What is this?? Why, I do believe it's a Sims post! Yes, I am this bored.
Kinda wanna repost a few of the old ones from the other account later, too!


( journey to the center of existing character land!! )

I'm going to be getting a new site soon, meaning it will no longer be called gatorlove, instead it will be called something different. I'm trying to decide on a name - I have one I like, but it's being sat on by a reseller until February, so that's probably going to be about when the shift takes place.


Been working on the Dating Sim version Flash, word on the streets is that I'm doing it in original pixels now. LE GASP! It's actually really fun.

WALK CHISSY WALK!!!!

Might see Jackson Browne on Saturday o_O Details? None.

Still contemplating why an ex-boyfriend who bothered to friend me on facebook doesn't seem to want to reply to my friendly and quite reasonable note of less than two complete sentences. (I'm a late replier myself, but a week+ is really pushing it) We haven't talked in years, so why he friended me with the intent of ignoring me is really baffling. Human behavior: please explain it.

Speaking of humans, I drew some!


What's with the pink? No one knows. He didn't realize there was wet paint everywhere. There. There's your bloooody backstory!!
( moar )

Today my parents roused me bright and early in the morning to get a look at a snake in our garage and tell them whether or not it was poisonous. It wasn't, of course (it was a Texas Rat Snake). At first my dad was afraid he was a rattler (1, because this is central Texas, but mainly 2, because rat snakes can imitate a rattling sound by vibrating their tail) but fortunately for this cute little fella, he was allowed to continue slithering, hiding, and eating rodents in the relative peace and comfort of the bushes in our front yard.

A reminder to all, snakes don't want to get caught up in your shit. You are bigger, and believe it or not most animals can perceive this. A lot of people kill snakes outright and it makes me squirm just to hear about it, avid herp lover that I am. Yeah, don't do that. They're beneficial, anyway, they eat other things you probably hate. And if it's poisonous, maybe you should just call the animal control guy instead. Or you could go for the interesting story and risk losing a bit of skin tissue. (Necrosis, you know. Interesting stuff)

I realize I only come here to rant nowadays. I'm journaling now because I feel completely and totally contented and I just wanted to put that on the record. The rants are really for my own benefit, since the best complaints are the ones that can be uttered succinctly, and yet still kick up an incendiary rage in the populace.

I'm not so good at that.

Anyway, hello, here I am. God, I really suck at Team Fortress 2. I'm not really sure how to un-suck. I mean, I'm usually pretty good at games, right? (Though I guess this mostly applies to ones in which I get to hold a controller.) As for right now, I'm trying to master the art of sucking gracefully. God, I can't even figure out how to upgrade my weapons. I've tried out basically every class and can only really do damage with Pyro, although I like to be Demoman, cos there's something inherently badass about being a big black guy with a huge fucking arsenal of bombs that no amount of noobish fail can overpower.

I want to at least play long enough to deal someone a dish of JARATE.

Ok, I guess that sort of became a rant in and of itself. If anyone learned in the art of Team Fortressing would like to impart unto me some of their knowledge perhaps I would suck less. Conversely, I could continue to suck just as much as I do now. Sait-on jamais!

I'm crawling out of my dark underground lair again to whine and bitch about something. Today it is the slated American remake of 'Let the Right One In'. I know the mature thing to do would be to love the original for what it is, and try to shut out news of the upcoming Americanization. But my rage is such an untamed beast! Plus, if I don't complain about it now, it's going to manifest itself in other ways, such as years off my lifespan, etc.

( The rant, condensed. )

Phew. Anyway, Chiggy and I finished Fatal Frame II the other day on normal. We experienced both endings possible on that difficulty setting. I'm not sure you could call EITHER of those the "good ending", however. I was left staring at the screen in catatonic shock afterwards, asking Chiggy if what had just happened had really just happened, and pressing that we now must beat the game on hard mode to get the REAL "good ending." I am very much in love with the game. It will doubtlessly make it back to SCAD with me.

Hopefully I'll be able to buy some art supplies tomorrow. I've been waiting all week for my parents to free up some time for me!

I was in Alabama for a while. But now I am back! There was much crabs, of the scuttly sort of nature who I harassed out of their hiding places and snapped many shots of.

And now, some art for you to ignore at your leisure! <3

( 1 Azula and 2 doodles from UGBS )

That is all, see you later.

Here is some old art from before I went to SCAD. Careful - it's rusty.

( Some of this is a few years old! )
Phew... My style has been suffering from something lately... I liked it more when it used to be more simple I think... The sooner I get out of this comic-artist-midlife-crisis thingy the better.

stupid sunburn D: My skin feels like it's one size too small D:

Here are some dumb doodles I've done over the past few days. Most of them are from today and so I will call them oh-god-my-skin-hurts-must-draw-to-ease-the-pain!doodles.

( STDS BLAH )

o_o)b

Just watched Emperor's New Groove again... If not for the childhood-nostalgia factor it would displace Great Mouse Detective as my favorite Disney movie. But alas! Basil will always hold a special place in my heart. Reserved for weird crushes on cartoon mouses.

I am having a low confidence period in my crap-that-dares-venture-to-call-itself-art right now. Every now and then I draw something I really like, but for the most part it's just a depressing string of comparing myself to accomplished artists who I admire and lamenting over how freakish my attempt at the human head looks.

I've been kind-of working on TCC as in, attempting to patch up some loose plot holes, sorting things out in "volume" form, redesigning some characters. Like Leslita's brother, Aaron:

He looked (and acted!) a bit too much like certain other characters of mine beforehand. Now he has a buzzcut. Dayum. (And may or may not play a bigger role. We'll see.) I tell you what though I don't know how I ever had any faith in this comic of mine... it might have been due to encouragement from friends, but seriously, this thing is all over the place. It doesn't flow right; it's too much information too soon. Show, don't tell, etc. But in a multi-dimensional pseudo-scifi story that's kind of difficult to avoid.

I made a flow chart that I really want to send to a girl at SCAD *coughahem*

Just a joke. DON'T BE HATIN

So I finished watching Soul Eater recently.

Rather than giving my opinion of the weird ass gecko-ending, HERE ARE SOME DOODLES because everyone loves doodles riiite

( MAKA )
I really enjoy drawing Maka. Her outfit is very Lora-friendly.
( Giriko/Justin... wut )
This was supposed to be a crack doodle but then it just sort of GREW AND FLOWERED
I mean did anyone else notice that all they did the entire series was fight each other

This post defies explanation. Suffice it to say it can all safely be lumped onto crack conversations again...

HOPE YOU PLAYED MGS3.
( More horrors behind the jump. )

I have a FOR REALS art post coming up soon, with actual STUFF I SPENT TIME ON. WHAT IS THIS CRAZY TALK.

Hey everyone, life has been great. Today I ended up on a nerd bus full of nerds who loved Metal Gear and it was the best thing ever. I mentioned to my friend Neil about how my douche roommate abducted my copy of MGS3 and as soon as the words "metal gear" left my mouth, two guys turned around in their seat and chimed METAL GEAR? I was happy in my soul. Especially when the girl sitting directly behind me yanks out her headphones and goes METAL GEAR? WHAT?

Anyway, it's time to be frank about why I'm not updating. You know. To all the people who might care.

I think the comic in its current incarnation is incredibly boring. In short I feel myself needing to go on to bigger and better things.

I never wanted the comic to be entirely all about "the gay". I've never liked a show, movie, or book (and scarcely ever comics, though of course there are exceptions) that featured this as the main storyline. I am a huge fan of plot. (And subtext. Snake Eater. Need I say more?)

However, you would never know this by reading my comic. That's why I'm hesitant to give out the address to people here at SCAD. Even a little embarrassed.

I mean, sure, I don't think Satty could ever sustain itself without the whole Toby/Miller thing as a subplot. It is sort of the backbone of the whole thing.

But seriously. Writing the gay as the main plot is incredibly hard for me to do. I had a way easier time just doing the intro to Underground Birdsong (you know, that thing that I can't finish cos I left the next page at home like a dunce, lawl :B) Anyway, it just feels like trying to construct a plot out of nothing. I think it worked the first time around because I was able to churn out a bazillion pages in a short amount of time, due of the overly simplistic art style and the fact that the characters were introduced gradually (as opposed to all at once, like in the current version - hell, Toby's nationality wasn't even revealed until like after 100 pages or something like that)

Anyway I'm not really sure what to do. It may be time for me to take a break. I really appreciate everyone who's left feedback, dropped me an email, etc. But there haven't been many. Especially compared with the huge number of people who read the original. If people stop reading because I want to start a new plot-based story arc, I'll be sad to see you go, because I feel like I could do so much better with this. But I feel like I don't have much to lose in terms of traffic because my site gets an abysmal amount of hits and it's dropping all the time.

(tl;dr)I'm not dropping the comic. I just want to like it again. Sometimes I wish I COULD drop it, but I'm way too attached to my own characters and I can't kick them to the curb until I do them justice. If I did get a fresh start with it, I feel like the characters could develop more and be more interesting if they weren't talking about SEXUALITYISSUES all the goddamn time. Alternatively I may even start drawing it on paper again. WE'LL SEE.

Fillers I drew in lieu of today's Satty page. Cos I am hella behind. I've been getting my sleep on since the quarter ended, to be honest. I may post the next page before Tuesday - if not, it'll just be Tuesday's update. Depends on how much time I have.

( okay technically these are old doodles but THEY'RE NEW TO THE INTERNET! )

Is there a way to say that one still enjoys "Kids in America" without feeling like a 12 year old?

Probably not.

On a completely unrelated note, have some art. Yay. Since, well, my doodleblog's been abandoned.

( I killed a rat. )

Sandwich time awaay

today I rewatched The Great Mouse Detective for the first time since I was a kid (surprisingly, it was on YouTube). Watching it through the lens of a teenager though made me realize some things.

Seedy bars? Sadistic death? Suggestive cabaret singers?

Disregarding the fact that it's animated, Disney will never make another movie like this again. I'm just fed up with how prudish the industry has become towards children, when all other age groups are provided with the same regurgitated babble of sex and hott women and guns and explosions (not that these things aren't some degree of awesome. WHEN USED IN MODERATION!)

Michael Bay I will never forgive you for Transformers :|

Why?

Why do the Japanese fanartists and doujinshika make Snake (& BB, for that matter)

uke?

.......

Is it because he has a nice ass?

hahahaahha I  love being pranked by the internet. Today I was hit by:

-deviantART (mudkipz icons)
-xkcd (its homepage is now another webcomic which I don't care for)
-spore fansite (the "pushed to 09" announcement was just believable enough to grip me with momentary fear. For about .2 seconds)
-the actual spore site ( wtf lol)
-youtube (STOP RICKROLLING ME)

once again I have missed a year of potential april fooly goodness via a comic... and I had so many awesome joke plot ideas. :[  they accumulate and then april fools hits and I don't notice. hahaha.

I got accepted to SCAD today after receiving the letter this morning and then completely forgetting about it for most of the day. A bit funny that it had to come on April 1st.

Jawwwwjuh.

So an Illinois-shaped corn flake has sold for $1,350. I'm thinking, "so, what weirdo decided to pay money for this??"

The weirdo, of course, was from Austin.

Is it strange that I get a weird sense of pride from this?

Gods I love you Austin I don't want to leave youuuu

You'll stay with me. Forever. Right? You promised it'd be forever.

Forever.