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[Local] Looking for an RPG
May. 7th, 2013 01:25 pmAnyone know of a group that has a spot open? I'll run if I need to, but I'd like something to do on the weekend. General Bay Area, please.
Not that I expect anything, but I thought I might ask here before advertising to other places of the world.
Not that I expect anything, but I thought I might ask here before advertising to other places of the world.
More Comic Dialogue Thoughts
May. 6th, 2013 01:22 pmOni : You see, Darleena isn't really mad at me. She just hates that she didn't have two mothers. I keep trying to...
Darleena : Who are you talking to? I'm right here.
Oni: (Points to outside the box) The viewer.
Darleena: What viewer?
Oni: The people right there.
Darleena : But... that's a wall.
Oni: Yes. The Fourth Wall!
Darleena : (Turning around) I don't understand you mother...
Darleena : Who are you talking to? I'm right here.
Oni: (Points to outside the box) The viewer.
Darleena: What viewer?
Oni: The people right there.
Darleena : But... that's a wall.
Oni: Yes. The Fourth Wall!
Darleena : (Turning around) I don't understand you mother...
So, in the Magical Mall/Plaza that is the room of the Magic of Christmas (As defined by me, so it's peppermints, and toymakers, and and lots and lot of pretty lights... and apparently large pools of Tropical Fish and Whales) there live the Hard Nosed Security Guard. He chews and sucks on *one* piece of candy a year, a peppermint taffy, and he does not change the candy until the job is done for the year.
Well, today, he got to change his candy.
I have no idea if this *means* anything, but there you are.
On the bright side, the Christmas Chinchilla's were harvesting the Oranges and gorging themselves from little Palm Trees, so make of that as you will.
Well, today, he got to change his candy.
I have no idea if this *means* anything, but there you are.
On the bright side, the Christmas Chinchilla's were harvesting the Oranges and gorging themselves from little Palm Trees, so make of that as you will.
Brief note
May. 3rd, 2013 04:30 pmPastels work best on a blank canvas. Using them to cover up a previous painting does not work nearly as well as I hoped. Partly to blame here is fixitive.
Also, if I am to use a broad underpainting for the Pastels, use light tone quality. The Mass Grey is okay, but it doesn't work nearly as well as I'd like.
Overall, Pastel on cloth works, but it sure uses up the Pastels quickly.
Also, if I am to use a broad underpainting for the Pastels, use light tone quality. The Mass Grey is okay, but it doesn't work nearly as well as I'd like.
Overall, Pastel on cloth works, but it sure uses up the Pastels quickly.
At Midnight, I ran off to the MTG Prerelease, opened up a Rare I could not use (Havock Festival), a Rare I wanted to use but in the Wrong Color (Aetherling! Cool!), A rare that I played, but I shouldn't have (Krag-Tua Ancient?), and a handful or rares that only one of which counted, which wasn't any of the new cards. :(
Now, I'm not horribly complaining. I think that given everything, the midrange deckie thing I put together was working just fine. It had ways of dealing Stupid amounts of damage and if I could get a little ahead, I could just win out of nowhere. Double Strike is so awesome on 6 power creatures...
But I was fighting off things like Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers, which would steal my creatures and make blocking unfavorable. I was up against Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts, which is too big for the weak removal I had. I was up against Trostani and Call of the Wyrm(?), which I just couldn't plow through. I just couldn't win through bombs.
So I put in a moderate 2-3 performance last night. Armed//Dangerous was for sure my favorite card of the set, and maybe it's even Standard Playable....
... and with 3 hours sleep, I am off to do this again. *whee!*
Love you all.
Now, I'm not horribly complaining. I think that given everything, the midrange deckie thing I put together was working just fine. It had ways of dealing Stupid amounts of damage and if I could get a little ahead, I could just win out of nowhere. Double Strike is so awesome on 6 power creatures...
But I was fighting off things like Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers, which would steal my creatures and make blocking unfavorable. I was up against Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts, which is too big for the weak removal I had. I was up against Trostani and Call of the Wyrm(?), which I just couldn't plow through. I just couldn't win through bombs.
So I put in a moderate 2-3 performance last night. Armed//Dangerous was for sure my favorite card of the set, and maybe it's even Standard Playable....
... and with 3 hours sleep, I am off to do this again. *whee!*
Love you all.
[Art] Moth and Flame
Apr. 19th, 2013 02:17 pm
I'm still struggling to come up with art that might make good clip art. There's a trick to it, I think, and I've not quite gotten it down yet. Still, here is something. It's pretty. I pushed it past where I was comfortable, which was at the Candlestick...
I don't believe this thing took me three days to finish. It's mainly like 1 day of making a background... then a day of making a candle... and then just everything else. I should stop getting distracted by things so easily.
Well... that was a surprise.
Mar. 27th, 2013 10:57 pmMuch to my surprise, I have discovered that Lent is a Christian (Or maybe just Catholic) holiday and observation of fasting... which is funny, because I've never seen anyone do it.
I suppose it doesn't really matter, but I would have thought I would have known about it by now.
I suppose it doesn't really matter, but I would have thought I would have known about it by now.
Story Idea that I'm working on
Mar. 24th, 2013 04:51 pmAavar wants to join the Pasha's Orchestra, but the elderly peer says that he could not possibly pass the audition. Aavar then goes to see the Ogress Witch that lives in the caves outside of town, and asks for a potion that would make him the best flutist around.
The Witch refuses to help for free. She demands payment. 2 Silver. that's 24 copper, or 1440 pieces of tin. The boy, of course, does not have nearly that many copper or even tin, but he is determined to earn it. He has one month to earn the magic potion.
The first week is miserable, as he tries to walk pets and do normal type chores. The Second Week is almost as bad, as he tries to earn it at taverns using his fluting skills. The third week works better as he teaches another child. The Last Week he has a windfall, and word is traveling around that he is actually good, but he doesn't feel it's enough. He needs to be the best.
In the end, he gives the silver to the Witch, and he goes to the audition, and he drinks his potion just before he is pushed onto stage. The potion is just water though, and he feels betrayed, and he almost back out, but the Pasha commands that he at least play for him.
At this point, the boy is accepted, he goes back to the witch and is upset, but the witch gives the child back his money, and blah blah happy ending blah blah.
So, now I gotta figure out if the Witch actually does anything besides serves as a McGuffin, and I think I can move forward with the doodles and drawings. I like the idea of the Witch helping out from the shadows, because she's not a bad person, and she believes that people who are desperate enough to come to her for help should be helped according to their need.
The Witch refuses to help for free. She demands payment. 2 Silver. that's 24 copper, or 1440 pieces of tin. The boy, of course, does not have nearly that many copper or even tin, but he is determined to earn it. He has one month to earn the magic potion.
The first week is miserable, as he tries to walk pets and do normal type chores. The Second Week is almost as bad, as he tries to earn it at taverns using his fluting skills. The third week works better as he teaches another child. The Last Week he has a windfall, and word is traveling around that he is actually good, but he doesn't feel it's enough. He needs to be the best.
In the end, he gives the silver to the Witch, and he goes to the audition, and he drinks his potion just before he is pushed onto stage. The potion is just water though, and he feels betrayed, and he almost back out, but the Pasha commands that he at least play for him.
At this point, the boy is accepted, he goes back to the witch and is upset, but the witch gives the child back his money, and blah blah happy ending blah blah.
So, now I gotta figure out if the Witch actually does anything besides serves as a McGuffin, and I think I can move forward with the doodles and drawings. I like the idea of the Witch helping out from the shadows, because she's not a bad person, and she believes that people who are desperate enough to come to her for help should be helped according to their need.
[Art] Pink Zebra
Mar. 19th, 2013 08:36 pm( Cut for R-ish Rating )
Now I have to wonder if I'm going to visit the character again, because if I do, it'll need a name.
Now I have to wonder if I'm going to visit the character again, because if I do, it'll need a name.
St Patrick's Day
Mar. 18th, 2013 08:21 amFor most people, St. Patrick's day is sort of like Fat Tuesday. It's a day that you go out and get drunk and party with friends and wear stupid green hats.
Well, we kinda keep the green thing going to, because if you don't do that, you'd be a North Irelander, and that would be a horrible thing... in the same way being a East German would have been... which means, really, fuck the whole thing, and can somehow, someway, get over the whole thing, and just convince Britain just to give *Back* North Ireland now?
...
Sorry...
In anycase, while this is usually a small holiday for most families, my family tends to take St Patties day a lot more seriously. It's like Thanksgiving with Corned Beef. It's a time to have neighbors visit and to call all the relatives and wish that they are well, that sort of thing. You gather around and watch John Wayne pretend to be an Irishmen in either The Quiet Man (the preferred film) or Donavan's Reef (because you can't watch the Quiet Man all the time). Maybe you have a drink. You play the Clancy Boys, in preference to Clann'ad or The Golden Mean, or whatever, because Tradition!
So, mainly it was a good time.
...
I have a problem with most Soft Liquors, and that is they use Hops as an agent for the brewing, and I'm allergic to Hops. It makes me throw up really easily. I can't handle it. So I've avoided most beers and Ales and Stouts for most of my life. Then I have discovered Hard Cider.
Hard Cider is a pleasant surprise. It doesn't have the hops, so I don't have the allergy problem. It is fermented, so it still makes me silly rather quickly. It's got that apple taste to it when you drink the first few sips, so that is pleasant. Overall, I was pretty impressed.
...
So, that concludes St. Patties Day.
Well, we kinda keep the green thing going to, because if you don't do that, you'd be a North Irelander, and that would be a horrible thing... in the same way being a East German would have been... which means, really, fuck the whole thing, and can somehow, someway, get over the whole thing, and just convince Britain just to give *Back* North Ireland now?
...
Sorry...
In anycase, while this is usually a small holiday for most families, my family tends to take St Patties day a lot more seriously. It's like Thanksgiving with Corned Beef. It's a time to have neighbors visit and to call all the relatives and wish that they are well, that sort of thing. You gather around and watch John Wayne pretend to be an Irishmen in either The Quiet Man (the preferred film) or Donavan's Reef (because you can't watch the Quiet Man all the time). Maybe you have a drink. You play the Clancy Boys, in preference to Clann'ad or The Golden Mean, or whatever, because Tradition!
So, mainly it was a good time.
...
I have a problem with most Soft Liquors, and that is they use Hops as an agent for the brewing, and I'm allergic to Hops. It makes me throw up really easily. I can't handle it. So I've avoided most beers and Ales and Stouts for most of my life. Then I have discovered Hard Cider.
Hard Cider is a pleasant surprise. It doesn't have the hops, so I don't have the allergy problem. It is fermented, so it still makes me silly rather quickly. It's got that apple taste to it when you drink the first few sips, so that is pleasant. Overall, I was pretty impressed.
...
So, that concludes St. Patties Day.
Furry Legos!
Mar. 14th, 2013 11:55 pm... I don't like the boy toy's pitch (Why do we have to have fighting? Isn't it awesome enough to have animals?)... and I'm not sure how Martial Arts really translates to Legos... But I want the Eagle/Hawk people...
http://chima.lego.com/en-us/
http://chima.lego.com/en-us/
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Mar. 14th, 2013 05:12 pmInvestor - n - someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns.
Patron - b - A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity; a customer
...
When you go to Kickstarter, you are a Patron. You are not an Investor. If you think you are a Investor, you are doing it wrong.
Every time I hear someone saying "Invest" in conjunction to Kickstarter, I want to find a way to send them back some of my pain.
Patron - b - A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity; a customer
...
When you go to Kickstarter, you are a Patron. You are not an Investor. If you think you are a Investor, you are doing it wrong.
Every time I hear someone saying "Invest" in conjunction to Kickstarter, I want to find a way to send them back some of my pain.
This is what I was looking for...
Mar. 11th, 2013 12:04 pmhttp://www.spectraspeaks.com/2013/03/wo
Everytime I hear conversations about bring Privileged, alarm bells have been going off in my head. It's like people are talking about stations that not only that I don't see, that I'm not part of.
To me, this article is about the artifical construct of that Privledge. It is a thing that is made to define who you are, not what you should be, could be, or is, by others. I see it as bigotry, expressed by the repressed, so that they can do the one thing humans are great at, defining things in twos. Us or Them.
If it actually helped move the situation forward so that people would start using this as a way of not being repressed. If it did, then I could accept the Privledge talk without issue. Make Us and Thems into just Us. I would love that more than you know. Instead, I see it as making an affirmation to be repressed, creating an artificial right to be so, and to oppress others that don't fit the ideology.
Like this woman.
Clearly, she doesn't fit in. She can't be 'repressed', and therefore can't be 'Us'. She can't possibly be the Unprivledged Woman, because she looks different from a 'Woman'. She doesn't have womanly trappings. She *loves* a woman, sexually, happily and openly content. Which, you know, closes her off.
She has fallen outside of Privledge, and she voices that discontent, because she *hasn't* left femininity. She just doesn't follow the narrow definition of it. Which, you know, should be celebrated! Here is a woman that makes others note *her* privledge. She lives to surpass the conceptions of it, to remake them in her own desire.
She says a lot, and has experiences a lot that I can't convey, and she talks about it, and maybe I am putting words where there are none, but that is what this hidden conversation feels like to me. We are leaving victims of all sorts of things all around all the time, and sometimes it just the stupidist of things. By deciding who doesn't fit into our circles, and making them the 'Them'.
Isn't it time enough to stop making excuses to divide people, and just finding ways to accept all kinds of people? We should want 'Us' to be a larger group. We should want to stop thinking of everyone we meet as 'Them'.
I know it's so *hard* to do... because we're human. We like to divide things by two. We just need to fight that impulse SO badly.
Everytime I hear conversations about bring Privileged, alarm bells have been going off in my head. It's like people are talking about stations that not only that I don't see, that I'm not part of.
To me, this article is about the artifical construct of that Privledge. It is a thing that is made to define who you are, not what you should be, could be, or is, by others. I see it as bigotry, expressed by the repressed, so that they can do the one thing humans are great at, defining things in twos. Us or Them.
If it actually helped move the situation forward so that people would start using this as a way of not being repressed. If it did, then I could accept the Privledge talk without issue. Make Us and Thems into just Us. I would love that more than you know. Instead, I see it as making an affirmation to be repressed, creating an artificial right to be so, and to oppress others that don't fit the ideology.
Like this woman.
Clearly, she doesn't fit in. She can't be 'repressed', and therefore can't be 'Us'. She can't possibly be the Unprivledged Woman, because she looks different from a 'Woman'. She doesn't have womanly trappings. She *loves* a woman, sexually, happily and openly content. Which, you know, closes her off.
She has fallen outside of Privledge, and she voices that discontent, because she *hasn't* left femininity. She just doesn't follow the narrow definition of it. Which, you know, should be celebrated! Here is a woman that makes others note *her* privledge. She lives to surpass the conceptions of it, to remake them in her own desire.
She says a lot, and has experiences a lot that I can't convey, and she talks about it, and maybe I am putting words where there are none, but that is what this hidden conversation feels like to me. We are leaving victims of all sorts of things all around all the time, and sometimes it just the stupidist of things. By deciding who doesn't fit into our circles, and making them the 'Them'.
Isn't it time enough to stop making excuses to divide people, and just finding ways to accept all kinds of people? We should want 'Us' to be a larger group. We should want to stop thinking of everyone we meet as 'Them'.
I know it's so *hard* to do... because we're human. We like to divide things by two. We just need to fight that impulse SO badly.
[Art] Numeral 4
Mar. 11th, 2013 08:59 am
The hard part of trying to ... paint?... on the express, is that it wobbles around a lot. So simple shapes get to be much better to do.
3 is coming. I just need to get back to it. I have no idea what I'm going to do once I hit 6. I'm starting to run out of room at 3!
Tera Strong is powerful mojo.
Mar. 5th, 2013 09:04 pmI don’t care about the $$, i just told the folks who raised the cash that I would like to donate whatever they raised 4 me to fans in need.
— tara strong (@tarastrong) March 5, 2013
I find this stance pretty refreshing, that she is taking the money that the fans (Not the organizers) of Las Pegasus con, and telling them to give it to others.
She's still going to get after the con, which is fair, but it's nice to see her tell the fans to pay it forward.
Talk about blindsiding the wrong Group
Mar. 5th, 2013 01:16 amSo... the Dianatic Warriors are on a rampage again...
Epona_Warrior decided that she was going to make a safe place for women to be at a convention... somewhere. In fact, there is probably a LOT of important information that she probably would love to give out... but a random group of people who watch the show, and like, haven't actually talked about the convention, got hit by this. Probably none of the people in the community were even going to... unnamed convention. It just really confused and hurt people.
The Entry at Equuestria MLP Livejournal Group
...
Now, I suppose I should speak up here. I'm not completely against the idea of setting up a haven, when you consider some stupid fans like I've seen running around the new MLP fandom. I really support a room where people who are in fear of being abused can run to and be safe at. Two or three of them, in fact, as sex is a confusing enough problem without having to throw gender into the mix.
I say this because, in general, I see a handful of bad eggs inside the community that are really... bothersome. Fightsy, territorial, demanding, ego driven freaks, who I wouldn't put past them attacking a smaller victim because they think they are safe to do so. I would welcome guardians of the group to be aware enough to make sure this doesn't happen. Friendship is not universal, and some people are *not* going to be people's friends. Some people just want to do what these people are going to talk about in their sacred space.
Of course, the problem is the Warriors see everyone as the enemy, instead of the troublesome few, because us humans tend to divide everything into us and thems, and the greatest us vs them happens to be a stupid chromosome.
In a perfect world, I think there is a place for the Dianetic Warriors to actually stand as guardians of female safety. The fact they have set up a room... somewhere... someplace at a convention, probably is a good thing, and something they can handle. If it wasn't that they carried all this paranoid 'privilege' baggage with them, I'd be overjoyed.
The whole baggage of the Trans Community bigotry is still being carried here, I suspect from Pantheacon, though, and it really set off people in the channel, who have no idea where this blast of feminist crusader is coming from. It doesn't help that Epona_Warrior decided to blame a female rape victim of committing rape in the victim's mind.
...
Really, I just continue to be stupefied how this group who wants to call themselves warriors continues to have such poor skills and organization. I don't think they're ever going to learn how to communicate with anyone, much less the women they want to help. They can't even be bothered to say what convention they want to save people is at.
...
Epona Warrior, if you ever read this, take a moment to take a deep breath before you post. Make sure people know what Place you are talking about. Maybe even find a small room to explain who you are and what your group does before going on talking like you are talking to friends instead of complete strangers. I'm all for you making a place where you are comfortable, and I am all for you sheltering those who are in pain. You just need to learn to do it better, and you need to aim your message better.
Epona_Warrior decided that she was going to make a safe place for women to be at a convention... somewhere. In fact, there is probably a LOT of important information that she probably would love to give out... but a random group of people who watch the show, and like, haven't actually talked about the convention, got hit by this. Probably none of the people in the community were even going to... unnamed convention. It just really confused and hurt people.
The Entry at Equuestria MLP Livejournal Group
...
Now, I suppose I should speak up here. I'm not completely against the idea of setting up a haven, when you consider some stupid fans like I've seen running around the new MLP fandom. I really support a room where people who are in fear of being abused can run to and be safe at. Two or three of them, in fact, as sex is a confusing enough problem without having to throw gender into the mix.
I say this because, in general, I see a handful of bad eggs inside the community that are really... bothersome. Fightsy, territorial, demanding, ego driven freaks, who I wouldn't put past them attacking a smaller victim because they think they are safe to do so. I would welcome guardians of the group to be aware enough to make sure this doesn't happen. Friendship is not universal, and some people are *not* going to be people's friends. Some people just want to do what these people are going to talk about in their sacred space.
Of course, the problem is the Warriors see everyone as the enemy, instead of the troublesome few, because us humans tend to divide everything into us and thems, and the greatest us vs them happens to be a stupid chromosome.
In a perfect world, I think there is a place for the Dianetic Warriors to actually stand as guardians of female safety. The fact they have set up a room... somewhere... someplace at a convention, probably is a good thing, and something they can handle. If it wasn't that they carried all this paranoid 'privilege' baggage with them, I'd be overjoyed.
The whole baggage of the Trans Community bigotry is still being carried here, I suspect from Pantheacon, though, and it really set off people in the channel, who have no idea where this blast of feminist crusader is coming from. It doesn't help that Epona_Warrior decided to blame a female rape victim of committing rape in the victim's mind.
...
Really, I just continue to be stupefied how this group who wants to call themselves warriors continues to have such poor skills and organization. I don't think they're ever going to learn how to communicate with anyone, much less the women they want to help. They can't even be bothered to say what convention they want to save people is at.
...
Epona Warrior, if you ever read this, take a moment to take a deep breath before you post. Make sure people know what Place you are talking about. Maybe even find a small room to explain who you are and what your group does before going on talking like you are talking to friends instead of complete strangers. I'm all for you making a place where you are comfortable, and I am all for you sheltering those who are in pain. You just need to learn to do it better, and you need to aim your message better.
