I’m in the process of working on a new online graphic novel. I’ve got a script lined out, and I’m in the process of fleshing out and designing the characters. I will be very different than Heart of a Dragon, although there is a slight similarity between the two. This is a story I want to tell, and I’m hoping it will be able to keep me interested in working on it.
That’s all I can say for now, I don’t even have a title for it.
And I still can’t get over the fact that someone that’s been there for what I feel has been forever is still gone. I still look over to the corner and hope to see him there.
This coming Wednesday I’ll be adopting a new rabbit.
It’s now been a week since Daxter passed away, and it’s probably been the hardest week of my life. While I have my good times and my bad times, there’s always a sadness that stays with me. I find myself looking over to the corner his cage was in every time I walk by, expecting it to be there and seeing him there, only to find it empty. I frequently visit his grave and just stand there, finding comfort in that nice spot in the forest behind my house.
I’ve put in an application to adopt a rabbit from a local shelter. I don’t seek to replace Daxter, he is impossible to replace, but I’d like to give another rabbit a chance at happiness and love. In return I hope to gain a new little friend who I can care for and give a real home to.
Once I find a decent method, I will be setting up a fund in Daxter’s name and all proceeds will be sent to the local rabbit shelter.
5 years ago I went to the pet store and looked around for a pet. I found a small, white rabbit and asked the guy looking after the small animals how much the rabbit was. He said it was free (although since I had no cage or hutch, I had to buy one of their cages plus food, toys), and an hour later I had a rabbit running around in my bedroom. I chose the name Daxter, and eventually found out that he wouldn’t be growing any larger, he was a dwarf rabbit, so I couldn’t be positive on how old he was.
Earlier today, Daxter passed away. My only comfort is knowing he was loved and that I was there.
Goodbye, Daxter. I will never forget you.
Ilene Woods, the voice actress for Disney’s Cinderella passed away last Thursday at the age of 81. She came from a time when Disney put a lot of work into their movies, and unlike modern day Disney movies (with the exception of The Princess and the Frog), she also sang all the songs for her character in the movie. It’s a shame the world lost an extremely talented woman, but at least future generations will always know how talented she was thanks to the movie.
This is also the 60th year anniversary for the Disney movie. It’s a shame they didn’t do anything special to commemorate the occasion. I first saw the movie in theaters in 1987, as my grandmother said it would probably be the last time it was ever shown in a theater. It was.
I’ll be watching Cinderella tomorrow in honor of Ms. Woods.
The local frog population has started to leave the ponds and are wandering around the neighborhood. I found a small Green Frog today who seemed rather content after being removed from the window wells.
Roughly a month to go until the toadlets start to show up.
Last week the trailer for Disney’s newest animated movie debuted. For those that don’t know, their next animated movie is called Tangled, and is based off the story of Rapunzel. My thoughts? It looks pretty good, but I’m just not a fan of 3D animation (2D animation seems to have more “soul”). They have managed to capture the Disney art style, but the realism they add to the fabrics and hair is rather out of place. Either way, I’ll be catching this movie on Blu-ray. I don’t think it will be bad, I’m really liking the art-style, it’s just very incredibly rare for me to go to a theater to see a movie (like combining my interests into a single movie, like The Princess and the Frog managed to do). Also, as I mentioned before, 3D artwork really is a turn off for me. Animation should have an artist working on it, not a computer rendering everything.
Oh, and if you’re a fan of Disney, make sure you join the Disney Movie Rewards program they have. For my birthday a couple of weeks ago they offered me a free Blu-ray movie (I had to foot the shipping bill, but it was just $2). While the selection was small, there was something I liked, Enchanted. Good movie by the way, so good the live-action Smurfs movie is stealing the plot.
The trailer for Tangled can be seen here at the official site for the movie.
I’ve added a few new galleries to the Gallery area of my site. There’s a section devoted to my pets, Daxter and Kain, and a new gallery in the Convention Photos for Anime North 2010. I don’t have many pictures for that one right now, but I’ll be adding more as they start to come in. I can’t say I saw much of the con because I spent most of the time outside.
It’s no secret that I like the TV show Lost, and last night was the final episode of the series. While it’s disappointing that the show is now over, the fact that the show got a proper ending is rather comforting. Many great shows have ended with no resolutions or were just plain canceled and couldn’t be given an ending (Law and Order for example, unless it gets picked up by another network).
I’d been waiting for the day ever since they announced a couple years back that Lost would be ending, that they wanted to limit how many episodes there were so it didn’t run too long. Yesterday was that day, and I was not disappointed at all. While some mythos behind the island remained unanswered, and will no doubt be questioned for the next several years, the characters in the story all received a happy ending. As the show’s writers said themselves, some people will be unhappy with the ending, others will enjoy it.
Lost joins the (rare) few stories that manage to move me and make me care for the characters, and make me feel genuine emotion. Many times throughout the finale I was in tears, and if you’re not choked up and crying at the very end scene, you have no soul, or are a rather bitter person (or just haven’t followed Lost and tuned in to see what all the hype was about). For 6 seasons we followed the lives of these characters, it’s hard not to be attached to them.
Ghost Whisperer is a good example of the opposite. When the show started, and up until the 4th season, I actually cared about the characters, but then the writers and producers got a bit.. stupid, and tanked the show. As a result, the public spoke, and now the show has been canceled. The thing that perhaps bugged me the most about that show is how villains were never really dealt with. They would be beaten once, then run off, and never mentioned again.
The other thing I admire about Lost is how they managed to create a story-line so long, and keep it going. While there might have been mistakes here and there, the continuity was perfect. The sign of a good writer is the ability to create such a large world, with so many characters, and weave it all together into an even large story. This is something I greatly admire in writers, and am trying to do with Heart of a Dragon. It’s very hard, having to remember every minute detail, but the results are worth it, as seen in the video game series Legacy of Kain and Jak and Daxter (both written by the same author), and now Lost.
So next season, I’m sad there’s no Lost to watch, but there are still some very well-written TV shows out there. If you haven’t already, give Fringe a try. Not content with creating one large world for events to take place in, the shows writers have created 2 entire worlds that the show takes place in. Stargate Universe is another great show to try out. I’d also suggest The Tudors, but sadly it’s ending in a few weeks.
Well, it’s almost that time again, time to hit the road and check out conventions! This year I’ll be going to a couple more than I did the previous years.
May- Anime North
June- What the Fur
August- Otakuthon
November- Naru 2 U
I’m not 100% sure about these cons, as this year a lot of cons happen in succession and I might not be able to afford to go to them: Anthrocon, Otakon, and Midwest FurFest.
Speaking of art, I’ve deleted the Vampire X gallery in the Gallery section and uploaded the pictures that were in it to the Artwork section. I’ve also added a couple of new pictures to the Heart of a Dragon section, so make sure you check them out if you’re interested! The Heart of a Dragon store also has a new picture, the one of Persephone I talked about in the last post, and I should be adding a new picture of Minerva this week.