If you're from Quebec and are reading this, you better get your ass off your chair and go vote, or I'll be reaaaaaaaaaally disapointed. Also, if you could help kick the liberals out that would be wonderful. Kthanksbye!

(otherwise, hugs all around, yes I'm still alive and yes I still love you all! Except people who don't VOTE. *mean glare*)

--Political Swing

Each passing day I lose more and more faith in the human race.

Yes, I work in customer service, why do you ask?

No, it's not because I sell them books that it makes them any brighter. But at least they aren't hungry and cranky, like in the good old days of working in fast food joints. I'm also not selling them overpriced ugly yoga pants anymore, either. But still.

Last gem was a woman who asked me how a musical plushie worked.

*deadpan voice* «You have to pull the string.»

(Seriously?!?)



So, any of you guys have any good stories? I feel uncharitable


--Swing

Yeah, felt like posting the remaining chapters. DON'T SHOOT ME! I have SERIOUS procrastination issues. If there were pills for that, I'd be on them.

Anyway, here it is.

If you still read it, if you still like it, don't hesitate to leave a small note?   I'm curious to see how many people are left after all this time.

Big hug to you guys!

[link]


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On a totally unrelated note... I may love Chris Pine's pretty pretty baby blue eyes, but damn, paying 12 bucks for This Means War is a little bit too much. Bad movie is bad. But then, I was drunk, so I only realized it the next morning. I also can fully appreciate the fact that he doesn't seem to be able to play anything else that 'Charming Douchebag', so in my personal canon, this was Jim Kirk in another life. Yes, he was a SPY. Shut up. I'm off to read more AU fics.

(Anyway, he can't do worse that Princess Diaries 2.)

I am ready. I have been preparing ten years for this day. I have gotten stronger, prettier and let's just say it, overall awesomer. I am invincible.

Today is the day I meet once again my 2001 High School graduating class.

I'm going to put some warpaint on. Where's my lipstick?


--Swing, former loser, now 20% cooler than everybody else.





Edit, later that night: Alright, it was fun, some people were interesting to talk to. But you know what victory sounds like? When a girl, who used to bother you, and you've been ignoring her all night long, comes over, smiles and says 'Hey! I heard you wrote a book!'  (But can you really still hate her when you learn she works with disabled kids?)

Also, victory looks like that other girl, who used to make you suffer so much, who's now thirty pounds fatter and looks like a cheap whore with her fake blonde hair.

I'd like to thank my four Sex on the beach to help me through with that. (Four is a magic number, you can defeat a whole Cyberman army with four.)

I don't want anyone complaining about politics being boring. You're gonna get your artsy asses over here  [link] learn about the evilness of PIPA and SOPA and how the America Congress wants to ruin the internet for you.

If you know about it already, good for you!

And to the ones living outside the US of A, as yours truly, it also concerns you because it'd give them rights over the American fronters.


Come on, be a knight of the Internet, our whole lives have been spent preparing for this.


--Swing


Edit: Link should work.

Hey people!! I have a pretty important question, maybe someone would be able to help me.

See, my sister and myself are finally getting started on our first original comic. It's been more than three years in the making and inking it feels GOOD.

Thing is, we need to color it by computer and sadly, we don't have the bazillion dollars to legally buy Photoshop and without the professional license, we can't make any kind of profit from it.

SO: Anyone knows a picture editing program that can be used to scan, color, edit, add text, print, and be free/affordable on a student budjet?


(When the comic is done and printed, I shall tell you more about it. It'll be awesome, promise.)





Hugs and thanks a lot in advance!!


--Swing





Also: for those who haven't noticed, I recently updated two new chapters of the Uprising. More to come very soon...

(or whatever you celebrate)

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!


-- Swingie, on the very very naughty list.

Alright, alright, I'll post all those finished and almost finished pieces that have been sleeping on my other computer for ages. My baby Mac is so, so old it couldn't stand dA's new programming and I can't get to click on the Upload Art button when I try (seriously!). So I had to kick my own lazy ass and get the art to my laptop trough difficult means (buy a larger USB key) since my old baby Mac CAN'T SEE HOTMAIL ANYMORE. Nor send anything through Yahoo. 0_0 And I've got Photoshop on my baby Mac, but the screen flickers to PINK half of the time! And my Photoshop is the old 2002 version so I don't have half the nifty features it's got now, like decent pen pressure or, you know, warp function. Oh, and we tried to place my pics on my sis' external drive, but it's not compatible mith my fossil of a computer.

I knew there was something wrong when people started telling me, around 2007, that not being able to see movies or flash in a computer was not normal. Or that you shouldn't have to unplug your keyboard to plug a USB key.

But I still love it, it's been with me a loooooong time (since 2002, actually) and still runs. And it never caught a single virus. Take that, PC users.

Alright, taking my PC laptop tu upload stuff I meant to upload since forever and a day. Enjoy.

(This is a thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes. You guys really motivate me. Now, it would be in your best interest to motivate me to finish my ST new fic, or, maybe, I don't know, post a new chapter of the Uprising. Or maybe finish my novel. You guys decide. I need to know people are still reading this and interested, because I'm a lowly human being that is easily influenced by squealing.)

--Swing

(and totally humble.)

OMG you guys, thank you so much for the lovely birthday wishes! You sure know how to make a girl feel appreciated! ^_^ Seriously, I was never expecting to hear that in dA, since I haven't posted anything in FOREVER.

Also a quick note to explain what I've been doing with my days, if you guys want to hear good reasons for the lack of fanarting. Well, I've been hella busy this year, making weddings because everyone I hold dear got married in the span of six months. One of the weddings involved lightsabers.

Also, there's work. Still a bookstore clerk by day (crime fighter by night), but I got promoted to the kids section, so now I'm surrounded by kids books, teen novels, comic books, mangas, toys, board games and plushies. I friggin love it Downside, Doomsday season is approaching and I have to work harder than an army of Santa's elves to fit the bazillion toys I receive each day. I wish I had the Tardis technology, to make my store bigger on the inside, because I won't manage without it.

Aaaaand I'm still working on my eternally unfinished novel. I've got a whole lot to do, but since I FINALLY found the ending I was looking for, I see the end will get here sooner rather than later. Good thing. Been working on this for a decade, no joke.


But I'm still gonna blame my computer screen for turning pink half of the time, stopping me from drawing more. Yeah, I love pink, but not when it keeps flashing in front of my eyes. I'll try to post some more soon, there are a couple of pics sitting on my harddrive I haven't posted yet. Also, I may or may not be working on a short Star Trek K/S fic to distract myself from the long epicness of my novel. No, I haven't forgotter the Uprising, it will get finished.


Once again, thanks for the wishes, and simply for still be here, reading this Even if I don't answer, I do read every single comment and enjoy them to bits.

Love you lot, guys!

--Swing (still alive and kicking!)

Help a girl out!

(Do those jeans make my butt look big?)

... and aaaaaaaaaaaawkward hugs.


HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART TWO SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS.

So, anyone seen it? Tell me all about it!

(Fangirling over McGonnagall will always be welcomed.)


PS: By the way, I'd like to direct your attention to the picture to the left of this journal. See that? I totally drew that decades ago. It's like I'm psychic or something, whoa.

The masculine part of myself, my though, butchy, loud, unafraid of spiders part, went and became a brony. Yah. I blame my little brother, or as he may now be called, My Little Brony. (Oh, the cleverness of me.) I blame the masculine part because no way my girly half would be caught dead watching this.

Shut up, don't judge me. PONIES ARE AWESOME. I may or may not have a crush on Applejack. But you know, all that leadership and, yeah, freckles. (Don't act so surprised, if you're watching this account you already know there's something wrong with me.) But, FRECKLES!

I went and finished season one and found myself in pony deprivation. So if any of you watchers have anything to say on the subject, you're free to stampede all over my comments. It will please me.

Or, just answer this silly question (shut up I know most of you already have the answer!): Tell me all about your Pony self. Name, Cutie Mark, colors, earth/pegasus/unicorn?

A consensus reached between My Little Brony, my Pink Terrror of a sister and myself was that, to honor our south american origins and to comply with MLP's tiny bit racist view of the world, we would not be ponies, but llamas. I am very proud to say that My Little Llama name is Scribble, and that my cutie mark is a quill.

My manly, butchy part is kind of a sissy, when you think about it.


Hugs to all,

--Scribble the Llama

No joke! It's really back from the dead! It's a zombie fanfic!!

Here's the new chapter:

[link]



Here's the direct link to chapter 1 (It's a sequel to The Human Kribliss, go read it first):

[link]


And for those who haven't read The Human Kribliss yet: It's an Invader Zim, ZADR fic where Zim doesn't make the difference between love and hate, Dib discovers a fascinating part of Irken tradition (branded on his skin), the Tallests try to get rid of any Irken too tall for their tastes (and this includes Zim) and a crew of Irken explorers suffer the collision of all this. It's good, promise.

[link]

If you were wondering where I was all this time and what was my excuse for not drawing or writing anything for months (since I'm not going to school and work is relatively easy), it's because I was organising a wedding. My two bests friends in the whole world got married this Saturday, and my gift to them was making everything in my power to make their dream come true.

And their dream was... the geekiest weeding in the history of Ever.

He was dressed in a classy Darth Vader suit and his best men (counting yours truly) were four Stormtroopers wearing tuxedos and black bow ties. She was magnificent in a red and black dress based on a Captain's uniform from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the bridesmaids were clad in blue and golden Starfleet uniforms. The guests were all in costumes taken from science-fiction series and movies, games, cartoons and you even had one Doppler Effect. The cake was in the shape of a dragon with red innards (red velvet and strawberry, delicious) and the first cut was made with an axe. Forget flowers, the reception room was decorated like a Mario Bros level.

You jelly?

You should be jelly.


Honestly, this was the most awesome project I've ever worked in. From sewing all the bridemaids costumes and the boy's tuxedos, to being there for the fittings, the shopping, the meeting for the cake, to coordinating the wedding party and crafting the decorations, all of this was so much fun. And I wouldn't have done it for anyone else but them both.

I'll probably post some pics of the costumes if you guys get curious. And I'll probably start to draw and write a little bit again, at least, I hope

Sorry for the lack of updates since... forever and a day. Life has been weird lately, but weird is better than hellish, so it's a plus Got a lot of priorities, dA is not really one of them, sadly. But hey, I haven't stopped posting, just slowed down to a nearly comatic creative pductivity, lol.

I kinda ragequit school, so my days as a cartoon animator are behind me. Don't be sad, it's better that way. The workload was literally driving me crazy, and I haven't had one panic attack since I quit, which means it was probable the right choice, wouldn't you think? I'm working full time at the bookstore now, and I LOVE IT. I haven't stopped writing or drawing, I'm just concentrating on my eternally unpublished book and future comics, so that's why I haven't posted in a while either.

For those still waiting to see ZADR from me: I'm sad to tell you I kinda lost the interest to create anything. I'll still try to finish The Uprising, though, cause there's just 3 chapters left to write and four to correct. But I don't think I'll be drawing more Dib and Zim, sorry peeps.

Star Trek: Still the dilithium that warps my life. (Even though it's still kinda at impulse power, and let's just leave the trek analogies aside.)

I may or may not be also obsessively watching every single episode of glee. I will neither confirm or deny that I may have become a gleek, on top of everything else.


I have missed you, guys. Thanks for still reading, commenting and liking my stuff, even when it's old, boring and ugly. Seeing the notifications and reviews make me smile every day, even if I don't have the time to answer all of them

Love ya,

--Swing-swing





ps: Also? MINECRAFT.

And it's sunny outside for the first time in weeks. REJOICE, DAMNIT.

I made CHOCOLATE AND CANDY CANE COOKIES. There are red and green ribbons in my hair. WITH POMPOMS. I've been singing Christmas songs IN FOUR LANGUAGES for weeks and does any one of you know Jingle Bells in English, French, Spanish andn Latin?! I DO, BITCHES. And tomorrow, I'll watch some Muppets Christmas Carols BECAUSE I CAN and I'm gonna let you finish, but Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie of all time. OF ALL TIME.

So I don't care if I'm being culturally sensitive or whatever, but Merry Christmas or whatever reason you have to celebrate this time of year. If you don't have one, FIND ONE, DAMNIT. Winter is depressing enough. BE JOLLY.

I don't have anything drawn/written for this year, but Damnit Jim, I'm a student, not a machine!

I hope that all of you receive the alien gay pron you've been asking Santa for. Funny thing, with this crowd I'm not even joking. WE ALL DESERVE ALIEN GAY PORN, YEAH!

So go one, be jolly.

I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF YOU, GUYS!

--Swing

Today's topic is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first part.

*How awesome was Daniel Radcliffe playing Fleur Delacour?
*How much of a tease was Ginny? «Zip me up?»
*How heartbroken were you by Hermione's first scene before the credits?
*Harry's smooth dance moves. lol.
*Hermione's «Yeah, nice try. Not gonnah happen.» look.
*WHY, OH WHY DID THEY NEED TO BE NAKED?!?
*As a fangirl, were you pleased by the amount of time Dan Radcliffe spent in his underwear?
*On a scale from one to the stars, how HOT was young Gellert Grindewald?
*On a scale from one to please-let-me-live, how eeeeeevil did old Grindewald look next to Voldemort?
*Did you like the animated scene?
*Isn't Harry as his sexiest ever when he stuns Dolores?
*Did you laugh as much as I did during the trailer of Cowboys and aliens?
*«Hi, I'm Bill Weasley. Yeah, been bitten by a werewolf. Nice knowing you.» Seriously?
*Does Snape looks rounder to you? I spent the movie wanting to pinch his cheeks.

Discuss.

Thanks for the inspiration, guys!

It helped a lot to create a character   I toook a bit of this and that, sketched and doodled, and ended up with this concept (backstory not necessary but you know me, I'm a sucker for plot...)

They call him the collectionner. It's a man in his forties, agoraphobic, germaphobic, and completely obsessive compulsive. He never leaves home but he obsessively collects ever scrap of information he can get his hands on: newspapers, tv recordings, recordings from his surveillance cameras pointing outside. Someday, he managed to get a proof of the existence of aliens, something subtle like Zim crashlanding in front of his house in a ball of fire. Now Dib has to get this evidence, but OCD guy doesn't care about aliens, he just likes his stuff COMPLETELY ORGANIZED, so that means NO ONE TOUCHES OR REMOVES a single thing from his home. That means, tough luck, Dibbeh.

Design wise, it's a paranoid guy weearing a bathrobe and slippers. Does he wear pajama pants? It's still in debate. My teacher votes for no, lol. He also added the most disgusting stains on the bathrode


Other than that... WHY AM I NOT ANIMATING THAT STUPID BEAR? I ONLY GOR FOURS HOURS LEFT BEFORE THEY KICK US OUT OF SCHOOL! D:

Getting back to work, I'll probably post my animations on the tube whenever I'm done with this term.




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ALL MY STAR TREK STUFF(drawings, fics, ramblings, etc)  WILL BE POSTED AT MY BRAND NEW LIVEJOURNAL  [link]

I'll keep postiung my drawings here and my fics at ff.net, but there you'll find enverything, plus a couple of fics for the kink meme I haven't posted anywhere else yet. Not everything is updated, I'll get around to do that soon.




Love ya lots, ducklings,

--Swing

See, I have this character design class tomorrow afternoon, and we're studying UPA. I chose Invader Zim as an inspiration (for the style! I swear!) but I need ideas for a new character I'll have to design to fit in the series. I have like, zero ideas and too many other homeworks to complete. So, any suggestions?

(I'd prefer a human, since Irkens tend to all look the same, and I say this in a totally non racist way.)

Love,  busy Swing.

I need to carve it.

Any awesome ideas?



Edit, three hours and a pumpkin covered table later...

Yah, nevermind, I ended up carving an original character. Thanks for the suggestions, though! (And for those who are wondering, that means you, Toki, it's the one with ghosts. Yes, that one. No, I didn't make it slashy. Though there is still time and pumpkins until Halloween.)