For starters I won the Innocent Seraphim Paper Doll contest!!!!!! Yays! I worked hard in Photoshop to do my best and it paid off! I get a free membership! If I can get to Bellevue! *SOB* They are also giving prizes to the contest winners at the opening ceremony! The super lucky winer of the BJD Photo contest wins a doll! So congratulations to the! Here's a link to the InnoSera page so you can check out all the winners http://www.innocenteseraphim.com/ I'm going to see if anyone I know is going to the con by car to see if I can hitch a ride. I'm also check airline prices on Orbitz just incase I can get up there cheap. Last will be the train. Its cheap but takes like one whole day, maybe two to get there and I'm just too dang old to sleep in seats.
Second thing of AWESOME was that I jogged for 9 whole minutes! Yeah! Not super fast, 4.8-4.5 but still awesome! For me that's a real acheivement! I've never been much into jogging or running, but I started to feel like I could do it lately so I've been working my way up a minute or so at a time for the past month. And I just got a pair of New Balance running shoes! I hope I bought the right shoes! I tried them out today and the soles of my feet hurt. I feel they don't have the cushioning I'd like in a running shoe but running in them was a lot better than my Sketchers sport which is what I normally wear to the gym. I also have a lot of problems with heel pain and I'm not sure what to do about it. I've seen braces and stretching equipment which is supposed to help but I don't know what to buy.
And I'm getting ready for San Diego Comic Con! Yeah! I'm gonna go get my train ticket and start writing a packing list. I need to make food and take it with me too! Which means tons of tiny grilled cheese sandwiches. Enough for six days of lunch/diner. I'm also going to the Tokyopop Creator Summit. I KNOW it will be stoopid but I'd like to see if Troy (my former editor) is there and meet Armand Villevert which I've swapped a few e-mails with. Mara introduced us. I'll also get to meet Gabe Hernandez who is working with me on a comic to submit to Zuda.
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excited
I took Anna Karenina back to the library. It's overdue which is crappy, I just forgot about it. I haven't had time to read much but I think I can get Moribito done before it's due. And I will have a seven hour-ish train ride to kill so I'll bring something with me then. Maybe one of the used books I just picked up.
And speekinf of writing- just incase you missed it the first time- here is link to the story I wrote which is online! http://gothhuntress.com/crimson/volumeon
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okay
Now, with that sadi I just recently watched a fascinating documentary on PBS American Master called Hollywood Chinese which details the sort of rascism prevelant in Hollywood toward Asians and how even now Asian actors, in particular American born Asian actors, STILL have a hard time in Hollywood http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/e
So is the cast for Airbender THAT disappointing? Maybe. Sure it would have been nice if there were some more Asians in it. But a lot still rides on the perfomances and whether the actors can ACT. So it may be a good movie. And remeber- you can still buy the DVDs of the TV show! For heavens sake! Just relax! Hollywood was bound to take liberties no matter what! They always do. It's not the end of a world.
And seriously, the cartoon was entertaining but it not exactly mindblowing or groundbreaking, Besides even the cartoon fucked up the ending SOOOO bad!
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contemplative
Second Mermaid W.I.P. by ~spiderliing666 on deviantART
This is the second mermaid I've ever done. The firat one came out pretty good but it was a lot of work so I wasn't going to do another one until I thought to myself- Green hair! LOL! And then I decided to draw another mermaid...
Plus I just finished another round of Yaoi reviews for Otaku USA! That was pretty fun, I read Shining Moon, Idol Pleasures, Color, Ludwig II, and Love Machine. Ironically Love Machine is nowhere near as filthy as it sounds... But it's super cute! I also have reviews in the current Otaku USA which thanks to my friend Charles I may get a copy of for free :). Unless I'm completely wrong I should have reviews of Sensitive Eyes, Awaken Forest, ZE 1&2 and maybe another one... Funny how the majority of yaoi bleeds together after awhile... So anyway- go buy it!
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apathetic
Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I had some prose work see the light of day so it was a real thrill when my story was excepted for the Drops of Crimson YA themed June issue. Please go read it! I think it's pretty good! Beleive it or not I do DO something aside from carp about dolls :) LOL!
http://gothhuntress.com/crimson/volumeon
If I were super fancey I could post the banner but you probably know by now I'm not so good with computer! Anyway- prepare to be spammed! *cough* I've already e-mailed some of you who I thought wouldn't mind the spam.
And while your at Drops of Crimso check it out! It's a great e-zine! I've been poking around it for awhile now but it wasn't until the YA issue that inspiration struck. I almost didn't write this story too! I was describing it to
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frogwitch and as I was telling her about it I thought 'this is so boring'. But then, a WEEK before the deadline I decided to just do it! I wrote it in the space of about 2 days and edited it for three. Then I hit the send button! I'm so glad I did too! I'm proud to be part of Drops of Crimson and super happy that people will read my prose work.- Mood:
ecstatic
I took progressive shots as I got them all out but here is the entire crew. Under the cut- if I can get it to work are the progressive shots if you want close-ups and a breakdown of the crew.
( Progressive chots )
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crazy
Now how on earth did this start describing typical plot conventions used in books and TV? And who the fuck dusted this one off? Someone who I think very obviously wants to show off how bloody smart they think they because THEY read the dictionary.
I am a pretty smart person of decent education and I have never heard the word 'trope' until LAST WEEK when I saw it twice. Here is the link to tvTropes.whatever http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma
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aggravated
I'm thrilled to have my own copy of Ring and Blindsight. Blindsight in particular of course! I may have gone overboard on the Naomi Novik Temeraire series- I mean I should read one and see if I like it. But I had them marked for return so they can go back to the bookstore. And check it out- THEY HAVE MANGA. The manga is a little hit or miss but Dazzle 2 and 4 was too good to pass up- not that I will know what's going on.. And I like Model. The Laurie J. Marks book-funny story- I bought Earth Logic, the sequel to Fire Logic about a year ago at another used book shop nad figured I'd get the first one eventually- and low and behold I did :) And you can never go wrong with Chuck Pahlanuik- love him. The Brent Weeks book is one I have had my on for awhile now and I'm happy to get a chance to read it. And Daughter of Hounds looked really interesting so hopefully it will be...
It looks like Tokyopop is FINALLY going to put up the backlog of online manga, which means Dark Moon Diary volume 2 may actually see the light of day.
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hopeful
So here are few more- All worksafe! I swear! I'm waiting to see if Condoll ever let's me into the forums and I will try to post some nudie pics there. I also need an image host that won't delete resin boobies...
Poor girl still thinks glasses will make her look smart- but that's not where you wear them! Also! Warnings for super image heaviness! I only a posted a few of the 60 some I took yesterday.
( More boobage )
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busy
If you are on DoA please comment there as well! http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showth
Now for pics! Feel free to make with the boob jokes!
( Major BEWBAGE )
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cheerful
Sense and Sensibility was the best of the two Austin books. Persuassion was the weakest novel of hers I've read so far. The only two Austin novels I haven't read are Northanger Abby and Mansfeild Park. Thing is I read in the foreward that Persuasson was written when she was getting really sick and was her last novel before she died. So I suppose it can be forgiven that she didn't have the time to really work on it. Funny thing was I watched a Pursiassion BBC mini-series on Netflix and THEN checked the book out of the library.
In good news I have a short story which is going to appear in the June issue of the e-zine Drops of Crimson! The YA themed Jun issue goes up in 16 days. I will of course spam mercilessly! Some of you will be getting e-mails but I'll also put links up here and on DA.
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restless
Chibi Vamp boy W.I.P. by ~spiderliing666 on deviantART
I haven't actually finished a piece of art in months... since my last commision, so I thought I better post a couple W.I.P. s just to keep people vaguely interested in my DA gallery. What pisses me off is I've been on DA for YEARS and have yet to break 1 page of watchers. I must say, that is a blow to the ole ego.
It is appalling how funny The Hangover looks. I must see this film! I will be going on Thursday in all likely hood with my mom before she leave for Montana to go see her sister- my aunt Linda. I also have to see Year 1 with Jack Black. He owes me a funny movie after paying to go see Nacho Libre. Tropic Thunder doesn't count because it was an ensemble cast! But that was pretty amusing.
Comicon is right around the corner! At first I wasn't too happy about going because a lot of people I wanted to see had to bail. But now I'm looking foreward to it as I get to meet the artist of one my numerous projects! He's going to be in artist alley :) which is cool! And makes him easy to find. But this year I will NO money to spend! I mean I went on a shoestring last year but this year the string has snapped. WHICH MEANS NO NORDSTROM ANNIVERSERY SALE!! *SOB*!! I die! That is actually one of the highlights of con for me. I don't know what panels I'll be going to this year, or what events Winterelf will make me try to win tickets for, but hopefully it won't be anything I want to go to.
IF ANYONE WANTS ME TO TRY FOR COMICON LE TOYS- I need the money upfront- the name of the booth and the toy you want me to try for. I KNOW ther is some kind of limited addition Transformer that Bleak Horizon may or may not want. Also- If I don't win the toy you get your money back! Some of them are getting are pricey though.
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lethargic
The editor of the project apparently loved my script and I was really proud of it. I put a lot of work into it and it was a challenge to write chracters I hadn't created. Then the shit hit the fan at TP, the project changed editors and of now I couldn't say if it will ever happen. My thought is it won't. They seem to have dropped almost all books done by Americans.
But I wanted to post my script because I like it.
The Buggane
By Che Gilson
Page 1
Panel 1: Interior of the Story Teller’s cottage. The fire is lit and it’s nighttime. A wind howls and a tree branch scratches the window.
SFX: Oooooowoooooo…
SFX: Sktch, Skritch
Panel 2: The Story Teller puts another log on the fire. His dog perks his ears and shivers as the wind howls louder.
SFX: OOOwhooo!
Dog: I hate nights like this!
Story Teller: It’s a cold night all right…
Dog: You…you don’t suppose anythin’s out there, do you?
( Read more... )
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grumpy
SO- here goes- Was this Kirks ACTUAL history- like was this what happened to him before the old series? OR is this the adventures of alternate timeline Kirk?? Was OLD Spock from the canon universe or was he from alternate reality ST where Kirk had happy childhood and proud papa???
Cuz- in regular ST- as in ST:tNG Vulcan was not a smoking hole. Did J.J. Abrams just rewrite the WHOLE of Star Trek and subsequent spinoffs OR is it like I said and this was Aternate Reality multiverse Star Trek ala Evil Universe? So it's just another alternate reality in a multitude of alternate realities???
Other than this it was fun :D Like super fun! And how hot was Uhuru? And what WAS her first name? I forgot from the show and I didn't catch what Spock said. Oh- and how cool was it that Spock gets some action! And how cute a couple are Spock and Uhuru :)
Young Chekov could have looked a little more like older Chekov but that's about all my complaint. Except for time travel debacle!
Pike- AWESOME! Scottie-AWESOME! Sulu- AWESOME!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sad Archer was NOT in it! >:P No fair!!! My FAVE captain! Seriously I LOVE Enterprise beyond all reason. I STILL watch the reruns on Sci-Fi.
I just wish that not everything in Star Trek has to revolve around time travel! OMFG! You can still tell a good story and NOT have time travel!
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confused
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
So my three fandoms are:
1. Hellsing
2. Minari Endou works (saw it on your profile. Didn't know you liked her!)
3. Garth Nix works
HELLSING
1: I saw a Helling AMV at a con and I was like- HOLY CRAP! That is the show for me! After that I bought the Hellsing manga in Japanese- it wasn't available in English at the time. I was thrilled when the series came out on DVD, bought them all, and then when it came out in English bought the manga up to vol. 6.
2:Last year some one at Senshi Con said that Integra dies and I was like :O!!! That kinda killed it. Top be honest I don't know if Integar dies or not and I'm not sure I want to. If someone tells me she lives to the end of the manga though I will be thrilled and complete my collection.
3. I LOVE the manga! At least all the ones I've read so far. The art is so wonderfully kinetic- it almost moves better on paper than it does in the anime! I am happy that Hellsing Ultimate came out though because I wanted to see the the Nazi's invade Britain. This doesn't really answer the question does it. OK favorite thing- the original manga.
4: I have done Hellsing fan art and a doujinshi. I was toying with cosplaying Integra too, and may yet do it before I'm too old.
5: I kinda wish Hellsing was more popular, but I think the series is over in Japan and the artist has started another series so I don't really see it gaining in poluarity. BUT HELLSING FANS RULE!
MINARI ENDOU
1: Again this is a manga I bought at Kinokuniya YEARS before the tide of translated manga was even a glimmer on the horizon. I liked the art since I couldn't read it. I bought Dazzle 1-5 or so, and one of them was a deluxe edition with a CD case of art 'cards' that were a 12 month calender so that was really cool!
2: I have nothing but love for her art! I only bought Dazzle 1 in english and I don't know if TP translated the entire run or not. I will buy her work though! I don't even care if she can write.
3: Hmm, can't really speak to this as most of what I have is in Japanese and I can't read it- I LOVE my little CD case calender though!
4: No. I haven't done anything with Dazzle...
5: I would like her to be popular so her manga will be be translated! Then I can read it!
GARTH NIX
1: I bought Sabriel at the bookstore. I was first attracted by the cover art- the OLD cover art by Dillon, and read the back of the book- NECROMANCY! Squee! Course the book turned out to be AMAZING so I started buying whatever else I could find by Garth Nix.
2: I'm pretty darn loyal to authors I like. I may not buy EVERYTHING they do but I doubt I'd ever quit buying his books
3: Ohhh.. tough one. I LOVE The Seventh Tower Beast aker game- me and everyone else! LOL! When Nix was writing TST I went to the website and all these kids were like- "I want a Beastmaker video game!!" I lOVE the library of the Clayr, I love Lyreal. I love the entire Abhornsen trilogy actually. It's one of those I wish I'd written.
4: No, but I did do an illustration for a review of Sabriel in a magazine one time. Closest to fanart I've gotten. His stuff would make cool cosplay though! Sadly I'm not much of a cosplayer...
5: DEAR GOD YES! Garth Nix DESERVES to be more popular than Harry Potter. He is far and away a better author than J.K. Rowling could ever dream of. I know I'll catch hell from my Harry Potter fan friends- sorry! I just think he's a better world builder- more imaginative- and more technichally skilled. His work is so fresh and so original it's just awesome!
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geeky
Season 3 of Primeval started up on BBCA so those lucky enough to have extra cable channels can watch it! Squee! I actually have a review on ComicNewsInfo http://comicnews.info/?p=6909 so check it out! I have to say I like the show despite the fact that everone on it is dumb as a post. The dinosaurs are coool, and it's not just dinosaurs. Theres the creepy apex predator from earths future, and ginat bugs from epochs past. They had giant spiders and centipedes, and giant scorpian things! Should be intersting to see what season 3 has in store. I was loking over the Wiki page for Primeval and saw that there are a lot of cast changes in store. For a second I was like "No! I don't want the cast to change!" Then I realized I don't really care about the main characters, so it's cool. Maybe someone competant will show up. LOL! I REALLY do like the show! That's the funny thing! If the dinosaurs sucked though I think the show would have tanked. Actually, if it didn't have dinosaurs at all it would be just aweful.
Summer shows I've added to the DVR record list- Mental, I'm a little dubious about this one but what the hell right? Glee, from the makers of Nip/Tuck- which I'm not entirely sure is a recomendation despite the fact that I'm a Nip/Tuck junkie, still this one looks funny. The Goode Family, cartoon, looks decent. Unless I'm wrong it looks like the animators of King of the Hill. But it looks like it has the same sensibility and looks funny.
Any other summer shows anyone want to recommend? I know Sci-Fi channel has a few things but I don't when they start.
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amused
The other day I found a whole stack of an old mini-comics that I made ages ago. Years in fact. At 25 cents it was one of my best sellers. Gilly the Three Eyed Girl and Mr. B. Robot was made on the fly one year many moons ago so I'd have something to sell at APE. I'm thinking of giving them away with any Etsy purchases I receive. And actually someone just ordered a bunch of stickers so they will be the first to get a copy! I was thinking of just putting them up but it costs more to mail them then they actually cost. I need to change my shipping prices since the cost of stamps is going up too.
So, anyway, the $5 chibi offer still stands! I want to do some new work but have no inspriration right now. Well, actually! Innocent Sraphim the BJD/Gothlolita convention is having a PAPERDOLL competition! The winner gets free membership to the con! I super want to enter! I'm gonna look through my GLBs for some inspiration. I would like to get some new ones too. I'm pretty far behind. I think I'll do a chibi girl and I can fit a lot into two pages so I should be able to cram in more than one outfit for sure! I was thinking of doing a boy but I'm not sure if I can enter more than once. Of course I'm not sure I can make it up to Bellvue Washington for the event. I sure would like to go though! The artist alley sounds like it might be col too! I mean this may be my crowd! People who appreciate original EGL art and won't just sit there asking "Do you have Blahblah from Naruto?" Grrrr!!
In doll news I've waded into DIM Minimee territory. I was watching Trinity Blood and I saw Isaak Fernand von Camphor- mouthful huh? And thought to myself- He's hot! So why not a minimee?? So I'm running a group order for good ole Isaak, hottie vampire.
In other doll news- next month I pay of Glati! YAY! I ordered her a Luts wig in lavender since the pink one I wanted sold out before the GO was placed. And can you beleive Hati and Skoll are STILL on sale! Uhhhh... it's two days AFTER the 15th! I don't think they sold well. Soom should have made the tiny scorpian and crab dammit! It will be interesting to see what the new big boy is like. I'm always curious about there MDs. I think they know they have all of Dollydom over a barrel. I mean new awesomeness every month? Unless he's SPECTACULAR and I mean better than Sard spectacular then I will just look and admire. And wait for the tinies incase they are neat. After Hati and Skoll though I thik Glat and Glati may be the best they have to offer.
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determined
Should I get business cards printed? Probably not... now that I think about it. But I still have DMD post cards! That might be cool to bring! And MONEY! I'm gonna buy me some books! YEAH! Also I want to get lots of things signed so I'll be looking over my Garth Nix collection to see what I should bring. Probably the hardback 3-in-one Abhornsen Trilogy I got from the SciFi Bookclub, and maybe a couple Seventh Tower books... I'm not sure yet. I could bring Keys to The Kingdom, but the Abhornsen Trilogy is the only hardback I have of his... Anyway, it's too early to spaz out. I wish I could have a book written by then- a novel or something...not that it may help. I'm also looking into the art show since I blew gettting a dealer's room table. I may enter some prints and things, I need to draw more! Maybe put in some of my ACEOs in little frames and my CG colored stuff... I bet I won't be very good though, I mean they will probably have book illustrators and cover artists selling art. And then little ole craptastic me.
- Mood: excited
Shopping Queen by ~spiderliing666 on deviantART
Posted this awhile ago on DA. It's a t-shirt commission I took off of Etsy. It was fun! I haven't done any graphic black and white in a long time.
I need some inspiration! I haven't drawn in ages and I want to but I have no idea what. I HAVE half-heartedly gone back to Sexy Science after I saw that President Obama was going to commit 3% of the GNP to research! Which is AWESOME! SCIENCE IS BACK BABY!!!!!! Yeah! Scientists should be rock-stars! Seriously!
Okay, long story short I haven't done what I should on the series. BUT, anyone out there want some free sketches? You'll only get a scan, and I may or may not eventually color it, but you'll get a jpeg of 350 dpi unless you want a higher rez scan. Anyway, just reply to this post with your assignment and specify chibi or non, and I'll see what I can do. Be warned though! I am lazy! LOL!
On the web comics front Brett has done some character designs for it- it's called A Home in Abandon and it's something I wrote a long time ago and rediscovered the file for it. It's about a psychic in NYC who moves into a mysterious and creepy apartment building in the name of rent control! Her neighbors are somewhat less then human and something prowls the halls occasionally forcing the residendt to stay in their rooms on threat of death. I designed the series to indulge my fascination with apartment buildings. Lately I've noticed all my scripts/plots/ideas indulge some interest or other.
Abandon will probably be on Smack Jeeves. The layout is a little unfriendly but there is a lot of manga and it's less cluttered than Drunk Duck. I MAY also put it on Comics Dish if possible when their revamp of the site goes up. I'll post Brett's art soon too. But if you'd like to see some now two of the characters are posted on his DA http://krynos79.deviantart.com/ Athrylis is the main character and Elisabetta is in charge of who get's into the building.
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tired
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