls for my tricks, but fortunately I'm very easily amused.)
[ ] You have a ravenous appetite. (I'm almost never actually "hungry", I just eat because it's dinnertime or whatever.)
Total: 2

Mermaid/Merman:
[ ] You love the beach more so because of the water than the shore itself. (I love water, but seeing Jaws at a young age means I can go in the ocean for maybe five minutes before I start hearing the theme song in the back of my head.)
[x] Fish are some of the most beautiful creatures to you. (Tell me have you seeeen the marvellous Breadfish...)
[ ] The ultimate superpower to you would be to breathe underwater.
[ ] You enjoy looking at ships, but not riding them, as well as you like ships for travelling, not hunting in the sea. (What?)
[x] You are good at swimming. (I enjoy it a hell of a lot, I dunno about technical proficiency.)
[ ] You like to collect shells.
[ ] You use sea items as jewelry or decoration.
[x] You enjoy learning about the ocean and the life inside it.
[x] You are extremely against ocean pollution, and someday, perhaps you will work to stop that.
[ ] Legs on land are not as important as a fin in the sea. (?)
Total: 4

Vampire:
[x] You're a night person. (Sir yes sir!)
[ ] You have a fascination with blood.
[x] You are extremely pale. (My meds make my skin burn too easily, I skip straight from Dracula to Lobster. So I avoid the sun.)
[x] You wish you had a bat as a pet. (Some of them are surprisingly cute up close.)
[ ] You are not religious at all. (not like I'm a bible basher, but it's there.)
[x] Tight spaces are not scary or uncomfortable for you.
[X] The sun's glare annoys you all too often. (FUCK YOU, GIANT BALL OF FIRE)
[ ] You hate food with lots of garlic in it. (I can take it or leave it.)
[ ] To you, a kiss on the neck is more romantic than a kiss on the cheek or lips. (Gotta go with the face.)
[x] You don't like sharp objects near you.
Total: 6

Werewolf:
[ ] The full moon is the most beautiful scene to you.
[x] You have a lot of body hair. (;>_>)
[x] The ability to shape shift is the best superpower to you. (Maybe tied with one other thing.)
[ ] You prefer gold over silver items. (I don't care either way.)
[x] You lack self control. (Attention Deficit Disorder at its most basic description.)
[X] You find it easier to have sympathy for animals than for humans. (People suck.)
[ ] You have a deep respect for wolves and wild dogs. (No more so than for other animals.)
[x] You like to be alone.
[x] You have a terrible secret and you only tell people you trust 100% about it. (I've never told anyone. And no, I won't tell you if you ask.)
[ ] You'd rather be outdoors than indoors. (Sweet baby Jesus, No!)
Total: 6

Wizard/Witch:
[ ] You love chemistry.
[ ] You are intuitive and good at analyzing people, to the point that people seriously or jokingly say you're psychic.
[x] The most amazing supernatural power to you is controlling the elements. (Yessss!)
[x] You are a nature lover.
[x] You have a strong sense of responsibility
[x] You spend a lot of time alone.
[x] You usually hang around with a certain animal all the time when you feel lonely. (Her name is Teddy and she's adoribibble when she sleeps.)
[ ] You are spiritual, but not necessarily religious.
[ ] Cooking is one of your favourite things to do.
[ ] You enjoy learning about Wicca and the occult. (I think my definition of Occult is different from yours.)
Total: 5

Zombie:
[x] You are pale. (Stupid pills.)
[ ] You are hungry a lot.
[ ] Many activities you do every day make you feel mindless, or like a drone. (only at work. :P)
[ ] Most of the time you or a part of you is cold. (I effing radiate heat.)
[x] You love to eat meat. (Guilty as charged.)
[ ] You would resort to cannibalism if that was the only source of food. (I plead the fifth. <.<)
[ ] You make grunts and moans a lot. (You mean outside of pantsless fun? Then no.)
[ ] You enjoy learning about psychology because you study the brain.
[x] You usually walk slowly. (I'm too big to be a sprinter :P)
[x] You are not afraid of seeing a lot of blood or getting a lot of blood on yourself. (I had a history of extreme nosebleeds, I'm okay with my own blood.)
Total: 4

Satyr/Faun:
[x] You are very passionate about the things you like.
[x] You like to get drunk and dance.
[x] You're very amorous.
[x] You like art and music. (You're asking that question on this site?)
[ ] You enjoy feasting with friends.
[ ] You love nature, but more for the animals than the trees and plants.
[ ] You like getting rowdy and having a good time.
[x] You laugh a lot.
[ ] You love the chase almost as much as the capture. (Too little experience to say. *single tear*)
[ ] You wish you had horns.
Total: 5

So it looks like I'm a Vampire-Werewolf with a little bit of Wizard and Satyr thrown in for good measure. Hmmm, sounds like a furry original character. *awesomeface*.
>_> Man, what would that even look like?

I had fun with this one, I like silly memes. n_n

So I saw Star Trek.

Oh.
My.
Fucking.
GOD.

...

Like I said, I'm a life-long Trekkie.

The Next Generation started in '89, when I was four years old. I have been watching Trek since before I could even remotely understand it as anything more than spaceships flying around shooting at each other.

This movie was incredible. For starters, it got all the reimagined characters dead on.

Kirk is completely self-assured, you truly believe that this man does not believe in a no-win situation. Bones is cynical, but it's because he cares deeply about his friends and realizes the astonishingly slim odds they're operating under. Spock struggles with the logic he strains to follow and the emotions he's expected to pretend that he does not have.

Even the supporting characters seem familiar. Chekov, despite being played by an actual Russian actor, speaks with the familiarly hammy accent that somehow switches Vs and Ws. Scotty is as flippant as he is talented with a machine (and it's downright criminal how little screentime he gets).

Even the new stuff is great. The villain Nero comes off as completely twisted by rage and obsession, committing some truly brutal acts in the name of revenge. (and holy fuck do I ever mean it when I say brutal)

I only saw it a few short hours ago, and I already can't wait to see it again.

TL;DR?
See this movie.
If you're a Trekkie, it will be like a million orgasms at once.
If you've never seen a single episode of Trek before, that's okay, no prior understanding is necessary at all.

Go. See. This. Movie.

RAVING FANBOYISM OVER.

Sure are an awful lot of birthday journals lately. Must be a popular time to be born.

I'm no exception, today is the day I turn 24. That's right, the Kiefer Sutherland year.

It's looking pretty good so far, but then most days that begin with an omelette look good to me.

I'm probably going to pick up the new Wolverine game, since it's been getting surprisingly good reivews (better than the movie it's based on, actually) and I got a serious kick out of the demo.

Last week I had an 'Oh snap, we're all adults now' moment when my younger brother casually mentioned that he and his girlfriend had gotten me something. Wonder what it is. I'll keep you updated. Hmmm, I guess this means I have to get them stuff from now on. n_n

And topping off the day, I'm going to see the new Star Trek movie tonight, which should be a blast, what with critics crying over how beautiful it is and me being a life-long Trekkie. I'll let you know how it goes.

Before I finish this I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm still working on stuff, even if I have run into a minor block. Who knows, maybe I just used up all my alloted creativity for my 23rd year, in which case I should be posting like an MFer in no time. :P

Hope you all have a nice day, cause it sure as hell looks like I will. n_n

Do you realize that out of all the billions of people in the world, only one of them will be able to understand the bizarre statement I just made? That's impressive.
_{Hint: I don't mean me.}

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl4WN-aOWDY

I'll leave you with this nonsense and the conclusion that I am an asshole. u_u

Keep it Green.

Once again, a meme has been going around. I stole this from  TheMadCatter, though he says he'll probably remove it from his page. For the record, my fursona, or at least the closest thing to it, is Vincent Linus.

1 – Do you and your "fursona" look alike?
Well, Vinnie's an anthropomorphic fox (well, usually) and I'm a shifty-looking Canadian. I dunno, we both smile an awful lot and sometimes I picture him with a little tuft of fur on his chin like my goatee, but other than that he's pretty generic. Sometimes our eyes are the same colour too, but he Changes that a lot since no one pays close enough attention to notice, and it amuses him to do so.

2 – Do you and your fursona share attires?
I suppose we do, I'm not that complicated a guy, mostly T-shirts and jeans, with a hoodie thrown on when it gets cold. Vinnie is much the same, though that's probably more since I don't really pay much attention to clothes. I don't think I've ever actually described what Vinnie is wearing in a specific scene, apart from when it's something out of the ordinary, like a bathing suit or a dress. I wonder if Vinnie looks as good in a suit as I do...

3 – Do you share the same sexuality as your fursona?
That's kind of tricky. I'm a straight male, and so is Vinnie... most of the time. He's technically a hermaphrodite, though unlike all the other herms on FA, who run a drooling-pussy-and-rock-hard-cock combo, Vinnie's species, the Mokaji, 'toggles' at will back and forth between male and female, with the unused organs going dormant. He prefers being male, and he's only interested in girls when this is the case. But once in a blue moon he'll girlify himself (not the actual term), and in that form, while she'll go for a male if she really likes him, she still prefers the ladies. So, basically we do share the same sexuality... except when he's a lesbian. :P

4 – If you hadn’t already made your fursona look like you, if you would to change how he/she looked like to make him/her look more like you, how would you think he/she would look like?
I think I would have to make him bigger, honestly. Vinnie's pretty average in size, but I'm naturally large. Not like chubby large, I'm slightly thuggish. On one occasion I was taking a walk at night and an old lady locked her car door when I walked past. What was I talking about again?

5 – Did you work hard to develop your fursona? What is the (brief) history of your fursona?
It sort of happened naturally, actually. When I signed up to FurAffinity, I did so entirely so I could see the delicious porns. I made up "tastes like green" on the spot and became a lurker. Eventually, I started writing comments on art I specifically liked, and that grew into me being fairly outgoing on the site. Not wanting to have the anonymous "cup full of art utensils" icon, I whipped one up in MSPaint that vaguely tied into the username, a mouth with a green tongue. (The icon I use now was made later by my good friend Dogmeat) Still later, I decided I wanted to actually submit stuff to FA, and made up a character who would tie into the name and the icon, a character with a green tongue. Vinnie's personality and the entire Mokaji race basically grew out of that.

(if you meant "personal history", well, that's what the stories are for. )


6 – Do you and your fursona share relationship status?
Technically yes, as we're both single, but Vinnie has this weird habit of constantly running into women who are intensely attracted to him and thus has a prodigious amount of casual sex. (You see, it's funny because porn doesn't need to be logical) I, on the other hand, have been as chaste as an appropriate metaphor for far too long now. :P

7 – Do you find yourself jealous or upset if your fursona gets paired with someone you don’t like, or your partner does?
First off, no partner, as previously stated, and while my initial reaction to art of them with someone else would probably be to feel ever-so-slightly jealous, I'd get over it quickly enough. It's just a picture after all, so it's not like I would freak out over it. I try not to let things like that cloud my ability to appreciate a pic. Secondly, there are only two pictures about Vinnie getting his freak on. One of them is by  Asuraludu and is based on a story I wrote, and the other was a quick sketch made by Dogmeat of V and her character Seren Tremio (who was her fursona at the time), who I like almost as much as Vinnie seems to. So I have no idea how I'd feel if someone drew Vinnie with someone I don't like, though I'd certainly enjoy being popular enough that it became an issue. n_n

8 – How would you like your character not to be used?
Uh, off the top of my head? Okay, pretending that people actually want to draw me fanart, I don't want to see Vinnie involved in stuff like vore or guro or scat, and I'd prefer not to see him in any male/male stuff, at least not without my permission, though hot girl-on-girl when he's female is a-ok. I also harbour a special dislike for non-consensual transformation stuff, especially transgender, but that's not much of an issue for Vinnie since a Mokaji can always just immediately Change back to a form they prefer.

9 – What’s your fursona’s speciality?
Hmmm. Well obviously, he's a shapeshifter, though I haven't really used that all that often in his stories, apart from in Regal Beagle and to a lesser degree in Seren's New Toy. I should probably try experimenting with that, maybe have him try different species to mimic, or at least write another story where he gets in touch with his feminine side.

10 – On a scale of 1-10 how much are you and your fursona alike?
I'd say about a six or a seven. Vinnie and I are about equally laid-back, though he tends to hide his darker moods better. (He's got a dark side, of course, everybody does, his just hasn't really been explored... yet.) We both joke a lot, and I like to think there's a tenderness to both of us, which so far has only shown in Vinnie by the way he ensures that the girls he gets with enjoy themselves at least as much as he does. n_n

On the other hand, I'm not a shapeshifting hermaphrodite who has more sex than he knows what to do with, so maybe we're not that similar after all.

ABRUPT ENDING