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deviantART: by:SumiHatake http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:SumiHatake&section=today deviantART RSS for by:SumiHatake en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:49:49 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png In Transition http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/28304878/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/28304878/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:35:25 PST

Okay in the process of moving... as well a good number of you know. I haven't seen my husband in 3 weeks and everything that could go wrong pretty much has.

First I lost my ID and had to get a replacement... well 3 weeks later and it still hasn't arrived... which is just lovely. I'm HOPING I can fly with the temporary paper ID I have. I also have my marriage license and SS card on hand just in case... I have to see if my mom has my birth certificate which I gave her to hold onto but that was 3 years ago and she's moved twice since then.

Then my friend who was going to help me move... her daughter had the baby early so she couldn't *pouts*

Then my brother who was also going to help me couldn't because he's in the middle of laying the tile in his kitchen and his wife just got a new job so she can't help him get it done.

Then my mom was going to help me but well she could only help me for one day because God forbid she miss church to help her daughter move to Seattle when her daughter just spent 340 bucks fixing the mustang for her (well for her so that my little sister can drive it but she was SUPPOSED to pay for it but is broke). And then when she was here she was obsessed with making baked spagetti for church the next day and didn't really help that much.

Then the moving company I was going to use (a uload it they haul it company) wsn't open on Saturday and didn't bother to mention that fact when I talked to them on the phone (just said that they load at the end of the week and leave at the beginning.... really annoying)

Mind you I'm doing this all by myself.... I HATE MOVING!

And my daughter is staying with my parents (to give her a chance to visit them before we move over a thousand miles away) but my mom acts like she is doing me this huge favor when in fact it's the reverse.

So then on top of the stress of moving my psychotic older sister (who mind you has been 'hospitalized' twice in like the last 3 to 6 months) comes back to town. I haven't spoken to my sister in almost a year. Why? because she's crazy and the last time I had to deal with her she attacked me and she's a bitch and just being in her presence now pisses me off. I hate her more than anyone else but I always seem to get dragged into bullshit involving her. In this case it's because the van my mom gave me (that I'm giving back to her because I don't need/want it) Crystal needs to borrow so she can go visit my mom (where my daughter is).

SO after telling my mom she either needs to bring my daughter back or find another way to keep her away from my sister I take the van down to the hotel where my sister and her boyfriend/fiance/possibly soon to be ex are staying (they btw were driving his car and hit a deer and wrecked his car hence why they needed the van) so I get the keys to him (she's not there she's over visiting an ex) so then they start to leave and the van's brake light comes on (it's been doing this for 2 years b/c the emergency brake is fucked up) and so she panics and goes back to the hotel to call my mom and blame the van having issues on me.... my mom says it's probably nothing because it has been running fine for me for 6 months and just had it's oil changed and everything. so supposedly she goes out to start it and it won't start.

So I was supposed to go get it and figure out what she did to fuck it up. (Every single time she has that van she fucks it up somehow) so I had stuff to do today and didn't get over there until tonight and the van is nowhere to be found.... I give up and go to knock on her door and she won't give me the damn keys so I can fix it.... *irritated* mind you it's foggy and I've been moving stuff all day and I'm tired and sore and NOT in the mood.

Why won't she give me the keys you ask... because she wants to talk... she wants ME and MY Husband to petition the court to adopt her son. I very clearly explained I don't want her son. I am moving back to the coast and she would never see her son, tim would never see him (her ex), and the courts would very likely say No. On top of this I don't want to deal with a kid who has issues like her son. ADHD, authority beligerent disorder (or whatever - he hates authority), and god knows what else... He's a difficult fucked up kid and it's probably her and her ex's fault but I don't give a damn and I don't want to deal with their mess or them and I would have to do both if I adopted her kid.

Then she tried to squirm out where I was moving and I wouldn't tell her more than 'the coast' and 'far far away' so she assumes I mean Maine and I'm happy to let her assume that. THEN she tries to convince me to give her my contact info, I gave her my e-mail which she already had but I blocked her on. And then she tried to get my brother's info (who's also not speaking to her) and I refused and she tried to get me to promi... ]]> *SumiHatake MI Doujin http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27931619/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27931619/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:21:52 PDT

IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE YOUR DOUJIN BY NEXT WEDNESDAY PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

For those who have not recieved their doujin yet...

UPDATE: I have them addressed and ready to send. Though it turns out I need a few more buttons than I had laying around... which in the packing I may have just well packed them by accident. So tomorrow I have to go make a few more and then I'll mail them all. Today I need to pack some more. Oh JOY! *tries to look 'enthusiastic' and looks more pained than anything*

So sorry if you didn't tell me what you wanted you got random.

I have a couple of options for extras but well anyways on top of that stuff you guys can request a 500 word drabble. No sasuke or well bad guys in general because I SUCK at them but I'll do pretty much any pairing just give me a one word theme and I'll write you something.

OTHER STUFF FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR DOUJIN YET! If you do not tell me what you want you will get random.

Not all of these are KakaIru or Mission Iruka related. You can pick 1 8x10 (sticker sheets are 8x10 Pirates 8x8 counts as 8x10, NH cards count as 8x10), 3 4x6, and 5 bookmarks. I will also send you all of the Mission Iruka related bookmarks and if you tell me WHICH button you want I'll make sure you get that button. *Contest winners who have not received their prize yet will get the normal extras minus the poster.

Contributing artists will receive a donation after I figure out what is going where which I expect will happen around x-mas.)

OPTIONS:
AU Band Poster (counts as 8x10 is 12x18) [link]

Pirates 8x8 (2) or 4x6 (15) [link]

NaruHina cards (3 sets of 5 cards, 1 set of 4 cards) [link]

4x6 to pick from: [link] (7) [link] (9) [link] (3) [link] (7) [link] (3) [link] (8) [link] (3)

Bookmarks galore to pick from
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Valentines & Stickers:
[link]

KakaIru Stickers: (I only have 8 sheets of 16)
[link]

Let's Play 8x10 (3) and 4x6 (14)
[link]

Journal Design & CSS by *Mi-CAH. Art by *Lenap.

]]> *SumiHatake Awesome new Journal Skin! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27752010/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27752010/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:31:14 PDT

Micah was a sweetheart and made me a CSS journal skin. Two in fact so I thought I should actually put them to use!

Lenap did the art for it (as anyone who watches her can tell).

Life:

As I mentioned before, my husband got his job and well he was supposed to start today but the contract was held up by Legal so his boss is making the revisions and says she will send it to him tonight by close of business which for her is like between 2 and 4 am for us even though she's only 2 hrs behind us because she's a night owl.

This means that HOPEFULLY on the 30th he'll have a full or mostly full paycheck from them and I can QUIT MY JOB!!! Which while I love what I do, I do NOT love two of the people I'm forced to work with and it is becoming more and more of a chore to drag my butt out of bed in the mornings and go. I will give my two weeks notice when he gets his first paycheck and I have been keeping my boss updated as to the situation so she's known now for 2 months that I would likely be quitting and has an approximate day now. My last day should he get his check on the 30th should be the 13th. I will be very busy for like 2 weeks after that and may be mostly offline for those 2 weeks while I move, but after that I will have a great deal more time and can get my ass back to writing fanfiction as well as getting some original fiction done.

The last two months has been very unfun for me in a lot of ways.

In regards to Mission Iruka and people who've ordered and not yet received their copy... I AM SO SORRY! I promise I'm trying to get all of this done for you guys so that it will be in your hands before I move. If you have not received your copy feel free to drop me a note or leave a comment here or on my other journal about here -> [link] I intend to throw in a little extra something for those who've had to wait.

IF you received a copy and WEREN'T happy with it for some reason please drop me a note and let me know what the problem is/was so that I can resolve it even if it's refunding your money.

Also Lei-sam is finishing up her degree so the next part of the doujin is on hold until after the first of the year. In the meantime I'm going to bug my colorist into getting more pages of it colored so that HOPEFULLY I can get the first part put into a PDF file for people to download and read online.

TRANSLATORS!!!
If anyone is willing to translate the story for me to really any other language I would be indebted to you and possibly willing to say send you a free copy of the first part of the doujin as compensation after the translation is complete. If anyone knows of it already translated please toss me a link so I can put it up for people.

Thank you that is all ^.^

*love love*
~Kiterie/SumiHatake

Journal Design & CSS by *Mi-CAH. Art by *Lenap.

]]> *SumiHatake Help a kitty http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27636126/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27636126/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:53:22 PDT
My friend

Hidaka's kitty Evil had to go to the vet so now she has a huge vet bill on top of being a poor college student and having to scrape money together for rent and stuff. She's selling Dethklok shirts - [link] and taking commissions [link] and yes even if I color it she gets the money for her kitty. Evil is an absolute sweetie if very timid kitty. He likes his belly rubs. ^.^ We also have prints and bookmarks for sale so if you're interested in something let me know. If we already have a print or bookmark of it, it'd be super cheap but even if I had to make a print especially for you they're only like $6 + shipping for an 8x10 (as long as they're the collaborative works between her and I OR select others. Just ask and I can tell you if I can do a print of it.

P.S.
(Good news everyone... my hubby got the job)

Journal Design & CSS by *Mi-CAH. Art by *Lenap.

]]> *SumiHatake Hi Everyone... sorry I've been gone... http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27478065/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27478065/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:29:51 PDT
On the bright side I will hopefully have time to catch up with everything soon. I need to know who hasn't received their MI doujins. Please leave a comment here or PM me.

Oh and I made [link] this for my husband's best friend. My husband and him worked on a project together and they needed a cover and well it was nice to get to do something on an actual professional level. Hopefully it will add to the presentation of the workshop and be remembered in a few people's minds when they think of the workshop or IOActive.

Again I SWEAR I will get moving on stuff soon. I am just so stressed at work right now that last Tuesday I honestly came so close to quitting I was crying from the frustration. I was so angry and the only reason I went in the next day was because I have a work ethic that will kill someday I think.

I truly and deeply appreciate all of the faves and the new watchers and the comments I just haven't been able to handle things lately and I am so sorry about that. Please forgive me.

~Kiterie/SumiHatake

]]> *SumiHatake Typhoon Ondoy http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27465849/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/27465849/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:15:59 PDT [link] and even if all you can do is spread the word to others and encourage them to donate please do so. I will personally be dropping by the red cross in my town to find out how to help through them.

Thank you for reading this and thank you for helping if you can.
~Kiterie/SumiHatake

]]> *SumiHatake MI, Life, and Commissions http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26985038/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26985038/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:38:14 PDT
MISSION IRUKA UPDATE -
Sorry to the people who missed the preorder shipment, I know I'm late but I had to make edits and then my printer person was swamped so I had to wait, should have them soonish though. *sigh* Hopefully the edits will make it even better than the first print. Also Spanish Copies will be available at that time.

Life Update -
Well those who read my last journal - [link] - know that my hubby is out of town on business. It's going really well on that end of things but it's very stressful because HR at the plant has decided that there will be no last chance agreements for anyone for any reason. Well not that he can't get his job back, his manager is yelling at HR and making a ruckus about it BUT it comes to 'does he get his job back there' or 'hold off and find out if he got this new job and risk being out of work'. It's complicated but it /will/ work out. *crosses fingers*

Also work is STILL hell because we still don't have anyone hired and on top of it I have to get off early so I can go get my daughter so it's rush, rush, rush. I come home pretty damn tired (hence no updates - soon I promise)

COMMISSIONS!!!
No not me. (you can but *shrugs*)

is taking $10 digital sketch commissions - [link]

is taking commissions again (get one while you can)

is also taking commissions and if you commission her for a full color I might even color it for you too ^.^ (only for full colors cuz I's lazy like that)

]]> *SumiHatake Who Said Quitters Never Prosper? http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26636879/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26636879/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:02:20 PDT
You see, he works as an electronic technician at the local meat packing plant because he needed a job. He's what they call a 'red hat'. You have brown hat which is a trainee, white hats are regular employees, red hats which are team managers, yellow hats that are shift managers and then blue hats which are in charge of the entire shop (IE all mechanics - ETs fall under them, or production which covers all the people who cut meat and box meat and such, and so on and so forth). What this means is that he's in charge of the crew with a supervisor above him, but he takes care of the training and making sure everything gets done that has to be done and that the paper work gets done.

Scott is also the one that when nobody can figure it out... he does. Always. Despite this they show him very little respect and it frankly pisses him off.

My husband is looking for a new job. Well Friday he had a 'contact interview' with the company his best friend works for (which I can't say the name of even if I could remember it) and tomorrow he has a 'technical interview'. If tomorrow's interview goes well... he will fly out next week for a 2 week job that will pay 80-100/hr and IF he does a good job (and he will because my hubby is a military trained, badass, fucking genius ex spook) then they will most likely offer him a full time position in Seattle. BUT we used his vacation time to go to Otakon because we weren't exactly planning on this... There is a slight chance that for whatever reason this all won't work out so really he doesn't want to quit and get fucked by not having a job.

Well last night he was working on a problem and a yellow hat from ODS (not sure what that stands for - just a part of the plant) is bugging him and going 'is it done yet' over and over. He's done this before to Scott and to Scott's tech James. The guy thinks he's a gangster and a badass and is 240 lbs of muscle... he looks the part. Well my hubby tells him repeatedly to STFU and stop bothering him that it will be done when it's done.

The guy doesn't get it and he keeps doing it and finally Scott has an epiphany and it occurs to him that he has a solution to his problem. He realizes he has a way to ensure he will have a job when he comes back (not that they wouldn't be on their knees begging but well) So he picks up the radio and yell "Fuck You I Quit!" then gets up walks over to where he can see the man pissing him off 2 stories below him on the floor of ODS and THROWS THE RADIO AT HIM! (he missed - because obviously assault charges would be counter productive). Mr 'badass' Gangsta runs into his little office and locks the door then calls Scott's blue hat Daren and says "Oh fuck Daren you need to come get your tech he's gonna kill me" while Scott is storming across the catwalk throwing tools behind him. (Picture a VERY pissed off Norwegian/Russian/Scottsman who's 6'3" and 220 lbs coming after you like he's going to kill you. And keep in mind the last time my husband got pissed he threw a metal thermos THROUGH a wooden wall and a window without winding up for it and the time before that he kicked a door off it's hinges and he was kicking it IN not out) The man was damn near pissing himself in fear.

So Daren asked the guy what the hell he said to Scott, then he bitches at the man for 20 minutes (which he later tells Scott about) and then comes to get Scott and says 'they should sit down and talk about it' but at the same time Daren is trying to fix the problem Scott was working on because ODS is down and the plant is losing money while it's down (like 10,000/hr) and he can't figure it out. Keeps saying it shouldn't be doing what it's doing, there's not reason for it to be messed up. And so Scott very calmly (while he's waiting to 'talk'

tells him to go get a different tool and use it to check the machine. The tool is a simpler version of what Daren is using at that point and Daren tries to argue that he's got the best tool, it's the best one they make. And Scott tells him that yes it is but it's lying to him. So finally the guy does what Scott suggest and sure enough the thing was. So he gets the problem fix and gives Scott that "How did you know" and Scott says that it doesn't really matter because he quit and ask if he can leave now. And Daren says "No no we need to talk about this".

Daren tells Scott 'you don't want to quit you just got your level 7' (which basically means a raise they have to take a test for) and Scott says that no one got back to him on it so no he hasn't. Well Daren says he'll take care of that today then.

BUT Scott says "I'm sorry man I can't. I'm telling you my wife and I are so far in debt it's ridiculous. We've got medical bills like you wouldn't believe because despite both of us having ins... ]]> *SumiHatake Shipping Update http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26215730/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26215730/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:23:15 PDT
Confirmed Recieved:
Y - Yaoilover4life
Y - stovegata
DA - Tombbabe
LJ - Rocky5mew

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Okay weather STILL hates me. It's been freaking raining in random burst of downpours for the last 3 f'n days!!! I have all of the preordered stuff ready to mail out except one that's a special order (which I should be able to get ready by Friday). On a high note I think I might have all but one of the doujins that I need for the post pre-order stuff... Not quite finished with those because I only made enough buttons and bookmarks for the preorders (had more made but kind of left them in Baltimore... so well... had to make more). They're cardstock laminated ones though. But I sent 2 bookmarks instead of one to everyone so far. IF you get a bookmark or a button and you wanted a different one... I will have extra you can order for cheap (thanks to the ones that got left behind). I have extra posters and extra 4x6 cover image prints as well that you can buy. The money for those (after shipping and printing cost will go to Lei-sam so YEA support the artist!) Except for the sushi buttons/bookmarks and the Story cover art buttons/bookmarks the profit there will go to

Kristal because she's the artist for those.

(includes shipping)
Poster- $10 (extra for tube)
4x6 print - $2.50
Bookmark - $2.00 w/tassel $3.00
Button - $1.50

old:
There will be a slight delay on mailing MI... it's raining cats and dogs today and well I can't really afford to have to refund money because one got mailed wet or clammy and caused the pages to warp nor would I want it to arrive that way to any of you. Hopefully we'll get our blue skies back tomorrow. Going to call my boss and see if I can get a half day off tomorrow to take care of everything since my day off well didn't work.

]]> *SumiHatake Really Long Ass Otakon Post http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26160959/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26160959/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:24:13 PDT
Was it worth it? I don't know... hopefully.

I can't say it all went that great though. I mean I only sold 8 doujin which means I have basically recovered the cost of printing it but not yet of the shipping when it's done and I send copies to the people who won contests (which I'll get to the bookmark thing in a minute) and send Lei-sam her 2 copies and well I kept a copy for nat and I each, Lei-sam and I make $5 bucks. haha at least we get our copies and the contest copies paid for. Which that's mostly what I wanted anyway.

We left town on wednesday and drove to my mom's so we could use my little sister's car for driving to Denver. Which my little sister was very put out about. My god she has to live without her car for a little while... oh my god the world will end. She did let us use it. Because my mom made her and well because it's me and as much as she might sulk about it, I'm her favorite sister so... I was up until 6 am, thanks to nerves and stress and trying to get last minute stuff done (which I probably shouldn't have bothered with to be honest). I got a couple hours of sleep and then we left again.

Got to denver early but had to wait for Kara and Hidaka and still would have been okay if not for ungodly traffic. So we get to the airport and ended up missing our flight which meant we had to get a hotel room.

So we went and found one then went to walmart (because our luggage made the flight we just didn't) so had to get Hidaka and Kara pajamas. She took Foooooorever! to find a pair. I'm mean and violent and hit her in her shoulder a couple times and told her to just pick something. (This is my way of being friendly... and plus she's soo cute when she pouts and does the whimper and the puppy eyes... it was funny!) And then she unsnapped my bra in the middle of freaking walmart... so I of course had to hit her again.

Then we got back to the hotel and goofed around and Hidaka wanted to draw so we went out to the car... or well to find the car and got lost in the parkinglot... no I'm not kidding. I mean like we couldn't find the car and I walked up to a KIA and was like uh... where's the keyhole... I thought it was on back here and Hidaka was like "that's not it, doesn't have kansas plates" so we wondered around in another circle looking for kansas plates and found it finally. Then we dug around in the trunk and the front of the car and found 3 pencils. (the front desk only had pens and oddly enough lead for mechanical pencils which we found in the car).

Then the next morning I tried to start the place on fire by using the microwave and a cinnamon roll... hehe yeah me + morning = can't cook... evidently.

Well we got tot he airport with lots of time to spare... but the first flight was full so we had to take the second one. *pouts*

So we get Baltimore and Demona was calling constantly trying to figure out if we made it and then we tried to take the shuttle but it wasn't coming so Scott was like "come on let's just take the light rail." I finally gave in and we did... (For anyone going to baltimore, take the lightrail... seriously it's cheap and goes to the convention center and stuff so it's worth it.)

We get there and have to stand in line for like ever and then walk up and down a gazillion stairs trying to find the artist room which by the way is tucked way the fuck out of the way and is hard to find. I don't like Otakon's placement of AA or the dealer's room they could have at least had them both together. *pouts* so that sucked.

Then we get a table where they put all the really amazing artist... which totally sucked in that we got overlooked a lot. We also weren't organized at all and we should have gotten 2 tables and not just one and we should have had vertical stuff like banners or something... So well we learned a lot but it didn't go so well on the sales.

Well so we have a lot of prints to sell so going to have a huge sale basically in hopes of recovering the cost. So if there's something you want a print of or bookmarks of let me know I just might have it. *headdesk* You can get it extra extra cheap right now too. I'll probably post a sale journal tomorrow.

So I got to go to ONE panel (how not to write a lemon) which was very funny and Hidaka and I got shushed. *looks a little sheepish* I had one panel I wanted to go to but I couldn't remember for sure which it was... I think I missed it on Friday though. I wanted to go to it because Onlineo... ]]> *SumiHatake Devious Journal Entry http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26001320/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/26001320/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:43:56 PDT sucks. now we're waiting to catch the 10:30 am flight so we won't be in baltimore until 3 and probably won't be at the con until 4 or 5 which SUCKS but oh well Hidaka is drawing me Shikamaru so I'm okay and well we finally finished our cutting up of bookmarks and such. We have WAY to many bookmarks and so I think after this is over I'm going to have a bookmark sale so if you're interested watch my journal of course if you want a bookmark or a print of something I've posted feel free to ask and I'll give you a price.

]]> *SumiHatake They're Here!!! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25821463/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25821463/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:58:17 PDT
Now I need to print the bookmarks/buttons make those up this weekend and then I have to pack them all up and mail them out. OMG that's gonna be a lot of work. *headdesk* worth it though. You're all going to love them I just know it.

And the posters look FANTASTIC! Seriously, not kidding they came out looking great. I think I need to order more posters from them when I want posters. They look like posters, slick paper, clean image, all of that.

I have extra posters and extra prints and I'll have extra buttons/bookmarks if anyone wants.

]]> *SumiHatake Doujin Orders continued http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25725443/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25725443/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:41:06 PDT
[link]
posters are 10
prints are 2.50
The only print so far that I have is the cover but if you'd like one of the others printed let me know I can get them I'd just have to order some. Also there is a poster of AU Band Pic - [link] that is available too.

bookmarks and buttons will be available later

---->If I already told you, you could order at 20 with the shipping, that's fine but it might have to be mailed when I get the next shipment in. Because I'm fairly sure I'm going to have to order some more which I'll do as soon as enough people have paid that I can get another order in. If I have any left over from the con or extra posters I'll mail more out then.

I know it's a little more now, sorry I'm just worried about the shipping and cost of making the bookmarks and buttons and such which I am not all the way done with (I'll post pictures once I get them done though I promise).

]]> *SumiHatake Commissions and Prints http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25604888/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25604888/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:19:32 PDT
prints (includes Shipping)
AU Band Poster 11x17 - $12
8x10 - $10
4x6 - $5

Commissions
Lineart $5
extra character +$2
flat color +$5
full shade +$10

]]> *SumiHatake Free Copy of Mission Iruka? http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25448837/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25448837/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:43:30 PDT
I was really torn over this one because I loved the entries so I asked everyone I saw online on IM for their vote and it came down to a tie between foxy and ally so then I asked Lei-sam and she liked the opposite one of the one that's my favorite of the two (and no I'm not saying who likes which best cuz everything was awesome) so then I asked ally if she'd take second and I made her the same deal I made Whisperelmwood, if she does me a mini doujin (something from 100 themes) I'll send her a free copy. So both of them get a copy and Jazzy gets some of the extras. ^.^ Sorry it took me so long to post this but I was soooo torn because they were neat and I loved them and gah it's sooo hard to pick a favorite. (I LOVE Jazzy's address label and I'm sooo going to make some up for myself ^.^ That was super creative!)

Keep an eye out for more contest because I'll probably hold another for a doujin when I can.

And mine -

For mine I'm making you guys work... I know I know mean kitty.

How to enter:
- Make a bookmark (2"x6") or a button (2 1/2"), and an icon, or a DA stamp USING fanart from Mission Iruka. It can be art by lei-sam or any of the others that have been posted. If there is a particular piece you would like to use and need the full version or a larger version, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

- Post here with links to any art used and respond with a link here.

- Winning bookmark or button will be printed and mixed in with the others being used for the extra's with credit given to the designer. So make sure you're okay with this.

This IS ONLY the doujin not the extras so if you want the extras you'll have to buy them (minus a copy of the winning bookmark/button of course)

Art available for use:

- Anything you want to draw

- Fanart previously drawn for MI, if there is a piece you've seen that you want to use that's MI fanart but you need the image and are having trouble finding it let me know.

- Art from the Doujin, colored, uncolored, or even recolored by you.

Entries:

- The bookmark [link] & The stamp

- [link] and [link] matching stamp

- the bookmark [link] and the corresponding address label [link]

]]> *SumiHatake Going to Otakon Come say Hi http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25328599/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25328599/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:26:19 PDT
So got my table assignment for Otakon! It's under Countless Dreams

Demona and

Hidaka and I will be located at K08.

Floor Map - [link]

Stop by and visit us if you're going and I'll be there all three days lol!

OLD

Okay so well the hubby and I are going to Otakon (as soon as he gets done with his darn raid we're booking our flights) but xHidaka and Demona and a friend of Hida's are coming all coming which leaves us with one extra person for the hotel room which means finding 3 more people and booking 2 rooms or something I don't know. For those who've done this shit before... er help? any suggestions.

Is anyone else going that would like to share a room?
Anyone already have a room with room for one more?

And of course -
Anyone going that wants to meet up, even if you've already got a room and stuff planned out.

]]> *SumiHatake Mission Iruka Doujin Preorder!!! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25206309/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25206309/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:34:39 PDT
*If you want to pick up at Otakon LET ME KNOW*

***If you specifically want a SPANISH VERSION please let me know. I have marked the ones who said they wanted one, please confirm this information. I need to know so I'll know how many Spanish versions to order.***

TO ORDER COMMENT HERE -> [link] Post-preorder ordering info is also found at this link.

I'm going to start taking preorders for MI as of right now. I am utterly terrified about all this, mind you I have never done anything like this before and so well I'm a bit of a green here. Be patient with me please. I would like to ship doujins out before I leave for Otakon but we all know that's going to get chaotic so while I will try the only thing I will promise is that if they aren't they will be shipped out the following Monday on July 27th.

Cost - $20
The majority of people say this is actually too low but for preorder and the con this is what it is. Which means people who preorder get a discount of basically freeshipping since those at the con will pay the same and people at the con will probably have me jump over the table and hug them to death. ^.^ I make no promises not to since I'm easily excitable.

What it includes -
Doujin (pefect bound, nicely and professionally printed A4 size because I am really worried about the text and I want you to be able to enjoy the story ^.^)
Bookmark (random and previews of various ones will be posted as soon as I can)
Button (random and previews of various ones will be posted as soon as I can)
Poster - folded (This will be one of 4 images - the cover minus all the words, the MI Promo Poster Kakashi version, the MI Promo Poster Iruka version, and the MI Promo Poster western version. Also if you would like your poster rolled and mailed in a tube that's extra)

(SHIPPING OUT OF THE US - CANADA = $5 more, UK = $10)

How to order -

Leave a comment here and then send me a note with mailing info AND the e-mail associated with your paypal account
send me money (since I'm handling the printing I'm handling the cash) you can send it to swdunlop@gmail.com - via paypal. Once I confirm payment I'll put your name under here on a list, if you do not see your name send me a note.
To send via snailmail:
Bobbi Dunlop
PO BOX 282
Spearville, KS
67876
United States

(((IF YOU DO NOT SEE YOUR NAME OR YOUR NAME IS ON THE WRONG LIST LET ME KNOW!)))

Who's ordered -
Received Payment
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]]> *SumiHatake Want a FREE copy of Mission Iruka? http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25204582/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/25204582/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:14:28 PDT [link] and take a look... it's an easy contest and you don't have to be able to draw or color or write or anything! I'm so mean with my contests. ~.^

I am considering holding a contest after Otakon to give away a copy but I will be a bit mean and make you do something for it... dunno what yet though. Lei-sam's is MUCH easier though but more random too.

]]> *SumiHatake Mission Iruka Doujin related Polls http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/24928406/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/24928406/ Sun, 24 May 2009 17:07:13 PDT
Question of Size - [link]
Extras? - [link]
Cost? - [link]

The important things to remember is that depending on how much people are willing to pay depends on how many extra cute things I can include. For example, I can't include a poster in a 10 sale because I have to buy a special tube to ship it in and well it's just not feasible. If I did $10 sales the best I'd be able to do is like 1 print or a button or something. Also if there are people who can't afford 15 or 20 I can look at doing something for 10 sale for cons since there is no shipping there, but it probably wouldn't include any extras.

Size wise it's important to remember that there is a TON of text in MI and a lot of details and it isn't a penny more for me to do A4 than it is for me to do B5.

Extra's wise... I'd really like some more ideas... but I want to do buttons and bookmarks and prints I'm just not sure what people want? Do you guys want to see previews maybe? I even have permission from

Kristal to use the images she's done for me for MI.

And a related poll (Because the MI universe could be printed too) And don't worry if you say no I'm not going to stop writing or any of that. I'm asking because a while back I had a couple people mention they'd love to have a copy to carry with them. - [link]

]]> *SumiHatake Suspended - status update http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/24582573/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/24582573/ Mon, 04 May 2009 11:52:00 PDT
Well anyways I got suspended for Naruto's Naughty Nurses so when I do finally update that story I'm not posting it here. I'm also not posting ANY other yuri here because evidently it's far more touchy than yaoi. I've been coloring and RPing a lot lately. Oh and my new favorite couple is ShikaKiba (no not replacing KakaIru just like right below it). Blame

but gah they're sooo cute. And yes when she and I get off our asses and fix the open post I'll post it here for you all to read. I played Kiba and OMG was it fun.

In other news work is killing me... has been for a month now because my co-worker keeps getting sick or hurting herself and leaving me to do 90% of the work. UGH! so I'm beat down by the time I get home hence the massively slow updates.

Well love you all

]]> *SumiHatake Missing Gaming and the Hubby http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23995810/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23995810/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:17:19 PDT
It's not midnight here yet but DA time it's the second so I'm calling it good. I'm not really giving up writing. The hubby called me evil and stayed off IM all day because he thought people would be mad at him and some have his IM info. *giggles*

----

Well some of those that I've talked to via IM already know that the hubby has been bugging me to come play WOW with him. He's been doing this for months now and to be honest... I really, really, REALLY miss killing people and gaming in general. WOW isn't shadowbane by any means and the fact that I can't kill loudmouths that are of the same faction as me or hell just off one of my guildmates cuz they pissed me off... is a MAJOR drawback. The other big problem with WOW is that I can't create a truly unique character. In Shadowbane the character skills and traits and such required intelligence and planning. The PVP required intelligence and skill and not just good armor + badass class... like WOW.

So... well I've been putting it off because it's not as good and shadowbane is dead, was pretty much dead when I started writing fanfiction. HOWEVER, the hubby and I were sitting down talking last night and he pointed out that I quite honestly spend almost no time with him right now because I'm almost always RPing, writing, reading, watching anime... etc etc. He also mentioned that WOW has this like new buddy system to make it easier leveling and blah blah blah and that I have yet to sell my old account with my level 70 Tauren Druid so I wouldn't really have to spend that much time playing 'catch up'. And, he mentioned that his guild is predominately chicks... which is good since right now most of my old guild Ministry Of Chaos (MOC) that's actually playing wow are people I find a 'tad' annoying. Tecma's not playing or I'd insist on playing with them.

And what all this boils down to is that I'm going to start playing again. Which has the downside of meaning I won't be writing fanfiction and stuff anymore. The reason is that I can't have two habits at once... I just can't. I suck at time management and with my full time job I have very little of it as it is. I tried a few times to do both and it didn't work. I ended up just not playing the game because I wanted to write more or had to answer comments/replies/etc. The last time I actively played was over a year ago, and gaming was as big a part of my life as writing has been since so I am sure it's simply going to flip.

You guys can still e-mail me or IM me if you want of course and I hope some of you will at least stay in touch. If I owe you a fic, sorry I'll try to get them done at some point but I can't promise when that will be.

Much Love,
Kiterie/SumiHatake

]]> *SumiHatake Art Request http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23923222/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23923222/ Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:28:25 PDT
Festival Fun: [link] - [link] (just need to color. Thank you babe)
Mistletoe Mischief: [link]
Of Cookies And Men: [link]
Wishes: [link]
Test: [link]

]]> *SumiHatake Looking for Naruto Shippuden Subs? http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23545399/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23545399/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:53:31 PST [link] offers some high quality videos and they're free and legit you have to sit through a couple of commercials but woo not a ton (generally 2 or 3 I think) and you can rate the commercials too. XP

Anyways it's where I watch(ed) Naruto Shippuden (SUBBED NOT DUBBED), Peach Girl, Mushi-shi, House, Battlestar Galactica, and where I started to watch xXxHolic and various others.

Well I know dattebayo was taking down their stuff on a lot of stuff so I thought I'd mention it.

*love love*

]]> *SumiHatake My Subconscious is trying to kill me http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23544663/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23544663/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:13:19 PST
Sunday night I took a nice hot very long shower, lit a nicely scented candle and laid down to read a book.... I should know better but I blame no day off and sleep deprivation. And yes you're assuming correctly if you realized I fell asleep and started my blanket on fire. Well the hubby's blanket anyway. I'm fine, no burns or anything but the damn thing was on top of me so I've been having nightmares and getting even less sleep than usual. I've barely been coherent for the duration because on top of that work has been OMG busy and I've been OMG tired as a result.

Our part-timer 'boy wonder' quit. You know it's bad when the kid gets a nickname his first weekend on the job. You know he won't last. It's just the way things like that work. We were nice and sweet and understanding really the entire time but it was just inevitable. He couldn't follow simple instructions, lied several times saying that we didn't tell him that, and then called in sick every other week because he was 'dizzy'. We suspected that he was working his other job every other weekend and he told me a couple weeks ago that they offered him a full time position and asked if he should give 2 weeks notice. I was like "Yes... of course." And so he didn't call or show up last weekend and he got his ass fired. Which means we're back to our shitty schedule, so no 3 day weekends for me... well that was fun for a whole 3 weekends. Though this weekend I do get one because I asked specifically to have it off and my boss is going to work Sunday for me.

Which I won't be around for because the reason I need it off is to go help my brother with his plumbing. This is mostly an excuse to go see my big brother that I adore. He does need help with his plumbing though so the family is all going up there to help. I think that I'm going to fix pork burritos to take with us and my mom is bringing Lil' Ceasar's Pizza Kits which are freaking awesome btw. And they're picking me up on the way.

I agreed to join Walk Kansas at work so have to walk 30 minutes a day. No biggie but my ankles hurt. The one cuz I hurt it and the other from compensating. Maybe it will help.

okay well that's life right now. Back to working on the story I'm writing with my brother. I'm hoping I can get this first chapter typed up so we can talk about it sometime this weekend while I'm there. Oh yeah for those who I didn't tell... I'm working on a science fiction novel with my older brother. It won't be posted online the way my fanfiction is though.

]]> *SumiHatake Just a quick thank you http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23322316/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23322316/ Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:44:44 PST
I have 169 watchers right now and just wow, that blows my mind. It's nothing compared to say Lenaps like 7 or 8 hundred but still that's very awesome to me. ^.^ Feel free to talk to me btw, I don't bite. Though I can be slow to respond due to the number of comments I have atm. My RL best friend introduced me to a girl she RPs with who watches me and she said that if Nat hadn't introduced me and her she never would have spoken to me because she idolizes me. *massive blush* I don't see myself as one of those really popular artist/writers though but I understand that feeling cuz I used to have that same 'I can't talk to them they don't want me bugging them' feeling when it came to artist I adore but well it's not bugging me. I might not be as chatty at times because I do get very busy but I try to be really friendly and I swear I only bite if you ask. *winks* I wouldn't post my contact information on my sites if people talking to me bugged me. Though er don't beat me if I don't know who you are because I am BAAAAD like really really really bad with names and remembering people and it's true for RL too. This is compounded by the fact that I don't have a pov reference in IMs to go oh! I know who they are now by clicking on their name. Feel free to toss me a link to your page on here to jog my memory.

Speaking of comments I've gotten them down to just over 250 on DA and under 50 on Y-gal but I'm still a bit overwhelmed so I'm going through and marking off the ones that are longer replies to replies and stuff. So if I drop a conversation sorry, but just feel free to IM me or something if you want to chat. ^.^

Much Love!
~Kiterie/SumiHatake

]]> *SumiHatake Birthday related journal. http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23309753/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/23309753/ Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:33:27 PST
I wonder if I'm supposed to feel old. I don't. I feel like I did when I was like 17.

10 things that have changed for me in the last 10 years...

*1* I'm not in highschool anymore
*2* I have to work! I know the horror. But I worked at a nursing home(in the kitchen) for some of my 17th year though mostly I babysat my baby sisters.
*3* Both the guy I dated then and myself are married and have one or more kids. (he was nice, we broke up because we just didn't see each other much. I still have the necklace he 'gave' me. He said if I could get it off without him noticing then I could keep it. I did and I bought him a new one.)
*4* I'm not a virgin anymore
*5* I don't go to church anymore (though my beliefs haven't changed I just don't feel the need to antagonize pastures as often anymore)
*6* My hair is shorter
*7* I spend way way way more time on the computer
*8* I'm a gamer now
*9* I write yaoi and smut and fanfiction (I used to write only het pairings with no smut and only original)
*10* my weight *twitch* Having a kid sucks on this account

10 things that have stayed the same in the last 10 years...
*1* I'm still best friends with the same two people I was best friends with then.
*2* I'm still a 'commie pinko' haha I mean liberal.
*3* I still love to write
*4* I still want to be a veterinarian and/or writer (both would be awesome)
*5* I still can't stand my older sister
*6* While I don't have a 'favorite food' the thing I still want to eat for my birthday is pork burritos and carrot cake.
*7* I still get leg cramps that have me balled up in pain crying... really really hoped those would go away.
*8* I still love to read sci-fi and fantasy
*9* I'm still have phobias about heights, rats, ticks, and junebugs
*10* I still love to draw even though I still suck.

---site stuff---

27 February 1982 - Got this from - [link]

Your date of conception was on or about 6 June 1981 which was a Saturday.

You were born on a Saturday
under the astrological sign Pisces.
Your Life path number is 4.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Funny thing about humility. Just when you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 6 & 7.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 3, 5 & 9.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2445027.5.
The golden number for 1982 is 7.
The epact number for 1982 is 5.
The year 1982 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/25/1982 and ending 2/12/1983.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Dog.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Wolf; your plant is Plantain.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Pachons, the first month of the season of Shomu (Harvest).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 5 AdarI 5742.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 6 AdarI 5742.

The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.18.8.13.3 which is
12 baktun 18 katun 8 tun 13 uinal 3 kin

The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Saturday, 3 Jumadiyu'l-Avval 1402 (1402-5-3).

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 11 April 1982.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 18 April 1982.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 24 February 1982.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 30 May 1982.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 6 June 1982.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Saturday, 18 September 1982.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Thursday, 8 April 1982.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 23 February 1982.

As of 2/19/2009 7:55:36 PM EST
You are 26 years old.
You are 324 months old.
You are 1,408 weeks old.
You are 9,854 days old.
You are 236,515 hours old.
You are 14,190,955 minutes old.
You are 851,457,336 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Josh Groban (1981) Chelsea Clinton (1980) Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas (1971)
Mary... ]]> *SumiHatake I was in an accident, but I'm okay http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22648617/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22648617/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:42:17 PST For those curious, I'm doing fine. My ankle is still a bit sore but mostly okay.

Anyways this is what the car looks like now...
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]

We're also looking at getting a Vibe. [link] which the one we're test driving looks like the one in the picture and is a stick(manual) which I'm apprehensive about because I've never driven a stick.

But I do love the idea of being able to go "I'm getting the vibe out, wanna go for a ride with me?" hehe I'm so perverted.

OLD:
I went out with my coworkers last night. We went to watch Hotel for Dogs and to eat and then dancing. I didn't want to go but I wanted to be social so I went. Well I was following my boss home to her house so that I could pick my daughter, her kids were watching for us. It was late probably close to 3 am and she was going too fast and I didn't realize because I was tired and I'm not used to dirt roads so I didn't realize it was too fast and I hit a patch of soft sand and rolled twice.

She was going to fast on the dirt road and I was too tired and too inexperienced to realize that. I hit some soft sand and rolled the car twice. I had my seatbelt on, I didn't panic or anything.

The boss saw my lights turn off and came to get me, I was already out of the car, on my hands and knees. She helped me up and I stumbled to her van and she took me to her house (her kids were watching my kid) and we called the hubby and the cops and such.

I walked away with a twisted ankle, abrasions on my neck and side/lower back, some minor scrapes/cuts and a bit of a stiff neck. And I'm stiff and sore as fuck.

But I'm okay, the car was fully insured.

I'm sooo sad! My poor pretty baby car! The mitsu was MY car too. I loved that god damned car! Poor poor molly is gone!

maybe I can use the time to catch up on comments, though I hurt like hell so maybe not. I love you all and wish I could keep on top of those but I'm not sure I can manage to get them answered.

]]> *SumiHatake More Random memes http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22587923/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22587923/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:41:54 PST RULES
1. rule cut because I don't want to tag people.
2. see above.
3. Tell the truth.

1. What is your DeviantArt name and what does it mean?
* SumiHatake Uh... sumi is an oc I have and well Kakashi is my favorite Naruto character and since I didn't want to use Kiterie for the umpteenth time... I made Sumi adopted by Kakashi and Iruka and her sister Saiya adopted by Genma and Raidou... never really wrote it though cuz I'm lazy and distracted... and now they've become the children of an OC I use for Iruka's jounin-sensei Atsushi... cuz he needed evil little girls to attack him.

2. Why did you join this site?
Natalanisha made me... and so I did.

3. What fandom were you obsessed with when you joined?
Uh I think it was before Naruto so probably Inuyasha but I didn't even really fave anything... it was that transitional space for me between the two.

4. How many watchers are currently watching now?
*170

5. Your first gift ever was to?
*uh.... *runs off to look* Festival Fun was written for xxecodxx from LJ

6. List five things you are a fan of?
* Hot tubs (or baths if I can't have that) seriously that whole "don't turn the hottub above 115* rule is so stupid... I want to roast and the 15 minute rule is dumb too... I like to soak until I'm half cooked.
* Massages... I have the hubby trained. I love Iris' back massages and foot massages too
* chai tea and the new coffee shop that opened that has wi-fi
* Animals! namely tormenting my kitty who I love
* did I mention I like Hot tubs... I want one

8. List four people you look up to the most?
* Uh... my big brother I can't really explain though beyond that I really do admire him
* My grandfather who is one of my favorite people
* Hmmm.... this is a hard question... My mom, though her logic sometimes baffles me I have to admit that she has come a long way
* Uh... Me! hehe so yeah that's egotistical... but I couldn't resist

9. How many pets do you own?
*I have a cat... and then this annoying little cat that I need to take to my old boss' house but have been too lazy to do so.

11. What do you prefer, Red or black?
* depends on what it's for.

12. Name 3 aspects of your personality?
* cheerful
* smart ass
* violent... *bats eyes* violence is love?

13. If you could have a power what would it be?
* to be able to telepathically type and not have to actually you know type... god I'm lazy

14. Who was the last person you talked to?
* Lecanis

15. Who was the last person you said "I love you" to?
* Hubby before he went to bed... he rubbed my shoulders I couldn't help it hehe

16. Write the first five things that pop into your head?
* uh
* GenIru smut (writing that right now)
* "What is this song title..." *looks* Couting Bodies Like Sheep
* can't really think beyond the lyrics now
* ...

17. What are the things you wish you could do better?
* draw
* focus
* color

18. Do you like who you are?
* Pfft... duh. I really do like who I am but I didn't always

19. Summer or winter?
* Summer *bask in the sun like the kitty cat she claims to be*

20. Rain or sun?
* see above though rain is nice I like thunderstorms

21. List 2 odd things about yourself?
* I write porn... I know that doesn't seem odd here but well IRL it is a bit weird
* I sit around telling stories with Iris and her mom

22. Pop or Hip hop?
* Uh... can I have another choice? I do listen to some of the above but they're not my favorite types of music by any means.

23. How many scars do you have?
* Er.... I'm not sure nothing too large or noticeable

24. Do you wear spiked wristbands, Collars & belts?
* no but I like them, just they're expensive and my money goes elsewhere

25. Do you own anything from Hot Topic?
* a couple t-shirts

25. Windows or Mac?
* Window... *gags and shudders* I'm an Apple fangirl but I actually run Ubuntu right now so neither.

26. Nyc Trpp or Lip Service?
*who or what?

28. Steak or Chicken?
*STEAK! The temperature of a fresh kill and still bleeding please!

29. Favorite Color(s)?
* Purple, blue... red... I like colors especially desaturated tones

30. Anime or Manga?
* BOTH I refuse to choose.

31. Beer or wine?
* Those are both icky... I'll stick to my tea thank you very much

32. Goth or Emo?
* The hubby says if anything I'm a '

http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22397261/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:21:03 PST
Sorry Micah babe since you've probably got the most spam in all of this.

And I moved most of the stock images I liked over to my other account. I'm going to move the stock account watches over there too. So I'm still watching and faving that stuff it just makes more sense to have it there as opposed to here.

]]> *SumiHatake Happy New Year http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22313746/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22313746/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:54:55 PST
Well it's that time again... Another year out of the way. I don't generally make 'new year's resolutions' I just don't. I make goals and I don't make them because a new year starts and I'm suddenly struck that a year has passed and I haven't accomplished anything. I make goals when I see fit and rarely is that at new years.

BUT since it's that time I'll share what my goals are currently.

1) Lose 110 lbs / 50 kg Preferably in a year and at most 2. I made the goal July 15th (roughly) and so far I've lost about 42 lbs / 19 kgs although this last month with the holidays I haven't lost any (haven't gained any though so that is good). I've been on a low carb diet and it works for me. Starting tomorrow I'm dropping back down to 20 carbs a week (was at 60 carbs/week) and not because it's a new year but because it's the first of the month.

2) Complete 1 original fiction. I'm working on this but very slowly but once we get a part time person one day every other week will be dedicated to this. I know not much and that's not to say I won't work on it at other points but that will be a day that I will most definitely work on it.

3) Complete more of my projects on my projects list and STOP adding them. hrmm... so far this is not working because I have the attention span of a ferret and can be distracted by tinfoil but I'm trying.

4) hmm nope that's it.

Do you make resolutions? Why or Why not? and if you do what are they?

Oh yeah and I forgot, thank you everyone for all the support and faves and for just being good friends over the last year.

]]> *SumiHatake NEW Account http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22152325/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22152325/ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:16:51 PST

I don't have an icon or ID set up yet for the account and I'll get that done slowely. But the best way to contact me is still through here. I just wanted to let people know that it is ME! but I'm not linking back to here because I don't want my yaoi linked on there. I'll always post stuff here first so that it's clear this account is the original BUT I'll do my best to keep stuff there updated to. You can get prints either place and feel free to fave or comment at either account. I will check it so no biggie.

Gah another account to maintain but *sigh* I needed it so that I could give my mom a link for the stuff without her going OMG what are you writing! AND besides this way those who aren't into boylove and just want to watch my flowers and such can.

]]> *SumiHatake Life = going to kill somebody till their dead http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22037412/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/22037412/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:47:30 PST
Seriously though my stupid fucking older sister Crystal called... First she wanted to know if my step-dad actually yelled at her ex over some stuff that happened at thanksgiving. Her ex who was stoned out of his head - sorry if she thinks otherwise but I've been around smokers and drug addicts and I KNOW the difference in the way they're eyes look. The ass was stoned, behavior and appearance practically screamed it.

And then she asked if I'd let her spend time with me and my daughter which I said I'd think about it (think about changing my number maybe... yeah like I'd let that psycho bitch near me or my daughter again?).

Then she wanted to know if I'd seen the necklace MY dad gave her (he's not even her dad!) that she let her stupid little 5 year old son wear at thanksgiving. I haven't but said I'd look around for it when I clean house and would let her know if I found it.

So THEN she says if it's not found she wants the other one back. The one MY dad gave her that she gave to me at thanksgiving (the only fucking thing good that came of me putting up with her at thanksgiving), I didn't answer for a good 2 minutes, said fine and hung up. But now that I've thought about it. Fuck her she can die. I'd sooner destroy it than give it back to her after all this shit. It's mine and she can jump off a cliff. If I have to I'll put it in a safe deposit box. She can't have it ever.

If I see it I'll give it to my mom and even if I don't I'm sending her a letter telling her I never want to see her or hear from her again. AND I just might change my phone number so she can't call me.

She can fuck off and die. She freaking attacked me and I still try to be nice to her. But god damn it, she gave me the necklace and it was MY dad's. The issues I have with him aside he's my dad and I'm not giving it back to her.

]]> *SumiHatake PRINTS? OMG! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21956486/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21956486/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:30:10 PST
The main reason I decided to do it is that I wanted to buy a mug with the foxglove picture on it for my mom for Christmas.

Flower request are FREE

(not necessarily in this order-

1) OokamiKasumi - Bleeding Heart
2) Morgainedeshone - Forget Me Nots
3) Natalanisha - Iris
4) ME - Tiger Lily
5) Son - two toned peach colored Rose
6) Demona - paint one of the cala lily sketches
7) Rena - snapdragon
8) Janet - pansey
9) Eddie - orchid
10) random - forget-me-nots
11) schuschu - cat's ear
12) random - bamboo
13) Kagenoshi - ivy

POISON SERIES I'm doing these for a calander I'm planning. Some may change as we go along though.
Btw each of these will come with a blurb (I need to work them up for the ones already done)that will explain it's poisonous aspects.

1) Foxglove - complete [link]
2) Poppy - complete [link]
3) Belladonna
4) Nightshade
5) Apple
6) Peach
7) Jack in the Pulpit
8) Thornapple
9) Morning Glory
10)
11)
12)
13)

]]> *SumiHatake RolePlaying: It's uses and It's limits http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21801104/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21801104/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:09:22 PST
I recently started RolePlaying again. Understand that I am in my own way an RP snob. When I was on a muck I thought unguided RP was useless drivel often conducted by those unable to write a character that wasn't a mary/garystu or that they were incapable of coming up with a believable plot, and I still believe that very often this is true.

That belief came with me when I began writing fanfiction. On top of that belief was the dislike for 'forum play' as the format for RPing in the community. It seemed... a very difficult way to do things. I also didn't want to play with those who's work I wouldn't normally read myself, because I can be a very harsh critic at times but being such can often alienate readers and friends which is a no no for me. As a result I avoided the RP communities and turned down repeated request to join various RP communities.

So, what changed? Well a writer who's work I do read kept asking. And while in some cases this might have put me off, her approach was well considered. She kept bating me with "Guess what I'm doing this month?" statements and then proceeding to entertain me with some rather interesting pairings and characterizations. And most surprisingly some actual stories.

This helped me to form an opinion of her RP community as being something other than a simple RP comm. It's also an invitation only comm and included 3 other writers that I immediately recognized as people who's stories I read one of which I talked to nearly as frequently as the person extending the invitation.

I went into this somewhat blind as to what to actually expect but what I did know was that their group was different from what I'd seen previously. As such I've come up with some ideas for what in my opinion are the strengths and weaknesses of their style of RPing and interestingly I found myself comparing them to an acting troupe doing acting exercises.

So since they're very different I want to explain the uses and the limits for those wondering why I would choose to RP so that they can decide if it might be something fun for them to try or if they might want to change something in their own RP community to better utilize the tool.

BASIC CONSTRUCTION: based on the RP group that I belong to:
1) They use LiveJournal to set up and post finished pieces on.
Why:

*This allows new members to review previous sessions and get a 'feel' for the various people involved; their writing styles as well as their characterizations which can vary greatly depending on the person.

*This allows current members and watchers to see what is happening with various characters and gives them an overall view of what is going on.

*Let's the community's watchers see what's going on because most of the roleplaying takes place in chat or over google docs. Basically: It's fun to read the stuff that the comm comes up with.

The Downside:

*Live Journal has word post limits that can be aggravating to writers who write long stories and some of these RPs can be easily 50,000 words long.

*You need a secondary format like google docs or chat to make an RP that is coherent to anyone at a later date.

2) They are invite only
Why:

*This allows the community to remain close. This means that they are playing with their friends which makes it more enjoyable. They are also RPing with people who's work they read and therefore are working with individuals of a certain level of skill.

*It limits access to minors. The comm has a lot of NC-17 material that it works in and this allows them an extra step in avoiding 13 year olds joining the community.

*It reduces the drama. In any community you can expect a certain amount of drama to arise. When the people you're dealing with are your friends however, you'll take criticism better and give it in a manner that your friends are more apt to be receptive to. And because they're your friends you get to know who can take criticism and who would really rather you keep your opinions to yourself. Nobody wants to deal with big fights, they want to have fun and they want to learn.

*There is no application. You can play your character your way and nobody is going to tell you that it doesn't suit their style and so no you can't be a part of the comm... because they've already read your stuff and know how you write. You have a LOT more options and flexibility in your character design.

The Downside:

*A small community. This means that there will be times when the community is slow and it stands a greater risk of failure. Honestly I consider this to be vastly outweighed by the logic for it, but that's just my opinion.

*Not everyone gets to play. I also feel this is outweighed by the other reasons.

3) They Allow Multiple Characters and even Multipl... ]]> *SumiHatake Life update http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21792458/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21792458/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:02:15 PST
If I seem cranky or unproductive lately... well it's hard to focus or write when I'm sick and not being able to write makes me cranky sometimes.

My ears are ringing. I forgot to eat until 5 today... serious trouble concentrating despite feeling like I was starving. I slept for freaking ever. I went to work and helped with the cleaning and stayed over the lunch hour to help out and then came home and went to the doc, got the prescription, drove all the way back to town to get it, then came home and it wasn't time to pick up Ilyanna and I was sooo tired so I laid down and fell asleep then had to get up after like 20 minutes and go get her which sucked but the minute I got home I laid down again. I tried to read because I knew I'd screw up my sleep schedule but I was too tired and fell asleep then woke up at 10:30 and am still awake... gonna have to go back to bed. I'm seriously not getting shit done so figured I'd let you guys know why.

Oh but I do have a Kakashi and Tenzou (non-romantic) piece that's based on when Tenzou joins Kakashi's ANBU team that I want to write and a Kiddie Kakashi piece that I want to write which is based on the DGW contest. But I'm not sure if I'll get them done while I'm sick. I'm going to try and finish the kiddie Kakashi one first.

]]> *SumiHatake Did Somebody Say Contest? Again? http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21637456/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21637456/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:22:18 PST
The rules are simple. The art can be from any of the MI stories and this includes the entered fic pieces as well as Mission Iruka, Mission Iruka Christmas, AND The Important Things. Although I really really really encourage you to draw something from one of the contest submissions.

Deadline December 15th (give or take chaos of course)

Prizes:
1st-$15 commission through HAPPY!
2nd-$10 commission through HAPPY!
3rd-$5 commission through HAPPY!
(basically I'll pay for the commissions but you can pick who you commission, if the commission cost more you are welcome to cover the rest of the cost.)

]]> *SumiHatake Yay! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21427854/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21427854/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:27:15 PST
Well sorry I haven't replied to the comments I have, which is a lot and some are quite old. If there weren't so many old ones I'd claim it was cuz I had my vacation and then I've been sick for about 2 weeks now and just don't feel like it but to be honest that's not it. I want to answer them I just get to weighing which is more important updates or responses and then I go with updates... *headdesk* which is probably because I talk to a lot of people over aim and such.

More important stuff...

A lot of people know that I work at the local animal shelter as well as the local area of mental health center. Well because I work 2 part time jobs I end up with 1 day off a week and this kind of sucks despite having 2 half days to compensate.

But I do like both of my jobs and the people I work with, for the most part. The exception being Ladonna who is being nice to me right now but when Tim (the director who quit about a month and a half ago) started she tried to get me fired and was bad mouthing me behind my back.

Which well I'm the type that I have no problem telling you I have a problem with you. I'm very upfront that way. Blunt to the point that it gets me into trouble at times and makes my hubby go "I can't take you anywhere." I claim that this is because I'm oblivious but it's more I just don't want to manipulate people because my sister and my mother and my grandmother and most of my aunts do it constantly. SO it bugs me when others don't give me that same courtesy.

So... anyhow when Tim quit we all went in to talk to the chief of police who is our boss above the director (mentioned this before in a journal I'm sure) and well he asked me at the time if I'd take a full time position if it was offered and I hesitated and said it depended on what the circumstances of the offer were made under... and well he asked if it was with the understanding that Ladonna was gone. I said yes, that I would and didn't hesitate like before.

Well anyways he was impressed by me and told the director before Tim (Glenna) and so I knew then that I'd be offered the position should it open up.

AND it has.

I'm not positive as to the circumstances but from what I can guess at by what Paula (the animal control officer) said it seems Ladonna was scolded by Laura (new director) about some things last Thursday and her response was to give her 2 weeks notice AND then later when she tried to take it back Laura said she'd have to talk to Jim Ball (Chief of Police) and when she did Jim said to tell her no that they were offering me the position.

So then today she offered it to me. I accepted of course. So then I called my other boss to let her know. And I'm going to try and work with her as much as possible to make the transition easier on her until she finds a replacement for me. And she understands and is happy for me. She used to work with me at the animal shelter until Tim ticked her off and she decided she didn't need the stress since the main reason she was doing it was for the animals.

So in 2 weeks I'll be working at the shelter full time which will mean chaos for awhile and then once we find a new part-timer it will mean I get every sunday off and every other friday/monday off. So 1 week I'll have 1 day off and the next week I'll have 3 and so forth. Which will be nice because I can go do stuff. Plus I get sick leave there and holiday pay and vacation AND better pay (2 bucks more an hour) which I don't get at the AMHC.

So yeah good times but will be chaos and I may be even slower with updates for a little while. Like a couple months.

]]> *SumiHatake Life, Writing, RP http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21273553/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21273553/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:58:13 PDT
REAL LIFE:

I'm sick, still. I feel like crap and so my writing and such is suffering because I have a horrible time focusing when my head hurts or I'm dizzy or I feel like I'm going to throw up or I'm coughing a lung up or just generally anything I've been feeling for the last few days. And I get to work tomorrow. Thankfully only a half day.

I had to take Anna to see the doctor today which meant the ER since nobody else is open on Saturday (thank you stupid fucking doctors because NOBODY works all week or get sick on the weekend! I swear if I was a fucking doctor I'd be closed Wed and Thurs and Open Sat and Sun) Anyways the poor little kiddo started to break out in a rash a couple days ago and today it was EVERYWHERE! on her face and hands even. So I took her in. I didn't want to wait until Monday because if it was measles (which are coming back) or scabies (also have a rash of them around here) I wanted to know. We live in a town with a strong population of illegal and recent immigrants who haven't had their immunizations and who often don't realize how important it is to get them because a lot of them don't speak English. So we get weird 3rd world illnesses in our town. I figure better safe than sorry.

She was prescribed a steroid and some special lotion and is allowed to be given benedryll for the itching. She looks a LOT better already but well I spent most of the day sitting in the emergency room while feeling like shit myself and then spending most of the evening washing and rewashing her clothes. Since we have no idea what caused the outbreak but are fairly certain it's a contact based allergen (like detergent or grass) or what not and not an inhaled or digested allergen (like cats or food).

STORIES:

I'm still working on my stories I'm just slower with the being sick. Right now I have most of the next chapter (possibly 2 if I have to divide it up) of Fishstick done. As well as several shorts but I need to finish the stuff that's connected to them before posting.

RPing:

I joined Naruto 404 on LJ and I'm RPing Gai and Tenzou this month... so if I'm a spaz or if I totally fail at RPing (since this is very different than the way I'm normally used to RPing) then I blame Lecanis and Vernjast.

I chose to do Gai because it would be funny and I need practice writing him and Tenzou because I cannot smex Gai up... it's weird even if I have done it before. It breaks my brain to do it. Tenzou is however sexy and fun to smex up. Particularly with Kakashi and Iruka.

]]> *SumiHatake Back a few days ago... http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21232082/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21232082/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:59:52 PDT
I bought a SuperGirl shirt which is kind of slutty and I can't wear it and not get mauled by the hubby. Of course I'm not complaining, just commenting.

The second day we were there went to this really big flea market but I was disappointed because it was mostly people reselling junk they bought from mass order catalogs. But I did find a mug that said "It's a Beaver" and bought it which is only funny because at work a beaver is somebody who's OCD. So us office personnel get called beavers for being slightly anal. I gave it to Barb because she gets called it the most. I want to get some mugs made for Christmas. One for my boss that says "Also a Beaver" and one for the bosses boss that says "Not a Beaver" because he is the least anal of everyone in the office, and one for me that says something like "I think it's a Beaver."

And then we went to Barnes and Noble and I found a vampire manga but never did read it and now I've forgotten the name. Damn being married to somebody I actually like talking to really cuts into my reading time.

So then we went to Wing House which is like Hooters (for those who don't know what Hooters is it's a bar & grill chain that has girls in really tight shirts and really short shorts) and YES I'm the one who wanted to go. My hubby was like "Are you sure about this." Because we had Anna with us. My response... "What it's not like they're naked." Anna thought their outfits looked like swimsuits (Which it does because theirs is slightly different from Hooters) and the waitresses all adored her and thought she was cute. The waitresses were all really nice btw and no matter what the hubby says I wasn't checking them out whenever they turned around... *bats her eyes innocently* What? I'm an equal opportunity pervert.

Oh and on the drive down we knew when we crossed into Oklahoma because the casinos started popping up all over the place. But not a single strip joint or adult store until we crossed into Texas. Which made me go "We must be in TX!" The minute I saw one and then less than a mile later we saw the "Welcome to Texas" Sign. I have to admit that is the one thing I miss about Texas. Although when I lived in Abilene the adult bookstores kept mysteriously burning down. They got rebuilt of course but it was kind of funny. Oh and they had this adult movie theater that I wanted to go to but couldn't bring myself to because well I wasn't sure how clean it would be.

I have a pervy idea for a PWP thanks to the trip but I'm not going to say what it is until I get it written. I'm debating over the pairing too though leaning towards GenIru just because it would work for what I want to do.

Oh and my hubby has an idea for something for me to sell at yaoi-con if I get to go next year. Again we'll see if it happens but I can't talk about it until he gets off his ass and makes them.

I've got my website set up but thanks to being busy this last week I haven't put content up yet. I will soon. And I still need to commission Kristal for the banner which also has something to do with the stuff at yaoi-con. My website will have more than just me on it but I'm going to limit it to certain people being able to post art/stories - those I invite at least at first. I've got an idea for the site and I want to see if it works or if I'm too lazy and it doesn't. So anyways I'll post more about it when I get it finished.

]]> *SumiHatake leaving town for the weekend... http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21138553/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/21138553/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:36:53 PDT
we bought a new digital camera but uh I don't know if I'll get off my ass and post pics... I'm really lazy...

oh for those who didn't know cuz I forgot to post the entry here -
*although nat isn't going because she doesn't feel up to it so that's wrong

Well the husband, the kid, Natalanisha, and myself(of course) are going to 6 flags over Dallas. I was reluctant to post before now because I was paranoid something would go wrong. And it did, but it's been fixed. First the hubby's vacation pay didn't come in last week so he had to go yell at HR and this was evidently caused by his vacation not being submitted and his boss started to protest that it wasn't his job (Scott submitted it to his supervisor), until Scott suggested that if it was a problem he'd just take a Leave of Absence (threatened to walk over to the other plant and get a job there basically) and then it was fine so things are good.

I will be in Dallas some time before noon on Saturday so if anyone is in the area and wants to meet up, even if it's just for lunch or supper, that'd be cool. Just let me know.

]]> *SumiHatake Canvas Bag commissions (1 up for sale) http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20993977/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20993977/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:06:47 PDT
Nov/Dec Commissions - [link]
Undies - [link]
Bags - Below - more info on other bags to come soon.

Edit - She did one of Kakashi it's up for sale here - [link]

So Demona did this really cute bag (seen below) for me. It's a little candle bag and canvas and I love it. So then, I bullied her into taking commissions on bags.

She won't be starting on them right away but I'm making a waiting list for her.

ANY characters you want even your OCs. All bags are standard commissions - you pick the pose, no BG at this time, sketch style. Although she says the lines will be neater since the marker tip was too fat and she's getting a smaller one this weekend.

1Chara $30 (must specify bust or full body)
2 Chara (Bust on each side)$40
2 Chara (Full Body on each side)$50
Mini Bag 1 face on each side $15
All plus shipping (varies depending on where you live of course)

CONTACT me her 'AWESOME' Manager (you can of course verify this with her if you wish) and I'll hook you up with any other details you need (like her paypal info) and relay the info.

haha I know I'm a bully but she loves me and I love helping and pimping her.

Example:
Side 1
Photobucket

Side 2

]]> *SumiHatake Memory of a Goldfish http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20809925/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20809925/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:20:40 PDT
I'm sorry in advance if you talk to me and I seem confused. Seriously I'm really just that ditzy. What can I say Porn rots your brain. ^.^

But really I had trouble remembering my first boyfriends name. Somebody would ask me his name and I'd go "Jared? no.. Jake? no... John? nooooo... Jeremy? no.. Jared? no.." and it would go on until Nat would smack me and go "It's JOSH you blonde thing." and I'd go "OH yeah that's it." ^///^ So please don't take it seriously if I have to ask who you are if you talk to me.

*face palms* EVEN if you've met me. I am just a twit. A cute, lovable, uber sweet, but very forgetful twit. I feel so bad but whoever it was seems mad at me now and I still have no clue who they were.

]]> *SumiHatake Contest! AND MI info http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20643136/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20643136/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:06:33 PST Time to Vote!!! [link]

Well it's past the day that I intended to end this but due to various reasons like being sick and OMFG busy and well stuff. BUT it's finally that time. So I'm starting the poll for the top 3. I'll pick what order they go in but you all get to pick the top 3. ^.^ I loved every single damn one of them so so so so much that I can't even put into words how honored I am that they were written in the MI universe. Thank you all x a million. And for those voting (I know a lot of people are friends) don't worry none of the author's are going away empty-handed so vote without worrying about that.

And to give people time with the holidays I'm going for 10 days instead of 7.

Contest-
ENTRIES:
Meddling Fangirls by DurgasDragon - Shika/Chouji with a conniving Ino and Sakura and a helpful Lee. y-gal: [link] and LJ: [link]

Letter from Home by KitatheSpaz - KakaIru from Tsu's POV [link]

Shibari and Senbons by Lecanis - KakaGen [link]

Learning by Vernajast - Minato and Kakashi (not romantic, takes place shortly after Sakumo's death.) [link]

Over on Y I started a club for Mission Iruka and then decided to hold a contest and so because I have several readers on here it's extended to here as well. Most of this is a direct post from there. Because I'm well playing with the new tablet... and therefore lazy. ^.^

Well - Fist MI fic contest ever... hopefully this doesn't totally fail. There will be an ART contest afterward so no I haven't forgotten the lovely artist. But for certain reasons it must come after. You have until Oct 15th. I haven't decided if I'll do a poll or grab some people to help me judge.

I also decided to hold it sooner than I initially planned since the holiday season will be crazy for contest.

Prizes:
1st-$15 commission through HAPPY! [link]
2nd-$10 commission through HAPPY! [link]
3rd-$5 commission through HAPPY! [link]
I can get a list of artist who are also here on DA, The main one being

Demona.
(basically I'll pay for the commissions but you can pick who you commission as long as it's from the club, if the commission cost more you are welcome to cover the rest of the cost.)

Rules and Points to Note:
1.) It must be within the universe - doesn't leave a lot of room for angst... sorry MI is just not angsty at least not yet... you never know what I'll do with the sequel. ^.^ The more it feels like the MI universe the better.

2.) It must be a one-shot. No chapter fics please. 500 word minimum (so it will scroll I've experimented this is about as short as it should be) no maximum limit.

3.) Kakashi and Iruka must be in character in roughly the same fashion they are in MI. Because of rule #1.

4.) It does NOT have to be KakaIru. *SHOCK* WTF? I know... And although you must somehow make it obvious it's part of MI you may:

-Decide to NOT write a pairing. As long as it fits in the world it doesn't have to have a pairing. ie: something from one of their past that isn't pairing related.

- Write side-pairings. Keep in mind Genma and Raidou are together (Raidou is uke in case anyone missed that), Gai is with Ayame (if you write them as the main pairing post it in extras and toss the link to me), etc etc. It may be a side pairing but it MUST be a noted side pairing and it must fit within the universe.

- Write pairings from the past. You can write GenRaiIru or any of the pairings mentioned as being a past relationship.

5.)Naruto is AWAY training. If you want him in the story he can't be in Konoha. Iruka can write him or whatever but he can't be there.

6.) Sasuke is GONE no he can't be in the current story line. Besides he gets no love in MI ever cuz it's canon-esque and he will be gone even for the sequel. Sorry. This goes for Akatsuki and dead people. IF you must write one of them... talk to me first, after all if you want to do a piece from their past it MIGHT work. Just ask I can tell you.

7.) You can play with the time frame up until Naruto's return... anything after that talk to me and I can tell you if you're edging... ]]> *SumiHatake Tablet! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20610773/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20610773/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:31:50 PDT
]]> *SumiHatake A New Club I'm involved with. http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20512338/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20512338/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:35:00 PDT [link] and myself... HAPPY! AKA Help A Pal Project Y! [link]

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Every now and then, everyone has a bad day. Except sometimes it lasts weeks, even months. Having friends and their support in those times are often what holds us up. So when somebody else is having it rough, we just want them to be HAPPY. This club was created for this very simple purpose: a friend of ours is in a bad pass and we want to help them.

Some of us are students, others are full-time workers, and all have very packed schedules plus a limited budget, just like you do. Still, we'd like to help any way we can, and thought we'd offer our services and skills to the cause.

Right now, this club focuses on

. Once her situations settles more, the club will stay open to help other great people in need.
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Please check the club out, watch it(if you have a y-gal account), and help if you can (even if it's just promoting the club).

This is almost direct from my Y-gallery account but I wanted it on here as well so that other's can see what's happening. IF you are 18 and can or already have a y-gal account please check it out.

]]> *SumiHatake 100 themes links http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20280475/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20280475/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:34:16 PDT

1. Introduction: Yamato x Iruka [link]

2. Love: Minato x Kushina / Minato x Kakashi (sort of) [link]

4. Dark: Yondaime x Kakashi [link]
24. Orly?/ Oh Really? Kakashi x Iruka [link]

5. Seeking Solace KakaIru MizuIru(past) [link]

6. Break Away: Minato x Kakashi (one sided) [link]

8. Innocence: Minato x Kakashi (shota) [link]

9. Drive: (version 2) Kakashi x Iruka [link]

10. Breathe Again: Genma x Hayate [link]

12. Insanity: Kakashi x Iruka [link]

14. Smile: Genma x Iruka [link]

18. Rainbow: Ibiki x Iruka [link]

19. Gray: Kakashi x Iruka [link]
30. Under the Rain: Kakshi x Iruka [link]
29. Happiness: Kakashi x Iruka [link]

23. Cat: Kakashi x Iruka [link] doujin version: [link]

24. No Time: Kakashi Iruka [link] (yes I know I have two 24s but I was working from 2 list and evidently they were identical... ooops)

25. Trouble Lurking: Genma x Iruka [link]

26. Tears: Iruka x Genma/Raidou [link]

28. Sorrow: Naruto, Kakashi, Iruka, Sai, Sakura, Sasuke, mention of Minato [link]
11. Memory Kakashi, Naruto, Minato [link]
38. Abandoned Minato, Kakashi [link]

33. Expectations: KakaIru, Pakkun [link]

35. Hold My Hand: Kakashi x Rin [link]
75. Mirror: Kakashi x Rin / Sasuke x Sakura [link]

40. Rated: GenIru [link]

42. Standing Still: Kakashi [link]

44. Two Roads: Kakashi x Iruka [link]

45. Illusion: KakashixIruka [link]
3. Light: KakashixIruka [link]
50. Breaking the Rules: KakashixIruka [link]

48. Childhood: Kakashi x Iruka [link]

49. Stripes: Tenten x Sakura ver 1: [link] ver 2: [link]

52. Deep in Thought: Hanabi, Hinata [link]

55. Waiting: KakaIru [link]

60. Rejection: Kakashi x Iruka [link]
31. Flowers: Kakashi x Iruka *SumiHatake Mission Iruka News, Con stuff, and Life http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20209927/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/20209927/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:59:55 PDT hate starting new journals for little shit so yeah.

I haven't forgotten about Fishstick I just got a tad distracted by my new tablet and people's birthday's and such.

This weekend has been crazy and I haven't written a whole lot. I'm really tired so I'll probably write this and go to bed.

First of all I got in wreck... Me(new driver) + rain + night = Me + Median which in turn = My poor car! *cries* I cracked the grille. Thankfully I knew I couldn't see so I was only going like 10 miles (16km) and didn't hit it hard or god help me go up over the very high 'UNPAINTED' median. God I was so mad! So yeah it's just superficial but Molly is my baby! I got out in the rain and had to look at her. It was horrible! Okay so it's not all that noticeable but but but my baby! And we can either report it to the insurance and have them pay the 200-300 bucks or have my brother order the part and put it on. He is a very very good Auto Body er person... tech... thingie.

My brother, his wife, and their daughter Taylor were in town this weekend. She is adorable! 15 months old and well behaved and sweet. She LOVES Ilyanna and tried to give her a kiss and Anna was all "kisses are gross" though Anna loves Taylor too. And they got to see their other cousin Keaton who is a BRAT and my older sisters kid. He wasn't terrible today but he drives me nuts. No surprise given my older sister and his father are who they are and his step mother is manipulative but frankly he's probably better behaved with her around than he would be otherwise.

So anyhow my bro came down for the Narcotics Anonymous Round Up which is a big weekend meeting for like them that's here in my home town. I've been going to this same round up off and on since I was 7. My brother is a recovering addict. So is my mom and my step dad. My sister is an active addict. I'm the only one of us older 3 that doesn't touch even cigarettes. Paranoia. I was in Alateen (for children of alcoholics/addicts) for like 10 years. So anyhow I went and hung out at the round up with him, listened to speakers, and what not. I ran into a lot of friends and despite the fact that I'm not an addict so some of them haven't seen me in YEARS everyone was happy to see me. And of course they know my mom and were cooing over my daughter and saying she looks like my mom. I dunno where anyone gets the idea that /I/ look like my mother but they also say that... *scratches her head* So yeah between that and work I had no time for anything really.

Today was surprisingly long. We got this German Shepard mix puppy in saturday that was absolutely covered in stickers. I'm not kidding when I say he didn't have a spot on him that wasn't covered by hundreds of stickers. We had to brush him out and shave part of his fur and then give him a bath. The poor baby. And well the vet was late so cleaning took a lot longer than it should have. And gah we have a Great Pyranese (Peer ra nees) in the shelter at the moment and she does NOT walk on a leash. I'm not sure which is harder, getting an unwilling Pyr to go outside and then back into the cage or doing the same with a St Bernard... they're about the same size the St Bernard might be a bit bigger but well the Pyrs are actually stronger. So well my ass is tired.

The new director is /starting/ to impress me. She really actually does take an active role in the running of the shelter and that is beginning to make me think she'll make it. She went out to try and catch her first dog today and lost the thing bug she came back all sweaty and looking amused if slightly frustrated. Good sign.

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Okay mass update!

MISSION IRUKA NEWS::::

Okay so you all have most assuredly notice the preview pics. JUST to clairify the final posted versions are not going to be colored. The colored thing is just me goofing around because I like to color stuff. The finished versions are also not the linearts. They will have shading and stuff. I've seen 3 finished pages and they are AWESOME!

The [link] preview for MI can be found on the KakaIru LJ community. No I'm not posting the links here. I'm lazy and I'm busy.

Lei-sam wants me to post them and she will post some preview style pics to draw people's attention to them from her page. Let me make this clear this is what SHE suggested. I am NOT trying to take credit for her amazing art. I consider Lei-sam to be just as important in this project as me. Yes it's my story, yes it's my idea, yes the work is commissioned. BUT she's put in a tremendous amount of work on this and honestly is doing so for a minimal amount of money. If I could I'd pay her more. So I'm hoping that it will be popular and she will get paid for her efforts when I print it.

If you have a panel you would really like to see colored plea... ]]> *SumiHatake Artist Showcase #5 http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19950472/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19950472/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:35:00 PDT [link]

Artist Showcase #2: [link]

and

Artist Showcase #3: [link]

Artist Showcase #4: [link]

and

I figured I'd do another one of these before I head off for [link] Anime Festival.

The Artist this time is.... *drum roll* HikariShiroki [link]

I chose her because she's doing [link] a test run for commissions so go make a request! She has beautiful art and I hope she quickly fills all of her spots. And somebody get a chibi Iruka and Kakashi please! *begs* I should have but but Ren from Skip Beat is just so damn sexy and there is so little fanart of him.

She has Oran High School Host Club art.
[thumb=211301 size=30%] Honestly I love this, it looks professional. It's very clean and fits well with the manga's style.

[link] This piece I like because of the shadows with the leaves. It gives it depth. I love when artist do this. And the light on the outstretched hand is a nice touch.

[link] This isn't her best piece but I liked the fact that it has a different coloring style to it. Besides it's Goku and Goku is adorable!

[link] I like this piece! The background is clever and well done. The glinting on the metal bits is a very nice touch too.

[link] She's done a tutorial which is both neat and appreciated so I wanted to show that off. It's a very straight forwards one. It's interesting to see the progression of a drawing.

Now of course for a little Naruto lovin! Especially since it contains my OTP. Go read her meme [link] it has an uber cute Iruka chibi and well cute and smexy Iruka and Kakashi. This is the first time I've mentioned a meme in a showcase but I love them and this one has the ever adorable KakaIru.

Although My absolute favorite, of everything she's done and the reason I started watching her... [link] She does the most adorable Akatsuki chibis! Her chibis are to die for! Girl you need to do some pins of these babies! (seriously!)

So yeah somebody GO GET A KAKAIRU chibi pic done please! gang up on her and give her some request! She is awesome!

And the featured writer this time is.... damn this is always soooo beyond hard for me... I hate picking a writer because there are so many I adore! Eh screw it

Athame wins.

First of all Athame is the most amazing beta I could have ever hoped for. Hence why she wins. She holds the trump card.

Her Naruto OTP is IbikiIruka and she writes them sooo well. I highly recommend [link] and [link] because her... ]]> *SumiHatake Artist Showcase #4 http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19716437/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19716437/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:38:19 PDT [link]

Artist Showcase #2: [link]

and

Artist Showcase #3: [link]

Took me awhile but here we go, the new Artist Showcase.

I've been debating who to use for the writer because I have so many I would love to do right now.

The ARTIST this time is... :Lenap: Lenap!

*evil laugher* I picked her because she's on vacation and will be back soon and bwahaha! It just sounded like fun.

Lenap is one of my favorite artist and has become a very good friend. I absolutely love the colors she uses and the lines are all so soft and pretty. She's one of the very few artist that can draw Iruka girlie and have me absolutely fall utterly and completely in love with the pic every time.

Favorite pic? Anything. Pick one at random and I love it! Although I will admit I have an extra fondness for the pieces she's drawn FOR me. I'm so spoiled! Seriously, very spoiled here.

She is one of the sweetest people I know. I love talking to her. It's funny though that she's sooo very sweet and then a total perv at the same time. You just don't expect cute, little, sweethearts like her to be so very dirty minded. But... she /is/!

Okay let's play evaluate her art... and I'll try not to just go "oh it's so pretty!" or get caught in the shiny effect and pass out from ferret shock! hehe

This is one of her first pictures of Iruka. Yes very girlie but I love the eyes and the hair. They just really stand out against the other colors. And the heart as a necklace was very clever.

I'm fond of this one because you get to see them in casual clothes and the shading on the wrinkles/folds is unque. Plus I like the background, I think it really brings the focus to the kiss.

[link] This one always makes me giggle. I love the way she drew Kakashi-chibi!

[link] I had to share this one, because this was the first one she did just for me. Plus it's a nice way to point out the difference in shading for the fabric. I like both shading styles but wanted to have something to demonstrate the difference. Oh and I like Iruka's arms in this. You can see a difference between this and her first one. He's starting to become a bit more manly although still with that softness that's uniquely hers.

[link] I chose to share this one since it's both a line art and a manga page which it's just neat to see the way she sees them because you get to see interaction and thoughts aside from cuddling which is neat!

This is a good example of how she does people in the background. I love this, you really feel like you're in the room with them because you have so many different layers of people AND yet at the same time Kakashi and Iruka are most definitely the center of attention here.

*SumiHatake Why I'm ignoring the world http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19396247/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19396247/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:15:47 PDT NEW:

I'm doing much better! Finally got Ch 4 of Fishstick out... sorry it took so long. I just couldn't get things to spin around the way I wanted them. Hopefully 5 won't take as long.

My daughter, Ilyanna (it's russian for virtue!), has been back for less than a week and now she's headed back to my mom's so she can go to the fair and then I'm going to pick her up after the con.

I'm feeling whiney atm because [url=[link] is coming up and more than Otakon I wanted to go this and can't. *whine whine whine* Okay why more than Otakon? BECAUSE! I'm a gamer! And besides I love their [url=[link] and their very cool [url=[link] And I'd managed to blank it out of my mind along with Otakon because I /can't/ go to either. But then it was mentioned and in the blog and I was playing catchup cuz I haven't read for a couple weeks and *sulk, whine, more sulking* now... I WANT TO GO! Grr! I feel like having a 3 year old temper tantrum. It's completely irrational and selfish and I should be more of an adult but damn it I want to go! I just bet somebody from my guild goes and then I'll be sulking even more. Grr.

Okay time to talk about happier stuff and distract myself from my own whining and pouting. I'll go next year. *sigh* Well anyways only a couple more weeks to the anime convention in Wichita where I'll get to hang out with my best friends Son and [icon=Natalanisha size=100%] and where I'll get to meet up with [icon=xhidaka size=100%] which will be awesome. She and I got tickets to dinner and signed up for the Halo 3 tourney. Which I'm going to totally suck at because I have never played Halo 3. What?! I prefer MMOs where I can kill whiney little 13 year olds and have them scream at me that my mama is a whore and I can laugh and tell them they just got owned by a girl and to take it like a man. PLUS MMO = get to use ventrillo and listen to the ever smexy Tecma. And besides I was pissed that they dragged it out for 3 freaking games and various other little things so I only bought the first 2. Which I haven't played since about a week or two after 2 came out since well the hubby and I beat it and then went back to playing the MMO we were playing at the time. I /should/ pick it up so I don't look like a /complete noob/ but I dun care and I'm not spending the money right now because frankly I'd rather spend it on smut at the convention.

And yes I'm dressing up. I'm going as Iruka (although not sure how well that will work with my chest... I should go as Tsunade but I won't. I'm going to have to dye my hair darker. Damn sunlight. I've got 3 colors in my hair right now. Dark brown (my winter coat), medium brown (spring fall) and blonde which is how my hair gets during the summer if I see enough sunlight But since I haven't cut it and stuff for awhile I have layers of colors. I don't do hair or nails or anything like that. I'm not girlie hardly at all.

And it's getting long so I need to chop it off. Both of which I'll do next week.

Still having fun with the 100 themes but well got distracted or focused depending on how you look at it and finished ch 4. Plus I joined the LJ YonKaka community and have been distracted talking to people there and read a couple fics of the people I talked to. One was IruKaka BUT it's leaning towards a deathfic and is extremely angsty and it has the ANBU Iruka which is so hard to actually pull off in a fashion that I like. Anything to uber and I'm like meh. This was believable but the angst is almost outweighing it. I dunno I feel like I'm wavering on this one. She also writes it very disjointed which adds an interesting effect and is intentional BUT makes it harder to fall into the story at times. She uses a lot of () which is for thinking but the way she breaks it up can make it hard to remember what the original intent of the sentence was. It's a writing style issue. Well written though, people will love it when she's done.

As far as real life goes. I went to a meeting Wednesday where they talked about business ethics and stuff like that. The morning was boring but the afternoon was well... I didn't fall asleep and managed to find some things funny like "Give 'em the pickle!" Which is about going that extra step. But well on break my boss, 2 of my coworkers, and myself were all talking about guys and such so all I could think of was well /give 'em the '

ickle'/ and then for some unknown reason 'tickle the pickle' popped in my head and I just started giggling all over again. And they gave us '

http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19308290/ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:26:45 PDT Artist Showcase #1: [link]
Artist Showcase #2: [link]

The Artist: Zenith-Kaitou of DA [link] <-isn't she ADORABLE! no that wasn't a question. Just nod and agree or I'll hit you. ^.~

Her style is generally composed of soft tones and subtle shading, [link] which I think really add to the way she draws. She's actually kind of a new artist by comparison to the other two artist that I've talked about. So, she doesn't have as vast a gallery as they do.

I watch her because the art she does have in her gallery is extremely cute and shows a lot of promise. I love seeing her do pieces and post them in the various stages of completion. Her first piece with the stages was just plain fascinating. And she did an awesome job with her first line art. I was and the way she did the design on the dress is one of the things that convinced me to watch her. [link] to [link] to [link]

My favorite pieces by her are actually the ones she's given me. I love seeing people try new styles, I just find it fascinating. The first one was a KakaIru [link] that she did for my birthday. It's so cute! And the color style she chose I think really fit with the lines. And the other [link] was a piece she did for the art trade I'm doing with her. I like the fact that it's a different style than the original version of the characters. Her willingness to experiment with peices is I think my favorite thing about her. I like to see artist and writer's challenge themselves and draw outside of the set manga style. It's part of why I chose the other two artist that I did.

The Writer is: DURGAS of well LJ [link] , Y-gallery [link] , and DA [link] (although she doesn't post her stuff really on DA.

I chose her because she was the one who kicked my butt and got me to actually start posting my stuff which I think is a damn good reason to choose her. Cuz I look up to her!

My absolute favorite piece will likely come as no surprise. [link] Favourable Bachelor! Why? because it funny as hell with cuteness and Kakashi and Iruka fighting and we know I can't resist seeing Kakashi get under Iruka's skin. I have read this one a LOT!

And one of my other favorites was a rather angsty piece called Loathing [link] . Which she did a sequel to (for me! cuz she loves me!) called Moving On [link] which is still angsty but not as much.

Although in truth it's very hard for me to pick a favorite because there honestly isn't a fic of hers that I've read and not enjoyed. She can do angst and fluff and the angst will often make you cry and want to kick whoever is being a dummy head and the fluff will make you laugh until your sides hurt and then go "AW!" Her stuff never fails to evoke an emotion out of me. Even though a lot of them are really short. I think it takes a lot to fit that much emotion into a short piece.

Seriously if you like my work you have her to blame, at least in part. I blame her a lot.

Next artist and writer to come... bwahaha not telling you'll just have to stay tuned oh and maybe kick me and remind me. Although I do have a couple people in mind already.

]]> *SumiHatake On Writers and Writing - long http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19277494/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19277494/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:26:34 PDT
Her response was somewhere along the lines of WTF!?! because after a certain point she got to where it was jumping around with massive errors and things in dire need of rewording and her head nearly exploded. hehe

I was like "Hmm yeah tried to tell you." *amused* "Usually my stories go through 4 or 5 variations before they even get read by Athame (the most awesome beta a girl could ask for!) or my pre-readers (who are also quite awesome)

But her surprise and "I hadn't realized..." Made me wonder if other artist/readers might not realize how much work goes into writing fics. I've also noticed a couple of writers who've started commissions and I applaud them. Although, I doubt that I would ever do commissions. I think people underestimate the time and hard work spent on writing. This is also in my opinion echoed in that in contest fics don't do as well. People don't want to spend the time to read a fic verses looking at a picture. I btw always read the fics before I vote on anything. I might not always respond though.

So why was it like that and why was she so dumbfounded?

Well like an artist writer's vary in skill and raw talent. Just as some artist can draw an absolutely fucking gorgeous piece of work in 30 minutes, although I'm sure that's an exageration of time, some writer's can toss off a beautifully written piece of work in 30 minutes. Then of course you have writers who spend hours and hours on a piece and well it's not as good as the one who spent 30 minutes. (This is excluding the lazy asses who spend 30 minutes and write something that makes you want to claw your brain out to undo the damage.) And then of course there are the writer's who spend hours and end up with excellent pieces.

For me, personally, it varies with each piece how much time it takes. I work in various medias for various stages. I think, I write (pen/paper), and I type... then type more.

My brain does not stop, ever. It's disturbing when you're kissing your husband and go "OMG that's it, that's how to describe x!" God help me if the hubby reads this, He'd flip me no end of shit. "You're thinking about your smut aren't you?" /sigh/ So, well anyways there is no off switch. There are thankfully different channels. I can distract my brain with conversation, reading, singing, watching Battlestar Galactica (as close to off as it gets since I'm a total fangirl Mmmm Starbuck!), or just plain concentratin on a task (although that doesn't work real well).

But in the end it comes down to the fact I will think about an idea for hours and hours, sometimes the same fucking scene over and over until it's burned into my brain! Even getting as specific in my head as particular phrases and I associate images to what I'm writing. For time reasons I'm grateful my art sucks or I'd never get anything done.

Then there's the notebooks, scraps of paper, and pens I keep al over the friggin place. And I'm not organized by any means. Seriously you should see my desk. It's so bad I had to dig through my little trash can to find a scrap that was missing. And I actually, oddly enough, have a fair idea of what I have written down. I don't use everything I write. Hell The Dance had scenes written down that I utterly discarded and there are a ton of scenes for Fishstick that may or may not be used.

I write down anything that really strikes me. Phrases, pages and pages of story, half assed reminders that read something like: K does x and I is pissed b/c... Hell I'm tempted to relearn shorthand so I can write faster! I can never write fast enough. Too many ideas and sometimes they hit me more than one at a time. I know there has to be stuff I thought of and forgot because I was too busy writing a different idea down. And they're not even always related to the same story. So this is the messiest part of my writing process. It's one big cluster fuck.

Then there's the typing. I might maybe start by typing up a scrap of paper, or I might just start typing, even if I had shit written down. I might type it exactly as it is on the paper but probably not. The first chapter of Fishstick is oddly almost word for word as it is on paper.

I try to get as much down as possible, type up the scenes I've got in my head, or things that occur to me while typing. This isn't always Ch 1, 2, 3, 4... or even okay a happens then b then c. Nope sorry I might go all the way to the end and then to the middle then the end then write the beginning or I might write it all in one fluid motion (shadows) because it's in my head that way or is a short piece and so just happ... ]]> *SumiHatake Anime Festival http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19242534/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19242534/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:42:32 PDT
I'm going to a con in Wichita and I will be gone from tomorrow morning VERY early until Tuesday. I have no idea if I will see a computer between now and then. I had HOPED to get Ch 5 done for Fishstick but given everything I just don't see that happening. I did get the Artist Showcase up here but not on DA. I may get that done before I go... I hope to.

So well anyways I will probably not get any writing done while I'm gone on my little vacation. I will try to write stuff in my journals but well eh... I'll be very busy. Fri-Sun is the con and spending time with my lovable but somewhat spazzy best friend Son. Nat and I adore our sister but she is a bit neurotic at times. Son in regards to this weekend "You're going to have time for me RIGHT?" Me "Uh yeah... let's see we're going to the con TOGETHER and we're having dinner and going shopping TOGETHER... I think maybe I'll see you." *amused twitch*

And then Monday and Tuesday I'm going to my mom's which is 3 hrs in the OTHER direction. Meaning I drive 3 hrs to wichita and then drive the 6 hrs to Sharon Springs, passing through the town where I live. My hubby isn't sure if he'll come with me or not to Sharon so we have to decide today yes or no on that. Reason being is he likes my grandfather but well the rest of my family drives him nuts. To say that my family is like a pack of wolves would be making the average pack of wolves seem organized and calm. I'm talking FERAL FAMILY! They all run around like chickens with their heads cut off and far too many damn things to do. Although I'm not sure if they'll be in sharon or syracus since well I think they're going to be moving there. My mom teaches there now and my little sister is going to school there... I dunno. I need to call and pin down the facts. Mostly I'm going to pick up my daughter who has spent most of the summer with them and to visit my grandfather who I don't get to see often enough. I adore my grandfather. I am the favorite grandchild of over 30 grandkids/great grandkids. With my kid sister Alexia being a close second. I think one of the things I'll look for while I'm in wichita is a good book on cd for him. Maybe some more Louis L'Amor.

So anyways I might maybe possibly but NOT LIKELY see a computer between friday morning and Tuesday night but don't count on it. So if you need to contact me... uh you can text my cell 6202537024@message.alltel.com but be warned the response my be short since I kind of suck at texting... Feel free to text me though.

So yeah going to a con:

I'm going to a con... YAY!

It's not as cool as going to A-kon would have been... not by a long shot but:
1) It's CHEAPER for me because it's closer to home (3 hrs away), my best friend (and god knows how many of my relatives - well half sisters relatives might well be my relatives) lives there so I'll get to see all of them and Son's mom is going to cook for us! *drools* I'm not kidding best Vietnamese food EVER!
2) I have to go there anyway because my best friend's birthday is at the end of the month so well she wanted us to come down and this seemed like an even better idea than going out for dinner at Red Lobster or PF Chang's. (I even bought the dinner ticket for the exclusive dinner.
3) XHidaka is going to try and come! So very very very cool!

[link] <- the con's site.

Hopefully I'll have new tires on my eclipse and we can drive that instead of

's car. Mine has CD player and a good ac. PLUS it's far far cuter!

So if anyone is going or wants to go maybe? let me know!

]]> *SumiHatake ALL DONE http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19132925/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19132925/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:01:02 PDT
No more spamming you I promise.

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Okay I'm going to be posting some of my poetry, so uhm dont' feel obligated to read it. I promised somebody I would post some of it. I'm going to try and pick a variety of stuff to post and some of it will be better than others.

All of it is at least 1 1/2 years old because I haven't written shit poetry wise in well the time I've worked at the animal shelter. Minus a couple pieces for a contest and well I kind of half assed those.

]]> *SumiHatake MI Doujin - I need suggestions! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19060662/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/19060662/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:04:21 PDT
As for the progress on it. I've seen a preview of the first 3 pages and OMFG they are so beyond awesome! She's got a couple more pages for me to preview but hasn't had a chance to finish any of the pages up due to a last minute school paper. Plus the cover needs done before she really starts posting them.

Ever have that wierd feeling when you reread something you've written or drawn that it couldn't have been you? I had to reread MI which I hadn't done since I wrote it and I seriously had the feeling. Oh and I noticed something else there is a line in MI that I sorta repeated in Goodnight Kisses. The one about why did Iruka kiss him... hehe This amused me. *shrugs*

Oh something else I'd love suggestions on is ideas for extras to inlcude. Something little but maybe several ideas since it will be broken up into 3 or 4 little booklets (the thing is gonna be kind of long).

]]> *SumiHatake Happy! http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18898783/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18898783/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:29:41 PDT
So yeah didn't write porn last night... but I do have 2 pieces of smut I'll be posting soon. One is KakaIruTENZOU! and the other is just KakaIru sorta AU university and has Iruka in a school girls outfit...

Instead of writing smut I was playing a game...

so well I got to play with Tecma last night. *happy* He finally moved over to the american server because the European servers for whatever reason doesn't really have a lot of people grouping up. Which sucks because we're all very group oriented blood thirsty meanie heads... So I had to play catch up and grab a couple levels because I've been spending most of my time writing smut instead of leveling... the porn compells me!

So anyways me and the hubby started leveling and then one of the new guys in our guild joined us and well we got jumped by a moron who was like 5+ levels higher than us... but well there are 3 of us and 1 of him and he got owned. And then he did it again and again... And a couple other's joined in but well they sucked too. They kept going for my character which is a Dark Templar and a warrior type as opposed to the assassin and ranger... rogues which should have been easier for them to kill if focused on. But you fix stupid. You can kill them though.

So anyways Tec gets his ass on (FINALLY!) and he says hi to me and says something flirty (I forget what though) and then goes "oh hi Sept..." hehe Sept being short for my husband's main character Septimus. Then we start running off and the hubby tells us to stop so he can share quest with us and I'm like "Oh yeah... sorry I was just followng Tecma." Scott was like "yeah... I know if I can get Tecma to stand still Akari (me) will stop moving too." hehe

Then later I was making fun of Tecma for wearing a skirt. He HATES that all of the leg armor the characters are SKIRTS! unless it's cloth and he can't wear cloth because he's a ranger. So we were laughing about how you could see his ass cheeks and even more so on mine. Of course. I like them though I even chose it over a longer skirt hehe and told him this and so Scott pipes up that he had to force me back into my shirt earlier because I was walking around topless in town... what their boobs jiggle it's neat! So Tecma comes over to me and tells me to take my shirt off. But I was talking to an NPC about a quest so I told him he had to wait hehe so he ran off to turn in a quest so I went to hunt him down and he goes "I'm not talking to you cuz you wouldn't take your shirt off..." Me "Men! No patience..." hehe

Then later while we were waiting for a respawn Tecma was dancing (he picked his race because when he dances it's a russian dance. Then everything respawned and he couldn't figure out how to get out of dance mode so we were laughing at him.

Ah so much fun! Oh and lots of slaughtering because we got distracted from killing mobs to go chase around some people who were 10 levels higher than us. And yes we were doing really well against them until they began to out number us.

And again later chasing around a necro and repeatedly killing his ass beacuse he was a shithead another higher level thinking "oooh I'll kill the newbies" - dumbass. You'd think he'd realize "oh they're all in the same guild maybe they've played together before... maybe I shouldn't fuck with them because they just might know how to work together and they might just kick my ass... but hey it was fun and gave us a reason to kill his ass.

older edit:
I remember why I like ventrillo so much. TECMA! Okay yeah means a whole freaking lot I'm sure. Okay I play MMOs, my favorite was Shadowbane (it's pretty much dead now days) but you can seige and stuff and it's very group oriented so the best way to coordinate everyone is with a voice over internet chat service like Ventrillo or Teamspeak. Until well a few years ago I didn't like to be in Vent or TS because well I don't know... lack of wanting to listen to dumbasses I guess. I'd been in a lot of bad guilds and then I joined Ministry of Chaos and still had the lack of interest due to limited but bad experiences with TS.

So what convinced me that Ventrillo is the most wonderful thing... A hot sexy croatian accent! I heard Tecma's voice and was like OMFG I /need/ a headset. And then there was Korg who also has a sexy russian accent. Tecma's however owns all. I love his voice! And he's funny and sweet and a badass.

So anyways my hubby is picking on me because Tecma got on vent and he told me and I went all fangirl. I told him to turn down the slaughter so I could hear Tecma. So of course he had to tell everyone in Vent... bastard. *turns 20 shades of red*

Okay so if you haven't guessed I have a thing for accents and not just russian and croatian accents. Although Croatian is l... ]]> *SumiHatake My Writing - How I started and where I'm going http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18882277/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18882277/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:27:09 PDT
Somebody asked me about my writing. And I've gotten the question several times.

Well I actually get two slightly different questions.

The first: Where do you get your ideas?

I can't answer where I get my ideas. I just kind of do... I don't know where I get my ideas... they just they attack me and tie me up and threaten me with sharpened sticks. They spawn like rabid little bunnies. I am never I repeat never suffering from writer's block. I might obsess over phrasing and details but I always have something I want to write that's drawing my attention. This is actually the problem somtimes because I become overwhelmed with too many ideas and it makes it hard to focus on one story.

I suppose I could say life, art, music etc inspire me but the truth is everything inspires me. I am rather oblivious in my everyday because of this. There is always and I do mean /always/ something going on in my head. My husband says I'd be terrible at zen. My husband is actually rather good at meditation and can clear his mind... I can't. Even if I do the follow the road to it's end... well it never ends because it just twist and twist and twist. It's just the way I work. And yes I'm a bit of a spaz because of it. Sorry.

The second: How did you become such a good writer?

I don't really see myself that way. Even though I love to write and I love what I write and I love my little plot bunnies I don't see them as anything remarkable. Really. I look at my stories and I see that they've been done before. I see mistakes and things that just well that I'm just not happy with. Ask my beta or Demo... I'm seriously self conscious about my chapters and I panic and say I hate it and shove it at them and ask them to tell me what's wrong with it. And sometimes after I finish a chapter I love it and others I still dunno if I'm happy with it. Oddly very often even if I think the chapter is lacking other people really really like it and then I'm pretty sure I'm just worrying over nothing.

Don't get me wrong I don't think my writing sucks and I can definitely see improvement even just in the short time I've written fanfiction. It's just that I just don't see myself as being all that good.

That said I think I owe the writing skills I have to several things. Lots of English classes, a really good creative writing teacher, lots of practice, and being unpopular and so lots of time spent reading. I read in class, at home, you name it. I used to walk between classes with a book in hand and have actually walked into a wall that was beside me and not in front of me because I wasn't paying attention.

My grammar still sucks IMO. I need to take about a million more English credits. Thankfully I have an awesome beta to help make up for my suck as grammar skills.

WELL those questions also got me to thinking about my writing in the light of when I started and all that.

How I started

My mother swears I've been telling stories since I was like 3. I used to tell her about my nonexistant teachers.

I remember telling stories with my brother and a little with my older sister (she was less fun). We told all kinds of stories with dolls and little toys and yeah barbies although I didn't like barbies as much. My brother and I would go in the backyard and build mountains of mud and pretend they were caves or piramids and we had a whole river set up and at the end of it a dragon lived and would eat people. And then he and I would go tell stories our little sister Niki about the valley of the unicorns and my brother would draw pictures of it. I'm not sure if it was derived from an already existing story though or I'd make it into a children's book. I have a very vivid imagination so it can be kind of hard for me to tell if the memories of telling those stories were just stuff I made up or something I saw (and sorta my version of fanfiction). I have several children's stories that I've come up with over the years from having little sisters and well babysitting a lot.

Then I won a prize in 5th grade for a story I wrote on the enviornment. It was super cheesy/cute. I kind of wish I still had a copy of it. But that I think was the thing that made me aware that I was at least somewhat talented.

It was in 8th grade that I started writing my first 'novel' of sorts although I never finished it. It was about Tigeans (humanoid tigers) and it was post apoctolyptic and a space opera. I was very absorbed in that even during high school. Originally there was just my character Kiara Bai Hu (last name is chinese for Whitestripes because she's the reverse of a white tiger) and only a vague idea and then I met Iris and so I of course had to have a character for her Tigris was her original name and then we changed it to Tylean. And I added in various people... ]]> *SumiHatake Commission Me... Help Demona http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18764319/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18764319/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:21:20 PDT 1. Writing commissions added.
2. If you commission me to color something you can post it in your gallery. After all that's half the point of this. To help artist better display their work.
3. I will not color a sketch by an artist other than the commissioner without the express permission of the artist.
4. All proceeds to go directly to Demona. She /really/ needs help.

Lenap is still doing commissions [link] on Demona's behalf. She is AMAZING! Go get one while you still can.

I am still doing commissions to color sketches, linearts on Demona's behalf. I'm adding that I will do linearts as well but the price will vary depending on the difficulty so between $5-$10 but keep in mind not every sketch needs a lineart. In fact some look better without one. I will have 5 slots for coloring commissions.

And I'm adding 500 word drabbles for $5 bucks to the mix. Yeah you can get me to write a pairing for you, even ones I haven't written. I still withhold the write to turn a particular pairing down, although likely this will only happen if I utterly cannot write the character.

I'm not doing smut because 500 word smut is harder than 1500 word smut if it's going to be any good. They can be specific or just heck a theme or even no theme. You can give me random words if you like. You can ask about chaining drabbles for a somewhat longer piece although this is again a case by case basis and will depend on whether I feel I can do it. There will only be 3 500 word slots.

AND I will warn you I am hesitant to write outside of Naruto since the only other fandom I've written for is HP. It's not that I will necessarily say no there is just a higher probability.

Original drabbles are also questionable since I need a lot of info to get into character.

Examples:

Detailed color and shading of lineart: ($8 - takes significantly longer)

http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18726103/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:16:03 PDT [link] And so of course I had to show the hubby and mention that it was on their news links. So Hubby pipes up "And now after all that boring election stuff, Kitties! *video plays* And now back to more boring stuff where Hilary acts like an idiot and then Puppies! But not as many puppies cuz I don't like puppies as much as I like kitties.." then he gives me a look "Sweetie when did you start writing their news programing?"

]]> *SumiHatake It's Official http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18686601/ http://SumiHatake.deviantart.com/journal/18686601/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:52:36 PDT
It's going to cost me $150 or at least that's our best guess. Yeah not expensive considering the length BUT keep in mind any printed and sold she gets half the profits (profits meaning after the cost of paper and toner and 10% we agreed goes to whoever puts in the work of printing since it will be done by hand) until I recover the cost of the commission. Should that (unlikely as it may be) happen she gets anything after that. My suggestion, not hers. Why would I do that when frankly I probably could have gotten her to agree to a flat 50% even after I recover my cost. Because my only interests in selling them is a)recovering my cost because I'm not rich and b)making them available to my readers. So *shrugs* if by some chance it does happen that I recover my cost I'm more than happy to see her receiving the rest of the profits. And frankly anything I make (the 10%) from printing them will likely go towards commissioning something else.

BUT I chose not to commission The Dance as a doujin from her because I feel the explicit stuff is important to the story so when (hopefully) I do commission that as a doujin I want it to be done by somebody comfortable with drawing smut. I've talked to one person about the possibility. I had one other person in mind and will likely talk to her as well but it depends on certain factors. The cost for one. Their availability. The first person I talked to just took on a long term commission commitment so that may be a factor in my final decission. And the other well there are reasons she may not want to do the piece and I don't want to pull her from those reasons since those reasons... well I like those reasons.

If it turns out neither will be available to do the commission I'll consider other possibilities, which I'm sure are out there but not sure what they are.

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