新年あけましておめでとうございます!

I am so excited. The Secret Smile Bringer event was great fun! Ty so much to Emerii for my picture: [link]

2010 is fast approaching and I am soon to be moving away again, this time to Australia. A new adventure for the start of a new decade. I am hoping to have a new stylus by then. I lost my good one, and my spare broke during the event　>。<!

In other news, my D&D game I've been running since September is winding to a close. Next Tuesday is the last session. It has gone rather well for my first time GMing a d20 system game. I also have the new Dr. Who table top game on hold, will pick up tonight, at the local game store. It looks great: [link]

FFXI News: for some reason I've picked my WHM back up again after 2 years of retirement. Level 68 now and I have Hexa Strike. Not sure what will come of this, but it is a fun job to campaign on and I need gear again. Also working on MNK and PUP (MNK had been semi retired for 6 years), now both at 55. I love them to death, such fun jobs, regardless of what people say. Been camping a lot of the new NMs as a result. I have some rather rare items (rare for the moment, crappy drop rates). I have a Fenrir's Crown, a Selemnus Belt, and a Summoning Belt right now. (thanks to: Ashy ) Working on getting a bunch of other items as well. Beat A Shantotto Ascension. Made a new mule. Dynamis restarts on the 4th. So much to do!

Hi everyone! I'm happy to say that there is now a group (which will soon be part of the DA Groups feature) call MarbleBridge for FFXI Players on DA! I was refered by this week (Thanks again!). The first event is for the Starlight Festival (winter holiday event in game). While the MMHU is bringing us the festival, MarbleBridge is bringing us: Secret Smilebringers! It's like Secret Santa but as a big group art swap to draw one another's FFXI characters. I can't tell you how excited I am at the possibilities.

If you're an XI player and would like to join MarbleBridge, or if you'd like to just join in for the Secret Smilebringers Event, please click the icon and follow the instructions in the journal postings: .

The rest of this journal is my information for the Event (all pictures are linked to an unlocked photobucket account. 和訳利用可能です。 メッセージを送ってください。 :

Dear Secret Smilebringer!

For Christmas I'd like to see my character(s) drawn!

My Main Characters (I'd love to see either of them): Taikoubou (Hume M) and Evva (Mithra)

Jobs and Play Style:
Tai:
SMN75(Happy, but sometimes overconfident) [link] [link] [link] [link]
BST75 (Very serious and time conscious, but always running late) [link] [link] [link]
BRD75 (Laid back and absolutely oblivious. Often has BLMs in Dynamis asking why they have Minuet instead of Ballad) [link] [link] [link]
Tai is most often described as "Spoony", and he has trouble keeping track of his gear (with over 20 instruments and 10 Staffs who wouldn't?). His Moogle has contracted a Lycopodium to help keep the Moghouse clean.

Evva: PLD60 (Playful Pally. She follows the creed that anything not nailed down is a cat toy, including the monsters the party fights.) [link]
Evva has been adventuring for about 8 years now but has only recently found a job that fits her. (She was my first character after the Beta ended, but never got above level 30 on any jobs until this year because I was too busy working on Tai, but she's not bitter).

Crazed sewing season has begun again. Seems to happen more and more lately. I'm working on my Halloween Costume, which is going to be based on a Deorart Design (viewable here: [link] ). Also, I've been put in charge of doing some banners for our new Dynamis Linkshell Site, Aletheia. Some of them are using game models, so I am not going to post them, but the ones I draw will make it into my deviations at one point or another. First one went up tonight and is for the Halloween Event that starts on Friday the 16th.

Not so much irl. Waiting for the Australian consulate to contact me about my application. Can't do much beyond that. Seriously trying to think about doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I've been editing more than writing for the last 3 weeks. Hopefully that urge lessens enough for me to get an outline ready or something for November. Ashi wants me to go watch the new FMA too >.> now I'm thinking about Rin...

Oh! Manga news: FujiRyu-Sensei has a new Manga coming out. I'm unaware currently on plans to have it officially translated to English, but Volume 6 of Shi Ki ( 屍鬼 ) is coming out in a week. It's a horror manga that's a weird mix of vampires, Ayakashi, traditional Fujisaki Ryuu characters, and 20 days of night (in a less gory way). I read volumes 1-5 in Japanese in under 2 days (with an electronic dictionary). I couldn't even wait for the translation. It's awesome. I highly recommend it. SnoopyCool is translating it into English I found out later, and he did great work on Houshin Engi. It's being published monthly in Jump Comics Square. You can get it from Sasuga Books. I love them to pieces.

Game News: Halo3DST was great. Went through on Co-Op with a friend last week and I'm really liking the way the game was done. Not sickened by camera issues in checkpoints anymore, and the music, story, flow is awesome. Also SHEILA! It's making me look into getting a used X-Box. My Gamer Score also finally has something on it. We got my profile working finally on XBL. Finished LBP Official Story Mode Levels on PS3. That second to last level with the spinning wheel of doom was insane. Making my own level slowly based on xxxHOLiC. Finished Ghost Busters on easy and normal. Having a lot of trouble getting multiplayer to connect though. It blows errors constantly when trying to join games. Game is fun, but the online content has been nearly unusable. Dissedia has been a lot of fun. Seeing Shantoto is a blast as an XI player. I think GameInformer was a bit harsh when they reviewed it.

FFXI: Got my BRD Relic Hat today. Very excited to finally have a decent stat/skill hat piece, although it still doesn't look stellar >.>; So 5/5 BST, 4/5 SMN, 3/5 BRD, 2/5 PUP, 1/5 MNK on Relic now. Hard to go wrong. Also been Chocobo Racing and Raising. Tai has a red Chocobo that is SSRank in 2 stats now and has been racing. Evva has one that has just reached B Rank in 2 stats that will be used for Chocobo Hot and Cold eventually. Lots of fun. Watanuke is up to 73.2 Cooking. Evva just started Rise of the Zilart. Lots going on in game.

So Happy Halloween!

It's September again. Fall always makes me look up at the moon and think about Japan. I've been working on some new sketches that I hope to upload soon. One is from Summerfest(Sunbreeze Festival) in XI, and the others are more just what I've been witteling my time away doing.

They should be posted soon. I have updated my Cosplay.com account here: [link] There are now some photos from Otakon 2009 and ConnectiCon 2008 up. More should follow in the next few days, including photos of and

Hi all! Otakon was awsome, but the recovery period has taken longer than I expected. Totally worth it (but I wish I hadn't had food poisoning the day I left for Baltimore).

So, it is now official, I'm heading to Sydney Australia in February to comense studies in March for my graduate degree! I'm psyched and burried in paperwork for my visa. They're really strict about health and physicals and such. Going to start sending papers out tomorrow. I need a printer!

I'm going to be uploading some photos of some sculpting I did for Otakon over the next week. I made some Tachikoma pins that were a big hit. I gave a bunch out to Artists and VAs, as well a to friends who were staying with me. Some people at the con asked me about how to get some, so I'm going to be looking into setting up my DA to take orders in connection with SakuraCrafts. I've also learned that Crayola Color Magic is cool or thick sculpting, but I'm going back to Sculpy III for small stuff.

Anyway, I've gotta log into XI. People are calling for my PLD!

~デンキヒツジ