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VENTURE: Ah, the glory of the future! Where the people are wealthy and the cities are shiny. And a groundbreaking experiment is on its way to celebrating its fortieth anniversary: the only city with its own orbital pattern, the greatest of the great corporate investments, a dazzling beacon of technology and culture...the Joint Business Venture. But things are not right in Venture, and they are on the brink of a Revolution. Everybody so far: Lula Rochester, reasonably pleasant sheriff; JT Taylor, gender-befuddling mechanic; Stan O'Shea, perpetually miserable and deeply alcoholic theoretical pianist; Leon Molina, surprisingly normal revolutionary leader; Heloise Magillicuddy, neutral bar-and-gun-shop owner; Oscar Kwon, tool of the establishment and TV journalist; Yolanda, anatomically-inaccurate robot designed for strictly platonic but greatly empathic friendship; and Horace and Walter, Earth filmmakers and generally perplexing. That's a lot of everybody. Damn.

TEPOZ CANYON is not a comic, but I seem to have taken up sketching the characters (and, on occasion, setting) regardless. It contains a guy named Owen Holson (anthropologist not prone to saying much), a guy named Gary Margi (archaeologist prone to saying quite a bit), a lady possibly named Hope (possibly an etymologist of no uncertain skill), a guy named David Reikler (field doctor with medical Issues), and a lady whose name is not entirely known to me. I often feel loath to discuss it, as it is something which would be rather more difficult to create than a comic, so that's all the info you're getting. I would not mention it at all, were it not for the fact that I feel that--much like Venture--it may actually be Good. Hell, that's the only reason I mention my stuff at all; I may be self-conscious about it, but I often suspect that it is rather better than the sort of thing most teenagers come up with.

And there you go.

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TELLER, CORBIN, AND BLACK (TCB)--a set of supernaturalish comedies focused around the lives of six people: Avis (lady of sunglasses, style, and purple) and Catherine Teller (brown-haired cheerful girl of orange T-shirt), Cyrus Corbin (blond inventor of sorts), Esmerelda Black (brown-hair, green clothes, very tall), Jack whose last name I have not figured out yet (vaguely Hispanic magician), and Ronok who might be called something else later (sunglassed short guy with red jacket), I don't know. Avis and Catherine are twins. Cyrus and Esmerelda are also twins. (Probably. The last name thing takes a bit of explaining.) Avis and Jack are sort of together. Esmerelda and Ronok are sort of together. Cyrus and Catherine are almost definitely together, but they're very subtle about it. To date, I have only drawn two "other" characters: Elil and Christopher Marley. They're not very important.

FEVER DREAMS--an excessively strange supernatural mystery. The cast thus far: Allison (red-haired dreamer), Greg (brown-haired boyfriend and general nice sort), Bobby who might possibly be called Jimmy (blond-haired dream figure you don't know yet). Allison is in a coma. Probably. There's a storm going on, and Greg can't get her to the hospital for reasons which I have not disclosed but are pretty interesting. You shouldn't know Bobby yet. I'm sure once I figure out what exactly is happening here, it will become extremely interesting.

SHATTERED--a hideously depressing tragedy. Featuring: Peter (blond-haired, middle-aged man), Jessie (shy, curly-haired girl), John (charming, attractive brother of Jessie), Chastity (high-on-life assassin), Prudence (other assassin, not so much high-on-life, fond of Victorian dress), and Susannah (quiet, blonde daughter of Peter). So far you shouldn't know Jessie or Susannah.

the tentatively titled JOIE DE VIVRE--a ridiculously sweet and silly romantic comedy. Characters: Beth and Gary Forrester (blissfully happy married couple). He's a writer, she's a painter. Hilarity completely fails to ensue, but it's very sweet and silly nonetheless.

A THOUSAND SUNS--a strange romantic drama. Names to remember: Torrin (vaguely amiable black-haired bodyguard), Nora (braided, remarkably calm writer of fascinating essays on feminism, politics, and the education system), Domina Mahara (insanely popular and brilliant revolutionary preacher/politician). Torrin is one of Mahara's bodyguards. Nora has been in Mahara's group of friends and supporters for years. It's pretty much inevitable, then, that they fall in the kind of love that almost always ends in tears. They don't seem to care, though. Allegedly science fiction. (I mean, what kind of science fiction stays on one planet and never meets any alien races and doesn't have any insanely advanced technology? This kind, I guess.) You don't know Mahara yet.

That....would be it. I'm sure there will be others, eventually.

Dear Lord, I hope not. This is too many as it is. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/5348921/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/5348921/ Fri, 13 May 2005 15:34:24 PDT
I'm happy. I'm pretty sure that's good. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/4846621/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/4846621/ Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:26:31 PST
Happy. And wonderin' whether my friends would like it, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. 'cause it's all rated R. For stuff. For everything, really.

But the movie is coming out in two weeks and I can think of very few reasons why it would not be excellence. So.

Raise yer hand if you would not be so bothered by the most violence, sex, 'n' swearin' possible while still maintainin' crazy-good storytellin'. Zak? I am looking at YOU, because we couldn't get in otherwise, what with the rating and all.

Spring break. Probably. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/4629215/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/4629215/ Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:40:11 PST
Music: plentiful. In theory. I'm not entirely sure where my brother takes my CDs.

I quite like Lost. The dog's the key to the whole thing, I tell you.

Things are going pretty well. They usually do. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3768420/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3768420/ Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:52:04 PST
Daniel Smith is a big art store in downtown Seattle, and apparently my mom gets their catalogue so she suggested we go there and get some art supplies....

MAN! DANIEL SMITH IS AWESOME!

I've got pose mannequins now. Real ones, with joints and everything! They actually move! They've got FACES, even! FACES!

An' I've got a new mechanical pencil and erasers--the erasers! They erase with blinding efficiency!

There were a whole bunch of things I didn't need (for things like watercolor and printing and oil painting), but they looked so cooooooooooool...... ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3728201/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3728201/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:23:08 PST
Things are looking up. Inspiration particles are attacking my brain, I think--story ideas for TCB keep popping up...."Bad Moon Rising" is giving me much thought, yeeeees. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3174649/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3174649/ Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:24:02 PDT ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3085779/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/3085779/ Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:02:10 PDT
Y'see, I'm planning to improve my artwork to the point where it looks somewhat professional eventually, and one way to do that is to draw repeatedly, and I know I want to start a webcomic eventually, so...

These're my characters! I need to be able to draw them, and practice always helps. So the past two drawings (Avis and Esmerelda) are two of my characters, and there's about four more--plus critters 'n' things....

And the title of this eventual webcomic, is, as indicated by the journal's title, "Teller, Corbin, and Black". No, you don't get to know any more about it. It's a seeeecret. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2757650/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2757650/ Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:02:11 PDT ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2700496/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2700496/ Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:09:29 PDT ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2653372/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2653372/ Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:32:03 PDT ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2145265/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2145265/ Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:06:44 PST
What was it that reviewer said? "A bit Ghostbusters, a bit Men in Black, a bit Batman, a bit X-Men, a bit Indiana Jones--you wouldn't think they'd fit together, but it works."

I counted one Princess Bride reference, two direct references to the comic, and at least one reference to Guillermo del Toro's previous work. My brother thought there weren't enough Nazis. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2117696/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/2117696/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:51:12 PST
The play's over (and it was a very good play, oh yes; I was accosted many times as I tried to leave..), so I suddenly have free time. Actually the play's been over for almost a month now, so that's not really an excuse, but...hey! Free time!

Photos will be coming soon. Photos of...my house, my amazingly beautiful neighborhood, maybe my friends, after a while. And probably I will get a devID and put up a screenshot of my desktop and maybe I will also actually get a scanner, since I unbelievably have some art to be scanned, and it ain't entirely hideous either.

New obsession: Hellboy. Mmmm, fish... ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1430075/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1430075/ Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:02:33 PST ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1428903/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1428903/ Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:44:58 PST
In a moment of sheer stupidity, I have to write a several-page essay comparing the movie and novel versions of The Fellowship of the Ring. The essay must include a review for each and a description of the setting and characters. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. I can wax poetic on LotR. And that's exactly why I'm so worried.

The paper is due tomorrow. I have written maybe a page of it, and I still haven't gotten to the character descriptions. I found out yesterday that writing this paper is physically draining. If I do the rest in one night (and I have to) I'll be essentially braindead. Good Lord, I'm an idiot. *bangs head on desk* ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1416283/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1416283/ Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:08:59 PST

For reasons which elude me, I started playing Baldur's Gate today. Boo rocks my socks.

The aforementioned "project due on Monday" has been turned in and hopefully looks as though it will get a passing grade.

I auditioned for the school play. Damn, I'm stupid. Sure, it's a life-enriching experience, and I love acting, and it's a musical so I get to sing, and I had a great time with it last year, but it reduces free time considerably If, by the unlikely chance that you have either seen the play or movie of "The Music Man", could you tell me what it's like? I tried out for Marion.... ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1397272/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1397272/ Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:05:50 PST
Master & Commander comes out tomorrow! Happy yayness of eternal joy! Why am I so excited about it? Well....three reasons, really.

One. Billy Boyd's in it. I have much love for the Pippin, yes I do.

Two. My mom's nuts over the books, and has graciously volunteered to get tickets for me and her to see it on opening night. I need to see at least one movie on opening night in my life, dammit!

Three. There's a surprisingly good chance that this movie will be nominated for Best Picture this year. There is also a good chance that it will WIN, beating out Return of the King. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will....so I may as well see Master & Commander before deciding to hate it forever based on it beating the favorite for an award.

On an entirely unrelated note, green onion pancakes are delicious. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1393136/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1393136/ Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:47:25 PST
Today I feel like pimpin', so here it goes. [link] is one of the best freakin' webcomics out there. Worship the Comic. Is It Not Nifty? Worship the Comic. Everything from bunnies with switchblades to freelance bums to xenomorphs to "Just Plain Weird". You WILL worship the comic. It is the embodiment of niftiness. Except perhaps for mesh-bath sponges. Those things are pretty damn nifty.

Currently Sluggy is undergoing a week of filler strips; so what you see on the main page isn't quite the same as what the rest of the archives are like. The humor is similar, though. ]]> ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1385878/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1385878/ Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:22:37 PST ~TaliaKarn http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1383090/ http://TaliaKarn.deviantart.com/journal/1383090/ Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:32:37 PST ~TaliaKarn