Nemhaine42

I'm going to upload all the shit I drew and put on tumblr and never uploaded here. Apologies in advance for wasting your time. 

So...

Hiashi the Laptop is dead.

Dead.

I... God, that's still sinking in. Dead.

I spilled cola on him. It's my fault. I killed him. He was loyal, long-serving and valued. And I killed him.

I spent a long time crying.

I take some solace in the fact that his hard-drive is still okay. His soul lives though the body decays.  It still hits quite hard to know I don't have access to years' worth of work and research but it's not completely gone. Because I'm an idiot, I'd only backed-up a fraction of what's one there.  

I looked up online how to get the old hard-drive's contents onto the new one but it was very confusing and eventually I'd read so many different instructions that I couldn't understand anything anymore. I'll have to look into getting someone else to do it but work is sucking everything out of me right now - and is about to get worse - so I just don't have the time or energy to do it now.

I got most of the music back because it's on iTunes as 'purchased' but there's about a third of the old library that came from CDs or other sources that I can't get back straight away.  Going through all the CDs I have left is time-consuming and my room starts to look like it did back in the 90s. It's quite painful when I'm going through the tunes and start looking for one track or other that I realise isn't there anymore. It will be back one day but not yet. Not yet.

But, yes, I do have a new Macbook named Neji. I mean, my entire technology-naming theme was the Hyuuga family so it looked kind of weird that nothing was called Neji.  That's because the car keys used to be on a Neji keychain so they were Neji. But now those keys are on an owl keychain so freeing up the name again.

_{As a side note, I find this situation parallels actual Naruto-verse Neji. I think Neji puts a lot of pressure on himself to live up to his father, at least in his uncle's eyes. Which he's perfectly capable of in regards to shinobi life, but in other ways it's very difficult if not impossible. So Laptop Neji takes over from someone he can easily surpass yet never replace. Never mind that the old laptop was named after his uncle to begin with, his father Hizashi is actually a USB drive It shows I spend far too much time thinking about fandoms and am crazy enough to name my technology.}

I am curious, though, why my laptops are male. The tablet is Hinata and the iPod is Hanabi but I can't think of any computer as female, as many people do about cars or boats or other shit. Urban-Geist named her laptop Wilhelm and I named my phone Loki (which nobody saw coming), so what is the deciding factor in what makes an inanimate object male or female since English lacks genders with regards to nouns.  Thoughts?

So... Urban-Geist and I are having the equivalent of a DeviantMeet. I shall be winging my way over to the US of A for some awesome times and general gallivanting around with Urbie.

As per usual the 24 hours immediately previous to my departure is what my brain thinks is the perfect time to give me ideas and inspiration.  I went about re-doing my floor plan of The Brotherhood Boarding House, giving it a few tweaks here and there, and an attic space and a purpose for that large tower structure. I've drawn it out but not inked it and already I've spotted mistakes which I don't have time to change. Urbie herself inspired some Napoleonic-era Hetalia fan art, which only got the bones of it sketched out.

Also, I got Pinterest which is a very very baaaaad idea.  I had to make a whole board for the Loki stuff I amassed.  My brain keeps using Pinterest to fill in information about various fandoms.

Anyway, I shall return. Unless Urbie raeps and murders me, in which case I won't.

I should finally admit to you that...

well...

My internet is ill. Very ill. 'WTF is this, I don't even' kind of ill.

About a fornight ago (gawd it seems so much longer), I came home from Ian's place - having leeched his internet connection - to find Hiashi-chan could no longer connect to my internet. At the time I was too tired and went to bed, hoping it'd fix itself in the morning. But no.  It can find the network but won't give me internet. I reset everything even remotely connected to it but to no avail.

Since my mother and brother can both connect to the web on their laptops, I feared the worst. I took Hiashi into the Apple store in town (where my mother was about a breath away from embarrassing me hideously in front of the hot!nerd) but was told that there is nothing wrong with him. Functioning perfectly. A little filthy, what with the crumbs and chocolate but working none the less. He was able to connect to the store's wif-fi no problem.  

Presumably this make the problem our internet connection/wireless router.  Now, we have the most archaic Belkin router connected to AOL. Which, I might add, does not support Belkin routers. How the fuck it's been working this past decade or so I don't know*.  Mother dutifully called AOL to say 'wtf?' and we learned that we must be the only customers AOL have now since they offered to half our price and send us out a brand-spanking new router. Well, no router has arrived despite being given an exact date of delivery and mother is giving them one more day and then is switching to BT. Which will hopefully work. If it doesn't I may kill myself.

_{* I used 'decade' as hyperbole but in actual fact it is more like a decade that I've been online that I ought to admit to.}

It vexes me greatly since Danny and Mum's laptops connect, yet mine does not. Hiashi may be the only Mac in the house but that's not the issue. Ian and the guys came over for Marvel Movie Night (gawd that was awesome - Iron Man followed by Thor and Captain America - I can't wait for the Avengers Movie) and Ian's laptop couldn't get any connection either. Sam's could. I do not know what the problem is. WHY? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?

So, you see, all the stuff I've been doing is on Hiashi-chan - because, despite being months old, Mother's laptop just doesn't cut the mustard like Hiashi does. And the thing I started just after New Year sits lonely, gathering dust. Unfinished because I know I can't upload it yet without a tonne of fuss.

I started a sketchbook specifically for all the Evo stuff that doesn't fit anywhere and cannot really be turned into a deviation.  It follows a vague plotline that lives in my head. It will never be turned into a fic but I felt the need to make it more concrete. So it spills out into this book. I may upload some of it... one day... hopefully... if I haven't flung myself in the river.  It's all the stuff that comes about from thinking about Evo far too much and far too seriously. I mean, that little comic thing I had a while back about Pietro passing out from a nose-bleed - apart from demonstrating the epicness of rainrach's commentary - shows I actually think about his physiology and issues relating to how he manages his powers whilst mutants are still under-wraps.  

If anyone's interested, my more recent Rogue/Gambit pics would also technically go into this book... had I thought of it while I'd been drawing them.

Since there was no internet for a while - I went cold turkey for a couple of days then shamelessly stole Mother's laptop - I became quite enthralled with filling in the Bayville community. I'd already, in the past, drawn Pietro's bitches from 'Shadowdance'. So now I've been going through all the episodes I own looking for a) decent background images of random extras and making whole characters out of them and b) figuring out and filling in gaps of which classes all the X-men take (and the Brotherhood as well).  I even included Duncan, Taryn and Paul for fuck's sake.

SOMEBODY HELP ME.  

Now that I'm online with a foster laptop, I've been using it to expand my fandoms.  Firstly into Thor. I never read any of the comics before watching the movie so, unlike my brother, the movie-verse stands alone for me and it's much easier to get  into it.  I spend the entire length of the film being on Loki's side. Thor is a beefcake, but Loki just made me want to hug him and pet him.  But also, for some reason, I really took to Darcy Lewis. I don't even know. She was so blase about everything... And Coulson "I dunno, [Stark] never tells me anything." I REALLY LIKED THAT MOVIE OK?

But also - and this take some admitting - Harry Potter. I spent most the fandom's existance eschewing it.  And, to be honest, I still couldn't give a flying rat's ass about Harry as a character.  But there are what? Six movies? And NOBODY - not one person - told me about Lucius Malfoy's hair. Seriously guys? Surely you all know by now what I'm like for guys with long hair? It all started when I agreed to babysit some colleagues2 daughter. She wanted to watch The Deathly Hallows Pt I, so I let her. I was salivating over ever damn scene Jason Isaacs appeared in. And then I went home and looked up Lucius Malfoy. I googled him long time. And now I ship LuciusxNarcissa, RodolphusxBellatrix and RemusxSirius so hard you wouldn't believe. I've never seen any of the films all the way through (Munchkin needed to be put to bed) not have I even glanced at the books. All this shipping is from reading fanfics. Half the time I'm still not sure what the heck is going on.  SO IT'S ALL YOU GUYS' FAULT REALLY.

SO THERE.