Oh? What did Espy win! I want to know! XD

Unless... Lawtan is a wasabi dragon and not a pepper one??

Nope - definitely a pepper dragon xD

I mentioned it more because it's the funniest thing to happen to me outside of internet funnies and the snow-pocalypse over here....less that it is actually worrying. A few drops go great with tomato soup to clear the sinuses. xD

Also, Espy wins a song in the library: *Plays Amon Amarth*

Hmmm. Oath Once Sealed In Blood is one of my favorite AA songs, along with Arson.

lol, Awesome. XD I should add some folk music songs when I go looking for some to the library because I got introduced to ones that are medieval in style and sound awesome. XD I want to use some for my games and stuffs. X3

I've seen pictures of the snow! Including one of a chubby kitty trying to climb the drift across the door and falling through, and somebody in a car driving along with a five foot tall cake of snow balanced on top of it.

lol, I've seen one with a cat crashing through a snowdrift that had blocked a door in order to get to his food. XD It's quite silly when you see it. XD And there was another one with a cat trying to dig the snow up in front of the door so it could go outside. XD

>.> Have pics, but need to get them off of my phone.

We had hardly any snow to be honest, but the other days our dog slipped while walking in the snow and face planted. x'D My mom wished she had of recorded it. The dog was fine he just kept going like nothing happened. XD Until he got on solid ice then he's like "O.O Get me the f*** off this! D:" x'D It's odd really, he knows he doesn't like getting on ice but gets on it anyways. He doesn't mind walking through puddles (and sometimes splashing in them) but he hates the rain. o.O

>.>
I built a snowgirl
<.<

lol, I don't really have enough snow here for that to be completely honest. XD And I'm going to tease the people where I work about canceling the meeting yesterday. XD

XD Snow is made to be enjoyed. Especially huge heaps of it. You can mine through those and then just sit and ignore everybody.

or build an epic igloo/fort and pelt the mailman with snowballs.

Me and my brother used to love snowball fights, but now I can't feel my finger tips anymore when outside for a few minutes even with gloves. No fun making the snowballs if I can't feel anything. x'D

XD Mailman abuse? Never had one except the guy that drove past the mailbox at the end of the road at one place where we lived. My family usually drove to town for the mail. But our snowheaps were tractor made. So they were so massive that we didn't miss forts and igloos. XD. Caves, and a slide down the side, and a huge drift behind to jump into and...

Get stuck, and your clothes full of snow. But it was still fun. And one year when I was little we made a little snow puppy and hauled it around and played with it all winter.

I'm surprised it didn't fall apart on you. o.o;

*sulks in corner because people are being very stupid elsewhere*

Uh oh, what happened Den? :o

*Offers Den hugs*

One of the conventions I was wanting to sell comics and art at rejected my submission for a table. For stupid as *bleep* reasons.

From the e-mail:

Yes, my DevArt page is probably not the best site to showcase what my wares are, but darnit, at the time of submission, it was all I had. the other two reasons are just *bleeping* stupid *bleeping* reasons.

I think they're very lame reasons, too.

.-.
Those are stupid reasons to be completely honest, just because they don't pertain to the theme of the con doesn't mean there won't be people interested. Heck, there's a guy that comes every year to the con I go to selling anime and its a gaming convention! Yes, there is an anime panel but its nothing compared to the rest of the con, and we also get people selling art, sculptures and jewelery which by the way also don't pertain to the con. :/

Do you live on the East coast or near it by any chance? You will probably be better off going to the con I go to to try and sell your stuff.

:(
While I understand the concept that conventions have quotas (and, along with being well known/familiar/good-ol' boy system) that make it harder to be accepted if you are coming into the field...they are sucky reasons.

You're still great though, Den. Don't let it get you down. :)

...As a question...anyone know any good/strong romance works? (Sort of need to at least look a little through them for examples of how to write decent romance...)

Well, I read a lot of mature books that are romances, but they have the characters fall in love almost instantly, like only a few days. If you want something that's a longer time span I would suggest looking at the mangas Beast Master and Prince's Cactus because those do occur over the span of a few months.

Yeah...romance in fantasy is usually forced due to the situation (war, danger, etc). And I can imagine a focus on Romeo/Juliette romance...
:P

Well, actually not in the ones I normally read. XD With the ones I suggested, they both take their time, they develop feelings for one another, and its a bit more realistic then just being 'soul mates' kind of thing. x'D That's the type of romances I normally read. x'D With the exception of one that time line wise took several years and just did some time skips. ^^;

Are you talking romance, or R rated stuff? Because for something that is romantic about two people getting together, I'd recommend the Book of Ruth. Bleak House is also pretty nice. Well, the courting of the young spinster. There's pretty sad stuff in the book otherwise.

(Was more what I was looking for :D)
I'll look into them.

I also like a novel called The Book of Joan. Lots of snark. But a romantic story anyway.

Law, my story actually has a minor background romance... one that's slowly developed over a very long period of time... /shameless plug

*Takes plug* Roger that.

So, parents recommended Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Foundation Trilogy, The Xanth trilogy, and Mercedes Lackey; I know the Crosspointe Series, the cartoon Avatar: TLA, and the Anime "Spice and Wolf"; ml1201 recommended Beast Master and Prince's Cactus; Tam recommended Book of Ruth, Bleak House, and Book of Joan, and AutobotDen's comic. That should be good to study :D

Also, this is fun from 2006

lol, Have fun Law! XD The two I suggested will be quick reads at least, and I don't know if you actually plan on reading the others or not. x'D

Actually, Den's comic hasn't enough published yet for the full story. But the original novella is out. XD And that is a sweet romantic part in that story. I'm not saying that because I helped write it.

I don't know if I'd recommend Xanth. Well. Maybe a couple of the romance threads were good. But even though I read all those as a kid, most I remember was all the off colour jokes and stuff. LOL

Yes, there were plenty of those in there. XD

Arrrgh! I'm angry at the claw machine. I kept trying to get the AU from it, and it kept dropping it. Finally, the AU was right beside and partly overlapping Eliza's goggles. Guess what the stupid machine picked up on my last try? GRRRRRR.

Poor Tam, that's happened to me before too. ^^; It is kind of annoying, but hey, at least this crane game is more fair than the ones in real life. ^^;

And at least Tam is fruity! :D

Tam looks yummy enough to eat! XD *tries to sneak closer for a nibble*

Here's the link for the novella, if anyone's interested. My proof copy is currently being passed around amongst the people at my mom's work (She works at the local middle school), so I keep having to wait to show it to my writing group.