Stare the devil in the eyes, salute them like a nobleman

There's only one person I can ever be this moon-calf for so you obviously know who you are. <3


No matter the time, no matter how far,
You've always had a piece of my heart;
When it was "just friends" we shared dreams like lovers do.
I gave you a piece of my soul when we first met
Cherished our time, wished too often I could wrap you in my arms.
We've waited this long, taken it this slow-
Time's not an issue when you care.
The whole future awaits and us in our places
So no matter how long
(or what comes between now and then)
I'll wait with a spot, a sofa, a car
To welcome you home for however long
And we'll make our future together.



(even I get sappy sometimes) (I'm not that much of a poet but I wanted to)

Since retiring from raiding I've become really inspired - I think right now I've got the braincells to either raid or do creative stuffs and after two years of raiding it was time for a break. So I come bearing my first World of Warcraft related ficlet! As this is a character piece there's no real need to be incredibly familiar with the Lore of the game world - there's a war fighting undead up in the frozen north and something worse brewing closer to the main continents.

( SkyGuard Reflections )

So going without soda is a lot harder than initially thought not in the slightest because it means I have had a migraine everyday since Thursday. The giving-up-soda is from Thursday when the sheer amount of sodium contained in the amount of soda I consume was more than a package of my beloved ramen. <3 And right now ramen is bad because it is that beloved sodium which increases the amount of time I suffer side-effects of an unexpected journey into jagged rock junction chocolate land. I've been watching a lot of ZP and it hsows in the way I automatically filled out the rest of that sentence. :| But I love me my ZP sooooo...

I love reading the random comment threads on wow_ladies - they make me giggle insanely. :3 The idea of naming a worgen "Sparklewhut" is just... heeeee.

I'm honestly thinking of moving Arlu to an RP server - there's a completely awesome RP guild that is recruiting right now and Arlu would fit in there so wonderfully. But I really do like Midian and if I moved her I'd, well, it'd be like the end of an era. :< I do not know what to do - maybe I'll just level her clone up (oh yes, duplicate characters down to the hairstyle and everything) but if I do that then I need to, well, level her. And that'd be so much easier on a toon with access to the heirloom gear but GYAH that'd be on Lothar still (maybe) unless I was insane and trasnferred ALL OF LOTHAR. Which would be dumb. Not to mention the WAT level of that idea.

Drawing more, yeee - I hope to get something inked and COLORED soon. I need to get in the habit of finishing my artwork so that's my nearly-the-end-of-the-year resolution - to color more artwork. To take greater artistic pride in it. To do backgrounds. And most importantly? To do only what I want to do.

Wordpress vs Child Torture Victims
Yeah, I can't believe I had to write that out either. Seems WordPress in all its corporate neutrality has taken to taunting a survivor or child torture by arbitrarily giving and taking away her right to speak out...then blaming her for not following Wordpress' ToS. So classy and mature, innit?

waywardradish needs help. First, Wordpress has cow-towed to the whims of the so-called therapists, who murdered children in a grotesque process called Attachment Therapy. Now Wordpress is treating a survivor - who's only goal is to contact other survivors and mete justice on their torturers - like nothing more than an animal. Like I said - CLASSY AND MATURE, WORDPRESS.

She needs your help, and here are some ways you can do it.
1.) Read as much of her blog, before it's shut down completely again. Educate yourself.
2.) Write a brief email to wordpress (tosreports@wordpress.com) to protest the censoring of child survivors. To make things even easier, here's some ( text copy-paste )

This is quick and easy and WORTH IT.
3.) Further info on how you can help.

Working on my first request for the Tower - YAY! And I'm working on Dreamwalkers too. (for some odd reason my brain is crossing Dreamwalkers with Nightstalkers and isn't THAT a mental image for the fanboys?) Drinking my 4 shots of expresso, wondering why sleeping on such a comfy mattress still makes me have a lingering case of tired... I should organize my mind more.

I feel like I'm getting close to a bit of a burn on Arlu but I might be confusing hormones and comic plotting with disinterest in my avatar. I think it might be the fact that there's so much to grind on Arlu that's overwhelming me with ends so far off that it's hard to picture them. I want 50 emblems, I want 8 more days or raptor dailies, I want 17 more cooking awards, 5 more recipes, seven zillion JC dailies to get tokens to buy those new cuts - and then I want more than 1000 Seals of the Champion for all of *that* stuff. I want those 100 mounts eventually, I want a Mechanohog - I've got all these things I want but if I look at *everything* I want then I just flounder. Maybe what I really *need* is another 80 to take the burden off of Arlu being my only Horde endgame? Fellow WoWers, halp plz? Maybe I should take my hunter and get her up to Outlands to have that shiny all over again? She's level 44 so it's not *that* far to get her to 50. I can barely even remember what I did on Arlu getting her to Outlands now, it's all such a blur - maybe I need to do that?

Part of page one for Dreamwalkers is inked. Roughing out the rest of the page and then it's big decision time - am I going to ink solid black and white and then grayscale? Should I go full color once inside the Dream? What do you guys think of doing color v grayscale to show the differences of the location? I'm having a lot of fun doing black inking on Arlu's hair so that shows you where my priorities lie at the moment... *giggles* Once I get this first page inked I'm going to be doing the GASP cover page. Because I still have this awesome idea for it so dammit, I'm going for it! I'm going to need to make a "study" of the gateways to the Dream. Which means taking Arlu out and killing elite dragons. Must pick which dragonflight I want to slaughter... Hrm... (I should start the quest lines for the last cooking recipe too. :/ 155! I have 155! I just need FIVE MORE.) I'mm then need to make some banners, find a good comic post script with auto archive posting... so much to do... Anyone have suggestions?!

"Wait a second Jateshi," you all are going, "you already have one of those! What's this about a second one when Character Class is so neglected?!"

Now, now, I soothingly say, CC isn't dead. It's just...not been living. And neglected, yes, but not forever. So let me explain- Character Class was never meant to only be a joke strip. Instead it was meant to be a webcomic revolving around my warlock, sometimes include the antics of my Horde guild home, and feature, when I wanted it to, cynical observations about game play. But Character Class itself is too limiting a name to take it all of the directions I want to go and that's been a HUGE block on my decision to take the mantle of it back up again. I saw what happened to Manic Graffiti when Anya went to take the comic away from constantly making game centric observations and people either loved or hated it - because they knew MG as one thing only. CC is a place I can eventual expound any gamer idea on to but I can't take that title and run something, well, serious off of it. The style of CC, for one, is chibi - that's inherently humorous.

So here's what I'm doing - Arluthia is going to feature in a new comic, the plot of which I've been tooling since before I launched CC itself. Arluthia, a handful of already chosen companions, and a plot-line that takes her beyond the realm of the current "world" of Azeroth into, well, the Emerald Dream. Mission? Save Ysera and the Emerald Dream from Bad Guys. Jokingly titled Wrath of the Lich's Dream. *snerk*

The titles, you see, I need some help on. Right now here are working title ideas and if you have some of your own, PLEASE share!
"Darkening Skies: The Emerald Front"
"Across the Emerald Line"

Any other ideas? :3

Migraines suck. I lost prolly a good five hours of today because I had to lie down (blanket over my eyes to make it just that dark) until I woke up with headache pain gone. Bleck. *shakes fist*

Applied for raiding again with Midian, now that I'm playing Arlu on a regular basis. The spec changes that the ladies from wow_ladies suggested have really helped but OMG threat generated from a cast as I was *making* the spell cast SQUISHY ARGH. ;_; Oh lordy, that made me feel like a nubcakes all over again today. Anyone else have something start to stick threat on you before you finished the cast?! JEESH. Bear had charged in, his threat was going, and then BAM I got dead. It didn't help that the DoT crit its cast tick. Oh ugh.

Been drawing lots more (heh, polling for WoW characters to draw on WoW-ladies resulted in about 16 "OMG!~" and at least two more artists have suddenly started doing art posts) and that's gotten me talking to some folk I'd normally never approach. Prolly going to end up posting art back here as I keep doodling and stuff - speaking of! On ANY game mind you, not just WoW, has anyone else come up with a character they'd never ROLL in the game but they still draw/write? I've got a druid boy who is fun to mess with in my head and drabble on but, well, I'd never roll him in WoW because zomg NElf druid MEN look... demented. ;_; So instead I'm drawing him. He's half inked, half sketched, if I get the sketch cleaned up enough and finish the inking I'll prolly post here with him.

Played around with my DA Gallery and its layout, put a lot of the artwork into folders (or storage even, in some really old cases), dragged two "preview" galleries out based on my current two obsessions, and been just tidying it up some. It's nice to see my art cycle through, I wish that DA would let page skins be possible though, oh PLEASE pretty please. I missed that idea! I really miss it - sureI can skin my journal but the page is so *light* as a general rule, I want my dark grey back DA!

My photoshop is in love with me again - took a screenshot of my dual-wielding warlock from last night, dropped it into PS, cropped some, played with filters, and churned out a nice icon. Of course right after I do that I do some runs, get enough badges for my Conqueror's Deathbringer Hood and now the icon is sorely out of date because now I look like a plague doctor! I also got Embrace of Madness which, paired with my tentacle shoulders, Looks pretty damn good.

So apparently after brain-dumping massively last night my mind decided to continue to try and process stuff. I am reasonably certain I got at least 3 hours of sleep last night but no more than four and all of it interrupted. To say that I am bone-deep tired right now is an understatement. My dreams were odd things that I think addressed insecurities I know I still have but since my brain happily set them in the WoW!verse, they were odd pieces, to be certain.

*wrapping up last dailies* I'm thinking I might hop a portal to Shat, do that fishing daily in hopes that I get one of two remaining crocs that I am still missing from it, then log off and get to bed. I am having to pinch myself to stay awake now but dammit, I am not going to miss another day of raptor dailies. Call me an addict but you know what, I don't care. It's way too early to sleep right now - I'd wake up in a few hours anyways, no matter how tired I am - I need to pass enough time that at least 8PM rolls around and I can konk for the night. I was starting this post now because I realized that when I am too tired to be hungry I am -way- tired.

I keep seeing blank and doll base makers on DA doing something that pisses the fuck out of me - they make a blank of a pic without asking the artist's permission and tag a "If you don't want this to be done let me know!". RAEG. Where is the common sense to ASK FIRST? Not that I've got to worry about my shit being stolen like that - it's the thought that matters though. I HATE the thought people have started to get of "It's the artist's responsibility to police the entire fucking world" and not remember that actually, legally it's my ALREADY PROTECTED WORK OF ART AND ORIGINALITY! I am NOT responsible for YOU forgetting the law of international (and in my case US) copyright and feeling attacked when I send you a C&D for abusing my artwork. I shouldn't HAVE to be doing it in the first place, you shit head. D:

[Error: unknown template qotd] Nightbane!

Seriously, big flaming undead skull of awesome.

Slapping the WoW stuff under a cut because, well, it's just polite?
( I bitch about 3.2 and WoW: The Desktop Project is begun )

I'm looking at white-hatting some here at work so suggestions on some basic reading I can look for would be muchly appreciated. We've got a series of machines that *constantly* get infected and I want to know why. The tickets from this one office-! Enough to drive me mad. I want to get into the root of it, see what's going on. I think it might be bad office structure and rules and computer security but I'd like to know more to hand over ideas for how to nip this off before infection round 2 hits.

I am excited about tonight in a very geeky almost "n00bpagan" way. It's been so long since I've done just a reminder to myself, and the Lady, that this is my path. I also hope that this helps me sleep better because circles under eyes are not a positive fashion statement.