My homepage Mayakashi and webcomic Fool's Court now have a new home ^^ at http://mayakashi.nitesade.net. Thanks to Antti for providing the space!
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www.tednaifeh.com:
"In other news, Oni Press has talked me into doing another Courtney book. It will be a single-issue story titled (deep breath) Courtney Crumrin Tales: Portrait of the Warlock as a Young Man. It follows the early adventures of Aloysius Crumrin in a world of secret societies and forbidden witchcraft. That's all I can give away for now, but rest assured it will be a rollicking adventure."

Fan-girl SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAL!!!!!!!! (Yes, I just squealed in the middle of class...)

Umm, some hacker broke into our school server, where my homepage is (was), so that's why it hasn't been working during the past two weeks, if you've wondered. They can't start it again, because the web server software is so old.

It seems I'm looking for a new place for my homepage and web comic. It's just really annoying, because when I move them I cannot redirect people to the right address. The server doesn't work, so there is no way I can put up a message like 'the page can now be found here - link'. So there can be many people who have used to e.g. read my webcomic and now just think it has disappeared, and can't/don't bother to find it again. Annoying.

I've had an offer from a friend of mine to use his server space, so perhaps I'll do that. Or something...

I finished reading Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and I'm completely in love with Howl. He is such an ass! ^^

I have to stop writing these one minute newsflashes and write a decent blog-entry, grrr.

I just saw the episode of Time Squad with Edgar Allan Poe in it. He wrote children's books and greeting cards instead of, well, the stuff he should be writing.

I had lots of fun. I wanna see it again.

Dir en Grey's newest album, Withering to Death, is number 31 on Finland's official album chart! o_O

Texhnolyze
Last night I was at the local club's anime night and saw the first six episodes of Texhnolyze. I didn't get very into it - at first one wasn't sure what was going on and there was interest, because I wanted to know what would happen and what was the link between these different people. But then as things became a little clearer, I lost that interest. I didn't care at all what was going to happen to the characters. That's a pretty bad thing, so I don't think I'll be watching any more of that show.

The surprising thing about Texhnolyze was that it belongs to those very rare animes whose opening and closing songs are both good. The other one tends to often be crap. But this anime opened with a wonderful song called Guardian Angel (Xavier's Edit) by Juno Reactor, and I was jamming with it every time it played. When it opened the first episode, it really raised my expectations of the show, and I wanted to see what it was all about, since the song created such a great atmosphere from the get-go. Too bad the opening song was the thing I liked most in the anime. Anyway, the closing song was Tsuki no Uta by Gackt, which is a very nice song, too.

So, even if I didn't care about the characters and the plot, at least I was jamming. And I liked the visuals of the opening, as well, and some of the character designs.


Why isn't there anything good going in the theatres? I wanna go see a movie...

Just a quiz...


Cutesy Goth


What Kind of Goth Are You?
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Man, I was just sick for a week! That sucks. A week! I didn't do anything. Well, okay, I slept. It's just very annoying because there are things that you would like to do but you can't because you hurt/are tired/can't concentrate on anything. You know there are the usual ways of passing boring time, like internet or reading, but you can't even manage the strength to do those! So you just end up doing absolutely nothing. You only sleep and watch shows from the tv that turn your brains into slush, such as Fear Factor. Aargh. *dies* And if you don't even have the ability to concentrate on something that simple, you know you really are sick.

To top it off, I couldn't talk for two and a half days. Just *couldn't*. No sound came out, and the first day my throat hurt like hell so I wasn't even considering any talking. *dies again from remembering it*

*dies*

I'm trying to decide whether to be a little pissed off or not. A person approached me via email saying that she liked my Elfwood gallery and asked if I'd be willing to do a request for her. I said yes, because I like drawing stuff for other people when I can't come up with anything on my own.

This was a week and a half ago, about. Now today I get an email that only says: "Are you anywhere near done?". I don't know, but I think that is quite a blunt and a bit rude way to put it. When I write emails, and especially when I write to people I don't know, I try to be as polite as possible. There are tons of other ways of writing that question a bit more politely, e.g. "I was just wondering if you've had the time to work on that request of mine" etc etc. And because this thing was a request, not a paid commission, the requester (is that a word?) should perhaps consider that I'm doing it just because I want to, I don't owe them anything, and I can take my time with the drawing if I have other things to do first. Of course I'd keep them posted about how the process is going, but I think a week and a half of silence should be ok...

Well, that's no big deal, but I expect some things from people, even though I know I shouldn't. Most people perhaps don't spend as much time thinking about how something they've written sounds as I do. :shrug: Perhaps she, on the other hand, is used to quicker and more active people.

Anyway, big news: Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson are playing at the same festival here in Finland in July! MM on Saturday and NIN on Sunday. My, I have to go! I'm not that big of a MM fan, but I think they can pull off a great show that I shouldn't miss. I like the visual aspect of the band. NIN, on the other hand, cannot be missed! It is the first time ever that they are playing in Finland.

I'm also happy that although I missed The Ark's recent tour date here in Turku, they are coming on a festival gig this summer, too, so I get to see them.

I bought Sims 2: University. :dances:

I won't have the internet for a week. I don't feel like explaining it all once again, so go read my rant from my journal at my DeviantArt-gallery.

I changed the layout of my website, Mayakashi. Well actually I just changed the layout picture and the colours, but it cheered me up. I had grown tired of the last one.

Well, the holidays are over. I got nice Christmas gifts and watched a lot of Buffy. And I played Hero Quest with my sisters. Yes, the old boardgame. ^_^ My friend Maija gave me a nice gift - a teapot. Not the kind where you can boil water (that's a kettle, right?), but the kind where you put the teabags and pour the hot water and then you have lots and lots of tea. I really like it. Easy access to refills.

I ordered Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom from Amazon and just got it this week. It was good, and Ted Naifeh's art is still yummy, but I liked the two last ones better. Why? Just because they had more Uncle Aloysius in them and I'm such a big Aloysius fangirl. -_-'' I really am. He's... so... cool.

*can't write anymore because is too busy staring into space, contemplating on the coolness*

I've had a nice long weekend. Last Friday I only had to be in school for a couple of hours to work on a cellphone comic project, and we also have today off because it is the Independence Day.

I had my birthday yesterday. I and Juri sat under the blanket on the futon in our living room and watched two movies we had borrowed the day before. We watched Lost In Translation, which was okay, and a Japanese film called the Returner (starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and a cute girl whose name I don't know). I actually quite enjoyed that film. It was fun and suited my mood.

We ate chips and candy and drank soda and watched movies the whole day. And it was fun. Juri gave me the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD and the Playstation 2 game of the same title, and my friend, also named Maija, gave me a Discworld quiz book called The Wyrdest Link. I knew almost none of the answers to the questions when I browsed it, because I've read so many of the books so long ago. But the gifts were nice, and the Playstation game made me smile since it was such a silly gift, and I can think of times when I will want to play something simple like it. ^__^

I've done nothing today also - I watched the Potter movie and some extras on the DVD. I thought there would be more deleted scenes there, and at least something with Lupin or Black in them, but there wasn't. Oh well, the movie is still good. The way the Extra DVDs are constructed for the Potter movies are always developed more for children, in my opinion. Perhaps 'grown ups' should have a different version of the Extras. ^__^

Anyway, off to eat now.

I am a



The story this year was much worse than last year, but do you see me care?

Plus my Buffy box came today! Hurrah!

On not so great things, I need to read for tomorrow's test and can't watch any Buffy now... But I don't mind. I have the DVDs, now I can watch Buffy whenever I want!

begin rant

I just got my new computer after two weeks of extra waiting. I was all happy and ready to write more to my nano with my new keyboard. Then we noticed that the diskette drive didn't work. It just didn't notice that there was a diskette inside. I couldn't get my nanovel to the computer.

So we opened the case to see if the drive was connected. It was, and we wondered about it. Then, as Juri switched the computer on when the case was open, I noticed there was smoke coming out from inside the machine. The hard drive was smoking! Who has ever heard of/seen a hard drive smoking? We sure as hell hadn't. Processors can smoke. Hard drives don't.

So, the catch of the first day with my new computer is two parts that need to be replaced. Now that's a good computer. My trust for the functionality of the other parts is now gone and I will buy nothing from that computer store again after I get my replacements.

end rant

Of Quizes

Which Johnny Depp character are you?


Johnny Depp, the great man himself.


Who is your inner Johnny Depp Character?
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Why does this always happen to me? When I did the quiz 'Which Jhonen Vasquez character are you?" I was "Jhonen Vasquez - you create all this fucked up shit". Apparently I cannot be a fictional character. ^_^ I don't mind that much.

Of success!

I finished coloring a picture with Photoshop! It's up on my homepage in the original art section. It's an art trade I did with Luke McKay. He did his version of my Coal picture and I drew his characters Blue and Green.

I'm really happy that I finished it, even though I managed to screw up with the last save and save the small version I had ment for a jpg on top of the original psd. So now I only have an older version of the original, big picture left, which means that it misses the last five hours of work and is thus unfinished. :tears:

Yes, I know I should be doing nanowrimo, but I'm happy I got this thing done!

101 steps to get rid of your money

Alright. I went and did it. This morning I ordered that Buffy collector's edition box set from Amazon.co.uk. It is about 202 euros + delivery, which I estimate to be a little under 10 euros - so, in total, a little under 212 euros (the box usually costs more, but this is a preordererer's discount).

I thought it was a lot of money, but if I bought all these seasons separately - whew. In Finland one box would cost a hundred euros, and I don't even want the Finnish ones but the British ones with better packaging (book-like), so ordering the British season box from the place I usually order DVDs would cost 150 euros. And now I get all seven with a bit over 200 euros? Bring it on! (Btw, if I had ordered the collector's set from that Finnish DVD store, it would've cost 325 euros.)

The box will come out November 22nd. How can I wait?

Of coolness

She has made Cthulhu jewelry. ^_^

Aaagh!
Buffy! *drool* (Although I've heard that at least the season 1 DVDs have better image quality as R1 than R2... damn you regions!)

Of stupidity

Nanowrimo. Again. Next month. I'll be there.

Of Helsinki Comic Festival

So, I was at the Helsinki Comic Festival last weekend. Jeff Smith was one of the guests of honour, so of course I went to listen. He didn't look anything like I had pictured him - I'd imagined him to be older, balder and with glasses. I learned that he was a friend of Neil Gaiman and Bryan Talbot, and began to wonder what Talbot looked like, since, as my sister pointed out, at least these two belong to a hair mafia. I searched the net, and saw that Bryan didn't sport the exact same hairdo as these two gentlemen. A pity.

I also bought two Copic markers. Woohoo, now I have a wide array of colours: grey and red. I would've also liked a light blue and a darker gray one. These cost 3,50 euros, the refillable ones were 5 euros. And I just read my friend's Japan diary (you can get to her "Kyoto Nikki"-blog from that Labelled Angel link I have), who wrote that Copics are 2,90 euros in Japan. Now I'm just waiting for her to answer my question if they really are the refillable ones, these cheap copics.

I saw a few fellow Deviantart artists and leafed through their portfolios. They have some really nice pics. I also bought two postcard sized prints of Korone's.

Nothing much more to say - I haven't yet really tried my copics, since I haven't found a nice enough picture to try (and one that would still be expendable, if I happened to do everything wrong).

Now I'm off to my optician appointment. I'm going to get five pairs of disposable contact lenses - now that I know that I actually can get contacts. There was a time when my eyesight was too bad for me to get contacts, but things progress and stuff. I'm not going to get rid of my glasses, since I quite happen to like how I look with glasses, but in some occasions contacts could be nice (that's why I'm getting the disposable ones).

Of sisters and hairdos

I added my sis to the blogosphere: "give me oxygen". Before there had been a link to her homepage, but I changed it to her blog when she got a new one. Her last one had gone missing in action, perhaps due to the half a year when she didn't write to it when she didn't have internet access.

I went to get a haircut yesterday. The barber got it wrong. It doesn't look bad, but I wanted something different and this looks a bit like a previous haircut I've had. The goal was to leave the hair long at the front, then make it short in the back (you know, the goth hairdo that one should dye purple ^_^). But it looks more like a bob from the side. She didn't make the hair short from the side, only from the back. I don't know, perhaps I couldn't explain it right. Bleh.

(The hair should've been a bit like hers, actually, but without the bangs and a bit longer on the top back. Too bad I couldn't find this picture before I went to the barber.)