SCHOOOOOOOOOOOL

First of all, let me apologize for not posting so long… School started, and it’s all so overwhelming. I have a heap of books to carry home everyday, and the amount of homework is through the roof. Also I’ve been playing lots of tf2 in my free time. Anyway, I (somehow) got a cold and stayed home on friday. I wish I was lying when saying that I’d prefer to stay sick. Skipping school is bad, since missing anything will just overload me on some other day, but staying home is nice for other, obvious reasons. I’ll try to make myself go tomorrow.

Right now I, for some unknown reason, have the urge to design new characters. With lots of colours and cool outfits. I also want to make Earthbound-style sprites. Yeah, that’s a good idea.

LC!

Los Campesinos! are a great band. Just throwing that out there. Their lyrics are always extremely meaningful, unlike the millions of other songs that just… Try too hard? Or not enough.

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School will be fun. I know it will. I got into the Visual Arts class, and I’m taking academic english. As some might have (not) noticed, I love literature. Our teacher is also obsessed with symbolism, so I think this might be my favorite class. After art, obviously. :I

This is completely unrelated, but my phone’s text message alert is now Pyro calling the Medic. You have no idea how much this amuses me. I might change it to Scout saying yelling something, later. I’m becoming kind of obsessed with TF2. Don’t mind me.

LOL YOU GUYS

YOU KNOW WHAT’S FUNNY

ALL MY FRIENDS

MY FRIEND

LOL

SHE DOESN’T GO TO MY SCHOOL ANYMORE

SO I’M ALL ALONE LOL

how does i talked to peopl

Firefox vs Chrome

Firefox was pissing me off with it’s lagging and crashes, so I decided to use Chrome for now. You know, this is noticeably faster and more lightweight. Maybe I should use Chrome permanently.

Double Standard

Why is it that when a husband beats his wife, it’s a criminal offense, but when it’s the wife who does it, it’s funny? What a stupid double standard.

My top 5 best fonts

I’ve been wanting to write this for a quite a while. I love fonts. They’re a great way to express yourself, and typographers deserve every bit of praise that they get. However, there are also freaks of nature that deserve to have their user executed. This post will be listing my my top 5 most favorite fonts.

5.

Ever used Times New Roman and though to yourself: “Gee, I sure wish that Times would stop being so thin?” Well, here’s the solution to all your Times New Roman problems! Georgia! Now a whopping 1px wider*!

Really though, it was a tough decision between Times New Roman and this. They’re essentially the same font, but Times is thinner, and more condensed. You’d probably use it in a newspaper instead of Georgia to conserve ink. I actually think Georgia has a warmer feel to it. More… Welcoming, even. Times has those sharp serifs that I hate. Georgia’s are more dull (or rounded, if that’s what you prefer).

4.

Thick outlines? Check. Rounded corners? Check. All-lowercase? Check. Very detailed? Check. Impractical? Check.

What’s not to love about Billo? It’s wperfect for the Myspace-addicted emoXXX gurl or the girl with the tare panda wallpaper, who wants to be in a j-pop band**. In other words, it’s a font that just screams “My Little Rockstar! xx<3″

The reason I like this, though, is because of its really think outline and tasteful fake 3D. I usually hate “3D” fonts because they all look like they were ripped straight out of a 90s kids magazine. In other words, terrible. Billo, however, uses all-lowercase letters, so it looks less sophisticated and more fun. Another font that uses this is Pointy.

3.

Imagine a busy metropolis with people bustling around, expensive restaurants and clothing advertisements on every corner. You know, the kind you usually see in movies. When you think of the city’s name in your head, it will be in Bebas Neue.

Bebas Neue is the Helvetica for pessimists. While Helvetica tells you that “everything will be alright,” Bebas Neue is right there to punch it in the face, look you in the eyes and say “The whole planet will blow up in a minute. Nothing is going to be okay.” It’s the perfect font for laying down the harsh, but very real facts, and doing so in the most stylish way possible.

2.

As you might’ve noticed, I love thick outlines. I also love pixely fonts. Combine these two, add some shadows, and you’ve got Fipps. It’s like taking all those old, dusty and dull gameboy fonts, and giving them new life. If you’re a pixel artist in the year 2011, Fipps is for you. Unless you only make smileys.

1.

Words cannot describe how much I love taking complete opposites and mashing them together. This is the very definition of Angelic War. It combines the dirty, used feel of grunge with curls and serifs, the defining features of elegance. Also, all-lowercase.

But obviously, the general over-use of detail makes it impossible to use this font for anything but a logo or title. Surprisingly, the font works really well with images if it is outlined, or blurred a little. And I mean a little. Like, 0.3 px.

Keep it happy, keep it snappy, keep it gay!

School starts soon. I would say summer passed too quickly, but it didn’t… It was actually pretty slow. Not that I’m complaining, heh.

I didn’t do much at all during the break. Sometimes I wish that it was more productive, but again, it is a vacation. I’m not gonna have this much time back in school. … Speaking of that. I really hope there was still space for me in the Visual Arts class. My application was kinda late, so I might not have gotten in… If that’s the case, this’ll be a really boring school year… Unless you count language classes. I’m excited for those too. OuOb

Math is going to kill me one day, I swear. Well, if not math, then my dad when he sees my report card. Just thinking about that made me shudder. How will I survive math class? I hope that I’ll at least be able to concentrate. But my brain is an ass, so obviously that isn’t going to happen.

It sucks that we can’t bring e-readers to school. I mean, I understand cellphones and iPods, but e-readers..? Unless they’re Wi-Fi enabled… No, it still doesn’t make sense. Our school doesn’t have Wi-Fi, and there aren’t any hotspots nearby. Then, what’s the point..? Maybe I want to read gay romance novels in class. At least no-one will see the book’s cover that way!

About that last part. I’m going to read A Separate Peace. guess why ahaha *shot* Apparently, it’s actually required in some schools. Whoa. You don’t even know how much I want to go to one of them. Not more than to Rosedale, but enough for- Wait. Maybe Rosedale requires it. If so, then I’ve found the perfect school. Now the only thing that’s left is for its motto to be “Keep it happy, keep it snappy, keep it gay!”

Anyway, I’ll be going now. You know, to ask myself the same question I do every day. “What the hell am I doing with my life?” And then answer: “You’re watching anime and reading fanfiction all day. You sad nerd.” “I’m not a nerd! I’m a geek!” “You see, it already pretty sad that you know the difference between those two.” “I- … I can’t really argue with that. Guess I’ll just go back to watching “Kawaii Uguu Onii-chan Love Stori~!“.

A (not really) accurate flowchart

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Yeah guys. It’s true. This is how my brain works.

Also, I finally got a tablet! Yaay~~~ (It’s a Bamboo Pen & Touch.)

M3 Sakura DS Skin – Tenshi

lolol japanese names maek me kool

I finally finished the skin! My M3 card broke later so I had to reset it, but that’s okay.

I don’t know if this should be uploaded to DeviantART or not, since it has some content that might count as theft. I’ll upload it only to mediafire for now.

Here’s the actual skin:

Screensaver

GUI Settings

Recent Applications

Download it here.

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This time some of the tags recommended are “Pregnancy” and “Yaoi”. What?

Crazy recipes that actually work

I love them. This might not sound very crazy, but I’m eating a ham and apple sandwich right now. Sprinkled with raw pumpkin seeds. Awesome.

But seriously, this is delicious.

Standards

Number 1 one the list of things that I hate today:

Society’s Stupid Standards

And by the way, I don’t mean the “if you wear brightly coloured clothes and you’re male, then you’re gay” kinda standards, although those are dumb too. I mean the “no dancing in public” and “no drinking through straws if you’re a business person” kind. Why the hell can’t I dance in public!? Am I doing anyone harm? Am I insulting their beliefs? No, I’m not.

Over the years, people have begun to believe that just because you see something often, it’s “normal”. As I say, and I love saying this: There is no such thing as “normal”. It’s all relative. Of course, technically speaking, a blue cat isn’t normal. But a guy who wears skirts? That’s normal. A girl with brown hair is normal, and so is a boy with a feminine face. But from another perspective, a girl with blonde hair is weird and someone who’s 2.4 meters tall is normal. Again, it’s all relative.

Of course, I’m still a little hypocritical on this one, since I struggle not to give people weird looks when they do something out of the ordinary. However, this is, in my opinion, justified. Our parents, teachers, and other various leader figures have taught us how to react to different things. I’m pretty sure that most people smoke because their parents used to smoke. It’s the same with homophobia and racism. If you dad tells you that “fags are gay” then you’ll believe it. After all, that’s one of the few influences you have.

People should open up to more things and not just judge something my its cover. Like Adventure Time. I mean, it’s on cartoon Network and all, but if you look into it, it actually has some pretty good jokes that you wouldn’t expect from a show like that. Try it.