Mechanized Mischief

Sorry for no updates in like.. forever.. but to be perfectly honest there hasn't been much to update about. Still no job, still bored, still mulling around on the WoWs and working on personal art or crap and whatever. Bah. I wish I could take a trip or something but I could never afford it. Sigh.

This is mostly for thefinalflight but: the humanoid Worgen depiction reminds me of a bulky Jake. XD

::EDIT:: Blizzcon Dance Contest! Proof that my server is fucking awesome: Vis Maior + male belf dance = lolamazing
(first minute of video = top guild from Bonechewer yaay)


WOOOOOOOO BLIZZCOOOON it's a lot of fun! We got pancakes this morning before zipping off to the convention center. We went yesterday evening to get our badges during "preview" night, and oh man I'm glad we did because the line for registration was over a mile long by the time we got there this morning. SO MANY PEOPLE swarming around outside the convention center, wow.

I'm quite familiar with the Anaheim Convention Center, having attended several Anime Expos there years ago. I remembered the con hall was brightly lit, but I was a little disoriented walking into the hall today because they leave the lights off and use colored spotlights instead. The whole place looked like a gigantic rave, smoke machine included lol (AND COMPLETE WITH FREE GLOWSTICKS). We got to play some Diablo III which was pretty fun. I've never played Diablo but I chose to play the new Witch Doctor class, which plays like the love child of a shaman and DK. Pretty interesting!

Oh btw: ( CATACLYSM FACTS HOLY SHIT )


After that we watched the 3v3 world championship trials. Man some of these arena teams are INSANE. The teams sat on stage in front of computers while huge screens showed the fight. It was very much like a sporting event, complete with sports(game)casters! Whenever a player would falter or a team scored a kill, the crowd erupted with cheers and screams. Lot of adrenaline in the crowd! Tomorrow is the championship finals, where the winning team gets a $75,000 grand prize. Holy shit, amirite?

After that I wandered off to find some friends from my server. Ran into Thrawn, who hung out with us for most of the day after that. Met some other Bonechewer players there through him too, pretty cool. All the cool people hang out on this server, trufax. Tomorrow is the official server meet up (all the servers get their own tables for 1 hour lol)! Hope to see some guildies there!

We got some Cocos before going back to the the con to watch the Costume/Dance/Voice contests. Omg this absolutely AMAZING "Mistress of Pain" cosplay from Diablo II won and I was SO HAPPY because omg she just plain beat the pants off everyone else. BEAUTIFUL and fucking creepy costume! Kel'thuzad won 2nd place and a pally in t8 won 3rd. A lot of baddies though, yikes. I've decided I totally wanna be THIS GUY for a cosplay at some point. PUTRESSSSSS.

The dance contest was pretty lol. A few people were really good, some were really bad, others were just doing it for the lols. Sorry Tig, only 1 person did the tauren female dance and it was a large man who just bounced around and clapped his hands randomly. Pretty fail. :( But there WAS a guy who busted out and did the female belf dance in a skimpy red cocktail dress and a blonde wig. Pretty fucking awesome.

After that we played the WoW: Cataclysm beta briefly before the hall closed. OH MY GAWWWWD.

Ahh, now I'm home and I am COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED AHH. Tomorrow is the last day and I gotta wake up early again so I better go to bed now. XD

Oh my god. This new WoW patch.

FUCKING.

EPIC.

TIG! You have to roll an alli on Bonechewer! You can make both factions on the same pvp server now, and Jorie's going to xfer her lock pretty soon. PLAY WITH USSSS :D



AMG!

So like..

I was in the bathroom brushing my hair tonight when suddenly I saw a little black blur leap over my shoulder and land squarely in the drain. All I saw before it dove into the drain was 2 long reddish spider legs.

8(

And that's why I hate summer.

OHH also I wanted to ask, since it was a big costume theme this year at Comic-Con:

Am I the only one disenchanted with the whole "Steampunk" thing? Like, the whole style? I REALLY LOVE old pieces of junk, iron and bronze, rusty gears, dirty springs, broken clocks, gadgets, all that crazy stuff... but ehh.. I dunno, maybe I just never understood why all those things would adorn lacy dresses and stockings and bodices. It doesn't make any sense to me. Victorian clothing is SO COOL and beautiful but to me it looks better in its own context. Turn-of-the-century tech and Victorian style are two things I like a lot, but I don't like them as much when they're meshed together. Am I just getting tired of it because it's everywhere now? Am I the only one? :x

I'd LOVE to see more steam/tech hybrids between like.. hell I dunno, medieval armor or native/tribal leather stuff. Why should it always default to Victorian clothing? :X NEEDS MOAR MONSTERS.

Or like.. techno steampunk.. call it STEAMFUNK.

I WENT THERE.

Back from Comic-Con a couple days ago and had a lot of fun for the most part. :D The only things dragging me down were my explosive ovaries and Comic-con's complete lack of order/communication when it comes to portfolio reviews. :s But otherwise I had fun hunting in the dealers hall and hanging out with friends/running into old friends. Sorry if I missed you! I only had tickets for thursday/sunday but thanks to Aly's dad I got to borrow a saturday pass. :3

I was very good and only bought a couple things for myself - a sexy PH wallscroll, an adorable heartless hat(Kingdom Hearts), and a really cheap really terrible lumpy Grievous plushie. XD I had to have it, it was so ugly. It's like how chiauhuas are cute because they're ugly those dogs actually creep me out, idk. But with this purchase I am finally able to let my GG swag collection rest. I stopped actively hunting for GG stuff a long time ago but was always open to finding/scooping up new pieces that caught my eye. I should really take a photo it all. There might be too much lol. Aside from that I found some little things for friends. I gotta send those stickers, Mir!

I ran into Matt Wood again (voice actor for Grievous) and had a nice chat. I love this guy, he's so friendly and awesome! He gave me his DA page so I could show him my retarded comics oh god. XD I left the link on the front page but I think he's new to DA and I forgot front page shouts don't wind up in your inbox. Debating whether or not to send a note but I don't wanna bug him. :s

On the topic of Star Wars I REALLY WANNA PLAY THE OLD REPUBLIC MMO OH GOD. The trailer totally got me jazzed about it, but I can't shake the feeling it will be fail. Time will tell!

I didn't go to any panels but that's alright. Of all the movies/shows/games they were advertising this year I'm most excited for 9. They were passing out these collectable cards with all the 9 chars on it and ugh I dunno I think they're really cool looking. I'm under the impression the movie itself will bomb but I hope it does well enough. I'll see it! :<

Not much cosplay this year. I'm really tired of seeing so many anime cosplayers at Comic-Con. Like, some are pretty cool and well done, but most of them are just so crappy and generic. How many Naruto cosplayers does one con need?? =/ I've got nothing against anime or cosplay or even Naruto - I just wish there was more variety/quality. Made me regret not making a costume this year even more. =/ Also I got really tired of seeing creepy smelly guys holding "FREE HUGS!" signs. No. Just no.

By the last day there were people holding up "TWILIGHT RUINED COMIC-CON" signs and I had to lol. Thankfully the Twilitards didn't bother me much. Then again I was faaar far away from the Twilight panel. Apparently the staff was afraid there would be a riot. Like, a real riot. >_> Wth. I half-wanted to buy one of those "Twilight is Gay!:D" shirts but the thought of RPattz on my chest grosses me out a little. He's so greasy and creepy nooo what happened to you Cedric? :'( But my favorite was seeing a little 8 year old boy excitedly run by with a Twilight shirt on. Srsly. SRSLY.

On saturday/sunday we waited around for Cartoon Network/Disney/some other studios to give us portfolio reviews. It turned into a huge clusterfuck augmented by the fact that we got there 2 hours ahead of time to reserve spots in line. We woke up at 7something to get there by 8am to wait for sign ups at 10:30 only to get gang-jumped and pushed out of line at the last minute. It was fail. The next day I got a review to Cartoon Network though and it was pretty cool. The woman I was talking to gave me some good ideas to strengthen my portfolio. Of course they're not hiring right now but she told me to keep a look out. :3

We stayed at Aly's house during the con and ohhh I love her house and her family and her pets. XD YOUR DAD MAKES AWESOME FOOD OMNOMNOMNOM. Thanks again for letting us stay with you, Aly! :D

Aaaand that's all I remember right now lol

^pretty red horde parasol ftw

Argyll for talawolf!


Padma for tigrin!


And Lobster for good measure. Pet Bombling = best pet ever?

Making tiny little chibis aimed at the WoW comm. I'm not sure what to charge for them. They're small but it's a fair amount of detail in a tiny package. I'm thinking like.. 4-5$? Do you guys think that's reasonable? Less? More?



And for all my resto buddies out there:

CONGRESS CONCERNED ABOUT HUMAN/ANIMAL HYBRIDS

I don't wanna say it but it's never been more hilariously appropriate -
FURRIES: everyone's problem!

Lolololol oh god America wtffff

This is totally NOT a commission. :( For some reason I REALLY wanted to draw Ketcha and her beloved Raven Lord, which was a generous gift from my favorite meat shield talawolf. RAVEN LOOOORD

I haven't drawn/colored in photoshop in a while. I've been utterly uninspired and it's gotten to the point where having photoshop open at all is depressing these days. T_T I was talking to tigrin the other day about how we used to draw all the time a few years back. It was so easy and fun back then. Ideas and inspiration flowed out so naturally. I really miss those days. =/

Ugh anyway I need to get back into the swing of things. HAVE SOME MINDLESS WoW ART YAYYY? T8 is a bitch to draw/color btw.

(sorry if you saw this in WoW_fanart already)


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Goddammit Photobucket made the tail all gross and pixely. Ugh.

Michael Jackson

Farrah Fawcet

Ed McMann

Billy Mays




WTF WORLD. :(

HAPPY GRADUATION GUYS!!! LET'S STORM THE STUDIOS AND COMMANDEER THEIR ANIMATION/DESIGN DEPARTMENTS YAYAYEAAAAH

I CAN HAS BE PARTY TIEMZ NAO?

TIGGYYYY

It occurred to me recently that ummm I haven't been getting any graduation-related emails from school sans the IOH mails. Is uhh.. is there an email that says when we have to be there on monday? And parking instructions and stuff? If so please forward it to me! D:

BTW I WANT THIS SO HARD LEIK OMG: New! Photoshop Hero hoodie.

OMFG I'm watching Gundam Wing right now and I happened to pick the episode where Quatre goes INSANE and starts laughing maniacally because some mofos blew up his daddy. It is so many levels of lol. <3333 NEEDS MOAR SPACE TEARS. And/or space amnesia boyfriends.

Yesterday we had our graduates-only dinner and it was really nice. I was happy to see everyone again both in and outside of my major. :D It was interesting to see everyone fit neatly onto our tiny grassy gnoll, and it was reminder of how damn small our graduating class is, which was in turn a reminder of how tiny our school is. Anyway there was a lot of crying from a lot of people, lotta emotions. I did my crying a few months back but I am still sad that I may potentially never see some of these people again.

Afterwards Aly and I decided the time has come to watch Dragonball Evolution much in the same way we watched Twilight. We couldn't find any drinking games online so we resolved to take a shot everytime they said "ball." That word was surprisingly scarce but we were still pretty silly by the end of the film. BTW Dragonball Evolution has NOTHING TO DO with any of the Dragonball series. It was really bad. Like really REALLY bad. It made Twilight look almost good, that's how bad it was. There was so much WTFkery not even the booze could help us make sense of it.

To sober up we watched silly youtube videos, particularly "Wolverine in 30 seconds" and the live-action spoof trailer for "My Little Pony: Reign of Buttercup Sprinkles." We then watched like 2 hours worth of 90's cartoon openings. Man. They don't make shows like that anymore. I feel like people from our generation were lucky to grow up with so many silly/bizarre/crazy shows. I'm sad they don't make stuff like "Goof Troop" and "Pirates of Dark Water" anymore, or even "Gargoyles" and "Animaniacs." Now it's all... BRATZ and Hannah Montana and bad flash-animated shows. Sure there's some gems in there but...

YAAAY finally saw Star Trek with Aly and Eric tonight! I was hesitant about going to the theaters so late at night (10:30 showing wut) but I'm really glad I did. Haven't been to the movies since Watchmen!

BUT YEAH THE MOVIE WAS FUN! I know very little about Star Trek and I was afraid I might not get some of the events or characters but it was all pretty well done. I was genuinely interested in where the story was going, and even though it was 2-something hours long I didn't get restless at all (that never happens EVER). Some of the events/ideas seemed a little silly but a lot of it reminded me of Futurama so I was very entertained. XD Btw Simon Pegg = win all the time. And I gotta say, Cpt. Kirk can take a whole lotta face trauma. He gets the everliving tar beat outta him every other scene. It started being funny after a while. Dunno if that was intentional. XD

So yeah, GOOD MOVIE go see it. <3


As for the previews I can hardly contain myself over Terminator. I grew up with those movies and holy shit this new one looks EPIC. It *could* turn out really stupid but y'know what? Badass killer robots. That's good enough for me.

I still don't know what 9 is about but that Coheed&Cambria song in the trailer pumps me up everytime. XD The characters remind me of the flour sack animations we had to make in animation fundamentals class and it's kind of endearing... which.. I guess isn't surprising since 9 is based off a short student film, right? :P

Oh oh oh speaking of trailers I saw the new Princess and the Frog one they just released. I'm still holding my breath overall but yeah I'm getting more and more excited for it. The witch doctor is already my favorite lol.

One thing comes to mind when I watch the new Transformers 2 trailer: Jizz in my pants.

But... GOD IT LOOKS SOOOOO STUPID LOL. Oh hi thar Scion bot. NOT A SCION arg all these new tiny cars look the same lol. I'm in it for the giant robots, ALWAYS for the giant robots. Everything else can go to hell. XD But I think I'm rusty when it comes to TF because I don't know what that panther robot in the LJ banner ad is LOL IT'S RAVAGE okay I need to research this stuff beforehand lol.

AND WHERE IS SOUNDWAVE. I WANT SOUNDWAVE. 8|



...And bring back Dewbot. According to Wikik Dewbot is will make another appearance. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFLOL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC YEEEEEEEEEEEAH ROCK ON GOOD SIR

Mexico is trying to kill us?
Plagued tauren DK icon is appropriate!


I think the Swine Flu threat is being blown out of proportion yet at the same time my fear of germs and disease makes me want to hole up in my house till this all breezes over.