Yeah, uh, IM conversations don't really translate into comics all that well all that often.

I want, like, five.

(Speaking of cthulhu kitties, behold the best gift ever.)

Because

P.S. I know I am stupid.

Have more funky birds, but instead of freaky, the Kakapo is incredibly, tragically cute.

It's a hefty giant of a parrot, and there's about eighty to ninety left in the world. ;_;









SHUT UP I AM NOT A SAP.

http://www.golgotha.org.uk/soapbox/nde.html
^ Person who did the same thing. Nutshell: He had a really intense going-to-heaven near-death vision.

If you believe that was what happened, then apparently... um... ASR's going to hell, and I don't know wheretheeff Jake or Nova are going.

If you believe that's your brain going haywire with no oxygen, then you're all frickin' messed up.

A hermit crab in a glass shell:



(Of real interest is the exploded livejournal thread where it was posted. u hurt the crab's feelings, u gais.)

Lightning plus pillar of volcanic ash equals FRICKING AWESOME:



(sauce)

This is a Common Potoo. Supposedly it's a bird.


And a potoo baby.


And for good measure, a Tawny Frogmouth or two.

Smart funny? Here, have the Piglet Squid. It is a real animal.



The Saiga Antelope:



The hognose snake:


( http://snakeskii.deviantart.com/ )

And the wandering albatross:

This is a thread bump of epic proportions, but I woke up this morning, stared in the mirror, and went, "Duuude..."



<Yubi_Shines> studies show that I do not, in fact, get electrocuted in my sleep
<Laggy> You bring new definition to static cling.
<Milly> o_o;;
<Milly> Wow, Yubi. Wow. XD
<murk|showah> She's working the bum artist look

<Krum> http://www.lasplash.com/uploads/2/Sweeney_Todd-2.jpg
<Krum> You copy cat, you
<Yubi_Shines> ...
<Yubi_Shines> Now I wish I hadn't combed it down

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html
A Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever

I had to sit through all of it.
You have to, too.

[18:32:03] <Yubi_Shines> I need
[18:32:07] <Yubi_Shines> to get a boombox
[18:32:15] <Yubi_Shines> and walk around the city with this at full volume
[18:32:24] <Yubi_Shines> and see how long until someone shoots me

[18:33:18] <Yubi_Shines> You know what I should do
[18:33:28] <Yubi_Shines> I should get the rickroll video and replace the audio with this

[18:36:35] <Yubi_Shines> ...ramadan?
[18:36:49] <Yubi_Shines> ...banjo?

[18:37:57] <Yubi_Shines> I thought I didn't hate bagpipes
[18:37:59] <Yubi_Shines> until this day

[18:38:34] <Yubi_Shines> Opera about... kitties?

[18:41:04] <Yubi_Shines> muscles are twitching where I didn't know I had muscles.

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Pray-WIP-82882594
Why do I never finish the ones I really do work at? I still have the half-coloured version of this sitting in my "painter" folder. It's not been touched for four months.

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Cliche-Evil-82882293
*mutters*

EDIT:
Have a terrible meme

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http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Show-s-Over-83365673
I can has terrible background

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Winston-83334276
I love Winston. He's the ugliest cat ever and he sort of spins right back to adorable.

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Drawn for the wtf_nature community.

LET ME TAKE YOU TO SCHOOL, SUCKERS. IN CHEMISTRY.

Yeah, I agree that you can't take it seriously.

me: "Who's the Hollywood actor that's attributed to saying, "Can't sing. Can't act. Can dance a little"?"
dad: "Most of them."



(Fred Astaire. You're welcome.)

Considering the recent trend in deviantart, Megaman Pikachu would also have a pet wolf that has wings and neon fur stripes and horns and fins and the ability to crap rainbows.

Starting to read All Star Batman and Robin.

Everyone either seems to love it and hail Miller as a god, or hate it with fiery rage and call for him to be burned and cut into pieces.

I'm leaning to the first camp, but I've still got a ways to go.

Every terrible typo brings me one step closer to the horrible massacre I will soon unleash upon the world.

twitch

twitch

This shows how up to date I am about this crap, since the article was posted March 5:
Watchmen Movie Costumes

Just about everything makes me shriek like a small child on helium (Dr. Manhattan isn't there, unfortunately, but I guess there's not much costume there to start with), with the possible exception of Ozymandias. I'm hoping it's just the photo, but he looks too weedy.

Also, armor nipples. :(

I must be going crazy.

Had a dream (one that I'm sure I've had once before) that was a really bad, embarassingly bad, plot for a movie. A girl who was granted a wish from a fairy godmother to be "forever young and beautiful", just like a Barbie doll. She goes to an elaborate dance, a prince (obviously) falls for her, she gets drunk and crazy (obviously) and leaps to her doom off a balcony. Before she hits the ground, she turns into (OBVIOUSLY) a Barbie doll. She also wakes up in her house, unhurt.

Blah blah hijinks with Obligatory Brunette Best Friend blah blah prince goes searching for her and gets seduced by Obligatory Brunette Vixen blah blah.

I could swear I've actually seen this movie, though. Which kind of proves how bad so many movies are. Ugh.

On the other hand, the rest of the dream also included her having the power to bring dead things back to life, and for some reason she collected mummified bodies of small animals, and she suddenly found herself surrounded by a whole lot of fuzzy things that crapped on the carpet and needed feeding.

I LOVE IT. WITH EVERY ONE OF MY GAY GENES.

Check it out, an intelligent word game.

Here are the guidelines:
http://www.ironcircus.com/blog/000814.html

To fit this as a forum game:
- I start out with an example word for someone to define. The next poster explains it and gives another word (or person, or whatever). And on. No one gets voted out because that overcomplicates things.
- Obviously you're not going to listen to this one, but restrict references from Wikipedia or a dictionary.
- No, you can't lie to the natives. It's cheating and everyone will hate you. And you'll be dead, because the natives are really good lie detectors. Because I said so.

Ready?


"Scientist"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1K-k6sxHY4
The Chasers' If Life Were a Musical, taking place in a barber shop.

Just found out about these guys. It makes me lol very much. The Grease Lightning driver's license one is excellent too.

What girl? I'm not familiar with Runaways.

It reminds you of Persepolis? Sweet. I love that movie.

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Echidna-82796736
It's nagging at me that the present-day-goddess designs look too much like normal people, even if that was the point. I don't really like this particular one. The arms look too short, although when I measure them with my hands and swivel them to be vertical, they're the right length. I'll do a better one of her and Medusa at some point.

I said I didn't like the first two Fables earlier in the thread, and I still don't, but the later books that I've read (Storybook Love, March of the Wooden Soldiers) shaped up to be pretty good. I still think the storytelling is too jumpy, though, as in, it goes from point A to D without mentioning B and C much if at all.

It also over-expositions at times. [spoiler]Each character will remind and reremind the audience that Sleeping Beauty's curse involves sleeping and Bluebeard kills womens. It doesn't happen with the more obscure/made up stuff like Bigby's background, and a relatively unknown character from folklore like Reynard the fox doesn't get any introductory text at all. Weird.

For one thing, if they're all immortals that have lived with each other for so long, why would they need to remind each other of what they are? And if the main cast are well-known fairy tale figures (Snow White, Big Bad Wolf, Briar Rose) why would the audience need to be reminded who they are? Granted, Bluebeard's a little more obscure, probably since Disney would never make a movie out of him. Too bad, since I like his story. They'd probably design him to look like Jafar and make him a wicked sorcerer, though.[/spoiler]

Dr. Wily, what is your opinion about the new Speed Racer movie?

(hysterical anguished screams)

NEVER MENTION THAT MONSTER EVER AGAIN.

In which I am a munchkin.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-80125597

In which there is little hair.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Maris-80958960

In which I continue the goddess restaurant/waitress/whatever thing.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Ivory-81138977

In which there is a comic panel for a non-comic story that's taking bloody forever for me to get anywhere.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Jinell-81440060

In which I revisit the horriblest horrible old art ever.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Laurel-Plus-Five-Years-81470507

In which there is the Gorgon.
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Medusa-82220082

You know how I'm a big fan of Neil Gaiman's works?

Last night I had a dream that Laura from American Gods went to London Below from Neverwhere. Then it segued into some story about Desire from The Sandman.

Good. Gravy.

Been trying to work more on black and white rather than colour, so thanks :>

Quick (not black and white) doodle:

Birthday yesterday! Booze legally for me. Big whoop.

Sangria

049. Languid
Sunbathing echidnas are both stupidly cute and extremely weird. Those back legs just don't look right.

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It's been forever since I've properly used pencil and paper to do anything.

http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Sketchbook08-76071277
http://yubishines.deviantart.com/art/Bold-76069727

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Coupla sketches towards that goddess thing. Here's Medusa and Madam White Snake, neither of which are goddesses but made their way into the idea anyway.

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Some semi-realistic stuff for once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BbUnLUOZQs

I cried laughing.

As much at a full-grown man saying "Is it time for yummyummyummies?" as at the dog.

They don't appear in swimming pools, thank god.

At least, not unless your pool is the disgustingst filth pit ever.

This seemed like to best place to post this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
This disease, even though my family in all likelihood doesn't have it, frightens me to my core. It's even worse than when I start coming up with horrible tortures for stories and I end up scaring the pee out of my own self.

Direct wiki quote 'cos I'm lazy:

The age of onset is variable, ranging from 30 to 60, with an average of 50. Death usually occurs between 7 to 36 months from onset. The presentation of the disease varies considerably from person to person, even among patients from within the same family.

The disease has four stages, taking 7 to 18 months to run its course:

   1. The patient suffers increasing insomnia, resulting in panic attacks and phobias. This stage lasts about four months.
   2. Hallucinations and panic attacks become noticeable, continuing about five months.
   3. Complete inability to sleep is followed by rapid loss of weight. This lasts about three months.
   4. Dementia, turning unresponsive or mute over the course of six months. This is the final progression of the disease, and the patient will subsequently die.

In short, you do not sleep for the last nine months of your life, and spend most of it crazy and hallucinating.

Aughaughaugh. I can't think about this anymore. Did I mention there are brain-eating amoebas that thrive in waters during the summer months, and they enter your body when you go swimming and go OM NOM NOM?

I need to stop reading these things.

More and more every day, I find I suffer from constant deja vu.

I cannot tell anymore whether it's because I really have dreamed or envisioned moments that have just now come to pass, or if it's a state of mind. Or if my life is repeating little moments over and over and I don't remember them properly until they happen.

Welcome to the Matrix.

Talking about it on IRC, there's a lot of "why didn't they do the Wily hair D:" but I really like the actor they got for him.

They really should have gotten a Caucasian chick for Roll, or at least left her with black hair. :/

http://www.youtube.com/user/YubiShines

My channel is just a place to store my massively-growing favorites list.

Also the killer dolphin video, which is TRUFAX.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZY6nYEq5i4

Telsa: With my Science I can now conquer the known world!

Nikola Tesla spent the end days of his life crazy and trying to develop a death ray.

Tesla was rad.

Dr. Wily, have you made any contributions to medical science? Seems it could always use more geniuses.

Playing the demo. Current comments:

- Very nice choice of music. I like.

- There's a slightly too long delay between the attack flash and the actual attack. It's a little annoying.

- Is there a window to check what the usable keys are? So far I only know Enter, Insert, and the arrow keys apply. Be neat if they could be customizable somehow (my mind defaults to "A key = Home, B key = End").

- I think there's a typo. "Severely lagging," not "severally lagging." Also, on the social board, Rock says "yesturday" instead of "yesterday."

Woah.

That's very cool and very weird.

I didn't really enjoy Lost Girls, but it wasn't bad.

I read the first two Fables -- the first murder mystery one and Animal Farm -- and eh. It's the kind of thing I usually like, but I didn't like the storytelling. Too jumpy.

I find it absolutely hilarious that they [spoiler]killed off Aslan, though.[/spoiler]

Woah. I forgot about that dictionary entry. Go me.

I quite liked Nall.

It's probably not him. Not enough Japanese.

I think if you genuinely think there's nothing going for you, no one should be able to stop you. But you should still think about getting help, or at least put your affairs in order first.

That includes saying goodbye properly to family and friends. Not a note. Too much of the trauma afterwards is the "why did they do it."

Anyway.

Things are slow and I am tired. Snowstorm today. Walked outside, screamed "YOU CALL THIS SNOW, YOU BASTAGES?!" The wind picked up.

Boring field trip cancelled! Half my school day off. Hooray!

Will spend long weekend sleeping.

Girl Genius. Gunnerkrigg Court. Reprographics. Lackadaisy.

Where's that bizarre Japanese EGG I LOVE YOU flash animation when you need it?

Ad-Aware ftw.

Finally got my minighosts in the mail! Lined up on top of my monitor, I have titled all fourteen: pink, pirate, cyclops, triclops, dead, deader, shifty-eyed, picasso, cracked out, neon, blacklight, modern, yellow fever, and chocolate milk. And a yellow slug magnet. I am pleased.

Finally scanned in the second weirdest receipt I've ever received.
(The first weirdest receipt was when the 7-11 cashier accidentally charged me two hundred bucks for a slurpee.)



I swear, all I bought was gum and some candy.