..until I expand my content even more and find a bunch of stuff I have to fix because I basically just spliced a bunch of CSS into an already existing theme until it looked somewhat decent. Lol, run-on sentence.

I’m going to go eat the pizza that has been sitting out for about two and a half hours. At least I remembered to take it out of the oven. I tend ignore my basic bodily needs when I’m working on a project. Or anything, really.

That’s why the site looks so horrible right now.  It’ll get better.  I’m working on it.

I was just really tired of Kubrick smooshing my pictures in it’s horribly narrow content space.

A couple of weeks ago I was playing Final Fantasy IV. I actually managed to get to the very entertaining “The Male Characters Suddenly Decide to Kick the Female Characters Out of the Party for No Discernible Reason” cut scene before stopping. I usually end up stopping when I get to Edge for some reason, but I managed to persevere this time, probably because my computer was non-operational.

I was also attempting to illustrate a fairy tale as a comic strip. I didn’t get very far, but I’m still working on it off and on. It was excessively gory and bawdy and delightfully bizarre, totally not the type of thing I would want to show my mother or post on a Bluehost-hosted site. It is possibly my favorite one right now, narrowly overcoming Hacon Grizzlebeard, which is about a prince that gets a princess preggers with his illegitimate child by utilizing what are possibly the smoothest moves known to the whole of mankind.

That’s why I ended up with this page in my sketchbook:

At the top are two SquareSoft-style dwarves. One is shouting the confusingly public password of the Dwarf Castle (SAY IT WITH ME!), while the other is engaged in firing his lazor.

The bottom half is the character design for the shepherd’s daughter that ends up marrying a a giant, talking snake-monster before going on the the most inexplicable adventure ever dreamed up by mashing a bunch of existing folklore themes together. The story never actually gives her a name, instead preferring to call her the shepherd’s daughter or the young queen, depending on whether she has married the prince yet in that particular stage of the story. I call her Zinnia because her most outstanding attribute is the fact that she does not wilt, not matter what strange and frightening things are occurring around her. Also, I find her to be colorful and easy to understand, which is pretty much how I feel about Zinnias. If they get too dry, they droop at bit, but after you give them water, they recover quickly and stand out just as brilliantly as before.

It also includes a messenger. I like his snark and I want his hat.

I also ended up drawing another Final Fantasy IV related page a few days later.

This is basically how I imagine a few of my characters would react if they were to get a hold of a copy of FFIV that supported multiple players, a system capable of playing it, and were made to play the character that had the closest sounding name to their own.  Ed certainly seems to be enjoying himself, even though he is far too old to be playing video games.

They’re fighting the Trapdoors, a series of irritatingly strong mid bosses that block every single door in the Sealed Cave dungeon. Those battles are button mashers because a Trapdoor can kill one of your dudes in one hit, and the only way to stop it is to beat it down really fast before it was a chance to do so. I was very much reminiscent of Ed and Cecelia when playing against one. I alternately shouting “CESSHY! CESSHY! CESSHY!”, “JUMP, KAIN! JUUUUUMP!”, “EDGE! ATTACK! ATTACK NOW!”, “STOP HAVING TURNS, ROSA! WE DON’T NEED YOU!” “RYDIA! QUAKE NOW!” “AUUUUGHH! EDGE DIED! WHEN IS ROSA’S TURN COMING?!”

The battles were extra exciting because you have to go through about 15 of these dorks before you are able to get to a save point.

I’m tired now. I’m going to bed.

• “Seto” seems to be a fairly popular name in manga.  The reason I noticed this is because I’ve been reading a lot of scanlations recently and am now incapable of reading the phrase “Hey, Seto!” without hearing LittleKuriboh’s impression of Mokuba saying it.  It sort of breaks the mood of the story sometimes.  Especially if it’s a shoujo series and the Seto in question is a girl being talked to by her boyfriend.
• My feet come into contact with my refrigerator more than my hands do.  I’ve caught on to the fact that I can open both of the doors by gripping the handles with my toes and I can get the doors shut by side kicking or knee-slamming them.  It’s especially fun with the freezer, because it’s really high up and I can still reach it with ease.
  I also found that I can open the cooler door at work by axe kicking it if my arms are full.  I made extra sure to sanitize the hell out of it when I came out, though.
• “Well, if you two get hitched someday, maybe I’ll be the one that fixes your broken electronic appliances.” is the best sentiment ever displayed by a game any sort of character whatsoever. I’m not sure why I finally decided this. I mean, I played Earthbound years ago and it’s always been one of my favorite lines.  I do know that I aspire to be like Jeff now.
• Sweet Baby James cures all ills.  I heard Smiling Face on the radio today, and then I looked up some of his concert videos on YouTube, and now I can’t stop listening to him.  I was humming Smiling Face for at least 3 hours at work this afternoon and that somehow caused me to be in a very good mood all night.  I need to buy one one of his albums now.

I want to own it so bad!  I can’t afford ordering online right now, mainly because I’d have to order a ton of other stuff to get it shipped free.  I’d probably get Beast Master (which I have been neglecting to do for a long time) and any other Motomi titles that I can find to fill out the order.  Maybe some Gin Tama too.  Can’t right now though.

Apparently the fifth volume of Momo Tama is coming out in November.  Can’t wait to read that one either.

I certainly do wish that we had  a proper book store around here.  I’d probably live there.  The only one that we have in town is also a liquor store and is half filled with books by local authors.  Writing Sterling North-esque memoirs seems to be a popular activity among old men around here.  Also: unoriginal and campy Sci-Fi.

Here are some of my ink drawings.  Actually, I suppose you could call them paintings, because they are done using a brush.  These were done a few months ago, back when I had the money to buy new art supplies and the inclination to use them.

All of them are of characters in my super retarded comic

If you’re wondering what I used for this, it was black and white Koh-I-Noor ink and Rosemary’s Kolinsky Sable Brushes done on really cheap Bristol.  Both the ink and brushes are things that are far too nice for my skill level.  Both are also things that are just sitting in a chest in my apartment.  I really should use them again.  Otherwise the money I spent was pretty much wasted.

Yes, it’s a WordPress blog with a standard Kubrick theme for now.  I’ll work on it later.