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thebrokenarrowsremember the fifth of november... we have our own reason for remembering, for this too was a day of betrayal and treason for us. one year ago, we had to go into a period of hiding for two months. we had no smart devices then, so our internet access was cut off and we were left trapped for a while. it was, in some ways, rather fun and sharpened our skills. a time of secrecy, a time of lying in wait. but we wouldn't go through it again. never forget what happened a year ago, and why we have not let our guard down since that day.
a moth or something flew into our lamp, it's burning up and the room smells like smoke. :S
some things that have happened in the last couple of days:
- realized that it's going to be very hard, or maybe impossible, to go to the renaissance festival this year. and even if i can manage to go, 90% chance i'll have to get there late and leave early. not going is not an option, i will be heartbroken and furious if i can't make it at all. i doubt i will get a friday/saturday off this month so i can go with bb... so i'll have to manage to find someone who will drive and who is ok with showing up late and leaving early... :/ :/ :/
- today i just sat down and drew. two finished pieces straight in a row. simple ones, first Mandibuzz and then Porygon-Z, but i churned them out so quickly and they look pretty good, particularly Mandibuzz.
- my car needs some maintenance. all i really know is the engine is bumping rhythmically, which says to me it's probably a spark plug. which is fine bc A: i have some laying around and B: bb seems confident he knows how to change them. i guess i'll let him try, maybe tomorrow. also i need to get some oil in it.
- at work the night before last i jammed the SHIT out of my right middle finger, so hard i thought for a few minutes that i might have cracked the bone. basically i was leaned in there and stuck the tip of my finger up into the bottom of a grid in the fry well, to try and get rid of an errant fry that was stuck in there. well, turns out the grid was smaller than expected, and kinda 'trapped' the very tip of my finger a little bit. and i didn't slip my finger back out all the way before i pulled myself back up to go do something else. so what happened was i WRENCHED my fingertip really badly between the two bars. my fingernail took the brunt of the force, and it's still tender and bruised two days later. when i wrenched it really bad i felt/heard a crack, which is why i kinda thought for a second i might have broken it, that combined with the intense pain! but i think it's fine, just sore and bruised. i think the crack was just the tendon/ligament in that joint popping, that's all.
i have only about 15 pages left in the art book i'm currently using. Jewel is in the very beginning of this sketchbook, so i know for a fact i finished this within this year. the earliest date i can see written down is in July, about a quarter of the way through the book. i believe i started it in the spring, so i've gone through a whole sketchbook in roughly six months. that's the first time that's happened in AGES and i want to give myself a THOUSAND PATS ON THE BACK. i'm not kidding, this is a definite sign of improvement, a huge sign that my artistic mojo is coming back, i'm definitely becoming healthier and i need to keep the ball rolling. the last sketchbook took me TWO YEARS to use up, i used to go through 10-12 of these a year. I'M COMING BACK, BABY~
also thinking of tearing out the best pages, they are made so you can do that. and putting them in my portfolio thing that i got at target. because i haven't really used that yet.
i have several hundred dollars in my bank account because i managed to make it to payday only spending half of my check. YAS. i could, technically, go buy my computer RIGHT NOW most likely. @u@ but i will wait. because my next paycheck will be like two days before ORAS comes out aaahhhh!! READY. also because i need to, you know, make it until next check and i might break my bank between the computer and gas/bills and such. xD tryin to get better at saving money. doing my best. i need to have a bunch saved up even after i get my computer bought sdlfkjsdlfkjsldkfj
another thing that happened!!!
so the new pokemon tcg set, Phantom Forces, came out i think yesterday. or within the last few days at least. and while we were out investigating a MTG store that bb and i just discovered, i bought a booster pack of the new set on a whim. not at the card store because [like every card store, sigh] they don't carry pokemon on the shelf. although the guy did offer to order a booster box for me cheap if i went through him. but anyway, after we went there i bought a pack at walmart. i skipped through all the Mega Manectric packs in the front and grabbed the first Mega Gengar in line. because spoopy. wandered through walmart for a while - got approached by some random teenage boys and fled and lost a TON of social spoons all in one go because something about them just scared the piss out of me, even though they weren't REALLY suspicious, they just seemed to want to tell a stupid joke to my boyfriend and me - and finally got back to the car, pretty tired. decided to open the pack right there and -- HOLY SHITBALLS. full art Malamar ex staring me in the face. @___@ in the FIRST PACK i randomly grab at walmart?!?!?! on the first day it was released??? that was like THE card i would have wanted the most out of every ultra rare. because Malamar. Mambooooo <3 holy shit y'all. it's so beautiful.
BUT SRSLY. this on top of my slow gradually growing interest in serious collection of the tcg sets, and maybe even playing the game. i feel good vibes about Phantom Forces. and i decided that, if i can make it happen, Phantom Forces should be the first set that i try to complete, and therefore i should get a booster box! just getting really nice vibes after that amazing first pull. AND just a while before that happened, the guy at that card store offered to sell me a cheap booster box?! feels like ~DESTINY~
but ya. booster boxes usually run about a hundred bucks. but if the guy is willing to do like 20% off i'll TAKE that. heck yeah.
so as far as pkmntcg goes, my plan kinda goes like this: buy computer [and AS], have ~100 to blow afterward, order Phantom Forces box from this game store, that way i can film myself opening it and post it to youtube! posting it to youtube now would be a pain in the butt and i could do much better with a brand new computer to operate from. so. it will wait until then for many reasons. i'm not really planning on becoming a tcg youtuber or whatever. but why not add to the videos i've been watching so many of lately?? :D
i've gotten like HELLA DEEPLY into pokemon this year. like. wow. pokemon nonstop at every turn. i've been into it always, of course, but it seems like since X and Y came out last fall, and since January when i finally played it myself, it's become like POKEMON OBSESSION 2.0 for me. but this time as an adult with an income of sorts. @u@ i am totally ok with this.
AND THEN NINTENDO DROPS A FUCKING BOMB UPON MY FACE BECAUSE F HKASDJADSFLJKASDLJF FUCKING MAJORA'S MASK 3DS. FINALLY. FINALLY IT'S HAPPENING. OH M YGOD. I hate almost lost hope, always thought it had a strong chance but was never quite sure... THEN IT HAPPENS. Holy fucking shit.
no. y'all don't understand. no one will understand the effect this game had upon me. i loved OoT, played the hell out of it, but THIS GAME. This game. oh my lord. i'm going to watch the trailer again because i recognized EVERY location shown in the reworked footage. it's clearly pretty early on in development, they had a mix of old footage/audio in with the new because i guess they simply didn't have enough all new material. but like... random stuff like a corner of the astronomy tower, i immediately recognized it. the roof of the farm house, immediately knew where it was. a random room in the maze in the southern swamp, recognized it. yes. yeeesss. MAJORA'S MASK IS FINALLY HAPPENIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGGGG i cannot believe it
does this mean i should work on finishing OoT3D? I've never finished OoT, believe it or not. i've actually never even finished majora's mask. i got to the second battle with Majora and ran out of arrows and health, and ran out of energy and never tried again. should i play through it over the winter? or would it be better to not play it at all and let the anticipation build?
man. by spring, i'll probably be out of the house. i HAVE to have that $50ish put away for majora's mask. i'd really like to spring for some kind of bundle pack, because on christmas 2000 i got a bundle pack with the original majora's mask, so it'd be fun to repeat that... it's a shame they 99% likely won't make a special colored cartridge for the remake. i got the special gold n64 cartridge with the lentricular "3D" design on it, looking at it right now. [to be fair, most people did, i've rarely seen a regular looking majora's mask cartridge that wasn't gold and 3D, but it was special to me]. i wish they would start making colorful game cartridges like they did with pokemon on GBC.
oh man, if it's coming out in May... BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT. B E S T. if i know Nintendo it'll be more like March though. BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR... my boyfriend who's never played it? nah LOL.
with this announcement i kinda get the feeling that there may be a new handheld console in the works/that the 3DS's lifespan is coming to a close. mostly because i distinctly remember that OoT was one of the earliest releases in the n64's lifespan, and MM was one of the latest... and OoT3D was very early in the 3DS's lifespan, so now several years later they're announcing MM3D? really not sure that's a coincidence!
ugh the mother's in the kitchen right now and i'm so excited and i want to just jump out into the kitchen and tell her that Majora's Mask, a game she played the hell out of too, a game she admitted to buying half for me and half for herself in the first place back in 2000, our cartridge which still carries her game data on it 14 years later, is being remade. i want to share that happiness with her! but guess what? it will only dampen my happiness, because i know she'll just say "oh. cool." and won't care. at least i know now before i even bother to try? :/
a moth or something flew into our lamp, it's burning up and the room smells like smoke. :S
some things that have happened in the last couple of days:
- realized that it's going to be very hard, or maybe impossible, to go to the renaissance festival this year. and even if i can manage to go, 90% chance i'll have to get there late and leave early. not going is not an option, i will be heartbroken and furious if i can't make it at all. i doubt i will get a friday/saturday off this month so i can go with bb... so i'll have to manage to find someone who will drive and who is ok with showing up late and leaving early... :/ :/ :/
- today i just sat down and drew. two finished pieces straight in a row. simple ones, first Mandibuzz and then Porygon-Z, but i churned them out so quickly and they look pretty good, particularly Mandibuzz.
- my car needs some maintenance. all i really know is the engine is bumping rhythmically, which says to me it's probably a spark plug. which is fine bc A: i have some laying around and B: bb seems confident he knows how to change them. i guess i'll let him try, maybe tomorrow. also i need to get some oil in it.
- at work the night before last i jammed the SHIT out of my right middle finger, so hard i thought for a few minutes that i might have cracked the bone. basically i was leaned in there and stuck the tip of my finger up into the bottom of a grid in the fry well, to try and get rid of an errant fry that was stuck in there. well, turns out the grid was smaller than expected, and kinda 'trapped' the very tip of my finger a little bit. and i didn't slip my finger back out all the way before i pulled myself back up to go do something else. so what happened was i WRENCHED my fingertip really badly between the two bars. my fingernail took the brunt of the force, and it's still tender and bruised two days later. when i wrenched it really bad i felt/heard a crack, which is why i kinda thought for a second i might have broken it, that combined with the intense pain! but i think it's fine, just sore and bruised. i think the crack was just the tendon/ligament in that joint popping, that's all.
i have only about 15 pages left in the art book i'm currently using. Jewel is in the very beginning of this sketchbook, so i know for a fact i finished this within this year. the earliest date i can see written down is in July, about a quarter of the way through the book. i believe i started it in the spring, so i've gone through a whole sketchbook in roughly six months. that's the first time that's happened in AGES and i want to give myself a THOUSAND PATS ON THE BACK. i'm not kidding, this is a definite sign of improvement, a huge sign that my artistic mojo is coming back, i'm definitely becoming healthier and i need to keep the ball rolling. the last sketchbook took me TWO YEARS to use up, i used to go through 10-12 of these a year. I'M COMING BACK, BABY~
also thinking of tearing out the best pages, they are made so you can do that. and putting them in my portfolio thing that i got at target. because i haven't really used that yet.
i have several hundred dollars in my bank account because i managed to make it to payday only spending half of my check. YAS. i could, technically, go buy my computer RIGHT NOW most likely. @u@ but i will wait. because my next paycheck will be like two days before ORAS comes out aaahhhh!! READY. also because i need to, you know, make it until next check and i might break my bank between the computer and gas/bills and such. xD tryin to get better at saving money. doing my best. i need to have a bunch saved up even after i get my computer bought sdlfkjsdlfkjsldkfj
another thing that happened!!!
so the new pokemon tcg set, Phantom Forces, came out i think yesterday. or within the last few days at least. and while we were out investigating a MTG store that bb and i just discovered, i bought a booster pack of the new set on a whim. not at the card store because [like every card store, sigh] they don't carry pokemon on the shelf. although the guy did offer to order a booster box for me cheap if i went through him. but anyway, after we went there i bought a pack at walmart. i skipped through all the Mega Manectric packs in the front and grabbed the first Mega Gengar in line. because spoopy. wandered through walmart for a while - got approached by some random teenage boys and fled and lost a TON of social spoons all in one go because something about them just scared the piss out of me, even though they weren't REALLY suspicious, they just seemed to want to tell a stupid joke to my boyfriend and me - and finally got back to the car, pretty tired. decided to open the pack right there and -- HOLY SHITBALLS. full art Malamar ex staring me in the face. @___@ in the FIRST PACK i randomly grab at walmart?!?!?! on the first day it was released??? that was like THE card i would have wanted the most out of every ultra rare. because Malamar. Mambooooo <3 holy shit y'all. it's so beautiful.
BUT SRSLY. this on top of my slow gradually growing interest in serious collection of the tcg sets, and maybe even playing the game. i feel good vibes about Phantom Forces. and i decided that, if i can make it happen, Phantom Forces should be the first set that i try to complete, and therefore i should get a booster box! just getting really nice vibes after that amazing first pull. AND just a while before that happened, the guy at that card store offered to sell me a cheap booster box?! feels like ~DESTINY~
but ya. booster boxes usually run about a hundred bucks. but if the guy is willing to do like 20% off i'll TAKE that. heck yeah.
so as far as pkmntcg goes, my plan kinda goes like this: buy computer [and AS], have ~100 to blow afterward, order Phantom Forces box from this game store, that way i can film myself opening it and post it to youtube! posting it to youtube now would be a pain in the butt and i could do much better with a brand new computer to operate from. so. it will wait until then for many reasons. i'm not really planning on becoming a tcg youtuber or whatever. but why not add to the videos i've been watching so many of lately?? :D
i've gotten like HELLA DEEPLY into pokemon this year. like. wow. pokemon nonstop at every turn. i've been into it always, of course, but it seems like since X and Y came out last fall, and since January when i finally played it myself, it's become like POKEMON OBSESSION 2.0 for me. but this time as an adult with an income of sorts. @u@ i am totally ok with this.
AND THEN NINTENDO DROPS A FUCKING BOMB UPON MY FACE BECAUSE F HKASDJADSFLJKASDLJF FUCKING MAJORA'S MASK 3DS. FINALLY. FINALLY IT'S HAPPENING. OH M YGOD. I hate almost lost hope, always thought it had a strong chance but was never quite sure... THEN IT HAPPENS. Holy fucking shit.
no. y'all don't understand. no one will understand the effect this game had upon me. i loved OoT, played the hell out of it, but THIS GAME. This game. oh my lord. i'm going to watch the trailer again because i recognized EVERY location shown in the reworked footage. it's clearly pretty early on in development, they had a mix of old footage/audio in with the new because i guess they simply didn't have enough all new material. but like... random stuff like a corner of the astronomy tower, i immediately recognized it. the roof of the farm house, immediately knew where it was. a random room in the maze in the southern swamp, recognized it. yes. yeeesss. MAJORA'S MASK IS FINALLY HAPPENIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGGGG i cannot believe it
does this mean i should work on finishing OoT3D? I've never finished OoT, believe it or not. i've actually never even finished majora's mask. i got to the second battle with Majora and ran out of arrows and health, and ran out of energy and never tried again. should i play through it over the winter? or would it be better to not play it at all and let the anticipation build?
man. by spring, i'll probably be out of the house. i HAVE to have that $50ish put away for majora's mask. i'd really like to spring for some kind of bundle pack, because on christmas 2000 i got a bundle pack with the original majora's mask, so it'd be fun to repeat that... it's a shame they 99% likely won't make a special colored cartridge for the remake. i got the special gold n64 cartridge with the lentricular "3D" design on it, looking at it right now. [to be fair, most people did, i've rarely seen a regular looking majora's mask cartridge that wasn't gold and 3D, but it was special to me]. i wish they would start making colorful game cartridges like they did with pokemon on GBC.
oh man, if it's coming out in May... BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT. B E S T. if i know Nintendo it'll be more like March though. BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR... my boyfriend who's never played it? nah LOL.
with this announcement i kinda get the feeling that there may be a new handheld console in the works/that the 3DS's lifespan is coming to a close. mostly because i distinctly remember that OoT was one of the earliest releases in the n64's lifespan, and MM was one of the latest... and OoT3D was very early in the 3DS's lifespan, so now several years later they're announcing MM3D? really not sure that's a coincidence!
ugh the mother's in the kitchen right now and i'm so excited and i want to just jump out into the kitchen and tell her that Majora's Mask, a game she played the hell out of too, a game she admitted to buying half for me and half for herself in the first place back in 2000, our cartridge which still carries her game data on it 14 years later, is being remade. i want to share that happiness with her! but guess what? it will only dampen my happiness, because i know she'll just say "oh. cool." and won't care. at least i know now before i even bother to try? :/
