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After like an hour of fiddling with screentone effects and what-not, I totally decided to scrap my previous plan for a new blog layout and start over. The moral of this story? Nocturne art, while pretty, does not work with any style other than super-clean. The Hitoshura layout has exactly two fonts, one of which is Times New Roman, and no special effects or brushes at all - I should have done the same with this Isamu screencap from the start. Ah well, I like where it's going now, so all is well.

Also, did some checking, and Ally can (and possibly does) have a CA driver's license, which is a truly terrifying thought, and my MA driver's license is totally valid here as long as my study permit is, and if I were to permanently move here, I'd basically just have to surrender my old license for a BC one. Hooray!

Back to editing and Torchwood (it's like the X-Files with more gay and cute Welsh butlers).

The Sweet Sound of Synth in the Morning

...Well, okay, mid-afternoon, but I just got up. Music I have aquired over the last few days, by various means:
- :wumpscut:, two albums
- Cesium_137, one album
- Ministry, one album
- Skinny Puppy, one album
- Front Line Assembly, three albums
- Assemblage 23, five albums
- Apoptygma Berzerk, ten albums and ten singles
- Metropolis compilations, four albums

Why yes, that is in fact a shit load of music. And I've got about six billion things I want to say right now, all of which are probably worth of their own entry, but I will settle for this - LA!Asher's profile now has a spot for current hair color (subject to change without notice), and I have little snippets between him and Ally for both 'verses floating around my head. But for now, laundry and Heroes!

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Random

I think this would make Asher implode of happy. Both Ashers. It makes me really wish I knew how to ride a motorcycle, and had a lot of money.

Back to Firefly and Photoshop!

To Do

In no particular order, with no major immediacy.

- Finish Christmas lists
- Go Christmas shopping
- Rip Altan CDs for Justin
- Buy some DVDs and burn tv shows onto them
- Get at least one of the Nocturne endings
- Find X movie and bring it back in Jan to show Caitlin
- Give Yana back her manga
- Header image for Anya's userinfo, wiki profile pics for her and Asher
- New layout for this blog argh
- Renew domain
- Some other stuff I can't remember right now

Also, what is it about this area that seems to bring out the industrial/EBM musicians? Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Assemblege 23 down in Seattle - yeah, there's tons in Europe, too, but a lot of the NA ones seem to be out here in the Pacific Northwest. Not that I'm complaining, as it increases the likelihood of tours coming through here, I just don't quite get where they're coming from - rebelling against the organic-hippy-Starbucks lifestyle out here, maybe?

Speaking of - recs for 80s and 90s industrial/industrial rock/industrial metal woul be appreciated - I'm making up a playlist of stuff for LA!Asher.

Quote of the Night:

"You just don't like it because you don't like it!" - Julie to Caitlin, on Choco Mountain in Mario Kart 64.

Mario Party and Mario Kart 64 with friends is a good way to spend an evening. We also got overpriced pizza from Domino's because it was the first one we found open at one am, and had some interesting roleplay-meta kind of discussions while playing Mario Kart - what sort of characters we're drawn to, what influences our OCs' personality and backstory, how voices differ between characters, that sort of stuff.

The only downside to this is that I've got an exam at 3:30 pm, although luckily it's English and open notes.

Ow My Brain

Oh god, Julie, why do you show me these things? I am never going to look at a cactaur the same way again.

Or possibly a Mr. Coffee. I think that may have forced my Tseng to use that spork on himself.

(And ahaha. Someone totally needs to show LA!Asher video games. And by 'video games' I mean 'Final Fantasy 7', because the irony would kill me ded. In a good way)

Also, everytime I see a reference to Leeroy, I'm going to be sitting here going 'LEEEEEEEROOOOOOY JEEEEENKINS' in the back of my mind. Because it's never not funny.

Tastes Like Dystopia

Apparently my default AIM downloads folder is listed as being created in 1984.

On the plus side, though, my Gallery install stopped being made of stupid! So I sat down and imported all the folders from my previous two installs, so everything that was in the last one, plus some, is now here. I've got a few more folders sitting around my harddrive to go up, but I need to sort and edit some of them first.

(And Mara-thing, we totally need to do a photoshoot with the wedding kimono at some point, just because that's one of my favorite outfits and I have so few photos of it)

I <3 the Wargamers

Quote from Augustine, found on the forums:

"Once Jack and I concoct a way of installing the Wii onto my laptop all will bow to me! Well at least until one of you swings just a bit too hard and the Wiimote flies into the laptop. Then I live under the tables feeding on scraps mourning the loss of my dear companion. While this may sound pitiful and emo, on the plus side, the room will be cleaner."

Rick: "make sure to avoid the rat trap by the pop storage locker :("

I got about three hours of sleep last night, which was enough to sustain me through my Bio final (only had to utterly BS one question, yay), but I've had a cup of tea, a cup of Starbucks peppermint hot chocolate (as much as I hate to admit it, delicious), and a can of Rockstar Juiced, and I'm both about to fall asleep, and on the verge of seriously wigging out - I have no idea how I'm going to make it through my 7:30 - 11 shift tonight. I am also desperately striving to remain chill - Katamari and Oscar Wilde quotes help.

Fucking Hell

There is some one on third talking, or listening to a movie, or something, and I can't figure out who it is to yell at them.

I have to be up in six hours to write an exam I really need to pass, and it looks like I'm going to end up laying awake wearing another layer of enamel off my teeth, as I've discovered I grind them when I'm angry. And right now I am very angry.

Arrr.

I love DC++ so much. There's a hub on the school network, which means it bypasses the bandwidth throttle, which means I just downloaded nine episodes of Heroes in half an hour. And some old school industrial rock. And I'm going to go download more Firefly.

And a RR non-rant (because I am not ranting any more. I promise) - I am ecstatic to see not one, but two people choosing to play Arab characters in Jerusalem, including, it looks like, one member of a terrorist cell. That takes balls and skill, and I'm happy to see people rising to the challenge - this is going to be one hell of a ride, I think.

...I reeeeally should study for Bio. Failing would be no good very bad.

Random

Well, I managed to answer my own PB question by browing RE image galleries and going 'Oooh, Annette scan! ...Wait, no, that's Jill', and then realizing if I recoloured Jill's hair, she'd be pretty close - a little too pretty, but better than anything else I've found so far. And I had to rename her, because there was an Elena already - so she's Anisia now.

And I made delicous Sexy Evil Bastard Soup today, and Liz made snickerdoodles, and it was full of win.

PB Help?

I'm writing up Elena-app, and she has managed to get stuck in my head as looking like Annette Birkin (but with far less crazy. Sooo much less crazy). Unfortunately, there are exactly two images anywhere near icon-quality for Annette, which makes it a bit difficult. I'll go with that if I have to - hell, Asher has three (thank you for your lack of character sketches, Capcom. You suck), but I wondered if anyone could present a decent lookalike. This is Annette.

So Weeeak

Guess who finally caved and just bought boots and a shirt for default RE4!Leon? Yep, me. I couldn't resist, though, the boots were sooo cheap. Like $25-for-an-$80-pair cheap. And I really will wear the stuff outside of cosplay - my two pairs of everyday shoes are kind of crap for Vancouver winters (one soaks through easily, the other has no traction on most wet surfaces).

...Yeah, I can justify _anything_.

RR Rant

Dear Johannesburg,

Why no black people D:?

Love,
Me

(Yes, I am actually going to do something about it, I think. Have about eight tabs open looking up the history of South Africa)

Mmm, Tasty Crack

I have some really cracked out stuff floating around on my computer. I was trying to dig up the conversation in which Asher was named (because I am having too much fun with wiki-editing for RR), and I came across this thread, and then, going through my AIM logs to find the AIM convo I had with Jesse about it, discovered that I also have all these chat room logs - mostly the FMA dub chat, and a whole bunch with Mara, Claudia and Yuumei. I'm poking through the later bunch as well, and so far have found references to Alexis molesting everbody and the Vegtable Peeler of Happiness (owned by Michelle). My life is so very, very interesting sometimes.

And Scientist Chick has a name now - Elena. I'm mucking around doing research for her and wishing Yana had internet and wasn't writing the Putnam today, because I need someone to translate course listing from Russian. I am also happy to see that Rio has more actual Brazilians now.

More Resolution Remix Notes

I am saddened by the thus-far lack of Brazilian characters in Rio de Janeiro, and, to be blunt, black characters in Johannesburg - I'm really, really hoping that some of the unfilled slots end up being those, because otherwise I will go to sad to annoyed. There's some great oppurtunity for diversity here, and I am seeing a loooot of white. Hell, I'll write up Mira on principle, even, despite the fact that I'm a little 'eh' about her in this setting (she is totally a Sprawl character).

And holy fuck, is LA popular. To the point where I am now kind of wishing I hadn't apped there, because Asher is totally just going to get lost in the crowd, I think :\

I also have another character concept floating around, who for now is just the Scientist (or possibly the Scientist Chick) - either Berlin or St. Petersburg, depending on which ends up fuller, most likely, although St. Petersburg gives me the bonus of being able to pester Yana for info.

Argh

Poking through the other RR accepted journals - please, please, people, put the city the character is in either in the bio, or use LJ's lovely built-in function for it. I'm trying to figure out who Asher might already know, and I can't tell who's in what city. I can't even guess from the names half the time because it seems like a lot of people have characters with English names who've moved to various cities from somewhere else.

And I've got 'Anarchy' stuck in my head now. Thanks, Asher.

Yaaaay~

Meet L.A.!Asher -

cementborn :D

Working on making him some icons right now - I may have to do some drawing in the next few weeks, because I've got all of two images I like enough to use.

FTW!

Final Bio lab paper? Done! It's not exactly a work of staggering scientific genius, but I got to use the word 'physiologically' and it's not total crap.

Now, to survive the oral presentation tomorrow. Which I still need to make my slides for, but with the paper done, that'll be like five minutes. Have to wait for my other group members to send me their stuff, too, so I don't cover anything they do.

Also, Vancouver? This is the sort of weather I came out here to avoid. Actually, wouldn't mind the cold outside so much if it was nice and warm in here, but my house is freezing - I've woken up multiple times the last two nights because I'm so cold. And yes, I'm doing everything I can think of short of wearing my winter coat to bed.

Snow Day!

So, I woke up this morning to find that the power was out, and the only lights on in the building were a handful in the hallways running on emergency generators. Which meant no classes, but also no heat, so I ended up curling up in bed under my blankets and going back to sleep until two. Had a sandwich from the caf, as well as an energy drink, because there was no power for hot water or anything cooked.

Went to track down Yana, because no power = no internet = bored me, and discovered she was heading out with some of her friends, so I joined them and we had a spontaneous snowball fight behind the Museum of Anthropology and laughed at how eight inches of snow makes the whole city shut down. We came back to find the power finally on (although not the heat in my building, unfortunately), and have been sitting around drinking hot chocolate and reminiscing about the early 90s.