Ramblings of the Reymonkey

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

Character list on LJ:
Dirk Gently dirk__gently
Markus Rathbone call_me_rat
Silens greyshade
Terrence Coleburn t_coleburn
Fisher maylookatkings
The Librarian librarykeeper
Owen Burnett agoodfellow
Tyldak flyhighthing
Persephone Falcone bitterseeds
Damien Stockholm d_stockholm (Retired on LJ)
Anyone from that last meme post is valid too.

In other news, I realized voting at the MGC ended a couple days ago, and went and checked, and I'm the artistic winner! Thanks to everybody who voted for me! On that note I'm busy coloring another Owen pic...

Heeey, it's that wacky rate my life quiz. ( Read more... )

Based entirely on my personality (so if you've met me before, block what I really look like out of your mind), hunt down a "played by" who you think would best represent me. Reply here with the picture or link.

Stuff to post, no time to post it. Will write again next month when I can breathe again.

Okay, so as I type this I'm waiting for DA to get it's act together and upload the fricken' picture already. What the hell. I've been trying to upload one picture for half an hour. My connection speed is normal. Want to kill DA... After pushing and pushing and pushing to try and get this art finished so I could post it, now I can't...
*gnaws the walls*

In lieu of art, I give you RP meme. Maybe shit will upload once I post this...
1) Make a list of 10 characters.
2) Assign each character a number.
3) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them. (IE: "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?" (The more random the better!)
4) Post the answers and who was who on the list.

I made a list, and was horrified to realize I have a total of eight online RP journals. Active ones. Admittedly some more active than others... tacked on two characters I've babbled about on here to round out the list.

Did Morri's B'day art, a picture of Arlen that turned silly because that's just how my brain works. He is totally not supposed to be asking the teapot... I used to ink some of Morri's sketches for him, but drawing it from the ground up is different. I can't seem to duplicate that stylistic narrow little chin he does. I'd like it to be known that's the first drawing of adult Einrich ever, and I had to keep tweaking it to get it right.
Also a happy birthday to Janewt! Who I should also do gift art for...
Would've really, really liked some kind of reply on my last post. Still would. I guess I'm insecure or something.
I didn't sleep at all on Friday night, but stayed up drawing Mitchell and Co and I've been on this intense drawing kick since. I'll be posting stuff soon but I have a stack of stuff mid-coloring and mid-inking right now.

( meme from DBear... )

We lost another millipede, and DBear is having a really rough time of it, with a cat that fought through a lot of health problems only to finally pass on just when they were going to put her down. I'm sure it's more peaceful that she died at home though, instead of having to go through the trauma of the vet one more time. The idea that my cat will go someday tears me up... Everyone send her your prayers or good thoughts or whatever, please.

( That weirdass social class meme thing )

In other news, working hard on fanart stuff, the Mad Hatter picture and the final picture of Magneto and his memories. I changed the composition from the original sketch, and I'm a lot happier with it. It's very comic book-y, and I'm even inking it with a brush, which is a totally new experience. Will post art once it's done.

ZOMG I missed it Happy Birthday Kat!!!
And Happy birthday to cheezdanish for tomorrow! Here I thought October was the month for birthdays.
I've slacked on the posting and quite frankly I haven't done anything to post, between work and the holiday and... work. I'll try to get more stuff up between now and the last of the month but I just don't know. I work all day again tomorrow, and then I do errands and then I crash briefly and then dinner and then the day's over and it's time to get up and go to work again. It's important to get creative time in but sometimes I just can't get to it daily, no matter how much I want to, or when I do get time I'm too burned out to make it happen. I've had evenings I sit there for an hour and a half with blank paper and pencil and end up just wanting to kill something because I can't draw a damn thing. I had artistic block for over a year once, so it's still a very touch and go thing to me and I live in fear of that returning. It killed my self image. It tore me apart. If it takes not pushing to keep myself steady, then that's what I'll do.
However! I managed to do something today. ( Stockings! )

And to make up for the lack of posting, here's an icon meme from revyrie. Some of us are too poor to pay for accounts we use for ourselves (dirk__gently stays paid, oh yes he does), and can't stand the banner ads. I've only got the tightwad six, so I'll put 'em all up.
( Icons and why )

I'll try to post again tomorrow, if I'm not dead by the time I get home from work and all.

Okay, just in under the wire, but I'm posting something today, damnit! It is crapolicious. I still owe many people birthday art. This is a drop in an ocean.
( Artness )
Yeah, the shirt there is supposed to have 't-shirt' crossed out and replaced with 'nervous breakdown'. Thorn's face looks a little wonky in the wide shot. Incidentally, although I draw Thorn plenty, I think he's one of the hardest characters to draw. He's got those weirdly set eyes with the almost hidden eyelids, and I can't remember why. I'm probably the one who designed him that way, and then heart shaped faces always give me trouble, and... yeah.

In other news, this from Donya:
Reply to this and I will...
1)Tell you why I friended you.
2)Associate you with a song/movie.
3)Tell a random fact about you.
4)Tell my first memory of you.
5)Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6)Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7)In return, you must post this in your lj.

WTF: In other other news, I got my new debit card from the lovely bank people. They neglected to send me the pin change, though. They did actually change my pin, they just didn't bother to tell me what it's changed to. Today I got a guy on the phone, who helpfully 'activated' my new card.
Bankman: So it's fully activated now, and we'll get the pin change sent to you in seven to ten business days.
Me: Sooo, in the meantime, will the card work with my old pin?
Bankman: ...No. You'll have to wait for the new pin information.
Me: Why didn't I get it before now? They said they were sending it when they sent the new card.
Bankman: My records don't show the pin ever being sent.
Me: Oh...
Bankman: But your card is active now. Was there anything else I could help you with today ma'am?
Me: No... no. I don't think there is.

I wasn't completely joking about the touch of scurvy thing. I started with a sore throat, dodged the doctor Friday because I was starting to feel a little better, then developed the vicious killer head cold from outer space over the weekend. I had a three hour shift last night, which I didn't call in for, and I was dizzy and felt like I just got through it. I'm getting better, longer shift tonight. Still catching up on online stuff... hopefully I'm through being contagious. At least Bridgie's okay.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

My facts/habits/quirks

1. I don't take compliments well at all. I guess that won't come as a surprise to some people. It's just that they always come out of the blue at me and I never have any idea what to say. I didn't get many of 'em growing up, fro anyone.

2. My favorite part of my body is my hands. They're big, long fingered, strong, and they make good art sometimes.

3. The corner behind the front door is called the armory. There's... lessee, four swords, four big staffs, one wooden cane, and the big goofy plastic scythe from when I was the Death of Rats for H'ween. Most of that stuff's mine.

4. I only drink coffee about once a week these days. I'm actually okay with that. I did pretty much live on it once.

5. I'm actually uncomfortable in my parent's house now, or I was the last time I visited. I felt so acutely that I didn't belog there.

6. All the time I was growing up I desperately wanted a pet snake. I used to catch garter snakes as a kid and beg my mother to let me keep one for just a few days, like in a tank, but nothing doing.

7. I'm interested in history and swords, and I take on a lot of masculine things in the way I dress and think and act, but there is no time I would rather live in than now and I'm glad to be female.

It doesn't say I can't tag other people I've seen get tagged already. Bridgie, Shad, Morri, Shiri, Mel, Alex if she ever sees this, and... um... Janewt and Sarahmun.

Sooo...sent off an email to Vadim to say I probably can't fix his email problem. It's not a language barrier problem, it's a technical problem. I don't know who his domain email is hosted through or how to access it, he doesn't really seem to know how to access it himself because someone set it all up for him to forward to another address, and asking him to send me every piece of documentation he has from the initial setup of this stuff to figure it out is a recipe for insanity when it's done via phone and eml. I really, really hope he understands this. I'm stressed about having sent this email to him but I don't know what else to do.

Once I sent off the eml I heard a little crinkly noise, and there's a cockroach. Sensing sympathies or something, this thing landed on the tinfoil Morri's latest sculpture is on. I've already broken a toe off this thing picking it up once, I'm sure as hell not gonna squish a cockroach on it. After moving all of the clay stuff I manage to chase it onto... one of bridgie's drawings. By the time I get it onto a surface safe to gush it on, I get it with a kleenex... and immediately lose it. It's still somewhere in the house. My only consolation is I'm right near the front door and it probably just snuck in through the cracks. We've never really had a cockroach problem, only once briefly when some horrible neighbors moved out. At least it was a little one.

Being unable to find the salt anywhere and having a videotape almost self destruct on me later, I think it's time to sit and draw or something. Not my night.

Here's a quiz to end on a high note?
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I have not read this. Should I?