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Hello yes I am home now I thought I’d pop by and tell you guys how I’ve been and then zoom off for another month and study, study, STUDY!

1. Most importantly is that I’m going to be moving out and living independently this September. :O Living with two of my friends from anime society, one who’s a girl and one who’s a boy (we joke how we have a guy, a girl and an “ambitious” living together). Which means we can blare out our J-Pop and casually talk about anime all the time. SUH-WEET. £130 rent a week isn’t actually half bad ($210). Learning how to cook, clean, and look after myself is going to be an uphill struggle. A thirty minute stroll away which definitely beats the hour and fifteen minute commute I do now. Also my room has a double bed, I’ve never had that before!
2. My XBox 360 got RROD’d. A sad loss. But one I got over pretty quickly. Why? Because I bought it modded for £50 ($80) and it came with a load of games so I definitely got my money’s worth. Going to buy a PS3 when I’m done with my exams though.
3. Ask Aya reached 100 followers! That really warmed my heart. And at the moment it’s fluctuating at that point, losing and gaining followers but I’m still very happy. I am very grateful to all who have enjoyed my work, thank you so much.
4. I’m getting seriously interested in fighting games this past month. And I don’t mean, ‘oh fighting games that’s a thing,’ I mean, ‘let’s talk about frame traps and footsies and what happened during the road to EVO’ interested. I’ve had a fight stick for nearly a year now. But I need to buy two more since my 360 died. I’ve got my eyes on that Qanba. Dual modded out of the box? Yes please. RIP Gootecks, RIP Spooky. ;_; Street Fighter X Tekken is trash by the way.
5. SKULLLLLGGGGIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRLLLLS LAUNCH PARTY ERRDAY. Totally riding the hype, even though it just got released in the UK today. I’m so glad Tumblr likes Skullgirls. Although, it seems like a lot of you are finding it hard, aha. So I was thinking. Maybe I could make a side-blog that would help people who haven’t touch fighting games before get better? Like explain, why and how to do the quarter circle motions and dragon punches and stuff in the form of videos, text replies and the like. Because I’m nowhere near competitive level (I am a filthy casual) but I like to talk about the strategy and discuss the merits of the mechanics etc. Not to brag about it or anything, but I learned how to do a hadouken in one of games while playing Street Fighter II on the plane. That’s right. 36000 feet. Eight years old. Crummy phone/controller hybrid. Hadouken. But seriously, I would love more people to have an interest in fighting games and show that’s it’s more like an exciting chess match rather than just mashing buttons. But seriously, Skullgirl tutorial videos, going over how to best play the characters and tips on how to beat others (cough Double/Peacock)
6. I just filmed myself performing a dragon punch (forward, down, forward-down punch) on a DDR mat. If it’s possible to do the motion with your feet, you can do it on the controller! Have patience and do your best!
7. Studying has been going at a reasonable pace. The stack of work I’ve down is greater than my textbook, which is about 700 pages. I’m confident on half of my subjects, quietly confident on two and I’m only worried on two.
8. Started reading the Toradora light novels and READING IS FUN? I never used to like reading since I lacked a proper mind’s eye (I’m not very good at imagining things).
9. I have decided to cosplay as Red from Pokémon for October’s London MCM Expo. I am going to try and make it all by myself. Try your best, me!
10. I saw a total of three girls wearing zettai ryouiki during April. =w=

OKAY BACK TO WORK

Leaving Tumblr until June. WHOOOOSH. My only available point of contact is Facebook BUT DO YOU KNOW MY REAL NAME????

In which Antony Rambles about Community and the Big Bang Theory

But doesn’t tag TBBT because that would be me being a dick.

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beepony:

wariofan63:

lepreshg reblogged your post: Homestuck minus Dave

Silly Wariofan

One does not simply “homestuck” without Dave

You’re right! I’ll fix my mistake by adding in more Dave!

I would definitely still read homestuck if it was davestuck

There’s something called “sourcing”

semebay:

Sourcing is good.

Sourcing benefits everyone.

Recently, everyone became aware that artists on 2chan were getting really fucking pissed because people were reposting their art everywhere. I’ll put aside my opinion of 2chan for the moment because something good came out of it: people either sourced items, or they stopped reblogging items that the artists may not have wanted posted.

Nah, I’m kidding. Maybe two people did that, and everyone else continued their bullshittery while reblogging unsourced work and yanking shit off Pixiv because they like to talk morality and then pillage pixiv accounts like a bunch of little hypocrites.

I could continue talking about how my faith in humanity has long been lost since I looked upon the face of tumblr, but I’ll save you the trouble and do this.

HOW TO SOURCE

• zerochan is not a source. Ever.
• “I found this on LJ! It was in this post!” This is not a source. This is bullshit. Give a link, an artist, preferably both. Even if the post was made forever ago, a quick comment with “who drew that???” will probably get you a response and a source. Smarten the hell up. And if all else fails, link back to the god damn post you yanked the picture from. It’s not that hard.
• Photobucket is not a source. It’s as bad as zerochan.
• If you don’t know the source, use this nifty little site called “SAUCENAO.” You simply post the picture to the website, and it will try to match it to work on Pixiv. There’s even an add-on for firefox and chrome so you can right click and search! Hint: It’s not that fucking hard and takes less than 10 seconds. If you can’t find it in you to use it, then you’re a lazy fuck who needs to get off the computer and do something with your life
• No source? ask for help. Or don’t post it. You know, either way.
• There’s a box above the tags when you post on tumblr. It says “content source.” Use it and abuse it. It needs your love. Considering how many tags you people use every time you post, I am astounded that so few of you have found it.
• Also, as maiyeng pointed out, “You can also source back a pic by dragging and dropping the art in the google image search bar! :)”

WHY TO SOURCE

• People want to find the artist
• The artist gets proper credit
• The artist doesn’t get pissed and delete their pixiv in retaliation
• People can find similar artwork, and potentially get the artist to make more because of positive feedback
• So you don’t look like a massive douchebag

I like to think of it this way:

When in doubt, leave it out.

Ask for help, or don’t post. Don’t be that person.