So, a few months ago I got an email reminding me I'd signed up at Tegaki, a Japanese blogging site where you draw all of your entries. Can't remember when I actually signed up there; it was an intriguing idea at the time, but I'd never actually used it. Anyway, a reminder was sent, and I had been thinking I been wishing for an oekaki board, as ( Read more... )

So, once upon a time, the Corpse Bride, a plague doctor*, and Rainbow Dash the My Little Pony went Trick or Treating...


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Alright, time to stop messing around on teh intarwebs and get busy. I have pretty much one costume down and two to go before tomorrow. Hopefully, it won't be too many years before they can start putting them together themselves...

Angus decided he wanted to be a plague doctor. If you've seen those fancily decorated Renaissance-type masks with a ( Read more... )

I am conflicted whenever I go to the grocery store. I like using the self-checkout and bagging my own groceries, using my own bags that I bring and thereby cutting down on the use of plastic. As a matter of fact, a nearby city (Long Beach, CA) has actually banned plastic shopping bags, and my own city is considering the same measure.

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(I started a group at Gather.com for grownup fans of all kinds of animation...this was originally posted there. I'm sure you guys, being far more internet savvy than the folks over there, have all seen it already...)


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Angus has been playing a Pokemon Blue emulator he downloaded lately, and thinking of my drawing of Nathan Explosion as a grass-mouse Pokemon, and a little inspiration from this CreepyPasta story, drew me this:


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So, Angus has decided, on a few viewings of reruns (seen fairly often in this household because my father recently became a fan), that he's soured a bit on Avatar: The Last Airbender because he didn't care for the ending.* Turns out that at 12, he's a total Zutara shipper. He decided to come up with his own solution. After viewing a few Kaput & ( Read more... )

Angus has been digging into all things Invader Zim lately and one of his favorite sites is the Zim Wiki. He's borrowing my phone at present, because I've been trying to figure out how to fix the PC - the both browsers suddenly stopped connecting, although everything else that connects to the internet still works. Grrr ( Read more... )

( more anime-ishnes and a meme from Anneelise (may have spoilers) )