Kaliedescope of the Mind

Anyone have $90 I could borrow?

/choked sob

You know one of the things I like best about GateMUSH?

I get to blow shit up.

So Saber finally got to tank Dagon (Yeah, OK...Heroic Spirits are basically artificial gods...it still works! Not like I can really tank ORT) and I got a little of my mojo back. I don't even mind if it was coded, since Sakura got in the last shot in a moment of pure creepy awesome. It was glorious.

I gotta post this to the comm when I get the chance. I think I may have to do some re-editing, but what I have on my log page still took too friggin' long and I'm too tired to do it again.

Right, so...a few days ago, we went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Now that was a good movie. Helped wash the bad taste of Avatar out of my mouth (not that I had high expectations, but I'd hoped for better writing) and worlds better than Brothers Grimm.

It's about what you'd expect of a Gilliam movie: dark yet funny, the kind of twisted and absurdist humour that Monty Python was known for, a smidgen of moralising but not to the point where you feel you're being preached at, an ending that was happy for some but not for others. And I like the fact that the CG and special effects were used in service to the story instead of in lieu of one.

In all, I enjoyed it, and I didn't get 3D glasses nose-pinch! (Though TBH they didn't bother me during Coraline or Up, but I was so involved in the stories they didn't get a chance to hurt)

Missed the activity check at Island. Oooops. But I guess that tells me that I should have dropped if it's been two weeks since I last checked the comm.

I dunno. Yukika's fantastic in social settings, but I was running out of things to do with her.

Also, went out to look for houses today, and if I see one, I'll let you know.

And now that I've cleared the junk from my system (mentally, not physically...I'm sick again >_<#) and I have a free moment, I'm going to reveal why I have been so scarce lately. I was sucked into the black hole that is this lovely wee time-sink right here. (Aeria Games might be familiar to some of you: that's the company that's ported over the Shin Megami Tensei MMORPG) I had an entire teal deer on it and why I think it's addictive (I easily lose track of how much time has passed playing this) but I lost it. -_-;; So, with what strength I have before I pass out again, I am going to fangirl the game full-force all over again.

( Courtesy cut for the uninterested )


And now, to go die again. x_x

We're waiting around to see Avatar (the IMAX was sold out T_T) and killing time at a Mexican restaurant/on our Droids. So when my typing sucks even worse than usual, it's because I only have a wee little bitty Querty keyboard.

Oh, and if anyone has a Twitter account, I update clockwork_king with all the minutia I don't post here (it's a City of Heroes reference, like my AIM). So if you care about that rubbish, that's where I post it.

FINALLY, I...

1. Caught up on posting all my MUSH logs. I was putting it off because editing the radio comments is a bitch. Unfortunately, I anticipate more scenes soon so that this will be moot.



2. Watched the final Kara no Kyokai episode. More weed than a Cheech and Chong movie! (Probably influenced by those HOOJ drug busts in Japan not too long ago where they had to call in help from the DEA to dispose of it all)



3. Found Mordred some friends. Well, one friend. Putting up a dream post was the big thing I really needed to do.



4. Finally got Saber into a good protracted argument with Gil. I'll bet Xing's not happy, but arguing with the Gilded Jerk is always fun.

STILL TO DO:

1. Unfeck Poser 8. For some reason, it keeps crashing Windows 7. And it's only Poser that does it.



2. Finish my storyboards. I kinda need Poser to not assassinate Win7 to be able to finish them, though.

Neat hip-hop/rap/progressive rock fusion?

( Think again. )

I thought about selling some of my prints through DeviantArt, just to make a little side cash while I slave over Poser to construct the models I need. That is, until I looked at how much I'd actually make...or how little, rather. The largest print they sell would cost a customer $45. You would think that, if I were to sell one, I would make at least 30%, right? Nope: DA 'generously' offers me $6.09, roughly 15%.

Hah...NO. No wonder Kyrn only posts her watermarked work and links to her site to buy prints directly from her.

But anyway, lest you think I've been goofing off...yeah. I have.

( GENTLEMEN....BEHOLD! )

I like the way this came out. I consider this tooling around because it's really just my way of getting the feel of the new Poser interface. Sure, I use commercial meshes, but putting something together in Poser and making it all fit together properly (especially if you're mixing and matching like I do) is not as easy as it looks. The fact that all the polygons are colliding properly made me a very happy artist.

Welp, posted my app at somarium, so we shall see how this goes.

I've been trying to get Poser to work all day, but Windows 7 seems to hate it and I keep getting a BSOD. In fact, the only time I'm getting a BSOD is by opening Poser. Nothing else causes it. I can run just about anything on this laptop all day, but the moment I open Poser, it crashes. Great bit of programming there.

I may just work on a few more fine arts portraits to sell as prints. I'll probably sell them through Etsy once I have more than just a few prints to sell, but that's going to take some time.

Lyz.

Saber is not allowed to be quiet. I'm throwing Mordred at her once apps re-open and I can get a decent third-person sample knocked out.

And if all else fails, I guess I could app Ion. Maaaaaybe. But that's it, I'm at my game limit after this.

At least I didn't want to kill too many people this year, though having...uh, certain issues didn't help. Anything more than that would be TMI.

I'll admit I'm ambivalent about this being my last year on staff. (Next year I'll be running my table in Artists Alley) Maybe if I have more to sell than the two prints I sold at a friend's table, I'd have made more than $50.

Anyway, I cosplayed Aozaki Touko, and to my surprise someone actually recognised it. She also invited me to cosplay her again at Katsucon with her and the small Kara no Kyokai group she was assembling. I wish I could, but we're gearing up for Tekkocon already.

What Not to Say to Female Otaku was a bigger hit than last year, thanks to us not having to compete with the 'Pirate Hentai Party' which no one seemed to know what that even was. Luckily, it wasn't an issue this year and we were free to talk about creepers and douches to our hearts' content...or until the panel ended, anyway.

Heck, I'm even surprised that the TYPE-MOON panel I had to throw together at the last minute to fill space after another panel cancelled drew more people than I thought. I wish I had more stuff to have presented, but for a filler, it wasn't too bad and I got to fag about TM as much as I wanted. (And yes, I talked about more than just Fate...come to think of it, I split most of my time between Unlimited Codes and KnK) And I want to borrow Mandy's Saber cosplay for next year.

In an idle moment, I got to watch a little of the Blazblue tournament. What I wouldn't give for a sewing machine and materials...cosplaying Jin looks like it'd be fun.

That's all I can remember for the moment. More to come as my brain cells recharge.

Go harass Saber if you want to! Personal journals are fine, too!

THE DROIDS ARE HERE.

Hence, I will be gone for the grand majority of today, as I will be playing with my new shiny.

GOD BLESS YOU, WEGMANS.

( VICTOLY! )

And in other news, I will need to finish colouring this by Monday so I can send it out for prints.

( That scream of frustration would be mine )

It's coming along all right, but I lay down a bazillion layers when I colour, and I have to wait for them to dry completely before I lay down another. So yeah, it takes me an insane amount of time to complete my better watercolours.

And finally, after putting it off for an entire year, I finished the wallpaper for Diary of a Watch.

That done, I don't know how much time I'll have to work on another photomanipulation project considering I've got my fine art pieces to sell and I have to finish up the (future) webcomic chapter, not to mention networking at small business functions. It's a miracle I have time to RP at this point.

Seibaaaa
TL;DR Yomiko

And just for you, Lyz...

Mordred

Strangely, all of them tell the truth, anyway. I PLAY SUCH HONEST CHARACTERS ZOMG.

I can't believe how lethargic I feel. I'm nowhere near as sick as I was last week, but the cough is hanging on. It didn't distract me from Where the Wild Things Are last night, but it's still aggravating.

I haven't really felt up to doing anything beside fixing chicken cacciatore/cleaning out and baking pumpkin shells/baking pumpkin pie for tonight's dinner (My crock-pot's been cathartic for me lately, but that's a whole other story). I still have my project to finish and send out to the printer so I'll have the prints in time for AUSA, which I may work on tonight in lieu of RP/MUSH, depending.

It's like this bug sapped me of energy for the entire month.

Damn, the conscripted mods are fast. I heard back from them yesterday. Sure, small game and all, but even small games take about a week and they seemed to have had a lot of apps this round.

I need to intro, but I'm still out of it; chances are I'm going to be until Wednesday. I botch all my Fortitude rolls.

And yet, I have work to do. I need to crank out some portraits to sell at the con, but I've lost an entire week to being ill. Why, oh why, must I be plagued every year with illnesses during my favourite season? /sobbing

Sent my app up to conscripted, so we'll see how it goes. It was probably a mistake to push myself so hard considering that I'll probably still be sick until Sunday, but I wanted to make the deadline.

And if I don't get to go out tomorrow, I am going to be annoyed at Someone.