Not actually sorry but you know what I mean.

So, who remembers this thing: [link] How bout this thing: [link] I could've sworn I had more artwork for this up, but I can't seem to find it, and my comp is being super slow, so I won't try. It's been buggy lately, doing stuff like randomly shutting off on me.

Anyway, to those of you who don't remember them, they were a couple of characters in a story I thought up years ago, that I later scrapped, because, among other things, it was really, really stupid.

Welp, I'm bringing it back. Sort of.

The problem with that story was how little thought went into it. The entire thing was just a carelessly constructed excuse for my characters to ride into battle on the backs of wolves and wildcats and giant pterosaur-sized birds of prey. STUPID. But there were certain little... moments, I guess, that appealed to me, so I started putting some actual thought into it. I also had some other vague ideas floating around somewhere, one of which being one of those overthrow-the-evil-empire stories, so I decided, "Hey that would make a good prequel to this stupid story idea, and the main characters of this will be the mentor characters of the original." Which wasn't hard, because the mentor characters of the original barely had character traits at all, so it was super easy to shove them into these new roles.

On top of everything, I ended up with two seemingly unrelated dilemmas around the same time: one, I needed more of a supporting main cast; two, I'd gotten attached to my fantrolls and wanted to put them somewhere in an original story so that I could do official author things with them. WELL HUH, HOW ABOUT THAT.

And then, a couple of weeks ago, while bored in class, I flipped my Middle English Pronunciation Guide worksheet over and started worldbuilding on the back. I finally stopped yesterday, with six pages plus a map and a diagram. Yeah it's safe to say this story has my attention. Hopefully I'll be drawing stuff for it soon; I already have one drawing finished which I will be uploading right after I post this, but I'd like to draw the main characters, as well as my fantrolls in human form, which should be fun.

TL;DR I resurrected something dumb from years ago and rebuilt it into something I can actually work with and have fun writing.

1.My name:
2.My last name:
3.Take a stab at my middle name:
4.Who am I in love with:
5. Hair color:
6.What kind of car do I drive:
7.Where do I work/study:
8.Something that I am afraid of:
9. Do I smoke:
10.Do I drink:
11.Do I have any siblings:
12.How many:
13.Do I like 'em:
14.What's one of my favorite things to do:
15. How many piercings do I have:
16. Name a song that I love:
17. Am I shy or outgoing:
18.Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules:
19. What's my favorite color:
20.Name something I hate:
21.Name a talent I have:
22.Do I have any pets:
23. What is the color of my room:
24.Give me a movie or TV or book quote that I love:
25.If I were stranded on a desert island, what would I bring:

Keep in mind that there are multiple answers for a bunch of these.

Here are the rules:
+You must post these rules
+Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create ten new questions for the people you tag to answer.
+You have to choose six people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
+Go to their pages and tell you have tagged him/her.
+No tag backs.
+No crap in tagging section "you're tagged if you're reading this." You legitimately have to tag

1. What's your favorite book/movie/what-have-you genre?

Fantasy. Fantasy, fantasy, give me all the fantasy. And okay I'll go for mysteries, too, but FANTASYYYYYYYYY.

2. Zeus and Odin are in a drunken brawl. Who comes out victorious and why?

Okay this is a bit of a tough one, so I'm just going to assume that neither of them are armed or in any particular area that would increase their power (such as areas with more people worshipping or other such nonsense) and that they got completely sloshed in McAnally's bar or something and are now slugging it out outside (you're not supposed to fight in McAnally's. It's accorded neutral ground.) Anyhoo, Zeus being the god of sky and thunder and rampant adultery but without any thunderbolts on hand might be at a disadvantage against Odin, who's associated with war, battle, death, magic, and the hunt, but then again Odin's got one eye, so a lack of depth perception might ruin his chances. Also, Zeus managed to save his brothers and sisters and release the prisoners of Tartarus before he even received the lightning, so he clearly doesn't need power over the sky to be badass. I'd say in terms of brute strength Zeus would probably stand a good chance of winning, but Odin is also strong, and he's wise and resilient, as evidenced by spending nine days impaled to a tree.

I can't tell you who'd win, but I can tell you who'd lose -- the bystanders.

3. What is your LEAST favorite cute and fluffy thing? (The one you would throw under a bus without hesitation to save your most favorite. Remember, it must be (at least commonly considered) CUTE and FLUFFY. No horned toads or Gila monsters or other such nonsense.)

This is a hard question because I don't think there's anything I'd throw under a bus to save a favorite animal, but that's one of those weird morality questions that I'd rather not go into. I guess I'm pretty indifferent toward certain types of monkeys.

4. You are given the power to turn into one animal - and ONLY one animal - at will. You have a choice. What animal would you take on, and why?

Either a cat or a rat, probably leaning toward a cat. On the practical side of things, people will leave me alone. If I picked a type of dog, I'd get chased around by people trying to return me to my owner. But if I'm a cat, as long as I don't do anything dumb like poop in people's yards, they'll either assume I'm a stray and leave me alone or assume I'm an "outside cat" and leave me alone. On the impractical side of things, have you seen these things? They're freaking ninjas with fur.

5. If you were a villain with the goal of world domination/destruction, what would be your motive and how would you go about implimenting your Evil Plan? (go read the Evil Overlord List to avoid common pitfalls in your planning stage)

Pffft, I don't need a plan or a motive. Just look at the Joker. But no, in all seriousness, my evil plan would probably involve really harmless things like splashing people with mud puddles or putting items in the wrong place at the grocery store.

6. What would you rather be a wizard with a wand (ala Hogwarts) or a force-sensitive with a lightsaber (ala Jedi/Sith)?

Wand wizard, easily. As a Jedi I could do the following: move things with my mind, sense the future a bit, do improbable gymnastics, and slice stuff up with a laser blade. As a wand wizard, I could do all that minus the laser blade and the gymnastics but who cares, I'd also be able to fly and turn things into other things and turn myself into an animal with a lot of study and practice and make things be bigger on the outside and make dishes clean themselves for me and I'd have a pet Jarvey. Can a Jedi have a pet Jarvey? No. No they can't.

7. Ever wanted to Spork a fictional character just because they're annoying? (coughdisneysnowwhitecough)

Oddly enough, a bunch of the characters in Maximum Ride. I mean seriously, the plot makes no sense and when it does makes sense it's improbable even within its parameters, and most of the characters are boring and one-note. I'm going to use JesuOtaku's description of the characters of Eiken for his -- they're not characters so much as stereotypes, and the ones that aren't stereotypes are basically  one unfunny joke over and over again. Teeheehee the Gasman's funny because he farts a lot. Fang, you're so hot and brooding. Iggy is blind! He can't see. His eyes do not work. Did I mention he's blind? I don't think I did. He's blind, by the way. And oh, Nudge, you talk so much. Actually she doesn't really talk any more than the other characters do; they just tell her to shut up more often. And what the hell kind of name is Maximum Ride? James Patterson you're pretty chill and I respect you as an author and I laughed a bunch when you showed up in Castle, but did you even try?

Yeah I don't like Maximum Ride. (Note: What you just read is all opinion. Feel free to have yours, I know a lot of people like this series, and I'm sorry if you disagree or are offended. But I don't like it.)

8. What is the coolest weapon of all time (real or fictional)?

Any kind of bladed weapon, really. I like Freddy Krueger's claw glove, and kusari-gamas are also awesome. But when it comes down to it, you can't beat swords. Unless you have Kanaya's lipstick chainsaw.

9. Best song/song line(s) ever?

Since I can't possibly pick a favorite song, I'll say my first favorite song was Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow."

10. You have an honest-to-gods ring of invisibility with no dark lord strings attached. What's the first thing you do with it?

I will pants. Everybody. I'd also probably incorporate it into my life, converse with people while invisible, use it for minor inconveniences, that kind of thing.

NEW QUESTIONS

1. If you could spend your life doing anything, anything at all, with money not being an issue, what would it be?
2. What is a subject or field that you have always wanted to study?
3. If you were an anime character, what color would your hair and eyes be?
4. What is a fairly small annoyance or inconvenience that is capable of driving you to a full-blown rage?
5. What celebrity would you want to narrate your life?
6. What musical group or artist would you want to create the soundtrack of your life?
7. What would your cutie mark look like? (Basically a small symbol that represents your special talent, for non-MLPs.)
8. What is the most useless superpower you can think of?
9. If you could shoot the breeze with any fictional character, who? Alternately, what fictional world would you spend time in?
10. What would you do if you, not Light Yagami, had picked up that Death Note?

I tag: ~Zs99, ~Dragonuv3, ~Chelonianmobile, ~HimochiIsAwesome, ~Kelaiah, ~iMiku, ~ball0yarn

If you want to answer these and are not tagged, knock yourselves out.

YEP. I AM THE KING, THAT'S ME.

So after failing miserably last year, I managed to break 50,000 words in this year's NaNoWriMo. By only 67 words, yes, or 1,553 if I go by what my MS Word count said. Here's hoping I do even better next year.

I saw Rise of the Guardians, and I think now I've finally reached the point where I can talk about it without keyboard-smashing and tearing up.

So... to start... that was a decent movie.

It was a bit simple. The characters were all really good or really bad; even when the villain had motivation, he was still unquestioningly a villain so it was justified when they took him down. It had a feel-good ending, everything was tied up nicely, and...

Screw it, I'm not doing it this way. This was not a decent movie. This was the best damn movie I've seen all year. You know what? I liked it better than Brave. And Wreck-It Ralph. There, I said it! This movie was amazing! It was great! I loved it! Jack Frost was adorable and the whole time I just wanted to hug him even though he's an ice spirit just RRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH and Bunny was so badass and voiced by Hugh Jackman and he fought with boomerangs and egg grenades OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD and Santa was RUSSIAN AND DUAL-WIELDED SWORDS WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT HIM NOTHING THAT'S WHAT and the Tooth Fairy was SO PRETTY SHE LOOKED LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD FAIRY and SANDMAN I CAN'T EVEN. I CAN'T. JUST. And the movie was so beautiful and pretty and the scenery was LIKE PORN BUT KID-FRIENDLY BUT JUST AS ORGASMIC TO LOOK AT I'M NOT EVEN JOKING ABOUT THIS IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL DREAMWORKS YOU PRECIOUS BABY and after Shrek and Madagascar Kung Fu Panda I thought Dreamworks could just do this WEIRD TONGUE IN CHEEK POP-CULTURE COMEDY NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT BUT THE point is that I somehow forgot about How To Train Your Dragon and the fact that their movies can be HONESTLY EMOTIONAL AND STUFF WITHOUT STRAYING INTO THE SCREWBALL AND RELYING ON SNARK. It was everything I hoped it would be ever since I first learned it was coming out. EVERYTHING. EVERY. DAMN. THING. And SCREW THE CRITICS who DON'T LIKE IT IT WAS AWESOME. So just so much childhood in this it was great and it was right up my alley YOU GUYS YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE. JUST. SEE IT.

Welp I'm tearing up now so much for that. At least I haven't been keyboard-smashing. Okay, so I did, but I backspaced a bunch. And I totally understand if you see this and don't like i as much as I do, I'm really sorry if I built it up too much but I just loved this movie SO MUCH. I didn't even care that Jack's voice was too low. Just watch it. It won't be a waste of your money, I don't think. And if it does end up being a waste of your money, then I guess we don't have much in common.

*dies* Expect fanart. And crossover fanart.

And not just a new scanner to replace the old one at home, no. This is my own scanner to take with me to college, so that I may scan my drawings whenever I wish! This may mean that my Christmas present this year is smaller, but... so worth it.

Dear ~Dragonuv3 and ~Zs99,
I don't really know how to tell you this, but I dislike you. I think I realized it when I saw the shrunken head in your closet and I saw you carve your initials into my father. I'm sure you're both ashamed enough to understand that Santa doesn't exist. I'm returning your rings to you,but I'll keep your left ears as a memory. You should also know that I get sick when I think of eggplant-fetishism.
Good luck on your short-term leave from jail,
~av-marten

PS I love you both but what the hell am I doing with my life

-HOW TO FILL IT IN-

Dear -friend's name-,
I don't really know how to tell you this, but ___1___. I think I realized it ___2___ ___3___ and I saw you ___4___ ___5___ I'm sure you're ___6___ enough to understand ___7___. I'm returning ___8___ to you,but I'll keep ___9___ as a memory. You should also know that I ___10___ ___11___ .

___12____, -Your name-


1. What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I'll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn't match
Grey - You're a pervert
Yellow - I'm selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're a loser
Other - I'm in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kabob - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women's clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflé
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - Man
O.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - High
House - Scarred
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Mongolic
Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I've felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn't exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we're cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Apathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I'm allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Overjoyous - That I'm open
Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks

8. What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your ring
Yellow - Your love letters
Red - Your Darth Vader-poster
Black - Your tame stone
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - The pictures from LA
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your contact book
Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs
Purple - Your old lottery coupons
Pink - The cut toenails
Other - Your memories from the military service

9. The first letter of your first name?
A/B - Your photo
C/D - The oil stocks
E/F - Your neighbour Martin
G/H - My virginity
I/J - The results of your blood-sample
K/L - Your left ear
M/N - Your suicide note
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X - David's tricot outfits
Y/Z - Your grades from college

10. The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Always will remember
C/D - Never will forget
E/F - Always wanted to break
G/H - Never openly mocked
I/J - Always have felt dirty before
K/L - Will tell the authorities about
M/N - Told in my confession today about
O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about
Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about
S/T - Get sick when I think of
U/V - Always will try to forget
W/X - Am better off without
Y/Z - Never liked

11. What do you prefer to drink?
Water- Our friendship
Beer - Senility
Soft drink - A new life as a clone
Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo
Milk - The apartment building
Wine - Cocaine abuse
Cider - A passionate interest for mice
Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations
Mineral water - Embarrassing rash
Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism
Whisky - To ruin the second world war
Other - To hate the Boston Celtics

12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand - Warm regards
USA - Best regards
England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail
Spain - Go and drown yourself
China - Disgusting regards
Germany - With ease
Japan - Go burn
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt - F*** off now
France - In pain
Other - Greetings to your freaky family

Early this morning she barked her way into the business end of a skunk. Partly my dad's fault, because no matter how many times we tell him not to let her outside without a leash, he just doesn't friggin listen. So my brother and I had to wash her off and dump skunk wash all over her face, and she is ridiculously afraid of water.

God, Priya, border collies are supposed to be smart.

I'm gonna do the Homestuck 30 days challenge, starting tomorrow. Looks pretty cool, and I might as well motivate myself to draw because drawing is fun. I'll take a break from the 7th to the 14th because I'll be taking a roadtrip to Yellowstone with a bunch of my family plus my BFF, but holy crap this looks cool so I'mma do it kay.

So I survived my first year of college. Well, supposedly, anyway. I have yet to receive my final grades. Anyhoo, now I actually have time to do stuff instead of just pretending to have time while really just procrastinating. Also an available scanner. Yay!

I... I... sweet mother of Jegus. It finally got me. At long last, my will has failed me and I have buckled. Like a Pilgrim's hat. That is how much buckling I am doing.

God help me, I started reading Homestuck.

No, I'll be all right. Just... go on... save yourselves, those of you who are still free. It's... too late... for me...

*skyward scream* HUUUUUSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!

Pretty much. For example, I finally watched Baccano!, years after my brother bugged me to see it (did not regret that at all, and you may be seeing some fanart out of me in the foreseeable future). I'm waffling between Soul Eater or D. Gray Man next, and I also need to catch up on Fairy Tail. Doubt I'll ever be a full-blown otaku, but I do enjoy watching anime and judging how difficult it would be to cosplay as my favorite characters. Hooray for Japan!

In other news, my parents got back all right last week. They brought back a purse and a jackal hat for me. No, not a hat with a jackal on it, but a hat made out of actual jackal.

For the first time I'm kind of completely on my own for three weeks.

Well, I'm in college and I live on campus, but home is only two hours away, so if I need anything, I can always call my parents and work it out. However, for the next three weeks they'll be hiking in Nepal. (Lucky stiffs, I wanted to go with them.)

But yeah. Now I just have to resist the urge to slack off while they're not around. And considering I'm saying all this in a dA journal, I'm not exactly off to a good start, am I?

Anyway, MY PARENTS ARE GONE TIME TO PARTY

OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS.

Remember this: [link] ?

It's been colored.

[link]

Go over and look at it. And give this man some love.

So apparently a little cousin of mine had one of those "If I had a hundred dollars I would buy..." assignments. His answer? "Everything and Clifford."

Well said, Zachary. Well said.

[link]

So I just started following the Daily Show and The Colbert Report. They are now my main sources of news. Because frankly Fox is a lost cause and has been a lost cause for like ever.

"I will go into hell with you, but I'm not leaving you. We're coming out together even if that means I have to carry you out." Found it in a youtube comment, and again in a zerochan comment. Anybody know whose quote this is? It's probably from nowhere, but I'm just curious.

I don't think there's ever been an English-subbed play-through of a fanmade Japanese 2D RPG that has left me feeling this emotionally drained.

It started off kind of spooky, a pretty standard fanmade horror game in my opinion, and then WHOA. Mind screw on an epic scale. That part of it didn't last too long, though; it did a pretty good job of explaining things as it went along, and the more I understood what was going on, the less confused I was. So... yeah. Great. Still a little spooky, but nothing I can't han...dle...

Did Germany just die in that flashback?

It's pretty much eaten up my whole day, and for most of that time I've been fighting back tears. I mean, I knew the game's premise and that characters were going to die by looking at fanart and such, but holy Jesus is this sad. Every single death scene has at the very least given me chills, and there are a lot of them.

Had I the ability to hug fictional characters, I would do so in a heartbeat. Frankly, watching this game, I think I'd need the hug as much as they would.