Pic Meme!
Jul. 13th, 2009 | 11:54 pm
mood: 
bored
1) Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
2) NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
3) They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
4) You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like
( Pics! )
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KakaSaku Fanart!
Jul. 8th, 2009 | 06:40 pm
mood: 
accomplished
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thefuzzyhat for late night help with Photoshop. XDShinobi Love
or at DA
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Vespertine Illustration #2
Jul. 5th, 2009 | 05:08 pm
mood: 
calm
( The Blurred Line. )
Also at DA.
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This should be rather informative.
Jul. 1st, 2009 | 11:27 am
mood: 
curious
redbrunja :Okay, flist, time to get constructive and critical... but nicely, please.
Pick one piece of fanfiction I've written. I'll tell you one thing I didn't like about it, one thing I did and one thing I wish I would have done differently. Then, you give me one thing you didn't like, one thing you liked and one comment about it. The comment can be a question or in general remark or whatever you want. Post this in your journal so I can do the same.
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Manga Rec
Jun. 16th, 2009 | 01:38 pm
The story is really captivating, particularly if you like samurai/ martial arts/ traditional japanese genres. But I think what I love most about it is the artwork. Its so pretty. As an artist Im kind of in awe of the mangaka's skill and detail - Ive never seen a manga with so much hand drawn detail; from facial expressions to patterns on fabric to indivudual leaves in the trees. Gorgeous.Absolutely nothing is sloppy. (take lessons, Kishimoto...) Lookie: this, this, this. Lots of colored pages too, which I love. Anyway, its really good. I definitely recommend it, Flist.
:D
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And the lulz keep coming.
Jun. 6th, 2009 | 05:22 pm
mood: 
annoyed
Lol ok...so I've now had my first stolen deviation! That I know of. I've had my pairing pictures altered by some idiot painting their ugly OC over Sakura before, but never had anything outright stolen. Thanks to the people who alterted me to it. Of course they stole my most popular deviation, one that hundreds of people would recognize. : |
http://jashinhottie.deviantart.com/art/S
What's funny is that after several people called them out they've changed it to acknowledge that it's not their artwork...but they still haven't removed it! Apparently they got it from Google and seem to think DA is a site like Photobucket where they can just store and showcase their favorites. At least that's what they say, now that they've been accused and reported a few times. I took a look in their gallery and it's all stolen.
They've already been reported by me and several others, but a few more wouldn't hurt. I feel no sympathy for people like this who are very much aware of what they're doing.
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Vespertine Illustration #1
May. 31st, 2009 | 04:14 pm
mood: busy
( Dont resist it, Itachi...... )
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Just being thorough.
May. 28th, 2009 | 01:20 pm
mood: curious
These were the poll options:
Pein/Konan
Shikamaru/Temari
Minato/Kushina
Jiraiya/Tsunade
Naruto/Hinata
Genma/Shizune
Neji/Tenten
Asuma/Kurenai
Other**
**There are a few stipulations to this, of course, since I only really draw things that I like and that also make ME happy. So that means no suggestions/requests for yaoi, yuri, or slash pls. Het only will be considered. Also, I like Sakura in quite a few pairings, but she's not a whore to be handed out for every guy in the series. Similarly, crack pairings are all good, but if it doesnt at least make a tiny smidgen of sense (Orochimaru/Hinata?), I probably wont consider it. Lol.
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Stoled.
May. 27th, 2009 | 11:03 pm
mood: 
blah
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This looks like a good excuse to be bitchy.
May. 18th, 2009 | 04:59 pm
mood: calm
redbrunja . Unlocked for moar lulz. Give me a subject - any subject- and I will tell you why and/or how it is made of fail.
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(no subject)
May. 12th, 2009 | 12:34 am
mood: sick
Chapter 4 is posted. Also, this story's gotten bigger than originally planned. I decided to split some chapters in half, and extend things a little. Nobody minds a longer story, right? XD
Enjoy!
Title: Vespertine
Chapter: The Truth
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura
Rating: M
Summary: Two enemies strike a bargain to save what they both hold dear. He will reveal a truth that shakes her beliefs, drawing her into a web of lies and betrayal. She will offer the redemption for which he never hoped and show him how to be human again.
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Pimpage!
May. 8th, 2009 | 11:14 am
mood: hopeful
The classical piece I've interpreted is 'The Three Ages of Man' by Titian. The symbolism of the painting is the full spectrum of human life - youth/innocence, maturtiy/love, and old age/death. In my interpretation I've kept the same symbolism; the innocence of the animals, who are childlike in nature, the love and intimacy between Kakashi and Sakura, and the darkness and despair of death. I think these themes are a big part of the Naruto universe and I thought the aftermath of a shinobi battle was a good way to represent that.
Here is my submission.
The contest is here. Vote for your favorite and the one which best represents the concept of its source, but of course I'd love you to vote for me! Voting is open until May 15th. Show me some love!
/end pimpage
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Vespertine Ch.3
Apr. 21st, 2009 | 03:41 pm
Chapter 3 is posted! I didnt mean for it to take so long, but chapter 4 took longer to write than I expected, and I never post a chapter until at least the next one is finished. XD
Anyway, enjoy!
Title: Vespertine
Chapter: The Healer and Her Patient
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura
Rating: M
Summary: Two enemies strike a bargain to save what they both hold dear. He will reveal a truth that shakes her beliefs, drawing her into a web of lies and betrayal. She will offer the redemption for which he never hoped and show him how to be human again.
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For Serenanna
Apr. 14th, 2009 | 01:33 pm
mood: bittersweet
I had done two illustrations in the past for Sere's fic Dirty Deeds, and a while back she asked me to do one more, of this scene where Kakashi and Sakura are dancing the waltz. She wanted me to do it when the fic was completed, as an incentive for her to hurry up and finish it. Although the story will never be finished, I wanted to do this for her.
Sere had a degree in fashion design and was very passionate about designing and making clothes. She was very proud of the dress she designed for Sakura to wear in this scene and wanted everyone to see her wearing it. We talked often over MSN and discussed Sakura's costumes in detail, even down to what type of underwear she (and of course Kakashi) should wear. Lol.
I had to add this because I think it's important. When I did that pic of Genma/Ino for DD way back when, Sere told me the song that inspired that scene in the nightclub was 'Angel' by Massive Attack (which is actually one of my fave groups). I listened to that song on repeat while I was doing that piece for her.
The funny thing is, today, just as I went to post this new picture, that song came on my player...
It felt like that was her way of telling me she liked it.
This is for you, Sarah. Wherever you are, I hope you're smiling and squeeing over how hot Kakashi looks in a tux. :D
( The Denial Waltz )
also here at DA
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Vespertine Ch.2
Apr. 7th, 2009 | 11:08 am
mood: 
hungry
Title: Vespertine
Chapter: The Bargain
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura
Rating: M
Summary: Two enemies strike a bargain to save what they both hold dear. He will reveal a truth that shakes her beliefs, drawing her into a web of lies and betrayal. She will offer the redemption for which he never hoped and show him how to be human again.
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OMG I'm fucking old....
Apr. 3rd, 2009 | 07:51 pm
mood: excited
Well actually its tomorrow, but Im going to Seattle for the weekend so I won't be around. I'm 28, which is older than almost every friend I have in this fandom..... its even technically possible for me to be some of theirs' mother. Ohgod kill me now. D: Lol, naw its all good. I like being the older chick who's cool but still all "mature" and shit. *Snerk*.
I dyed my hair as a present to myself, and its a lovely black-cherry color. Maybe I'll get another tattoo while I'm in Seattle. XD
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Vespertine Ch.1
Mar. 25th, 2009 | 06:56 pm
mood: mellow
Title: Vespertine
Chapter: The Meeting
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura
Rating: M
Summary: Two enemies strike a bargain to save what they both hold dear. He will reveal a truth that shakes her beliefs, drawing her into a web of lies and betrayal. She will offer the redemption for which he never hoped and show him how to be human again.
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Awards Nominee!
Mar. 4th, 2009 | 08:55 pm
mood: hopeful
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Fanart
Mar. 3rd, 2009 | 04:49 pm
mood: melancholy
( I would caution for spoilers, but Im sure everyone already knows..... )
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Lol Pretentious
Feb. 22nd, 2009 | 11:28 pm
mood: bored
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Ninteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Glaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Davinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adverntures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
42/100. Not bad I guess. XD