I'm in the top 20!!!!!!!

:O I entered the StumbleUpon Get Discovered Writing Contest back in August, and after much deliberation and glitching systems, they've finally announced the top 20 pieces that were most voted for.

And mine's one of them!!!!

AHHHHH!!!! I can't believe it! I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself! And I know I just scared my sister with my girlish glee and shrieking...

It's just...it's just...so COOL!!! And I went back to reread the piece that made it in (It's called The Adventures of Shinshin & Seijin by the way. Hopefully you'll be able to find it in books stores in this life time! :p) and while I still like what I wrote, it's got all these spelling errors that are now glaring at me like evil little gremlins!

They do this: }:(

I even noticed that I ended up changing one of the words I made up (it's a science-fiction story involving aliens, world turned on its head, etc. so a certain amount of made-up-words ended up being necessary) so what starts off as one made up word ended up being a different made up word by the end of the twenty-pages they asked for. Yes. Go me. That's just brilliant.

But I still got lots of votes! XD Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!!! Squee!!!!

*Ahem* Ya, that was all.

Rose

PS: SQUEEEE!!!!!! XD

Bluestreak and the Fro-yo

I fell like I should post something more substantial, but I'm not sure what, so that will have to wait until I get something either A) I get a photo cleaned up enough for posting or B) I finish something.

I'm afraid option B may be a long time in coming....

Anyway, these are some pictures I took while I was being silly a little while ago. Bluestreak is what is conventionally (sorta) known as a puggle, made by Kallycarishokka over on Deviant Art. I 'adopted' him at Botcon this last spring and he's been living in my purse every since. I find him ridiculously adorable.

Except when he's after my fro-yo of course.

Also my sister (featured below when Bluestreak turns his eye on her dessert instead) laughs and/or cringes whenever I bring him out in public. I chose to think of this as a bonus. :)

Bluestreak: Ooo...me wants...

Me: >:( None for you!

Bluestreak: All - ugh! - most - errrr!! - there!

Me: Uh-huh...right...

Uh-oh...new quarry spotted.

The fro-yo guardian has seen him!

Give up your nummies and surrender vile spoon!

HIIIYAAAAAHHHH!!!!

:3 And to think, some silly people think that toys are only for children. :P

Halloween Dawn Over Iacon

I was painting in the studio today (because there aren't any classes in there on Fridays and the place is practically deserted :D Yay for me!) and I was struck with the urge to actually do something with the little things that I've painted in my sketchbook.

So here for some fun is a little painting I did to try and get me writing a Halloween story for, well, Halloween. And I still need to get a move on if I want it finished in time....

Anyway, this is a little sketch of a violet-orange dawn over Iacon. Done with watercolor pencils and watercolors in a, you guessed it, watercolor sketchbook. I don't know what kind of paper they used to make it.