It always catches me a little off guard when someone comes in, notices I have fanfiction, reads it, and is totally blown away. I havnt written Fanfiction in a long time due to feeling like it's beneath my skill, but with things like Pokemon, Warcraft, Final Fantasy and a few other large casted games, shows, movies and books... Some Fandoms really allow for personalizing your own characters within a pre-built system, and sometimes I forget about that.

Over the years, the most amusing things people have commented on have been that none of my fan fics have any Mary Sue's in them. For the un-enlightened, the Mary Sue being the auther written into the story and instantly loved and always right (generally breaking the characters of every person he or she meets in the process). I dont do this generally under the understanding that if Iw as put into most of my fandoms, I'd probably be very quickly killed due to having no combat experince and my favorite fandoms generally being fairly rough and violent, not at all the place for a thin skinned, pale irish girl looking for a good laugh. I appreciate the people who read these stories and realize I'm not in them.

However, the majority of my origional fiction is where I put myself. I have six characters that all draw upon parts of myself that dont get much limelight in the real world. That being said, msot their fiction isnt actually avalible for veiwng, largely due to the fundamental udnerstanding that despite 14 years of writing a little something evry day, most the stories actually suck pretty hardcore.

So. Fandom is awesome. Anyone can get into it and make it their own. Origional work is so much harder. I'd still rather be writing origional work though.

Busy busy busy busy! o.o

Sadly, not with art. IRL intervenes and I dont get much done. The latest picture in my gallery was done while being half asleep while we had a gest over, playing gituar and singing with a real ncie voice.

I have too much work to do to post right now.

New WIP in the scraps section. Just something I've been fooling around with mentally for some time.

I watched Corpse Bride again a few days ago and came to wonder why it flopped so badly. Sure, the story isnt as epic as the Nightmare before Christmas, but the characters all have their quirks and the story was entertaining.

I've been playing WoW a lot recently, But my main character for nearly four years (Shuppet) has become mentally painful to play. As the person I spent the last year and a half playing with abruptly decided I was nolonger worth talking to, wrenching Shuppet's lover away from him without rhyme or reason... Its hard to go back to a heartbroken character and build him back up again. I've started dozens of little pictures of Shup traveling through Northrend and little half written stories of halarious moments or triumphs, but the character feeling like he's got nothing to go home to or real reason to live, it leaves a player discouraged.

I put so much work into that character, I feel cheated.

Randomt houghts abotu doing some Wild Arms art again. Just need somethign diffrent to do for a while and get my mind off things.

So I took my sketchbooks to the Farmers Market last week and showed them to a person or two. There were surprised mutters regarding my artisitc talent and a quip that maybe I should teach an art class in some local event next year, which surprised me. Me? Teach Art? Are you kidding?

Manniquin Franz continues to get amazed notice. Its still what people consider my best peice of artwork. This frusturates me just a little bit because it'll be hard for me to do something like that again. My art lately doesnt seem to hold the same amount of passion that Franz did.

Passing rambling thoughts continue to get stored in my little writer's wiki, but I have been lax on getting any real story or at components down. Life is just too busy to keep up trying to do a little art every day.

So laaaaaate last night I'm trying to keep myself concious in hopes that a certian someone would show up for a chat, and finally gave in and downloaded the little trial edition of the Spore Creature Creator. The demo version is limited sure, but I was very VERY dissapoitned how I could only resize SOME of the parts and not all of them. I knew it was limited, but it was kind of frusturating to see that I couldnt actually do some of the stuff from those cute little YouTube tutorials. Ah well, maybe I'll add it to my christmas wishlist.

Despite the limitations, I discovored something very interesting... Its actually really easy to make the Imps in Spore. I've been increasing my thoughts and doodles of the Imps lately (not currently scanned, woops) and doodling mroe creatures that might live in their dark yet colorful little world. Spore just might actually be a good way to test-drive some of these creatures to figure otu hwo to draw them ro if they're totally unbalivable masses of flesh.

Hmmmm.

I'd also love to see if I could make all the Monster Rancher breeds in Spore 'cause gods knwos theres nto enough visual media for the old game.