Uftaki's Webjournal

Just found out some really cool news. Discotek Media is going to be releasing a certain series, some time this summer(?). :D

ETA: Unrelated.... but dear GODS, this looks totally awesome! *__*

I've been trying to decide on which character to cosplay from One Piece, for next year's Sakura Con (and other conventions, if I attend them). I've been batting ideas back and forth, but haven't really finalized on anything.

Then I did a few sketches of a human Thousand Sunny, and Going Merry, and I think the former is a definite possibility (I'm not slight enough to pull off Merry respectfully. Even Sunny'll be a bit of a stretch. c.c; *cough* But anyway...)

Looking for thoughts and opinions on the designs of these! Are they recognizable as the ships they're supposed to represent?

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Thoughts as reading the latest release of the manga, chapter 598, "2 Years Later". I've been both greatly anticipating this, finally having caught myself up, reading chapters online (will still of COURSE be buying the official releases once they're out - I just couldn't wait!), and with the manga now back after a month-long hiatus. Wondering what order the crew will reuinte in. Who will be the first to come back? ... And partially dreading it. The characters will all be 2 years older, and just wondering what sort of CHANGES all have gone through. Will I like the changes? Will I hate them? Half of me is eager to see, the other half is tense and worried, hoping that certain characters won't be ruined for me, with the changes. Oda's a good storyteller, and I'll trust things will be good, and I'll get used to the changes in time (One Piece DEFINITELY is a series you DO have to give some time to, to get used to the art style, get into the story, let it grow on you, etc)... Just... y'know. Gut reactions. Hoping some of the changes won't be too extreme.

Comments will be random. Sporadic. Probably gibberish as I'm making these while reading. As my opening above clearly indicates. ^.^;; Err... warnings for some cursing within. c_c; And lots and LOTS of disjointed rambling.

*takes in a deep breath* Here we go...

( cut for massive, MASSIVE spoilers, and endless ramblings )

I am so, so, so, SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS!! :D :D :D It just sounds like it's going to be awesome, and I can't wait for the 1st issue to hit the stands. :3

BOOM Studios is releasing a 4-part Darkwing Duck mini-series

Artist James Silvani gets dangerous with Darkwing Duck

some preview covers and concept sketches

Okay… it’s been proven you all know your movie quotes. But how well do you remember your video game quotes? :3 I’ll be listing a number of quotes from various video games. Try your best to guess the title of the game it came from. Bonus points if you can identify the speaker(s). ^__~ Have fun! :D

The Rules:
→ Choose between 10 to 15 of your favourite video games.
→ Go to Wikipedia, IMDb, or Google to find various quotes for these games.
→ Post your list of quotes, and try to have others guess (and try to guess before looking at the other people’s guesses)
→ When a game is correctly guessed, strike it out and put up the name of the person that guessed it.
→ No Googling the answers!

( Quotes below the cut )

If people are really having difficulties with some of the quotes, after a while, I'll put up a secondary quote.

Grabbed this from katsuyakaiba

This. Is. Awesome!

Full-size model Gundam! *___* It looks gorgeous!

Some shots here, of it at dusk/night, with all the lights on...

Some more night shots here.

... and looking at the different shots... IT MOVES?!?1!eleventy!!?! (it's head moves, at least!)

ETA: notes/comments from one of the sites... This was built for the 30th anniversary of the Gundam franchise. It's located in Odaiba (a man made island). Sadly, it'll be taken down some time in August. ;__; It'd be cool if they could reloate it somewhere permaent... ^_^;

This is just such geeky awesome. XD

Musical Tesla Coils:

2001 opening, Ghostbusters, Mega Man, Tetris, other?

another Ghostbusters theme, with lightbulbs being lit by the tesla coils, like some wild Van de Graaff machine!

Zelda Theme

Mario Theme

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

snagged from poisonivory

Bold the movies you've seen.

( list under the cut )

Snagged from seattleotaku

1. Pick 16 of your favourite movies.
2. Pick a quote from each one.
3. As people guess the quote, put the title and their name by it.
(Bonus points for knowing which characters!)
Cheating with Google will certainly result in spankings or lack thereof, whichever is worse for the offender.

Heh... It was a little hard compiling this. First, selecting the movies to use. So many great movies out there, that I like... It was hard to narrow it down to 16 (I'm sure I could have pumped up the number to 20). Then, it was choosing just ONE quote from each movie (some movies have so many awesome quotes!). I tried to balance things out a little -- funny quotes along with more dramatic quotes. Some will be easy to identify, others will prove a challenge (perhaps).

1) A) "A bolt of lightning. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike."
B) "We do now."
((Doc Brown and Marty, Back to the Future:part 1, correctly guessed by tactile_contact))

2) "It's the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries."

3) "They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footsteps."
((The Butterfly, The Last Unicorn, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

4) "Gamma waves in this sector of space create marginal navigation probabilities. However... ahem... yes, I believe I can."
((Perceptor, Transformers: the Movie, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

5) A) "What if it goes out and melts down a busload of nuns? How would you like to write the headline on that one!?"
B) "...Nun soup?"
((Short Circuit, correctly guessed by tactile_contact))

6) "Courage of the heart is very rare. The Stone has a power when it's there."
((Nicodemus, Secret of NIMH, correctly guessed by tactile_contact))

7) A) "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate."
B) "What's that make us?"
A) "Absolutely nothing."
((Dark Helmet and Lonestar, Spaceballs, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

8) "Everyone remember where we parked...!"
((Captain Kirk, Star Trek IV:the Voyage Home, correctly guessed by tactile_contact))

9) A) "Well, what are you afraid of? A fate worse than death?"
B) "No, just death. Isn't that enough?"

10) A) "I've set my laser from stun to kill."
B) "Ah, great, great. Yeah, and if anyone attacks us, we can blink 'em to death."
((Buzz Lightyear and Woody, Toy Story, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

11) "Do you like pain? Try wearing a corset."
((Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

12) A) "I can't. Not again. I'm not... strong enough."
B) "If we work together, you won't have to be."
((Mr. Incredible [Bob] + Elastigirl [Helen], The Incredibles, correctly guessed by swords_of_mars))

13) "It means that your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one."

14) "Then let us be rid of it, once and for all! Come on, .... . I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!"
((Sam Gamgee, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

15) A) "I foresee two possibilities. One - coming face-to-face with herself thirty years older could put her into shock and she could simply pass out. Or two - the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. Granted, that's the worse case scenario. The destruction might, in fact, be very localised, limited to merely our own galaxy."
B) "Well that's a relief..."
((Doc Brown and Marty, Back to the Future:part 2, correctly guessed by tactile_contact))

16) "... please, I'm only an elected an official here. I can't make decisions by myself!"
((Mayor, Nightmare Before Christmas, correctly guessed by ramblingscholar))

In other words... Gratuitous Icon Post! With icons made by yours truly. X3

Only TEN, this time around... as these are really from the only images I've either found on the Net (in the case with the DWD icon), or taken screencaps from an .avi file. I don't have a DVD rom, so I can't take screencaps from my DVDs -- only the few episodes I've downloaded... c_c;; *coughcough* (and given the FOCUS of these icons... it'll become obvious which episodes I HAD with me when I decided to start taking screencaps... *lol*)

ANYWAY! Nine Ducktales icons... One Darkwing Duck icon, for your viewing pleasure. These are free for use... but PLEASE credit me if you use them, thanks. (and yes, I know the Scrooge icon has some transparancy problems around the edges and stuff... I can't be buggered to fix it :P)

preview:

( The rest are under here... cut for loading times and one bad word. GASPSHOCK!! Yes... Inappropriate language in a Disney icon! @-@ )