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Also... Hi, Adobe, where the hell did shift-ctrl-f go and why?
EDIT: Ohhhh... it's ALT-ctrl-f... either it changed, or I forgot. >.<

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]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/26880578/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/26880578/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:23:37 PDT [link] ... it's up to page 6 as of today, with 29 pages total in this chapter, updating in blocks of 2-3 for the next several weeks.

Also, I'll be appearing at Fallcon, hopefully with books in tow (knock on wood). And, if I do have the books with me... well, the chapter doesn't actually end online until two weeks later.

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]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/20804178/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/20804178/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:12:18 PDT
Also, last weekend of this month, I'll be out in Dearborn, Michigan for Youmacon, so if you're in THAT area, and at the con, stop by and see me in the Alley!

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/20643658/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/20643658/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:41:17 PDT

From

RULES:
Do the "Letter MEME". Tag no less than 5 other people, and leave them a comment, informing them that they have been tagged. Then copy the "How-to" Letter Meme, and finish your Journal entry.

-> How you do the Letter Meme: [link]

Dear Mythka:

I don't really know how to tell you this, but Our romance is over. I think I realized it That night In women's clothing and I saw you Sit on My John F. Kennedy-statue. I'm sure you're Scarred enough to understand That Extreme Home Makeover sucks. I'm returning Your ring to you, but I'll keep Your photo as a memory. You should also know that I Will tell the authorities about Cocaine abuse.

Go burn,
Vicemage

I tag anyone who wants to do it.

Edit: Whoops, forgot to include the directions link... NOW I tag anyone who wants to do it.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/20313380/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/20313380/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:09:23 PDT
How it works:
The first 17 people who comment on this journal will get a feature slot, with 3 pieces of their art thumb nailed. After you've commented and I've featured you, please make a journal entry like this of your own, and feature me there

0. Gotten from


1.


2.


3.


4.


5... ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/19026009/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/19026009/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:30:21 PDT
]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/16457007/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/16457007/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:22:56 PST [link]): I'm doing a sketch month for February. This is mainly for myself, but I'm inviting other people to participate if they'd like, because I've received some good response in talking over the idea with others.

Basically, there will be a theme/prompt assigned to each day of the month. The idea is to do a sketch on that day, using that prompt. Optional is also doing a drabble-length story to go with that sketch, if you so desire.

If there's enough people interested (mainly, more than two), then I'll probably set up an LJ community people can join to post their works for others to see (in addition to posting places like here or personal websites).

Right now the list at the given journal entry is mostly empty, but I'm soliciting suggestions from people over there to fill it up. I suppose any days left empty by the end of the month, I'll fill in myself somehow.

Comment here or on that entry if you have some themes to suggest or want to participate and think I should make the community.

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]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10562940/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10562940/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:23:48 PST
More of the theme sketches coming as soon as I get off my ass and dig out the scanner. Buried it again.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10417210/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10417210/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:21:43 PDT
List 1 is here: [link]

And List 2 is here: [link]

I'll be adding thumbnails to them as I work my way through. Mostly it'll be Red Zone art, with a little CE or miscellaneous stuff added in here and there.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10417186/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10417186/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:55 PDT
So I'm not doing it as fanart, sue me. ^_^ This will grow as I add more thumbnails to it. Snagged it from ^delya who got it from another deviant who got it... I don't know where. If anyone knows the actual origin of this I'd love to know.

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

HE LIST:
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10417151/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10417151/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:06:54 PDT
This entry is going to get bigger and bigger as I add more and more of the thumbnails. ;

T H E L I S T
(Originally from ^delya)

1) Telemarketers
2) Startled
3) People with Faces
4) Paper Hats
5) Undead!
6) FUCKING AWESOME
7) End of Rainbow
8) Funky
9) BATMAAAAN.
10) "Play with me."
11) Dance-off
12) Insomnia
13) Falling Star
14) Manservant.
15) Ornamentation
16) Duel
17) Cotton Candy
18) Eyes Closed
19) Bones
20) Cocktail Weenies
21) Edible Panties
22) Giggle
23) Jell-o
24) Karaoke
25) Shivers
26) Puppet
27) *rimshot*
28) Electro Shock Therapy
29) Stripes
30) Conspiracy
31) SCIENCE!
32) "Wanna go to a donkey show?"
33) Coca-Cola
34) Frolic
35) Chrome
36) "Look ma, no hands!"
37) Tea Party
38) Shoes
39) Golden Gate Bridge
40) Anti-Virus
41) Backwards
42) Balloons
43) Speakers
44) "Dude, you need help..."
45) Heat of Battle
46) Odd Coincidence
47) Brother Against Brother
48) Cake Disaster
49) Fish
50) "And that's all I've got. Eeehehhehehehehehe. ;;"
51) Deadline
52) Alternate Reality
53) Message in a Bottle
54) Frying Eggs on the Sidewalk
55) Cheap Thrill
56) Grocery Store Brawl
57) Samuel L. Jackson
58) Drinking
59) Rainy
60) Bubble Wrap
61) Suicide
62) Heartache
63) Hokey Pokey
64) Bad Call
65) Techno
66) Hate
67) Tickle
68) Hellos and Goodbyes
69) Snow
70) YOUR MOM.
71) Bohemian
72) Transistor
73) Lose
74) I Need You
75) Classical
76) Camping
77) Vertigo
78) Wordplay
79) Shake It
80) Paper Clips
81) lol
82) Crusty
83) Wig
84) "DUDE YOU GOT A DELL!"
85) Sometimes
86) Mugshot
87) Basics
88) Blue Blob
89) Chasing Cars
90) Unimaginable
91) Beach<... ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10385574/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10385574/ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:06:27 PDT
Regarding the writer search: I did pick one, and actually took one of the others as an editor. Which is nice, because the story notes need organizing, and I'm lazy. ehheh.

Regarding new postings: I think I might post the group of stories I call "Year minus one" here sometime... they've got major flaws to them, but I still kind of like them. I'll probably post them in the descriptions of drawings I do from each one. And I doubt I'll edit them so they'll still have their grammatical awkwardness. Ah, I remember writing in class so fondly... I actually was pretty good at not getting caught doing it, considering only one professor ever nailed me at it in five years, and after looking at my grades in the class decided to just not care. ^_^

I've also picked up a couple of those 100 words lists. I'm starting in on chapter 4 of Red Zone and want to do warm-up sketches before I do the actual pages. (Because chapter 4 is very much an action chapter so I want it to look good.) I figure, between the two, I'll eventually get... oh... maybe a quarter of them done. *l* I might post links to the lists later, I don't think I'll post the full lists here. Other people have done that. ^^

Now, to see if this posts or crashes the work computer... taking all bets!

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10254705/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10254705/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:12:50 PDT
I've got my writer submissions now... It's down to two choices. One has a really solid writing style but made the deadline by only a couple of hours. The other had a good writing style, submitted far enough in advance that he was able to give me a second draft, and did a lot of background planning on it.

I'm kind of tempted to ask the second one to write and the first to edit or something. Argh again.

I need to make this journal pretty sometime... I have the ability, but not the motivation, I guess.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10046134/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10046134/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:13:28 PDT .<

I'd type more but there's a cat in the way.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10035311/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/10035311/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:29:57 PDT
changing the featured dev for today. My prayers are with the lost and survivors alike.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/9776537/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/9776537/ Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:20:28 PDT
[link] is where the existing stuff is hanging out right now. I have script for chapter 4 (and half of 5, but I expect it to get rehashed by whoever comes on board), so I can hold out a little while between that and some little omake I have sketched up that can be completed... Still, I'll be needing someone probably set to go within the next month, so they have time to get settled in and I have time to draw it. I also have decent storynotes and, since it was all my creation in the first place, a good idea of where everything is going. Anyone out there interested?

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/9684622/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/9684622/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:49:54 PDT *blinks at it*
*pokes it a little*
I FEAR CHANGE!
*cowers* ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8846206/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8846206/ Mon, 22 May 2006 15:28:07 PDT I hate not having a subscription on here, it takes me long enough as is to get through my watchlist...

There's a couple people who I"m sure have dAs somewhere I need to find sometime.... I might have to use that as a distraction one of these upcoming days. I'll definately need my distractions now that the biggest one (Sogencon) is done.

About a month or so and artwork from the Sogen guidebook will be forthcoming. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8670995/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8670995/ Thu, 04 May 2006 10:55:22 PDT
She was surrounded by love and her suffering is ended.

Services will be this Saturday at Grace Lutheran in Westbrook. Time is pending.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8606967/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8606967/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:19:40 PDT
My mother has been fighting with a horrible cancer for a couple years now, and it looks like the end is coming, and it's not what any of us wanted. We don't know how much longer she has, it could be days or weeks, but there's really nothing short of a miracle that's going to help now. I've always been really close to my mother, moreso than the rest of my family, really... this is hard for me and it's hard for the rest of my family too. I haven't wanted, before, to think about what I'll do without her, but now I'm going to have to think about that. I'm going to have to put aside a lot of my other obligations in order to deal with the immediate situation, so if I owe you some task or favor, please understand. I really don't want to lose her, but what I want and what's going to happen seem to be two completely different things. If you're close enough to offer direct support to my family, we'll probably appreciate it right now. I know I'm going to need some support to get myself through this.

Tomorrow I think I'll go talk to the manager at work about the situation as it is. I'll also try to get over to the school and tell a couple of the people over there who knew her, let them know what's happening. I don't know what I'm going to do. I just don't know. I don't know what to say, I don't know how to explain it. How do you deal with something like this? It's not something that people really know how to handle, I think. It's not something anyone ever wants to handle, but here it is and I have to deal with it somehow. I just don't know how that's going to be.

It scares me, and saddens me. I keep crying over it. I feel lost. I just don't know.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8075377/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8075377/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:41:33 PST
I think spammers are getting lazier. These are some actual subject lines, completely unedited, out of my spam box:

Zoom Zoom <<%first_name%>> drive away with a great deal on a '06 or '05 car

Im ready for change-how about you<>?

So personal... How could I possibly resist opening them?

*delete*

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8045365/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8045365/ Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:55:07 PST
No, I still don't have a job. But I finally got approved for unemployment benefits, so money isn't as painful anymore for me. ^_^

"The applicant quit due to an uncomfortable work environment and gender discrimination. Submitted information shows that the applicant reported that the store manager was hostile towards female employees due to incidents such as random firing and cutting hours of female employees. The applicant reported that when she was removed from a full-time position to be replaced, without a clear reason, by a new male employee, the applicant quit. The applicant had talked with the manager before, and was told it was the applicant's fault. Since the applicant reported continual stress from workingwith the manager, and since the applicant's requests for relief from the situation was not acted upon, the preponderance of evidence shows the situation was adverse to the applicant, would compel an average worker to quit and become unemployed, and was directly related to the employment or a reason for which the employer is responsible. The applicant quit for a good reason caused by the employer."

See? They figured it out! ^_^ So hopefully by next week I'll have some money again and be able to survive without begging off my parents.

But I still want a job. -.-

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8030103/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/8030103/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:58:00 PST
Another round of updates from old disks has come... soon I'll be through this and back to uploading new stuff. Found the remaining paintings I hadn't fixed and uploaded before, so I got those taken care of. A few I thought I'd lost that are now here to be seen. And lots of scraps again. ^_^

Today's count:
Deviations: 21
Scraps: 36

A little closer to an even split...

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7971945/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7971945/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:38:51 PST
Another batch of updates today, though (surprise!) I tilted more towards deviations than scraps this time.

Today's count: 18 deviations, 5 scraps.

We'll see what tomorrow brings... the more of these I upload, the harder it gets to keep track of what I have and have not uploaded. ; Only a couple more disks to go through, as well as what's currently on the hard drive.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7957132/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7957132/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:47:14 PST
I've been going through old drawings working on uploading more stuff to this gallery, since I realized when digging through some disks how much stuff I have that's not uploaded here... So I apologize if you devwatch me, because you're going to be getting a ton of stuff showing up. More if you scrapwatch since I tend to send a lot over there.

In regular deviations, I've added in 14 new drawings. In scraps, 26 new ones. That's just off my old Geocities site... one folder of it. ^^ Now I'm off to disks to see what else I want to bring in.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7948072/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7948072/ Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:49:28 PST
Character quizzy, ganked from Cyrway, ganked from Wingus, yanked from Windracer.

Who are your main character(s)?:
CE: Gabriel, Maren
RZ: Tsuki, Cor

Who are your oldest character(s)?:
CE: Liora, who doesn't even appear until near the end ^^ Created her when I was 8, I think.
RZ: Tsuki, who pretty much created the RZ universe as a playground where he could be badass ;

Who are your newest character(s):
CE: Of actual characters, Vincent would be the newest, though there's always little bit ones showing up when I do sketch work for it
RZ: Newest that *I* created would probably be Arioch, since after creating the main seven characters, I really haven't had a part in that anymore. ^^

Who is your strongest character(s)?:
CE: For physical strength, probably Arthen or Vincent. For magical, Gabriel
RZ: Tsuki and Madison are fairly evenly matched, I think... ^^

Who is your smartest character(s)?:
CE: Probably Maren. ^_^ Both Gabriel and Arthen are pretty clever too.
RZ: Gayle and Madison. Yeah, the bad guys are actually smart. Eep.

Who is your unsmartest character(s)?:
CE: Gah, I dunno... Jaie? I guess?
RZ: Oh, probably one of the villains yet to come into play. Of the seven main, it might actually be Cor. Not that she's dumb or anything, but the others tend to have some smarts over her. If not her, then Kikuko for the same reason.

Who is your quietest character(s)?:
CE: Gabriel. Easy.
RZ: Remy, she's a mute. Seriously, probably Tsuki. Remy's physically silent, but she makes up for it in bubbly.

Who is your loudest character(s)?:
CE: Tossup between Arthen, Maren and Liora.
RZ: Cor and Kikuko are fairly tied there.

Who is your most annoying character(s)?:
CE: Pollex. Talk talk talk... ^_^
RZ: Kikuko. Talk talk talk... ^_^;;

Who is your most mature character(s)?:
CE: Maren, easily. Sometimes I think he's the only one who can act like an adult...
RZ: Arioch and Tsuki, with Madison behind him, but they can be a bit childish at times too.

Who is your most worried character(s):
CE: Maren. ^^ Gabriel right after him though.
RZ: Cor. She's kind of cute about it too.

Who is your meanest character(s):
CE: Arthen. Little bastard. >.< Adet's a nasty little bitch too, come to think of it...
RZ: Gayle. Arioch at times too.

Who is your kindest character(s)?:
CE: Maren, again. ^^ Gabriel and Esa both are also very kind.
RZ: Remy and Kikuko.

Who are your oldest(In age) characters?:
CE: Iaian, probably. Or Ome. She's older than time, but she's not much of a character... ^^

Who are your youngest characters?:
CE: The kids, when they appear, but eventually they grow up too. ^_^ During the main course of the story, I think it's Gabriel.
RZ: I think Remy was younger than Cor, or they're the same age, but either way, it's one of those two.

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Goth Characters:
CE: Um... good question. ^^ Some of the designs aren't final yet on that... so far I think it's Vincent.
RZ: Arioch. ^^

Prep Characters:
CE: I don't think there really are much of any of those. Maybe some of the random side mages who haven't been characterized out yet. ^^
RZ: Um... no one, really. ^^

Punk Characters:
CE: Not really anyone. ^^
RZ: Same. ^^

Nerd Characters:
CE: Pollex is kind of a nerd. So is Jaie. ^_^
RZ: Madison is probably the closest to a nerd there. And he's a pretty badass one... Kikuko maybe....

Shy Characters:
CE: Gabriel by far.
RZ: Remy

Social Characters:
CE: Maren's very friendly and social. Esa can be, most of the time. ^^
RZ: Cor tends to be about the most social of them.

Bossy Characters:
CE: Iaian and Arthen. Pollex can be pushy but not really "bossy," just insistent.
RZ: Gayle.

Crossdresser Character:
CE: All the mages in their cute little dresses. ^_~
RZ: Um... I'm thinking one of the villains might've been but right now I don't recall offhand. ;

Rude Characters:
CE: Arthen.
RZ: Tsuki.

Cheerful Characters:
CE: Esa. ^^ Pollex is pretty cheerful too, but in a slightly disturbing way. There's something a bit creepy about an overly happy doctor... ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7920216/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7920216/ Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:35:03 PST
I really need a job so I can resubscribe. -.- ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7824462/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7824462/ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:50:49 PST
I'm very tired. -.- I really should have stopped working on this much much sooner... this is what I've been doing all day today. Tomorrow I look for jobs, try calling the hotel again, and... I dunno. And keep working on this. This is the most ambitious thing I've tried in Flash so far, so I'll see how it goes... it's not going to be easy. Already I'm trying to figure out how the hell I'm going to do Arioch's wings and hair... >.< And this is just his lineart, there's plenty more to ink up.

Sketched the whole thing in Photoshop first, and then decided I wasn't going to get good enough line quality for what I wanted out of PS, so I switched over to Flash. This is going to take me a while...

I really want a job. ;_;

Hah, the link doesn't work. ^^ Here it is: [link] ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7706364/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7706364/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:53:16 PST Gren: Dan is no longer in the employment of shopko

The manager who was responsible for EVERYTHING that's been shit at Shopko for the past few months has gone down. ^_^

I still probably won't go back to work there, considering I did walk out and all (and there's some interesting things I'm looking at now)... but I'll go back in now, I'll talk to Kelly probably. But for as much as they hurt me over the past few months, even with him gone I don't think I can go back to work there.

Still... it's good to know he's gone. ^_^ ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7659003/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7659003/ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:41:17 PST
And I think that's all I'll miss about that job. I never had to subscribe to the paper. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7352918/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7352918/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:11:22 PST
Mood: Amused

A few days ago I "discovered" (or rather, stopped ignoring) the search function of Firefox. Which was preinstalled with a few things like Google and Yahoo. I also discovered I could install things like Wikipedia on it (and promptly did). Today, I was playing with it to do a search on Wiki for a long post I did on the Funimation forums (which I'm sure will get me a moderator warning, since one of the mods is not very good at it...) and then started thinking "This is pretty neat. I wish I could search Anime News Network with it... I wonder if I can search Anime News Network with it?"

I can. ^_^ There's a full page of anime search functions, and there's a bunch of sites I do a lot of searches at. So now my search bar is getting more than a little full. I think next up is downloading the tool to take things like Google out. Google's my homepage, I don't need it in my little bar up there... or the sites I've never heard of, either.

But mainly, I think it's hot I can search ANN and AnimeSuki from that thing. ^_^

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Mood: Amused

So in spite of all the Narutard friends I have, I've really only succeeded in seeing about three episodes of it. Repeatedly. Seems like every time I'm around people showing fansubs, it's the same group of episodes.

And now tonight, I turn on Cartoon Network on a pure whim, and guess what's on...

Edit: It's amazing what a little boredom can do. I've just hit an all-time low of "new messages" on my account, with 21. Down from over 200 when I logged in today. What's left is some lit pieces I want to take time to read, and ~Vig-aka-Weed's gigantic flash program. Plus a couple things I need to remember to come back to, so I can't really take them out yet.

I need to do some Christmas art. I should fire up Flash and get going on the first one, at least, and decide what to do for my personal Christmas thing. Not going to solicit any from anyone because I never get anything anyway. Same with my birthday. *shrug* I might try doing a few for people, if I have time/less stress, but I'm so completely burned out on work that I don't even know about that. Someone force me into it, dammit!

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7134204/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7134204/ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:14:29 PST
Mood: I don't care! ^_^

You know the movie Office Space? "I don't think I'm going to go to work anymore." "So you're going to quit?" "No, I'm just not going to go." "Won't you get fired?" I think that's me. ^_^ And if I get scheduled on Sunday (our planned "family thanksgiving") after requesting it off a month ago and speaking directly to management about having it off, I just won't go. I've stopped taking calls from work, told my mom to just stop taking them here and tell them "Sorry, she's not at this number" and hang up. I get physically ill when I get calls from them. I get physically ill sometimes being there, or getting up in the morning and knowing I have to go there. I was going to wait until I had another job first, before I quit, but now I"ll take unemployment checks over the abuse I'm suffering there. It's like an abusive relationship, y'know? The best thing to do is just walk away. And that's what I plan to do. I'm going to go by the courthouse to see if I can collect unemployment if I walk out, otherwise, I figure if I don't go in, they'll fire me, and then I can collect the unemployment that way. I can work for Call Center or KFC or something horrible like that while I work on my resumes and send them out to a few places, and then I can take off from that job and go where the resumes take me. ^_^ Wouldn't mind something in the south, even if it was just for an interview. It's warmer there than here. ^_^

That store will probably be closed by the end of the year. And I will cheer when all those worthless managers are out of jobs because they ran their own store into the ground. ^_^

On another thing, since I have Black Friday morning off, I'm off to Walmart (at 330 am, UGH!) to pick up a couple things. Mainly I need to get my dad a laptop (wish me luck on that! Dear God what have I agreed to?!) since he wants a cheap beginner laptop... after that, trying for a total of three all-in-one units, with the priority one being mine. So I can solve my scanner problem. ^_^ Wish me luck on that one too! (And I think my bro should go with me to get his own... what does he think I am? Some kind of shopping machine? Augh!)

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Well, not the number since they're closed up, but I sure got the email address okay. And sent them an anonymous note. Since according to the posters in the lounge, we can be anonymous on HR stuff.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7002274/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/7002274/ Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:25:00 PST
And I have one critical casualty: The scanner.

The bloody scanner has no XP drivers!

*tears hair out*

I'm just getting nowhere on this. Plus, my mobo's not in the best shape... argh... so early next year I'll have to be getting a new mobo/processor/case. At least everything else is still good *knock on wood* so that'll only be about $400 or less, depending on what I opt for.

Already $200 on this repair, but it's all stuff that can be kept for the next one. And now I have to buy a bloody scanner too! *sigh*

Edit: My "My Documents" folder is gone too. Which I didn't think was so bad until I remembered, that's where all my photos downloaded to. All my photos for a year are gone now. I could cry.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6969736/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6969736/ Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:56:55 PST .< It decided to blow up on me (well, not literally) and stop working. So I went and picked up a copy of XP, since I've been having OS issues anyway, and was planning to eventually upgrade to that. 98SE is, after all, getting just a little bit old. And a little bit unsupported these days. Tech support on the microsoft website is going away more and more, and more and more programs won't run under it. Thus, I decided to just go ahead and make the jump to XP.

The computer, however, disagrees. Hence the two weeks.

I've been trying for a long time on my own to install, with zero success. I went so far as to spent over three hours (198 minutes by the phone's count) on the phone with Microsoft tech support. Stumped them pretty well too. So tomorrow, when I get off work, I'm dropping in on the three good computer places in town, getting work estimates from all of them, and going with whoever's cheaper (either the place that most recently worked on it or the guy who most recently worked on it who went off and made his own business since then). Likely there's a hardware issue. Yay. More money down the can on this computer. Altogether since I bought it it's probably cost me nearly $1500 by now. Maybe more. Ouch. >.< But then again, I've had essentially the same computer for 7 years now and, outside of the whole OS thing, it's stayed fairly up to date, so I guess I can't complain too much.

I just wish it worked again. My parents have slow dialup and the keyboards at the library stick like you wouldn't believe. And neither place has a proper ergo keyboard. >.< My rollback failed too, so I'm still stuck without it. >.<

On an amusing note, when I had it opened up and the hard drives out yesterday, I cautioned my dad about the gutted computer. His answer was, "What if I stomp in it? Would that fix it?" "Well, yes, only because I'd make you replace all the parts and THAT would make it work." "But it'd be fixed, right?" "Sure, but you'd pay for it."

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]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6803118/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6803118/ Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:50:20 PDT Spam is a delicacy? It's a strange article, go read it. ^^

Did you know this entry is spam to get rid of the last spam entry on my main page without deleting it? Now you know. ^_^

Did you know the paid journal thing is way different from the free account and I almost screwed this one up? Now I know.

]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6753064/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6753064/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:22:26 PDT and 's journals, we have spam. ^_^ I'm so very sorry, but I needed something to do before bed.... and this killed a LOT of time.

100 Questions for the Artist

1] What is your pen name?
Vicemage / Gabriel Moonshadow

2] How did you get the name?
It's the main character from my original works (and his title/position in society)

3] Do you use PC or Mac?
PC, baby. No Macs!

4] What software you use most often?
For art? Photoshop 7, though I'm also moving into doing Flash graphics too...

5] Do you use mouse, or tablet?
Combination of both, depending on what part of the image I'm working on

6] The color you use most often is?
...Black? For lines and b/w artwork? Course, it'd probably actually be WHITE then...

7] What area of the pictures do you put most effort into?
Expressions

8] How long does it take you do draw a picture?
Anywhere from a few minutes to a few days, depending on the program, level of detail and effort

9] Do you keep your rough drafts?
Yes, just because the way I work doesn't destroy them.

10] What kind of font do you use most often?
Grunge type fonts, usually. They just seem to work with most of what I'm up to

11] What's the dpi when you scan?
300

12] Do you do anything else when you're drawing pictures?
Usually listen to TV if I'm at home, or to the Muzak system if I'm at work

13] How many pictures do you draw in a month?
Um... I dunno? Anywhere from 1 to... more than 1.

14] What kind of paper do you draw your pictures on?
Printer paper, cheap sketchbooks, cardstock, anything handy

16] How long does it take to ink something?
Totally depends on what I'm inking. On average, around an hour or so.

17] Do you do doujinshi or original manga?
Original manga. -.-;; I need to get back to drawing that.

18] Do you like doujinshi? Is it fun making it?
I don't do doujinshi really (not to say I haven't been tempted) but I do like it when it's well done. Only when it's well done.

19] Ever submitted anything to a magazine?
Back in around 6th grade I submitted two stories and three artworks to a student literary magazine. That's pretty much it, unless you count the drawings picked up by the campus literary magazine my freshman year (and about the last year the magazine was even halfway decent, it turned 100% pretentious the next year)

20] Did it get published?
Nope

21] Who are your favorite artists?
I dunno ^^

22] What's your favourite Anime/Manga?
Fullmetal Alchemist, in case that's in doubt ^_^;;

23] Favourite Character?
You have to ask?

24] Any artists that you'd like to draw like?
Like to draw like? The good ones. ^_~

25] Do you buy books a lot?
Used to, not so much anymore. I've just been too busy to read.

26] Did you ever buy a book to inspire you to draw?
To inspire? Not especially. I use the "How to Draw Manga" books for references/ideas/drawing exercizes/learning sequential art conventions, but not so much to actually inspire me to draw.

27] Any video games you enjoy?
RPGs mostly. ^_^

28] Any favourite characters from video games?
Um.... I dunno ^_^;; There's a lot I like, from the very few games I've played.

29] Do you have a favourite writer?
I seem to read a lot of Moorcock...

30] Any books you really enjoy?
The Elric saga. ^^

31] Do you write fanfics?
Not anymore, though that doesn't mean another can't randomly pop out. One did not long ago for FMA. I ought to haul it over here...

32] Any music that you often listen to while drawing?
At work, the soft-rock Muzak. At home, it's usually the tv, though occasionally I'll throw Winamp up and listen to that instead.

33] Any recommended songs?
No?

34] Any websites that you totally admire?
Nah.

35] Do you have any sites you want to go everyday?
Want to, yes. Do, not so much.

36] What is your dream site like?
For my own? One that programs and updates itself. ^_^

37] Do you like your own art?
Not often. ^_^

38] What do you enjoy watching on TV?
Adult Swim, Stargate, Monk, Attack of the Show... ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6671672/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6671672/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:30:21 PDT .< Three of the keys have just stopped entirely, and I don't think there's anywhere in town where I can get a new ergonomic keyboard. And I have to have this kind, or it kills my wrists. Argh! I don't want to go spend $30 on a new keyboard, there's better things I could spend that on! Like food! And gas! I could get half a tank of gas for that! >.<

So if you see the letters B, X, or Z missing from posts or chats with me, now you know why. And knowing is half the attle. ^_~ ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6576296/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/6576296/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:32:55 PDT
Edit: So I uploaded everything I wanted to keep out of Elfwood Fantasy and Fanart, but I'm not sure about the stories... I'm still debating them. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/4625816/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/4625816/ Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:04:40 PST .< ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/4006224/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/4006224/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:30:28 PST
Copied from 's journal:

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.

(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3970863/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3970863/ Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:03:59 PST
*knock on wood* I hope I don't end up with dA crashing it out too. Or with my previous Netscape Syndrome. That was a miserable browser. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3928076/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3928076/ Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:42:35 PST
* [link] Drawn in July of 2003, never scanned or shown to anyone before posting it here.

* [link] Drawn yesterday, without having seen the previous sketch, or knowing anything at all about it.

The whole thing with that second drawing is odd, of course, but that's a curiosity I can easily iilustrate.

I'll have to get some more art uploaded onto here soon, but first things first, I really want to get some comic stuff together so it can start updating again in about a week. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3748326/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3748326/ Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:15:56 PST ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3708912/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3708912/ Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:38:25 PDT I've still got to install my daisy-chain hardware (that should be highly entertaining), and see if I can get my pda working. But beyond those four items, and the mapping software that goes with the pda, I've got everything reinstalled but office. *curses not having an office disk anywhere* That's something to just patiently work on, I guess.

I'm thinking of making a "christening" wallpaper or two, of sorts, for this system, once it's fully up and back in business. Debating between CE/RZ characters, or new FMA fanart... course, I have to find an IDEA too. I want it shiny, that's about all I've managed.

Hah... reformat my drive yesterday, and today it's more than half full again. Can't wait to get that new hard drive. Did a couple preparation things for it as long as I was in there today. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3697865/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3697865/ Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:38:33 PDT ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3558732/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3558732/ Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:50:53 PDT about it, I said "I have probably hundreds of them. I'm just picking and choosing from those." Just did a count (well, from the properties panel of the folder I'm going through), and I have 1,010 in just this set to choose from. So expect to see scraps showing up for a few days. No, I'm not uploading all 1,010. Just a few from each folder, if any. Some may be skipped entirely.

I'm very much debating on a subset... they're from 2003 so they're toward the end of what I'm going through right now. Anyway... these are the sketches that I would probably tag with the "Mature Content" label. They're not that bad, in general... but the thing is, I was working on body position over clothing position, so they're unclothed, and thus some of the drawings can *ahem* be taken the wrong way. Please comment one way or the other if you think I should post them... otherwise it's mainly up to me and people I chat with, which will probably end in ruling most of them out.

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Member of and and applying for a couple others... ; ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3491610/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3491610/ Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:32:25 PDT whenever she decides what she wants... or she may get a surprise... *rubs hands and cackles evilly*

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member of and .. figure I should mentin that once in a while. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3481685/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3481685/ Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:49:00 PDT ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3432178/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3432178/ Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:36:39 PDT [link] There's all my lovely photos. ; Okay, some aren't as good as I hoped, I'm hoping I can find copies somewhere to get better ones.... and apparently Rob and Ced got my camera becuse I didn't take some of those pictures... but there they are. Just a straight upload of all pictures. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3403037/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3403037/ Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:45:23 PDT
First order of business, though: Sleep. (OKay, it was actually "respond to backlog of posts on [as] boards," but now it's sleep.) ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3231996/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3231996/ Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:04:54 PDT ... so much more I want to do here, such a broken bucket of bolts computer. ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3220605/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3220605/ Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:24:58 PDT now... and finding far too many people I know these days here... such fun! ^_^ ]]> ~vicemage http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3204597/ http://vicemage.deviantart.com/journal/3204597/ Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:53:55 PDT ; Between work, my comic (damnable thing), and my Alchemist cosplay, I just don't get over here much anymore... but I do plan on uploading a few more things over here soon. Soon I say! ]]> ~vicemage