Better Living By Blowing Shit Up

ZOMG she posteth!

2007-01-25T09:08:45Z

So, that dress I've been yapping about for weeks... I finally have it done enough to show off. It's not DONE, of course.

I'm pleased with it... and not.

I'm pleased with the arm things, the bat, and the pearls. Not so much with the ruff or the overall look.

You can see I still need to color in that damn tab on the back, and fiddle with the edges of things.

I'm really proud of the bat~ He goes over two sections of mesh, so it was a serious pain to get everything the right size and lined up. Everything's drawn by hand, I'm miserable at photoskinning.

Uhm. I still need to give it all a texture map so things don't look flat, fix the edges, see about making it closer to the color of the real dress, and make a second version with all the rips and tears and stuff. (But probably not the blood stain, since I'm not real sure about my capability for drawing blood.) And some things aren't quite accurate due to bad references or simply not being able to get them right.

(Oh, reference for the real dress: Here. Hope I don't get my head torn off for linking to someone else's picture. @_@)

Any comments? @_@

(Ps: The skin on the model is Simcribbling's Slate Grey)

I AM A SHEEP.

2006-12-01T16:01:23Z


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Stupid fish!

2006-01-28T02:30:24Z

What the hell? I suppose this is what I get for buying a Betta from a cheap-ass old pet store. They had a shelf of the things, barely enough water, some of them were dead, and I felt so sorry for one dull looking little female fish that I had to buy her.
Its been a couple of weeks now and up till today the fish, Elena, was just fine living in the five-gallon with the last remaining catfish. Today... they have fangs.
Both of them. Glowing red eyes, sharp little fangs. The catfish has a chunk out of her tail but she's alive and, well, fanged. The snails, they didn't fare so well. They were just little old pond snails and I was going to have to clear them out eventually, but I WAS going to put them in the pool in the yard.
The fish had other plans, and now there are chunks of snail shell and chunks of snail floating around. I don't think there's a living snail in the tank.
When I stuck my hand in the water to scoop out some of the bigger chunks (yes, I know, stupid) they both BIT me. I've made my mother promise that if I turn into a vampire, she'll stake me, but she was laughing at me.
I'd get a picture of them, but they're hiding under the hollow decorative stump and I'm not sticking my hand in there again.
It's not much in the way of proof, but here's my hand. I didn't think to get a picture until after I put the bandaids on, and they were the last two we had so I didn't want to take them off...

Anyone else had this happen? I think the store was called Bruha Pets, or something like that. I don't have a clue where it was, we were just driving around looking for garage sales when we found it.
This is absurd. I feel like I've fallen down the rabbit hole.

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer...

2005-11-25T23:30:27Z

Or to be more accurate, Spooky the glowing-antlered non-reindeer.
Yesterday, while visiting my aunt and uncle for Thanksgiving, they told us that they had seen a deer with glowing antlers.
It was a week or so ago, and they were watching the deer at the feeder. They live in a sort-of country area, so they get a nice little herd of deer. This time they noticed one that wasn't from their usual herd.
At first they thought he was a mule deer because he seemed to have the big ule deer ears, but when they got the binoculars they found that he has low, sort of flattish antlers.
It was evening, getting dark, and the deer's antlers seemed to be shining. They assumed it was just the setting sun shining on them, until the deer moved into the shade of the trees. His antlers were actually glowing.
They said that he didn't stay long but they could tell his antlers were glowing VERY brightly, though I don't think they mentioned if they were glowing any sort of color or just white.
They haven't seen him since and they didn't have time to get their camera, so alas, no pictures.

So, can anyone tell me what would cause a deer to have glow-in-the-dark antlers?

The Cheese Family, part 1: Decisions, decisions.

2005-03-10T00:34:30Z

Well, I've started a new Legacy family on the fast computer. :) My mutated sense of humor, and the fact that I created the sim at 3 AM, resulted in the name 'Velveeta Cheese' for her. She's very pretty, I think, and my only dilemma right now is whether to marry the cute townie, or the fireman who arrived when she burned her very first meal. She lives in Veronaville, so I hope to get some different townies and NPCs than the norm.

This is Velveeta Cheese, an elf-eared redhead with a family aspiration. She also wants to marry off six of her children, which requires her to HAVE six in the first place.

This is her shack. I saved a tiny bit of money by having her use the cheaper, university objects. She has 355 simoleons right now, having used 100 of what she had left to tip the fireman when he saved her life and her stove.

This is Nathen, the cute townie who she met her very first day. They get along extremely well, and are already friends.

This is Dorian, the fireman. Now, I can't decide whether to marry Dorian, or Nathen. Nathen's cuter and she gets along well with him, Dorian would get the NPC point but is UGLY. (Look at his nose, man!) However, he does have a better name... (NathEn? Ech.)

Does anyone know what aspiration Nathen has, and will Dorian have a set aspiration or be random?

morigale @ 2004-06-12T01:10:00

2004-06-12T06:31:43Z

I feel like I should say something about the Harry Potter movie.

Seems like lots of people are being bitchity about Sirius and Remus not being 'pretty' enough.

Well, I like them.

Sirius is hot. And when he's not being screechy his voice is lovely. Perfect casting in my mind. Yes, so he has bad teeth. Big deal. I haven't actually much to say about him. Odd, that.

Remus... well, I can't quite get past that STUPID FREAKING MUSTACHE. I hate mustaches in general, so when I saw him with one my reaction was not pleasant. I don't know why I hate mustaches, I have no weird past incidents that I know of, but dammit I hate them.

Ok, ok, I'll drop it.

He was almost as well-cast as Sirius. He's not really meant to be attractive, since he is supposed to be a very worn out werewolf, but I thought he was cute (once I got past the mustache - OK, STOP THROWING THINGS) and very sweet. He interacted nicely with all the other characters, he fit the character well. And WOW. His EYES. I'm willing to bet those are contacts. I've never seen eyes that blue in real life.

The werewolf: It wasn't the way the werewolf was portrayed in the book. However, it was a very interesting looking werewolf and I could see it being really cool if the book wolf wasn't, well, just a wolf. The transformation sequence freaked me out. I have one rule about movies: If the character you like is about to regrow his head, grow back burnt off flesh, or transform into a werewolf, LOOK AWAY. Well, I didn't. And I remembered why I MADE that rule.

I didn't even notice the marauders weren't mentioned. I can explain this by saying that I was in and out of the theater every few minutes (being female sucks, let's leave it there.) and assumed they explained while I was away.

I did notice the Firebolt was moved to the end of the movie, and pointed it out to my friend who went to the movie with me. She's read books one and two, but not three. That, along with the missing Draco and Co. as fake Dementors scene, kind of annoyed me.

On Wormtail's appearance: i just kinda took the rattiness thing as 'Wow, he's been a rat too long'. I don't remember how he was described in the book, and assumed that he only looked like a giant rat because he was in rat form for so long.

I really need to re-read my books, but I lent them to my aunt and haven't gotten them back
yet.

And I just realized I said next to nothing about the actual movie. It was good. I followed what was going on easily enough even though I was in and out of the theater.

I was delighted by the complicated little time-travel bit. I like that sort of thing. Buckbeak was lovely. I wanted to hug him. Malfoy was sufficiently slimey. Snape made me melt and lose all brain function, as always.

I didn't like the scene with the Boggart. Well, to be more clear, I didn't like the bit where it turned into the moon. Snape in a dress was priceless. The spider was funny. But the moon was too 'LOOK! I AM A MOON!' for me. In the book it was described as being a mottled yellowish ball, if I recall correctly. No clouds and flying bats and stuff. (No, I didn't see bats in the movie. But you know they'd have put it in if they thought of it.)

The Knight Bus was too cool for words.

I really really loved the Hogwarts Choir when they first got there. At first I thought they were singing in latin and then I recognized 'Double Double Toil and Trouble' and started giggling. I'm planning to buy the soundtrack just for that.

Can't think of much else.

morigale @ 2004-05-03T16:35:00

2004-05-03T21:41:14Z

Yeah, I'm doing the 'Put playlist on random, list your favorite line from the first 25 or 50 songs.' thing. Because of my amazing(ly big) collection of music, I did the first 50.

If you can name all the songs, I'll draw you a request on OekakiCentral. If you can guess my favorite of these lines, I'll draw you a request on OekakiCentral.

1. Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas and I left the road and blew out my mind

2. I walk these dark streets
Up and down, up and down

3. Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear

4. There is nothin' fair in this world
There is nothin' safe in this world

5. See the finest girl in France
make an entrance to entrance

6. Pick this burning flower up and,
People send them to me loud

7. I could talk all night
My mind is sleepwalking

8. “Oh, I can't get up, I won't get up, I can't get up for my life.
For you have two long beaten swords and I not a pocket-knife.”

9. And it seems like all is dying and would leave the world to mourn

10. I've got a feeling that the journey has just begun
On the wings of a nightingale.

11. When I sleep, cover me, in my dreams

12. It's whispered in parlour it's whispered in hall
Oh the broom blooms bonny the broom blooms fair

13. On the first of April, nineteen fifty-four
A Federal man sent word he’d better make his run no more

14. Why he didn't shoot, well, we'll never know
Or was it the bells from the village below.

15. You in that dress, oh my thoughts I confess
Verge on dirty

16. Santa make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down
Run run Rudolph a reelin like a merry-go-round

17. Urban legend and American folklore,
Tells of a man who was one of a kind

18. I stabbed the newspaper guy and took his little truck
now I stab people and drive away I'm like puttputtputtputt

19. I just wanna burn this place down, take what's mine, and you can have what's left.

20. They're ridin hard to catch that herd
but they ain't caught it yet

21. The earth will shake in two will break
And death all round will be your dowry

22. Your luck won't last forever, as everybody knows.
I just hope I'm not with you when it goes

23. What's my life without your singing
When I'm not but flesh and bone?
Where have I damned my lover's soul
To wander all alone?

24. So come on, come on, come on, come on
and take it
Take another little piece of my heart, now baby

25. And I chased away with sticks and stones
but that rage kept following me

26. Here's to the hunt with your glasses a jingle

27. The bells were rung and us girls we sung and it's to the church we went all

28. Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

29. I hear the human race
Is fallin' on its face

30. They left me, empty, cold and numb
My soul turned into ash and sand
Still holding out one yearning hand

31. We talked in circles 'til the words ran out
And it all came down to an angry shout

32. Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

33. And the king of the mice is living it up with the rat clan

34. Can he swing from a thread ? Take a look overhead

35. Rare bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.

36. So they came into the outway
It was sunday
What a black day

37. For banishing demons to bottomless hells
Or bringing them back on demand.

38. A plague on you oh majesty if you would take my head
for I shall see revenge on thee long after I am dead

39. He's a poor boy
Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose

40. So I stayed all night
and I still don't regret it
laid my life on the line just to get it

41. He threw the sack at Flossy's feet, "Oh! Flossy stop your dancin'
We're headed down to New York town gonna buy ourselves a mansion"

42. It's gettin' very dark, predators all around
The silver moon above and my camel goes

43. Because Mr. Oogie Boogie is the meanest guy around
If I were on his boogie list
I’d get out of town

44. Farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail

45. So count your sheep
Mama's singin' you to sleep

46. I wanna be with you until the end
I give my heart and my soul to you

47. I was born to rock the boat
Some may sink but we will float

48. I've seen a young man's anger melt between the night and morn
And it's surely not a harder thing to tame a young man's scorn

49. If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown

50. Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

The land where the pencils live.

2004-04-28T07:19:08Z

I have found that mystical, magical place where all the mechanical pencils I buy disappear to.

My sewing bag.

I have this spiffy fabric bag with wood supports that opens and closes so I can either carry it or leave it open standing up. I keep my cross-stitch and needlepoint projects in it and usually leave it open at the end of my bed.

Today I went hunting for a new needle for the crane-in-front-of-sunset needlepoint I'm working on and found three mechanical pencils and two lead refill containers hiding in the folded instructions. Yay!

Unfortunately, I had to use a really pointy needle and now I'm scared of stabbing myself.

In other news, I tried to draw Abe Sapien today. The end result was really more like some sort of mutated spork creature. I'll keep working on that.

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