Can't believe I'm gonna be 20 in a few months... so very very strange...

ANYWAYS, just a quick howdy and an update.

My lil' brother got fitted for his back brace. They used LAZERS for him. Which is MUCH more badass then getting covered in linen and plaster-of-paris.

I'm starting to get back into the habit of coloring my art, which means that it'll take me about... 20x as long to get anything up now

Sorry to say my artistic mind is focusing on future parts of the Iris story (thou shall see... eventually)and on art for our DnD campaign right now... I think I should play a rogue more often. Druids and Clerics are loads of fun and you can make fire, but for once I don't have to roll a dexterity check to walk across the room (usually I have to focus in other areas so I have a dex of like, 12 or something else ridiculously low...)

So yeah, we're all alive here and YOU people, how are YOU?

HEY... just to let you all know, the world hasn't exploded yet, so I'm okay with it

Plus, I'm working on a picture of Reed which has a background and may even get some color to it I just need to ink and color it now... which may take a while, I am working all day tomorrow

BUT yeah, just a heads up that I'm not falling apart as bad as I was the other day

AND I am getting a solid idea for the contest... it may be evil and strange and whatnot, but I know it will allow for different kinds of entries, since not all of my friends here have the same skill set

Well, I need to sleep now, I have to be up in a few hours for my lovely job... I'm just glad I have a job, ya' know?

OH, and there's a few new stamps, go check them out

WELL...

Just to warn you kids just in case you all notice I act decidedly grumpy at times. My baby brother has scoliosis, just like I do. Only, he progressed in two years what took my wonderful spine maybe six months. But yeah, he's reaching that wonderful mark where they pretty much have to fuse the spine. It's lower in the spine for him than it was for me, a bit closer to the lumber region but not as close as previously thought. Still, he may need spinal fusion... which I can tell you from personal experience SUCKS. EPICALLY. PAIN. LOTS OF IT.
SO, he'll be getting a Boston Back Brace, which mercifully doesn't include the collar like the Wisconsin(? am I naming off the right one, I dunno) type, which goes from butt to chin pretty much. I just know from personal experience the Boston one still hurts like all hell, I was lucky enough to avoid the other type. Lucky for him, his doctor is my back surgeon, who is a lot more practical that the doctor I was first sent to. So, instead of being stuck in a plastic corset I mean back brace for twenty-three hours a day like I was, he only has to be in there for eighteen. That leaves six hours of joyous freedom. Which, since he's still to sick with all the other crap going on to attend school full time, means he technically never actually has to wear it in front of his peers. I had to. Freshman year of high school. It was cool with my friends, like we'd crack jokes about it (Abs of Plastic) and hit it to make funny noises... but I still deeply resent(ed) the damn thing.
I knew God didn't like me but I still don't get why he has it in for my baby brother. He's the good one, why does he have to go through hell? We are having a LONG talk whenever I die, Mister!
No, I'm not being emo... but I promised to be more emotionally open with you people and I figure now's a good time to try that again. So, please bear with me while I'm being such a downer Though I suppose this is what I get for telling Matt I was in a good mood and decently content with life

and I can't ****ing sleep!

ANYWAYS, just a few bouts of brian-pukage before I make a sorry attempt at sleeping. I just wanna say that I do read all you people's journals... just sometimes it takes me a while to come up with something to say other than or because, hate to break it to y'all but I'm not terribly witty or coherent at 1 am.
In other news, the new Harry Potter movie was okay. Now that I've ogled Harry and found the freaking scar (it's so faint!!!) I can nit-pick the movie properly next time I see it
But yeah, will post some of the random Reed stuff I've been working on, since I realized Reed had absolutely NO past to speak of and was just a crazy, randomly intelligent It.
OH, and I got Trinity Blood on DVD, all 24 episodes it's PRETTY!!

Maybe I'll hold a random contest eventually... like a "do this for a commission" sort of thing... would anyone be interested in that?

Yoinked from the wonderfully talented , this is essentially a promotional list for our fellow deviant artists. The rules, you ask?


1. Be one of the first 14 people commenting on this journal entry, and I will add you to the Promotional List.

2. For each of the first 14 people answering this journal I will put his or her avatar and the three deviations I like most (in no real order) from his/her/its gallery on the list.

3. If you answer, you'll have to do the same on your journal, putting yours truly in the first position, and so on and so forth.

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