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pacificpikachuF-LIST. I WANT MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION FROM YOU FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON OTHER THAN...I CAN.
All you do is answer these in the comments. Try to keep your pictures down to a reasonable size (like max of 800 on any side), but other than that it's pretty straightforward. Skipping questions you don't like is fine, even if you just end up answering one question. Anything is better than nothing! If you want to go all out and spend a while on it, that would be a great, too, but it's entirely up to you how much or how little you want to put up and how you respond to the questions you choose to answer.
1. Do you draw at all? Even if it's not "good" and/or you don't consider yourself an artist? Post a picture you've drawn here that you like. Even if it's a godawful class doodle or something you did on MS Paint or when you were ten years old or whatever. Just something you've drawn that you personally like.
2. Post something that makes you nostalgic. A picture, a piece of art, a snippet of a story or poem, a photo of an object that makes you nostalgic, a memory, whatever.
3. An excerpt from a book or other written work that impacted you in some lasting way. It's all right if it doesn't make sense out of context. Just keep it down to, say, a page at most. Preferably a couple paragraphs.
4. A Youtube video you love. Can be funny, moving, strange, adorable, creepy, or anything else. Commercials, AMVs, clips from TV shows, weird skits, you know the drill.
5. Something that makes you laugh really hard, even if it's incredibly stupid. Macro, Youtube video, story, quote, anything goes.
6. A surreal, weird, or creepy experience you've had. Write a couple paragraphs about it, draw it, make a video of it, record yourself talking about it, whatever you can think of is fine.
7. Open up your favorite program and do a drawing of something I like. Thirty-second blindfolded MS Paint scribbles are fine, so are gorgeous masterpieces. Crack crossovers, serious pretty pieces, stick figures, anything goes. Feel free to skip if you're feeling lazy or being a perfectionist, but I just thought I'd ask for fun. :D
I hope you have fun with the questions! Take the prompts however you want. I just like getting to know you all better in a creative and interesting way when possible. ♥
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Hmmm, I haven't done much today aside from... Okay, almost nothing. I watched episodes 4-5 of Natsume Yuujinchou (adorable and sweet as always), and I've been working on my Umbreon and Eevee painting for the last few hours. That's going a bit better than I expected. Paint is so time-consuming, but it's not as frustrating as I remember it being so that's good news.
We called off the Dennou Coil marathon due to unpredictable weather and lack of a good place to hold said marathon. :/ Hopefully we'll figure something out to watch it soon, as I was really looking forward to seeing it again with friends and starting to plan for the AMV by said rewatch.
I did get my Shaymin, though, hooray! Unfortunately I didn't actually go down there so I didn't get a movie poster, but at least I got the Shaymin after all.
I...have nothing interesting to talk about at the moment, haha.
All you do is answer these in the comments. Try to keep your pictures down to a reasonable size (like max of 800 on any side), but other than that it's pretty straightforward. Skipping questions you don't like is fine, even if you just end up answering one question. Anything is better than nothing! If you want to go all out and spend a while on it, that would be a great, too, but it's entirely up to you how much or how little you want to put up and how you respond to the questions you choose to answer.
1. Do you draw at all? Even if it's not "good" and/or you don't consider yourself an artist? Post a picture you've drawn here that you like. Even if it's a godawful class doodle or something you did on MS Paint or when you were ten years old or whatever. Just something you've drawn that you personally like.
2. Post something that makes you nostalgic. A picture, a piece of art, a snippet of a story or poem, a photo of an object that makes you nostalgic, a memory, whatever.
3. An excerpt from a book or other written work that impacted you in some lasting way. It's all right if it doesn't make sense out of context. Just keep it down to, say, a page at most. Preferably a couple paragraphs.
4. A Youtube video you love. Can be funny, moving, strange, adorable, creepy, or anything else. Commercials, AMVs, clips from TV shows, weird skits, you know the drill.
5. Something that makes you laugh really hard, even if it's incredibly stupid. Macro, Youtube video, story, quote, anything goes.
6. A surreal, weird, or creepy experience you've had. Write a couple paragraphs about it, draw it, make a video of it, record yourself talking about it, whatever you can think of is fine.
7. Open up your favorite program and do a drawing of something I like. Thirty-second blindfolded MS Paint scribbles are fine, so are gorgeous masterpieces. Crack crossovers, serious pretty pieces, stick figures, anything goes. Feel free to skip if you're feeling lazy or being a perfectionist, but I just thought I'd ask for fun. :D
I hope you have fun with the questions! Take the prompts however you want. I just like getting to know you all better in a creative and interesting way when possible. ♥
Hmmm, I haven't done much today aside from... Okay, almost nothing. I watched episodes 4-5 of Natsume Yuujinchou (adorable and sweet as always), and I've been working on my Umbreon and Eevee painting for the last few hours. That's going a bit better than I expected. Paint is so time-consuming, but it's not as frustrating as I remember it being so that's good news.
We called off the Dennou Coil marathon due to unpredictable weather and lack of a good place to hold said marathon. :/ Hopefully we'll figure something out to watch it soon, as I was really looking forward to seeing it again with friends and starting to plan for the AMV by said rewatch.
I did get my Shaymin, though, hooray! Unfortunately I didn't actually go down there so I didn't get a movie poster, but at least I got the Shaymin after all.
I...have nothing interesting to talk about at the moment, haha.
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Date: 2009-02-15 12:44 pm (UTC)1. Yeah, I draw...well more like, used too. I used to draw quite a lot, but overtime I sort of lost interest. I think it's the whole competitive thing, and I hate feeling expected of certain things.
But here's a sketch I did a few years ago, that I quite like:
http://silverwispsoflight.deviantart.com/art/Heartless-13128223
2. http://pics.livejournal.com/deadwinglullaby/pic/0001dtb
This was on my year 12 formal night, with current boyfriend at the time. He sadly killed himself shortly afterward, but I do remember the night quite well.
3. "Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws." - Jim Morrison.
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6. LOL...well something weird happened today. I was in the car with my two friends', and we were driving home from the cinemas, and as we were at the lights, this Ute comes besides us and beeps and gives us the thumbs up.
My friend thought one of the guys in the car was hot, so she waved back at him.
As we were driving along, we noticed their car behind us. They were following us for a good 20 minutes, until they got stuck at a red light and we hid down a side street. I found it pretty hilarious, but my friend who was driving was freaking out. xDDD
7. http://pics.livejournal.com/deadwinglullaby/pic/0006fpr0
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Date: 2009-02-15 06:16 pm (UTC)2.
UUMMM. Don't ask. XD
3. The hurt would not last long. He felt the board tilting over in the air toward the horizontal, and closed his eyes. And in that moment he caught a last glimpse of his garden of meditation and repose. It seemed to him that he sat in the garden. A cool wind was blowing, and the bells in the several trees were tinkling softly. Also, birds were making sleepy noises, and from beyond the high wall came the subdued sound of village life.
Then he was aware that the board had come to rest, and from muscular pressures and tensions he knew that he was lying on his back. He opened his eyes. Straight above him he saw the suspended knife blazing in the sunshine. He saw the weight which had been added, and noted that one of Schemmer's knots had slipped. Then he heard the sergeant's voice in sharp command. Ah Cho closed his eyes hastily. He did not want to see that knife descend. But he felt it--for one great fleeting instant. And in that instant he remembered Cruchot and what Cruchot had said. But Cruchot was wrong. The knife did not tickle. That much he knew before he ceased to know.
from the author with the biggest impact on me. And:
My sickness...is a glass that's full and running over, and your little drop is lost by now in all the overflow.
from the book with the biggest impact on me.
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdK-aLGxV0Y
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHz4I6jLGj4
6. I am a very rational person. I am not one to automatically believe in the paranormal, and the best way to convince me of something is to give me some scientific evidence to back it up. With that said, I am 100% convinced that in the huge, old house in Iowa I grew up in, there was something there that really, really should not have been: we had a shadow person in our house. This is one of those things that sounds ridiculous, but I would swear on anything that it was real and there.
I had a room upstairs in the house, and I'd started having trouble sleeping at night soon after moving in. It was always cold upstairs no matter what time of year it was, and there was just a bad feeling about the whole place. I started hearing creaking/shuffling noises out in the upstairs hallway/attic at night, and I figured it was one of my family members, but it soon became apparent that none of my relatives were wandering around the house in the night.
Then I started seeing it. Just out of the corner of my eye, just for a second, it would be there, along the hallway. In the mirror. On the stairs. Just this big, black, hunched-over mass. And it wasn't walking along but jittery, like seeing things move under a strobe light. And I would KNOW when it was there because I would be suddenly overwhelmed by these feelings of cold, oppression, and dread. Just this feeling like I was being confronted by something absolutely horrible. I was terrified to sleep at night because that's when it was around the most, and it was the most malevolent thing I have ever encountered.
It was there the whole time that we lived there. I never talked about it to anyone, but when we were moving out, my brother brought up that he had seen the same thing all the time around the house and was happy to get away. And it just really solidified my belief that this was something really there. I've never seen anything like it again since, and I hope I never do.
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ahaha, I hate pikachus, sorry.
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Date: 2009-02-15 06:26 pm (UTC)illegiblerecognizable, full of my OCsOfFail2. ...I'm supposed to remember that far back? OH HAY DISNEY
3. :Better that you should be proud of your skill. When need drives, you cannot hold back.:
4. A SIMPLE EXPLANATION
5. See 4
6. Dream: Giving a baby kangaroo a carton of orange juice. And then dinosaur skeletons walking by front lawn. While the rest of the baby kangaroo's family camp out on the grass.
7.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A CHICKEN
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Date: 2009-02-15 07:16 pm (UTC)2.
Robinson - Spitz
Luuulala uchuu nooo kaze ni noruuu~~ ♪
And I'm not even sure why. Bump of Chicken songs make me feel nostalgic a lot too for some reason.
3. "The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history." - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
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5. Well. This scene from Black Books made me laugh quite a bit. 8D
6. The night I came back from my last concert, it was reeeeaaally late due to some trouble with my friend's glasses, and car keys falling... er, into the car.
On the way home, we see red paint all over the road. So I said, "... That was ominous. 8D"
A few minutes later, we see this horrible dead THING in the road. I have NO IDEA what it was, but the image is embedded in my mind for eternity. After much "aahhhhh!!"s and "I DIDN'T SEE THAT."
"WHAT? ME EITHER, NOPE."
"EXACTLY"s, we continued on our way back to my dorm.
While walking through this field to get to my building, we both looked up. Here, you can see tooons of stars at night. It can be really pretty.
Then we saw a bunch of little lights in the sky, moving however they wanted. They formed a V shape and took off. No sound or anything. We stopped and stared. "... What the hell was that?"
"I'M TOO TIRED TO DEAL WITH THIS RIGHT NOW. I'LL WORRY ABOUT IT TOMORROW."
And we hurried up and went to bed.
The End.
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Date: 2009-02-15 08:38 pm (UTC)I really want to do this later, but I've had a lot of books that have touched on my life, so. XD Gotta pick the right one to share with you. <3
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:02 am (UTC)This is a really cool meme, Kristin :D
Date: 2009-02-16 01:07 am (UTC)2. Nostalgic? Childhood. o_o
3. Don't... know... e_e;;; I need to read more books.
4. My fave youtube vids I've already pimped on my lj. haha.
5. Sadly I don't think I know a lot of hilarious things that make me laugh even after the 5th viewing. But this made me laugh in a WTF way. And when I am bored, I find myself resorting to this:
6. Honestly can't think of anything on the top of my head. As for surreal, a lot of emotional conversations feel that way, rofl. Aw, I feel so boring...
7. Paint.Net! But they have no watercolor or opacity-ish brushes. Didn't hook up my tablet, here's a finger pikachu :B
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:28 am (UTC)1. Hee, that's cute!
2 and 7. Awww, the LiveJournal pictures aren't working. They're saying 403 Forbidden... Do you know if you can unlock them? I would love to see them both.
3. Oh, that is a beautiful quote. ♥
4. ROFL! I loved the hug part in particular, but the whole thing was freaking hilarious. XDDD
5. OH WOW. That is one freaky spider! And I'm not even afraid of spiders. :O
6. Haha, sounds like they were just messing around. Twenty minutes, though? Wow.
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:35 am (UTC)idk, i was trying to put them in here, but I forgot what the right code was. .-. hmm, unless you know? D:
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:44 am (UTC)1. Hee, I always love your cute little doodles! Doodles are so fun. ♥
2. I like Christmas a lot as well. It always comes up so fast, but I love the warm and happy atmosphere that comes with it. ♥
3. Oh, yes, I've heard that quote before! It is a wonderful one! ♥
4/5. LOL! I have a stupid sense of humor, too, so I thought it was hilarious. XD
6. Oh, that's so strange! I've had weird experiences like that, too (actually, I've had quite a few unexplainable experiences), so I believe you and understand. I used to have the Pokémon VHS covers tacked up above my door (about fifteen or twenty of them, fairly high up), and once my friend and I stepped out of my bedroom door for literally about ten seconds and came back...and every single one of the VHS cases had been taken off of the wall and placed on the ground in a neat pile, with the push pins in a straight line next to them. It wasn't even possible for someone to take them all down in that amount of time, and we were about a foot from my bedroom door the whole time... It was quite odd. It just reminded me of your story because of the VHS connection.
7. Hee, that's fine! Actually, if you could just do a drawing of Haraken in general that would be fine, just whenever you want it (and if you don't get to it, don't worry about it AT ALL). ♥ :D
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 02:03 am (UTC)2. Ahaha, I won't! That's amusing, though.
3. Oh, those are both beautiful. I particularly love the first one--it is a gorgeous piece of prose.
4. I saw that clip a few weeks ago in a bad movie compilation and I've seen it multiple times since, and for some reason it NEVER GETS OLD to me. XD
5. Oh man, that was hilarious! "You know what I can do with the steak fork." SCARY. IN AN AWESOME WAY.
6. I'm rational and skeptical about paranormal phenomena as well (although I have personally had so many strange firsthand experiences that I can't help but be somewhat open minded, and I'm fascinated by the stuff), and I also know that you're not the sort of person to make that kind of thing up. That is definitely creepy and strange, and I'm glad that you left that house.
7. Haha! And actually, though I personally like Pikachu, it's very very easy for me to understand why people wouldn't like Pikachu. It's EVERYWHERE and it can get irritating fast, especially when there are so many awesome Pokémon that get ignored.
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Date: 2009-02-16 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 04:50 am (UTC)AHAHAHAHA
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:38 am (UTC)1. While I do have an image that I consider my crowning achievement, I am not going to post it here because it's HA HA porn. And shota. lol. :/ Anyway, I have this ink sketch that I really, really like:
2. The CD in the car right now makes me pretty damn nostalgic. I can't think of anything else that does, but hearing the songs Hot Limit, Electric Communication, the themes for Hellsing and Sakigake!! Cromatie High... They make me think of all my experiences in the anime fandom. XD;;;
3. While I was impacted greatly by the book A Clockwork Orange, I can't think of any specific passages that did, and nor do I actually own a copy so I can't really flip through and check. :(
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEeOkDMWO5g
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THERE IS NO REASON THAT IS AS FUNNY AS IT IS TO ME BUT. It kills me every time.
6. Well, there were those times when I would suddenly become aware that everything was more real than real-- where everything had been viewed behind a veil before it may have well be removed, and there was no longer that ephemeral barrier protecting me from the outside world. And so I would become very afraid, disoriented and lost, unable to fully interact with this tangible world.
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I... really don't have an explanation for this.
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:17 pm (UTC)2.
3."Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt." from "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes has been and always will be one my first literary passion. I can't remember any other books from my childhood except for "The Little Engine That Could." In general, books do not leave an impact on me nor change my life.
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6. Hmm...well I've always had deja vu. It doesn't happen often but I tend to remember when it does. Um, I once woke up to a college room mate screaming in her sleep "LOOK OUT JESSICA!" and mistook her speakers on the top of the closet (had a towel over top of them) for a ghost until I realized they were here speakers. She spoke a lot in her sleep.
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Date: 2009-02-16 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-18 08:34 pm (UTC)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/hitchi/img_0869-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/hitchi/img_0868-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/hitchi/img_0867-1.jpg
Only the last one contains non-crayon...the brown dots in the bottom corner are made of blood, though it doesn't look so red anymore. ;_;
2. Mmm, so much makes me nostalgic, mostly hearing songs I associate with the time/year in which I first discovered them and some TV shows--watching the first season of Pokemon would be a nostalgia bomb right now. But like I said, I get nostalgic rather often; for example, a couple nights ago when I was delivering pizza with Baker, I kept recalling memories from the times I delivered with Charette.
4. Just one? Wow, as sad as it sounds writing it now, youtube videos seem to define my life. I actually do watch a good amount of youtube poop, so here's my favorite of those:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupISY1x0fE (Sonic X)
5. That's another really difficult one. Recently, it would be the Yugioh Abridged Series, as well as any reference to my room's French/lawyer/musician joke. There's just so much. XD
6. I have quite a number of these two, but one jumps out at me. At my house in Cleveland, my desktop is in the basement, and my room is on the top floor. Now, over winter break and on weekends and stuff, I'd stay up really late (2am+), so my house would be completely dark. When I get to the top of the basement stairs, there's a hallway to the right and the kitchen to the left. At the end of the kitchen are two sliding doors with blinds. Our one neighbours have a really bright light on in their backyard all night. From the kitchen door's window, the light would shine across the snow and into the house very strangely, and it would make odd shadows and patterns on the floor. It doesn't sound very weird, but it was just a very surreal feeling, and it kind of reminded me of .hack//SIGN.
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Date: 2009-02-20 10:55 pm (UTC)1. Eh, kind of. I'm hoping to improve upon my "artistry" yet.
Though it's rather more detailed than most of my work, I do like how this came out, so here's a WoW character.
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Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues -
This song in particular, but also just the Moody Blues in general. It was kind of background music for my life and always reminds me of weekends from as far back as I can remember.
3. "Every time you meet someone think: "This person is not perfect, is not just how they want to be, this person will never complete all his or her projects. This person is not loved by friends and family as much as he or she would like. This person regrets. Misses. This person will sometime soon be dead. Perhaps in the next half hour. Perhaps in thirty years. Who knows?"
Edgar Malroy told us to imagine everyone we ever met dead. He told us to imagine the blood falling away from their faces, to imagine that their feet would never walk again, to imagine their eyes closed permanently and their eyelashes perfectly still. He told us to imagine their clothes hanging neatly on wire hangers in coroners' offices.
"And if you don't feel, after you've thought these things, after you have accepted completely the other person's finitude, like hugging them, well, then you're dead already." - from Skepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
4. Have a totally awesome juggler.
5. Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series XD
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Date: 2009-02-20 10:56 pm (UTC)6. Well, there was this one dream I had where most of it was just kind of absurd but part of it was rather horrifying... Basically, there was this out of the way temple/monastary place that I guess allowed the occassional vacationers or something. It was mostly a bunch of older monks with one younger... uh... apprentice, I guess, and then there was this couple with a really spoiled son there. And the apprentice wasn't treated all that well and for some reason became friends with the son. And then one night while the apprentice was cleaning the basement the doorway at the end of this dark hallway seemed to be covered in like... tangible darkness or something. And of course he had to investigate since he was supposed to clean everything... but the closer he got to the doorway the more he was overwhelmed by this horrifying feeling... I've tried describing it before but it's kind of hard to... it was just... mnr...
Anyway, he ran like hell back up the stair in tears he was so freaked out, and of course the older monks were all like "Wtf? Why aren't you cleaning like we told you to?" And so he calmed enough to tell them and the parents why he was freaking out, and the monks were all just like "You know what you have to do." And so he did. With a complete change of personality, he faked a limp in order to convince the brat son to "help him clean" and led him down to the basement and directed him into the darkness... cue horrifying scream here... and then the darkness... sated, I guess... just kind of faded away. And I woke up with a lingering horrified feeling.
7. I have so little practice drawing with a mouse, but I had fun drawing this anyway. XD Yeah... it's a pikachu...