And who cares if its his favorite part of the show anyway? Gosh.


Since I check my dA every five minutes (God knows why...) I figured I should keep a list of stuff I have to do on here. Making lists is very therapeutic. Plus you get to see all the fun things I worry over. Lucky you!

11.01.09
-Finish reading Anna Karenina
-Do day-to-day homework (don't slack!)
-Continue working on scarf (I'm knitting myself one like Ivan's)
-Acquire teacher recommendation
-Finish laughing!Ivan drawing
-Eat healthier
-Work on blue heron painting
-Work on major paper for AP English

And that's all I can think of for now.

I can't wait for Ohayocon....

Well, I'm a senior this year. It really doesn't seem that different to be honest. My classes are going well, and I'm having a pretty good time, I guess. As good a time as one can have in high school. I'll be glad when I can finally leave. I've decided to go into nursing instead of art.

I've been drawing a lot more now, since I have a new computer. I am very much obsessed with Hetalia at the moment. My favorite pairings are Russia/America, Russia/Canada, and Russia/Latvia. I also like America/Canada. Mostly I just love Russia, though. hehe So don't be surprised if I draw more of any of those. I'm thinking of doing a Hetalia meme as well, but I wouldn't have time until this weekend at the earliest.

My Alfred Jones cosplay is complete! I'm so excited to wear it. I think it turned out quite nicely. The addition of a new sewing machine definitely helped.
Pictures:
Alfred & Bo! (a.k.a. me and my dog) [link]
My sister (Arthur here) and me. [link]
Lookin' cool. [link]

We don't exactly have a great place to take pictures at, so these are just in the sun room.


I'm taking the ACT in a few days... I'm sort of nervous for it even though I know I'll do fine.

It might be the Arby's I had for dinner, but I'm feeling sort of sick actually.


Edit: Is deviantart really making polls a subscriber feature? really? That is so idiotic. As if anyone is going to be like "Oh gosh, I really need people I don't know to vote on this useless question of mine! I'd better go pay deviantart lots of money!!"
In any case, I always get more feedback here than at MB, so if you'd like to see anything specific, give a shout.

Well, there is a reason why I have been so anti-social lately. Mostly it's because my computer broke. That was at the beginning of the summer, literally days after I installed both Sai and OpenCanvas on it. I'm currently working from my sister's laptop, but have yet to install any artsy programs other than Ps.

Mostly I've been doing absolutely nothing this summer, and I'm completely loving it. I get up pretty early, eat, make papercraft nation-tans, and then watch anime until 2 am. Lately I've been really into papercrafting. It's so fun! It takes mad concentration but I love it.

I'm also starting a new cosplay, Alfred Jones/America from Hetalia. I went thrifting the other day and bought mostly everything I need. I just have to modify the bomber jacket and figure out the uniform. I'm so excited! My sister is going with me as Arthur/England. I hope I see a Russia at the meet-up.

I'll also be getting the stuff to make a large Allied Powers poster. By large I mean at least 4 feet by 3 feet. About the size of the Baccano one I made a while ago. (Yes, I am obsessed with Hetalia at the moment, couldn't you tell?)

I need to finish Apollo Justice! I'm stuck in that silly Mason System.

im sorry im such a loser and never draw anything.

ill try harder in the future....


*goes to doodle Phoenix Wright in a sad corner*










ps i dont recommend eating a bag of sour patch watermelons and lots of soda. I feel really sick and hyper

okay, first of all, Happy Easter! I hope everyone has/had a splendiforous break.

Now to the semi-rant.

So the other week I went to a bookstore to get some manga, right? I was looking through all the books to get the best one when I noticed that tokyopop's were significantly thinner than they previously were. Upon opening the book I found that this was because tokyopop (being a shitty company to start with) had decided to start printing their manga on equally shitty paper. The kind that's so thin the ink looks bad and you can see the other pages behind the one you're reading.

So, obviously, I was kind of mad. I didn't get really angry, however, until I came back a few days later and saw that (yay!) Kyou Kara Maou volume 3 was out. Unfortunately it is licensed by tokyopop, so it was thin and really crappy quality. This wouldn't have even been so bad if the dumbasses hadnt decided to charge a DOLLAR MORE for it. How the hell do they think people will buy their manga if its such bad quality and they charge more for it? Maybe if they weren't such money whores they would notice that it's a stupid idea.

Well anyway, I've personally decided that I will stop collecting kyou kara maou (even though I waited *so* long for it to come to the states) and I will never buy another volume of tokyopop manga. Ever. Nowadays there are plenty of other companies to buy manga from, and most of them do a far better job of translating than tokyopop anyway. If there's a tokyopop title I want to read I will now be more than happy reading it on the computer.

Next time you're at a bookstore, go check out the latest tokyopop releases. I guarantee they'll be really crappy. I figured word might get out a bit better if I put something up on dA. If you're someone who orders their manga online, you might reconsider getting tokyopop stuff, because once it arrives you'll be getting jipped. If they'd just raised the prices it would be a different story, but this is just ridiculous.

That's about it. Sorry about some of the cursing, I really only do it when I'm mad. I hope some other people feel the same way about how tokyopop is shitting around with their products. I'll have a happier journal up later, but I wanted to write something about this. It really is a big deal; if people continue to support them even though they do crap like this then they'll probably start releasing even worse quality stuff in the future.