The Hangout....where sanity is overrated.

[Memai-kins]

Shiro Nishida

Ramadan Mubarak, Everyone! biggrin

Only one person in this guild actually knows what that means. xD

My life was hectic, and actually very little lurking has ensued... other than proposing another solution to the 2% tax in the marketplace on another guild, but that'd be about it...

oh, and romping through the exchange and R&C as well. 3nodding

Also, Hoshi's idea will most likely stiffle a laughter with a dev or admin or two...which means high hopes for such an item set to be developed.

CUBICS FOR GAIA! scream heart

Yes Shiro XD I'm enjoying my last proper supper if you will. So long snacking D:

Durhurhurhur, I'm getting fans at campus D: Granted they're really nice, I despise the fact they think I'm better than them, when in fact, they're SO much better than what I can only hope to be.

D:  

[Abandoned Dreams]

Right, so...there are Gaia ad banners at fanfiction.net. Isn't the universe supposed to fold in on itself right now, or something?


Shiro - Wait, why are they taxing fake gold? They started it by giving us gold for doing absolutely nothing! The admins desperately need an economics major on their team.

Memai - Your biggest fans are still right here.  

[axel]

Shiro: The 2% tax confuses me. But then again, I was never that great with economics, period, much less Gaian economics. gonk

Hoshi: Holy crap, As Seen on TV! Tell me if they have the Magic Bullet. 4laugh I want one of those so badly and I don't even cook.

Aydee: I saw an ad at Borders for a Stephanie Meyers book and it reminded me of you. xD
At least, that was the crappy vampire author you warned us about a long time ago, right? : D;;  

[Abandoned Dreams]

axel - Yep, that's the one. Not only is the plot tragically bad, but her prose is 20% story, 80% description of voices/eyes/skin. For example:

"Hey, let's go over there." His voice was soft and silky, and reminded her of one of those lovely pillows she'd gotten at Pier 1 the day before, only better. His eyes, usually the color of springtime lilacs - lavender and traces of light-ish, dark-ish red - were tinted black with rage, and he sparkled under the lamplight like thousands of tiny Tiffany's diamonds had been embedded in his skin.


................

Repeat for anything the characters say.

Oh, but no one ever "says" anything. They "cry," "whisper," "squeal," "explode," "expostulate," "reveal," "apologize," etc.

"Wow!" she yelled.
"I know!" he boomed.
"It's Pier 1!" she whispered.
"I thought you'd like it!" he laughed.
"Look! Pillows!" she marveled.
"AND lamps!" he added.
"I love you," she sighed.
"I'm part gemstone," he confessed. "And most likely gay."  

[Saisei Hoshi]

Ok I should never be allowed to go in to an art store. It all started with a need to sketch design for a plushie that I'm going to be making, and while trying to sketch it using a BIC pen and graph paper I got pissed off with the ink blobs and ripped paper. (heavy hand) So I said screw this there's an art store on the way to work I'll just stop in buy buy a heavy weight sketch pad and a pencil (5H). The plan was set, but when I got there I realized that this store was a bit bigger then I expected, but signs guided me to the pads grabbed one no problems, then came the pencil and it was like dear god, my art store back home had like a small section of a shelf, this place had 1 and a half shelve units full. I just need one and now I need to be brand picky, my store had 2 maybe 3 brands. My head hurt, but I found what I was looking for then as I was walking away that damn artist in me popped out for a moment and said you'll need a sharpener and an eraser, so I got that. Then I saw as I was walking away again the fine line markers and I said oh I'll need one of those to and now with a point 0.05mm liner I was off to buy my good. And twenty some dollars after I was off to work. My initial plan would have cost me about seven dollars because the pad was on sale.

Now it would be fine if that was it but now after sketching out the design I realized I need to get the it coloured so I can get an idea what it'll look like and it'll make fabric buying a less tiring process. (The fact that I need to touch every fabric it enough without needed to decide on colours on the spot) So now I need to go back and get something to colour with and because I didn't want to get distracted like last time I decided to see if they had a website and they did. This my friends is bad move number to because now not only was I looking at colour supplies I started to look through everything thing else and I'm debating if a $100 lightbox is something I need. It all started so simple and now I want stuff, I was doing so well just doodling and sewing, but now it's like I've been sucked back in. It's not a bad thing but a bit of a pain to have to buy everything to make the little artist in me shut up about things.

Depending on how things go you'll either get a post full of shopping bits or ..... no it'll just be about shopping bits.


DAMN YOU ART STORE, I WAS FINISH MY 12 STEP PROGRAM.  

[Abandoned Dreams]

Anyone doing NaNoWriMo this year? I wasn't going to at first, but now I can't think of a reason not to (aside from the fact that it's lame; but, then, I do a lot of lame stuff).


Akahoshi - xd ! I wish I could offer my sympathy, but I have the same problem. I have drawers and drawers of unused art supplies simply because I keep making the mistake of walking into art stores. Damn you, micron pens! Damn you to hell!

We need to form a support group.  

[Saisei Hoshi]

axel - The store has MagicBullets, actually lots of places around here do. I got one as a gift and it's still in the box. I haven't found a use for it since I have a nice big blender and chef grade knifes, I'd feel I'd insult then if I used a $40 mini blender.

AD - I can personal say I won't be doing NaNoWRiMo, for the reason that I can't write that many pages. But you should since you're quite the writer.

A support group would be fun, "Hi my name is Hoshi and I'm an Art Junkie. I was clean for 4 month and then I had a relapse, and now I'm drawing 4 or 5 times a day." or "I thought I was clean but yesterday I woke up and my hands were covered in charcoal." Oh the tales use recovering artoholics to tell. *giggle*

Art stores are tricky, they sell office supplies but they stick them next to the art supplies and the next thing you know your leaving with more then just a note pad and a box of pen. I'm pretty sure tomorrow I'll be walking out of there with a big ol box of markers.

At least in 20 minutes I can leave work and not see it till monday. Apparently there is a film festival going on this weekend so I'm going to so enjoy the loud noises and drunks on bus ride home as well as the blocked streets. There's been a spotlight going by the window all night, god city life suck.  

[Memai-kins]

I have a problem going to art stores gonk

I needed one measely 0.4 pen and a new pencil, I ended up buying the whole range of sizes and four mechanical pencils ("Oh, I'll ALWAYS need a spare"). Then I suddenly wanted an art book, coloured pens, markers, new colour pencils and stickers. Lots of them gonk

And that's usually when I contain myself DDX  

[axel]

AHAHA AD
I spat my water. That was amazing.
Ah lord. heart heart

My roommate is actually going to try NaNo. I think it's an interesting challenge. If you do it, you should keep a ticker. xD

Hoshi: Oh really? Maybe somewhere near me has it too.
Art stores are the bane of my existance too. gonk
The store I work at has exactly 4 mini-aisles of overpriced art crap and yet I still can't seem to peel myself away from that corner.  

[Abandoned Dreams]

Akahoshi - My friend dared me to write something about vampires, and I'm tempted to take up the challenge. My vampires, unlike Rice's angst-ridden emo-ites, or Meyer's love-stricken glittery things, will probably be addicted to caffeine and painkillers, and have meetings at a weekly support group. They'll also be stalked by a girl whose scheming photographer boyfriend wants a photo of the vampires to send off to the tabloids. And, somewhere in the story, the following exchange must occur:

"So, do you die in sunlight?"
"What?"
"The sun. Do you turn into ash or something?"
"Sweetheart, it's noon. It's noon, and we're walking through Central Park. In the sun, pretty much. Could you please go bother someone else now?"

My friend called the idea "lame, but not horrable" (her spelling, not mine). Seeing as how she's a die-hard fan of Harry Potter, I'd have to say that's a green light.


axel - A ticker, huh? I think I can manage that. whee  

[Chibi Koji]

Don't "speed date" in Japanese class. It get's you in all kinds of trouble. D:


AD~ I really hope you write the rest of that. xd But would vampires have any use for caffeine? o.o

*Keeps pretending he'd never left.* 8D  

[Abandoned Dreams]

Koji - Speed dating trouble? Phwa?

If I do write it, I'll be certain to include you in the dedication. xd


Seth - If you're lurking... You doing NaNoWriMo this year? I'm afraid I'll bail if I don't have a writing buddy. Pathetic, I know.  

[Chibi Koji]

AD~ Well, my goal was to feign sincerity and ask everyone in my immediate area out, one by one. I forgot to break up with the last kid at the end of class, and turns out he wasn't kidding. Thankfully he aint bad lookin'. College class nonsense ftw.

Lovely! "...and for Koji, and his irrepresable...ness." 8D  

[Saisei Hoshi]

Ok it's been about a week since I posted last. Wow real life sucks when you have a job and nothing else. At least when I had school stuff it was like a break from work, now it's all sleep, eat, work, repeat 4 more times, then sleep the weekend away. Really it's no excuse but I feel I'm still young enough to complain. Not to mention they decided that hey your not all that busy lets have you do stuff you're not trained for and new hires have 5 weeks training to learn. I mean it's not hard stuff and within 10 minute I sort of had the general idea of what to do, but the thing of it is I'm not getting paid to do it, well not getting paid enough anyway.

So pretty much all that down time I had a work is just about gone, and what's left is very little. Oh well I guess I'll just suck it up, not like saying I don't want to do it will help. (I need a good reference after this)

AD - Your story idea is lovely, I'd read it. And while I said I would write for NaNoWriMo, I think I will try writing something, even it it won't meet the how ever many pages. I figure I can at least get something. Maybe a story about the little ZomBee (not a spelling error) Doll I'm making. Yes that could work, though it may end up really short.

Anyway back to work stuff.