Roxie Faye

[color=#9933ff][size=1]The thing is, once you say "don't read this!" you get more people reading it. Anyway, I need cosplay advice. Usually I don't like asking OBers for any sort of crucial advice, because it makes ME uncomfortable (not this time, though), but I'm going to. And you all better reply, or I'll haunt you with my Wand of Purple Polish (WoPP), and corner you with a PM (j/k ^_~). But I've been in sort of panic-stricken/frenzied/adrenaline-ish/stressed-out mode lately because of cosplaying. Anime Next (held at the meadowlands in NJ) is on June 17, 18, and 19. My friends and I are going on the 18th. And I wanted to cosplay (this is my first at a convention, second cosplay ever). But for the life of me, I can't decide who I want to cosplay. I was originally going to go as Yuko from XXXholic (clamp), wearing this dress: [url]http://www.kimihiro.net/images/index.php?spgmGal=color_illustrations&spgmPic=12&spgmFilters=#pic[/url] but I've been thinking about going as Edward Elric. The upside of going as Yuko is that I wouldn't have to do anything with my hair at all, since it's already long (not as long as the picture, but long), and dark brown. The upside of going as Ed Elric is that I'm short. 5' 1" and 1/4 of an inch, to be exact. I wanted to go as Ed because his V/A (American) is going to be there (so is Roy Mustang - eeee! Both V/A's of cute Anime Characters!!). The downside of going as Yuko: The dress isn't as spectacular as I would have liked, but I've worn that color (in velvet) before, and it looks good on me, but for some reason, that color is why I don't like the dress as much as I should. O_o; The other downside is that there's no seams in the picture; I want to make it authentic, and trying to figure out what to do with the dress without making an seams tremendously obvious. And lastly, the fact that she's not a well known anime (manga, rather) character is either a plus or a negative side, whichever one you want to put it in. So, er... the downsides of playing Edward Elric (from FullMetal Alchemist): Well, I don't have blonde hair, and I'm not permanately dying it, so it's either hair spray, or more money for a wig (and I don't have a money-well or a money-tree in my backyard). The second is the automail - I don't even want to think about how I'm doing that; it's making me sick. And the third downside is the sheer number of people who want to cosplay Ed Elric. [For example, on the Anime Next forums, there's about six who've already said they're going as Ed.] I'm afraid if I start on a costume for Ed now, it won't look good at all. And I'm panic stricken about all this because I'm going to get the fabric for this on Saturday. And I've never used a pattern for something, and the last costume I made (Alice McCoy from Digimon Tamers) took me forever to make (and I knew how I was going about making the dress that time, and it was less fabric to work with). Gah!!! *runs around like a chicken with her head cut off* Please, any advice at all would be tremendously appreciated from all of you!!!!! *continues pacing back and forth nervously* - Roxie[/size][/color]

[color=#9933ff][size=1]Hmm, a lot of people have said what I wanted to say. I agree with Ken and Chabichou - a small group of people does not always represent the majority. I also agree with Ken that it [b]is[/b] sad that our coutnry can't invest money into finding alternative fule for the day when *gasp* there won't be any fossil fuel left!!!!! But that'll never happen because as anyone who lives in America knows, our government is f*ed up beaurocracy at it's best; and oil companies have a large stake in our government. Like the way cigarettes will never be illegal because they have a large steak in our government as well. Pisses me off. I already knew that nations other than the US are paying $6.00 per gallon. Like Gavin said, it's pretty simple. American consumers are the biggest market for oil, so we buy a lot. You buy in bulk, it's always cheaper. Just another note to point out, a lot of nations in Europe (like England, France, Spain), Japan, and I don't know about Australia, but I'll assume (someone can always correct me) actually have working mass transit systems. You can take a train or a bus from a bus or train stop, and actually go somewhere!!! I'm still trying to grasp the concept, and am wondering if it works as well as I think it does, since I'm unfamiliar with mass transit that works. In America, if you don't live in a city, the only way you're getting around is by CAR. The mass transit system to NYC is laughable (actually, NYC has the longest commute time followed by Chicago). I mean, even [i]in[/i] the city, some commutes take 40-50 minutes because of the subway or bus systems. The closest train station to me, in NJ, is about two hours away, and I recently found out there's one bus that runs through our town (and I don't even know where it goes). Now that's sad. So we waste more gas, because cars are the [strike]best[/strike] only way to get around, and of course, because we have a larger nation, and more people in it. A dur. :/ Someone in Georgia has cheap gas? You sux. And yeah, I found out recently that NJ has cheap gas. It averages about $2.17 for regular, where I am. Down at the shore, it's like $1.95. Grr... You know, I have [i]heard[/i] some thing which has lead me to think we should stop buying Saudi oil, but I have no facts. So how about I tell you what I know, and then you all can correct the silly rumors I've heard, okie? Okie. Sounds good. Basically, I'm under the impression that Saudi Arabia and other oil holding countries are funneling money into terrorist activities (some of them in Iraq where our boys are getting killed?), so we should all stop buying their oil. True, untrue, or unconfirmed?[/size][/color]

[color=#9933ff][size=1]I think things should stay the way they are and have only Mods, Team Leaders, and Admins be able to delete threads, or else, yeah, someone could come along and delete their thread, even if it has tons of replies. Hey, at least it's not like the default on an invisionfree board where you can't even delete yoru own posts. I've been to several forums like that where the admin didn't bother to change the setting. Made me absolutely crazy. China, if you would like to remove what you've said, you can always edit your post with something that explains how you have retracted whatever you were going to say, and to ask one of the mods to please delete the thread. I know the exact same feeling you get. It makes [b]you[/b] feel really stupid about your mistake, but [b]no one[/b] (or hardly anyone) on OB will have noticed, and those that did aren't going to say anything mean. Besides, so what if you made a double of a thread, or forgot a rating? I've done much worse than that, and despite what I've always said, no one has ever run after me with a pitchfork. Everyone's too nice for that. ^^; [/size][/color]

[color=#9933ff]I've only pulled an all-nighter once in my entire life. How sad. And it wasn't even on a school night. =( I was on at 2:00, which is usually when I go to sleep on Saturday nights and such. But my friend came on, and I started to talk to him. I was going to tell him I had to go to sleep, but he seemed really down, so I kept talking to him. He had jsut broken up with his girlfriend (someone who was my friend at the time), and I talked to him for about two hours. It was 4:00 then, and I waited for the sun to come up so I could say I'd pulled an all nighter (it came up at around 6:00 A.M.). And then I went to sleep until 11:00 A.M. I definitely need my beauty rest. I yawned a lot during the day. ^^;;;;;;; [/color]

[color=#9933ff]How sad. I can't believe he's dead. I mean, I've been following this story extensively, but I was so shocked when I found out he had passed away. He was a great man, and he is with God now. Amen. Edit: Forgot to mention, today is my mom's birthday. She considers it an honour to share her birthday with the day the Pope died, since he was such a holy man.[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Catholic that I am, I've been following the story since 3:30 P.M. EST yesterday. Some dumb--- at school said he was dead - I checked MSN.com and CNN.com and he was still living, but I've really been following it, since. It's about 7:15 and some odd minutes in the vatican as I type this at 12:15 EST. I just heard an MSNBC report that he appears better than last night when it really seemed like he could go at any moment, and we were all waiting for that statement from the vatican for hours, so who knows how long he will last? This is a urinary infection. An infection which means that there is an insanely small chance that he can get better if given the proper antibiotics. I heard there are a couple doctors in his residency, so who knows what's going on - bloody vatican and their secrecy. =/ It's almost tantalizing, because now there are some saying he's feeling better - giving hope where there shouldn't be any. The Pope was supposed to die over 10 hours ago, and here he is, clinging to life. What a surprise/miracle he's still living. Breaking news --- the press staff in the Vatican just freaking left, and aren't due back until an hour and a half from now. I guess he's not feeling as bad as last night. I personally think of Pope John Paul II as a great man. I do not agree with many of his pro-life choices (I'm pretty liberal), but I respect his consistency and his perseverance, and setting an example for the church in his descisions. He's, of course, Polish - and the first Polish Pope ever. He secretly studied theology during the reign of the Nazi's, fought against the Russian Communists (the assasination attempt was attempted by someone hired by the Communists, I believe), and met with many people, including the leaders of Israel and Yassir Arafat. He pushed for peace in the region - on both sides. Something rather trivial that I found as proof of his good nature: When he was little in Poland, the neighborhood kids always played games after school and such. The teams were always divided into the Christians and the Jewish. There were never enough kids on the Jewish team, and the pope would always volunteer to play on their team to make the teams more even. Heh. I do feel sorry for him - dying infront of the whole world like this. I hope he suffers little, and is greeted by the Almighty & Jesus, in heaven.[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Yes, like Petie said, a lot of spyware comes in the form of bundled software. When I had grokster (before I stopped d/ling (downloading) mp3s), my computer reeked of spyware - and that was in the days when I didn't even know what spyware was. ^^;;; I'm always getting spyware anyway, because I d/l lots of crap from downloads.com with crap attached to it, so that when you install it, it installs the spyware, too. I would really not advise d/ling stuff unless you're sure of it's reputability or know how to get rid of the spyware. I'm still debating whether or not to delete registry keys of spyware because nothing but panda scan picked it up. :/ And I get popups from it, too. Annoying-ness. >< Er... what was the point of my self-centered story? Oh yeah. Be careful of what you decide to download and install. Heh. That's my two cents of unneeded advice. =/[/color]

[color=#9933ff]I agree that everybody blames the media, when everything starts in the community and at home. This boy, for instance, had a hard time at school, and at home. Ahem, don'tcha think that might be the problem, and not the media. Everything else teens are doing - killings, sex, drugs, etc., are all blamed on the media, but does anyone ever take notice to how their parents are, or their home life? Sometimes, in suburban communities (like mine, with the town next door, and all their snotty rich kids), it's the parents who blame the media, because they don't want to take responsibility for not taking adequate care of their kids! Finger pointing. drive_monster was also saying how when that kid got expeleld, everybody was cheering. I have a similar story. Years ago, when I was in seventh grade, there was a kid in eighth grade, who killed himself by hanging himself. And you know what? The next day on the bus, kids were [i]glad[/i] that he was dead - they didn't care at all. He had been depressed for a long time - probably because of those kids. I mean, they also made fun of a few muslims at our school (this was way back when, in freaking [b]middle[/b] school) after the 9/11 attacks, and I've said this in a couple other thread, kids in my grade use to make derogatory comments toward Asians, one kid toward hispanics, and a series of graffitti with derogatory asian names and swastikas. They're the ruthless people that make our world a ****** place. There was another kid I was just thinking of. He moved here from Germany when he was in 8th grade, and he use to be someone that got picked on all the time on the bus, because he was learning english. He used to be really scrawny and I remember he always wore flannel shirts. And then, last year, when I got to high school, he wore lots of black & chains, smoked cigarettes, pot, crack for a while, etc. And while he certainly could have done all this for no reason, or an unrelated reason, but this made me wonder if he did it to be cool or "fit in," because now, well, he's one of the most popular kids in school, and everybody likes him. And one last rant from me, on a personal note, I can see why this kid did what he did. Like I said, kids are ruthless (who will eventually become evil, ruthless adults). No one makes fun of me, per se, but it's more like they ignore me completely. It's driven me to the edge of sanity at times and sent me down and back through the rabbit hole a few times (wow that's a crappy metaphor). High school is the worst four years of your life. And it pisses me off that everybody lied to me and said I'd have a great time. *screams*[/color]

[color=#9933ff]I don't mean to rain on your parade (sorry) but from an economic stand point, currency is extremely important. Here's crappy example: Say that I only sell dry erase markers and that's how I make my living. You, miryoku, only sell bowls and dd protector only sells pillows. And I want a bowl, so I trade with you. Ok, cool. But then I decide I want a pillow. So I try and trade with dd protector, but they don't want any dry erase markers - but a battery. So now I have to find someone who's willing to trade a dry erase marker for a battery, and then trade the battery for the pillow. It's a lot of work! I think currency is important, but if I were to start your own community, there could be bartering [i]and[/i] currency. And maybe it would be acceptable to converse will the seller for a lower price - not fixed prices. Actually, I was rather annoyed when M. Night Shymalan's [i]The villiage[/i] didn't have any currency. I thought that was kinda strange. :/ I would love to start a new community as an experiment to see what would happen if there weren't any societal influences (the original participants wouldn't teach them to their children). I've always thought of it on an island, though, not the prairie. ^^;;[/color]

[color=#9933ff]I'm sorry to say I can't read any of the fics you guys have made links to because I haven't really watched much of those shows. =( It's really late at night and I don't feel like selecting some good authors (I have many), but I promise I will, some other time. It took me a really long time to figure out this thread got moved to Anthology. Wow. lol. And yes, I can attest to the fact that Luminaire is a fanfiction addict. She's killed several small forests with all the paper she's used. She finds great stuff though, and then gives the best of the best for me to read, which I enjoy. Does anyone find that fanfiction sometimes changes your perception about certain characters? Before I entered Gundam wing fanfiction, I wasn't too keen on shonen-ai, and afterwards, it was perfectly fine for me. Or, in Digimon, I had never thought about a certain couple working, but after reading one really awesome fic with them together, it totally changed my perception on it (it was Daikari, btw).[/color]

[color=#9933ff]I knew from the beginning that you were talking about cats, but in the second stanza, I clearly understood the effect you were going for - to induce the reader into a more sexual meaning of the poem, and then, at the last line, the joke's on them for thinking dirty. I don't often go into Anthology so I don't see your work too often unless you point it out to me, but great job on this. =)[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Heh, as apposed to Azure and Shin's reasons for signing up, it was the opposite for me. Everybody wanted to have a myO, and I didn't want to be so generic, like everyone else. I wanted to be so different that I totally did not allow myself to have something I wanted. I was going through one of my "hate" phases in my love-hate relationship with OB & co. Eventually my therapist talked me into having a myO. I like it because sometimes I want to say really personal things about myself and let people know it, but I can't just walk up to somebody randomly and say it. In a blog or myO, I can say it and let everyone (who chooses to read), know it. And I like that. I have something private (a journal, I guess you'd call it), where I write down absolutely everything, especially the things no one should see. After a while, I tried to abandon my myO because I got fed up with the stupid comments box. Drove me insane that I would visit everybody's myO, comment, and rarely would anyone comment back. There's actually a whole slew of issues I had with the comments box which are just as silly as that. In the end, I found out that I could just turn off the comments box, and now I love my myO so much more. It's great, and it's solved all of the issues I've ever had with the comments box. Baron asked me once if I could put it back up, and I told him that I feel that if someone really felt moved by something I said, they'd go the extra mile to PM me. Speaking of which, I want everyone to do me a favor. Visit my myO and please respond (PM me, either on OB or myO) to the most recent post. It would mean so so much to me - you have no idea how much. Please do that now: [url]http://www.myotaku.com/users/mistressRoxie[/url] [/color]

[color=#9933ff]Wow. I totally missed this thread the first time around. I hope I?m allowed to post in it still. ^^;;;;; First I?ll reply to all the funny things I thought were worth replying to: Page 1: Panda said something about how a mod shouldn?t go on a powertrip. And I immediately thought of someone. *wink* (It?s someone banned by the way, so no one should think I?m winking at them.) Shy and Sara - Digi-mods are the bestest!!!! *huggles you guys* Besides, if it weren?t for Miss Ginnylyn, there would be no mod rod and no mod rod smiley face! ^.^ And yes, I remember devi?s ?overzealous? comment, too, Shy. Someone made a big whole thread about how the mods in the Digimon area were too strict after you cleaned up that insane spam-tastic topic about how digimon were real. I remember thinking ?thank God he closed it!? Eheh. And I remember the Nazi accusations against the both of you. Incredibly frustrating. So was that sticky topic about FMDs and artwork in the Digi forum. *chuckles fondly* Page 2: Shin - XD is all I must say. Shy - I remember that asking rule. I think that was the first thing I learned actually, before the rules (I used common sense until one of the mods, I think Sara, recommended that I read them. lol). So I guess that would really make the ?don?t ask to be a mod? rule #1. ; ) Shugo54 - said mods get all the respect and that is true. I met a lot of my online friends because they were mods. I got bored one day, added all the screen names of the mods to my buddy list and started IMing them. I don?t think I did it to be a suck up or anything, but because they were obviously more well known and I didn?t know anybody, really, I chose mods. I clicked with some of them, had a passing friendship with others, and was totally annoyed by a few. And those mods who did become my friends introduced me to all their friends. Yes, Charles and Ken that?s how you both got to be my friends, and for that, I wouldn?t change my stupid method at all. Ironically, my method also gave me funny friends like Kevin. *bursts out laughing* Charles - Having mentioned shugo?s comment, I agree with what Charles said after that. I?ve had my share of fair-weathered friends (obviously not through moderating OB, don?t be stupid; but I have had them) and it?s not something you want. Sent me into a downward spiral for about a year and a half. Not fun. >_< Page 4: Skipped over the Azure/shy/James debate. Boring. Page 6: ?Sko quoted Reise, and I must have missed what she said, before. I?ve been a moderator for several different forums on another board. I even had my own forum specifically created for me to moderate one time. *huggles Charles deeply* I had fun. While a mod at the other forums, we had such silly silly AIM staff chats - yelling, smashing, and banging fists on tables. ; ) While that message board was a little bit silly, actually, I think it?s okay to say that on OB, the mods have fun too. If they didn?t, they?d go absolutely insane from cleaning up the spammy posts they see. Perfect example of fun on the job: Syk3 - Shy switch. It was great. Confused the heck outta me until I saw the post about it in Shy?s myO. lol. On that silly message board, I?ve been mod, mod for several things at once, and even admin. And of course, a regular member, and even banned at one point. keke. I was pretty good at being a mod, but I screwed up as an admin. First night on the job, I was asked to delete an unused forum in which there were two topics. I forgot to move them to a different forum before deleting that one. *laughs* Thank god it wasn?t anything major though. LOL. On a different message board, I was a mod, as well, and it was all good. I think I got appointed to both positions because I knew the owners personally, and they were relatively small places anyways. *shrug* I always thought the best ?perk? or ?novelty? of being a mod would be the mod forum. On the other forums, I loved having access to it, and yet, nothing exciting ever happened. There?s something wrong with me. lol. The best was when I tried to start my own forums. There were three mods - Luminaire, Corey, and myself. And because I had labeled it as such, we used it as a chill-out forum. We had an insane pillow fight with feathers in this huge ?house? we made up. It was great. P.S.: Now that I?ve been talking about the mod?s forum, just out of curiosity, does it count toward your overall post total? Just wondering.[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Yeah, I think there was a recent thread on this, but it might be too old now. Weather is strange. A couple weeks ago it was completely sunny, mid 50 degrees F, and the next day it friggin' snowed on us! (And I got a cold/virus from someone. Blegh) Oh, speaking of weird weather, in another recent weather related thread on otakuboards, we were debating whether or not the tsunami's effects were great enough to cause choppy waves in California. I said that they could, and I stand mostly correct. The information I found doesn't say that the specific side-effect was violent waves, bu the movie clearly shows a global effect from the tsunami. I found this when the thread was still going, but at the time I didn't have DSL to view the movie, which takes forever to load on dial-up. And then when I got DSL, I completely forgot about the link until now. >_< But here's the URL: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake[/url] and click on part 2, and scoll down a little bit until you see the link for the footage of the global effect. Anyone with dial-up should NOT try this, as it will do something spazzy to your computer.[/color]

[color=#9933ff]If that's possible, James, thank you. I really appreciate that. If it can't be done, don't worry, but thank you for taking my suggestion into consideration. ^_^ *pounce* Mouse - I know. I can sometimes indentify people by old banners but most totally change everything. Gah. Many people have pointed out that they make an effort to keep their old user names in their sig, at least for a while, and I really do appreciate that. It's really helpful for me, so thank you! =)[/color]

[color=green]Ohh. Thank you elfpirate for clarifying it. Yay, my mom wasn't lying! (She does that sometimes. Like the time she told me my grandfather walked from Beijing to Bangkok - WHICH HE DIDN'T!!!) Yeah, Catholics and even more broadly, Christians have a lot to answer for "convert to my religion or I shoot." Which is one of the reasons I don't like religions, but that's an entirely different and off-topic debate. :/ I think there's something wrong with me - I've never EVER heard of this pinching thing. But then, I've always worn green, so... heh? But really, I have never heard of it. I'm definitely missing something. >_> By the way, I'm always wearing green. I have a shoelace decoration, and it's a green foot. So I'm always in green! ^_^[/color]

[color=green]Today was a great day. I looked really good with my green t-shirt and my green sweater. I also wore my hair in a ponytail with a green ribbon. I'm also Irish, by the way, that's why I had to dress up. I love the Irish and I think they rock! (They also have rotten luck, which I have acquired. V___V) I don't have any specific stories, per se, but I can give you a bit of an Irish history lesson. Alright, I'm sure you've all seen Irish stepdancers, including those [u]amazing[/u] people on Riverdance. If you noticed, they don't move their arms, and usually keep their back straight. This goes way back to the time when the British were persecuting the Irish (thus some of the hostilities today, along with OTHER reasons). The English wouldn't let the Irish do anything - even dancing was forbidden. That's a dumb thing to tell the Irish. So instead, they would tap their beat to the rhythm of the music - technically not dancing. Gradually, it evolved into the step dance with those crazy feet movements. At least, I think that's the story (my mom may be lying to me - she does that ALL the time. V_V)[/color]

[color=#9933ff]That's exactly why it bothers me. I like to know who visits Otakuboards. If they all change their names and don't put it in their sigs, and since I'm not friends with [b]every single person[/b] on Otakuboards, how will they re-acquaint themselves with me? You see? That was my original request. =/ I realize it's not very practical for the mods to run around as the signature police, yelling at people who don't leave it in there (lol, that's kind of silly too), but at the very least, maybe an announcement/ reminder for people to leave it in there? v.v[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Thank you for all your great suggestions, you guys. While I don't have $40 for a burner, much less $300 for an external hard drive, I will keep those in mind once I get a [b]job[/b]. lol. I think they're good ideas if I had the money, so thank you. ^_^ Luminaire was telling me about something her general manager at work suggested (she works at staples). She said that he told her that she could always buy an internal hard drive, and put it inside an external casing that already has a USB port, etc., etc. and that it's probably a little less than $100 altogether for one with 80 gigs. Anyway, I found out most of the space was eaten up by maxis games (sims and sims2). I took off sims1 so it's "only" eating up 3.4 gigs now. [i]only[/i]. Well, since I don't have any money, it's okay for now. I think you all for the suggestions which I will decide upon. Muchly appreciated. *huggle* ^_^[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Argh. The constant name changes on this board are killing me. It's so annoying when someone changes their name and doesn't put something their sig to say "My name is changed to..." It makes me think that they're a completely different person, and that I don't know them at all, and it's really very frustrating. I mean, two minutes ago, I just found out that Generic NPC #3 is Semjaza because Sage called him "semmy." Is Tony trying to make me feel stupid by changing his name? Switching it up so that he can avoid me on the boards, the crazy weirdo that I am? Obviously that's not true, and I'm only using Tony as an example (please don't be offended. I loves you Semji. *huggle*), but there are so many people running around these boards changing their names every two seconds that I just can't keep up with them all. I mean, how would you all like if it, tomorrow, when you came to OB, James has changed his name to "The sandman," Panda was "Machine of Doom," and wristcutter was "HappyEasterBunny" and none of them told you they had changed their name? (I have nothing against those people either. Merely more examples.) It's really really really annoying. I'd really like it if people kept the line "Former user name: _____" for at least a month or two, or SOMETHING to indicate that their username is different. Ever since OB allowed name changes, I feel like I don't know almost anybody anymore, and I bet half the people on this board are still from v4, lol. (v4 was when I joined. ... yeah.) If something, [i]anything[/i] could be done to clear up confusion, it would be muchly appreciated by me. (or if you have any other suggestions how to clarify name changes, please feel free to post them here.) P.S.: I sincerely apologize if this post sounds annoying, yelling-ish, or whiny. I have a cold, and I feel like everything I say is extremely funny in one way or another. But I have been thinking about asking about this name change stuff for a while, and now that I'm at home with time on my hands, here I am in the suggestions forum. P.P.S.: I did not mean to offend anyone by using their name in this post. It was merely for examples. I love you all![/color]

[color=#9933ff]On every version of OtakuBoards before v7, in every suggestion thread about this, I asked for it to be changed to the system that it is now, and I find it very workable, and I love it. I know of a rare few people who acted overly pompus because of their title (Otaku, no life, etc.) so I do appreciate the new system. I think this is a bit silly to debate the custom titles If you really really wanted yours to say "Otaku" "No Life" "I live here" just make that your custom title instead. lol. Besides, you can't have everything, where would you put it?[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Oh my gosh. Your stuff is really good. I like the banner with the flower a LOT. I get what you were trying to do with it, and I like it a lot. I know that the first four have already been commented on and all, but I wanted to point out that your text is really bland in some areas. It's like you were using arial or helvetica. It gets really boring. Anything, even Times New Roman would have been better. The Eva picture? I think it's pretty good, considering you drew it all yourself (I could never get that good even if I tried). The background is too busy and takes away from the fantasticness of the picture. If it was more black, it would be better. The only real criticism for the last one is that the shade you used to um.... shade the suit is a little bit too blue. It kinda looks like the sun is setting and that's why the suit is dark, but then in her hair, the same effect doesn't exist, it looks like its daytime. But I do like the last one. I could never get that good. >__>[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Hey, at least you're not homophobic. That's an abused phobia if you ask me. Most people aren't homophobic, just intolerant. I think there really are people out there who are homophobic (in a psychologial disorder way), and if you're not, it's not nice to claim you are. Meh. >___> I don't really have to many strange fears, but I have a problem with being on the edge of something at a high height. For instance, when I'm in the mall on the second floor, I can't be near the railing because I'm afraid I'm going to fall over. If I'm high up in a glass building, I either don't look at the stuff below, or stay away from the glass. I get afraid that someone will push me through the glass becausee I'm skinny. V_V Also, I can't step on storm drains (both of them make my heart race). I think it has something to do with my size. I'm really REALLY skinny (I'm healthy and I only weigh 85 lbs!) , and I'm afraid that I can either be pushed over the edges of the railing and fall down (because of my weight), or that I'll slip into the little holes in the storm drain (or some of them have that big opening where I think my head will fit through), and I'll get stuck down there. I always walk around them, and stick to the inside edge when I'm at a mall. I hate the noice the vacuum cleaner makes, but I don't think that's a phobia...[/color]

[color=#9933ff]Wow. I'm all happy and excited. I have DSL now!!!! (It's a big step up from AOL dial-up, okay? Let me bask in my glory, revel in my new connection speed. >O ) The thing is, my sister who hooked it all up also yelled at me for not having enough space on my hard drive left. I have about 15 GB total and only five left to store stuff. So she told me to get rid of some of my junk (image files, mostly. The MP3s are staying in there because they don't fit on a floppy. lol) or put it somewhere else. (she's also supposed to get us more memory, so I'll have even more. heh.) I don't have a CD burner, so I guess floppy disk is my storage tool of choice. Just out of curiosity, is there any better way to permanately store some of my image files and other stuff? I have no problem with floppy disks except for the fact that you need a LOT of them. I will use them, but was just wondering if you know of anything else (what that might be, don't ask me. I'm the computer idiot. lol.)[/color]

[color=#9933ff]*raises hand* Me. Guilty as charged. ^^; It's actually surprising how few people on OtakuBoards like fanfiction. Or they're all just afraid to say so for fear of being "uncool." But I love it. Fanfiction.net is the best place. I have tons of awesome Digimon and Harry Potter fanfics. I also have a nice Gundam wing author and some really good Artemis fowl (better than the books) fanfics, as well. BTW, when I mean, i have those, I mean that I have links to those stories. I don't write fanfiction at all. I'm too lazy to write down all my ideas. (If you want any of those I mentioned, PM me and I'll give you some links.) When I first found fanfiction, I was totally obsessed with it, and I'd read it all the time. That's why I have all those great authors. They're a few years old, but they're still good authors and stories. Fanfiction is the best. It's a great way to have fun with the characters you already know and love. I love it. ^_^[/color]