http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ScarabDynasty1&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ScarabDynasty1 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:06:20 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/27647203/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/27647203/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:05:39 PDT
I suppose I should... be flattered by this. A little. It at least means I’ve reached a level of ability which means my work is actually WORTH stealing.

Anyhow the culprit of this is this guy here: [link] and... Oh look, he’s been banned. Deviantart is on top of things, I see. Good. Thank you deviantart, and thank you to for bringing this theft to my attention. You’re awesome. I’ll doodle you a thank you, or something as soon as I have time. I really appreciate you mentioning it.

I don’t think I need to say how much stealing sucks. But there are two main crimes involved, rather than one: the first crime is that the real artist is mistreated and unacknowledged, and the latter? Is that the thief is cheating out of actually doing anything worthwhile.

I’d sooner have all the sucky stuff I ever did (and there is a lot of it) out on display for the world to see than gain applause for what was not my own.

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/23567985/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/23567985/ Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:33:52 PST wasn’t written by Isabelle Carmody, so I ordered a replacement copy of a book I had a while ago and lost –Poison, by Chris Wooding.

I tend to prefer Chris Wooding’s young adult stuff to his adult fiction for some reason. In fact the same is true for most of the fantasy I read. The teenagers just seem to get a more interesting deal out of fantasy than we do. If I want serious, well written sci-fi or drama or whatever then I tend to go for adult books (though truth be told I haven’t read nearly enough adult science fiction books... I don't even know much Asimov. The latest I’ve tried to read is The Algebraist, and I had to stop that pretty early on, because the chapter with the guys head attached to life support specifically so another guy could beat the snot out of it on a regular basis kind of... freaked me out. Yeah I'm a wimp.

But anyway. Poison. Is a good book. One of those which takes much of it's content from mythologies, the story is basically about a girl going to recover her sister who was stolen by faeries. I didn’t originally expect much from a book that started with the words “Once Upon a Time”... but I was proven gladly mistaken. Wooding really knows how to break the rules. Poison was really enjoyable the first time I read it, and I felt a bit sore about losing the book. So I decided “what the hell?” and ordered a new copy. I’m a sucker for hardbacks, and decided to go for one which looked like it had a variant cover because it looked nicer than the paperback edition. Just yesterday my book arrived through the post much to my delight, until I opened the package and saw the blurb...

...In German.

Sigh.

So any native Germans on this website who enjoy Chris Wooding?

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/22373917/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/22373917/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:57:31 PST
ETA: Apparantly at least one other person besides me is having some kind of "server issue" today (see [link]), sooo... if you're worried that your computer is mucking up again, don't. It's not your fault, deviantart is just screwed today.

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/22298342/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/22298342/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:09:36 PST finally plucked up the courage to watch Star Trek: Nemesis*... it's been a pretty good year, no?

Seriously, I'm not being sarcastic. You've gotta take the book with the bad here, right? Now, who's up for making some resolutions and trying to keep them past, say, the fifteenth of January? Though in the (paraphrased) words of that girl on television maybe we "should make actions, not resolutions"...

A happy new year to all, then. And to all a good night.

*_{never again, people. never again. It's bad enough that they had to kill the guy in the first place, but the fact that it was the only vaguely decent scene in the whole darned movie was just the icing on the bitterest cake ever baked.}

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/20417619/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/20417619/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:45:32 PDT
Sorry I actually do make sense, here: [link]

So yes, this is what our public funding has been going on for years, folks (well, the Americans amongst you, anyway): something that can simulate black holes in public space. I'm not sure if it's awesome or intimidating but either way, I'd like to think we have more to worry about Russia aiming nukes at Poland (no they're not, and they're probably not going to, bluster, people. Rational thug in command of government is being rationally blusterful. It's disturbing but that's about as far as it's gonna go. And if I keep telling myself that I'm sure I'll start to believe it eventually.)

I mean, Stephen Hawking reckons it just won't do anything at worst. Seriously, he's got bets placed.

But still, it's an interetsing topic, isn't it? So, out of sheer curiosity what're all your thoughts on the LHC?

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/18474217/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/18474217/ Sat, 24 May 2008 05:44:43 PDT
One of these days I shall post the things I write when I’m actually trying to write.

The second year of university is... pretty much coming to a close, now. There are bits and bobs to do here and there (and still no word back from Chase London, but I don’t think I could present them with an especially impressive portfolio right now anyway, much less a well thought out CV) but asides from that we’re all but done. People from the south and high north are going home; people who are local are staying here. Some people I simply won’t be able to get rid of and some I already want to come back, and they haven’t even left yet.

Our music-video animations were put into a final show the other night, which went down pretty well, bar one movie that wouldn’t show at first, and a brief flicker in sound during another (it helped that people were exposed to alcohol this time, I reckon). The hosts were hilarious and there was chocolate and drinks. Everybody wins. The first years have their own show next week and I’m looking forwards to seeing that.

Getting one point too few for a First in my THD essay is an infuriating pain in the ass (if you were in my Uni class, you’d probably recognize that as being a very bad pun, but since 98% of you aren’t, it doesn’t matter in the slightest), but oh well. It was the presentation that dragged me down in the end, because I frankly suck at public speaking. Better luck next year, I hope.

Anyway, my point: at some point I’m going to diverge from this account into a more professional one (with, you know, less fanart and random squeeing in it?) and the posting rate here may go down as a result. I don’t think I’ll close it, though. In spite of the fact that I think anything over two months old in here automatically sucks, it’s still an interesting glimpse into the way my drawing has changed and developed over the last few years (it also suggests that my THD tutor is right –I have far too much of a focus on anime), plus I have a few requests still to do.

Given that I started drawing with the intent of being professional at about sixteen and literally could not doodle for toffee back then, this is quite an improvement. I’m pleased that I’m starting to get somewhere with this, however slowly.

So there you go. If you’re still here I think you wasted some good time reading this that you could’ve used being creative. Sorry about that. Just a long-winded way of making a very short point.

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/17618221/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/17618221/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:01:00 PDT
Why is my icon talking about mudkips??? What the freck is going on?! Is this some kind of important date? Is Pokemon having an anniversary again? Am I being punished for getting bored mid Johto-League and abandoning the fandom?

Did I anger some kind of demigod again?

More to the point, WHAT THE HECK IS A MUDKIP, ANYWAY?

]]> ~ScarabDynasty1 http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/6468070/ http://ScarabDynasty1.deviantart.com/journal/6468070/ Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:26:52 PDT ~ScarabDynasty1