“Leave your body at the door.”

So far so good! If taxes don’t thwart me, I’ll be making a little over $800 a month! Score! In other news…I’m so glad my mom finds the time to forward ridiculous emails to me. I’m more than half kidding. Look at this…

I mean, this should speak for itself. I shouldn’t have to comment, but I will. What the living hell. (more…)

I’m feeling great. The occurrences within the past week (period of seven days) have put me in this unshakeable fine mood.  

I am a little bit mad because I have a nasty bruise on my leg. And I know just how I got it, and that’s why I’m mad. In fact, it went like this: 

“STEVE! Stop biting me! If I get a bruise, I’m gonna be mad!” 

Lo and behold, right? And yeah, he was biting my leg. I should invest in a squirt bottle. 

Driving to the gym today, I saw my friend Chris (who probably just had gotten out of school, since it was 1-ish) walking down the street in the rain, so I turned the car around and gave him a ride home. He seemed really ecstatic to see me (he’s an ecstatic guy) so it made me glad I could help him out. 

I start work tomorrow. 

I lost 3 more lbs. 

Somehow I can look people directly in the eyes and not feel embarrassed.  

Kyle just made me laugh. Just now.  

Aight, this one is NOT fan art, but it was probably 99.99% inspired by the song “Chie no Mi” (”Fruits of Wisdom”) by Rurutia, since I was listening to it when I began drawing aimlessly last night. If you haven’t heard Rurutia, I highly recommend her if you’re into experimental japanese artists. I titled the picture “Winesap” because she is holding a winesap apple. I know, I know, I’m just so creative. I’m not sure how much I like it, obviously less time and thought was put into it, if anything else I can keep it around as a scrap or consider it practice or whatever.

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The translated lyrics (which can be found on kiwi-musume, I’m not to be credited for these) follow:

The boy is still a child
He cannot easily feast on the fruits of wisdom
The seasons passed him by
Left behind, he knelt down
Mischievous eyes bore into his back
Growing sharper all the time
There’s a sharp, shining knife in my back
But someone please hold me
A chokingly fragrant olive
The boy met a girl
“You poor thing,” she said as she held him
“I’ve finally found you,” he said as he cried
I want to put all my feelings into words
But I’m panting so hard I can’t speak
There’s an apple shaking deep within my throat
Reach in and scoop out all my feelings
There’s a sharp, shining knife in my back
But hold me tight anyway
I want to put all my feelings into words
But I’m panting so hard I can’t speak
There’s an apple shaking deep within my throat
It’s panicking, unable to rot away
There’s a sharp, shining knife in my back
I’m covered in blood, please hold me
There’s an apple shaking deep within my throat
An apple that will keep shaking until the day I am reborn

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Fan art I’ve done of Eleanor, a character from the Atlus PS2 game “Rule of Rose.” Since I’m too lazy to type out another synopsis on the game, you guys get a copy/paste from my “Even In Death” entry.

¡ OH GOD, PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD !

About my take on the game: “Rule of Rose” is played out with narration like the kind you would expect to see in a children’s book. And with good reason, because the story focuses on the behavior of children. It takes place in two environments: an old orphanage, and an airship. Both are set in 1930’s England, although the airship is more of a “fantasy” environment. The main character is self-loathing, shy girl named Jennifer, who is about 19 years old. The game is, in a nutshell, Jennifer’s psychological struggle. The things you see in the game are implied to be Jennifer’s recollection of her past, which she obviously wants to forget. Children naturally see things differently than adults. Things are bigger and more mysterious to them because children are small and know less. Things that happened in Jennifer’s past are disguised as childish, innocent things for the sake of showing you how children interpret their environment. For example, the airship is depicted as a giant fish in the sky. Adults know the science behind airplanes and blimps, but as far as children care, it’s a giant, magical creature that moves slowly like it’s swimming through the atmosphere.

About Eleanor: Eleanor remains a generally emotionless character. You can only observe her dialogue at a few moments in the game, where she will provide a very general lick of two cent type input when asked her opinion or something similar. At one point in the game, you’re given three storybooks, set out all good and nice-like in front of you to choose from. You have to pick up all three eventually, and you’ll see that the books correspond to the other main girl characters in the game: the mermaid story relates to Diana, the goat story to Margaret, and the bird story to Eleanor. The bird story crudely illustrates the tale of a girl who longed to find the bird of happiness, and upon discovering a box, she opens to it find an even smaller box, to find an even smaller box, and an even smaller box, so the girl believes that the boxes will take her to Forever Land, and in the last box was the bird of happiness, but it had already died. How this relates to Eleanor is obvious in her carrying around the empty birdcage. While playing the chapter, you learn that Diana and Margaret had stolen Eleanor’s clothes, killed her bird, wrapped it in her clothes, and hid them in a box that is opened after completing a series of puzzles. Moral of the story, as given in the game: Everlasting happiness is a joke.

About my drawing: Pretty straightforward, I hope. Eleanor is holding her dead bird in Forever Land. I tried to make everything rose colored, you know, like the saying about wearing “rose colored glasses.”