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Roconza — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:35 GMT

My friend is letting borrow her net book until I can afford to by a new computer. She is cool with me us SAI on it since it's in my flash drive. The only bad thing is she has a really old version of photoshop but beggers can't be choosy. I have skype on my phone so I can still be contacted if you need me. Even though no one is interested in my sales I will not give up hope just yet.

updates and new site launched!

zoldos — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:46:54 GMT

Yes I opened a new site hehehe: http://www.avulsionnet.com/darkness It's a cool social networking site with a tricked out template. Not much there yet, so take a look and make an account!

In other news, my pulled muscle is feeling better. I pulled it under my ribs so any arm movement or even standing up was very painful. But I'm on multiple pills now that seems to be a good combo.

Nothing much else going on, just chillin. :)

Yay. C:

Micky — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:47 GMT

I just got the news that for my graduation gift my parents and uncle are buying me a Wacom Cintiq. :D

It's just going to be the 13inch one, but man I'm looking forward to it after having been using a Wacom bamboo for the past five years.

Funny thing is that I got the Bamboo one for my grade 7 grad gift, can't believe it's already five years...

And the bamboo is still in pretty awesome conditions.

I'm switching over to Cintiq for mainly the larger workspace and the "screen on tablet" experience - it'll shave off so many time when I do my art and designing.

I'm so excited for graduation now LOL, I know what I'd be playing with over the summer, while everyone else is out partying and getting drunk. :P

Map maker in My Virtual Petsite (Alpha Test #2)

Kesstryl — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:41:38 GMT

This past week I have been helping @Earth to alpha test the new and soon to open My Virtual Petsite. The site features the ability to create your own pet game on their servers. The coding is done for you on the site, all you have to do is provide pets, items, and a little imagination in the theme for your pet game. So far testing has gone extremely well with issues being addressed in a timely manner. Something I must give Earth credit for is not only being open to suggestions but implementing a lot of them almost immediately. This has increased my confidence in the success of the site, and makes me feel like the community will be strongly included in the direction of the project. This will greatly increase user confidence in building a game on this site.

A feature I'd like to share with the community here on VPL is the map maker which is freely available as part of the basic features. It looks like the map maker was coded specially for My Virtual Petsite, and I'm grateful for it's inclusion as a tool. An explore page is hard coded into the site features. I had an idea of what I might do for my explore page, but creating my own art would take many hours, especially something full color. I'm not opposed to doing that in the future, but for having something on the fly, I appreciate that the map maker there. Right now my art time is being used to make the pets themselves, and anyone who has created sets of pets from scratch knows this is no quick task.

My site, which will be called Flutterfrogs, will feature a pond to find tadpole eggs. I opened the map maker to find a few backgrounds in a lovely cell shaded style that looks attractive and playful. There is also a slider with many icons of various themes from houses to rocks which can be selected, added to the background, and re-sized and moved around. I selected a few clumps of grass and rocks to add to the water background to create my pond. Thanks to the map maker I now have a cheerful pond on my main explore page which can easily be populated with a pet or two through the MVPS admin panel. If I wanted to go further with it, I could photoshop some other elements in, but for the time being I'm happy with my prototype pond while I'm busy photoshopping my pets. Here is a peek at what it looks like:

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Fanime

Dawnshadow — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:34:13 GMT

After a close scare, I will be going to Fanime this year. :3

Mom and her boyrfiend are covering it for my senior graduation gift. Or rather they are covering it for my boyfriend and me. X3 (originally we were going to ahve to share a room with my brother but this way we get our own room) We'll pretty much only be there Saturday but it's good. X3

I ordered some last minute stuff and I hope it comes in time. It should, but we'll see. :P (I'm fixing up a mask so I should prep it for the materials).

Summer Project

WikiJason — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:44:50 GMT

My summer project is to create and code my own website layout from scratch. I am pleased to say that so far the project is coming out great! I have the layout design. Give or take a few modifications and I am currently in the process of coding the base. Everything is pretty straightforward so far. I think I am going to beat myself up when I need to code the rolling banner ads and the social media news feed through However I am excited to see this through and hopefully my coding abilities will develop from this. I am sure in a few months I will have something to be proud of.

Home Page Design:

http://i.imgur.com/mqymEhH.gif

Update #1:

After about 3 hours of failed attempts I finally just decided not to incorporate the image slider into my design. Seeing as it was 3 in the morning I just went to sleep. Yet when I woke up this morning I had a feeling so I tackled the project once again and what do ya know! I got it to work. It was a problem with file locations. Now that the image slider is in place my next "big" task is incorporating a social media widget somewhere in there. After that it is all cake since what comes in after is only text areas and yet with programming I should know better than to say it will be easy.

Update #2:

I finally finished coding the front page! It was a project to say the least. I will try to upload it soon. I had to get help from Kingdom Sky's coder @Icy who was kind enough to point me in the right direction a couple of times as well as the amazing programmers from VPL themselves. Now I need to see how the hell I'm going to code the rest of the pages. The Contact page is the easiest so I'll probably end up doing that first. that is just a few forms here and there. The blog will be done last because God knows how the heck I'm going to pull that one off. However I am excited to learn! This summer project is right on track!

Random Bullshit

Sirkowskii — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:16:16 GMT

I couldn't think up of a better title than that to be honest. My activity on VPL slipped back into almost being non existent. I love VPL, I feel bad I don't talk to people on here like I used to. My attention has been gravitating between Marapets, Tumblr and BD Forums, I over look VPL quite a bit sadly.

Feel as if though I haven't told very much about things. I have up and down days, still have horrible flashbacks, my sleeping is atrocious(should have seen me today on one hour, the waitress at dinner thought I was dying), a load of shit happened and other fun things. I don't go out much, I kind of just stay in my house for long periods at a time, but I try to get out when friends are free. Hmm...I have the worst time playing Skyrim without having flashbacks, there are days where I wish I could bring myself to sell my copy of my game and delete my files but I can't. I love it, even though it causes me distress. There are specific songs I can't listen to anymore (sucks majorly because I love them) because they make me cry my eyes out. I just got back to being able to listen to Phantom and Love Never Dies.

I got harassed on dA by my ex and her boyfriend(the irony in this is they started up after I began going back on dA for 3-4 days, so it was right out of the blue). She keeps trying through FB as well(from what some people speculate) but I think she doesn't realize I don't have her added anymore and blocked on 99.9% of EVERYTHING on the internet now. Filed a police report against them, last I knew they think it's a joke when in reality it isn't (going to laugh though if they try anything again). I couldn't sleep for a week straight because I was a mess over it. Friends helped me through it and I'm back to 'I don't give a rats ass of what she does, I don't want to hear her name let alone what she's doing anymore because to me she is deader than Death itself'. No clue why I deserved to be harassed. It was 3 months since I spoke to her and I thought I made it clear I never wanted to hear from her again. Guess she really must have been that bored or is really that horrible of a person to do something to me when I haven't gone out of my way to do anything to her. All I want is to be able to live my life without having to suffer from her anymore, hoping that was the last of it.

Of course there is some reluctance with posting this blog. I'm still not 100% sure some sites I frequent are safe for me to return to (hence why my activity has lessened(I also forget too), I genuinely fear of getting harassment on here since she does have an account), which sucks of course but most sites seem to be safe enough. I've got people on other sites backing me up in case anything happens.

Since I've been watching Yugioh, I caved in and decided to write fan fiction. I feel dirty about it but hey, I'm having fun and people seem to like my story so far. My goal is to make people wish it was an actual arc of Yugioh and I've got a small following(my friend Summer says I'll start calling people peasants and have a harem of characters and several concubines by the end of the series(yes it's a series of fan fics) and it's funny cause then we just go back to imagining Pegasus in a hand knit thong). Proud of myself and for once I feel like my writing isn't complete shit.

Hmm...What else...Uhm...I guess there isn't much more aside I start college when summer semester begins and I'll be going to 3 conventions this summer which is totally cool.

Oh! I do have a new girlfriend who is wonderful and taking things slow with me because of everything that happened. I'm actually glad I found her. She loves me for me and is so understanding and wonderful. She feels bad with everything that happened but she's helping me while I help her with life. I try to be upbeat and positive for her sake because she has bad days but Kowskii is there to save the day like always.

Well now I'm going to go off and doodle some venty thingies. Oh and talk to the super special awesome Club I'm in on Marapets.

- Kowskii

P.S. If you haven't read Hyperbole and a Half, go read it right now because I've been reading that so much lately and it's hilarious and beautiful.

Alpha Testing My Virtual Petsite

Kesstryl — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:02 GMT

After getting a code to alpha test the new and upcoming site called My Virtual Petsite (info for MVPS can be found here), I decided to grab some of my sketches and use one of my old fantasy critter ideas to work with. I have toyed with the idea of making my own adoptables site before as a spring board for my art, but I found learning to code and the enormous amount of work behind the scenes to be daunting for a one gal show. I'm still not sure if I want to start my own site or just build a portfolio to apply to work for someone elses, but becoming an alpha tester for MVPS is giving me the perfect opportunity to explore where I just might fit in. I'll record that journey here on my VPL blog. This might also help others who might want to use the services of MVPS in the future. Consider this a review/journal.

The pet site idea I'm going to work with on MVPS will showcase what I like to call butterfly frogs, or Flutterfrogs. I have always loved frogs and collected tadpoles as a kid to watch them grow and change, and then release the tiny froglings into the world. For awhile I got into painting fairies which was fun, but at the time a lot of fantasy artists were doing the exact same thing. Since I really enjoy the fluidity of butterfly wings from my fairy art, and I love frogs, I had some sketches of flutterfrogs sitting in my sketchbook. After some quick line art, my very first basic under construction design on my alpha site is sitting on the home page.

I'm looking forward to this adventure, and I'm looking forward to the fluttering little froggies that might land on an occasional shoulder to be adopted :)

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I do not bite

Roconza — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:47:25 GMT

I'd like to say if you have a issue with me or one of my posts why not try letting me know so I can fix or maybe give a chance to talk it over. Why don't you stop hiding behind that rep button and talk thing out with me I'm not a aggressive person.

I tend to word things badly so I some times come off sounding like a donk. If you let me know what I did wrong maybe I can take it in to consideration next time I post. i may feel hurt at first but if I become a better person for it then it's worth it.

I'm not turning the rep off as I feel it would be cowardly me to do that over one bad rep. Just shoot me a PM next time and we can talk.

Just be nice about it. K <3

Mmm...

jakdacrowe — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:08:28 GMT

Oh deery me. (edit)

I got a new car! :D

Afterlife — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:52:23 GMT

Oh guys I'm so happy! I finally got a new car! <3
It's not a brand new, off the lot car, but it's a newer car, it's very very nice, and I'm just beyond happy with it!!

Before I was driving a '91 red Escort that just started falling to pieces, and last year in the fall it had a problem in the steering column so I couldn't start or stop it, after a month or so it sitting in the driveway my dad came and got it then eventually found out what was wrong with it. And it turned out to start/stop it from then on was to grab this black rectangle box under the steering column and use a flat head screw driver to turn it on and off. No thanks to that. Not to mention that the car just looked horrible, the previous owner-s- got in wrecks and stuff so the bumpers where crud and the polish was only on 1 part of the car and yada yada, I just really wanted something that didn't have a new problem every week and looked a bit nicer.

So for months my dad was looking at other cars trying to find me a new one while I drove my moms old car which is a Corsica. Which it was nice to drive, it worked nice and even looks decent. But the fact was I drove my first car for over a year and after a year of driving it my dad said he would get me a different car.

And yesterday there was a state auction that we went to, and that is when I got my new car! ^-^ My new car is a Malibu, unfortunately we did get one that was one of them with higher miles, but that's ok because I don't drive very far and not too much.
But I am soooooooooo anxious to drive it! I can't drive it until we get it registered and insured which can take a few weeks to do ;_; but hey! I have a nice new car and I really really like it! But while I wait for registration and insurance to go through my dad is going to check everything on it and fix in minor problems; like there are some spill stains on the seats we're gonna clean out, it was a state car so it had stickers on the side that left some residue, the car was 1000 miles over an oil change x.X!, and there was a panel inside that needed glued back on. But really those are all simple fixes, and the car is very nice, no major dents (there was a very tiny one on the hood, meh) and the interior was nice. So I am so happy to have a new car that is just a huge upgrade from the cars I've drove.

Here's the style/color of it

Anyone else get a new car recently or is planning on getting one?

Skull Fox!

Alkali Regnant — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:24:16 GMT

My roommate is making me a skull fox to go with my shaman coyote costume (http://www.flickr.com/photos/feather...7632953419869/).

A skull fox is a soft mount taxidermy fox with a skull in place of the face. The fox was killed by a car (so no worries about fox ranches), but her pelt is sooooo soft! She's a silver coloration, but mostly black (only a few white hairs and no tail cap). She'll have a coyote skull face (as the fox skull would look a bit out of proportion) and I'll paint it up like my own mask.

She'll be going with me to Dragoncon for sure! Possibly Denver Comic Con as well if done by then.

Now all I need to decide is a name for her :3

i left the house today !!!!!

que — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:43:02 GMT

ive been really sick with this weird stomach flu and like
i had to mail off a package to someone on FA and honestly i hate leaving the house it terrifies me
i walked to the post office and HOLY SHIT AM I EVER OUT OF SHAPE *HEAVES* *HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG*
i mean i got there as soon as it was closing and the lady sent the package off anyway so YAY

but seriously i havent left the house in 2 weeks from some very very bad depression and i'm VERY USED TO GOING FOR WALKS with my lovely boyfriend and climbing hills and mountains and cliff sides and like i feel like such a waste of space here in ontario
i cant wait to move to england and be with my foxy

its really sad feeling like you have 1/4 the energy you're used to having all of a sudden because of some dumb mental sickness and feeling like YES FUCK YEAH IM GONNA DO THIS TODAY but then just going back to bed or crying in a pillow or looking at tumblr

i dont know what im doing u__u

Good Day, Good Times, Good People

Ixyra — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:12:03 GMT

So blog on VPL, I had a really great time yesterday.
Yesterday was a Tuesday, and ever Tuesday I go to a young adult church group called Four40 - I love this place! For reals. Great people, it's very friendly, and everyone there is like family though I've only known them for a few months.
So, as always, there was a wonderful sermon done by Pastor Matt (Four40 podcast if you wanna listen to it!) and there was a really cool activity right at the very end: We were all going to take a plastic cup that had 3 pennies in it, and we would go around and give someone encouragement by giving them a penny and vocalizing what they meant to us. The rule was you have to have a penny in order to give it away.
Real simple. Give pennies, get pennies. I don't know anyone there quite well enough to expect pennies at all (I only moved here last year and started attending just a few months ago), so I was giving away pennies and doing the game, when one of my husband's best friends gives me a penny.
I won't go on about what he said, but what he said just affirmed who I am as a person.
After the activity, my husband, his other best friend, another good friend, and I all went out to dinner. We had the absolute best conversations that night at 10pm at an Applebee's. We hardly even ate haha it was just a great time of talking and laughing, and it just made me realize something.
I am so blessed to have these wonderful people in my life, and to know their personal sides. My husband's best friend is a children's pastor and is very well respected and known in our church, but recently left to follow his calling. His other best (the one that spoke to me) friend is becoming a pastor and co-teaches a highschool sunday school class. The good friend with us at Applebee's I learned last night is a youth leader at another church (not to mention shes an amazing hair stylist and can bake up a storm.)

I hardly know any of them, but I already feel like family and I am just so thankful that God has placed me where I am today. It was rough and I've lost a lot but gained so much more. I'm sad it took me until last night to realize that but man I'm so happy at the same time! I couldn't ask to be in the company of better people than what I was last night! :)

Adventures of Mio and Milly lol~!

Mio — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:03:48 GMT

I am in love with my new mare. She is so sweet and very willing to please. This weekend I am going to stay at my mom's house and we're all going to go on some good trails for a few hours in the backwoods. :D

My mom has been talking to me about breeding her just once and having a baby that I can train up however I want. A friend of ours owns a Perlino Dun foundation AQHA APHA stallion that has blue eyes and if they were bred together, they'd have the prettiest babies. I'm especially excited over a buckskin overo or a dunskin overo, but any combination of those sounds wonderful. A foal was born yesterday with this stallion as the sire. Prettiest dunalino colt I have ever seen.

This is the stallion's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starbucks-Billy-Bob-2005-AQHA-APHA-IEGR-Perlino-Dun-Stallion/140253026001774?fref=ts