So it was recently revealed that the vampire lord Sorin Markov is not pure evil, and is in fact the biggest reason why humanity hasn’t been wiped from the face of Innistrad. What do you call a Planeswalker whose soul is half black mana and half white mana?
Sixten PC #2, aka KOZUE, had been suffering for months. Failing to install drivers, crashing when trying to install updates, not remembering the acceptance of license agreements, and so on. Yesterday morning it finally died. It wouldn’t even boot up Windows, and none of the startup or system recovery options worked. After the manufacturer screen, nothing was left but a blinking white cursor in the upper left corner of a black screen.
The slow deterioration of KOZUE gave me plenty of warning to regularly back up all my stuff, and no blog images, illustrations, comics, saved games, homework, documents, or ripped CDs were lost. Nevertheless, I will be without a home PC until the replacement arrives – Sixten PC #3, aka COBRA.
KOZUE served as my home PC from December 2008 to January 2012, and is the machine on which the birth of my Toho fandom took place. My joining of Pixiv, starting and finishing Fairy Ring, the start of the Magic-based but heavily Toho-flavored Lotus Cobra is Evil, and getting Normal 1CC’s on Imperishable Night, Mountain of Faith, and Subterranean Animism all happened during the KOZUE years. KOZUE was the gateway to Gensokyo.
KOZUE ascended to computer afterlife and joined Sixten PC #1, aka PELLAEON, which served from June 2005 to December 2008. PELLAEON witnessed, among other things, the contract that bound me to J.C.Staff, my decision to draw every day until I became a professional artist, Heart’s Content, my failed collaboration with Jason Miao, and Miao Diary, the doujin that rose from its ashes and was approved by none other than ESTABLISH NECHOES.
Who knows what milestones will be reached with COBRA?
Only time will tell.
Kill Me Baby is about Yasuna, who thinks she’s a high school girl.
What kind of high school girls look like that?
Ah, they’re J.C.Staff girls. That explains everything.
A portrait of Yuka K., Lecturer at the Dornsife College of Letters, at the University of Southern California (USC).
100% accurate, I swear!
Shipping included.
Totally worth it.
While I would say Kantoku and Hanaharu Naruko have better technical skills, and Barasui and Takashi Hashimoto have been more influential to my personal style, I consider Kito to be the best depictor of the moe paradise all artists should aspire to reach.
Thanks to Kira and her extensive network of contacts for locating a copy of this super-rare artbook for me. This is like buying a painting or a rare Magic card, and has been the only opportunity so far, outside of buying the equally hard to find IOSYS albums, for me to get art from my favorite artist that isn’t just an image file.
USC Yuka
(I’ll finish the picture when I get back from Chicago.)
Merry Christmas, everyone!
So I have tickets to go see Lunasa live at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago on March 11, 2012.
Check out Road to Barga or Midnight in Aviles for a sample of the lovely traditional Irish melodies and impeccable violin skills you have come to expect from the name Lunasa.
Lunasa isn’t only about the violin. Glentrasna is a hymn driven by a flute or whistle that makes me recall the Titanic soundtrack, only Titanic’s soundtrack was never this good. Autumn Child has amazing guitar as well. The combination of emotionally moving composition and virtuoso playing is, dare I say, Ericjohnsonian.
The March concert will be the highlight of my next year’s spring break, if not the highlight of the whole year. If you are going to be around Chicago at the time, I highly recommend you get tickets of your own.
See, even Yukari is impressed.
After working two straight weekends in a row I was looking forward to the four-day Thanksgiving weekend. I have a lot to be thankful for, particularly the 12 people, as of today, who have bought copies of Fairy Ring. It’s more than I deserve.
I didn’t meet relatives or have a feast this Thanksgiving (in fact, I lost weight) and the plan was to continue Lotus Cobra is Evil.
But The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim interfered with my plans somewhat.
Anyway, I did manage to get some art done, but no cobras.
Apparently there are some things that I would rather do in my spare time than craft the perfect shield to fend off the impassioned speeches of angry dragons. Work has begun on my new Toho doujin, Guns & Roses. There are no characters on the cover this time around, but there are some subtle hints as to which popular Toho character pairing will be featured in the book.
So we’ve finally reached Innistrad.
The “gimmick” for this horror-themed set is Double-Faced Cards, which have data on both the front and the back of the card, allowing you to flip them to represent a transformation. A human transforms into a werewolf, a vampire transforms into a bat, and a little girl gets possessed by a demon.
For better or worse, the Magic community has been referring to these Double-Faced Cards as “DFCs”.
This is a horror set, right? Well here’s some horror.
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