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~Flyboy, Jai, Tails... whatever!~
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| Plea |
[Feb. 25th, 2012|01:07 pm] |
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Kind of a random request, sorry, but does anyone on my FList have an archiveofourown.org account and would be willing to spot me an invite? ^^; /pathetic begging |
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| Keeping you in the loop |
[Feb. 18th, 2012|08:45 am] |
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I haven't been updating much. There's a number of reasons for that but I figured I'd try to post something at least.
2012 isn't shaping up to be great so far. Mostly health issues. Where do I begin?
You guys already know my mum's had cancer since the middle of last year. She's on strong medication that's been affecting her pretty badly with nasty side effects and such. This last week she's had two painful blows.
Firstly she just found out that her good friend Allison, who she stays with when she goes to London for her cancer clinic appointments, has just ALSO been diagnosed with cancer. A lump on her leg turned out to be cancerous, and a pretty rare and fast-growing one, too.
Then secondly, my mum's nurse got back to her about bloods... it's looking very likely from her anti dsDNA results that my mum has lupus. A score above 50 is a positive indicator for it. Hers was 102. Cancer AND lupus. Oh my fucking god. It might be the medication that caused it, or she might have had it asymptomatically for a while. Either way, she's obviously not happy. I feel horrible for her.
General health in the family has been pretty poor, too. Jei just got over a flu thing but now I have it. With her, she mainly had a fever and chills and aches. For me right now the worst thing is the sore throat. I got up at like 6am this morning on account of not being able to sleep 'cause it hurt so much. Gfgfklhfkhfk. Also, my 80-something-year-old dad recently had pneumonia(!) and my brother was off work for five days with a gastro-flu. Bluh.
But yeah, the big bad news is that my mum's friend also has cancer now, and my mum may have lupus.
Also still selling stuff on eBay. At least that's going fairly well because FUCK I need the money. Of course I messed up already and accidentally got two peoples' packages shipped to the wrong person but luckily they both live in the UK and are both willing to just swap them, lol.
I'll post again some time soon, I guess. I'm not dead. Just. Yeah. |
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| eBay! |
[Feb. 11th, 2012|09:46 pm] |
Thanks everyone who's bid on/bought stuff from my eBay selling frenzy lately... I promise every penny is making SO much difference ;_; I have like £4,500 of immediate debt (not counting delayed debt like Uni fees) and this money is basically keeping me from completely defaulting and ruining my financial credentials forever. So, thank you ♥
20+ more items up today! http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/flyboy_fox/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
Mostly retro stuff there. Next batch will be modern stuff plus plushies.
Jei's here with me, which is awesome. But she's sick and has a moderately bad fever (39C or 102F) which sucks and is rotten for her ): Here's hoping she feels better soon and that I avoid catching the lurg from her XD;! |
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| FISH. |
[Jan. 13th, 2012|02:59 am] |
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Scrog's been a really good friend to me lately, and I'd been talking to him endlessly about Homestuck and chewing his ear off about how awesome it would be to see him or Jei draw one of my favourite characters for me. And so the other day he randomly says to me "I'm drawing you a fish." No way. And then tonight I get an email simply titled 'FISH'.
( Fiiiiiiish! )
Yes. Just, yes. Scrog drew Eridan for me. I don't even care if pretty much no one likes Eridan. I like him. Thank you for my fish, Scrog. I will cherish it always ♥
And thus Jai went to bed at 3am, having to get up in less than 5 hours but who cares because Scrog is my moirail and he is awesome. He is the winner. It is him. |
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| Homestuck! |
[Jan. 7th, 2012|05:00 am] |
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So I've basically fallen headfirst into the Homestuck fandom ever since I finished reading the thing (which I read start to finish in three days @_@), and I desperately want to... ah... 'squee' about it, I guess XD I don't usually squee about stuff, but I can make an exception for Homestuck!
But I don't even know if anyone on my FList would even have a clue what I'm talking about so I'm going to ask a quick couple of questions first:
Do you read/have you read (so far) Homestuck?
And if so (just for a talking point) which are your favourite characters? (Also so that I know whether to hate you or not XD j/k)
If anyone answers then so help me I'm going to write the longest tl;dr on HS ever. Apologies in advance. |
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| Etsy/DA stuff |
[Jan. 4th, 2012|06:10 pm] |
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Jei and I are trying our best to get together the money to see each other in February (haven't seen her since October ;_;) as well as pay off some of our Uni debts and household bills etc. I'm gonna have a good amount of my Sonic collection up on eBay very soon, but in the meanwhile here's a shoutout for Jei on her Etsy shop where she sells customised pet sculpts: http://www.etsy.com/listing/89459374/custom-cats-pet-sculpture
She's also taking art commissions again over at DA: http://zoomswish.deviantart.com/
I highly doubt that anyone has any money right now in this economy, especially right after Christmas, but I figured I'd put it out there just in case (: Please only commission if you can afford it.
::Scurries off:: |
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| 2011 round-up - hello 2012!! |
[Jan. 1st, 2012|08:36 pm] |
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Happy New Year, all! May 2012 be a good one for everyone.
I'm not too sad to see the back of 2011. It wasn't a brilliant year for me and I'd like to hope that this year will be better. But there were some good things, so let's see...
2011 brief summary:
The Good
- Jei graduated her Modelmaking BA in Bournemouth with a 1st degree honours in July, and I am soooo proud of her ♥ I still feel sad that I didn't get to go to her graduation because it was at the exact time that my mum got her cancer diagnosis, but I watched it with my mum online on the livestream and it was awesome (: No one deserved that first more than her. Her final major project was designing and creating two fully articulated ball-jointed dolls, and they were incredible!
- I went back to America with her for 3 months and we went on a cruise with her parents down to Bermuda, St, Maarten and St. Tomas, and San Juan, which was a lot of fun and pretty awesome. Admittedly I spent most of the cruise in our room reading because my anxiety was too bad to do much else, but it was an amazing experience anyway, and we managed to get bumped up to a balcony suite due to a leakage problem in our original interior room... so that was pretty sweet!
- Jei and I got a lot done working on our Steampunk webcomic 'Calamity!', which I'm going to post about in another post now that we actually have some material to show. I'm really pretty excited about this. We've been working pretty solidly on 'Calamity!' for around two years now, so it's nice to finally see the fruits of our labour coming to light and we're hoping to get the first pages up pretty soon. Teaser: http://www.calamitycomic.com (:
- We actually managed to have a peaceful family Christmas and New Year with my brother (and his girlfriend) and my dad coming here. This is an amazing thing really, given how things usually go with us all under one roof n.n; I mean, my dad's still an idiot, coming out with racist and ignorant things all the time, and my brother's still a block-headed tease, but we managed not to have any major fights this time around and for once it actually felt really nice to be together as a family ♥ We even managed to play a game of Trivial Pursuit together! Now THAT'S a Christmas miracle.
The Bad
- My mum found out that she has breast cancer and had a mastectomy and is now undergoing treatment which is affecting her physically and mentally quite badly. This is the main reason for 2011 suckiness ): Hopefully she'll start to feel better or at least learn to manage her side-effects better this year and of course most of all I hope the cancer doesn't come back.
- After three years of living with Jei while she was at Uni here, after spending the awesome three months with her in the States I had to say goodbye to her in October, not knowing when I might see her again. if we can muster up the funds, I may be able to see her in February for a week or two, but it sucks going from living together full time to only seeing each other a couple of times a year again ;_;
- My mental health has basically been going down the chute, possibly worsened due to the double-whammy of above circumstances. But I'm trying to get a grip on it and I'm seeing the NHS mental health team in a couple of days so yeah. One of my New Year's Resolutions is to get a handle on this shit so that 2012 can be a productive year.
- I haven't yet been able to get a job, which means I've been out of work for four years now, which means my CV is looking like shite and no one will hire me. But I might be able to get funding to do a course or something to help me be more employable, so we'll see. In the meantime, much as I've been trying to avoid it, I'm probably going to finally get around to throwing some of my rare Sonic merch up on eBay for some quick cash.
So, yeah... 2011 wasn't all bad. The first half was pretty good actually, but the second half got pretty heavy and difficult. Hopefully 2012 will present a clean canvass to start painting a better future now.
In other news, I watched the 2009 movie 'Dorian Gray' and it was terrible. In no way, shape or form did it even TRY to adhere to the book, and it managed to make the title character even more shallow and uninteresting than he already was. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the book, but when you have a character whose main vice is being a shallow and impressionable young man, taking away the things that made his vice interesting is not a good way to go. But I think 'Dorian Gray' deserves a separate LJ post to properly dissect because argh raeg x.x
Also, I got roped into reading Homestuck and basically spent the last four days reading the whole. damn. thing. Yeah. All 6,314 pages plus spin-offs. Again, I think it needs its own post for elaboration, but I'll go ahead and say upfront that I LOVE this story and its characters SO much. I didn't think that I would, but I did. Homestuck is awesome.
Gonna tie this up now... hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve and I wish everyone the best for this coming year (: |
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| Dreamwidth |
[Dec. 27th, 2011|03:13 pm] |
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I've imported and backed up all my shizzle at Dreamwidth, mainly on account of about a third of my FList doing the same. I'm unlikely to move completely from here unless things get even worse, but I may start cross-posting at some point. In the event that there is a mass exodus, it would be cool to pick up again quickly over at DW. So, if you do have a DW account, it would be awesome if you'd add me over there.
http://flyboy-fox.dreamwidth.org/
Just in case, y'know ^^; |
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| Merry Christmas!! |
[Dec. 25th, 2011|04:15 pm] |
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Merry Christmas, everyone! (:
I just got back from the Christmas Dinner my mum makes for us every year and it was as epic as ever. Turkey AND duck, plus sausage meat, stuffing balls, pigs in blankets, goose-fat roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes, red cabbage and chestnuts, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, apple sauce and gravy and a few other things that I'm sure I'm forgetting XD Plus cava, red wine, and pear cider to choose from. And then for dessert, a choice of apple strudel, mince pies, or stollen, with custard and/or vanilla ice-cream. XD I am STUFFED. My mum's Christmas meal is one thing I look forward to every year, and this year she was afraid that it wouldn't be as good because she hadn't planned it out so well, but it was epic and she outdid herself in every single way ♥ I love you, Mum.
Now, our family situation has been pretty tight this year, so I wasn't expecting any gifts at all... so I was incredibly touched that my mum got my brother and I some little gifts anyway. I got some gel activated hand warmers, a little diary and pen, a bar of 70% dark chocolate, and... haaa... a Snuggie XD The best part of the Snuggie is that my mum didn't even get it ironically or as a gag gift. It's awesome. I love my Snuggie.
I gave my brother three books about Advertising, Brand Management and Copywriting, since he asked for a book on that, and he was very very happy with my choices. He didn't give me a physical gift but went one step beyond and promised me £100 towards the new computer that I desperately need. It makes me extremely happy that my brother and I are able to get along so well now after all the years of hatred and being at each other's throats. Being able to have Christmas together like this is wonderful.
And then there's my dad. Like my brother, I hadn't seen him in over a year. It's good to see him... he's going to be 83 in February, and while his health is good now, I don't know how many more years I'll have with him in my life. We've never seen eye-to-eye, and there's already been some tension due to the ridiculously racist things he comes out with sometimes, but I'm trying to just calmly disagree and not let it escalate. He was raised a certain way in a very different time and culture, and while his views may anger me, I don't want to let it completely discolour my memories of him. All I wish for is peace in this household while we're all here together for a week or so.
Miles has once again managed to have more money spent on him than anyone else XD; But the things he got were good gifts, I guess. Scrog send him a Christmas gift which was actually remarkably thoughtful... it was a 70cl bottle of triple distilled 40% vol vodka, a blend made from molasses so it's sweeter and more mellow/less sharp than the usual. But the cool thing about it was the custom label that Scrog ordered it with. Miles was extremely happy with it.
He also got something which he picked out but which I guess we're sort of sharing, which is pretty awesome. The Queen's Jubilee Atlas of the British Empire. Not a reprint or copy, but the actual book which was published in 1887. It's in amazingly good condition, and still bears on the inside cover in pencil the name of the school it belonged to and the date 1895. It's really kinda cool to browse through a book that was produced some 125 years ago. The best part of it was that Miles found it for £32 and he'd seen copies in far worse shape selling for upwards of £300... so it was a bargain.
And last but not least by a long stretch, Jei toiled near solidly for about four days to get a picture finished for me which I'm going to use for publicity material for our Steampunk webcomic 'Calamity!', which has been a project of ours for around a year now and is finally on the cusp of going live, hopefully at the start of the New Year. I'm so excited about it! It's just really falling into place, and oddly enough Miles and Scrog have shown a bit of interest and have been helping out a little too. It's kind of the first thing the four of us have ever managed to sort of work together cohesively on, so that's kind of a landmark in itself n.n
Anyway, I'll wrap this up now. I'll probably post again before the New Year, but I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and hope that you're all doing as well as you can be, whatever your circumstances. Even if I haven't posted here much lately, I still think about all of you a lot and hope you're doing all right ♥ Ciao for now! |
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