Pooja just said that I'll regret stealing her emoticon.

I stole Pooja's dancing-stick emoticon over MSN, and she just informed me that I will regret it. Very well, I surrender to you.

Yet another bout of visiting sites that I haven't gone to in a long time has brought me to the wonders of the SimBush/SimKerry-ness of some-person-or-the-other's http://ubergoth.net/sims/bushkerry/. (Please nobody send FBIs after her, or me).

I wonder how she makes her sims so realistically like the real people. I wanna steal some tricks of trade. But I'm rather reluctant to return to my Sims game, since at least one of my swimming pools has turned creepy, checkered, and flashing red and black, and nothing I find tells how to solve this. I should go and force one of my sims to take a dip in it and see if they die. (Anyway, I'll put a screenie up later.) (It's up!) They just come home from a community lot and voila I spot a flashing pool when I look through their kitchen window. Immediately afterwards, I sent one of them to bed and the other to work on their novel and tried to ignore the pool and hope it goes away. No such luck. It stayed, and I was finally forced to save and quit my game and look for help online (and found none). I should've checked it in the neighborhood view.

Now I have to finish this post and show it to Pooja.

Darkness; liquid tainting the golden glitter of fairy tales.

OMG!!!! It's the end of the world as we know it... IT'S FALLEN RESURRECTED (Is that spelled right? "ressurected" maybe? Nah... Tiff, I need your spellingbee-ness!) !!!!

I'd started to doubt that it's Aido's laziness that caused the delay, and even began to suspect that she got amnesian somehow, but Aido has proven me wrong and shown that it's a mix of procrastination and lack of motive. (Lack of motive? With like 20,000 fans?! Sending 200 emails a day??!! Wait a minute here, something's fishy...) But my theories were actually somewhat reasonable, given the 20mo break. In fact, the only thing that proves her still alive (to me, at least) was her livejournal. Oh well. At least the cute little drawing she offered (to calm the angry fans, such as myself?) was good. I'm gonna print it out and use it as a coloring page. [- insert huggle here -].

In fact, I'd given up on her so much that I'd even stopped checking. Until two days ago. And then it took me two days for the truth to sink in. So that leaves me at today, and the typing of this post. And of course, updating a page at a time means pretty much we're always left hanging. Hanging so much, in fact, it's not even a cliffhanger; it's the freaking middle of a sentence. But that's okay as long as she updates within the next - well I've given up on her updating even once every month, so - two months. But if she goes for a year of no-updates again... But once she's finished (or rather "if"), I hope she gets someone to make it into novel version. Not, as always, like anyone ever cares about what I think should or shouldn't be done. But I still think someone should make a novel version. I'd do it, but I'm too busy writing my own stuff (or rather procratinating my own stuff) and plus I'm no good at working with someone else's universe, even a highly detailed fun-to-stare-at graphic-novel universe like Aido's. Someone who already works with dark alter-universe stuffies should work with it. Not that there's much to do, since the plot and everything is already so nicely worked out, complete with forshadowing, backflashes, mysterious-past characters, and comic relief, all of which is valued greatly in the dark fantasy literatti world (Literatti - it's such a cool non-word).

Now that I think about it, the reasons of its success (can you call a webcomic successful if it's incomplete and totally free?) are simular to the Abhorsen trilogy. *officially enters nerdy speech too-many-novels over-analizing mode*. There are many simular elements. For example, there is the mythical humanoid (in intellegence and speech, at least) character of mysterious and unknown history later revealed to be rather important, ancient and from some sort of "Begining". (In Abhorsen, Dog and Mogget as two of the Bright Shiners; in Fallen, Void as one of the Great Hydra. In fact, there's still something we don't know about Void, since Quetzal called her "Simurra", whatever THAT is.) And there's also the "Begining" thingamabob itself. In the Abhorsen books, it was actually called the Begining and was the creation of the Charter; in Fallen, it was the battle between the Guardians and the Hydra. And, of course, there's the famous guy/girl teaming that just sorta has to happen to some degree, like in the Abhorsen books there's Sabriel/Touchstone or Lirael/Sameth, and in Fallen there's Singe/Faustus. Then there's the uber-complicated concepts that you can't have the characters explain outright because they have no reason to, but the readers need to know anyway to be able to understand the universe that the book is set in. So you gotta take a chance when it presents it self, which with not-so-experienced writers usually end up being totally nonbelievable, stretched, and otherwise forced into the situation when there's no reason or condition that allows them to explain. But Nix and Aido do it nicely, not interupting the flow of the narration, barely perceptible that it's more explaining to the readers than the characters. Not that anyone appreciates it, being barely perceptible as it is.

Of course, those are only a few of the things they have in common, but like all human beings I'm too lazy to go into more unless I'm being paid somehow, which I'm not. So I'll tell it to the voices in my head, and unless you're one of them you can't hear. Haha.

Darkness; liquid tainting the golden glitter of fairy tales... A wine that we drink with greed.

Pop!

Nothing to say here, except...

LOLLIPOPS!!!!!

'nywayz, I found this thing and it was just too cool to not mention: http://www.deviantart.com/view/6902988/

Yeah! Ain't it ubersome? I'm probably gonna make it my new wallpaper. I heart 3D renderings, but I've no time to work out how to make them. I'll just take a class or something. (Know what? I should REALLY have picked Computer Graphics for next year.)

Also found this, which is pretty cool too (I think it's a photo). And this, which is another rendering.

While we're talking lollipops, I might as well educate you people with a copy/paste from Wikipedia:

"A lollipop, or lolly, is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavoured sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. In many regions of the United States (primarily the South and Midwest), the term "sucker" is used interchangeably with or instead of "lollipop." In these areas, the term "lollipop" is often applied to candy that is disc-shaped, while "sucker" is applied to candy that is spherical. Lollipops come in a variety of flavors from the traditional cherry, grape and orange to the more daring watermelon and green apple. With numerous companies producing lollipops, the candy now comes in dozens of flavors."

So now we know.

And lastly, I had to put up this uber fractal pattern: http://www.koolpages.com/tiedyeman/rainbow%20lollipops-lr.jpg

So now, young grasshopper, I hope you are well versed in the ways of the Lollipop.

Oh yeah, and I finished Tithe and Wish List, and I found Wind on Fire #2. So now I'm happy.