All art is at once surface and symbol

- I finished Picture of Dorian Gray~ Mwoiiiiiiing~! ♥♥♥ Absolutely adored it, of course. The one New Year's Resolution I actually accomplished, haha. XD

- The Wizard in "Harvest Moon: Animal Parade" is in love with me now~ ♥ I finally bought a Level 2 House so he could finally move in, so I gotta raise him to nine hearts and get the Blue Feather~

- I'm completely unready for December and I'm nervous as hell about Yuletide and my Christmas fic for my friend. Auuuuuuugh. DDD:

- The new Trixie episode was absolutely amazing, which more than made up for that awful CMC episode. If I didn't ship Twixie (Twilight Sparkle/Trixie) before, I do now~ ♥♥♥ Also, Zecora training Twilight? Fuck yes.

- Pokemon feels incredibly limiting without working Wi-Fi. :(

- I've got your present, redwoodalchan! Thank you so much! The snowy owl plushie is adorable. ;;

I went on a spending spree on ponies at Toys R' Us~ Not only do I now own all of Wave 7 (Cherry Berry, Lyra Heartstrings, Trixie Lulamoon, Sunny Rays) I got the final Zecora they had~ ♥♥♥

My Little Pony Fair and Convention 2012

Man, there's no way I'd be able to go. :P Unlike Bronycon which centers primarily around G4 and FiM (mainly the latter), My Little Pony Fair is the place to go if you're a collector. Probably for the best since I'd be broke in a millisecond anyway. I'LL BE DROWNING IN PONIES AND IT STILL WON'T BE ENOUGH.

I've been thinking of styling the hair of my G4 ponies, since I found nifty tutorials on getting cartoon hair such as Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie. I wanted to make my HasbrOCs pretty too, so they'd have personalities and headcanons outside being expies of the Mane 6. Only one problem though... I was never exactly a fashionista growing up. When I was little, I didn't care about doing crazy things to doll's hair, since I'd basically comb it a couple times then leave it wild. While I've had my hair braided sometimes and it was awesome (I love having braids. ;;), I don't know how to braid myself. So being a hairstylist for my own ponies? Awkwaaaaaard. Practice makes perfect and all, but I'm terrified about cutting hair. I don't want to accidentally mutilate my ponies. :( I'm also torn between letting Blossomforth keep her gorgeous locks or cut that beauty away just so she'd look more like Blossomforth in the show. Aaaaaaaaugh, decisions decisions. I love Blossomforth's long hair, I don't want to chop it off. I want her to be more like Shaymin. *sob*

I got to spend three days with Jimmy for three days of fun~ ♥ We're unlocking the final boards in the original "Mario Party", (Rule: Skip/Deliberately lose games like "Paddle Battle" so you don't ruin controllers) and I played half of "Portal" and watched Jimmy beat the rest because I couldn't figure out the last puzzles for the life of me. We watched "Battle Royale" at Dave's apartment, which is probably one of my favorite movies now. <.< I gotta get my hands on the book and manga! We went to Lock-In, which is basically a place where you stay up all night to play pinball and arcade machines free of charge. (You still gotta pay to get in and for extra drinks and pizza, as well as signing up for tournaments, but still) I played and beaten "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace", but I only got beyond the first level in "Dragon's Lair II" before I ragequitted. Deranged Animation aside, that game is friggin' hard. :/ I got the top High Score in "Bubble Bobble II" though! Some dude praised me on my skills and said I should be in the Smash Bros. tournament. :o Apparently I was at it for so long that someone was waiting their turn. Whoops. I managed to beat the game in time though, even if I didn't get the true ending. (Fuck that, I'm raising a kingdom as a bubble-blowing dinosaur queen! Why would I want to be human again?)

I watched some guy play crappy SNES games on an emulator, which was fun. Once AVGN is done with his movie, he's got to review the "Flintstones" games. The SNES one based off the live-action film feels reminiscent of the "Wayne's World" game, and it's so deranged in its Uncanny Valley it isn't funny. Just... look at Fred's face and the "health emoticons." wtf.

I didn't go for the Smash Bros. tournament 'cause hey, it was No-Items-Final-Destination-Only crap anyway. :/ I would've signed for the Pokemon tournament in a heartbeat, but B/W wasn't allowed (not compatible with "Pokemon Battle Revolution") and I had already moved all my best Pokemon from Diamond/Platinum/HeartGold. Aaaaaaaaugh. DDD: Those bastards used Garchomp and Legendaries, I would've wiped the floor with them with Togekiss. >( (And if we're going the Legendaries route, Shaymin will be there for the whooping too) Thankfully, the trainer without Legendaries won, and his Breloom cleaned some guy's Mewtwo's clock~ ♥ Which goes to show how awesome Breloom is. Spore/Leech Seed/Substitute/Bullet Seed doubled with Poison Heal/Toxic Orb combo, baby. 8) He had a Swampert with Jimmy's name, awwww~ ♥ There was a hilarious match where someone challenged a trainer with a Magikarp called "YOURFUCKED" and it was getting beaten up by a Shuckle. Eventually, the guy only had Magikarp (poisoned and in the yellow) left, then he forfeited the match because "I didn't want to see my baby get hurt." Awww. Crowning Moment of Heartwarming there.

When we got back to Dave's (and crashed for a while, because Lock-In wiped us both, and we had no pillows. :( ), Jimmy introduced me to "Minecraft" and I'm kind of hooked now. <.<;;; I'll have to buy the game on PC, nomnomnom. We also went to Target because I wanted to see if "Pokemon Conquest" and any G4 pony I didn't own was there, but no luck. "Pokemon Conquest" was nowhere to be found, and except for expensive playsets and a Fluttershy or two, the "My Little Pony" section was wiped clean. :( I was hoping Honeybuzz or Plumsweet would be there, but alas.

Jimmy has also sent me a .pdf of the entire "50 Shades Of Twilight Boredom Romanticized Abuse Grey" trilogy, so I'll likely be snarking on that later. Buwahahahaha.

You’ve somehow acquired a magical dimension-splicing conversion van and are planning an epic cross-country road trip with your friends and fandom. First, pick ten travel buddies from anywhere -- real life, fiction, OCs, celebrities, whatever. Then answer these questions to see how cracktastic your adventure turns out to be.

1. Tavros
2. Fluttershy
3. Rarity
4. Grimsley
5. Zee-Tee
6. Raggedy Ann
7. Raggedy Andy
8. Karkat
9. Gamzee
10. Pinkie Pie

( Ponies, trolls, ragdolls, and an Elite 4 member. )

I'm going to guess Fluttershy's the driver, 'cause it's a VERY bad idea to let Gamzee drive.

"I'll catch you yet, my pretties. Oh yes. As soon as one of you little birds, or monkeys, or bears touches this net... you'll be mine! MINE!"

Last night, my new friends from IRL gave me early birthday gifts~ ♥♥♥ Namely the two ponies in my icon~ ♥

My Fluttershy pony won't be alone anymore~ ♥♥♥

Nicole, Eric, Dave and Andrew, thank you thank you thank you. And my lovely boyfriend James, of course~ ♥ You have no idea how much you made me squee~ ♥♥♥♥♥

After I read Ash & May IKEA pr0n (NSFW) using Fluttershy's voice, James and I read Cupcakes. You know, that infamous MLP:FiM fanfic.

I was actually expecting it to be worse. :o Maybe I'll be hit with the Fridge Horror later, but that was more entertaining than anything else. And I consider myself to be a squeamish person, haha. XD All the same, if you haven't read Cupcakes, I'll advise you to click with caution, 'cause they're not kidding about the gore and corrupting your image of Pinkie Pie. :o READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

That said, Puri did the dramatic reading while "Hip to Be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News played in the background. "TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT THE GALLOPING GALA NOW, YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD!"

Puri doodled a picture of Pinkamena holding a razor, aka Pinkie Todd. Sure enough, someone's made The Ballad of Pinkie Pie. Excellent. 8)

Finally, the official trailer for Cupcakes: The Movie is made of sheer brilliance. Oh yeah, can't forget this clip from The Fluttershining!

I've been kindly linked to the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic maker, so I've been busy making ponies~ ♥

( Like this Missing No. Pony I spruced up~ )

It was too good an opportunity to pass up. Nomnomnom~ ♥