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Updates - 2003

December 27: Junk art from yesterday's slow day at work.

December 25: Chapter 14 of Landslide. I think this is the chapter most people have been waiting for...

December 24: Chapter 13 of Landslide. I was hoping to have the whole thing posted on Christmas, but instead... we just get really really close. (Maybe I'll try for New Year's.)

December 12: Holy crap - I got a real job! At any rate, Chapter 12 of Landslide, which will continue to tick off the yaoi fangirls.

December 4: Winamp skin that made my monitor commit suicide from the angstiness. Or something like that. Download if you dare. (...Seriously, my monitor died halfway through. I'm scared.)

November 30: Weekly junk art, this time featuring Emishi and Amon being cute and buddy-buddy.

November 28: Bored and stuff, and I did say that I was going to draw this sometime, so sketchy GB fan art. (For those who have only seen the anime, I'll save you the brain cramps - he's in the manga. And he's great.)

November 27: I was determined to get it up today, which is Thanksgiving, because it's seasonal - Chapter 11 of Landslide! Actually, we were writing this last Thanksgiving... if we hold to the schedule at which we were writing this story when it comes to converting/posting it, we'll have the last bit posted at Christmas, since that's the day we finished it.

November 23: New junk art, because I'm crazy about FF again thanks to FF12.

November 19: New Winamp skin, using a screenshot from Legend of Mana. Love that game to death.

November 16: Another church doodle, of no one in particular. As always, found on the junk art page.

November 11: Another of those short Hardin and Sydney bits.

November 9: New junk art, in the form of RP-based Kanou, Masaki, and Teshimine.

November 6: New page in the cosplay section... Thesenis, who was my Halloween costume.

November 4: A somewhat less stupid Fudo skin than the last one. Over here, as usual.

November 2: Today's dumb junk art from church is yet another Clayman/Emishi doodle. ...They're cute, darnit!

October 31: Spur of the moment Halloween GB fic. Oddly enough, inspired by... a longer fic I'm working on. Mmm, circular inspiration.

October 29: Ah, with all the Halloween preparations, forgot to post the junky sketch I did this Sunday, which will make no sense to almost anyone.

October 28: Busy costuming like mad - but had to take a break to finally finish my entry for the GB Halloween challenge thing.

October 23: I like making Winamp skins. Especially when my brain's not functioning quite properly due to illness.

October 19: More Emishi stupidity, this time some junk art. (I wonder what would have happened if anyone noticed I was drawing this in between church services...)

October 17: Another Winamp skin, this time with Emishi being an idiot. Good ol' Emishi.

October 16: New Winamp skin, featuring Oshare-Zukin from DDR.

October 14: Working madly on costumes still, but had an urge to doodle snuggly bunnies, which are now found on the junk art page.

October 10: Haven't updated with anything in a couple days because 1) been working on costumes, 2) been working on some art that I actually wanted to do right for a change. But since that's not finished, a new oekaki doodle, drawn while testing out Ka's board that she just set up. (I'm going to probably hang out there a lot once it's open... I missed oekaki.)

October 7: Like I said below...

October 6: So a couple weeks ago I started a Get Backers X-2 line of stupid fan arts... Here's the fourth. Fifth should be coming on tomorrow's update. (Or sooner, if I'm bored...)

October 5: I blame it on Ka for scanning a bunch of cute pics from the manga... which caused me to doodle junk art of Amon and Emishi during church.

October 4: Despite Photoshop's valiant efforts to keep me from doing so, I managed to make a Winamp skin from the cover of Get Backers manga volume 15. I don't know what Photoshop has against the card arc... maybe it's a homophobe.

October 3: A little spoileriffic Masaki/Teshimine post-anime GB fic - Descending Olympus. Beware the spoilers and vague implications of slash.

October 2: Since it's October (ugh, and I missed two days in a row - I suck), a Halloween pic for the front page. Full version can be found here.

September 29: It's Paul Appreciation Day over at the Get Backers LJ community, and ... well, I didn't get what I wanted to do done yet. But I did finish the Paul portion of what I was doing, so here's some animated gifs of the dude.

September 28: Very boring junk art featuring Gremio.

September 27: When will I shut up about Get Backers? When IRC discussion stops giving me disturbing inspirations.

September 26: Spent a lot of yesterday working on some serious fic. It's not done, though, and may never be - so instead, have a really dumb drabble. (Watch out for yaoi implications...)

September 25: New Winamp skin, thanks to being completely fixated on Get Backers and going through withdrawal now that it's over. ...I want more Masaki, darnit.

September 24: o/` There's just two jokes in me, and I just drew the third... o/` ...Sorry, I can't help the gratuitous TMBG references. And actually, there's a heck of a lot more stupid fan art where this came from...

September 23: Two new pics today, since we had a random power outage this morning and afterwards the modem took ages to come back online... CGed while I was waiting. They're the first two in a proposed series, actually...

September 22: A new Winamp skin - not actually made by me, but by another, from a picture I drew, and I get to host it. =)

September 21: Somewhat less stupid original character pic today... but with stupid commentary to make up for it. :D

September 20: Evil, evil Get Backers yaoi fan art drawn to scare people. And yes, it is thoroughly sarcastic. ...I think. ...Maybe. ...But they're kind of starting to look cute...

September 19: Been taking care of non-updatable things today, but I was inspired this evening to do a really stupid image edit for someone.

September 18: As mentioned yesterday, got a request from the 20,000th visitor - an autumn pic with Ban and Ginji. I liked it, so it's also my new front page image, since I don't have to keep with the So Very Wrong theme anymore... though I frequently will. ;)

September 17: I've spent the evening working on some decent art for a change... actually, kiriban for hit number 20,000. ;) So for tonight, I will just offer a silly little image edit I made because it just seemed appropriate today, and I wanted one of these images to toss up in amusing LJ threads and so on.

September 16: New short GB fic, inspired by a couple LJ comments and an urge to write something ridiculously fluffy.

September 15: You noticed today's update already, I'm sure. Anyway, new layout for autumn and in honor of 20,000 hits (though the latter has a pic coming...). Also due to the fact that I kept getting weirded out by reading VS fic on a page with a background going "WAI WAI WAI". The demented front page art will continue, though. =)

September 14: Already the drabbles page comes in handy, because I've been busy enough with other stuff today that all I could manage was a requested Legend of Mana drabble.

September 13: Actually, spent today both doing a new layout for the site (I'm waiting a bit though...), and trimming my new favorite accessory. Wigs are freaking awesome. Anyhow, this left not much time for making up new content... but I did have a backlog of drabbles which are too short or random to give titles to. So now there's a new page on the site just for drabbles... which means that I'll definitely be able to keep with the updating every day for awhile. I can come up with 100-500 words of something every day for sure. ;)

September 12: A random VS scene. Also, I joined the GB webring - because sheesh, I know I'd like to be able to find all the sites with GB fanstuff... so other people might be happy to find mine. =)

September 11: And speaking of Winamp... that random skin feature pulled up something so wrong last night.

September 10: Haven't made a Winamp skin for awhile... and so today I did.

September 8: New junk art, in the form of a sloppily drawn bunnygirl.

September 7: Updating early in the day, for once, due to finishing the new chapter of Landslide late last night.

September 6: Spent today working on a commission, and I'm thinking I'm going to go see fireworks soon, so not likely I can put anything of my own up today... Luckily, I received new gift art from Kaiousei! (You saved my butt here, you know...)

September 5: Fresh off the IRC chat log, RPed Get Backers fic by me and Kitarin - Wishing On a S.

September 4: And today... I felt like drawing a dragon.

September 3: Yeah, still working on that chapter. So you get another drabble. Get Backers, this time. I think I got more Get Backers requests than anything else... but this one sort of has a plot.

September 2: In a whirlwind of sudden Emishi inspiration, I've spent my creative time for the day working on chapter 3 of Jokers Wild. However, since it's not finished yet, you get this very romantic FF8 drabble. (...Hey, someone requested it. I'm serious.)

September 1: Chapter 2 of Jokers Wild. ...I probably should have uploaded this awhile ago, but I kept forgetting...

August 31: Sunday is junk art day... and today, Dryad shaking her... rooty? Oh, that was bad.

August 30: Another drabble - this one about MST3K. Not a MSTing, but... actually about MST3K. Do people actually write MST3K fics that aren't MSTings? Well, I just did. O_o

August 29: Yep - decided to stick at least a couple of the drabbles up, because I like them. Today's offering: Viktor and Oulan arm-wrestling. (...Actually, I think they'd make a cute couple... *whistles innocently*)

August 28: Yet another Sydney/Hardin bit. Actually written as part of a drabble challenge meme in my LJ, which has spawned 6 various things in a few different fandoms already... uh, maybe I'll stick the rest of them up too at some point.

August 27: Another chapter of the Suikoden fic which I can't figure out if it's a joke or serious. ...I think that was bad grammar.

August 26: No update yesterday because I decided to sleep instead of finishing this. Considering how long it took me, probably a good choice.

August 24: Ridiculously obscure junk art of the hero from Soul Blazer, which I've been replaying over the last week.

August 22: Because I like this fanon too much to not do more with it than a stupid fan art - began a new Suikoden fic, entitled Hounded by Destiny. Now I change my name to Estella.

August 21: Too hot to do anything. Except upload this remixed RCR midi for the sounds page. Well, it suits the weather, I guess...

August 19: Sneaking in an update at almost the literal last minute for today - new junk art based on a dream I had.

August 18: Insomnia usually causes me to end up writing Vagrant Story fic. In this case, the last two thirds of a story I started probably a year ago at least - The Path to Redemption.

August 17: I think I need to add a separate gallery for GB fan art... but then, the anime one would just sit there idle. I dunno. Anyway, fan art of Emishi in "bishie" mode.

August 16: Missed last night's update because I was out at a party, then at an arcade. Fortunately, I was inspired by the outing...

August 14: Although the massive international power outage today only caused my area to be out for a few seconds, I couldn't get online for most of the night - I get the feeling Charter's Michigan servers are probably in Lansing or one of the other very affected areas. However, the news images inspired a new stupid graphics edit.

August 13: Chapter 9 of Landslide. Finally. Also, considering just removing the guestbook altogether because I keep getting porn spam. Whee. maybe I can learn enough coding to prevent the scripts from getting through...

August 12: Now why on earth did I not post this incredibly sexy and intelligent fan art already?

August 11: Can't miss a day of updating! So... the junk art I drew yesterday in church. I like bunnies. :D

August 10: Now that I've finally come up with a title for it, the first part of the Emishi fic, Jokers Wild, is up. Most likely the other (two) chapters will follow fairly soon.

August 9: Junk art. I really don't know what happened there... I think the fact that I wasn't at Otakon broke my brain. That, and writing Emishi fic... which I'd start posting, except that I can't find a darned title for it.

August 8: Gasp in astonishment as I upload something other than stupid Get Backers fan art! In this case, cover art for Landslide. Not that it's done yet, but I didn't have anything else to update with today and didn't want to end my streak of consecutive updates I'm pleased with it so far.

August 7: Speaking of scary thoughts that Emishi puts in my head...

August 6: Dumb fan art of Emishi. Because he puts scary thoughts in my head.

August 5: Looking through folders a day or so ago, I found a pic I did awhile ago, and don't hate! But it will probably never be finished, so I stuck it on the junk art page.

August 4: New costume up in the "Cheapskate Cosplay" section - Emishi Haruki! He's practically my twin, seriously...

August 3: Grrr, I should have just updated the page this morning - I thought I'd be around this afternoon, but Charter went down for the entire day. Anyway, new doodle I did during church this morning on the junk art page, down in "Sketches/Dumb Stuff". I kinda like it.

August 2: To go with yesterday's update... ...I think I need help.

August 1: New and incredibly stupid front page art. ...I have nothing to say for myself.

July 28: New bit for The Heretics' Story up, Part 21. Cause the ren faire this weekend got me in the mood for VS stuff again...

July 15: Moved the GB fic to its own page, because I was adding another story, and the GB fic was totally taking over the misc. fanfic page. ;)

July 14: Suikoden junk art. Go to the appropriate page for an explanation... and also dates, because Silvermist thought it would be nice to have dates with the junk art and stuff. Not that I can remember when most of the stuff there was drawn exactly, but I went back a couple months and checked update times and stuff...

July 9: Very short fic, just a scene really, for Get Backers, taking place just after they're done with the MakubeX arc. 'Cause you know that had to be traumatic for both of them, and the anime certainly didn't show any after-effects...

July 8: It's been a long time... so, new little VS bit up for The Heretics' Story. Part 20... yikes. There's a few more little things here and there I'll probably be putting up over the next few days...

July 1: I keep forgetting to actually stick my junk art up on the site... so there's a bunch of new little doodles over in that section. Mostly drawn during Programming Logic class... man, what am I going to do in a week when that class is over?

June 26: Chapter 8 of Landslide. I'm too disgusted with everything else I've done recently to post it...

June 13: Chapter 7 of Landslide. Posted here, but not ff.net, since apparently their upload script is not working at the moment. And for the last few days, at least, since there's still stuff in the Just In section from a few days ago. Screwy site - that's why I like my own homepage. ;)

June 1: Wow, June already. Anyway, a few new pics up on the Viktor cosplay page.

May 31: Well, it had been over a month since Ginji's birthday, so it was about time I changed the front page image. Luckily, people in #fret inspired something suitably stupid...

May 30: Just fixed another of the Winamp skins... and realized that from now on, skinning the browser will be a pain, because I don't have the workable files for most of the ones I did awhile back. Ah well, we'll see...

May 29: Not really a new Get Backers fic, because it's been sitting around for a week. I just haven't decided if I like it or not. A couple people I showed it to seemed to like it though, so there it is. ...I suppose I should give GB fic its own page or something...

May 27: First non-junk art for awhile. Apparently I deserve to die because it's a dumb cliche, but it's pretty.

May 26: Fixed another Winamp skin up with browser, and... couldn't find the PSD for another. So I took a break from that, and instead updated my Cheapskate Cosplay section with pics of a new costume. Or rather, a costume I haven't posted here before. Actually, two costumes, but one is worn by someone else. More to come in that cosplay section later...

May 25: Another junk art... for once, not Get Backers. And hmmm, updates 4 days in a row... maybe it's time to see how many days in a row I can update again.

May 24: Now that I know just how ridiculously easy it is to skin the Winamp browser, I added it for a couple older skins - in particular, the first two on that page. Thank goodness I keep my workable Photoshop files around... anyway, just a couple little updates that probably no one will ever see, but since I like to be complete... had to do it. I'll probably fix the browser for more skins tonight and tomorrow... heck, I don't have another class till Wednesday, and I've been done with the assignments since last Wednesday. =)

May 23: I'm on an Emishi kick lately, because I like big dorks. Shockingly enough, with the new skin, I actually skinned the browser. I may go back and do the browsers for my older skins, now that I know it's not really that tough...

May 22: Bleah, just another stupid GB junk art drawn during class. Nobody ever draws Emishi! ...Well, I'm sort of out of commission at the moment, so maybe I'll remedy that...

May 20: Back from ACen, and although I don't have brand new stuff to put up, I do have the time to put up some stuff I did shortly before I left. So... silly GB junk art, and two short GB fics. And at ACen I got a whole bunch of GB stuff. I think I'm certifiably obsessed...

May 11: I was in the mood to make a wallpaper the other day, and it occurred to me I don't have anywhere to put the wallpapers I make. So now I do. Maybe I'll start filling it up somewhat with other stuff I've made, but for right now, the new one and an all-time favorite of mine...

May 4: To follow up the new chapter, new Winamp skin, inspired by Landslide. Slight story spoiler in there, if you look hard...

May 2: Chapter 6 of Landslide. I'm probably not going to update with much this month, considering there's only two weeks left till ACen, and I'm going to be ridiculously busy until then, then no doubt trying to catch up on a ton of stuff afterwards. I'll try to slip in a little something now and then, though...

April 26: New Winamp skin. And once again, Get Backers. ...I can't help it. At least this time it's someone other than Ban or Ginji.

April 22: Just a junk art, drawn this Sunday, of Tir and Gremio. Heh heh... this is way ahead in the Landslide arc...

April 19: I did mention Ginji birthday fic, didn't I? ...And again, poor Ginji.

April 18: Ginji's birthday is tomorrow! So in honor, a new fan art, which also will serve as the front page image. Bwahahah... I think I'll write a little fic to go along with it... (Poor Ginji.)

April 13: In honor of Palm Sunday, something that will make you drop your head into your palm at the sheer stupidity. This is me having fun with Get Backers screenshots. Not that you'll get it if you haven't... well, saying would give it a way. In slightly less stupid news, a new anime Winamp skin. I broke up the skin pages into three separate sections, as seen here, due to having an awful lot of them, and more on the way.

April 12: Breaking the string of GB updates to post chapter 5 of Landslide. These keep getting longer and longer...

April 10: Yep, still in love with Get Backers, so I made a second Winamp skin. And because the picture inspired me, fic too.

April 8: Continuing the Get Backers fun, a new Winamp skin. (And my keyboard is dying, arrrgh...)

April 7: Far from the first Get Backers fanfic I've written, but the first one I've posted here - the origin of Ban's weird hair. (Never mind that we actually don't know what they were doing just after Ban met Ginji... They probably were broke, though!) For the record, until I decide what to do with the other GB fics, this one's on the misc. fics page.

April 3: Had a sudden urge to draw Viki, and so I did. ...Yep.

April 2: Fast on the heels of the last chapter, chapter 4 of Landslide. (Hey, it's easy and I've got a bunch of "real life" issues to deal with at the moment. :P) It's very long, and hits the first really major plot point. Whee!

March 26: Nothing like someone asking if you're still going to update something to motivate you to do so. Therefore, chapter 3 of Landslide.

March 25: Thanks to an absurd topic on the GameFAQs Suikoden 3 board... Suikoden song parodies! As I've been telling people, Weird Al was a personal hero when I was a kid...

March 21: I'm just a dorky fan artist, so as far as the international issues go, this is the best I can do.

March 20: Listening to Counting Crows puts me in a VS kind of mood, so how about a short fic taking place immediately after Bridges? Warning: rather massive yaoi content, though it's not a lemon. Quite. Also written awhile back, actually... I'm not sure what to do with the more "mature" stuff I write. Also too busy with commissions to do much new stuff now, as I'm fundraising for con season... I believe I'll blog about the oddness going on there shortly. ;)

March 11: I hate myself for drawing such crappy fan art of Ban. Get Backers rocks. Ban rocks. I do not rock.

March 5: Who wants pointless Suikoden 2 fic? It has Viktor and Flik in it...!

March 4: Really old Final Fantasy 8 fan art, dug up and colored quickly because someone reminded me the other day.

March 1: No update yesterday... oh well, I kept it up for over two weeks, so at least now I know that I don't actually have to update as rarely as I used to. I'll keep trying to update as frequently as possible, just because it gives me something to work for. At any rate, original character art today.

February 27: I meant to draw something today, but wound up babysitting my little brother for several hours, and working on cosplay stuff while I was doing so. However, I did receive some nice gift art during that time... ;)

February 26: Worked on cosplay stuff today, actually. But since what I was doing isn't finished... just adding the old front page pic to the Suikoden art gallery. Heh heh heh...

February 25: Because I was busy with non-fanstuff today, I'm using today's update to upload the junk art I drew during church Sunday and was too lazy to scan. It sucks. Also, I'm not going to explain what's going on, but it's probably not what you think.

February 24: Another Winamp skin. I'm on a roll.

February 23: New Winamp skin. And my back hurts now.

February 22: Lazy/busy day. So instead of doing any work today, I discovered some gift art that I forgot to put up when I got it at Christmas. So I will be thankful today, and perhaps try to do work tomorrow.

February 21: If you've gotten to the updates page, you've already seen it. Bwahaha. Ah well, I'll stick the explanation, such as it is, in the gallery...

February 20: Shock! Updates ten days in a row! That's further than I ever expected to get. Anywho (that was an honest typo), new Suikoden 3 fic. Somewhat racy, you could say... but it had to be to get anywhere.

February 19: Not feeling very creative today, so I made new link banners and updated my artist/author links page. However, for some reason some of the new images aren't showing up, despite double-checking the tags and directory structure. Stuff in the same directory is showing up, but the stuff I just uploaded won't show even when I go to the directory listing and click on the filename... I'm confused. At any rate, it's updated - it just doesn't look like it. Bleh. [Update: Well, more of them are showing up now, despite not having changed anything since I last checked, but still not all. Odd.]

February 18: Not fan art today, but original. Amazing. I felt like doing something other than watercolors... ah, if only I still had some canvas, I could have done some real painting.

February 17: Another stupid graphics hack - I believe my first since Suikoden 3. Someone's going to kill me... especially if I write the fic to go with it.

February 16: Very crappy update - just a new junk art drawn during church. But it's Thomas and Cecile, which makes it worth it. Right? Right? Also fixed the laugh.at/adumbpage forward that leads to this page, with much difficulty, because the forward service still had an old email address registered that I no longer had access to. Oops. But that got fixed, and so the forward is fixed also.

February 15: ...Bwahahahaha. I'd been meaning to draw this for awhile.

February 14: Because I suck, new fan art for today. I get this feeling it will take a year before I'm able to draw him without being completely disgusted with myself...

February 13: Okay, made it three days in a row. Inspired by someone of whom I am terribly envious for her ability to draw a new gorgeous front page pic every single day, new VS fan art. When was the last time I drew VS fan art, really?

February 12: Wow, updates two days in a row. I'm thinking maybe I'll try to crank out something to upload with every day for as long as I can manage. Anyway. Today, to put it eloquently, I uploaded a buttload of text.
First of all, chapter 2 of Landslide. It's nice to have a fic that's basically written, and just needs to have prose added. Also in the "fic I already have written" department, 19 little Vagrant Story vignettes over on the VS fic page, listed as "The Heretics' Story". I jot them down in my LJ at random, and I'd been posting them on ye olde vole pit without bothering to post here... so that's been remedied, and there's a new bit that I hadn't uploaded elsewhere yet.

February 11: Happy Valentine's Day! To show my love for everyone, a very sexy new fan art. ...Okay, maybe not. Actually more like a brain-breaking new fan art. But hey - the new layout is called "So Very Wrong".
Okay, on a less disturbing note, new Suikoden 3 fic, which is the fluffiest thing I've written outside of ICO. But I have an excuse - it's Thomas and Cecile! And they're just cute.
Also, I realized that after the recent server switch, I'd neglected to chmod my guestbook's files back to what they should be. So uh, that works now. Hopefully I won't just end up with another rash of spammers... or else I'll just shut it down entirely. :P

February 5: As much as I love Yorda, that picture was drawn ages ago, and made me think summer. So... it was time to redesign. I may get entirely sick of this design really fast, but for the moment, it amuses me, as this sort of fan art seems to be what I'm getting to be known for...
On the subject of things that are not So Very Wrong... a non-goofy fanfic, my first for Suikoden 3. I love Geddoe, really.

January 24: Suikoden-filled update today. I organized the fan art pages slightly, seeing as I have too much Suikoden fan art to just keep lumping it in with "Miscellaneous" now. That new fan art page has two new pics. Also, new Suikoden fanfic begun - Landslide, co-written (actually RPed for the most part) with Tami.

January 15: I know I said to expect Geddoe on this page soon, but I didn't expect it to be like this. ...Forgive me, I've looked at one too many scary Japanese fansites today...

January 9: Hmmm, I forgot to put up the Christmas art. Likely due to the fact that I had Tami visiting for the week after, and am just now getting to the point of catching up on stuff. Also, a cynical Christmas parody.
I may update again soon, with new cosplay pics, provided that the other involved party does not object...
And we began playing Suikoden 3 together, and after a rough start, it's completely hooked us. Or at least me. Expect Geddoe to appear on this page soon...
I feel like redesigning, too. Hmm.


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