For my Canadian friends - how easy is it to find a cheap tv out there? Doesn't have to be huge or a flat-screen or anything, although it does have to have A/V jacks and not be like...10". The cheapest I can find poking around online is $80 new for a small CRT, but I have no idea what used prices or like or even where one would find a used tv. I've got a 14" CRT here I could concievably bring, but it's really bulky and will require me bringing another box just for it, pretty much. But at the same time, I'm not sure if I'm going to have a hundred bucks to drop on a tv (thanks, Air Canada ><).

I feel so mixed up right now, emotionally. And I've probably been posting way too much vaguely emo introspective shit lately, but...it helps me to get it out there.

I really am such a screw-up sometimes, when it comes to relationships - both the romantic and the platonic. And no, I don't really want to explain further, unless you're Winter or Mara.

EDIT: Bejeweled is calming. Which is good, because it means I won't lay awake feeling utterly miserable.

Largely, the fact that I am pale and English and have great big round eyes is an advantage in cosplay, because so many video game and anime characters do not look Japanese or even just generally asian in the least (even the ones that are supposed to be Japanese). However, this means I am totally and completely screwed when it comes to characters who look at all asian. Like Roy. Or Tseng (this is why I'm planning on Rufus instead). Or, at the moment, the demi-fiend. Yes, I am weak. It's the tattoos, because they are freakin' awesome.

I do find it amusing that there are a number of things I can do about the fact the demi-fiend in shirtless and I am a 38B, but not about the fact that he's Japanese. Because yeah, already tried fixing that for Roy last year. Mostly just made me look kind of silly, which is why I don't post those photos anywhere.

I've discovered that much as KMFDM makes really good DMC background music, VNV Nation makes really good Nocturne background music. 'Kingdom' even has lyrics that largely work.

Have to say though...damn, is the second kalpa hard. Both for some of the enemies, and for the room of infuriating madness (the one with all the invisible walls).

And I feel like drawing, but I suspect that it'll all come out crap at the moment. May try anyway, or do some outfit designs, as those don't need really excellent anatomy or anything.

...To Jo!

Happy Birthday!

And now, back to my flute-playing :D

EDIT: It is somehow deeply comforting to be able to pick up my flute after almost two years of not playing, and still be able to do the simplified line of Ode to Joy from memory.

Yeah, should be asleep (eye doctors' appointment at eleven, ugh), but eh. Anyway. Who's coming to Yaoicon this year, and what are people doing cosplay-wise? I'm kind of trying to figure out what to haul out with me - current vague line-up is yukata!Tatsumi and wedding!Seishirou, because they need more con-time and hell, it's Yaoicon, and mafia!Leon for something new, hopefully. May also bring Virgil (note spelling) with me, to hold Jo to a certain promise she made last year XD; This, however, may change depending on what other people are doing - there any outfit in specific people want me to bring out?

Yoinked from shineko

1) Comment and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and make you an icon.
2) You have absolutely no say in what I make.
3) You can pick between having a normal icon or an animated icon. I too haven't done animated in ages, and don't actually have my animation program on this comp, so still it is.
4) If you do partake in it, please put this in your LJ so I can do the same for you.

I may be a bit slow about getting these done, but hell, I could use the practice.

This list is more for me than anything, but I figured someone out there might enjoy it, and hell, I'm happy for suggestions for homes for any of them, or anyone who wants to play around with them with me or whatever.

Issac and Raphael: They have their own post of description from last fall, and are my current frustrations - they have personality, some backstory, but all I ever get out of them is little snippets of conversation. I was hoping if I let them sit around long enough, plot-things would happen on their own, but it's been eight months, and...nothing. Argh.

Mira and Alex: Haven't actually met, but they're from the same universe so they get grouped together. Dunno if anyone remembers me going on about how the Sprawl would be a great RP setting, but, uh, I got bored and came up with characters for it. Yes. A game that doesn't exist. Alex is half-Greek, and used to be a mercenary. Now he's a bouncer with an alcohol problem (which is why he's not a merc any more). Mira was a molecular engineer working for Maas, but decided that she needed more excitement in her life, and left with a lot of confidential research data, which she sold for a great deal of money. She's currently working as a console jockey and won't take shit from anyone. Either Mexican or Indian (never decided), and Mira isn't her real name.

Malcolm: Some variety of storm-mage; I never got around to really defining his powers. Lives in the modern world or some close variation, in England. Probably wanted to be writer or something, but ended up in a shitty managerial position in a big company somewhere. Hates his job, hates his life, finds his powers more of a nuisance than anything else - bitter and cynical, pretty much. Also has that Neil Gaiman/Tim Burton-sort of crazy hair.

Unamed Water Mage: Incredibly short-tempered, and possibly also a ship's pilot. Born out of the observation that it's usually just the fire mages who are short tempered; she hates it when anyone points this out to her.

Unamed Lab Tech: The only one of these who has a definate home - I was considering offering up a lab slave research assistant to Dr. Petras over in City of Mako - hopelessly naive, totally enamoured with science, and thinks Hojo is absolutely brilliant, not knowing what a crazy asshole he is. She's proably a bit stereotypically nerdy, but CoM could probably use some people who aren't either perpetually grumpy or totally spastic and high on something.

Just a bit of frustrated venting. Something Julie posted brought it out, but this has been simmering for a long, long time now. For non-ranty things, skip down to the next entry.

( rant )

There's a handful of communities on LJ I'd like to join (almost all DMC, actually - - no other fandom I've been in has been so damned obsessive about hiding their pr0n), but haven't, simply because they require you to be over eighteen, with a year of birth listed in your profile. And I'm not comfortable doing that, even now that I am over eighteen, and it took me a while to figure out why.

I think it's a carry-over from my earlier days in fandom, particularly with X. I was fourteen when I first started getting into the X fandom, which skews a lot more towards early to mid-twenties. And I never told anyone my age unless they outright asked, because I didn't want to be seen as the young kid in the fandom. And I still don't. Yeah, I'm eighteen now, but I still hang with people a lot older than me, and I don't want to be judged by how old I am, I want to be judged by who I am as a person.

Which I guess means no DMC pr0n for me >.>