I did some cleaning house in my backroom today, you'll notice my friends list is a lot shorter as a result. I cleared out a whole host of pages that hadn't been updated in over a year, and a few other criteria. If your name used to be there but is gone now and you want it back, let me know, I'll take care of it. I did keep a complete list of who I had on my friends list so it won't be hard to fix.
Still got a couple pictures to handle for someone, I wanted to work on them today, but just fell out of that artsy groove I like to be in when I'm doing something for another person. I'll do them this weekend, and with any luck get them posted here (they are anime related pictures). I'd also like some input from artists specializing in mecha. Mecha is another one of the key topics left out of
Art of Otaku which I'd like to direct my attention towards now, but I have no clue where to even begin. Mecha not only refers to things like Gundam-esque robots, but things like Ed's Automail, space ships, vehicles et.c. Any tips, tricks, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Yensid
First off, welcome to my little corner of the MyOtaku universe, please keep your head, arms, legs, tails, and/or any other extremities inside the ride at all times. The safety harness is for your protection, not only does it hold you in your seat when we loop upside down over the moons, but it's coated with vapire, werewolf and zombie repellant for all the nasties out there (friendly ones are not repulsed). Refreshments will be served halfway through the ride on the scenic rings of Auster's second moon, no spitting pumpkin seeds at Auster please, its atmosphere is pure nitro glycerin. In the event of an emergency you will be automatically ejected back to reality, please remember to cushion your head so the collision with your ceiling doesn't hurt (much). Thank you, please enjoy this ride we call, Toxic Nonsense.
Guilty as charged, I regularly visit both Caprice and Mamma Vash's sites (when they're updated), though I don't always post comments. It's a quirk of mine to know the topic before I comment on it. I write and draw a lot, but don't have much up here to show for it (just too lazy to upload pictures I guess), and I've seen some of your work, very nicely done stuff.
It took a hard knock just this year to get though my stubborn head that things are rarely fair to lesser fortunate people, and that some battles just aren't worth fighting (being intelligent and trying to explain something serious to an ignorant is tiring and difficult). For me to be able to get a traditional credit card, I have to pay off over $1,000 in debt, but I can't pay off a debt when I have no income. I've busted my back the past six years just trying to get a job to cover my debts, and be able to do some things I want to do, but smart people aren't in demand here in the Foothills of He- I mean West Virginia. Only one employer had the sense to tell me why I wasn't going to be hired. He told me that my timid nature was his only issue with hiring me, which I can sort of understand given the job description. I have horror stories from just about every interview I've been on in the past year, my favorite is still the Bob Evans manager telling me "This job is not rocket science" then in the same breath "we look for experience first". It's either hard or it's not, make up your mind (it was a busser job). Since life hasn't been the fairest to me of late, I figure why bother letting it get to me, I'll just keep on pushing till something goes my way, I'm stubborn like that.
Yeah, people are turning to the net more for communication which is kind of sad. On the bright side it promotes literacy in that you have to be able to read to communicate that way, and thinking skills when you have to translate into normal speech all that netspeak (U R gr8, ! liek ur art, O B4 ! go, will U B my friend?) that some people should be banned from using. The down side is traditional things go by the way side. I'm probably one of few people who remember that it was once common to draw all over your envelopes before sending letters to friends (never do it for a busniess letter). Envelope art is dying off slowly too. Businesses on the other hand hate to correspond in any written form. I send complaints to companies when things don't work like they should, and they always tell me "call [insert toll free number here] so that one of our representatives can assist you" which translates to call us so we can insult you and you'll have no record of it. I can't do that, I'm a very rude person when I'm frustrated so talking to someone in person would just be a bad idea anyway, and I tell companies that it would be far more pleasant for everyone if we correspond via e-mail or snail mail. Personally, I could do without the telephone, I don't have many local friends, and I don't talk on the phone at all really, except to follow up for job interviews and that worthless chat I had with the Senator's staff assistant about Workforce West Virginia being discriminatory garbage earlier this year. That would be, only four or five times this year that I've used a phone, but that's just me. I'll take sending a card (I make my own with Hallmark Card Studio and my own artwork) over making a phone call any day of the week.
Anime Dreams!
