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Post: 14811485_1 created on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:57:55 +0000
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Introduction

So, hello everyone! This shop was originally started under the vague concept of selling my unerring creativity, and if you’re interested it’s always an option. However, I’ve found that what most people like are animations and avatar edits, with the occasional television show gif. Banners, personal ads, and just plain cutesy things are my specialty. I also do avatar art (but I don’t think I’m very good) and poetry/ short writing. I have information here on all of the above, my quest, and samples below. At the bottom you will find a chapter of my tentative fanfiction and a tribute to Alithiel. I don't like lots of rules, just no stealing or advertisement. (Friends can advertise, and just ask about using the GIFs.) Most of the pictures are links because it takes the page too long to load when they are shown here. The chibis are the first of my doll attempts, I made everything from it in photoshop. ^-^ The picture at the bottom of this post is included to symbolize my work, as I did the drawing, animation, and conceptualization.
Thank you for your time!

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1. Introduction
2. Explanation and Samples
3. Pricing and Current Orders
4. My Quest
5. VegetaxGoku Gifs
6. Movie and Buffy/Angel GIFs
7. Other Gifs, for those with lots of free time.
8. The Buddy House
9. Discussion Topics
10. Featured Art
11. Quotes
12. Song Lyrics.
13. Beloved Sites
14. My Story
15. Tribute to Alithiel

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Post: 14811485_2 created on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:01:27 +0000
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Explanation and Samples

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Well, there's a lot to get through. I'm hoping this will seem somewhat organized, but don't feel bad if you drown in the copious stream of links and samples. I'm a bit verbose. ^^; First, I would like to show the personal ads I made for my friends. If you would like one of these, think carefully about your life and who you are, and what message you want to represent you. I can make things sound and look nice, but if I don't know you I can't guess it all.
Xenerayx
FuzzyLarrytheLlama

Similar things like quest banners or basic edits/bumps are also a part of what I do.
V E G E T A x G O K U
B U F F Y x A N G E L
M E T H O S x D U N C A N
Riku x Sora

Next are the avatar animations and edits.
Small changes, blinking, glowing, and twitching are the best I can do, feel free to ask if you're unsure.
V E T A _ B L A C K

Next, for the Avatar Art:
I L O V E A R T T R A D E S !

Finally, there's some writing I'd like to share.
First a dream that I made into a story, then an essay I wrote for contest that satirizes the essays I've written for school.
Z z Z

The Depth and Breadth of Faith
When searching to define God, it is important to remember that even a small, little-known religion can have great insight into the heart of a great creator. Specifically, there is much to learn from the beliefs of a follower of pastafarianism. Pastafarianism is a satire of modern religions, which reveals God in a new light by showing the flaws in common preconceptions of organized faith. It is through faith that God is defined, understood, and maintained.
Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster reveal the uniqueness to their faith: “…My god is the all knowing Flying Spaghetti Monster. He created all because he could…” (EvilAuthor). One of the most important things about their religion is the ability to take things with a laugh, to look at things in a Douglass Adams-esque light. Why did the all-powerful being create existence? Not for some grand-sounding purpose to bring his glory to fullness, but for the most obvious reason – because he could. Faith is integral to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, especially when it is difficult to believe. Like conservative Christians, followers of the God Yahweh, there is a place for refusing scientific theory in pastatarianism: “…and [God] created signs of evolution for his own entertainment. That's why we can't prove anything either way. It's all one big test. The FSM changes carbon levels so that nothing ever tests the same twice. This way he can make something kind new seem kinda old. He is invisible and can pass through matter with ease” (EvilAuthor).
Yet, what is a god without acolytes? To prove that faith is necessary for a God, he often bestows knowledge upon a chosen people: “The FSM created pirates to be his devine children. Their decline since the 1800s has made him mad which is why things are so bad now. Had there still been pirates, we would not have been punished with Bush.” The Pirates keep the God’s laws, the eight “I Really Rather You Didn’ts” but without them he is lost.
Who has the true authority on God? The followers of pastafarianism are devoted to maybe maintaining their beliefs. Through the faith of one, or the faith of many, we find a being that is available to all in a miraculous way.
Works Cited
For this essay, quotes were taken from an interview with EvilAuthor and research from Wikipedia.

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AdZ Spoof / Large Version!
Majin Speech - My Favorite Quote
Intelligent Debate
~Innuendo~
VxG Anthology
My First GIF
Y A O I !
Alexander
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B R A D
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B A 4 E V A
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Post: 14811485_3 created on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:05:00 +0000
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Pricing and Current Orders

Now, for your real question. How much does this cost? Mostly, it has to do with the difficulty of the job and how much you provide for me. GIF making is more difficult for me if the pictures are not provided/sized appropriately, so it goes into the few k prices, depending (of course) on the number of pictures and what you want me to do. I like to allow the customer to have some say in the prices so no one feels bad. However, if I do the work, I expect to be paid - art theft is a reportable offense. A donation letter for the month, or perhaps one that I like, or something from my wish list, is obviously an AMAZING deal for me and I am your servant. xd I’m totally willing to negotiate. Some past orders have been moved to my journal.

Current Orders - Completed

Art Compilation
1st Comission! I can not believe it, 10k! O.o <3

FuzzyLarrytheLlama
Thank you so much!

Ronin ninja gemini - 20k!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Catgirl'Nya - 13k!
1 2 3 4
Lei Ianami
Saiyajin- Neko

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Post: 14811485_4 created on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:07:24 +0000
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I love art trades. Whether it's a scene from my story, art of my oc's, art of my favorite characters/actors....or even Vetachu, the cat-like pokemon that I adore so much; I love art! More information in my journal or by request.

Banner by Shiningmoon

See, Veta was sorta designed to show a different idea of the show than the squeaky-clean thing Akira does. Goku's a good man, so good things happen to him. Pfft! So, I wanted to show someone who liked Vegeta, saw the story from his side. And I wanted to also say something about the nature of loyalty. What would happen to make someone so devoted that they would never question it? And would that ruin the person? This concept carried over as Veta moved from DBZ to X-Men and other stories. In X-Men, Veta is torn between Xavier and Magneto, so there is no shortage of drama whatever the 'verse.
Veta has wide, dark eyes that seem at once to announce her passion and resigned, defeated bitterness. A small nose, and gently frowning lips. Her face is mostly heart - shaped/round. She has black hair similar to my avatar's, though the cut of the hair goes around the back of her head evenly, if not a little raggedly. She's a B-C cup, very slender but slightly muscular as she is a warrior, at least in the DBZ 'verse. Perhaps 5 feet and a few inches tall, curvy. I can dress my avi up to match, a black leather top similar to Lex's and black leather fingerless gloves of the same brand, but sometimes I change the exact style from 'verse to 'verse. Loose black pants and dark black boots. Depressed but controlled through years of necessity. Intense, and desperately loyal. Raised on a ship surrounded by enemies, constantly witnessing the horrors sentient beings push on others. In the DBZ verse, she has a very expressive tail that is usually held tightly around her waist.
So there are so many scenes that go on, from the shows and the story, that I could provide.

More on Veta
More on the OC's
Characters/couples I adore. / (Other version.)
A tribute to excellence!
Veta C H U
C x E

Quotes!

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
- V for Vendetta

Angelus: "Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?
Passion is the source of our finest moments: the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ecstasy of grief.
It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Passion"

Majin Vegeta: "Meaningless huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of YOUR life ruled by another - Watch YOUR race dwindle to a handful... and THEN tell me what has more meaning than your OWN strength. I have in me the blood of a Saiyan Prince. HE is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength... my destiny THROWN to the wayside! He? he's even saved my life as if I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor. And his debts... must be? paid!"
-Dragonball Z

Duncan: Going somewhere?
Methos: You shouldn't be here.
Duncan: What are you running from, the question or the answer?
Methos: There is no answer, MacLeod. Let it be.
Duncan: Is what she said true?
Methos: I'm outta here.
Duncan: No, you're not. You're not outta here. Is what she said true?
Methos: The times were different, MacLeod. I was different. The whole bloody world was different, okay?
Duncan: Did you kill all those people?
Methos: Yes. Is that what you wanna hear? Killing was all I knew, is that what you want to hear?
Duncan: That's enough.
Methos throws Duncan against his car.
Methos: No, it is not enough! I killed. But I didn't just kill fifty, I didn't kill a hundred. I killed a thousand, I killed ten thousand! And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance. It wasn't for greed. It was because ? I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death.
Methos laughs as Duncan throws him against the car.
Methos: Death, Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is that what you want to hear? The answer is yes, oh yes.
Duncan: We're through.
-Highlander, "Revelation 6.8"

Lead Gnome: "We are both wise and powerful."
Other Gnome: "We stole man's fire, and tried to hide it in our pockets."
Lead Gnome: "That was painful and dumb."
Elder Gnome: "Men don't like you becuase you steal their trousers, poor slop on them from atop buildings, then run away and giggle."
-Freakazoid, "Lawn Gnomes"

…For I am weak and starving for mercy.
Sleep has left me alone, to carry the weight of unraveling where we went wrong.
It's all I can do to hang on, to keep me from falling into old familiar shoes.
How stupid could I be, a simpleton could see, that you're no good for me.
…But you're the only one I see…
"Stupid," Sarah Mclachlan

…The clock ticks life away; it’s so unreal.
Didn’t look out below; watch the time go right out the window.
Trying to hold on, but didn’t even know I wasted it all just to watch you go…
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart.
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter.
I had to fall, to lose it all, but in the end it doesn't even matter…
"In The End," Linkin Park

Random acts of mindlessness, commonplace occurrences,
Chances and surprises, another state of consciousness.
Tell me nothing ever counts, lashing out or breaking down;
Still somebody loses 'cause there's no way to turn around.
Tell me how you've never felt delicate or innocent.
Do you still have doubts that us having faith makes any sense?
"Show Me Love," t.a.T.u.

Wind, in time, rapes the flower trembling on the vine.
Nothing yields to shelter it from above.
They say temptation will destroy our love, the never ending hunger.
But, I fear I have nothing to give;
I have so much to lose here in this lonely place, tangled up in our embrace.
There's nothing I'd like better than to fall…
"Fear," Sarah Mclachlan

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Post: 14811485_5 created on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:10:40 +0000
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Buddy House

This is the post in which my friends can place whatever advertisement they like, whether it's for a thread, a quest, or simply a joke they like. They may ask to remove/change it at any time.

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