Oh yeah..and lyn@kurai.com is a forwarder. It forwards to lyn_straine@cherrycoma.net, which is the mail that's not currently functioning. My other email address is my AOL address, and I use it for RPG stuff and suchlike.

Now y'all know all my secrets. XP;

Oh, yeah..and with the mighty Tengu's help, I managed to-finally-set up a customized 404 page for kurai. Type in something random and you should see it. :3 (the picture should work now, Tengu.. I wasn't linking it properly)

My mail has not been working ALL DAY and it's pissing me off. I can't update the SB page until it does, since all the submissions are still there, and I can't read any mail I may have gotten since then either. Not that I've gotten anything....most of my mail is spam. >__>;; But there is the occasional nice email, usually about my work. I love those emails. They're really so encouraging (and Alibug writes the best comments ever! :D). And, of course, the mails that include fanart are awesome. XD

I wanted to get a lot more of Claris and Clarity done over the summer, but that obviously isn't happening.. I actually write faster while in school, because it's what I do to pass the time in easier classes or when I get a bit of free class time. I don't know if I'll have any classes where I'm able to goof off in this year, though... I guess we'll just have to see how things work out. -__-

I only have a little less than two weeks of my summer left before I'm dragged to Miami for a week..and then back for a day..and then SCHOOL again. Summer is too goddamned short. Goddammit.

Okay, so I was typing this entry while it storms like all hell outside, and then I go downstairs for dinner thinking 'You know, I bet the power is going to blip out while I'm down here' and IT DOES o__o I didn't save what I had written because it wasn't all that long or involved yet, so I'll just reprise now.

Since I've finished the second chapter of Clarity, I can now switch gears back to Claris. The thing is that Claris is much more of a loose story in terms of plot than Clarity, because in Clarity I'm really working with someone else's framework and just adding my own decorations. Sure, the setting and characters are mine, as are a lot of the concepts, actually, but I'm also working with a lot of concepts that AREN'T mine AND plot elements that are found in Sailormoon and the mahou shoujo genre in general. Although both Claris and Clarity are 'save the world' stories (in which the eventual goal is to save the planet from some overwhelmingly horrible demise), they have very different modes of getting there, and it's much easier to do it with Clarity because it works on Sailormoon's prescribed conventions. Claris, however, is just crack-addled madness.

I am not the kind that works with outlines. I've done it with a few Claris and a few Clarity chapters, but what I wrote down was stuff I had in my head anyway. Writing it down didn't really have a bearing on the overall quality of the chapter; at least I don't think so. I don't make notes on character, plot, or setting like other talented creators I know (Kai :B), and I wonder sometimes if my work doesn't suffer for it. I tend to kind of just take the characters and jump in, and see what they do. The end of the second Clarity chapter was totally unplanned, but I'm not unhappy with it. It's what Celina chose to do, and something that's logical, I think. It also leaves a good opening into the next chapter, which is always nice for both the writer and the reader. But I still had a pretty good idea of the whole flow of events and feel of the chapter, and I don't have it as much with Claris.

Umm.. I was going somewhere else with this, but I'm being a dork and watching the Rugrats special, so it's kind of lost now. .__.;

Heehe... you're right, Jaimie-J..the last episode of the season DOES sound like a fan-girl's dream come true! But I guess it had to happen sometime.

As a person who is known for wantonly disregarding spoiler warnings, I, of course, am reading the forthcoming episode summaries posted here. While I understand JV's annoyance at their being posted (and respect his acknowledgment that the AIC people are just doing their job), I still like this. It will be fun to ponder the particulars of some of these. The Halloween episode sounds especially awesome. :D

Jaimie-J, I can't believe you didn't notice the godliness of Lex before. :B I'm on her links page, but it still goes to my saucybard address, and I'm too afraid to ask her to change it.. ^^; She's real nice, though.

PK, your Sattva sprite is sw33t. :3

I dun know you, but that picture on your blog is indeed Kurai from Angel Sanctuary. That's one of my favorite pictures. *__* It's in the Angel Cage artbook. :3 (yes, I always have to say something when AS is concerned..)

some social blogging.

blink, i love you because you wrote a cp fic, even if it is very, very disturbing. it made me smile, though, and i needed to smile right now.

vera, your pictures are all beautiful. your pictures are always beautiful, even when they include entrails. you draw entrails beautifully. and plump people.

tengu, i haven't said it before, but i love the perk famib page. perk is too cute for words.

everyone that is posting at my boards. thank you.

i still suck. -__-

i finished the clarity chapter, and updated kurai with its new layout.

but i forgot to draw karma today, so tomorrow's page will be late.

i told you i sucked.

blah. i suck.

I think it's kind of amusing how I supposedly make these great characters that people like, yet I tend to get rejected from RPGs whenever I apply to one that isn't owned by someone I know (or someone that otherwise likes me). Hmm. >_>

I'm so glad I only have to look after Pepper for one more day. He's a very nice dog, don't get me wrong, but it is REALLY hot down here and yesterday I think I lost about ten pounds in water weight running back and forth between his and my house. Last night when I went to go put him in his cage it was very frighteningly windy outside, as well as very dark, and I could tell he was frightened. ._. Fortunately the cage is in the house--no, I don't know why his family puts him in a cage in the house, especially when it's such a tiny thing, and then lets him run around all day long.

I am this close to finishing this Clarity chapter. There are two scenes left, but the scene I'm on is action-y and therefore VERY hard to write. I told myself I would finish it today; let's see how that goes. >_>;

Um... nothing much really happened today... Mostly all I'm doing is looking after the dog down the street while his owners are away. This job ends on Friday, which I'm glad of, because it's not particularly enjoyable. It's not that the dog is unruly or anything, it's just that I'm always worried about being attacked by vicious insects when I go down there because I have to stand still in the heat while he does his business..and stand beneath a skylight where suspicious looking hive-like cocoons are forming when I go to enter the house. Also I have to set their alarm every night, and that thing freaks me out. .__.; I feel a little bad for the dog (he's a black terrier named Pepper) because he has to go into a cage every night to sleep and the cage is quite tiny. Also I can't let him just run around the back yard like was originally planned because the family's electric fence stopped working before they left (and they said that without it, Pepper can and will run away and get lost^^;;).

I'm trying to draw new chibis for KS's character page, and it is hard to draw a decent one for Sinclair... Clarity's second chapter is nearly done... I'm at the action-y scene, and those are hard. -_-

I also spent the later part of tonight thinking about things that happened a long time ago, and feeling regretful and teary. I know that it's useless to cry over the past because there's nothing you can do about it... but that doesn't make it any less painful.

On the brighter side of things, my board is doing nicely, and it makes me really happy that people are posting and suchlike ;_; (more joy tears)

...okay, I'm just going to shower and go to bed and try to stop thinking now. -_-

People are registering at my board ;_; And posting ;__; Thank you ;_; (these are tears of joy, see)

Heh heh.. I went to that mall's website, Audrey, and did the Virtual Mall thing.. it was cool. Surprised it even worked on this PoS computer...

The Mists of Avalon is cool. It's writing Morgan (Morgaine? I forget) as a wonderful and sympathetic character, instead of the evil bitch that I've often seen portrayed in other versions of the Arthurian legend.

::falls over laughing at the preset word censors on her board::

"kiss my ass=I disagree"
"asshole=not a very nice person"
"penis=thingy
cock=thingy
dick=thingy
shlong=thingy"
slut=very *friendly* person"

Okay, friends. I'm making another stab at message boards. Please, for the love of God, register. Post. I promise that I will do my best to reply to nearly everything that is said, and to incite talk, which is something I did not do at my old, cruddy, ezboard boards. Plllleeeasse register and post ;_; I'm on my knees. Look, I'm begging. This is me, begging. ;___; ;___; ;__;

I'm finally beginning to find things on Michelle Branch.. I thought from her voice that she must be young, but she's really young.. seventeen, but still younger than me (just had a birthday, it seems). o__o

::laughs:: V4TIC4N XD XD

Kylee, both.. Lysistrata is what the L in L.J. stands for (the J stands for Jade, it's her middle name.. and her surname is Elder). ^_^; She's actually my oldest original character... o_o;

Yep.. but Omnes's seven consciousnesses really aren't that different from one other...They're kind of like different facets of one entity. :3;

::hugs Kylee for her interest XD;::