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Minami Goodness!

Journal Entry: Sun Mar 2, 2008, 3:35 PM
Listening to: Haruka Kanata
Reading: "How Novels work"... it's for uni.
Playing: Not much.
Anime: Full Metal Alchemist, again, along with others.
Manga: Death Note 13 (the extra volume)
Ye illustrious quote: OVER NINE THOUSAND!
Ye illustrious quote 2: And then... they totally did it! And it was so hot that if I had been there I would have been like... Aaaaaah yeeeeeeeah!
Writing situation: Finished second dissertation draft, am giving in a "Writing the Novel" Essay tomorrow and then will actually have some time to write, maybe, and I actually intend to use it for that purpose unles I start drawing instead.

From Friday to Sunday this week I have been at Minamicon! It was the first time I went and I really loved it! There were a lot of really great people there and we all had such a fun time! There was sushi making and kimono wearing and a maid cafe and all sorts of games and entertainments and snacks and a disco and a karaoke and of course cosplay and stuff! It was so amazing! I've already bought a ticket for next year because I really think it's worth it and I'm already looking forward to doing it all again.

It did get a little painful after a while because two nights in a row I walked all the way home because it was far too late for buses. I think it's about an hour walk... well, certainly if you're trudging after a full day of anime fun and excitable fan-like bouncing. I got a huge blister on my foot and my legs ached so much. Also my neck hurt for a little while after I headbanged so much to the heavier songs.

At the bring and buy I bought a Kadaj figure for only £7! That's bloody amazing!!! Also a little Sasuke plushie, which I bought for the soul purpose of strangling and torturing (I was Orochimaru). There was unusually only one Sasuke cosplayer and I kept threatening her across the room and strangling her and stuff. Ah, good times. I looked pretty cool as Orochimaru though all that white paint was such a pain. On the last day I went as Nekozawa complete with black cloak and Beelzenef puppet. I got a label sticker and put it on his chest with the words "THE GAME" on it so everyone I walked past lost. It was so funny!

Concerning Cosplay, I did intend to make a proper costume like I did that time with Yuna but my dissertation deadline prevented me. I'll get something ready early for next year and am now extra motivated by everyone else's amazing cosplays to resume my efforts at making a Lavi cosplay. There were some honestly amazing cosplayers there and I was soooo jealous. The masquerade was incredibly fun and I especially liked the comedy sketches and various amusing happenings that went on. I hope that me and my friends can put together something fun like that for next year.

Anyhow, I'm sorry, everyone, that I haven't been putting up a lot of work recently but dissertation has sort of been eating my life. Again, it's not that I'm not producing anything, it's just that I'm not FINISHING anything. I have a whole bunch of pictures that are sitting around in sketch form and just mot being coloured because that takes too much time. Hopefull some time soon I'll get around to finishing some of those and showing it to you beautiful people. I'm increasingly aware of my REceding popularity simply because I'm not that active on here anymore but I do keep checking here and answering your comments. My lack of stuff is only because I'd rather have something finished and good to show you, something that I can be proud of rather than just putting up pictures for the sake of putting up pictures. Quality is very important to me, after all. So, if you've read this far I guess it means you're one of the people who actually cares about what's going on with my life and my art... so I'd like to say a great big thank you for being patient with me.

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    `Elandria:iconElandria: Mar 18, 2008, 9:20:35 PM
    Just thought I'd pop by and say hiya, now I've finally gotten around to sorting through everyones cards I got from minami lol

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    ~spidereine:iconspidereine: Mar 11, 2008, 12:19:01 PM
    Hey! i'm that strange little girl u met @ kings. Sorry it took a while to get my profile up and running, thanks for everything,
    Spidereine xxx

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    =gatogirl12345:icongatogirl12345: Feb 25, 2008, 6:19:37 PM
    Very true...I am hoping to put more stuff up during break...

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    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Feb 25, 2008, 9:08:24 AM
    Hey! I'm fine... just burried under a pile of work, I'm afraid. I know I haven't put anything up in a long, LONG time but it's not because I'm not drawing - it's because I don't have the time to colour the things I draw. It's a bit tough to juggle art and work when you at university. Luckily the holidays are coming so I'll maybe be able to finish a few things. ^_^
    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Feb 25, 2008, 9:06:58 AM
    Yeah, that's my problem. I never get much done artistically during term time and 3rd year is more challenging than I'd thought. It's not that I'm not drawing - it's just that I don't have the time to finish anything and I won't put up any pictures unless they are finished (and that means colour). I won't put up random scribbles just for an excuse to still be posting. I have a strict policy of quality control. I don't put up anyhting I don't consider finsihed.
    =gatogirl12345:icongatogirl12345: Feb 23, 2008, 10:55:52 AM
    Haven't heard from you for a while...how are you? :aww:

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    ~Link179:iconLink179: Feb 23, 2008, 10:13:14 AM
    Hi! I just wanted to say your gallery is amazing! :D

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    ~streetchild:iconstreetchild: Feb 8, 2008, 9:44:44 PM
    Heyyyy you have good style~!

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    ~BiggHungryPhill:iconBiggHungryPhill: Jan 26, 2008, 3:41:31 PM
    What, no new deviations since the 11th?

    You're obviously slacking (or not slacking enough :P)

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    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Dec 22, 2007, 12:26:38 PM
    Hello! So glad you dropped a line! If you ever happen to be near to Southampton you have to pop down to the coolness of my anime soc. ;p Heehee, and there's nothing wrong with writing, my dear, I write myself though you won't catch much of my stuff up here and if you do it's hideously un-proofread and unrefined for a reason - I've had problems with plagiarism in the past so I hardly want to leave more incentive hanging around. I'll only eer put up something I have no intention of getting published... so few of my writing pieces fall into that category... Drawing is fine, though, never had any plagiarists get a hold of my drawings (as far as I can tell), though I've unfairly been accused myself a couple of times... by damned jealous people who use the excuse of "That's far too good, you must have cheated somehow" to justify their claims. They suck. If I have plagiarists with a passion, I hate people who accuse ME of plagiarism a hundred times more! Grargh!
    ~Dark-Angel3100:iconDark-Angel3100: Dec 21, 2007, 8:24:45 AM
    Heeeys, it's me, the person you met in Waterstone's earlier! I like your art, he he :) The stuff I have on mine is old -.- I'm more of a writer now, though I still draw (just haven't updated my DA page in, ohh, almost 2 years now!). You're welcome to add me on msn btw if you want to chat, I think my e-mail is on my profile page ^.^

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    *RavenBlakh:iconRavenBlakh: Dec 10, 2007, 2:03:15 PM
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    And mr-darlington/darlosworld reminded me that we also PERSONALLY know the queen!
    *RavenBlakh:iconRavenBlakh: Nov 23, 2007, 10:14:22 AM
    Hullo, I met you at expo and you gave me one of those cards (but alas! I somehow managed to lose it...) Just stumbled across your page and realised it was you! I was the Misa cosplayer sitting opposite to you at the DA meet...and if that doesn't trigger your memory then the fact that I was attacked by those scary orange things surely will....! They were after my Hamtaro bag! >_<

    Your gallery is really cool :heart: Hope to see you at a future expo! :D

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    :damphyr: I'm ENGLISH, so I MUST speak with either a cockney or a posh accent, love tea and cricket, and have bad teeth. :damphyr:

    And mr-darlington/darlosworld reminded me that we also PERSONALLY know the queen!
    ~Charlotte-Chan:iconCharlotte-Chan: Oct 29, 2007, 9:15:54 AM
    Hello ^^ I met you at the expo! I was the white wolf who sat next to you at the DA meet =D You gave me one of your cool little cards :cute: Love the art btw.

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    ~TheLastMagician666:iconTheLastMagician666: Oct 26, 2007, 2:46:06 PM
    Hey ^^
    Met you at the expo last week... you gave me your card XD
    Awesome art =)
    ~AutumnBlossom:iconAutumnBlossom: Oct 22, 2007, 10:08:24 AM
    Hello!! ^^

    I was passing by, just to say your art rocks and I was the Near on the saturday expo :3 When we had the Death Note photoshoot!! ^^

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    ~Hyuga34:iconHyuga34: Sep 23, 2007, 8:29:03 AM
    my brain hurts XD

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    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Sep 23, 2007, 8:27:32 AM
    It IS an art site. It's still there. Fantasy and Sci-fi themed. For one thing they are really nazi-like about the genre - if your picture isn't quite fantasy or sci-fi enough for them they'll deny it, though I think it's hard to draw the line... also before your picture goes up you have to put it in a queue and every picture is looked at and approved by a moderator. When I first joined this only took a week, nearer the end of my Elfwood life it was more like a month. I really feel sorry for the people who have only just joined since the system has become so crowded it's difficult to make anything work properly. Yeah, there's also the matter that they rejected my pictures on the grounds that the style of those pictures was completely different from the ones in my gallery and they looked like photomanipulations. In short "whoever the person was that drew the pictures currently up in your gallery could never in a million years have improved enough to produce a picture as good as the one your are trying to put up now and claim as your own. Therefore you must have cheated and used a photograph. If you admit you cheated and reference the photo we will allow the picture to go up". Which is impossible to overcome because I didn't use a photo so there is no photo to reference but they on't let me put it up without a reference and if I tell them there was no reference they will say I am trying to hide it. Basically there is not enough artistic faith.
    ~Hyuga34:iconHyuga34: Sep 23, 2007, 8:13:22 AM
    oh, it was an art site?

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    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Sep 23, 2007, 7:08:22 AM
    The first gallery I was ever on. It's rubbish. DA is the best.
    ~Hyuga34:iconHyuga34: Sep 21, 2007, 4:06:25 PM
    Elfwood?

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    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Sep 21, 2007, 3:46:47 PM
    It's ok, don't worry too much about it. ;p If she can't get around to it there must be a good reason though I understand how it can be frustrating for you. Well, for me who can put my pictures up pretty much any time I think it would be hell to wait days and days for my pictures to come up though I used to do it for weeks when I was on Elfwood. Elfwood sucked, though, and I didn't know any better.
    ~Hyuga34:iconHyuga34: Sep 21, 2007, 2:00:12 PM
    argh, this is buggin me, but its friday, so she should definitly be able to today or im going to be upset, too. i just my drawings are up to snuff for you, even if they arent all colored, and a few of them are a little messy.

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    ~JRock-Prophet:iconJRock-Prophet: Sep 21, 2007, 9:43:24 AM
    Hehe. Well, I don't really mind waiting if there is hope of satisfaction. It only bugs me when something isn't likely to be done for a long time.
    ~Hyuga34:iconHyuga34: Sep 20, 2007, 3:59:32 PM
    ya, i will. i hope shes just waiting to put them up after dinner (its 7:00 pm here), but shes actually had them since yesterday, unbeknownst to myself.

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