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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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Me: "Rezo's face looks deceptively easy to draw but it is FIENDISHLY hard, I've learned, because his eyes are so big and conceptually important that it puts a lot of pressure on rendering them correctly, and because his face is very long and fine-boned but doesn't quite cross over to totally girly. That said, new seasons Rezo is slightly easier to draw, for some reason, than season one Rezo. I can't figure out why but it's true lol."
Elise (GaavNoMayuge): "Oh, yes, Rezo's eyes are really hard to draw properly, because they are important! And he definitely has a long face in comparison to the other characters (Lina and Amelia have very very round faces in comparison...)! ^__^ But I will do my best!
Hm... I think that his hair style changes slightly between season one and the new seasons, he has the two pieces of hair hanging on his forehead in the first season, but I don't think it's as present in the newer seasons... and I think there's a slightly different approach to drawing his eyelids...? As in, in the first season, the eyelids are clearly drawn in the shape of the eye and the fold over the eyelashes whereas that's less emphasized perhaps in the newer style...? Or something...?"
Elise, you are right! Observe:
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I would say the changes are:
--Less broad shoulders.
--The two bangs in the front now point away from, rather than toward, his forehead, creating a more streamlined look.
--His hair is in general less exaggeratedly swooshy, lol.
--His eyelashes are a little less long.
--His eyes are more proportionate.
--In his eyes in general, the focus is less volumetrically on the closed eyeballs and more on the eyebrows.
--An overall more masculine appearance except for being thinner and slighter of frame.
It might be fun to do this with the entire cast. The revamping had various degrees of efficacy. My favorite revamps are of Rezo, Zelgadiss, and Xelloss. Who happen to be my three favorites, so I am a happy camper lol XD;
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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Sick, six days before my qualifying exams. Whyyyyyy. X__X;
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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I am so remarkably pissed off and discouraged today. High bloodsugar, missing out on too much and feeling stressed about not the social end to the point where I'd just rather not spend time with anyone, meds with emotional side effects, and way the fuck too much to do in only two and a half weeks. Also my fucked up PCOS multi-month periods. In the throes of that as we speak. I hate my body. I wish I could just be a spirit, a brain, and a set of emotions, without the inconvenience of physical functions and malfunctions.
My mind is sluggish today because that's not possible, and I'm just saturated with too much factoid, and I can't seem to take in or dialogue about anything with study buddies.
I hate that.
Oh well. What's to be will be. At least it's only another month. I've had much worse for far longer than a month. I can take it.
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
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....since I keep coming back to it.
Except please please please, do not comment on my journal in order to be argumentative or critical. Everyone has the right to be these things, and normally I love a good feisty debate, but right now I really can't take it. I just don't have time, or energy, for it. So please just ignore my entries if they annoy you or seem glaringly unjust or flawed or whatever it is that compels anyone to be so dissatisfied with me. ^_^; Thank you.
I'm insanely depressed. That's why I am typing this. I feel isolated. I've imposed it on myself because of exams crunch time. But I really miss talking to all my best friends nightly. I've gone from nightly to complete abstinence from AIM and most of the internet. It's a difficult transition even if it is only for a little over a month. Because I live with my mom (the rest of my actual nuclear AND extended family except my dad, divorced from my mom and living in Cincinnati, are all dead, or are cousins living in California that I don't know). My mom is getting older and it's hard to watch.
I am having nightly dreams of my grandma having died, but somehow being alive again, and very angry at me for believing she was dead. Very angry. And my mom too. And everyone acting like her raised from the dead is normal, and furious at me for insisting that she's dead and that it hurts me to see her back when she isn't really. The dreams are often graphic and very very disturbing. And literally, ritualistically nightly. Someone tell me this is going to stop soon. I wonder what it is I need to let go of.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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This is my terrible crappy work in progress of a cute scene in an rpg with Ruana! I want her to see it and smile since she has pneumonia! *weep* Poor biddums!!!! <33333 I hope you like it, my dearie!
And HERE IS MAH OTP:
Back to hiatus-studying nows D^X>
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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I want to make a music video. Now that I have a snazzy MacBook Pro, it is very easy to do this on iMovie (which I have used before thanks to an awesome prof who let me borrow her comp for an art class movie in undergrad). I probably won't have the time till December but still:
1) What are the best free sites from which I can (semi)legally download video clips? I have done slide shows before but actual videos are always more entertaining.
2) Once I get to the site, how do I download the vid clips?
3) Are there any with specifically Slayers clip sites? XD; You all can probably guess from my icon who this will be about, LOL.
Thanks to my techno-super friends! <3
Also, giving up AIM is KILLING ME. I am on AIM at least a couple hours EVERY night rping with friends and I just MISS it. But at the same time I am already seeing the difference in my calm, sleep, and concentration levels. So I am sticking with this, even though it's tough getting rid of that addiction.
Peace out, friends!
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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Previeeeeew:
I had to break my no-net rule one last time to share this XDDDDD
( Stingy treat-proffering invites many tricks by sardine-heads and demons, so the wise of old have said )
I just wish Rezo's soul really WERE in that jackolantern. I would promptly revive him and go around in a red dress with a white apron and dye my hair auburn and be Ozer. For the rest of my LIFE. Lol.
Hope it got some festive chuckles. XD It was surprisingly popular on my block even though nobody knew what it was, haha. <3
Also, have a promise from God (I was praying for help when this showed up. I thought that was pretty nifty):
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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| Subject: | HIATUS. |
| Time: | 10:19 pm. |
| Mood: |  aggravated. | | Music: | native American flutes. |
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Hi F-Listers.
I'm taking a hiatus from LiveJournal. For this entire week, I've been having a number of highly unwarranted and unwanted "internet drama" situations, mainly with a specific InuYasha fandom troll but also even with a handful of regular visitors. I seem unable to stop myself from trying to politely but firmly retort to both slightly grumpy chastisements and outright character assaults (again, rarer, and just from a troll or two). As a result, hours of my time that I already don't have are eaten up in arguments with strangers over the internet.
The solution to this problem is clear.
I will be away from my Amberpalette LiveJournal account until December 2009, at which point I will resume the usual net activities. That's barely over a month and I somehow doubt anyone will be devastated, lol =^P
So please refrain from commenting in my journal (if you do it will just get deleted because I don't have time to read comments ^^; ) until December.
Many thanks, and sorry I have to do this, but school comes first.
God bless!
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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My Godson has the FLU D^;> PLEASE pray and/or hold good thoughts for him! Gwahhh *weep!* I don't think it's Swine Flu but they're not sure! ;;;____;;;
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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Not only all the people at dA and here who rather leapt to my defense on the issue in my most recent journal, but also my poor friend with H1N1 who was bored today lying around convalescing, and decided to send me this:
Only Slayers fans will understand this but LOL.
IT BE'Z A REZOLULCATZ! YAYYYZ!
I LOVE YOU, KAREN! LOL. <3
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But an incredibly pugnacious person both at deviantART and here, who simply WILL NOT LEAVE ME ALONE, has made me despairingly curious.
Poll #1473952 Pedophilia
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10Pedophilia is:
View Answersabusive to a child, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually (the needs of the victim matter more).
   10 (100.0%) an overly prescriptive label, historically and culturally specific, made by post-Victorian Western world political moderates.
0 (0.0%) abusive, but negligibly, because the abuser "can't help" his/her urges (the needs of the abuser matter more).
0 (0.0%) only legitimized when thoughts, words, and desires become actions.
2 (20.0%) Pedophilia is defined as: Lolicon is: Your opinions on this subject are influenced by a partisan stance on a fictional fandom pairing (or "ship"). Your opinions on this subject are influenced by a personal experience, self or loved one, having been a victim of sexual molestation (physical, emotional, or psychological) as a child.
In case you were wondering about the conversation that precipitated this, it's here: http://comments.deviantart.com/1/79889144/1239213988 yet another of the Sesshoumaru-secretly-wants-to-fuck-Rin-the-eight-year-old-and-it's-okay-as-long-as-he-doesn't-ACT-on-his-horny-fetishization-of-his-daughter InuYasha fandom, who MILITANTLY smoke naysayers out, corner us, and like to tell us how dumb and mean and closed-minded we are for thinking it's wrong to be a pedophile and that there is a definite ideological link between pedophilia and lolicon.
I have to wonder about these people. My mother is a psychologist who works with teens. Without going too deeply into it I will say that her professional opinion of people who get turned on by this "love a child erotically" stuff lack mental health, and not in a whimsical, lovable way, but rather in a serious, pathological way.
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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...because Subsiding-Leaf put up an interesting argument over Inuyasha Kanketsu/the final manga arcs of Inuyasha. Essentially her argument was that the protests against Sesshoumaru's "emasculation" via the various sword changes (bye bye Tokijin, hello armed Tenseiga, goodbye armed Tenseiga, hello Bakusaiga, hello healing-again Tenseiga) were full of fallacies, because Sesshoumaru was, for a very long time, a raging prick to his little half-brother InuYasha (something I would not dispute) and basically deserved all the hassles he got (something I would dispute for the following reasons), hassles which led to his becoming a much better person (something I would wholeheartedly agree with). To be honest I never found Sesshoumaru interesting before he took in and protected/raised Rin, but after that point, when his assholery began to soften, he was the character out of the entire cast who grew the most. I became a die-hard Sesshoumaru fan because of all of the more ennobling traits of the character: He was strong, he was determined, he never quit regardless of the fact that all circumstances were against him (something that is indisputable regardless of whether or not he is a "nice guy"), he did everything without being manipulative, sneaky, or forcing others to become involved and do it for him (one reason why he is a diametrical opposite in personality to Naraku). He was a loner, emotionally reserved, and regardless of how we feel about the Inu no Taishou or the reasoning behind which sword should go to which son (reasoning which I find wise), the way he handled his sons' inheritances was frankly sloppy. Before fooling around with Izayoi, who was basically his equivalent of the customary high-society concubine of samurai lords in the Sengoku Era, he really should have tried to make his reasoning clearer to Sesshoumaru and not left things in such a state that his sons were bound to feel at odds and jealous. There is also the issue that, while he is at heart a very good person, InuYasha is also not some victim-saint who never gave Sesshoumaru grief. This doesn't give Sesshoumaru the right to cruelly lord it over his brother how he is stronger and of nobler blood and the one who knew their father, but it does make it more understandable why Sesshoumaru essentially adopts the posturings of an Alpha Male in a dog or wolf pack, the one who is genuinely smarter, stronger, and more skillful at advancing the family name and wellbeing, squelching the challenges of the uppity Beta Male. To Sesshoumaru, it's not just a matter of some kind of stick-up-ass samurai principle that the eldest son get the "best" inheritances, it's that the strongest should lead. It's almost like instinct.
I could go on and on about my second favorite character in the history of anime ^^; but I will spare you. Have a poll:
Poll #1473050 The Character Development of Sesshoumaru
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6In the final 150 chapters of the InuYasha manga, the character of Sesshomaru....
View Answersremains dislikable because of unforgivable character flaws, such as pragmatism, emotional reserve, elitism, and insensitivity to others.
0 (0.0%) grows exponentially as a person, from villain to antihero, still possessing the aforementioned character flaws, but for sympathetic reasons.
4 (66.7%) remains dislikable despite his character flaws being forgivable and his personality developing.
1 (16.7%) is not the main reason why you watch/read InuYasha so you are indifferent.
1 (16.7%) has always been likable, despite the aforementioned character flaws, or even because of them, as well as irrespective of previously existing flaws such as racism and lack of compassion.
1 (16.7%) Sesshoumaru's endless sword-inheriting woes and struggles are....
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And now for another obscurely-related-to-Slayers crack-vid!!!!!
Buahahahah. I have no idea what I just watched XD
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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EDIT Roaming-Bard already found the song for me so don't worry about searching anymore! Thanks everyone!!!! <3
I promise to stop after this LOL.
Inuyasha Kanketsu (Final Act), the song is by AAA and is called With You. It's incredibly catchy. If anyone can find an mp3 for me, I will draw you a Sesshoumaru. Yes really! =3
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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kjsdfksdflsdlfhsakdfjh WTF. LOL. ROFL.
OH MY GOD. XD KOYASUUUUUUUUU~
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There is this song called Persona Ondo that Koyasu sings like some kind of extremely intoxicated Kururu-esque character and it NEVER FAILS TO MAKE ME LAUGH HYSTERICALLY. Mainly because it's Rezo's and so many other dark angsty bishounens' seiyuu, but also because of the performance itself. Utterly hilarious and it lifts my mood in five seconds because it is so irreverent. Could someone locate it for me? Again I can only seem to find downloads for a Quicktime file link, and I want an mp3 to play on iTunes and cd's XD
Thanks to the kind ladies who are magicians at this, on my flist!
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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A picture Izo-Chan requested:
Rofl, I love that he has on spectacles but can't see. I love Rezo's wacky-ass sense of humor. He probably does it to see if anyone will say anything XDDDD. It's like putting in ten doors with ten flights of stairs to piss off intruders to his secret lab, and having pink teddy bears and jacks in the box among test tubes and chimera containers and like, a chicken mazoku safeguarding the place, lolz. Kooky old geniuses ftw lol.
( More Reference and Avatar Picciiieeees. )
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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Self-explanatory. Please watch calmly and to the end, and consider.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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I am deeply insulted by the assumption that practitioners of religious faiths are "ignorant," "anti-science," "hateful," "extremists," "judgers," or my personal favorite, "believers in historical fiction." I'm familiar with Carl Jung. Yes his theories are compelling, and a good explanation behind why many theological figures, narratives, and beliefs can be cross-witnessed as in some kind of massive Venn diagram. But it is frankly insulting to reduce the spiritual mainstay of billions of human beings to a fictitious, pacifying, collective psycho-cultural construction. It is that, but for so many of us, it also has deeper significance. Whether you believe in the value of religion or not, it is simple human decency to respect the belief system of another person (in this case, over 85% of the world population--that's a lot of people to sneeze at, a lot of feelings, a lot of cherished personal moral structures to discount). As Voltaire, a famous French Enlightenment metaphysician who frequently attacked Catholic Church dogma, put it, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I am a Christian democrat. We do not believe that gays or pro-choicers will go to hell. We do not believe that science is evil. We do not believe that stem cell research is evil. We are not hegemonist wasps. We do not believe that men and God are male and that men are superior to women. We do not believe Christianity is the only valid world religion. We condemn Fundamentalists, Klansmen, and any form of prejudice, totalitarianism, and dogma. We are not as obnoxious as the Religious Right but we are here, we exist, and so does a vast majority of other Christians (and people of other faiths) who are middle-of-the-road on all of the aforementioned issues.
And yet while the Religious Right condemns us as "not real Christians," many atheists and agnostics also condemn us as part of that most errant, most ignorant, most cruelly judgmental and anti-intellectual Religious Right who twist and distort the Bible to suit their selfish agenda, whom we have spent our whole LIVES combatting in the social and political arenas. We are attacked from both corners of an extreme ideological battle because we belong to neither camp. Why are so many people reducing, with great laziness and hostility, a world faith with millions of practitioners to the ravings of a lunatic fringe of shameful extremists, like Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and half of the cast of the 700 Club?
The larger symptom of this is that America has failed to separate church and state and political positions have been blurred with moral and religious positions. For instance, all of the aforementioned issues are subjects of political debate and often associated with being a Republican or Democrat. I wish people would not think this way. Not all Republicans are white-centric greedy elitist Religious Righters, and not all Democrats are amoral atheist Socialists who would prefer that trees and convicts live than fetuses. THESE ARE STEREOTYPES. FIGHT THEM. DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE IDEOLOGICALLY CONTROLLED. THINK AND OBSERVE. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE INSIDIOUS TACTICS TO SEPARATE AND POLARIZE THIS COUNTRY: EVEN THIS WORLD. DO NOT LET YOUR MIND BE A SLAVE TO OVER-SIMPLIFICATION AND CLICHE. PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN THEIR LABELS. Including religion.
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