http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:GothiqueHobbit&section=today deviantART RSS for by:GothiqueHobbit en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:11:13 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28709382/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28709382/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:53:00 PST
It starts with I'm sitting in a lunch-room in an ornate schoolhouse or something, talking to my my friends, and a strange Apollo-like fellow is sitting at the table, talking to us about his brother-thing and how he was stuck in a "floating dream". That's when my dream flashes to the image of a black figure and a gray, dead-looking angel. All of a sudden, I exit the building to be standing in a vast field, the sky dark with rain clouds, and the grass meeting a wheat-field to my left. I see a beautiful golden angel, male or female, flying over my head with unmoving wings, the sound of bees or other sort of whooshing coming from somewhere, possibly from the angel. Suddenly some sort of blackness is seen before them, and their goldenness flakes away, like ash on a half-burned log, leaving their clothing gray and their face nothing but a dead skeleton. Their body thuds to the ground and the Apollo-angel man is suddenly next to me, and he greets me. Then, I wake up.

That. Is the most.... epic dream I have ever had, and yet it's always unresolved. I'm thinking of writing something around it, perhaps the utenzi I haven't written yet for my Poetic Styles from Around the World project. That's a Kenyan epic poem style, and it'd be perfect for telling a story around my dream. Perhaps I should make illustrations for it too.

What do you think? Any suggestions on how to expand it? Who is this Apollo figure? Is he good? Is he evil? What is this blackness, who was the gold angel? Why the crap was I in that workshop.


Engage!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28699924/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28699924/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:39:30 PST 002. Nickname(s)? - George (Harrison... long story)
003. Zodiac sign? - Capricorn
004. Male or female? - Female, I hope
005. Elementary? - École élémentaire Marie-Curie
006. Middle School? - ...I honestly can't remember.
007. High School? - École secondaire Gabriel-Dumont
008. Hair color? - Brown
009. Long or short? - Almost to my shoulder-blades
010. Loud or Quiet? - Loud if I have something to say. If you're just talking to me, I mumble.
011. Sweats or Jeans? - Jeans
012. Phone or Camera? - Camera!
013. Health freak? - Junk food junkie, though I try not to eat TOO much of it.
014. Drink or Smoke? - No
015. Do you have a crush on someone? - Not anybody I know. Actors abound, though.
016. Eat or Drink? - Eat?
017. Piercings? - Gettin' 'em pierced for the first time on my birthday.
018. Tattoos? - No. Ouch.


HAVE YOU EVER?

019. Been in an airplane? - When I was, like, two.
020. Been in a car accident? - My mom's car got the bumper smashed in while we were driving to our new home in 1998.
021. Been in a fist fight? - Nope.


FIRSTS:

022. First piercing? - See answer on "Piercings?"
023. First best friend? - Joshua
025. First award? - I think my first was for getting perfect attendance in middle school.
026. First crush? - Joshua Something-or-other in middle school (not my friend)
028. First big vacation? - Never been on vacation.


LASTS:

029. Last person you talked to? - Jacob.
030. Last person you texted? - Don't text.
031. Last person you watched a movie with? My sister.
032. Last food you ate? - Quesadilla.
033. Last movie you watched? - Hotel Rwanda.
034. Last song you listened to? - Jenny Wren- Paul McCartney
035. Last thing you bought? - 100 Grand candy bar.
036. Last person you hugged? - My mom.


FAVES:

037. Food? - Tandoori chicken
038. Drinks? - Chai
039. Clothing? - Skirts. <3
040. Book? - Too many to say just one.
041. Music? - Too many to say just one.
042. Flower? - Iris
043. Colors? - Certain shades of green
044. Movies? - Amadeus, Gandhi, Out of Africa, A Hard Day's Night
045. Shoes? - Whatever fits me.
046. Subjects? - History, art

IN THE PAST YEAR I ... :

047. [ ] kissed in the snow
048. [x] celebrated Halloween
049. [x] had your heart broken
050. [ ] went over the minutes on your cell phone
051. [ ] someone questioned your sexual orientation
052. [ ] came out of the closet
053. [ ] gotten pregnant
054. [ ] had an abortion
055. [X] done something you've regretted
056. [ ] broke a promise
057. [X] hid a secret
058. [X] pretended to be happy
059. [ ] met someone who changed your life
060. [ ] pretended to be sick
061. [ ] left the country (BIG TIME)
062. [ ] tried something you normally wouldn't try and liked it
063. [X] cried over the silliest thing (when DON'T I?)
064. [ ] ran a mile
065. [ ] went to the beach with your best friend
066. [x] stayed single the whole year (single since 1990, babeh)

CURRENTLY:
067. Eating? - Quesadilla... very slowly.
068. Drinking? - Nothing.
069. I'm about to? - Write or draw, I can't decide.
070. Listening to? - Jiya Jale Na Jale- Asha Bhosle
071. Plans for today/tomorrow? - Write.
072. Waiting for? - Christmas.
YOUR FUTURE:
073. Want kids? - Yes. Good golly, yes.
074. Want to get married? - I hope someone comes along for me, but if I never get married, I'm not gonna die over it.
075. Careers in mind? - Primatologist/poet

WHICH IS BETTER ON A BOY/GIRL?
076. Lips or eyes? - Eyes
077. Shorter or taller? - I don't care.
078. Romantic or spontaneous? - Romantic.
079. Nice stomach or nice arms? - Don't care.
081. Hookup or relationship? - Relationship.
082. Troublemaker or hesitant? – I'm not sure.

HAVE YOU EVER:
083. Lost glasses/contacts? - Every. Single. Day. I always find them, though.
084. Ran away from home? - No.
085. Held a gun/knife for self defense? - I held a knife the whole time I was alone one night, but that was because I was afraid someone would break in the house, not because anyone was confronting me.
086. Killed somebody? - No.
087. Broken someone's heart? - I hope not, it's possible, though.
088. Been arrested? - No.
089. Cried when someone died? - Yes.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

090. Yourself? - Sometimes
091. Miracles? - Maybe. I'll have to see one to be sure.
092. Love at first sight? ^
093. Heaven? Yes.
094. Santa Claus? - No. Never did.
095. Sex on the first date? - No, ew.
096. Kiss on the first... ]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28517482/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28517482/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:47:15 PST
Later on, when we ran out of places to go, we sat outside near the entrance to the mall, and just talked about this and that until two teenage girls came up to us and asked if they could pray for us, which might have come from me talking about a character of mine joining a clerical mission to Tanzania as they passed. I didn't feel I needed praying for, so the girls prayed for my friend, and agnostic who is searching for God again. I prayed along with them, and gave my friend my bible, which I had happened to be carrying at the moment. The girls highlighted a passage in my bible and gave my friend their phone-numbers, in case my friend wanted to talk to them again. My friend was very open with them about her fears of Hell, and also told of her fears of going out into the world as a young adult. Having talked to us, for a while the girls left.

Soon after, a man walked buy us and randomly asked if we happened to have a cigarette. I just found that funny, since we just came across these saintly girls and then a smoker just came buy. I'unno, it was a little ironic.


My friend's dad came to pick us up and, here I am, five hours after I came home, watching Ballykissangel and trying to draw.


The talk with those girls gave me new hope in my belief in Jesus, and I really do feel if I can just get to a church, my faith will fully be restored. Pray for me, fellow Christians, but pray for my friend, too, since she might need it far more than I.


Have an awesome day!

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Here's the whole musical, on ExIsle.net. I'll have the whole thing posted up here soon, scene by scene, song by song. Again. Enjoy! [link]


Until I have the pieces up on DA, feel free to read the one on EI, and tell me what you think in here.







WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I'm so happy!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28304469/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/28304469/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:44:51 PST BlueSpartanOfVGC, I decided that as some point, I'll make a Hetalia-esque comic based around the history of Rome, from its founding to the Constantine Empire.

Here's a rough outline of things to expect:

(background)

753 BC- Roma is born, found by the brothers Romulus and Remus, and adopted, with their landlady Eturia becoming their nanny.

717 BC- Romulus kills Remus in a fight in the family kitchen, but Romulus is still given sole custody of Roma, because it was in "self-defense" (in fact, Remus found out about Romulus transferring money from Remus' bank account without Remus' permission, and confronted Romulus about it. Romulus, in defense, stabs Remus to death). Romulus later marries Sabina, a foreign-sounding woman.

700 BC- Romulus kicks out Eturia because she was getting too pushy.

509 BC- Romulus and Sabina send Roma to Europa Preschool, where strong-willed Roma immediately bullies Sicilia and Hispania into being her friends.

200 BC- Roma begins attending Europa Elementary School and defeats the newcomers, Macedonia and Selucia. She meets the tough Gallia, who refuses to be bested, and in fact is just as wily as Roma.

100 BC- Roma meets Dacia, a cousin of Grecia, whom Roma admires. She and Dacia duke it out soon, but Dacia wins, making Roma more determined to set her place on the Eastern end of the playground.

53 BC- Rome attends Europa Middle School, where she meets the illusive Britannia, who is so tall and well-built that Rome is too intimidated by her to bother trying to bully her.

45 BC- Roma beats Gallia down, but still has trouble with Britannia.

43 AD- Roma defeats Britannia at long last.

80 AD- Roma finally gets Dacia's submission.

160 AD- Roma attends Europa High School, becomes ill with Antonine Plague.

235 AD- Roma is finally bested by Constantinople, the Bishi Good Guy, but Constantinople sees how Roma has such terrible parents and has her come live with Constantinople and his father, Constantine.

410 AD- The Visigoths beat up Roma and she loses all of her friends and the respect of the people that she had weaseled into her posse, and spends the rest of her lunch periods with the guidance counselor. THE END.

Eh? Eh? Any good? There will be more to it, and I'm thinking of with each notable ruler in the history during the time periods of this comic, she'll start to take on their characteristics, or things that happened to the rules. Julius' stabbing, Claudius' limp/stammer, Nero and Caligula's crackpot attitude, Nero allegedly burning down Rome, Commodus' God complex, etc.

:3

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There was another homeless man that sat there before him, but I think he either died, moved on, or finally found a job. I wonder what happened. I also wonder wonder if this man was the victim of this failing economy, and that makes me sad, but quite glad that he still has the determination to go out there every day to that same spot and ask for help, without being afraid of people who might hurt him, or getting kicked off of his post. I pray that he is warm tonight.

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I'm scraping along to finish my now-year-old musical, which has ten pages left for me to finish writing in between-song dialogue. Heavens to Betsy, when will it all end?!?!?!?

Ahem.

After I've finished my musical, I can begin the same process of writing dialogue and stage directions on my courtesan opera, Agostina. I'm so looking forward to that. And after that, I can start, well, everything, on my Roman opera, the unofficially named Cover Not My Eyes. In the meantime, I'm trying to finish off my poetry project, which has 28 styles left. That should take until next June to finish, at the most, if my inspiration comes back any time soon.

I'm also helping my friend Jake write a play about four friends in early '60's Liverpool, finding out about themselves as they scramble to survive in the dingy economy of the time. This is coming along easily, since I am the dialect/history adviser, and I love the '60's and am familiar with the Scouse Liverpudlian dialect.


Hm... What else, what else...? Musical, check. Opera, check. Other opera, check. Poetry, check... That's it? That seems fishy. OH! My novel. That's on hiatus, since I'm trying to find a way to make it more engaging and not so long-in-the-tongue. Yep.

I made a new YouTube video, since I'm bored: [link] Comments and ratings are appreciated.

Happy November! Christmas is in a month.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27977857/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27977857/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:30:10 PDT Ranbir Kapoor
Shahrukh Khan
Patrick Stewart
Leonard Nimoy (maybe not these days, but he's still awesome)
Rodney A. Grant
Noah Wyle (in that Young High School Teacher kinda way)
David Tennant
Alexander Enberg
Emperor Caracalla (though, he was nuts... and you know, Justin Timberlake looks exactly like him)
Alexander Siddiq
Tom Hulce (...before 1995, now he's just awesome)
Heath Ledger
Buddy Holly
Frederic Chopin
George Harrison
...I must say, Paul McCartney was rather good looking in the Beatlemania days.
Barack Obama (though, he's looking kinda tired nowadays, for good reason)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (shorties represent)
Sonu Niigaam
Robert Clary
Haruhiko Katou
Ken Watanabe
Jay Chou, on a good day
Edison Chen
Gil McKinney
Oscar Wilde
Kirby Morrow
Alan Rickman
Jack Davenport, pre-beard
Tongayi Chirisa
Ross McCall
Ioan Gruffudd
Jude Law
Chris Martin (fix them teeth)
Enrique Iglesias'... shoulders
Enrique Murciano
Danny Pino
James McEvoy
Benjamin Bratt
Ewan McGregor
Gordan Michael Woolvett
Johnny Depp
Antonio Banerdas' voice
Neil Patrick Harris
Zachary Quinto
Elijah Wood (not now, anyway)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
James-Freaking-Purefoy
Also, on that note, Mark Antony in real life
Virgil (yes, THAT Virgil)

...I better stop before I go overboard. Did I mention I like beards, and yet almost non of these guys ever had a beard, or look weird with one?

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27964659/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27964659/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:08:25 PDT Seimon-Yumiko, because she has an excuse to go beyond the time limit). I can't wait to see 'em!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27859613/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27859613/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:57:02 PDT
I've never done that before now, with my newest drawing, but I think it's interesting to see a drawing's journey.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27839687/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27839687/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:26:08 PDT Christmas list I gave to me Mum:

DVDS:
Amadeus ($4.75)
Devdas ($8.76)
The Breakfast Club ($6.99)

BOOKS:
Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” ($5.95)
Gorillas in the Mist ($15.95)

Christmas list that I gave to me Da:

BOOKS:
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen ($4.95)
Chocolat, by Joanne Harris ($14.00)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon ($16.00)

DVDS:
Gladiator ($20.00)

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Then, Tuesday came, and I began to get "saggy" emotionally, since my inspiration and will to write is nil right now. My mother is sick right now, and it's incurable, so she's gotta go through this until the end, and me as well, once I hit her age, as this thing is hereditary.

Wednesday, I had a frightening period of atheism, which I am fighting off still with vigorous prayers day in and day out. My gosh, I really need guidance in my life.

Thursday, ... THURSDAY! (KHAAAAAAN!) I had a huge ol' spat with my chatroom, WLC, over my writing style, which has been suffering lately due to a lack of inspiration, and a lack of experience with carrying out certain poetic forms. These people had the NERVE to say that I have had enough experience in writing for two years to be able to write well. Uh, no, two years is a tiny dot in a chart of experience. They say my poetry has no voice, and is just "flowery". I agree with the last one, but, well, I like writing flowery stuff. I can EMOTE better. Idiots.

Friday, I was still stewing over Thursday. I saw a burning red pick-up truck in the middle of my street. The engine overheated or something, but the whole front of it was engulfed in flames, and the paint was burned completely off of it, so it looked like The Terminator towards the end of about every movie. It was really cool-looking, but I hope the drive got out in time to be okay. There was no ambulance with the investigation team, so that means he either got out or was burnt to a crisp by the flames. I hope it is the former.

Saturday, which is today, I am STILL stewing, but I am feeling better. I got Chinese to eat today, after a long wait, and my sister was nice enough to surprise me by buying me Saawariya, a Bollywood film, while she was out at Big Lots. We watched it together, and I equate it with an Indian Moulin Rouge!, from the tone, visual quality, and slightly similar plot points. It was a meh film, but, hey, the lead guy was cute, and I got to see Salman Khan in an ugly hat. XD

Sunday is yet to come, but, I am going to a sort of "19th Century Fair" with my family. I. LOVE. THAT. PLACE. UGH.

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]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27547607/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27547607/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:56:06 PDT Name: Akiyama Kazuki
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 156
Parents: Masuko (Ozaki) (40 post-obit) and Takeshi Akiyama (30 post-obit)
Siblings: Kenjirō (26 post-obit), Akane (23, 57 today)
Birthplace: Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: March 21st, 1956 (19, 53 today)
Spouse: Monica Steen (1977-2000) (divorce)
Children: Kenjiro Robert (1978- ), Natsumi Christine (1982- ), Sara Ekiko (1985- )
Occupation: College/medical student (1974-1985), OB-GYN (1985-)

Name: Monica Judith Steen
Eye: Grey
Hair: Chestnut Brown, curly
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 178
Parents: Christine (Harrisson) (43, 77 today) and Victor Steen (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Robert (16, 49 today), Hannah (9, 42 today)
Birthplace: Hoquiam, Washington
Birth date: February 30th, 1957 (18, 52 today)
Spouse: Kazuki Akiyama (1977-2000) (divorce)
Children: Kenjiro Robert (1978- ), Natsumi Christine (1982- ), Sara Ekiko (1985- )
Occupation: High school student (1975), College student (1976-1980), Math teacher (1981- )

Name: Hannah Beatrix Steen
Eye: Blue
Hair: Chestnut Brown, curly
Weight: 80
Height: 4’0”
Parents: Christine Harrisson (43, 77 today) and Victor Steen (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Robert (16, 50 today), Monica (18, 52 today)
Birthplace: Anacortes, Washington
Birth date: April 6th, 1966 (9, 43 today)
Spouse(s): Peter Sanders (1982), Sunil Vikram Chaturdevi (1986-1992, 1994- )
Children: Sushma and Sima (1988- ), Devdan (1992- ), Rohit (1998- ), Rashmi (2001- ), Bharat (2005- )
Occupation: Student (1971-1996), PhD in Human Sciences (1996- )

Name: Robert Albin Steen
Eye: Grey
Hair: Chestnut Brown, curly
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 180
Parents: Christine Harrisson (43, 77 today) and Victor Steen (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Hannah (9, 43 today), Monica (18, 52 today)
Birthplace: Hoquiam, Washington
Birth date: June 16th, 1959 (16, 50 today)
Spouse: Tiffany Parker (1998- )
Children: Andrew Jacob Parker (1989- ) (stepson), Tamsin Brooke and Taryn Michal Steen (2001- )
Occupation: Ghost writer (1990- )

Name: Kenjiro Akiyama
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, wavy
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 170
Parents: Masuko (Ozaki) (41 post-obit) and Takeshi Akiyama (30 post-obit)
Siblings: Kazuki (53 today), Akane (56 today)
Birthplace: Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: June 18th, 1948
Date of death: February 23rd, 1975 (26, acute diffuse panbronchiolitis)
Place of death: Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Spouse: None
Children: None
Occupation: Buddhist monk (1964-1975)

Name: Hōko Tokuma
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’0”
Weight: 140
Parents: Nanao (Kō ) (44, 78 today) and Shigeru Tokuma (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Masami (10, 43 today)
Birthplace: Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: June 8th, 1958 (17, 51 today)
Spouse(s): Hideshi Itagaki (1985-1994), Michiru Itsushima (1996- )
Child: (adopted) Shintaro Shimomura (b. 1998-, adopted 2001)
Occupation: Student (1975-1983), Hairdresser (1985- )

Name: Ryūtoshi Yoshida
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’0”
Weight: 150
Parents: Kikue (Yamade) (37, 71 today) and Tsuyotoshi Yoshida (37, 71 today)
Siblings: None
Birthplace: Kumamoto, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: January 14th, 1957 (18, 52 today)
Domestic partner: Yoe Michita (1986- )
Children: None
Occupation: College student (1975-1980), Bell-hop (1973-1983), Factory worker (1983- )

Name: Takehirō Tsuruki
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, wavy
Height: 4’9”
Weight: 125
Parents: Nagisa (Usui) (45, 79 today) and Keiichi Tsuruki (45, 79 today)
Siblings: Ayame (16, 50 today)
Birthplace: Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: April 30th, 1956 (19, 53 today)
Spouse: Chiyo Fujitani (1987- )
Children: An’na (1992-), Mihō (1994-), Emi (1997-)
Occupation: Newspaper editor (1977- )

Name: Gurbaksh Singh Bahadur
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, curly
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 210
Parents: Roopjot (Sabharwal) (50, 51 today) and Harjit Bahadur (49, 50 today)
Siblings: Kulbir (21, 22 today), Nirbhau (18, 19 today), Simran (16, 17 today)
Birthplace: Buckley, Washington
Birth date: October 28th, 1983 (25, 26 today)
Spouse: Jaswinder Bedi (2009-)
Children: Sunita Kaur and Sagarjit Singh (2010- ), Nirmal Kaur (2012- ), Daler Singh (2015- ), Rajinder Singh (2018- )
Occupation: Pizzaman (2002- )

Name: Jaswinder Kaur Bedi
Eye: Brown
Hair: Brown, straight ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27503322/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27503322/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:48:04 PDT I'm always curious as to how people view my characters, so maybe I could post the descriptions I've made of all my characters throughout out the years, have you guys chose a character (a character can only be chosen by FOUR people, then it is crossed out), and after, say, a month, you all have to hand in your drawings (or maybe poems/short stories, if you wanna look at them from an inner level) and I'll pick out ten of what I think are the "best" depictions (I'm sure they'll all rock equally).

Sound like a good idea? I know my last contests were basically ignored, so, please, if you say you'll do it, stay committed to your promise. If you don't think you can do it after a while, TELL ME, and I'll let you have some extra time, or if you need reminded I'll remind you. I have 48 characters to chose from. The prize is a week of features in my journals (I have no money to buy you guys subscriptions, tres mal).

CHARACTERS

Name: Akiyama Kazuki
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 156
Parents: Masuko (Ozaki) (40 post-obit) and Takeshi Akiyama (30 post-obit)
Siblings: Kenjirō (26 post-obit), Akane (23, 57 today)
Birthplace: Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: March 21st, 1956 (19, 53 today)
Spouse: Monica Steen (1977-2000) (divorce)
Children: Kenjiro Robert (1978- ), Natsumi Christine (1982- ), Sara Ekiko (1985- )
Occupation: College/medical student (1974-1985), OB-GYN (1985-)

Name: Monica Judith Steen
Eye: Grey
Hair: Chestnut Brown, curly
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 178
Parents: Christine (Harrisson) (43, 77 today) and Victor Steen (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Robert (16, 49 today), Hannah (9, 42 today)
Birthplace: Hoquiam, Washington
Birth date: February 30th, 1957 (18, 52 today)
Spouse: Kazuki Akiyama (1977-2000) (divorce)
Children: Kenjiro Robert (1978- ), Natsumi Christine (1982- ), Sara Ekiko (1985- )
Occupation: High school student (1975), College student (1976-1980), Math teacher (1981- )

Name: Hannah Beatrix Steen
Eye: Blue
Hair: Chestnut Brown, curly
Weight: 80
Height: 4’0”
Parents: Christine Harrisson (43, 77 today) and Victor Steen (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Robert (16, 50 today), Monica (18, 52 today)
Birthplace: Anacortes, Washington
Birth date: April 6th, 1966 (9, 43 today)
Spouse(s): Peter Sanders (1982), Sunil Vikram Chaturdevi (1986-1992, 1994- )
Children: Sushma and Sima (1988- ), Devdan (1992- ), Rohit (1998- ), Rashmi (2001- ), Bharat (2005- )
Occupation: Student (1971-1996), PhD in Human Sciences (1996- )

Name: Robert Albin Steen
Eye: Grey
Hair: Chestnut Brown, curly
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 180
Parents: Christine Harrisson (43, 77 today) and Victor Steen (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Hannah (9, 43 today), Monica (18, 52 today)
Birthplace: Hoquiam, Washington
Birth date: June 16th, 1959 (16, 50 today)
Spouse: Tiffany Parker (1998- )
Children: Andrew Jacob Parker (1989- ) (stepson), Tamsin Brooke and Taryn Michal Steen (2001- )
Occupation: Ghost writer (1990- )

Name: Kenjiro Akiyama
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, wavy
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 170
Parents: Masuko (Ozaki) (41 post-obit) and Takeshi Akiyama (30 post-obit)
Siblings: Kazuki (53 today), Akane (56 today)
Birthplace: Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: June 18th, 1948
Date of death: February 23rd, 1975 (26, acute diffuse panbronchiolitis)
Place of death: Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Spouse: None
Children: None
Occupation: Buddhist monk (1964-1975)

Name: Hōko Tokuma
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’0”
Weight: 140
Parents: Nanao (Kō ) (44, 78 today) and Shigeru Tokuma (44, 78 today)
Siblings: Masami (10, 43 today)
Birthplace: Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: June 8th, 1958 (17, 51 today)
Spouse(s): Hideshi Itagaki (1985-1994), Michiru Itsushima (1996- )
Child: (adopted) Shintaro Shimomura (b. 1998-, adopted 2001)
Occupation: Student (1975-1983), Hairdresser (1985- )

Name: Ryūtoshi Yoshida
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’0”
Weight: 150
Parents: Kikue (Yamade) (37, 71 today) and Tsuyotoshi Yoshida (37, 71 today)
Siblings: None
Birthplace: Kumamoto, Kyūshūjima, Japan
Birth date: January 14th, 1957 (18, 52 today)
Domestic partner: Yoe Michita (1986- )
Children: None
Occupation: College student (1975-1980), Bell-hop (1973-1983), Factory worker (1983- )

Name: Takehirō Tsuruki
Eye: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, wavy
Height: 4’9”
Weight: 125
Parents: Nagisa (Usui) (45, 79 toda... ]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27398797/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27398797/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:06:02 PDT
A(n)- ām
Abandon- guxifar
Above- Å«mpa si
Abuse- iungkiya
Accent- tamshaqq
Accuse- talzuu
Acre- tipūmé
Act- paktu
Act(2)- mahvi
Actor- mahvikam, (f) mahvikamulla
Adultery- malokimbri
Affection- kimbri
Alcohol- vitaepaanaa
All- uvi
Also- péyapéy
Although- tukin
Am- vit
Amber- qhulisham
Ambitious- datanmi
Ambivalent- tau xidemkeyamn
Ambush- nitchu-akri
Ample- mancha
Ancient- tijere
And- péyun
Anger- ēkra
Anguish- tidasa
Animal- buresti
Anoint- opkylemi
April- barashyun
Arch- quq
Are- vet
Art- rampan-jaji
As- yush
Assassination- phubhitathen
At- ii
Attempt- palpam
August- putyun
Autumn- puttupus

Sounds complicated, huh? It's influenced mostly by Hindi, Urdu, Greek, Latin, and Chinese.

Here's a sentence I made in it. Xiphankyanm i gilivash péyun ghaxiāvāyanm bulam hun. (Going to store and back-coming soon he is) Meaning, "He's gone to the store and is returning soon."


O.o I must be nuts to be even TRYING this!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27364868/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27364868/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:56:06 PDT
OPERAS:
Agostina- A young Italian courtesan is an innocent pawn in her father’s jealous plans to undo her sociality.
Cover Not My Eyes- Bloodlust and flesh-lust run rampant in the last years of the Roman Republic. (drama)
Aladdin Was Chinese- A one-act opera in which a boy struggles to attract help after he and his mother are trapped beneath the rubble following the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. (drama)

MUSICALS:
Sinners, Paupers, Questioners, Redeemers- Roman Christians fight to survive Emperor Nero and themselves (rock opera, drama)
Novosibirsk- A romance blossoms in a 20th century Russian sideshow, and tragedy threatens to tear it apart. (drama-comedy)
The Pirates and the Paggri- An Indian-American pizzaman discovers himself as he is jettisoned into a psychedelic wild-goose chase in the sewers of the United States. (comedy)

POETRY:
Book of ghazals
100 Poetic Styles From Around the World

INDIVIDUAL POEMS:

Alliteration
Fibonacci (Pavarotti)
Fourteener (I am… Roxelana)
Go Vat (The Lake)
Haiku (the blueberry bush)
Huitain (I am not a morning glory)
Khloong (the Buddha hand)
Leonine Verse (October mulling)
Limerick
Luc Bat (Rabid Water)
Makurakotoba
Nine By Nine (Alone in My Ache for Love Long Gone)
Nonet (Space, the final frontier…
Nursery Rhyme (Bangles and beads)
Pantoum (Pow! Wham! Whacko!)
Paraklausithyron (Pleading for a door to unlock and let a man see his lover)
Petrachan Sonnet (You are a painting)
Prose poetry (Chinatown)
Pruning Poem (Drink In The Rink With A Bottle of Ink)
Psalm (Pluck the strings)
Rionnaird Tri-Nard (Boudicca)
Rondel (After the Witching Hour)
Sicilian Octave (Gastromancy)
Seadna (Fog)
Stev (The long-boat)
Strombotto Romagnuolo (Australopithecus)
Strombotto Siciliano (Ocean cradle)
Terzanelle (Zenobia, Gold-Chained and Smiling)
Utenzi (Zuberi, twenty years later)

NOVELS:
Swallow’s Song- A young Japanese immigrant hobbles between a Washington Chinatown and the suburbs of Anacortes, searching for his long-lost sister in the early 1970’s. (drama-comedy)
Sternenlicht- A Jewish-sympathetic Christian girl befriends a reluctant Hitler Youth in the years before and during WWII. (drama)
Black Fox- Two Native American families are forced to adapt to the new 19th century Western lifestyle, facing many obstacles and joys in a 30-year period. (drama-comedy)

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...And that, friends, is how much stuff I can think up in a year (or three (Swallow's Song)... or five (Sternenlicht)...

Bleh, I need a new hobby. XD

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27345154/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/27345154/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:33:52 PDT
I'm not gonna bother putting any in bold, since I like ALL of them, this time.

Boy:
Aaron (Hebrew, “exalted” )
Asher (Hebrew, “happy” )
Caedmon (Anglo-Saxon, possibly “battle” )
Damien (variant of the Greek, “to tame” )
Daniel (Hebrew, “God is my judge” )
David (Hebrew, possibly “beloved” )
George (Anglos-Saxon, "farmer" )
Hezekiah (Hebrew, “God strengthens” )
James (Latinized Greek form of the Hebrew Jacob, “holder of the heel” )
Joshua (Hebrew, “God is my salvation” )
Matthew (Hebrew, “Gift of God” )
Micah (Hebrew, variant of Micaiah: “who is like God?” )
Moses (Hebrew, meaning “son” )
Roald (Germanic, “famous ruler” ) (middle name, maybe)
Roshan (Persian, “light” )
Sunan (Thai, “good word” )
Tristan (Celtic, “riot” )

Girl:
Adhara (Arabic, “maiden” )
Anat (Semitic, “water fountain” )
Annia (Latin, supposedly meaning "priceless" )
Augusta (feminine version of the Latin Augustus, meaning “to increase” ) (middle name)
Christiane (French feminine form of Greek Christian, “follower of Christ” )
Daina (Lithuanian, “song” )
Hannah (from Hebrew Channah, meaning “grace” )
Humility (from the English word, meaning "humbleness". Middle name.)
Indah (Indonesian, “beautiful” )
Juno (meaning unknown, name of Roman marriage goddess )
Margot (French short form of Margaret, therein derived from the Greek word for pearl)
Minu (Persian, “heaven” )
Nino (Assyrian, unknown meaning)
Nirmal (Punjabi/Sanskrit, "pure" )
Nirmala (Indonesian, “clean” )
Nurit (Hebrew, “buttercup” )
Ophelie (French form of Ophelia, from the Greek word for "help" )
Rachel (Hebrew, “ewe” )
Radha (Sanskrit, “success” )
Sabine (French form of Sabina, which was a Latin name denoting the person was from Sabina, a province in central Italy)
Salome (French name, related to the Hebrew "shalom", meaning "peace" )
Simran (Punjabi, “meditation” )
Tamsin (Cornish feminine form of the biblical Thomas, derived from the Aramaic Te’oma, meaning “twin” )

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I'd be glad to do it. I can only do the tichel and headwrap right now, though, with what I have.


Tell me what you think!

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Well, I'm doing it again. I'm writing another opera (though I'm still working on my musical, other opera, and novel-thing). This time, it's set in Ancient Rome, during the last years of Julius Caesar's rule (roflcopter, I'm a broken record).

So, like, here's the cast list:
Justus Gnaeus Calpurnius- (dramatic tenor) Roman statesman who is supportive of Caesar’s decision to revert Rome into a Republic.

Domitilla Aelia Gnaea- (spinto soprano) 15-year-old niece of Gnaeus Calpurnius. Desires a powerful husband in the wake of her parents’ poverty (which ain't cool in Roman society).

Caecilia Secunda- (lyric soprano) Friend of Domitilla and extremely plain-faced. Laments the day she is to be arranged to marry a “stranger”.

Decimus Drusus- (dramatic baritone) Statesman and judge who despises Gnaeus Calpurnius. Wants to assassinate Caesar.

Flavius Publicius- (leggiero tenor) Cohort of Gnaeus Calpurnius; a centurion.

Lucius Pomponius- (lyric tenor) Teenaged slave of the Collatinii. Wants to marry Domitilla, but keeps it a secret. Performs Domitilla’s dirty work.

Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus- (lyric bass-baritone) Cohort of Decimus Drusus. A young statesman, naïve and unhappy in his position. Begins to turn away from Decimus Drusus.

Naevia Tertia- (dramatic coloratura soprano) Wife of Gnaeus Calpurnius, a kind and virtuous lady.

Palpellia Tullia– (dramatic soprano) Friend of Domitilla.

Song list:

Act I

Scene 1
“Victoria, Vinum, et Vita” (Decimus Drusus)
“Crack the Egg o’er Angered Statesmen” (Gnaeus Calpurnius, Decimus Drusus, Flavius Publicius)
“Hail, Hail Caesar!” (Gnaeus Calpurnius)

Scene 2
“I Hear it in the Walls” (Domitilla)
“Croak, Croak, Croak” (Domitilla and Caecilia)
“The Shadows Do Not Reach the Candle” (Caecilia)
“The Shadows Do Not Reach Us” (Caecilia and Mamercus)

Scene 3
“I Have Spoken!” (Decimus Drusus)
“The Play Has Been Performed” (Gnaeus Calpurnius and Naevia Tertia)

Act II

Scene 1
“Indian Silk and Roman Taxes” (Domitilla and Gnaeus Calpurnius)
“The Maiden Trio” (Palpellia, Domitilla and Caecilia)
“Latium’s Lullaby” (Palpellia and Domitilla)

Scene 2
“Teach Me to Turn on the Terms of my Teachers” (Mamercus and Gnaeus Calpurnius)
“Mistress, Mistress” (Lucius Pomponius)

Act III

Scene 1
“With Sword and Salt” (Flavius Publicius)
“Arise, Republic Needs You!” (Decimus Drusus)
“Dregs of Life” (Gnaeus Calpurnius)

Scene 2
“A Marriage Dirge” (Gnaeus Calpurnius, Domitilla and Chorus)
“Mother” (Gnaeus Calpurnius’ children, Domitilla, Palpellia)
“The Wax Is Waning” (Gnaeus Calpurnius)

Scene 1
“Ultimatum/The Entreaty” (Mamercus/Lucius)
“Ares and Bellona” (Flavius Publicius and Mamercus)
“A Pulpit for the Puppets” (Decimus Drusus and Gnaeus Calpurnius)

Scene 2
“To Wit, To Die” (Gnaeus Calpurnius)
“The Play Has Been Performed” (Gnaeus Calpurnius)
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END WALLTEXT

Okay, so, this will be a more Wagnerian production than a Mozartian or Pucciniesque one, so the voices are all dramatic and loud. And this thing will be ridiculously long. XD I'm so sorry. As you can see, some of the titles are based off of Roman proverbs (except "Croak, Croak, Croak", which is from an Ancient Greek play). Wikipedia has a massive archive of Roman proverbs and saying, so you could probably pick them out from there.

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1. Acrostic (N/A)- "From Ignorance, Lead Me To Knowledge; From Darkness, Lead Me To Light"
2. Alliteration (N/A)- "Queenie and Her Quacking Robot, Who Quickly Qualifies As a Quadratic Quid Pro Quo to the Queen Queer Quadriceps"
3. Cha-bang (Thailand)- "Age"
4. Diatelle (France)-
5. Dizain (France)-
6. Fibonacci (Italy)-
7. Fourteener (N/A)- "Love Is…"
8. Go Vat (Vietnam)-
9. Haiku (Japan)-
10. Huitain (France)-
11. Khloong (Thailand)-
12. Leonine Verse (Medieval Europe)-
13. Limerick (N/A)-
14. Luc Bat (Vietnam)-
15. Makurakotoba (Japan)-
16. Nine By Nine "Alone in My Ache for Love Long Gone" (England)-
17. Nonet (France)- "The Nebula"
18. Nursery Rhyme- "Bangles and Beads"
19. Pantoum (England)-
20. Paraklausithyron (Greece)-
21. Petrarchan Sonnet (England)- "You are a Painting"
22. Prose poetry (N/A)-
23. Pruning Poem (N/A)- "Drink In The Rink With A Bottle of Ink"
24. Psalm (Israel)-
25. Rionnaird Tri-Nard (Ireland)-
26. Rondel (France)-
27. Sicilian Octave (Sicily)- "Ignorance is not always bliss"
28. Seadna (Ireland)-
29. Stev (Scandinavia)-
30. Strombotto Romagnuolo (Italy)-
31. Strombotto Siciliano (Sicily)-
32. Terzanelle (England)-
33. Virelai Ancien (France)- "Stoicism"


Any ideas?

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/26553147/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/26553147/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:05:37 PDT
I love you all. I hope all those that I hurt can forgive me. I haven't even forgiven myself, after all these years. I just keep making things worse for myself and others. One day, I hope to make it up to you all. Until then, you can hate me all you want, I deserve it.

This isn't a suicide note, as I believe there are far better ways to go than giving up on your situation in the middle of it. Don't shoot your car-tires just because you run out of gas.


Again, I hope you all can forgive me. If you can't forgive me, at least be happier people for me. I only ever want to see people be happy. You all are my shining stars and I hate to see any of you dim. Keep on shining, my babies.

Hobbit out.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/26448676/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/26448676/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:15:20 PDT
I'm a little bored, so I thought I'd shamelessly promote my new novel:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3, part 1

Chapter 3, part 2


It's a Western novel chronicling 30 years in the lives of mainly the Blackfox family, a Native American family trying to adapt to "civilized" life as best they can, with many obstacles along the way.


You can look at it or not, it's up to you. I'd appreciate comments, if anyone has any.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/26117410/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/26117410/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:58:28 PDT
Appius Claudius Gallio
Aulia Naevia Tertia Curia
Domitia Aelia Collatina “Domitiola”
Domitius Aelius Collatinus Major
Domitius Aelius Collatinus Minor
Gnaeus Calpurnius Rufus
Lucius Pomponius Pullatus
Mamercus Aemilius Tacitus
Severina Attia Collatina
Titiana Palpellia Pullatus

It took me a long, long time to figure out Roman naming conventions and I'm still not confident with my results... So, tell me your ideas for a story set in this time (I write mostly romantic things, but I'm open for other genres. Even magic! )

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25990252/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25990252/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:57:27 PDT
A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda
Anne Frank: the biography, by Melissa Mueller
The Awakening And Selected Stories, by Kate Chopin
Bhagavad Gita: Introduced and Translated, by Eknath Easwaran
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Emily Dickinson Poems, compiled by Brenda Hillman
Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth, by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Holy Bible, King James Version
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Hindi Dictionary & Phrasebook, by Todd Scudiere
Images of The Beatles, by Tim Hill
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionary, by Seigo Nakao
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mahabharata, as retold by William Buck
Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing, translated by Sam Hamill
Plath: Poems Selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, compiled by Ilan Stavans
Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Epic, by Ramesh Menon
Sense And Sensibility, by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sikhism: A Teach It Yourself Book, by W. Owen Cole
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein



Books I have yet to own, but really, REALLY want:
The Qu'ran
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
Parineeta, by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25942722/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25942722/ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:59:05 PDT
Boy:
Aaron (Hebrew, “exalted” )
Asher (Hebrew, “happy” )
Aurelius (Latin, "golden" )
Caedmon (Anglo-Saxon, possibly “battle” )
Damien (variant of the Greek, “to tame” )
Daniel (Hebrew, “God is my judge” )
David (Hebrew, possibly “beloved” )
George (Anglos-Saxon, "farmer" )
Hezekiah (Hebrew, “God strengthens” )
Irfan (Arabic, "knowing" )
James (Latinized Greek form of the Hebrew Jacob, “holder of the heel” )
Joshua (Hebrew, “God is my salvation” )
Matthew (Hebrew, “Gift of God” )
Micah (Hebrew, variant of Micaiah: “who is like God?” )
Moshe (original Hebrew form of Moses, meaning “son” )
Roald (Germanic, “famous ruler” ) (middle name, maybe)
Roshan (Persian, “light” )
Sunan (Thai, “good word” )
Tristan (Celtic, “riot” )
Wolfgang (Germanic, “Wolf-path” ) (middle name)

Girl:
Adhara (Arabic, “maiden” )
Anat (Semitic, “water fountain” )
Augusta (feminine version of the Latin Augustus, meaning “to increase” ) (middle name)
Ayo (Yoruba, “joy” )
Caro (short form of Caroline, derived from the Latinized version of the Germanic Charles, possibly meaning “man” or “warrior” )
Caryn (variant of the Danish Karen, which is the short form of Katherine, which may be derived itself from the Greek Hekaterine, “one of the two” )
Christiane (French feminine form of Greek Christian, “follower of Christ” )
Daina (Lithuanian, “song” )
Hannah (from Hebrew Channah, meaning “grace” )
Indah (Indonesian, “beautiful” )
Juno (meaning unknown, name of Roman marriage goddess )
Marianna (Italian combination of Maria and Anna, meaning “bitter” and “grace” )
Margot (French short form of Margaret, therein derived from the Greek word for pearl)
Minu (Persian, “heaven” )
Nino (Assyrian, unknown meaning)
Nirmala (Indonesian, “clean” )
Nurit (Hebrew, “buttercup” )
Rachel (Hebrew, “ewe” )
Radha (Sanskrit, “success” )
Rupa (Sanskrit, “beauty” )
Simran (Punjabi, “meditation” )
Siobhan (Irish form of Jeanne, French feminine form of the Hebrew-derived John, “God is gracious” )
Tamsin (Cornish feminine form of the biblical Thomas, derived from the Aramaic Te’oma, meaning “twin” )
Tinashe (Shona, “God is with us” )

Notice how white girls can get away with having foreign names more than white boys (yes, I am white, this is not a battle cry)? Well, I have, at least. So I'll use it to my advantage! LOL!

"Foreign" names are far more beautiful to me than Western names, to me, so I picked out the ones that would be semi-easy for others to pronounce, in case I do wanna name my daughter Simran or Indah. And, as you can see, I like biblical names for boys. They just ring so nicely and they're the perfect testament (heh), to my beliefs. What do you guys like, name-wise? Leave 'em in the comments.


Dang, I want kids some day.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25660202/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25660202/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:25:27 PDT 2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO cheating, if you don't know any of them then that's just too bad.
6. You DON'T have to be tagged in the note to play.

1. In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device. Solved by ~Engelmacher with Star Trek: Insurrection.

2. All cowboys ain't dumb. Some of 'em got smarts real good, like me.

3. Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. Solved by =SAASANTMTHEE with Planet of the Apes

4. From now on we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able.

5. Sir knight? I've just pI$$ed in my pants... and nobody can do anything about it. Solved by =SAASANTMTHEE with Dances With Wolves

6. Dry up Dursley, you great prune! Solved by ~midnightxxvision with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

7. Tansy cakes!

8. ...THEN TEAR HER APART!

9. We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all. Solved by ~midnightxxvision with The Breakfast Club.

10. I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over. Solved by ~midnightxxvision with Gone With The Wind.

11. Your eyes have a little green in them. Solved by =SAASANTMTHEE with 10 Things I Hate About You

12. Are you calling me irrational? Because I'll tear your head off, Daniel. I'll tear it off and I'll throw it over that fence. IGNORE THIS ONE, IT'S A TV SHOW! Nonetheless, it was solved by Solved by =SAASANTMTHEE with Freaks and Geeks

13. I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here. Solved by ~midnightxxvision with The Color Purple.

14. I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But to me, it was the whole world. Solved by =SAASANTMTHEE with Stand By Me

15. I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest. Pencils ready! Solved by =SAASANTMTHEE with Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (THE GOOD ONE)


I tag whoever comes across this.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25648711/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25648711/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:37:01 PDT
Here's what I have so far:
1. Creole
2. Yorkshire
3. Middle English
4. Norfolk
5. Quebecois
6. Scouse
7. Scottish
8. Dubliner Irish
9. Ozark
10. Cockney
11. German
12. Aussie
13. Valley Girl
14. Ghetto
15. The Queen’s English
16. Arkansas
17. Jamaican
18. Old English
19. Indian
20. Russian


THANKS FOR THE SUGGESTIONS.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25490842/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25490842/ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:51:15 PDT
Could someone give me an idea for a poem (not about my hip, please. I can never write about that)? Anything will do, as long as it's not about a freaking breakup with a boyfriend or any of that drivel. I've not experienced the dating world yet, I would not know about a breakup, certainly. Remember, I like the arts--paintings, music, poetry, etc. I also like science, history, and the social sciences.

I really don't want to slip into depression, because I feel depression is the start of giving up on your situation. I'm gonna fight this. I'd just like your support.

Sorry if this was an emo journal, but I just needed to vent my feelings somehow. I've been trying to be normal for so long, but my body can't take all this walking around I must do.


Thank you for your time.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25417544/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25417544/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:19:53 PDT Sithlord52577, is writing a story called The Encounter. It's about a boy who's house was haunted when he was a child, and he's had nightmares about the house ever since. Now, a decade later, he wants to go back to the house and sold the mystery of the haunting. Check it out, it's really well-written, tough it's only a chapter long, so far.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25410819/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25410819/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:22:26 PDT [link] My opera, lyrics-wise, is done! Now I just gotta do the dialogue in-between the songs.

Same goes for my musical, which I'm doing the choreography before I do the dialogue. [link]


I'm so excited, I got butterflies in my stomach... or maybe it's that Italian food I ate last night. No matter, I'm still excited!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25405278/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25405278/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:43:50 PDT
]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25404944/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25404944/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:18:21 PDT
Name: Henry “Black Fox” Blackfox, AKA, Mo'ohtávma'êhóóhe
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 6’0”
Weight: 210
Parents: Robe Thief Woman (69, 90 post-obit) and Road Elk (73, 79 post-obit)
Siblings: The Bigger Eagle (45, 78 post obit)
Birthplace: (present-day) Ten Sleep, Wyoming
Birth date: January 16th, 1839 (41)
Date of death: April 3rd, 1927 (88, natural causes)
Place of death: Fort Burgess, Wyoming
Spouse: Blue Feather Woman “Ada” (1860-1903) (her death)
Children: Charlotte (1862-1936), Esther (1865-1888), Samuel (1867-1883), Nellie (1871-1952)

Name: Ada “Blue Feather Woman” Blackfox, AKA, Taveenóvá'e
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 4’11”
Weight: 150
Parents: Attacked On the Road (58, 69 post-obit) and Chief Split Knee (58, 80 post obit)
Siblings: White Ghost Woman (36, 50 post-obit), One Horse (26 post-obit), Yellow Face (29, 78 post-obit)
Birthplace: (present-day) Big Horn, Wyoming
Birth date: August 30th, 1841 (39)
Date of death: October 19th, 1903 (62, cervical cancer)
Place of death: Fort Burgess, Wyoming
Spouse: Henry “Black Fox” Blackfox (1860-1903) (her death)
Children: Charlotte (1862-1936), Esther (1865-1888), Samuel (1867-1883), Nellie (1871-1952)

Name: Charlotte “Early Morning” Blackfox, AKA, Nehevóona'ó
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 140
Parents: Blue Feather Woman (39, 62 post-obit) and Black Fox (41, 78 post-obit)
Siblings: Esther (15, 23 post-obit), Samuel (13, 16 post-obit), Nellie (9, 81 post-obit)
Birthplace: Ten Sleep, Wyoming
Birth date: February 5th, 1862 (18)
Date of death: July 13th, 1936 (74, natural causes)
Place of death: Marked Tree, Arkansas
Spouse: Earl Pinke (1887-1936) (his death)
Children: Louisa Anne (1889-1965), George Abraham (1890-1974), Augusta Eleanor (1892-1899)

Name: Earl Cyprian Pinke
Eye: Green
Hair: Brown, straight
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 221
Parents: Harriet (Watson) (53, 74 post-obit) and George Earl Pinke (53, 59 post-obit)
Siblings: Nelson (33, 66 post-obit)
Birthplace: Donne, Arkansas
Birth date: February 5th, 1858 (22)
Date of death: July 13th, 1936 (74, lung cancer)
Place of death: Marked Tree, Arkansas
Spouse: Charlotte Blackfox (1887-1936) (his death)
Children: Louisa Anne (1889-1965), George Abraham (1890-1974), Augusta Eleanor (1892-1899)

Name: Esther “Star Blanket Woman” Blackfox, AKA, Hotohkepó'oomavá'e
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’0”
Weight: 103
Parents: Blue Feather Woman (39, 62 post-obit) and Black Fox (41, 70 post-obit)
Siblings: Charlotte (18, 74 post-obit), Samuel (13, 16 post-obit), Nellie (9, 81 post-obit)
Birthplace: Ten Sleep, Wyoming
Birth date: June 3rd, 1865 (15)
Date of death: April 30th, 1888 (22, childbed fever)
Place of death: Fort Burgess, Wyoming
Spouse: Daniel Good Cloud (1885-1888) (her death)
Children: Ada Laura (1888-1950)

Name: Daniel Good Cloud, AKA, Mahpiya-washte
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 6’0”
Weight: 189
Parents: She Is Not Sad (AKA Laura Talbot) (38 post-obit) and Good Cloud (42 post-obit)
Siblings: Running Deer (15 post-obit), Crazy Eyes (10 post-obit), Weasel (8 post-obit), Stands Too Tall (7 post-obit)
Birthplace: Edgemont, South Dakota
Birth date: January 26th, 1863 (17)
Date of death: October 1st, 1939 (76, heart attack)
Place of death: Edgemont, South Dakota
Spouse(s): Esther Blackfox (1885-1888) (her death), “Minnie” Long Hands (1892-1905) (her death), Nellie Blackfox (1909-1939) (his death)
Children: (with Esther) Ada Laura (1888-1950) (with Long Hands) Minnie (1895-1972), Lawrence (1900- ), (with Nellie) Frances (1910- ), (stepchildren through Nellie) Edward (1897-1972), Jesse (1904-1986), Elias (1907- )

Name: Samuel “Skinny Horse” Blackfox, AKA, Sóhkomahe'hamé
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 156
Parents: Blue Feather Woman (39, 62 post-obit) and Black Fox (41, 78 post-obit)
Siblings: Charlotte (18, 74 post-obit), Esther (15, 22 post-obit), Nellie (9, 81 post-obit)
Birthplace: Ten Sleep, Wyoming
Birth date: August 4th, 1867 (13)
Date of death: September 20th, 1883 (16, gunshot wound)
Place of death: Fort Burgess, Wyoming
Spouse: None
Children: None

Name: Nellie “Chases Away the Enemy” Blackfox, AKA, Notseasêta'ósané
Eye: Brown
Hair: Black, straight
Height: 4’6”
Weight: 86
Parents: Blue Feather Woman (39, 62 post-obit) and Black Fox (41, 78 post-obit)
Siblings: Charlotte... ]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25400596/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25400596/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:50:50 PDT


Please, take a look at this part of my gallery: [link] I'd love your suggestions, comments, or advice.

Namaste.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25207248/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25207248/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:07:09 PDT I don't care if you "just can't find the words". Find them, it's not that hard. Even something like "I like feeling it gave me" or something will do. Just don't fave two seconds after I post the thing, because there's no way in Hades that you read it THAT fast. Give me a break, and comment if your favorite, please. Please, please. I beg, I plead, I implore you, do as I ask.





GOOD DAY, SIRS AND MADAMS.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25207243/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/25207243/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:06:40 PDT I don't care if you "just can't find the words". Find them, it's not that hard. Even something like "I like feeling it gave me" or something will do. Just don't fave two seconds after I post the thing, because there's no way in Hades that you read it THAT fast. Give me a break, and comment if your favorite, please. Please, please. I beg, I plead, I implore you, do as I ask.





GOOD DAYS SIRS AND MADAMS. :icon

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]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24987373/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24987373/ Wed, 27 May 2009 20:23:36 PDT

Though, I have a few nitpicks:
The villain was played by a bad actor, and the overall layout of him was lame (won't say any spoilers, but let's just say he was out for revenge, but the actor's carrying out of his emotions during his soliloquy entailing why he needed revenge was weak and lazily performed. And why were the Romulans depicted as bald, tattooed people? What happened to the slightly pointed Vulcan cut and wicked outfits? Lame. The Romulans were depicted in all series' as intelligent and yet warlike people, not just rabid, heavy-breathing psychopaths. They are related to the Vulcan race, for crying out loud. Kirk... Kirk was a hair-trigger bar-fighter and looked (and acted) nothing like the original mostly levelheaded '60's character. And SULU. >_> What the heck kind of casting was that? "Let's just pick any ol' Asian guy, regardless of if he even looks like George Takei or not." John Cho, good actor, yes, but I just didn't feel like he was Hikaru Sulu.

Now on to the GOOD casting. Uhura was so-so on her part. I never much paid attention to the character in the original series, so I can't say much on the actress's behalf. And the whole Uhura/Spock this was something I always thought of, but in the film, it was way too sudden. There was no warning or glances or touches. Just a bunch of random sucking of faces. Gah!

Oh, right, I'm going on to the good casting... Zachary Quinto was totally believable as Spock, and looked an awful lot like him, too, so that was a definite treat. Very good casting, on his part, especially when he was placed directly next to the character originator, Leonard Nimoy. Scotty--Uh, he was good, for how short his part was. Scottish people rock. Bones was nicely done, he looked a bit like him, and tried for his vocal pattern, which was just swell. His chemistry between himself and Kirk was very cannon. Though, I coulda done without all the direct quoting from the original series. Chekov was bloody adorable and I love how they got a genuine Russian actor to play him, it made it very authentic. :3 Nookyular wessels.

Now, the plot... The plot, overall, had many good ideas, but the ending was just plain "enh". Black holes do not explode if you fire into them, people. They just absorb what ever you shoot into them, y'know, being black holes and all. Also, you can't just get away from a black hole by simply going into warp speed. An ant doesn't escape a vacuum by running as fast as it can. In a black hole, you are stretched out in its vacuum, so if you pull against it, I'm pretty sure you'd just be sucked in or pulled apart in the black matter. And, on a last note, I coulda done without all the Spock evaluating his inner self. It was cannon, yes, but they could have executed it differently.

Now, then. Here's my grade for it:

Actors: C++ (I made a nerd funny --I really give them a B- )
Plot: C
Science (-fiction): D+
Thrill value: B- (made my asthma go wonky, eventually, what with all the excitement)
Star Trekness: B-
Overall: C+ (on the higher side of it... say, C++? Jk, jk)

Left the theater wanting to see it again, so that tells you something. Good thing I am, since my dad wants to see it, now that he's free from work this weekend. >_>


Nookyular wessels. Aye, sarrrr. Set phasers to stun. Make it so. Live long and prosper. Peace and long life... Qapla'!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24951089/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24951089/ Mon, 25 May 2009 20:35:26 PDT journal.

Choose twelve of your original characters, in any particular order. Then, answer the questions that follow, but DON'T LOOK AT THE QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU PICK THE CHARACTERS!

(I am gonna describe each one a little too)

1. Kazuki Akiyama - spasmodic, shy, and modernly Japanese main character in my (as thus far) one-chapter-long novel. Kinda smart, but doesn't look before he leaps.
2. Agostina di Puglisi - bubbly, annoying courtesan and main character in my opera, La Rovina di Un Cortigiana.
3. Amadora - mean, snooty courtesan in La Rovina di Un Cortigiana.
4. Otso - "wolfman" in my yet-to-be-posted poem, The Circus. A jealous and murderous brute.
5. Gurbaksh Bahadur - wisecracking and mildly rude pizzaman in my my musical, A Muzhikal. Laid back and pretty ready for anything life throws at him.
6. Terzo Cavallo - hyper, sex-obsessed opera singer in my opera, La Rovina... Pretty nice when he's not being a perverted man-child.
7. Henry Blackfox - Hero in my being-planned novel, Black Fox, in which a Native American brings his family to an all-white settlement during the Old West, and fights off his fears of being unaccepted to quell his family's. Levelheaded when he wants to be, vengeful when he has to be, he's a Rubix cube of inner conflicts.
8. Faysal - Very intelligent but depressed Arabic garbage pirate in my musical, A Muzhikal. He's a mellow fellow.
9. Terpsichori Mitropoulou - Bearded lady (and main character) in The Circus. Wise for her years, she is willing to help anyone who asks for it.
10. Ada Blackfox - Henry's wife. Sharp-tongued and matronly, she doesn't fit in with the subdued Western women around her.
11. Lila Fitzsimmons - boy-crazy teenager in my musical, A Muzhikal. Nice to those who are nice to her.
12. Aurelio di Puglisi - Agostina's father. A grumpy and greedy violinist with a homicidal streak.

1. Who would make a better college professor, 6 or 11?
Oh, gosh, if Terzo were a college professor, I can imagine a lot of beer parties during class-time. And groping of his female students. And Lila's too... ditzy. So, maybe Terzo. He'd be the "cool professor", since he'd be close to his student's ages.

2. Do you think #2 is hot? How hot?
Enh, I'm not a lesbian, but looking from a man's (or a lesbian's) point of view, maybe.

3. 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Aurelio and Faysal go on an adventure to bring music to the world with giant loudspeakers. I don't know, they'd probably get arrested for disturbing the peace.

4. What is or would be 9's favorite book?
She can't read, unfortunately. Brought up by an illiterate single mother.

5. Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
It could go either way. They've been friends since they were little, so they'd pretty much do anything for each other.

6. For whatever reason, 5 is looking for a roommate. Should 5 share a studio apartment with 9 or with 10?
Gurbaksh, Terpsichori, and Ada... Probably Ada. They have similar personalities.

7. 2, 7, and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
Agostina, Henry, and Aurelio... They could go to an Italian restaurant, since Agostina and Aurelio are Italians, and Henry likes different cultures. Aurelio wouldn't talk, he'd be trying to poison his daughter's food the entire time. Henry and Agostina could maybe talk about their significant others.

8. 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
Amadora and Aurelio... Aurelio would shoot Amadora on the spot. Or maybe Amadora would turn the tables and make her boyfriend, Emidio, go in her place. In that case, Emidio would win, since he's the better marksman.

9. If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would 8 get it back?
Kazuki would never steal, but if he did, Faysal would probably break into Kazuki's house all Errol Flynn-like and demand that the stolen object be returned. Kazuki would feel bad, most likely, and return it without any commotion.

10. Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
Henry and Aurelio Find Acceptance In Society.

11. What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
Kazuki and Otso... Otso's too much of a loner to want to work with anyone, in any situation.

12. If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
Henry... I think we'd get along okay. He seems nice enough, from what I've thought up, so far. I'd ask him too many questions about Cheyenne customs, though. XD That might make things awkward. ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24642622/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24642622/ Thu, 07 May 2009 20:32:44 PDT [link] There it is, the plotless, messed up tribute to 18th century art that it is. I wanna make another one day. Hopefully Windows Movie Maker doesn't mess up again.


And I'm SO sick of La Ci Darem La Mano after hearing it over and over again for four hours straight. XD I may not listen to it again for a whole year.


Please watch it. If you have a YouTube account, comment on it, please, and tell me what you think. Thank you!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24546398/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24546398/ Sat, 02 May 2009 10:52:30 PDT
That's right, I now have a microphone, so I can sing to my heart's content on YouTube, now, without showing my face. I'm so excited.

I've got nineteen poems left to write from my list, and nine more opera songs (I'm taking a break from my musical, for now). I've got such a headache right now, and my ears are killing me. I have an ear-infection and a bad neck. Whoooo. Ah, well, c'est la vie. Not much else going on... Wish I had a microphone jack so I could plug it into my computer and sing to make videos on YouTube. I'll buy one,one day, hopefully.

Meh.


Languages I wanna learn/am learning:
German, Japanese, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Swahili, Arabic, Old English.

Songs I wanna flippin' sing on YouTube: Der Holle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen(from The Magic Flute), Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B (The Andrews Sisters), O Mio Babbino Caro (from Gianni Schicci), Un Bel Di, Vedremo (from Madama Butterfly), Witchcraft (Frank Sinatra), Nessun Dorma (from Turandot), Quando avran fine omai...Padre, germani, addio! (from Idomeneo). I love opera. <3 And jazz. <3

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24265346/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24265346/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:48:10 PDT

Decima (ABBAACCDDC) The world's children.

Fourteener (14 lines) The clown. Holy crap, is he scary.

Freeverse (no rhyme or rhythm) A WWI-era doughboy (infantryman) comments on his loss of sight and lower limbs during battle as he later lays in a military hospital, and must fight off the effects of shell-shock as he hears the goings on around him.

Haiku (7-5-7...) A blueberry bush.

Limerick (short humorous poem in the rhyme of A/A/B/B/A)

Makurakotoba (more like a literary term than a poetic form, it's like similes, comparing something to something else)

Monody (a poem lamenting someone's death) Yup.

Nine By Nine (invented by my good friend, fm-vorassi--nine lines of nine syllables each, like in sudoku) Well, heck, I like too many dead guys. >_< Why must they be so dead and in the past? Chopin, j'adore. George Harrison, namaskar...

Nonet (nine line poem, with the first line containing nine syllables, the next eight, so on until the last line has one syllable.) Space, the final frontier...

Nursery Rhyme (You seriously don't know what that is?) Bangles and beads, I bought them in Leeds, but the tag here says they're made in China.

Pantoum (The second and fourth lines are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The final stanza, differs in the repeating pattern. The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.) Not sure, yet.

Paraklausithyron (Greek poetic theme, in which a person berates the door that separates the narrator from their lover). A man metaphorically compares himself to the door that separates him from his lover.

Petrarchan Sonnet (Rhyme scheme of C/D/D/C/D/D C/D/E/C/D/E C/D/C/D/C/D) A girl speaks of her love for a man that she sees in a painting.

Pruning Poem (a poem where each rhyme word is one letter shorter than the rhyme word before. eg, "charm" rhyming with "harm", which in turn rhymes with "arm".) The genius of being drunk silly.

Psalm (biblical form, praising God). Pretty obvious what it'll be about.

Reverdie (a bucolic style from Medieval France and England) A parody of the style. Instead of Spring being personified as a lovely woman, Winter is described as an old fat man that everyone can't stand.

Rondel (two quatrains followed by a quintet (13 lines total) or a sestet (14 lines total))

Rondelet (It consists of one stanza, made up of seven lines. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern.) The opera.

Sapphic Stanza (a stanza spanning four lines, and is two hendecasyllabic verses, and a third verse beginning the same way and continuing with five additional syllables) a woman is reminded of her long-gone trysts with her former lover as she stares at a tomato patch.

Sicilian Quintain (four lines, rhymed A/B/A/B) Easter Mass was so pretty.

Stev (Scandinavian form, where the meter is free, but the rhyme is on the second and forth lines in the quatrain stanzas) My mind is a stone, weighing me down.

Tritina (Being modeled from the Sestina, there is no rhyme scheme, instead it comprises of three stanzas using the same three words in a Sestina like pattern, and a final line which uses the three words in the starting sequence: A/B/C C/A/B B/C/A A/B/C) Did you know the conquistadors tricked the Native Americans into catching smallpox by giving them infected blankets? People suck.

Virelai Ancien (a chain rhyme, where the long lines of each new stanza rhyme with the long lines of the preceding one, and the short lines of the final stanza rhyme with the long lines of the first one) Walking on a snowy day through a park.

Utenzi (a Swahili epic form, with numerous stanzas, each having the same rhyme for the first three lines in a stanza, and a rhyme on the last line that's continuous throughout the poem.) What should happen?

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24085777/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/24085777/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:08:12 PDT
Now, I'm apprehensive about this, since the old lady's a bit pedo-ish to be liking a teenager, but in all fairness, he's of legal age, and he's almost twenty, anyway.

well, just wanted to give an update. PEACE OUT!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23936227/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23936227/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:11:27 PDT light lyric soprano (like the blonde girl in the video). She has dark blond hair and light green eyes, a Greek nose, high cheekbones, a round chin, thickish eyebrows, round lips, and a thin, short body. Dressed in a dark blue low-cut robe a la francaise gown with hip-pads, poofy sleeves (double-poofed and scalloped at elbows, with engageantes (false sleeves) hanging from the sleeves down to mid-arm), skirt split in front to reveal ecru lace petticoat. Gold and silver paneled stomacher, silver fleur-de-lis design on gown fabric. A sheer muslin shawl is around her shoulders, and her hair is stacked on her head. A gray satin ribbon is around her neck with a cameo hanging from it. Gray mules with satin bows adorn feet.

Aurelio Puglisi is a 62-year-old musician, and his operatic voice is in the category of basso buffo, like so. He has dark brown hair and green eyes, a Greek nose, high cheekbones, a cleft chin, caterpillar eyebrows, thin lips, and a fat figure. He is wearing a long, black (gold-lined) overcoat over a burgundy waistcoat (pretty much a vest), which is in turn over a white dress shirt, with dark breeches, and a cravat (like an ascot) tied around his neck, obscuring his collar and trailing down. He wears a double-looped white powdered wig. Big-buckled black shoes.

Celestino Bellabianchi is a 25-year-old merchant, and his operatic voice is in the category of lyric tenor, like Tamino, the man singing "Zu Hilfe!" from The Magic Flute. He has a thin face with chocolate brown eyes and almost auburn hair, an aquiline nose, freckled, lightly tanned skin, wide eyes, a wide forehead, knobby chin, and an angular mouth. He is wearing a green waistcoat with swirled dark green design over frilly dress shirt, green breeches, white stockings, black shoes with brass buckles. His hair is in a queue (ponytail, folks), tied with red starched ribbon, his bangs hanging down on the sides.

Terzo Cavallo is a 28-year-old opera singer, and his operatic voice category is leggiero tenor. He has an oval-shaped face with round gray eyes, a pale complexion, low-set cheekbones, thin lips, low, medium eyebrows and a sharp, long mouth. He is wearing a brown jacket over green-and-yellow waistcoat, over a white dress shirt with lace cravat, yellow breeches, lace extension-sleeves hanging from jacket sleeves. White stockings and black leather shoes with silver buckles, black tricorne hat with gold trim; wearing powdered wig with black ribbon in queue over his strawberry-blonde hair.

Giuseppe Foltogamba is a 39-year-old nobleman, whose operatic voice category is lyric baritone. He has a round face with tired, crooked blue eyes, a hooked nose, thick lips, black hair with a yellow bow, high brow with widow’s peak, thin eyebrows. He is wearing a brown, cross-hatched overcoat over light brown waistcoat embroidered with chrysanthemums, and matching brown breeches, with a white dress shirt, white stockings and brown shoes with gold buckles.

Emidio Agresta is a 35-year-old playwright, and his operatic voice category is dramatic bass-baritone. He has a square face with a long nose, a broad forehead, thick eyebrows, full lips, tannish skin, brown eyes, a strong jaw line, and black hair, covered by a powdered wig with a black bow. He is wearing burgundy breeches with matching waistcoat, off-white coat with gold trim, over a white shirt. He wears a wedding ring on his left ring finger, and three rings on various fingers of his other hand.

Amadora Stivalino is a 24-year-old courtesan, whose operatic voice category is dramatic coloratura soprano. She has a thin, heart-shaped face with full lips, heavy-lidded eyes, a long, thin nose, penciled-in eyebrows, high cheekbones, and a small chin with a small mole near her right nostril; her violet eyes have long lashe... ]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23936202/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23936202/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:09:47 PDT robe a la francaise gown with hip-pads, poofy sleeves (double-poofed and scalloped at elbows, with engageantes (false sleeves) hanging from the sleeves down to mid-arm), skirt split in front to reveal ecru lace petticoat. Gold and silver paneled stomacher, silver fleur-de-lis design on gown fabric. A sheer muslin shawl is around her shoulders, and her hair is stacked on her head. A gray satin ribbon is around her neck with a cameo hanging from it. Gray mules with satin bows adorn feet.

Aurelio Puglisi is a 62-year-old musician. He has dark brown hair and green eyes, a Greek nose, high cheekbones, a cleft chin, caterpillar eyebrows, thin lips, and a fat figure. He is wearing a long, black (gold-lined) overcoat over a burgundy waistcoat (pretty much a vest), which is in turn over a white dress shirt, with dark breeches, and a cravat (like an ascot) tied around his neck, obscuring his collar and trailing down. He wears a double-looped white powdered wig. Big-buckled black shoes.

Celestino Bellabianchi is a 25-year-old merchant. He has a thin face with chocolate brown eyes and almost auburn hair, an aquiline nose, freckled, lightly tanned skin, wide eyes, a wide forehead, knobby chin, and an angular mouth. He is wearing a green waistcoat with swirled dark green design over frilly dress shirt, green breeches, white stockings, black shoes with brass buckles. His hair is in a queue (ponytail, folks), tied with red starched ribbon, his bangs hanging down on the sides.

Terzo Cavallo is a 28-year-old opera singer. He has an oval-shaped face with round gray eyes, a pale complexion, low-set cheekbones, thin lips, low, medium eyebrows and a sharp, long mouth. He is wearing a brown jacket over green-and-yellow waistcoat, over a white dress shirt with lace cravat, yellow breeches, lace extension-sleeves hanging from jacket sleeves. White stockings and black leather shoes with silver buckles, black tricorne hat with gold trim; wearing powdered wig with black ribbon in queue over his strawberry-blonde hair.

Giuseppe Foltogamba is a 39-year-old nobleman. He has a round face with tired, crooked blue eyes, a hooked nose, thick lips, black hair with a yellow bow, high brow with widow’s peak, thin eyebrows. He is wearing a brown, cross-hatched overcoat over light brown waistcoat embroidered with chrysanthemums, and matching brown breeches, with a white dress shirt, white stockings and brown shoes with gold buckles.

Emidio Agresta is a 35-year-old playwright. He has a square face with a long nose, a broad forehead, thick eyebrows, full lips, tannish skin, brown eyes, a strong jaw line, and black hair, covered by a powdered wig with a black bow. He is wearing burgundy breeches with matching waistcoat, off-white coat with gold trim, over a white shirt. He wears a wedding ring on his left ring finger, and three rings on various fingers of his other hand.

Amadora Stivalino is a 24-year-old courtesan. She has a thin, heart-shaped face with full lips, heavy-lidded eyes, a long, thin nose, penciled-in eyebrows, high cheekbones, and a small chin with a small mole near her right nostril; her violet eyes have long lashes and high sockets. She is wearing a plum-colored robe a la anglaise with a swooping neckline and long sleeves trimmed with white fabric. She wears her long black hair hanging down past her shoulders. She has on a gold necklace, and a wine red ribbon is around her waist. She is wearing gold enameled court shoes.

Alta is a fifty-four-year-old handmaid. Her face looks as though it was once pretty, now weighed by wrinkles, with green eyes and graying blonde hair, thin eyebrows, thin lips, a Roman nose, low cheekbones, and a round chin. Dressed in a pale pink, long sleeved dress with a fichu kercheif draping her shoulders and tucked into the neckline. Her hair is covered by a white wrap-turban.

Macchiato is an ambiguously-aged clown. His face is covered by a black “Robin-of-Batman-ish” mask and he wears a yellow-black-blue-and orange diamond-patterned body suit with blue puffs on each shoe-toe. His head is covered by a black head-covering that fades into the neck of his suit. On to of the head-covering is a red fabric mock-crown with black stitching and tipped on the tiers... ]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23909474/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23909474/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:06:49 PDT
Act I

Scene 1

“Ah! Ah! Love is Abound!” (Townsfolk) (DONE)

“I Have Seen Venus” (Emidio) (DONE)

“The Day Shines like Your Smile” (Agostina) (DONE)

Scene 2

“Lo, the port births my lover!” (Agostina) (DONE)

“Depart, Depart if You Dare” (Agostina and Celestino) (DONE)

Scene 3

“We Ladies like Stars in the Night” (Agostina, Amadora, and Courtesans) (DONE)

“Who Shall Contest To My Daughter’s Beauty?” (Aurelio, Emidio, Terzo, and Giuseppe)

"What Is Finer Than Wine?" (Celestino)

Act II

Scene 1

“Guess. No! Yes! No... All right.” (Terzo and Agostina)

“Silence is Golden, but Servitude is Olden” (Aurelio)

Scene 2

“I Know Nothing” (Emidio and Amadora)

“Vengeance Boils within My Breast” (Amadora) (DONE)

Scene 3

“ Poison, Be Her Doom” (Amadora, Emidio and Aurelio)

“My Madness Is Sanity” (Aurelio)

Scene 4

“Come To the Ball, Lovers and Friends” (Agostina and Chorus)

Act III

Scene 1

“Ugliness Triumphs over Vanity” (Macchiato and Agostina)

“Our Lord Had Pity Upon Mary Magdalena” (The Duke of Lazio)

Scene 2
“Why Have You Cursed Us?” (Terzo and Giuseppe)

“All Able Men, Raise Your Flags of Love!” (Agostina and Chorus)

Act IV

Scene 1

“The Hound of Death Howls At My Door” (Aurelio)

“Turn Back, O Satanic Evil” (Emidio)

Scene 2

"What Sadder Love Than To Love Alone" (Agostina and Alba)

“Importance! Beware!” (Celestino)

Scene 3

“I Murder My Lineage” (Aurelio)

“What Sweet Character Was Lost?/Sleep, Sad Sunrise” (Terzo, Aurelio, and Giuseppe/The Duke of Lazio, Chorus)

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Also, I've planned outfits! Wheeeee! But I'll post those tomorrow on here. Until then, I leave thee with mine songs.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23556585/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/23556585/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:19:34 PDT Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Yay, Tom Hulce!)
Godspell (*sings* By myyy siiiiiiide!)
A Knight’s Tale (Two words: Bettany and Ledger.)
Gandhi (The characters are so believable, I can almost see who they actually were in real life.)
Devdas (Shahruuuuuukh. )
Disney's Mulan (Beautiful scenery, and the songs are kickin'
Forrest Gump (Hah, mah naymes Foh'st, Foh'st Gu-ump.)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Epic.)
Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice (Awww.)
Swades (Annoying main character, I like it just to laugh at the preachiness.)
WALL-E (For a robot, he sure has character)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Creepy, but good.)
Moulin Rouge! (Ewan's mole makes the whole movie. Okay, so do his suspenders.)
Memoirs of a Geisha (The book was better.)
The Princess Bride (My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.)
The Breakfast Club (*dances to that cheesy '80's pop*)
Disney's Tarzan (Phil Collins, you rule the world.)
A Hard Day’s Night (The BEATLES! AHHHHHHHH!)
Monty Python’ Holy Grail (Delightfully low-budget.)
Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (Delightfully too-long.)
Millennium Actress (I don't why I like it, but I do.)
10 Things I Hate About You (Heath Ledger, I miss youuuuu! I liked the ghettolicious lit. teacher, too.)
The Terminal (Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones go together quite well, in an awkward way.)
Dark Knight (*grumbles like Christian Bale*)
Freaks (Schlitze was such a darling. ^_^ Scary ending. O.o)
The Color Purple (Beautiful storyline, very nice ending.)
Gorillas in the Mist (I hated the ending and how much this film differed from reality, but I did enjoy how they went about with the rest of the film.)
Grave of the Fireflies (*sniffs sadly* Poor kids.)
Dances with Wolves (Without Stands-With-a-Fist and John Dunbar, this would be on the very top of the list... Well, right after Amadeus. Those two just were poorly cast.)



AND, that's how I spend my boredom, watching films. I wanna watch Freaks again... Yay, Tom Hulce!
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In other news, I'm writing an opera after I'm finished writing my musical (which will be anywhere from around Christmas to NEXT Christmas); It's about an 18th Century courtesan with a jealous lover, and an insane benefactor/father, how typically opera. . I've also got 8 poems to write until I reach my fifty-poem mark on my newest batch. Aaaand, I'll get around to drawing those two Native American fellows soon, as well as two of my characters from my upcoming poem about circus freaks, and maybe a poster for my opera (and maybe one for my musical...)



That being said, that's all that's going on this month. Yup.

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Soooooo, in light of nothing else to do, I shall list my drawings/poems I have yet to create:

Drawings-

Afzal ibn Iqbal al-Husni (a Sufi dervish)
Wangari Githongo (Kikuyu woman)
Hope-ce-iha (Oglala Sioux youth--shall be titled as his English cognate, "Handsome Smile")
Conze-tahca-iyankapi (Oglala Sioux youth--shall be titled as his English cognate, "Angry Running Deer")

Poetry-

Molossus (a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of three long syllables. In English poetry, syllables are usually categorized as being either stressed or unstressed, rather than long or short.) A bearded lady falls in love with limbless man in their 20th century Russian band of sideshow freaks. Otso the Bear-Man is jealous and decides to take matters into his own hands.

Pastorela (an Occitan lyrical poem used by Troubadour singers) In the tradition of the form, a shepherdess humorously puts off an older knight's amorous advances.

Reverdie (also a bucolic style, but from Medieval France and England) A parody of the style. Instead of Spring being personified as a lovely woman, Winter is described as an old fat man that everyone can't stand.

Tritina (Being modeled from the Sestina, there is no rhyme scheme, instead it comprises of three stanzas using the same three words in a Sestina like pattern, and a final line which uses the three words in the starting sequence: A/B/C C/A/B B/C/A A/B/C) The journey of a mother through each stage of her pregnancy.

Utenzi (a Swahili epic form, with numerous stanzas, each having the same rhyme for the first three lines in a stanza, and a rhyme on the last line that's continuous throughout the poem.) May be a sequel to my Zuberi Utenzi of old: [link] [link] [link] What should happen?


And that's all I've been doing these past three months, planning and planning and planning. >_< I'M SO BORED! Next, I have ten more poems to plan, making my total of them so far, 50. Judah's peas, I'm almost halfway done with my new 100 poems and it's not even the spring yet! O.o That further proves that I have no life. I'm also trying to get my butt in gear to write that second chapter of "Swallow's Song", but I'm majorly stuck. Same with my musical songs, I can't think of how to choreograph "Goodship vs. Lilius". >_<

In further news, and I are revamping mine and 's chatroom/club, *WickedlyLoquacious. Lots and lots of crap that needs to be done. I didn't get any sleep the night before last, and I'm still recovering from that today. To top that off, I had to babysit three hyper kids for 13 hours straight yesterday, with my sister. I was soooooo tired at the end of the day. My chest hurt and my heart was working overtime.

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BTW, I'm not doing a weekly journal anymore. I can never remember what happens from one day to the next.




PS: I miss Heath Ledger... like the sun misses the flower.

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/22661500/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/22661500/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:23:23 PST Monday: Nothing much. Got up, tried to write… and failed. Watched YouTube like a fiend. I think I watched some sort of movie on TV…

Tuesday: Watched more YouTube. Discovered the awesomeness that is Sistersalad. Made changes to my own YouTube account. Watched Godspell… twice. I love Godspell. Tried to write. Stressed over not going to college.

Wednesday: Got a new bird. Got the movie Swades (Hindi) through the mail from Ebay. Watched it from 11:00 PM to 3:30 AM. Looooong movie, too preachy, but kinda good in its plot… and Shahrukh Khan’s mucho sexy. I wish they didn’t speak Hindi and English in full parts in the same sentence though. “Don’t go, Mohan… MaiN tujhse pyaar kartii huuN…” Hm. Tried to write, and failed.

Thursday: Finished writing the first chapter to “Swallow’s Song”. listened to some Mohammad Rafi Rafi Rafi Rafiiiiiiiii! Wrote stage directions to Pirates Of The Good Ship Goodship. Lotsa websurfing. Watched Benny Lava a million times on teh UToobz.

Friday: Went to mai mawmz house. Am still there. Watched Mamma Mia!. Meh. Ate at Wendy’s. Drew a sketch of Zuberi and Kibwe from my poem, “Zuberi The Strong”. Made chocolate covered mini-pretzels. Planned out drawings. The drawings are as follows: Afzal ibn Iqbal al-Husni (dervish), Wangari Githongo (Kikuyu woman), Pipaluk “nurse”, Piloqutinnguaq “little leaf“, and Inukitsoq “little man” (Kalaallit family), Fred from GSS Goodship, Zuberi and Kibwe, Jeffrey from Godspell, Madhubala (a Bollywood actress of old), The Bahadurs (1999)

Saturday: Friend came over to stay the day and night. We watched Mamma Mia and Red Dragon with her. Went to the mall and bought a nifty Bob Marley hoodie. Ate at Subway in mall, bought my mom perfume per request. Friend slept about three hours after we came home. And slept. And slept. Yaaaaay. D:< STOP SLEEPING SO MUCH, YOU'RE RUINING OUR HANG OUT TIME! SERIOUSLY! Tried to write and failed.

Sunday: Friend went home as soon as everyone in the house was up. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Not really, but I was ticked that she and I didn't do much during her stay. Football came on, Steelers won (big whoop, it's football). Still trying to write, I hope I don't fail. Sisters watched Monsters, Inc. Got my hair straightened by younger sis. Counted out my money in my piggie bank and added it up to my wallet money. I have 47 dollars and 97 cents, in all. Will try and write for musical later.



Annnnnyway. That's what happened this week, that I could remember. It was a long week. And boring. And depressing. And frustrating. I lost my WALL-E DVD... but I got Swades, whee!

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1. Being Gay Is Not Natural

And real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning, tattoos, piercings and silicon breasts...

2. Gay Marriage Will Encourage People To Be Gay

In the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing Gay Marriage Will Open The Door To All Kinds Of
Crazy Behavior

People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has
legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. Lamps are next.

4. Straight Marriage Has Been Around A Long Time And Hasn't Changed At All

Hence why women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight Marriage Will Be Less Meaningful If Gay Marriage Were Allowed

And we can't let the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage be destroyed.

6. Straight Marriages Are Valid Because They Produce Children

So therefore, gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our population isn't out of control, our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously Gay Parents Will Raise Gay Children

Since, of course, straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay Marriage Is Not Supported By Religion

In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9. Children Can Never Succeed Without A Male And A Female Role Model

Which is exactly why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay Marriage Will Change The Foundation Of Society; We Could Never Adapt To New Social Norms

Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

Repost This If You Think LOVE Makes A Marriage!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/22495934/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/22495934/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:08:31 PST 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag three people.


IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY?" YOU SAY?
"If I Were A Rich Man"- Topol

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
"Kal Ho Naa Ho"- Sonu Nigam (that means "Tomorrow May Not Come")

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Ukifune"- GO!GO!7188

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
"Thirak Thirak"- Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"Across The Universe"- The Beatles

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
"Letter"- Last Alliance

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Uzoyidela"- Insingizi

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"If We Kissed"- Fiona Apple (ewwwww)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
"The Word Of Your Body"- Spring Awakening OST

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
"L'Instinct et L'envie"- Pleymo

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Ghabra Ke Dar Dar Ke"- Sunidhi Chauhan and Adnan Sami

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"Beautiful Lie"- 30 Seconds To Mars

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"By My Side"- Godspell OST (aw, yes, staying by Jesus' side through all my trials and tribulations)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"The Blower's Daughter"- Damien Rice (That's not a profession, that's me being here while my dad becomes a glass blower. No.)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"The Worst Pies In London"- Sweeney Todd OST (XD OMG!)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Vedic Chanting"- Ravi Shankar (That's not danceable to)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Working Class Hero"- John Lennon (>_< That's both uplifting and depressing)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"La-illah-ha-illallah"- Sami Yusuf ("there is no God other than our God"... That has nothing to do with the question)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
"Is This Love?"- Bob Marley

How am I feeling today?
"Within You Without You"- The Beatles

Where will I get married?
"Akehlulek' Ubaba"- Ladysmith Black Mambazo

What is my best friend's theme song?
"Azeem-O-Shan-Shahenshah"- Jodhaa-Akbar OST

What is high school like?
"The Gift"- Seether (It was NOT a gift, it was a curse!)

What is the best thing about me?
"Imagine"- John Lennon (Yes, I'm good at imagining)

How is today going to be?
"Silk Road"- Yo-Yo Ma

What is in store for this weekend?
"My Skin"- Natalie Merchaht

What song describes my parents?
"Clocks"- Coldplay (yes, yes, they are. They run by clocks)

How is my life going?
"Roll Over Beethoven"- The Beatles

What song will they play at my funeral?
"Spark"- Tori Amos (that's horrible!)

How does the world see me?
"Ramta Jogi"- Sukhwinder Singh and Alka Yagnik (that means "wandering yogi"... People think I'm good with advice, so, sure.)

What do my friends really think of me?
"Aaj Mausam Bada Beimann"- Mohammad Rafi (I'm a love song!)

Do people secretly lust after me?
"From The Heart"- Hoobastank (Ohhh, oh, my sides!)

How can I make myself happy?
"Ophelia"- Bethany Joy Lenz (that won't make me happy!)

What should I do with my life?
"Return To Innocence"- Enigma (I wish I could)

Will I ever have children?
"Ibele Lendlela"- Insingizi

What is some good advice?
"Away From The Sun"- 3 Doors Down (...you can get cancer with too much of it!)

What do I think my current theme song is?
"The Scientist"- Coldplay (That's depressing...)

What does everyone else think about my current life?
"Dola Dola"- Bride And Prejudice OST (I swing?)

What type of women/men do you like?
"My Friends"- Sweeney Todd OST (yes, because men in my age group and country are immature and boring)

Will you get married?
"Burrito"- Seether

What should I do with my love life?
"Allahu"- Sami Yusuf (praise God? Okay!)

Where will you live?
"Still Gone"- Ayumi Hamasaki

What will your dying words be?
"Shree Hanuman Chalisa"- Hariharan (...Why?)

When I meet a guy/girl for the first time I say...
"Wayibambezela"- Ladysmith Black Mambazo (..."He sees all")

When my parents are angry I say...
"Umbrella"- Rihanna




Obviously I like foreign music... and I can speak Hindi... and a little isiZulu. Yup.

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Dil Se, Swades, and Hero. Huh-huh-huh, my brain... I can't wait to eat my cake! Whoo, chocolate!



I may have a scanner, now (I need to hook up my mom's scanner to my laptop), so I can post the many pictures I've drawn in the past many months.


Have a happy day!

]]> ~GothiqueHobbit http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/22349769/ http://GothiqueHobbit.deviantart.com/journal/22349769/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:48:11 PST Just another day in my life, as I see it, no reason to celebrate a new day past thanking God for it.


Yup.


Happy 1 billionth-some birthday, earth.

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*A poem written in feminine rhyme [link]

*A Persian ruba'i [link]

*A poem in the style of Lewis Carroll

*A poem written in the trochaic meter (like in Poe's "The Raven"

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Drawings:

One's I've drawn:

*Portrait of Jaswinder Bedi (ਜਸੁਵਿवीनातें बेदी ) from A Muzhikal.

*Portrait of Gurbaksh Bahadur (ਗੁਰਬਕਸ਼ ਬਹਡੁਰ ) from A Muzhikal.

*Portrait of Lila Fitzsimmons from A Muzhikal.

*Portrait of The Garbageman from A Muzhikal.

*Steersman Faysal Rahman al-'Ubaydallah (Arabic:عبيداللال۔ فهم ابن کيهان بن
حليمل۔ رَحْمَان فيصل ) from A Muzhikal.


Ones to draw:

*Lookout/Second Mate Fabio and Ferruccio Paolino from A Muzhikal.

*Captain Frederick Schwartzenfeld from A Muzhikal.

*Ma and Bap (Roopjot and Harjit Bahadur) from A Muzhikal.

*Sunideep, Jalpreet, and Kulbir Bahadur from A Muzhikal.

*Madhubala, the ill-fated Bollywood actress who ruled the big screen from the late '40's to the mid '60's until her young death in 1969.

*Sharukh Khan, Bollywood and action star, as well as my own personal heart-throb.

*My own interpretation of Edward Teach, AKA Blackbeard, my favorite historical pirate. Arrh!

*Luthien Tinuviel of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Silmarillion".

*House, MD, my favorite fictional jerk-wad heart-throb.

Yup... Busy me...


Happy Christmas!





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IT IS CHRISTMAS EEEEEEEEEVE! Whoo! I opened presents at my mom's house (I got a t-shirt, Gorillas In The Mist (the book), House Season 4 (I'm working my way to the beginning, since I hadn't see n most of Season 1), and the Tao Te Ching. Now i'll have to see what dad god me. ...I don't wanna go to my grandma's...

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[link] <---- Read down after my artist's comments! YES!


Thank you, BlueSpartanOfVGC, for suggesting my poem! Thank you, whoever posted it as a DD! Thank yoooooou!



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In other news, I now have my 100-poem count! Whoo! Publishers, here I come with half of them!


Now I can get started on my next project: Poems Of The World! I will write a new 100 poems, using poetry styles from all over the world! I know what you're thinking: "doesn't she do that already?". Well, no I don't! I have only covered some parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. There's a whole big world out there, and I'd like y'all, my readers, if you haven't left me already, to be submerged in different cultures, it's good learning.
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Aaaaaand congratulations to and for winning first and second place, respectively, in the *WickedlyLoquacious prompt contest! Whoo! Now go check out their cool poems, Eight Stones (jamberry-song) and Wind in the Trees (RoseAdvocate).







Well, that's all for now! Thanks, all! Much love!

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Satyagraha- The Gandhian principle of non-violence.



My Musical- For this Christmas season, I'll be writing a musical (Called "A Muzhikal") for the lovely people in WickedlyLoquaciousChat They will all have cameos as pirates, extras, etc. For more info, you can look Here.


Have a nice day, please come again!



I am now done with all the songs for the musical, I can now start on the script. Booyah!

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