http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:AngelicLionheart&section=today deviantART RSS for by:AngelicLionheart en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:15:10 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28708694/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28708694/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:51:01 PST
Y'all might remember Zack Finfrock, aka Splashed Ink. He's an artist here at DeviantArt [link] .

He also draws the webcomic "Warbot in Accounting" ( [link] ) and he is the main actor in the upcoming web series "Emerson Wild Monster Hunter" ( [link] ) This is actually one of the results of him moving to L.A., so thanks for your help last time at the 24-hour draw-a-thon.

Well as you'll see at this note,
[link] he is in need of money something bad. He's been really working hard getting work, screaming through Craigslist ads, offering lower-priced commissions, even doing some work for CollegeHumor.com: ( [link] ) , ( [link] )

But it still hasn't been enough to cover his expenses. It's not for lack of trying, but he is still short on money for this deadline tomorrow, and he his family and friends have either given what little they can or they're just plain unable to help the guy.

So if you can at all, PLEASE consider this man's talent as an awesome source for gifts for this holiday season. The guy can do ALL KINDS of stuff for commissions, here are two examples: ( [link] ) and ( [link] ) Whether they're fictional characters or people in the real world, he can draw something cool that involves them. A hand-made gift by an artist is a lot more unique than a giftcard and/or many other types of gifts. For example, who wouldn't want to have themselves drawn having their picture taken with their favorite fictional character?

So yes, if you can, please help. He has been trying and trying, and while he's made SOME progress, it hasn't been enough for this deadline. I've already helped as much as I can, and I can't afford anything else myself, so it's up to others to make this happen today/tonight.

Zack is an insanely talented dude, and you won't find $20 custom-made pieces of art from someone like this very often, if ever, in your life.

Thank you in advance for your help! It is greatly appreciated! Happy Holidays!

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28578948/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28578948/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:35 PST

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

My love to you as you mark this day of gratitude, hopefully in the company of those who love you the most.

May God shed His grace upon you all. May you receive it and also redirect it into the lives of those in need of love.

God bless.

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26757643/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26757643/ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:46:46 PDT
What a fantastic place to eat.

Go there.

Like, NOW.


*drool*

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Just popping in to comment on something I consider to be very important: a perpetuation of misinformation that has existed for a very, very long time. And that misinformation is: conceptualizing of good and evil.

There was recently a contest ([link]) where artists were asked to consider the theme "Good Vs. Evil". WOW are there some talented artists out there! I got quite a few faves and watches added to my lists just from this one contest alone. Pretty amazing!

But as good as the instances of talent are in this contest, I saw very few, if any at all, instances of the art depicting what I have fully understood to be the realities of "good" and "evil". Now, before I begin, I am already going to let you know: there will be many who will disagree with what I am laying out as the "definitions" of good and evil. That's fine. People have been disagreeing with these definitions for a very, very long time. And that's because God is intrinsically involved in their definitions.

I essentially understand "good" and "evil" to be defined as such:

Good is the presence of, effect of, or something related to, God Himself or something that He made.

Evil is the absence of God, the absence of something related to God, or the absence of something that He made.

I find that it helps to think of this relationship between good and evil in terms of "light and dark" and "heat and cold," because they help illustrate the main point: there is no such "thing" as "dark" -- there is only the absence of the thing called light, and we CALL the absence of light "dark."

Likewise, there is no such "thing" as cold -- there is only the absence of the thermal energy we call heat, and we CALL the absence of heat "cold."

See how that works?

So, here's a classic example. Let's portray two scenarios:

Scenario 1: A child is born into a family that does not want him and views him as a burden and an obstacle to their own personal fun levels. This child grows up feeling unwanted, unloved, unworthy, and generally worthless. Let's throw in mental depictions of the sluggardly stepdad stereotype, reclining in his ancient mildewy la-z-boy and yelling at this little boy to bring him another beer while he watches the cheerleaders in the halftime show on the TV. Boy drops beer, doesn't know any better and brings said beer to said stepdad, stepdad opens beer, gets sprayed by beer because it was dropped earlier, stepdad now commences to beat boy with belt or whatever, yelling and screaming and hollering whatever things that you shouldn't say around children, etc etc.

Now, let's compare that mental depiction with another depiction:

Scenario 2: A child is born into a family that not only very much wants him, but actually planned for his birth, and saved a lot of money so that they would be prepared for making his arrival into this place as wonderful as they could, making sure that their own personal finances were no obstacle. This couple that gives birth to this child love him intensely, spend time with him every day, show him affection whenever they can, and the child has no doubt that his mommy and his daddy love him. When this child makes mistakes, rather than beating him because he got on their nerves or made them angry, they discipline him in the way that is most appropriate, helping him to learn what is good, what is bad, that it's okay if you make mistakes and that mistakes teach us many things, etc etc. You get the picture.

Now these are supposed to be stereotypical, so don't get hung up on the accuracy of these depictions. Most everyone I've met has come into contact with the negative stereotype, and not nearly enough people that I've met have come into contact with the positive stereotype. But some have.

Now, the point. While it is difficult, and perhaps even impossible, for me to put into words what is PRESENT in the positive stereotype and what is ABSENT in the negative stereotype, in these mental depictions we definitely sense that there is such a thing, and that it IS present in the one and that it IS absent in the other.

Now just take that idea of there being something invisible and it being able to be "sensed" in situations, and apply that to varying situations that you've seen in real life. It's there. It's real. But it's not so much tangible. We can't put it under a microscope any more than we can put a "thought" under a microscope. Microscopes are wonderful things, but they're useless when it comes to many things.

So back to the contest now.

I see things like angels versus demons or devils. First of all, those depictions are probably seen to be attributed to Judeo-Christianity. That is very much false. If you look through the bible, the "... ]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24419448/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24419448/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:50:23 PDT
So much better of a film than I had anticipated.

Very, very glad that I decided to watch it. Some of the best written/portrayed characters that I've seen in... far too long a time.

Looking forward to any future ventures into that fictional universe.

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24199329/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24199329/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:05:06 PDT
May you more richly understand this day's relevance--even more so than you have before.

Much love,
~AngelicLionheart

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23960586/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23960586/ Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:57:48 PDT
And, well... it hurts. This is one of the people closest to me. I'm happy for him, and excited for how cool his new job will be.

But yeah... a little part of my heart is going with him. He's like a brother to me.

And so, just writing this journal to say... that yeah, it hurts. I'm continuing moving on, continuing moving forward, trusting in God's grace and perfect plans to be more than I could ask for. But as grateful as I am for the time I've been given with this friend, and as sure as I am that God's goodness has not changed nor have His plans for me... as God already understands, this kind of thing hurts. It's only normal.

If you have a relationship with God, I would ask that you pray for me and my friend. We're going to miss each other an awful lot.

Much love,
~AngelicLionheart

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23583578/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23583578/ Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:52:53 PST

I think I might be really unfair to myself.

I think I might hold myself to way too high a standard or something.

I dunno. There are positive influences missing in my life, that much I am certain of... but I wonder if that fully explains why I'm so hard on myself? Why I expect so much of myself?

Hmm.

I wonder if I should just chalk up the lack of help and love to just living in a fallen, God-forsaking world? Maybe it's just "tuff titties", as they say?

I hope something comes of this insight. Maybe I'll somehow learn how to be more realistic in my expectations of myself? More compassionate?

I sure as heck hope I don't pass on these kinds of expectations to my kid(s), if God should allow me to marry and have any.

Hmm.

Sounds like I could just use a little more time with God. Intimacy before works. He does have all the answers, I guess. Kinda dumb to ignore that, huh?

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22955580/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22955580/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:57:19 PST
Seriously, I don't think this could get any better.

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22553674/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22553674/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:08:16 PST 's journal, so since she didn't tag anybody, I'll just go ahead and take the initiative.

Rules!
1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5. No tag-backs.

Erm, I kinda already did one of these here:
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and here... [link]

But hey, why not?

8 things about myself:

1. I am not trying to live a "normal" life. I don't want to waste it like that. I only have one chance to be in this world until the cellular deterioration caused by aging, or some other source of bodily death, causes me to depart this place forever. So, I'm trying to make this the most awesome life that I can, but first I want to figure out how "living for me" and "living in Him" should co-exist. Part of living for me is living for those I love, I most particularly look forward to one day being the best husband ever made, and hopefully one of the best fathers ever made. But like I said, I want to figure out how I can do that without a guilty conscience, because there are a lot of people that would benefit from my sacrificing a lot of my time to help them around the world, and they're people that I wouldn't have even known about were it not for the ability of information to spread like it is, so I kinda feel that, while I'm sitting here playing Crysis, I could be out getting food to starving children, you know? That's a sacrifice that I could make, and I want to figure out whether or not there is a good reason for me to say to all those people that I could potentially help "Hey, uh, I'm gonna let somebody else handle it, alright? I wanna do other stuff with my life and my time..." There may very well be a good reason to choose myself over them, I just haven't found one I am confident in yet.

(I'll try to make the rest shorter)

2. I am a very loving person. This can sometimes have downsides, but generally, I can't imagine being any other way. ...I haven't always been this way, though. :\

3. I've never had a genuine love interest (one in middle school, but that was more like "friends with a different label attached" because there was no romance there at all). I guess you could say that I'm kind of picky. lol.

4. I love good anime but I've not seen the complete series of too many of them yet. I've seen Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and when I was younger a good chunk of the Dragonball series, and most recently saw Love Hina, which is hilarious, btw. The first items on my agenda are Naruto and Bleach, both of which I intend to get in HD one day.

5. I have a touch of silver in my hair. It looks cool and I like it.

6. It is exceedingly difficult to scare me. The most I'm ever able to get myself to be is "on edge." I like to try though, like by locking myself in a room with a scary game or movie, turning the lights out and generally making it as creepy as possible. Dead Space is next on my "Can we scare Brandon?" agenda. I have high hopes for that one.

7. My best friend and I have known each other for around 12 years now.

8. I have really high standards, but I'm a really forgiving and optimistic person, so it generally works out great.

Now as for the people that I'm supposed to tag... Hmm. You know, the people that I would put down here will in all likelihood not participate, so I'm going to let whoever among you that reads this that would be interested in being tagged just tag themselves, and let me know. Lazy? Maybe. Or maybe it just makes sense. Or both. You decide.

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21919988/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21919988/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:09:16 PST
And I think I have a good idea as to what has contributed to that lack of self-respect: my own parents, most particularly my mother, have never really respected me. And I've always loved them and valued their opinions to a very high degree, so it's no wonder that I don't respect myself when they themselves regard me in their minds as less than I am. Far, far less than I am.

I wonder how many things this has cost me? How many days and nights of doubt and uncertainty?

No matter. All I care about is that now that I understand this, what am I going to do about it?

I hope to prayerfully and carefully pursue making up for years and years of a lack of self-respect. And I hope to incorporate this knowledge into my formation of myself as an excellent person (as opposed to a merely adequate person).

Fascinating. I wonder how many other instances of "you don't realize this but here it is, and now that you know it you are way better off than you were" are locked away on a videocassette somewhere?

All I know is, that God continues to be awesome, and I hope and pray that I don't stray from Him as I move forward with what I've learned and act on it.

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21722839/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21722839/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:40:32 PST Very interesting. Very interesting indeed.

Haha I hate to be so cryptic and leave you, the reader, in the dark, but it must be kept so in this case.

All I gotta say is, heck-to-the-yes: God is awesome and continues to inspire me and amaze me like no human being ever could.

This life, this life that He's given us? It's got serious potential to be freaking AWESOME.

Whole new fires have been kindled in me, fires I've always thrown water on out of a sense of caution in the past. Now I feel free to fan them into flame. I hope that He continues to stoke the fires, and that they don't die down. Because restraint is not what I lack -- it's restraint's opposite that I've intentionally kept underdeveloped. Now I feel that with a genuinely pure heart and a healthy sense of intrigue, whole new layers to this world have been opened to me and my mind is now prepared to explore without fear of risking dishonoring the God I serve.

While my life is still not quite yet where I would like for it to be, it sure just got a whole heck of a lot more interesting (and it was already fascinating to me) while I wait for myself to be further developed into the man I've dreamed of being. So many pieces are in place, "parts" that are top-of-the-line... Few "parts" remain and they are the easier achieved of them all. I've striven for so long to not just be mediocre, but to be excellent, and not just excellent by man's measure, but excellent by the measure of God... I've striven to not grow into a mediocre man, but an EXCELLENT man, one that I can be proud of being and one that will delight not only The Lord my God, but also my future wife (whoever, wherever she is), my future child/children, and myself. Each of them in their own ways. I am aiming to be a righteous, humble, deep, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, physical, sometimes hilarious, fun and fascinating powerhouse of a human being. I do not intend to fall short of that goal -- God willing, this will come to be. I intend to place the priorities of the quality of my married life and the quality of my parental life far above the priorities of my career and anything else (with the unstated obvious fact that God sits enthroned as first priority above all of these; nothing is above Him). My wife and child/children will know beyond a shadow of a doubt where their place is in Daddy's totem pole.

Oh, I know I won't have it ALL figured out so early in life, if ever -- I just now know that I'll start off as one of the best examples of what a man can and should be compared to what I could have turned out as and what many/most men seem to be these days. It's not for the sake of competition -- no, far from that. It's for the sake of goodness, righteousness, the intrinsic quality of life present in each day, the pursuit of the mystery inherent in life, and self-satisfaction... among many other things.

Long story short... Epic Win. With more Epic Win incoming.

*long, lingering "Mad Scientist" laughter*

;D

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21641251/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21641251/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:33:13 PST
I wouldn't say that I'm sad about it, or that I'm feeling depressed about it... I guess that I would just say that I am feeling down about it. Downed by it. Just down... but at the same time, I feel generally good. It's kind of like there are two conflicting sources of "why you feel the way you feel" transmitting stuff in my head.

I do, on one hand, wish that I had already met the love of my life, but on the other hand, I'm grateful that I haven't because of where I'm at in my life right now.

But I'm pretty sure that that is not why I am down.

I guess that I feel like I am being kept from something. That something that I just really, really want, and maybe even need, is currently outside my grasp, or is something that I don't know how to get.

These are all feelings, mind you, these are not conscious thoughts in the form of words.

I guess I kind of feel like there is this "status" that I long to be in, that I cannot seem to find myself in. And by "status," I mean like "A state of being this way and feeling this way about things as opposed to that way about things." I do not mean status in terms of social status or something like that.

I guess that I wish that I could be content right now. I really long for that feeling of contentment. To know where the line is drawn between "selfishness/apathy towards the plights of others" and "going too far with selflessness or the belief that I have to be DOING something for others all the time". And not just to KNOW it, like some academical nugget of knowledge that I analyze and say "Yes, that's accurate." No, I mean FEELING content about my knowing where that line is drawn and that I'm at LEAST "satisfactory" in the eyes of Him who I now hold myself accountable to, unlike when I was a little kid and only held myself accountable to the approval of my parents and gauged how happy I was with myself by how happy they were with me.

I think on just such a crazy high level sometimes. I don't think I've ever come across anything where I read or heard someone thinking on the level that I think sometimes, and it can be really frustrating. And yet I almost can't help it, my mind just wanders there. When I say "thinking on a high level" I don't mean "thinking really well" or "thinking about stuff you have to be really smart in order to even approach". No, I'm talking about just thinking about subject matter that is way, way up there. Non-fiction, way high-up-there stuff. It's hard to describe without going into some crazy long spiel about what it is, so I'll just list some things that I consider to be "way up there" stuff, and I'll let misinterpretation be a possibility. The creation of multiple universes by God after this one has passed away. The fellowship of a man with God while living in this world where all perspective seems to be skewed toward the immediate, the easily understandable, and what can fit inside of a man's set of expectations. The possibility of God trying to show me something about how I'm supposed to look at living my life by pointing out to me all of the stuff around me, my keyboard, this computer monitor, integrated circuits, there being uses for a PC gaming steering wheel, clothing, a fan based on a motor design, just everything and anything that is around me... there is this thought that just makes me wonder if God is saying to me "Look, look at all this stuff around you. That wasn't there when I made the Earth. How did it get there? People like YOU put it there. They followed their passions, they tinkered and messed with things, they responded to their curiosities and wonderment, and look at all of the stuff that it got them -- look at how their pursuit of their passions brought about all of this stuff, this matter assembled into alternate and non-naturally-occurring configurations that were designed by the wills and intellects and passions of men, by people and peoples. Look at all of this stuff, Brandon, and think to yourself: none of this would have occurred without people. And how, exactly, did it get here? Because there were these things, they're called human beings, wouldn't you know it? and JUST because they existed, all of these different things now exist. These things are side effects of the existence of these human beings. And not just material things, either. There are so many services and non-material things that have been brought about by human beings. I mean, really, just think about that: they started off with NOTHING but the Earth they found themselves on, (plants, animals, dirt, rocks, and all that) and now look at this place -- it is just rife with the results of their being alive. It literally TEEMS with stuff and events that are only existent because of years upon years upon years of progress."

If He were tellin... ]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20978074/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20978074/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:47:59 PDT [link]

I direct you to that link. The girl is in need of money since she was recently let go from a job that she enjoyed.

Please help her out if you can, and hey, if you want material from a talented artist, this is a great opportunity! She's normally too busy to take commissions.

Take care, and God bless!

]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20645524/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20645524/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:01:29 PDT
Upon seeing an episode of a show that I enjoy, whose topic involved the bright futures of the main characters as they applied to colleges, I realized that I don’t feel like I have any kind of a bright future while I’m here at home with my parents. That’s not the most accurately descriptive way of saying what I’m trying to say, so let me try again: I don’t feel like ANYONE else is looking forward to my bright future around here. Especially not my mom or dad. It seems like all my mom can do is feel certain that I need all the help that I can get, and that without me making every decision like how she would like for me to, I am doomed to fail somehow.

It doesn’t feel like anyone is propelling me towards something. It in fact feels like no one is propelling me toward anything. The only thing I feel like I am being propelled toward is another disappointment to my mom in a long line of what seems to be a recurring series of infinitely repeating disappointments.

If there were an atomic bomb of discouragement, I’m pretty sure having your mom make you feel like a talentless, untrustworthy loser is that bomb, and I’m standing in the ground zero of it, and it’s been exploding for years now. And then NOT having your dad step in and tell you how confident he is in you only sells it that much more.

I know that it’s easy to just give in to the bandwagon and the tide and just go with the flow of what the world around you tells you you have to do in order to be successful, and I have steadfastly resisted (opposed, even) that for… I guess for all my life so far. But I really am frustrated sometimes when there doesn’t seem to be any other option offered – it’s like standing in a room, asking a crowd for suggestions, and only one person is suggesting anything, and they keep repeating themselves. No one else says a word, they just have a blank stare on their faces.

I can’t remember the last time I really felt encouraged – the last time I really felt like what lies between now and the day I’m called heavenward is going to be awesome. Now all I can see, all I seem to be able to feel is a sense of impending disappointment – to myself.  Like mediocrity is all that awaits me.

I would love nothing more than to just dive in to something headfirst, and give my all at it, but I know that whatever I choose to do that in will be mutually exclusive to all other options… so I can’t afford to make mistakes. I can’t go to this college for 3 years, and then that college for 3 years, and then that one for… and so on. I want to enjoy my youth while I still have what ‘s left of it. Which isn’t much – I have gray hair at 23, and have had it for many years, I think since I was 16. Funny, that’s when everything with dad was hitting a fevered pitch, I think. I always feel tired when I get up, I rarely feel like I’ve got enough sleep, my bowels are sensitive to the slightest amount of stress… What am I, 45? Where has my childhood and youth gone?

Anyway, as I was saying, I would love nothing more than to just know what I should do, and then go dive headfirst into it – excel in it. In college, I was a minimalist student, and justifiably so, because I cannot lie to myself on the inside, I cannot be passionate about something that I am not passionate about. Where is the motivation to excel if I don’t personally have a passion for it? Where will I receive praise? From where will I be given an “attaboy” or a “good job!”? Having to say it myself and hear my voice echo is downright depressing. I could go stand in that corner and tell myself all kinds of compliments, it wouldn’t affect the fact that I wouldn’t believe any of them… they have to come from someone else.

What have I done to screw things up so bad that my mom feels no LASTING sense of pride in me? No sense of trust or confidence in me? Or, in a more likely scenario, what can I possibly do to counteract the possibility that it’s not my fault at all, and that it’s her own issues that prevent her from focusing on my like that? Is there ANYTHING that I could do?

All I know is, I am one of the most intelligent people that I know. I am capable of athleticism, although it would take me a while to get back into shape. And around honest, genuine people, I am a pleasant person to be in the company of. These are not lies, they are assessments whose accuracy I have double- and triple-checked many times, removing the possibility of doubt. So what’s wrong? What’s the deal? Where’s my path to success? What do I have to do to feel satisfied with myself, and what do I have to do to make my mom be satisfied with me? And is the answer to either of those questions acceptable in the sight of Him whom I most intensely desire to feel accepted and approved by? Whose “seal o... ]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20416104/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20416104/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:15:34 PDT

My idea for a sketch is the following:

A single SPARTAN-II in Mark V MJOLNIR armor (the armor from the first Halo) engaged in an incredibly intense combat situation, swinging (with his left arm using a backhanded swing) the freshly severed spine of an Elite into the neck of a sword-wielding Elite, with the image showing the spine already having pierced halfway through the sword-wielding Elite's neck,

and you can also see that the spine was just freshly swung through the exposed orange torso of a nearby (within the radius of the swing) Hunter, thus separating the hunter's upper body from the lower body, with the upper half being suspended mid-air because it hasn't had time to give in to gravity yet.

Blood sprays, pours, and runs down everywhere that it should, and a couple of Grunts are seen mid-flight having their heads exploded by a sniper rifle round fired by another SPARTAN-II in the distance, the contrail of the round being the only indicator that a bullet was ever there, the heads of the grunts being a snapshot of an organic explosion.

The right hand of the SPARTAN-II swinging the spine is holding a freshly exhausted plasma pistol, still smoking, which of course is how he got the spine to go into the Elite's neck so smoothly. If you wanted, you could even include some liquid hitting the overheated plasma pistol, caught in the middle of its near-instant evaporation.

If you wanted to title the picture, you could use this coy expression as inspiration for it: "Why stop at TWO birds?"





Alternatively, if you're not up for it and/or have a TON of other great pictures to go through already in the queue, then please just choose your favorite scene from the Halo novels and take whatever liberties you want for the sake of making it even more awesome.




Mark V armor and poses

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I am happy to be turning 23 this year. I am alive, I have all my fingers and toes, I am not starving, I am not a leper, I don't have any diseases (well, A.D.D., but hey, you know what I mean -- I don't have cancer or anything like it), so yeah I'm very grateful to have been on this Earth for 8,400 days since August 21st, 1985.

Tomorrow will mark my 8,401st day.

What can I say? I have come through a lot of dark valleys and fires. And through it, I've come out healthy. Not only "healthy enough" but exceedingly healthy! Let me remove the ambiguity -- I have God to thank for these blessings.

That said, as of right now, I am SO tired. I didn't go to sleep last night. I couldn't, really. The reason why is a long, annoying story :\. But the consequences are that I am so freaking off-kilter right now. Heh, what makes it worse is that this is the second time in the past week! Yeesh! My body is not very pleased with its inhabitant at the moment.

I just finished shaving so that I will wake up without the beginnings of an animal on my face. I'm about to hit the rack even though it's only around 9:00PM. Why so early? I am taking what I've learned from this article and applying it: [link] .

I can't wait. I love birthdays. One of my best friends' birthdays is the day after mine, and that makes it all the better.

Off to bed with me now. I am considerably overdue.

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The rules are:
1. Post these rules.
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal/ blog of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged


1. My hair is not black, it's really, REALLY DARK brown. You see its brownness in sunlight.

2. I have one less finger on my right hand than what a man with 6 fingers on his right hand has.

3. It is exceedingly rare for me to be genuinely angry, and the few times where I was angry, it took my body a while to stop shaking from the adrenaline hyperslush that had been in my veins moments earlier.

4. I don't know that I have a favorite food, but I am pretty sure that my favorite type of food is Italian.

5. I intend for my relationship with my future wife to be such that, if men could know about it, they would write books about the legendary intensity, passion, and attempted flawlessness it expressed. It is one of my life's most important goals, God willing.

6. Of all the PC/console games I own, and there are a LOT of them (near 100, probably) I have only actually played through 11 of them as of July 15th, 2008. This is something I intend to correct very soon, and was caused by me being so busy with other things. Don't let this happen to you.

7. I adore The Lord my God. Not only my Lord and God is He, but also my "abba."

8. I do not live my life in the ways that I see most other men living their lives. By the grace of God, I am more informed about life (its purposes, its nature, its origins, what is good to do with it and what is not good to do with it... many things) than most any other person I know, which I kind of wish wasn't true, because when I get stuck on something, it's really hard to find someone who has been where I've been or, better yet, has been where I'm going, and can give me advice or knowledge that I haven't already been blessed with.

So yeah, that's 8 random facts about me. Now to find 8 people to tag from my (very) sparse friends list...




It doesn't take but a second! They're eight RANDOM facts. Looking forward to seeing your answers, guys!

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Woot.

Praise be to The Lord God, for He has gifted me with great aid as I made the attempt to get myself organized.

I'm not sure what "getting organized" means to other people, but to me, it's very, very significant. I have very poor short-term memory. So, if something's out of place when I go to look for it, not only may I have trouble finding it, I may forget altogether that I was even looking for it in the first place, because of how my mind works.

For me, getting organized means getting my life into the rhythm that it is supposed to be in. It means getting it into harmony with the order that God desires to see in my life.

There is, of course, always a way to go "too far" when organizing yourself, some people suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and are basically psychologically affected by "the small stuff." While I tend to be called OCD from time to time when I organize myself, the fact is that I'm nowhere near being OCD. Because while I prefer to be organized, indeed, I have a very STRONG preference for it, I am not BOTHERED by the times when I am not organized to that degree, nor am I bothered by when I am completely and utterly disorganized.

My disorganization is probably in large part due to the fact that I've moved back and forth from my college town, Athens, so many times in the last 5 or so years. When you have to completely destroy, and then completely reassemble, your entire system of organization, and everything else in your life for that matter, that frequently, then even if it's only for a few years, you tend to adapt in a way that makes it easy to convince yourself that you don't really need to reassemble your systems of organization in any kind of hurry, because you know you'll probably just have to disassemble them again soon enough anyway.

That was way too long of a sentence. Jedi Master William Parker would probably be displeased, if he weren't so easygoing and understanding of my casual speech-mimicking method of journal-entry/blog-entry.

Anywho.

This post is just to say that I am, for the first time in a long time, developing habits, patterns, and organizational systems that allow my mind and thus myself to function at a far, FAR greater efficiency than I probably ever have before.

Most of my systems of organization are based on automation, or, the lack of a need to consciously think about something. The goal being to make it so that I need to waste as little mindspace doing something non-creative as possible.

Designing these systems of automation and organization are awesome. I love it. Maybe I'll design them to such a great extent that I'll provide them to the entire world, the followers of Jesus (Yeshua) especially, and the entire world will be able to function at such higher levels of efficiency. Not having to do stuff from scratch in your head is just really, really great. It frees your mind to think about so many more important things. One application of these tools and habits that I believe would serve some of the most good is for young-ish parents, and really just parents in general. Being able to manage the chaos by any means is surely a welcome one, but with these methods of "thoughtless automation of everyday tasks" they can focus so much more on enjoying their lives with their children and far less on what needs to get done, how to get it done, and whether or not that can definitely get done, based on what they don't yet know for sure.

Well, I'm off to go reap the glorious, God-gifted and God-blessed rewards of having some time to myself that I don't have to worry about possibly being used for some other, more productive activity.

Take care, and until next time (and even past next time) God bless!
~Angel

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I guess I'm just in the mood.

The idea to do this is stolen from DraconicDreams' journal.

Three Things You Want To Do Before You Die:

1.) Begin the relationship with the love of my life by meeting her for the first time. (No, I have no idea where or who she is yet. I just have hope that she's there.)
2.) Visit/Stay in Hawaii for an extended period of time.
3.) Feel a justified sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that I am definitely doing exactly what it is that God desires for me to do with my life.

Three Names You Go By:

1.) Brandon
2.) Lion
3.) Angel

Three Screen Names You Have Had (Other Than This One):

1.) The_AF1 Archangel (back in the Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 days... *memories* "AF" stood for "Angelic Fury," my clan that I had made myself. The "The_" was for my other clan I was in, The Rogues. They were the peacekeepers of the MSN Gaming Zone.)
2.) The_AF2 Guardian (also back in the olden days)
3.) The Lionheart

Three Physical Things You Like About Yourself:

1.) My hands (they portray the human musculature well).
2.) My skeletal structure, my face especially (you've met people with weird skeletal structures before, believe me, though you might not have known they looked weird for THAT reason).
3.) My lack of diseases and disorders.


Three Parts Of Your Heritage:

1.) British
2.) Irish
3.) Native American

Three Things That Scare You:

1.) I apologize, but I do not have any phobias.
2.) If I get scared, it is usually only a matter of time before faith, trust, and reason find their well-kept places in my mind.
3.) Letting God down in any way.

Three Of Your Everyday Essentials:

1.) The Lord God Almighty
2.) Love
3.) A lack of boredom.

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:

1.) A red shirt for "Red Fridays" where people wear red to show support for the troops.
2.) Black jeans.
3.) My Xbox Live headset (I'm waiting on a friend to join my party so we can play.)

Three Of Your Favorite Bands/Musical Artists:

1.) Third Day
2.) Mothergoat (Matt Cox)
3.) Casting Crowns

Three Of Your Favorite Songs:

(These are recent random favorites, not my favorite songs ever)
1.) Bubbly (Colbie Caillat)
2.) Angel (Sarah McLachlan)
3.) Oceans from the Rain (Seventh Day Slumber)

Three Things You Want In A Relationship:

1.) Everything that God wants it to be.
2.) Everything that her heart could ever ask for.
3.) Everything that my heart could ever ask for.

Two Truths And A Lie (in no particular order):

1.) For a brief few minutes, I once feared falling in love, because of how much more intensely I believed that I would be able to love someone who is there with me in a way that I am able to sense than I would be able to love God, who I cannot directly see, hear, smell, touch, or taste. God, being Who He Is, of course, made me realize how silly a fear that was, because He made me understand that if anything, the love that I would share with my wife would TEACH me that much more how to love others, and God Himself, than I would have been able to understand on my own.
2.) Without knowing it, I once served the god of career. That statement is of course metaphorical, there is no god of career, but I will assume that you know what I mean by it. That said, yes, there was a time when I didn't bother to think about what I was doing or why, in terms of my job (short term) and my career (long term). I have since given that over to God, as I should have long ago... long LONG ago... and am now enjoying a life unburdened by the confusion brought on by irrelevant pursuit. What would I have ever done with a Philosophy Degree anyway!? I mean, really. Now I am doing what I feel God is leading me to do. And I wouldn't ever have it any other way.
3.) Cheese comes from the moon.

Three Physical Things About The Preferred Sex That Appeal To You:

1.) Beautiful eyes that hide nothing.
2.) A form that is the result of her will. Not just "how she happens to look."
3.) Just a clean, healthy look, really. Clear radiant skin can be a beautiful thing to see.

Three of your Favorite Hobbies:

1.) Being in the company of good friends with whom I can be vulnerable.
2.) Surfing the Internet.
3.) Video games... Halo in particular. (lol, I stole this from DraconicDreams' version as well)

Three Things You Want To Do Really Badly Right Now:

1.) Go to the gym and exhaust every single muscle in my body (including my hear... ]]> ~AngelicLionheart http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/17233195/ http://AngelicLionheart.deviantart.com/journal/17233195/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:26:32 PST [link]

Just look at that.

How I wish I could just go there and be there and watch that scene be created and then unfold.

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