First off, happy Mother's Day to all the moms!!

FAVORITE CHARACTER DISCUSSION

Who are your favorite characters (from any media), and why? Furthermore, if you were stuck in a deserted island, which would you want to have with you?

Here are mine, in no particular order. The island castaways are marked with a I'm excluding OCs, although Leviathan would probably be the only one who could ever get us out of the island fast.

BOOKS

Zarek - Dark-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon - Grumpy guy, but he's funny hauling lightning. Do I want him in my island? HELL NO! The island is dangerous enough without him in it.

Solin - Dream Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon - I love his sense of humor. I don't see how he could be useful in the island, though.

Eric Northman - Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris - He's sexy. And has a sense of humor. And is one of the two liveliest vampires I've ever read about; ever. That's one that enjoys life, or undeadness. And he's supposed to be really good at sex. Do I want him in my island...Hmm. Lemme come back to that one. And he makes it to the island! He was a Viking, so I'm sure that could come in handy, and he could be the nightwatchman. I'm sure I would bring him in if purely for "entertainment" purposes I hope the island has a cave to shelter him during the day, though, and a horde of elephants to feed him. Else, we're in trouble.

Gregori Holstein - Love at Stakes series by Kerrelyn Sparks - The other liveliest vampire. He's hilarious, and a businessman (gotta support the peers). Not on the island, though. If vampires could get heart attacks, I'm sure he would get one from finding himself stranded. Poor guy.

Aramis - the one and only, dammit. by Alexandre Dumas - He's a schemer, and he's twisted, but he means well. In a way. But somehow, he's sexy. Stay away from my island, though. He'd probably kill us all.

Porthos - the Musketeer one; is there any other? - He's funny. On the island? Sure! Bring him on! He's strong, so that might come in handy. And a good fighter. And would keep us entertained.

TV

Henry Fitzroy (yes, I'm going with the TV version) [link] Blood Ties - Did you look at him? Also, he's a comic artist! a vampire comic artist! How cool is that? Not in the island, though.

ANIME & MANGA

Minami Nanba [link] - Hana Kimi - He's sexy. And nice. And has pretty hair and cool clothes. Sure, bring him on the island, it's pretty empty anyway. And he's good at organizing people and getting things done.

Akatsuki Kain (see journal banner) - Vampire Knight - He looks like a rockstar. He's dedicated and has infinite patience. *packs him to the island* Even though he's a vampire, he doesn't fry in the sun, and he keeps his head on in difficult situations. And as far as I know, he doesn't backstab people. And he could help us start campfires. Also, the VK vamps eat food.

Rangiku Matsumoto [link] - Bleach - A woman who is pretty, funny, AND kicks ass. And is not a Mary Sue. That is pretty darn hard to find. Not on my island, lady! If she were on the island, all the men I'm bringing would ignore me! lol Besides, she wouldn't do any work, since she's so lazy.

Ichimaru Gin [link] Bleach - His smile never fails to make me laugh. Not on the island, he'd find a bad guy and side with him.

Kisuke Urahara [link] Bleach - I'm not entirely sure why I like him, but he's really amusing. He's inventive, so he might be useful in the island... as long as he doesn't start experimenting on us.

VIDEO GAMES

Irvine Kinneas [link] - Final Fantasy 8 - Again, did you look at him? He has strong morals, has some great lines in the game ("and you, judging us, who are you?"). Island? Hell yeah! He's a sniper, so he could hunt down any beasts. God knows my aiming is atrocious. Downside? If he freaks out.

Sephiroth [link] - Final Fantasy 7 et al - Kickass villain with a kickass song. And he comes back prettier every time he dies! He's smart; crazy, but intelligent. He'd set the island on fire and/or kill us all, so no thank you.

Paine [link] - Final Fantasy X-2 - No-nonsense woman who kicks ass. And is not frilly. Island? Please!

Gippal [link] - Final Fantasy X-2 He's so cute in a sweet kind of way XD Bring him on the island too. He could keep Paine company (poor guy, I feel bad for him already)


So I have Porthos, Nanba, Kain, Urahara, Irvine, Paine, and Gippal on the island. That's a crowded camp, but I'll go ahead and add Eric too. *goes back*

How about you?



MISCELLANEOUS

I need to stop dreaming about shapeshifter cats. I really do. The hell. It just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

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Wasn't sure whether I should title this journal that, or "Boys, Boys, Boys!" (another song), because the weird dreams are only 1/3 of it.

As an aside, how I love my laptop! I can do this, be on instant messenger, watch TV, upload photos, listen to online radio, and cook, all at the same time!

Anyway, let's get this show rolling.

WEIRD DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS

You should be careful of what you do (not just what you eat) before bed. Here's what I was doing before bed last night (this is important for the story) :

[1] Finished reading "All Together Dead," by Charlaine Harris. Seventh book in a series about a telepathic waitress. She now shares a house with a witch, who accidentally turned her (the witch's) boyfriend into a cat while they were having sex, and she can't turn him back.

[2] Started organizing a folder with close to 900 fanarts of this one anime character. I downloaded said bundle from online, and started sorting out what I liked, didn't like, and what was downright preposterous (deleted).

[3] Flipping through the May issue of my magazine, I ran into an article (me: "This magazine has ARTICLES?! whoaa!" Get your mind out of the gutter, it's a fashion magazine, but I don't think I'd seen an article there before). The author (a guy) was saying what he found attractive and unattractive about women. He started off with, "The ability they have to maneuver through life reminds me of a cat on a mantelpiece, navigating around trinkets, photo frames, and flowers." *rolleyes* Come on, dude, get to the good stuff.

[4] And finally, I went to bed trying to think up a sexy pose in which to draw Leviathan. I fell asleep before I could come up with anything good.

And then I had this jewel of a dream.. :rolleyes:

*special effects: fog* Commence dream sequence

I was in the laundry room, pulling dry clothes out of the dryer. The room's light was off, since I didn't need much for what I was doing, and the light coming in from the door sufficed. The light coming in dimmed, and I looked up from the laundry to see what was blocking the light. There, just beyond the door, was the anime guy (Refer to: [2]), shirtless and staring through the threshold at me just about as shocked as I was. "What the..," I thought, "it's the anime guy! The hell?!"

Despite the shock, my dream self, not being one to let a perfectly good half-naked bishonen go to waste (animated or not), called out his name. He responded, sauntering seductively into the (still laundry) room, and I thought, "Wow, he moves like a cat!" (Refer to: [3]). My dream self, being much less socially why than my waking self (unless I'm dancing, then my waking self kicks ass), pulled him up by the band of his pants and moved in to kiss him.

So there we were... and then I realized his nose smelled. As in, smelled bad! I wasn't about to get out of it, so I tilted my head and tried another angle. That worked for a few seconds, and then the nose smell again. I tilted my head the other way. A couple more seconds, and the nose smell again! I couldn't ignore it anymore, so I pulled back and looked at him. As I looked at his face, right there, before my eyes, he turns into a cat! (Refer to: [1]) So I'm left, standing there, bewildered, holding a cat.

I stared, turned, and flipped the cat, trying to figure out how to turn him back into a human, but I couldn't figure it out! (Again, refer to: [1]).

After a while, my mother walked in, finding me sitting on the floor, staring dejectedly at a cat that's sitting on top of a laundry pile. "What are you doing sitting there?" "I found a cat." "But that's good! Why so sad?" " "

FLIRTING BY THE BOOK

Apparently, gone are the days when guys told a girl how beautiful she looks when she smiles, or how pretty her eyes are, when trying to flirt with her. The line of the 2000s is, "I like your shoes!" I would have never guessed, but I've read it twice now: once in this column this guy writes on Yahoo, and once again somewhere else this week. The theory behind this, according to these advisor guys, is that a woman wants to be complimented on the things she has control over, her decisions, her mind. That's all good and well, but when they say things like "I like your shoes," you think "Well, you'd still like these shoes just as much on anyone else."

I knew this guy who took a better approach. He had lines that went something like, "One of the things that always stood out to me about you is how fair and understanding you are." His problem was that he said those lines to every girl, and he couldn't keep them apart in his head

But really, you like my stomping boots? [link]

WHAT WAS NUMBER 3?

Oh yeah! There's a cute guy in my office building. He's not in a suit, so I don't know what he's about. But you do tend to notice the one guy that doesn't look like this [link]

BONUS ROUND!

What was I going to wri-OMG THE BREAD'S BURNING! *runs to kitchen*

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Hello! Remember me?

I've been scarce online and with art, and it looks like it will be like this for a bit more First, work at the office got crazy, then it was sttill crazy while I had to whip up that WEWY entry, then I went (still am there) to a 4-day course with an exam at the end (Sunday. Wish me luck! >.< ) and then we have a 4.5-week project that we have to do in one week next week, and then there's another project that I haven't been able to do because I've been working on these others.

I'm going to copy-paste this from MEDA, but for the entertainment of the rest of you:

THERE'S A NAKED FAIRY IN MY CHEESEBURGER - AKA THE STORY OF B'S TRAVEL THIS WEEK

So I was tired from the rush at work on Wednesday and then a rush to the airport to catch my flight, so when I got in to the hotel, I dialed room service for a cheeseburger.

An hour and a half later, I get two whole cows. Okay, not quite, but the thing was so big that I couldn't even eat a quarter of it. And it had onion rings! Inside it o.0

That's not the only thing it came with, though. My burger also came with a naked fairy. I kid you not. It's a little bookmark-like thing with a naked fairy. On the back of the fairy, there's this explanation of the candy it came with (should have known better than to eat it)


A Confection to Soothe the Senses
Good Night gelees contain pure lemon and natural chamomile extracts, two age-old herbal ingredients which help to remove the negative emotions and create a positive state of mind.

The poet Virgil had this to say about the citron [1], a close relative of the lemon: "this Citron fruit doth chase Blacke venome from the body in every place." [2] Much more has been said since about the many health benefits of lemon oil [3] which include its calming and gentle, sleep-inducing properties. [4]

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Footnotes:
[1] The candy did not include citron.
[2] In every place!
[3] Except Virgil's quote, which was not about lemons
[4] Hopefully, naked fairies are not included in this



Also, my plane seat neighbors... they were a man and a woman traveling for business to interview summer interns. I thought they would be decent neighbors. Until she started giving him a hand job. RIGHT THERE IN THE SEAT. WITH ME NEXT TO HIM. I guess getting it on in the airplane bathroom is passe?


Overheard at the airport:
Adult male, on cell phone: "...and the dinosaur. The prehistoric dinosaur."
Not to be confused with the modern dinosaur, which wears sneakers and owns iPods.

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Hello everyone! I hope you had a great Easter.

I am still sleep deprived from last week and my creativity has unfortunately gone MIA. Can't get myself to make anything serious. I'm hoping to be able to catch up on sleep Sunday morning. I have to go shop for a cocktail dress for Saturday evening and all I want to do is stay at home, read, and sleep. I went today after work and couldn't find anything!

FF7: CRISIS CORE
Has anyone gotten this game yet? What do you think so far? I'd have to go buy a PSP in order to play it, so I'd love to hear all about the graphics, gameplay, sound, characters, funky little tidbits, etc. (And how much face time does Sephiroth get? He's the reason I'd be getting it, after all! )

Some screencaps of Sephiroth, courtesy of RPGamer:
[link] chunky boots! :3
[link] In light of the events, this makes me laugh
[link] Just pretty.
His hair is magical. Not only do the bangs do impossible things, but the whole hair never gets in the way!

DANCING WITH THE STARS
Who's watching the new season?

You know, as much as I love the Houghs ("Stepford Siblings," as they were dubbed last night), I can't believe Julianne's team (I can't remember the guy's name) made it through the first cut! I thought Penn did a much better job than he did. Obviously, this is just my opinion, but I don't find him very charismatic either. At all. Also, not sure what Julianne's new look is all about. Actually, I do, but I kind of liked her old self better. I think the "happy" set her apart from all the other girls who were focusing more on "sexy," and worked pretty well.

Monica Seles. I was really looking forward to seeing her on the show, since I follow tennis, but darn. Honestly, though, her elimination was justified.

You know who I miss? "Maksim Chmerkovskyi!" (I totally killed his last name, didn't I? *looks it up* Oh! I just got the last two flipped. Chmerkovskiy.) I heard he's still contracted for one more season, so if that is true, he should be back... sometime in the future.

Who do you think the top contestants will be near the end of the season? I think Christi Yamaguchi, Marlee Matlyn, Mario, and Jason (what's his last name?).

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(No, I don't need to go to the bathroom)

TO DO
There's so much stuff I need to get done this month, and I need to concentrate! And all I wanna do is draw bishies, and those are not on the To Do list (darn!).
Comic -- for next Monday (haven't started)
1 bishie -- for next Monday (needs background)
1 girl -- for next Monday, not gonna happen
1 sculpture -- for next Friday-ish (haven't started)
1 pixel doll that has to kick butt, for a contest -- for the 31st

The sculpture has to be done before the cherry blossoms finish blooming (hence the race against nature) and they're starting to bud, and I haven't started sculpting!

I can't post the bishie without the comic b/c it's a spoiler. And it would be good to have the girl that goes along with it.

For Zili's contest, I can't make up my mind on whether I want to doll Levi, Alexander, or Quetzal. I had this really cool idea for Levi, but I couldn't ever figure out a good pose.

THE CAR LEVI WANTS
It. Runs. Underwater. [link]
Levi: *emails link* I want that car.
B: *looks* But it only goes 10m underwater, and it's not waterproof. And you'd probably swim faster by yourself than driving the car.
Levi: But it's cool.
B: No arguing there.

SONGS
Does anyone know any songs that 1) have a Native American beat to them, or 2) have a Middle Eastern snake-charmer type of flute? It can be only part of a song, too.

For instance, "Comanchero" by Raggio di Luna [link] has the chorus line (and I really don't mind looking at those half-naked chorus boys, even if they look anything BUT Comanche XD). Man, I downloaded that song from iTunes... and got the wrong version! I hate it when that happens. And they don't even have the original version, just the "final edit" which is the one I got and not the one I wanted. lol

Unrelated to the request, I've been listening to Tarkan today (the old stuff before he started looking like Justin Timberlake... what's that all about? He had nice hair before). I recommend the "classics" [link] (and the "its" in those lyrics should not have an apostrophe!). The close-ups of his face creep me out b/c it makes him look like a friend from college, and that weirds me out. Also recommended, Sikidim (don't be confused by the poster's intro) [link] If you liked those, listen to this one [link] (ignore the video) and just try to not dance

BLEACH ANIME
I HAVE CAPTURED THE BLEACH ANIME DVDs! They've been out on rental forever, but I finally got my turn! In in the episodes # 130s. Gin makes me crack up laughing every time with his Arrancar Encyclopedia. I love that guy and his goofy grin



I discovered today that i have some photos that I need to post; will have to remember to get those from the other computer tomorrow.

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