Apparently...! I'm going to the UK again to see my *pseudolonewolf that I own in a few days (I'm leaving on the twoth of October) and I apparently won't be back until somewhere in the last few hours of the 14th of November. So yes! I will not be internettaly connecting or any such things, as usual, so uh... yes! But do I have anything else to actually mention?! I think I need to type a certain amount for my journal CSS to actually LOOK GOOD, otherwise bits all get smushed together or cut off or something... o_O

But uh... Yes! I'm mentioning that now so I can read some comments before I leave and maybe that will also uh... provide seconds of entertainment to help the time pass while I'm waiting to depart! But then nobody will comment at all and will laugh maniacally about it! Or something! Only uh... 50 hours and 15 minutes or something left to wait until the first plane I'll be on during my journey departs...! I bet I'll forget to bring something important like MYSELF or something! Tchsk! It would be just like me to forget something like that!

And uh... uh... I also probably wanted to get some ART done before I left and uh... can't do that until I get back, but I also probably feel like I don't have enough TIME to work on art since I feel like I'm in a state where all I can do is WAIT and it feels like it's "too late" to start anything...

But yes! GOODBYE FOR NOW or something.

It's been a while since my last journal so uh... now I want to replace it with a new one even though I haven't got much to actually say here at all, but I don't like having journals more than a month old on my front page and the last one is almost two months old! But look! I have splattery stuff in my journal CSS now. It's heart-palpitatingly exciting!1

Since I don't have anything specific in mind to mention, I'll just talk about art or something and how I haven't been doing as much of that as I'd like to be doing since I seem to find it really tedious to work on anything at all... Unbearably so! I feel like maybe I'm searching for a way to create artwork and present the subjects of those works that I find particularly interesting or enjoyable to put together that would make me actually feel excited to start something new. Hopefully I can actually find something like that! It's frustrating wanting to be colouring something, but feeling "unable" to because it feels more like a maddening chore than anything...

I probably had some success finding things enjoyable to create when I started using splattery texture things on my artwork, so uh... that's probably a step in the right direction! I hope! I hope there's actually a direction to go in to make working on art more enjoyable for me, especially since doing anything else feels like a chore also. o_O

But uh... I'm also probably in no state of mind to be writing a journal or anything anyway and can't really think clearly or even really think of anything to mention, so uh... I don't think I'll actually say anything else since nothing is coming to mind.

I seem to encounter an annoying number of people who only submit pictures they LIKE that they didn't actually create themselves and want to show other people. They, of course, rarely mention this in any of their artist's comments, and end up getting comments like, "wow! That's amazing!" and saying things like "thanks" in response, unaware that the person thinks they drew the thing themselves, though does end up responding to comments asking if the person drew it themselves with, "no, I only like it and want to show people!"
Some of these people submit these things as PRINTS though?! Agh...! I think deviantART might need to make it more obvious that you're only supposed to submit your OWN artwork, since it says nothing about that on the front page or the submission page or anything... (Though I wonder if they'd have to specify that you have to have actually DRAWN the image yourself since, if they just said "submit your own artwork", people might sillily think that a piece of artwork is "theirs" just because they have it saved on their computer in the same way they would think a piece of artwork is "theirs" if they had a print of it or something...)

Tsk, I've seen some really stupid situations relating to that too though... Like one person submitting some official image of SONIC from some game thing and then some other person who submitted the same image before them complains at them for submitting it because "it's MY image! I submitted it first, so it's MINE!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"It's okay, as long as you know it's mine."

o_O

People like that make me wonder how many people actually have creative hobbies or even realise that that artwork was drawn by *someone* who put time and effort into what they drew and instead think of the art they see as just some soulless product from some company or something? I often assume people DO have creative hobbies, but I also somehow end up forgetting that there's a whole world of people outside deviantART that I completely forget about because they uh... aren't the sorts of people who would be on deviantART or even spend much time at all on the internet! Which uh... shows how much time I spend on the internet. o_O

I wonder how many of those people would say things like uh... "you spent a whole HOUR on a drawing?! You have no life!"
I wonder that because of the story behind this piece of artwork. Tsk! =_=

And uh... yes. I'm ranting about things because I just encountered YET ANOTHER person who submits artwork that isn't theirs because they just want to show it to people when they can do that by either adding the image to their favourites or linking to it in a journal entry or something.

And uh... I'll also mention that I asked the doctor about my elbow thing and she said it might be golfer's elbow or tennis elbow and that it's probably caused by using it too much, so uh... I'm just mentioning that in case anyone is curious because of my last journal entry!

I have more than one month'd since the last journal entry thing here! Gasp! But uh... what I want to talk about is my RIGHT ARM, since it reacts annoyingly to being extended, bent or pushed against things in certain ways. The sensation is pretty much identical to the tinging you would feel if you bumped your elbow against something and your elbow, forearm, and hand start tingling unpleasantly. Yes. Just like that, but without the actual pain of having uh... bumped into something. o_O

The tingling can be various levels of intensity (I can extend my arm quickly and only feel it really mildly...), but sometimes it's so strong that it actually feels like I've physically bumped into something with my elbow and end up looking around me to see what it could have been, but nothing was actually there for me to collide with. If I end up causing that tingling multiple times throughout the day, my arm ends up feeling uh... mildly odd probably for hours after and feels sort of tingly depending on how it's positioned. (It's feeling odd right now, actually. I don't think it likes the mouse-using position very much... My fifth finger feels sort of tingly because of it.) I think my arm might have been this way for months or something. I know it feels like it's been like this for ages anyway.

ANYWAY, uh... I don't really know what would cause something like that and hope it's not something that's going to end up getting horribly worse since I do need my right arm for things like DRAWING and am wondering if anyone else is familiar with the symptoms or recongnise it as a sign of something yet to develop or something.

Other than that uh... I've been so unmotivated and uninspired! How frustrating! I want to draw something, but my lack of inspiration makes it so incredibly difficult to work on anything. Tsk. Also, Internet Explorer 6 is horrible and frustrating and causes stupid web design problems! It also makes my website look horrible because it can't display PNG image transparency properly. It makes me cringe to think of people viewing my website (or even this journal...) with that browser and thinking it looks horrible because of all the weirdly-coloured boxes and that I must be a terrible designer to think that THAT looks good when it's just a problem with the browser itself. o_O

It feels like my other journal is getting old, so uh... here's a new one. Do you ever have dreams where you end up eating some kind of food? If so, does the food taste like it's supposed to? Because whenever I dream about eating something (which is rarely...) it turns out to be very unpleasant because all food in my dreams has a really disgusting uh... greasy, bitter, and salty flavour to it... I think most of those dreams end up being about me not being able to get the flavour out of my mouth after I've eaten something, or I eat something and then eat more hoping that the flavour the thing is SUPPOSED to have will get rid of the flavour it has in the dream. Which is a brilliant idea. o_O

Other than that, I'm also going to say that I don't comment/write journals/make polls very often because I seem to get quite nervous about it... I end up getting comments in my inbox and thinking I should respond to them, but I just tell myself I'll do it later and then never get around to it... (Which makes me feel bad! D: ) I do appreciate and read all the comments I get though, but uh... nervousness. Yes. Sometimes I write comments, journal entries and uh... a question and some options for a poll, but never actually end up submitting them and if I ever do, I end up feeling panicky about them for the next several days or longer probably. Isn't that exciting?!

Now I'll go to bed and have this journal stuck in my mind, probably half wishing I never wrote it or something and wondering what people will say in response if anyone even responds at all! o_O

Or maybe it's a little bit too early to say "GOODBYE" since I have the whole REST OF THE DAY, but uh... this will give me a chance to read some responses before I go. Y'know... If there ARE any. ANYWAY, I'm going to be disappearing for a month starting TOMORROW as I will be travelling across the world to visit my DEARLIEST BOYFRIENDGUY, *pseudolonewolf! Yes! I'm going to the airport pretty much right after I wake up tomorrow... o_O

The travelling should be uh... interesting as I have only ever travelled by plane once before when I was going to Disneyland with my mum and sister. That was five years ago. Now I'll be travelling across the Atlantic Ocean from more or less the furthest point away from it I can GET in Canada. Alone. o_O
I thought I'd be nervous or scared or really dreading dealing with airports and things, but after thinking about it for a few months, I've just got tired of being bothered worrying about what it's going to be like. That, and I think I've yet to properly realise that this is actually going to happen. I've been raising my eyebrow a lot today whenever I've reminded myself that I'll be soaring in the belly of a great iron whale in less than 24 hours!

But gasp! I haven't seen *pseudolonewolf in ONE YEAR and uh... three days. Since that last journal entry where I mentioned having just spent that month with him before. Now you can use that piece of trivia to TEST YOUR FRIENDS on how much useless knowledge they possess! Or maybe you can use it to change the subject of an awkward conversation! Who knows! It's your knowledge to use now!

And gasp! They changed the look of this journal writing page! And the CSS box is bigger! Good! No longer do long lines WRAP! And uh... I should probably get back to packing and making sure I haven't forgotten anything really IMPORTANT like my LIFE CRYSTALS. I can't LIVE without THOSE! They're more vital than my vitalmost of organs!

During my travels through deviantART, I've inevitably run into some alleged "art thieves," and the majority that I've run into (I haven't actually encountered very many, and most of them have been because I recognised official video game art that showed up on the front page) actually had me much less annoyed than the anti art theft comments left on the person's page. Some people seem to get really extreme in their comments, eloquently stating that said "art thief" is "the scum of the earth" and that they "make me sick!"

It's perfectly fine and reasonable to dislike art theft, but when it gets to such an extreme that people can't help but verbally (or textually, maybe) attack someone immediately upon seeing that they've uploaded artwork that doesn't belong to them, that's when it's getting both unreasonable and out of hand... This is especially so in the various cases I've seen where the person uploading artwork they got from some game or another just doesn't understand how the website works and that you're not supposed to upload artwork that doesn't belong to you, perhaps mistaking the website for something similar to Photobucket. What bothers me most about this is that nobody even explains very well what you should and shouldn't do on deviantART and by just attacking the person, they're getting a really terrible "welcome" to the website. It makes me think of someone screaming at a child, telling it that it's a horrible, horrible person for tracing a drawing of something and saying, "look at my thing that I made!" o_O

I've even seen some of these "art thieves" admit that the drawings aren't their own and that they only uploaded them so people would know what they were talking about when they referred to the characters, or that they liked the art and wanted to show other people. How hard is it to say something like, "it's against the rules to submit art that isn't your own, so if you want to show these things, it would be best to post links to the images in a journal entry. People are going to assume you drew whatever goes into your gallery because that's what it's for" or something like that? It's better to handle these things in a calm, polite manner, both because the submitter of "stolen" artwork is more likely to cooperate when they're not being insulted and yelled at and because it prevents you from looking like a raving lunatic. If politely informing the person of the rules doesn't work, that's what the "report deviation" link is for.

So yes. I'm just tired of seeing people getting attacked for misunderstanding the purpose of the website or being unaware of copyright laws and what's considered a violation of them... D:

Uh... yes! That! Take it! The merry happiness and joy and so forth and et cetera or something! o_O

Though it feels like it's too soon to be Christmas maybe. This year has gone by quickly, as did last year. Maybe it's just because I've aged to a point where a year isn't like... forever compared to how long I've been alive. It feels like last year's Christmas only just happened and now it's happening again! I don't know, I feel like I can't properly get into the *feel* of Christmas or something. It stands out less now than it did when I was younger and it was some magical time of year that was just SO EXCITING and I'd hold my watch up to my ear to listen to the seconds go by until I eventually fell asleep. Autumn feels so much like autumn and brings with it all kinds of recogniseable feelings that make me want to play games like Super Mario RPG and Yoshi's Island due to the heating being on in the house for the first time in ages and all the leaves changing colours, but the Christmassy time of year seems to be missing a strong feeling like that these days, annoyingly. When it happens, it's hard to believe it IS happening and feels more like I'm just watching Christmas occur rather than *feeling* it occur... YOU KNOW?! Maybe there's just too much monotony in my life for me to recognise it, even if it's snowing and there are colourful lights on houses and trees and there's an inflatable snowman and penguin in front of the house across the road from mine. Uh. It always feels like something is missing these days though. Maybe not being in school where Christmassy events and assignments happen has something to do with it. Or maybe the thing I want most being half way across the world and not under a Christmas tree does. I don't know. Ramble. o_O

But uh... like I was saying before, it's been a quick year! I still habitually think it's 2007, but it's going to be 2009 in a few days. And since it's going to be a new year, I've actually come up with some resolutions that aren't things that will happen ANYWAY. I'll post them here so I don't forget what they are and then I can look back in a year and laugh at how many I DIDN'T do.

1)Improve more at art in 2009 than I did in 2008
2)Beat my "busiest month" of August, 2006 during which I submitted 7 things
3)Learn to make stuffed animals
4)Build a clock
5)Travel to the moon and back using nothing more than a bottle of dog shampoo, a striped mug and three oddly-shaped bricks.

Though since I do that last one a few times a year anyway, I might as well not even include it on the list. But uh... yes. I actually have new things to try in that short, short list there! (I thought there was something else, but now I can't remember what it was!) They're things I'd really like to try and accomplish, but uh... we'll see. o_O

Just playing with journal CSS... Uh... I might replace that image thing above this box one of these days, but for now, I'm writing this useless journal entry just to have the CSS saved in the little box under my journal entry here on deviantART instead of in a CSS file on my computer. It's a nice, warm colour scheme that makes me sort of feel warmer amidst this cold winter climate...! D:

But maybe I'll mention something artistically useful. I shall mention that, for those who like drawing birds or flying things, ~chezem has a lot of great flying cockatoo photos among other birds in various poses.

Oh, and my last journal entry about strange weather still applies.

I was thinking earlier today about what the weather where I live has been like for the past year or so. It has been ODD. That is, normally we aren't attacked by beyond 100km/h winds in spring and autumn that blow down large trees, nor do we usually get bombarded by fierce storms that shake the house with their thunder... It felt so unreal, those storms... They're the sorts of things I'd only ever seen on television or heard about. They were the types of storms where barely a few seconds would pass before another impressive lightning bolt tore through the sky and perhaps hail would accompany it... Or where sheet lightning was attacking the clouds even faster than that! o_O

It's ABNORMAL. Usually lightning is slow to occur and thunder is there but not frighteningly loud...! I don't know much about the history of weather, so for all I know, this could be some *natural fluctuation* thing, but uh... it's certainly not something I'm used to. That WIND too! It's unnerving waking up hearing your house creaking all around you and your window shaking, thinking it might break or something might blow through it.

Anyway, I'm really curious to know if anyone else has been having *strange weather* this past year!

Well, since I seem to not have very much money at all anymore, I suppose I'll try opening commissions to see what happens. I've been slowly working on a commissions page on my website all day, hoping everything is clear and fair and so on.

Commission Information!

So there you go! I wish I'd also stop forgetting what it was I thought of since my last journal entry, because I'm sure I wanted to say something else here! Tsk again! I don't exactly like the idea of having a journal entry sitting on my userpage that's only about commissions. That's just dull. But since I can't think of anything actually useful or important to mention, I'll tell a story.

Once upon a time there was a small time that was up-onning its once. Nobody actually knew what this MEANT really, or they'd undoubtedly have a strange, strange perception of reality. It wasn't until later that Abe realised he left his last orange peel in the building and by then, it was too late. He never even got to say goodbye, which was the strangest thing because Abe was cursed with always having the opportunity for anything he could ever possibly have an opportunity for. For once, he was thinking. Perhaps the curse had been lifted and all the children would finally be able to celebrate Victoria Day once more. Oh, if only the children could understand just how complex their situation really was. But since they couldn't, they lived very disappointing, unfulfilling lives. The End.

Yes. Apparently I am 19 years old now. Finally. It took me 19 years to get here, but not once did I give up. When a year came and went and gave me an age like 10 or 17, I wasn't deterred. Oh no. I knew that if I kept trying, ONE DAY I would reach the age of 19. I kept going and I SUCCEEDED. And do you know why?? It's because I BELIEVED in myself! ;_;

So you see? Dreams DO come true! All you need to do is believe in yourself and you'll have the strength to go on and accomplish great things!! Sniffle.

Also, I remembered what I was going to mention in that last journal entry but forgot about. I was going to say that my WATER thing is strangely popular. It's apparently my most favourited submission and I don't know why because I hardly spent any time on it and it looks really rough and messy or something (it's not that I DISLIKE it or anything, I just find it odd that it's received so many favourites, especially since I thought it was like... the worst out of the three elemental things I did) and yet, there are things like THIS, which I spent an immense amount of time on, but it hardly received any attention at all...

Then there was something else that I was going to mention in my next journal entry that I thought of recently, but I've forgotten what THAT was! Which is just typical. o_O

This is inspired by the latest poll thing that appears at the bottom of pages in that uh... darkish green area thing! o_O

But anyway, some of the comments on that poll seem really uh... FOR getting rid of them altogether because they "fuel drama" or "turn deviantART into a popularity contest" etc, etc... Which seems to be true in some cases like certain popular artists being attacked constantly because they have a ridiculously high number of pageviews... Which isn't exactly fair since the artist really has no control over how many people like their art. What are they supposed to do? Just not submit anything ever? (Unless they just happen to be drawing a popular type of art to become popular quickly?? Do people actually DO that ever? "I'll draw shiny anime fanart because it's easy to get popular that way!" o_O)

But getting rid of pageviews for that? It wouldn't take much effort to find out how many comments, favourites, and views a person's art gets in general since the information is readily available on all their submissions. It would be easy enough to gauge a person's deviantART popularity just from that. (Guh, some of the comments there sound annoyingly arrogant too...) But how many people who argue against them and the whole "popularity contest" thing would actually be happy not knowing whether or not their art is being seen or appreciated by anyone? Isn't the whole idea of submitting something to a popular art website to show your art to the world?

Or uh... It's fair enough for people who get attacked all the time to have the option to hide their pageviews, but... ugh. People should just be... better people. It makes me think of children fighting over a toy and the toy has to be taken away just because the children can't learn to get along or something... And other things like privileges being revoked because of people abusing them to cause some form of chaos or something! Like the ability to post images on a forum being taken away because some idiots thought it would be hilarious to post pornography all over the place. SIGH. o_O

But uh... yes! Pageviews! There was... something entirely different that I wanted to mention in a journal entry a while ago... What was it? (It's because of this thing I can't remember that I WANTED to write a new journal entry! Ahh!) I should remember to write these things down when I think of them. I bet I'll remember it and take another month to write a new journal entry and by the time I do, I'll have forgotten it again. Because it's not like I could just edit this entry and force it to appear in peoples' inboxes again! I wouldn't want to do that though... for some reason.

Apparently it's been a while since I made my last journal entry, so here's a new one! About more than what the title mentions, actually. But let's start with that anyway.

I AM 18 (GASP! Astonishment! THAT'S not "antelope!") and I am not incredibly fond of it. One reason being that it's the age many younglings look forward to because they're old enough to buy alcohol (or buy alcohol for their *underage friends*... >_> ), move out of their parents' house, drive alone, etc. I have done none of those things! I like being at a more developed uh... stage in life than a child, but I do miss not having to worry about Real World things like money and et cetera instead spending my time drawing yoshis, training Pokemon, and enjoying the childish imagination that makes playing games with stuffed animals fun and not awkward or seemingly pointless. o_O

I'm certainly in no rush to uh... grow up. Though I know there are plenty of youngerkins who get excited about learning to drive because it makes them more *independant* and such whereas it's a teeeeeedious chore for me. (And I don't trust other people on the road!1 Especially not teenage boys who drive over the speed limit because it's SOOOO rebellious and COOOOOL to be careless with the lives of themselves and others! And I've witnessed plenty of reckless driving near the secondary school I went to. Ugh. I didn't feel comfortable crossing the road because of that. And annoyingly, many of them get away with it. SIGH. =_= )

It's interesting though that even though I've *come this far* in life and I'm uh.. ALL GROWNEDED UP now, I've basically only just finished the prologue or something. o_O

There were probably other things I was going to say about that, but I can't remember them now! I'm being too distracted by my BIRD crawling up and down my arm and chewing on my chair. And keyboard. o_O

I was also going to say, "huzzah! I think I got some sort of amount of artistic inspiration back!" I mean, gasp! I submitted two things within like... a few days of eachother! Amazing! If only I could have the same sort of inspiration that I had back in 2004 when drawing things seemed like the most amazing thing in the world next to actually creating them. I always got so excited about the next thing I was going to draw because of that. I think some of that might have returned to me maybe...! Slightly. In some way.

But yes! Journal entry! Woo! (Also, it's annoying how emoticons SHOW UP in text annoyingly when you use certain punctuations together! I have to put spaces between things to make emotions not happen. I prefer the... colons-on-either-side method of using emoticons. Yes!)

I got a new computer recently...ish... and now that I've had a reason to use the Print Screen key, I realise that any of the screenshots I paste into Photoshop have incorrect colours... For example, uhh... that dark green/grey colour of that top bar where it shows your username and messages shows up as a more greeny yellow-tinted colour for me in screenshot form! But strangely, I can SAVE the screenshot and view it in any web browser and it shows up with the colours it's SUPPOSED to have! AND I just tried creating a new image that was just a rectangle of the colour it shows up as for me, but when I saved it and looked at it in Firefox, it's the same colour as that dark top bar thing...! o_O

If you have Photoshop or something that lets you use hexadecimal colour codes to change the colour you're using, does #40534A show up as the same colour as that dark top bar, or does it seem more olivey than that top bar thing...? (EDIT: Hmm... Pasting that code into Flash, I get the deviantART top bar colour rather than the olivey colour that Photoshop gives me... But why?? D: )

This... off-colour-image thing also occurs when I double-click on an image to view it. The THUMBNAILS look fine, but actually viewing the image in that uh... Windows Photo Gallery thing/Photoshop/et cetera results in weirdly tinted colours... Annoying, that, because if I'm colouring things, I could be giving them the colours I want them to have according to Photoshop, but if I see them in a web browser, they could look totally different... o_O

I have no idea what would cause such a thing though... Does ANYONE?? o_O

Oh! Here's an example of what happens to my colours...! IT'S AN IMAGE OF MANY! The first one isn't affected at all in that image, but it was when it was actually in Photoshop...

(Bah. I wanted to change my journal CSS maybe, but don't have the patience to undergo the process of doing that, nor do I have many ideas I'd like to try... And I wish the header and footer boxes were bigger...! They make me feel claustrophobic when there's more text in them than they can show. o_O)

So, apparently I've surpassed 20,000 pageviews...! Gasp! That's one step closer to a number larger than that! I am acknowledging that fact, but what I REALLY wanted to mention is that, when browsing deviantART galleries, the thumbnails just don't show up at all when I either click on one of those... folder/category things in a gallery or when I click the "browse" link next to a person's scrap total. This only happens to me when I'm using Firefox, and I was wondering if anyone else was having the same problem...

There was something else I was going to mention that I thought of a few days ago, but I forgot what it was...
(Oh wait... I remember now. It's... *awkward* when people capitalise the "q" in my name thing. I always read it as two separate words when that happens. Fire Quill. If the q was meant to be capitalised, it would be. You wouldn't go around spelling peoples' names as ElizaBeth or GunTher.

...Or WOULD you?! o_O)

But HEY! NASA's Phoenix lander successfully landed on Mars today! Gasp! I hope they find buried treasure! It IS there to DIG, after all! o_O

So, last night between thoughts of hallucinations and feelings of contempt towards obnoxiously hooting owls, I remembered (because of the owls) a time when I was in VEHICLE with my dad when I was a wee sapling and we were driving through a sort of darkish foresty place. He was making owl noises and, having the wild, childish imagination that I did in those days, I was frightened by it and thought of the noises as coming from the forest itself and that there were creepy owls that were going to GET ME...! I wish I could remember that experience more clearly so I could understand WHY I reacted the way I did... Did I think he had some sort of power to summon creepy owls from the forest?! Was I bothered by thoughts caused by the creepy owl noises relating to the possibility of creepy owls being in the forest?! I just don't know...! D:

But that's like... another event where I was with my sister and we were both children, her being younger... ANYWAY, I said, "I'm going to take your hair!!" to which she exclaimed, "noooOOOOoooo!" so I grabbed the air above her head, said, "I GOT YOUR HAIR!" and then made a motion with my arm towards the window and said, "I threw your hair out the window!!" and regardless of her hair dancing around in her face at the time and the window being closed, she believed me. "I'm telling on you!! D:" she said. o_O

I don't know if I can remember any more events in my childhood where I've... been completely unaware of The Way Things Work In Reality... (Oh, but there were those... "I'VE GOT YOUR NOSE!!" times...! I seem to remember a stage where someone did that to me and it was a sort of transition out of... my imagination getting me to "believe" that whoever actually DID have my nose... Uh, I think I thought something like, "I just have to not let it bother me! There's no reason TO be bothered! THEY can look like the stupid one for thinking they can make me believe they can remove my nose from my face!" implying it was something I just... *went along with* but the power of my own imagination was strong enough to make me seriously bothered by it...)

SO, if you have any stories about childhood misconceptions of reality, then I'm interested in hearing them! And, of course, if you can remember WHY you thought what you did then... that's interesting too!

SIGH, to be a child again and to have such an active imagination, unaffected by the acceptance/understanding of *reality*. (And to crawl around and bark at other customers while shopping.) o_O

So I was totally like... browsing deviantART, y'know?? And I was thinking of this one specific image that I hadn't seen in ages but couldn't remember what it was called or who created it or anything...! And then I JUST HAPPENED to find it on someone's page thing as one of their favourites! Isn't that IRONIC??

YOU'RE RIGHT. IT ISN'T! AT ALL! o_O

And to make things even BETTER, that story is a LIE! Is the deceit too much for you?! I thought so. Had I been going to various lengths to AVOID a certain image, but still JUST HAPPENED to encounter it... THAT would be ironic! It would ALSO be ironic if I said, "my computer keeps STOPPING as I type things!" and then proceeded to respond with, "how convenient!" People using the word "ironic" to sound educated while, in truth, using it improperly is IRONIC.

But speaking of everything relating to whys of iron, I'm going to inquire about the confidence of whoever you are reading my journal. Are you capable of just BLURTING THINGS OUT without being bothered by thoughts similar to "what will [audience] think of what I'm saying?? D:" or "what I have to say really isn't that important anyway so I'll just... keep quiet...!"...? Or do you ever just not want to say things because you're so unsure of yourself even if you were simply stating a fact like 2+2=4? (Do you feel less willing to answer the question when you're addressed as "you person reading my journal" because it makes it seem like I'm expectant of your answer or am asking "directly" and am "targeting" you or something and forcing you into a situation you may not be comfortable with rather than just leaving it as some sort of... applies-to-everyone-and-you-can-easily-avoid-it type of situation?!/ Or does it make you feel oddly special?!)

Relatedly, do you seek to improve yourself or do you think you're fine the way you are? If someone was to point out some sort of "flaw" they saw in you ("I don't like how you stomp around in a suit of armour threatening babies and encouraging bodies of water to gamble!"), would you be inclined to do something about it, or would you not bother because you shouldn't have to suit (OF ARMOUR!! HAR HAR HAR!!) everyone's tastes and you're happy the way you are whether you have this "flaw" or not...? Your answer to this would be affected by... what sort of "flaw" is being mentioned, of course... Let's assume it's something that, generally, is seen as... something that makes you look bad? "You'd be seen as a more respectable human being if you didn't spit while walking around in public!" or uh... "you doing this hurts my feelings and makes you look like a bad person...!"
(It's not very easy coming up with an example that illustrates exactly what I mean that everyone would interpret as meaning what I intend it to. Uh... o_O)

Also, do you criticise yourself often? Think things like, "agh, stupid! I should have said that like ____!"

Related to THAT, I've noticed on several occasions, "beginner artist" people on deviantART who end up writing some sort of journal entry in which they rant about "not being good enough at drawing" and then they leave deviantART and give up on drawing because they're not as good as they want to be... which I can relate to in ways, however, I uh... hopefully wouldn't just QUIT whatever I wasn't good enough at if I truly wanted to be better...! (In many cases, I crave the satisfaction of overcoming whatever it is that hinders me just to... STICK IT TO IT the... obstacle!) In all that time spent having given up, a person could have improved dramatically and could be much more satisfied with what they've accomplished...!

So, when faced with the need/desire to improve, is it a struggle against difficult emotions to make yourself try, or does NOT trying cause difficult, frustrating, or otherwise unsatisfying feelings? Would you acknowledge hindering feelings and try to convince yourself that they are silly and indeed only hindering you, potentially leading to success, or would you just feel them and let them bother you and not want to change because of them...? (Because that's exactly what they want...! =_= ) o_O

How many responses am I actually going to get? ANSWER THAT. (And don't be at all concerned about writing a comment that's "too long" if you want to respond thoroughly!) It would be reassuring if I had some sort of consistent audience so when I write journals like these, I'd definitely get at least a handful of responses...! It would feel silly to re-ask things I'd asked in previous journal entries if, one day in the distant future, my audience had expanded and I could get answers from many more people, but I'd have a perfectly good reason to, so why should I care? (IT'S IRONIC THAT I'D BE AFFECTED BY THAT!1 Sort of. Y'know. Because, based on what I've sa... ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/16805587/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/16805587/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:43:30 PST

Apparently. After not doing for a month because I've been spending the last month with my wonderful boyfriend, *pseudolonewolf, who I've been talking to on MSN for more than a year before meeting that month ago! Yes! Gasp! That's what I've been doing, not that anyone is particularly interested in what I specifically have been doing or anything. HMM. I'm not actually going to uh... SAY... anything even though I would be really curious about things if I was reading this journal, but uh... HEY! There's a "Collect" thing in that top bar thing and I have yet to actually investigate and read messages and things so I'll be doing THAT now! I'm using a computer! o_O

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special] [Chapter 8]

]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15966326/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15966326/ Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:10:44 PST

Its only purpose is to save my new JOURNAL CSS and uh... make it OFFICIALLY CHANGED or something! I don't like that the DIV THING this text is in has to be uh... brought into existence in the "Journal Entry" box and can't just be started in the "Header" box and ended in the "Footer" one. I wonder how many times I'll forget to do that. o_O

But uh... since I'm sort of... FORCING this journal entry, maybe I'll write another chapter of Pink Elephant boy. Apparently I can't remember things that I actually WANTED to write journal entries about!

(Gasp! I can totally change the colour of the top... gradient thing of this box because I made so many different versions of it to see which looked best!)

SO ANYWAY...

Pink Elephant Boy

- Chapter 8: Reform -

"Well THIS place seems HORRIFICALLY DULL!!" screamed Bobette so hard that someone who wasn't really that close to her mentally commented on it. Of all the shapes in the world, the square was Bobette's most hated. She could tolerate hexagons and even sort of liked triangles, but the square was just too much. She would never eat square food or stroke square animals and she certainly wouldn't go anywhere NEAR cubed ice!
"I wouldn't go anywhere NEAR cubed ice!!" said Bobette, "I simply CANNOT tolerate THIS awful place!! Something must be DONE about it!! I won't sit idly by and let a place I HATE SO MUCH even EXIST whether it affects my life or not!!"
Bobette got to her feet and stompingly spun in many directions until she violently pushed over a squarely shaped woman who promptly burst into flames tears.
"NO, YOU DISGUSTINGLY SQUARE WOMAN!! YOU'RE ONLY MAKING THE WORLD MORE SQUARE!!" Bobette did shriek one(s) time before forcefully shoving her tongue politely into the woman's eyes to get rid of the cubic tears. The woman seemed at least mildly surprised and perhaps even psychotically happy. After a lengthy discussion that mostly partly covered yellow yarn and the abrasive properties of pant knees, the woman decided to take Bobette to a suspiciously square box.
"This, young lady, is what controls the shape of everything in this mysterious land. If IT changes shape, so do the rest of us...!!" mysteriously whispered the woman while seeing how high she could jump.
Bobette sighed and probably said, "When will anyone learn that THIS SPECIFIC THING DOES NOT INTEREST ME?? How many times do I have to TELL people?! Haven't they REALISED yet how UNINTERESTING it is to me?! If nobody is going to be even REMOTELY helpful to me, I'll just have to... I'll just have to LEAVE!! Even if it means having HORRIBLE NIGHTMARES about SQUARES for the rest of my life!!" so she stomped away, crushing the box into a half-hourglassish shape unnoticingly as she went.

Three days had passed and Mister Oldsman had not yet moved from his fallen over position. Several vehicles had swerved to avoid him and a cat slept on him for several hours during that time, but he was unaware... He was... ASLEEP. Bobette was [preferred unit of measurement]s away and had no idea about the gruesome fate that had befallen her loyal companion. Would she be able to rescue him in time? Will she ever find Pink Elephant Boy?? I bet a person WOULDN'T know if you even TRIED to ask them at least slightly!

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special]

]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15258510/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15258510/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:22:35 PDT

WELL?! DO YOU?!!?

Because apparently in MY dreams, whenever I need to HURRY for whatever reason, I have such great DIFFICULTY in doing so... If I'm running, I'll feel that, with every step, I'm fighting to not be pushed BACKWARDS, or I'll FALL OVER and not be capable of standing up again... Maybe I'll even start ROLLING, but I'll end up rolling off to the side instead of where I WANT to go. (This is especially irritating in those annoying dreams where I'm being CHASED and end up having such incredible difficulty getting away. I can almost FEEL the... safe feeling of escaping, but I can never actually reach safety. NO, instead the problem is RESOLVED! (Or I wake up before the dream gets that far...) =_= (Tsk! Why can't running away EVER be the answer!? SIGH. D: ))

And I'm beginning to suspect that old ladies in my dreams represent UNCOMFORTABLENESS or AWKWARDNESS or something, though I think those have only been appearing in my dreams *recently*...

But uh... NOW THAT I'VE GIVEN EXAMPLES, you'll surely be able to answer this journal question thing yourself! What THINGS like that seem to happen noticeably more-than-onceten and WHAT do you think they mean!?

(Aw, darn... I was just thinking of something ELSE I wanted to ask but forgot...)

Also, what sort of dreams do you generally HAVE? WHAT DO PLEASANT DREAMS INVOLVE?? Nightmares?! ET CETERA?!

Most of MY dreams have VIDEO GAME references (mostly ZELDA?! Though, the SIMPSONS and characters from KING OF THE HILL have appeared in my dreams too.)... and if I'm nightmaring, I'm usually being CHASED... (And then that stupid RUNNING thing happens where I STRUGGLE SO MUCH!! o_O)

I've also had some dreams where I've had these "flight glove" things that I can wear and FLY with!! I'm not really sure what INSPIRES those dreams (I should focus on what I was thinking about the previous day when I have them...) but they feel so REAL and like I'm REALLY FLYING and... and... uh... Yes! Those have happened more than once!

But uh... IT'S YOUR TURN TO ANSWER QUESTIONS NOW! =_=

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special]

]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15144256/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15144256/ Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:30:17 PDT

I have 146 watchers and only a handful of you ever make your presences known to me! I wonder how many of those 146 actually watch my journals! o_O

SO, because I'm so very nosey and curious... WHO ARE YOU?! That is, I want anyone who reads this journal to answer that question! SOUNDS VAGUE, DOESN'T IT?! There's no RIGHT ANSWER if you're at all worried about THAT! Write PARAGRAPHS if you feel that's what it requires to adequately answer this! (LONG RESPONSES ARE GOOD!) Delve as deeply as you'd like as well.

Also, don't look at OTHER RESPONSES before responding yourself! Well, that's what I'd PREFER, since how YOU interpret the question reflects how YOU think. Just answer the question as though you were the person who asked it. Don't stop yourself from responding if you DO read other peoples' answers first though.

And I totally wonder how many people will actually respond to this! o_O

Oh, and if you're one of those people who just READS my journals, but says nothing, COMMENT ANYWAY! Even if you're just saying "Hello!" and don't wish to answer the question! o_O (Or totally ramble away about WHY you wouldn't want to answer the question! That's good too!)

ALL RESPONSES TO THIS ARE APPRECIATED, even if they aren't at all relevant to the subject! o_O (And if you feel the need to add anything you didn't mention in a comment, comment again? Comment without reading other responses, then read responses then comment again based on what other people said? Ramble about how you FEEL about answering things like this?)

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special]

> How do you view me?! ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15081763/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/15081763/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:48:23 PDT

...I think I've completely forgotten how a person goes about starting a journal! I haven't written a new entry for uh... 57 days?

But uh... I suppose I was thinking about this as I was perusing through galleries, starting with Jennadelle's and then clicking on whatever avatars seemed to interest me from then on maybe. I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW IT ALL HAPPENED! It DID make me think about how often HER style was 'copied' and, well... it's been rather noticeable with the styles of OTHER peoples' art as well. I can understand aspiring to BE like someone, but it's probably... IRKSOME in a way when their art is enjoyed so much that people feel they'll only be satisfied when they can draw JUST LIKE that person (thus robbing them of their individuality)... I'll assume it's for the, "If I drew that, I would be so PROUD!"/"I wish *I* could have drawn that! D:" reasons.

THOUGH, the whole point of this journal isn't to RANT about that, what I REALLY wanted was to ask you few people who actually READ my journals/just happen to be passing by my page and looking at my art if there's anything DISTINCT about my style! I probably can't pick such things out because uh... I DRAW my art! o_O

So uhh... Here's maybe a list of questions you could maybe try to answer about my drawing style! (I wonder if I have enough to ask to MAKE a list... WE SHALL SEE! o_O)

> If you saw a piece of my art floating around on the internet (without any sort of awareness that it WAS drawn by me) would you easily assume that I'd drawn it?

> What stands out (if anything) about my art that would make you say, "Firequill must have drawn that!!"

> Does my style immediately remind you of anyone else you've seen?

> What do you LIKE (if anything) about my style?

> What do you DISLIKE (if anything) about my style?

> ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?!?!

And for some GOOD FUN (I like THAT), I'm going to answer those things about my OWN art! o_O

> If you saw a piece of my art floating around on the internet (without any sort of awareness that it WAS drawn by me) would you easily assume that I'd drawn it?
If I didn't know it was DRAWN by me, it WOULDN'T be mine! Unless I had amnesia... in which case... maybe...? I could probably tell based on colour usage and... things. Yes. Maybe. (All my dragons look the same.) o_O

> What stands out (if anything) about my art that would make you say, "Firequill must have drawn that!!"
I drew it! o_O (You could totally have answered this question in the FIRST question, but I'm including this one ANYWAY in case people decide to respond to the first with "Yes" or "No.")

> Does my style immediately remind you of anyone else you've seen?
Neondragon, though her style seems to be evolving and I've attempted to distance myself from drawing similarly to HER. Her colouring style is probably totally different, and maybe there are OTHER things too, but the earlier days of my artisthood were spent ogling the art on her website, so I really honestly wouldn't be surprised if there were some similarities... somewhere. SIGH. (Don't tell me I draw like her (or anyone else, for that matter) as a COMPLIMENT! I don't WANT to draw like OTHER people and am probably quite solidly convinced that I have a bland, unoriginal style. o_O)
(Hey, I also totally used to draw all my dragons like slimmer versions of Charizard! o_O)

> What do you LIKE (if anything) about my style?
Uhhmm... Tri...angular....? o_O (Do I even HAVE anything in my gallery that would be a good example of what I mean?! Many things in there seem so much more ROUND than I'd want them to be!)
Oh, I know! This preview image!


> What do you DISLIKE (if anything) about my style?
NOT ORIGINAL ENOUGH! It doesn't STAND OUT! Not COLOURFUL enough! ET CETERA!

> ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?!?!
I'm totally going to maybe attempt to develop a more unique style! o_O



WELL, that was fun! It'd be great if people could answer those things there, yes!

And because I can mention it, my precious Pokemon Crystal game containing all my favourite Pokemon was recently discovered to be CORRUPTED. SIGH. D:
I KNEW I should have stored them all on Pokemon Stadium 2 while I had the chance, but somehow I felt I couldn't even trust THAT. Their only purpose at this point was sentimental comfort through existence. I can still battle with REGISTERED SETS of them on Pokemon Stadium 2, but there's something MISSING when playing with THOSE... They aren't coming directly... ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/14258192/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/14258192/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:58:55 PDT

This will probably be a short entry, however less about NOTHING than my LAST one (as apparently my sprites would not be imagely linked properly to my journal or something...)...

So uh... I want to ask you few people who actually read my journals/comments/pay attention to me... WHAT SORT OF PERSON DO YOU SEE ME AS? Do I seem CHEERY AND INANE?! Do you think of me as a GENIUS WHO GOES VOLCANO DIVING?! Based on what I've written/drawn, of course... I want to know how poorly I've been representing myself on the internet. Probably. IT WILL BE INTERESTING!

So uh... if you read this, PLEASE COMMENT! I'll probably only end up with a few responses... SO THE BIGGER THAT FEW IS, THE BETTER!

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special]

Art - Commission Info
100 watchers - 5/26 - POSTPONED?! o_O

- comic account ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13679254/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13679254/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:24:45 PDT

And I so TOTALLY have to do this because that *pseudolonewolf guy did it AND I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE HIM WHEN I GROW UP!!!

And uh... I guess I'll use a 1-5 x scale thing too, yes! o_O

A
[x] Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
Mildly... I mean, I really don't mind being in my bedroom and it being dark or anything, but if I'm like... alone in a house and it's dark... I'm afraid that maybe someone has maybe broken into the house and is lurking in the shadows...?


[x] Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
Again, mildly... I've climbed many trees and things and I'm fine with that... but when I'm like... high up on maybe a balcony or something, I'm afraid that somehow I'll flip forward over the railing and fall...? o_O (Well, it's more of a paranoia than anything...)

[xxxx] Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
I'M SO MANLY, I DON'T FEEL PAIN!!! But uh... I always squirm a lot when I'm being OBSERVED by the dentist because I'm afraid it will hurt... and usually me THINKING about how it's going to hurt makes it worse because then I'm actually paying attention to it and stuff...? Yes.

[xx] Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
I've never really been faced with open spaces, but I really don't like CROWDS. Especially if I'm WITH someone and... well I always end up making it my goal to stay NEAR them, but probably end up getting separated ANYWAY. Guh. I DON'T LIKE BEING CLUSTERED! o_O

[xx] Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Huzzah for squirming and yelping when it's time to get an immunization! o_O

[x] Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
When I'm on like... narrow roads, cliffsides and steep roads... yes. Because I'm stuck in that vehicle and can't just... get out and walk along what I might consider to be treacherous for a vehicle...

[x] Androphobia - Fear of men.
Because they often lose their temper easily which makes them SCARY and ... testosteroney! o_O


[ ] Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking.

[ ] Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.


[xxxx] Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
EYE DOUGHNUT TRUST PEOPLE. And I'm scared that people will like... try to TALK to me and I won't know what to say in response or like... I won't have understood what they SAID at all and I'M SCARED OF OFFENDING PEOPLE!! D:

[x] Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
I certainly wouldn't want PERVERTS like... rubbing up against me or something...


[xx>] Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
(That's totally a 2.4, by the way.) I can observe them from a safe distance... as long as they aren't in groups... uh... and I certainly wouldn't be able to TOUCH one... but I can CATCH them in plastic containers and stick them outside...

[ ] Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.

[x] Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightening.
I would definitely be worried if there was a violent thunder storm directly above me... but uh... apparently bad weather INTERESTS me because it's... DIFFERENT and EXCITING or something...? o_O

[ ] Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.


[ ] Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.


[xxx] Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
I ALMOST CRIED BECAUSE I HANDED SOMETHING IN LATE AND THOUGHT MY TEACHER WOULDN'T ACCEPT IT!! o_O


[x>] Autophobia - Fear of being alone.
I don't like the idea of not having someone around to like... LOOK OUT FOR ME or something like if someone DID manage to break into my house or something... what would I DO?


B
[ ] Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.

[ ] Barophobia - Fear of gravity.


[xxx>] Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
I'm not sure whether to give this one a three, a three point five, or a four... I've had nightmares about steep stairs/hills/being in a vehicle on a really steep road... and such dreams are always so terrifying! There's this one flight of stairs sort of near where I live which I've used a few times... but I can't STAND it because it's so STEEP and I keep thinking I'm just going to... fall backwards and nothing is going to catch me until I hit the ground because it's so steep... So I usually end up, like... crawling up them or... climbing them like a ladder... (and I can't stand steep stairs in houses, either! o_O)

[ ] Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.

[ ] Bibliophobia - Fear of books.

[ ] Botanophobia -... ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13476808/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13476808/ Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:06:01 PDT

Self-explanatory!

But HEY. Uh... people... isn't it fun when you think it's Thursday three days in a row while procrastinating [tedious/dull] studying for your Biology exam that happens to be on Monday? ...Well I thought it was amusing. Though, I suppose if I was really worried about it, I would be studying right now. APPARENTLY NOT!

UHMMMM... right, so I finally finished this lovely forum at my Oekaki thing for any of those who may be interested. It appears that my only other two active members have vanished off the face of the earth... probably kidnapped by intergalactic paedophiles. Tsk, selfish intergalactic paedophiles... always trying to inhibit my websitual growth! =_=

And then there's this other thing that I'm about to mention (Isn't Firequill's life SO exciting!?!? I know *I* can't wait for another juicy steaklet of her adventures and wisdom!)
If any of you were curious about that thing I was composing when I complained in my "Agh, I hate technology!" journal entry, I finished it very satisfyingally and can be viewed here as "Ardrung III." If you decide to listen to my musicseseses, COMMENT ON IT OR SOMETHING. Yes. That is "not" a demand. =_=

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special]

Art - Commission Info
100 watchers - 5/26 - POSTPONED?! o_O

- comic account ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13271648/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13271648/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:50:52 PDT

1) What was your first Pokemon game?
Pokémon Red

2) Can you remember who your starter was? If so, who?
It was my charmander named Flamer! I still have him on Crystal version as my level 100 Charizard with Slash, Fly, Flamethrower, and Earthquake(I think).

3) Did you ever complete the Pokedex in any games? Which one(s)?
Yessss. Red and Silver. And uh... I'm four away from Ruby as well.

4) Did you watch the Pokemon anime? Who was your favourite character?
YES I DID. My favourite character was... uh... Professor Oak? o_O All the other characters irritated me. Especially Ash. Because he was so *confident* when he got his two gym badges and he always saw rare Pokemon and like... *tainted* them with his presence. =_=

5) Do you still watch the anime?
I never know when it comes on. I probably would if I could make a habit of it... even though I don't particularly like how they're introducing characters based on the video game "heroes." I DO look at the sequential screen shots of some episodes on serebii.net...

6) What's your favourite Pokemon type? Explain.
FLYING. PSYCHIC. Because uh... I train them often? I enjoy many of the flying type Pokemon... Pidgeot, Swellow, the 'legendary birds'... Lugia, Altaria, Skarmory... ET CETERA. And... I like Psychic Pokemon because uh... they generally have a lot of Special Attack and Psychic attacks are generally a good offense because only two types can resist them? And uh... yes.

7) Who's your favourite Pokemon? Explain.
UHN. I don't think I have a specific favourite. Maybe Tyranitar. Or Mewtwo... Uhn.... I just... like Tyranitar. It can learn.. quite the variety of moves! (Which is the same reason that I also like Aggron) and Mewtwo because uh... I don't know. I was just so excited when I got my first Mewtwo and to this day, it's my strongest Pokemon (Miraculously. o_O)

8) Which Pokemon do you dislike the most? Explain.
ANYTHING THAT'S STEEL/PSYCHIC CAN GET THE DEATH PENALTY (Stupid lack of decent fire types in Diamond/Pearl!). Also, I don't like it when I have to battle Whiscash because I rarely ever train grass Pokemon.

9) Which is your favourite region? Explain.
UHHNNN. I can't decide between Johto and Sinnoh. I mean... if we're talking about the games involved in those regions, I like the metal series because of the ability to travel from Johto to Kanto at will after you've fought your way into the Hall of Fame. As for the regions in general... I'm so very, very FAMILIAR and AGREEING with Johto or something like it's my Pokemon world home because I spent so many, many hours training my most favouritest Pokemon to level 100 in Silver and Crystal... And they had Mt. Silver! That was my training place! It had... easy Pokemon to train against (considering the types of Pokemon I train) and... stuff. As for Sinnoh, I like the... stuff. It's big and has some interesting landscapes. But there isn't any Mt. Silver. =_=

10) Which is your favourite Pokemon series (ie, Kanto 1-151, Johto 152-251, Hoenn 252-358, others)? Explain.
UHN. I... don't know. I like selections from those selections, but I don't really think I can choose a favourite series in particular. I mean, I COULD say "Kanto" because it has the MOST Pokemon of any of the series and has some of my classic favourites, but... I'm not exactly allergic to Pokemon change, either. Unless they decided to turn the game upside-down into some sort of... Shadow the Hedgehog spin-off or something.

11) Can you say a series Pokedex, without a reference, in order?
Pfft. No. I know some less-than-obscure Pokemon numbers, but I can't list Pokemon in their numerical order... o_O (assuming I wouldn't forget to mention any)

12) Do you know all the type advantages, disadvantages and all the super-effective moves for each type?
I should. And Special/Physical and etc. etc. But, well... I've done a lot of battling...

13) Did you prefer Pokemon before the new ones, or after?
"The new ones"? I enjoy additions to Pokemon. Whoever says that "Pokemon is stupid now because they keep making more" is SILLY. I mean, wouldn't it get boring if they kept making games, but only ever had the same Pokemon? And it's not as though they've thrown the old ones out.

14) Have you got an Original Character who is a trainer?
None as far as my memory is concerned...

15) Have you ever wrote a fanfiction story about Pokemon?
I don't think so... but at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised. (Ah, the Yoshi Book.)

16) Was the OC based on yourself?
DOES NOT APPLY!

17) Who is your favourite gym leader?
UHN. Uhn. Uhn. uhh... Not... Falkner? He's like... evil or something. Sabrina is creepy... uh... ]]> *Firequill http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13099498/ http://Firequill.deviantart.com/journal/13099498/ Sat, 26 May 2007 10:11:07 PDT

That is, I graduated last night or sommat. Or at least this paper thing I have says I did. I was too totally BAKED and HAMMERED and NAILED and SCRATCHED and SNIFFED and WASTELANDED that I can't remember a damn thing anyway. D00D DAT WUZ A RADTASTICAL PARTY!!

Because I'm totally like that and all. The people who were sitting behind and to the left of me in the bleacher things all us graduates were sitting in during the ceremony were swearing constantly and talking about how they "want to get the $&(@# out of here so they could drink some #&(%#in' beer and get %#(&*%in' baked." And they criticized pretty much everyone who was crossing the stage to get their scroll thing which was just a cleverly disguised reminder to drop your ceremonial robes off before leaving. Those bleachers were incredibly uncomfortable. And you're all crowded together so you can't really move your legs around and have to have them sort of to the side so you aren't touching the person in front of you with your knees... STANDING NEVER FELT SO BEAUTIFUL AFTER THAT!! o_O

But hey! I got this nifty gold, tassely rope thing for maintaining a grade average of at least 80% through grades 11 and 12. Which is like... the BEST prize EVER! I can like... assault people with it from a distance of one hundred centimeters! It's my new favourite toy. Even better than the square purple hat.

I meant to watch Pokemon the Movie 2000 last night as my sort of... HARDCORE PARTY WOO!! but I didn't. Because I was tired. Psht. That was to be my substitute for "Dry Grad" because I... didn't want to go to Dry Grad. I KNEW for a FACT that I was only going to be following the people I know like a lost puppy trying not to get lost in a crowd of strangers... STRANGERRRSS!! Too chaotic for me. Too many people all crowded together. Bleh.

ANYWAY. Now I actually have to wait a month for the rest of the school year to end. HOW SAD. No more grade school. Unless I become a teacher. Not that that's going to happen. Oh no.

- Pink Elephant Boy: A reference -
[Prologue, Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3, 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Lid Day Special]

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Lid Day. Of course. What else could it be on an April 2nd? Shoyru day? SURELY NOT.

So yes! Happy Lid Day to all and to all a good lid! I do hope that one day the entire globe will come to realize the treasured holiday that is Lid Day. If it didn't... well... I probably would have completely forgotten about it by the time I died anyway and I wouldn't care. Unless I DID remember it in my last few seconds, but didn't have time to tell someone to... tell other people about Lid Day. Uh... but... anyway...

So ... ENJOY LID DAY WHILE IT LASTS (Does anyone really KNOW what you do on this holiday? ...Well... really... who DOESN'T?? o_O)

Pink Elephant Boy
- A Holiday Special -

"Wow, mister old man! You'll never guess what day it is! BECAUSE YOU'RE TERRIBLE AT GUESSING GAMES!! YOU ARE COMPLETELY OF LESS HOPE THAN MOST!! I would never trust YOU with my hope. Not EVER! Not even ONE of a time! But that's okay, everyone is different in their own special way, right, mister old man?" was what Bobette said to open today's episode.
"Gooseberries. Them's is... ain't right over until... THWARTED!!!" spewed Mr. Oldsman in what looked like a painful manner.
"I knew you would be wrong!" Sounded Bobette, "That is why I'm going to announce it officially to you! It is MONDAY today! But it isn't just ANY Monday!"
"Theeeeeeem?" Mr. Oldsman stared curiously at etteboB.
"That's RIGHT! It's Monday the twoth of APRON! That is to say, 02/04/07 (zero two slash zero four slash zero seven) which just HAPPENS to be Lid Day! Which isn't the important part. The IMPORTANT part is that it is, EEEEE, MONDAY THE SECOND OF APRIL!! How often does THAT happen!?!? It certainly didn't happen LAST year!! This event is so exciting that... that... I'M GOING TO MARK IT DOWN ON THE CALENDAR!!!! That way I'll NEVER forget about Monday the prethird unit of Apple!! And if I ever DO forget, why... I'd just want to DIE!" Bobette smiled pleasantly, "Now, being that it's a holiday and all, let's have some random celebrity guest stars!! We're inviting Cory Tonedchest to come join us from Hottsville Westsidefornia! EEE! Everyone say 'Sup!' to Cory!!"
"Yo, Bubbit," Cory's teeth sparkled delightfully, wooing Mr. Oldsman.
"Hey CORRRRIIIEEEEEE <3333HEARTS!! YOU'RE SO DREAMY, OMIGAWD!!!"
"I no lol whut u up 2?"
"n2m~ didu wana come ovr l8r?"
"o totly dat wud b cool"
"Yummers!"
"Mister old man!! You're ruining my chances with Cory Tonedchest!!!"
"hoos dat old dude?"
"Oh... that's just mister old man. He's cool. He just... hey, did you know he can move REEEAAAALLLY fast when you attach a rocket booster to him??"
"lol dude dat wud b sweet. u stil got dat?"
"I DO! I can SHOW you if you'd LIKE!!"
"nah im board. im c ya l8r babe"
"EHEHEHEHEHEEEEEEESQUEEEE!! CORY CALLED ME A BABE!!!"
"i wuz tlakin abut da old dood"
Mr. Oldsman blushed. Bobette was crushed. Cory was no longer in the vicinity.
"OOOOGH! Mister old man, you ALWAYS ruin all my chances with EVERYONE and EVERYTHING!! You've RUINED my life!!! You JERK!! I'm so ANGRY I could just... I could just... END THIS HOLIDAY SPECIAL!!"

END.

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