The man in the comic said so.





I'm sick with something like strep. In fact, I've been sick with something like strep for days, and it's... not fun. I'm getting sick of Sprite and NyQuil and macaroni and steamed peppers and mashed potatoes. That sounds like a lot--until you spend days physically unable to get anything else down your throat without crying. F being sick.

I am enrolled in a local community college. Yay!

I got a fake tree, a toolbox, the Barnes&Noble edition of Arabian Nights, and a gift card to Barnes&Noble for Christmas. I also got a very, very generous gift from a friend on a gaming website.

I have a lot of art to do. I've been sitting here thinking that now would be the perfect time to do it, when I'm stuck at home and too tired to do much else anyway, except that I'm really too tired to draw, too... Bleh. I have until January 19th to do it all, and I plan to. Seriously, what else am I going to be doing? Reading through endless TV Tropes?

...

Well, TV Tropes DOES ruin your life. It's at least as bad as wikipedia, and probably more so.

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On this, a day with historically zilch to do with Jesus and culturally a great deal to do with all sorts of celebration, we mark and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in our world. Though the reports of Wise Men, angels, and divine stars are probably greatly exaggerated, as are so many of the stories told of his miracles, this man still receives recognition as a leader and a man with his priorities more straight than everyone who was around him. He is called Christ (the Latin term for Messiah, or Savior), he is called a prophet, he is called enlightened.

I call him awakened, and I seek to follow his lead.

Merry Christmas! ^_^


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A message from my husband:

"You need to see the real meaning behind christmas. 2000 some years ago a baby raptor was born from the virgin terry and allah-saurus."

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I am HAPPY. There's this commission I paid for god-knows how long ago, but there were some issues with lost references and such a few times, so it just got done. Anyone here remember my grievances about getting GOOD character art of Corellia? I can't draw her, and no one else has been able to without royally messing something up (no offense, past artists ), so I kinda started to wonder if there was a curse here. XD Not so. Have a gander:

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No criticism of the artist allowed. This was done by =rhiou, previously ~Princu, and this is totally my new head ref. This is how I've pictured her face, hair, and attitude, and either Rhiou has psychic powers or it was pure luck... but I'm really, really surprised and happy. ^_^

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When I draw, there's always some flaw in it, no matter how hard I try to make it perfect. For the past two days, I've been working on my bff's Christmas present, and I was very, very happy when there was not a single flaw in it.

Then there was a freaky event where I opened a door and suddenly it was torn. I don't really understand how it happened, but it did.

Many cultures believe that everything created by man must contain a flaw, or it is an affront to Allah, God, etc. In at least one Native American belief, the ultimate weaver is the spider, and so every blanket must contain a deliberate flaw, called a "spider line" to pay homage to the spider as the only one who can weave perfection.

I think I'm going to start including spider lines.














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