http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Midnight-Cobra&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Midnight-Cobra en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:05:56 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28668057/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28668057/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:58:24 PST So now that I'm past my temporary emo-ness, I've got some news.

I now intend to move all of my Transformational art with the exception of my very first one into my scraps. I have tried and tried to break away from that aspect of art because it feels like a dead end to me. Some people can make it work, I know, but it just doesn't do anything for me anymore. And even though I officially stopped making them a while back, I just can't seem to shake the feeling that I'm still only looked at for my TFs. I mean,It's great that you like them, and I'm glad you do, but I have other stuff as well, guys! But nobody ever seems to look at the stuff that's really important to me because they're too busy staring at a girl turning into a cheetah anthro. I dunno, that just kinda hurts on the inside. So while I'm not sure how much it'll help, I've decided that most of them are going into my scraps. The only one exempt from this is "A Foxy Transformation" because it's the one where I introduced Heather.

So now that I'm done being all serious, how about we move on to...
COBRA REVIEWS 2

Good evening, I'm Midnight Cobra. Welcome to the second issue of Cobra reviews, where we review some of the Movies, TV Shows and Video Games that you all know and love... or hate.

This time instead of reviewing Video Games, I felt I'd review something of a much more specific category. Recently I've been watching a number of shows on Youtube that were actually cartoons and/or anime that were based upon popular game franchises. I figured I'd take some time to describe some of the more prominent ones in detail.

1) - Kirby: Right Back At Ya!
-- I honestly wasn’t sure what to think when I first heard there was a cartoon based off of Kirby. I honestly assumed that it would be nothing but crap. However, I was genuinely surprised that it turned out to be quite good. I saw the 4Kids version, and if I may go on a tangent here, I have no idea why people hate that so. Come on guys, it isn’t bad. Honestly I tried to watch the Japanese version with English subtitles and I couldn’t get past the theme song because of the obnoxious music and horrid lyrics.
Anyway, back on topic… The 4Kids Kirby cartoon is actually pretty good. The stories are charming and genuinely funny, even to someone like me who should be too old for it. The show carries a youthful charm that is heartwarming and sort of helps you remember the good old days when you didn’t have to stay up all night to write seven page papers. However, it is not without its faults. First of all, the characters Tiff and Tuff are particularly annoying, be it their whiny voices or overall irksome attitudes. Frankly I don’t see why they didn’t scrap those two and make Kirby talk. Also, the Cappies are genuinely stupid. They aren’t just naïve. They never freaking learn. If something goes wrong, it’s always Dedede’s fault. And yet they wander around wondering what’s just happened. I honestly don’t know why they didn’t banish Dedede and get their problems over with right then and there.
Minor issues aside, Kirby: Right Back At Ya is an overall good show. The biggest pisser for me is that they have taken the show down from the 4Kids website, and it no longer comes up on TV. So if the biggest problem is I want more of it, then there really isn’t a problem at all, now is there?

(Also, Meta-Knight is a BAMF!)

2) - Megaman
-- You can tell Megaman is a show that came out in the 80’s to mid 90’s. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as such favorites of mine as “The Real Ghostbusters” and “Scooby Doo” were from around that time. The show has a very good sense of humor that is recognizable by all ages, the characters are wholesome, and the plots are interesting. But there are… issues…
For one thing, like so many cartoons from around them, they feel a need to make everyone laugh at the end. You know, someone says a joke or pun that really wasn’t that funny and then all the characters laugh. What’s up with that? I see it so often, but really it feels like my intelligence... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28453857/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28453857/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:58:18 PST [link]

Sooo... Remember a while back when I said I was going to ask this girl in my Ceramics class out? How I wasn't sure if I should, seeing as I have all this work to do?

Well, I can't ask her out.

I found out from my friend James just a short while ago that apparently she already has a boyfriend. Someone she met over the internet a good while ago who doesn't even live in this freaking state. (Seems he tried to ask her out a few weeks ago himself.)

This has really put me in a slump. She was the first girl aside from family and Anita that I could really talk to without stuttering. I was really hoping I could get her to like me as more than a friend. Guess that isn't an option now...

So, I dunno what to do now. As a person, I'm actually qite lonely. It's why I spend so much time on this site. Nobody really wants to hang out with me on campus, and girls seem to want to keep as far away from me as possible. This girl was one of the first not to do that, and now she's out of the question. My first potential link to a social life outside my computer... poof. Gone.

So I'm really in a bit of a depressed mood right now. The one time I went to a social event everyone offered me either cigarrettes or beers, and that's not my thing. Why is it that a guy can't try to remain clean through college and have friends at the same time?! I mean sure, I have my friend Memphis, but he's so into his studies this year that he never has time to do anything, and I'd hang out with James, but a lot of his friends kinda creep me out.

So what do I do? I just sit in my room all day. I leave to go to class and to eat. I don't have friends that come to visit. I don't have any friends to go visit. And none of the places where you can go to make friends have people worth being friends with.

I honestly don't know what the heck to do at this point...

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28380832/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28380832/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:32:37 PST
ARTWISE

1 - The Midnight League. (Started, but basically stopped once summer ended)

2 - The Demon Hymn. (Want to get ready for when I make my own website)

3 - 2 Year Anniversary Celebration (To show my appreciation for all of you)

4 - FF6 Dawn of Power. (It's been... how long now?)

5 - Curse of the Spiritomb. (Hasn't been quite as long, but still...)

6 - The Galactic Amazon. (Can wait on this.)

7 - The Dracustome. (Can wait on this one too.)

8 - Jasmine. (All these ideas swimming around in my head!!!)

9 - The Flower Ninja. (tentative title)

10 - WMOCT goof around with Oc'. (Totally not important, but would be fun)

11 - My Pals from FOXHOUND. (I teased you with it. I really should work on it)

12 - SSBD. (I have such a killer idea! 'Twould be a shame to let it go to waste.)

13 - The Legend of Verhinia. (Still haven't gotten around to this idea that's survived so long...)

14 - Loads of unfinished fanart. (Seriously. Loads.)

15 - Photograph some of my better ceramics projects. (mmmmaybe... If you want to see them...)

16 - ~Atomic-Chinchilla's Monster Contest Prize. (been sitting here half done FOREVER!)

17 - Picture of Heather's parents. (New request from ~Yellow-Killer)

18 - Battle of Limbah Audition. (I have it planned out, just not drawn.)

ACADEMICSWISE

1 - Finish Ceramics projects. (Almost Done)

2 - Study for Ceramics Written Test. (Finished!)

3 - Finish Shakespeare Presentation. (Finished!)

4 - Redo Botched Shakespeare paper for a better grade. (He's a cool prof, but he grades tough)

5 - Write THIRD Shakespeare Paper. (Glad that's not due 'till AFTER Thanksgiving...)

6 - Finish research for Art History Paper. (Hate Art History)

7 - Write Art History Paper. (Hate! Hate!! HATE!!!)

8 - Study for Finals. (Isn't College supposed to be, y'know, Fun?!)

OTHERWISE


1 - Ask awesome girl from ceramics class out. (So... Nervous...)

2 - Shave. (I look like Smokey the Bear right now!)

3 - Shower, Eat, and Sleep. (Possibly at the same time? )

4 - Talk to people on DA. (Bacause that's the only way I don't go insane with lonliness)


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Boy... I look at this... and I think I'm gonna faint!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28359166/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28359166/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:41:41 PST
Several years ago, I said that Back to the Future part 1 was the bast movie ever made, and that if I ever found a movie that was better than it, it must mean the coming of Armaggeddon.

Well, that must mean that the world is ending now, because today I watched "The Goonies" for the first time, and it was better than Back to the Future. Much better. Seriously. If Back to the Future rates an 11 on a scale of one to 10, "The Goonies" must rate a 14.

Seriously. It's got all the messages a sappy guy like me could want, with a lot of criminal punching, ingenious plots, superb writing, a love story, kids outwitting criminal masterminds, friendships made with ogres, people sticking it in the faces of rich bastards, and humor out the wazoo!
Seriously! What more could you ask for in a movie?

So that's that. The world is ending. Soon we'll be at the mercy of the meteors, volcanoes, earthquakes, supernovas, nuclear bombs, and bees. Hordes and hordes of bees.

Now if you'll excuse me I have a bomb shelter to go build.

Also? I question Dr. Mario's Medical Practices --> [link]









BEWARE THE BEES!!!


]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28249558/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28249558/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:02:53 PST Anyway… so that I don’t end up with a mostly empty journal, I decided to do this thing I found a while back and have been saving in Microsoft Word.
It’s a music meme! …or something

Step 1: Put your music player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line (or so, some are hard) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what SONG AND ARTIST the lines come from. (Forget the Artist part for this one)
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly (No lyric hunting! That is cheating!)
Step 5: After doing the 1st through 30th, listen to one more random song and post it as your title.

Author’s note: If this isn’t the easiest thing in the world for you guys, I’ll be SERIOUSLY surprised.

ALSO! Since these are really easy, I only want you guys to answer a maximum of 5 songs. Leave some for the other guys!

1) When I was young, I never needed anyone. And making love was just for fun. Those days are gone.

2) It’s been… One week since we got to see… Cheatin’ lovers and cousins that marry!

3) Some things in life are bad! They can really make you mad!

4) Just take those old records off the shelf! I sit and listen to ‘em by myself!

5) I got chills! They’re multiplying! And I’m losing control!

6) Well if you ever plan to motor west. Jack take my way, that's the highway that's the best.

7) It’s Nine O’ Clock on a Saturday. Regular crowd shuffles in.

8) A long long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.

9) We’re caught in a trap. I can’t walk out.

10) Livin’ off sponge cake. Watching the sun bake.

11) There’s a man who leads a life of danger! To everyone he meets he stays a stranger!

12) After the turn of the century. In the clear blue skies over Germany…

13) You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain!

14) Desert loving in your eyes all the way… If I listened to your lies, would you say?

15) A used pink bathrobe. A rare mint snow globe…

16) Don’t take your love away from me! Don’t you leave my heart in misery!

17) No more questions… please. No more tests.

18) Like a Persocom I’m teaching you! Like a Pokémon I Pikachu!

19) I’ve paid my dues. Time after time.

20) Comin’ to ya, on a dusty road! Good lovin’! I got a truckload!

21) Earth Angel, Earth Angel. Will you be mine?
(If you can’t get this one I’m ashamed of you.)

22) One two three o’ clock, four o’ clock rock! (Solved by ~kumoringo: Rock Around the Clock)

23) Ain’t it good? Ain’t it right? That you are with me, here tonight?

24) I thought love was only true in fairy tales…

25) Right now you are down and out. And feeling really crappy…

26) Oh yeah I tell you something. I think you’ll understand.

27) I couldn’t sleep at all last night! Just a thinking of you!

28) If there’s something strange… In your Neighborhood… Who you gonna call?
(And if you can’t get THIS one, YOU oughta be ashamed of YOURSELF!)

29) Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans! Way back up in the woods among the evergreens!

30) Ahhh… Ahhh… Ahhh… Ahhh… Ahhh… Well shake it up, baby, now!

So, go for it, guys!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28236394/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28236394/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:54:51 PST

Rules:
1. Choose 4 OC's, and if you don't have four, then snag some from the one who tagged you.
2. Prepare to strip them of all dignity.
3. Tag four people at the end of this quiz.
D. You are now confused. Enjoy!

Sooo… I think I’ll use the main characters from The Demon Hymn.
A) MC
B) Heather
C) Ivy
D) Check
E) Wesley (Wes)

1. Character A attacked Character B! What for?
Heather: I can’t believe you hit me!
MC: Seriously? I thought that was the point?
Heather: No. I mean I can’t believe you succeeded!
MC: Well, Mario’s Final Smash does take up, like, the whole screen…

2. Character D is bouncing up and down, holding his foot. What for?
Radio: … And do-oo the TWIST!
Check: Best song EVER! *dancing crazy*
Heather: *in closet* This is going STRAIGHT to Youtube!

3. Character C is feeling lonely so far... thus, someone gives her a hug. :3 Who is it?
Ivy: Thank you for the hug Twinkie.
Twinkie: Squeaky!
Ivy: … You can let go now…
Twinkie: *shakes head*

4. Characters B and C are having an argument, now! What about?
Heather: Twinkie used to love ME! Now he won’t let go of YOU!
Ivy: You think I like it?! He hasn’t let go in 3 days! I can’t feel my leg anymore!
Heather: I dunno what magic you used to curse him. But you better undo it RIGHT NOW!
Ivy: I didn’t use any magic! I was just making myself a sandwich when he-
Heather: Wait… was the sandwich a BLT
Ivy: Yeah.
Heather: Did you let him have any Bacon?
Ivy: Yeah.
Heather: *rolls eyes* Well there’s the answer!

5. Character A is plotting something devious! Who on?
MC: … I think I’ll go watch the horse races…
(This is REALLY devious for him!)

6. Character C has a surprise gift for Character A! What is it?
Ivy: Got you a gift MC!
MC: *unwraps it* … Breath mints?
Ivy: Take. The. Hint.

7. Character B has a beef with Character D!
Check: Okay… Explain to me again… WHY is there a cow… In the living room?
Heather: We were gonna watch a MOOOvie together! *rimshot*

8. Character E approaches! What is he/she doing in here so late?
Wes: Hey everybody!
Ivy: Wesley? Where the heck have you been?
Wes: There was an all you can eat buffet at my favorite restaurant!
Heather: Dude… we haven’t seen you in, like, 3 days.
Wes: … I was hungry.

9. Everyone's not impressed with Character E's explanation! Vengeance is bitter-sweet, yes?
*Heather, Ivy, and Check huddle*
Check: I don’t buy it. Do you?
Heather: No way.
Ivy: Really, this guy is suspicious.
Check: Why do we let him hang around?
Heather: MC really likes him.
*They all stop to look at MC, who is snoring on the couch. They huddle back up*
Ivy: We need to get some answers out of him.
Check: What do you propose?
Ivy: Make him talk?
Heather: He could beat the sh*t out of us!
Wes: Yes I probably could!
Heather, Ivy, and Check:


10. Okay, everyone has calmed down now... Wave, and say pickle juice!
MC: *Snoring*
Heather: PICKLES?!?! WHERE?!?!
Ivy: Pickle juice? Huh?
Check: What?!
Wes: Pickle Juice! *waves*

I tag , , (If she ever gets back on)… and anyone else who wants to do it…

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28210500/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28210500/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:47:53 PST Essentially what I plan to do is remove most of what makes the MG genre lame, cliched, or just outright stupid and replace it with a bunch of new stuff that really I don't think has been tried as much (if at all) and certainly not in the MG genre.
I don't want to give away any details yet because it's still in the groundworking phase, but that's my plan.

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NOW ONTO THE MAIN POINT OF THE JOURNAL!

Due to an extended conversation with ~Wondrous-Sableye and his friend ~Crimson001, It's basically been revealed to me that there are a number of problems with MC regarding his character. 50% of people in my poll agreed that "my characters" were Mary Sues, but it would seem that a lot of them were talking specifically about MC.

To technically call MC a Mary Sue is hard for me, since Mary Sue generally denotates people don't like the character, and given the number of positive comments about him in relation to the number of negative comments... Namely, the fact that there never HAS been a negative comment about him... It seems that he isn't unlikable, just unbelievable.
Still, I'd like him to be more believable so I've decided to make a few changes.

So after speaking with WS and his friend Sara, essentially a number of changes were decided upon considering MC and his background.

First of all, he can't be over 1200 years old anymore. It's not exactly concievable that after so many years of torment that he wouldn't have ended up insane or have taken his own life. So we eventually decided that the right year for him to be born would be about 1550 making him around 462 years old. The thing about this is that it makes one important plot point in his life impossible. This is how he was intended to be worshipped as a Norse god for a good amount of time, making it all the more crushing when he was reduced from god to trash essentially overnight.
The idea that we came up with that would most closely resemble the Norse thing in terms of outcome would be to have him worshipped by the Hindu people as one of their snake gods, but this poses a few problems.
For one thing, the Hindu are still around. The advantage of the Norse was that that religion is essentially gone. There would be nobody that would be offended if I screwed up the religion, and also it made a lot more sense how he became reviled.
Second, it was hard to think of why he would be abandoned so readily. Honestly, the best thing we could think of was that he would eat a cow. It'd work, but it's kinda anticlimactic.
Third. It puts a real constraint on time. If I want to keep most of the story the same, then he needs to be moving on to China/Japan really fast after he's born to have the thing with Lin Su and join the Shaolin Monks after her death, where he learns his Shaolin Kung Fu.

Hmmm... Now that I think about it. It may be optimal to push his birth back another 100 years to 1450. That gives him a bit more time to do the stuff with the Hindu, and move on to Asia.

If anyone has any other sugestions about people that can worship him, though, I'd appreciate it. Note that I'm trying my best to AVOID African Religions and Small Sects/Cults.

Another thing that's changed is I'm ditching his mastery of multiple types of Martial Arts for just one: Shaolin Kung Fu. I pick this for several reasons: the main one being that it fits the best with his background, but also because the weapons involved with the style are FRICKIN AWESOME (Hook Swords, Bladed chain, etc).

So that's his background change. There were also a number of changes in terms of weaknesses, and there was a bit of discussion on personality and his name, although those really didn't change.

So, anyways, I'll be revealing everything in a new reference sheet around the time SSBB is over, so I don't screw up Atomic-Chinchilla's entry, and so I have a bit of time to work out his past.

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So that's the new plan. Most of the main stories won't change that much, so you don't have to worry aout him becoming an entirely different character, but the changed background elements should make him a lot more believable... If a nearly invulnerable serpentine half demon ever could be described as believable.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28098357/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28098357/ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:44:49 PST [link]

Well it's been three weeks and I still can't figure out what the heck I want to do with her. I've considered a number of angles for the story to take, but none of them really seem like they'll work all that well to me.

Let me break down some of the ideas I've had and why I'm tentative to use any of them.

My first idea was to go with a sort of superhero angle, hearkening back to my middle school days. The setting would make it easy to paint a personality and background for Lotus, and the secondary characters and other such elements wouldn't be much harder. The problem with that is, that while I've never disliked the idea of making a superhero comic book series, I've basically discovered I don't have the patience or initiative to keep up such a thing. So that's out.

One idea was to actually put the setting in feudal Japan, and perhaps change the name and outfit around a bit. It could've had an air of historical fiction that I truly enjoy, but honestly I don't know much about Feudal Japan, and I really don't want to spend a lot of time researching it when I really just want to have fun with this.

Another idea was to take a Magical Girl Angle. But while that has its advantages in character creation and setting, I had to chastise myself for even thinking about it. Seriously. MG's are so overused and so cliched that even thinking about them makes me feel stupid. Go ask someone what they think of Magical Girl Anime. If they're older than 12, they'll laugh it into the ground.

While I honestly don't want to open myself to ridicule, I had a thought. What if I could pull the genre out of the gutter? Get rid of all the cliched stuff and start with a clean slate and make the Magical Girl, dare I say it, epic.

Perhaps if you take away those sissy Japanese school uniforms and oh so overused teen crybaby situations, replace those dumb staves and frilly outfits with katanas, shurikens, and kenpo-gi's, maybe stop calling out dumb magic spells that don't do shit replacing them with some slice and dice action, and stop with the painfully long and boring sequences, there's actually a genre worth something here.

The problems with that are if I fail to fix the genre, I'll get laughed at for the rest of eternity, and it still more calls for a comic book layout rather than Graphic novel. (Though I could probably find a way to make it a novel, it would be a stretch.)

Oh, and stop with that sissy, cutesy magical animal bullcrap. Give her, like, a badass-looking, hardcore falcon or something if anything at all. Sure the bird could be psychic or powerful or something, but it doesn't have to look like it belongs in a care bears cartoon.

(If you can't tell, I've given a lot of thought into how to fix the Magical Girl Genre. Don't ask why.)

Anyway, I guess what I'm asking is for suggestions. I'm seriously stumped here. I mean, The best idea I've come up with is the Magical Girl thing and honestly, unless I can be assured people won't hate me for that, I really don't want to take that risk.

So, I dunno. What do you guys think I should do with this character? Preferrably something that could be a graphic novel. I simply can't do a series.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28055529/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28055529/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:58:41 PDT
But then I remembered...

I HATE Halloween

Seriously. If there were an Ebeneezer Scrooge for Halloween, That'd be me.
Will, ladies and gentlemen! Halloween Humbug! (I actually like to announce myself as that)

So now you're probably thinking: "But Will?! Halloween is a great day! You get to dress up and get candy and have fun at parties and, heck, you could even have the joy of teepeeing Prof. Loomis' house! How can you hate possibly hate it?!"

Now don't be confused. I used to love Halloween. I eagerly awaited the day every year, and starting in JULY, I would begin to plan what I would be that year.
I built up an impressive array of costumes too.
A Ghost (Age 5)
A Demon (Age 6)
A Cowboy (Age 8)
A Poliwrath (Age 9, yeah, you read that right)
Cloud Strife (Age 10)
Luigi (Age 11)

Wanna know what I was when I was 7?
A Volcano

I seriously got my mom to get a bunch of wire, burlap, and paint, and make me a realistic volcano costume! I'm not joking! I think I'm like the only guy that's done that, and looking back on it, I'm so proud of myself for showing off so well my creativity and insanity at such a young age!

Anyway, those were the glory days. The days when Halloween wasn't a plague upon this country. So what happened, then? Well for some reason, back in 2001 (The year I tried to be Luigi) everything fell apart.

See, up to that point, Halloween was, what I like to call, innocent. In the years 1990 to 2000, everybody that went out on Halloween that I EVER saw (this means Teenagers too) went out as something that wouldn't have made me toss my cookies. There were your classic 50's horror monsters, such as Dracula, Frankenstin, Werewolves, Mummies, Ghosts. There were a few classic Icons, such as Godzilla, The Aliens from practically every Scifi movie imaginable, Darth Vader, and hell, I even saw Robocop once! Aside from that, most people were going around as kung fu masters, clowns, and pirates. Nothing in this array that could possibly scare me or make me puke, or cause me to end up scarred in any way.

Then for some reason, once 2001 rolled around, it seems the holiday decided, "I want to stop being at all wholesome and start being just plain nasty. I'll be nasty in three ways. For one, I'll make everybody into a jerk on Halloween and force everybody to try and scare people or, at the very least, make them toss their cookies. I'll also take away all of the normal, kid friendly costumes, and leave the world with costumes that aren't fun, but instead are actually scary for little kids and make older people with weak stomachs (i.e. ME) throw up. Third, when I do this, all parents of the world and WILL will be sure to cry on this day and wonder what happened to the good days."

Essentially that describes what happened. It all started when I was 11 in sixth grade. On Halloween, I was in school, and the first thing that happened was i noticed all of the costumes on that day (we were allowed to wear our costumes to school, see) were oddly gross. They had started to incorporate blood and gore into their repetoire.
Also, that year was the year of the "Demon Houses." Two houses that particularly picked at me. One went so overboard with decorations that I was actually worried I was being stalked by a monster or serial killer on the way up the driveway. The other just put strobelights all over the place and nearly gave me a seizure. Seriously. that house would've given someone with epilepsy a seizure, no doubt about it.
I didn't think much of it. until the next year.

Seventh Grade:
Here's when things got bad. It wasn't quite halloween yet, and one of the local bullies walks in wearing his mask. A gory, bloody Skelatonized Demon Mask. I don't see it until I get tapped on my shoulder and turn around and I get screamed in the face by Cory Ebert, one of the local bullies.

This was the only time I literally fainted.

Said event was followed by that years Halloween party a few days later in which ALL the refreshments were fake: A) Body parts that are seen on a living person (Fingers, feet, eyes, tongues). B) Body parts that had to be removed from a dead person (Hearts, Brains, Livers, Stomachs, Kidneys). Or C) Blood.
There was also some vomit salsa. Seriously. You dipped your finger shaped chips into them.
See what I'm getting at here?
And all of the costumes were... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28033490/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28033490/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:18:39 PDT
]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28020565/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/28020565/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:13:17 PDT nobody's been online all freaking day. The entire past 24 hours I've literally had ONE person reply to me. Kinda upsetting given how much I seem to thrive on attention. Maybe I need to do something more offensive to get people to notice me. 'Course, that could easily backfire and get me banned, and that's the last thing I want right now.

Anyway, getting to the point of this journal, I have just had, like, the weirdest-ass day in probably my past ten years of existance. Note that if you actually want to read a journal that has any relevance to anything then you're in the wrong place. I just want to tell people about all the weird crap that's happened.

So the whole day started with an all nighter that resulted from my not doing my homework until the last minute (again). I ended up having to read a huge damn book for my US History class that I regret having taken with every fiber of my being. This book spanned ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED, AND SEVENTY SEVEN FREAKING PAGES. Naturally I had to cut a few corners, but being the diligent student I am (), I went into the task intending to cut as few as possible. My original panic about the situation eventually evolved into frustration, eventually leading to anger, then rage, and finally a full undying hatred for my history professor (Which in all honesty, wasn't a big leap from how I felt about him before).

After spending seven F@#&ing hours staring at my computer screen, because I wasn't bright enough to buy the book when it was still in the school bookstore, but was damn lucky enough to find the whole thing online, My head was ready to explode. Half with fury and half with the inherent pain that comes with staring at a computer monitor for seven hours. By this point, of course, I had said "screw this" and had started cutting as many corners as possible, while still trying to maintain some grasp as to what the book was trying to say. This didn't work out so well, but by that point I was far beyond the point of caring. Anyway, It was about this time I had to go to my 9am class, Mathematical Concepts. Possibly the most boring class in my repetoire, but certainly the one to dish out the least amount of unpleasant surprises. The class went by pretty smoothly, all things considered.

Now at this point, a specific question has probably come to you all. "Why was it so important that you read that huge book in so little time, Will?" The answer is quite simple. My history prof has this f@#&ed up idea that history is best taught by forcing us to read huge books in a small amount of time, and then making us tell each other what we thought of the book in more of an old ladies' book club thing than actually teaching us any damn history. (Seriously. This guy has no idea what the hell he's doing.) The funny thing is. If you don't say anything in the "discussion" then you get an 'F' for the day, and for some odd reason, todays discussion was oddly pivotal. Somehow it seems that everything we're going to do for the rest of the semester rides on what we talked about today. So essentially, I had to speak up at some point.

And thus truly begins why the day turned out so freakish. (yeah, I've bored you for so long and I still haven't gotten to the damn point)

See, I decided that it would be a bad thing to end up falling asleep in my soon-to-rear-its-ugly-head history class, so I did something I never do.

I went out... and got coffee.

I HATE coffee.

Hate. Hate. HATE!

It tastes like you're sucking on an old gym sock and it ends up leaving me with the jitters.

Despite the fact that I obviously dislike this particular beverage, I felt that my usual Dr. Pepper wouldn't do the job. I was THAT exhausted. So I went out and got myself an iced Mocha.

The resulting wackiness that was the rest of the day is what most people on campus believe stems from the fact that this was the first ever coffe I asked for that had a shot of espresso in it. I simply find that hard to believe. My dad used to drink espresso and he never ended up as f@#&ed up as I did for the rest of the day. No. I think someone at my local starbucks is an incompetent junkie that accidentally dropped some of his stimulants into my drink. 'Course, this is a dangerous accusation to make, so I'm going to stop that particular topic right there.

Anyway, the rest of the day ended up a huge wacked out chain of events that can only be described as feeling like my friend ~Joshing3the7Kokiri if he suddenly ended up inhabiting the body of a hummingbird with ADHD. It. Was. NUTS!

When I finally got to my pivotal history class I was so wigged out that my additions... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27914556/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27914556/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:34 PDT I came up with a new Meme!

It's the: Ask an OC meme!

Here are the rules:
1) Pick 3 to 8 of your OC's
2) Have your friends ask ANY question at all to the OC of their choice
3) Answer the question completely in character
4) Tag two people at the end of the journal
5) Note that people can ask more than one question

Are you ready? Well here are the OC's that you can ask questions of!

1) Midnight Cobra
2) Heather
3) Ivy
4) Chekhov
5) Kira Avasauria
6) Lance Baselard
7) Jasmine
8) Andromeda Grey


Everybody Go nuts!

And I tag and

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27894249/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27894249/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:59:06 PDT ! I recently submitted my judge NPC as can be seen here: [link]

WarMachine OCT is an original character tournament in which you partake in battles between giant robots! Like Transformers only better because it's here on DeviantArt and not made by some Hollywood bigwig. Anyway, it takes place in essentially a post apocalyptic future, fighting for the emperorship (is that a word?) of Earth. For more information, Visit this journal --> [link]

Writers, Artists, and Flash makers are all allowed, and there's still a good amount of time before the deadline. Seriously. You all should join if you like Giant Robot battles.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27732095/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27732095/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:25:48 PDT . Basically, you fill it out and put it in the Artist comments below, then if you put this in your journal I'll do the same for you.

1. Who are you?

2. Are we friends?

3. When and how did we meet?

4. How have I affected you?

5. What do you think of me?

6. What's the fondest memory you have of me?

7. How long do you think we will be friends?

8. Do you love me?

9. Do you have a crush on me?

10. Would you kiss me?

11. Would you hug me?

12. Physically, what stands out?

13. Emotionally, what stands out?

14. Do you wish I was cooler?

15. On a scale of 1-10, how hot am I?

16. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.

17. Am I lovable?

18. How long have you known me?

19. Describe me in one word.

20. What was your first impression?

21. Do you still think that way about me now?

22. What do you think my weakness is?

23. Do you think I'll get married?

24. What makes me happy?

25. What makes me sad?

26. What reminds you of me?

27. If you could give me anything what would it be?

28. How well do you know me?

29. When's the last time you saw me?

30. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?

31. Do you think I could kill someone?

32. Are you going to put this on your deviant journal and see what I say about you?

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27621851/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27621851/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:50:10 PDT and , it's Say Something Nice Day.
I have no idea when this holiday was established, but what they hey. Being nice is nice. So now I shall say something nice about you guys out there! Feel the love!



Possibly my greatest rival on this site, You have shown to me multiple times that a little insanity can go a long way... or in your case 50,000 metric tons of insanity. The banter we swing back and forth never ceases to amuse me, and it's always a blast to try to challenge you to a battle of the crazies.


Seriously dude. You are freaking amazing. Not only is your art impeccable, but your series, Kamen, has captivated me, and your ability to juggle, like, four OCT's at once? It freaks me out! You're like, the über-artist, man! You rock!


I'm so sorry that you aren't able to get on DA much anymore, because you're always so kind and sweet to everybody. Your art is absolutely top-notch, and your storytelling abilities are sharp as a tack. Nothing you've ever said has resulted in a frown, and I sincerely hope you make it back soon!


A shout out to my Metal Gear Solid sensei, Your writing skills are impeccable, and even though I've only made it a few chapters into your story, I can easily tell that what you have there could be a best seller.


What can I say. You're my sister and I love you more than anything. You're always so awesome, and despite your still being relatively new to the site, I have to say you've shown to everybody here that you're awesome.


Probably the youngest person I know on the site, you're always very energetic and upbeat. You're the first to comment on anything I post that's Pokemon related, and your comments are always fun to see.
And it was a pleasure taking care of that Doku-Mizu-Kun jerk.


Even though you haven't watched me, I follow you pretty closely. Your characters are so cute that they beat Twinkie and Cupcake! You're exceedingly funny and kind, and though I haven't commented on them, I watch your contest entries real closely. You are totally awesome, girl!
Also, your picture of Heather was freaking amazing!


One of my more silent friends on this site, while you haven't posted much, I can tell from the fight you put up in SSBD that you are incredibly creative. Satchel was so fun to use!


An artist with epic levels that are off the scale (by about three miles), You have a number of stories going that are fun to read and learn about, and always awesome to look at. Seriously, Your art is, like, better than proffessional.


Perhaps my oldest friend on DA, I met this guy back when I was doing those TF's that I have since cancelled. You have some awes... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27510549/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27510549/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:14:10 PDT , give yourself a round of applause!

Okay, here we go...

1.)What's your name?
Will. That's MISTER Will. MISTER WILL SIR to YOU

2.)Do you know why you were named that?
I'm named after my grandfather

3.) Are you single or taken?
I have always been single. Girls don't seem to like me.

4)Have any abilities or powers?
I AM THE MOST POWERFUL PRACTITIONER OF PSYCHOKINESIS AND TELEPATHY IN THE WORLD!!!
Oh wait... that's Psycho Mantis.

5.) Stop being a Mary-sue >>
Okay, if saying something like THAT is being like a Mary-Sue I need to seriously reconsider my life.

6.) Uh... if you were to get in a fight with a strong wrestler, do you think you'd win?
There's a strong possibility I would. Two reasons why.
One: I'm a Black Belt and know how to exploit the weaknesses of the human body.
Two: Wrestling is all fake. Seriously. Those guys aren't fighters. I doubt they could take on a twelve year old.

7.) Riiiight... Have any family members?
Yes.

8.) Oh? How about pets?
Not on campus of course, but back home yes.

9.) Cool, I guess. Tell me something that you don't like.
I'm going to mimic Josh, who mimiced Ashers here.
*raises an eyebrow at question* Can I say I don't like you?

10.) Something that you do like?
My Country.

11) Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do?
Drawing... Video Games... Writing... Building... Sleeping... Framing the people I dislike for Credit Card Fraud (Seriously, Loomis. You're on thin ice!)

12.)Have you ever hurt anyone in anyway before?
Yes, but I'm not proud of it.

13.)Ever... killed anyone before?
No! For the love of Pete, why are these questions on these tags? I'd be honestly surprised if anyone ever answered yes and was being serious!

14.)What kind of animal are you? >>
Despite my screen name, I'd be best represented by a Dolphin.

15.)Name your worst habits.
Procrastination
Pack Ratting
Foul Mouthedness
Drinking the blood of my dead enemies
... Oh wait... That's Vamp's thing. Not mine.

16.)Do you look up to anyone at all?
Yes I do. Jim Davis. He is my inspiration and is responsible for at least 50% of what I've become.

17.)Gay, straight, or bi?
I'm straight, but for some reason, everybody on campus seems to think I'm gay. This really ticks me off. (It may be why I can't get a girlfriend)

18.)Do you go to school?
College, yes.

19.) Ever wanna marry and have kids one day?
I hope to...

20.)Do you have any fangirls/fanboys?
No. I have a number of people who follow my artwork, but I wouldn't describe them as fangirls or fanboys.

21.)What are you most afraid of? I promise I won't laugh.
Get lost, punk!

22.)*snicker* Ok, ok. What color is your hair?
Dark Brown. So dark it almost looks black.

23.) Eyes?
See previous answer.

24.) What do you usually wear? Nothing perverted >>
A T-Shirt, Pants, Athletic Shoes, Socks, and glasses.

25.)Ok. What's your religion?
Christian of the Anglican Denomination.

26.)Do you wish this quiz is over?
Not like I have a life.

27.) Well, it's still not over. XD
I noticed...

28.) Anyways, where do you live?
America. Central Standard Time Zone. Not gettin no further than that.

29.) What class are you? (Low class, middle class, high class)
Upper-Middle

30.) How many friends do you have?
Enough...

31.) Wow. If you could change anything about you, what would you change?
Either my god-awful teeth, or I'd give myself better vision.

32.) If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it? And I don't want no cheap answer, ya hear?
I'd probably get my own cat and then bribe the RA's to let me keep it.

33.) What is your thoughts on pie?
GIVE. ME. THE. PIE.

34.) Alright. What's your favorite food?
A tie between Reuben Sandwiches, Cheese Fondue, and Really Rare Tuna Steak.

35.) Favorite drink?
Tie between Iced Tea and Dr.... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27457739/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27457739/ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:50:49 PDT
Anyways, in my opinion, the best video game line ever spoken comes from Metal Gear Solid 3, and was given to us by none other than the totally epic spirit: The Sorrow.

"The living... may not hear them. Their voices... may fall upon deaf ears. But Make. No. Mistake. The dead... are NOT silent."

Seriously. My mouth literally fell open when I heard that. After the "fight was over" I was literally looking around the room I had been so creeped out by it (I know. I'm really lame.)

So anyways, I want your opinons! Tell me what you think is the best video game line ever to be spoken? Seriously. Let the epic flow!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27304379/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27304379/ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:09:57 PDT

THE RESULTS ARE IN!!!

To see contest description and entrants, go here: [link]

Okay, everybody! I have the results to the monster contest!!!
First of all I'd like to say that all of the entries were quite good. None of them were by any means bad. I had a hard time deciding the winners to this contest.
Here is how I judged: The monsters were rated on
a) how they fit into and affected the story
b) originality
c) how easy/hard they would be to defeat
d) how much damage they would do to the area and bystanders
e) My ability to draw the monster

FIRST PLACE
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I was quite astonished by this entry, I must say. the design was incredibly good and very original in name, looks, and abilities. with a couple *coughartisticlibertiescough* This'll be the perfect entry for the comic. It's psychokinetic powers are perfect for what I have in mind and would help to further the story in a very specific "I'm not giving you the spoiler" way. The monster would definately not be easy to defeat but not entirely unbeatable. I am proud to hand first prize to one of my good friends here on DA.

PRIZE: 1 fully colored request and a major fight in the Midnight League

SECOND PLACE
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DESCRIPTION: [link]
While most of the entrants tended to amp up their monsters, *DarkKitsunegirl's monster reveled in its simplicity. Tis entry greatly reminded me of the Godzilla monster "Manda," which gave it a real boost in score. It's only special attack was a sonic blast, however, that alone can do a great deal of damage to both the league and the surrounsding area. Its sheer size was enough to make it a powerful fighter, but what really intrigued me was its speed and agility, which could've ended up in a huge chase scene all around Berlin, which would've been really cool. The problem, though, was that I did say no pre-concieved monsters. This entry is, quite obviously a dragon, so I'm sorry to say this only makes second place.

PRIZE: 1 Black and white Request and a cameo in the Midnight League

THIRD PLACE
http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27290581/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:52:10 PDT I'd like to thank everybody that participated. You all had some wonderful ideas.
Also, my deepest apologies go out to , who couldn't submit her entry because her school has a vendetta against DA. Sorry you couldn't make it.

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THE REQUIREMENTS WERE
1) The title of the piece should name the creature. The cult leader will shout it's name several times so this is important.
2) The picture itself should depict the beast. Simple as that.
3) The artist comments should mention all the creature's particulars. Its abilities, how fast it is, things like that.
4) When you finish it, post a comment on my page or send me a note with a link to the picture.
5) If you are a writer and wish to join in, give a DETAILED description of the creature. Note the bold/italic/underline. It has to be super detailed. And no mater how detailed it is, be warned that If you DO win, I still might mess it up when I draw it into the story

The Rules:
1) The monster should be approximately between 30 and 60 feet tall. I want it to be conceivably beatable by six or seven men. So no Godzillas, but no pipsqueaks either.
2) No monsters that have already been concieved. If you give me something that looks like a plain old Basilisk or Manticore or something, that will be ignored.
3)Please color the entry. I don't care HOW it's colored but please, no Black and Whites or grayscales.

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Anyway, here are the entries:


ENTRY
It's gonna be a 45 and a half foot, bat winged , purple, rabid...
You ready?
Okay...
ITS A MOTH!!!!

And it can use ultrasonic screeches, has poison powder in its wings, craps bombs, and it is not affected by bug spray or anything else. The only way to defeat it is to show it (an amphibian).
Then, it will shrink to 2 feet, Poison powder will disappear, and so will the rabies and the bat wings. So it would just be a 2 foot, purple moth that likes to snuggle and eat french fries.

Original enough for you?

His name is Sendoga, which is Japanese for "Death Moth"


ENTRY
Name: unknown (all who encountered it were taken to it's lair and never seen again)

Size: 15 feet tall by 15 feet wide by 40 feet long
description: arachnid-like cyborg. (overall appearance is a cross between a spider and scorpion. general spider body, but with a scorpion tail and pincers) fangs, scorpion stinger, legs and pincers are all metallic. pincers alone are enough to bisect two humans should they be unlucky to get in it's grasp. Black carapace covers the entire creature everywhere metal is not (legs, fangs, scorpian tail and pincers) and is almost as hard as tank armour. no sensory fur on the outside.

silk fires from a gland below it's mouth and it uses that to drag victims in for the kill. tail stinger has powerful venom that can kill almost anything in mere seconds. fangs also have the same venom.

capable of doing a maneuver known as a 'flea jump'. by building up energy in it's robotic legs, it can jump to amazing heights and use it's sheer mass to come down hard on any opponents, crushing or ensnaring and eating them in venom.

Abilities: the Flea Jump (described earlier), web entanglement, and immunity to powerful scents, bright, sudden lights, and flame-based weapons.

Weaknesses: insecticide can do major damage to it but only in sufficient quantities (IE: a can that's about the size humans use to kill normal spiders). Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) can shut down all of it's mechanical parts and leave it wide open to attack for a short period of time before the countermeasures kick in.

How to kill: disabling the mechanical parts will not do much aside from slow it down. powerful and numerous weapons to the head would be needed to break the carapace. directly underneath it however is where the Armour is thinnest, taking only one or two strikes from a sword to crack it open.

or if you can;t be bothered, impale one of it's eight eyes to get a strike directly at the creature's bra... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27101414/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27101414/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:59:01 PDT when his back was turned! 'Tis a great way to get you all more familiar with my characters!

The Rules:
Character name meme.
1) how you thought of their name
2) what made you create the character in the first place
3) how the character has changed over time (if they have changed)
4) any random fun fact about that character

MIDNIGHT COBRA
1) In all honesty, the name came from the disney channel TV show "Phil of the Future." I wasn't a big watcher of the show, but my sister was. One time she was watching it and I heard the words "Midnight Cobra" and I said to myself 'That just sounds cool,' so I stuck it on a character I was already developing.
2) One day in English class, I was daydreaming, (Hey, don't lie. You've daydreamed in class too.) And I stumped myself with the weirdest question: What would a snake look like if it had arms and legs? I stopped and doodled it out that very same class. (Hey, don't lie. You've doodled in class too.) The idea stuck with me and I continued to develop it. The idea was further developed one day when I was playing the video game "Rampage: Total Destruction" and came across the giant monster 'Kingston the Cobra'. Lo and behold it was a cobra with arms and legs. This inspired me to keep going with the appendaged snake-thing and I just kinda rolled with the ideas after that.
3) Oh Jeez... Ummm... I'm intending to post a deviation called "The History of Midnight Cobra" sometime soon. This would take up like five pages of typing, so how 'bout you all just wait for that, okay?
4) MC had a wife in the 1500's named Lin Su.

HEATHER
1) I honestly don't know. I just really like that name is all.
2) Heather was created for the express purpose of being Midnight Cobra's quirky sidekick. I designed her after one of my best friends from High School named Anita. She was very smart, but also really wacky.
3) Originally, Heather was meant to be entirely human. it wasn't until my first TF comic where I turned my design for her into a fox anthro that I decided she should be a furry. Recently I decided upon the term "Kitsune" for her and have fleshed out her background a great deal.
4) Heather has an IQ of 186, but often acts as if it is a much lower number.

TWINKIE
1) When I first drew him out I looked at him and decided that the lil' guy needed a sugary cute name, so I decided on Twinkie.
2) I actually made him entirely by accident. I was doing a sketch exercise for my drawing class that focused upon circles and accidentally spawned a picture that looked vaguely like a baby dinosaur. Later I simply finished the drawing.
3) Twinkie hasn't changed much. The only thing that really has changed is that he was originally meant to be Andromeda Grey's sidekick, but was eventually transferred to the "Song of the Demon" storyline.
4) Not even Heather knows of Twinkie's origins.

IVY
1) Ivy is actually Princess Navisala. At this point I am debating whether Navisala should either be the daughter of Navi from LoZ: OoT or Navi herself. I'd probably have more rights to her if I made her her daughter. Anyway, Ivy is the name she uses in MC's Dimension. I got the name after giving the people on this site a poll as to what should be her name, actually.
2) I wanted Heather to have a counter. Somebody more calm and collected to balance out her wacky behavior. Ivy makes it all the more balanced because, while Heather is a science user, Ivy is a magic user.
3) Ivy hasn't changed much at all. The only thing that's really changed is her Midnight League outfit. At first it was rather raggedy, suiting the free spiritedness of a fairy, but as her personality got calmer, I decided to give her an elegant gown instead.
4) Despite being a mage, Ivy is quite competent with computers.

CHEKHOV STEVENSON
1) Chekhov's name came from my desperate attempts to find a suitable Russian name. Names like Boris and Ivan simply didn't cut it for me. I made his nickname (Check) when I realizede that everybody's minds would immediately switch to Star Trek when they heard his name. His last name, though... I really don't know where that came from...
2) I made Chekhov because I wanted MC to have a son. simple as that.
3) Since I only made him a couple months ago, he hasn't changed almost at all. At least not yet.
4) Neither Check nor MC knows that Check is MC's son.

THE PRIESTESS
1) While the name seems unoriginal, because The Preistess is incredibly evil I felt givi... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27057733/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/27057733/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:06:09 PDT ... again. Seriously. Nobody else ever seems to tag me.
Anywaaayyy...

1. Are you ready for 50 questions?
I suppose...

2. Which state/country do you live in?
My home is actually in Illinois, but I actually go to college down here in Texas.

3. What is your favorite thing you got for Christmas?
Last year when I got my own Wii. That was exciting.

4. What was the last thing you did in 2007?
Fell asleep probably.

5. How tall are you?
6'1"

6. Are you new on dA? How long have you been a member?
I've been here since December 4th, 2007, so about a year and a half.

7. Are you male or female?
I'm a guy. I checked.

8. Which program do you use to chat?
... my mouth? I only chat online here at DA.

9. What was the first thing you did this morning?
Looked at the clock, mumbled "It's not too late yet." and fell back to sleep.

10. Do you own a website or forum?
No. Not yet at least. As soon as I figure out how to reserve a domain name I'll start building midnight-cobra.com
Seriously. If anybody out there can help me figure out how to do that I'd be really grateful.

11. Is the computer you're using your own computer?
Yes. You can't have it!

12. What is your favorite type of food?
Probably a three way tie between Cheese Fondue, Really rare Tuna Steak, and Reuben Sandwiches.

13. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
1 sister. [link]

14. Do you have an account on MySpace?
NO! NO I F&@#ING DON'T! I DON'T HAVE FACEBOOK EITHER, OKAY?! SO PLEASE, PEOPLE, STOP ASKING ME TO BE YOUR "FACEBOOK FRIEND!!"
*pant... pant...*

15. What is your favorite video game or anime character?
Hmmm... Probably a three way tie between Midna from LoZ: Twilight Princess, Terra Branford from FF6, and Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid. (Hey. I'm a guy. I like the chicks)

16. What is your favorite color?
Orange

17. Everyone loves candy, right?
Nobody's gonna lay a finger on my Butterfinger!

18. Have you ever gotten a gift art from a friend or someone?
YES. [link] [link]

19. Do you have the Wii?
Yes. Yes I do.

20. (IF YES TO QUESTION 19.) What Wii games do you have?
Hoo boy...
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Mario Galaxy
Mario Kart Wii
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ehoes of Time
Wario Land: Shake it
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

21. If you could have one wish, what would it be?
That people would get over their differences and JUST. STOP. FIGHTING.

22. How long do you sleep?
On weekdays I tend to get about 7 hours of sleep. Up it to 12 on weekends.

23. What is your favorite part of day?
Dinnertime.

24. What kind of creature/person is your character?
Despite my Screen Name and Avatar, my personal character would better be represented by a Dolphin.

25. What is the first letter of your name?
W. Seriously, anybody who bothers to look at that bar at the top of my page...

26. Do you cuss/swear/curse?
While I tend to censor myself online, sadly in real life I am quite foul mouthed.

27. Are you happy, excited, angry, or sad at the moment?
Hungry

28. What is your favorite video game?
Final Fantasy 6 is the current placeholder, but Twilight Princess, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, SSB Brawl, and Pokemon Platinum are in a constant battle for new top spot.

29. Do you think Nintendo is an amazing company?
YES! I BOW DOWN TO THE GREAT SHIGERU MIYAMOTO!

30. What is your favorite video game company?
Nintendo. Sony is second place, but I am perpetually pissed of at Microsoft for what they did to Rareware and Donkey Kong.

31. Do you like doing quizzes?
As long as I'm not graded

32. Do you have a lot of good friends?
I like to think so.

33. What color eyes do you have?
VERY dark Brown. Some people have told me they almost look completely black.

34. W... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26982643/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26982643/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:37:16 PDT
I am going to be hosting a small contest for anybody that may be interested. This contest will be directly linked with the Midnight League's story. If you are interested, read the description below, but be warned, there's a small spoiler.

spoiler alert
At one point in the Midnight League, the team has to defeat the Cult of Oblivion in Fernsehturm in Berlin. (For those of you that don't know, that's that weird enormous television tower with the steel disco-ball like thing on top. [link] ) When the league comes to stop the cult, the cult's leader decides to sic a monster on them. This is where you come in.
end spoiler

------------------REQUIREMENTS----------------------------------------------------------------------------
What I want you all to do is design the monster. I want you all to go as crazy as you want with it. Here's what I'm looking for:
1) The title of the piece should name the creature. The cult leader will shout it's name several times so this is important.
2) The picture itself should depict the beast. Simple as that.
3) The artist comments should mention all the creature's particulars. Its abilities, how fast it is, things like that.
4) When you finish it, post a comment on my page or send me a note with a link to the picture.
5) If you are a writer and wish to join in, give a DETAILED description of the creature. Note the bold/italic/underline. It has to be super detailed. And no mater how detailed it is, be warned that If you DO win, I still might mess it up when I draw it into the story

So those are the directions. Now there are only three main rules I wish for you to follow:
1) The monster should be approximately between 30 and 60 feet tall. I want it to be conceivably beatable by six or seven men. So no Godzillas, but no pipsqueaks either.
2) No monsters that have already been concieved. If you give me something that looks like a plain old Basilisk or Manticore or something, that will be ignored.
3)Please color the entry. I don't care HOW it's colored but please, no Black and Whites or grayscales.
--------------------END REQUIREMENTS----------------------------------------------------------------------

So that's that. It'll be a while before we get to the Berlin part, so if you win you won't be seeing your Monster in the comic for a while.
This is probably the last time I'll extend the deadline. The deadline was meant to be, like, two weeks ago now. I can't be sure whether people are having trouble with this, or are just forgetting about it. Whatever the case, the new due date is SEPTEMBER 18th That's two weeks from Friday. That should be enough time for most of you. REPEAT! SEPTEMBER 18th IS THE NEW DUE DATE!!

If you wish to enter please tell me so in the comments below and I'll add your name to the roster.

ROSTER
- Atomic-Chinchilla
- Yellow-Killer
- Wondrous-Sableye
- Joshing3the7Kokiri (a.k.a. Josh)
- DarkKitsunegirl (a.k.a. Becca)
- WanderingTwilight (a.k.a. Tama)
- nemryn
- Kumoringo

PRIZES
The 1st Prize winner will Have their monster star in the Midnight League in an epic battle and will get one fully colored request from me. (Whatever you want as long as it isn't se... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26918623/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26918623/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:16:36 PDT Not really as much of a big deal as the 18th or 20th, birthday, but a birthday nonetheless.
Anyway, I'm another year older today and as such I get der PRESINTS!
So what've I gotten?
My grandmother gave me a new leather Jacket to replace the one I messedd up
My mother got me more video games AND a PS3 Now I can play the good version of the Ghostbusters game!!
My Dad got me "The Complete Works of Shakespeare." What can I say, I love the classics.
And finally, made this totally freakin AWESOME pic for me! [link]
GO SEE IT NOW!!

Also, some of my friends and I are going out to Chipotle tonight! 'Tis one of my favorite restaurants!

Anyways, now that that's done, I've noticed that most people still haven't turned in their monster entries. Honestly, I should disqualify them for that, but I'd really like to see more of what people will come up with, so, here's what I've decided. If I don't get at least two more entries for the contest by the end of tomorrow, I will give another extension. For how long I don't know, but this'll probably be the last one. I've given two of 'em already.
So these are the entrants that need to step it up a notch:





Also, my apologies go out to . She is apparently having trouble doing things of any kind on DA, so because I'm so nice, here's what I'm going to do, Tama. Whenever you get the chance to put up the monster I will give it a small cameo in the Midnight League no matter what it is. Sorry this didn't work out for you.

Anyway, so that's the situation with the contest.

So without further ado...

Happy Birthday to me... Happy Birthday to me... Happy Birthday to Will... Happy Birthday to meeeee...

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26338136/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26338136/ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:52:56 PDT THERE IS AN EXTENSION!!!
Yes there is. With only a couple days left to go and only three people having turned in their entries, I feel that I'm going to give an extension on this contest. Not only for the reason that so few people have turned an entry in, but also because moving into my new Dorm room has become a real trial due to my mother breaking her foot and being mostly unable to help me. On top of that, I just found out that classes are starting on the due date for the contest, and
So as a result of these factors, I am extending the due date to AUGUST 31 The day after my 19th Birthday (W00T). You have another week to do this.
Also, I feel I must apologize to the three that HAVE turned in their entries at this time, so ~Atomic-Chinchilla, ~Yellow-Killer, and ~kumoringo, I am sorry about this. I know you put a lot of work into getting this done by the due date and it must be frustrating to have to wait a whole 'nother week for your entries to be judged. So I'm really sorry about that.
So that's about it.
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ANOTHER UPDATE, Y'ALL!!
There's only a week left before the contest is supposed to conclude! However in light of recent events, I may extend it a bit longer. If I decide to do so then I apologize in advance to those who have already turned in their entries.
END UPDATE, YE HEAH?

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This news in no way relates to the contest. This news is directed at Midnight League anticipators
Okay, so you all are gonna hate me for this, but I'm going to have to advise you to lower your expectations in terms of the number of Midnight League pages down to about 10 by the end of my vacation at best. I'm really sorry about this, but there's just so much I want and have to do up here in New Hampshire. First of all I've gone hiking several times. Hikes tend to take up a whole day and as such, lessens drawing time substantially. Also, I've been having to babysit my younger cousin a great deal. On top of all that, I was hit by a new fanfiction idea several nights ago, and have been compulsively writing it ever since. So my most sincere apologies to ML fans. I hope I haven't angered you TOO much.
End sorry excuse for an... um... excuse.

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I figured I wanted this back on my front page for people to see, so I'm reposting it. However, there is an important change in the due date, so entrants should be sure to take a look at that.

I am going to be hosting a small contest for anybody that may be interested. This contest will be directly linked with the Midnight League's story. If you are interested, read the description below, but be warned, there's a small spoiler.

spoiler alert
At one point in the Midnight League, the team has to defeat the Cult of Oblivion in Fernsehturm in Berlin. (For those of you that don't know, that's that weird enormous television tower with the steel disco-ball like thing on top. [link] ) When the league comes to stop the cult, the cult's leader decides to sic a monster on them. This is where you come in.
end spoiler

------------------REQUIREMENTS----------------------------------------------------------------------------
What I want you all to do is design the monster. I want you all to go as crazy as you want with it. Here's what I'm looking for:
1) The title of the piece should name the creature. The cult leader will shout it's name several times so this is important.
2) The picture itself should depict the beast. Simple as that.
3) The artist comments should mention all the creature's particulars. Its abilities, how fast it is, things like that.
4) When you finish it, post a comment on my page or send me a note with a link to the picture.
5) If you are a writer and wish to join in, give a DETAILED description of the creature. Note the bold/italic/underline. It has to be super detailed. And no mater how detailed it is, be warned that If you DO win, I still might mess it up whe... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26258184/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26258184/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:07:02 PDT THIS IS MY CONTEST! IF YOU LIKE TO MAKE MONSTERS, PLEASE JOIN!! --> [link]

Sooooo... I joined in on a deviation featuring thing that ~DarkKitsunegirl was doing, so now I am obligated to pass this thing along! So the first 13 people that comment on this journal will get three deviations of theirs that I particularly like featured in this journal. However, because I'm an idiot and don't know how to make the thumbnails of the pictures appear, I'm gonna have to do links, 'kay?
So anyways, After I've featured your stuff, you get to do this very same thing featuring me at the top o' the journal! Ain't it fun? (Actually, I'm not gonna force you to do it if you don't want to.)
*cricket noises*
... Ahem! Anywaaaay...

1)
[link] - What can I say? I love Kit. She reminds me so much of my own Heather.
[link] - Charmander was, is, and forever will be my favorite pokemon EVARZ.
[link] - It is, without a doubt, the most epic battle EVER.

2) (She didn't ask for it, but she commented, so here you go)
[link] - I laughed so hard when I first read this. I still do, actually.
[link] - Love Midna! Love Midna forever and ever! Tama makes a lovely Midna!
[link] - Still. Can't. Guess. Her. DOUBLE!!

3)
[link] - A-C draws Jasmine better than I do.
[link] - This guy looks so badass it hurts!
[link] - This comic is shaping up to be epiiiiic!

4)
[link] - Honestly, I don't know what that Ambipom mixed with, but it looks cool
[link] - I like Weedles too.
[link] - These'uns look badass!

5)
[link] - Bow down before his Epic Chibi Power!
[link] - I need to draw Heather in something like this!
[link] - Patiently waiting for this epic series to start up again...

6)

7) (She said she's rather be #7 than #6 )
[link] - Sheikahs Kick Ass!
[link] - She makes a cool ninja, I must say!
[link] - Very nice. Very Roman... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26051527/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26051527/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:24:22 PDT
I am going to be hosting a small contest for anybody that may be interested. This contest will be directly linked with the Midnight League's story. If you are interested, read the description below, but be warned, there's a small spoiler.

spoiler alert
At one point in the Midnight League, the team has to defeat the Cult of Oblivion in Fernsehturm in Berlin. (For those of you that don't know, that's that weird enormous television tower with the steel disco-ball like thing on top. [link] ) When the league comes to stop the cult, the cult's leader decides to sic a monster on them. This is where you come in.
end spoiler

------------------REQUIREMENTS----------------------------------------------------------------------------
What I want you all to do is design the monster. I want you all to go as crazy as you want with it. Here's what I'm looking for:
1) The title of the piece should name the creature. The cult leader will shout it's name several times so this is important.
2) The picture itself should depict the beast. Simple as that.
3) The artist comments should mention all the creature's particulars. Its abilities, how fast it is, things like that.
4) When you finish it, post a comment on my page or send me a note with a link to the picture.
5) If you are a writer and wish to join in, give a DETAILED description of the creature. Note the bold/italic/underline. It has to be super detailed. And no mater how detailed it is, be warned that If you DO win, I still might mess it up when I draw it into the story

So those are the directions. Now there are only three main rules I wish for you to follow:
1) The monster should be approximately between 30 and 60 feet tall. I want it to be conceivably beatable by six or seven men. So no Godzillas, but no pipsqueaks either.
2) No monsters that have already been concieved. If you give me something that looks like a plain old Basilisk or Manticore or something, that will be ignored.
3)Please color the entry. I don't care HOW it's colored but please, no Black and Whites or grayscales.
--------------------END REQUIREMENTS----------------------------------------------------------------------

So that's that. It'll be a while before we get to the Berlin part, so if you win you won't be seeing your Monster in the comic for a while. Anyway, I'm giving you a month for this. August 19th is the due date. So you have plenty of time.

If you wish to enter please tell me so in the comments below and I'll add your name to the roster.

ROSTER
- Atomic-Chinchilla
- Yellow-Killer
- Wondrous-Sableye
- Joshing3the7Kokiri (a.k.a. Josh)
- DarkKitsunegirl (a.k.a. Becca)
- WanderingTwilight (a.k.a. Tama)
- nemryn

PRIZES
The 1st Prize winner will Have their monster star in the Midnight League in an epic battle and will get one fully colored request from me. (Whatever you want as long as it isn't sexual)

The 2nd Prize Winner wil have their Monster make a small cameo in... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26012891/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/26012891/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:58:46 PDT
AND THUS... I LEAVE YOU ALL NOW... TO PICK UP MY PENCIL... AND COMMENCE THIS EPIC NOVEL! CHAAAAAARGE!!!

Also, I'm considering getting an artists tablet, as I have heard such awesome things about them, but in reality, I know almost nothing about them. Is there anyone out there who can fill me in on this?

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25898855/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25898855/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:57:53 PDT So what do I intend to work on?
Well I definately intend to work on SSBD (if I advance to the next round, of course) and I also intend to start FF6 Dawn of Power back up again. But other than that?
Well I'm a gonna take a page out of 's book and ask you that.
I have recently introduced you to three projects of mine: Galactic Amazon [link] , The Dracustome [link] , and The Midnight League [link] .
So I want you all to tell me which one you want to see. Let me tell you all something though. Galactic Amazon and The Midnight League are both pretty well planned out at the moment, but the Dracustome is a bit of a mess at the moment. I have the beginning and the end planned out, but the middle is kinda jumbled. So If you choose ML or GA you'll probably get a lot more stuff than you will if you choose DT. The votes will be tallied when I get to New Hampshire.
Anyways, that is the choice I give you:

The Midnight League

Galactic Amazon

The Dracustome

Start the vote... now. No Wait...
...
3...2...1...
Okay NOW.

EDIT: Maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit, but I posted this journal almost 10 hours ago, and I've only gotten two votes. And one of them was from my sister. So please, if you're at all interested in my original stories/comics, please do vote. Please?

EDIT 2: I leave for New Hampshire tomorrow and will get there at about 9 pm! If you still haven't put a vote in then this is your last chance! Just 24 hours left, guys!

Also, in case anybody's intrerested, my Birthday is August 30th. Just giving fair warning.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25777342/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25777342/ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:15:09 PDT
Hope it's the former. Computer troubles give me ulcers.

EDIT: Okay, now it seems to be working again. Problem solved.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25684370/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25684370/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:22:49 PDT
It took a year and a half, but I finally have exactly one hundred Deviations in my gallery!!! WOOHOO!!!

And with this super special event, I unveil to you the cover page of one of the biggest projects I've ever come up with! The Midnight League. Really the concept is quite similar to one of my favorite movies: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Really I don't know why people hate that film so much. I think it was awesome in almost every way concievable, but I've heard people chalk it up to being as bad as the Super Mario Bros movie. Come on people, it can't be THAT bad. But I digress.
Please do click on the [link] right here. I want you all to see this! It's very special to me and I think this piece of work may just be one of the best thing's I have ever done! On this site at least.

So hooray for 100!

On a side note, my birthday is on August 30th if anybody's interested. Don't want to sound like I'm begging, but it's just that everybody but my immediate family forgot it last year.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25657108/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25657108/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:33:14 PDT
Also, I'm about ready to celebrate putting up my 100th deviation. It'll introduce what I like to think of as the turning point in MC's life. Basically it takes place right before he meets Heather, when he decides to stop being... well for lack of a better term, evil. Won't let on any more than that, but the concept is based off of one of my favorite movies (that everybody else in the world, oddly, seems to hate).

Sooo... what else? In exactly 2 months on August 30th I will turn nineteen years old. I'm gettin to be an old man now. Why, I remember the days when TV's weren't HD and you had only 70 channels. When you had movies on clunky tapes and when computers were slow as a snail. Yup my childhood was so much better than all you whippersnappers... yes... Zzzzzzzzzzz...

Think that's it...

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25587127/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25587127/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:51:54 PDT
REVIEW #1: Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo DS)

First, let me say, that I have never been disappointed by a true Pokemon game (i.e. NOT pokemon Dash, Trozei, puzzle league, etcetera). For some reason, reusing the same formula again and again doesn't get old. However this time, Nintendo exceeded my expectations. Pokemon Platinum is in general a redux of Diamond and Pearl, however, enough was added to make itself almost a separate entity. At this point I haven't yet finished the game, but I have gotten far enough to recognize several things. First of all, the whole situation with Team Galactic has been revamped and I found that very refreshing, as their motives and all were kinda cloudy in DP. Also the addition of the distortion world is nice, as it adds a bit of pizzazz to that climactic moment in the story. The ability to catch Giratina earlier is also nice, seeing as he's an incredibly powerful ally to have. Lastly and probably most importantly, the ability to catch other fire pokemon, such as Magmar and Houndour is incredibly good, because the one thing that REALLY perturbed me about DP was the insane lack of fire pokemon before beating the pokemon league (Seriously, guys. JUST Ponyta and Rapidash? Both are insanely sucky as fire pokemon). In short Platinum retains all the greatness of DP, and even gains more, without losing anything. There is one thing however that I do dislike. That is how difficult it is to effectively raise your team. This is a problem found in every pokemon game. It seems you can't easily advance in the game without spending hours in every area constantly battling. Otherwise, you get to a new area and suddenly all your foes are five levels higher than you. Really, I can understand it being difficult to advance when you reach, say, level 70, but 40? Come on. Give us a break. Despite this flaw, however, I give this game a substantial 4/5.
Rating: ****

REVIEW #2: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (Gamecube)

Holy… Shiznit… I’m sorry, but when I played this game I was completely enthralled by it at all moments. The feelings I felt when playing it! Excited, Enraged, Overjoyed, Terrified. I mean, I didn’t know you could be all those things at once!
Overreactions aside, this was an incredible game. I was hesitant to start playing this series because I had always avoided playing M rated games, on account of what goes on in some of them, however, I am so glad I played this. It is 10 pounds of sheer awesomeness in a five pound bag. As you advance through the game, enthralling plot elements like government conspiracies, sadistic madmen, and plausible science fiction are thrown at you with every turn. The story is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever experienced, the acting was far beyond average for a video game, and the graphics were certainly passable. You get the entire package in a short, action filled game. The only problem I had with the game was that it was so short. I zipped through the whole thing in about seven hours and it was my very first time playing. Despite this, I give the game a full 5/5
Rating: *****

Review #3: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)

I enjoy playing this game. I really do. The whole point of the game though is that you live for the story. There’s no actual gameplay involved. It’s a whole point and click thing and you can really go on one straight line of action because of it. What I’m saying is this: In Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, and other things like that, when you get to a point where you’re stuck, you can go do some mindless battling or some juicy sidequests until you find a way to get unstuck. With this, there isn’t anything else to do. You have to go on that one single line of action. Because of that, if you get stuck, there isn’t anywhere else to go. You just have to turn the game off and wait until you can get onto gamefaqs or something to get yourself unstuck, ‘cause it becomes too frustrating to try and do it yourself. I found a similar problem with a CSI game I played. Anyways, the story is great and all, but it’s too easy to get yourself lost with no way out. Therefore, I give this game a substantial 3/5.
Rating: ***

Review #4: Final Fantasy XII (Playstation 2)

You know, I have friends here on DA that say this game is the tops. They think it’s the bees knees. But I really can’t say I like it all that much. It isn’t the story. It isn’t the graphics. It’s the gameplay itself. I really can’t stand it. I’ve been playing Final Fantasy games since I was ten years old. That’s almost nine years now. And in that time I fell in love with the “Random Batt... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25538768/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25538768/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:13:58 PDT
I gotta say, they're both incredible countries. The landscapes are absolutely breathtaking. Unfortunately there isn't much else to do than look at the scenery. So I have to file this one under the category: Glad I did it. Don't want to do it again.

So anyways, now for the stuff that is relevant to this site.

First of all, a couple of you may have noticed that I was planning to join . I have decidded against doing that. I'm already in 's tournament. I don't need to worry about doing another. On that note, My Round 2 entry is only about half done, so I need to get to work on that.

Also, I'm gonna take this time to remind everybody that I have changed MC and Heather's Canon story. Because of this, while I am not going to remove the deviations, anything I have that alludes to his non-canon story I am going to remove from my featured deviations. You can still find them in their little files and the browse section, though.

And Now, I end this with a tag.

MC's Quiz

Rules:
1. You must choose only ONE of your OCs. Do it again if you wanna use another OC.
2. Your OC must answer every question as truthfully as possible.
3. Title the journal as "OCs Quiz (your OCs name)".
4. When you're done, tag as many people as you want.
5. Have fun!!!

1. Hi! What's your real name and nickname?
- My name Is William Darkfang. But I never go by that. You may call me Midnight Cobra.

2. Interesting... what's your current age?
- Currently I am about 1214 years old. Half Demons live a long time.

3. Uh huh. What's your favourite food?
- Throughout my life I have found many dishes that I have loved. Cheese Fondue. Reuben Sandwiches. But I’m gonna have to go with a nice rare Tuna Steak.

4. And your favourite drink?
- A nice Sweet Tea would have to take that place.

5. Confession time! Who's your crush/lover?
- My lover died many many years ago. Lin Su. She was truly an angel.

6. Aww! Have you two kissed yet?
- We did. We were married for only a year before she was killed by bandits.

7. Classic question! What's your favourite colour?
- I’d have to say orange.

8. Who's your favourite author?
- William Shakespeare. He was a nice guy.

9. Now what's your biggest fear?
- Spiders. I had a terrible childhood experience with them.

10. *stifles a giggle* I'm not laughing *bursts out laughing* Sorry. Any siblings?
- Yes, I suppose it’s odd that an immortal would be scared of something so small. Anyways, I do have a sister. Her name is Daybreak Adder.

11. Alright. Who's your hero?
- I’d have to say my master Lao Xing. He was truly a wonder.

12. Ok, who is your worst enemy?
- Darkfang. My own Father. He is by far the most evil slime that ever walked this earth.

13. What would you do if your hero and your worst enemy got together?
- They can’t. Lao Xing is long dead.

14. Interesting... what would you do if you met your creator?
- You mean my discoverer? I suppose if I met him I’d thank him for making my story known to another world.

15. Okay, I'll contact them right now. Done! Now, what do you want to be when you grow up?
- I find it interesting you have a dimensional communicator as well. Anyways, I suppose you mean what do I want for the future? I merely wish to redeem myself for all the wrong I’ve done.

16. What's your worst nightmare?
- For my friend Heather to be killed. I shudder at the thought.

17. What's your lifelong dream?
- I’ve had two. My first was to cause as much destruction as possible. But now it’s to be forgiven for what I’ve done.

18. What would you do if your lifelong dream came true?
- I’ve never thought about that. I doubt it could ever happen is the thing.

19. Ok, where's your favourite place to relax?
- Atop a mountain is probably where I am most at peace.

20. Last question! What do you spend most of your time doing?
- I spend a lot of time looking for something, anything, about my mother.

21. We're done! Now tag whoever you want. I'm outtie.
- Very well then. Nice talking to you.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25205650/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25205650/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:15:03 PDT Daybreak-Adder and I are going to be gone for the next two weeks. We will be in Iceland and Norway, so we won't have any access to the internet until... I believe the 23rd of June. Thus we cannot answer any messages or see any deviations until then. Happy Trails, and I'll see you all when we get back! ^^

Now then: I ENCOURAGE ALL WATCHERS THAT DISLIKE PRINCESS ZELDA TO READ ON!

Hello, and welcome to the second edition of Cobra's Curiosity, where I ask non-rant questions as to why certain people and friends tend to like or dislike certain video game, movie, etcetera characters. There has been one particular girl that I have heard tons of criticism about, but I can't seem to get many answers as to WHY they dislike her so much. And that character is: Princess Zelda.

(Remember, this isn't a rant. Please don't flame me)

Here has always been my perception of Zelda: She always seems like a particularly nice girl with high amounts of virtue and morality. Her actions in nearly every game since Ocarina of Time have seemed to show that she is courageous, pure, and entirely dedicated to the safety of her people and the eradication of evil. While she isn't much help in the first several games, in OoT she disguises herself as Sheik and helps Link in the game. In WW she is Tetra, a fearless pirate who is a little bitchy at times, but still kick-ass and generally moral. And in TP, while she doesn't exactly kick butt, she lets herself be captured to save the lives of everybody in the kingdom, and then gives herself up to save Midna. All of these seem to suggest that she is a generally pure and caring person.

Now, multiple times, I have heard people say that they dislike Zelda. I cannot seem to figure out why and I never seem to get a common answer. I have heard people call her a bitch, a whore, and several other *ahem* nasty things multiple times on this site. And I really want to know why. What is it about her that makes her this way? What in the games has she done to make her such a bitch?

(Remember, this isn't a rant. Please don't flame me)

Another thing I wonder about, is what is wrong with a Zelda/Link pairing. I'm a flexible guy. I can see Link with Malon, Midna, Saria, and the other girls (Though Ruto makes my brain implode, and Ilia would rather marry Epona) but I find nothing wrong with Zelda/Link either. So if people could tell me what's wrong with that it would help as well.

Thank you all for your time. Please do leave comments below. I'll see you all in two weeks! ^_^

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25133604/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25133604/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:12:39 PDT

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WHAT FANTASY RACE ARE YOU MEME

Centaur:
[X] You are rather wild, and let your instincts run you. (I tend to)
[ ] You get drunk a lot. (Never.)
[ ] Bravery and boldness is second nature to you.
[ ] You have a deep love for astronomy and the universe.
[ ] You like to read your daily horoscope.
[X] You have a high level of pride in yourself.
[X] In the woods is the best place for you to be. (A house IN the woods, yes)
[X] You are spiritual.
[ ] The horse is your favorite animal. (It's up there, but not my favorite)
[X] You are possessive and territorial. (uh... yeah)
Total: 5

Elf:
[ ] Your ears are slightly pointed at the tips (be honest).
[X] You are very intelligent. (155 IQ)
[ ] Your five senses are extremely keen.
[X] Your weight is quite a bit lighter than the average person at your particular height. (I'm a rail)
[ ] You always wear elegant clothes and speak as politely as possible.
[X] You are most at peace when you are gazing at something beautiful, like nature.
[X] You look very young for your age. (I look like I'm 16)
[X] You rarely get sick. (Colds, yeah, but almost never anything else)
[X] You are a very hard worker. (I can be)
[ ] Above all other superpowers, you would love to read minds or see the future.
Total: 6

Fairy:
[X] You are happy a lot of the time. (Usually)
[ ] The best superpower to you would be to fly.
[ ] You are very shy.
[X] You love the forest and plant life in general.
[X] You are always willing to help others, even if you might not be the best to offer aid.
[ ] You are young and short.
[ ] Dancing is one of your favorite pastimes.
[X] If someone ticks you off, you are very clever with getting them back. (heh heh heh...)
[X] Your clothing isn't always presentable, but you are comfortable with what you wear. (PAJAMAS!!)
[ ] Circles are a wonderful symbol of unity to you.
Total: 5

Gnome/Dwarf:
[X] You are excellent with crafts and handiwork.
[X] In social situations, you tend to be a little awkward. (yesh)
[ ] You are short for your age.
[ ] You are an isolationist.
[X] You love to play practical jokes on people.
[ ] You are extremely fascinated with jewelry.
[ ] You look older than your age.
[X] You love the woods and the mountains.
[X] You are well off, or come from a family that is well off.
[X] You have a short temper.
Total: 6

Harpy/Siren:
[X] You are best at talking bad about people behind their backs and not to their face.
[X] When you are annoyed, you will go to a great extent to torment whoever did so to you. (Psychological torment... I can do it quite well)
[ ] You often take things that aren't yours.
[X] You are easily angered.
[ ] Death fascinates you.
[ ] You are female, or a feminine-looking man. (Were it not for all the hair, I would be)
[ ] You associate yourself with the wind element. (Water, actually)
[X] You can switch quickly between your light and dark side. (Tick me off, face my wrath)
[X] You love to trick others.
[X] You have a ravenous appetite.
Total: 6

Mermaid:
[ ] You love the beach moreso because of the water than the shore itself.
[X] Fish are some of the most beautiful creatures to you. (they CAN be)
[ ] The ultimate superpower to you would be to breathe underwater. (it would be cool, but not the best)
[ ] You enjoy looking at ships, but not riding them, as well as you like ships for traveling, not hunting in the sea. (Love goin on cruises. Not wishin I was on one)
[X] You are good at swimming.
[ ] You like to collect shells.
[ ] You use sea items as jewelry or decoration.
[X] You enjoy learning about the ocean and the life inside it.
[X] You are extremely against ocean pollution, and someday, perhaps (if you haven't already), you will work to stop that.
[ ] Legs on land are not as important as a fin in the sea.
Total: 4

Vampire:
[X] You're a night person. (it's currently 11:04 pm)
[ ] You have a fascination with blood.
[ ] You are extremely pale.
[ ] You wish you had a bat as a pet.
[ ] You are not religious at all.
[ ] Tight spaces are not scary or uncomfortable for you.
[ ] The sun's glare annoys you all too often.
[ ] You hate food with lots of garlic in it.
[ ] To you, a kiss on the neck is more romantic tha... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25024392/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/25024392/ Fri, 29 May 2009 22:44:48 PDT So now, the age test that I have recently stolen from

[ ] You know how to make a pot of coffee.
[ ] You keep track of dates using a calendar.
[x] You own a credit card.
[ ] You know how to change the oil in a car.
[x] You've done your own laundry.
[x] You can vote in an election.
[x] You can cook for yourself.
[ ] You think politics are interesting.


TOTAL SO FAR: 4


[x] You show up for school late a lot.
[x] You always carry a pen/pencil in your bag/purse/pocket.
[x] You've never gotten a detention.
[ ] You have forgotten your own birthday.
[x] You like to take walks by yourself.
[x] You know what credibility means, without looking it up.
[x] You drink caffeine at least once a week


TOTAL SO FAR: 10



[x] You know how to do the dishes.
[x] You can count to 10 in another language. (three actually. French, Spanish, and Japanese)
[x] When you say you're going to do something you usually do it.
[x] You can mow the lawn.
[ ] You study even when you don't have to.
[x] You have hand washed a car before.


TOTAL SO FAR: 15



[x] You can spell experience, without looking it up. (... It's right there. RIGHT THERE.)
[ ] The people at Starbucks know you by name.
[ ] Your favorite kind of food is take out.
[x] You can go to the store without getting something you don't need.
[x] You understand political jokes the first time they are said.
[x] You can type pretty quick.


TOTAL SO FAR: 19


[x] Your only friends are from your place of employment. (Well, place of study actually. Whatever)
[x] You have been to a Tupperware party.
[x] You have realized that practically no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job.
[ ] You have more bills than you can pay.
[x] You have been to the beach.
[x] You use the internet every day.
[x] You have been outside of the united states 3 or more times.
[ ] You make your bed in the morning.

Apparently, I'm supposed to be 25.
...

huh...

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24778579/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24778579/ Fri, 15 May 2009 22:30:52 PDT
I ENCOURAGE EVERY WATCHER TO READ ON! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!

First of all, in regards to my transformational artwork. This is how I gained something like 80% of my watchers. Personally, I regret drawing most of them. Beyond the very first one, "A Foxy Transformation," I really haven't enjoyed drawing them as much as I once did, and the only reason that I did draw them was to please all the fans that I suddenly and spontaneously gained. I basically became a pageview junkie. Now I'm feeling sorry for that. Those TF pictures, they weren't what I really wanted to do. But I did them anyway because I let myself get sucked in by popularity.

The point is that I don't intend to do much TF from now on. I still am sort of in a contract to do two more. A rabbit and a frog. I have promised people these things, and I try not to break my promises. Beyond that, don't expect much more, if any.

I also intend to eliminate the TF thing from the canon of MC and Heather stories. I don't want to have the pair remembered for those. I want them to be remembered for the lush story that I've written up for them. Unfortunately I may be too late for that. So basically, enjoy the TF that's already there all you want. I'm not taking it down, but don't expect any stories to build off of it.

The only problem is that now, since I'm eliminating TFs from the factor, Heather's story is sort of in a jam. She's staying a fox girl, rest assured of that, but if I've removed MC's Anthrofication powers, I'm having trouble trying to figure out how Heather became what she is. I'm thinking that Heather herself is going to be a half-demon as well. Along with Twinkie and Campbell.

But this is beside the point. The point is, No more TF's save for the two I'm already slated to do, and maybe a couple others if I get REALLY bored. I don't simply want to be known as a TF artist. I want to be a good storyteller, artist, the whole nine yards. And I think that being mainly a TF artist isn't going to help me achieve that. I mean, there isn't anything WRONG with TF, and there isn't anything WRONG with people who like TF. But I feel that I want to pursue other paths with my art.

I had big plans when I joined this website, and TF really wasn't one of them. I have so many ideas swirling around in my head. Comics I want people to see, stories I want people to hear, things that I want people to look at and enjoy, that I myself can truly enjoy making, and TF just isn't doing that for me anymore. I'm not a pageview junkie anymore. So love me, hate me, add me to your watch list, remove me from your watch list, do what you will. I can take it.

So I'm sorry if I'm disappointing a lot of you, and I'm sure that I must be. But from now on I want to paddle my canoe in a different direction. Thank you for reading, and thank you all.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24705043/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24705043/ Mon, 11 May 2009 14:47:54 PDT Yeah, we get out pretty early.

I swear that place was trying to kill me. You know, I grew up in a very difficult school. I figured college couldn't be any more difficult than that. BOY was I in for a sucker punch to the face! I didn't do all that horribly.I probably got a passing grade in my Anthropology class, despite it being such a laborous task to do so. I got an A or an A- in my Sculpture class, and a B in my College Writing class. And last semester I got an A in Art History, a B in Drawing, a C in painting, a B in History of Film, and a Pass in Animal Psychology. So at the moment, my GPA isn't in a state of panic, but rather in a state of slight nervousness.

And man, moving out was really tough. I have so much stuff, it took three full days to clean out my dorm room. Packing things in boxes, sending them back home. Storing them in a storehouse. And while I was doing this, my roomate managed to clean out his room in less that six hours. It was insane I tell you! I suppose the reason I had such a trial was because I live out of state. Everybody else lived about an hour away from campus or less.

But now I'm back home in sweet sweet Illinois.

At any rate, the whole "Class makes me unable to draw" thing is temporarily no longer in effect. It will remain this way for another 4 months. So this means that I have a lot more time to draw right?
Right.

This means that I'll take that chance to draw, right?
Possibly. Not only do I also have several Zelda and Final Fantasy Games I'm interested in playing, I also have a newfound interest in the Metal Gear Solid Series and I intend to look into that. So I won't be using all of the time I have to draw. I can guarantee a lot more drawing, but don't expect me to write like three comic books by the end of the summer.

Okay... but this means that I'll be uploading a ton more stuff, right?
Wrong. For about another month this may be the case, but in early June, I'm actually going to be taking a trip to Iceland and Norway for two weeks. then after I come back from there I only have another week before I head off to New Hampshire again like I did last year and, unless my grandparents have decided to get a scanner up there, I won't even be able to upload anything for like a month and a half. So no, probably not.

BUT since I will be spending more time drawing, I will have a lot more stuff to upload when I regain access to a scanner. So you can lok forward to that. I'll try to upload as much as I can for you all in the next month,but I doubt that it'll be that phenomenal.

So. that's about everything. See you all later!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24471691/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24471691/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:05:11 PDT
It was a tough decision. Really two factors made me decide to join. One was that a while back posted a journal about how somebody on Fanfiction copied one of her stories and passed it off as their own on that site. This I cannot have happen. I'm sorry, but I pride myself too much upon my works to even think about giving somebody the chance to pass them off as their own. Luckily for me, I've been up and down the Final Fantasy 6 part of Fanfiction and I have not seen anything even remotely resembling Dawn of Power, so at the moment I'm still alright. But like hell I'm going to just wait around and let someone do it at some point in the future. No. I'm joining and putting it up. Nobody's taking this from me!

Second, I've been browsing the "popular" section of my gallery, just to find out which of my works are the most loved, and I was blown out of my mind to discover that absolutely none of my FF6DoP chapters were even remotely popular on this site and four of my chapters comprise the most unpopular of all of them. I happen to know that there are a select few people who watch me only for my fanfiction, and I thank them for the few wiews I've gotten, but I have to say, it's really distressing to put as much effort into these stories as I do, and then find out that so few people even bother to look at them. So I figured I'd start putting them up at a place that actually holds stories and fanfics in higher regard. Now I don't intend to stop putting chapters up here, but I'm telling you that now they're also gonna be up elsewhere.

So that's pretty much it. If you want you can go have a look at my Fanfic Account: [link] The username is very similar to the one I have here. Unfortunately they say I can't upload anything for the next two days. Some stupid anti-spam policy or something. But on the 29th I should have the first chapter of Dawn of Power up on that site. I intend to change a few minor details in the presentation of Dawn of Power. Nothing big. Just a few minor details here and there. One thing in particular I intend to do is uncensor all swears and curses. But other than that there won't be much that'll be changed.

Anyways, wish me luck at this new site and I'll be talking to you all later!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24449313/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24449313/ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:20:53 PDT

[x] You have screamed at an inanimate object for 'hurting you.'
[x] You have ran into a glass/screen door.
[ ] You have jumped out of a moving vehicle.
[x] You have thought of something funny and laughed, and then people gave you weird looks.
[x] You have run into a tree/bush.
[x] You have been called a blond. (Which is really weird cuz my hair is brown!)

TOTAL: 5

[x] You know that it IS possible to lick your elbow.
[ ] You just tried to lick your elbow.
[ ] You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star had the same melody.
[ ] You just sang them to make sure.
[x] You have tripped on your own feet and fallen.
[x] You have choked on your own spit.

TOTAL: 8

[x] You have seen the Matrix and still don't get it.
[ ] You type with three fingers or less.
[x] You have accidentally caught something on fire.
[x] You tried to drink out of a straw, but it went into your nose.
[x] You have caught yourself drooling.

TOTAL: 12

[x] You have fallen asleep in class.
[ ] Sometimes you just stop thinking.
[x] Sometimes when you are telling a story you forget what you are talking about.
[ ] People often shake their heads and walk away from you
[x] You are often told to use your 'inside voice.'

TOTAL: 15

[ ] You use your fingers to do simple math.
[x] You have eaten a bug accidentally. (A Mosquito. My throat felt weird for DAYS!)
[x] You are taking this test when you should be doing something more important.
[x] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and didn't realize it.
[x] You've looked all over for something and realized it was in your hand/pocket the whole time.

TOTAL: 19

[ ] You have posted bulletins because you are scared that what they say will happen if you don't.
[x] You break a lot of things.
[x] You tilt your head when you're confused.
[x] You have fallen out of your chair before.
[ ] When you're lying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture on the ceiling.
[x] The word "um" is used frequently.
[ ] You don't know what "um" means.
[x] You say "what" and "huh" a lot.
[ ] You plan to use a calculator to multiply your score for this bulletin.

TOTAL: 24

NOW, take your total, and multiply it by 4.
and re-post as: "I am --% Mentally ill."

"I am 96% Mentally ill"

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24345346/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24345346/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:06:04 PDT I ENCOURAGE ALL MY WATCHERS WHO FEEL NEGATIVELY ABOUT SEPHIROTH TO PLEASE PARTICIPATE

Hello, and welcome to the very first edition of "Cobra's Curiosity." In these journal entries, I hope to find the answers, with your help, as to some things that have puzzled me for quite a long time now. In this edition I bring up the ever famous Final Fantasy villain, Sephiroth.

I encourage everybody to read the full journal and please reply to it with your opinions.

I have been pondering upon this issue for some time now. While myself and many of my friends, after playing FF7, found Sephiroth to be one of the best if not the best villain we had ever seen, as soon as I got on to DA I noticed that a great number of the people here tend to particularly dislike him, if not outright hate him. When I see this, I have to ask myself why this is.

I'd like to make sure that everybody knows at this time that this is NOT meant to be a rant. Simply a quest to understand why so many people dislike him.

This is my personal opinion: Sephiroth is actually pretty cool for a villain. He is dark, mysterious, evil, cold, and totally insane. These make up for a deadly combination. In further analyzing him. we see that he was born as a product of what I can only assume was rape. Brought up in a harsh military environment while simultaneously undergoing multiple genetic experiments, the discovery of which caused him to lose his sanity. After researching exactly what made him into what he was, he began to hate the world for his suffering and vowed to destroy it. He intends to do so with the help of Jenova whom he constantly refers to as "Mother" due to Jenova being the basis of his previous experimentation.

Throughout the game, Sephiroth commits multiple atrocities. The most prevalent being the murder of Aerith Gainsborough. This act furthered his development as a heartless monster. Another atrocity is the summoning of Meteor with the intent to cause a "wound" to the planet so great that he can use his power to merge with it. However, in the act of causing the wound, he would wipe out all life on the planet as well.

Sephiroth's personality is that of a heartless evildoer. He cares nothing about the lives of others and will kill people if they get in his way, or often just on whims. He is cold, dark, and insane, yet generally calm and collected. Similar to such classic and chilling villains as Hannibal Leckter and John Doe from Se7en. In this way I find him to be one of the very pinnacles of evil.

At this time I'd like to remind everybody that this is not a rant. I simply wish to hear other peoples' opinions of Sephiroth, and why they think he's a crappy villain.

One thing I've noticed is that generally the same people that dislike Sephiroth, also tend to think Kefka Palazzo of FF6 is the best villain concievable. Don't get me wrong. I love FF6. it's my personal favorite Final Fantasy. However, I find Kefka, as a villain to be second place in terms of rating the villains. (Third place if you go into other franchises and include Ganondorf.) Here are my reasons why: First of all, Kefka has no reason for his insanity in game. Not once within the course of the game do you hear why Kefka went so crazy, thus leaving a bit of a plot hole. If you look at outside sources, there are several explanations given, but even many official sources seem to vary. Furthermore there's Kefka's personality. As opposed to Sephiroth, who is modeled after the cold, distant evils that have been proven to send chills down peoples' spines, Kefka is loud, excitable, and otherwise totally freak-outish. His personality, rather than make me shiver, tends to make me laugh in confusion, saying "What's up with this guy?" Furthermore, there's the way he dresses. He dresses literally like a clown. That isn't scary so much as weird. Oddly enough though, despite all these oddities and unorthodox approaches, Square found a way to make Kefka into a truly epic villain, especially towards the end. However, this does not exempt him from these not only odd, but also quite derogatory traits.

So remembering two things: 1) That this isn't a rant and I am only looking to understand why people dislike Sephiroth, and 2) that these are merely my opinions so please don't reply too angrily, I now humbly request that Sephiroth dislikers please merely explain why they hate the one-winged angel. I await replies eagerly.

Thank you my friends! Hope you all have a great day!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24206368/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24206368/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:44:36 PDT Luckily, since I've had so long to work on it, I'm not as worried about this one. Still. It's a real pain in the butt to know that if you mess up on absolutely ANYTHING else in the course that you'll fail it. That isn't a good feeling.
At all.
In any way.

However, today I'm not that upset. This is because the totally awesome just submitted a story starring Jasmine!

I COMMAND YOU TO GO SEE IT!!! --> [link] <-- I COMMAND YOU TO GO SEE IT!!!

It's a contest entry. It's his audition for 's contest "Super Smash Bros. Devi, so I can't actually claim it was meant for me, but to see somebody else pick my character and use her so flawlessly and perfectly in a way that totally would work... That just makes me feel fuzzy inside. I'm serious. Everything that Jasmine says and does in the story is exactly what she would do If I were the one making it. EVERYTHING. Go see it now! You get a clear look at her attitude, immortality, and motives.

Congratulations ! You are totally freakin' awesome! And congrats on being the first person ever besides myself that used one of my OC's!

EDIT: HOLY CRAPNESS! HE JUST MADE A SECOND PART TO THE STORY!!!!

GO SEE IT THIS INSTANT!!!--> [link] <--GO SEE IT THIS INSTANT!!!

ANOTHER EDIT: Heh heh heh... Jasmine may be gaining popularity... Because now my sister has used her in HER audition for the contest. This shows her in a much calmer state of mind, whereas Atomic-Chinchilla's shows her if she had her adrenaline pumping.
anywaaaaays...

I ORDER YOU TO SEE IT!!!--> [link] <--I ORDER YOU TO SEE IT!!!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24097326/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/24097326/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:27:20 PDT And I can honestly say I have NO idea how I did.

I know I did better than my last test, which was a D or a D- ... Not entirely sure as some of the grading systems at this school are weird.

ANYway, this test could be anywhere from a C to an A-

If it's a C, I'm screwed.
If it's a B- or above, I have a chance to save my grade.

Personally, I'm pretty sure I got somewhere between an 82% and an 87%, but like I said, I can't be sure.

But the killer test is done, so I'll be back for at least a little while. At least until I need to get to work on a huge project.
...
whee...

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23938445/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23938445/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:41:05 PDT
At any rate, there's a test coming up in Anthropology for next Monday. If I get anything less than a C+ on it, I'm finished. Goodbye passing grade, we hardly knew ye.

This is not a good situation to be in at all. So here's what I intend to do: I'm going to cut back on my free time in all respects and basically devote my life for the next week to studying for this test. This way, I can probably hope to make at least a B on the test. If I do that, I'll have a fighting chance.

Point is, this means I can't spend nearly as much time here on DA. You may have caught a glimpse of how most of the time on any afternoon I will be either online or idle. This ain't gonna be the case for some time in the future week.

I'm instead going to be re-reading and studying the course materials. Hopefully I'll be able to get through this week without going completely out of my mind. I may log on for a short while sometimes if I have a spare moment. I'll try to keep up to date with messages and artwork if I have spare time, but no promises.

So anyway, wish me luck, and I'll be back for sure next week!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23902924/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23902924/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:57:01 PDT 's birthday! Everybody give a warm 18th Birthday cheer to Josh!

Congrats dude, Hope you have an awesome birthday!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23663022/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23663022/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:23:56 PDT is going to be another year older! So everybody give a cheer for my good friend, Tama! W00T!

I originally intended to give this to her on her birthday: [link] but I'm not entirely sure how available the internet will be to this snake for the next week and a half, so I've decided to give it to her now instead of risking missing her birthday entirely! I also hope she doesn't get upset with me for putting her on a pedestal before her birthday actually happens...

Also, that's a message to everybody. I do not know whether or not I will have internet access for the next week and a half. I'm visiting my grandparents for spring break and the last time I was there they didn't have decent internet. I don't know what their situation is now. If their internet has gotten any better, I should be able to remain in touch. If it hasn't, well, I'll be gone for a short while.

Think that's about everything!

Happy B-Day Tama!!!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23292490/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/23292490/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:30:23 PST Thank you all! You're truly the best! Here's a little pic as a thank you! [link]

Stay Awesome, Everybody!

- Midnight Cobra

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22934246/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22934246/ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:45:12 PST
OC QUIZ!!!!

"Good Evening. I'm Midnight Cobra. Tonight we'll be interviewing some friends of mine. I will be supervising with this Tranquilizer gun just in case any of them get too violent. First, let's go over the rules of this tag..."

1. Choose 5 to 10 of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Then tag three people. (I'm gonna break this rule!)
4. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!

"Okay, now let's introduce the ten contestants"

1. Heather Fox
2. Twinkie
3. Jasmine
4. Andromeda Grey
5. Cupcake
6. Lance Baselard
7. Singe
8. Andrea Femdulac
9. Ooze
10. Kira Avasauria


Who/what are you?

1. Hiya! I'm heather! I'm a fox anthro!
2. Squeaky! (My name's Twinkie)
3. Name's Jasmine. Now piss off!
4. Hello. My name is Andromeda
5. Squeaky Squeak! (I'm Cupcake! Nice to meetcha!)
6. ... my name's Lance...
7. 'Sup? I'm Singe. I'm a fire Dragon.
8. Greetings. My name is Andrea. I'm a water fairy.
9. I am the Great Ooze! The King of Slime! Bow down before me!
10. Oh, Hello. I'm Kira. I'm... not entirely sure what I am... I'm a dragon except I look human.

How old are you? (human years)

1. 21. But seriously, you don't ask a woman's age!
2. Squee! (Two)
3. I'm 28. Now will you leave me alone!?
4. 29, but what kind of question is that for a woman?
5. Squeak! (About three)
6. ... 23...
7. Well, I'm sixteen in human years, but really I'm only about two in dragon years
8. Teehee! ^^ I'm nearly 200 years old my friend. And still young!
9. I have lived for 50 years planning my rise to power!
10. *blush* Seventeen

WANT A HUG?!

1. Hug Time!!
2. *Glomps*
3. Come near me and I'll stab you!
4. No thank you... Unless your name's Cupcake.
5. *walks over to "Mama Andy" and hugs*
6. No.
7. I'll pass.
8. Thank you for the offer, but no.
9. Filthy Human! You disgust me!
10. Ummm... No thanks, I don't really know you.

Are you a girl or a boy?

1. What Kind of question is that?!
2. Squeaky squeak squeak! (I know I'm adorable, but I'm a boy!)
3. Do DD Cup Tits mean nothing to you, Dumbass?
4. Can you not tell that I'm a woman? I even said so earlier!
5. Squeaky! (I'm a boy!)
6. I'm male.
7. Dude. I'm a dude!
8. Hehe.. My aren't we thourough. I'm female.
9. I am a KING, damn you!
10. ? ... You can't tell I'm a girl?

Do you have any brothers or sisters?

1. I have a twin sister! Her name's Katie!
2. Squee... Squeak! (Ummmm... I don't know!)
3. I'LL KILL YOU, YOU SON OF A- *gets hit with the tranquilizer*
4. I... Don't really want to talk about that... *eyes tearing*
5. WAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!
6. A sister... I'd rather not say any more.
7. I'm not entirely sure about that, but I guess you could call Lance my brother!
8. I have twelve sisters and nine brothers!
9. I have one brother... AND HE WILL BURN JUST AS ALL OF YOU HUMANS WILL!!!!!! *tranquilized*
10. I'm an only child.

Who's your crush / mate / spouse?

1. I kinda have a thing for Ike from Fire Emblem... But I'm not the only crazy one! MC has a crush on Midna, for Pete's sake!

Midnight Cobra: !!!! Okaaaayyy... Heh heh... moving along. O_e

2. Squeak (Nah.)
3. *gets up* Shut it.
4. I have a thing for Lietenant Campbell... But don't tell him, okay?
5. Squeaky Squeaky! (Girls are icky! Except for Mama Andy!)
6. I kinda like... Miranda...
7. Heh heh... Valerie's my girl!
8. Teehee! Well I really like Lance. *mood change to sad* Except he like Miranda better. I can tell.
9. MY ONLY LOVE IS HUMAN DEMISE!!! *tranquilized*
10. *blushes* I... have a bit of a crush on... Jonathan.

Have you ever killed someone?

1. Heavens, NO!
2. Squeak! (Nope)
3. Hell, I lost count six yers ago.
4. I have killed thousands of Vheksar Imperials, But only two humans.... I don't want to talk about that.
5. Squee! (Nah.)
6. A few, yeah.
7. Lance and I have killed tons of... ]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22888864/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22888864/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:07:44 PST
Warn as many of your watchers as you can, send notes, post a journal cause this thing that's going around will fuck up your DA account and it also can screw up your computer!.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

DA Oddness abounds. If someone (even a friend) comments on one of your Deviations with a link that says "rofl this may be relevant to your interests" DO NOT CLICK ON IT! It will send you to a webpage that does not load, but somehow uses your account to quite randomly send the same comment link to other Deviations that you never even visited. This of course makes the system think you're spamming and refuses to let you comment further and It can also apparently mess with your computer. Again, DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK!

MAKE A JOURNAL REPOSTING THIS STATEMENT!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!



Be wary of the mentioned comment or others. In fact, if anyone links you to something and you're unsure of what it is, ask the person first to now what they're sending to you. If they don't reply in a while it's most likely spam/hack. Don't click any link unless the person clears up what it is about.

So, if you get that link under my name or anyone else's DO NOT CLICK ON IT!!! Cause it isn't from me.


Be sure to send this to others... make sure no one else gets attacked!

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Heh heh... Sorry.

Okay so I've joined an OC tournament called "Escape from Nevara" where you have a character of yours fight other peoples' OCs. I have decided to enter a character of mine who has not yet made it here onto DA: Jasmine, the nearly Immortal, 1000 tons of bad-assness private investigator. to join I have to submit a reference sheet for Jasmine, and an audition comic where she is transpoted to the alternate realm of Nevara.

Therein lies the issue.

See, you all know that I make comics, but it takes forever for me to make them, and the deadline is January 30th. Not only that, but my comic is probably going to end up being particularly sophisticated. Therefore, I'm going to have to put most of my time and effort into this audition comic.
The point, therefore, is that It could take another few weeks for the Wildcat and Rabbit TF pics to get up. I'm sorry about that, guys, but my whole goal in life is to be a cartoonist and graphic author, and something tells me this contest will help me get ready for that goal.

So I hope everybody can wait for a bit longer for their TFey stuff, and I'm sorry if I sound a bit selfish in doing this

Oh and if anybody is interested in or wants to try out for the contest, you can ask me about it, and here is the link to the guy's page: [link]

So, again, sorry for the wait.

MC OUT!
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]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22306090/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22306090/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:31:20 PST The rules ddn't say to tag anyone else, so unless you want to do it, or Josh comes and tells me a left out rule, I won't tag anyone myself.

Here we go:
2008 End of the Year Tag!

What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
I put things up on DA (I didn't actually put my first one up till March)

Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Ummm... I'm one of those bad peoplewho don't make resolutions.

Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I know of.

Did anyone close to you die?
Yes. My 20-year old cat, Argus.

What countries did you visit?
Was it this year or last year I visited Portugal? Heh. You'd think I'd remember something like that, wouldn't you?

What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A girlfriend.

What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory?
October 5th. The day of my auto accident

What was your biggest achievement of the year?
surviving my first college semester.

What was your biggest failure?
Running that red light.

Did you suffer illness or injury?
Uhhh... A fever?

What was the best thing you bought?
A stuffed Mario doll for my sister. Aside from food and art supplies that was the ONLY thing I bought.

Whose behaviour merited celebration?
I'm copying Josh's answer: Everyone's, for various reasons... *smiles softly*

Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Ian's. My now ex-roomate. He's a jerk, a loser, and frankly I think he's dangerously insane.

Where did most of your money go?
probably into microwave miso soup and iced tea

What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My first semester of college

What song/album will always remind you of 2008?
Stayin Alive by the Beegees. (Just throwin that out there. I'm not a big music listener)

Compared to this time last year, are you:
Happier or sadder? Happier.
Thinner or fatter? Ummm... why don't we say "heavier?" I haven't exercised much since I got to college.
Richer or poorer? I guess richer... I personally was broke before

What do you wish you’d done more of?
Drawing.

What do you wish you’d done less of?
Spending time within 200 yards of Ian.

How did you spend Christmas?
With my immediate family.

Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My mother. she calls me every day. I don't mind though.

Did you fall in love in 2008?
with Miso Soup! ^^

What was your favourite TV programme?
Family Guy, All 3 CSI's, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Law & Order SVU

Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Ian.

What was the best book(s) you read?
Alex & Me.

What was your greatest musical discovery?
You're asking the wrong person.

What did you want and get?
SSBB, drawing time, and a better roomate

What did you want and not get?
good grades

What were your favourite films of this year?
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

What did you do on your birthday?
Would you believe... nothing?

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A girlfriend

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
According to a very unreliable source (*hack* Ian *Cough*) I dress like an old person.

What kept you sane?
There is a fine line between genius and insanity... I have erased this line

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Emma Watson

What political issue stirred you the most?
The FCC hasn't been dissolved yet.

Who did you miss?
Argus

Who was the best new person you met?
In real Life? My new Roomate, Memphis
Online? Josh, Tama, Neph, and the Illusionist.

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Ian is Insane!

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22195686/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/22195686/ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:08:04 PST Happy Holidays to everyone and I wish you all a happy new year!

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I am sorry to disappoint everybody with this news, but the next four pics might not be up for another week or two. This is because my family is going to be travelling for the next week or so and I won't have a scanner to put them all up with.

However, some of them are pretty close to being done so one or two might be up by sometime tomorrow

Anyways, Merry Christmas, or whatever you all celebrate!

- Midnight Cobra

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21939292/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21939292/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:36:19 PST The Results?
Rabbit
Wildcat
Squirrel
Deer

I'll get started on these soon, and they should be up within the next few weeks.

Emphasis on should. I'll let you know in the journal if anything comes up!

Alright then! See you all soon!

MC OUT!
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]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21823782/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21823782/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:00:23 PST
Today I've put up something for everybody! TF, Fan fics, Fan Art... all kinds of things!

I just want to let everybody know that I'm going to go back to TF for a little while. I've only been doin fan stuff for months now! Come on, guys. It's the TFers turn on the swing set.

That doesn't mean I'm gonna completely stop doing fanfics and fan at, of course. Just taking a break from them.

I think that's everything! One year on DA, 56 Deviations, and still goin' strong!

MC OUT!
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]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21721427/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21721427/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:46:46 PST Wow, it's ben a heckuva long time since I updated, well, anything!
This isn't because I'm not trying to get stuff up, cause I really am. But so many things have happene that have kept me from geting things ready for you. I've had a list of bout eighteen things in progress, most of which are done, but haven't been uploaded. Why?, because for some reason I realy wanted to get them all up at once. So I've set a date. December 4th. I picked this date because it will be my One Year Anniversary here on DA. On that day I will put up TF art, a couple fanfics, and a bit of fan art. So hopefully it won't be long now. Unfortunately, since all sorts of things have gone completely out of whack since I last talked to everybody (Increased tests, papers, and one of my teachers I am convinced is TRYING to fail me), I an't guarantee anything, but I will try my very best for you.

So let's keep our fingers crossed!
MC OUT!
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]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21147653/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/21147653/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:13:26 PDT
Actually I was Tagged by Skypirate10 and had nothing better to do.
(except homework, but hey, who does THAT?)

- Hi! Are there any particular names I should call you by?

My Name is Midnight Cobra. I'm Half Human and Half 7th Dimensional Demon.

- So, what first inspired you to get into transformations, anyways?

I've been fascinated by transformations ever since I was little. I found something turning into something else really cool. I got on to DA and saw it was popular, so I figured I'd take a crack at it. Turns out I'm not so bad at it.

- What is your favourite type of TF, and why?

I don't really have any true favorite. Though I usually prefer not to have too much animal-like face-stretchiing in my TF's. I also prefer to transform girls, but that's just because I'm a pervert. (but I'm a GOOD pervert)

- If you could transform anyone into anything, who would the victim be and what would you turn them into?

There was a girl named Susie in Middle school who lived to make me miserable. If I had my way she'd already be a slug!

- Would it be a permanent change?

You really think I'd let HER change back?

- Is there anything you would want to be turned into?

Probably a dragon. Just 'cause they're freakin amazing!

- How would you react to that?

After the initial "OH MY GOD! WHAT THE F*** JUST HAPPENED?", I'd probably be REAL happy. I could fly around without the fear of dying in a fiery crash and burn Susie to a crisp with fire breath!

- Halloween is coming up; done anything for that yet?

Nah. I'm not really a fan of Halloween anymore. It was fun 10 years ago when it was clean, but since then it's gotten too bloody and gory for me.

Now that that's over I'm not sure who I'm gonna Tag. Guess they'll find out when I do it.

]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/20971955/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/20971955/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:17:05 PDT
I intended to have a lot to give all of you by wednesday, but I'm afraid we'll probably not see that happening.

I was in a car wreck, so my long weekend ended up almost completely screwed up.

So I'll get everything I've got planned up as soon as I can, but we might not see anything new for a while.

Hope you understand.

- Midnight C.

MC OUT!
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]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/20673033/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/20673033/ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:57:06 PDT
It's not like I don't have any free time, 'cause I've got plenty of that. No. It's because of my roomate.

He's the most annoying dumbass that ever walked the face of this earth. He gives me "Cool" Nicknames that either make no sense or are thouroughly offensive to me, he trash talks every member of my family especially my mother, and he has no respect for anything that I own. He's driving me berserk!

But that's not the main problem.

The main problem is that he just LOVES to look over my shoulder at any art I make, transformational or otherwise, and criticise it.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem, as I don't usually care what other people think. But he makes it a problem BIG TIME.

Here's what has happened:

1. He sees me drawing a (clothed) woman. He tells me something to the effect of "Dude you are so sick!" (his favorite line in the world) The next day there's an interesting rumor going around that I'm a horny bastard that loves to draw porn and would do anything for sex.

2. He sees me drawing a (clothed) man. He again tells me I'm sick and the next day there's a rumor going around that I'm extremely gay. (No offense to any homosexuals out there)

3. He sees me drawing an anthro or transformational artwork. He tells me yet again that I'm sick, and the next day I'm suddenly turned on only by "freaks."

4. He sees me writing a fanfiction. He tells me that I'm sick (how THIS makes me "sick" I don't know) and the next day I'm a complete geeky recluse that only finds solace in video games and thinks about nothing but them. NOTE: (this one is the closest of his accusations, but it's still pretty far off the mark!)

5. He sees me drawing a regular comic strip. He tells me I'm "lame" (hey! something new!)and the next day I'm an immature little twerp with the sense of humor of a three year old (because my jokes aren't about violent sex or dismembered bodies).

6. He sees me drawing a child. He tells me I'm the "Sickest Bastard that Ever Lived." The next day I'm a pedophile.

I'm really sorry I haven't gotten anything up until now, but he's driving me completely insane. Here I am ready to draw or write but I can't do it because I'll alienate the ENTIRE campus. Today's update is the most I could really do during my whole time here at college that is DA worthy. I'm at the end of my rope here!

So right now I'm in a real funk. I can't draw. I can't write. And my self esteem is being completely destroyed.

So I'm asking you all this as a friend in need. PLEASE comment on my art. My older stuff, my newer stuff, anything you find in my gallery you like, Please Comment. Don't just fave. Compliments, Constructive Criticism, I don't care so long as it's not insulting. I need to know that SOMEBODY out there likes my stuff.

Thank you all!

MC OUT!
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]]> *Midnight-Cobra http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/20171015/ http://Midnight-Cobra.deviantart.com/journal/20171015/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:54:47 PDT I'm sure things won't stay like this, but I'm annoyed they are at the moment.
Anyway, if you could all bare with me for now and I'll get some more stuff up as soon as I can.
Oh, and I don't really know many people here, so I'm kinda lonely too.

Also, I'd like to say that I've noticed that not many people have been commenting on the stuff I put up most recently. I'd kinda like to know what you guys think about them. Should I keep going with the sort of thing I've been doing? Should I write more? Should I write less? Is my stuff any good? Do you guys like it? Should I stop asking all these questions? I really need answers here!

Anyway, wish me luck out here in the world of college and comment on my stuff!

MC Out!
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