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Date: 2009-09-25 09:57 am (UTC)Thinking back on the story with Julian now, in some ways I'm tempted to put it up somewhere, but I'm reluctant because it's dumb, unfinished, and really fucking long. Sigh. Even though I haven't worked on it for a few years, I'm still attached to it. Maybe I shouldn't be, I dunno'. Anyway, stylistically, I really don't think I can do something lighthearted/humourous. When y'get right down to it, I'm not very funny at all. I'm a serious person by nature, and when I try to write something that isn't, it falls flat. I can do romance and pathos pretty well, but some other stuff, deeeefinitely not so much.
Ugh. Mess. MESS. MY HOUSE. RIGHT NOW IT IS A MESS. You've reminded me that I need to clean up tomorrow. :| Or sometime in the next few days, anyway. There is mess all over the place, and I feel like a bum. If my mum could see this, she'd be flipping out. "WHY DON'T YOU TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR LIVING SPACE" etc etc. Sigh. Ah, well.
Nightmares about scrolls and texts burning? Honey, you are spot on. Seriously, when I read about what happened to the Beowulf manuscript, I CRIED. I really did. ... Now that I think of it, that's kind of pathetic, but there it is. I guess it's just that I love dusty old things so much, and I wish we could preserve them forever, and alas, no. And to think that a part of them might be lost forever, ahhhhh. It's so sad.
They do sell medieval stuff at the used bookstore here! Well, there are actually two that I go to - the White Cat, which is downtown, and Westgate, which is bigger but more difficult to get to. They both have rather sizeable medieval sections probably because medieval literature and history is taught at the university, right, so that's where (I would guess) the vast majority of it comes from. The prices aren't always ace, but for the most part I don't care so much; I'm just happy to be able to find it. I mean, the only place I can usually get this stuff is online, and sometimes I can't even find it online... so there we are. I'm not used to living somewhere where things are so easily available; Fort Mac is Fort Mac, and Wolfville was so tiny that you couldn't really find anything at all.
Boyden - If I recall correctly (it has been a year, so I might remember wrong) I think the main problem is that stylistically, he was trying to be artsy, and failed at it, instead coming out rather bland. It was like biting into a sandwich that looked pretty good, but really just tasted like sawdust.
Anyway, Fort Mac - the place has been around since the early 1900s, but it wasn't until the 80s that it became a city. It didn't start to get big until 2000, and after I left in 2004, that's when it really started to explode. Don't feel bad about the whole "people who work in the oil industry live here" thing, because it's completely true. Either you're there because you work in oil or you're there because your parents work in oil. At the first opportunity, people get out. That's how it is.
I agree with you on the matter of architecture. Old stuff is so beautiful. Even things that have been around since the medieval period, which isn't exactly known for being gorgeous, have a quiet beauty about them. And the thing about modern stuff is, it might look pretty slick, but it just doesn't seem built to last. It doesn't even look solid. Seems like everything is made of glass and clapboard. 'specially when you compare it to stuff like the Old Town in Tallinn or the medieval buildings at Visby or whatever (these ones, just on my mind because I was looking at photos today, ahh). Feh, maybe I'm just biased, I don't know.
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Date: 2009-09-25 09:57 am (UTC)Main comm. alskdfj. You mentioning that reminds me that I should do a post there this month. I just feel like I should. Get some of my weird stuff out there. I have enough stuff that I'm satisfied with, that I could probably do one post per month, hah.
About the kink meme, yeah, that's how it was done. New system is... convoluted. But I can't think of a better way to do it, so there it is. In all, even though it has plenty of problems, I'm still happy it's there, because my writing didn't really take off until I started doing fills. It's just that the requests - both format and volume - frustrate me sometimes. Little things. Argh, I really wish they would at least put pairing + kink in the subject line; it would make updating the Baltic index so much easier. I have to go through manually because the kink-aid hasn't been updating, and having to read through requests to see if it's relevant is just... alskdfj. Would rather not. :|
I read one or two of the ones you were referring to, and you're right, pretty good. Stylistically, there are so many similarities that I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same person. Now I really wonder who it is, and if I wasn't so lazy (and if it wouldn't be creepy) I'd go about comparing and trying to figure it out, oho. But, I am very lazy, so there we are. I still like knowing, though. Ahhh... Mostly when I friend someone whose work I love, it's because we have other things in common too, or because we've had awesome comment threads that have gotten way off-topic. I dunno, I just like getting to know people.
You're probably right about the Baltic fans + Russiarape thing. Though the kink index requests indicate a tendency toward a preference for that, I do know (certainly) that a lot of Baltic fans won't touch that, eugh. It's just that they tend to be rather quiet. It all makes me want to write more genfic, to be honest. Baltic genfic is like candy to me, and there's never enough of it. (And come to think of it, a loooong time ago I had an idea for a genfic featuring both the Nordics and the Baltics, and never ended up writing it... maybe I should)
Whoa. Paranoid is right. Well, if you feel that way, allrighty then. But I'd like to stress that I don't judge, and rarely have bad impressions of people (and if I do have one, it only lasts five minutes before I forget it. Gods know I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning, how could I remember something like that...) <3
Right now I'm so tired that I cannot brain at all so I will just say that I agree with everything you said about England and people being dumb with regards to the portrayal of his character, and shall leave it at that. And I realize that we established that babbling is good, but I guess it's instinctual to apologize for it, because I've had instances in the past where people have told me to STFU or have given off vibes that indicate they wish that I would STFU and for this reason I tend to feel that I should just... STFU.
after I'm done drawing 5000 other things
Seems your list of things to do is as long as mine. Gods know I don't even want to think of how many things I need to write, especially since many of them will be longfic. Sigh. Where am I going to find time for this with school going on, I do not know...
Hah, here you are apologizing for taking a long time, and I'm going to apologize for that as well. Gahhh. I didn't mean to let it go for so long, but I kept running into homework, and then there was the presentation I had to do and -- well. I'm sure you know how it is. I'm always so exhausted nowadays, ahhhh. Well, I'd best get used to it.
By the way, I spellchecked this because I love you. ;p (And because I realize how bad my spelling is sometimes and was getting a bit embarrassed about it, but that is not the point)
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:13 pm (UTC)'s kind of weird, though. I don't want to point myself out every time i talk to you in whatever way cause it almost seems obnoxious, but at the same time there is something very aggravating about talking to someone you've become acquainted with and just not having the other person recognize you. Is this how it feels to be Canada? D:
I won't be appearing in lots of WIP threads for the next little while cause like I said, school. (I'm not on the meme on most days, meaning, if I want to get to bed at a respectable time that night I don't go on it at all that day. sob ;___; i think that actually not going on the meme is a lot easier than getting off it once you're on it, but I digress). Maybe I'll start making it harder for you and start posting WIPs of the Asians. If I ever figure out how the hell you draw them, anyways.
I can't blame people for thinking it's weird, I suppose it is, but really now, it's a quirk that's not weird enough to actually call attention to. The weather's getting colder now, so I at least have an excuse haha (it was so warm over here for way too long, last week it got up to 30 degrees!). With the weather getting colder I find my overall mood improving which is a bit contrary to how everyone else tends to feel, but hey. I can't help being painfully Canadian (or would it be more Canadian to bitch about the cold?)
Indeed, indeed. I feel a bit bad complaining about it, cause I know that lots of anons are still really into it but ahh. I miss plots to the RP. There's so much influence over the RPers now, it's hard for them to stick to, err, a sort of natural progression with their RP, I guess? Not to mention there's just sometimes too much of it and I don't know what to follow and what to not follow and, well, you know.
Maybe I did, my memory of the meme is getting pretty hazy, haha. pfff you're always in one slump, or another.
I've given up on thinking that the meme may slow down to maybe, I don't know, four day maxings. It probably won't slow down until the "next big thing" fandom-wise comes around. Till then, dead hour will be my favourite hour ♥ (cause even that isn't painfully slow or anything, it's a nice pace. Not to mention, it's when the Euroanons are on! ♥). I don't really want the next big thing to come around just yet, cause even if I can't handre how the fandom is now, it's still better than it being dead methinks.
It would be terribly hypocritical of me to argue. we're all a bit mad, hereBut but maybe I've got some crazy complex in me that's telling me I can ~help them~? and that i can't do that unless I understand them?? Ah, well, I probably wouldn't be able to help them anyways. They'll either grow up and grow out of it or end up being miserable for the rest of their lives. You never feel better after spewing hate.
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:14 pm (UTC)Yesss, there's more fun in the subtext. Not to mention, if a ship becomes canon, then you can say goodbye to all those fun "getting together" stories~ (which I'm totally a sucker for, I think I love the tension in getting two people together more than what they might be feeling while in an actual relationship. Of course, to each their own, that's just me haha). I do like having lots of canon for characters, though. I like it when a relationship between two people is touched upon more (I'm probably talking platonic canon relationships, though) or when you just get more info on any character. The author sometimes comes up with things about said characters that most fans wouldn't think of, so then to tie those little things along with your own fanon is ahhh so fun. and makes for a more fully fleshed out character! (which is, idk, what makes hetalia even more fun if you don't mind me saying so haha. You've got canon characterization + other stereotypes of said nation already + history + fanon. funfunfun) IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE. I'm tired, alright? D:
My whole love of the Nordics probably isn't determined by how much (or little) characterization they've gotten. I mean, at first I wasn't even very into them. Ohh boy, I even remember asking myself what could be the appeal of characters that had little to no characterization :| How things change.
Canon isn't a jigsaw puzzle; it's more like building blocks.
Can I high-five you for that? Simply because it's so ridiculously true. Man, maybe I shouldn't say this, but I think it's weird when someone lists all their ships, and all of those said ships are canon ships.
(I don't think I could make a list of what I shipped, though. I swear what I ship changes every day, and not to mention I'm pretty sure I like a good deal of those pairs more when there's no romance involves, that is, I'd rather the characters be friends or frenemies or whatever).
I have moved on to bigger and better things
That. . . that sounds so mean! pff but you're writing fanfic again so where's your ~bigger and better~ now? But daaamn, you wrote all the way back in '00! That's crazy! . . . Please don't tell me that times flies. I couldn't really get to read any of it, simply because I had no idea what the hell was going on. The only thing I could maybe sort of recognize was Digimon, but I watched that when I was like, seven and eight and I don't remember anything from it. I think there was a dude with goggles?
The My Little Pony fandom's got to be a fandom of many extremes. I can imagine there being innocent, pure and fluffy fanart and then, well, err, let's move on away from that subject.
I didn't even really think collecting counted as being into a fandom (and what do you mean by "restoring" if you don't mind me asking?) I've got someone else on my flist, and she posted some of her MLP collection and jesus christ, forgive my ignorance, but I didn't even know there were that many different My Little Pony figures in the world!
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:16 pm (UTC)ahhh now you're going and making me all jealous with that class ;___; don't tempt me into doing English, man. Well, you probably won't be able to, but iaojaotej whata class.
But but Paint Shop Pro wasn't even made for photo editting?? Not in the way Photoshop was, at least. And I mean, it all depends on what you're using it for. I can't diss SAI or something with regards to how well the watercolour tool blends colours by saying "you can't do photo manips with i!!!" cause dude, that doesn't even have anything to do with what you're using it for.
I remember checking the price for Photoshop around '02, '03 or something, and I think it was well around six hundred dollars. I think SAI goes for about $40 though and I should probably shut up about that program already but it is the love of my life, if you can't tell already. SAI/Photoshop is my otp.
that's why you make palettes and use the eyedropper tool buddy :)
Having a tablet to piss around with is really nice too. Just to doodle whatever the hell. And you know what's also great about tablets? You don't get the materials all over the side of your hands. Man, sometimes when I start doodling in school, I find myself at the end of the day and the entire side of my hand has gotten all grey from the graphite rubbing off on to my skin, from the paper. Well, this happens when I'm alone at home drawing something nice too, but sometimes having half of your hand shaded in really confuses people.
And don't even get me started on the dude that said my art looked "amateurish" because I like to use bright colours...
WHAT. WHAT. WHAT THE HELL. DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THAT, EITHER. He didn't even say that to me and I find myself ~raging on the inside~ because goddamn, that is one hell of a stupid thing to say. As if people who've been making a living of art for decades don't use bright colours, ever, nope.
(. . .seriously ???????)
hahah aww. did you meet her when you got it signed, or was there some kind of deal at her site going on? I'd bet that a house that had her work all over it would be quite an, err, eccentric kind of house indeed. Does she have any prints bigger than 13x19? Cause that's not overly huge, I think. Or maybe my mental-ruler is failing me and I should go use the ruler that's right in front of me to figure it out. . . I'm just thinkin' it'd be nice to have a HUGE picture of a smiling pear up on my wall, 's all. Or maybe the bighorned pear, because for some reason that actually made me go buhyooo. Mind you, I don't buhyoo too often
because I have no soulWell it makes me wonder, how often do you draw anyways? Like, every day just a little thing every few days or. . .? Don't be discouraged ;___; the only road you're on is the road of IMPROVEMENT, which might be a rocky road with lots of bumps and cracks but I assure you that you'll see some wonderful scenery on the waaaaaaayyyyyohhh god remind me never to be a motivational coach /headdesk seriously though quitting is just not cool. not that i'm telling you to make it your number one priority but ah, well, don't stop
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:18 pm (UTC)Touche, I guess. Maybe all the people who live by that advice are just 50 years old and they've gotten so into the habit or writing every day that to not do it anymore would be like forgetting to breath or whatever. Or maybe missing breakfast.
aotjaoijt make it into prose poetry? Goddamn man, it's not like poetric language is easy for all of us! The very notion of writing such a thing makes me grip at my heart in fear. I would say that the grass is a bit dry and it is giving good old man Bob a rash as he sits on it (okay, I might phrase it better than that but you know what I mean). You, on the other hand, would find a way to make that sound pretty and flower-y and I will be left scratching my head, baffled and asking, how the hell did you manage that.
His characterization certainly read like that, sometimes. I don't really know if I've seen him portrayed like that in art, because at times him and Norway having the same expression might just be for the sake of symmetry. and IOAJRHIAOJROAW NEW SOURCE MATERIAL ♥ Oh, god, when that I was posted I swear to you that I was having the worst day ever, and then that gets posted (I think that all of the recent Nordic posts have been on my bad days, if I recall correctly? Hidekaz, how do you do this). Ahhh they're so wonderful together. Finland wore a sweater vest eeee. you can't convince me that the sweater vest wasn't salmiakki-patterned, nope.
Hurr, you know, I mean. . . say you start slipping into bad habits again, would you mind people (such as myself, who knows)
demandingtelling you to take a step outside or whatever? Just. . .trying to slap some sense into you, to phrase it poorly. I am terrible about talking about my problems. I don't' know if it's because of embarrassment or pride or a mix of 400 things just, yeah.The good thing about labour intensive work is that it at least tires you out, increasing the chances of someone going to bed at a proper time. Not that it's a guaranteed thing, but it's nice to actually feel tired at night, I think.
These classes, were they first year university students? You know, people who paid god knows how much to be taking those courses? Or were they highschool or something. That little story of the student is adorable, though. It sort of reminds me of how much we usually forget how much that kind of stuff might mean to teachers. Its hard thinking of ways to show teachers that you appreciate them, or at least it is to me. Just talking to them, maybe? Ahh, I know I probably talk enough with say, the Social Studies teachers at my school. Seriously though, the Social teachers at my school are just ajetoiajet wonderful.
I don't think I'd mind teaching, though probably not as a job. Just maybe every so often, or just come and teach a class. I'm good with the whole public speaking thing and I usually end up making people laugh when speaking in front of others, which is a good sign I think? That's how it's been with presenting projects though I guess there'd be a difference in actually giving a lecture or what have you.
I don't even know what you mean by being a douche other than you using :|
Can't say about the chat thing cause I dont' go in there that often and I've maybe seen you --HAHAHA NEVERMIND THAT I GUESS YOU FIGURED OUT ME OUT AFTER ALL. ahh hopefully I don't come off as, um, someone you don't want to talk to on there orz orz orz I'm almost tempted to rename my journal to xldoubledouble or doubledouble or something like that, I've been aching for a new lj handle for well over a year now pff
Okay, even if you insist that you're not as smart as you may seem, there's no reason they should know that~
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:19 pm (UTC)Alright, so, err, say you get your original fiction mojo back in about a month and three days (don't argue that it can't happen, for who knows what the future has in store), does that mean you'll be quitting fandom in general? I'm not talking about the fic writing part, but the whole talking about it and spazzing over new Nordic strips and and and please don't' leave us ;___;. At the very least, fandom does provide you with practice? It's better than being in an original fiction slump and not writing anything at all for months on end.
When you say that it's really fucking long, you must tell me: how long is really fucking long? Hurr, I think I have the opposite problem. I find lighthearted/whimsical sort of writing comes so much more easier than serious. Or, well, maybe not serious but if I'm doing something seriously it won't ever be flowery. Then again, I'm a pretty silly person. Though I'm a strange silly person in that I'm not playful at all. You're probably more playful than I am, pff. :| :| :| :| :| :|
I'd tell you to clean your mess but I don't think you're home right now. Because you're in Edmonton lol. Tell me, was it snow-y there? I went to Okotoks for thanksgiving and aoetjaot they've got a ton of snow there! I mean, for this time of year. It looks like late November.
:') We've all got things we get sensitive about, illogical as it may be.
Mm, I don't care about those medieval manuscripts, certainly not in the way you do, but I still find that to be a depressing thought nevertheless. Something just being lost forever doesn't sit well with me.
Oh, so I take it that stuff like medival literature and all isn't something that is taught at most universities (is this why you decided to go to the university of Saskatoon?) Ahh, did either Fort Mac or Wolfville have a decent sized library (or a few?). Or is it like this one little library here in Calgary, which has less square feet than my house (and I don't live in a big house).
I was going to ask you what was so, well, trying-to-be-artsy about his writing, but then I realized that could really mean anything and that it's probably more of a you'll-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of deal. You know though, I don't even know how similar our tastes are ahaha (I do respect your opinion for this stuff though, most certainly). Also! Well, we have a choice to read either The Wars by Timothy Findley or The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart for English this year, and I was wondering if you had read either novel, or at least something from either author?
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:19 pm (UTC)Yes, yes, you should take more pictures, but let's hope that the snow doesn't get in the way of your fall (pff). The lot my house is on has probably a few too many trees on it, but they're mostly pine trees so not much cleaning to do there, thank god. My one friend gets a ton of leaves though, so last year another friend and I went over to rake leaves with her and went jumping in the leaves :D ajetojae tI don't even care if it's childish, it was a frolicking good time. We're doing it again this year, 's all I know.
I think you should post more than once a month eh eh. Maybe every time you write something.
. . . I am so totally the last person who should be urging others to post to comms consider how I still happen to be mortified at just the thought of posting :|
I don't think she's deanoned, I'm pretty sure I would've noticed. Nah, I surely would've noticed. Unless she has deanoned, but never posted to a comm before. I mean, I look over all the fics posted to kalmar and I always keep my eye on the fic section on hetalia_daily.
Nordic + Baltic genfic? Why are you even asking this of course you should write it. Otherwise I will stare at your username with a very solemn :|
I think I should go look through a bunch of your posts, or on here, and find how many times you use :|. It would be for science, of course.
Well it can't be that paranoid I mean, unless you don't go journal-lurking and click on links to where art may possibly be posted and and oiejatoajt maybe I am too paranoid hurr durr. I find it hard that others wouldn't go journal-lurking though, I like seeing other people's layouts and profiles and usericons and, well, it brings me joy, okay? I don't like real-life journal lurking, though. Was at a friend's house yesterday, and I found the most gorgeous notebook ever (I'm a total sucker for pretty notebooks, you don't even know) so naturally I wanted to look through it. My friend said it was her brother's poetry/diary journal, so I opened it and I couldn't even read two lines without getting weirded out. I don't like snooping through other people's stuff, you know? Maybe it's because I value my own privacy too much.
. . . also, I always had difficulties understanding how people couldn't remember what they had for breakfast but that's probably because I always have the same thing in the morning orz
School, while I find it delightful (wait, what?), is more or less an artistic cockblock, isn't it? ahh it's worse when you have requests to fill out, I hate leaving all those people hanging. I actually went and wrote a list of what I've been planning to draw and I was left feeling rather horrified. If you haven't made a list of what you need to write yet, err, please don't. I say this because I am concerned about your mental well being.
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Date: 2009-10-12 08:20 pm (UTC)ahah well, I'm not expecting you to be replying right away! I'm actually surprised that I'm finished replying to this already, though that's probably because of me having a lot of days off of school for whatever reason, hence me being able to stay up later and write something (for instance, right now I'm in the middle of a five day weekend. Which I'm not pleased about because whoo I'm behind in school :| brb going to library). But, uh, yeah man, don't even worry about it~ least it's not like back in the day, when I worried if you'd respond after every reply I sent pff orz
Don't even worry about your spelling, I doubt mine's any better. I'm certain it's worse, actually.
Bad spelling is a lot worse than what I do, which is either constantly missing entire words/phrases or using the completely wrong word (I had to read back on my own reply to see what we were talking about a few times, and I don't know how, but I sometimes end up using the word which is the opposite to what I actually want. orz orz orz)
aaand that's all ♥
PS. I SEE THAT YOU TAG YOUR POSTS NOW.
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:05 am (UTC)Hah, I would say more than ellipses, it would be more of a problem if you started using ;w; et cetera, because that's the way that I generally recognize her now. Though it's been a while since she last showed up... probably busy.
I do talk to anonymous users a lot, but there are only a few that I talk to off the meme on a regular basis while they stay anonymous. You, and Binary. Then there is Malaysianon, who sometimes posts to me anonymous even though I know her username and have her friended, and also Sab, who does the same thing. So in summary, the anons who really talk to me while staying anon aren't that many; just two.
As for you, don't get down on yourself, man. It's not a matter of competition, I'd say. I do consider you a good friend, even though our "letters" come less frequently now due to school taking up time. One can't be interesting all the time, eh?
I can understand not wanting to identify yourself every time. But then there is the thing with wanting to be recognized. It's an interesting problem. On my end, if I'm talking to someone that I know well and speak with regularly, I do want to know who it is - mostly if we get into a long conversation, otherwise it doesn't matter as much - partly because I want the familiarity, and partly so I don't repeat myself, saying things that they already know because I said it to them earlier that day or whatever. I like knowing when I'm having a conversation with my friends. I want that closeness.
Anyway, yes, I kind of noticed that you dropped off the face of the earth a bit. I should do that too, moreso than I have been, at least. The "not going on in the first place" thing is a good idea, and I think I'll try it. Gods know I'll have a lot of essay writing coming up and I really shouldn't be spending so much time there.
(And you plan to make things harder for me? You horrible, horrible thing~ Not that I mind at all. And yes, you should draw some Azns. Hop to it. When you have a moment, I mean. *boots*)
About the clothing quirk - you'd think that it would be not weird enough to call attention to, but people do notice. It's so strange. I don't understand at all. Mostly get the comments from family though. Thankfully, as you mentioned, cold weather is a good excuse to cover up - though it seems that when I go out and about to the school and so on, I keep seeing people dressed in very small, chilly clothes, as if they're trying to rebel against the weather. Sorry, I doubt Old Man Winter will get the message. ;p But, anyway. I think you're a bit of a weirdo, if your mood improves when cold comes... but then again, another friend of mine is the same. I was complaining about the snow and she mentioned she wanted it, haa. I'm used to hearing things like that from people who don't receive snow, but this person is from Norway, and so I was just, "Wat." Just be patient, you'll get it eventually, pffff. Aa, me, I used to not like sunlight and heat and such, and to a degree I still don't, but... I'm starting to really appreciate warm weather when we do have it. I'm sick of the winters being so long and cold and dark. I spent so much of my life up north and I just... I'm sick of it. If I had warm winters like Calgary, maybe I'd feel different.
Personally, I feel it'd be more Canadian to bitch about the cold. Or at least, the weather in general. Or life in general. It seems we're always complaining about something - but mostly the weather. It's either too hot or too cold or too windy or too dry or too wet or too whatever. Nobody's ever satisfied. <3
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:07 am (UTC)And then Kongeriketnorge stepped in and I stepped out and then other things happened and then the mood of RP changed and now I don't know what to do with myself, but anywayAt that point plots were worked out almost completely between the RPers themselves, and the planning was minimal (usually I didn't even know when h_v would post his thread), and there was very little backseat driving by anonymous users, if any. I preferred it that way. Now, it seems I can't find any points where I want to jump in, and everything is so controlled anyway (stifling?) so I just... haven't been doing it at all. Sigh.
I've given up on the meme slowing down. At this point, I don't think it will - especially on weekends. But I've come to really appreciate the dead hour - not the extremely dead hour, but when it's active, just slowish. A lot of my favourite people are around then - mostly Euroanons and Asianons - and it's great talking to these people, having conversations with them. I do prefer this to a dead fandom, though I'm not sure how "dead" something has to be in order for it to be considered dead, considering I'm not really used to the way fandoms come and go.
Re: ~helping~ people, it's great to want to give help and orchestrate positive change, but generally, when it comes to things, you can discuss with someone until you're blue in the face, but they won't change a bit. With this sort of thing, it's better if they do it on their own, because they usually won't change with assistance. I find that modeling what you feel is the best direction works well, in comparison.
I SEE YOUR RAGE AND I LOVE IT. LET US RAGE TOGETHER. To be honest, I don't understand the smugness at all. I can understand being happy that your favourite pairing became canon, but I do not understand being smug about it. To me, liking something is about you, and what other people like should have nothing to do with you if you do not like or are not interested in that match. I just can't fathom caring about it at all. I'm quite glad that I don't see much of this idiocy in Hetalia fandom. I mean, okay, sometimes we run into people grumbling about US/UK and whatnot, but for the most part people just ignore it if they don't like it, and even if they do grumble about it, half the time they're really grumbling about the dearth of fanwork for their own favourite pairing, rather than the existence of US/UK.
I find that even when I do like canon matches, it's the non-canon ones, just touched upon, that really intrigue me. I'm not sure why that is. Probably just the openness, the possibility. Today I was thinking back to Homeric legend, and the various matches I like with that, and found that even while I feel very strongly about the canon and my preferred canon matches (Odysseus/Penelope, Hektor/Andromache), it is the characters/pairings with less "canon" material, less screen time, that really draw me (Sarpedon/Glaukos - I even wrote "fanfiction" about them, once, for a school assignment).
But as far as Hetalia goes, I do like having some canon, and filling in the extra bits with history. I don't view history as canon, just as another option to draw from, because it can be interpreted in several different ways. Nor is it required. So it's a nice extra thing, something I love to work with. (and at this point now I'm just babbling, but anyway)
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:08 am (UTC)"That sounds so mean!" Hah, well. At that time, I was feeling a bit snooty regarding my old fanfiction. Also, at that time, I still had people bothering me to continue fic, even though it was 2005 and I hadn't written anything in ages. So, I was frustrated. And you might not want me to say that time flies, but IT DOES, because in some ways it feels as though ninth grade was just last year (though other times it seems to long ago, especially when I hear young people talking about school now. Sigh.) To be honest, if I tried to read any of my old fic, I wouldn't be able to figure out what was going on either - except for the Weiss Kreuz stuff, because I re-watched that two years ago or so, and enjoyed it in all its wonderful horribleness.
Re: MLP fandom - Yeah, you pretty much have it. The stuff that I encountered was rather G for the most part, but that's because the forum that I frequented was very strict about the sort of things that were posted. But I've encountered things on DA that... well.. Anyway. Ordinarily, I would not consider collecting to be part of a fandom, but MLP is connected so closely with the cartoon (and comics, in the UK) that I feel that they can't be separated and, for this reason, I feel that the collecting is close enough to the media that it can be considered part of that fandom.
Anyway, by "restoring", I mean taking old ponies and making them look new again. Unless a pony is in the box or comes to you after being taken directly out of the box, then it is in played-with condition, and even ones that have been played with very gently tend to be a little bit dirty and have hair that needs to be treated in order to look nice again. Generally some washing will get rid of the dirt, and some conditioner will make the hair look good, but sometimes there are problems such as mould and rust that need to be taken care of. A while back I did a series of photoposts regarding a pony that I was restoring; here, here and here.
Sometimes restoration involves not just cleaning, but more detailed restoring. For example, if the hair is chopped, or so completely matted that it can not be detangled even with conditioner, then some people prefer to replace the hair. Or, if the hair has faded from pink to white (a common problem), the collector will dye it pink again. Occasionally people will touch up damage in symbols too, though this is not as common, and is in fact rather discouraged. The about hair restoration is, there's actually quite a bit of debate about it, because some people would argue that replacing the hair decreases the value, unless the condition is absolutely horrible. There's also argument that one should not sell a pony that has the hair replaced, or if one does, one should explicitly say in the description that it has been rehaired - again, because it is not the original condition, and rehairing decreases value. So, there we are.
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:09 am (UTC)About reading books - I have the same problem, with wanting to smack myself if I read something then realize that I have all this work to do. For this reason, I end up not doing any leisure reading at all during the school year, except at Christmas; most of my reading gets done during the summer. So, I have all these books around, and I want to read them, but I can't. Sigh. Anyway, I do tend to find large books a tiny bit intimidating. However, this is because I read very slowly, and I generally do not know if I will have the time to commit to a long novel and finish it in a reasonable time. The Count of Monte Cristo took me a month, for example. As for Dorian Grey, I haven't read it, though I have wanted to do so for a while.
Tempt you to English, you say? <3 Come to the dark side, my dear~ We have cookies, and coffee. Yes. Or, well. Maybe not taking classes, but I bet you would have found it at least somewhat interesting to sit in on.
Re: PSP. Yes, it isn't designed for photo editing, and that's what I told the person who tried comparing PS and PSP, but of course what I said went in one ear and out the other. Sigh. People are just dumb. Anyway, as for SAI, I'll keep it in mind in case my PSP disc craps out on me and I need to go looking for something to replace it with. ;p
Anyway. Yes, I'm serious about the amateurish thing, and I seethed about it for months, and it actually had a rather negative effect on my drawings. I changed the way I shaded and started to make everything darker, a bit more drab-looking, and looking back on it now, nothing from that point of time looked anywhere near as nice as the part that came before it. Fortunately for me I went back to brightness after a few years. To be honest, it still really bothers me. Bright colours in cartoon drawings? Gasp and egads. C'est impossible!
As for UrsulaV - Unfortunately I wasn't there (I don't think she's come to Canada before). It was a special deal kind of thing, and I managed to get in on it. I'm pretty sure she doesn't have prints larger than 13x19, and while I realize that isn't huge, it's rather large compared to her regular size. It looks pretty good up on my mantle, anyway. I'd love to have bigger prints, but she produces them all at home, and her printer can only handle so many sizes.
Drawing... eh. I used to scribble a lot. Every few days or so. But after a while, I did it less - didn't have time to sit down and draw - and now, hardly ever. Usually the only time I scribble now is when I'm at parties. I tend to take my sketchbook and scribble portraits of the people in the room. I'm not very good at carrying a conversation, but I like being around people, so it gives me something to do, keeps me from getting bored. I don't know. Maybe I should change what I draw. Start drawing animals or landscapes instead, or something. I always did like doing backgrounds, if buildings were not involved.
YES WELL. Prose-poetry (and poetry in general) is, in some ways, a skill that can be learned. Partly. At least, editing something that already has been scribbled out, is. I realized this when I was working on my honour thesis. Part of what I had to do was take my poetry and make it not suck, and a lot of that involved breaking the lines down (or sentences, for prose), changing things around, finding precisely the right word. It isn't so much about making something sound pretty or flowery as it is about exactness, I would say.
NEW SOURCE MATERIAL IS YAY. But it is not enough. I need moar Nordics. And such. I can dream, anyway. Oh man, Noon and I were partying on AIM that night, let me tell you. It was just... I was so happy. It was much like the explosion the first time we got a strip with Norway and Denmark in it, really. Aaa~ (On, and I definitely agree with you on the matter of Finland's sweater vest. One of my friends even coloured it with salmiakki-pattern - I just haven't gotten around to iconing it yet).
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:11 am (UTC)The class I taught was indeed composed of first-year undergrads. They paid a ridiculous amount of money for it - rather, their parents did. To be honest, I have never understood students, even first-years, who don't take their classes seriously. Fortunately, usually those people flunk out in their first year, so we don't have to put up with them much more after that. As far as showing appreciation goes, I do think that just talking with teachers does a lot. And participating in class, if you do have something to say. Other than that, it's hard to say, really.
As for what I mean by being a douche - well, sometimes when I'm talking to people, and I'm in a bad mood, I come off as... well. Visibly grumpy. It tends to make people upset, I guess. So, I try to avoid doing that. Sigh. Anyway. YES I DID FIGURE YOU OUT. THIS IS HOW AWESOME I AM. <3 And don't worry about me not wanting to talk to you. I do want to talk to you! I love talking to you! So, there we are.
Yes, yes, I fall asleep while waiting for replies. NOT FUNNY. Sob. Sometimes it happens when I'm talking to one of my close friends, and it's a pain in the ass. And once it happened when I was RPing with Kongeriketnorge, ahhhhshit I forgot about that, I should apologize - though she'll understand, surely. But anyway. Nah, I can't blame it on slow typing - but all things considered, those who speak to me regularly know that I'm constantly tired, and they should be used to me falling asleep by now. Anyway, yeah, sometimes talking about yourself helps. I do that too. But it really depends on the situation. Usually I can't think of anything at all, so I don't message people. Usually I wait for other people to message me. Thankfully, it seems they realize this is the condition, and they do message me when they want to talk to me. I appreciate that.
If I got my writing mojo back, I wouldn't quit fandom in general. I would probably stop writing fic, but I'd still read the writers I follow, and I would still spazz out over the Nordics and so on. I just wouldn't be writing! Or if I did still write, I wouldn't write much. I love having something to talk with people about and squee over, so I really have no intention of ending this any time soon.
When I say that my original&failed novel was really fucking long, what I mean is that it is 94 pages in Word, and just over 60,000 words. This doesn't count all the short little one-shots relating to the novel that dealt with ideas I liked but wouldn't be able to fit them in there because they related to the backstory of minor characters. Anyway, I most certainly am not playful :| get that thought out of your head, you :| Because struth, I am not. :| :| :| :| :| So there.
Yes, I was in Edmonton, or rather the Edmonton area, which is entirely unlike Edmonton proper and WHY ARE YOU LOL'ING AT ME, YOU. :| THIS IS NOT FUNNY. And yes there was snow, more than we have in Saskatoon at the moment. And it was very cold.
Re: Medieval lit. Many universities teach it, but frequently it will just be a couple undergrad courses, nothing in-depth. At Saskatoon, however, there are three specialists; one in Arthurian romance, another in Old English, and another in Icelandic literature. The Arthurian scholar is quite reputable, and that's the reason I decided to go here (aside from cheap tuition and good location). As for libraries - well... the Fort McMurray one was okay, I suppose, considering it's not a town with a very literary atmosphere. The Wolfville had a public library, but it was tiny; the university's library was decent-sized, however, considering the size of the university itself (which was tiny). But ahhh, one thing I was so happy to have when I moved to Saskatoon was a big university library.
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:13 am (UTC)Ehhhh, I don't know. Maybe modern architecture is meant to last, but then I take a look at stuff like the buildings at Mycenae or whatever, which were built so many squillion years ago but are still in such good state, and I find myself thinking... will the new stuff hold up like that? I don't know, man.
I plan to go out and take photos, but I want to wait until it's a sunny day. Gods know when we'll get one of those. But it's better for taking pictures, though shooping can help with a lot. I just wish that all the trees weren't covered with snow. Yes, I'm going to keep grumbling about this. Forever. Sigh. WELL AT LEAST THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SYMPATHIZE WITH ME. I can curl up with my Finnish friends and we can complain about it and share in each other's sulking about snow. Yes.
I would post more than once per month at the main comm, but I just plain don't often have something that I'm pleased enough with to share that widely. I'd rather keep a reputation as someone who posts there infrequently, but always with quality work. I was working on editing a fic, a rather old Can/Pol that I wrote for the kink meme back in the late spring. Wanted to post it at the main comm. But now, I can hardly stand to look at it, as I no longer like it any more. I had considered it one of my best fics, but now... I'm not sure, something about the style, I just can't stand it. It's possible that I'm just going through an "I hate everything I write!" phase, but man, feeling this way is such a downer and I can't bring myself to post anything.
And DON'T STARE AT ME WITH :| because that is my job. Well, the idea for the Nordic and Baltic story doesn't have a deadline - though it would be set in winter, so I would have to write it sometime before the snow melts - so maybe I'll be able to get to it sometime over Christmas. It wouldn't be overly plotty, but it would have a story/progression of events, and that kind of thing takes time.
To be honest, I don't journal-lurk. I don't really see any need to. Sometimes I check out a person's icons, but that's mostly so I can steal them for my collection, nothing else. I figure, if I was really interested in what they'd had to say, I would friend them. Anyway, real life journals creep me out, a bit. If I see one that a person has been keeping, I have such strong "do not touch" feelings, it's ridiculous. As if it was laced with plague. Definitely a privacy issue, I think. I don't want to snoop.
And I exaggerate with the whole "I don't remember what I had for breakfast thing". I eat the same thing every day, so it's hard to forget. ;p But I really am rather flighty and scatterbrained and while I remember useless details, I can never seem to remember anything important.
School is an absolute pain in the ass when it comes to art of any kind. I enjoy it sometimes, and it is a necessary thing, but it prevents me from writing, and this is annoying. You saw my to-do list today, so you certainly know the current state of affairs. Fortunately, most things on that list are low priority. Right now I want to concentrate on the Union fic, as well as a short Swe/Fin intended to be a gift for someone, which will be sent to them in manuscript format first. I'm actually kind of considering folding the pages in either folio or quarto format, laying out everything properly, and then binding it in cloth when I'm finished - but it will depend on how long the thing is, for one thing, and how much time I will have. But, I digress.
You were surprised that you finished your reply, and here I am, being surprised that I finished it. But I figure, it's good to get things through before school slams me against the wall and assrapes me, so to speak. Things are going to get pretty hectic soon, and I'm not looking forward to it.
In any case, I'm really glad that you no longer worry that I won't respond at all. <3 That does mean a lot.
Think that's all for now. Yes.
PS: AND YES I TAG MY POSTS NOW. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:41 pm (UTC)I don't think I've ever used ;w;. honestly. That one looks almost sinister to me, but then again, I'm terribly old fashioned when it comes to emoticons. I'm going to start putting noses in mine, even. :-P (back when I was ten years old or so, and everyone started dropping the "noses" from emoticons, I kept them in because I thought it made me ~unique~ Really, kids feel unique and nonconformist for the dumbest things).
So in summary, the anons who really talk to me while staying anon aren't that many; just two.
Well. Due to recent developments I do believe that number has. er. dropped. In a sad little way I feel almost bitter (I say almost bitter because bitter is not the word that I want to use at all, but my lack of proper functioning tonight is preventing me from finding a more appropriate word) that you found out my user name. In a really petty sort of gasp how dare you go and search dA and happen to stumble upon my user by TOTAL ACCIDENT. Not cause I don't like that you know my user, it's more because I was just really embarrassed ahahah. But that's over and done with now. You haven't by any chance found out Binary anon, have you?
This whole identifying yourself bit would be easier if I was a very obvious anon, other than "aioejaioefjioajf" and ". . ." (and maybe the fact that my replies tend to get really long?? idk) I have no clue how obvious I am, really. You, on the other hand. But you already know all about that all too well so lets not touch on that.
I realized that after not going on the meme for so long, I've found it a lot easier to get off when I need to. Maybe it's because I ended up missing like, five parts but as it turned out, I didn't really miss anything at all. It doesn't balance out as well though, because then I find that other sites become even more tempting. But god, I wish I had a lot of essay writing coming up. Granted, your essay-writing certainly entails a lot more than mine would but I've just got a lot of math to do. ojeatoaet I've always been good at math but all of a sudden, right when my marks actually mattered, it decided to get real hard and arghh. The most annoying thing about math is that half the time you have to wait for it to ~click~ in your head. Which reminds me that I should be doing math right now but I'm not exactly awake enough to do math. The problem with staying home is that it takes me an hour longer to actually feel awake, usually because I'm just sitting and not moving around.
Yeahh, most of those comments do come from family members. What are families for, after all? Most people I don't know too well probably wouldn't find it appropriate to comment and my friends are already too used to my other eccentricities to even bother. I don't understand people who go around wearing summer clothes either. I'm still seeing girls walking around in skirts and dresses and all. Admittedly, I'd wear skirts in the winter, but at the very least I'd put on some tights as well and I wouldn't wear them when I have to stand outside for god knows how long every day while waiting for the bus to come. These girls aren't even trying, they're wearing minis without tights and flats. You won't be able to catch any boys when your legs fall off from frostbite, ladies :|
AND CALGARY DOES NOT HAVE WARM WINTERS. WE ARE NOT VANCOUVER. The fact that you grew up in THE GREAT WHITE NORTH does not make Calgary warm iaojtoatoi The only time it's warm in our winters is when we have chinooks, which are actually a lovely thing despite the fact that they give everyone headaches (myself included). I might be getting defensive about this, yes, but dare I say you're making me sound like a pansy and I won't stand for such a thing! I can't be a pansy, y'see, I must work hard to be rough and tough and pretty much be the son my father never had.
Oh, Canadians. I do think the "always complaining about something" could probably go for a lot of cultures though, haha.
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:42 pm (UTC)Things are so nice and calm when the Euroanons are on. You notice there's never any wank when they're on, eh? I really prefer when those "Ask A ____ Anon" topics come up when the Euro/Asiananons are on, cause you usually end up learning quite a bit from them. eaojoeato I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw that we had a Swiss anon ♥ I still have yet to find anyone from Austria on the internet, though.
Oh, I know that. Talking doesn't always do much, change pretty much always comes from the person, and I think most people can attest to that. Not to mention that you're right when you say that modelling what you think is the best works a lot better than blabbering on about it. Half the time when you are lectured, you're being lectured by someone who doesn't actually live by what they're saying (sup, a large amount of religious people?), and in such cases, it's hard to see why you should bother listening to them. Also, usually the folks that people look up to for inspiration aren't people who lectured them either so. . . there we have it.
I don't get being smug about it either. It's sort of petty and I just want to be all. . . really, have you got nothing else to be proud about? :| (rude as that may be) Most of the hostility towards US/UK, I do think, comes from the fact that there's just an overwhelming amount of it, and less because people think that FrUK or America/Russia is ~the truth and the way~ Oi, not sure if I've said this before or not, but you know what irritates me? When people say to stop grumbling over the popularity of one pairing, and they say that if you want more for another pairing, you just have to go and write/draw some of it yourself, and it's as simple as that. That's. . . not even the same thing. By saying that it's practically implying that the people who ship a popular pairing are the only people who are going and making fan works for their pairing. Ahh I dunno, I think the percentage of fans who actually go and contribute US/UK or FrUK is probably not all that much different from people who contribute to France/Russia or America/Lithuania.
(Sarpedon/Glaukos - I even wrote "fanfiction" about them, once, for a school assignment)
Not going to lie, I adore those "fanfiction" assignments. Was this something you did during undergrad?
Usually, I just feel less need to go and search out stuff for canon-ships, even if I like the said ship, cause chances are I already get enough of it in canon. I noticed that's probably why I also have problems shipping popular ships as well, just because there's already so much of it I don't feel the need to look for it, think about it, all that. I'm just so used to having to break my neck to find fic, I guess. (oddly enough, even the "popular" nordic ships don't even have that much fic going for them. I mean, given the size of the fandom and all. The main comm has over 20,000 members, for crying out loud. Though with the influx of crap going through there, I don't think most people are that active of watchers, cause in other big fandoms I've been in with not as many members, posts tended to get a lot more comments)
To ask someone to continue writing fic, especially when the last update came a few years ago, it's just silly. I mean, it's logical to assume that they've moved on. I've come across wonderful fics that stopped being updated years ago a few too many times, but I don't see why I should bother the writer about something they're not interested in anymore. It's a bummer, yeah, but life moves on. I'm always sort of worried when I comment to someone's fic, cause I'm not exactly sure where the line between putting pressure on the writer to continue, and encouraging the writer to continue actually is.
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:44 pm (UTC)Oi, man, that seems like a lot of work. I'm not even interested in the My Little Ponies whatsoever, but yet for some reason I kind of. . . get it. It's that universal understanding nerds have, for when it comes to spazzing over something most people aren't interested in, or like in this case, putting a lot of effort into something most people wouldn't be interested in, you know? I don't know if MLP is nerdy or not, I'm just defining "nerdy" here as liking non-mainstream stuff (actually, I've heard that nerd relates to intelligence and geek refers to being overly interested in stuff, but I figure there's no harm in using these terms interchangeably and besides, I like the word "nerd" more than I like "geek" but I digress). Or maybe this universal ways of nerds is just totally a figment of my imagination ;___;
I do really love it when people have a collection of something. It doesn't even matter what it is, whether it's ordinary like rocks or something a bit more quirky. Especially when they have their collection out, it gives you something to look at. I think it makes the person more interesting too, haha. Then again I can usually find something interesting about anyone (though it might take awhile, especially if you're talking to someone who doesn't want to admit to liking something uncommon).
I'm a pretty fast reader myself, but it sometimes takes me awhile to read books just because I get distracted easily. I'll read half a page and then my mind will wander off thinking of something else. This of course, isn't so bad when I finally get my reading mojo on, but it's still annoying. Ich, I have a feeling that reading too much fic might have skewed what my brain expects to see when I'm reading. If you know what I mean coughcough I hardly got any reading done over the summer. I finished one and managed to get half-way down a tl;dr one, but that's about it sob. Speaking of long novels, there's one I've been all notsureifiwant.gif about, Infinite Jest or something. I picked that sucker up and realized that you could probably use two of them and start weight lifting with them. Though, I'm probably not ready for that so I'll just stick to. . . Lincoln's Briefs or something which is a very silly book I found in Chapters the other day. Something about Lincoln staging his own assassination and then running off to Canada to live a life of high fashion. Somewhere along the line, he adopts an albino moose. The back also reads, "Honest Abe? More like HONEST BABE!' and you're probably thinking "that sounds stupid and you have terrible taste in books" but it's not my fault if I enjoy reading silly things every so often ;___; The bastardization of history is something I hold dear to my heart.
Too late, I have already resisted the tempting ways of English! I mean, I was thinking about going into English once, back in the day~! When I was like, in grade nine or something. Not that it matters much because you're speaking to someone who has probably wanted to go into every goddamn field at some point. The English thing wouldn't work out anyways, I hardly pay attention to grammar. Most of what I write probably sounds terrible because I don't fret too much how I'm writing unless it's being marked. I write how I talk, more or less. Minus those silly/dorky mannerisms/voices/expressions you can't translate into text.
I remember in art, some people were talking about what they use to colour their digital art. It really is hard convincing people that Photoshop is not the end all be all for colouring digital art. I think I may have convinced them though, especially when I told them about the prices for the others. And when it became sort of obvious that I knew more about these programs than they did hoho
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:46 pm (UTC)I scribble every day. Multiple times. When I'm trying to wake up at school and when my brain is melting from schoolwork and in my bed when I'm trying to sleep so I can just draw instead of being left alone with my thoughts.
But, err, you scribble at parties, you say? Aaah I couldn't imagine drawing at parties D: D: D: I don't know what it is, I have public drawing anxiety or something. No one can see what I draw in real life ever You should've seen me at this one crowded art class, my hands were shaking real bad and I was so nervous and I ended up just acting like a total idiot and orz orz orz I don't even get that nervous before exams arghh BUT ANYWAYS. If your at a party, doesn't that mean that you get a lot of people coming up to you and asking you about what you're drawing? Maybe you could try sketching at a cafe or something! And draw whatever feels right for you, buddy. I totally hear you on not liking to draw buildings though. Especially pictures of cities, that stuff is just death. You've got to put in all those perspective lines too. Buildings just require too much ruler-action, which sucks, because half the time I can't even draw straight lines with rulers anyways. They always end up diagonal :(
I'm still not convinced on how not-deathly-hard pretty poetry (or prose poetry) can be. It is an area that will forever be a mystery to me.
New source material is always a beautiful thing, since it comes so scarcely. I'm of the mind that I don't really care about getting new characters as much as I do getting strips about character that haven't been featured yet. Despite this, I will admit that Australia's character design was pretty over-due. I mean, it's Australia! No place quite like Australia. Well, maybe New Zealand, but I'm sure some of them would resent me saying that. Also, this never really occurred to me before, but I have met a surprising amount of people who went to live in Australia for a little while. It's almost as if it's the number one study-abroad spot here (I don't think I could handre it, though. Too hot. Also: deadly animals).
Yeah. There's always the chance you might be vague about what's going on and we'd have no idea as to how bad it is with you, though :(
I don't get not taking university classes seriously either. I mean, even if someone else was paying for you, whether it's parents or scholarships, it's still worth thousands of dollars. I couldn't even imagine flunking out of university either. Maybe it's because I always sort of knew I'd be going to university? Truth be told, I pretty much spent my childhood assuming that most people went to university. As for showing appreciation towards teachers, ah, well, the whole speaking up in class bit might be hard cause we don't really have classes in the traditional sense, but at least I bother them fairly often? I enjoy asking them things unrelated to the course more than I do looking them up, at least. They tend to get very. . . excited. One of them, depending on what you ask, sometimes has to end up standing and just practically jumping everywhere when he explains stuff, it's so precious :')
Please tell me that at the very least, you aren't falling asleep at four in the afternoon? One in the morning I can understand, but otherwise I think that's maybe a sign that you should get more of a little something-something, yeah? /motherly tone.
Ah, so you wouldn't leave fandom then? Listen, as the Hetalia fandom lets out a relieved sigh.
Jesus, 60,000 words? That's more than NaNo requires you do! Then you say you have more than that. Would you be bummed if you happened to all of it?
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:51 pm (UTC)Hohoho, you've got an expert in Icelandic literature? Have you got anything with them? At the very least, have you been bothering them? I don't recall you bringing that up, though that could be my fault.
but many of the people in my class (I studied it in first-year university). Aaaand that's pretty much all I have to say about that.
. . . I take it that they didn't like it? Way to leave me hanging there, bro.
Well, nowadays I think lots of modern buildings get torn down once they're out of style and deemed ugly, or when someone else wants to move there. The only stuff that isn't torn down is the stuff that has already been there for god knows how long, and it's for the sake of preserving history and culture. So while they might be safer, they probably aren't being built to last thousands of years because they know it'll get torn down. And, well, it goes without saying that they didn't have such means of building like that whenever they liked back in the day. Or that philosophy. Ohh, which makes me wonder, how did people back in the day see the future? Did they just imagine things being exactly the same for as long as humanity lived? You probably wouldn't think that kind of thing if you had even just the most rudimentary understanding of how history's panned out, but, err I have no idea how much historical knowledge people a thousand years ago had (and the changes weren't as great as they are now but still). ahh, I dunno, I'm not expecting them to be imaging a Star Trek-esque world, of course not, but I just wonder how much people thought we'd change.
DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT.
I think it's probably too late to get pictures of leaves and the fall now :( I wish we had a nice looking fall here, and by that I mean not so dry and not so yellow. I want some nice orange and red leaves, like they have out in the east. Then again, it's sort of yellow-ish here for most of the year anyways. Yellow-er than most, anyways. It gets green pretty late either late, and stops being green pretty early because it's so damn dry. It's hard to complain about rain when you rarely get it, or so I think. Though sometimes it does get annoying if it rains for a week straight, because while I like the rain, no one wants to get out during it, so you're stuck at home.
Ohhh, I know that feeling. You probably dislike that Can/Pol fic because you know how much you might've improved, or you know you could do better. Thing is, no one else really knows if you can "do a better job" or if it's "not your best work," for everyone else good is good. And since it was written last year, I don't think you should use it to judge how good you think your work is now. Personally, I think the greatest self-esteem booster in this whole creative business is to look at something you did a year or few ago, cringe at how bad it is, and then feel good that you've improved. Even if it's just little things. If that's making any sense.
To me it seems like you've said that you've got a lot you're planning to do during Christmas. Fic-wise, anyways. Do you guys not get lots of work over Christmas?
Pity that not everyone can regard journals as "DO NOT TOUCH" objects. I'm terribly paranoid about where I leave my stuff, cause rest be assured someone's going to end up looking through it. People say they don't snoop, but I don't know if I should trust them on that.
I'm surprised you finished yours so soon too! Two days man. And here I am, taking nearly a goddamn month to write it ;___; I said I'd have it done by the weekend but, I don't know. aieojtoaiejt. couldn't brain. . And I went off on a lot of tangets. And aren't you not supposed to start sentances with "and," cause I swear I've heard that somewhere and I usually try to avoid it.
okay well
adios amigos
I hope you got a poppy for today.
. . .HAHAH CAPTCHA IS OCTOBER CRISIS