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Ashley Lindsey
04 December 2009 @ 07:14 pm
Okay my world was just made ALL BETTER by this video:

 
 
Ashley Lindsey
04 December 2009 @ 07:00 pm

After months and months and months of flailing over the promise that was Aion, I have hit an absolute and dead brick wall that made me lose all faith in the game whatsoever.

There's a monthly subscription fee.

Yeah. Suck.

Apparently if you want to play the game (that initially costs $50 to buy in the first damn place) you have to pay $15 bucks every month for the rest of your life and soul that dedicates to that game. That's $180 a YEAR, almost 4 times as much as the game initially costs.

And okay, YES I can understand the defensive side of this argument when people explain they need that money to run the good servers and keep it bot free, but from what I've seen on videos there's really no difference? There's apparently still bots running rampant spamming everyone and it still is not the greatest server reliance. This is word-of-mouth heard directly from current players, videos, AND blog sites about it. Yes, I do my research. So why the fee? Hundreds of thousands of people bought this game with the promise of receiving a revolution in PC gaming, only to be smacked in the face with a monthly fee. That's millions of dollars per week.

I can understand if they are going to put that money into their "Aion Vision of the Future" stuff, but still. That totally just ruined my possibility of buying the game. I'm sorry, but, $15 IS a lot of money to waste on a game every month. In today's economy, that's a lot of money. In the current financial situation 80% of this country that we are experiencing, that is a lot of money. Not everyone has money to just throw out on luxuries every month, and the extra they do get I imagine is spent buying small household needs like a new pair of shoes because you busted up the old ones or getting laundry detergent to wash the clothes or maybe a new toaster because your old one broke (and yes I got personal with that last one haha).

I'm sorry, but I've grown up in an EXTREMELY poor home my entire life haha. My mom taught me the value of extreme frugality, by extension, so I'm very very touchy with where I spend my money. There is value in $1, and while it seems like nothing to any upper-middle class teenager who has been spoiled most of their life and gets their parents to buy them what they want, one dollar is probably the most important thing when I get it. I put it towards the most important thing I need that is my main priority at that time, and usually I end up just hoarding it.

So I totally just went on a money rant there, but you get my point. That's something that's really hard to afford for a big chunk of the population, and considering how much hype they have built over Aion, that is really depressing to run into that big factor that they have failed to openly mention in the past. I probably won't have a chance to ever get to play that game, and if I do--it'd be years from now when I actually have that type of money to spare, and by then I imagine something shinier will come out to draw my attention.

It's just totally crushing to know that I won't be able to play that game, so now I crawl back to my free MMO Perfect World with my tail tucked and hope that their new class Tideborn will be available for everyone to play on December 16th.

Dammit it's expensive being a nerd. 8(

Maybe I should just invest into a gaming system and play video games instead. At least they don't usually have monthly fees. |c But then you don't get the social interaction I so crave that MMOs offer.

Sigh sigh sigh.
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Ashley Lindsey
04 December 2009 @ 01:07 am
I just spent probably three hours sucked into the realm of tvtropes.org as well as http://xkcd.com/ which is the most amazing comic thing since forever.

...It's sad I felt so triumphant when I got some of the nerdier jokes from the comic site.

Woh is me. XD

SO IT'S 1 AM SO I NEED SLEEP TO LEVEL UP MY ENERGY STATS BRB. <3
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Current Mood: Lol Tropes
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
02 December 2009 @ 12:42 am
This made my night. XDDD



I love this movie, and Ronno is totally my favorite so this is gold hahahaah.
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
30 November 2009 @ 10:44 pm
I had a really strong urge to paint something, but since I'm so sick I knew I couldn't spend more than thirty quick minutes on it. I don't think it's been that long.

Random painted crap under here )

This was just for fun. Something to fiddle with just to see how the action filters work with drawings and digital paintings as opposed to photography. Some of the filters are amazzziinnggg when combined with the right artwork. This one took two different filters along with some of my own fine-tuning with the colors to achieve such a pretty result. The original wasn't nearly as cool looking.

Anyway.

Going to try and start integrating these filters slightly into my future digital artwork to improve their clarity and whatnot. It's fun seeing the different styles you can get from a simple action filter. <3

I almost got won out over this amazing vintage brown sepia effect filter that I had on my actions list that looked so AMAZING, but this one won my heart in the end. I like the blue tones and glow.

Okay argh my body is like "You jerk" so I need to go crawl back into the confines of my bed now and sleep off this headache slkfhsldkfh butt butt butt butt.
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Current Music: "Careless Whisper" - Seether
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
25 November 2009 @ 10:10 pm


Virtual hard-on from this game?


I THINK SO.

FFFFF I STILL WANT IT SO HARDCORE I AM DYING HERE ARGHARGHARGH SLDKFHSDLFKHSLKDF.

This makes me want to cry srsly.

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Okay for other gamer nerds out there I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS? About Aion. I've heard around the streets (lolol) that apparently this isn't a good game for soloing? Is that true? Because I'm sort of screwed because I SUCK with socialization in games.

I'm like a Codex from The Guild webseries, except I don't have a guild. ;___; That being said, is anyone else planning on buying Aion or already has it? I need connections haha if I AM going to play, and I'd like to find myself a group. I actually sort of hate that faction crap because I don't like being part of "clubs" really. It feels weird, and I'm a loner type of gamer, so I want the option to progress thoroughly on my own. I like the self-satisfaction of getting shit done by myself haha. Relying on others to win the game for me isn't my thing. But if it's near-impossible to level at some point due to being a solo-er, I'd like to figure out a way to get into the community and find groups to guild with.

Man why can't they make guilding easier in MMOs. Plus I'm talking like I already have the game sheesh. It'll be a long time before I have the money to spend on it and/or am WILLING to, because $50 bucks is HONESTLY a shitload of cash for me to fork out. I barely have a net of over $30 bucks right now, and that's probably going to pay for my stupid server bill in February which makes me sob a little bit because I've spent MONTHS earning that amount. Isn't that sad? God I'm such a broke person. I NEED A JOB LSADFKHSLDKFHSLKFHSLDF.

ANYWAY.

AION. YEAH. THE GAME IS AMAZING. I shall have it eventually.

Also, if it IS possible to survive the game as a soloist, anyone have any suggestions for the best class to solo with? Personally, after seeing the new trailer, I AM SHITBALLS HEADING FOR SPIRIT MASTER KAY? Taming your own mounts is WICKED AMAZING I would die a thousand times and shit a brick for that kind of stuff. lsdfkhsdlfhsf. <3 Ugh noms.

.....Yeah I'm a nerd.
 
 
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Ashley Lindsey
25 November 2009 @ 09:31 pm

So I went to my chiropractor/nutritionist/doctor today, and I thought I should give you guys some more info about her, because I think a lot of people assume when I say "chiropractor" I mean "oh that lady who cracks my neck for me."

Actually no haha.

Her full title is a Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractor, and from what I read/heard, there's around only 250 in the entire nation lol. That shocked me a little. ANYWAY.

To put it simply what she does, here is a quote from an Atlas website:

"The Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic Technique is an upper-cervical, spinal-corrective procedure that is intended to restore a person’s balance and stimulate the natural-healing capabilities normally present in the body. Unlike other chiropractic procedures, there’s no twisting or cracking involved. Besides correcting spinal issues, the Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic Technique is said to help with a full range of other conditions, including, but not limited to, arthritis, migraine headaches, asthma, and fibromyalgia."


You can see the full article here, which is actually super interesting to read. Basically I don't slush them in with "chiropractors", because they don't just crack your back and open up your discs, they re-align bones in your back and neck to work properly.

Now, I tried to find videos that showed what they did, but I think it's funny the ONLY thing they show is the harmless big Atlas machine that clicks under your ear. (Seen here ) I wanted to find one of them using the friggen GUN on someone. I call it a gun, because I don't know the actual name. Here's a picture of sort-of what it looks like, except you can change out the tops like an electric screwdriver:



Okay, so let me tell you--if you try and look this thing up to see it in action on youtube? You ain't gonna find it lol. I tried, and the only video they had was the retarded gentle cousin of this thing, called the "percussor", which is shit compared to the gun that rapes your spine a little whenever the doctor uses it. But it is good for you, sadly haha. Hurts like hell.

Basically what it does it rapid punching over and over, like a spring, except its a solid metal rod (or teeth one, like in the picture) and it clicks really hard and really fast rapidly for about one or two seconds into whatever place the doctor jams it into.

When my doctor, Dr. Crafton, does it on my back, she uses the teeth one (from the picture), and places it on either side of my spinal cord, pushes it in a good bit once she finds the correct spot, and clicks the gun once or twice to release the rapid raping until she feels satisfied my bones have been successfully falconpunched haha. LET ME TELL YOU--when it gets to the upper back and neck with that thing? HOLY SHIYAT. OW.

OW.

I can handle pain, but it hurts so bad haha. She actually tells you to take a deep breath each time and hold onto the table when she does it because literally, if you don't, you'll probably yell or scream haha.

Today was the WORST I've had in a long, long time. She had to use the rod one on me, which is the single, metal rod of doom that gets stuck into the side of your neck. ;__; Like dis:



Except the rod is bigger and scarier and could be used as a rape device if in the wrong hands ANYWAY. I've said rape too many times okay I'm stopping now. This gem is used for the side of the neck, and you sit up. I think I wanted to die when Dr. Crafton said I needed to sit up and put her hand on the other side of the neck and picked up the gun because I KNEW WHAT WAS COMING. Side of the neck is, by far, the most painful form of the gun adjustment I've ever had. And she had to shoot me TWICE with it. ;____;

I love that she isn't afraid to absolutely JAM it in there and basically puts me in a chokehold so I don't flinch when she clicks the gun haha. I wasn't being sarcastic either. My doctor is amazing, and kind of sadistic too so I get along with her really well. cx She's super hyper and funny and it's awesome because it's like hanging out with a teenager while I'm there. And I'm there for a long time every time I go.

I was there for SIX HOURS today. Six straight hours. Most of my time was spent under the beam ray machine (about three hours) but that didn't bother me because I just got to sit in the big squishy chair and work on Black Dawn while I was doing that. I can't really explain the beam ray, you just have to read the article. It's a really weird method, and I'm not even sure if it works, I just know whatever my doctor is doing is helping me a lot haha.

I also had to sit in their "sauna" for an hour, which is actually a wooden box that isn't made for chlostrophobic people like me and has these oven panels inside (yes I'm serious like ACTUAL oven panels that heat up the inside of an oven) that were so hot at one point I FELT the heat going over my skin in waves. And no, it wasn't humidified. It was one of those dry-heat-wave saunas that you can't hardly breathe in because the air is too dry and hot to breath in. ;___; I pretended I was surviving in a desert to try and pass the time haha because it was so cramped and I got so overheated I was losing mah mind. I actually don't really sweat, hence why I almost passed out more than once and had to open the door for about ten seconds every ten to fifteen minutes.

I told her that I didn't really sweat after I got out of there, which I didn't, so she put me on their toxin foot bath, because the point of the sauna was because she wanted to try and sweat some toxins out of my body since my mom told her about me being really sick lately and unable to eat. The foot bath was so groce omg haha. Smelled like hotdogs and looked like sewage water and the whole time I was like "8[[[[ MY FEET ARE IN THIS CAN I REMOVE NOW PLZ? 8CC" and my mom was just dying of laughter over the whole thing.

The actual adjustment session didn't last longer than twenty minutes haha then she wanted me to get on the TurboSonic, which always makes me ridiculously embarrassed because my boobs don't like defying gravity haha so I'm like...clutching my chest fervently the entire time while my mom laughs. ;___;

OH AND HEY my mom told my doctor about the seizure episodes, which I kinda didn't want her to because I wasn't really sure if I'd actually had them and I even told her I believed it was during sleep paralysis, but she told me she believes I had actual seizures, especially considering I had a really really bad headache yesterday all day after my seizure from my supposed "dream" even though it felt like I was already awake. So I was like "So I'm having seizures in my sleep now too? 8CCCC" so I'm actually gonna go see a Neurologist soon so they can make sure I don't have like...a brain tumor or something OH LOL THAT WOULD BE JUST PERFECT. ;A;

So yeah, apparently I had real seizures. 8___8 Which is a little frightening. She was absolutely serious when she told my mom don't leave me alone anymore, and check on me at night now so I don't like...die or something from a bad seizure. So I'm like "LOL OKAY THAT'S GOOD ;__;" haha but that's just sort of weird and freaky to me I never really thought about that. She said there's a number of reasons I could be having them, especially if I have built-up toxins, hence the foot-bath and sauna today which sounds like heaven but was HELL ON EARTH lol. Not quite.

Just rly uncomfortable. ;__; That desert sauna was 120 degrees aurgh. So blazing dry heat ass hot.

Oh and p.s. my lower back has been killing me and started hurting so bad on the TurboSonic we had to turn down the intensity to friggen TEN it was so bad. It's still sore.

Personally I'm surprised she didn't do any lower-back gun adjustments today, but I think next week she will. lsfhslkdfh I also drank some slightly weird tea that was kind of nasty but not horrible that she made me drink while I was in the beam ray room for three hours to help my digestion and now I'm back on these acid/MMS drops with my cranberry juice everyday along with the probiotics my mom wants me to drink and the plethora of medications I've been prescribed to help with food digestion and stomach problems and uhhh something about sleeping and then ontop of that whenever I need to take any of my pain medicines for my headaches and stomach pains. XD

God you'd think I'm an addict with all the medications I take blargh. Oh and my mom wants me to drink that icky tea every day that my doctor made me drink today. ;__; I'm s'pose to ANYWAY, but I get nervous taking medications of the same origin ALL at the same time all at once I don't want to die from overdose or something. :[ My mom doesn't think I will but I'm like "I'M TAKING LIKE 5 MEDICINES THAT ARE FOR THE SAME THING WON'T THIS BE DANGEROUS?" and she's like "lolnohunny OF COURSE THEY AREN'T just take them because I said so"

I secretly swap them out and take one set every other day because it makes me feel less afraid of dying on accident. ;___; That would suck. ass.

Oh and p.s. going to my dad's this weekend. C8

P.P.S.
I TOTALLY FORGOT TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU GUYS LDSHFLSKHFLSKH I MADE SOMETHING.



MY VERY FIRST OFFICIAL SIMS 3 MACHINIMA ISN'T IS AWESOME? I'VE SPENT SO MUCH TIME ON IT OMG AND I'M SO HAPPY AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M STILL CAPSING SO BYE.

So yeah also I got lost in downtown Mobile (which is a scary place LET ME TELL YOU) with my mom spending two hours looking for the stupid Medicaid building which was at the LOCAL MEDICAL OFFICE THE ENTIRE TIME then three hours at Wal-mart then about an hour cleaning the kitchen and doing crap around the house once we got home.

AND NOW I'M HERE. Okay sorry I totally just TL;DR'd you guys SO HARD. ;__; I'm boring and lame, I know.

Ily guys I'mma go pass out now haha. Been a loooonngggg day. slfshdlf I also rented Inkheart from the Redbox because I ONLY SAW THE CRAPPY CAM-QUALITY VERSION ON YOUR LOCAL FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIE HAXZOR SITE and I'd like to see Dustfinger's amazingness in high-def, thank you.

*flail*
 
 
Current Mood: A bit Hyper
Current Music: OMNOMNOM
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
23 November 2009 @ 03:06 am
So then I was like...


No, Ashley. It's 3 am.

Despite the fact your room smells like a pony and old bread and ketchup you should go to sleep because it's good for you.

Except that it wastes time.

Dammit.
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
22 November 2009 @ 04:12 am
This was a fart, I promise you.

i pooted out some arts for yu gaiz )

Yeah this is what happens when I watch something cheesy and sort of romantic with too many shirtless menz.

Little bit of a sugary sweet overload via the soul. RAURGH I NEEDZ VIOLENCE.

*malfunctions*

I partially blame this damned song.
 
 
Current Music: "Don't Look Down (Acoustic)" by Michael Johns
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
22 November 2009 @ 01:21 am
...The point when Jacob took off his entire SHIRT to wipe a small bleeding scrape on Bella's head is when I started CRYING from laughing so hard.

Oh. My. God.




........FFFFFFFFFFFF XD! This has broken my soul from the amount of lulz.


p.s.
Bella is still a buttfaced jerk because she backhands everyone that loves her. And no I'm not including Edward in that list, kthnx.

Oh and yeah, I'm watching New Moon.

Online.

What did you think I was gonna pay for that crap? PSSSHH YOU CRAYZEE HAHA.
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
21 November 2009 @ 02:54 pm
I took this yesterday after a lot of shitstorm I went through to fix the game. It was continuously crashing and the patches I updated on it completely broke the game so I had to reinstall it twice and start over, then ended up going through my package files one by one to see which one was screwing me over. If you've played Sims 2 or Sims 3, you KNOW how long checking package files takes. You take out a handful, you refresh the caches, and start up the game. If it loads without crashing, you exit the game, add a few more package files, clear the cache again, and start back up the game. Rinse, cycle, repeat. You do this until you find a bad batch that makes it crash, and even then you have to check each file out of that batch one-by-one until you find the faulty files. Sometimes its one, sometimes its five. Sometimes its a lot more.

I found two hair files of the same creator that were crashing my game. It's been running perfectly ever since.



My only complaint other than spending five-billion hours fixing this stupid game (along with checking the package files, I initially assumed it was my cracked patches that I'd spent 3 hours searching, finding, and downloading so I ended up completely deleting the game and reinstalling it three or four times) is the fact I wasted my effort re-installing a cracked ISO version of Sims 3.

Let me tell you installing a game into a fake mounted ISO without patches IS NOT A NICE THING. :C It took me a lot of patience. Anyway.

I'm glad I didn't give up, because I really really enjoy this game now that I have all my hack sliders installed. (hips, butt, height, head size, boobs, waist, ear--for elf-ears, and many more) I really like that the Delphy slider hack lets me exaggerate features too.

Oh modders, how I adore thee.
 
 
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Ashley Lindsey
21 November 2009 @ 02:14 pm
I've got a few of my pre-editors for Black Dawn down-pact so far, and generally just trying to organize them here for reference. :] I decided I won't do a public announcement to call for any more editors on Deviantart, because then I'd be swarmed by BD-fan watchers who just want to read the story and I'm not sure I could trust a stranger with reading my stuff. :[[[

So!

I'm just going to approach my close friends I would like to read it and ask if they want to. So far I'm excited that I have three people so far who have said they will look over my stuff! *glee* I think it helps I'm asking them each to do something different, that way I can get outside opinions on all aspects of the book. So here goes my list so far *deep breath* --

Dana/Lemms - General critique, grammar review, etc.
Robert/Daos - Technical review and suggestions
Calley/Qua - General story and character review
------- - Another general critique, grammar, etc.

So far that's all I really want atm. I don't want to spoil the story for too many people, and a few of these people I believe don't even have to read the whole story if they don't want to. My big-job people are probably going to be the general critiquers--the honest-to-goodness editors who will tear apart all aspects of the book's format, content, style, grammar, and writing in general. Hence why I wanted two of those, because I want two separate literary opinions on the quality of the book. Also why I am looking and picking people who I believe will tear apart the book unbiased and be honest with me rofl.

I have in mind who I want for the other editor, but I'm not sure if she'll have the time to read the story or wants to spoil it, and I think she knows who she is haha. Otherwise I'll maybe get another male reader, because I kind of want an equal amount of gender for reading so I get a female AND male opinion on the story.

...Maybe I should get another general story/character reviewer for that. 80 HMMMM DECISIONS DECISIONS.

..I'll probably ask my bro anyway haha. Which means I'll need to give him a printed copy CRAP I don't have that much free ink. ;____; slfhlkfhs.

I'll figure something out.
 
 
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAARRR~ (I blame Calley :c)
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
19 November 2009 @ 11:32 pm
Hahahahaha I love the attitudes of some of the Sims 3 hacker-gods of the online world rofl.

I've been perusing recently for some game hacks and CC to make it a little more bearable, and recently stumbled across "AwesomeMod", which is possibly THE most appropriate name for it haha. It does so much shit the guy needed two separate documents to list it all.

I think it's the humor in the lists that get me rofl'ing though--

GAMEPLAY FEATURES: Objects & Object Usage
1. No Idiotic Time Restrictions on Cooking
Can cook any meal anytime you damn well please.
2. Smarter Chair Selection [Optional - Default: Enabled]
No more 80-mile hikes for bizarre chairs. More TS2-like behavior for
seeking chairs in current room vs. chairs on other end of lot.
3. Books Are Not Magic Scrolls [Optional - Default Enabled]
Books do not disintegrate after reading.


I think I mostly died on the magic scroll one hahahaha because it's SO TRUE. Lolol. I just don't understand some of the Sims things they have. This is supposed to be a simulation game right? Then why is it so weird/unrealistic. X]

I DON'T RLY THINK WE HAVE CENSOR PIXELS ON OUR PRIVATES WHEN HE GET NAKED, KTHNX.

That and I'm PRETTY certain I've never heard of magical hearts appearing and fluttering down ever-so-gently onto a bed when two people "get it on" lol. Some of the Sims stuff has always and will continue perplexing and making me die a little bit from how ridiculous they are.

I think the most irritating thing I can think of right now is how they make A MILE TREK ACROSS THE LOT when there is a perfectly decent doorway 0.5 inches away. What. :|

Okay so BEST MOD EVER FROM THIS THING:

18. "falconpunch []": Makes target sim unpregnant.


BRB DYING FOR ETERNITY LOLOLOL. <3
 
 
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Day 5" Explosions in the Sky
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
17 November 2009 @ 03:37 pm

So okay I've been wondering for a while now about Stephenie Meyer, guys. Believe it or not, I'm wondering to myself constantly "does she know about the anti-twilight people?" From my knowledge she's been a stay-at-home mom, and judging by the majority of people who constantly scream their indifference and irritated tendencies (myself included sometimes..quietly lol), I'm wondering if she's noticed at this point.

And I felt bad for a little while. I'm wondering if she DOES know, is it getting to her? Is she upset by all the blogs online and websites dedicated to hating her books? I feel bad sometimes, because while, yes, her books really are not well-written or well-thought-out at all, she's said over and over she did it for herself, and it just so happened to get famous. It only sucks for the real readers and writers out there who get annoyed because poorly-written literature like that becomes famous, and it bothers people who know good writing from bad writing.

I've said some mean things in the past that I probably shouldn't have, because I can get caught up in my irritation. I've worked for six years on my own story, and seeing something like Twilight get published almost immediately after being written makes me upset. On top of that, the fact she wrote the first book, Twilight, in three months makes me really, really irritated, because so many young girls probably look to her now as inspiration and writing advice and... to be honest. She's not a good person to ask for writing advice. Clearly.

Anyway, getting that out of the way, I've been looking up her websites and interviews just to see if anyone has approached her and asked about the anti-fans out there. Haven't come across anything yet, but BACK to my thoughts.

I'm on the homestretch for my first novel in my series, after six long, agonizing years of working on it, I'm almost completely done with the rough copy of my book, and you don't even know how excited that makes me. I have constant anxiety attacks because I'm SO afraid someone will come out with a pirate series before me and become famous, and by the time I get mine out I'll be called a copycat. Even if I tell everyone I've been writing it for six years, most if not all will ignore this. It's a constant stomach-clencher for me.

On top of that if I get famous (which I'm hoping for. Not because I want fame, but because I want a lot of people to see my story.) I'm worried how I'll be seen in the public eye. I've noticed it's sort of an ungiven "no no" for really well-known people to be on the internet scene, and I'm all over the friggen' place haha. I think retarded stuff like "what happens if I get famous and everyone discovers my internet alias, Tysandri? Then they'll know everything about me." and that makes me worried.

I'm wondering if/when I get my books out and they get really well-known, will I need to shut down my accounts? Clean out stuff and delete anything that could compromise me? Also--would I get in trouble for having so much stuff already posted about Black Dawn online for everyone to see if it gets published? Would I need to take down all my BD artwork? I don't know if I could handle that. Black Dawn artwork is my soul food. That's what I do, and I love to share it with people.

I guess when the time comes I can ask my literary agent about all these things.

I'm also realizing I'll need a cellphone before I send out this stuff to a literary agent, because they have to have a phone they can get in contact with me at ALL times. Not just when I'm at my house and have the house phone. So my main priority has become to save for a cellphone service plan. I have a cellphone, just no service. I guess I'm stuck a little bit.

I think about so, so much that I have to and need to have done before publishing or anything like that. Everything has to be aligned right to set up for this, and I'm getting panicky. I'm going to possibly have Black Dawn finished before the end of this month guys. I have effing seven chapters left to write, and considering I can spit out 3 chapters a DAY, that's going to be before the end of this week possibly. After that all that's left is the editing stage, which may or may not take a while depending on how picky I am. I'm also going to look for one or two very, very trustworthy people that I REALLY respect for their literary/writing opinions, and have them read the first book, and tell me everything and anything they think about it, and what I can do to improve it.

Since my closest friends read my journal, I think you know who you are--if you want to do this, please please let me know now. I'm going to be putting up a public Deviantart entry soon asking someone to read my story, unbiased, and be honest with their opinions, chapter by chapter. It'll be a real job, one I sadly don't have money to pay, so I'm going to ask people who wouldn't mind doing me the favor as a friend, but I want them to be very, very critical. I need this book to be the BEST it can be before I send it off to a literary agent, which means it needs to be torn apart in the critic department before I publish it. My BIGGEST nightmare is that I'll have it published, and six months down the road I'll realize how much crap I could have fixed and made better and do a million headdesks at my own stupidity. I can't mess this up guys, this is my baby. This is my life. My project for my entire life.

Hence why I've been working it over for six years now.

Oh and in explanation to the title, I read this quote from Stephenie Meyer's Bio on her website:

Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an "ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults," an Amazon.com "Best Book of the Decade...So Far", and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.


fffff NOT FOR LONG!~

..I think it's really awesome/sweet that all my family and friends don't say they hope I become famous, all they say (I'm not even kidding) is stuff like "I can't wait until you're famous" or "When you're famous send me money okay? c8"

cx sdlfkhsdf For all their faults, my family has probably been the BIGGEST support over my book series through the years, especially my mom. She will sit in the car and listen to me rant and ramble about the most tedious backstories to minor characters to tell me what she thinks, and she's sat for two hours before while I went over technical details to the setting and time era for the book because she wants to help me that much. I really love her for that; she's been so supportive of Black Dawn, and never once told me I couldn't do it.

I still find it loltastic she talks about Aidan as if he were a real person, the same way I do. CX My whole family does haha; we're crazy like that. FYI my mom tooooottalllyy has a huge crush on Aidan like you wouldn't BELIEVE. It's insane.

p.s.
I so got to the first kiss scene with Dawn and Aidan today omg I think I flipped a lid because I was so excited. IT TOOK 90% OF THE BOOK TO GET TO THIS PART DAMMIT. AUGH. Solame.

Just you watch I will ruin it with sad.

But yeah just for the record I discovered I don't...hate Stephenie. In fact she seems like a real sweet woman, it's just it's a small fault that she wrote a cheesy romance that became famous haha. I rather feel sympathy for her for having to deal with all this crap every day and still support her characters and story like her children. That's love. If I met her I'd probably greet her happily as a fellow author. I respect passion for writing, not the quality, no matter how badly written it is haha.
 
 
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Ashley Lindsey
15 November 2009 @ 04:14 am
This made my night.



This entire series is BLOWING MY MIND.

Best. Joker. Ever.

Never seen a better impersonator.
 
 
Ashley Lindsey
15 November 2009 @ 02:23 am

So by happenstance today I decided to browse the "Animation" category, and pick a random film to look at and see if it was worth watching. Upon my inquiring, I came across a stop-animation (claymation) film called Mary and Max. I told myself it'd probably be pointless like 90% of the other random animation junk they have displayed by generic brands.

I was shocked within the first five minutes.

Spoilers and Review Ahoy~! )

An absolutely touching story, and in the words of some comments on the movie page:

".. twisted , funny , hilarious & heartwarming yet make you think about yourself & others you met in life .. a real friendship like that is so rare but sad but beautiful - make you appreciate the little things in life .."

"a rare gem; deep, dark, funny & sad."

One of the most insightful and surprising movies I've seen, and definitely a dark and dramatic movie. 9/10 for sheer good quality and showing the raw brutality of human truth. Only 9 because the claymation wasn't as smooth as it could have been, but then again claymation is a bitch to do. I would cry harder if this was a live-action movie. It would be amazing. Definitely recommend.
 
 
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Ashley Lindsey
14 November 2009 @ 07:08 pm


FFFF Stillllll buzzing with super excitement! One of the best faire/convention/festival things I've EVER been to next to the International Food Festival I've been going to for the past couple of years.

I've never been to a Ren Faire before, so this was a completely new experience. Went in blind, and gotta say: I fell in LOVE. One of the best things I've ever done.

The pictures speak for themselves! Along with Annotations )

At the end of a very long day I sat reminiscing in the car, and as a finale took a picture of the gorgeous sunset outside.


It's interesting how sunsets are always prettier in cold weather.
 
 
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Ashley Lindsey
13 November 2009 @ 02:04 am
My sweetheart, at his finest yesterday <3



This man is my heart and soul. ;A;

...Plus that had to be the cutest inquisitive brow-raise I've ever seen haha. He didn't get why I was so infatuated with taking B&W pictures of him. CX

P.S. Yes his hair is back in a ponytail haha. I love fixing it for him. Gives me an excuse to play with his hair. cx



You don't wanna see the rest of this fluff. )

Gotta be the coolest photograph of arms gripping a pillow ever. I made it look epic with a camera tilt haha. This might even actually make it onto my Photography account it turned out so well.
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Ashley Lindsey
10 November 2009 @ 12:30 pm


And a lot of my patience, too, but I finally got Sims 3 running after fixing some errors including messed up patches that came in the folder and faulty ISO mounting on my part. Anyway.

I'm currently running Sims 3 on the basic patch with the extra downloads that came with the folder (some from the Sims main store and others from TSR), which I gotta say was awesome because the defaults were absolutely scanty and in-between (some of those hairstyles I don't even understand).

Anyway, on to my harshened review.

I want to say first off I'm really, really disappointed. I'm confused, as well, because you'd think having a completely new version and upgrade of an old game would merit some form of absurd differences, but it doesn't.

Glad I didn't waste $50 on this tripe.

In fact, it's safe to say it's a downgrade, from my hours of looking through it last night. They tried to cover up this big wound by taping over a happy sticky via fancy lack of loading screens and pretty new personality traits for your Sims so you won't see, but the gaping hole is still there. I think I'm most irritated about one singular thing:

They took away Body Shop.

Not only can you no longer individually package and customize branded Sims, you can't have your Body Shop to make them unique. I was in-game looking for more sliders (under the chin, forehead depth, weight of the jaw, neck length, etc.) when I realized hey they don't have them, so I naturally assumed they should have a Body Shop located somewhere in the Sims 3 folder.

False.

You can imagine I was pissed, because the in-game customizations still offered only 1/4 of the customizations Body Shop offered. I'm angry all my Sims look exactly the same if you take away all hair, clothes, and accessories. They look downright cloned. And that irritates me.

When the previous version of the game tops the new one in that short amount of time, something is seriously, seriously wrong.

Look at the severe upgrade differences from Sims 1 to Sims 2. There is a clear and definite improvement there. With Sims 3 I'm thinking they just did this to pull a cash-cow stunt and make more money. There is nothing better about Sims 3 other than some ridiculous magic tricks to make you think it's better. On top of that Movie Makers (like myself) have a doubly hard time trying to get through the damn game with half of our modding cheats gone from the system.

I have the current list printed out, but it lacks 50% of what I used before.

The only real positives I could possibly derive from this game are a scanty few, but I will name them nonetheless because regardless of my bitching, I still love Sims (Sims 3 included):

-No more loading screens. That had to be one of the best things about it. On top of that everything still continued going on while some of my Sims were out and about.

(ex: Jimmy and Dawn--yes I made BD Sims who else would I make?--went out for a walk in the park and a tour of the local Theater while Aidan stayed at home chatting with local single women online and being a general charming idiot while running around the house in his underwear. I like knowing they still actually exist and live even when I'm not looking--feels a lot less like controlling inanimate puppets now.)

-Sims act 2% more like living, breathing humans.

(ex: I thought this would be the same old babysitting, puppeteer tripe but it actually was a lot easier to just sit back and watch now. They acted as I'd hoped they would, and interacted exactly how I pictured they should. Also, the relationship thing was absolutely amazing--the fact that the Sims could subconsciously fall in love with only certain people blew me away. I watched Jimmy cuddle and smooch with Dawn on the couch at some point, yet they never developed crushes, they merely stayed BFFs. Then later on Dawn was talking to Aidan when he suddenly just kissed her and she instantly developed a romantic interest in him. This was after Dawn went out a million times with Jimmy and flirted and talked and laughed and even kissed him. Aidan barely even talked to her. Talk about irony, but I was amazed she literally made that choice for herself. That and the fact I could see visible uncomfortableness even after she accepted some forms of affection, because one of her traits is non-flirty, but counteracting that is her trait of "hopeless romantic", so while she hates anything that involves physical contact, she craves the emotional attachment and butterflies behind it. It's really cool.)

-This brings me to another positive points--the traits.

(ex: their traits literally project them to make conscious choices of their own, and act a certain way because of their personality. I was literally flipping my lid at this aspect, because I had Dawn, Jimmy, and Aidan all in a household together, and they were all so DIFFERENT you could see the visible personality differences. Jimmy is a very clean person, so I'd often find him walking around and picking up dishes, taking out the trash, cleaning counters, etc. while Dawn would go find the most empty room in the house and sit there by herself--her trait of being a loner--and would get super uncomfortable when there were 3 or more people in the same room with her. I think one of the BEST examples/instances I ran into was the shower incident. Dawn and Jimmy both would just jump in the shower, clean off, and jump out, but ohohoho not Aidan. One morning I was completely ENTHRALLED with the image of watching Jimmy and Dawn eat waffles at the table--read: not really--and since the bathroom is right beside the dining room, I could see Aidan going to take a shower. I thought nothing of it, until he started singing in the shower. I think I died laughing for a good five minutes while listening to him sing in the shower, it was truly amazing. Other example incidents would be like when he goes to change, sometimes he can't get the dresser drawer out and he actually falls over when it gets stuck and he loses his grip. Little things like that truly made it worth it.)

-The relationships progress like real freaking relationships

(ex: no longer can you just make them makeout 3 times and instantly they are "going steady". They behave very human-like now, and no matter how many times a Sims talks to another, they will not irritatingly fall in love with them without your consent just because they talk to each other a lot. Even if they start kissing, they still might not develop a crush on the person! It depends on literal Sims chemistry--if they truly do not see the other person as a choice, they won't develop a crush on them, no matter how many times they make out. This may or may not be true, but from what I've witnessed, it's true. An example of how the dynamics of relationships work--after Dawn developed a crush on Aidan, she went and cuddled up on the couch to watch a movie with Jimmy, who she still has no romantic interest in. I forgot to keep an eye on Aidan, so when he walked into the room I can honestly say I could see the shock, anger, and hurt mixed in his expressions. Rather than the retarded "I beat your face forever now" reaction that happens in this exact situation in Sims 2, he turned around, went back into the other room, and cried a bit in private while trying to avoid Dawn lol. I thought that was interesting. Dawn came in later and apologized for upsetting him and his negative mood of "betrayal" went away. That was really cool.)

-You have to actually upkeep everything in the house for it to be functionable.

(ex: I like that the oven got super dirty after Dawn made waffles one morning, and you could SEE the caked-on grime inside the oven after she used it a bunch of times! On top of that the fridge actually is stocked according to numbers, so you have to literally keep the groceries in there if you want certain foods--or any foods at all. If you want spaghetti, you better have tomatoes stocked in your fridge. If you want PB and J sandwiches, you better have apples to make jam. I loved those different aspects--also that cheaper toilets literally are cheaper toilets. BD household's constantly gets clogged and dirty all the time lol because it's a crappy toilet. And I think--although I'm not sure--if you don't pay your bills your showers have a higher chance of being cold. Dawn took a shower two mornings after they received bills annddd apparently she was upset because it was freezing cold. Lol. I would love to see what happens if you don't pay them at all--do the lights go out and the food goes bad in the fridge? If so, that would be wicked.)

-You don't feel trapped in a single world anymore

(ex: this is probably the biggest aspect, but truly--I didn't feel like my Sims were so isolated anymore. Every time I walked outside the front door, I saw my neighbors next door going in and out of their house, and sometimes walking past us on the sidewalk. I'd see the father walking in with his baby, and them leaving to go somewhere. It was really honestly so cool. When I drove them to community lots, there were people there acting on their own accord. When Jimmy and Dawn went to the park, a family showed up and their daughter started playing guitar in the middle of the lawn while her family stood and watched--well some, anyway. Her father wandered off to go talk to some chick haha. I really liked the community aspect. Another example is the bitchin' community events they have that you can attend. Aidan got to participate in an eating contest at the local diner, but didn't win or anything because he got too full CX. Afterward he drowned himself out in some complimentary drinks haha. So Aidan.)

So yeah, there are a bunch of things I liked. Of course the graphics are better too--not speaking of the Sims in comparison to the Sims 2 custom content peeps--but more so the environment. The trees rustled at night, there's a starscape over the horizon at night, you can literally see the different lights of day, and the lighting in general is 10x more realistic. The houses are unreal inside. I remember when I went to edit the "guest bedroom" of the BD household at night while they were all asleep, and I set up this lamp on a table, and instantly the room lit up in a small glow from that lamp in just the section it was in. I was astounded because it looked so realistic and pretty. I loved how it made the room glow. I like that at night there's a moonlight glow outside, and then right before the sunrises you can see the different colors of dusk to dawn.

So after all that positive-ness, of course there's room for more negativity. The things I did not like, aside from the obvious "ZOMG NO BODY SHOP !!!111ONEZ" are of the following:

-No pets. C'mon people? Aside from the fishbowl, I REALLY think the Pets expansion from Sims 2 was your best expansion, yet you don't include that aspect in the Sims 3? Lame.

-No visiting other houses while on a lot. This honestly....sucks. For paying so much attention to letting the Sims explore their surroundings, they sure took away a lot when they didn't allow you to walk next door and visit your neighbor's house.

-You aren't allowed inside a lot of the "community lots". Aka the special ones you aren't allowed to edit upon, like the Theater, and the diner, and the juice shop. You can't go in more than half of the stores anymore, you just see your Sims go inside and--if its a buying store--a menu pops up, and if it's not you just sit there and stand outside waiting like some idiot while your Sims are inside. And no, there is truly no "inside" because you can't see inside. At least in Sims 2 all community lots were interactive and you got to see everyone else inside the building and what it looked like. This was a major downfall in my opinion. Way to make it more stimulating, Sims team.

-Hard to interact with NPCs. I dunno if this was just the one I encountered, but the first night my Sims went to sleep in their new house, a burglar showed up. Dawn was first to brave the waters and ran outside to go beat the girl down, but apparently she got her ass kicked and didn't try again, because the burglar just waltzed inside and sat down and started watching the TV. MY next literal 15 minutes were spent trying to tell the stupid burglar chick "Don't do that" because it was THE ONLY FREAKING OPTION GIVEN. Of course she didn't listen. She just kept walking around and turned on all our electronics and made a fracking huge racket so my Sims couldn't go back to sleep. At this time, I didn't know how to activate the testingcheats so they were all about to pass out. I spent a good ten minutes of my time following this burglar around, constantly turning back off the tvs and radios, and trying to get my Sims to stop freaking out about the burglar long enough to go back to sleep. Every time I managed to get them to lay down, though, they hopped back up and jumped around and freaked out about the burglar AGAIN. I finally figured out to try and call the police, which scared her off, but MAN was I pissed I had to waste that much time and effort on that stupid girl. Later Aidan called up the chick on the phone, who was apparently named Julie, and lolol they went out on a date. :|

I could probably gripe about a lot more that I didn't like, but overall, even after 3 hours I was still playing so that's a sign it's tolerable. I think the Sims development team has still not grasped the fact that the little, contrite things are what make people so interested. Buying some flour and mixing it in a bought pan with water to make dough, then going out to buy tomatoes to mash into a paste in the kitchen and mixing with cheese on the dough to make a pizza is fun. I honestly wish they would consider stuff like that to make it more interesting. I don't like watching my Sims sit there and cook by themselves, I WANT to be involved. I want to have the option to make things step-by-step, from scratch. I want the satisfaction of going out to a store, buying some apples, sugar, flour, and utensils, bringing it back home, and step-by-step making a pie, then putting it in the oven! I want to be able to walk into a diner and actually WALK INTO THE DINER and have my Sims sit down and have an actual MENU to choose from, with prices and things you can mix to make a meal. I want my Sims to go visit a movie store and rent a Sims movie (you could even go as far as projecting your own shot Sims videos into said-movies as custom-movies with custom-titles. They've sort of done that on Sims 2 before) and bring it home and actually WATCH IT ON A TV SCREEN.

Small, unimportant, contrite things is what makes it fun, and I KNOW they can do those things! They just don't think about it! If they had things like that, I would be way way WAY more interested and involved in actually playing! Honestly, they should have put more effort into developing the little things to Sims 3 than trying to rush to slap together a new, shiny toy for everyone to oggle.

And dammit, I want the option to have a re-match at kicking a burglar's butt when she beats my Sims down and damages ego.

But in better news, I fell in love with the Buy Mode background music. Singing angel chorus heck yes.

P.S. some screenshots under cut:

This is a pitiful excuse ranking next to my Sims 2 BD kids. Oh well. )
 
 
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Ashley Lindsey
08 November 2009 @ 10:51 pm

Guys, I have a huge, huge, huge announcement to make. Well, at least it's a big announcement for me.

I have finally found the celebrity face for Aidan.

Not only is he going to be my further reference for him, but also my #1 choice of actor for Aidan should/when BD ever becomes a movie of sorts (which I, in my little heart, sincerely believe will happen if I have enough faith and put enough effort into the project of BD).

I've been looking at this guy for months now, because of course I'm going to be super super picky about who I choose for Aidan, but from the get-go I had this severe gut feeling about him--an instinct if you will. He had not only the face, but the expressions, the aura, the general personality that just mirrored Aidan so much.

Recently there's a new show on FX that's called Sons of Anarchy (I bet some of you know where I'm going with this) that has recently started playing. Anyway; I just so happened to scroll across an episode one day and became fixated on the screen for one particular reason:

Charlie Hunnam.



It was like watching a living, breathing Aidan in the modern day. He had the exact aura of Aidan--the short-tempered, arrogant young blood of the pack always looking for trouble. I've seen brief interludes of his performances on the show since then, but tonight I was completely convinced he is the best person out their to represent a real version of Aidan.

So if you guys can suffer through this with me, I'd love to share some examples of him, more so to keep myself in check why he's such a good choice:



I think this video shows a great range of the expressions he makes from the show Sons of Anarchy--and also do you not friggen' see what I mean? It's like omg holy crap ahaha he makes Aidan expression. cx I can't even begin to describe just how lucky I consider myself that he has the exact perfect shade of gray-blue eyes that Aidan has.

So if this didn't convince you, guess what I found out today while doing a little research? Yeah, Charlie Hunnam?

British accent. Gaiz. Gaiz.

I shit a brick. I could not BELIEVE it, because he had such a normal American accent in Sons of Anarchy I was like "YOU ARE SHITTING ME."

But, I shit you not, here is proof (along with some delicious scenes from the show):



THE GUY IS FULLPROOF. p.s. lololol am I the only one giggling that he was stroking his beard during the interview THAT WAS ADORABLE c:

So apparently along with having an already-existing British accent, he's had voice coaching, which tells me it would take this much (not a lot) to swing a pirate accent on him. FFFF okay speed-writing to the end of BD so I can finish it in this century so he can star as Aidan rofl. I swear to god I would die forever if something like that happened. Oh and he's 6"1, which isn't too far off from Aidan's height of 6"3, but close enough. Just stick him in high heels in shots you can't see his feet lolol. YOU CAN'T TELL ME THIS ISN'T AN AIDAN SCOWL:



Ngghhh if only I had this much luck with my other characters SIGH.

I'm sure a lot of you are thrown off because this guy doesn't really remind you of the cartooned Aidan that I personally draw. He actually looks like Kurt Cobain I gotta say.

Hey guys. Kurt Cobain reminded me of Aidan too. Anyway, I just feel like Charlie Hunnam sort of....harbors the spirit of Aidan. He severely does.

More gushing, some photo-manips, and other character celebrity faces )

Jaye's face is in the works, but those are probably my most solid picks. Oh and I do actually have a Stasia face lol:



Amy Adams everybody haha. Just with more of a strawberry-blond hair tint and a lot more caked on slutty makeup rofl. I enjoy corrupting the innocent.

Or maybe just some London-swinging broad with blond hair and too much makeup. Her face really isn't as important any more now that she's not the main antagonist. C:

I'm having superb trouble trying to find a James. No srsly.
 
 
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