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Name: Vanessa
Birthday: 9/22/1989
Gender: Female
Interests: art; comics; animation; reading; drawing; mythology; astronomy; photography; foreign languages and culture
Expertise: Being awesome.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
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Member Since:
8/20/2003
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| Notice how none of the singers in that concert are Cuban-Americans. They're Colombian, Puerto Rican, etc--OR, Cubans who still live in Cuba.
No respectable person who has actually lived in Cuba under the current communist rule and then left would go back and give a concert like that--in la Plaza de la Revolucion, of all places. : / Talk about communist propaganda.
Anyway, I think this whole concert was generally a bad idea. Yes, it's nice that the Cuban people actually got to go see some foreign artists in concert. But the Cuban government is flaunting this big time.
Then again, I'm biased. I have spent my life hearing about people getting hauled off to jail, sons found on their parents' doorstep beaten to a pulp, families of suspected government-dissenters threatened at gun point, and girls stripped naked forced to walk through town so that people could throw eggs and rocks at them, etc.
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| was beautiful.
I just need to let it out.
Smokey had been diagnosed with cancer since 3 weeks ago, but she was still acting normally. The vet had postponed her surgery to remove her tumors until an infection she had was cured. Over the weekend her condition suddenly took a drastic nosedive. She stopped eating and drinking. Monday night, the emergency vet gave her fluids, but when we took her back home, she could barely move without meowing in pain. She lied down next to me in "her" room (guest room) and just didn't move for a long time. Her difficulty in breathing was obvious.
It was the worst night of my life in a long time.
I eventually had to go to sleep (I stayed up with her until about 1 in the morning), and my mom stayed with her. I knew we couldn't leave Smokey in that condition. So when I got up this morning and saw that all the cat's stuff was gone, I knew what had happened. My mom took her back to the vet while I was sleeping, and Smokey was put to sleep.
I don't know how I got through today. I can't stop thinking about her.
She was a beautiful cat, with little dainty feet. They stayed dainty even after she got chubby. My brother brought her home about ten years ago--before my brother had moved out, before my sister moved out and moved back in again, before my parents separated. She was such a good cat. I loved her so much.
I don't really want to talk about this to anyone I haven't already talked to it about. I just want to let this feeling out. I feel, a bit selfishly, like the world should know that someone I loved very much just disappeared. I keep wondering if I could have done something. I miss her.
I feel better than I did this morning. A lot of people have been very sweet and supportive. I don't know, I guess all that's really left to say is, love your pets.
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| No, no Pussycat Dolls, please.
If I could magically have any job (and magically be good at it, and not have to work my way there--basically, IF I LIVED IN A VERY UNREALISTIC WORLD, LOL), I would want to be, in roughly this order of preference:
1. comic book author/artist
2. novelist
3. animator
4. Broadway actress (LOLOLOLOL I assuming I magically had no sense of shame, either)
5. singer
6. video game designer
7. astronaut. yes.
8. dolphin trainer
9. cowgirl
10. elected ruler of a small island whose main export is lychee
11. The Chosen One
12. your mother
I hope it's not too obvious that I lost interest in this list around #8.
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| I spent way too much time on tvtropes.org today, reading through the Hetalia and Avatar entries. The character charts are especially fun. Also, fucking Wiki syndrome. I just keep clicking link after link after link.
Anyway, tvtropes informed me that Hetalia's America is voiced by the same guy who did Kamina in Gurren Lagann. FUCK YEAH, there are so many reasons for me to love Alfred. <3 And France is Vash the Stampede? LOL.
I also found out that Serena Williams did the voice of some random female Fire Nation guard on Avatar. Whut.
...Hey guys, remember the finale of season 2 of Avatar? Remember when you first watched it? And you were all EXCITED because you just KNEW Zuko was about to FINALLY become a Good Guy?
And then What Actually Happened... happened. And you just stared at the screen, tried to comprehend, and screamed in murderous frustration. "WTF?! WHY, ZUKO?! WHYYYYY?!?!"
Ha ha. Good times.
Anyway. I don't have much to say. I've been going to classes and doing oekaki things.
Oh, Penny Arcade watched Avatar?
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| RAMBLING AHEAD. So much word vomit. SO MUCH.
So yesterday was the worst day ever. ...Yesterday, as in Friday. But now it's almost 3 AM of Sunday morning, and I feel AWESOME. 8D It must be the sleep deprivation.
I took care of Gabby's cat all week. Galileo is pretty much one of the cutest cats I've ever seen. I just wish he wasn't in the habit of jumping on people's faces while they sleep. D: But other than that (and waking me up in various other ways), he was very well behaved. He even got along with Chiqui eventually. :3
My cousin and aunt from West Palm Beach unexpectedly visited today. I love them. <3
Aaaaaand I've been working on something for RACHEL all night. Because I thought it was 'bout time I finished that. I'll post it on your wall soon, Rachel~
IN OTHER NEWS. COLLEGE.
My classes all seem pretty cool this semester--except zoology, which does not seem to be as interesting as I first thought it'd be. But I need those last 3 science credits, so.
INS 101 is going to be a lot of work. x____x;; BUT I WILL CONQUER IT.
My favorite class so far is Mandarin 101. Because my teacher is CUTE AND ASIAN. lol, female asian teachers make me so happy. I don't even care that she's going to teach me to speak with a Taiwanese accent. <3
IN OTHER NEWS. ART.
Hey, did I ever tell you guys that a drawing of mine got published in volume 6 of the comic "Bizenghast" by M. Alice LeGrow? CHECK IT THE FUCK OUT. It's this silly thing that somehow placed in the author's online contest (LOL, MIRACLE): http://mercuryfox22.deviantart.com/art/Snuggly-Octopi-Love-119616389
Ha. Octopus people.
So now I'm in mass print. HAHAHAHA but I still suck.
Moving on. How many of you are familiar with the OC contests that sometimes go down at deviantArt?
...right. Let me explain. These contests usually require participants to make original characters, probably draw out a reference sheet for them. Then, you (a participant) are matched up against another participant. You look at their character's ref sheet.
And you draw a short comic in which your character and your opponent's character DUKE IT OUT. (Usually.) Then it goes to the judges. If the judges decide your comic is better (meaning better organized/more engaging/well written/cleaner/ or etc) than your opponents', your comic becomes "cannon" and you move on to the next round.
It's such an awesome idea. imho. You get to practice drawing in comic form. You get your creative juices flowing. And it's FUN. 8D
So I'm entering one of these contests, lol. One that's based on Avatar. 8D MY DORKINESS NEVER FAILS.
Four Nations Tournament. Read about it, bitches: http://yuanfang.livejournal.com/13165.html
This is my entry/ref sheet for my OC: http://mercuryfox22.deviantart.com/art/FNT-Jinpa-Li-133987474
FFFFF I'M SO EXCITED. I know it's totally dorky, BUT GOSH I AM SO EXCITED. <3
And and and. People over at the ASN oekaki boards are awesome and and and it's bad if I like how OTHER people draw my OC more than how I myself draw him, right? XD;;
Cute Jin by luna-wannabe, and
More realistic Jin by shinohahn. <---adhsfgahdfgj ESPECIALLY THIS ONE OMFG. <3
Ha ha ha I need sleep.
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