Thanks to those of you going on to read this. It's been brought to my attention a short while back and again now that http://www.furaffinity.net/user/reocoshin/ has not only a month ago ripped off a picture right from my art page and claimed it was his and his fursona's, but ripped off Valyen's tail and stuffed a fox tail there and put a cock on it and called it his own which utterly disgusts me. We've managed to get the pic ripped off from my page removed from his gallery but honestly I don't really feel that's enough being I'm being about 95.9% imitated by this person.

StealthDragon has already submitted a trouble ticket for Ripped/Stolen Artwork, I encourage y'all to do the same if you can or anything you think will help here. I'm at a loss of what to do; if it wasn't such a direct copy and having him rip off one of my drawings I could have cared less.

Thanks guys and gals :/
-Valyen

Birthday to pass, I'll be 24 tomorrow, no plans, no nothing, just a day *small victory flag* Hope everyone has an awesome day.

~Valyen

Hey guys I made a poll and I really need folks to fill it out. Also answer what you really feel not what is funny to you, I want honesty here:

http://valyen.livejournal.com/19186.html

So my birthday came and went, I'm 23 years young. Finals are next week then I will start my last term. I finally got time off for Yule and my comp went smash, I got a lovely shiny beautiful laptop as a replacement. I'm not so sure why folks badmouth Dell so much, I think they try hard and succeed and providing good service/products. Here's the damage.

Old laptop before death:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/.....andtablet2.jpg

Old laptop's death:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/.....brokelappy.jpg
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/.....rokelappy2.jpg

My new, FREE shiny toy:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/.....f/newlappy.jpg

So I suppose I'm happy with Dell. Also I start my externship for school in the next month or so, an eventful year ahead!

-Valyen

once again my stupid birthday rolls around this Thursday; i don't really want to be 22 but meh i guess i have no choice. my 21st birthday i spent in the san antonio airport trying to get home, i had my first legal drink there. I was hoping i could buy myself something nice this year like i normally do since nov-dec is a depressing time for me but i'm 3k in debt now so i can't; go figure.

on a lighter note i've applied with ebay and am going in for my interview in 20 minutes (well 40 but i gotta drive). hopefully things will start looking up from there, it will be afterall my highest paying job to date...

-val

I don't normally like to post anything like this but it's just been a prick in my side for many months so here yah go.

Last October I commissioned http://www.furaffinity.net/user/azusasky/ for a piece in which they finished within a day or two. Then a bit later when I came back in around Nov/Dec I commissioned them again for a bigger piece in which didn't get finished, I kept asking what was up and she kept telling me she was having scanner problems and whatnot. So I let weeks pass and ask here and there, in which more excuses were provided until months pass. Then she ended up simply deleting herself on SL and starting a new avatar under a different name (thus I couldn't talk to her), she blocked my msn/aim and my FA account. Yes it's been many many months but basically what I gather from it is she's just running with my money without providing a refund or the art requested.

What I suspect is that I'm not the only person she did this to considering the length of trouble in my opinion to dodge the bullet.

Since I likely will get nothing from this liar all I ask is two things, one is me wanting to know if anyone else has been scammed by her like this? and the second is just to make people aware, it's about all that can be done. If anyone else has any ideas let me know.

-Val

here's something that annoys the heck out of me:

I'm sure we've all had random people message us or add our IMs at one point.

Let me point some things out for those of you who wish to IM at random:

1) If you want to make a good impression then please within the first few minutes say something like "do you not like me?" people love that and you'll be adored for it.

2) Right after they accept you adding them, wait for them to respond to you, and if they say something like this " :O " then act all surprised and give them an attitude, that's what great first impressions are for!

3) Best thing you can say to someone interested in Dragons/Furries or both at once sometimes is "oh just to let you know, I severly dislike homos/bisexuals", that's the best personality trait you can have! Nobody will turn you down trust me.

Just remember to do it in this order, you'll definately make lots of friends! And no need to thank me.