Before you ask anything about my dress ups, please see if your question has already been answered in the F.A.Q. Thank you.

This doesn't really have anything to do with... anything, and I'm pretty sure nobody cares anyway, but I just felt like listing stuff I support. Sorry for spamming my watchers' inboxes. But for once I'm trying to make a positive journal entry, as I've written a lot about stuff that bothers me. Spoilers(?) AHOY (to some series I guess. At least I warned)!

Manga
ONE PIECE.
and Fullmetal alchemist, ARIA, Yotsuba&!, Trinity blood. They're my top5 at the moment (not necessarily in this order, except OP's the unrivaled #1). I've taken interest in Narutaru, because I read somewhere that it's going to get really bloody, but I haven't managed to read it very far.

Anime/TV
I don't really watch any series (I prefer reading), so this is mainly limited to the weekly OP episode. And Monk. Ghibli movies rule (Porco rosso is the best). I watched Serial experiments Lain (13-episode-long scifi anime series) some time ago and didn't understand anything about it... Irresponsible Captain Tylor (old(?) anime series) has been very fun, but I haven't finished it yet. Moomins?

Characters
Luffy, Garp, Roger, Rayleigh, Shakky, Whitebeard, Jinbei, Hiruluk, Tom-san, Kokoro (Lol Ngagagaga)... (OP. It's hard to choose favourites, as the series has so many great characters. It'd be easier to pick the ones I didn't like...), Jiraiya, Gai, Lee, Kisame, Killerbee, Raikage, Hanabi Hyuuga, Temari (Naruto), Ed, Ling, (FMA), Yanda (Yotsuba&!), Seth, Abel (Trinity Blood)... To name a few.

Pairings
In general I don't like romance, but if it's well-written I can tolerate it. In general teenage romances suck. And anything Shoujo... *shudder* "If you lead-male-kun aren't by my side I can't be strong! I really love you! *kiss* *cherry blossoms and roses in the background*".... Yuck. But there are some pairings I support, including

-One Piece: Luffy harem (my OTP), Roger/Rouge, Rayleigh/Shakky, Garp/Sengoku(uh-oh...)
-Naruto: Naruto/Tenten (it's great for the lulz), Naruto/Naruko (even better), Jiraiya/Tsunade (grown up romance. Beats the cheesy "Big 3" any day), Shikamaru/Temari, Minato/Kushina, Kisame/Killerbee (lol), Anti-NaruHina (I'm a proud member of the ANH FC on NF)
-FMA: Roy/Riza, Ling/Ranfan & Izumi/Sig (That's true love)
-Ranma½ Ryoga/girl!Ranma (...)
-Harry Potter: Harry/Luna. Harry/Ginny sucks. and it came out of nowhere
-Scrooge mcDuck/Glittering Goldie (or whatever her name is in English) from Don Rosa's "The life and times of Scrooge mcDuck" (and its part 2). One of the best pairings I've ever read anywhere, everyone should read the book.

Manga moments
-OP: is full of awesome stuff. Many in every chapter. How can I pick just a few? Off the top of my head, Luffy facing Enel and ringing the golden bell, Garp bursting through the wall because it's cooler to enter the room that way, Sengoku freaking out after Luffy breaks into Impel down, Rayleigh's introduction, "That's why it's so romantic!!1"...
-Naruto: Anything with Gai/Killerbee/Raikage. ELBOW! The Jiraiya dance. Haku & Zabuza death. Tobi & Deidara antics.
-Yotsuba&!: The boxer man! Yotsuba/Yanda interaction.
-Ranma½: Genma getting any panel time as a panda. He looks so freaking hilarious that he doesn't really need to do anything to amuse me.
-ARIA: The fox's wedding
-"Just as planned" parodies and the picture being posted on discussion boards in appropriate situations.

Anime moments
I still don't watch much anime, but still... Luffy punching the Tenryuubito was awesome animated (and it was made by my favourite animator). Totoro at the bus stop. The death of the phoenix in moomin (I love that soundtrack). The penguin from Azumanga Daioh (Sakaki's dream).


Random stuff
-White chocolate. Milk chocolate will do as well.
-Genderswaps. I blame Emporio Ivankov and Arlong park forums on this.
-Dress ups (obviously). Detailed Dress ups. Lots of options and detailed clothes. Sometimes I feel that my games become very messy as I just NEED to include every possible thing I have refefence images of... And nobody would notice if something was missing anyway. But that's the way I like them.
-Reading well done rant journals
-TVtropes
-Evil overlord list

Before you ask anything about my dress ups, please see if your question has already been answered in the F.A.Q. Thank you.

Since I already made the game that won the now existing poll, the poll is kinda outdated. And as I still have one month subscription left, it'd be a bit lame not to use the poll option while I have the chance.

But I have no idea what to ask.

So do you have any constructive ideas? I mean a proper poll, and not one like "what colour are the panties you're wearing now?" or "what is your favourite season?". I'd like to have a poll whose results would interest me in some way. A poll that had something to do with dress up games would be nice, as they're what my account is mostly about.

(and not another "Since I made the naruto couples game, what game should I do now??!" It was a pain that I wasn't able to work on any other game than the one that won the poll, since I kinda promised to make the winner first...)

Before you ask anything about my dress ups, please see if your question has already been answered in the F.A.Q. Thank you.


I had a little discussion on the "People whining about Hinata missing from my games" issue with a person who commented on my dress up, and I said something about "Maybe I should count how many 'Wheres Hinata!!' comments I've received so far, but I guess that'd be too much work".

But now I decided to do it anyway. I browsed through the comments in the Kunoichi dress up and the Naruto couples dress up, and counted all the "Where's Hinata!!1" style comments. I didn't count the rational ones that were like "Too bad Hinata's not there, but other than that, I like this/ at least I can dress *some other character*/it's your game, so you can do what you want". I did count the ones where the commentator clearly hadn't bothered to read the artist's comments which explain why she's missing. And the ones where the person said that the fact I don't like Hinata makes them sick and I suck for not loving NaruHina.

It's possible I missed some, but there were way much more than I could ever expect from just two games. At the moment, I have received a whooping

71

comments on the issue.... (I'll update this number if when I get more. (the number was 50 when I wrote this)

Holy cow, I thought there'd be like 20 or so! No wonder getting them has become more and more annoying over the time. But fear not! No matter how much people whine, I still won't add her <3 <3 <3!

I find the ones that are like "Even if you don't like Hinata, you should still add her to please the players, because there are people who like her. It's unfair that all the others are included but Hinata is not, so you should add her" to be the most annoying.... If you think my games suck without Hinata-sama, you don't need to play them. I don't get any money from having visitors on my page, so you not playing my fail games won't affect my life in any way. But don't come complaining that "The game is not the way I want it to be! You should change it to something that pleases me more!".

If you want to ask anything about my dress ups, please read the F.A.Q. first. Thank you.


This journal entry will be about me whining about stuff that annoys me about commenting. If you're going to respond with "Don't be so negative! Stop complaining! Let's all be happy-happy together and love each other!!!" or something like that, you can stop reading here.

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Okay, I'll start now.

One-liner comments
When the "messages" bar up there says I have received a comment, I always get excited. Yay! Someone has something to say about my work! Constructive criticism maybe?
Though usually it's one of the following:
-"I like it!"
-"I love it!"
-"Awesome! "
-"It's fun!"
-"Cute!"
Or some of their variations. It kinda starts bugging you when you get dozens of these.

And no, I'm not asking for detailed multi-paragraph analyses or advice with advanced Flash experience to help my coding improve. Just a sentence or two is already great. But if it's too much to write more than 10 characters in the comment, or that you can't spend more than 5 seconds thinking what to write, don't sweat it. You don't need to comment if you really don't have anything to say. I'm already very very happy with the view you gave me.

Of course the one-liners make the "proper" comments even more awesome to receive. Thanks for them, I love it when someone has actually bothered to sit down and write more than three words. It's that kind of people that really inspire me post more games on DA.

[edit]Holy flying marshmallow llamas! Last night I received around 50 comments (because I submitted the new Naruto game), and most of them had more than 2 lines of text and the commenters actually had something more than "whoa cool!" to say! Thank you, I was really really positively taken aback!

People spamming my comments
The people who don't even try to comment on my stuff and start a discussion like
"*gives a cookie*"
"yay cookie!"
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"RANDOM!!!11"
Today I went through some of the comments I've had so far and reported a lot of spam messages. Take your cookie discussions to notes or your own profiles or anywhere else than my account, please.


Chatspeak
"ur gams r awsome r u goin 2 maek more"
"dis is cool cn u make a bleach game"
"what prgram do u use 2 make tese gaems"
Chatspeak hurts my eyes. If you're so lazy that you can't write such a long word as 'you', don't expect me to bother to answer.


Those Hinata fans who whine about me not drawing her
(Please note that this is not "All Hinata fans are annoying". This is directed to only the ones who start complaining about Hinata missing from my games or ordering me to add her)
I have received many comments like
"Why is Hinata not in the game!! "
"I'm very sad that you didn't draw Hinata "
"Waaaaah hinata is not there!!"
"Even if you don't like Hinata, a lot of people do so add her"
The point is that I don't like her. I do these games in my free time as a hobby. Why should I waste my time on drawing something I hate, just because someone on the internet likes it? And the Kunoichi game has 30 characters at the moment. Is Hinata really the only one you can dress? Do you hate all the other characters? If you do, then I can't really help. I understand it's annoying if your favourite character is missing, but these "Bawwwwwww no Hinata! " comments don't really change anything.

Additionally, Hinata is an insanely popular character on the net. Deviantart gives over 100,000 deviations if you search Hinata. I was able to find over 30 dress ups with Hinata on DA. How come it is not enough, and the fact that my games don't have her is the end of the world? It's not like they have very good artwork either.

Yay I found a stamp

I expect to get even more "Bawww no Hinata and that's all that matters!!! I cant even think about dressing any of the other characters the game has, the only thing I notice is that YOU DIDN'T DRAW MY FAVOURITE CHARACER!!!" style comments when I upload the Naruto pairing game. Since it won't have Hinata either...

On the other hand, I have gotten comments like "too bad Hinata's not there, but at least I can dress my other favourite, *character*". They really are heartwarming to receive. Hinata fandom needs more people like that.

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Some of the comments I get are actually hilarious. My favourite so far is "Your bias against Hinata will bring you down!". Close to that is the one that said I don't deserve to be in this art community for being a rude snob. Duh, I ain't gonna leave, I'll still add more games anyway. I won't force that person to play them, since they clearly aren't interested in my stuff...



That's all for now I guess.

If you want to ask anything about my dress ups, please read the F.A.Q. first. Thank you.

So I have the subscription now. Thanks to the person who bought it to me! My page looks awesome without the ads. And I can collect stamps! In order to celebrate the subscription I shall make a poll.

Normally I don't take any dress up requests/suggestions/whatever, but since I'm going to make all these games anyway I thought I could let the visitors to choose which game I'll do next (or actually I just want to try the poll option...)

Actually the poll idea is kinda stupid, since I already know what is going to win... But whatever.

As for the Naruto couples dress up, you can choose a male and a female character and the dress them both. And it won't have NaruHina or SasuSaku, since I find them both fail pairings and don't want to be responsible for creating any new NaruHina/SasuSaku art. Or actually it won't have Hinata at all.



(Damn! I can't get rid of the Llama mood! I'm not feeling llama anymore... And how do you add a poll anyway?)