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Apr. 29th, 2007 10:11 pmI've been in hysteris for most of the day, the laughing kind. Well, MOST of the day, for some of it I was listening to anothe rbook. I still can't look at the computer screen for too long without going blurry and dry. This, oh my brothers and only friends, has got to stop.
What cracked me up, well, this one is a lognigsh story. Okay so a while back, you probably don't remember, I figured otu that Jared Leto is really Howl from Howl's Moving Castle. What you might not have guessed is that he is also Squall Leonhart from the original FFVIII. He's been transforming into him for a while, and last night when they won the Australian Video Award for Best Rock Video (yay, boys!) J.Le was going all military dress and I realized, the transformation is almost complete.
Just tell me you don't see it.
Anyway, so I was out trolling the internet for pics of Squall Leonhart like the 13 year old fangirl I have been known to be, when I finally came aross--quite by accident--the Uncyclopedia entry on Sephiroth. Which, in turn, led me to the article on CLoud Strife
Despite being a mentally confused, emotionally vulnerable cross dresser with funny hair, 90% of women, 50% of men, and 100% of people named Your Mom find him irresistibly sexy. The following is a list of characters that Cloud Strife has been romantically linked to in one way or another.
Aeris Gainsborough: Sweet and innocent flower girl from the slums
Aerith Gainsborough: Sweet and not-so-innocent entrepreneur from the slums. Aeris's twin sister, so far, Cloud doesn't know there are actually two of them.
Tifa Lockheart: Childhood friend, bar owner, and terrorist.
Yuffie Kissarawknee: Teenage ninja girl, thief. Was one of the teenage mutant ninja turtles but was thrown out for stealing their candy.
Barret, aka Mr T: They both deny it, but...
Etcetera. Which led me to Link.
Link has been known to utter screams and grunts for every bodily function he does. The reason for this is unclear, though it has been postulated that this is because Link is actually blind. The screaming is a form of echolocation to familiarize himself with his surroundings, when he doesn't have someone constantly telling him where to go - like a fairy, an owl, a boat, or a shadow demon or something. Then again though, how can he snipe people if he's blind?
And of course this led me to look up 30STM.
30 Seconds To Mars used to have a groupie named Bert McCracken, the well known hobosexual. They fell out when they realised he was infected with cat aids. They fired him and a confrontation came about on MTVs Total Request Live weeks later. And Bert was like "Jared I love you!" And Jared Lero was like "Get away from me!" And Bert was like "But the blowjobs! Think of the blowjobs!" Then Jared Leto goes "Get away from me, smelly little man!" and runs away. Bert then procceded to hump Gerard Ways' leg for the remaninder of the show. It was the highest rated show since Billie Joe Armstrong commited suicide live on air, after mistakenly hearing his own music. It was, according to a teenie bopper, "totally hoTLOL!!!!!!"11"
I am a bad fan. I found that really funny. There is also one about Stephen King that's funny, and, hell, probably most of them are pretty funny, I guess. ANyway, so that gave me a giggle today.
What doesn't give me a giggle is the fact that I really want to write some more and revise some crap I have written, and I can't, because I can't look at the screen for too long! Blogging does't take me very lon and I don't feel the need to correct too much lately (you guys all know that I type much better than I have been recently, I really haven't been looking at the screen too muh,) but it's different when I'm actually writing something. SO I'm pretty fristrated abotu that. I miss that stuff, you know? And I have some ideas I'd like to write, only I already outlined them and the actual writing of them would take really, you know, seeing what I'm writing. I never realized until now how much I rely on looking at the screen, words make much more sense when I'm reading them. Typing without looking, I'm only hearing my own voic ein my head, which is reandom and unpredictable, veyr stream of consciousness. That might be okay for LJ, but it's terrible for what I'm working on. So. yeah.
In the same vein, just before my surgery I went back to some computer painting which I hadnt' done in about a year. Actually I ahdnt'd drawn anyting in about a year until I made a fw new ones. Then I went back and revised some old ones. I figured that after my surgery I'd take a look at them with my nice, new eyes and see where I'd messed up, but I still can't actually see that well, so....
Anyway, so in the middle of writing this, I forgot I was writing it and started computer-painting, even though I can't really see. And then--duh!--in a comment to a previous post, a friend reminded me that I have my contrast and color turned way down. SO all the stuff I did tonight, I have no idea how it really looks, heee, because, NO CONTRAST! And very little color and very, very dark. But there are ones I did before the surgery, so there's no excuse for those.
Thing is, a few weeks ago I decided to update some drawings, and I also made a decision to drastically change the look of one of my main characters. Oh, big deal, who cares what the character looks like, I know, but it was a sort of ocnscious decision based on certain predjudices. It's not like I want to have an agenda, but I thought that it woul dbe interesting to represent him this way. THESE FILES ARE BIG! Click if you're high speed. So Kris, ( meet your new look: )
See, I wanted to define him by light and by lack of color. Which is very hard to do if you have absolutely minimal skills. And that one with LIllia is brand new. Guess what? I like it.
I updated a bunch more. ( YOu knew this was how Sahrek would end up, right? )
It was a natural progression, you know?
Jin's not too different, but I added a background. ( Lookit. )
Then I tried to redo Leander and I think I messed up. This is the one I tried to do tonight. ( Clickitywhee. )
I dunno, which is better? I'm not going to magically become a better visual artist or anything, but I kidna like the backgrounds I added, 'specially the one behind Sahrek.
Welp, now I've totally lost my train of thought. I hate that I'm posting these, I hate being oen of those unpublished hack writers who posts pics of characters that people ahve already forgotten. But don't fear, I did sen dout that query letter, so it's not like I'm sitting on these stories, right, amd just doing gratuitous doodles? YES.
What cracked me up, well, this one is a lognigsh story. Okay so a while back, you probably don't remember, I figured otu that Jared Leto is really Howl from Howl's Moving Castle. What you might not have guessed is that he is also Squall Leonhart from the original FFVIII. He's been transforming into him for a while, and last night when they won the Australian Video Award for Best Rock Video (yay, boys!) J.Le was going all military dress and I realized, the transformation is almost complete.
Just tell me you don't see it.
Anyway, so I was out trolling the internet for pics of Squall Leonhart like the 13 year old fangirl I have been known to be, when I finally came aross--quite by accident--the Uncyclopedia entry on Sephiroth. Which, in turn, led me to the article on CLoud Strife
Despite being a mentally confused, emotionally vulnerable cross dresser with funny hair, 90% of women, 50% of men, and 100% of people named Your Mom find him irresistibly sexy. The following is a list of characters that Cloud Strife has been romantically linked to in one way or another.
Aeris Gainsborough: Sweet and innocent flower girl from the slums
Aerith Gainsborough: Sweet and not-so-innocent entrepreneur from the slums. Aeris's twin sister, so far, Cloud doesn't know there are actually two of them.
Tifa Lockheart: Childhood friend, bar owner, and terrorist.
Yuffie Kissarawknee: Teenage ninja girl, thief. Was one of the teenage mutant ninja turtles but was thrown out for stealing their candy.
Barret, aka Mr T: They both deny it, but...
Etcetera. Which led me to Link.
Link has been known to utter screams and grunts for every bodily function he does. The reason for this is unclear, though it has been postulated that this is because Link is actually blind. The screaming is a form of echolocation to familiarize himself with his surroundings, when he doesn't have someone constantly telling him where to go - like a fairy, an owl, a boat, or a shadow demon or something. Then again though, how can he snipe people if he's blind?
And of course this led me to look up 30STM.
30 Seconds To Mars used to have a groupie named Bert McCracken, the well known hobosexual. They fell out when they realised he was infected with cat aids. They fired him and a confrontation came about on MTVs Total Request Live weeks later. And Bert was like "Jared I love you!" And Jared Lero was like "Get away from me!" And Bert was like "But the blowjobs! Think of the blowjobs!" Then Jared Leto goes "Get away from me, smelly little man!" and runs away. Bert then procceded to hump Gerard Ways' leg for the remaninder of the show. It was the highest rated show since Billie Joe Armstrong commited suicide live on air, after mistakenly hearing his own music. It was, according to a teenie bopper, "totally hoTLOL!!!!!!"11"
I am a bad fan. I found that really funny. There is also one about Stephen King that's funny, and, hell, probably most of them are pretty funny, I guess. ANyway, so that gave me a giggle today.
What doesn't give me a giggle is the fact that I really want to write some more and revise some crap I have written, and I can't, because I can't look at the screen for too long! Blogging does't take me very lon and I don't feel the need to correct too much lately (you guys all know that I type much better than I have been recently, I really haven't been looking at the screen too muh,) but it's different when I'm actually writing something. SO I'm pretty fristrated abotu that. I miss that stuff, you know? And I have some ideas I'd like to write, only I already outlined them and the actual writing of them would take really, you know, seeing what I'm writing. I never realized until now how much I rely on looking at the screen, words make much more sense when I'm reading them. Typing without looking, I'm only hearing my own voic ein my head, which is reandom and unpredictable, veyr stream of consciousness. That might be okay for LJ, but it's terrible for what I'm working on. So. yeah.
In the same vein, just before my surgery I went back to some computer painting which I hadnt' done in about a year. Actually I ahdnt'd drawn anyting in about a year until I made a fw new ones. Then I went back and revised some old ones. I figured that after my surgery I'd take a look at them with my nice, new eyes and see where I'd messed up, but I still can't actually see that well, so....
Anyway, so in the middle of writing this, I forgot I was writing it and started computer-painting, even though I can't really see. And then--duh!--in a comment to a previous post, a friend reminded me that I have my contrast and color turned way down. SO all the stuff I did tonight, I have no idea how it really looks, heee, because, NO CONTRAST! And very little color and very, very dark. But there are ones I did before the surgery, so there's no excuse for those.
Thing is, a few weeks ago I decided to update some drawings, and I also made a decision to drastically change the look of one of my main characters. Oh, big deal, who cares what the character looks like, I know, but it was a sort of ocnscious decision based on certain predjudices. It's not like I want to have an agenda, but I thought that it woul dbe interesting to represent him this way. THESE FILES ARE BIG! Click if you're high speed. So Kris, ( meet your new look: )
See, I wanted to define him by light and by lack of color. Which is very hard to do if you have absolutely minimal skills. And that one with LIllia is brand new. Guess what? I like it.
I updated a bunch more. ( YOu knew this was how Sahrek would end up, right? )
It was a natural progression, you know?
Jin's not too different, but I added a background. ( Lookit. )
Then I tried to redo Leander and I think I messed up. This is the one I tried to do tonight. ( Clickitywhee. )
I dunno, which is better? I'm not going to magically become a better visual artist or anything, but I kidna like the backgrounds I added, 'specially the one behind Sahrek.
Welp, now I've totally lost my train of thought. I hate that I'm posting these, I hate being oen of those unpublished hack writers who posts pics of characters that people ahve already forgotten. But don't fear, I did sen dout that query letter, so it's not like I'm sitting on these stories, right, amd just doing gratuitous doodles? YES.
