5 Questions Meme!
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bay115 !
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▸ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
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She gave me five questions and my answers are below the cut:
1. I know you mentioned Pokemon a couple times, so I'm curious over a couple things. What is your Pokemon game? Have you been keeping up with the latest games? If not, why?
Well, for what it's worth, I know NOTHING about Pokemon. I'm afraid you've got me mixed up with someone else there sweetie! The only things Pokemon I know are Pikachu and Squirttle, and that's because I saw it on Robot chicken!
2. DO YOU LOVE DOGS AS MUCH AS ROY MUSTANG? XD If so, why you love dogs more than cats?
OMG YES!!!! If I had the room (and the money to feed and maintain them) I'd have like 10 dogs. I've never really owned a cat. There was a cat at my dad's house that I said was mine, but I didn't live there nor did I ever really take care of it. I've had at least one dog all my life except for about a 6 month span when I was in the first grade. Aways been around dogs and I love 'em!! I LOVE DOGS!!! Dogs are the embodiment of loyalty and they never ask for a raise!!! lol
3. What got you started with writing fanfiction and what you love about it?
I didn't know it at the time, but my first fan fiction I wrote was for Star Wars when I was in high school. See, you get paid for fan fiction in that realm, so I thought I was writing a book!! But when I got started with fan fiction recently, the first story was for a Stephen King series (The Dark Tower series) and then I experimented with InuYasha fandom because I wasn't getting very many bites with the first story. 'Sesshomaru's Darkest Hour' is a terrible characterization of Sesshomaru, and I don't feel the same way as I did then about him, and in my eyes it's an awful story. But it is what hooked me into the whole fan fiction world, as well as anime. That was my 'gateway' show, and from there on it just kinda spiraled into otaku mode lol! I love (especially in InuYasha) how many of the fan fics I've read are written WAY better than Rumiko Takahashi planned them. The characters become so much more mature and 3D for me sometimes, something that she wasn't really able to illustrate in the manga and was passed over in the anime. And of course some of my best friends I have met through fan ficcing. I honestly can't imagine life now without fan fiction, and am more likely to pick up my cell phone and read fan fic than an actual book these days.
4. What are some of the challenges of being a mother?
NO TIME. No time to read/write, no time to clean house, no time to cook... You look away for a second and he's motored into the kitchen and is splashing in the dogs' water before you know it. Oh, and I used to be a night owl, up all night, when I had a job I worked 3rd shift, I hate the daytime. But Mr. Early Riser has me getting up anywhere between 7 and 8:30 am. Oh, and you never get as much sleep as you'd like to get. I sometimes go without eating because he thinks he's supposed to have whatever I'm having and screams when I don't give it to him. So I try to eat when he naps but sometimes I get wound up in other things (writing, shooping, netflix) and I forget. One times I went two days without eating anything and when I realized it I ordered a large pizza and ate the whole thing myself!! (sacrificed sleep in order to eat. I guess that's the main word right there: SACRIFICE. You give up everything until they are older I suppose. I can't wait for Joey to be old enough for school, even though he's only just now turning 1 at the end of the month. Some parents say time goes by too quickly. I say not quickly enough.
5. How you learned how to do graphic making? Do you go and read some of the tutorials or you just mess around with some of the features in Photoshop?
well, I pirated PS 7.0 about 4 or 5 years ago, simply for cropping and color adjustment. But then I found out all kinds of fun stuff, usually on my own and playing around late at night. Eventually I had to upgrade to PS CS3, and eventually I wound up with a graphics pad. I have never had a class on it, I've never seen a tutorial on it, and most things I've discovered completely by accident. Although I will say when I was in design school working with AutoCAD, that helped me understand the whole concept of layers which bled over into PS. I'm still learning new things all the time, little tips and tricks from other self taught people (coughravyn_skye !!!) and I like to practice with icons and banners and other art work.
bay115 !▸ Comment with "PIKA PIKA!"
▸ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
▸ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
▸ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
She gave me five questions and my answers are below the cut:
1. I know you mentioned Pokemon a couple times, so I'm curious over a couple things. What is your Pokemon game? Have you been keeping up with the latest games? If not, why?
Well, for what it's worth, I know NOTHING about Pokemon. I'm afraid you've got me mixed up with someone else there sweetie! The only things Pokemon I know are Pikachu and Squirttle, and that's because I saw it on Robot chicken!
2. DO YOU LOVE DOGS AS MUCH AS ROY MUSTANG? XD If so, why you love dogs more than cats?
OMG YES!!!! If I had the room (and the money to feed and maintain them) I'd have like 10 dogs. I've never really owned a cat. There was a cat at my dad's house that I said was mine, but I didn't live there nor did I ever really take care of it. I've had at least one dog all my life except for about a 6 month span when I was in the first grade. Aways been around dogs and I love 'em!! I LOVE DOGS!!! Dogs are the embodiment of loyalty and they never ask for a raise!!! lol
3. What got you started with writing fanfiction and what you love about it?
I didn't know it at the time, but my first fan fiction I wrote was for Star Wars when I was in high school. See, you get paid for fan fiction in that realm, so I thought I was writing a book!! But when I got started with fan fiction recently, the first story was for a Stephen King series (The Dark Tower series) and then I experimented with InuYasha fandom because I wasn't getting very many bites with the first story. 'Sesshomaru's Darkest Hour' is a terrible characterization of Sesshomaru, and I don't feel the same way as I did then about him, and in my eyes it's an awful story. But it is what hooked me into the whole fan fiction world, as well as anime. That was my 'gateway' show, and from there on it just kinda spiraled into otaku mode lol! I love (especially in InuYasha) how many of the fan fics I've read are written WAY better than Rumiko Takahashi planned them. The characters become so much more mature and 3D for me sometimes, something that she wasn't really able to illustrate in the manga and was passed over in the anime. And of course some of my best friends I have met through fan ficcing. I honestly can't imagine life now without fan fiction, and am more likely to pick up my cell phone and read fan fic than an actual book these days.
4. What are some of the challenges of being a mother?
NO TIME. No time to read/write, no time to clean house, no time to cook... You look away for a second and he's motored into the kitchen and is splashing in the dogs' water before you know it. Oh, and I used to be a night owl, up all night, when I had a job I worked 3rd shift, I hate the daytime. But Mr. Early Riser has me getting up anywhere between 7 and 8:30 am. Oh, and you never get as much sleep as you'd like to get. I sometimes go without eating because he thinks he's supposed to have whatever I'm having and screams when I don't give it to him. So I try to eat when he naps but sometimes I get wound up in other things (writing, shooping, netflix) and I forget. One times I went two days without eating anything and when I realized it I ordered a large pizza and ate the whole thing myself!! (sacrificed sleep in order to eat. I guess that's the main word right there: SACRIFICE. You give up everything until they are older I suppose. I can't wait for Joey to be old enough for school, even though he's only just now turning 1 at the end of the month. Some parents say time goes by too quickly. I say not quickly enough.
5. How you learned how to do graphic making? Do you go and read some of the tutorials or you just mess around with some of the features in Photoshop?
well, I pirated PS 7.0 about 4 or 5 years ago, simply for cropping and color adjustment. But then I found out all kinds of fun stuff, usually on my own and playing around late at night. Eventually I had to upgrade to PS CS3, and eventually I wound up with a graphics pad. I have never had a class on it, I've never seen a tutorial on it, and most things I've discovered completely by accident. Although I will say when I was in design school working with AutoCAD, that helped me understand the whole concept of layers which bled over into PS. I'm still learning new things all the time, little tips and tricks from other self taught people (cough
ravyn_skye !!!) and I like to practice with icons and banners and other art work. ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: June 10th, 2011 02:11 am (UTC)Interesting story over the third question. Yeah, in my library there were like a gazillion Star Wars books in the sci-fi section. XD And I too find myself reading fanficiton more than an actual book too. Some of the fanfiction I read have the characters more developed than what happened in the series the story was written for.