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amethystlight to the rest of you. Despite actually asking before the day itself, your birthday gift art will be late. I keep promising people gift art and I have a backlog... I still owe Wendy the meme art. Not to mention I have this fanart project thingy I gave myself a while back, and I've only made a small dent in that. Here's a dent: The fanart for Courtney and Aloysius Crumrin. I might need to edit and reupload that, because the green is wonderfully intense, but their skin is too bright pink. Time to play with saturation levels... The list for the whole fanart project is on the main page of the gallery.
In pet news, the vet finally got back to me with the lab results, and told me my cat has high cholesterol. WTF? What am I supposed to do about this? She didn't seem to think any kind of medication was warranted, but what else am I supposed to do? She eats only dry food, and it's Purina One at that. Okay, she does get tiny tiny scraps of people food sometimes, but we're talking two bites a month. Also we obtained a set of pumpkin millipedes, which brought the count of millipedes in this house up to six. Six! Unfortunately one died last night, but I guess they were pretty young, and things happen...
Went to the State Fair twice, took pictures, too lazy to upload.
Okay, there are some memes going around, and I signed up for them from a couple people, but am only now getting around to answering.
Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love.
Also:
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
The seven interests meme:
Questions fromplaceboweek
1. Bellingham, WA to be specific. Go ahead and googlemap it, it won't give me a good URL to link. This is the city I was born in and grew up in, until I moved out here about seven years ago. I list it as an interest because I'm still always curious what's going on in my old stomping grounds. Bellingham is a city, not a tiny little town where everyone knows each other, contrary to what people seem to think. It is hippiesville though, and pot might as well be legal there...
3. Canti is the robot from an anime called FLCL. I have some fanart of him buried in ym DA gallery, but again if you google or wiki him, you should get a welath of info. FLCL is one of the funniest anime I've seen in a while, just don't try to make any sense of it, because there isn't much. Mostly it's about this kid, who gets whacked on the head by an alien girl with a guitar, and then robots come out of his head. Canti is one of them, but he becomes one of the main characters and kind of a household servant, except there's this one chick that thinks he's a god.
...yeah.
3. Prismacolors:I grew up using whatever art supplies I could get my hands on, mostly my mom's old stuff from college. Then I met Bridgie and she said I needed to try prismacolor pencils. I said colored pencils are colored pencils and those are expensive, so she sent me a big set of them. Colored pencils are not just colored pencils. We have prismacolor markers and pencils all over the place now, but the colors are consistent between markers and pencils so they combine well, the pencils are very high quality and smooth, basically I'm hooked.
4. World Creation: I only recently learned there's a name for this and other people do it. I have a number of fantasy worlds, most of them fairly detailed. There are characters and storylines within those worlds, and me and the rest of the household RP in them, but I also enjoy designing the flora, fauna, history, political structure, etc.
5. Wylde Nept is a celtic band our friend Wendy (ciuinferrin) introduced us to when we visited her. I think Shad might have 'em listed in his favs too... They're very good, and I like their original stuff, not just their versions of celtic classics.
6. Dave Mckean is the guy whose name you see paired with Neil Gaiman a lot. He does this amazing collage-y digital art. Look up Mirrormask or Neverwhere for some of his stuff with Neil. Also the storybook Wolves in the Walls, which is awesome. I know he's done some other kid's storybooks with Neil but that's the only one I've read.
7. Nostalgia is kind of an unavoidable interest, isn't it? It is for me at least. I know I find my brain wandering to the old remember when stuff all the time... plus I miss the eighties cartoons from my childhood. The eighties were good stupid fun.
Questions fromdragonwhishes
There's some repeats from above...
1. Brian Froud is the guy who designed the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and he's got a substantial body of work about faeries. I have lots of his art books. Gorgeous watercolor over pencil, and his wife makes dolls that look like his drawings... or vice-versa.
2. Poison Elves is/was a comic written by a guy from my hometown, B'ham, but you can find it on comic stands all over. The author/artist Drew Hayes died not too long ago, which is a shame. He wasn't much older than me. I never met him, but it seemed like everyone else I knew did, because we all moved in the same circles I guess. The elves of the Arraka'ar world (Where Telve and Bardha are from) were influenced by PE.
3. Information Society is the band that basically pioneered techno way back in the when. Their Hack album is a bestseller, even if their stuff isn't quite like the techno that's out there now. It's good stuff.
4. World Creation: See above
5. Canti: See above
6. You can't tell me you don't know who Rowlf the Dog is. As much as people adore Kermit and describe Jim Henson as being similar to him, he always identified more with Rowlf, who's actually been around longer than Kermit, or at least in a fully realized form. Rowlf was used on late night talk shows way before the Muppet Show came about. I always liked him because of the laid back manner, and the piano playing, because I used to do piano. I saw one of the old Rowlf puppets in the smithsonian once and just stared at his puppet hands, which had been worn and shaped by the human hands inside them.
7. Prismacolors: See above
If you want to ask some different ones so there's not repeats, I'll answer...
amethystlight to the rest of you. Despite actually asking before the day itself, your birthday gift art will be late. I keep promising people gift art and I have a backlog... I still owe Wendy the meme art. Not to mention I have this fanart project thingy I gave myself a while back, and I've only made a small dent in that. Here's a dent: The fanart for Courtney and Aloysius Crumrin. I might need to edit and reupload that, because the green is wonderfully intense, but their skin is too bright pink. Time to play with saturation levels... The list for the whole fanart project is on the main page of the gallery.In pet news, the vet finally got back to me with the lab results, and told me my cat has high cholesterol. WTF? What am I supposed to do about this? She didn't seem to think any kind of medication was warranted, but what else am I supposed to do? She eats only dry food, and it's Purina One at that. Okay, she does get tiny tiny scraps of people food sometimes, but we're talking two bites a month. Also we obtained a set of pumpkin millipedes, which brought the count of millipedes in this house up to six. Six! Unfortunately one died last night, but I guess they were pretty young, and things happen...
Went to the State Fair twice, took pictures, too lazy to upload.
Okay, there are some memes going around, and I signed up for them from a couple people, but am only now getting around to answering.
Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love.
Also:
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
The seven interests meme:
Questions from
placeboweek1. Bellingham, WA to be specific. Go ahead and googlemap it, it won't give me a good URL to link. This is the city I was born in and grew up in, until I moved out here about seven years ago. I list it as an interest because I'm still always curious what's going on in my old stomping grounds. Bellingham is a city, not a tiny little town where everyone knows each other, contrary to what people seem to think. It is hippiesville though, and pot might as well be legal there...
3. Canti is the robot from an anime called FLCL. I have some fanart of him buried in ym DA gallery, but again if you google or wiki him, you should get a welath of info. FLCL is one of the funniest anime I've seen in a while, just don't try to make any sense of it, because there isn't much. Mostly it's about this kid, who gets whacked on the head by an alien girl with a guitar, and then robots come out of his head. Canti is one of them, but he becomes one of the main characters and kind of a household servant, except there's this one chick that thinks he's a god.
...yeah.
3. Prismacolors:I grew up using whatever art supplies I could get my hands on, mostly my mom's old stuff from college. Then I met Bridgie and she said I needed to try prismacolor pencils. I said colored pencils are colored pencils and those are expensive, so she sent me a big set of them. Colored pencils are not just colored pencils. We have prismacolor markers and pencils all over the place now, but the colors are consistent between markers and pencils so they combine well, the pencils are very high quality and smooth, basically I'm hooked.
4. World Creation: I only recently learned there's a name for this and other people do it. I have a number of fantasy worlds, most of them fairly detailed. There are characters and storylines within those worlds, and me and the rest of the household RP in them, but I also enjoy designing the flora, fauna, history, political structure, etc.
5. Wylde Nept is a celtic band our friend Wendy (
ciuinferrin) introduced us to when we visited her. I think Shad might have 'em listed in his favs too... They're very good, and I like their original stuff, not just their versions of celtic classics.6. Dave Mckean is the guy whose name you see paired with Neil Gaiman a lot. He does this amazing collage-y digital art. Look up Mirrormask or Neverwhere for some of his stuff with Neil. Also the storybook Wolves in the Walls, which is awesome. I know he's done some other kid's storybooks with Neil but that's the only one I've read.
7. Nostalgia is kind of an unavoidable interest, isn't it? It is for me at least. I know I find my brain wandering to the old remember when stuff all the time... plus I miss the eighties cartoons from my childhood. The eighties were good stupid fun.
Questions from
dragonwhishesThere's some repeats from above...
1. Brian Froud is the guy who designed the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and he's got a substantial body of work about faeries. I have lots of his art books. Gorgeous watercolor over pencil, and his wife makes dolls that look like his drawings... or vice-versa.
2. Poison Elves is/was a comic written by a guy from my hometown, B'ham, but you can find it on comic stands all over. The author/artist Drew Hayes died not too long ago, which is a shame. He wasn't much older than me. I never met him, but it seemed like everyone else I knew did, because we all moved in the same circles I guess. The elves of the Arraka'ar world (Where Telve and Bardha are from) were influenced by PE.
3. Information Society is the band that basically pioneered techno way back in the when. Their Hack album is a bestseller, even if their stuff isn't quite like the techno that's out there now. It's good stuff.
4. World Creation: See above
5. Canti: See above
6. You can't tell me you don't know who Rowlf the Dog is. As much as people adore Kermit and describe Jim Henson as being similar to him, he always identified more with Rowlf, who's actually been around longer than Kermit, or at least in a fully realized form. Rowlf was used on late night talk shows way before the Muppet Show came about. I always liked him because of the laid back manner, and the piano playing, because I used to do piano. I saw one of the old Rowlf puppets in the smithsonian once and just stared at his puppet hands, which had been worn and shaped by the human hands inside them.
7. Prismacolors: See above
If you want to ask some different ones so there's not repeats, I'll answer...
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Date: Oct. 4th, 2007 11:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 4th, 2007 11:31 pm (UTC)Good stuff:
You are not only a hell of a lot more mature than I'd expect for your age, you're also a hell of a lot more mature than some people a decade older and some...
You're a Discworld fan! Do you know how many Discworld fans I know, apart from family I've shoved the books at? That's right, it's you. The downside is I think you may know more about Discworld than I do...
You never, ever, have anything bad to say about anybody. This utterly blows my mind.
On to the interests:
1. CSI - why? I've watched a little of it...
2. acheron hades
3. writing bad literature
4. looking at clouds
5. ackflaildie
6. manta rays - why, WHY?? ;) They're so creepy!
7. my body hates me
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Date: Oct. 5th, 2007 04:24 am (UTC)<3 Thank you. And sometimes I think bad thoughts about people, but usually I just keep my mouth shut.
1. CSI
The first show I ever really got into that wasn't a comedy or animated. And I've stayed interested in it. I guess it's that I can relate to the characters emotionally, and occasionally the characters make me giggle.
2. acheron hades
Wow, this is one of the most repeated interests. o_O Anyway, he's a villain from a series of books I love, the Thursday Next ones. BUY THEM, REY. BUY THEM.
3. writing bad literature
Because... because! :D In seriousness - a lot of the time people say that my writing's good, but I've just thought it to be okayish.
4. looking at clouds
I like to look at clouds. I don't see pictures in them, not always, but I just like seeing how they're shaped.
5. ackflaildie
One of my friends had an icon that had this for the keywords. Sometimes, that describes my state of mind.
6. manta rays
THEY ARE CUTE AND CUDDLY AND MISUNDERSTOOD.
7. my body hates me
I swear, it does. When I was young, the bones in my feet were growing at an angle. Earlier than that, I had a really bad kidney infection and I had to be in the hospital for about three days. I've had numerous girly-type problems, and my hormones/thingies that give me emotions like to go wacko over small shit.
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Date: Oct. 5th, 2007 06:14 pm (UTC)1. Hunh. It's been enough to hold my interest through an episode if I flip channels and run into it... That's saying something, since we don't watch much TV around here.
2. I have heard of that, but sadly I have no money atm. I just managed to budget for a couple Discworld books recently.
3. I thought maybe you meant deliberately bad... because sometimes that's funny.
6. They are creepy. And I doubt they're cuddly, what with the being underwater and all.
7. Geez. Sorry to hear it. I have my share of mild body oddities, but nothing too serious. Of course, periods are a bitch.