Daestwen's Lair

daestwen @ 2006-08-02T22:50:00

2006-08-03T02:51:49Z

Just to let ya'll know, I'm taking a short break from the internets. I'm not cutting myself off completely, or anything, but don't expect me around on lj much or on instant messaging. I've had to assess a lot of my life over the last few days, and I've realised that the internet really only makes me depressed. So I'm cutting down on my usage.

In other news, i'm really really enjoying my bartending course, and looking forward to working.

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2006-08-01T16:35:10Z

daestwen @ 2006-07-29T21:01:00

2006-07-30T01:02:00Z

it's days like this that i just want to curl up and cry myself to sleep.

i'm sorry for the emo posts lately.

you can just ignore them.

it's not like they matter anyway.

daestwen @ 2006-07-29T14:41:00

2006-07-29T18:43:55Z

Hey, everybody.

I'm up in the G-hurst for my mother's birthday, and it's fine. Ahm... What to say?

Had my first bartending lesson on wednesday. It was fun. I think I will enjoy it, and it should keep me employed.

I'm not sure what to do with myself. I know I have no reason to be depressed, but I simply feel stagnant. Invisible. Yes, it's an old theme and no one cares, I know. Anyway... The point is... heh, I don't know. whatever. catching up.

for those of you who are submitting things for the message in a bottle project PLEASE PLEASE let me know right away. your deadline is almost here! email me at daestwen (at) gmail (dot) com.

that's about it for now. peace.

daestwen @ 2006-07-27T12:32:00

2006-07-27T16:32:36Z

i don't think i'm suited to living, sometimes.

daestwen @ 2006-07-27T09:52:00

2006-07-27T13:56:00Z

I just joined ~~100fanart~~ (edit: fanart100, rather), but I'm not sure which fandom I want to pick. I feel like drawing girls, but all my favourite fandoms (Horatio Hornblower, etc) are all male-dominated. (And every harry potter character or pairing ever has been taken. obviously.)

Horatio Hornblower as a fandom hasn't even been started though. I thought maybe I'd just do it in general. Or Horatio/Bush. or something. or pellew (though he's a real person and that might be strange).

Or I was thinking Jin from Samurai Champloo. I have a feeling Soubi from Loveless is taken.

Nnn.. but they are all men. >O Someone give me a female character I really like to draw!

*looks at icons*

... i don't make a very good lesbian... i think this has more to do with the fact that i relate to guys a lot easier...

god i wish i was a boy sometimes.

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2006-07-22T18:47:14Z

daestwen @ 2006-07-22T10:13:00

2006-07-22T14:14:28Z

FUCKING HELL.

I am on Colin's computer again, because mine just shut itself down, worked for twenty minutes, and then shut down again. I can't even get windows to open.

I AM GOING TO KILL SOMETHING. I THOUGHT I FIXED THIS. IT LOOKED FIXED. IT WAS WORKING FINE. SFNALSDFKAJLFAWEKLFJNLVHSDF!!

.. goddammit.

daestwen @ 2006-07-21T23:33:00

2006-07-22T03:35:27Z

Thanks to ♥ BUNNYHERO THE AMAZING ♥ my internet is working.

:D

Yay.

daestwen @ 2006-07-20T16:12:00

2006-07-20T20:14:10Z

So I joined Zoe's new fanart community. It's pretty cool.

In other news:
- World news is scary
- Stephen Harper is the biggest moron in the world, sometimes.
- My tattoo is itchy and flakey and fun.
- :D

Anyway~

daestwen @ 2006-07-17T14:29:00

2006-07-17T18:31:52Z

I gots me a tattoo.

:D

My brother Eric did it for me. You can find him at New Tribe on Queen St.

Edit: My skin is still all pink and such cause I got it done yesterday, but. I still think it looks good. <3

daestwen @ 2006-07-14T17:47:00

2006-07-14T21:51:45Z

PS. FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO DRAW.

bunnyhero, rotsman, morgana006 and I are planning a Comic Anthology. Basically, it's a bunch of short graphic-novel stories revolving around a particular theme.

The first issue's theme is 'Message in a Bottle'. I don't care what time period, what characters, what anything is in the story, as long as at some point there is a bottle with a message in it. (You can even fool around with the definition of 'message' 'bottle' and 'in a' if you feel like it.)

If you are interested, or know anyone who is interested, please leave a comment here! The comics can be anything from 1-10 pages, and I will be deciding on what makes the final cut. (We are aiming for about a 60-page book, so, this is either 6 10 page stories, 60 1-page stories, or a mixture of everything.)

Please let me know, and if you know other artists, pass the word on. I would like an idea-submission deadline for August 1st. That means if you are interested, let me know by then. When we know who is all working on the project, a second deadline will be set for rough drafts, then for inks, then colours, ect.

Good luck!

daestwen @ 2006-07-14T17:34:00

2006-07-14T21:45:34Z

I'm starting to really hate looking at other people's art sometimes, because it completely makes me feel worthless.
Sometimes I get so excited about my own stuff, and so hopeful, and then I'll see something else and I'll be like: :/ Crap. There's no way I can do that. (It's a really crappy feeling.)

Anyway. Matt's gone. Le sigh. And with it, he took our internet. (Not really, but it stopped working and hasn't gone back up, no matter what I do with it.) Right now, I'm at my dad's house, but otherwise, no internets for Brittens.

Otherwise... Ahm... Not much up at all. I guess that's it for now.

Catch you on the flipside.

daestwen @ 2006-07-11T10:11:00

2006-07-11T14:13:14Z

As Matt informed me last night, he is leaving in about a week. So, I am again in search of a roomate.

You know the drill. $345 a month (includes water, heat, electricity, etc) plus 1/4th of phone, internet, groceries, etc...

Yeah, I don't know. That's about it.

daestwen @ 2006-07-10T10:58:00

2006-07-10T14:59:38Z

I'm hanging out with Natalie and Colin today, but my cell phone is dead, so call one of them (Natalie only after 12) if you need to get a hold of me.

Peace~!

daestwen @ 2006-07-10T00:06:00

2006-07-10T04:09:00Z

Alas.

I have gone over to the dark side.

Please, Lord, forgive me.

daestwen @ 2006-07-05T10:03:00

2006-07-05T14:05:54Z

Congratulations to me, having been drunk (for real) for the first time.

Basically I turn into a really horny Lesbian. ... So. ... No change!

That, and my head felt like it had cotton in it.

I have discovered a new drink. White wine spritzers! But I should be careful with them, I can drink them altogether too fast.

daestwen @ 2006-07-04T20:28:00

2006-07-05T00:28:52Z

This looks like an interesting experiment:

http://www.100millionspiders.com/

If anyone joins, I'm 'Britt Newstead' (so far true) at daestwen (at) hotmail.com.

I'm kind of curious, so, let me know if any of you sign up for this too.

edit: despite the url, no real spiders are involved. It's basically a giant game of Kevin Bacon.

daestwen @ 2006-07-02T09:45:00

2006-07-02T13:54:44Z

I had a really really crazy dream, involving (in no specific order): snape; a little plastic circle that was hidden in a painting and could show you the future and other people's thoughts; a play about three sisters that I was in (with my sisters, the geekfort, my uncle tom and my dad who were the techies basically); lots of luggage; my dad's mini; me being a boy (this is a pretty often occurance, actually); being in a strange movie that was actually real life that had a bunch of references to other movies and books; watching either snape's thoughts or my future on the little plastic circle that included him tying me up (as a boy) and torturing me, and then a progressive amount of bishonen anime men doing the same thing to increasingly terrifying levels, and then Snape coming up and asking me if I had found the circle in his house, in the painting of the two men that had become a double painting of one man once i had cut open the back to get at the circle, and i could never tell if Snape was evil or not, because he did seem to be trying to help me; me with the power of heat-vision, not like superman, but where I could tell the heat of any object I looked at and had like a scanning bar in my eyesight that let me see it, and that i looked for the circle with because apparently it must have been a different temperature; going to stedman's to find cheap costumes for the play and sending my dad to the thriftstore in barrie quickly to get more costumes before the play had to go on.

...

anyway, yeah.

daestwen @ 2006-07-01T11:56:00

2006-07-01T15:56:59Z

Innnnteresting. Veeery Interesting.

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daestwen @ 2006-06-30T12:24:00

2006-06-30T16:24:35Z

I think my problem is that I take these things too seriously.

I'm putting too much pressure on myself.

But is it really wrong to want something a little more meaningful? :/

Ah well. I should try taking things more casually.

daestwen @ 2006-06-28T09:44:00

2006-06-28T13:43:16Z

Made this icon for Ginny:

It's not exactly it, and I couldn't find the font, but. I thought it would be alright. :/ I hope so, anyway.

in other news.

I've been having some weird thoughts, lately.

daestwen @ 2006-06-27T09:31:00

2006-06-27T13:29:52Z

okay, okay, i'll bite.

I escaped from the Dungeon of Daestwen!

I killed Chibimya the leprechaun, Rei Chan the leprechaun, Rotsman the floating eye and Little Ribbon the orc.

I looted the Shield of Elijah Wood, the Sceptre of Canadamanda, the Wand of China, the Amulet of Folly , the Sword of Chocolava, a Figurine of Writingduck, the Sword of Neverabsolutely, the Sword of War, the Sceptre of Wksilvanus, the Crown of Exsanguinated and 97 gold pieces.

Score: 297

Explore the Dungeon of Daestwen and try to beat this score,
or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon...

daestwen @ 2006-06-26T00:29:00

2006-06-26T04:34:44Z

Pride was incredibly, incredibly awesome. I got tons of pictures on my dad's camera - hopefully they'll be up later. So much fun. :]

I know a lot of people were a bit snarky at the 'worthy' comment I made last post, and I apologize. (I honestly feel that way, a lot of the time, but.)

I did talk to her a couple times this weekend. These discussions have only confirmed to me that I have absolutely no ranking in this girl's thoughts. She's the sweetest thing in the world, but I just don't exist in her mind.

So I'm over it. Totally.

Unlike Nat, I did not get to make out with any hot girls. (I'm too romantic to try it, really.)

But I did wear very little clothing, and I did get blown kisses, so I don't feel too bad. Next year I want to be in the parade. It will be awesome.

I also want a stylized Ulysses Butterfly for a tattoo, on my lower back. It's smaller and probably less painful than my winged serpent tattoo. I have to work myself up to it.

daestwen @ 2006-06-24T11:16:00

2006-06-24T15:18:57Z

I'm off to the Dyke March.

I still haven't officially told her that I like girls, let alone that I like her.

Though I'm sure it's obvious enough to put the pieces together.

I'm in the kind of mood where I'm ready to throw most of my life away for something stupid.

Maybe today I'll get drunk for the first time in my life.

God, what a mess I have become.

I'd tell her if I thought that I could ever be worthy of her.