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A Trip Home by =illyria on deviantART

( Five fanart100 pieces. lol Wheel of Time nostalgia. )

My opinion ranges from "mostly like" to "bleh," but if I do not roll along with pictures without fretting endlessly then I will never finish.

Anyway, happy Fourth! I'm going to make a cheeseburger and watch fireworks on television later. My Canadian neighbors can wonder why I'm doing this three days late, but forget them and their summer that is much warmer than everyone promised me!

Let me hug my wimpy little a/c unit that is at least keeping this room dry and cool. Well, cooler than the rest of the house that was 85 degrees last night at 3:30 AM.

(I think I have at least a couple on my flist.)

I'm assigning pics to a fanart100 table as I do them, but I'd like to officially sign up at some point. But! The current "on hiatus" notice on the claims list doesn't provide any sort of indication of when that edit was made.

Anyone happen to know?

grump grump irritating grump

I've told this before, but it's been a long time and I was inspired to do so by other stories. So: the story of my last day at my very first job. ( Short intro: it involved two hospital visits and serious property damage. )

I was catching up on Comedy Goldmines and saw that I had missed the chance to MSPaint stupid/weird things I did as a kid.

So I did it for here, instead.



( Next two panels behind the cut. )

A company whose van I was behind today.

I say this so that you might take note of the company slogan at the top of the page, which is

I know I've seen people around Ye Olde Flist who have considered the Tokyopop manga competition. You might have already been pointed to this analysis of what the contract really says, but better safe than sorry.

This model was my first My Little Pony, Peachy. Oh yes. I remember these things. I loved My Little Ponies to an unhealthy level. Picture the stereotypical, Lisa Simpson-song-composing little girl pony adoration and add in:

1) Grandparents who raised racehorses, so I got to spend some of the summer months at their stables
2) Living in the country so I was surrounded by the neighbors' horses
3) One week per year at horse camp where I happily learned how to maintain tack and the intricacies of horse anatomy and how to mount an 18 hand gelding as a 10 year old (answer: with help)

I still have a favorite breed (Morgan) and to this day think that "Stevie" works as a name for a girl. Thankyouverymuch, Saddle Club.

This is why I read Tycho's news post with no small amount of dismay, because I am already a Gabe in so many ways and did not need him enabling these things.

Long story short I have a Ponystars account. I would be more embarrassed about this if it happened during the school year but, oh, let me assure you, I don't feel terribly proud about it right now.

Although I do feel pretty awesome that I managed to grab "Saddle Club" as a stable name for anyone who wants to join.

Those books rocked, lemmee tell you.

I'm in the middle of a two-week intensive course in ColdFusion programming, which means my attention is basically

1) There
2) On trashy TV

( And, speaking of Survivor: )

In Indiana, there's someone who would very much like to represent a Congressional district*, but is almost certainly going to be crushed in the GOP primary by a Republican who is a little less... that is to say, a mite less... bugfuck insane.

All I can hope is that Tony Zirkle makes plenty of statements like these before he is out of the race. Because... damn.

I'm considering discussing divorce aids and my plans for a "Derrenger's for Dildos" policy to put guns in American women's hands instead of divorce aids. Presently, when a criminal is arrested for a weapons crime, the prosecutors seek orders to destroy those weapons. What a waste! Put our criminal prisoners to work modifying those guns to be smart-guns that can only be fired when the female owner is holding it so that children don't hurt themselves and so that criminals can't use them (unless they use the woman's hand). When a women turns in her stash of divorce aids, then give her a free gun to defend America when the jihadists follow us home.

The GPD (Great Porn-Dragon) is seeking so set up this country as a Broke-Barack mountain of gay pride Obama-Nation where a nation that was conceived in liberty now conceives in illigitimacy at 40% in Indiana, where a nation that grew as a Christian lamb is now phoenix-izing itself to speak as a porn dragon. The GPD desires for all men to go the way of the dog. The GPD increases his success as he systematically genocides out the feminine bodies of our tribes.

Without a rest, the porn dragon oppresses our society with constant work making bricks without straw, and a man's comfort from his toils is robbed by Chinese rabbits who can put even the most virile porn mule to shame in seconds.

Everyone? I think a sex toy shot this guy's dog.




* Sample quote from his forum: "Now, I'm going to have to eat my words and consider cleaning up my act to make this race competitive." Because he might have been deliberately over-the-top at first, but now he is in it to win it! I'm sure that will turn out well.


ETA: Who knew Fox News would have the best summary of this guy's campaign? What's really scary: "Zirkle captured 30 percent of the Republican primary vote in 2006."

1. Miss Alli's review of Into the Wild is the best I've yet read. Every other review I've stumbled across seemed to fall either on the "heartbreaking work of staggering genius" or "MCCANDLESS IS AN IDIOT* AND SO IS EVERYTHING RELATED TO HIM" extremes.

2. I purchased my cat a bunch of bell toys, since they were on sale. I am coming to regret this decision.

3. I get a week off before a weekend department retreat followed by a two week intensive course in ColdFusion programming. I am sleeping way, way in, y'all. IT IS GLORIOUS.

4. I seem to be the only person on the ANTM boards who couldn't care less that ( SPOILER ) is going home this week. ( MORE SPOILER )

5. I moved here just in time for the biggest April blizzard in the history of Edmonton. I feel so welcomed.

6. I have about five loads of laundry and a whole bunch of cleaning waiting for me. But forget that, today I'm working with the back yard and getting it all prepared for spring to finally, finally arrive. I've been cooped up in this house for many, many months, and now that I can see the grass again -- after that blizzard, thank you again for that -- I am all about the outside. At least until the bees arrive or I start sneezing.


* Well, this is true.

Mid-picture-process snippet:



The best thing about rereading WoT and getting all snarky-slash-nostalgic and wanting to draw up some stuff from it? Doing some sketches and realizing the "smooth and ageless" quality of Aes Sedai faces = BOTOX.

Spring* semester: over.

Imma sleep now.








*They actually call it "winter semester" up here, because this is what it looks like here today.

Short because I am still busybusy with school, but:

WoW players: this is like the best community ever, am I right?

sign_my_charter

It was just created and I am already looking forward to making alts everywhere when posts pop up.

You can tell where I've been.


Poll #1172106
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Nyquil:

So I am supremely bored with the current crop of Idols.

I expected this going in. Idol has a Trek Movies pattern for me, where the even seasons kick total ass and the odd seasons have Jim Verraros doing a fan dance and Jasmine Trias going into time-accelerated pon farr and Taylor Hicks turning out to actually be a NASA spacecraft. Season 7, sadly, is keeping up that fine tradition of opinion. Let's say that... Kristy Lee Cook is getting her face stretched.

I see people saying that X and Y (for various values of X and Y) are "the new Cake," like adorable friendships are one of the standbys that now must happen, like Stevie Wonder songs and Simon's eyes turning into dollar signs when a smoking hot girl sings very well. But it ain't happening, not in small part because all the season 6ers were like a big fluffy pile of puppies who adored each other beyond all reason. Also, a relatively even level of dorkhood meant that it was doled out in good-sized amounts. Now a similar total level of dorkhood is concentrated almost entirely in Archuleta, which is so overwhelming that it chokes him and makes him devolve into helpless laughter when he tries to say a single word. Meanwhile, Carly stays too desperate to be dorky, Cook is a huge dork but an obnoxious one who thinks he's actually not and therefore gives no benefit, Jason may not actually be aware of his surroundings at all, Brooke has lost her former dorky sparkle, and Syesha would just scowl at you if you called her a dork.

Not acceptable.

There's been exactly one performance this season that I keep thinking back to and going "Awesome. Awesome." I listen to the studio recording all the time, and as much as I enjoyed the live performance I enjoy the studio one 10x as much.



And it's from someone who got kicked off.

BOO, SEASON SEVEN.

Bring on season eight.

On the bright side, I'm finding Top Model to easily be the best season since all the way back in S3. It may well surpass that in my estimation, considering that they are unlikely to have fucking tarantulas on the models' faces. Anya and Whitney are absolute magic, and I suspect from the editing decisions in the recap episode that they're in the top 3. If they could only bring back Marvita to give running commentary, the season would easily pass S2 in the rankings.

Oh, S2.

Everyone say it with me: "YOU HAD SEX?!"

From the ANTM threads, one of the worst videos ever. Fairy tales are so wrong.

( Speaking of ANTM... )