RPG Star (AKA I Am A Massive Geek)

When I was seventeen, I joined a website called HEX-RPG, which was this Harry Potter-themed role play site. They sorted me into Gryffindor, which was weird, as I'm the most Slytherin person I've ever met. Before I continue, I'd like to go into that some more. The typical traits of a Slytherin are as follows:

• Traditionalism - I'm very, very traditional about some things, and shockingly non-traditional about others, mostly my appearance. But the morals I hold fast to and my taste in art both tend to be very traditional. Also, I have a strong sense of tradition, in general.
• Resourcefulness - I'm definitely resourceful.
• Cunning - I didn't know what this meant for the longest time, so I was blissfully unaware that it applied to me. It means skilled at achieving one's ends through evasion or deceit. I generally have no problem getting things done by any means necessary. Apart from cheating in academics. Cheating at games - yes, all the time, but never when I'm supposed to be proving my actual knowledge and skills. Cheating is beneath me.
• Ambition - yes, obviously.
• Leadership qualities - in the event I actually do take it upon myself to lead, people tend to follow. It's not a position I'm always comfortable in, but I can manage.
• Self-preservation - my mum once told me that she worries about me, but less than she'd worry about someone else due to the fact that I have a self-preservation streak a mile wide. It's pretty much true.
• Shrewdness - yes, I do like to think myself rather astute.
• Determination - when I care, there's not a thing anyone can to do stop me... so yes, I would say I have a great deal of determination.
• Certain disregard to rules - definitely.
• Intelligence - I'm slightly cocky about this, yes. But, I do tend to deliver so apparently it's not so much being cocky as being self-assured that I actually am exactly as intelligent as I project myself to be.

That pretty much describes my whole personality. I once got sorted into Hufflepuff, which is hysterical as I possess almost none of those qualities - loyalty, dedication, hard work, patience, and fair play. I am loyal, to be sure... but none of the others really fit me. I tend to rely on my intelligence in school to get me through rather than actually putting any hard work or dedication into my studies. I am one of the least patient people I've ever encountered, and I'd rather win than play fair. I'm really not sure how I ever got put in with all that.

I'm slightly surprised that I've never gotten sorted into Ravenclaw as I like to think I possess all qualities prized in Ravenclaws - intelligence, wit, wisdom, creativity, and individuality. Perhaps it is because I am so strongly Slytherin and nothing else that I've never been put into Ravenclaw?

Now, as I've gone through all the other houses, I might as well go over Gryffindor. I used to get sorted into Gryffindor all the time when I was growing up. Gryffindor qualities are - bravery, chivalry, courage, and daring. I suppose those apply to me as well? I guess both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw do apply, but not so much as Slytherin actually describes me to a T. Also, I suppose I take a lot of pride in my Slytherin-like qualities? Not sure. Anyway. That turned into a giant long ranting tangent about my personality in relation to Harry Potter. Cool.

ANYWAY. I was talking about HEX-RPG. It stands for "Hogwarts Extreme - Role Play Game". Only the second part is important. Online role playing is when you go on a forum, assume a character in a setting, and write back and forth with other people. It's really fun and brain stimulating, which is nice. It's also usually fandom oriented, so I used to do mostly Harry Potter RPs. There was this girl I always used to RP with called Missy. We had like 4 different threads going and we'd play different characters. I definitely remember playing Sirius black at least twice, Lucius Malfoy, and Regulus Black. I'm sure I played more than that, but that's what I recall right now. The threads would go on forever and we'd just stay up all night writing back and forth to create these great long stories. And that's what I used to do before tumblr. I think I stopped when I went to Culver and then I did a lot of it the winter I was 18 as well, but then the forum got flooded with Twilight fans and went down-hill from there.

One of my best friends, Ellen, is really into role playing and since I got into Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire a few weeks ago, I've wanted to get back into role playing. Some fandoms are just really good for it. Unfortunately, it's relatively difficult to find open RPG boards in the GOT/ASOIAF fandom. BUT! I've managed it. There's also some that'll show up on tumblr sometimes which are amazing. You'll usually have to submit an audition of your writing in character to them and then you'll have your own little tumblog to write all of your characters interactions. It's more difficult to follow than forum role plays, but just as fun. Anyway, I auditioned to one that just opened the other day and I got accepted to play one of my favourite characters, which is AWESOME. It also makes me feel really great about my writing.

Additionally, I managed to find another GOT/ASOIAF RPG board that's open. It's really new so there are only a few members and even fewer threads, but I've made my own original character and have a back story and a few threads started, so I'm really excited about that. I love writing, but I get stuck sometimes, so it's nice to be writing back and forth so that you don't have to decide what all of the characters do, you can just concentrate on your own.

SO yeah. This has been me showing off how much of a geek I actually am - ie a huge one.

But yeah... role playing, exciting.

Someone Hide The Photoshop

When I was like 13, I used to play this game called Neopets all the time. It's a website where you have virtual pets and shops and items and you can play flash games for virtual money and it's this whole little world, and it's fun and cool.

Anyway, when I was 12-13, I had some sort of photo editing software... Paint Shop Pro, I think? People used to give me little items or NeoPoints or whatever and I'd make them little graphics for their shops or their clubs or userpages or whatever.

I liked making graphics. It was fun. I had my own little angelfire site called Speckled Negg Graphics. Because why not? It's adorable.

When I got a little older, I obsessively made Pirates of the Caribbean user icons (small 100x100 pixel pictures) for livejournal. I think I still actually have an embarrassingly massive collection of user icons squirrelled away in my photobucket.

So basically, from when I was 12 until I was about 18, I would play around on photoshop and make things all the time. It was really fun and I was pretty good at it.

And then I didn't have photo editing software for like a year and a half. But then, when I first moved to Parkdale and got my DSLR, I managed to acquire a copy of Photo Shop Elements, which is just a basic photo editing software program. And I think I mostly just did photo editing with it. Sometimes I'd put text over pictures... but nothing too extravagant.

ANYWAY. As of last night, I have full-fledged photoshop on my computer... aaand I've started making graphics again. And I can do more stuff now since I have better software and way more experience than I did before. So that's fun.
But also, oh god, what will this unleash? (Nothing to horrid, I'm sure.)

I would also like to bring attention to this man:


His name is Peter and he's amazing.

He plays my favourite character (Tyrion) on Game of Thrones.

Also. Look at how handsome he is.
He's totally dreamy and a really good actor.

He was in both versions of Death at a Funeral, and totally hysterical in both. Those are also just really funny movies, anyway.

Maybe I'll make a lame header for this blog for once... it's looked the same since I was 18.

Game Of Thrones

I've been so into Game of Thrones lately.
It's the television series on HBO.
I've also been reading the book series it was based off of, A Song of Ice and Fire.
Super good.

D:

HA.HA.
But what if?

YIKES!

Poor, Abandoned Blog :(

I'm sorry.

I've been really bad at updating so far this year.

Here's a runby of what I've done lately:

- photoshoots. lots and lots of them. i'm doing an april photo challenge where i get a word prompt every day and have to take a picture or pictures to fit with it. i've decided to practice my modelling skills on top of having ideas for shots and directing and stuff, so i've been featuring myself in all of them. i'm getting really great pictures and i'll post all of them in early may.

- the most horribly massive spider has been creeping around downstairs lately. don't spend much time down there... but omg really now. fucker has to be at least 3 inches across and a full inch is its body. hurrrgh! :(

- hair. today i did my friend megan's hair. it took a long time because i had to change the colour, do both sew in and glue in extensions, and then colour the extensions to match. it was fun though and hanging out and talking to megan was nice.

- obsessing over rupaul's drag race. i'm seriously loving sharon needles. the holy drag trinity on the show currently is great though. latrice royale is stunning and i really do have a hard time telling chad michaels apart from cher.

- easter holidays in the lake district! went up to cumbria for a few days and stayed in the caravan with the boy. we climbed up a waterfall one day. there were steps, but instead, we climbed up moss and wet rocks. it was really fun. we also went around a medieval cathedral and town which were really quaint and nice, and we got to go to a castle which was also really cool.

- i've been really upset about my mom's death lately. this time last year i was too busy working to really even think about it, so now that it's had time to settle in and i'm not constantly working or socialising or anything like that, i've had time to think about it. i think april is just going to be really hard for a while.

- thinking about school. i think i want to go back to school here. i've been thinking about it a lot but i want to give it some more time to ~brew in my head before i really do anything about it. i mean... i'm entirely certain i do want to go to school, but i'm not sure for what yet. i have something in mind, but it's really bit and requires a lot of commitment and i'm not sure i'm ready or certain yet, so i'm going to give it a while.