You will be fruitful in both the home and business..... in bed.
Lets pretend that I have something substantial to post about.
So I was in a play today (last minute, two line role fill-in for the second production of 'The Unicorn'- we performed for about 100 elementary school kids yaaaay), went out for Chinese with the cast, got invited to the birthday party of someone I hardly know and watched the movie 'Bugsey Malone' with Hannah and Rebecca. I also woke up too early and and went to bed to late and am inordinately tired considering it's not even eight o'clock (or is it? wtf, time flies when you're RUNNING AROUND ALL DAY).
We tipped the waitress at the Chinese food place ten dollars and a plastic sword. XDDD
Except not at all, Sasuke.
But in all seriousness, that shirt is actually very practical. More practical, at least, than having his shirt ripped open in the back everytime he goes into his Curse Seal form. Which is surprising, since the words "Sasuke" and "Practical" are hardly harmonious and almost never synonymous.
As much as shirts that are open in the front inherently bother me (it's very romance novel cover, bleh) (unless Lee was wearing it. I'd fully approve of Lee showing off his chest for no good reason other to be sexy), his outfit is also very late Heian period/early Edo period Samurai. Except that didn't finish getting dressed in the morning (which is completely possible considering he DID just wake up).
Plus he's wearing one of those really stupid rope things, so I have no place to complain. ♥
My favorite part of this chapter probably has to be the fact that Kabuto was all like: "Guh. Sasuke is ALWAYS SO CRANKY when you wake him up. -__-;;" Oh Kabuto, your life is so difficult.
And I can't believe it took me six chapters to notice this, but WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE WALLS IN OROCHIMARU'S HOUSE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING ANYWAYS? They're hideous, I hate looking at them and I'm glad Sasuke flipped out and blew one of them up. I can't think of any other reasons for walls that ugly to exist except that maybe they're meant to drive everyone within them BATSHIT INSANE. I mean, would it kill someone to put a nice painting up every few feet or so? Family portraits?All those apology sweaters Orochimaru knits with his tongue, framed?
... BUT OMGEEE GUYZ WUTS GOING TO HAPEN NEXT!?!?!?!?!?
Also, in the spirit of being a total bitch, I wish that when people entered icontests they would rely a little more on their own icon making skills. There's nothing wrong with using pre-made textures and brushes- in fact, part of being a good icon maker is knowing how to incorporate those two elements into your work. But there are some trends in icon making I wish would just GO THE FUCK AWAY.
Text brushes piss me off the most because, uh, if you're going to enter an icontest you could at least use your OWN phrases. Text placement is one of the most difficult things to master in icon making, but if you don't try, you'll never get better. Also, I can't stand those stupid little 'x's' that everyone puts on their icons. Yeah, yeah they look cool but if you want an 'x' on your brush, you could just draw the damn 'x' yourself. Most of all, I'm irked by those 100x100 "border brushes" which more or less MAKE the icon for you- all you have to do is place a nicely cropped picture in the center of it and mess around with the color options. Granted, I haven't seen many of those in icontests.
It's probably only been pissing me off lately because in the last few months, I've taken to creating literally every aspect of the avatars I make on my own- hell, for the most part I even color them myself. The only place where I kind of cheap out is that I use large, fancy trend brushes to make textures (layer a bunch of colors, and then erase parts of each layer with a design brush).
I probably shouldn't care as much as I do because, honestly, it's impossible to tell when someone's made their own textures or not. Besides, if an icon's good an icon is good (and most of the contest winners make theirs from scratch anyways). I just get irritated when I see people who's icons are obviously only decent because of someone else's hard work (I mean: when you've SEEN that exact same border/brush/song snippet somewhere else from a different iconartist) scrape by those few people who's entries may not be as flashy, but who are obviously trying to improve by their own accord.
Just for the record (for
kunoichi_jaden's sake), this rant has nothing to do with 
naruto_lims. I adore that community, otherwise I wouldn't have done it a second time around. XD It's just something I've noticed recently.
So I was in a play today (last minute, two line role fill-in for the second production of 'The Unicorn'- we performed for about 100 elementary school kids yaaaay), went out for Chinese with the cast, got invited to the birthday party of someone I hardly know and watched the movie 'Bugsey Malone' with Hannah and Rebecca. I also woke up too early and and went to bed to late and am inordinately tired considering it's not even eight o'clock (or is it? wtf, time flies when you're RUNNING AROUND ALL DAY).
We tipped the waitress at the Chinese food place ten dollars and a plastic sword. XDDD
Except not at all, Sasuke.
But in all seriousness, that shirt is actually very practical. More practical, at least, than having his shirt ripped open in the back everytime he goes into his Curse Seal form. Which is surprising, since the words "Sasuke" and "Practical" are hardly harmonious and almost never synonymous.
As much as shirts that are open in the front inherently bother me (it's very romance novel cover, bleh) (unless Lee was wearing it. I'd fully approve of Lee showing off his chest for no good reason other to be sexy), his outfit is also very late Heian period/early Edo period Samurai. Except that didn't finish getting dressed in the morning (which is completely possible considering he DID just wake up).
Plus he's wearing one of those really stupid rope things, so I have no place to complain. ♥
My favorite part of this chapter probably has to be the fact that Kabuto was all like: "Guh. Sasuke is ALWAYS SO CRANKY when you wake him up. -__-;;" Oh Kabuto, your life is so difficult.
And I can't believe it took me six chapters to notice this, but WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE WALLS IN OROCHIMARU'S HOUSE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING ANYWAYS? They're hideous, I hate looking at them and I'm glad Sasuke flipped out and blew one of them up. I can't think of any other reasons for walls that ugly to exist except that maybe they're meant to drive everyone within them BATSHIT INSANE. I mean, would it kill someone to put a nice painting up every few feet or so? Family portraits?
... BUT OMGEEE GUYZ WUTS GOING TO HAPEN NEXT!?!?!?!?!?
Also, in the spirit of being a total bitch, I wish that when people entered icontests they would rely a little more on their own icon making skills. There's nothing wrong with using pre-made textures and brushes- in fact, part of being a good icon maker is knowing how to incorporate those two elements into your work. But there are some trends in icon making I wish would just GO THE FUCK AWAY.
Text brushes piss me off the most because, uh, if you're going to enter an icontest you could at least use your OWN phrases. Text placement is one of the most difficult things to master in icon making, but if you don't try, you'll never get better. Also, I can't stand those stupid little 'x's' that everyone puts on their icons. Yeah, yeah they look cool but if you want an 'x' on your brush, you could just draw the damn 'x' yourself. Most of all, I'm irked by those 100x100 "border brushes" which more or less MAKE the icon for you- all you have to do is place a nicely cropped picture in the center of it and mess around with the color options. Granted, I haven't seen many of those in icontests.
It's probably only been pissing me off lately because in the last few months, I've taken to creating literally every aspect of the avatars I make on my own- hell, for the most part I even color them myself. The only place where I kind of cheap out is that I use large, fancy trend brushes to make textures (layer a bunch of colors, and then erase parts of each layer with a design brush).
I probably shouldn't care as much as I do because, honestly, it's impossible to tell when someone's made their own textures or not. Besides, if an icon's good an icon is good (and most of the contest winners make theirs from scratch anyways). I just get irritated when I see people who's icons are obviously only decent because of someone else's hard work (I mean: when you've SEEN that exact same border/brush/song snippet somewhere else from a different iconartist) scrape by those few people who's entries may not be as flashy, but who are obviously trying to improve by their own accord.
Just for the record (for
kunoichi_jaden's sake), this rant has nothing to do with naruto_lims. I adore that community, otherwise I wouldn't have done it a second time around. XD It's just something I've noticed recently.