Most of you know that I play Terry McGinnis/DCAU's second Batman over at trans_9. I've been playing there for over a year now, and perhaps the only real problem I've had (besides rp commitment issues which I've done a pretty good job of getting over) is finding good user icons. I've found a few here and there, but since the show has been over for six years, and the fandom is pretty much dead, finding decent pre-made icons is pretty hard. I've made most of my icons myself.

And that what this post is for. As of now, I have about 30 icons that I use between my two rp journals, and more that I've made but don't use. And I'd like to share them. To give a hand to other Terry rpers out there that need icons.

( Icons )

So, y'know on monday, how I said I was going to post photos from DC? Yeeeah, not gonna happen. Our digital camera memory card reader died a horrible, horrible death on us. >:( Which sucks, 'cause there were some nice pictures from the trip. Like of really awesome jellyfish and stuff. Darn.

In other news, I saw Watchmen and Milk with my sister this week. My thoughts on both (a bit spoilery, so behind a cut):
( Watchmen and Milk )

I've got a lot of scholarship stuff I need to work on, but for the most part I'm pretty relaxed. I've been excepted to my choice colleges - the stressful part is over. One way or another, I'll get the money I need for school. I'm content now. I'll probably turn back into a ball of nerves close to June or July, though.

Also, I decided to pick up another character in T9. Holly Short, from Artemis Fowl, one of my personal feminist role models. She's so different from Terry; she's an adult, level-headed, with no hang-ups about guns. She's a tough and pointy lady cop, and I know her and her canon backward and forward. Seriously. I can name every item she carries on her belt. FFFFF I'M A NERD.

Whooo, two posts in one day because this is a good day.

Today my high school transcripts were sent off to the colleges I'm looking in to! This also included two of the fees for applying - the other two I was able to pay online, but for some reason my state hates online payment? Also, one of the online things put the credit card bill under my name, not my mom's, so we need to call them and have that fixed.

Also, a couple of days ago I got my ACT scores. Last spring when I took them, I got a 22. For my December test, I got a 26, which means my scores are perfect for getting financial aid from the colleges for merit. On that note, I filled out my FAFSA form, but I do need to fix it a bit after we pay taxes.

So, why does this make today a good day, besides Hopey gettin' inaugurated? Because this means I've finished all my college stuff. Those of you in Trans_9 might have noticed my absence for about a month. That's because I've been stressing out with this college stuff - but that's done now! I'll be coming back to the game tomorrow or the day after. (Though, I chose to drop z5 for the time being. :/ Still too busy to play two characters at once.)

That's all from me today, I promise.

Get out your nerd hats, everyone!

Since 2006, I've had people telling me that I just had to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. I took this rather passively - if it was on while I was watching cable somewhere, I might watch it. But I wouldn't actively go looking for it. This happened once, actually - I caught the 'Avatar Day' episode while at my grandparent's house sometime that year.

Over the summer, I watched the first episode online - I was bored, it was there. I liked it, really, but quickly forgot about it. Last month, I remembered, and found the second episode. After that, practically every day I watched an episode. What can I say? I was hooked. I really liked it.

And why was that? It was the very original character designs, which, while they used anime-style art, were very well detailed, and animated in a fluid, realistic way. (In that it wasn't all chibis and sweat drops and what-have-you). It was the attention to culture and martial arts - watching Zuko use Chinese double broad swords in season two was amazing, because I could actually see real forms used by the higher belts in my studio. It was the rich story and believable writing. And, it was Sokka. Seriously, he was my favorite character. Snarky but intelligent normal guy who gets the worst lot of everything? Awesome.

I finished the series a few days ago, and what I have to say is: man. What a ride. That was the best American made cartoon I've watched since Static Shock. Maybe better.

That was nerdage number 1. Number 2 is this:

I'm sort of thinking of taking a second crack at starting an LJ rp. AegBalk was fun, but... I think if I were to restart it, I'd work a lot more on plot and setting before actually starting it. Buuuut, I'm thinking of starting a superhero rp, because I have all sorts of worlds and plots ready for that genre. Maybe. We'll see.

And on a less nerdy subject:
Took the ACT today. I don't feel like I scored any higher then last time. :/
And my CU application is in. I need to get FL in now.

Z5 got into trans_9. Her journal is childof_science.

Bitchin'.



Except now I need to make icons for her....

I started this with the intention it would be Isaac cheesecake. But all cheesecake of her turns out depressing as hell. So it became fluff. Which I inked. I'm getting better at brush pen inking.

So, I'm having a hard time starting Pendragon 9. I want to read it, but it's the second to last book, so in a way, I don't want to read it because I don't want the series to end. But I've found out that the first book is now in comic form. And the preview pages I've seen of it are... perfect. I must go get it. Nerdluuuv.

Trans 9 is... oh man, it's fantastic. I love you, T9. I love you so much. Though, in trying to play Terry accurately, he's becoming very different from everyone else. When he woke up, he didn't try to find out where he was and what was going on, he wanted to find his pants. Instead of telling everyone he's Batman, he's lying through his teeth because he's suspicious that this is a ploy to get all the heroes together and kill them at once.

And you know what? It. Is. So. Much. Fun. I love this game. I love it so much. If I ever pick up another character, it will be No1 from Artemis Fowl 5/6.

Batman and Dr. Horrible have put me in the mood for villains, so here's yet another comparison sketch, featuring my villain character. On the left is CowGirl. She was designed for me by a friend about four years ago. About two years ago, I rehashed her looks (from a woman in old west garb with a cow head to a woman in old west garb with cow ears and hooves) but didn't really have a purpose for her. I liked her, though, so I once again redesigned her, this time in The Sheriff. She's now completely human, and a lot of her personality, origin, and reasons for being evil have changed. I kind hope I can figure out what to do with her now.

Following that train of thought, I've fallen a bit behind in Trans 9. I think I'm just going to move him straight into the current communal thread, as the whole 'get out of the pod room' thing is a bit boring, and rather hard, as I'm just talking to a robot's one liners. Other people have skipped the whole 'clothes' room, too, just implying that they got them in their next post, so I may do the same.

Yesterday, I was in a mall renewing my cell phone contract, and just happened to walk past a bookstore. I saw that a new Artemis Fowl book was out, so I decided to get it. As I was going to pay for it, I saw that the 9th Pendragon book was out, so I had to get that, too. A lot of my friends have made digs at me because I still read these series that I read in middle school. But if my dad can read a series he's been with since the 60s (Dune) and my 22 year old sister can read a series meant for high schoolers (Twilight) then I can read these, damn it!

Doodle of Cy-T. Trying some new stuff out in photoshop.

So, I've been doing a lot of working out this week. Yard work with the pulaski, tai chi, and kung fu. Not to mention I got a really painful vaccination yesterday. All together, my arms and abs are killing me. But that's a good sign, right?

The slow posting in Trans 9 is driving me nuts. I love the game, but god is it annoying waiting for a mod. That's why I never start rps that depend on a sort of 'mod orientation' thread. But it's always hard trying to catch the attention of a mod that's working with, like, ten other people when you show up.

I finally got riolu in pokemon diamond. When I was first in Canalave, I didn't realize that Iron Island went deeper, so I just left after, like, the second room. So I got all the way to Sunnyshore before looking online and seeing that you get the riolu egg at Iron Island. So I back tracked and went through the whole thing and got the egg. I really do like riolu and lucario, but the only way to include it on my team is to get rid of my lopunny. And my lopunny's been with me forever. So... I dunno. I think I'll use it when just wandering around in the wild, and use lopunny in gym battles. I also caught Dialga a few days ago. It was pretty sweet - I caught it on the second ball toss, with an ultra ball. That's a first.

I'm going to a dragon boat race tomorrow. That'll be fun.

A guy on WoA has been trying to get me to draw a femme fetale for him for a while. So, here it is. She's latina for some reason.

So, Terry got accepted into Trans 9! Man, I'm excited. I need to post, but before that, I need to watch some more Batman Beyond and figure out how he'll react first. I've got a pretty good understanding of his character, but for something this weird, I'm not too sure.

By the way, his journal is beyondgotham

So, I lied. I do have art today. And I've broken my record of never posting twice in the same game. Whatever. Pencil doodle (and shaded!) of Terry McGinnis from Batman Beyond.

I was poking around a few multi fandom games I've seen/heard of an LJ. I was interested in trans_9 since the first time I heard about it, but I've never played in a fandom game, because I'm afraid of bad characterization and stuff. But Trans 9 seems a cut above the others, is a deep-space sci-fi, allows comic book characters, and has no Batman.

I think I'm going to apply for Terry.

No art - but instead, shiny nerd junk!

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog - Joss Whedon's supervillian musical. Available this week online, and hopefully coming out on DVD soon.

Darths and Droids - Screencap comic of Star Wars if it were a tabletop RP. Comedy GOLD.

I finished watching all of Firefly a few days ago. Why was this show cancelled? I loved it, it was amazing. I'll try not to let it influence AegBalk TOO much.

Since I finished that, I felt I should go on to another sci fi series that I dearly loved - Batman Beyond. I miss this cartoon a lot. It really was what got me hooked on Batman, and with Dark Knight coming out tomorrow, I felt it was appropriate. Oddly enough, though, after watching a bit of it, I realized two things; 1) Terry killed a lot of people in this series. By episode 4, he's murdered five people without any remorse. Wow. And 2) for the first time in years, I want to play a canon character in an rp. I want to play Terry. I just... need to. Kinda like how everyone wanted to play an Ironman character after the movie, I want to play Terry.

Anyone know any good rps were I could satisfy this itch?

It's funny - people keep telling me that they think Scarlet is too masculine, or that she's butch, or that she's not girly enough. People, please. She is a captain of a smuggling ship. The crew tends to just sit around in space. I'm sure that the doldrums there are even worse then on water. She has to be manly; she's on a ship full of lonely men. She's not going to be a little prissy girl like Keira Knightly.

( I saw Hellboy 2 yesterday... )

Is anyone else getting tired of the Dark Knight viral campaign? It looks like a good movie, but I swear to god, if I see one more 'Why so serious' icon or a 'vote Harvey Dent' sticker, I am going to start stabbing things. BATMAN FANS: IF YOU ARE GOING TO SHAKE IT OVER THE JOKER, DO SO WERE I DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IT, JESUS CHRIST.

I can't see to draw humanoids this week. So here, have some aliens. From left to right, top to bottom; a Sansani hugging a Nikitak; a pair of courting DEC; head-shots of both a Rul and an Ooce'd; and Ben from Inhuman. Most of those are from AegBalk, the exception being Ben and the nikitak.

Speaking of AegBalk art, check this out. Someone went and created a Bak'shir character, and drew him. This makes me so freaking happy. Finally, another non-human character. Though, I wish someone would play a DEC. They're my favorite of the races...

I'm not sure if I want to stay in Pokemon Torrenta. It's a nice place and all, with a solid world, nice players. But... everyone seems to just want to play the pokemon game in it. Meaning, they just want to prance around, catch pokemon, and have battles. There doesn't seem to be any real plot, and most everyone is just ignoring each other in favor of playing with NPCs. And that's not how I like to play. In fact, I hate playing like that. I spent so much time coming up with an interesting character. He's shy and quiet and has problems talking to people. But there's a lot of potential for him to grow and change and become more confident if he travels with people and gets to know them. Yet no one is giving him a chance to grow, because they don't want to play with him unless it's a battle.
*sigh* I dunno. I might leave the place quietly, just slip away.

Also, note to self; do not show BEFORE painting. Considering the way I paint, I need to take a shower afterwards, and hot water is expensive.

Sketch of my character, Jacobi, from Torrenta and his starter, Meepa.
Funny thing about this rp - all throughout the 'get your starter' thread, I was really impatient, just absolutely dying to get my starter and jump into the real game. But as soon as I started that thread, I had no idea what to do. It's mainly because I don't know what the right etiquette on this board is. Can I jump into someone else's thread, or do I have to start my own? I have no idea. DX

I'm going to see Kung Fu Panda today, at the recommendation of my Tai Chi instructor. I think it looks good.

On the vein of Tai Chi, two weeks ago I messed up my right knee doing stretches improperly. I managed to get through the whole practice session on the banged up knee, and was more or less okay. The pain went away a few days later. But I went for a walk yesterday, and it suddenly came back. And so I had to go through another session with a bad knee. ajghfdjkgfd arg.

Quick painting of an aemperial engine from the AegBalk rp. These are pretty much the best of the best as far as engines go, and are made special by the government. Ships that are not made by the government usually have similar engines, but no where near as nice. (Quick painting. Rather shoddy, I know, I just wanted to get it out of my system)

My office chair broke! D: I'm using a spare chair, but it has no arm rests, so balancing my tablet is really difficult. See, I have to hold my tablet at an angle so I don't strain my wrists as much. Usually, I lay it at the edge of the desk and balance it with the arm rests, and now that I have none, it's... difficult. Blah.

Took the SAT today. Four and a half hours. Oh god.

( I promised space pirate doodles... )

I finally got MSN messenger on my computer. ...well, to be fair, I use a Mac, so it was there when we first got the computer. However, the software was obsolete within about a week, so I never got to use it. I finally downloaded a proper copy, though, so now I can actually use it.

So, if you'd like to talk to me over an IM service and you don't like AIM, my MSN screenname is isaacofrune@hotmail.com

Look, it's Mwrr! I luff the teeny alien medic. Eibborn, why are all of your characters so cuuuute?

So, my internet it back up. This time, the crash was not AOL's fault, but rather my mom's, for changing debit cards and not updating the provider about this.

Augh, I have to get six missing assignments into my math class by friday (without a calculator), take my Astronomy final tomorrow, and do the 3 hour long AP US history test on friday morning. adfjdkjdagjdfg streeeeessss

Latest two paintings I've done in photoshorpe. I need the practice, yes. On the left is Scarlet, my own character, and Shanielli, another player character from my space pirate rp. I adore Shanie, and she's only had two posts. Maybe it's just because I love blue people. Nightcrawler, The Blue Man Group, Smurfs, the people in Interstella 5555... they all rock so much.

Why is LJ offering me chances to win a free trip to where I live? And why is imageshack advertising christmas oreos in may?

Both rps I'm in are really taking off now. :3 Happy Amred.

Some sketches of the three characters that have joined aegbalk. From left; Captain "Bloody Scarlet" Brown, played by me, Serafiem Appius, played by my good friend dea_kun, and Shanielli T'lis, played by rudiichuu.

And a quick note to those in/interested in the game; I'm going to go ahead and start it sometime this afternoon. Hopefully some activity will encourage others to join.

So, I'm back from my sister's graduation. The ceremony itself was nice - her college is just about twenty miles from Four Corners, and was originally opened for the Navajo res, so its got a huge diversity of students. At the ceremony, half the students had eagle feathers instead of tassels, and one guy had a coyote skin and a blanket instead of the black cap and gown. The food we had at my sister's party was good, and her friends were rather cool.

There was a downside, of course. My sister is manic depressive - a trait she inherited from my mother's side of the family. (I just got acute anxiety) She'd been procrastinating on finding a place to live for the summer, and her lease ended today. She was worried about needing grad school. And, of course, she'd been drinking pretty heavily the past few weeks. There was a lot of shouting, and a lot of crying. I just tried to stay out of that mess. (She has got a place to stay now, though. A woman in town was renting out rooms and my sister got one.)

But more on the plus side, I got some cool stuff down there. Three hats - an indie/punk black one with a white rose painted on the side, a gray and red plaid one, and a tweed paper boy hat (sis gave me the last one). I also got a very nice burgundy corduroy and wool jacket from my sis. And in the local bookstore, I got a copy of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. (Both the novel AND the comic. JOY)

I'm doing pretty good, now. I need to go look for a job, and maybe get DQ ice cream. And start that rp, of course.

This weekend is my sister's graduation from college, so we're haulin' our butts down to the four corners to see her. I'm gonna be gone from friday to monday with limited computer access. And the 'rents and sis screaming at each other about how she wants to come home and live for free, and quit her job, and she doesn't have enough money, yadda yadda yadda.

Honestly, I'm 17 and I know how to live as a college kid better then she does. Durf.

Also, quick update for those involved with aegbalk. Because I'm going to be out of town, I'm going to have to postpone starting the first session. I'M SORRY! DUN HURT ME! :( If you guys can, do a bit of recruiting, and I should post the first real post monday or tuesday evening.

And getting vomit up my nose is the most uncomfortable thing I've ever felt. Oi.