Talia Karn

ayleedragon @ 2006-06-04T01:18:00

2006-06-04T23:06:44Z

This place is dusty.

I mean, really dusty.

http://futuresoon.livejournal.com is nice and clean. Why don't you go there instead?

Heretofore but never before, a waffling was so decreed....

2003-09-25T03:36:31Z

Waffle is such a fun word. You could just say it over and over. Waffle, waffle, waffle.

Anyhoo, LJ updates will be inconveniently sparse from this point on, not to say that they haven't been inconveniently sparse before, or merely inconvenient. Why, you so plaintively plea? Because school is as inconvenient as any of my entries have been, though unfortunately not as sparse. A twist of uncommon good luck, however, is that I have no school this Friday and have been managing my homework in such a delightfully wondrous and wholly becoming of one of my repertoire manner. My previous sentence, I am sure, would make much more sense with some parentheses. And so I shall add some. Here I go!

A twist of uncommon good luck, however, is that I have no school this Friday and have been managing my homework in such a (delightfully wondrous and wholly becoming of one of my repertoire) manner.

Does that not make additional sense? You are indeed correct! It does not, and likely never will.

"But is it a mighty dishwasher?"

My dishwasher is disappointingly unmighty. It is also very inconvenient, and certainly the places to put dishes are sparse, hideously so.

"Learning how to drive stick shifts is even better, especially when you stall in the middle of toad."

I shall have to collect the most interesting typos I have seen, and put them in a little book. Perhaps I will publish the book and sell it to many people, who will doubtlessly chuckle over it and forget about it a week later, only to find it again in several years and repeat the whole process, without even any rinsing.

More friends are coming on Sunday. Two friends, really, which is not really more anyway seeing as they are in fact the two friends I mentioned previously in other entries; i.e., the only friends I have with whom I maintain actual eye contact. My other friends are, regrettably, located in other states. Or continents. In any case, they are my dearest, DEAREST friends and we will have much fun watching interesting movies at my house, running around screaming, climbing large rocks, and distracting the denizens of the local movie theater with our most voracious behavior. If we are lucky, one of them may even bring a blue dye of some sort and the ever-popular Kurt Gloves. Kurt Gloves and blue dye which may be applied to one's face make for excellent fun. A trenchcoat is also a plus, and I suspect that she will wear one anyway.

...it occurs to me that friends must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

Arrr!

2003-09-12T01:10:39Z

School denies me what little interaction I get with the vast majority of my friends and community, and yet I dare not feign sickness to get out of it. My mom can see through that, anyway >_<

You are The Cap'n!

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you - but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.

What's Yer Inner Pirate?
brought to you by The Official Talk Like A Pirate Web Site. Arrrrr!

I'm Errol Flynn! Woo!

On a rather more interesting note, I had an idea for a comic today. Sort of based on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, only with real-world characters and more of a focus on imagination....two classic authors, two classic composers, two classic artists, and two classic actors would be the main characters. Errol Flynn and Marilyn Monroe would be the actors, Camille Saint-Sayens (gack! spelling! I can pronounce his hideously complicated name but I have no idea how to spell it....) and somebody else would be the composers, Mark Twain and somebody else would be the authors, and I have no idea who the artists are going to be. Geh. This is a typical example of my creative ideas--interesting, would probably go well, but never even gets started due to lack of time and incompleteness. Plus I can't draw, and I CERTAINLY can't draw real people.

I am going to a close friend's birthday party this weekend. I will see another close friend whom I have not seen for several months. I am HAPPY. So very happy.

Only time....

2003-09-04T01:43:50Z

Well, I did manage to read FOTR on the last day before school. I was distracted from staring the others, however, by the sudden and unexpected arrival of my Sims games back from my brother's friend--happy day! The first day of school went well enough (the annoying kid still likes to sit with me, though) and the second day proceeded as well as could be expected.

Reading TTT goes so very very slowly when you have little free time. Been two days and I haven't even gotten to Gandalf yet >.< Curse you, school! Curse youuuuuuu!

A close friend of mine was flamed for no real reason by someone on DeviantArt today. I would be less worried about this if she hadn't told me that this person used to be her best friend....WHY do so many of my friends have social problems? WHY?

An update of less-than-notable proportions

2003-09-01T03:32:43Z

Watched FOTR with commentary, watched TTT without. Discovered and looked at the sneaky production and character design stills which were hiding deep within the extra FOTR disks. Am planning to re-read TTT and ROTK tomorrow without stopping. If I stop, I will take more time to finish them and I might not even finish them before Tuesday.....and I will have no time to do anything on Tuesday, except maybe bemoan schoolwork and wonder if the annoying kid still persists on sitting with me and the one friend I have who remains at my school. So very annoying.

You know what REALLY interests me? The fact that I'll probably watch TTT two more times once the extended edition comes out, perhaps even three--though it'll probably take a week if I try for the third time, seeing as I only have 3.5 hours to spare on weekends. Curse school and its rapid consumption of time! On the other hand I'll get to have many interesting conversations with my best friend again, so maybe time consumption is less ofa plague upon the land. But only a little.

Notebooks 'n' things

2003-08-31T17:37:55Z

Today, I underwent the terrifying process of organizing my school supplies. Mechy pencils got lead? Check. Colored pencils in packet? (I still haven't figured out why eighth graders would need those, but they were on the list) Check. Calculator, gluestick, scissors, and other miscellaneous Stuff in box? Check. Interesting little pictures of Nightcrawler, Zim, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and the Grimbles on binder? Check.

Ah, the wonderful tradition of seeing who can make the most imaginative binder decorations. Last year I got quite a few comments on my rather distinctly anti-SpongeBob picture, so that one will definitely have to stay. It's amazing, really, what you can find on fansites these days.

Uncanny X-Men #430 comes out Wednesday! If my recently-purchased subscription likes me, I'll get it....but it might not like me, especially since the order form said to expect my first issue in six to ten weeks, and it's only been about three.

An interesting dilemma. Should I re-watch FOTR and TTT (for the second time in as many days), re-read TTT and ROTK (for the fifth and fourth times, respectively), or see if I can find this legendary "commentary" that may or may not lurk in the DVDs? Commentary sounds good, re-watching would probably be accomplished with the commentary, and I probably COULD finish the books in less than a day....so many choices, and so much last-minute cramming of Tolkieny goodness before school starts.

Twitchy twitchy twitchy....

2003-08-28T17:39:22Z

I saw the TTT DVD last night. Hopefully, that will be sufficient warning for those of you who dislike fangirlish outbursts.

It...was...so....COOL! I got to see the Ents again, and I got to see Legolas' horse-jump again, and I got to guess which parts had the hobbit size doubles and which didn't, and.....and...

Two words: ROTK. Preview.

Aaaaaaah! Paths of the Dead, and Cirith Ungol, and Pelennor Fields, and Gandalf and Pippin facing off with a Nazgul, and....

Sauron thinks Pippin has the Ring! Sauron thinks Pippin has the Ring! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Pippin was always my favorite character in the books, and I was always so disappointed that he didn't get a lot of attention....the most notable things he did consisted of looking at a rock and walking into a place he wasn't supposed to go. Granted, the rock was a palantir, and the place was the Gondorian funeral pyre where Faramir was about to be burned alive, but still! And now--oh, to heck with it, I just have to say it again....

Sauron thinks Pippin has the Ring!

And the TTT extended edition is going to have the Entdraught scene, and....I....aaaaaaaaaaah! Hyperness is NOT conducive to typing, no it isn't, not at all! I....oh, bugger....

Sauron thinks Pippin has the Ring!

Today is a very, very, VERY happy day, yes it is.

Mis-ter Stabby.....doo do do doo do....

2003-08-27T17:13:24Z

You will visit Mr. Stabby, and you will enjoy it. Or you'll wonder why I bothered to post this disturbing, violent cartoon. One of the two.

On an entirely unrelated note, my Ozy and Millie title is:
Prime Transverse Piano Semi-Wallpaper Foxy Whatchamacallit Talia Karn (the Thirty-Ninth) !

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I'm a foxy whatchamacallit. Today is a happy day.

SO, my brother just recently purchased Tron 2.0 and is a very happy little gamer indeed. However, this means Talia does not get to use the computer very often. Talia is very sad. On the other hand, Talia is now free to watch the LOTR DVD her dad bought for some reason--or she would be, if her dad hadn't mistakenly bought the Pan-and-Scan version, which is horrible. So Talia will be able to watch it, but only once her dad gets back from "work" with the widescreen version. This makes Talia very sad. Today is somewhat less of a happy day.

Also, the Sindarin Name Generator whose address I have since forgotten says that I am Luthien, Elbereth, Elrond, or Feanor, depending on which gender I use and which version of my name I use. This makes it a bit more of a happy day.

LALILULELO! I need scissors, 61

2003-08-25T22:52:51Z

Title's from Metal Gear Solid 2, and like most of my titles, it's only there because of a random thought. 61 is such a nice number.

My sunburnt arm is healing up nicely (it's gotten to the point where it's okay to scratch the itchy spots, much to my delight), and I've been playing Rise of Nations for a little while now. It's a fun enough game, though I'll admit that I'm only playing it on the Easy level and I'll probably get bored of it in a day or so. Somehow I convinced my mom to buy me another X2 poster, so now the number of Nightcrawler-related pictures in my room is up to six. I did have to steal thumb tacks from a few of my other posters to get it up, though.

School starts next week. Supplies have been purchased, class memories have been dredged up from the depths of my mind, and sleep schedules are gradually being readjusted. No more will I be able to stay up until Sluggy updates, no longer will my mornings be fresh and clear and starting at around 9, nevermore will I forego sleep to philosophize for hours and insure interesting dreams...

...on the other hand, I'll almost certainly get the Sims expansions back from my brother's friend once school starts, the X2 DVD is supposed to come out in September, my favorite movieverse X-Men fanfic site will start updating again, and I'll get to see my best friend five days a week....

My current light reading is the GURPS Illuminati University sourcebook. I used to wonder why people called me strange.

Who knows what lurks in the hearts of men today?

2003-08-23T20:28:30Z

Why don't they have "scary" as an official mood? I mean, it's a perfectly reasonable one.

Having dug up my copy of the soundtrack from "The Shadow", I am hereby listening to it and marveling at the indescribable music from the first superhero film ever. Well, maybe not the first superhero film, but it was certainly one of the first superheroes. Before Superman, anyway.

I found a lovely little webcomic called The Grimbles today, and proceeded to read the disapointingly small archives. It's like The Addams Family, only more surreal and with an exponentially more extensive line of relatives. Apparently it hasn't updated in a couple weeks, but it is a very good comic nonetheless.

Also, Lost & Found Investigations is updating again. Huzzah! I was very disappointed to see it vanish back in March.

Still waiting on those Sims expansions back from my brother's friend...curse his scaly hide!

On a happier note, last night I saw "Start the Revolution Without Me", a somewhat-old comedy about the French Revolution. Sometimes I wonder why most of my school doesn't seem to know who Gene Wilder is, but then I remember that not all of them have parents with a penchant for going out and returning with interesting movies. Ah, well. In any case, it comes highly recommended--just about anything with Gene Wilder in it does, I think.

And now I'm BACK! (from outer space....)

2003-08-22T22:10:16Z

Youuuuu thought I was gone forever, didn't you? Well...I'm back! SD42 inspired me to return, and so I shall haunt you now and forevermore.

On a related note, my last entry here was dated a year ago today. Creepy, eh? And I didn't even plan this...

Life's going pretty well for me at the moment. I've conned my parents into buying me over lots and lots of comics (ranging from Uncanny X-Men to Girl Genius to Jhonen Vasquez to Lenore to...like I said, lots and LOTS of comics), I just recently got Sims Superstar (though since my brother let a friend borrow all the other expansions, I can't play...rar), I'm writing a fanfic based on the SluggyMARE (and, against my better judgment, it's a slash), recently I spent three straight days with some great friends of mine....isn't summer just wonderful when you don't have a job to go to?

On a slightly-less-fun note, my spending the aforementioned three days with friends has given me a horrible sunburn. So very horrible. Mostly it's not bothering me now, but my face is all scabby and my upper right arm is just a mess of scars and blisters. Aloe is my soothing gelatinous GOD.

Skibble.

2002-08-22T21:36:11Z

I haven't posted in weeks, and have little interest in doing so. I'm giving up on LiveJournal--maybe if there's something important to say, like news on my webcomic or reports on a game/book/movie/website/whatever that you should check out, then I'll update. Otherwise, no.

Time's not the issue. I have plenty of time. But there's really nothing to say anymore. What do I do all day? I watch X-Files on DVD. I check out the forums. I read the webcomics I've chosen to read. Then I eat dinner, do the dishes, and go to bed.

Summer's great, it's fun, I'm having the time of my life here. I just don't think that anybody could possibly be interested in what I have to say about my typical day.

Hooray for sheep!

2002-08-11T21:04:00Z

Looks like the webcomic idea may work out after all! Timat and rlmassie from the Sluggy.net boards have kindly volunteered to help--drawing and site-designing, respectively, as well as criticizing the story ideas.

I've got the first seven strips planned out in Microsoft Word, rlmassie made a sample website, and Timat is working on character sketches. I really didn't expect this to happen....thanks, guys! If this ever gets started I will be eternally in your debt.

Comics and computer games

2002-08-09T22:54:59Z

Two days ago, my dad received a package from the people at Marvel Comics. It contained a letter, a script for an upcoming Cable comic, and seven comic books--two Amazing Spider-Man, one Cable, one Hulk, one X-Force, one New X-Men. They were all good, though I like the Spider-Man ones better.

My brother's been playing Metal Gear Solid for about two weeks now. Beat it twice, working on the third time so he can see the tuxedo and a cut scene for the Otacon ending that he missed. Plus, the joy of having both the stealth suit and the bandana. Infinite ammo, invisibility--is there anything better?

I'm considering starting a webcomic. Unfortunately, I have virtually no skill as an artist. My strength is in plot or character design. And, of course, there's the fact that school's starting up not too far away and that takes up a lot of time. Theoretically I could team up with someone(maybe a person from the Sluggy.net discussion boards?), but I don't know who would do it for free, or if they could draw the characters like I see them in my head. The only other options are A, drawing it myself and not getting the faces right, or B, waiting until I have the time and money to pay for art classes, which won't happen for about ten years. The second option is most likely. Darn.

Oh well.....anybody interested? No pay, criticism, and little recognition. Yep, there's going to be a million applicants.

Buttons

2002-08-07T21:56:24Z

I just finished reading 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman. Partly because my online friends have been pestering me to, partly because my mom bought it for me. It's really, really good. Anything with comments on the back by Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, AND Lemony Snicket has to be good. Very much like Alice in Wonderland, with the faintly surreal, odd feeling that you get after you've read it.

From what I can tell by looking at the receipt, it costs $16 at a typical Barnes and Noble. For a hardcover, that's pretty cheap. So go buy it, read it, and throw away all the black buttons in your house.

When you see the mountain falling....and there's nothing you can do

2002-08-07T05:27:48Z

That is not a random title. It reflects my current feelings.

Today's Sluggy(or rather, tomorrow's) is a filler. Light-hearted, jokey, actually pretty hilarious. It's yesterday's that makes me somber.

Have you ever seen or heard something that just made you.....stop? You don't move, you don't make a sound. Maybe you just stare, and think. September 11th would be a good example of this. I know it happened to me then. The day just seemed to....not be worth bothering with, so all you do is sit silently and think about what happened. No words. Just thinking.

These times are often described as 'sobering'. Like a drunken person would snap out of it as soon as they saw or heard whatever had happened. 'Sad' does not make the cut here. You don't feel sad, you feel....silent. You just stop.

Now, I have a pretty weird quirk in me that I feel things others don't. Every book, every piece of music, every event, every movie, everything--to me, it has a feeling to it, like the general fantasy 'aura'. I get a sensation and it's different for whatever it is I'm focusing on. But sometimes, the feelings are silent. They stop. To someone who's used to having them around, it's like the whole world is silent. No sound of you breathing, no sound at all. Everything is completely and totally soundless.

Well, those 'sobering, silent' moments don't happen very often, and so when they do, I get a little scared. Maybe I start acting paranoid. My paranoia isn't just 'something bad will happen to me, I know it will' paranoia, it evolves into 'all right, this is what's going to happen. or this might happen. hmmm, what if THIS happened?' paranoia. I speculate every damn possibility there is. And that is really, really, really annoying.

Needless to say, these silent moments make me useless until I manage to get over it.

That's why my journal's a little late, and that's also the reason for the title. The comic for Sluggy Freelance on July 16, 2002, made me write a song to get over the silence. The title is part of it.

And the comic for Sluggy Freelance on August 6, 2002 made me remember it and drag it out of the old, dusty .txt file I saved it in.

If you don't read Sluggy, you won't understand the following paragraph. If you do, go ahead.

This cannot be happening. It's against every unwritten rule Pete's ever made. Torg giving up on ever having a good life? Just accepting that he won't ever be happy again because he did his best to keep the woman he loves from getting killed? I mean, when I first read that fateful strip in Fire and Rain, I thought "That was stupid of him. Couldn't he have told Oasis that if Zoe died, he wouldn't marry her? Good call telling her not to hurt anyone ever again, but wth Override B-1 and all that's sure as hell not going to happen. Zoe's not covered with Override B-1, so if Oasis is directly told by Torg not to kill her, she won't." Now Torg is saying that once Oasis comes back, he's going to leave with her and never return. *sniff* To Bikini-Suicide-Frisbee girls, Torg.

Okay, that's over with. Anyone who wants to see the song, psot a comment and I'll make it my next entry.

As the gophers go a-marchin'

2002-08-04T16:54:57Z

I saw Road to Perdition yesterday. A good movie--the boy was a little bland in his acting, but not too bad. Any movie that lets me use my latent psychic abilities is good. What, you didn't know I could predict the future? Only in very small ways, and mostly with books, games, or movies. This time I predicted the last line of the movie("He was my father") about one minute into the actual story. This doesn't happen too often, so that was a standing point for me.

None of the previews looked interesting. I'd been hoping to see one for Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings which I already saw at another movie, but instead they were all about spies/murder/kidnapping/nothing with a rating lower than PG-13. Seems the hot movie items are the ones that appeal to teenage boys. I can only hope that my dad's movie doesn't turn out to be one of those.

No, I am not telling you what my dad's movie is. Or who my dad is. Let's just say....it's going to be big.

Temerity does not necessarily mean something nice

2002-08-03T04:09:16Z

Enjoying the new, totally random subject titles?

Gah. At around 9 PM Pacific, Sluggy and the discussion boards go down. Why? I really don't know, but Pete uploads the new comic about then, and the boards usually have hellish traffic. So now my main source of entertainment is out. Thankfully, I've got Animaniacs on the CD player, and a nice thick book at my side. Went to the library today, checked out five books. Read four of them and the first 81 pages of the fifth. And I only started the first about, oh, five hours ago. Am I a fast reader? Hell yes.

The days just fly on by

2002-08-01T19:05:55Z

Really, they do. Seems like yesterday happened just yesterday.....

Started a new account on Neopets, finally got a read a new Nodwick, enjoyed more lovely Shlock-puppets at Sluggy. At the discussion boards, things are going moderately well. For some reason, the word 'hula' is running around my brain singing. I dreamed about X-Files and Metal Gear Solid last night, haven't the faintest idea why or even what the dream was, just that it involved The X-Files and Metal Gear Solid.

Beware of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

This is a test

2002-07-30T19:38:38Z

From now on, the subjects of my entries will be random. Why? Because I like it that way. I'm feeling random. Randomness is the supreme factor of the human mind. Did you know that threes, twos, and fives can be found almost everywhere? Take an object, fiddle around with letter-number conversions, and voila...creepy, isn't it? My mod is quixotic because they didn't have random and quixotic sounds nifty, nofty, spiffy, and spifty.

Ah......deja-fu.

Looks better already

2002-07-29T19:04:08Z

Yesterday's trip to the lake wasn't that bad. I got to talk with a friend I almost never see, eat some yummy food, and ride in a motor boat. So it was better than I thought.

The Sluggy discussion boards have induced a ferret-like hyperness in me. It doesn't help that I have the Animaniacs soundtrack stuck in my head.

We are the Warner brothers and the Warner sister Dot
Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot
They lock us in the tower
Whenever we get caught
But we get loose and then vamoose and now you know the plot....

Another oops

2002-07-28T16:59:55Z

Well, even worse. I didn't write another link right and I misspelled a comic name. it's actually Schlock Mercenary

Oh, joyous day

2002-07-28T16:58:22Z

I wake up all bleary-eyed, stumble downstairs, go through the motions of feeding the cat and guinea pigs while my mind is still half asleep, and manage to get to the computer hoping for something equivalent to coffee. No such luck. Today's Sluggy is good, and Kevin and Kell is passable, but that's about it. PvPonline hasn't updated yet, Shlock Mercenary is merely mediocre, and what do I get as soon as I check out the Sluggy discussion boards? A PM from the local moderator, telling me to not be such a jerk around the newbies. I look outside the window to see what kind of weather it is. Gray, cloudy, and rainy. This would happen to be the day when my family takes an afternoon and evening trip to some lake that I can't remember the name of to visit neighbors who have a summer house there. And I'm not on really good terms with the three neighbor kids, nor am I delighted by the prospect of being stuck outside on a cold day with no computer access surrounded by, for lack of a better word, idiots. Maybe they aren't, but I'm still half asleep and there really isn't any other word to describe them.

And it's not even 10 yet. This is not a good day.

Oops

2002-07-27T19:34:02Z

One of yesterday's links was incorrect. Hek can actually be found here.

The latest book from The New Jedi Order arrived in the mail yesterday. And it turns out my brother bought The Steel Throne at the bookstore earlier this week, so I was temporarily distracted by the pretty colors in my head. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, good for you. It's worrying enough that I can feel stories without wondering if anyone else does.

Tekeli-li, tekeli-li....

Meepit

2002-07-27T02:55:17Z

Rattlesnake tastes pretty good. So does cactus.

Meepit. Meepit is a nice sound. Why don't people meep more often? I'm sure it would solve all the world's problems if diplomats embraced the language of the meep.

Read Sluggy. I'm sure you've gotten used to that by now. Read Hek, too. And, while you're at it, read Nodwick as well. Don't forget to start from the archives.

Eeny-oony-wanah. Eeny-oony-wanah.