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You know what I'd love to see in a video game, especially an RPG type? Going to some kingdom or village or whoever you need to help you further the plot and instead of saying, "Yes, but first you must do such and such before we can help", they just say, "Okay". Just think of the possibilities!

"I need you're help in doing _______."

"Sure."

"....that's it?"

"What's it?"

"Just 'sure'? You don't need anything? Supplies? Something killed?"

"No, no. We're pretty good here. Why? Do people usually ask you for favors?"

"...pretty much all the time."

It's that time again! Time for the year end fic writing round-up!

( List away! )

You know, I like to think that I'm finally going to have time to draw for myself once the semester is over, but the truth is I still have so many other projects to work on:

-do the in-between storyboards for a collaborative project
-do a couple more expressions and tweak an existing character design for another collaborative project
-complete storyboards for promo for a fan-made movie
-make a Christmas poster for my cousin

I probably won't be doing actual art for myself until after New Years. Hopefully my first 'me project' will be getting back on that Mass Effect/Team Fortress 2 series I've been thinking about. May experiment with a more graphic style for that, too...

Things to do tomorrow (...later today):

-make Christmas aka bribery cookies for former co-workers at Kinko's
-print my work portfolio for review and print and bind my portfolio final
-assemble my work portfolio
-crash the fuck out since I'll be at school for about 14 straight hours Monday and I'd like to not fall asleep and die on the drive home
-have a mini-breakdown at some point if I have time for one

( In which I overthink things that aren't important just so I can have theoretical heights for Freelancers )

I don't know why I'm thinking so hard about this but it's almost 3AM and I'm just mulling mulling mulling. At the very least if I'm going to be an insomniac I could do something useful like make sure my final storyboards for class tomorrow (this evening?) are coherent.

So I'm probably late to the party, but as I was walking from school to my car, I've hit a bit of a Revelation (hahaha).

( More RvB rambling that no one cares about but me )

I'm working on character designs for two different projects and both are kids under 8 years old and yet they're so vastly different from each other it's rather amusing to go from working on one's expression to going to the other. One ranges from about to/laughing maniacally to I'm-going-to-fucking-slit-your-throat and any in between expressions generally land in the 'mild but obviously unhinged' area. The other is probably the most adorable child I ever drew- even the angry expressions are 'I AM MAD BUT STILL FUCKING ADORABLE'.

I can't wait to get permission to actually post these, they're so much fun in diametrically opposed ways.

(also the leads on both projects are very happy with my work which i'm always glad to hear^^)

Speculation mainly just so I can get it out of my head.

( Red vs Blue: Fall of Project Freelancer )

Got back from a weekend in Vegas! Was supposed to be there for an unofficial high school reunion but things happened and very few people were able to show and most of those that did were people I didn't know/never cared about. I DID, however, get to meet up with a friend of mine I haven't seen in over ten years which was awesome and over those ten years she picked up a Texas accent which was HILARIOUS.

We stayed with her friends who actually live in Vegas (none of whom i knew) and the first night we went to a buffet which was good but not worth the cost (maybe if i ate the crab legs they served. maybe if i liked crab...) the second day we went shopping (well, they went shopping, i just tagged along) and went to a video game bar that had various video games consoles for you to play as well as classic arcades. We played Killer Instinct, Burger Time, Turtle in Time, House of the Dead and at the table we played Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Mario Bros 3 which, we realized, we kind of suck at now.

On Sunday- my last full day there because I still have classes to go to -we went to the Shark Reef aquarium in the Mandalay Bay hotel. It was small and not nearly as awesome as the aquarium in the Academy of Science but it was pretty cool for the cost. It had sharks and sea turtles and some rays you could pet so I was highly pleased. We saw the volcano show at the Mirage which was nice if not just for the fact the fire was warm and it was a little chilly (especially when drinking a strawberry daiquiri) and then we went to see Cirque du Soleil Mystere and then went to a Korean BBQ buffet which was both good AND reasonably priced.

Then I came back to the Bay, stayed a night at my dad's watching MST3K movies and now I'm back home, needing to organize some photos and finish my assignment for class tomorrow and get some more character sketches done a collaborative project with people I'm meeting after class tomorrow. Busy busy.

In a nutshell: Vegas was okay though the entire premise of it doesn't impress me so if it weren't for the Cirque shows or some cool people I hung out with, I probably wouldn't consider ever going back there.