Cats and Cookies

I just thought I'd post this picture here.

That made me laugh way harder than it probably should've.

~Marie

Marie's Birthday and Some of Our Drawings

It’s Sunday! And Sunday means . . . . THAT PERSON’S BIRTHDAY! *Laughs* You thought I was going to say Sunday post, weren’t you?! YEAH! Well it also means that today is Marie’s Birthday. First Birthday Celebration of one of us on this blog! Yay! Anyway. WE GONNA TALK ‘BOUT DRAWLINGS.

Yes. Drawings. Or drawlings as Jo insists on calling them. But . . . are we just going to post pictures of our drawings here and then be like, “This is my drawing. I like it. Your turn.” Or are we going to talk about drawing in general?

I was thinking we would do the first thing you offered which would be “This is my drawing. I like it. Your turn.” Except maybe not quite as vague. List one thing you like and one thing you dislike and then move on. Agreed?

Agreed! Do you want to go first? I vote that you go first.

Who else votes I go--*everyone raises hand* Well okay then. I’ll take a picture of the one I did today that I just showed Mawie just like a few minutes ago!

Happy Charrie drawlings! And half my creepy little face! But ignore that. Do I have to write speech bubble stuff? *People nod* oooookay fine.

“You did a really good job. It looks just like her. Soon, more than just the school’s museum will be displaying your art.”

“It’s not that great, Nikola.”

“I think it looks absolutely fantastic.”

I like their bodies because they’re actually kind of proportionate! And I don’t like his face because of HIS STUPID NOSE SHAPE. Okay now it’s your turn! By the way I used a reference for this one, so it’s not my original idea and stuff . . .

Your face is creepy now? How did that happen? I like that drawing though. And I probably never would’ve noticed the nose thing if you hadn’t told me . . . But anyway. It is now my turn!

So there’s mine. Let’s see . . . what do I like about it? I like how the colours work well together. They’re not like . . . you know what I mean? It doesn’t look weird. But I don’t like that there isn’t a background. Because . . . they’re like floating in space.

I really like that one. I think my favorite part is just . . . *gestures to Nikola* yeah him. I like her too but I like him better because there’s a lot of detail and his hair looks amazing. Anyway. Now to my next one. None of mine are coloured really . . . so just a warning.

And there’s Ms. Angel Girl who is crying happily because she has her wings. *Shrugs* I don’t know if they were taken away or if she earned them or something. So. Yeah. I like her wings. A lot. And I don’t like that her hair is like all *gestures* like that. Yeah. And her hands. Her hands aren’t finished yet. And I don’t really intend to finish them . . .

I actually really like this one. Because her face is in three quarters view. And I can’t even begin to draw in three quarters view. And I like her dress a lot too. So now onto mine.

This one. I like . . . uhm . . . Theodora’s  (the girl) hair. I colored it pretty nicely. And I think it looks like her hair. Before she cuts it of course. And what I don’t like. Kay. So look at Raul’s (the guy) hand. You see how his sleeve is like . . . not wider than his hand? That bugs me. But other than that, I think it’s okay.

I really like her hair too. I think you’ve always been really good at drawing curvier lines than I. They always look all . . . perfect and stuff. I like that drawing. And I like that scene too. And it makes me laugh how tall he looks compared to her because . . . because I don’t know why. Now let me find another one . . . OH! My favorite of my drawings!

Woo! More Charries that exist! This is Aurelia and August from my Nanowrimo. And I’m assuming you can read the words without help. I also used a reference for this. And the only thing that bothers me is THAT I COLOURED HIM WITH CHRISTMAS COLOURS! YOU SEE THAT RIGHT?! GREEN AND RED?! That really bothers me that I just chose randomly and was like, “WELL THERE YOU GO MAN.” Other than that this is by far my favorite. I think I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself.

I like that one a lot too. I like all of your drawings. So now onto some chibis.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is Kazia as you can probably see. I like her hair. I don’t know why. It’s exactly the way I imagined it. But her head. Galilean moons her head. It’s like . . . I think the bottom curves upward too quickly. And it really bugs me. Oh! And can I just comment on the curvier lines thing for a moment. I find that extremely ironic considering that my drawings are always more geometric than yours.

That’s what I think and I was like, “Well if *insert analogy that I forgot*, then maybe people who draw more geometrically are better at curvy lines than people who draw organically. Because I’m so bad at drawing curvy lines. Like, really really really bad. Anyway. My computer is going to die so one more drawing.

So I also drew Theodora and Raul and this was supposed to be this little comic analogy about love and I was gonna use a bunch of people but I haven’t gotten to that yet. So I really like both of them. Her hair especially. And then it’s just his arm that’s like . . . SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH IT AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. BUT DON’T TELL ME BECAUSE I WANT TO FIGURE IT OUT ON MY OWN. So Marie, you finish up because I’M GOING TO DIE. Well actually not me . . . but my COMPUTER. So bye peoples!

*rolls eyes and smiles* Dramatic much? Anyway.

So I drew this. Duh. And I colored it with crayons. And considering that fact, I think it looks pretty good. So I like how I drew her dress “neckline” thing. Because I always such at that part. I don’t like how their noses go back in I guess. Like, look at my other drawings and you’ll see that after the nose, there’s a line that is pretty much completely straight until the chin. And I didn’t do it like that here. So anyway. Jo’s computer has died. So good mythical morning!

~Marie and Jo

Skating

Hey my fictional peeps! Hope you've been doing well. I wasn't exactly sure what to post about . . . until I remembered that Marie and I went skating today! We had so much fun!!! We absolutely LOVE to skate. I skate on four wheel skates while Mawie roller blades if your curious. . .  so yeah! Fun stuff! And we watched a bunch of people fall and fail and stuff and I laughed so loud when this one guy fell and he looked at me and then got off the rink!
~Jo

A Sketch

So I almost forgot to post. And I didn't know what to post about. And then I realized that I could just show you the below sketch. They're two of Jo's charries. And yeah.

There you go. Critique is welcome, because I like critique.

~Marie

Hypothetical Boyfriends

Today is the day after Valentine’s Day. Which according to the interwebs (and other places too I’m guessing) Single Awareness Day. Which, in my opinion, is an excuse for single people to wallow in pity. Anyway. Jo and I are are going to talk about PDA today in the spirit of Valentine’s Day.

“Hey you want to go out on Single Awareness Day?!” Asked absolutely no one ever. Single Awareness Day. I remember hearing about that and I imagned someone saying, “HEY I’M SINGLE I’M GOING TO HAVE A PARTY ON SINGLE AWARENESS DAY!” And then I was laughing and then I thought, “Single awareness day? Is that the only day we be aware of stuff? What?!” And yeah! Anyway. PDA! Should not be allowed to happen every five seconds. When it’s not Valentine’s Day. Even then!

PDA can be cute, in my opinion. Like if you see a couple holding hands walking down the street. That’s technically PDA. But when you see people like D and K who literally kiss constantly. In the hall, in lunch, outside of their next class. That’s so annoying! Just freaking stop!

See?! That’s what I mean! It’s just like, why? WHY?! Give me one good reason. And then give me another one. And then a third one. And then I’ll consider it.

*cocks head* Me give you a reason?

No. D and K and why they do what they do! I mean, I agree with you. If it’s something like that then I’m perfectly okay. But if you want to make out every few seconds, please, do not do it in front of me.

Oh okay. But yeah. And then there are my fictional charries. Well . . . all my charries are fictional . . . I don’t base them off of people. Unless they are based of BD. Anyway. My charries. In the little “romantic” scenes I watch there’s kind of a lot of PDA. Not necessarily kissing, but other things. And yeah . . . Don’t ask me why I decided to say that because I don’t know.

Because they can be an exception? I don’t know. I think when it’s a drawing, then it’s acceptable. Because it’s not like . . . I don’t know. I don’t know. Look at that. I don’t know. Anyway!

Anyway. What else is there to say about PDA?

That it also stands for Personal something something!

*frowns* No it doesn’t . . . well, it could . . . I guess . . . well . . .

Yeah it does! It’s those little device things people used to use instead of phones to like . . . set dates and stuff! A Person Device somethin’! Something like that!

Well okay then.

Well I think that’s all I have to say . . .

Me too, but we can’t stop this post right here. It’s much too short.

Well. Then. Let’s look at this right . . . here *points*

*cocks head* What?

SEE?! PDA!!! IT’S PALM DEVICE! LOOK! 

Traditional PDAs

Today's traditional PDAs are descendents of the original PalmPilot and Microsoft Handheld PC devices. Palm devices run the Palm OS (operating system), and Microsoft Pocket PCs run Windows Mobile. The differences between the two systems are fewer than in the past.

SEE?! SEE?! SEE?! YEAH! I KNEW I WASN’T COMPLETELY INSANE!

And now I know why I didn’t know what you were talking about. Anyway. PDA . . . we can’t really talk about if we’ve ever done any PDA because none of us have ever dated before. But I’ve kissed a boy in the past. Way in the past. Like, first grade in the past. That was . . . interesting.

I remember that story! Well I don’t know.PDA. I want to know which one was named that first. PDA.

Ask the smartest teenager ever.

Okay. Fine. Come here smartest teenager. I need to ask you a question. Well I found a definition. PDA is defined as an acronym for either personal digital assistant (a mini-computer that lets you keep track of your schedule, keep your contacts with you and look at documents on the go) or public display of affection (kissing, hugging or showing affection to your romantic partner in public).

1. An example of a PDA is an electronic device to store appointments.
2. An example of a PDA is kissing on the street corner.

That’s not very helpful . . .

I know, but it’s all I could find . . .

So shall we talk about . . . in a hypothetical situation, if we were dating, would we be all lovey dovey in public? Or would you like to end this post? Or do you want to talk about something else?

You decide. Remember?! You’re my decision maker!

Well then. We’re going with the hypothetical situation. You first. With your Logan, would you be lovey dovey in public?

In the dream, no. Not often, at least. Wait. At least? I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I meant, Not often, I mean. Every once in a while yeah. But not in front of a bunch of people. Sometimes. Okay. Failure. So let me rephrase that. In public, we were affectionate on occasion. With not as many people, then that meant more affection. Which I think it’s pretty good.

That makes logical sense. Personally, I don’t like to be touched. But sometimes I can be affectionate. Key word, sometimes. So I mean, I guess it would depend on my mood. And if my hypothetical boyfriend--woah. Let me rephrase that. It would probably also depend on my hypothetical boyfriend’s mood as well.

I know that from experience! So that would make sense.

Exactly. So this has now been three pages. Do you think that’s long enough?

I think it is, and my computer is about to die. So take the last word, Marie!

*takes last word*

~Marie and Jo

Grass is a Third Wheel

Marie asked me what she should draw, today. And this is how I replied.
~Jo

Crazy Subconscious Scenarios . . . AKA Dreams

Have you ever dreamed about a gofer riding a beaver into the sunset on a giant turtle that was flying on a tiny unicorn? Neither have I!

That is such a Jo-ish thing to say. But today we’re talking about dreams! And I’m Marie, and that crazy one over there in the sea foam green, that’s Jo.

Well I am Jo. And look! I’m “that crazy one over there” who can’t spell! Whoo! Achievement! Anyw--SEAFOAM GREEN! Anyway. Dreams!

Yes! Dreams! And I have dream facts! Well . . . only two. But anyway. Did you know *says dramatically* that you can only dream about people you’ve seen in real life? And also, you forget 90% of your dream in the first ten to twenty minutes of waking up. And bonus fact that everyone should know, you have multiple dreams each night you just don’t remember them all.

Well, I didn’t know that first one until today. And the other two. In some cases, you forget 100% of your dreams within ten seconds of waking up! *Smiles goofily* Just kidding, but that’s what it seems like sometimes! Dreams. Interesting things. Them dreams. I have some really weird ones. Like that one time. That Marie had a party. And I got her wet. And then she wasn’t my friend. And then I drowned myself. My dreamself always happens to die for some reason!

Woah what?! You got me wet and then I wasn’t your friend and then you drowned yourself?! That reminds me of the original The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson.

Yeah. I don’t know! I must’ve knocked something over in that dream and then you were wet and then you friend “broke up” with me as I refer to it and then I jumped in the ocean and drowned. I think I’ve seen parts of that.

Dramatic little dreamself you are. *turns to fictional people* And once I had a dream where I had a dream vision thing and--no, let me start over. So in said dream, Jo was like . . . really sick or something and so every morning before school she would go to New York and this doctor would try to make her okay-ish for the day. Logical, right? And then in this dream, I had a dream/vision thing and basically, said doctor would accidentally kill Jo. So then I went to New York to say goodbye. And . . . I never got to New York because I woke up. Stupid school, ruining if I get to finish my dream or not because if I don’t get up I’ll be late and that’s not good.

I absolutely hate it when I’m having this super awesome dream and then someone or something wakes you up for some stupid reason and you try to remember the dream and go back to sleep but then you fail and it’s like, “NO! I WANTED TO FINISH THAT DREAM! Now . . . I’ll never . . .know . . . what happened to . . . my . . . PIKACHU!”

Yes, that’s the worst and it always happens to me. And once, I kid you not, my brother woke me up to ask if I was awake. Like what the heck brother whose name I will not say on the internet! Anyway. Dreams. What were we going to talk about in the very large topic of dreams?

My brother named Matthew does that too! That’s not exactly his real name . . . but close ENOUGH. *Shudders*. Anyway. I don’t know . . . maybe . . . dreams we’ve had? I don’t know.

Dreams we’ve had. Let’s go with that. Uhmmmm . . . recently I had a dream about a guy named Giuseppe. It was interesting. I asked him to go to a dance with me (because I wanted to be nice, not because I like liked him) and he was really sweet and stuff. So yeah.

Every time I see that name I just automatically think of MoM Giuseppe! And then I have to think about if for a minute. And yeah! I had a dream about a guy supposedly named Logan. I wasn’t exactly sure . . . but we just call him that because . . . he doesn’t . . . have a real . . . yeah . . . moving on. He was our friend. And then he fell in love with me and me him and then we kissed and I woke up and then I found Mawie awake and so then I told her about it and then I found the person he looked like and so that was great.

And another night I had a dream about ballet. I was in like, a ballet academy type thing and it was finals week. And so yeah . . . I got the highest score somehow. Don’t ask me how that happened.

Last night I dreamed about two of my charries who were--are---the White Rabbit and the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland. And I hadn’t seen them together or thought about it until in the dream they were looking for something in a library and then some monster thingy broke in and was trying to stop them from finding answers and then they were hiding and then they were kissing and then the March Hare ran from their hiding spot and then she got rid of the monster, but she died in the process . . . so I’m going to fix that!

I once had a dream that I married Harry Potter. I believe this was before I read the seventh book, so . . . I was in fourth grade . . . I started the series in January of fourth grade . . . so like . . . June? Yeah. June. Or maybe I had read it already and just thought that Ginny wasn’t worthy of Harry. *shrugs*

Speaking of marrying people. I had a dream that I was married to Percy, I think it was. And then we taught you *points at Marie* to swim and then we made some weird underwater city and it was . . . weird to say the least.

*laughs* Teach me how to swim? Ha, that’s an impossible task. Anyway. What else have I dreamed about? Oh! I had a dream that I was on Wipeout! And I almost won! And there was this one lady on the show that I had seen a few weeks before at Lagoon! And yeah . . .

I’m pretty sure I had a dream that you shot me in the face. And I kind of . . . died. And then all of a sudden I was in your position and you were crying and then I shot you in the leg and then you ran away and then . . . I died . . . again . . .

Wh-what?! How--why . . . what is your subconscious doing? Do you think I’m going to kill you?! *gasps dramatically*

*Shrugs* I don’t know! My dreamself just always wants to die! For some reason! Death by Marie must be like . . . the best/nicest option to my dreamself . . . don’t ask me questions!

You have a suicidal and dramatic dreamself Jo. Does that mean something?

I really do. But I really hope not. Did I really just say so? Wow. Anyway. If I’m not dreaming about dying, then I’m probably dreaming about some boy or my charries or something WAY weird like . . . a gofer riding a beaver into the sunset on a giant turtle that was flying on a tiny unicorn! That’s what I mean. Weirdness.

I just have a really weird mix of dreams. It’s . . . interesting. I had this one dream on Friday night, but I can’t remember it and it’s driving me nuts.

*shakes head* I really hate when that happens. I also have dreams about current books I’m reading. I hate when I forget those. Because all I remember is that it was super awesome and fun and stuff. Like once, I dreamed--when I was reading Cinder--that Prince Kai was lost and he was like, “Have you seen an absolutely gorgeous mechanic named Linh-Cinder?! I can’t find her anywhere and I want to marry her and kiss her and get her out of trouble!” And then I woke up. *Laughs* That was a really funny dream.

Wow. I had that one dream . . . that I told you and Q about on Thursday or sometime. I’m too lazy to write it out here though because it’s really long. But . . . I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have a demigod dream.

Which dream is this? I think it’d be freaking scary. I mean, they’re like nightmares. And real ones, at that. And that’s awesome, but freaking scary. I think this post has gotten really long. And I have nothing else to say.

The one where you were an angel figurine thing and we were at Disney Land/World. And that’s true. And you’re right, so we should probably stop this post here.

Yep! *Waves* Bye!

Bye!

~Marie and Jo

Go Watch This!!!

4 Animal Parts Humans Should Have: http://youtu.be/DX-5-j_PNr4
Go watch?
~Jo

A Few Drawings

Pffft, I didn't almost forget to post. What are you talking about?

Anyway. I was leafing through my sketchbook, and I have a few drawings to show you. They're not that great, but I thought I'd show you. So let's get to it.

As you can probably read, it's Mulan. You know, the best Disney "princess" in my opinion. I drew this . . . in June of 2014 I believe. It still has the guidelines and such, but all in all I think it's decent. Decent enough to put on the internet at least.

This is a comic I drew that I'm quite proud of. It's from one of the books I'm writing called Desolation and . . . yeah. I think it looks decent. I colored it with markers before I used the color pencil, and I think it looks nicer that way. This is fairly recent. Winter Break I believe.

This drawing I drew with some Viria references Jo sent me via text. It looks pretty good. I never got around to coloring it. I like her hair a lot. It's all wavy and stuff. She's supposed to be a ballerina if you couldn't tell. But yeah. September or October maybe. But definitely 2014.

This is the finished version of what I showed you last week. I feel like I messed it up with the coloring. It looks too . . . "rainbow-y" I guess. There's too many colors. And don't even get me started on the background. But the actual drawing is okay I think.

So yeah! My drawings! Maybe I'll get out my older sketch books and show you some old drawings. *shrugs* You never know.

~Marie

Birthdays: A Self Absorbed Concept, or a Day to Give Presents to Other People?

Today, if you fictional people haven’t noticed, is the first day of the best month in the entire year. February.

And you know what February means? IT MEANS OUR BIRTHDAYS.

It also means Valentine’s Day, but I hate Valentine’s Day, so we’ll skip over that. So our birthdays! Yay! And one of our other friend’s birthday! Oh, by the way, I, Marie, am pink. Jo is that gold-ish yellow-ish color thing.

And our art teacher’s birthday too! And yes, I am golden! That is why my French name means golden!

Oh yeah it does! I don’t even remember what mine means . . . but it’s Odette. Because we got to choose our French names. And . . . well . . . Swan Lake. So anyway! Our birthdays! Are this month! And today we’re going to be talking about birthdays!

When are our birthdays? Oh yeah, the 27th and the 22nd! And since I am younger, you’d know . . . mine . . . is . . . ON THE 22ND! No just kidding!

*rolls eyes* Oh Jo. But anyway. Yeah. Jo is younger. By five days. So that makes me older! And that gives me benefits! Lots of benefits! Like getting the last word on our Sunday Posts! Just kidding. But I guess I do get benefits, with none of the drawbacks like . . . you know. Older sibling drawbacks.

Older sibling drawbacks. I don’t even know what drawbacks are. So I think you should tell me before this post gets any farther. Further. Which one is it? I never know now to use it. Them. Them.

It’s like that one commercial for Challenger School where the little girl is like, “Further is for ______ and farther is for ________.” I just don’t remember what she said. Anyway! Drawbacks of being the older sibling. What do you mean you don’t know what they are? You and I and Q talk about it all the time! Not really . . . but we do. Because we’re all the oldest of our siblings. Drawbacks are like . . . the bad things. Things to complain about I guess.

I know right?! I never remember what she says! And that makes sense! I forget things!

So anyway. Aren’t we supposed to be talking about birthdays?

Yeah . . . I forget things . . . because . . . OF MY MANY BIRTHDAYS! It’s because I’m getting old! 14 years old! So great!

*frowns* Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Anyway. In this month, this glorious month, both Jo and I will turn 14. Not on the same day, as was previously established. I mean, if you thought I meant on the same day, well, I hate to break it to you, but really? Are you that stupid? Anyway. February birthdays. You know who else has a birthday in February? My fourth grade teacher. Her birthday is two days after mine. And George Washington. His birthday is my birthday. Not the same year. Duh. I mean. Just no. That wouldn’t work. Unless I’m immortal! Which I’m not.

Oh you know what?! My fourth grade teacher’s birthday was in February too! Well, it still is! OH MY GOSH, HE SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH MR. D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT’S SO WEIRD.

Of course it’s weird that he shares a birthday with a Greek god who runs a summer camp as punishment. *smiles obnoxiously*

YEAH! HE’S ALSO THE GOD OF PARTIES! SO HE . . . I don’t even know where I was going with that.

Yeah, I don’t know either. So what are we going to talk about? I mean, there’s not much to say about birthdays . . . unless of course someone doesn’t know what a birthday is . . .

Well . . . I don’t . . . know . . .

That’s a problem.

Birthdays. Birth day! The day of your birth. You want to celebrate . . . because . . . because of your birth . . . the world . . . was made . . . better . . .?

The whole concept of a birthday is kind of stupid, you have to admit. When I was little I always wondered why we got presents for Jesus’s birthday. I still do wonder about that. I mean. Do I get presents for Jo’s birthday? No. Do I get presents for my mom’s birthday? No. Do I get presents for any other person’s birthday? No. Unless, that person is Jesus.

Well I always thought, “BECAUSE HE IS SO GENEROUS. HE GIVES TO THE PEOPLE! *DOES DRAMATIC HAND GESTURE*” It’s kind of like . . . if people never really celebrated birthdays . . . then it’d be a thing self-absorbed people would do.

Eh. I guess so. It still makes no sense to me though. I mean. There are lots of generous people. Who don’t give other people presents for their birthdays. *cocks head* That didn’t make a lot of sense. It made more sense in my head. Anyway. I don’t have anything else to say about birthdays, what about you Jo?

Uh . . .bye?

Great last words Jo. So beautiful and awe inspiring and motivational. I’m sure that our fictional people are so very happy and inspired now. Anyway. Goodbye fictional people!

~Marie and Jo