I need to update my LJ here again because I just wrote a fucking wall of text and I don't want to post it to my Tumblr. So for anyone whose still around who used to follow my webcomic, Red All Over- now very much retired- I've decided to write up how it was supposed to end, according to the notes I wrote when I was fucking SIXTEEN so please forgive a lot of blatant stupidity.

so where did we leave off-
Aurora goes home to Graviston for her brother's inauguration as the new king. We learn that Graviston is suffering a plague which they have decided to blame on Ereid-Reech to justify a war. But afterwards she vanishes to go back to Ian White. The new king, her brother decides it would be safer for her in Graviston but can only think of one way to keep her home, and engages her to General Aries. Meanwhile, without Aurora around to ground him, Ian relapses into insanity and stalks after Lydia again. Aurora finds him tied to a tree after harassing the heroes, and promises not to leave him again until she's helped him accomplish his goal of killing Lance.

Now. heres what happens next. (to the best of my understanding of the notes I scribbled in a notebook when I was 17.)

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man I miss LJ for posting fandom shit. Tumblr is USELESS for that, you can't have a proper conversation. I just finished a fic and I'm about to put it online and I have just no community to share it with. so lame.
Also I graduate with a Masters degree in animation in a month and then I'll be moving back to Olympia.
actually i probably shouldn't be so worried about fandom shit when I consider I have 1 month to finish my thesis... and yet, here we are.

I have come bearing a love story.
A buddy of mine, on a trip to Portland, met a girl on a bus. They were eye-flirting but didn't speak. Just as he was about to talk to her, she got up for her stop, but before she disembarked she handed him a note. "hi stranger! sorry if this is bizarre but you are very beautiful and look like Vincent Van Gogh. Love, Stranger." When my buddy got home he made a Tumblr postasking for help finding this girl. The post went VIRAL like WHAT. As we speak it has well over 12,000 notes and it hasn't been 24 hours. Well it worked. within AN HOUR they not only found the girl, but the day before, after she had gotten off the bus, she had made her own Tumblr post about the encounter. It was like fucking MAGIC. Like Paperman, only instead of paper planes it was Tumblr.
heres both of their posts, together.
now heres the part I didn't say on my FB when I posted this story lol. I'm in the chat room I hang out in now and hes EXPLODING because not only did he find this girl, who he finds amazing and awesome and plus because his note went crazy he got 600 NEW FOLLOWERS from it, it turns out from his chatting with her- shes a lesbian ^^; all she wanted to do was compliment a guy she found aesthetically pleasing and who looked remarkably like Vincent Van Gogh (he does- we call him Hipster Van Gogh). And now all of Tumblr is shipping them because their story was just so romantic. Ah, this world. well he hopes they can at least be friends, and I hope that for them, too.

A review I actually got just now on Monochrome:
Nekozawa hitori: like it or not my name is actually Nekozawa Hitori so deal
with it, just had to say that now

...okay yeah. I bet your name is ACTUALLY, REALLY Nekozawa Hitori. Also, I wasn't CHALLENGING you, why are you fighting with me? I don't care what your stupid fake name is lol.

So I've been thinking of starting a Game of Thrones Tumblr ask blog but I cant decide what character or if its worth it to try. I think of doing Sansa because shes my favorite and I haven't seen an Ask Sansa Tumblr but she gets a lot of hate so thats risky if anyone ever actually noticed it. ahh I cant even keep up on my webcomic, what am I talking about.

I'm actually a little sad at myself for how infrequently I post here anymore... But I guess I lot of people I've followed over the years have vanished. I wonder where they are now. I tend to post my personal shit on my Facebook, and my fandom and art shit lately on my Tumblr (which is Shensation). Theres also been less and less fandom shit over the years I've found as I don't have much time anymore for it, which super sucks because I kinda miss fanfic. (I'm caught up on the Skip Beat and Fairy Tail mangas, but either my standards have raised over the years or there is just no good fic in those fandoms.) Actually I have been kinda getting into Adventure Time, but I'm more interested in the fanart than the fic for that one.
Life is going well, I'm married, employed and getting decent grades in grad school, though I still worry theres no room for me in the workforce once I got my masters degree. I'll ask my teacher about it once classes start again.
I'm also still on winter break so I haven't changed out of these pajamas in two days lol. I will hold this record as long as I can but this apartment is small and I will get bored eventually.
Over Christmas, Matt and I activated a crunchyroll account to watch anime, but we couldn't find any new ones we liked so we decided, after like three or four years of not giving a shit, to resume our progress on Naruto. Man, I miss being into that anime. I forget how fun it is and how cool the fights are. Also, why the hell didn't I think to watch this shit for reference when I was doing my effects animation? Shit, I would have done MUCH better if I'd thought of that. Anyhow, its kinda nice to care a bit about something I was so damn INTO for so long. Very nostalgic. Except they keep killing characters I like, thats starting to fucking SUCK.
Well this is just a catch up post. good to see whose still active on here. Til next time!

I labored for weeks over this animation final- hours and hours of days and days- and in the end it looks…. adequate. It’s passable. Not great. My fucking blood, sweat and tears and its an okay animation. Thats not what I want. This is such a let-down. Do I not practice drawing every damn day? For more than TWENTY years? And almost no one knows me. No one looks at my art and says, “THAT person, they are amazing, I want to draw like THEM.” They say, “thats a pretty good drawing.” and then move on. Once on the street, a vagrant asked to see my sketchbook. I let him see. He opened it to exactly one page, filled with sketchdump doodles of trying to work out a design, and hes PRAISING my art, you are SO talented, never turns a page- then he shows some random passer-by that one page, without my permission. “Don’t you think shes such a great artist?” The passer-by, and I’m not kidding, says “Eh. I’ve seen better.” That is the god damned story of my life. Thats my art in a nutshell (hell, thats my LOOKS, too.) “Eh. I’ve seen better.” And then the vagrant asked me for five bucks. Its like, all this money and time I’m spending on schooling to be better- am I wasting my fucking life? Is it worth it to bother and try to enter such a competitive field, with so many rivals who are so much younger and more talented than me, with artwork thats “passable” at best?

I’m… I’m sorry. I don’t mean to get so whiny and self depreciating. I just have no one to talk to about this. When I’m feeling down about myself, Matt just pinches me and says “Stop it. You’re amazing.” Well yeah you have to say that, you married me. I don’t know if anyone will read this but if you do, sorry to waste your time, but thanks for letting me vent.

I went into my chat room today with my Void buddies and randomly said "YOU GUYS, ITS TERRIBLE. THE KING HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED! PLEASE FIND THE MAGIC WAND SO WE CAN CHANGE HIM BACK!" and nobody understood. I think I dated myself but COME ON YOU GUYS you may be younger than me but THATS SOME CLASSIC SHIT THERE.
I bet a gaming chat room would have thought it was funny.
so how have you guys been?

So someone I follow on DA and battle with in the comic community was offering chibi commissions for twenty bucks, and I thought, I've already seen her draw Gray because we fought buuuuuut I do have OTHER characters....
and thats how I got Delya to draw Wendy and Sully for me
AND WROOKIT DEMMM!!!! WROOKIT!!!
MY GOD she made them adorable. I think I officially have to start drawing Candyland again, if only just for me and a couple of you guys who periodically read it. Maybe I'll forgo the "weekly" think I'm clearly not keeping to and just go in batches. Heres three pages, heres five more, heres two... I dunno.
shit an animator for MLP:FiM that I watch on DA actually commented on that commission O.o she called them "charming". I AM TAKING PARTIAL CREDIT FOR THAT COMMENT. I know thats not allowed ^^;
so whose off to a Halloween party tonight? have a fab time! I know I will!

I bought a used iPhone from a friend who upgraded (to quote the IT Crowd, "I can get an iPhone without giving any money to Apple! I'll be living the dream!"), and I am having so much fun. This is my first smartphone so I'm all "apps! MORE APPS!" Theres an app for Cracked.com, and fanfiction.net? oh I am so fucked XD now I will never stop playing with this thing!
Also I just put in a reservation from booking.com for someone named "Celeste Royal". Why the princess of Canterlot and all of Equestria wants to stay at a Best Western, I'll never know.
In other news, I blew out my eardrum a week ago and haven't been able to hear right from that one since. It feels like when you're on an airplane and your ear pops, or you've got water in it. Its very distracting but I cant afford to see a doctor. Internet says it'll take 1-2 months to heal. So thats fun.
And finally, I am utterly defeated by the very concept of smoke. I can't animate smoke. its too hard. And I tried for HOURS. Nine straight hours yesterday, and I'll try again some more today. SO much for being good at effects animation. But I guess if I were doing it professionally, I wouldn't have to work it around another class and my full time job. Still, this is when I should be building my portfolio, and I can't get anything good IN it because after I learn from my mistakes, I don't get a chance to go back and redo the project, because I just don't have time. So I fear I'm just accruing a mountain of financial aid debt and I'll never be able to pay it off with any kind of work in the field I studied for. Matt's got two degrees, and hes got an interview tomorrow for pizza delivery. I fear we will never be successful.

After a long dry spell of not doing pretty much anything fandom related, I caught up on Fairy Tail and decided to try again and see if there was any good fic. THERE IS STILL NOTHING. Not like, fic doesn't exist. Fic is THERE. Theres just nothing GOOD. I mean I've never been in a fandom this big with so little to read, and I was in the Host Club fandom. If somebody would like to prove me wrong and link me to some really amazing fic I missed by all means I'm FOR it. I would take just about any pairing at this point. In the meanwhile though it looks like I may have to dust off the ol' muse and think up some fic for myself.