This post kind of makes me a lying lier who lies, about the "I'm not really playing sims anymore" thing. I still can't promise I'll stick with it for long, because I really do have better things to do, and I get bored with it SO FAST.

but whatevs I am doing this, so DEAL

I started a new legacy. I know, my attention span. It's over before you can say "attention span". In order to sort of deal with this, I actually started TWO new legacies. In the same neighborhood. Named, rather arbitrarily, Marshmere. I've decided to just post these legacies together. Unfortunately, I have... 80 photos, all told, for both legacies, and I believe that's rather too many for one post. So I'll post 40 of them now and then in a couple days I'll get around to the rest. So - we begin!


( 40-ish pics under cut + general silliness )

Firstly, yesterday I was going to *cough* "buy" Sims 2 Free Time. (Only because I really wanted the secondary aspirations! Their personality are annoyingly non-complex without it; it bores me.) I spent about an hour searching for it only to realise that the Mac version still hadn't come out.
I cursed Aspyr, and moved on to my second idea: "buying" Sims 3. (I was just curious, I swear. I wasn't gonna keep it. An hour in CAS, that was all I wanted. Honest.) This was much easier to find, as the game works for both PC and Mac, and this morning it had finished downloading. Except the when I tried to open it, it told me that I couldn't use that application on this OS.
"Oh," I said. "Right. Because I'm still using 10.4. Damn."
So I deleted it and the hacks I had downloaded for it (clearing up a lot of disk space, I might add).

Also, it's raining, and this defeats my plans of statueing today.

I have a feeling today is a day for writing and drawing. That's what usually happens when event conspire against me.
And possibly some hot chocolate, because of the rain.

I LURNED A BIG THING DRAWING THE LAST COMIK PAEG
IT IS A REALLY ESSENSHUL THING WEN DRAWING THE FACE
HEER IT IS I AM SHARING MY NOLEGE

WEN DRAWING A FACE, MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT TEH EYES IN HTE RITE PLAEC
THEY GO NEXT TO THE NOES
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omgomgomgomgomgomgomg

NOT ON TEH CHIN!!!!


THAT IS YOU'RE AMAZING PROFESHUNAL ART TIP FOR THE DAAAAAAAY
NOW YOUR A PROFESHUNAL ARTEEEST YAAAY











(Don't ask.)

Sooo I have put up the color version of the latest Märchen page. There may not be a new page this week, because, I have to be honest with you guys, it is not even sketched yet. So I may go ahead and finish/fix one of the old pages instead. Or maybe I'll get the cover done. Anyway, there'll be something.

Also I have to tell you - the last panel of that page making any sort of anatomical sense is all due to my friend Alina, because I was at her house and whining to her about it, so she basically drew the legs for me. Because she is a much much much better artist than I. So yes, credit for that totally goes to her.

In other news, I have now been a living statue twice now and made pretty decent amounts of money both times, and both times I finished and felt really happy about myself and the world, even though some people are silly/annoying/drunk. (The thing about doing it... um, where I live... is that you're about twice as likely to have slightly or even very drunk people walk by you as you are in some other places, because of all the wineries. So hopefully that won't be too much of a problem...)
So there it is. It makes me happy, and it makes me money. It's sort of hard, but not that hard; the main thing is motivating myself to do it on a consistent basis. I'm thinking pretty much every weekend, unless it gets really cold. (how much do I wish I'd started in the summer? Sooo much.)

In ending, everyone should go watch this music video. I am so obsessed with both that video and that song. I figured out how to play it on guitar, but if I keep playing is as much as I am I may forget how to play any other chords.

and now: FOOD

Here are a couple of memes that I stole from alleliua. I am posting them together because I feel like it okay.

( Click here to receive a box of metaphorical chocolate! It's metaphorically tasty. )

So after doing that book meme, I went and tried to put the Lirael audiobook on hold at my library. It really is excellent, Tim Curry is amazing reading it and I adore it. Anyway, they had removed it from the system, probably because it was on tape, and they were hissy and echoey and had problems in general. Rewinding the tapes to try and get the volume to snap back to a listen-able level was part of the experience for me. When I realized that it just wasn't there anymore, I think I cried.
But then I just went and bought the book on itunes. So now I have it. Except I'll probably have to buy Abhorsen as well, because they're really just one book; the ending of Lirael is almost physically painful to me because I always forget that it ends halfway through.
(I probably exaggerate, but still.)
My point is, Lirael, for all that I can't stand Prince Sammeth (he's a whiny brat - at least Lirael has a reason to be whiny, and shapes up as soon as she starts being an EPIC LIBRARIAN ADVENTURER. Sammeth is just like, "Uggh, I'm too wimpy to tell my parents that the dead creep me out, meeeh, my sister is slightly bossy and sensible, siiiigh, the life of a Prince is hard." And he takes forEVER to get over it.) ...yes, anyway, for all that, it is probably one of my favorite books ever.
...might have something to do with Tim Curry reading it, too. Maybe.

Oh, and I probably am not going to post it on the site because I'm a bad person, but there probably will not be a Märchen update for the next couple weeks.

Back to cleaning my room while Mr. Curry narrates Lirael's journey into epicness.

Yes Hi I'm alive. I don't have a comic for you, and I probably won't for a couple weeks, because I have been gone and I'll be leaving again on Monday. I are sorry. But it happens, and anyway I have other priorities atm.

One thing that is NOT a priority, and yet I have been doing, is taking pretty pretty pictures of my sims! Yaaay. Er. I mean, boooo. Anyway, this is a useless post other than getting the showing off out of my system. Getting to post it is my reward for getting my closet sorted out.

( Click to see the pretty pretty pictures. Lots of them. )

Basically yes there is an update this week, it is here. Or it will be in 45 minutes or so, it's still going through the queue. Also, the last page has been fixed up a bit, though not shaded yet. It was really sloppy though so I fixed that up.

Three things!
One! Violin. I have one, just now. Yaaay. I will teach myself to play it and thus begin the transformation into Danny Elfman! Muahahaha!
no actually I just want to play violin. I will probably have someone show me how to play it properly sometime, for now I will just make screechy noises and break strings.
(I totally broke one string trying to tune it but to be fair they clearly were old and needed to be replaced. NOT MY FAULT I HAVE A GOOD EAR.)

Two! The icon. I wish I got telekinetic powers when I was pmsing. It would be MUCH more fun.

Three!
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I forget.
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SQUID!

Yup, seeing that right there almost every night is pretty much the biggest appeal for me. Amanda Palmer's antics come second.




(There will be a comic next Sunday; there is a preview panel for it up on the site! And hopefully the last page will get shaded too.)

Oh my god it is SO HOT HERE. The heat is MELTING MY BRAIN. BUT GUESS WHAT

YOU GET A COMIC ANYWAY

BE HAPPY

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It's only flats, no shading, but that is how it is. And frankly, this page is so goddamned awful I don't think shading it would help. I don't know why it is but this page took forever and still looks bad and I hate it. {/bitching}

In other news, I am leaving tomorrow to go to Monterey, where it will NOT be as hot as Satan's asscrack. Also, exciting, I will be visiting a Julia, YAY eee I am so exciiiiiteeeeed it makes me uses more vowels than necessary!!!!

(seriously though this makes me very happy.)

Anyway, then I will be going to see my Grandparents for the 4th of July. Unfortunately, Merced probably will be hotter than Satan's asscrack, and just as humid too, but there is a pool, so that's alright. Anyway, the point of this is that I will be away from my computer until next Sunday, and as such, there will be no comic next week.

Okay off to pack. Ta.

Sunday's comic has been finished and the site has been updated accordingly, hurrah. It is highly unlikely that I will have a finished comic by Sunday, but I think I've figured out that people prefer to see an unfinished comic on time than a finished comic a week late, yes?

...it is impossible to concentrate on anything other than the music when Sally is playing. (Gogol Bordello's song Sally, that is.) Oh, and now Backstabber started. This post is going to take a while to write. *rocks out*

In other news, I started a Rainbow Legacy in Sims today, partly just out of boredom and partly because I wanted to spawn some townies with the pretty new face templates Pooklet made. I doubt it will hold my interest long, and I definitely don't think I'll be posting proper Legacy updates for it, because it's too much work and I have other things to spend all my time on *points to first paragraph*. I might have occasional picspam for it though, who knows.
Anyway, this time I only got one good shot of my founder's face, so here it is:



Her name is Lux Bifröst; Lux meaning light for yellow; Bifröst is the name of the rainbow bridge in Norse Mythology that linked Midgard (mortal land, aka earth) to Asgard (godland, obvs.). The name Bifröst doesn't actually have to do with it being a rainbow but whatever; The actual Norse word for rainbow is "regnboga" and I wasn't going to use that.
She is actually my sim of Louise Brooks with slightly smaller eyes and slightly wider nostrils, which is why she's so friggin' adorable. She also rolled paranoid and kleptomaniac traits, which is kind of weird since she's otherwise a typical Lio Romance sim.

Also GOD WHY did I not get tickets for San Diego Comic Con this year DAVID TENNANT AND ALSO THE MIGHTY BOOSH are going to BE THERE ACTUALLY IN PERSON and they are SOLD OUT NOW AAAAUGH why didn't I hear about this BEFORE AAAUGGGGH
*hyperventilates*
...
*cries*
sold out!

Alright that's all. I'm done.