18th Birthday

[foolish_m0rtal]

Yay, it's my birthday today.

We went out to TGI Fridays, and I ate raspberry mousse. It was so ♥!

And I got freaked out when everyone in the world knew it was my birthday today, but then I realized it was because of Facebook.

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[rktikfox.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BURFDAY. >0 WOO!

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

I SO FAIL.
I wasn't online. *gasp!* FOR FM-SAN'S BIRTHDAY! NOES!

...I have to make you art or something...
You have the same birthday as Gaz. Fsck. That's the second one I'll have to kiss butt for...-_-

facebook? *gasp* TEH EVIL! *flail*

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Hey, I use Facebook to play Scrabble. It's got it's uses...

Gaz? Who's that? Interestingly, Gaaz is the name of the city Gabriel and Kuro live in.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but I've never been the sort to take pictures of myself making kissy faces for all the world to see...it'd kill some poor child somewhere. Totally wrong. *snicker* (That and I don't even own a digital camera)

Ah yes, I remember. *snicker* "Gaz" alternately goes by her surname "Cobo." She's named for an Invader Zim gamer character. Unfortunately not for the city that Gabriel falls in love with again from his rooftop after being dragged there by our lovely protagonist poor-violinist Kuro Sakuarai. ^_^;; I wish. I'd have to explain alot though. And not just 'where the heck did the extra vowel come from?'

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Basically my facebook picture is the picture I used for this reply. My friends post pictures with me in them, and I'm like whaaa? The only one I like is the one in which I dressed up as a Godchild doll for Halloween. I remember telling you about it. (I don't own a digital camera either. *high-five*)

What do you mean extra vowel? Gaaz is the name. It's pronounced GAAHZ. Thus, the extra A so that people don't think it's GAZ with the 'a' pronounced unmusically and horribly as in 'apple'

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

That probably turned out nice! ...Not that I get to see... *hides unhappily in the corner and whines*
that reminds me. I never DID take that Junpei picture, did I? Even when my sweatshirt finally came in mid-December... *nervously laugh*

Oh yes, I could tell, it's just HER name is "Gaz" with the so-called unmusical apple vowel. *grins evilly* Even if it made her name better, it would take an explanation, m'dear.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

ah. Oh, and btw, I just spent a few hours that were supposed to be for Government giving Hamlet an apron and revamping the stove in the background. Check it ouut.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Heaven help us. What will I do if I can't eat omlettes without laughing?

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

^_^ I'm sorry, dear.

Now you have to stick the picture up in English class...

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

What english class? *sigh* I don't have one this semester! (All because I can't sign up for one until I get my stuff in from my "required" writing class! THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD! *HOWL*)

That and my old english teachers are christian schoolteachers. They so wouldn't enjoy Hamlet-omlette. (it takes a special sort...)

And now the magical vowle is an icon? (You must have really not wanted to do your work... *giggle* That makes it obvious I'm corrupting you.)

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

That sucks. English class is the best part of my day. Today our English teacher was like "you people aren't getting it. You just aren't getting it. You're just scratching the surface," even though we'd been discussing an amazingly mundane piece of work for three days.
So I just burst out, "It's a completely ordinary story!! Yes, we've gone over (listed points here) but if you want us to find some sort of deeper meaning in this, I don't know what you're going to have to do, cause I'm starting to make things up, here! Just what exactly are you looking for from us?!"
And he was like O_O

and so instead we read The Proposal by Anton Chekov...
It was amazing:
"I've heard your late wife used to beat you!!"
"Oh yeah? Your mother limps!!"

That was before the advent of my "your mother" calculus jokes, the most recent of which is "Your mother is a cyclic derivative!!"

Oh, actually I didn't have a lot of work yesterday since we've had snow days and just got back from intercession (see other post) so the teachers are like *flail run* "wtf! wtf!"
You can take the icon if you want. *shrug* I'm making a 100x100 Hamlet-Omelette icon too.

eek, icons

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

wonder how everything looks wonderful in Bitmap but when you convert to JPEG, it sucks a motherboard's microprocessor slot? That's basically what goes down with all my icons. Anybody care to rant with me?

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Mortal-kun, I'm an english MAJOR. I spend hours every day in fanfiction. Do you think I'm not SUFFERING violent withdrawal symptoms as well? I'm ranting and getting into religious arguments just to try to fill the void! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING SO SAD IN ALL YOUR LIFE? *flail*

What amazingly mudane work? I'm curious.

I usually found the best way to stop "your mother" jokes was to rant and gush about how wonderful my mother was Hughes-style for about twenty minutes afterwards...Most people went o_. and never did it again. *nasty grin*

Snow...that mythical substance again. I have no idea what prompts northerners into such delusions come wintertime...

I don't think I have space for more icons... (I'm so messy... T_T)

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

PNG is the answer. *smile* Go for it.
And hey! Did you get into Sandman recently? I notice icons I wish to squeal about, but resist for the sake of the innocent populace about me...

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

PNG? Thanx.
recently get into it? No. But since I've started getting back into icon-making again, it's been on my list.
(One random day I came to school dressed as Death because I look so much like her and I have her clothes)

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

PNG usually doesn't alter either color or focus of a picture as far as I know...but I don't know how it goes for size. JPEG's the way to go to make things tiny.

SWEET! Why havne't we had a rant abotu Sandman yet, then?! KS-sama got me on the series a while back. I have the whole collection. It's mervelous...
I should ask (though I suspect already...) Favorite Endless character?
^-^?

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

PNG worked wonders. Thanks!

I don't have the whole collection. I've just read the first two or three. (this is the compiled ones, mind you)

I think the next book was about Morpheus going into hell to rescue Nada.

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Yay! (and that Icon is wonderful, but lacks all but the inside-joke reference to Omlette!Hamlet.) Great icon still.

*gasp* You haven't read Season of Mists?!?
That's my FAVORITE. Ask KS-sama, she has links to scans of the whole series.

(and I'm still not letting you off. Favorite Character thus far, then.)

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Yay! (and that Icon is wonderful, but lacks all but the inside-joke reference to Omlette!Hamlet.) Great icon still.

I don't get what that means. Lacks all but...icon... omelette...*falls over*
When I take my nerd school desktop publishing class, hopefully my icons will get better. I just got out of Biotechnology and now I'm in CAD. It's pretty kewl. I made a Gundam. (Deathscythe Hell)

The mundane work was called The Twirler. I wasn't that impressed.

Favorite Character this far would be Death, I suppose.
Peachy keen.

I also liked the short story about the dude who lives forever and Morpheus comes back to hang out every 100 years. During my school scholarship interview, they were like "what's the most recent book you've read?"
And like an idiot, I was like "SANDMAN!!...even though it's not a 'book'..."
Then proceeded to tell them the story of the serial killer convention. Oh yeah, I really know when to bring awkward subjects up, let me tell you...

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

I meant...nobody who didn't know the joke could tell what it was. (My words aren't coming. I'm trying to be inescapably witty and interesting in about five places at once, and I haven't slept much in two days. Have mercy on me.)

"Twirler" doesn't sound that impressive at all even in title. *snicker*

Death. Ah, Death and his sweet Emo-ness. *snicker* Good for you. (Peachy-keen! *giggle*) I'm rather fond of Hob Gadling...and I like the Corinthian too. My favorite Endless character would be Despair, though. She's got an odd edge of sweetness to her beneath it all, she just...has no hope. (You've only seen her once, so you wouldn't know yet...)

Hob's the 100-years character. (He keeps making little appearences. ^_^) and the "Cereal Killers" convention is possibly my second favorite bit of the whole series. It's just so filled with dark humor...
What'd you think of the 24-hours bit in book one? That's kind of the part that tells you this stuff isn't for kids...the fact that 'Alex" is gay, notwithstanding. (Yes. He is. Rose Walker meets "Paul" his assistant, since grown rather old, who explains the whole thing. "I was just a young and beautiful under-gardener, and he was a stubborn old maid of forty-ish. I pursuaded him to take advantage of me behind the potting-shed. Or...someplace else. I don't remember."
*sweatdrop* Kind of makes you feel a little sorry for them both.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just...WOW. We need to start a bitching club on LJ or something, because we're REALLY good at this.
Um...funny about what you should say about withdrawal symptoms. Itsuki pretty much gets hooked on prescription drugs at one point of CF and has to kick the habit. (this is kind of traces my own rise and fall in that murky world)
Really? People at my nerd school just crack a smile and make a comeback with their own nerdy 'your mother' joke.
"Yeah? Well your mother is my function's derivative!!"
"...that's just SICK."
"I know. Bwahahaha!!"

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the point. I love making specialized icons. There's this writer I met on LJ who designs icons that pertain to her fanfiction. They're pretty pwnsome.

Death? What the hell? DEATH? As in, Morpheus's SISTER? Is a guy?

Ahh, the Corinthian. I forgot about him. An academic bowl question was like "old wives tales say that he tried to steal your eyes and eat them when you were sleeping"
And the first thing I thought of was "*flail* CORINTHIAN!!"
So glad I did not buzz in early. The answer was The Sandman. *face-palm*
whaat? He's gay? Huh. Well, not that it really impacts how I perceive the story or any of the characters, but...huh. Interesting. Explains why he leaves everything to Paul.
Rose Walker. Now SHE was alright by me. I remember those two sisters who collected spiders...

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Those would be...and in that case I can't talk what with the Araiel icon bouncing around... *snicker*

Death? No, Death's a girl. I said I like Despair (who's also rather obviously a girl. She's naked after all...and not exactly pretty...) The one who's BOTH is Desire. *snicker* He/She is just weird, though.

Oh really? heheh. Actually that's probably where Gaiman got the idea from, then. He ALWAYS does fantastic research for everything he writes... (And Dream DID create the Corinthian...) Puck later makes all sorts of references to the alternate menaings of his name "and I will not ask whether you get your name from the pillar, the lifestyle..." etc. But that's in number nine...

Explains. Yes. he leaves it to Paul because Paul's his bedwarmer, so to speak. (I like Paul, though.) book nine I really got to like him. he gets some of the BEST lines...
Rose: You're not some kind of pervert, are you?
Paul: My dear, I am the very BEST kind of pervert. I am, as the immortal Quentin put it, one of the stately homos of old England.
Rose: You're gay?
Paul: You know, I never really liked the word gay as a synonym to queer, reders a perfectly good word lost, but ah well...

And as for the two sisters who colelct spiders...ah, they're not sisters, either. *sweatdrop* Erm. Chantal and Zelda are lesbians. (And one of them has a really bad stutter and that's why she never speaks. I just can't remember which one, forgive me.) You see one of them again in book nine. *smile* And Hal, too. (The drag-queen landlord. *snicker*)
I loved Dolls House so much though, all those characters...they're just...memorable.
*sigh* Such a good series...

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Meh. Well. why start a club when you just want to bitch and don't want to listen to the bitching in the first place? *snicker* That takes all the fun out of bitching.

Hm. Well...Araiel becomes an opium addict, you know. And Sammael becomes a prostitute. *sweatdrop* I think I have you beat. (And I did neither of those actions, thank you.)
But perscription drugs for what, might I ask?

yeah well...I was never good enough at math, but I'm GREAT at making things deliberately socially awkward. *cackle*

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

...true

Though I was part of a forum on ffic.net that was a character bashing forum. It didn't go out of control either. We were all very mature about it. Basically, that means the forum was full of people who backed up their arguements with evidence rather than reduce to name calling, like some of the tween-packed forums do(*cough cough* Gundam Wing Relena-bashing)

Which prescription drugs? Itsuki's or mine?

Darling, I AM the Socially Awkward Situation.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Ah...I thought my character bashings were the epitome of maturity. *snicker* I'm not my father after all, with his famous "Alphonse is such a GIRL" argument...

Erm. I was thinking Itsuki's but I suppose...both? (You seem remarkably unfazed by the plights of my chracters. I thought you LIKED Araiel... You'll make him all unhappy...)

Darling? *snicker* Who am I then, Hamlet or Horatio in this predicament? (And I'd like to see that famous omlette...I AM a voracious omlette eater after all. ^___^) Oh, and I doubt you can make situations as terrifying as I can. *giggle*

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

True. I too respect Gaiman a lot for doing research for his material. Like American Gods. If you're a mythology fan, you will freak out like I did. I love how he weaves all sorts of things in.

XXD You know, I must agree with Paul. I say this to my friends a lot, but I think they should have devised a different contemporary word. Preferably something classical, like what lesbian comes from. (I mean, the ancients were some of the most spectacular homos of all time!! Pay homage, neophytes!!)
I'm still looking for a better alternate word. Help?

Conversation with NF cont.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

well, after knowing the kinds of things you do to your characters, I'm pretty much unfazed by anything.
I've been know to walk by someone. They jump out and say "BOO!" or whatever.
FM: *blink blink* *pause* *normal voice* Don't do that. You scared me. *walks off*
The person is like "You didn't look scared! You didn't move!!"
But I'll really be scared. I guess it goes back to the whole manipulation of emotions thing. I'm getting better at it, though. Getting better at being subconscious about expressing emotion, I mean.
Okay, then. Itsuki: not totally sure yet, but part of it is sleeping pills.
For me, it was Tylenol and Nyquil, just because I am an inveterate insomniac, and I got addicted because I finally got almost literally knocked out so I could get more sleep.
But I finally stopped! So kids, I can do it, and so can you!

well, I should say that I AM better at making omelettes...

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

I read the book. I freaked out. You'll freak out just as much when you read Sandman 4 "A Season of mists" that thing is MADE of awesome.

Pay homage eh? *grin* And yes, I agree with you. I can't watch 300 because I know the what the spartans REALLY were like, and it wasn't pretty.
See why I like Paul, though? I mean, he's pretty cool for a sixty-year-old gay guy who likes to fiddle around with the bloke whose dad imprisons Dream. He gets the BEST lines. ("The sins of the fathers, old boy, the sins of the fathers...")

Re: Conversation with NF cont.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Agh, you make me sound like some kind of pedophile when you put it that way "the things you do to your chracters" indeed. It's THEIR choices. (And here I go talking about them as though they're alive...)

But yeah...you mentioned you're not particularly expressive. That's pretty cool to someone like me. My thoughts are on my face and my body language for ANYONE to read...

Sleeping pills, huh? Hm. Araiel's on opiates for painkillers after he gets branded. (but while that gives away alot and won't happen until waaaaay later, it still doens't tell you alot because you don't know the circumstances...) He's given the things by humans, then because he gets addicted he has to go off and sell his blood. (His blood's like a drug to humans because his powers are organic-related. His blood enhances the power of humans for a period of time, so he's valuable like that.) Poor anemic Araiel stuck there underground... (I'm so cruel to my favorite characters) He shows up like that in Control 10 if I ever get it out...

Better at making omlettes? *snicker* You sure?

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Interesting that you should say that about painkillers.
Itsuki was originally taking a sleeping pill/painkiller martini of sorts.
But then the show House, M.D. had to show up. And I was like "Damn you, Vicodin! You stole my idea! Now if I use it, it'll look like I took it from YOU!"

So now I have to come up with something else.

wow. Poor Araiel indeed...

Yeah. I'm sure. I challenge you in the arena! We can have an omelette-off...um...yeah! And I'm amazing at making pancakes too. I never burn them, I can tell exactly when to flip them, and whatever happens to the batter, my touch makes it fluffy and delicious.
I AM GOD!!

And now I sound like Light Yagami...

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[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

*clap clap* Ok-ay!!!

I was actually thinking of using the word Apollan or Phoeban. Because he was pretty much THE gay god.

Re: Conversation with NF cont.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Aw! I hate that! i had so many ideas early on that ended up popping out somewhere or other...You poor girl.

Don't feel so bad. I neglected to mention Araiel has a very devoted angel-friend with him at the time. Why? Because it's a bit awkward, that's why. First time he sees said individual he gets pissed and tries to kill him. (Araiel's got a really bad anger problem beneath it all...)Then it's all "augh! I need my fix!" and said other angel's all "WTF?"
More or less, Araiel saves angelfriend from needing painkillers too by healing him. They still have lots of angst opportunities though, and it doesn't last...more or less because you can probably guess who it is. (Ugh...I feel so weird admitting that, though...)

I am not god of the omlettes...or even Kira of the omlettes, but I MAKE THINGS TASTE AWESOME!

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[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Do it!

Apollo, huh? You mean...other than Hermes? The guy who was characterized by pillars with his head and his...erm...nether regions put up at crossroads? I mean...what can you say? And his double-sexed kid with Aphrodite should at least say something (Supposedly there was a case in an ancient town where someone drunk went around and knocked all the "meat'n two-veg" bits off the poles and the government/religious temple-people of the time REALLY got mad at them...)