"Light of the Sun" Drawings

Hmm. There are some things I like better about the black and white version. But I like how I colored Will.
So, brief explanation. It's a sort of cover for "The Light of the Sun." The boy is will. The girl is a ghost named Erika. I tried to make her look somewhat transparent. The wolf is actually a werewolf-Laney. It's hard to make a wolf face lok good from a front view. I could not get the mouth right. Then I screwed up the shading. The bat is a vampire-Draven. They're all in the hidden chamber at El Dorado. The Medallion of Ra is hanging on the Pyramid pedestal, and some of the Egyptian guardians are there-cat=Bast, cobra=Wadjet, scarab=Khepri.

All my cool pets!

Like all my computer pets?

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A New Life

So, I read this in a book last night, and I thought I'd post on it because it bugged me. I feel better when I can write about something I disagree with.
In the book, they caught a bad guy and erased his memory. They then had to give him memories of a new life so he'd think he was a completely different person. So, they give him a pretty miserable life. Now, as a bad guy, he probably deserved a bad life. But they just erased that old life. He's a different person now. There's no use in getting revenge on a person who doesn't have his old memories and doesn't know what he did wrong. Would you rather create a miserable life, or would you rather give that person a life that would actually be useful to the world? If I had the option of giving a bad guy a new life, I wouldn't make it miserable. I'd make him a nice person and I'd give him a role in life that would help the planet in some way.
So, if you ever get to erase someone's memory and give them new memories, keep that in mind, huh?

Bitten

I am making a reference to Stephanie's phrase she used in a post a LONG time ago. "Raving rabid plot bunnies." She was referring to when you're struck with a good idea for a story/plot. So far I've been lucky. If I'm patient, I'll get an idea eventually. So far, I haven't been struck by writer's block (knock wood) and I hope I never find out what it feels like. So, I've been bitten by Stephanie's rabid bunnies.
I've been wanting to write a story for a while now. I forget if I started talking about this at all. One of each of the magical races from magic-earth get sucked into technology-earth, as does a dragon from Soreina. They team up with a unicorn (an inter-dimensional being) and have to complete a quest. I had a few ideas about what this quest would include, but they were only general skeletons. Now, remember me saying how hot showers are good for ideas? Well, that happened to me last night. I finally came up with a good idea for the quest all these magical people need to do in our Earth.
In addition to Magic-Earth and Soreina, I have recently created another realm. The First Great Shift occurred at the dawn of man-Earth split into two halves-Technology Earth and Magic Earth. Then when our Earth, TE, started spreading technology and religion, which brought much more violence into the world, the Second Great Shift Happened. Technology Earth Split again to create Soreina as a haven for all the magical creatures that were being killed by "modern" humans. That's why the old stories talk about dragons and unicorns, ex, as though they were actually real. Back then, there was still a little overlap between TE and ME. Which is why there are stories of wizards such as Merlin. But they too mostly vanished at the creation of Soreina. There isn't much overlap right now, but there is still a bit of magic in our planet. Ever heard of pet psychics? They still possess the "language of thoughts" that people in TE and Soreina can use-telepathic communication with animals, plants, and even spirits.
And today, we are in the middle of the Third Great Shift. You may have noticed how there are many strange problems throughout our world. People are really paranoid-a criminal will break into a person's house, get bitten by their dog, and they'll sue the owner of the dog even though they were the one breaking into their house. Terrorists kill people who don't share their exact ideas. Atomic bombs (though not as high a threat as they were during the Cold War) could still easily destroy the planet. Some people think the government is keeping secrets from us. Global warming and deforestation threaten the planet as well. So, Earth decides to split again, creating the Darke Realm. This realm is opposite ours. A parallel world. Their light is shadow, and their shadows are light. Their sun is darkness. It is a realm of healing for torn and ripped spirits to recover. When they are healed, they return to the Lyte Realm to try again. Earth hopes that after spirits spend time in the Darke Realm, when they return to Earth, they will make it a better place.
Remember, Soreina and Magic-Earth know of the each other and of TE, but TE doesn't know about any of the other realms. We're blinded by too many things, especially by science. And none of the worlds know of this growing Darke Realm. But the unicorns do.
So, now that the Darke Realm is starting to form, how does this connect to the story I was talking about earlier? Well, during the formation of this Darke Realm, something happens to severely shock Earth. Possibly an atomic bomb, or something. And this jolts the Lyte and Darke Realms to start to blend, threatening the existence of both worlds. So, all these people that got pulled into TE need to find the one person strong enough to save the worlds-Merlin. But hundreds of years ago, Merlin was trapped inside a tree by the Lady of the Lake. Only her descendant can release him. So, why would these people care if anything happened to TE? Because if anything happened to Technology Earth, the other planets would soon follow. They're all connected. IF one Earth goes down, it won't take long for the other planets to go too.

"Of spirits and Demons"

Oh, I forgot to say! I think I found a title for the story that I'm working. Up till now, I've referred to it as Briena's story. But I think I might name it "Of Spirits and Demons."
So, what do you think?
And, I'm approaching the climax of this story, which means that I work on it a lot faster than usual because it's getting exciting! Since I'm handwriting this one, (so I can bring it places to work on) I still have to type it up afterwards. But I should be complete with the first draft soon! Wheeeeee!!
But it's long, so it'll take a long time to type... Oh well. I'll get it eventually.

Names

Yeah, it's helpful to know someone's name so you don't go around calling her "Nicole's friend" all the time. That would be odd.
Don't give Nicole sugar!!!!! WAAAH!!
I gots the soundtrack to August Rush if you wants a copy for Christmas!
Nicole, I tried the first part of the movie you mentioned.... and it's really weird.

Gasp. Nicole's posting again so soon! Nooooo! The world must be ending!!! O.o
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ahem.
Anyway...
^-^
Yeah, I've seen August Rush and LOVE IT! I love all the songs, but it's cool that you put one of them on the blog. I had fun listening to it. AND CELLO! MWAHAHAHAHA! @.@ WE SHALL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! *cackles*
lmao. i had suger...
Mmmmmkay. I'll ask her if she's interested in illustrating some stuff. Her name's Neveen, btw.

Illustrate?

Hey Nicole! You posted! I will now take Ellen's roll of going
O_O Nicole actually posted! Gasp!
How was that?
Hahah! Well, I could start the guides whenever anyone wants me to. When I get started on a project and really get rolling, it's hard to stop. So ask her if she wants to be added to my blog so we can keep in touch about drawing. She could redraw the dragons pen mascot. Yeah. I'm just making random suggestions. My drawings tend to be a little flat... She could put pictures up if she wanted, but from what you showed us, she already has a website to put her pictures up. It's just fun to have my blog decorated by lots and lots of prettiful pictures (yes, that's supposed to sound weird). And that way if I ever become a famous author (I wish), I'll have links to a few famous artists (We've seen some of Ellen's and Stephanie's drawings).
Kay. I'm rambling again. But I can add her to the blog if she wants. We'll have to protect her from Ellen's strangeness, huh? My strange guides would include a lot of dragon pictures and other odd creatures. So, yeah. Ask her.
Nicole! Ellen made me watch a movie called August Rush. It's a good movie! Have you seen it? It's a music movie too. So, I said I'd rave occasionally, so I guess I'll rave. Why not?
So, I'll see if I can do this movie justice with my description.
It's about a boy (named August Rush, well, it's actually a nickname) who can hear music in everything. He's trying to find his parents, and he thinks that music will help them find each other, so he follows the music.
And Nicole, his mom plays cello! And for all you who don't know, Nicole plays cello (flute's better! HAHAHAHA!). So, you should watch it! It's a really sweet movie, and the music in it is GREAT! Hang on, I'll see if I can get a copy of the song August writes. It's a REALLY COOL SONG!

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Hullo

Hiiiii!!!! Just got back from eating dinner with Shirley and some people and I felt like posting. Thought I'd pop in, show that I'm still alive. Oh, I found this really good anime people should check out if they like piano (there's a manga too but it sucks, plus you can't hear all the beautiful piano music). It's called "Piano no Mori" and it's a very beautiful and sometimes really funny story. It's about this kid who's a genius at piano, but has never had any lessons. When he finally gets a teacher who starts teaching him all these classical songs, the kid starts worrying that now he's just copying other people's music and not making his own songs. This leads to my favorite parts: he gets haunted by anime!composers, like Beethoven and Mozart. It's so funny. But it's a very touching story about him dealing with other people and it's also about his friend who has to deal with his jealousy. This guy is a transfer student who puts a lot of effort into practicing the piano but he's still not as good as the main character genius kid, and he tries really hard not to be jealous. It's all really moving.

Tara, if you want, I can ask my friend if she'd like to illustrate for your story. She's so good with backgrounds too...yeah, now I want to ask her. She'd do an amazing job. So how about it? Want me to ask?

Guides to keep you from being EATEN!

You know what I've seen recently? They're sort of guide books to fantasy worlds. What would you do if you lived here? Like books about dragons and stuff that talk as if dragons were really real. It would be REALLY fun to make a guide book. Two actually, one for Soreina and one for Magic-Earth. It would be a good place to pour all my ideas for those two worlds. But I'd need a really good illustrator. I'm okay... But I'm far from great. Sigh.
Hahah! I just thought of something! Nicole just told Ellen and I (If you want to get fancy with grammar) that she met a really good artist at her college. I should go and hijack her!
Yeah, it's be fun to write that, but I don't think I can really do anything with it yet...

PS I'm trying something. I don't know if it will work (I've mentioned something about this a LONG time ago, but I still don't know if it's worked). And since I DON'T know if it will work, I'll wait till I get some word about it before I tell anyone.

Raving

Owowowowowo! I stepped on a nail! How did a nail get on the floor?!?!!?!?!? Grrrr!
Okay, that's not what I was going to post about. This is.
I told you a while ago that I'd start raving about good movies/books/songs. And I don't have anything better to do now (well, I have homework, but who cares? It's not due tomorrow). So, I thought it would be a good idea to start with the Studio Ghibli movies (especially the ones by Miyazaki). A lot of people know them. And almost everyone who knows them likes them a lot (we LOVE them don't we?) But there's a lot of people who don't know them. I think the most well-known one is Kiki's Delivery Service. If I ask a person whether or not they've seen the Ghibli movies, usually they'll recognize the name Kiki's Delivery Service.
Let me list some of my favorites.

Howl's Moving Castle. It's really hard to pick favorites with these movies, but I think this is probably my favorite. There are a few strange parts (such as Howl throwing the tantrum), but it is such an AWESOME movie!
Castle in the Sky. I love this movie. Laputa is so pretty!
Kiki's Delivery Service. I pretty much grew up with this one. It's one of Miyazaki's more tame movies and is really good.
My Neighbor Totoro. Another one I pretty much grew up with. I love the cat bus!
Spirited Away. Without a doubt, Miyazaki's strangest movie. But AMAZING! I LOVE the dragon! You may recall I've already put up some pictures of him on he blog.
Princess Mononoke. A really good movie. A bit bloodier than his others, but still really amazing.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. The first time I saw this , I didn't like it. But now I do. Teto is adorable. And the bugs are awesome! There's a lot of war, but it has a great environmental theme (Mononoke is environmental too).
On Your Mark. I've mentioned this before. The music video that I wrote a fanfic about.
Whisper of the Heart. Unlike the others, this one is a life-like story. And I apporove of it because the girl in this movie likes to write and she wants to become an author.
Future Boy Conan. A silly TV series that I saw on Youtube. It's cute though. I like it.
The Cat Returns. A rather silly movie. It relates to Whisper of the Heart.
Lupin 3: Castle of Cagliostro. This one's really different from the others. But it's not bad.

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Huh? I checked my emails but there's nothing there.
Heheh. Kitty dragon. Put it on the blog when you draw it!