Despite thjorska urging me to play this game for years, I didn't start until fairly recently. As I progress to better monsters and cooler locations, I imagine I'll probably have more of these.
momooshka, we are totally playing this next time I'm over there. I think you'll love it, but I'm not sure you can figure it out on your own. It's kind of counter-intuitive. (You can always try, though! Prove me wrong.)
Sometimes I think I can't possibly be as busy as I think I am--and then I realize I am, it just feels like I'm not because all the things I'm doing are fun.
Ironman lived up to the hype and more... Except that stupid mistake in one of the magazine covers! HA! WHY AM I NOT KING SPELLCHECKER OF EVERYTHING?! You reign; you take the reins; you do not take the reigns.
- studphish dressed up, and by dressed up, I mean he cut the words "DETH" and "KLOK" into his forearms so he had the band's name on him in real blood. It was totally stupid, and even more awesome than it was stupid. I love my disgusting biohazard best friend. <3
- Because of human error, my human error, at first we went to the wrong Showbox. (Yes, there are two on 1st Avenue. Eat my butt, Seattle.)
- As we slogged through a rainy parking lot, studphish scooped water out of a puddle to re-spike his hair. Not to be outdone, I scooped water from a puddle to drink. It tasted BRUTAL! TOTALLY METAL! ETC.!
- Ran into some Bellinghamsters, but my brain isn't working and the LJ name is missing from its database. I'm even pretty sure you're on my friends list. >_< Sorry!
- The mosh pit was awesome. I haven't been to a metal concert in years, but I didn't fall even once this time! And any time someone went down, ten pairs of hands helped them up. I left the pit twice during the whole concert, and only once on purpose.
- It was kehrli's first time in a pit, and I didn't know until he told me. Despite the fact that his eyes were at elbow height, and he has a deep and mindstrangling phobia about eyes getting poked, he rocked around anyway.
- I was afraid I might be too old and crotchety to enjoy a metal show, but that's dildos and lies! I likes shows without grandpas guitars!
awriter and aimee_evilpixie, you both said some variation of octopus, which I decided to use. It's my favorite animal and it's totally rad. I would rather have a floppy beanbag one there, but I'll need to make one, so for now it's plastic.
Of course, last night when I came home from work, one of my housemates had already made his suggestion:
That's lulabyte's hair, from when I shaved the sides of her head.
But uh, I just made voodoo dolls of it, and so here is the star shelf's new occupant!
...Sort of. I painted and glittered it. (It was all plain wood before.) It cost me $0.50 at a garage sale last weekend.
I went to bed early but my friends woke me up talking (I forgive you, haha--I needed to walk the dog anyway) and so I'm all hyper. Someone tell me what I should set on my star shelf. You can decide whether it's three inches or three miles wide, no restrictions! I'll give some kind of Internet pseudo-prize to the best* answer.
* This is entirely my decision. I'll probably purposely pick the one everyone else hates, just to be contrary!
Starting at 4:00 p.m., for those who care. There may be slight delays as I do lulabyte's hair. (She's going to look like a supervillain. Or maybe just an anime fan. Or maybe someone who should have gone to a salon.)
First, you're going to hear the most awesome part about my friend luka_rss getting hit by a car and going to the hospital covered in blood:
On the way back to the exam room I peeked into the offices I passed with my arm out, moaning "braaaaaiiiins..." I mean, I looked the part, and was moving like the living dead. How often does an opportunity like that come around?
Congratulations on still being alive, and kudos for pretending you weren't. Hahaha!
Now, on to the arts.
Angry dinosaur/happy tail! Yes, I just came up with the idea of applying the formula to other tailed creatures. Go me.
...From a proposed comic mentioned by the John in the picture under the cut.
I like playing videogames with my friends, but sometimes I long for the good old days, when we would sit around and carve a wooden elephant out of an old stump because we didn't have ee-lek-trawn-ix. So I bullied them into playing charades, and it was awesome.
I was less than ten steps in the door when someone yelled, "Hold it right there girl! I thought I'd be the only transvestite zombie here!" I was in good company.
Why is this in my art journal? BECAUSE I MADE MY GUTS. It's live sculpture, right?
Everyone told me the guts looked more realistic in the club lighting (and from more than four feet away). One guy actually thought I had real sausage hanging off my dress. Hahaha!
If I friended you and you're like, "What?" I apologize, because I finally committed the error kehrli mentioned the other day and did respond under the incorrect account. I friended people who friended csinman, then deleted them, logged in the right way, and fixed it.
Also, I'm kind of bummed because I had to stop watching riverside_hq, but holy crap, too many fanposts. Hopefully I'll remember to check Metanoia for updates.
5. R. M. Kehrli has placed as a semi-finalist for the Writers of the Future contest. Some day, you're going to see this name on books in the supermarket, and you want to be able to turn to the person purchasing it and say, "I helped make that happen."
4. Kehrli has promised to "pay it forward" to attendees in the future. Your dollars, whether they are five or fifty, will go toward helping build quality science fiction and fantasy literature (and perhaps games and films) for years to come. If you like SF&F entertainment, this is a way to help fill the field with creators who know what they're doing!
3. Kehrli bears a striking resemblance to Oscar Wilde, as seen here:
2. If someone from my critique group has the chance to learn firsthand from people like Kelly Link, James Patrick Kelly, Mary Ann Mohanraj, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, and Geoff Ryman, everyone in my critique group will get secondhand advice, tips, and wisdom. So by helping my buddy, you're helping me! AND YOU LOVE ME OR YOU WOULDN'T HAVE READ THIS FAR!
1. I drew a really cute cartoon, but I can't show you until Kehrli has the money! ;) Tuition is due May 15th.
Okay, artists, here's another challenge. Maybe you don't have time for a weekly comic, even if you want to--so how about a one-day celebration?
April 23rd is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Notable authors as well as amateur writers will be posting quality work for free. Put simply, the purpose of the holiday is to encourage the use of Internet publishing for entertainment rather than whining.
If you illustrate one of the IPSTD entries, leave a link here in the comments! If you read a IPSTD story (or wrote one) that you'd like to see me illustrate, leave a link to that as well. Let's celebrate our right to display our work!
Here's my minotaur. His (very short story) is posted here.
I dreamed I had a baby polar bear (from New Zealand!) for a pet because I found it and then Seamus discovered a loophole in exotic pet laws that allowed me to keep it. Best dream since I had a pet catspider (or the pond full of salmon-sized koi that wanted to eat my giant fist-sized boogers). In the dream, the bear weighed much less than it was supposed to and was extra fluffy.
Oh, and his name was Zak, spelled just like that. I'm going to pretend he's real from now on.
Drag and deep sea angler fish and not so candid camera
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I had the best idea for a comic while I was walking the dog, and now I've forgotten it! The one time I don't have a pen in my pants pocket stabbing me all day. Argh.
When I first started my webcomic Rapscallion, it was because dreamburnt and I challenged one another to draw a page a week. This led to crappy writing and even worse art, but at least I was making it.
Now, I'm ready to do it again, but I'm extending the challenge to anyone reading this who's fallen behind on their comic (or hasn't started one yet). Let's fill the world with eyecandy! I'm not promising I'll post pages from the same comic, or that they'll be inked/colored, or even that you get to look at the full page (with some of my projects, I'd like to reserve first rights). But there will be a finished page/strip and I will represent it here!
I have the hardest time working on commercial art when I'm not already in a routine of drawing my own work. This is because I was born without a brain and my parents had to fashion one out of the only tools available: hospital Jell-O and latex examine gloves. I think they used a bedpan as a mold. Anyway, whatever you're drinking, lift it and toast my eternal attempts to saddle my creativity and ride it where I want instead of scooping its manure and wishing it didn't buck so much.
HORSE METAPHOR: +5 POINTS CRAPPY COMIC: -5 POINTS FROG VIOLENCE: +1 POINTS RUBBERJELLOBRAIN: -15 POINTS SCORE: +37 POINTS (I called Chuck Norris and had him scare the math into my favor)
1. FEAR MY NEW ICON. It is from an amazing wordless comic by B1nd1. I want to be this monster when I grow up.
2. I'm back. Something here or in csinman every day. It might suck, but there'll be something.
3. I'd rather use the new S2 style system, but not only is the documentation for S2 completely retarded (Why? Oh, no reason--it only describes things that should appear on the screen that aren't there), I can't find something where I can put in actual HTML code instead of hitting buttons like a tool. >:( I recognize it's "easier" for most people, but where is the place for developers to show off how awesome we are? And is it totally embarrassing that I can't find it, or what? Hahaha! Seriously, I don't want to use the deprecated S1 just because it's familiar. I am so not that guy >:( I hate that guy!
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