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It doesn't matter that the photoshoot was for Runner's World. Her gams were going to be seen by everyone on the planet, and she fucking knew it the minute she walked into that studio and dropped trou. She did it on fucking PURPOSE.

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[link]

They say they'll be ready to cross the streams in the beginning of 2010 and really get down to business. If all reality spontaneously annihilates itself in a nanosecond, you probably won't have time to register it anyways.

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Kids 12 and under get candy.
Teenagers in plastic convenience store "Scream" masks and bluejeans get RAISINS.

For all the rest of you, Happy Halloween, and watch out for the ghost of Zepheniah Mann!

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I guess the act of providing food for others is such a guaranteed way to gain at least their temporary appreciation, so that at least for the span of the meal, I feel like people actually like me.

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SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ARE, I MEAN COME ON

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Who here's hoping that Valve will somehow manage to drop the "Meet the Medic" video in time for Oktoberfest? They have until the 4th, this year.

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Yet another poor tormented mad scientist for me to grow inappropriately attached to. OH BOY.

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Because that is MY FUCKIN' JAM.

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On the one hand, you're roasting your ass off if you set foot outside, but on the other, all the Blue Coconut Slushes and Ocean Waters are out there, so it sort of balances.

This is also the only place I've ever gone to where a beach was completely empty until 12:30 pm, on a 90 degree day. WHAT THE HELL, PEOPLE.

I'll be home again on Saturday night, and planning to play Team Fortress until I spontaneously develop a German accent.

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After that, I'll be in Oklahoma for a week.

Later, skaters!

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25930304/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25930304/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:11:27 PDT
Right the fuck now.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25734335/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25734335/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:52:16 PDT [link]

Is this the most idiotic thing ever? [Y/Y/Bring me the head of Ted Turner]

Man. I dunno about you guys, but when I was 8 years old, the last thing I wanted to watch on TV was professional sports, and the very bottom rung of that list of displeasure was a sport that involved being very still and quiet for long periods of time.

The top rung of sports was, of course, American Gladiators, but even that wasn't as good as a round of Reboot, the Super Mario Super Show, or Darkwing Duck.

I'm pretty sure CN must be almost entirely broke, because a decision like this is kind of like the Food Network deciding to play episodes of Lost. It doesn't make any fucking sense to the network's original intentions but it's guaranteed to pull SOME ratings.

Way to go guys. This is why people are shunning you in favor of fucking YOUTUBE.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25562449/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25562449/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:25 PDT
In less depressing news, I AM FINALLY PLAYING TEAM FORTRESS 2 OH MY GOD THIS GAME IS SO MUCH FUN WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TELL ME. I'm so bad at it because I'm new to both online team shooters and WASD keyboard controls, but it's SO AWESOME ANYWAYS.

Seriously, the decision to make the classes actual CHARACTERS instead of just random faceless military dudes as avatars for players was the BEST IDEA IN HISTORY.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25300106/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/25300106/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:00:18 PDT
Mid-June and we can't even break temps past the LOW 70s. THE SUN HAS SHONE FOR 2 DAYS OUT OF 21. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.

I DON'T RECALL MOVING TO SEATTLE, SO IF YOU GUYS COULD COME TAKE BACK YOUR WEATHER PLZ, IT SUCKS BIGTIME.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/24948603/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/24948603/ Mon, 25 May 2009 18:05:05 PDT
The next big thing in costumeculture: STEAMPUNK. They were ALL OVER AB. I heartily encourage them to continue this.

The next big thing in Anime: Soul Eater. At least for me personally. I saw a couple of AMVs for this and I am now devouring it.

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Anyways, new icon, featuring glasses and better haircut.

Also, when a Transformers series starts going into deep flashbacks, you KNOW the end is near. ;x;

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/24534656/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/24534656/ Fri, 01 May 2009 17:04:51 PDT
*COUGH COUGH*

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The only thing that really needs to be addressed, is that they need to take the Soundtrack director, take him out back and beat him just long enough to re-establish some sense. Because when he's good, he's very good. But when he's bad, he absolutely fucking RIDICULOUS. Hallelujah INDEED. *faceclaw*

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/23351093/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/23351093/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:16:46 PST
Pyo- pus, purulent
Derma- skin
Gangrenosum- Self-explanatory.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/23127060/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/23127060/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:14:47 PST [link]

Call me a pinko hippie liberal communist dopehead slacker, but to be completely honest, I'd rather look at Shep Fairey's illegal vandalism than at some of the self-fellating intellectual wankery and coprophiliac shock-games that gets put into galleries nowadays.

When the state of "legitimate art" and media message is controlled by rich establishment jerks and arrogant hipster pricks, I can honestly see why some people would break the law to get their stuff seen.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/22932446/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/22932446/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:36:06 PST [link]

Kung Fu Panda wins 15 awards at the Annies, and Wall-E wins zero.

ZERO.

As in NONE. IT IS IN NONPOSSESSION OF ANY AWARD OR RECOGNITION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM ASSOCIATION.

I've seen Kung Fu Panda, and I've seen Wall-E. Both were good films. I thought Wall-E was the better, along with probably 90% of the moviegoing public. If anything, it should have at the very least split the awards down the middle between them. But 15 to ZERO?

I've gone over all the "monetary sponsorship" conspiracy theories in all the comments threads and forums, the Anti-Pixar propaganda, and the general backlash that Wall-E was just too "out-there" for most people...

I honestly give up. I cannot come up with a rational explanation for this situation that satisfies me, and it makes me so unnecessarily angry thinking about it that I think I'm just going to go fall facefirst onto a wall of dicks instead.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/22442743/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/22442743/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:05:33 PST You know, Interesting. With a captial I. Wish I was special like the radiohead song, etc etc.

But other times, I realize it's just better to stay unremarkable and quiet.

Far less bugs stick to an unlit lightbulb, so to speak.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/22187319/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/22187319/ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:10:16 PST
Thus, I submit "Light our Darkest Hour" as an appropriate holiday greeting for Transfans.

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See you in a few days!

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/17770082/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/17770082/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:25:15 PDT
Also, a special announcement. This summer, I will be manning an art table at Otakon with a friend of mine. We will be offering plenty of fun goods like stickers, pins, bracelets, homemade tchotchkies and possibly even limited runs of art prints, if the conditions are favorable. If you're coming to Otakon, August 8 through 10 in Baltimore, MD, be sure to stop in at Artist's Alley and look for the "Rock Star Nurses!"

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/17157194/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/17157194/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:39:36 PST No Rubber Soul, no Sergeant Peppers, no Meet The Beatles.


AND NO AC/DC? WTF PEOPLE.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/16574535/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/16574535/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:39:47 PST Rocket-accelerated impact weapons are the new hotness.

[link]
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What I DON'T love, however, is the vast amounts of BULLSHIT that can be spewed in order to turn something as pleasurable as eating into yet another manifestation of class warfare. The number one offender to this end, has to be this place, Vosges Chocolate. [link]

What starts out as an adventure into bizarre flavor combinations and exotic chocolate quickly descends into an indecipherable mush of pointless haute couture posturing and arrogant name dropping. It's like they spent so much time on the Artists' Statment, that the actual PIECE seems pointless. The Bullshit alarms begin to sound when they use the words "Happenstance" and "intrigue" in product summaries, plummet into the red zone around the Marchesa chocolate, described as "If Edgar Allen Poe had begotten the moonchild of his darkest reveries with the help of Coco Chanel", and when they finally get to the "GREAT GATSBY INSPIRED" truffle box, the arrows have broken off the scales. What the hell does that taste like anyways? Extramarital affairs, pool-water and shitty high school essays? I can't wait for the Kerouac Collection, flavored with benzedrine, scotch, and asphalt! Mmm, Cirrhosis!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for using exotic ingredients. Throw in all the mangosteen, yucca pollen, black pepper, and edible pearl dust you want, but the reason why I'm going to EAT something is because it will probably TASTE good, not because the chef spews some Baz Luhrmann jerkoff fantasy about how the world was so much cooler when everyone was tanked on absinthe. To be honest, all this crap tastes like to ME is big steaming pile of "I'M HIPPER THAN YOU." And speaking from personal experience, that never tastes any good.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/16349267/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/16349267/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:31:50 PST
But... Being an Artist CAN make you Insane.

PS. EVERYONE GO WATCH TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED. DO IT.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/15309107/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/15309107/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:49:49 PDT
I MISS YOU ALREADY, DAVE.

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It's in the club section, second level, behind the loge. BOO!

*sigh* I know this show is gonna be sold out and I should really feel lucky just to be going, but damn, I think I been spoiled by other concerts. My mom and I used to go see the Moody Blues and get drop tickets from bailed-out package deals. We sat in the third row from the stage. Then I went to see Queen on my own and coughed up mad moneys for a front row seat. I was close enough to share oxygen with Brian May. Now, Van Halen isn't my FAVORITE band in the UNIVERSE, and I shouldn't be going off my gourd for turbo expensive floor seats, but I sort of WANT to.

Now they have this whole BID program where you can basically eBay on the really awesome floor seats, so whoever has the most money wins. Plus I missed out on the Premium VIP package sale because I didn't check the website ONCE......... and aaaaaaaagh.

Well, I suppose things could be worse. I could not be going at all. But seriously. Diamond Dave. ;x;

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/14239359/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/14239359/ Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:26:37 PDT
"Silikon"- Modeselektor featuring Sasha Perera [link]

Typically, I'm not a fan of ragga in any way, shape or form, with its steady stream of Caribbean patois babble. But this one here's got just enough just enough video-gamey electronica blipping, rhythmic puzzle-games, and snotty partygirl-bashing lyrics going on to make it strangely charming. I dare anyone to listen and not become suddenly and startlingly aware of their hips gyrating of their own accord.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/14132103/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/14132103/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:16:02 PDT
WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL FOR ONCE OH MY GOD.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/13726692/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/13726692/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:42:37 PDT
[link]

Do the D.A.N.C.E
1 2 3 4 fight
Stick to the B.E.A.T.
Get ready to ignite

You were such a P.Y.T.
Catching all the lights
Just easy as ABC
That's how you make it right

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If only for Peter O'Toole's cadaverous food critic.

DO IT.

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Come next year, you won't be disappointed!

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[link]

Time to go blazer-shopping. °x°

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12477199/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12477199/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:42:22 PDT [link] GO HERE FAST.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12322658/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12322658/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:19:45 PDT
In short, today I opened up the Stonehenge level on Guitar Hero 2 on medium. This is by no means a major feat in the gaming universe, where people are already playing Thunderhorse on Expert mode from memory, but to me, I felt like I was Stevie Ray.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12112016/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12112016/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:50:48 PST
In regards to subtitling versus dubbing when it comes to anime, when the dubber for a heavily accented character is ACTUALLY FROM SCOTLAND, [link] YOU GO WITH THE FECKING DUB.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12033840/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12033840/ Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:26:48 PST
Flash drives with songs left in the bathrooms at clubs where they play.
Hidden messages in concert shirts that lead to secret websites.
Images hidden in spectrograph images of static in sound clips.
Wiretapped phonecalls. Mind Control drugs. Government repression.
A desperate warning from a fascist future.
And the hand of god reaching down from the sky.

[link] Most of the info deciphered so far is encapsulated here. Don't read it after midnight. SERIOUSLY.

I'd be completely enraptured if I also wasn't alternately scared shitless by some of it. But I'm still waiting eagerly for the anticipated clue drop following sunday's show.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12007011/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/12007011/ Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:46:41 PST
Graffiti Research Lab NYC [link]

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/11884807/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/11884807/ Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:38:40 PST
For a tree, those arms were pretty warm.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/11653843/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/11653843/ Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:36:48 PST
One of the guys I knew in highschool, older brother of my first teenage crush, has gone HOLLYWOOD.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Johnny Keefe: ZOMBIEKILLER HEARTTHROB EXTRAOIRDINAIRE. [link]
[link]

He even has a friggin IMDB ENTRY! WITH FANGIRL(S)! [link]

Ladies, take note. When you're eventually lusting over this boy when he gets to be hot stuff in La-la land, just remember: I WAS IN THE PRODUCTION OF GODSPELL WHERE HE PLAYED JESUS, BACK IN 1997! AND I HUGGED HIM! HA!

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But in the madcap age of teh Internets, where men in suits trying to sell you products are regarded with the same degree of respect leveled towards a pile of two week old dogshit, advertisement has become a subtle art. In order to surreptitiously slip a sales pitch under the noses of an increasingly jaded and cynical buyer population, viral or guerilla marketing has become exceedingly popular. Whether it's CSI episodes based on lines of designer teeshirts, or just a trail of cryptic stickers slapped on a wall, advertisement has become something of a treasure hunt. But whether it's high profile or low profile, the intention of these hidden ad campaigns has always been to ultimately attract attention. People are MEANT to find them, tell others, and discover the product for themselves out of curiosity.

On the other hand, terrorism has always been about STEALTH. The reason why certain looming horrific events continue to terrify the populace is because they are hidden from obvious view, waiting to strike when least expected. And in post 9/11 America, where vigilance is intense enough to make a rubber gloved hand up your butt a routine sacrifice in defense of freedom, would-be terrorists have their work cut out for them.

So, on the one hand, we have advertisement, whose goal is to be noticed, and on the other, Terrorism, whose goal is to not be noticed in order to perpetrate nastiness. THEN WHY IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND BABY DUCKS WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE A POSSIBLE FORM OF TERRORISM?

Oh, I know what you're going to say, "They were suspicious and unidentified!" Only to anyone over the age of 40. Had you shown the offending object to any highschooler in the city of Boston, and they would have gladly explained what the hell was going on. But media closeting isn't a sufficient enough excuse. It should be mandatory knowledge for ANYONE in Homeland Security to understand that a circuit board with LED lights on it has to have a BRICK of C-4 attached to it to be any sort of threat to the populace. By the logic that the security forces of Boston were running on like chickens with their heads cut off, then every laptop, cell phone, blackberry and NEON SIGN in city limits should be detonated upon confiscation. This paranoia with the unknown, unusual, or merely even DISLIKED has to stop pronto, or we are going to find ourselves an entirely joyless and stressed out bunch of morons.

But icing on the cake is that this whole idiotic affair just proves how effective guerilla marketing can be. This overreaction to a bunch of glorified Lite Brites has provided the Aqua Teen Hunger Force show and upcoming movie with more attention than its Williams Street producers could have ever DREAMED of. And when it comes time to render thanks for such a service, I have no doubt our payment will be in the form of Ignignokt shooting the bird to the entire city of Boston. I hope everyone sees it, because he will be doing it as hard as he possibly can.

"WHO CARVED "DA MOON RULEZ! #1" ON MY CITY?!" [link]

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[link]

DON'T QUESTION IT, PEOPLE.

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Vaguely alarming wearable social identifiers ahoy!

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What a waste.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10700788/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10700788/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:24:25 PST [link]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*gasp gasp*HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10625626/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10625626/ Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:29:07 PST
Man, I totally forgot how awesome A Cappella music could be. You know, the kind with all the nerdy college groups with cutesy names like The Clef Hangers and VoiceMale doing covers of adult contemporary standards and 80s hits.

Except there's so much more now, and it all sounds INSANELY GOOD.

Back when I was just entering college and at the peak of my A Cappella binging, there was currently a big division amongst the music community about raw sound vs digital altering and studio finishing. A lot of people felt that raw sound was the only way to really honestly do a cappella music, so they stuck to what noises the human voice could produce and nothing more. Some amateur groups also probably just didn't have the resources to get a professional finish to their album. Thus you'd have a small section of very high profile groups that had a very slick, polished sound, and a large pool of college and amateur groups that basically just sounded like kids (albeit very talented kids) mucking around with vocal arrangements.

Six years later, I find myself listening to my old staple show, WERS boston's All A Cappella, [link] , and there's a college group [link] doing a cover of the Who's "Baba O Riley", and it's FLAWLESS, even down to the wacky synths in the intro and fiddle madness at the end. Basically, with the progression of the internet, and increased access to sound studio software, everyone who didn't have the option to spend assloads on a professional mixer can basically do it themselves. With these developments, groups are challenging themselves to greater and greater levels of arrangement precision, even attempting hiphop, rap, and modern dance selections, often ones that you'd never think could be attempted with the human voice alone. Sometimes the results can make a song that was originally bland and uninteresting when it first played on the soft rock stations into an entirely new and amazing experience. But the ultimate signifier of how far this niche genre's come was the fact that I heard an all-girl selection that managed to truly impress me. The female voice can't go as low as a male's, so entirely female a cappella groups often suffer from a certain lack of sound depth. But with advanced mixing and finishing, that alto can now be dropped all the way into the necessary baseline. All in all, it's rather thrilling.

If anyone's interested in listening to the stuff for themselves, they should go here, [link] on Saturdays and Sundays, from 2 to 5pm, and listen in with your favorite radio recieving program of choice. You'll be pleasantly surprised if not outright astonished, I guarantee.

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Just try not to choke on the irony. It can be a little rough going down.

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I work 40 hours a week, and still don't make HALF of what it takes to get an average apartment in this town.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10353371/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10353371/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:42:37 PDT 61 'Now you see, my son, what brief mockery
62 Fortune makes of goods we trust her with,
63 for which the race of men embroil themselves.
64 'All the gold that lies beneath the moon,
65 or ever did, could never give a moment's rest
66 to any of these wearied souls.'

The Deadly Sin of Greed, or Avarice, is condemned to the fourth circle of Hell, where the traditional punishment is boiling in oil. In Latin, the terms are avaritia and cupiditia, and the second bears further analysis: cupiditia means particularly, "eager, passionate longing and ambition," in this case for power, or worldly goods. Cupiditia comes, of course, from the name Cupid, the god of love and desire, and perhaps the greatest tormentor of mankind, whose capricious arrows strike the hearts of men with desires that may never be fulfilled.

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10317201/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10317201/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:49:41 PDT
1. Gothicmadness: POTC Character- DONE! [link]
2. Emerald- Original Character
3. JackScarab- Kefka vs Sephiroth- DONE! [link]
4. Skylanth- V for Vendetta DONE! [link]
5. Snowfox- Original Firefly Character
6. Katimazie- Windtigers and flying fish- DONE! [link]
7. MadderCat- Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou DONE! [link]
8. Celebraine- Original Character
9. Aurora-Storm- House and Alfred Molina- DONE! [link]
10. Starnik- Original Character

I'm working on getting faster about these, but I've been hit over the head with about a million other ideas. Tee shirt project, halloween story, fangirly comic layouts, whathaveyou. But I PROMISE, Everyone is going to get what they are owed, eventually!

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10176028/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10176028/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:01:23 PDT
1. POTC Character- DONE! [link]
2. Original Character
3. Kefka vs Sephiroth
4. V for Vendetta
5. Original Firefly Character
6. Windtigers and flying fish- DONE! [link]
7. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
8. PENDING REQUEST!
9. House or Alfred Molina
10. PENDING REQUEST!

Those in bold, who haven't yet specified their request, please make a request ASAP! It's hard to draw for you when I don't know what you want!

]]> *lyrasilverblade http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10164211/ http://lyrasilverblade.deviantart.com/journal/10164211/ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:53:30 PDT
1. - POTC: Dead Man's Chest Characters
2. - Original Character
3. - Kefka vs Sephiroth
4. - V for Vendetta
5. - Original Firefly Character
6. - Windtigers and flying fish
7. - Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
8. - TBA!
9. - House, or Alfred Molina
10. - TBA!

Those in bold please turn in your requests ASAP! The results will be coming very soon... as long as DEATH NOTE doesn't destroy my productive urges!

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