deviantART: by:sirael http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:sirael&section=today deviantART RSS for by:sirael en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:53:51 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Hm. http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/28835271/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/28835271/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:23:20 PST last semester up on dA, but hopefully that will be fixed over winter break (and maybe joined by silkscreen from this semester.) I won't be doing Sinfonicron this time, so I'll have the full college month to relax. Yay!

In other news, I'm trying out this crazy website thing that's like... online karaoke for original songs. If you get the most votes for a certain amount of time, you can win a weekend trip to NY for a record deal to make a CD. Seriously. Soooo... if you guys feel like putting up with my ostrich voice, you can vote for me here at ( [link] ).

Hm, I wonder if this free journal's still holding up.

My roomie's going abroad to Italy next semester. We'll see how that goes.

Uh. Yeah. Life is pretty boring. I really just study. A lot. ... Yay, finals.

]]> ~sirael Free Journal Testing? http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/28251536/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/28251536/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:59:02 PST
Edit: It works! Hooray!


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]]> ~sirael Kiriban! http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/25111919/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/25111919/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:20:31 PDT
]]> ~sirael Fandom Meme http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/24597703/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/24597703/ Tue, 05 May 2009 08:27:19 PDT
Post a list of up to 30 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc.
Have your watch-list guess your favorite character and/or pairing from each item.

Since in almost every case my favorite pairings include my favorite characters, you'll be right anyway.

BTW, these are not in some kind of preferential order.

1. Harry Potter
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Firefly/Serenity
4. Pirates of the Carribbean
5. X-Men (movies)
6. CSI: Miami
7. NCIS
8. The Thursday Next series
9. Rent
10. Newsies
11. Psych
12. House
13. Doctor Who
14. Static Shock
15. Card Captor Sakura
16. Kingdom Hearts
17. Across the Universe
18. Star Wars
19. Hot Fuzz
20. Good Omens
21. Little Miss Sunshine

]]> ~sirael Orange's Meme http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/23529883/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/23529883/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:36:55 PST

1. Only you can save the world! Why the hell is that; what is your SUPAH POWAH. (Give yourself a snazzy moniker, while you're at it.)

My "supah powah" is super telekinesis, the kind that you can levitate stuff AND your own body in flight. I have ALWAYS, always, always wanted to fly. Not that other superpowers wouldn't be awesome - really, shapeshifting, invisibility, laser beams, there are good options. But telekinesis would be the best. I could arm myself with a bag of razor blades and bullets and go flying around shooting them at villains. My Snazzy Moniker (tm) would be Echo, methinks, and I have no idea why. It just sounds cool to me.

2. No hero's journey is complete without the presence of an awesome sidekick! Are they only awesome in that their loser-ness highlights your awesomeness? Whatever the case may be, describe him/her/it to me.

My sidekick would be wicked awesome, because they'd have to be saving my life whenever I'm captured by evil villains. You know the drill. They'd be the sort of technogeek, building gadgets that can make things go boom in just the right square inch weak spot of the enemy's armor. THAT guy. And kind of socially awkward, but we'd get along.

3. I lied; you're actually not that awesome. With that in mind, why DOES your sidekick follow you around like that?

Probably because we both have the same delusional, suicidal need to Fix Things, even when it apparently lands us both dangling over vats of acid.

4. Obviously, no self-respecting villain is going to let you have your heroic way in all this saving-the-world crap. Name and describe the dastardly fiend who leaps forward to stop you!

The Swarm, an evil mastermind with the power to copy himself into entire armies to carry out his plans.

5. And what, exactly, is the villain's evil, evil goal?

World domination, of course! Fueled by a deep and abiding need to see the world pay for their mockery of his obsession with argyle at a young age.

6. A hero is not a hero without a love interest. Describe the role your Significant Other (imaginary or real) would play in your world-saving escapades...if they're even aware of them, that is.

My love interest is a young man who works in one of the skyrise businesses that The Swarm uses as a front. Of course, he has no idea what part he plays in the Epic Battle of Good and Evil, and just does his cubicle work. He watches the news for info on Echo and The Swarm, but never connects me to Echo. He has an unfortunately large nose.

7. You have a magical weapon, bequeathed to you by the gods/the government/your parents/a rock out of which ONLY YOU could extract said weapon. What is it, what is its Snazzy Moniker, and what makes it so special?

My weapon is a large circular bladed boomerang, which I can control the trajectory of through my telekinesis. Its Snazzy Moniker is Wheel of Fate, and it's so fantastically special because it never cuts me when I hold or throw it, despite holding onto the blade.

8. Every quest to save the world involves some sort of mystical glowy object of some sort. Both you and the villain need it in order to ultimately fulfill your respective goals, whatever they may be. What's the Mystical Object called, what is its function (does it grant wishes? Immortality?, Unlimited power?), and how can it be obtained?

The Mystical Object is a well of sludgy black water whose location has yet to be determined by either of us. It is rumored to give powers of ultimate mindreading, which would be a terrible weapon in the hands of The Swarm.

9. IT'S THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN OF ULTIMATE DESTINY. The final battle. It's just you and the villain now! How does it go?

GOOD GUYS, BAD GUYS, AND EXPLOSIONS, AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.

Indeed, there are explosions. As you can imagine, facing a villain whose power is multiplication, it involves me being attacked by thousands of clone Swarms. THE STREETS WILL RUN WITH BLOOD.

10. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU SAVED HYRULE AND YOU ARE A REAL HERO. How do you wrap up your epic adventure?

I go and snag my cubicle worker for an epic flight around the city, of course!

]]> ~sirael Long OC Meme http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/21654032/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/21654032/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:13:31 PST
1. Shane
2. Xhosa
3. Tamora
4. Libby
5. Switch
6. Geoff
7. Eddie
8. Alaric
9. Aldan
10. Ian

•Four invites Three and Eight to dinner at their house.

Libby invites Tamora and Alaric to dinner. Tam would be rather miffed that Libby is serving a vegetarian meal. Libby would be completely oblivious to Alaric's cat burglaring career, but Tam would be suspicious and subtly try to question him over the soup. Libby would think it was all going spectacularly well until Alaric insulted Tam's heels in an attempt to distract and Tam gave him a right hook.

•Nine tries to get Five to a strip club.

Aldan tries to get Switch to a strip club. Well, first of all, that would NEVER happen. But if, for some strange motivation, he did, Switch would think he was a creepy pedophile and leave very, very quickly.

•You need to stay at a friend’s house for a night. Who do you choose, One or Six?

Shane or Geoff? Hard choice. Geoff's a total sweetheart who would give me tea and talk to me about literature. But Shane would have time travel and space travel and crazy almost-alien parents and okay, no choice at all. Shane!

•Two and Seven are making out. Ten walks in.

Xhosa and Eddie are making out, which is as far as Eddie will let her go before putting a ring on her finger and making her an Honest Woman. Ian walks in, laughs, holds up his hands, and promises he saw nothing. He walks out, leaving Eddie bright red and absolutely mortified. Xhosa smirks and slides her arms back around Eddie's neck.

•Three falls in love with Six. Eight is jealous.

Tam falls in love with Geoff. Alaric is jealous. Alaric insists that Tam has gone absolutely out of her mind to fall in love with someone so boring and cashmere as Geoff, and offers her an exciting life in crime. She leaves Geoff for Alaric, only to gain his trust and arrest him for the SFPD.

•Four jumps you in a dark alleyway. Who comes to your rescue: Ten, Two, or Seven?

Libby jumps me in a dark alleyway. He is attempting to force me to sign a petition to ban animal testing of makeup. Ian, Xhosa, and Eddie all witness the attack. While Ian is a superhero, he quickly judges that no violence is actually taking place and goes to fight more important battles. Xhosa thinks it's hilarious and keeps going. Eddie, being gallant and far too honest for his own good, comes in to save me.

•One decides to start a cooking show. Fifteen minutes later...:

Shane decides to start a cooking show. The ingredients are alien and the processes involve technology that hasn't been invented yet. The results could blow up, could animate a plastic flamingo lawn ornament, or could perhaps taste like chicken. The viewership does not take its chances.

•Three has to marry either Eight, Four or Nine.

Tam has to marry either Alaric, Libby, or Aldan. She can't stand Alaric on principle, she hates Libby's job as a ';professional rabblerouser' - a protester - and while she finds Aldan charming and very physically attractive, he doesn't quite have the witty repartee for her. She instead chooses to switch out the application forms for this ridiculous love game show she's been maliciously entered into and picks Alan Conners instead.

•Seven kidnaps Two and demands something from Five for Two’s release.

Eddie kidnaps Xhosa and demands something from Switch. Eddie, who has clearly undergone an alien lobotomy, kidnaps her and demands he find a way to make her human. Switch could not care less about some random chick and lets Eddie keep her.

•Everyone gangs up on Three.

Everyone gangs up on Tam. Between all of her hidden weaponry, of both firearms and hand fighting type, and her Death Glare, she walks out of the alley, heels clicking on the sidewalk, completely unscathed. A few hours later, a police car is sent to pick up the pile of wounded men.

•Everyone is invited to Two and Ten’s wedding, except for Eight. How do they react?

Everyone is invited to Xhosa and Ian's wedding, except for Alaric. He is rather unimpressed, and decides to send them an obnoxiously expensive gift to make them feel guilty. It works.

•One arrived late for Two and Ten’s Wedding. What happens, and why were they late?

Shane arrived late to Xhosa and Ian's wedding. He was caught up in an almost-lethal adventure involving a rat the size of a German Shepherd and a long strand of christmas lights. By the time he arrives, out of breath and singed, the bride and groom are already eating cake. They know him, and were pleasantly surprised he made it at all.

•Why is Six afr... ]]> ~sirael YouTubed! http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/21193994/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/21193994/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:43:15 PDT
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Take on Me: The Literal Version
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Kiwi
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Metalosis Maligna (creepy)
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Ninja Cat
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Oktapodi
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Pirates vs. Ninjas
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Can You Speak Any English?
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Rejected (Oscar Award Winner) (watch it the whole way through)
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]]> ~sirael Agh. http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/18202457/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/18202457/ Tue, 06 May 2008 19:16:15 PDT
I'm out of Painting class, so I could post my work from there, but my digital camera is busted, and my parents' camera won't connect to my computer at the moment. So! That may be a while. They're far, far too big to scan.

It's amazing how much being at home saps my creative energy.

]]> ~sirael Wow. Just Wow. http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/18042306/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/18042306/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:21:50 PDT
1) What color is your favorite hoodie?
Black, with fuzzy red letters that say "DORK."

3) Do you plan outfits?
I love dressing up, so then I do, with a vengeance. Otherwise, I tend to just grab a pair of jeans that doesn't terribly clash with a clean shirt.

4) How are you feeling RIGHT now?
Wary.

6) Who was the last person you kissed?
MY CAT. OH, WHAT NOW.

8) Person before that?
THE SKY.

10) What are you craving right now?
M&Ms. And guess what? I have them!

11) What comes to mind when I say cabbage?
Cabbage stew. Irish cabbage stew. And cole slaw. Entirely different, but both cabbage.

12) Do you make prank calls?
Oh, man, I would feel WAY too guilty.

13) Ever hooked up with some one out of state?
No.

14) Do you sleep with any stuff animals?
Yes.

15) Would you dance to the taco song?
I don't even know what the taco song is.

16) Have you ever counted to 1,000?
I counted to 3587 to see how many licks it was to the center of a tootsie pop.

17) Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it?
I lick it. The cold hurts my teeth otherwise.

18) Do you like anyone right now?
God!

19) What do you think of crickets?
They're difficult to catch.

20) Have you ever met a celebrity?
Only cult celebrities, like the guy that draws Oh! My Goddess. Nobody that's actually cool.

21) Do you like cottage cheese?
Yes.

22) What are you listening to right now?
The air conditioner and my keyboard.

25) Would you go sky diving?
I would love to say yes, but I think I would cry.

26) Would you go out to eat with George W. Bush?
Honestly, yes, but just to say that I had. I would have a very difficult time holding my tongue during the meal, though.

27) Would you throw potatoes at him?
HAHAHAHA. If I was promised that I wouldn't get killed for it, YES. 50 points for a headshot!

28) Is there anything sparkly on you?
MY PURE AND BEAUTIFUL SOUL.

30) Do you rent movies often?
Not really, because I'm in the middle of nowhere and the nearest movie store is not within walking distance.

31) Who sits behind you in your math or art class?
My easel is near the wall in art. Nobody.

34) Can you count backwards from 74?
Yes. But as OutoftheOrange pointed out, you can't.

35) Who are you going to be with tonight??
My hot and steamy Psychology textbook.

36) Brown or white egg?
White. :P

38) Ever been on a train?
I love trains! They're so relaxing.

39) Ever told someone you loved them?
Yes.

40) Do you have a cell phone?
Yes.

43) What is [one of] your best friend[s] doing tomorrow?
Going to church with me.

44) Ever had cream puffs?
Yus~

45) Ever had Breaded Shrimp?
I hate shrimp of any kind.

46) Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect?
Yes.

47) What was the last question you asked?
Should we wait until next year to put up our Weasley clock?

48) What was the last CD you bought?
The Meet the Robinsons soundtrack.

49) What is/was your bus number for school?
....5? Maybe?

51) Is your hair curly?
Hahahaha yes. Darnit.

52) Last time you cried?
Uh.

53) Ever walked into a wall?
All the time. I'm blind.

54) Ever walked UP a wall?
Just call me Neo.

55) Have you ever bought anything from PacSun?
No. And I don't plan on it.

56) Favorite time of the year?
Mid-spring!

58) Favorite color(s)?
Blue. Blue, and let's see... blue!

60) Do you have any tattoos?
YES. No.

61) Who was the last person you held hands with?
Annabelle and Dana in smallgroup prayer.

62) Do you sleep with the TV on?
No.

63) Where was your default picture taken at?
Stock photos!

64) Why was your default picture taken?
Stock photos!

65) Do you like your life right now?
It's rough, but I like it.

66) How do you feel about 'love'?
Hard to find, hard to keep, worth the trouble.

67) What is your favorite animal?
Kestrels and Chrysolopea snakes.

69) Do you have good vision?
See 53.

70) Can you hula hoop?
No.

71) Could you ever forgive a cheater?
That's about one of the only things... ]]> ~sirael 8 Facts meme http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/17232934/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/17232934/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:48:43 PST
1. I like buying things. Stuff that I usually don't use. This is part of why I love buying presents for people - I get to shop, I get to buy neat things, and then I get to get RID of them and make someone else happy! It's fantastic.

2. I lose all respect for people who decide to keep secrets to protect people. I don't mean white lies, I mean real secrets, the ones that people have rights to know about.

3. I would love to pretend that I could be a fantastic sidekick on epic adventures, a great Doctor Who companion, a Robin, a Hermione. But the truth is, I would probably scream like a little girl, then run and hide. I would be the first to die.

4. Following in OutOfTheOrange's step here, I also have weird painting habits. I always end up with the back end of the paintbrush in my mouth. Not so much a problem with watercolors or acrylics, but oils don't come off so well, and there's invariably paint on the wrong end of the brush. I also have a phobia of thickly laid paint. It tantalizes and horrifies me.

5. The real reason I hate drawing actual people and actual fanart of living, breathing actors is that I'm terrified that it won't look anything like the real person. It usually doesn't. I make generic faces. I'm working on that.

6. I prefer the scent of clean laundry over perfume or cologne any day.

7. I think that villains that you can't empathize with in at least one tiny way are worthless.

8. If I ever dropped out of school and had to find a job without degree requirements, I would probably become a tattoo artist. No joke.

Uh, tagging.

Resistie
ChainsawNinja
Cuniculosa
Unusual-fish
ArthursLove89
Blueflame98
RyadicalEdward

]]> ~sirael I'm brilliant. http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/16681373/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/16681373/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:39:36 PST
I figured out how to edit the "featured" and folders of my gallery. Five months after the rest of the dA community did.

Yay for me.

Haha. Anyway, so my gallery is organized now. Some of the things that were separated, but still one theme (like, certain kinds of fanart) were put together for ease of use. Double yay for me. I tried featuring and unfeaturing some things, but I thought that it was really rather ridiculous. I was about ready to start reordering all of the pieces that got out of order through the shifts before I found the handy mass tools of "Feature All" and "Order Newest to Oldest." Yaaaaay!

]]> ~sirael Name Meaning - creepily accurate http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/16558720/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/16558720/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:25:45 PST
What Jennifer Means

You are fair, honest, and logical. You are a natural leader, and people respect you.
You never give up, and you will succeed... even if it takes you a hundred tries.
You are rational enough to see every part of a problem. You are great at giving other people advice.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are loving, compassionate, and ruled by your feelings.
You are able to be a foundation for other people... but you still know how to have fun.
Sometimes your emotions weigh you down, but you generally feel free from them.

You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something.
You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense.
You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. ((Hm. The least accurate paragraph. It depends on how you define trouble, I guess... >>; ))

]]> ~sirael Tagged, I'm it http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/16410192/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/16410192/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:03:29 PST
1. Post 10 random facts about the person who tagged you.
2. Tags should be in a journal/ blog.
3. At the end of the post, state 4 people who you would like to tag and name them.
4. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged.

1. She is a catgirl inside. Really.
2. She is the mistress of duct tape construction.
3. She sings.
4. She is very, very short.
5. She can make jewelry out of random stuff.
6. She graduated with a shiny Tri-M thingamabobber.
7. She is a STARVING ART STUDENT. Srsly.
8. She speaks Spanish.
9. She eats from the 'cafeteria' vending machines.
10. She rocks the DS.

ChainsawNinja
OutoftheOrange
ArthursLove89
Blueflame98

And NOW I've been shamelessly return-tagged by OutoftheOrange.

1. She is the most sarcastic person on the face of the planet. Evar.
2. She WINS AT LIFE for color blendage on skin.
3. She is applying to the Corcoran (Paulette's Padawan?)
4. She ALSO has a fondness for hot guys together.
5. She is rocking the IB Art (I saw the pictures in the front gallery!)
6. She makes me have the urge to call her Minamine, for Minami and Namine and... yes. >>; I hope I'm not the first person to think that.
7. She is one of the few people who can both create AND critique art competently.
8. She has a terrible sense of schadenfreude and revenge concerning memes.
9. She loves Fire Emblem.
10.She has a fantastic, if slightly twisted, sense of humor.

Resistie
RyadicalEdward
Cuniculosa
8Ducky8

And by Resistie (just by the by, hon, remember that you are tagged on the one before this! :) Now I don't feel so bad for tagging you.)

1. She has just as much squirminess about drawing naughty bits as I do.
2. She has a wicked smirk.
3. She ALSO ALSO has a fondness for hot guys together.
4. She can see possibilities in even an empty pen ink cartridge.
5. She has a dA icon that I can't pretend to understand.
6. She's one of those fictional people that prefers oils to acrylics.
7. She rocks vectors to a degree that I can't even fathom.
8. She should make fake tutorials more often. :3
9. She and OutoftheOrange are dangerous together.
10. She wins at surrealism.

]]> ~sirael Sarah's meme http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/14735362/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/14735362/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:28:49 PDT
1. Inspired by "Doctor Who" and H.G. Wells you build a time machine and travel to the year 5 billion. Assuming that Earth is still around, what are one or two things you hope to see?

I would want to see the evolution of the languages/cultural identity, because that would be cool. I'm a geek like that. I would also KILL to see how literature / technology have duked it out. Everyone says that books will die under the foot of the digital age. I want to prove them wrong.

2. Every copy of very book every written is in one library. You are the only person there and the library is burning down. You can save ONE book. Which one?

The OED.

3. If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?

I want to be Thursday Next. Seriously. She lives in a world with Shakespeak machines, portals into living books, and the Jurisfiction police. She owns a dodo bird named Pickwick that goes ';plock.' Her mother is Wednesday Next and her son is Friday. I WANT TO BE HER.

4. If you were a villain what kind of evil pet would you have? What would you name it?

Real or mythological? If it were a real pet, I would have a fer-de-lance snake. It's a kind of pit viper - totally wicked, with heat-sensing glands and erectile fangs that contain one of the most lethal snake venoms known to mankind. I would name her Sula. If it were a mythological pet, then I would have a gryphon. His name would be Dohn.

5. As a villain, what would be the central component in your plan for world domination?

Very gradual infiltration of global economies - subtly. Oh so subtly. So subtly that they wouldn't even realize that I was there, or that it was all mine, until I owned everything.

6. Who will portray you in the movie of your life?

Kate Winslet. <3

7. If it turns out that people hear music right before they die, what music/song do you want to hear?

"Walk Humbly, Son" by Eddie from Ohio.

8. You are fired. You go home to discover that both your residence and your possessions are completely destroyed. Your family have disowned you. What now?

First, I call up my friends. I find someone to take me in, and cry on their shoulders for a while until I find a new job. I live with them while I rebuild, and eventually get onto my feet again.

9. If college didn't exist, what would you (or would HAVE you) done instead?

I would have traveled the world. *sigh*

10. When you were a little kid who/what did you want to be when you grew up?

First, I wanted to be a lifeguard. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian - until I found out that I had to put animals to sleep. Things were kind of up in the air for a while after that.

11. Your brilliant time machine will only work for another 24 hours. When and where do you go with the remaining time?

I will go back to the dawn of time and watch how the universe began.

12. What is one thing you wish you knew/understood about yourself?

I wish I knew why I feel the need to constantly over-analyze all the interactions I have with other people and make myself feel like I acted idiotically.

13. You start your own secret society. Who is in it and what does it do?

My secret society consists of the people that always wanted to grow up to be starving artists, but logic, common sense, and an empty stomach got in the way. We would sneak out at night to big cities and paint murals over graffiti-ed walls.

14. What is your favorite fairy tale or childhood story? Why?

I was always a big fan of Beauty and the Beast. Something about the moral of the story about looking beyond first impressions and outward appearances to the inner person really appeals to me.

15. If you could be one mythological figure, who would you be?

I would love to be Atalanta. She was smart, beautiful, witty, didn't take junk from boys, and knew how to play rough.

]]> ~sirael Psycho-Analysis http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/14718805/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/14718805/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:46:33 PDT
1. You are walking in the woods. You are not alone. Who is with you?
Sarah. We would both appreciate the woodsy aesthetics.

2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal?
A barn owl.

3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal?
It meets my eyes, swivels it head around, then takes off. It flies a few circles around my head, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it's daytime, and then alights on my arm.

4. You walk deeper in the woods. You enter a clearing, and before you is your dream house. How big is it?
Medium-sized, but spectacularly designed.

5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence?
No.

6. You enter the house. You walk into the dining room and see the dining room table. What do you see on it?
Elegant place settings for four, with a modern art glass centerpiece that kind of corkscrews and swishes upwards.

7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it?
A fluted, clear, barely-blue glass.

8. What do you do with the cup?
I set it up onto the patio table so that it won't get smashed. It's too pretty.

9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself standing at the end of a body of water. What kind of water is it?
A bay that opens up into the sea, with a grassy sand-dune setup.

10. How will you cross the water?
I actually WILL fly. Seeing as this questionaire has no root in reality anyway, I will borrow the mind of the owl and fly across. Sarah will change into a dragon and follow.

ANSWERS (If you want to do this meme I suggest you answer the questions first and then read these interpretations.)

1. The person who you are walking in the woods with is the most important to you.

2. The size of the animal is representative of your perception of the size of your problems in your life. - I do try to pretend like nothing's wrong.

3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems. - I watch them happen, and then they come after me.

4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to solve your problems. - Average. Okay, reasonable.

5. A lack of a fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence indicates a closed personality. You'd prefer people not drop by unannounced. - I hate houses with fences.

6. If your answer did NOT include food, flowers, a drink, or people, then you are generally unhappy. - ... Well, darnit. Does the setup for a meal count as food even if there is none? ; ;

7. The durability of the material with the cup is made of is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship. - Thin, delicate glass. ... woot. Sounds accurate.

8. What you did with the cup is representative of your attitude. - I tried to protect it from the world and malevolent boots.

9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire. - ... A bay. Hm. I'm not sure how that measures up.

10. The way you cross the water is representative to how easy or hard you expect your life to be. - Flying. I think I consciously expect life to be hard, but I subconsciously expect everything to be a cake walk and get upset when it isn't.

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-What's your favourite Drawing Style?
I'm a big fan of realism, but I stray out of it. I started off with anime, but I was only second-rate at that, at best. Then again, I was a bad artist all around. I did improve a little. Nobody gets to look at my old sketchbooks. I'd kind of like to break back into anime, but there are so many wicked good artists nowadays that I would feel silly. Right now, I'm in a sort of pseudo-fusion between realism and a hint of anime. Mostly realism.

–Favourite genres and subjects?
My favorite subjects are people, every time. I'll draw other things - I do have a lot of art that isn't put up here, you know - but I like people best. I especially love drawing women, but it got to a point in middle school / early high school that all I drew were women. I force myself to draw men a lot now.

As to genres, I like faint influences of surrealism. I love fantasy and sci-fi, but I don't do High Fantasy or anything. I tend to more appreciate it than I draw it. I love portraiture in unique ways. I hate letting myself draw people in the usual 3/4 turn of the head in the old-fashioned oval. Ew. I like interesting positioning.

–Favourite Art tools?
Digital: Photoshop 7. Soon I will be using CS3, but I still have to get it. 7 isn't compatible on my new college laptop. *EMO TEAR* All I have right now is Elements 5 - that explains the sudden lack of updates here, doesn't it? Eugh. I would sooner chop off my own hand. I work on my one true love, my baby... my Wacom Intuos3. 6X8. *strokes it*

Traditional: I LOVES me some chalk pastels. I used to adore colored pecils - well, still do, but not as much now comparitively. I adore pastels. I abused them so often in Art in the last year. Ask OutoftheOrange and Resistie. >>; Can you blame me? They're so malleable. They blend into infinity! They have so many colors and textures and they're so deliciously messy, and you don't have to be distanced from your work by using brushes, and it's fast work and.... :3 You get the picture. <3

- Do you consider your artstyle as hard or unique?
I'm agreeing with OutoftheOrange here. There's no such thing as a 'hard' style. I'm easy to mimic, if that's what you mean. I think? Maybe? Urf.

I'd like to say that I'm unique. I don't think I can quite convince myself of it, especially since I haunt people here on DA enough to have seen wide swaths of the art world.

-What are your future goals as an artist?
I want to learn how to make expressions. There are a few artists that I watch that can portray them so fluidly and instantaneously that there's no doubt in your mind what they're feeling. I WANT THAT. I feel that however pretty I make things, I can't make my people look like anything but robots or actors.

Taggage? Anyone that wants to.

]]> ~sirael I really am terrible about DA journals... http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/14217958/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/14217958/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:33:07 PDT
Yaaaay, survey. Send your love to Nami.

THE STUPID HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION SURVEY

1. Everyone on earth vanishes except you. What's the first thing you do?

I cry. No, really. I cry. And then I loot the mall and make a Hole of Wonder in the Library, filled with everything I want. Then I proceed to be happy in my lush, rich lifestyle until I get lonely. And then I cry again.

2. Suppose you were a member of the opposite sex. Who would be your celebrity crush?

JULIA STILES. She rocks my world.

3. Your parents aren't going to be home for the next three days. How do you fill in the time?

I sing as loudly as I can, unabashedly, in the empty house.

4. Speaking of parents, what sort of parent do you think *you'll* be?

The paranoid one that's still a total pushover, and totally blind to my child's wrongdoings.

5. If you were a musician, what type of music would you be writing?

That sort of pop/rock/indie stuff that nobody quite knows how to classify.

6. Your music-writing efforts pay off, and suddenly you're rich and famous. How do you live your life?

I put a third of my money off in carefully monitored savings accounts, I put a third of it towards good charities, and I spend the other third giving myself a ridiculously outrageous lifestyle.

7. While partying to enjoy your new money you die an abrupt and untimely death, and since you were moderately bad in this life, the gods won't let you be reincarnated as a human. You behaved well enough that they'll let you pick what you'll be in your next life, though. What do you choose to be?

A merlin! Best animal ever! A hawk, so I can fly, but a SMART hawk! And a hawk that is careful and loyal with its friendships. :] Pretty, small, geeky hawk. Merlins are love.

8. Screw the last two or three questions; you were never rich or famous. You are, however, blessed with superpowers and invited to join the X-Men. What fantastic mutant power are you going to utilize for the forces of good?

I AM GOING TO FLY. HEAR ME ROAR!

9. As a side-effect of acquiring fantastic mutant powers, your chest suddenly sprouts an extra leg. How do you respond to this phenomenon?

I freak out, then go to Beast and have him shoot me full of novacaine and chop it off, because X-Men doctors know how to fix anything. Anything.

10. When you wake up the next day you find that the leg has disappeared, but now you're a highly attractive member of the opposite sex. Aside from racing off to seduce the celebrity crush mentioned in question 2, what do you do with yourself?

Of course the leg has disappeared! I got it chopped off. Yay for me. I freak out, then get over myself and haunt my old local stomping grounds to see if anybody still recognizes me. If they do, I play it off as if I got a sex change operation, then tell them that they were just imagining it being me - my real name is Damien, and that I've never seen them before.

Then I submit myself to a carefully regimented scientific experiment regarding the masculine thought processes, and thoroughly note all of my findings.

Only after that do I go about seducing Julia Stiles, who will instantly fall in love with me because I understand the female psyche so intimately.

:3

]]> ~sirael IB Art Exams http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/12608038/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/12608038/ Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:08:04 PDT
]]> ~sirael Okay, meme time. http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/12391341/ http://sirael.deviantart.com/journal/12391341/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:18:46 PDT
Meme from OutOfTheOrange.

Just post a comment here, random or not, and...

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this in your journal.

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