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I hate winter illnesses. I hate sore throats. I hate sore throats that go away and then come back with a vengeance and actually make it hard to sleep. As miserable as they are, I've hardly ever had that problem. But I sure did the last time I tried to sleep. Oh please don't make it come back again and do it some more.... It really feels like it might....
Had a really weird dream during the minuscule time I was sleeping where I went to see a play that Richard and Joseph were both in and then visited with them for a while afterwards. Richard left after a while, but I stayed hanging out with Joseph, and then we went to Joseph's place and found that Richard had gone there (WTH). A really odd dream and I'm leaving out some of the odder details, but overall it was really nice. I love dreams where I get to hang out with favorite celebrities!
I did end up drawing that picture for the Control Freak redo I was musing on. Aside from Pikachu once again looking terrible, it's one of those pictures where everything went right. I love that. http://meromeroyui.deviantart.com Of course, it did go behind a Mature Content warning. That was inevitable. And there are eight characters in it: five human, three Pokemon. I love when I can get many characters into a picture without it somehow looking super crowded. Debating whether I might go back later and add the background of the old temple they're in. That would be a lot of gray, though.
I also want to draw a couple of other pictures from the scene: James collapsing, the mask shattering as Jessie breaks free of the control, and Jessie either trying to remove the staff or just sobbing over James' body. I'm not sure if I can properly illustrate that she's trying to pull the staff out instead of pushing it in, but we'll see what happens.
And my poor YGO art folder is tearing. I had to use some more patches of tape on it tonight. But overall it's really full and I need a new folder. I saw some old Pokemon folders with Team Rocket on eBay a couple weeks ago.... Wonder if they're still there....
It's so strange, but I've hardly seen any character folders in stores this year. I saw notebooks, but most of the folders were generic. WTH? I wanted some Turtles folders for my fics, but I couldn't find any.
Also have the problem that I really want to work on the Control Freak redo fic. I did two scenes in the morning. But it seems like I should put up something lighter before doing something this dark (and with more James hurt/comfort). But I'm still iffy on exactly how my human catboy Meowth vignettes are going to work, so I don't feel ready to put any of that up yet. And then the other thing I've been working on is the downfall of Team Rocket as an organization fic, which ... has hurt/comfort with all three of the trio. I guess at least with the mask fic, Jessie is the center focus until the climax, so that's something different from a mostly James focus. Dunno how popular episode redos are in the fandom, although I've seen some here and there. And lots of random oddball stuff. Seems like everyone pretty much writes whatever they want, which is nice.
... Oh, coming to think of it, I do have one other fic I was working on, but I wasn't sure I was actually going to post it. It's just a little follow-up piece to the one with religious content/Joseph's priest character, where Ash goes back to tell Professor Oak everything that happened at St. Matthew Beach and reveals that he's angry at the Pokemon who attacked and killed James when James was trying to protect Ash and Ash told the Pokemon that they didn't mean any harm. It was interesting to explore the idea of Ash badly shaken by what had happened and going through the psychological effects of being angry at a Pokemon, something he thought would never happen. But I wasn't sure how receptive the fans would be and I hadn't quite finished it.
I also plan to do another story set at St. Matthew Beach and heavily involving the starfish Pokemon, but at the moment my mind is so locked into Team Rocket mode that I don't have a lot of plunnies for that one. (Plus, I'm wondering how to work that story with the one where Ash goes back to talk to Professor Oak, since I think the latter would come first, yet I don't see the characters going all the way back to Pallet and then all the way back to St. Matthew Beach for this fic. Although maybe they would because of seeing how upset Ash was about things.... Or hmm, maybe I could have Misty and Brock call Professor Oak and ask him to come out there because they see how upset Ash is and feel he should talk to his mentor....) Maybe I could try writing a random scene of Misty talking with my character Emma about starfish Pokemon. The fic is mostly them bonding over that and the starfish Pokemon getting to shine. And Team Rocket still puzzling over what to do due to everything that happened in the prior fic.
Then I tried to ponder on where the different regions are for Classic Era, since I go with the dub localization to what is apparently the U.S. I had tentatively set Kanto in the Midwest, but I realized that can't work because it's fairly near the ocean, since they're at the ocean in episodes 15-19. And I have James' estate pegged as in Georgia. So then I picked the Southeastern States for Kanto. Maybe Kanto is around Tennessee or something; haven't quite picked that yet. Orange Islands are the Caribbean area. Johto I'm torn on. I want to say West, because they visit a Beverly Hills-ish area and talk about the stars' homes. Only I thought I remembered it being said that Johto is North of Kanto? I'll have to look at that episode again. But North would make sense with the Whirl Islands and Bluefinland/Newfoundland, LOL.
Last night I finally capped the shot from the season 1 opening with Jessie and James, because I just adore it. I originally wanted to have an icon of that, but Meowth wasn't in the shot and I wanted him in the icon too. I think I love the season 1 shot especially because it turns up during part of the "You're my best friend" line. They didn't time things quite right, as I assume it really should have been a line or two down to show that they're who the world is supposed to be defended from, LOL. But I love the way they did it. Hey, who knows, maybe it even was deliberate to show that the antagonists are best friends too. Not sure what to do with it now that I've capped it, though, unless I do an icon of it after all. Or unless I randomly stick it on my profile page....
Ended up buying the Meowth figure on eBay this past evening. I'm pleased on the one hand that I waited, because the price came down a smidge. On the other, I'm not terribly pleased that my total ended up coming out to $6.66. **headdesk.** I am not superstitious about most things, but that is one number I am honestly not crazy about and try to avoid when I can.... But of course, I'm not so bent out of shape about it that I would refuse to buy the figure because the total came out to that. That would be ridiculous. Hopefully he'll get here soon after Jessie and James. Gotta have the whole team together! Then I'll work on getting Ash and Misty. I can get them from the same seller I got Jessie and James from. Not sure yet how to get Brock....
The Jessie and James figures are guaranteed delivery by Monday. The post office site thought they might be here Friday instead, but that fell through. As of tonight they're not far away, though. If today wasn't Sunday, they'd probably get here today.
Had a really weird dream during the minuscule time I was sleeping where I went to see a play that Richard and Joseph were both in and then visited with them for a while afterwards. Richard left after a while, but I stayed hanging out with Joseph, and then we went to Joseph's place and found that Richard had gone there (WTH). A really odd dream and I'm leaving out some of the odder details, but overall it was really nice. I love dreams where I get to hang out with favorite celebrities!
I did end up drawing that picture for the Control Freak redo I was musing on. Aside from Pikachu once again looking terrible, it's one of those pictures where everything went right. I love that. http://meromeroyui.deviantart.com Of course, it did go behind a Mature Content warning. That was inevitable. And there are eight characters in it: five human, three Pokemon. I love when I can get many characters into a picture without it somehow looking super crowded. Debating whether I might go back later and add the background of the old temple they're in. That would be a lot of gray, though.
I also want to draw a couple of other pictures from the scene: James collapsing, the mask shattering as Jessie breaks free of the control, and Jessie either trying to remove the staff or just sobbing over James' body. I'm not sure if I can properly illustrate that she's trying to pull the staff out instead of pushing it in, but we'll see what happens.
And my poor YGO art folder is tearing. I had to use some more patches of tape on it tonight. But overall it's really full and I need a new folder. I saw some old Pokemon folders with Team Rocket on eBay a couple weeks ago.... Wonder if they're still there....
It's so strange, but I've hardly seen any character folders in stores this year. I saw notebooks, but most of the folders were generic. WTH? I wanted some Turtles folders for my fics, but I couldn't find any.
Also have the problem that I really want to work on the Control Freak redo fic. I did two scenes in the morning. But it seems like I should put up something lighter before doing something this dark (and with more James hurt/comfort). But I'm still iffy on exactly how my human catboy Meowth vignettes are going to work, so I don't feel ready to put any of that up yet. And then the other thing I've been working on is the downfall of Team Rocket as an organization fic, which ... has hurt/comfort with all three of the trio. I guess at least with the mask fic, Jessie is the center focus until the climax, so that's something different from a mostly James focus. Dunno how popular episode redos are in the fandom, although I've seen some here and there. And lots of random oddball stuff. Seems like everyone pretty much writes whatever they want, which is nice.
... Oh, coming to think of it, I do have one other fic I was working on, but I wasn't sure I was actually going to post it. It's just a little follow-up piece to the one with religious content/Joseph's priest character, where Ash goes back to tell Professor Oak everything that happened at St. Matthew Beach and reveals that he's angry at the Pokemon who attacked and killed James when James was trying to protect Ash and Ash told the Pokemon that they didn't mean any harm. It was interesting to explore the idea of Ash badly shaken by what had happened and going through the psychological effects of being angry at a Pokemon, something he thought would never happen. But I wasn't sure how receptive the fans would be and I hadn't quite finished it.
I also plan to do another story set at St. Matthew Beach and heavily involving the starfish Pokemon, but at the moment my mind is so locked into Team Rocket mode that I don't have a lot of plunnies for that one. (Plus, I'm wondering how to work that story with the one where Ash goes back to talk to Professor Oak, since I think the latter would come first, yet I don't see the characters going all the way back to Pallet and then all the way back to St. Matthew Beach for this fic. Although maybe they would because of seeing how upset Ash was about things.... Or hmm, maybe I could have Misty and Brock call Professor Oak and ask him to come out there because they see how upset Ash is and feel he should talk to his mentor....) Maybe I could try writing a random scene of Misty talking with my character Emma about starfish Pokemon. The fic is mostly them bonding over that and the starfish Pokemon getting to shine. And Team Rocket still puzzling over what to do due to everything that happened in the prior fic.
Then I tried to ponder on where the different regions are for Classic Era, since I go with the dub localization to what is apparently the U.S. I had tentatively set Kanto in the Midwest, but I realized that can't work because it's fairly near the ocean, since they're at the ocean in episodes 15-19. And I have James' estate pegged as in Georgia. So then I picked the Southeastern States for Kanto. Maybe Kanto is around Tennessee or something; haven't quite picked that yet. Orange Islands are the Caribbean area. Johto I'm torn on. I want to say West, because they visit a Beverly Hills-ish area and talk about the stars' homes. Only I thought I remembered it being said that Johto is North of Kanto? I'll have to look at that episode again. But North would make sense with the Whirl Islands and Bluefinland/Newfoundland, LOL.
Last night I finally capped the shot from the season 1 opening with Jessie and James, because I just adore it. I originally wanted to have an icon of that, but Meowth wasn't in the shot and I wanted him in the icon too. I think I love the season 1 shot especially because it turns up during part of the "You're my best friend" line. They didn't time things quite right, as I assume it really should have been a line or two down to show that they're who the world is supposed to be defended from, LOL. But I love the way they did it. Hey, who knows, maybe it even was deliberate to show that the antagonists are best friends too. Not sure what to do with it now that I've capped it, though, unless I do an icon of it after all. Or unless I randomly stick it on my profile page....
Ended up buying the Meowth figure on eBay this past evening. I'm pleased on the one hand that I waited, because the price came down a smidge. On the other, I'm not terribly pleased that my total ended up coming out to $6.66. **headdesk.** I am not superstitious about most things, but that is one number I am honestly not crazy about and try to avoid when I can.... But of course, I'm not so bent out of shape about it that I would refuse to buy the figure because the total came out to that. That would be ridiculous. Hopefully he'll get here soon after Jessie and James. Gotta have the whole team together! Then I'll work on getting Ash and Misty. I can get them from the same seller I got Jessie and James from. Not sure yet how to get Brock....
The Jessie and James figures are guaranteed delivery by Monday. The post office site thought they might be here Friday instead, but that fell through. As of tonight they're not far away, though. If today wasn't Sunday, they'd probably get here today.
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