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Achievements • Returning to various online art forums to regenerate from several successful art-rallies and Dark Arts venues in the Midwest Anime Fan Since • ...defunct from fandom Favorite Anime • Samurai 7 Goals • to execute the best internet stunt in history, and eventually complete my nursing degree before the kids graduate Hobbies • sketching, archery, writing Talents • foiling the highway patrol, having fun with powertools, and taking things apart
myOtaku.com: sikaurai
Welcome to my site archives. 10 posts are listed per page.
Sweet. My art-trade with CERM made the
‘Featureds’ section. Thanks AGAIN, guys. It
was only up for a little while—for a couple hours
until the date changed over today, but still, that’s
pretty coo’.
And the person who was out there, begging YET
AGAIN, for votes via mass-generated bribery,
had a whopping SIXTY-ONE votes. Does that
bother me? YES IT DOES. I periodically rifle
through the fan-art. There were a LOT of other
pics that deserved a better shot up there. If I wasn’t
so old and cranky, I’d report this person for policy
violation.
Cuz I’m pretty sure there has to be some kind of
rule against what this person is doing.
Anyway, new pic up…yeahhhhh.
And GUESS WHAT!!!!! Good news, folks.
I had a really busy day, so I’m sorry, I was
A read-and-dash kind of gal again, today. I
SWEAR, I WAS PLANNING on commenting
Today…but I didn’t have much time. So much
going on. LIKE…AH!!!! My accountant did
my taxes: I’m getting over five thousand dollars
back. AND …this awesome woman is helping
me fill out a FAFSA application…some federally
funded affair that makes it possible for single,
impoverished mothers to go to school. Yep.
So I’m going for my LPN.
Annnnnnnd…the nursing home across the
Street from my mother’s house is now looking for
help. So…I’m updating my resume and going down
there, tomorrow. UH. A new job would help
alleviate SOOO much stress in my life.
Okay, okay…I’ve been visiting sites, these last
Couple days. Really. But I’ve been sort of …
LURKING.
Yeah. I haven’t really had anything intelligent
To say these days, so I kinda just read-and-dash.
Sorry. Heh.
So I owe everyone who visits me a sincere
Apology. I haven’t been ignoring anyone. But …
I haven’t really been making my presence
Known, either.
I did another piece for deviantART. I put it up
On the Otaku late last night…so I don’t know if
It’s up, yet. But anyway, it’s part of my trade
With CERM. Azal, Dimitri, and Sissorelle are
Creations belonging solely to her.
Oh, and I’ve initiated an art trade with the
fantastic CheshireCatGrins…her work is dark
and beautiful. I seriously suggest you guys
check out her gallery. I will be rendering Guildias
for her…and in return, I get Akiramaru.
Also…heh, Ouroboros78 is attempting to do my
Myschka; however, he has a lot on his plate,
right now, so it’ll be awhile. That’s okay; I’m
convinced that it’ll be worth the wait—another
spectacular artist. I suggest visiting his gallery,
as well.
Ooookay, well…that’s all I got. I haven’t been
to work, lately, so life is pretty good. RAWR.
I leave you with these words…
Cue the beatbox. Cue that loverly syncopantic
beat that drowns out the noise of the outside
world. Cue the electronic mixer that riiiiiips
its way across the output sensors. a volatile,
electronic harmony. The deafening music that
ejaculates dark images against a canopy of
synthetic tonal pulsation. One beat, and soon
followed by a second, carefully layered so
that they offset each other, just enough to r
aise the speed of the rhythm...followed by
synthetics, the electronic crescendo, and the
low, low octave riiiiip of the mixing board as
the rhythm is accelerated yet again, the canvas
for crystalline re-mixed vocals...
"Been bent for days
Siphon to hold me alive
I turned myself around
To what I once despised
I've been in future and days of memory
I've seen the nothing man and taught him to
believe
I built the enemy
I built a tower to heaven
I built the end of me
I built a tower to heaven
*heaven heaven heaven heaven heaven heaven*
Panic ready now
Nightmare indiscretion
A bitter self revealed by angels of perception
I found a saviour
Naive hallucination
Standing at the water's edge
I prayed for condemnation..."
I need to do a spiritual piece soon...really, more like
an homage to the emotive dedication of a dreamer ...
Play it again, Mr. DJ, sir...I have found me a new muse...
Heh heh heh. Okay, I feel the need to clarify
something. The picture of the red-haired girl
that I posted yesterday…well.
That’s not me.
I guess I forgot to mention that. But…I posted an
old pic of mine here, already. So…I thought
everyone could tell the difference? Yeah, that’s it.
And well, She’s…well…
Let’s call her (and the story BEHIND the pic)
an old OBSESSION of mine.
Anywayyyyy, har har, my ‘Puppy Love’ pic got
NO love on the otaku, yesterday. Well, okay, it
got six votes. But that’s okay. It was received
well on the deviantART site. I keep forgetting that
the Otaku is mostly about FAN-art, har har. No
room for warped sense of humors like mine.
And in the meantime, I DO have some fan-art
coming up, shortly. Lolly~chan and I did
an art-trade…here’s my end at the bottom.
Here’s her end: Dante Is All Kinds Of Cool Hosted By theOtaku.com.
She did DANTE!!!!
*squeeeeeee*
And I did Kenshin. So go vote on hers, or I will
start snapping some vital organic material.
And …I guess you could vote on mine.
Whatever.
OH and GASP!!!! I received a ghastly private
message yesterday from an artist who just
…PM’ed me out of the blue. I have no IDEA
who this person is…but this person said:
If you vote for my art, I will vote for yours.
And this person made the ‘Featureds’ yesterday,
too. Gee, I wonder how this person got up
there. FOR THE RECORD: I don’t believe
In using those kind of tactics. They make me
Queasy.
Work has been hell.
I need a new job. Seriously. I will get to
sites today, I swear. I have the next three
nights off , thank freakin’ GAWDS.
And the book…is still plodding along.
Slowly, but surely.
My birthday was just recently. So…erm…
I dunno why, but I have this urge to post a piccy
symbolic of my misspent youth, har har.
Yeahhhhhh.
Oh, and I tried to submit a new pic to my ‘folio, here.
I don’t know if it’ll be accepted, but Ebs told me to tryyyyyy,
at least, to slap it here. It received good reviews on dA.
Although, for the Otaku, I made a slap-happy attempt to
censor it. Wellll.
Lessnot flame it for the content, yo. I think it’s cute as hell.
So, there. And I did it up in five MINUTES.
Thank you, again, guys…Sephiroth made
The ‘Featured’ Art section. You guys are too
Kind.
I was pounced on, last night…a stranger added me
to their Contact List on MSN. ‘Twas no big deal
to me, as random deviants will occasionally come
on to give me props over my doodles. My crappy
sketches…(I wish someone would rave over my
WRITING; oh, well) Anyway, this person wouldn’t
Give me her name, although I requested it…the issue
was skirted. And then…she said she met me through a
fellow otakuite. And then she requested that I do some
artwork for her.
I was not amused.
Turns out…she was a friend from back home. One of
My ABSOLUTE BEST FRIENDS…so, if you’re
Reading this right now…
Thanks, hosebag, for freaking me out.
I owe you one. Seriously.
No, just kidding. I’ll email you. Internet is fun,
isn’t it? Soon, you too, will become socially
crippled—just like me. XD
Things on the book are progressing so slowly because
of WORK, kids, household chores...you know, LIFE.
I've been sleeping a lot lately, like my body is realizing
it's limitations. I've been passing out around eleven p.m.
on my nights off and I wake up...still in my clothes and
still in the same spot on the floor...like, four hours later.
And I have to force myself to get off the floor, almost
immediately upon waking. If I didn't...precious time wasted.
Oh, and good news: I discovered that I have medical
coverage until May, so I'm rushing to the psychiatrist in
this area for reanalysis and start a new monitoring agenda.
Soooooo...yeah. I'll have meds again, soon. For awhile,
anyway. Hopefully, no more crippling anxiety everytime
I have to leave the house.
Which is quite often. And if I have to go back to school...
without meds, I'll be a fucking wreck. My mother doesn't
realize what a HUGE accomplishment it is for me to do
anything that involves going outside...
Maybe with my new meds, things'll change. Don't get me
wrong; I'm not an unhappy person--quite the opposite. I just
get freaked out in public settings. And anxious. And easily
distracted. It EXHAUSTS me to converse with people,
outside of my own group of friends. An associate once
asked me: you're such a pretty girl. Why do you have to
make interacting with other people so difficult?
My response: what the HELL does THAT
have to do with anything?
I mean…honestly.
Okay, I'm going back to deviantART to squeal
over some UKYO fan-art. Later, dudes...
Still swamped with trades and gifts.
That’s okay; I like it that way. SIGH.
Sorry I haven’t been around. I’m a naughty
Otakuite. But…if it makes anyone feel any
better, I SINCERELY appreciate you guys
helping my Vincent Valentine make it into the
‘Featured’ section. I just submitted a Sephiroth
Pic—he seems to be a pretty popular dude, yo.
I had him posted on deviant ART some time ago…but
my insane schedule kept me from remembering to tack
him on, here.
Oh, annnnnd …squeeeeeee, Ebony finished her part of
the trade with me! A wonderful Sascha-and-Kimi pic; I
love it—it’s so smexy! It reeks of ‘Come and Get It,
Sexay Thang’…har har. So you must all SIMPLY go vote
On it. Yes yes. Mailëa Tirila Hosted By theOtaku.com.
Wish I had something rant-worthy here. But I truly don’t.
Wow, things must be stabilizing.
HEEEEEE!!!! I finally finished Vincent Valentine!
And judging by Eb’s reaction, it’s really good, yes?
I’m actually quite fond of this piece.
And it’s not even an original, yo.
Ahhhhhhhh…gloating.
*squeeeeeeee!* Yensid! You are back, yes?
I’ve missed you…someone normal. Rawr.
(Just kidding.)
And Ouroboros78…by the time you read this…
IF you read this…you will probably have read my
post on deviantART. But just in case…HO MAN.
You made me laugh so hard. And two other people
who read my site. Just because they know me
so damn well.
And someone who has been missing for a long
time now has just resurfaced, I think. I must
go send a PM asking where the hell she has
been. I’m so fucking nosy, yo.
I want to go find AMVs of Project Pitchfork.
Lolllllllly, if you download your flash, I can
Find you some more ICON OF COIL, yo!!!!
Heeeeee…I’m on IM and someone actually said ‘wanker’.
I don’t know why that amuses me so much.
Hey, Reno made the 'featured' section.
Thanks, guys...
YAY!!!! More trades on the horizon. Busy, busy.
AND OMIGOD…an awesome dA artist going
by the name of ~saintes did a hilarious version
of Inuyasha. (I wanted to ask her if I could have
permission to post it here…but I was kind of
embarrassed…and plus, she still has trouble with
her English.) So, ummmm…here’s a link:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49321479/
So…I’m feeling inspired. I’ve taken
on a gift art. Of Inuyasha. Heh, yes.
I’ve also decided that I want to do a parody
piece of Orochimaru and Sasuke in some leather
Master-and-servant action. And for some odd reason,
I want to dedicate it to Ebony. I don’t know why…
HEH.
Annnnnd…no, I got nothing. So I must now toddle
away to find some more Assemblage23 collaboration
remixes on iMesh. And to finish watching my scary
movie.
FIRST!!!! See the AMV below? One of my fave
groups, NEUROTICFISH, did an Awesome Mix
of ‘They’re Coming to Take Me Away’…and
someone mixed it with Hellsing. Sweeeeeeet.
Check it out, yo.
So where shall I start? The screaming match
that I got into with Sperm Donor in the middle
of a fast food parking lot? My argument with
my attorney to start treating me like a first-rate
human being? The circle-jerk detour through
downtown Milwaukee because--as always—
city-wide construction inconveniences EVERYBODY
within a fifty-mile radius? THe loathesome
snowstorm that stranded me and my children at a
rest-stop overnight? Or the fact that my building
has been without power all morning?
FIRST OFF: I have a new car. Yes, indeedy.
My Pontiac has been retired.
Oh, and yes, the snowstorm. Loverly. Nevermind
the fact that I had almost forgotten how to navigate
through congested traffic; old instinct is quick to
reinstate itself. I must admit, being a veteran of the
Milwaukee 'Midwest Audobahn', har har...I'm a pretty
aggressive driver. For instance, IF I can't find an
opening, I MAKE an opening. But the snowstorm
that had slammed southern Wisconsin last night was
pretty intense, even by MY standards. Visibility was
zero. I had to pull over a couple times because some
of 'tail-the-trucker' tricks were proving futile. Even the
OTR trailers were ditched that night. And I was PISSED
because it was my first night with my new car.
ACK. I followed a truck off the highway, hoping he'd
lead me to a hotel. No such luck. I found myself on a
rural road, with no lights, and no plows coming through.
THe snow was already accumulating over my rims, so
I had to put into low gear and back out. I had to roll
down my windows so I could find the ramp back
onto the highway, and it was almost invisible at that
point. No tracks, no lights, no signs. Nothing but
sheer white. I found my way back on I90, but going
in the wrong direction. I couldn't find an exit, sooooooo...
I did locate a rest stop. Thank god. It was an indoor
affair, complete with an open lobby and vending
machines. I was one of seven vehicles who managed
to find their way up the ramp to this little snowcovered
oasis. My children and I spent the night , there, with
a flock of complete strangers, as the three of us huddled
together in a corner, surrounded by our blankets. This
morning, I dug us out when the snow stopped and I
limped our car home. It was kind of funny, almost like
a parody of the Apocalypse--cars in ditches EVERYWHERE.
Reminded me of some Stephen King short story, really.
Sorry for the long post…not really. Har har. Oh, and
the first trade is complete.
So, like, I decided to expand my curriculum.
For the sake of self-improvement.
No, heh, not really. I’m too lazy for
self-improvement. Maybe I just need a
diversion. Yeah, that’s it.
So, like, I’ve taken on more art-trades. I want
to draw things I’ve never attempted, before.
As of right now, I have three on the horizon:
Ebony: wants Vincent Valentine
My lovely Lolly: Rurouni
HatakeKakashi101: Reno
In return, I get: Akiramaru, Sascha and Kimi
(fighting, I think), and Dante as the Dark Angel.
*squeeeeeeee* I love to see my characters
drawn by fresh hands. It gives me a healthier
perspective, when their images aren’t inspired by
dreams. It makes me feel …safe.
I don’t know how best to describe it.
Tomorrow, I’ll be on the road to Green Bay
for my arraignment. I’ve been told that I’m
facing civil charges, in a separate trial. Hmmm.
Oh, well. (Looks like my car is going to face
some exorbitant wear-and-tear for the next few
months. And I just got the bitch fixed.) Sooooo
does anyone want to do art-trades? I’m going
to have to bring my kids with me to GB, so I won’t
get to do any clubbing. *cries* So, I’ll be bored.
If anyone is interested, feel free to PM me …
preferably before ten a.m. central time
Lesseee, what else. Oh, yes. I’ve become totally
hooked on German Industrial music. Yesh, well,
I’ve always had a penchant for that overseas Euro-
Techno. But only lately has it become an obsession.
I’m sorry, guys; I don’t care much for J-rock. Please
don’t lynch me.
Oh, and just because yaoikiss101 told me to stop
posting our conversations, I have another little tidbit
for everyone. I love you, Justin…
Justin: Breaking the walls of convention, again, are we?
Bowerydweller: Absolutely. You know me and my
disregard for conformity.
Justin: Yes, well, they say crazy people usually march
to the beat of their own drummer.
Bowerydweller: Or different voices.
Justin: Yes, in their head. HAHA. Getting sick of
The psycho references. Turn that record over, dearest.
Bowerydweller: You know me. I like to flog the dead horse.
Justin: And then some. Better farm animals then the kids,
Right?
Bowerydweller: you think so?
Of course, I’m paraphrasing, haha. I don’t actually save
my IM convies. I obsess over wasted hard-drive space.
*flops*
Oh, and thank you to everyone who
commented on my last post. I
really do appreciate all your kind words....*runs
away embarrassed with self*
