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Okay. So.

I went to New Zealand and Ozzie (Australia to you Americans) over the last month and I tell you this.

Sheep are BIIIG animals and DON'T believe them when they tell you they don't bite because when they get jealous of their stallmate being petted they will try to bite and that would hurt.

New Zealand was gorgeous (and cold, as it was wintertime) with all the mountains and volcano-spat-out boulders and lots of green everywhere. The Waikato was flooding, which I guess isn't such a good thing, but Rotorua was really very pleasant. It's a city in a volcanic crater that has a ton of vents and fumaroles all over the place. There are hotsprings, too, and the local Maori pipe the steam and heat into wooden boxes called hangi to cook stuff. Maori microwave, as they say. It works, too. :3 They also use the hotspring water for a local spa, where you can soak in thirty-nine degrees celsius wonderfulness for as long as you want if you have twenty dollars. New Zealand is known for its greenstone, too, greenstone being jade in other lands, and I got some of that while I was there. It's lovely stuff, but it's so dense! It's heavier than a similarly-sized piece of granite. We also went to the Waitomo caves, the glowworm caves they featured on the Planet Earth caves episode. That place is wicked! The glowworms are SO pretty, too.

Ozzie was the coolness. We stayed in Sydney, which is probably the only big city I could ever live in. The Wallabies walloped the All Blacks in a rugby match the night before we arrived, so some of the Kentucky folks got made fun of for wearing All Black gear. One of the KY folks asked if elephants lived in New Zealand. She was dead serious, too. I lost a lot of respect for the human race right there... aaand I digress. Sydney is a big, big city, bigger than Rotorua or Auckland by a lot, and there were a ton of great restaurants all over. They listen to some great music, too, which made me happy. The zoos were amazing, and I seemed to befriend every animal that came within ten feet of me. It was just bizarre.

I'll put up pictures soon, once Mom un-confiscates my camera.
<3
Drake

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Very excited about this summer, I am! I'm headed out to Australia, Hawai'i, and New Zealand in late July, so my camera and I should be seeing quite a lot. I also have a good many tournaments and sneak peeks to go to with my friends, and I can tell you that there's nothing quite like a road trip with your friends. If you haven't tried it, you should.

Anyways, I go to capture the local birdies and puppies. :3

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RULES:
1) Answer the questions below
2) Take each answer and type it into dA search box
3) Take a deviation from the first page of results (may use ' popular' or 'newest' ) and post thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers)
4) You can't copy the persons answers who posted this before you


1. The age you will be on your next birthday: 19
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2. A place you would like to travel: The Sahara
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3. Your favorite place: The creek
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4. Your favorite object: My trumpet
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5. Favorite food: Steak
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THAT IS NOT STEAK THAT IS... SOMETHING ELSE THAT ISN'T STEAK. >:[

6. Your favorite animal: Dragon
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7. Your favorite color: Pearl
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I can't remember what those plants are called... they're one of my favorites, though!

8. The town/state/etc. in which you live: Bloomington
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Yup, that's definitely one of those summer storms that come up out of nowhere and beat the crap out of every tree in town...

9. Name of past pet: Webster
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Hee, it's Horus-Goddess! Ooh, isn't he pretty...

10. A dream come true: Aspect of Bahamut
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Not the Aspect I was thinking of. Look out, long story here!
I spent a whole month hoping to pull Bahamut at the War of the Dragon Queen prerelease, and I was SO pumped when I got there. As soon as I was allowed to open mine, I tore in. The Huge figure is always at the bottom of the box, covered with an extra piece of cardboard, so all I saw was this silver paw. I thought, 'Okay, so there's only two or three silver pieces in the set, and the Eviscerator is a flat gray... HOLY FUCK!' I promptly ripped the box to bits and kind of had a sort of joyful... erm, seizure? I was briefly incapable of holding still or silent, basically, and probably deafened everyone in the room. My squeals have been described as sonic weapons by several of my friends, so... uh, next picture.

11. Your nickname/screenname: Drake
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Ooh! *huggles*

12. Middle name: Katerina
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13. Favorite smell: Sunset Cliffs
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There used to be a pterodactyl up there... it was green. The birdies would huddle around it like it was Mama, even after the wings melted (it was paper mache... how do you spell that?).

14. Bad habit of yours: Daydreaming in class
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15. Bear Builder
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I just got hired at Build-A-Bear! :3

16. Favorite movie: Reign of Fire
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That's a pretty lake. I want dragons...

17. What are you doing right now? Writing
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18. What's the weather like? Starry
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19. Favorite Sport: Marching Band
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I admit to complete obsession with marching band. I get all confused after season ends... it's like, 'what am I going to do now...?' and then I get all emo because band is done. I'm doing it in college, however, so I should have a good eight or ten years ahead of me. Huzzah!

20. Favorite music/style/band: Fischerspooner
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Casey is the hotness. That's that... ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/16889429/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/16889429/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:51:25 PST
The only class I have left is Econ, which sucks. Math. Eew.

Aaaanyway, I want tomorrow evening to get here. I love basketball games-- I have an excuse to buy Mountain Dew. There's a habit I'll never shake.

Anyway, lots of nice pencil drawings recently... doing some male anatomy studies, that sort of shtick. Guys are so hard to draw. They have curves in all the strangest places, and there's not a bit of sexual humor when I say that. Guys are just built funny. It's a very nice funny, though.

~DC

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Anyway, I got the first SIX (I about fainted-- so many books!) volumes of a manga I like called "Inubaka"; a copy of "The Grand History of the Realms" (My DnD dearies, you will love it); and "Empire of Ivory", the fourth book in the Temeraire saga by Naomi Novik. I highly recommend them-- not only are they excellent books, but you'll have enough twenty-five cent words to bandy around by the end of the first book that you'll be a hundred dollars richer to boot.

My brother got an Xbox 360 and a ridiculously violent game called Bioshock. When I say violent, I mean violent, too! It's this game about some guy who finds himself trapped in a city of gene-mod addicts who kill to get the EVE stuff that sustains these genetic modifications. They've set the city to ruins, essentially, which really sucks since it's underwater. Anyway, you can beat them down with wrenches, shoot them with all manner of guns, electrocute them, set them on fire, telekinetically throw them to their deaths, bow them up with makeshift grenades, freeze-and-break 'em... spontaneously generate swarms of thousands of hornets from your veins that burst out of your skin and sting them to death... scary as hell, too, because these crazy people freaking appear out of nowhere and your guy is constantly shooting himself up with this EVE stuff to keep burning/zapping/freezing/throwing people. My brother and I agree that this game is @#$*ing trippy.

Naturally, my brother loves it. He particularly likes the wrench...

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The entire series has been titled as well, thanks be to the gods of all. That would have been a headache, but I just followed the same theme I had been following for my books and BINGO!

I also have devised a lovely logo for the starship Gabriel. Won't post it either. I daren't until full legal ownership of my worlds is obtained. Then I can post it, because when I catch the thief they'll have a lot more than the associate dean of the law school to worry about. Ohhh yes, if I catch the thief, they'sa not gonna likes what'sa I'm a gonna do to thems.

Off to write. My triumph shall not go wasted!

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It's just hard to get used to coloring with the thing! I really do find that I like pencil and paper best when doing most of my work. I'm just too impatient to clean everything up.

I'd scan in stuff, but a lot of my new works are... uh, secret? Spoilers for the books I write? Maegan and Issa-ko can't see any of it, not yet.

Blasted spoilers. *claw*

Hey, at least it's the weekend. Now I can resume this insane fifty page roll that I'm on with Tales of Finding Home (formerly called Book Six).

Oh WOW. It has a TITLE!! Gasp! I need to title the other five untitled ones now.

]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/11204598/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/11204598/ Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:24:07 PST
I got...

Three Dragon Ante (which I intend to foist on the DnD crew promptly)

A COLOSSAL RED DRAGON YAAAAAAAAAAYYY! (This I did not ask for, and was not expecting, therefore I was taken by a brief episode of ecstasy)

A Huge Gold ohmyGODSitisSOF*UCKINGBEAUTIFUL and yes I know how to use a space bar, the lack thereof is meant for emphasis...

A Brass Dragon (those are pretty rare)

A Sorceror on Black Dragon AND a Griffon Cavalry (also referred to as Lady Fly-by)

Another Vlakith the Lich Queen, complementing my Gith on Red

A Stirge (not rare, but it's trading fodder!)

DDM maps, which I've sorely needed

NEW DICE YAYAYAYAYAAAAY! And they're SPARKLY!!

Almost the ENTIRE remaining part of the Legend of Drizzt series (adding the three I already have, that's fourteen out of I think seventeen...)

Hats! (I've got a minor thing for hats)

A scarf (fun to wrap around my head and pretend I'm a ninja)

A stripedy shirt with long sleeves (good, because it's cold here)

Money and Borders cards (the card shall complete my Drizzt collection! YES!)


Simply put, I had one hell of a dorktastic Festivus. Again my folks spent too much on me, but... if they wanna spoil me, I don't mind! As long as it's their choice...

Oh yes. My Colossal Red's name is Hephaestus, after the amazingly stupid red dragon from "Sojourn" by R.A. Salvatore. My Hephaestus is no idiot. He's just so cute... *cuddles* And I'm gonna sic him on my poor little PCs this spring... *evil giggles*

Off to read more. I've finished fifteen hundred plus pages in under twenty hours, and I intend to get to two thousand tonight!

]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/10360034/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/10360034/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:42:30 PDT
Let's go have an Armageddon party! :3

Yeah, I've discovered scanners. Keep an eye out for more, 'cuz there's a whole shitload of stuff I wanna put up all pretty on here.

]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9979340/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9979340/ Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:22:35 PDT
My hero passed. Steve Irwin was the best man alive. I've watched his show for as long as I can remember, and I miss him terribly. Rest in peace, Steve; my prayers on swift wings to your loved ones. ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9494030/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9494030/ Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:59:07 PDT
*hugs her trumpet*

I'll get new stuffs up as soon as I can! Promise. I just need to get the hang of coloring things. I'm no good at that... shading is really hard. O.o'

Anyway, I've got more DnD this weekend-- a campaign meet on Friday and another minis tournament on Saturday. This tourney isn't epic level, though, so I'm not allowded to use mah Bahamut. True to my nickname (Drake), my whole warband IS dragons. Yay!

I'll probably come in 13th again. O.o'

Ooh, it's eleven... time flies. I have to fly, too. To bed I go! ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9243120/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9243120/ Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:11:32 PDT
Guess what I got. I GOT AN ASPECT OF BAHAMUT MINI!! I was one of only TWO out of like THIRTY people to get him! I'm so HAPPY!!

*seizures of joy* ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9108225/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/9108225/ Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:21:08 PDT
Had to break up with my (still wonderful) boyfriend (now bestest-friend). Just realized, well... I wasn't ready for a full relationship. He's crying hard, but we're both recovering from the shock (the whole thing startled me too).

We'll figure it out... and we'll walk this cold road together as best friends. ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/8742453/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/8742453/ Thu, 11 May 2006 17:23:27 PDT
Pixel by pixel, my patience is tested, placing and moving every godsforsaken little bit of color... guh.

May Eleventh, 2006. Lots of homework. A new deviation. Pixels, sadly. I want a tablet. Very badly.

Does anyone else have over three hours of homework waiting...? ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/8116037/ http://Deneb-Cygni.deviantart.com/journal/8116037/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:06:43 PST

Today had to be the best day I've ever had... It rained all day, so we sat on the couch and watched the rain fall until it got dark. Then we had a candlelit dinner (candles courtesy of my mother), and then we watched The Planet's Funniest Animals with Jessie (the dog). Well, we spent more time laughing at Jess while she jammed her nose around the TV screen, but I digress.

Today was a very, VERY good day. ]]> ~Deneb-Cygni