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Looking for an OCT?
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Those who have been following me for a while have probably noticed that I have been participating in a group called TheHungerGamesOCT for quite some time now. It's back for another season, and if you love the Hunger Games, or if you've been itching for a laid back OCT with a tight-knit community, you should totally join!
This year I'll be stepping down from being a competitor, but I will be sticking around as a judge instead! It's an open medium OCT with just a week and a half left for auditions, but if you pester the host, an extension is likely to happen
69th Hunger Games Applications Open!The decorations for this year were painstakingly selected by legions of stylists, working day and night; and when the Capitolites arrive to hear the President’s speech for the opening of the Games, they would be awed to find the area grandly decorated with royal purple and rich gold.
The President, having switched to gold heels for the occasion, took the podium to make her speech. “Citizens of Panem! It is my absolute delight to announce the formal beginning of our noble tradition, the Sixty-Ninth Annual Hunger Games!”Welcome back everyone!
For our next Hunger Games, we’ll be skipping to Year 69 on our timeline. It takes place after the events of our storylines for the 59th and 60th Hunger Games, in case anyone would like to revisit those old characters - and well after the events of the 25th and 44th. There is no gender restriction this year! We are retconning the one boy, one girl rule so your characters can be o
This year I'll be stepping down from being a competitor, but I will be sticking around as a judge instead! It's an open medium OCT with just a week and a half left for auditions, but if you pester the host, an extension is likely to happen
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I don't really post journals here anymore but I got tagged for a thing so let's do it?
Tagged by Victoriasrenaissance
1. You must post these rules
1. I'm about to complete my second year in computer science.
2. I like cosplaying.
3. The next weeb con I'm gonna go to is SakuraCon.
4. I'm half Filipino.
5. If my dad was born in Holland I would be a jalapeno.
6. I have a dimple on the right side of my face but not on my left. It's not actually a dimple, it's a torn muscle from when I fell on the edge of a coffee table when I was younger.
7. When I get stressed over school I stress-bake chocolate chip cookies.
8. Growing up as a figure skater, I actually skated with Ashley Wagner. Despite the bad press she got during the last Olympics, she's actually really nice and I will fight anyone who shits on her.
9. My house is hufflepuff.
10. Paul Blart memes get me every single fucking time.
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Questions For Me:
1. What's your favorite show?
I guess as of right now, it's Elementary.
2. What's your weird fetish? ((No judging of any kind allowed (ノ◉‿◉)ノ))
Money. Give me one million dollars and I might date you.
3. What would your weapon be as a magical girl?
Whirling blades of death. On my feet.
4. SEXUALITY????
shrugs idk
5. Music taste?
Hip hop, pop, movie and video game soundtracks
6. What was the last book you read?
Design Basics Index by Jim Krause
7. Tell us your favorite dream you've had.
I love any dream where I'm flying or breathing underwater but I rarely have them :c
8. Tell us the creepiest dream you've had.
I once had a dream where aliens were invading my elementary school. People we being poisoned, everything was on fire, but humanity defeated them by winning a board game involving leaves somehow?? Lmao it was dumb but I did feel scared when I woke up.
9. WHAT SPIRIT ANIMAL ARE YOU?
honeybadger :u
10. Religion?
Raised Roman Catholic, leaning more towards agnostic and non-denominational now? SHRUGS
Tagged by Victoriasrenaissance
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Rules:
1. You must post these rules
2. Each person has to share 10 facts about themselves
3. Answer the 10 questions asked by the person who tagged you and make up 10 questions for 10 you tag
4. Choose 10 people and put their icons in your journal</s> :U
5. Go to their page and inform them that they have been tagged by you Unnecessary
6. Not something like "You are tagged if you read that"
7. You have to legitimately tag 10 people :U
8. No tag-backs
9. You can't say that you don't do tags :U
10. You MUST make a journal entry
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1. I'm about to complete my second year in computer science.2. I like cosplaying.
3. The next weeb con I'm gonna go to is SakuraCon.
4. I'm half Filipino.
5. If my dad was born in Holland I would be a jalapeno.
6. I have a dimple on the right side of my face but not on my left. It's not actually a dimple, it's a torn muscle from when I fell on the edge of a coffee table when I was younger.
7. When I get stressed over school I stress-bake chocolate chip cookies.
8. Growing up as a figure skater, I actually skated with Ashley Wagner. Despite the bad press she got during the last Olympics, she's actually really nice and I will fight anyone who shits on her.
9. My house is hufflepuff.
10. Paul Blart memes get me every single fucking time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Questions For Me:
1. What's your favorite show?I guess as of right now, it's Elementary.
2. What's your weird fetish? ((No judging of any kind allowed (ノ◉‿◉)ノ))
Money. Give me one million dollars and I might date you.
3. What would your weapon be as a magical girl?
Whirling blades of death. On my feet.
4. SEXUALITY????
shrugs idk
5. Music taste?
Hip hop, pop, movie and video game soundtracks
6. What was the last book you read?
Design Basics Index by Jim Krause
7. Tell us your favorite dream you've had.
I love any dream where I'm flying or breathing underwater but I rarely have them :c
8. Tell us the creepiest dream you've had.
I once had a dream where aliens were invading my elementary school. People we being poisoned, everything was on fire, but humanity defeated them by winning a board game involving leaves somehow?? Lmao it was dumb but I did feel scared when I woke up.
9. WHAT SPIRIT ANIMAL ARE YOU?
honeybadger :u
10. Religion?
Raised Roman Catholic, leaning more towards agnostic and non-denominational now? SHRUGS
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My deviantART Story
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Ok I'll jump the bandwagon.
This account has been around for 6 years but I've actually been on this website for over 8 years. Back then when I first joined I was completely obsessed with Neopets and Pokemon and nothing else. I ended up joining dA because I was really inspired by the popular Neopet artist Fatal-mantis85, and if it weren't for her, I probably would have never gotten so involved in drawing or making stories as I am now.
NEEDS MORE FUCKING LENS FLARE
After several years I finally started to grow tired of playing Neopets and writing Pokemon fanfiction. I wanted to produce more original work, and my next obsession ended up being dragons. That's when I came across an RP forum called The Dragon Clan Lands, where I met a great community of people that helped me improve in my writing and encouraged me to keep drawing. It's not not as active as it used to be 6 years ago, but there's still a small group that RPs there. Unfortunately I've fallen quiet there since my interests moved somewhere else...
NEEDS MORE DRAGONS.
After the DCL, I became involved in the OCT circuit starting with
, and I think this is where I really began to improve in my art. Keeping up with deadlines and learning to manage my time made me so much more efficient at drawing, and I received a lot of helpful advice on storytelling and making comics. I ended up connecting with an incredibly wide, diverse network of artists, many of which I've become close friends with. It's harder for me to keep up with the demands of an OCT now, but I guess I'm not quite out of them yet.
MUCH IMPROVEMENT.
So as of now? I've been thinking about which story of mine I want to turn into a webcomic, but it's been difficult to decide. Just recently I joined the group
, which has been such a welcoming community and it's been super fun participating in it so far. I haven't submitted much art to it yet, so hopefully that will change soon so I can give my non-Cardian watchers an idea of what this whole thing is about C:
So happy motherfucking birthday, dA. You've provided some good memories.
This account has been around for 6 years but I've actually been on this website for over 8 years. Back then when I first joined I was completely obsessed with Neopets and Pokemon and nothing else. I ended up joining dA because I was really inspired by the popular Neopet artist Fatal-mantis85, and if it weren't for her, I probably would have never gotten so involved in drawing or making stories as I am now.
NEEDS MORE FUCKING LENS FLARE
After several years I finally started to grow tired of playing Neopets and writing Pokemon fanfiction. I wanted to produce more original work, and my next obsession ended up being dragons. That's when I came across an RP forum called The Dragon Clan Lands, where I met a great community of people that helped me improve in my writing and encouraged me to keep drawing. It's not not as active as it used to be 6 years ago, but there's still a small group that RPs there. Unfortunately I've fallen quiet there since my interests moved somewhere else...
NEEDS MORE DRAGONS.
After the DCL, I became involved in the OCT circuit starting with
, and I think this is where I really began to improve in my art. Keeping up with deadlines and learning to manage my time made me so much more efficient at drawing, and I received a lot of helpful advice on storytelling and making comics. I ended up connecting with an incredibly wide, diverse network of artists, many of which I've become close friends with. It's harder for me to keep up with the demands of an OCT now, but I guess I'm not quite out of them yet.MUCH IMPROVEMENT.
So as of now? I've been thinking about which story of mine I want to turn into a webcomic, but it's been difficult to decide. Just recently I joined the group
, which has been such a welcoming community and it's been super fun participating in it so far. I haven't submitted much art to it yet, so hopefully that will change soon so I can give my non-Cardian watchers an idea of what this whole thing is about C:So happy motherfucking birthday, dA. You've provided some good memories.
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hiiiii????
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I guess I'll update lol I don't even know how to write these anymore.
SO, last week I was in rich people land in Sun Valley, and those of you who have been watching me for a while probably know I go there sometimes for skating boot camp. This time I went there to go audition for skating shows - it was my first time trying out for something like this, so it was quite a learning experience! Figure skating isn't something I talk that much about online, but it's an art form that's very dear to me and something that I've been doing practically my whole life, so I'd like to at least share a little bit about it here.
For this particular audition, we had producers from several different shows that ranged from cruise ships, to theme parks, to even Disney on Ice. The group of skaters I traveled with arrived there a week early to get used to the ice and have a bit of extra training with some notable performers such as Judy Blumberg and Stephanee Grosscup. Some of the stuff that Stephanee had to say were things I think I really needed to hear coming from a competitive skating background with little experience in performing for entertainment. I guess I can call myself officially retired from competitive skating after my last competition ended horribly, and for a while I've felt like I've wasted the past 16 years of my life skating because I never achieved anything that noteworthy in the sport. I'm a relatively strong skater, but I was a poor competitor because I couldn't handle the stress or the pressure of competing as I grew older. I was honestly feeling like a failure until Stephanee mentioned that many of her students go through the same ordeal, and she actually gets excited when they finally admit they want to quit competitive skating so that she can introduce them to show skating. She had so much energy and passion for show skating that it helped me feel so much better about trying to pursue this route.
And after spending a week there, I've learned show skating is a helluva lot more fun that competitive skating.
I don't think I've ever enjoyed doing a program like the one I did for the auditions. Even in practice, skating programs were always something I dreaded, and I'd always try to avoid or prolong doing them. But for the program I did for the producers, it was so easy to get into the mood of the song and smile - I could never genuinely smile in a competitive program, it was always too awkward and forced. When I went to perform, I literally couldn't stop smiling until I got off the ice and drank some water because my mouth had gotten so dry my lips were plastered to my gums lol (there's actually a recording of my performance but it's really small and shitty).
When I went to talk to the producers afterwards they had pretty positive things to say. They generally liked my expression, the power in my elements, and the song choice (which I'm glad because I can't stand to listen to that song casually anymore). The shows that tour Europe said that it'd be better if I started touring around the U.S. with a company like Disney before I tried touring in other countries, and the cruise ship wasn't interested in anyone who couldn't consistently land a double axel, which no one did during the auditions so...guess it's their loss? But now that I'm back home, I know I need to work on my stage presence and flexibility along with adding more jumps to my repertoire. And whether I get a call back or not, I know I'll be attending college next fall, but as for the semester after that, hmmm, not sure. I'll definitely be applying for more shows in the meantime, so who knows if I'll manage to get into one or not. Whatever my future is, Sun Valley was a good experience for me, and it sort of felt like a new beginning. After competing for so long and feeling miserable, I feel like I've rediscovered my love for this sport now that I'm actually doing something I enjoy with it.
Anyways I JUST WANTED TO WRITE A FEEL GOOD JOURNAL ABOUT THIS skating means a lot to me.
As for dA related news, I owe a lot of art so I prolly won't be submitting personal drawings anytime soon. I'm also in the East Coast Cardians, which y'all should check out and maybe join, aaaaand I may or may not be considering joining an OCT with
sometime soon 8D;; So yup! This is probably the only journal entry I'll have here for the next 6 months until I feel like I need to dust this place off again.
SO, last week I was in rich people land in Sun Valley, and those of you who have been watching me for a while probably know I go there sometimes for skating boot camp. This time I went there to go audition for skating shows - it was my first time trying out for something like this, so it was quite a learning experience! Figure skating isn't something I talk that much about online, but it's an art form that's very dear to me and something that I've been doing practically my whole life, so I'd like to at least share a little bit about it here.
For this particular audition, we had producers from several different shows that ranged from cruise ships, to theme parks, to even Disney on Ice. The group of skaters I traveled with arrived there a week early to get used to the ice and have a bit of extra training with some notable performers such as Judy Blumberg and Stephanee Grosscup. Some of the stuff that Stephanee had to say were things I think I really needed to hear coming from a competitive skating background with little experience in performing for entertainment. I guess I can call myself officially retired from competitive skating after my last competition ended horribly, and for a while I've felt like I've wasted the past 16 years of my life skating because I never achieved anything that noteworthy in the sport. I'm a relatively strong skater, but I was a poor competitor because I couldn't handle the stress or the pressure of competing as I grew older. I was honestly feeling like a failure until Stephanee mentioned that many of her students go through the same ordeal, and she actually gets excited when they finally admit they want to quit competitive skating so that she can introduce them to show skating. She had so much energy and passion for show skating that it helped me feel so much better about trying to pursue this route.
And after spending a week there, I've learned show skating is a helluva lot more fun that competitive skating.
I don't think I've ever enjoyed doing a program like the one I did for the auditions. Even in practice, skating programs were always something I dreaded, and I'd always try to avoid or prolong doing them. But for the program I did for the producers, it was so easy to get into the mood of the song and smile - I could never genuinely smile in a competitive program, it was always too awkward and forced. When I went to perform, I literally couldn't stop smiling until I got off the ice and drank some water because my mouth had gotten so dry my lips were plastered to my gums lol (there's actually a recording of my performance but it's really small and shitty).
When I went to talk to the producers afterwards they had pretty positive things to say. They generally liked my expression, the power in my elements, and the song choice (which I'm glad because I can't stand to listen to that song casually anymore). The shows that tour Europe said that it'd be better if I started touring around the U.S. with a company like Disney before I tried touring in other countries, and the cruise ship wasn't interested in anyone who couldn't consistently land a double axel, which no one did during the auditions so...guess it's their loss? But now that I'm back home, I know I need to work on my stage presence and flexibility along with adding more jumps to my repertoire. And whether I get a call back or not, I know I'll be attending college next fall, but as for the semester after that, hmmm, not sure. I'll definitely be applying for more shows in the meantime, so who knows if I'll manage to get into one or not. Whatever my future is, Sun Valley was a good experience for me, and it sort of felt like a new beginning. After competing for so long and feeling miserable, I feel like I've rediscovered my love for this sport now that I'm actually doing something I enjoy with it.
Anyways I JUST WANTED TO WRITE A FEEL GOOD JOURNAL ABOUT THIS skating means a lot to me.
As for dA related news, I owe a lot of art so I prolly won't be submitting personal drawings anytime soon. I'm also in the East Coast Cardians, which y'all should check out and maybe join, aaaaand I may or may not be considering joining an OCT with
sometime soon 8D;; So yup! This is probably the only journal entry I'll have here for the next 6 months until I feel like I need to dust this place off again.
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