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A very slow and dreary fall makes for few updates to this account.
Hopefully it'll change if we get a bit of snow to brighten things up.
Until then, check out my recent favorites, cause they're awesome. ^^

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/27223232/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/27223232/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:59:42 PDT And I had to take her back, naturally, only to discover when I got there that it wasn't Gertie anymore...cause this one had a white marking on her hind leg.
So, I took her home and made her my dog, whee!

Then I suddenly had another doxie too, that looked a lot like Willy, the same spastic coloring, but darker. And then as I was telling my mom how I suspected not-Gertie was going to have not-Willy's puppies my alarm woke me up.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/27205382/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/27205382/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:29:22 PDT ...I'm thinking I should upload some of my RP account art to here too.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/27044855/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/27044855/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:57:14 PDT
After almost seeing all of season 3 of Doctor Who...The end half of it is the best and "Blink" is prob'ly the best episode (thus far) where the Doctor doesn't appear much.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/26930776/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/26930776/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:08:33 PDT
Wheee...

At least it gives me trippy dreams.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/26562918/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/26562918/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:18:16 PDT
Managed to get my Seattle trip sketchies uploaded though, some went in scraps though.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/25015525/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/25015525/ Fri, 29 May 2009 13:31:26 PDT
...But of course I have "I like dirt" so firmly entrenched in my head now that all I can get out are the lyrics to that song.




I like dirt.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/24979651/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/24979651/ Wed, 27 May 2009 13:24:28 PDT It imported everything useful, bookmarks and so forth from IE.
...Yeah, I'm never using IE again.
(So, go ahead and force-install IE8 on my ass now, Windows. I don't care. )

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/24523920/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/24523920/ Fri, 01 May 2009 01:25:49 PDT
Maybe something red...like raspberry/strawberry/cherry swirls and I think swirls of dark chocolate fudge with just enough chili mixed in to give it a little bite...
Or they could base it off a song, a flavor called Dream of Californication that's a citrusy sorbet thing (Cali and citrus seem to go well together.)

Or I'm crazy and completely off, I dunno. ...Or you can feed my delusion and add your own input.

(They do have a competition here that asks that you make your own B&J's ice cream flavor...)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/24438243/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/24438243/ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:10:29 PDT Really don't have much to add about where I am artistically.
Don't draw as much these days, not much that's good anyway.

My latest and greatest feat is probably catching my cat before she threw up a hairball, tossing her into the tub. Go me!

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/23927194/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/23927194/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:02:43 PDT Instead of being a nuisance to my friends, spewing stuff to them, I grab my oil pastels and paper/canvas and...just go nuts. Channel everything out onto paper.

Heck, maybe this way I can accomplish #15 on my bucket list in the process ("Creating a masterpiece").

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/23794084/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/23794084/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:54:48 PDT
Does it make me a book geek that owning all three Brönte sisters makes me giddy? Poor Anne, so forgotten by many.

Had an idea for a poetry-ish snippet of writing at work, let's see if I have time to get it out on paper/type it up.

I should upload some art here, but I'm not sure if I have anything worthy. Maybe this one colored thing I did recently.

Oh, and I have Red Hot Chili Peppers on the brain.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/23794052/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/23794052/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:51:15 PDT
Does it make me a book geek that owning all three Brönte sisters makes me giddy? Poor Anne, so forgotten by many.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/22801313/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/22801313/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:12:05 PST Still, it's writing practice. Maybe it'll enable me to participate in the 2k9 edition of NaNoWriMo (hahah, nearly 9 months to go).

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/22320814/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/22320814/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:09:13 PST So far it hasn't been too bad, but then, it's only about 9 hours old.
The least I can hope for is that I can keep on drawing and that I'll never lose my muse.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/22178968/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/22178968/ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:10:11 PST Right now I'm stuck over at my parents and I'm already bored stupid. Rargh.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/21056652/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/21056652/ Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:19:32 PDT Without producing much new art lately it actually seems to be getting closer to that magical number.
Figured I'd leave advance notice that, I will be drawing a kiriban request art for 30,000 just like I did for the other two four digit ones.
If two people manage to prove that they spotted 30,000 on my page I'll go with first come first serve for art requests.

And oh, yes.
My old computer died recently and thus far nothing has been salvaged off my busted hard drive. I am a sad puppy.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/20717114/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/20717114/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:06:19 PDT Whee, potential hacker! I think.

Maybe sometime I'll produce some new art.
Not too soon though, considering last time I tried to draw I became so frustrated with my own incompetence that I threw my sketchbook into my chest of drawers.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/20055715/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/20055715/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:25:50 PDT It contains the infamous Zoruru chapter and I was able to get a good look at all the helper hiragana and thus get a better idea of what's going on.
I think I might have been a tad off in my previous interpretation. I don't think chibi Zoruru ever addresses Zeroro, he just watches as the new, lonely kid gets quickly snatched up in a new circle of friends while he's still off all alone.
I can seriously sympathize with that.
And the whole kicking Dororo's ass thing?
Well, since Dororo is the number one assassin, what better way to make sure everyone knows your name than to defeat him?
So, it's unclear exactly how personal it is that it's Dororo's ass Zoruru wants to kick. Would he be just as crazy if it were some other Keronian who was the best assassin?
I think there is kind of a personal component baked in cause, well, after Zoruru manages to knock out Dororo Keroro steps up to his defence making Zoruru question if he really did win.
Isn't Dororo the winner simply because he has someone that cares enough to stand by him as a friend?
This is something Zoruru seems to obviously lack (so much for theories of camraderie within the Garuru platoon?) and as he ponders that he's "not quite there" I go all nuts speculating that Zoruru's learned a big-big lesson here.
That there's more to recognition, real and true recognition than just going around kicking ass.
Hahah, maybe he's going to try and be pals with Dororo next. *gigglesnorts*
(Nothing like some good old fashioned sparring to create bonds between guys.)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/19572438/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/19572438/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:18:30 PDT
I find random amusements for when I am home, holed up inside my apartment cause it's too warm outside.

One is this:
Ponystars
You raise and breed pretty ponies (That link helps you sign up to it *wags eyebrows*).

And yeah, I jumped on that dragon egg bandwagon:
[link]
(Please click the eggs and hatchlings.)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/19104156/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/19104156/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:31:40 PDT
This year I'm working all the way through July until the middle of August.
It's kind of the best time of the year to be a postal worker here, cause when you get back from your route you can just go home.
So, if you're lucky, like this past Friday, you find yourself home an hour and a half earlier than normal. Pretty sweet if you just want to relax with a book out on the balcony.

What's less sweet is a bus strike that will kick off on July 1st, meaning I have to take the roundabout way and use the subway to get to work.
Wheee!

Really rocking my new way of coloring things, without inking. I wonder what I should do with all the inking pens I'm not using now...
(Make silly doodles that might end up looking like crap?)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18661235/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18661235/ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:58:25 PDT I feel better now. Every little bit of support has helped a lot.
Thank you.

And I even managed to doodle something today, whee!

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18605766/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18605766/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:43:58 PDT Yet, part of me also thinks that I don't deserve kindness and friendship.
Hooray for having baggage.

If I could still produce art I'd try to sketch something fluffy to cheer myself up. Now I have to settle for keeping my mind occupied with menial tasks like caring for my guinea pigs or tending to my small balcony garden.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18376404/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18376404/ Sun, 18 May 2008 03:05:12 PDT There are some exceptions where I do like how the inked-colored stuff came out, but mostly I feel something about the art dies after I've applied my inking pen to it.

But then there's no way of avoiding my other problem, the one I have with pencil art...That I tend to smudge it and cleaning it up is kind of tricky.

Ah, well.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18194292/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18194292/ Tue, 06 May 2008 10:19:11 PDT W00t!
Soon I can add that to the wiki page. *cackles*

I think I've reached that point where I draw less, but better stuff.
At least I hope it's better.
Aheheh.
I've thought of purging my gallery of anything older than a year simply because...I'm somewhat embarrassed about it.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18110701/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/18110701/ Thu, 01 May 2008 00:29:14 PDT The reason there hasn't been much new art here is that I'm slowly trying to restrict myself to only uploading finished (aka inked and colored) art here.
Lately I've mostly done sketches. ;^^

Once again I wonder if I should take up requests (this is not a cue for you to bombard me with requests, kthnx)...

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/17575178/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/17575178/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:46:49 PDT
The first one to respond to this gets to request a sketch to celebrate me reaching 20,000 views.
(And just a sketch, nothing fancy.)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/17567054/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/17567054/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:11:21 PDT 55 to go until 20k.
Not sure if I'll bother with doing a kiriban thing for people that spot the big number in question, as there appears to be something screwy with deviantart that allows more than person to get that. Which isn't right at all. (Maybe I could just make it so that the first person to comment on my next journal entry...aka the one where I outright say: "Hey, over 20,000 now" gets a sketch request.)

Should still draw something to celebrate though.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/17296197/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/17296197/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:25 PDT He wrote a chapter where Zoruru finally gets a proper appearance.
And oh, boy, the epic win included in it.

Without giving the whole thing away (yes, there is Zoruru-Dororo fighting)...
We get to see chibi Zoruru. And I now apologize to anyone I ranted to about giving him red on black eyes as a kid, cause apparently he did have them.
(Freakish reverse albino? He did seem like a bit of an outcast cause of it.)
And the whole conflict seems to have been born from Zeroro (an exchange student!) ignoring Zoruru who was trying to approach or maybe even make friends, in favor of Keroro (who, I admit, always was and is an attention hog).
All Zoruru wants is for Zeroro, or rather Dororo to just know his name, forever imprint it in his mind. Kicking his ass seemed like the best way to do that.
It's nice to have canon support for my love of Zoruru.

No, we still don't know when or how Zoruru became half-cyborg, but you have to leave some things for later.

Expect Zoruru art/doodles in the near future.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16702624/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16702624/ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:50:54 PST Last seen on Tuesday of this week.

Appearance:
A little scruffy thing with a mischievous look in its eyes.

Handsome reward to the one who can return it to me.
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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16636060/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16636060/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:21:03 PST
Without getting into detail, can the bad things just stop, ktnx?

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16486657/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16486657/ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:27:52 PST
Maybe I should try drawing a character that I actually created myself.

And I wish we could get some snow already, November ended two months ago. Why are we still plagued by that kind of grey and dreary weather?

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16381168/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16381168/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:30:00 PST I'm talking about all the fuzzy, hairy weird ones where you can't even tell they're supposed to be frogs anymore!
You know what a frog is, people? Hairless, slimey amphibians? Do not at all have ears or long tails or boobs (not being mammals) or whatever.
It's fine if you intend your character to be part-demon or something, but please say so in your description.

And while I'm at it, a Keronian's name normally consists of two syllables with the last syllable repeated.
DoroRO, KeroRO, GiroRO, ShuraRA and so on.
Don't name them FuzzySnuggleKins or Komami or Emily or something like that, unless again...There is a special reason for it (*points at Keronian Ahab and Queequeg, where the best she could come up with is the cumbersome Queequeue...*)

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16068770/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/16068770/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:47:48 PST
And let's hope Giroro's dad comes to your house to deliver presents to you! XD
(I want him to deliver my present, dangit.)

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15747408/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15747408/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:04:19 PST
They were part of a special assassin squad, where they had to fight eachother constantly to, I assume, shut off their emotions and turn them into cold killing machines.
(How did the sensitive, weepy Zeroro end up there one wonders...)
And Zeroro was constantly made to fight Zoruru.
Whom he actually does remember. Complete with flashbacks and all.
He just doesn't remember his name.

Wait, so why didn't he recognize him back when the Garuru platoon invaded? And now Zeroro apparently fought with a sword in the past.
I'm confused now.

And what is it that made Zoruru so pissed at him? It is not the cyborg thing as he's shown as a cyborg already in the flashbacks.

In other news, some asshole broke into my basement storage and stole my old music keyboard and almost all of my Christmas ornaments. I feel great today! *sarcasm*

(Fun fact, which might amuse : I keep typoing "Zeroro" as "Zeruru".)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15690617/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15690617/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:44:52 PST My art muse seems to have gone into extended hibernation though, I've never felt so...uncreative before. No inspiration, none, zip, nada.

Oh, and people, don't skip meals.
I've survived the day somehow on a couple of sandwiches, a fruit or two and sweet stuff to keep my blood sugar up and now I feel all light-headed and woozy (though that I haven't slept well for two night straight might have something to do with that).
I'm going to have some microwave pizza if I can just remember how to put food in my mouth.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15678443/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15678443/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:06:57 PST
Summing it up in as few words as possible:
I hate my job, yet I see no way to escape from it lest I end up as an unemployed bum on the street with no home.
That and nothing fun to look forward to for the next couple of weeks doesn't make for happy time.

On numerous occasions today I've felt like just up and deleting all my art/fic off the face of te Intarwebs for I feel like...Like I'm never good enough.
I see all these people, younger than me, producing much lovelier art than I could hope for at that age, using CGI and other fancy programs that I just can't wrap my head around. And believe me, I've tried.
Okay, yes, I get some comments on my stuff, so it's not shite. But it's...not awesome, like some people's art either.
I started up a Christmas Art Contest on the forum, but now I feel like I might as well not even try drawing something for it myself, cause so many people much more talented than I will be doing art for it.
I can barely even look at my art today for I keep seeing flaws in it, eyes that are off center, bad posing and so on.

God, why do I even bother?

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15562335/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15562335/ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:27:35 PST I have decided to acknowledge this by drawing and posting special Dororo art on that very day!
And I urge all of you who might stumble upon this to do the same! It can be crappy or silly or ugly or stupid or nifty, it just has to be art of Dororo (or Zeroro).
Spread the word! ^^
(Yes, I'm talking to you, all other Dororo-fangirls out there.)

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15444777/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15444777/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:42:17 PST Sure, the text may be nonsense, but then, a lot of Keroro is kind of wacky and insane.
Also, happy dancing by the Keroro Platoon!

Haven't been drawing much lately. I call it my "late fall" slump. I've been working on a Special scarf that I've also been slacking off on, might put up some progress photos of it. For it is special indeed.

In other news. We got some snow last night, that still hasn't melted away. *gasps*

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15071758/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/15071758/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:10:56 PDT Again, if you caught the page with 10,000 views exactly, let me know and I'll draw you something, whatever you want. ^^

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14852795/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14852795/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:43:48 PDT Time to start planning special art to celebrate (perhaps even...if you are the one to spot 10000 views on my page I'll draw you something).

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14655358/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14655358/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:15:37 PDT But maybe I'm a bit too harsh on my own art sometimes, as someone said once, I have awesome Scraps.

This has been your weekly pointless post from yours truly.
*bows*

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14602957/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14602957/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:41:28 PDT
And...this evening I've been sneezing up a storm. This does not bode well for work tomorrow. Maybe I'll finish off my lone bottle of NyQuil before bedtime and hope it'll kill off the germs while I sleep.
(Let's just say that tomorrow would be a very, very bad day to take a sick day. You could say, complete disaster? *Mois mode off*)

In other news, I really need to go out and get myself that scanner. Using my digital camera doesn't quite cut it anymore. The flash kind of kills the art (makes the colors look strangely shiny) and now that it's getting darker outside my camera uses the auto-flash almost all the time.
Maaaybe I'll even splurge and get Paint Shop Pro or something similar. Yes. Me. May for software. OMG. O_O

Ugh, now my throat feels slightly sore. Bah.
(Please work your magic NyQuil! -_-)

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]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14484046/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14484046/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:33:14 PDT

So, I encourage those of you who like this pairing to join and show your support. :3

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14439068/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/14439068/ Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:05:15 PDT Well, some of it is at least half-decent.
The kitties I blame on poking through 's (aka, awesome art person who unfortunately doesn't post much art anymore and is very missed) Scraps, filled with lovely fan-keron art, some where they are kitty-fied.

As another geeky aside, the new Keroro episode which aired today in Japan confirms for sure that Kururu is several years younger (4-6 years or thereabouts) than Keroro, Giroro and Dororo...if one goes by the previews anyway.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13911936/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13911936/ Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:20:00 PDT See, in a volume 14 flashback a punk refers to Garuru as "that talked-about guy who just entered adult (military) training-school" (approximate translation here). So, what would be the earth equivalent of this place? Either High School or College/University. So, during this flashback Garuru is (the earth-equivalent of a) 15-18 year old (allowing for him to have entered this place early cause he's an OMG-genius).
Giroro I assume to be elementary school age (without having just started school) so 7-9 years old. Maybe even 10.
Using my amazing math skillz I thus deduce that Garuru is at most 11 years older and at the least 5 years older.
I've always thought of Garuru as about 10 years older, so I'm excited my fan-theory might actually fit with canon. ^^

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13641921/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13641921/ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:34:35 PDT Slowly going through the list of new art by the people I stalk on deviantart. Some very neat stuff on the list so far. I may not comment as much as I usually do cause my brain is mush. So very jetlagged. O_O

Oh, oh, and I got me some Pokemon Diamond while I was in the States! Played it until my battery died (just about to head into the first gym). My Piplup is named Mumble (find the movie reference!).

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13508765/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13508765/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:17:48 PDT (I hope to see a lot of art from those I watch waiting for me when I get back. )

Bleh, but I do wish I didn't always get this nervous before flying...

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13376985/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13376985/ Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:55:19 PDT
Someone added a new section to the Keroro Wiki recently:
[link]
This seems to be the story of that card game with Keroroland characters, where the Keroro platoon are younger and have their own teams.
Of interest is the bit that mentions that Zoruru (pictured as half-cyborg) is an ally of Zeroro. Hm...
Now what in the name of all that's holy could Zeroro had done to him to piss him off?
Assuming here that all this is true, I tend to take most wiki info with a grain of salt.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13290514/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13290514/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:58:58 PDT I've done some half-hearted doodlings, but nothing turns out the way I want it.
I've poked at this Garuru-centric story I started writing (cause I'm increasingly dissatisfied with "Either Way"), but that's not any good either. Not good enough to post anywhere, anyway.
*sigh*
I wish I knew how to get rid of this feeling of being...inadequate. For one, I feel like I owe at least a suggestive drawing of Giroro's cat in human form for the calendar project.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13275760/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13275760/ Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:11:14 PDT They were both very impressed and my dad even suggested I try selling my art. Which made me go "WTF", cause there are so many other artists, just here on deviantart with a billion times more talent.
Well, at least my drawing is one hobby they approve of.
(I wish I could reproduce the look disapproval on my dad's face when I was fan-gasming over the Transformers plush I saw in a store today.)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13122316/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13122316/ Mon, 28 May 2007 07:47:37 PDT It says I have two comments on my latest art trade drawing, but they don't show up. O_O

My fears about episode 162 were confirmed the moment I saw the scene where the punks beat up chibi Giroro and Keroro, but without Garuru showing up. *sad*
I hope that they might still make at least a half-episode with the story around the volume 14 flashback they just made obsolete.
Another weird thing, with the minor hype surrounding the Shurara Corps it's strange that they won't show up again for a month, at least not according to the upcoming episode listings for June.
Get ready, for Rabbie is getting her own half-episode. O_O

After re-reading the cute fluff fics I wrote in the past I'm itching to write some more fluff. I have one vague idea with Kizuzu and Dororo, but it needs to be developed further.
The problem is that when I try to come up with something fluffy my brain just has to toss in some angsty element to it.
I'm an angsy-holic.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13013954/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/13013954/ Sat, 19 May 2007 13:43:52 PDT
What concerns me is the preview to next episode. From what I can tell it features story elements from that wonderful flashback in volume 14, where Garuru gets himself beat up so little Keroro and Giroro can keep their "secret base".
It has a secret base. It has two threatening punks (that looks almost identical to the punks from the manga flashback), but no Garuru. Instead there seems to be this other (male) character called "Jolili".
I swear, if my fears are confirmed and that episode ends up replacing a flashback that has sibling interaction and Garuru development...*grinds teeth*

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12985610/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12985610/ Thu, 17 May 2007 04:15:38 PDT I created Tobibi, then Windidi to more or less be me as a Keronian. This is why she's a flier, cause I love those wing-packs they use in the show/manga and I love scarves and goggles.
Then, as I started thinking about her as a serious character there needed to be a why to the way she was. So, the goggles are now something she's had since she was a baby and the scarf is a graduation present from her grandmother. And wait, she was actually raised by her (paternal) grandparents cause her parents had her when they were still teenagers and were too young to take care of a child.
Fine, I get it.
Facts like that can just pop into my head at random, I don't really have to think about it. Which can be kind of creepy. O_O
Torara's crush on Tobibi was another one of those facts that just...appeared. At first I figured they could be friends, cause Tobibi is a friendly character, but then while I was doodling that silly thing with Torara wearing a kitty outfit I knew there had to be something more...from his side anyway.
Senshishi, with his long and silly self-invented name bothered me for a while with his...simplicity. There was no depth to him.
Then when I got his family history figured out he became a sad little guy. See, he's the baby in the family, born ten years after his second and third brothers (fourteen years after his eldest brother). That his parents named him "Chibibi" didn't help any.
His second and third brothers teased him constantly while he was growing up (when he told his parents they beat him up, so he didn't do that again) and his eldest just didn't care. Giroro had it easy. So Senshishi is driven to be bigger and better than his jerk brothers and proving to his parents that he's not their little baby anymore.
It's unfortunate that he, like Tamama is a bit of a "late-bloomer" and still has his tail and tadpole face.
Haruru is funny in that he was originally created as a friend/companion to my very first Keroro fan-frog, Maruru, Keron-biologist extraordinaire. Yet here we are and it's Maruru that's taken a serious back-seat to the quirky Haruru, lover of video-games, admirer of Kururu and with a scary other side to him that he's not even aware of himself (born from all those bottled up emotions when he split from his family).
Kizuzu I don't have much to say about, other than that I adore him. He was obviously picked to be captain of the platoon not only for his experience and skills, but cause he'd give the misfits in his platoon someone they could lean on in hard times. Like an honorary parent or something.

Well, this ended up being longer than I intended. Ah, well.
I doodled some of my fancharacters last night, ended up sticking the better ones in Scraps. (My shading pen is dead. *sad*)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12930589/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12930589/ Sat, 12 May 2007 14:30:07 PDT He's been in all but a handful of episodes and chapter put together and in his last anime appearance he had ONE line. And it didn't seem like more than a throw-away line. I guess part of it is a fascination with his half-cyborg look...

But...I think my brain took what little information was available on Zoruru, like a rough piece of clay, shaping it into the Zoruru that runs around in my head right now. It's like I kidnapped the character Mine Yoshizaki created and made it into my own. Someone better call the police! I'm a character thief!
And I know he's still evolving up there. *pats temple*

Now here's the big question. How different has "my" Zoruru become compared to the canon version? I don't think I'll fully know until Yoshizaki and/or the anime people gives him another proper, character building appearance. (And I have to say that I'm somewhat frustrated with the introduction of seven new Keronians in the anime. They seem neat and all, but damnit, give the old characters some development first before introducing new ones!)
If that happens and the character I have living in my head is too different it really won't mean the death of my character. I might just have to rename the sucker and make him completely my own.
Or just give him a goatee and call him AU Zoruru. *snort*

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12888638/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12888638/ Tue, 08 May 2007 14:07:44 PDT
My mood had improved so much by this late afternoon that I actually sat down and wrote some on my fic.
(I will probably live to regret that little attempt at poetry I inserted. Darn that Mutsumi.)

I was unsure whether to pick up Final Fantasy 3 for my DS at first, but now I'm glad I did. The cutesy quirks of the characters amuses me muchly and helped to cheer me up too. I didn't have the guts to make the main male character the White Mage in the end though (in this game you decide which class/job the characters have, it's not predetermined like in most RPGs).

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12876948/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12876948/ Mon, 07 May 2007 14:28:03 PDT What's worse I've found myself thinking that anything I produce artistically is no good, or not good enough. This is the main reason why I just can't get back to writing "Either Way", though I do have the plot figured out in my head.
I keep finding flaws in it, suddenly I'm displeased with how I handle the characters, stuff like that.
Here's hoping this feeling will pass. *sigh*

Maybe I'll try drawing myself some cheer-up art. Well, after I try to get some sleep. (Lack of sleep might also be partially to blame for my odd mood...)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12853968/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12853968/ Sat, 05 May 2007 15:54:09 PDT That they look way too young is one of my main complaints with all the Keronians-in-human-form floating around (and I sort of direct that at myself too, cause my silly art style makes everyone look too damn young).
Also, Giroro was so very awesome. He was all brawny and muscular and pissed-off looking. Not a pretty boy at all.
Tamama looked appropriately young, considering he's a freak that never grows up (if Garuru is a teenager in the volume 14 flashback then they lose their tails sooner than later and Tamama is seriously overdue there).

Stumbled on some Garu/Giro which did creep me out quite a bit (especially the one which seemed to be Garu/Giro/Kuru O_O).
All the cutesy chibi Giroro with Zeroro art made it aaaall better though.
So much crossdressing Zeroro/Dororo...The Gothic Lolita one was actually kind of cute.
In some of them (particularly one where Dororo is a nun and Giroro a priest) the dress/skirt is only there so there can be flashing (is it a panty shot if the person in question never wears/has no need for underwear?). O_O
The worst part is...There's an evil demon in my head telling me that I should draw Dororo/Zeroro crossdressing too.
(The canon started it with making Dororo the female/pink ranger! *pouts*)

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12829961/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12829961/ Thu, 03 May 2007 16:02:51 PDT It's got everything I like the best about Keroro Gunsou: Giro/Natsu fluff, Garuru, (non-violent) Giroro-Garuru interaction, flashbacks from when Giroro was a child and a bit of Dororo on the side. And a giant, flying sweet potato.
While he may not say it to him (anymore) Giroro totally thinks of Garuru as his "Niichan". Yes, Niichan. If that's not enough cuteness to make me hug him to death I don't know what.
The flashback had me flailing like mad, as it appeared Garuru got himself beat up for his brother's sake. (Oh, for a proper translation of that...)
I could fangirl about other things, but I don't want to spoil it too much...;^^
(I think I may have to go over the Garuru-Giroro scenes in my fic with the events of this chapter in mind...)

So, I think we have to mailbomb Sunrise and demand they animate this chapter for this season of the anime.

]]> ~Windymon http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12816095/ http://Windymon.deviantart.com/journal/12816095/ Wed, 02 May 2007 13:34:09 PDT Some are just be playing with my fan-platoon and some were inspired by all the nice art I found browsing of some Japanese Keroro fanart sites. I admit to finding the Giro/Doro Giro/Zero art very, very cute. Perhaps it's cause it's usually drawn all innocent and very consentual (like Giroro sleeping with his head resting in a smiling Dororo's lap...that sort of stuff). unlike some art I found. *cough*KuruGiro*cough*
(Newsflash, I found GaruKuru art...O_O)

I pondered drawing myself some birthday art, but instead I drew a short comic with Giroro celebrating his birthday.
Hm...Maybe I should update my age in my deviantart profile. ;^^

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