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I've been away having a baby and now I'm kind of busy, but I'm lurking about. I haven't drawn much since I got pregnant (not sure about the correlation/causation there), so I don't have much to show these days. I promise not to flood DA with baby pictures.

Oh, and hey, first snow today!

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/27482289/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/27482289/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:35:09 PDT [link]

I got truly excellent crit on it the first time I posted the very first version, but in my head that beginning was like the first words in a rhyme that I was afraid of forgetting. I think I have some grasp of the story now, though (or it's just run so far away on me that it doesn't matter), and I don't need those struts.

To the person who Said So (though I know you won't see this): thank you, and I'm sorry if you felt I ignored your solid advice.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/25778786/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/25778786/ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:29:02 PDT
Naked ladybits, Farfarello's dreams come true and more naked lady (troll) bits. Yep.

Also, been to music festival, so everyone's gonna have mohawks and stuff for a while. <3

Oh hai sleep nao?

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/25508498/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/25508498/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:11:01 PDT
I'm working a café with my mom over summer, and between that and other Stuff I'm mostly busy. It's a nice kind of busy, though. And really, what job is more gratifying than serving icecream to cute kids and cake to sweet old grannies?

I'll try to be a little better about commenting, at least, but I make no promises. Not sure I'd keep them, see; words fail me.

See y'all around.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23699960/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23699960/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:54:20 PDT
Have a fantastic headcold that coincided with my first really-really free weekend in ages (you know, when you don't have a heap of schoolwork you ought to be doing but aren't). It's a good thing; I've gotten all the papers from my old programme sorted into files, and I've made cupcakes. And I haven't dashed all across town doing things fun but not conducive to chilling. Which I need.

Due to a bad case of Lookitmystuff! and nothing to show, I've uploaded a cupcake recipe and a CD cover I made. Business as usual.

I was going to go to bed but ended up watching American History X even though I told myself I wouldn't.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23344184/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23344184/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:42:49 PST
- My hair could be used as a nesting place for small birds, but it would probably eat them.

- Here's what I do instead of sleeping, these days (or, part of it. Hopefully one of the less sucky parts):

Jennaz’ spiky strands whipped about her face, framing her wide grin until it was the only visible part of her face. She kept complaining she needed a haircut. Blood-on-Stone supposed that she would get rid of the tooth, as well. It wasn’t a human thing; she had known that even when she first tied it in, but she couldn’t let the girl wander about with a kill that would not protect her. Not when she needed it so badly.

Jennaz would frown to hear it, but Blood-on-Stone thought that the tooth had done a good job, so far. She almost wished she had earned it herself.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23209126/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23209126/ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:05:59 PST
When I was about eighteen I knew a girl my age who got pregnant. Neither she nor her boyfriend were in any way ready for this and she had an abortion, followed by a long bout of moaning and weeping that drove us all nuts. Then - because they "didn't know you could get pregnant again so close to an abortion" - they did the exact same thing again.

And this was extremely stupid. We all agreed on this (except the girl in question, of course, who was always the victim of her tragic life). I wanted to castrate the both of them, or staple some condoms to the boyfriend's dick. Abortion should never be used as an alternative to birth control, especially not when you live in a place where you can get condoms for free. I can see how pro-life people would point at this girl and say, "Look at what access to abortion clinics did to them!"

But look at it this way: What kind of parents would they have been?

I don't remember the boyfriend well - there were a few at the time, all accompanied by Drama - but I remember her very well. Too well. She had Issues of the kind that takes decades with a therapist to deal with, and then the therapist would need another therapist to deal with dealing with her. Trufax. She would - and, barring divine intervention, probably still will - make every mistake known to man. She cut and did drugs and flaunted it, and that's just the stuff that doesn't take more than a word to explain. We knew she was 100% Flake even before the abortion drama.

An unborn child cannot lament not being born, because they haven't developed that level of thinking yet. But a born child can definitely lament being brought into the kind of life it has, and wish it hadn't been. No child deserves that.

I guess my point is this: unless you can comfortably place a child in the arms of women like this girl, or ensure that the child would be given protection from her bad choices, you have no right to deny women like her the right to abortion.

Because every child born should be wanted and safe.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23133620/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/23133620/ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:46:57 PST
I don't do much writing or drawing at the moment and I don't much like what I do do. I kinda feel pleased with this though, even if it isn't enough for anything more than a journal CopyPaste. Kemar from Medinn (except he'd kill anyone for saying that) and some tribal mythology, in one ungodly long sentence:

Forever
When the Dark Star caught his prey and ate his heart and the Morningstar climbed down from the sky to be with him again, no longer calling the Sun to rise, then the Weaver in her grief would leave the World-weave unguarded and the Unraveller would undo every thread in it and all would come to end - and then, and only then, Kemar would stop hating the empire.

(50 sentences tables)

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/22401299/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/22401299/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:40:30 PST
I decided at some point I really didn't want to be the kind of drawy person who had to note, for every picture, "Yes these are two men who are both male in the sense that they are of the masculine persuasion and dudes, okay!"

I hadn't really counted on becoming the kind of drawy person who does a little punchy-fist of victory for every drawn chick that actually looks like a woman. Figures.

I've been staying up too late, these last few days, drawing. It's nice, even if it fucks me up. I've been needing to draw; I blew off an assignment to do it, but I feel damn good about it.

My scanner's been doing funny things, though, so if stuff looks weird I'd love a heads-up.

And now, I think, Charlotte as a scrawny, buck-toothed kid in the Lowlands. Yup.

Look, if I can't not remove the stupid emoticon, can I at least get one that doesn't fucking move? Okay, thanks.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/22244102/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/22244102/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:09:22 PST
Realized I've been very sketchy lately (that, and camwhorish). I miss spending days on the same piece, but I feel sort of restless. I don't know if maybe it's a sign of the times, this want to accomplish rather than work, or if it's just me being lazy. I don't really like the stuff I draw right now. Punk detail is very therapeutic, tho'.

New year coming up. What're your plans?

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21831325/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21831325/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:11:38 PST
The old man in the store brought my bunch out and put them on the counter, unpacked, zombie picture on top, and said, "Are these yours?"

"Yes," said I. "Hahaha... (pleasedon'tgivemeanycrap!)"

Let me tell you how glad I am that I don't take pictures of my breasts.

(Also, I really like Spilling Over in print. I'm such a dweeb.)

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21486527/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21486527/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:49:30 PST I walked into a door. F'reals.

-Good time with mom. <3

-Sushi.

-Black organic jeans that fit like a goddamn glove.

-Book full of pictures of Iggy Pop.

-Some sense of grounding.

----

Put up some stuff in scraps; WIPs, trolls, kissings and the Corinthian.

Also: D and I play with the undead. (Not safe for children or zombiephobics.)

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21385989/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21385989/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:47:28 PST
*headdesk*

Anyway. Classmates talking about going out tonight, might tag along. Need to get my phone charged tho, so I'ma go home. And try not to play videogames.


(Eh, anyone knows how to not display the mood thing?)

ETA: Well, I suppose eating more than once a day is a good start. *cough* Though in my defence, I had pizza for brunch. Seems to be no classmate thing, which is cool cuz I have tofu.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21190442/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21190442/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:57:57 PDT
2) The Whirled people are being nice and sercive-minded; they informed me they're fixing the deletion stuff and have me on a list. Aw, now I kinda wanna stay just cuz they're nice. (Untrue! But it's, y'know, nice. When people are nice. It's nice.)

3) Bolloxed up boyfriend's present, but the lines make for decent Halloweenage. Trivia: I haven't drawn people kissing in... years. And years. Maybe since I was tiny? TGIPhotoref.

4) Finally getting a little chilly! I'm digging the fall, J's digging that everyone's wearing wooly hats. We get chocolate. Life is good.

5) I just hit 2,500. Should I throw a party? Or is it more of a placid tea event?

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21142318/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/21142318/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:46 PDT
I should perhaps point out, however, that at this point (contrary to Terms of Service: "2.4 You may delete your account at any time; however, there are no refunds.") apparently "Accounts can not be deleted" (or so support tells me).

Which leaves me stuck with an account for something I realized I have no interest in using again. If these things bug you as much as they do me, don't sign up to Whirled. I shoulda known better anyway.

Edit:
"As Whirled is still in open Beta testing, there are some features not yet enabled, and others that may change in the future. We currently do not offer a method to delete accounts. I do appreciate the notification of discrepancy and will forward that information to the appropriate supervisors. I apologize for the confusion."

Well, Agent Sirocco, at least you're nice about it. I totally understand that you badly wish to hold on to users at an early stage, but there'd better be a delete function in the near future. Don't think I won't pester you (or the appropriate supervisors) about it.

Meh, sleep.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/20875531/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/20875531/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:39:28 PDT
2) Re-evaluated some categories and warnings. Nothing big and fancy, but I looked at some stuff and was like, "Dude, that's lame." And it was.

3) I have a strong urge to draw burning eyeballs.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/20458923/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/20458923/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:19:19 PDT
Started my new program, which kicks ass. Currently it's kicking my brain, too, with some 200-300 pages to read before Monday for a seminar and lecture. Colonialism, globalism, and the interactions between human society and the environment throughout history. I'm sure no one's very interested in details, but I love it. ^^ Also have great class mates; I love smart people (even if they sometimes scare me).

Duty gives us strength, and a firmness in our decisions which might otherwise be denied us. Sometimes that strength turns against us, like any other weapon, and stabs us in the back. But hey, that's life. Learn to deal with it.

I don't know that I've found my calling yet, but I think I'll be able to hear it from here.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/20026750/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/20026750/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:39:15 PDT right here, and then I looked away for five minutesweeksand now it's gone.

Jeesh.

Played with makeup and improvised fake blood; some in the gallery and some in scraps.

Also started posting my supremely frustrating "Haha you thought I was only gonna be a one-shot" urban semi-supernatural thing, Pacta Sund Servanda. If you like people getting shot in the head in places not in the US of A, I'd be thrilled if you had a look.

Shameless whoring aside, I didn't really have much to say. Gnight?

Edit: A note on food colouring: it will stick to your tongue and refuse to budge no matter how many times you brush your teeth and scrub your tongue. That said, I'm considering some kind of toxic mutant green next.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/18916042/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/18916042/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:52:44 PDT
Anyone knows if there's a quick command for scrapping stuff? Because seriously, dA, that four-step routine gets old real fast.

Almost up to 100 deviations - do I celebrate or bring out the hatchet?

Promise to bring some new, actually finished stuff next. And a heel for Jennaz. Really. Honestly. Don't you trust me?

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/18806531/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/18806531/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:56:08 PDT
I'm kind-of-maybe coming down from thesis writing. Thing is, I like having lots to do. I work well under pressure - though that doesn't mean I'm functional. I skive off, I spazz out, I surf dA when I should be writing, but I get shit done and I surprize myself every time by actually doing rather well. And face it, stress in an amazing excuse for doing Bad Things - staying up too late, drinking too much tea, maybe smoking (le gasp!), kicking things... I feel real under these circumstances, and that is possibly not a good thing, but it's the way it is. At the moment.

Got myself a stack of books for my birthday gift certificate, stayed up until past sunset drawing (really not hard this time of the year). Starting to get out of the Angst that sneaked up on me when school was done. Moving on, I keep on moving on.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/17889912/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/17889912/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:47:01 PDT .
I doubt I'll get as many as ten responses, which gives me space to put in descriptions, too. It's probably not how it's done, but it's my journal so there.

First ten people to respond to this journal will be featured here, along with links to my three favorite deviations of theirs.
In turn, you put this in your journal and do the same. ^^

1.
1. [link]
- A wonderful way to make something necessary pretty and fun to wear!
2. [link]
- I love the grainy black and white and the contrasts. It's got kind of a Blade Runner vibe.
3. [link]
- It's hella creepy, kinda cool, and very creative.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/17583588/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/17583588/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:54:44 PDT
Tanzania's been crazy and neat and interesting and fucked and occasionally fucking tedious - inevitable when you spend a month with the same (40. Did I mention there were forty of us?) people in the same place.

I haven't been drawing and only barely writing, and it shows. Sketched some yesterday and kinda felt like stabbing my eyes out with the 0.5. Never let it be said I don't suffer for my, er, art.

Also suffering for not getting malaria (judging from the Patient Information Leaflet). The less said the better, I swear enough as it is. But yay not malaria! (Mbe.)

On much plus, so much lovely imagery for Medinn. Stonetown = awesome. Also, Cat Power's cover of Don't Explain is pure genius. That is all.

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/17012075/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/17012075/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:58:12 PST
So, later y'alls; take care. Be good to yourselves.

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/16993379/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/16993379/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:20:00 PST
Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/16905434/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/16905434/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:36:46 PST
It's five-thirty a.m. and I'm so tired I could just as well be drunk. Also getting hungry. Still, there's that lovely feeling of having to retype everything three times due to typos having actually drawn something. Nom nom.

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/16749391/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/16749391/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:18:09 PST
I mean, dude.

I'm having some trouble with how to write the Academy. It's important to me that these people aren't angsty assassins - they don't have darker pasts than anyone else, they're not abused (well, any more than, say, in the army), they don't dwell much on what they do, and their profession is considered to be respectable and beneficial to the Empire. They're not robots, or evil, or tortured souls.

At the same time, I find it very hard to believe that you spend your days killing people without being, well, possibly a little wrong in the head somehow. A lot of what they do is also of a secretive nature, so they can't well discuss their hard days at the office with just anyone.

I need to find the balance between hardening and inhuman training, and I just don't really have the mindframe for it. Ah well, in good time.

Three weeks 'till Tanzania and I'm nervous as hell. I keep dreaming we're leaving now and I haven't packed anything. Possibly a sign I should get started.

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/15466212/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/15466212/ Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:30:57 PST
In other news, Jump performed by Hellsongs might just be the most happy-making thing ever. It's not on youtube, but here's their cover of Paranoid if you're curious: [link]

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14809554/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14809554/ Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:51:29 PDT Or: I need another storyline like most people need a hole in the head.

I have a thing for words. It's a writer thing, I suppose; words are chocolate and paint and nails and shiny objects. Words lead to peculiar places and take meaning not at all in the dictionary, forming unholy alliances set on some bizarre form of cognitive annihilation.

I got this idea in my head for some generic fantasy cyber-/steampunk, all dirty neo-Victorian and urban, a while ago. This morning some words rolled into empty slots and here's what I got:

It'll be ruled by technocrats; humans, powerful not only through the force or importance of their technology, but also through a hierarchical system lending status according to the refinery and sheer mass of your technology. Technology is the answer to all and the better yours is the better you are. This also explains why magical creatures are at the bottom of the ladder; magic is so last year.

There'll be biopirates, though I'm not sure if they are fighting for land and a healthy living environment, using biomechanics for ships and such, or stealing biological/genetic material for their own purposes (possibly trading on the black market) - or a combo of all.

I want bureaucracy in as some sort of higher ideal, possibly a church-like archaic institution; where the technocrats lead, the bureaucrats offer spiritual guidance.

Dug out from my journal:

Soot-black underworld and pristine ivory upper-crust.

Elves are totally the pimps of the fantasy world, pimps and kingpins and druglords, half a foot in the halls of power, strong long-fingered hands in every cookie jar and lucrative dealing within city limits.

Trolls'd be the muscle, the street gangs, rebels without causes and true drapes.

Gnomes are those fishy turncoat anything-you-say-jack types, doing what they can to stay alive and moderately rich.

Dwarves strike me as law-abiding and hard-working, but there's also something of a rumbling worker's riot about them.

Faeries are, well, faeries; slightly off-keel, prone to inner conflicts but not much of a power per se, vain and flittering, like those kids pretending at being badass but really not having it.

----

In completely unrelated and much more awesome news:
~AngelGunBoy drew a beautiful picture of Charlotte! So. Neat!

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14759180/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14759180/ Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:07:39 PDT
I am fighting the urge to draw Transformers fanart, partly out of some peculiar sense of pride and partly because it'd drive me nuts, all those nuts and bolts and bits. Still, some are mighty handsome...

Am wondering if the reason I rather draw than study is a result of feeling unchallenged in school - if I can't produce something worth noting for school, maybe I can try for the internetz.
Or, y'know, I might just be trying to rationalize my laziness again.

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14575942/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14575942/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:52:42 PDT sketchy ruggedly manly things to the gallery.

I feel a little bad for moving Farfarello off the front page, but it was time for a change. I still love you, baby!

In other news, I am stalling because going to bed seems like such a puny endeavour. Where are the adventures on high seas? Where are the dragons? Where is the horse and the- No, wait. They have no internets. Nevermind.

Livejournal: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14256592/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/14256592/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:17:58 PDT
One day, all those little bits will come together into a long bit, but I'm not too good with anything over ten pages, so it's gonna take a lot of editing and tea and tearing of hair. In the meanwhile, I recommend reading the oldest (Paths of Victory) first, if you want some sort of chronological order.

Crit is always welcome, because I am, at heart, an attention person of negotiable affection, and I'm sure there's lots I could do better.

LJ: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/13917843/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/13917843/ Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:29:06 PDT AngelGunBoy - excellent, wonderful urban fantasy, set in Mexico. Dogs, angels and goats; which end of the moral scale are you on?

Part 1-4: [link]
Part 5-7: [link]

This is, quite seriously, the best thing I've read in a long while. The descriptions are perfect, the people interesting, the language beautiful, and I urge everyone to read it. You'll be happy you did.

LJ: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/13553536/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/13553536/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:37:57 PDT
There's a whole world out there, y'know. I never knew I actually sort of liked horses, and I'd kinda forgotten how nice it is to just sit on a porch with a cup of tea, or pick a handful of wild strawberries. Will try to get some dirt under my fingernails, too, helping mom build, and go swimming. Seems like a good way to spend a summer.

Added a few things in scraps, along with the "real" stuff. I kinda liked the sketch, actually, but it's still scrappish. Need to do more action stuff, had lots of fun with ~Evil-Stans request. Also need to do more different things, or will get terribly bored with self. And lose pronouns. After that, only death remains.

LJ: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/12233783/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/12233783/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:26:02 PDT
Since the scraps are so damn hard to find these days, I'd like to make a little wave in their general direction; there are breasts, cranky Renos and demon princes. Could be worth a look, if you're into that sort of thing.

LJ: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/11807837/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/11807837/ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:27:53 PST
LJ: [link] ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/10734857/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/10734857/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:17:02 PST
LJ is prefered, because I spend too much time there anyway, but anything you can recommend is go.

If you want, please have a look at this and tell me what you think: [link] It's background mythology for a people in a story I'm working on; a sort of sci fi/fantasy something or other (ah, fear my mad promotion skills; it's like I almost had a grasp of descriptive writing). This particular piece is more towards traditional folk lore, though.

Also, would love someone with Britpicking skills! Lots of dialogue coming up, and damn but all these Americanizations keep creeping up on me.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/9909074/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/9909074/ Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:00:11 PDT Listening to: Laura - Scissor Sisters
Reading: Green Development by Adams
Watching: Samurai Champloo

So I'm dabbling with this story, set in some made-up world, mostly in an empire much inspired by the Middle East/North Africa - mostly in surroundings; there's deserts, plains, palm trees, camels, things like that.

Now the question is: is it pretentious to sneak made-up words from the empire's language into what is essentially meant to be a translation of said language into English? Come to that, is it very pretentious to make up random words in a nonexistant language?

I am a little concerned that the text won't flow smoothly, and that a reader might be confused as to which language is actually spoken, or whether these new words are from some third language. A bit like if you say your characters speak in French, and then put in a "chere" or "poisson" just because you think it sets a mood.
Er. Maybe I answered my own question?

I would seriously love to have someone who's decent at constructive criticism, into the genre/s, and in no way bothered by the severe lack of continuity in my productivity. I love both my friends and my mother, but they tend to say, "oh, that's nice," when I want to know if this works, or if that could be put in some other perspective. Oh, but for the extra 24 hours every day when I could take writing classes... (Nevermind the problem of finding English writers groups here.)

In other news, I love half of my new classes (the other half just can't measure up, it's not their fault). Every other day, I get to listen to long-haired Australian talk about sustainable development and alternative energy resources. Is it wrong that I am slightly turned on by school work?

Still need London input, as said earlier. Tourists, residents, avid fans - whoever's been there more recently than I (back in '02, and I forgot it all under the stern gaze of Mr H). Gimme!

livejournal ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/9565641/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/9565641/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:19:42 PDT Mood: hopeful
Listening to: The Minority/Weiß Kreuz ST
Reading: International Economics, Appleyard/Field/Cobb
Watching: Samurai Champloo

See, the problem with making a comic set someplace you haven't been for nearly five years is, well, apart from everything else, credibility. And I know a lot of people are going to say, "Now look here, you've completely bungled up MY CITY you horrible cow!" if I don't get any help.

So I need everything you can tell me about London, for example:

-Streets, buildings, signs - general structure/architecture, typical looks, surroundings (the damn plumbing, for example, is that always on the outside? And the door knobs - are they knobs or handles?). What makes London London?

-I need a location like a run-down/not-fancy area in the outskirts of the city, where it is likely mental patients and people cared for by Social Services (what are they called in Britain?) are housed.

-And these Social Services, how are they viewed? What's mental care like, apart from the homepages?

-Words, quotes, expressions - how do people speak, really? There is only so much good Brit movies can do me, especially since it changes so quickly (but do feel free to suggest good ones!).

-Pop references - these are so very different from place to place, and when in London I spent all my time with old ladies - what do young people (heh, how middle aged does that sound?) throw in and refer to? And Thatcher was some time ago, what leaders are spoken of now? Local politicians, local celebrities?

-Weather! I live in a country with actual, honest-to-God (though thrown out of synch) seasons - what are the different times of the year like in London? How do you know it's fall, winter, spring, summer? Do you?

Anything about London that is important to you, is important to me! Words, pictures, anecdotes, descriptions of the atmosphere... Tell me, please! Pleeease! I'll be grateful forever and ever and ever!

livejournal ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/8360571/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/8360571/ Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:11:35 PDT Mood: pain
Reading: Microeconomics/Krugman & Wells

I just saw the way all this looks on the computers in school. Gah! Too bright and contrasty and horrible!
So.
Does it look like that to you, too?
I've been editing like mad, thinking it was all too dark ('cause that's what it looks like on my comp as soon as it reaches internet), but maybe that was just, I dunno, my browser or something?
If you'd help me out and just tell me what it looks like from your end of the internet (and maybe what browser you use), I'd be a happy monkey.
(Er, not that you need comment on the actual stuff, just if they look like they've been overedited or badly scanned.)

livejournal ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/7326031/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/7326031/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:32:33 PST Mood: infoed silly
Listening to: Violent Femmes - Gone Dady Gone
Reading: Biology/Campbell & Reece

I had decided to spend the day finishing my essay and do that accursed web seminar, so it follows that I get side tracked and read this instead:

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Really, it's dead funny. The oral sex bit got me laughing silly. And I could argue that I found it searching for Actual Info, and that I was dumb enough to think it had anything to do with my subject. Ya. Or I just don't tell. I Am A Respectable, Conscientous Person. No joke.

There's all sort of nifty shit going on, and I want to draw like crazy but will hate myself if I screw this course, so... It's Baptist oral sex for recreation and fanart for rewards. I don't update (or answer messages) nearly enough to validate my being constantly logged in, but it gives me such a cozy feeling to be able to watch "adult" pictures in my brakes without logging in all the time. Ya.

Onwards to conclusion! Darwin was a hoax! We're all Demon Breeding Grounds under the magenta water bubble of Eden!

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/7000478/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/7000478/ Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:06:39 PST Mood: peachy
Listening to: Placebo - Spite & Malice
Reading: Biology/Campbell & Reece

Thanks to luzifer-photos here on deviant, I can now do lj-cut. Yay!

To celebrate this wonderful event, I intend to torture the world with Mary Sue fiction.

To be precise, I'm rewriting a story, and would love feedback, help, comments, suggestions, you name it.

It's got a Scottich vampire and a chick who does mind-tricks (though not for long, she won't), plus a squad of Men in Black. And it's kinda cute.

[link]

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6773856/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6773856/ Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:19:47 PDT Mood: don'wanna
Listening to: Tschüsch Domos/Wumpscut
Reading: Biology/Campbell & Reece
Watching: Emperor's New Groove

Could anyone lend me the sacred knowledge that is LJ-cut?
For some reason, the Swedish FAQ lacks the necessary bit of text, and so I'm stuck to posting huge blocks of text and it just bugs my sense fo aesthetic order.
I'd be happy as a camper with chocolate.

]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6546615/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6546615/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:37:46 PDT
I have so many things I want to draw, but everything takes for ever, because I either have to go to meetings or school, or I keep checking communities and art pages every twenty minutes. Bah.

Trying to learn to use my markers, anyone got tips hand 'em over calmly and noone'll get hu- I mean, I'd appreciate them muchly. Ya. ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6460862/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6460862/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:59:43 PDT
Last night I dreamt I was Harry Potter in book seven, about to fly through school on a broomstick less than a foot long with a knife blade attached to one end (rather than twigs). There were self defense classes for the kids everywhere in the woods as I passed by. Mostly they pointed their fingers and shouted "bang!" Ya. Waddyaknow.

Saving the world isn't going to be easy. It's going to be long, hard and ungratifying work against pretty much everyone and everything else, including myself in some cases. But it's damn well something I have to do.

I got a huge drawing table yesterday. It's like 41X29", or 105X75cm. I'll have to come up with some giant project to use up all that space, just because.
Mmmdrawing table...

Also, the Studio Whipping Boy store made me giddy for two days straight. Can't wait for my pay check to register. ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6156232/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/6156232/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:43:54 PDT
At first, it was almost good, cause I didn't spend all my time in front of the computer. Then I just substituted that for the TV, which mostly served to increase my tinitus (which, by the by, sounds just like that noise the TV makes when the light particles jumps against the screen or whatever it is that they do). Yay.
To top it off, my eyes have gone weird, so after reading for an hour or so, I can't really focus on the text anymore.

But. As elected into the board of the condimonium (mwahaha), I can use the computer in the meeting room under the pretext of arranging meetings for the environment group.
And even though the pouring rain made my throat sore, the Pride parade yesterday was brilliant, and some man promised to e-mail me all the pictures he'd taken. I'm glad I went, even though I felt I was too straight to have the right (but hey, I fill out the ranks, right? I'm like powder sugar in dope).

Uhm... That was pretty much a long explanation of why I haven't updated or answered messages in ages. Just so's you knows, like.

Be seeing ya. ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5647108/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5647108/ Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:06:43 PDT I came from work to pizza and scanning to meeting to packing to submissing picture for the Kagerou cover contest, and I got this feeling like I just added something that sucks. Argh.
But!
Tomorrow morning we head for Hultsfred, the music festival of choice for alcohol craving pop brats from all over Sweden, where we'll see Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, System of a Down, Le Tigre, Flogging Molly... and a great number of drunk kids doing crazy things.
So life is good.
I'm just a wee bit stressed. ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5357623/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5357623/ Sat, 14 May 2005 16:25:57 PDT Urm...
Come to think of it, it might be all that chocolate cake I ate, with the coffee icing...

Anyway. Boy in heels demands to be drawn. Must obey. Am submissive wretch of a suffering artist with perdy new shirt with Jeeesus on front. Jeeesus! ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5311617/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5311617/ Mon, 09 May 2005 13:49:24 PDT I suspect I am a liiittle distracted. Maybe that's what too little sleep and environmental ethics will do to you.

Apart from that, all my nails apart from two on my toes are a different colour nail varnish after a go at cleaning some of them out the other day. When you can't close the drawer, that's when you've got too many. Two toenails are even different shades of pink. I'm going to have to have a go with the aceton if it gets warm enough for sandals.

And I wish there was a section for "future" or something in the prose. It'd be nice as pie. ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5303477/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5303477/ Sun, 08 May 2005 15:19:39 PDT I think mostly I'm still up because I don't want to go to school, and I don't want to go to school because my head aches and my guts hurt like hell (me girl, you Jane). And since I'm not in bed yet, I'm not going to want to go to school in the morning, either. But I'm going, I'm going. It's the Mission, damnit. And there's going to be some Icelander speaking English, which might be interesting enough to drag me out into the world (I'm a sucker for accents). 'Sides, I need to go to the library and get that damn book so I don't have to buy it, or feel bad for copying it all the time (since the man who wrote it is one of our teachers and seems kinda nice and wrote about ecofeminism and all).

Oooh, so much babbling.

I'm starting to think there's no point in trying to sleep anyway, because the boys above are playing war or wrestling or something.

I'm trying to finish up all my ongoing projects so I can start all the new ones I keep coming up with. My imagination is more productive than my patience can back up. With some tongue-biting, though, I should have a finished painting, tattoo design, illustrated story and ad in the near foreseeable future.

Oh, and I'm listening to Madonna. Fear me. ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5294127/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5294127/ Sat, 07 May 2005 14:10:36 PDT You know; once you start something and know how it should be, you just want it done, and then some pesky little detail up and obscures itself in your brain, hiding in a pile of last-week's school work and movies you consider seeing, and it's like jogging at a stop light (I never actually do this, myself, but I always enjoy watching city joggers bouncing on the spot while the traffic roars by).
Anyway. If you want to help an Oil Cola advertiser with her stop light, there's a thingie in the gallery to look at (says Help! and all).
Pretty please with crack on top? ]]> ~Keinerlei http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5266479/ http://Keinerlei.deviantart.com/journal/5266479/ Wed, 04 May 2005 15:41:46 PDT
It didn't strike me how much easier and faster this was than elfwood until I tried to update my ew account today. Waddyaknow.
Until they've got all their computer things figured out, most of these pictures will be the same as some there, but I'll fix it soon as I can.

Yesterday I discovered the joys of potting flowers (or herbs, actually); y'know, poking around in the earth, getting dirt under your fingernails, loosening coiled-up roots into new soil. Mom's always had green fingers and has tried to get me into it as well, to no avail. Figures I like it now that I've moved. Just the way it is, I suppose: the more someone wants you to do something, the less interesting it seems. Or is that just me being obstinate?
If only I could discover the joys of abstract ethics, life'd be much much easier. Ah well, it'll come to me.
I've got some 60+ pages to read until Friday, which isn't much, but it figures that I get all motivated to tidy upp the apartment or draw instead.

But hey, there's nothing that says I can't do it all, is there? Fear my twitchy multi-tasking skills... ]]> ~Keinerlei