I have a problem...

...and it's name is Tumblr. I can wander through it for hours. HOURS! Okay, Tumblr isn't my only addiction. Socks...fun socks, character socks, rainbow socks <3, striped socks and bonus if any of the previously mentioned socks are knee highs. Yep...my sister blames me for liking socks now. It's like my TMNT sweater, I just feel better when I'm wearing it. Now thanks to Puddin' (my sexy geek) we can add Animal Crossing to my addictions. My AC:WW self is a boy named Sonikku who usually has a curly mustache and lives in the town of Knothole. We have three residents we love, Poncho (he is so black and we adore him for it), Mitzi (she's just a sweetie) and Daisy moved in not too long ago and I squealed as soon as I saw her because she is the most adorable puppy.




Our town tune is the guitar riff of the Seether Careless Whisper cover. C:

I recently learned that my sister's friend who lives here in California with us has never been to Disneyland. I feel a moral obligation to take her, but it costs money. >:C I also want to go because I want to see the gorgeous Murphy in all her glory. Murphy is the nickname given to the new animatronic Maleficent in Fantasmic. We actually went on the year she was to make her debut, but well...they named named her Murphy after Murphy's law "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".  The dragon before this one was named Bucky because the tubes for her fire looked like buck teeth and the Florida Maleficent is named Vivian (though I have yet to find out why). But, but...ugh, just look at her!



<3 <3 <3 We were so peeved that we had missed seeing her by like a week. I've been aching to go back with a decent camera anyway. *siiiiigh*

I'll end today's post with something I made this week. I follow fuckyeahsotc on Tumblr and they posted this...



I was listening to this song and wanted to try and find a new way to draw males (don't get me started at how bad I am at drawing guys) and for some really strange reason I wanted to use my tablet. I suck at drawing with it because I can't get over the fact that I'm not looking at what I'm drawing WHERE I'm drawing it. Thus everything I try to draw with it always looks sketchy and messy, but I started doodling and couldn't stop. I could probably blame my muse hours too. Then this happened...




I find Wander's (I am so tempted to type Wanda because that's how I say it) sacrifice throughout the game absolutely beautiful. His corrupted/cursed form is my favorite as you can see. The whole game and Ico just get me right in the girly and imaginative areas of my brain and although I have never played either game, I am addicted. I'm a sucker for atmospheric games as it is.

The Tale of the Megaman Pillow

New year and a new post! Remember my "project"? Well it's done and although not in time for Christmas it was done and given before the end of the year. What was it? My attempt at making a classic Megaman sprite pillow. I knew it was going to be quite a bit of work as I got down to seriously planning how I was going to make it, but yes well...




The beginnings...the purple construction paper littered on the left there are my attempt at making a pattern. At first I thought I would sew it together pixel by pixel, but...just think about that for a minute and realize how insane that seems. Fuju was my constant companion throughout the process.




As time went on I would work on him for hours and feel like I did nothing, but I knew he was coming together somehow. It became painfully obvious that I am nocturnal along with my muse. 12am to three is my best time to work because my muse is evil along with whatever runs my energy. I could feel terrible, nauseous, migraine, you name it, but as soon as 12-3am comes around I am gooooood. :│




Then finally the hard part is done and all that is left is to sew on his back, stuff him, close him up and this madness can end and I can be in bed at these hours rather than be continuously creeped out by one of the people in my house in the morning while I try to work on him for a few more minutes (by minutes I mean hours of course :P). My sister and I would joke that he looks like Megaman's retarded brother this way. I ran into some serious setbacks the closer I got to finishing him, but I was determined to send him that Christmas Eve, sleep or no sleep. Funny thing is even when he was finished and I even had time to nap before I had to run to the post office and get ready to go to Bakersfield, I couldn't sleep. Maybe 15 minutes of just barely slipping from consciousness, but I woke right back up and tossed and turned as I seem to be destined to do this winter because I don't deal with cold well...especially when I'm trying to sleep.




Complete and striking a pose with his fleece brother, Kirby, just before they are wrapped and ready to go to whom they were meant for. My DeviantArt has a picture of him alone.

And now...Shimeji! I ran into these while wandering the internet the way I always do and fell in love with the cuteness. They're little desktop mascots of a sort. I've had programs that did something similar, but they cannot compare to the cute these have. I downloaded a few that interested me and my desktop soon looked like this...




Wander is the one that lead me to the others which are Red(Pokemon), Mew, Gastly, Haunter, Typhlosion, Eevee, Missingno, and even Trollface. They actually don't bother much, but they multiply as time goes on and even though I had got rid of a few of them I still ended up with this...




They did slow down my computer once it got ridiculous. You can't see it too well, but there are some hiding behind my open windows. I was watching She's The Man and playing Solitaire, because I can't seem to just watch movies. >_<; In the end I decided to close them all except Wander and Typhlosion. I hadn't even thought of my own little inside joke with these two until this happened...




Aside from being so cute I squealed and took a screenshot, I then remembered that on my Pokemon Soul Silver I chose Cyndaquil (who evolves, eventually, into a Typhlosion) and named him Wander after the hero from Shadow of the Colossus. I laughed at myself and was even happier to have them wandering my desktop, but they too multiplied into chaos before I went to bed.

You can grab your own here!