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

Which do you think is the most intelligent of the dragonflights/dragon types listed below (for RP/story purposes):

Netherwing
Proto Drake (specifically the green one - OMG I GOT MINE LAST NIGHT!!!!)
Red Dragonflight
Bronze Dragonflight

Reason: I am attempting to pick WHICH drake Arlu will consider her "companion" mount and, well, I *do* have 60+ mounts...

Edit: Oh my god, the "bouncy" image looks like an insane maniac! HAHAH *loves*

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?!

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.

A happy birthday to honeybean! *squishes*

I am loving wow_ladies as a community - so helpful, respectful! I love them. <3 Lots of great tips and just discussion of the oddest things and some good community. I wish I'd found them sooner, argh, but oh well! Now I can use it to, if I really want, help find a guild for Viranus to run with. And if I ever did feel unwelcome in Midian (moreso than I tend to feel sometimes when I log on Arlu) then I know there are ladies out there who've already said there could be a Horde home for her. DAMN that feeling is amazing. Debate, finding other people are as character odd as myself, the patch woes with someone to share them with- happy days! Very happy days. Aside from the agreement I tenatively have with the members of Slythindor there's not that much life on FM I miss - it's my solo home but I miss the energetic random isnanity of guild interactions. I think, if I wanted, I could find a place with some of these zany ladies (and occasional man) and be fine there.

In a moment of random, I was reminded of (and found!) one of my most favourite SIGGRAPH animations of ALL TIME. Sheep Notes by Jessica Scott. Sheep eating calculus notes. What could be more awesome? I'm always reminded of the notes and scribbles I drew all over my notes in class and frequently making mine interactive with the words - hiding behind them, jumping, repelling down the holes to the next level of notes. I have odd writing styles and love doing this with my notes - I have to resist the temptation to install the codec to play the video now. Arrrrrgh love this one. But work computer, work computer. HOME I can do it, fine, I already have the codec there. WORK though, no, no need. Wish it was transcoded but oh well.

Currently involved in dealing with a virus I've found on, oh boy, 411.com and whitepages.com. Spoken with their staff. Waiting to hear back from our security team. Oh joy. :| 411.com, whitepages.com, and yellowpages.com currently have virii on their systems. Be warned for browsing!

Adding in about the desktop project since there's a tag for it, I'm opening it up for screenshots from people of their active WoW characters. :>

My daily brain dump didn't happen last night (I know, what's this about daily when I skip random days over weekends, right?) so I'll prolly end up with multiples today to make up for it. Since, yanno, I am doing my brain dump for yesterday now. I drew a lot last night, which was grounding and relaxing and distracting - my head's not dealing with much, still, possibly because it is waiting for an opportunity to break down without risking, oh, my job. Which, need I remind you, I actually love.

( It was longer than I thought... )

PATCHMAS! Argh I want to skip home and start the download. OMG. *squee*

A note from the mostly-absent artist... With luck, there will be more artwork coming next week, and a lot of it more 'normal' for me to be doing - HP fanarts and the like. I will let everyone know that I'm going to be putting up potentially more pieces like my dragon below, since I am working on different mediums and techniques. I'm also reformatting how I display artwork so that the entries aren't so damned long anymore. *blinks at them*

Title: Ancient Fire
Artist: jateshi
Rating: G
Type: Fantasy - dragon
Warnings: Quite unlike anything else I've ever put online before.
( Ancient Fire [original, G] )

Title: Temple Kid
Artist: jateshi
Character: Brigdt Agnira
Rating: G
Type: Anime - World of Warcraft
Warnings: Lineart, image contains a cute kid.
( Temple Kid [Brigdt, lineart, G] )

Title: No Bones About it, She's Dead
Artist: jateshi
Character: Kreshka
Rating: G
Type: Anime - World of Warcraft.
Warnings: This character is no longer among the living - and that's how she began.
( No Bones About it, She's Dead [lineart, G] )

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