Sunday, January 16, 2005

   h-how come it keeps going up!? I don't get it . . .
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   What's Viz up to!?
So they released Inuyasha manga 20 recently--but didn't 19 just come out a month or two ago!? And Fushigi Yuugi 13 came out--what, did they give up the only-release-four-per-series-a-year thingy!? Gaaaaaaaaa, I hope so . . . I really REALLY hope so . . . somehow most of the series I read are by that baka Viz . . . maybe I should check their site sometime . . . but last time I couldn't find anything out . . .
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   Like my new intro?
I hope so. It took me for~e~ver.

Hm. I was working on some traced montages for more fanart but I went through the Inuyasha art gallery (most of it anyway--there's two hundred-some pages!!) and a lot of the art that was classic poses, whether traced or freehand, didn't appeal to me as much. I do have some original ideas, though . . . I'll just have to try really, really hard to do well. If something isn't up to my own standards I refuse to post it.

Has anyone seen the Star Wars Episode III trailer!? It was in front of "The Incredibles" in the theaters and you can find it online . . . but anyway IT TOTALLY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
. . . he he he . . . I can't WAIT . . . I had a pieced-together costume for the first showing of The Attack of the Clones but I'm gonna have a better one for The Revenge of the Sith (I hope). I love dressing up for awesome movie premiers . . .
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Saturday, January 15, 2005

   s-s-Sorry!!!!!!!
Ah I've been gone soooooooooooo long . . . I haven't answered messages or guestbook entries or gone around to all my friends' sites in soooooooooo long . . . I'm sorry! I've gotten signed up for net access through the university and school starts next week so I shouldn't be disappearing for days and days again any time soon . . .

: P so I never got to play that rpg cuz we *somehow* left it at our grandfather's house from over Christmas . . . and my brother took his dvd player back to the dorm, too. The only open dvd player is in the family room which is COLD!!! so I've just been watching anime I taped before our cable got shut off--the same ones OVER and OVER. My grandfather has satellite but I couldn't even watch anime while we were there cuz there's only one tv and no one else wants to see it, even if they had something besides tv to do they wouldn't want it on and I wouldn't want them to see it cuz they'd make fun of me. stupidheads wouldn't understand. *blah* normal people are so intolerant. oh look I'm being intolerant of normal people aren't I. oh freakin' well.

Soooooooooooooooooooo I've watched the first Inuyasha movie like a billion trillion times. Sometimes in English and sometimes in Japanese with subtitles. I still like both, somehow . . .
someone (can't remember who. sorry!) said you pick up more Japanese than you'd think by watching it that way with subtitles and they were right. I figured out nani ("what") really fast. Well waddaya expect. You can't really help but figure that out . . . and I noticed some similar-sounding variations that translate into related words, when I looked them up . . . and . . . well I just keep picking up more and more. hehe. learning vocabulary doesn't worry me so much as grammar and usage. hmmmmm . . . and there aren't any articles (a, an, the) in Japanese, which is kinda nice. I mean, in Spanish, there are so many variations--sigular, plural, masculine, femenine . . . *blah* I hate most languages. The interesting thing is that Japanese is completely unique since no one knew it was there and they didn't know of anyone else until the 1800s. All the Latin(French, Italian, Spanish, etc)- and Nordic(German etc)-based languages share so many things, including much of the basic structure--but Japanese is completely different! How cool is that?! I like it better, you know. Although it's more complicated by influences of the rest of the world in the past two hundred years. There are whole sounds they never had that are gradually working there way into their language--though they often pronounce things differently. They use "r"s now (didn't before) but they pronounce them more like "l"s or maybe a bit like "d"s (to my ears). Kinda like a rolled "r" I guess. But a bit different.

Anyway . . . um . . . yeah. I beat Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for like the hundredth time lately . . . and am playing WindWaker again. The Nintendo Gallery thingy there is interesting. It takes patience and it makes no sense why it would be interesting but for some reason I keep doing it. That guy wandering around inside is a dork though.

Most of the Inuyasha anime I've seen are around the same period of time--the time around manga 13-19 or so. I haven't really seen much of the earlier or later ones. I saw the first one once (on accident) and one with Dark Miko Tsubaki and that curse on Kagome and one with Shiori and stuff about the Tetsusaiga and one about some cat demons . . . but I was only beginning to get into anime then and wasn't all InuyashaInuyashaInuyasha!!!!!!! like I am now and didn't tape them *sob sob* ah well someday I'll buy them all on dvd.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2005

   blah
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not much going on except that I'm broker than ever. If I don't show up for awhile it'll be because my phone line got shut off. The second Inuyasha movie just came out but I don't even have a lousy twenty bucks to go buy it *sobs hysterically* I thought it'd be months before it came out but shows up right off and oh look I can't afford it. *sigh* ah well. I'm gonna go play my brother's new Star Wars rpg to un-depress myself without his permission because he's at a conference and in a couple weeks he's going to take it with him to the dorm. I feel so blah X X

oh yeah it's snowing really bad all over Colorado. my mom and I were out but didn't go far cuz of the roads. there was hardly anyone else trying to drive . . . and it's not supposed to stop until tomorrow. damn. I hate shoveling the driveway.

ack jeez you wouldn't believe some of the rumors I've heard about Inuyasha on the OtakuBoards and at the Inuyasha World site *gag* it's like no one has a brain cell in their head . . . not to mention being pathetically unaware. Uh, never mind . . .

Oh I was working on some more art but I need to vegitate and turn my brain to mush for awhile to save my sanity >_< so I'm gonna hook up the dvd player and play that rpg. nothin' like a cool movie, an addictive rpg, and a can of Pepsi all at once, late at night, eh?
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Monday, January 3, 2005

   Like my crossover intro? ^_^' I came up with it at like four yesterday morning, except it was still night for me.
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o O *sniff*


Ok I *obviously* figured the html out--with the help of my new friend Nikorasu (arigato! *bows*). I better get off now tho' cuz I think I had to have used up all this month's hours >_<' if they charge us if I went over I'm gonna be sooooooooo busted . . . tho' I'm gonna start looking for a job probably tomorrow. *sigh* I just want to live in an anime world . . .
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Sunday, January 2, 2005

   REPLY I KNOW YOU CAN
sooooooooooooooooooo does anyone know how to add a picture to your introduction? c'mon I know a bunch of you have them
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   *aching head*
So most people are liking my drawing. Hehe I guess that's a good thing, right? Anyway I just got home from a six-hour drive from my grandfather's house. Ugh. No one is mad at my typing or wants the computer cuz my brother's at a conference soooooooooooo I'd be able to stay as long as I wanted . . . but I have a time limit on the free internet service. *sigh* it just never ends. anyway we should be setting up a service through the university soon which is only $16 for a whole semester. Hmmmm people keep saying draw more stuff. I guess it's a good thing I have like three things in progress huh. Anyway um was I gonna say anything else?

Thanks to all of you who looked at my fanart and to those who voted and/or commented! The feedback helps me hone my artistic process! If you DON'T like it, tell me why, and maybe it will allow me to improve. Anyway it's only a bitty drawing so even on dial-up it doesn't take long to show up. I promise.
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   Nooooooooooooooooo Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!
these numbers have gone up DRAMATICALLY in the past few hours since I posted my art:
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WOW!!! o O
I've gotten three comments on how unique my drawing is. I have an 83% vote (6 votes) but the one person (do the math) who voted "no" said nothing, of course. Ah well it seems to be pretty favorably received. I'm definitely gonna have to do more!!!
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Saturday, January 1, 2005

   My First FanArt!!!
A~hahahahaha! I got my first fanart up!!! They said wait a few days for approval so I guess it's not up yet. Since there's like no room to explain in the artist comments box I'll talk here. It's a picture of Inuyasha's hair whipping around his eye from a side view. I *LOVE* wind!!! I have gotten very few of the pictures I've come up with actually on paper but almost all or maybe really every one that has a person has hair whipping in the wind ^_^'' but that's because I love the way it looks and the emotion and meaning that a good artist can bring out with it. Okay, I'm going to be honorable here and admit that I traced the outline of Inuyasha's eye from a picture in the manga (don't remember which v_v" I considered so many) but wherever it's from it IS backwards because Viz, the moron, decided to flip it all for the English version (which I don't understand. they didn't do that for Fushigi Yugi even though it's the same company . . . ) Anyway you can leave comments and/or questions here or on the picture and I'll try to reply!!! And I'm getting yelled at for typing noisily *again* so I gotta go! See ya! (and this keyboard says "quietkey" on it . . . ;_;" )
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