I’ve sort of given up on warnings, but this one definitely has parts to it that aren’t nice.  It’s also longish.

This has been sitting on the site for a few days now because I was hoping to post it with Betray V, but I’m abroad and my computer is acting like it’s more jetlagged than I am.  Once it stops complaining, Betray V will be up. In the meantime, accept this humble offering.

Lastly, I just want to put it out there, Photoshop Elements was made for professionals, digital art enthusiasts, and people born in the 90s. Not Veron. Photoshop should be ashamed for marketing it to me as such. In the title for this post, I originally spelled “five” as “vive”, and for about an two hours, or however long it took me to upload, I could not figure out what the heck was wrong. I knew I had futzed something, but for my life, I could not figure out what. The spanish part of my brain was positive that this was a word, and refused to mind its own business, seeing as we were speaking english, and when we do speak spanish, we don’t even do it that well. The english part of my brain had confangled the Roman Numeral “V” with the actual word, and refused to be convinced that, at some point in early life, it had learned how to read. And Photoshop Elements wants me to correct camera distortion manually. I CAN’T SPELL “FIVE” BUT PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS WANTS ME TO MANUALLY CORRECT CAMERA DISTORTION.

I might also be sleep deprived. Carry on.

Edit: LINK FIXED. I AM A BUM.

2) I think (read: I have no idea, but I’m confident) that I have my sims and can get them into said throat-punching computer with relative ease.

3) Pen is making me finish AtC or risk attack by homo-erotic mermaid christmas ornaments on a scale of wrongness that will haunt future generations long after I’ve met my doom. It’s pretty serious.

Carry on.

I do, I know.

I’m handling it.

Really.

Because I know.

Sorry.

HAPPY B-DAY PEN!

Search Engine Terms of the Month:

webbed cocooned erotic spider stories (8 times. One of you is fucking with me.)

puncture marks in crack head arms (fair)

bass ackwards on a chair (possible)

sad sticks (hehehe, what?)

i am amused (so am I)

bear sitting on a hammock (Because of course you would click on me)

pissing desperations japan (pardon?)

praying romantis (*shiver*)

air bed betrayal (…)

am i annoying? (oh, I annoy myself all the time, don’t worry about it)

supernatural demon eye contacts (edit: okay, I just realized that this isn’t weird, I am. I actually offer enayla’s demon eye contacts for download. I forgot.)

And there were also a couple of really not safe for work or for eyes or ears or mental health. Stuff about “unespecting” girls having bad things done to them with dirty pillows. And that one got me two hits. 

Odes to my storytelling comrades… in the strangest ways possible:

goodbye_sun tarantuala

penelope 3-d unity

and in quotations, meaning at some point, I actually typed these phrases…

“just take what you need from me”

“across the knee”

…maybe in innocent context, but my brain consistently dives head first into the gutter.

This is my couple’s study for Mickey and Chauncey around the time where Chauncey was kind of set on letting his aura kill him. And Mickey was set on not letting that happen.

I was planning on having more stuff done this week, but this update was particularly difficult for me, and took up a lot of my time. I’ll try to get back on it.

And wordpress was being such a bag of chickens, I have to thank Penelope for staying up until the ass crack of dawn bitching at this blogging buttface. Fellow wordpress bloggers, avoid the autoupdate feature. Tis’ a whore.

I’ve been really trying to get into different past events to help explain the characters a little bit more, although I’ve totally stalled on the background stories and while I’m working on Ten Years, I’m doing it at a snail’s pace. But one thing I’ve really wanted to do were couples studies… sort of. They probably fit in with the background story idea, but they’re longer and they aren’t necessarily in a familiar POV. And they aren’t focused on psychic ability… not extensively… a little bit… depending. And they’ll be based mildly on themes: youth, need, convenience, fear, understanding, and other stuff. Maybe.

There are only four that I have any interest in. Jax and Chloe and their youthful beginning… so they’ll be “youth”. Chauncey and Mickey (as if we haven’t heard enough from them) around the time that Chauncey was a smidge suicidal, and they’d be “need”. Loris and Arden, who weren’t a romantic couple, but a couple none the less, they’d be “convenience” . And Hadrian and Troy, right before Hadrian jacked Aeryn’s shit and was basically trying to get out of dodge before he did just that. And before Rowanne found him and killed everyone. I think they’d be “fear”. I don’t know, they’re the only one I didn’t write yet.

I’m playing around with doing one on Harper and Troy basically showing how they got together, but the vague idea in my head might not flesh out. I was also thinking of one on Sirian and Kensee, because, something came out of that, although not quite romantically. I can’t believe that I fell in the “romance me male vampire *swoon*” trap, without even realizing it (!), and I wanted to get into my one female vamp/non-vamp relationship (Rowanne and Nyxon don’t count, that shit wasn’t love, that shit was ridiculous). But Kensee and Sirian’s roles in the story are shady enough, and while it might help explain them a little bit, their relationship was short in that Sirian died and Kensee spent most of it asleep. Soooooo, yeah, gonna probably stick with three or four. Or I might only do just what I’m posting today. I don’t know, I’m lazy.

These vignettes would be set during times that would not fit in either the main time frame or the Ten Years Prior time frame.

Right now I’m posting the first of two parts of Jax and Chloe, and I’ll try to follow it up with Part II, but I might put up Mickey and Chauncey first. Don’t be frustrated if that happens. OR, I might even update my regular story, instead of continuing to indulge my random forays into… randomness and ellipses. Tommorrow, I’m not doing poo but driving around and eating food, so if I end up on a computer, I’ll put my procrastination energy into finishing pictures.

ANNNND to say that there are sexual themes in all of them is like saying this is the internet.

Annnnnnd thanks to Penelope for letting me whine to her about Jax and making me giggle uncontrollably over his birth name.

AND! Pictures are now correctly linked.