Friday, August 30, 2002


Which Hellsing character are you?




....Alucard??????? I'm ALUCARD?...

Puzzling, to say the least....in RL I'm probably a combination of Helena and Victoria.

Fun fact: Jen-sama was Integral. Imb-san was Victoria. So I'm Alucard....*glomps Jen-sama* Masterrrrrrrr! Order me! *to Imb-san* Pay me respect, policewoman!^_^

I'm weird, I admit it. Two more episodes to go before I get the whole series.*cackles* Will write more later, dun feel like it now.

Majo-chan

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Pointless rambling


I miss Laguna. Yes, I miss that bumbling idiot of a dolt, who happens to have practically every quality I like in an anime/game man: Long hair, pretty eyes, sweet personality, cute kid (Squall^_^), and a kickass weapon (Go Man with the Machine Gun!). I don't have a PS2 here. I don't have FFVIII here. I am sooo stuck on my fics and there aren't any new ones I can find w/ the moron in them. Grr......

I miss Squall too. *sigh* At least fics are easier to find with him in it. I'm hungry and the dining room is closed. I want to color but my markers are mostly dead (at least the ones that matter). Speaking of which...I need a Brick white (makes mental note). Good for the more pasty, inhuman complexions (like Squall's). Wonder if that's the one I'm going to use for Fluffy? And it's great to have a scanner in the room, no more trooping downstairs to fight with the eviiiiil macintosh...

And doesn't 'Industrial Organization' sound cool? I thought it was going to be a boring class, but today it was actually really interesting. BTW, I did fluffy2 mostly before my japanese class, and finished it off in Econ 121 (the industrial organization one I was just talking about). Fluffy 1 was done last night...which reminds me that a bunch of ppl haven't seen it yet. *makes mental note to show them* and now it's 45 mins till class. I think I'll leave around 3:30...get something to drink, run some errands, etc...

OOh, found Hellsing original art. Gonna go look. Ja!

Majo-chan

Fluffy


For those familiar with Inuyasha.

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/fluffy1.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/fluffy2.jpg

Fluffy (Sesshomaru) has elegant eyebrows. And he's awesome. Naraku's just a Fluffy counterfeit!^_^;;;;;;;

And Hellsing is cool. Scary Filia-look-alike in Integral Hellsing. Alucard is both interesting and terrifying. I don't like poor Victoria. School is okay, both of my econ classes sound really interesting now that i've attended the first lectures. Just need a job now, yippee. Most likely going to SF this weekend to satisfy marker and noodle cravings...hopefully the bus pass comes in the mail before then. Busy busy busy, and not enough drawing paper. Must draw in sketchbook from Elf-san instead. Want to color very badly, but lacking good skintones and that beautiful pale blue for Fluffy's hair, I'll have to wait...;_;
That's all for now. Oh...started a fic fragments blog. Wonder if I should post the URL...
Nah. Me lazy. Nothing much there anyway.

Ja

Majo-chan

Sunday, August 25, 2002

Today's my mom's birthday


She'll probably never read this, but I'd just like to announce to everyone that my mother is quite easily the most open-minded, supportive, loving, wonderful person in the world. She's not perfect and she knows it, but just knowing that makes her a lot closer to perfection than some other people. I'm damn glad she's my mother.

End rant.^_^ Yummy vanilla coke. Majo now needs to draw Fruits Baskets Fanart for wonderful Dralore-san, who is giving Majo her daily Inuyasha fix (I neeed episode 78!). Much thanks to Dralore-san.
Majo-chan

Saturday, August 24, 2002

I'm here


As opposed to 'there'. Either way, I'm not where I started, but then again, who is?

Forgive the waxing poetic-ness of that...for some reason my brain decided it sounded cool and I'm in no shape to argue. Who am I to argue with my brain? That's as pointless as arguing with myself. Wait a sec...Then again, it might just sound kinda lame and tacky, in which case, too bad, _I_ think it's cool^_^. Bah...rambling again.

Anyway. Moved in. Back to faster connection that doesn't also hog line. No pictures done, but I have rediscovered just how much art junk I've accumulated over the years. Included are many sketchbooks, some full, some not, brushes and very little paint, charcoal and charcoal paper, pens, markers, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, rulers, etc. No art, but I certainly have enough supplies to produce some. Make that a LOT. Whether or not it gets created is another thing. I've forgotten my cup and my brush (hairbrush). Neither of which is terribly life-threatening in their absence, merely terribly annoying. No, wait...I've relocated my pens and pencils, and my pen cup has been converted to drinking cup. Yay me. I did wash it out first, don't look at me like that.

I think in response to the fic fragments thing...I'm just gonna open another blogger account and post there. Who cares.^_^ I might not even work up enough inspiration (and fic fragments) to get this thing off the ground!

I really want to draw. But I know i'm too tired to turn out anything good and I don't want to waste what paper I have left. And markers too. That reminds me I have to replenish my markers and dammit, my dad just had to give me my allowance now. There goes at least $50, easily...I guess I can still pray for self-control, if nothing else. I might be lucky enough to be prevented from splurging, if I can avoid going to J-town tomorrow.

I have no books. I don't even know my fricking schedule. And all I can think about is buying replacement markers. Am I pathetic or what?^_^;;;;

Enough of depressing stuff. I've sort of bonded with my roommate, and with the other people on my floor. Overall, it's been quiet for the past hour, after the crowd went downstairs to do something or another. Oh, roomie's back. Yay. Roomie left. Yay. Hmm, I don't feel all that un-depressed. Probably because I'm a Junior. And everyone else is still freshmen. On the other hand, this room has a gorgeous view. I mean it. Turn the lights off at night, and all you can see is black sky with city lights, and the SF bay bridge. No more icky dining room roof view for me, beautiful cityscape all the way^_^

Did I mention I saw Slayers Premium? Well, Yanagi-san was kind enough to burn me a copy, though the copy got lost in the shuffle of the move-in...It was very nice^^. Pretty art, even if it was a bit different from the usual anime. Funny as heck in some places...And the Jelly-fish language was hilarious in the fact it had some REALLY random english phrases in it...*snicker* Ahem, anyway, I won't give anything away.^_^ I think it's worth a look-see, if you can find it somewhere.

Will go see about opening another blogger account. And getting some fic fragments up, if needed.

Ja

Majo-chan





Wednesday, August 21, 2002

And the countdown begins



Actually, it's begun for awhile now. I just didn't have time to go online and post it.^_^; Time is of the essence, and I don't have enough of it. Not going up to college until friday, and it's wednesday already. Also contemplating posting fic fragments on here, but the problem with blogger is that there's no feedback function, and i am lazy enough that i know people won't bother with emailing me just because of story fragments.So now it's either Deadjournal or Xanga...but then I think: Who am I kidding? I'm the laziest person on earth...or at least one of the top contenders. This would be making extra work for myself. As yanagi would say "geez!" Yes, I'm lazy and proud of it. Got a problem?


Haven't done any art since the marker bonding sessions. Wrote a lot though. Got 3 chapters of my 2nd FF8 fic up on ff.net, the fourth is done, just need HTMLing. Also started work on Inversed again, courtesy of much nagging and whining and commenting from my good online readers, Thea-san and Lucy. I can't call them betas yet, cuz I haven't really EDITED anything (but dang, both of them have much better grammar than I), but I did get a section done. A spiffy (i think) Xelloss and Sheela fight, round two. Whatever, it's finished.


Still contemplating character profiles of a sort for my original story. Probably not going to get anywhere, like my musing for signing up for Elfwood, but we'll see. Feeling tired and a bit listless now, wanting to get to a steady internet connection so I can rot my brains PROPERLY. The house is a mess, which was never conductive toward me having a good mood. My room is so BARE it hurts to look at it. I still have to do something about my posters. They're the good ones that I don't want to throw away or give away...*sigh* And i won't bring the PS2 up to school either, no room and I doubt it'd be good for better time management. Dang but I want to play FF8 again, at least to see the Dance and Laguna one more time...


Baka majo. Signing off now. Sleepy...

Majo-chan




Sunday, August 11, 2002

More Marker Bondage



...*looks at title, then looks at clock* It's 2:39 am...gimme a break.^_^;

At least it got your attention, eh? Besides 'My Markers and I had a chance to bond...AGAIN' makes it sound like my markers and I are in therapy together or something, and as much as I love them, I don't think I'll go THAT far...

So without further ado, I present the results of THIS round of marker bondings...following this will be a short list of the markers that died to bring you these pictures (just kidding, but I am gonna list the ones that ran out though, for the sake of remembering which ones to buy next time, if nothing else.)



FF8 fanart

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/laguna.jpg My first Laguna pic, ever. That's Kiros in the background calling him a 'baka'.

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/laguna1.jpg My second Laguna pic. This time the chibification is reversed, but Kiros is STILL calling him a baka. The random japanese, in case anyone is interested, says "Mou, 'baka', kirosu-san? Hidoi, Kiros-san..."

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/laguna2.jpg My third Laguna pic (unless you count the doddle I made this morning while I was talking on the phone with my mom...). This is Laguna, present time. Which means he looks wayyy too young (he's supposed to be 40 something....)




Project Genesis art

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/ashuramarker.jpg Quick sketch of Ashura

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/weird1.jpg Zach...in monochrome black and grays...looks funky as heck but I like it for some reason. And yes, I can make his eyes green even though this was supposed to be monochrome cuz I felt like it! *raspberry*

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/weird2.jpg Fran, this time in blues. Except her eyes aren't. Hm. I wonder if it's a trend...?



And completely random...

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/me.jpg ...Me, as close as I could get to it via my anime style art. Not that slender looking in RL, unfortunately, and I'm terribly out of proportion (didn't check before I colored, typical), and my hair's messier looking than it really is. Other than that...not too bad for a random self-portrait.



List of markers that have died so far in this whole bonding process...

E50: Egg Shell.

Alas, it was my best skin-base color...now I use E00 but it's just not the same! ;_; I think I'll buy a square one next time...

E51: Milky White.

Alas! It was the color I used to shade E50!^_^;;; I guess it makes sense that the skin tones are dying so fast...

YR000: Silk

My first skintone, EVER. Also one of my oldest markers, so figures that it's kinda dead...

0:Colorless blender

My first color blender is dead. Gee, I wonder why? *gives Yanagi-san a sidelong look.* But she bought me another one, so the blender issue is settled...

B32: Pale blue

That was the blue I used in the above pic (last one, I think)...and I think that's what sent it over the edge. It's pretty much dead now, me sad...Also gonna buy replacement, this color is just too darn pretty.

Considering how much I draw Ashura, I suspect that my red will die soon too. I just got a lovely dark red, so when the lighter red goes out I'll have to get another one too...Ah, well.^_^


Rest in peace, my beautiful markers!

Yes, it's late/early. I'm not making sense. Whatever.

Ja!

Majo-chan



Wednesday, August 07, 2002

My markers and I had a chance to bond...



Is it just me, or are my titles getting weirder?

Anyway, images for those who might be mildly interested:



Hmm...my attention has been drawn to the fact that not everyone might understand what I mean when I complain about Angelfire roadblocks...well, anyone who actually clicks on those links and get one of those 'Angelfire images' logo w/o the picture would know, but i haven't been dilligent enough to type up solutions for that, consistantly,anyway. Those who hit the roadblocks (I always do), just copy the link directly and paste them into the address part of your browser window. Then hit 'enter' or refresh, whichever one is closer. Then the pic should load. If it really doesn't work then the links are on my page, the newer ones are all in the updates page.



I've been writing, and realizing that HTMLing by hand is a big pain, but it seems to make the html files a lot smaller. I guess the code generators all have tons of other necessary technobabble in there, that's taking up all the space. Sooner or later I'll have to see about doing that for the fics I have my hands on, cuz I have a need for space. Just thinking about redoing the HTML for Slayers Inversed is giving me a headache though, not to mention I can feel my hand cramping...@_@



What have I been up to? Besides my bonding session with my markers for the past day, I've had a chance to beat FF8 (hence the slew of FF8 pics)...I defeated the final boss in one try! ^___^ But unfortunately, one of the side bosses is giving me a lot of trouble, I still haven't managed to beat Omega Weapon yet...I have no clue if I'll get a chance to, my dad is coming back in about a week and we've got to clean/organize/fix house. The thought is unpleasent. On the other hand, my muse has been writing. Yes...that same FF8 fic that is starting to become a bit longer than I'd envisioned. Darn her and her attempt to always start epics, anyway. It's funny to thwart your own muse though. She keeps insisting on angst so I throw in the most awful comedy I can think of. So the fic is a piece of work, all right. Maybe not good work, per se, but I never claimed to be all that great with words. Sometimes I read it and think that two different people wrote it. *snicker* For now it's fun writing though. I haven't had the inspiration to write ANYTHING for the longest darn time...and this time my bout of inspiration even kicked Yanagi's muse into overdrive. *snicker snicker*. So we are both writing fics and whining at the other to write more. Oi, vey...-_-;




Hmm, I'm not online while I'm typing this (I am still home with the one phone line and slow modem), so I can write as much as I want^_^. Here's to hoping I won't LOSE any of it once I reconnect and try to upload it.



I think I promised once that I'd put down something about Kenken in here. Hmm...did I? The first pic linked in this entry is of Kenken, though it's a pretty sloppy/messy pic. I just did it to have something to color, anyway. But it's nice to know what color Kenken's eyes are now. My brother actually picked that color, and much to my surprise it looks really fitting...Anyway, Kenken's hiding right now, so the inspiration to write his story is ebbing, thankfully. But I'll be darned if it wasn't the funniest thing in my life for a good while. Ah, sometimes it's good to know crazy people.^_^. Anyway...what was I saying? Oh, right, Kenken.



Lessee...Kenken used to be Random bish #2. For some reason I deemed him a priest-knight (kind of like a paladin) that's cheerful and good-natured, and belongs to a family of mad mathematicians. Kenken is not his real name...his real name is really, really, really long and complicated and funny sounding and hard to pronounce. It's a trait of the family, it seems. Kenken's kind of oblivious and slow on the uptake, but he's a whiz with numbers and great with people. He's got a sword (being a knight and all) but his strength lies with white and defensive magic. Anyway, so he's this knight of this holy order of something or another (I'm really tempted to make it the Holy Order of Something or Another, but that's just...@_@) that worships the god/goddess of all things. He joined the knight/priesthood to get away from his insane family anyway...



Crazy (but nice^^;) people in chat helped with the supporting characters. BJ-san came up with some wacky family members and Hank, Imb-san did Mimi. And so as prescribed in Original Story and Character Creation 101, all hell broke loose. I haven't made Kenken try to save the world yet, but he's got to deal with Hank and Mimi. Hank, for trying to put the moves on Mimi (cuz she's female and breathing *and pretty, that's a plus*) and she's a relative of his (therefore he must defend her honor), and Mimi, for putting the moves on HIM, even though they ARE related...somehow...Mimi might be his half sister, aunt, cousin once, twice, or three times removed, or of no relation whatsoever. THAT is how screwed up that family tree is.^_^;;;; We're pretty sure she's not his mother though. And we can't forget the REST of Kenken's family, who insist that he come back and finish his thesis on this theorem he was working on before they drove him nuts...Just thinking about the discussion Kenken's dad and uncle had on the mathematical modeling of sex makes me crack up.



Yeah, I have a scary brain and imagination. Don't blame me, BJ-san and Imb-san came up with most of it. I just own Kenken, who's hiding.



I think I'll call it a day now, blogger wise. Pretty long rant, if I may say so myself.

ja.

Majo-chan

Friday, August 02, 2002

*gasp* PICTURES!?


http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/shura.jpg : Random sketch of Ashura, testing out more markers. This time I actually shaded.

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/selphie.jpg : FF8, Selphie Tilmitt ^_^

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/chyu/images/squall.jpg :FF8, Squall Leonhart *drool*

That's it for now.

Majo-chan