A Tombstone of Salt

OKAY THAT IS IT. I AM MOVING TO INSANEJOURNAL.

Name should be obvious. XD

This post was very hard to write with SSRIDS.

Okay, so most people know I really admire Sic-Puppy from dA.

Well, she recently had a thing where you could sign up and join her characters' rat mischief. Or, well, you could add one of your characters to it.

I missed it, partially due to being busy and partially due to this weird apathy I've been fighting lately.

And I'm... well, kind of broken-hearted about it. Her characters are very "topical" insamuch as they often have backstories involved in real-life forms of rat research and... well, most don't know it, but there's a pseudo-Yorua character (Yorua is very felxible and likes to contribute to (become) all kinds of characters, including the unused rabbit character Nine who this... came from.) Yorua/Nine was derived from the gender studies they used to do on animals (and still do) with in vitro hormone injections and the like. Nine/Yorua is a female rat who was given male hormone treatments not just in the womb but out of it. She's summarily very aggressive, not unlike a dominating "alpha" type male rat... as in the type of male rat who frequently chases off others and makes frequent dominance bids. she has (because of me being me) very realistic (but badly done) hooded markings, typical of a lot of lab rats. Her "hood" is large enough to make her predominantly black, though, with white belly and hindquarters.

I really think (or I want to think) Sic-Puppy would appreciate the effort and realism but I guess... well, I fucked up and missed my chance with her.

I just wish I wasn't my own dumbfuck fault.

She would have made a great "soldier" of the mischief.

FUCKING HELL I DONT' EVEN KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO ABOUT IT EXCEPT CURSE AND HATE MYSELF A LOT.

GOD I WANT MY LUVOX

Y HALO THAR SSRIDS.

WHASSUP.

Seriously, if my mother doesn't send me my medication soon, I'll be missing Monday classes and I'm not apologising if she yells at me for it. (Okay, I will be apologising, but I will be a mite ticked. I already have the headache and tingling fingers. A little disoriented too.)

SO. In an attempt to cheer myself up, a list of my top five male PW characters:

Ron DeLite
Miles Edgworth
Matt Engarde
Damon Gant
Manfred Von Karma

Were I continue, it would go...

Godot
Phoenix Wright (I like him but he's a main character... uh... yeah...)
Juan Corrida
Yanni Yogi
Frank Sahwit (DON'T JUDGE ME. I ALMOST PUT RICHARD WELLINGTON.)

Top ten characters period are

Franziska von Karma
Ron DeLite
Miles Edgeworth
Adrian Andrews
Matt Engarde

Damon Gant
Manfred von Karma
Dahlia Hawthorne
Godot
Phoenix Wright

Top five female characters... is a bitch to do, but...

Franziska von Karma
Adrian Andrews
Dahlia Hawthorne
Morgan Fey (SHADDUP)
Ini/Mimi Miney.

WELL

Y HALO THAR SSRIDS.

HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

I'm considering making the exodus to IJ. The problem is that a wealth of icons is not really a necessity for me... I still have ten icons that cover MOST of what I tend to express anyway. The real issue is keeping in touch. Splitting my time between blogs is not an option.

So I'd either have to have the majority of the people I know move with me or simply suffer losing Delcat, something I'd really rather avoid at all costs. (Delcat is dear to me, the idea of completely losing track of her blog is therefore distasteful.)

Who is moving, if anyone?

Who is dead-set on staying?

Crack Pairing

GANT x LARRY

You know you want it.

(Courtesy of my roommate.)

GS3

2:36 AM, February 5th.

It's over.

I am so happy I could cry! (Not quite spoilery but just in case, don't read.)

THE SECOND DAY OF THE INVESTIGATION HAS MADE ME SO HAPPY.

I have so far:

Rediscovered my ties to Edgeworth
Rediscovered why I love Franziska so damn much

And...

The former ambivalence I was feeling about Godot has been erased. The views he's personally expressed about his body and especially his mask have won me over entirely. His simultaneously serious and yet abruptly playful nature is too fascinating for me to resist. (Don't get the wrong idea, please.)

And I'm not even done with the goddamn day yet.

tears hair out

WHEN DID THEY START SPELLING FRANZISKA'S NAME WITH A "K?!"

Has it always been this way?!!?!?

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE CORRECT ME?

I can't believe I missed it all this time!!! This is the worst mistake I've made in... I don't know how long!

Or were they just inconsistent?!

AUUUUUUURHGHHFHDHGHFHJFSJFGHL

An armoury in the basement?

So I'm pretty sure I've brought this up before, but just in case:

Has anyone else noticed that everyone raised in the von Karma household has a personal weapon? Franzisca has that whip, Edgeworth has the knife, and I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with elder von Karma's taser. It makes me wonder what Franzisca's older sister carries.

A broadsword, maybe?

Anyway, that aside, the fifth case is more than making up for that fourth case from hell. I'm enjoying it thoroughly, and I'm positive the two people I know who play (Delcat and Aven) will enjoy it quite a bit as well. Of course, as we all know, this game is also a goodbye to most of the characters we've grown to love. With all luck, though, the lively spirit of the game will be left intact for the fourth. Here's hoping Mr. Odoroki doesn't disappoint.

(P.S. I won't miss Larry.)

Happy New Year, all you North American people out there. (Can't wait for the year of the pig to be over, though.)

GS3

I HAVE SPIED A CONTINUITY ERROR.

GRRR.

Regarding the fourth trial of PW3

OKAY JUST FOR THE RECORD, I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON AND I CHEATED ALL OVER THE PLACE BECAUSE I JUST WANTED IT OVER WITH.

I SUCK AND I ADMIT IT BUT I COULDN'T MAKE MYSELF DICKER OVER A CASE THAT FAILED TO INTEREST ME.

THE END.

List of outstanding RPs.

Ryou/Rona/Elegy (Ceci)

Savant/Elegy/??? (Ceci)

Ryuumoraphilion/Ahvanti (Ceci)

Kobiolka/Synnove/Aynra/etc. (Hikaru, Zyo, Ceci)

Drestal/??? (Hikaru)

Pun/X/Arrany (Hikaru)

Ryuumoraphilion/Aea (Mew)

...this is just here to remind everyone (plus me.)

Christmas packages have been sent out, although I have a second package I need to send you, Del.

Non Spoilery GS3

SO I HAVE GS3.

This makes me a happy Raile.

Now to talk a bit about it. For reference, I'm on part 4-1 of the second trial (just started it) and I know what happened and how.

Godot is... strange. Not a bad strange, but definitely strange. (I laughed when the judge called him Gobo, though. I think maybe three people who read this will know why.) He gets off topic a lot. A lot a lot. He seems to be off in his own world sometimes, in regards to what's appropriate and what's not. In all fairness, he at least manipulated Phoenix very well. What's up with the super-deep voice, though?

And I am an unexpected fan of Ron DeLite. He's so charmingly peculiar! And he's certainly unique. I never would have expected him to snag me so QUICKLY. Oh well, you like who you like.

I still say Mask DeMasque's design is silly.

Welcome back Adrian, when did you become a screwball?

And finally: OMG. GS3.

EDIT: Godot, you're a freak. I love you, but you're a freak. Strange, strange man.

And I can sum up GS3 so far with five words: Couples and the colour red.

Yes, that is exactly what I did

Note on Sweeney Todd: Don't go with your mother.

So festive!

!

Seeing Sweeney Todd tomorrow. Not a big fan of musicals, we'll see how it goes.

Also, actual comment seen on Gurochan: "I'm eating a cookie while watching porn."

DELCAT

I need to know how much of the Monster anime I've already sent you. I think I overlapped a little...

GODOT ON A SEGWAY!!!

LITA HOMG.

:D The shirts are awesome! Andand so is that book. ;_; The comics need translating, maybe once I know what they say I'll scan em in and put translations up over the text. Make it public. Also I'd never heard of Pillows before, but they are deliciousssssss. (Also, hahaha at the company that makes them being called "Oishi")

This is shaping up to be probably the best Christmas I've ever had, and I owe a lot of it to my friends. People are focusing more on two of my favourite fandoms this year (Phoenix Wright and Gundam Wing), even my mother. It's exciting!

dnfkndkjnd..sjb, MUST LEAVE EARLY TOMORROW MORNING TO SHIP PACKAGES YOU'RE ALL WONDERFUL.

ALL OF YOU.

P.S. GJ, I don't mind you shrinking my icon list, but for fuck's sake, at least offer me a less emotastic selection! Assume Inui is drooling with... excitement or something. That is a pretty festive background.

DEAEST DELCAT

I NOW OWN THE BEST SHIRT EVER. THANKS TO YOU. <333 (I will make sure to follow the washing instructions to the letter. I do not want such a cool shirt to die.)
Also, these are some of the best cookies I've ever eaten. It is tempting to eat them all at once but that would be kind of ridiculous. And make me sick.

I'm sending out your package in a couple days, I'm trying to make it arrive kind of around Christmas. I hope the contents do not suck too much. <3

P. S. GIANT RAT! http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/17/giant.rat.ap/index.html

A gift of sorts.

My roommate found a place to download the Gyakuten Meets Jazz Soul and Gyakuten Meets Orchestra 2 soundtracks. :D

http://community.livejournal.com/dynamicflare/3683.html#comments

Also, is it just me or is Godot standing on an anchor tie?

Mmmm.

Jones Soda's new Blueberry Pomegranate soda is delicious.

That is all.

....!?!?!?!?

HOW DID I NOT FAIL ANYTHING?

DELCAT YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS.

Terry Pratchett has an early-onset form of Alzheimer's.

http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html

Letter from him is located at the above. Thought his fans should know.

:

Failed the stat test spectacularly.

And I FUCKING STUDIED.

Too bad everything on the studyguide was only like 30% of the actual test.

I know no one wants to hear me mope about how I failed. So...

Meet the Ynnwaw.

It's pronounced "(ee)NN-wah," by the way, with a silent "ee" before the voiced N.

Physical Description?

Ynnwaw are pretty tall. That's a good place to start. They can be any colour that isn't "natural" by our standards--brown, black, white, grey--since those stand out too much and got selected out during the days of being prey. Some are colours we can't really see, like ultraviolet. Their markings look like crop circle patterns, and are usually lighter than the base colour. (Dark markings are a recessive gene and stand out a bit more.) Their back... I'll call them antennae... are the same colour as their markings, but their hook is usually the same colour as the rest of the body... if not, it's only slightly varied from it. This is because a noticeable hook is a great bobbing target for predators to follow and drastically coloured hooks sort of fell off the genetic scale. Adult male Ynnwaw have brilliant bicolour (like purple and green) wattles on their throats and arms. Eye colour can be just about anything, but it is never the same as the body or marking colour.
All Ynnwaw have four fingers on their (very small) hands--three fingers and a thumb. Their feet, however, have six toes--four in front and two in the back. They stand and run on the tips of these rather than the bases of them. Kind of like digitigrade squared, really. They have four ears, too. Which is fine, because their sense of smell is based right up by the eyes--their nostrils are very high up and placed almost directly between the eyes. Kind of exciting. They can smell blood from very far away, among a few other bodily fluids, and this used to be a survival thing. Now it just makes cleaning the bathroom a pain in the tail.
Speaking of tails! They have on the end of their tail that's formed of a horny growth. It's used partially for self defence but it was mostly useful for keeping parents and children together during storms or when fleeing. Now it's a handy way to carry picnic baskets. (Not really, I'm just tired.)

Biology?

They were formerly prey animals that outevolved their predators. They used confusion tactics for survival, mixing up and milling about as they ran to confuse predators and get away. Frequently they'd split off into groups, making the predators act fast, or suddenly change directions, preventing predators to forego a planned ambush. This complex evasion behaviour went a long way towards helping them develop sentience. Of course, they stopped being common prey a couple million years ago. XD
The Ynnwaw, like the Hegyalas, have three-lobed brains. They liked to live near water sources before, but now live almost exclusively in cities or settlements, being much less segregated than the Hegyalas (or, you know, those pesky Aaraixl who never talk to anyone.)
Like all lifeforms on the planet, the Ynnwaw don't have separate "teeth." Instead their skull grows to form the shape of the teeth--they're born with full dentition and lost teeth can't be replaced without prosthesis. :B
The average lifespan of an Ynnwaw is about 270-290 planetary years. Very few Ynnwaw make it to three hundred years of age, and fewer still make it far past it.

Gender and Mating?

Ynnwaw come in two sexes, which are pretty much male and female. They mate for life but both genders can and often do have multiple mates. They live with whichever mate they they are raising the child of at the moment. Childless Ynnwaw pretty much just do what they want as far as housing.

Childrearing?

Ynnwaw are born in pairs and each parent raises one child. They are cared for separately as infants and introduced to each other as they grow. This is good largely because 3/5 of children die in their first five/ten years. So very few remain with a "true sibling" in adulthood. Those that do tend to be very protective of them and may share a domicile even after mating ceremonies.
Young Ynnwaw are born live and fairly helpless. The parents have to tend to the offspring constantly for an extended period--this is because the gestation period is so amazingly short that the child is only just capable of surviving outside of the parent's body. Unfortunately, that 3/5 statistic I gave you comes from the fact that organ failure or malfunction is common in the developing young. So parents try not to get too attached at first.

Intelligence and Evaluation?

Ynnwaw are sentient and highly variable within that range. I don't know what else to say here at the moment. They're less uniform than hegyalas because they don't kill their children for being stupid. *shrugs*

Language and Speech?

Uh, obviously they have language. Unlike the hegyalas, the Ynnwaw language is "voiced"--that is, it's produced by vibrating the vocal cords, the way human languages are. Their written language was originally based around patterns of circles and lines, but the hegyala writing system has become standard in most cities because of the ease and speed with which it can be written.

Technology?

Not sure what to say here yet. XD They're the ones who started building city-like communities, but besides that... yeah. They have managed some pretty interesting weapons, and have developed most of the architectural techniques used on the planet.

Economy?

Money happens. The Ynnwaw have developed a form of currency, called the Rudd. Ugly-sounding name aside, it's the only currency used within most of the planet's civilisations now.

Food and Diet?

Ynnwaw like to eat root vegetables more than leaf matter, and have been known to strip plants of their leaves and eat only the roots and stalk, leaving the... leaves... to be eaten by other creatures. In fact, they'll eat almost any part of the plant BUT the leaves. Obviously, now edible plants can be bought as the desired component part, so it's a little less awkward and messy these days.

Domestication?

For the most part, domesticated animals are few on the planet. The Ynnwaw have learned to breed and raise a variety of exoskeletonal critters thanks to the hegyala, but outside of that I only know of one major domestication that they're responsible for. This is the domestication of some very large and rather intimidating animals used to guard cities and communities. These animals are naturally scavengers, and are usually seen solo in stables or outposts set up regularly within the community. A large city can have a score or more, but usually, a large community will only have one because they cost a lot to feed.

Art by Joe, a fantastic new friend.