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...okay I spent way too much time on my profile and I'm not even halfway done yet. *lol*

Everything I did I accomplished by reading up on the threads that other people have posted in Extended Feedback. I know jack squat about CSS but I know how to copy and paste. *hee*



And FYI, some - not all - of those "How to Draw" artists can't draw for sh*t. I've picked up some of those books at Barnes & Nobles and just gaped at what can actually be considered publishable. I'm sure Japan is ashamed at how the definitions of "anime" and "manga" have been watered down. I know I am. I cringe when I think that someone picks up this or that translated/exported thing and thinks that it's GOOD Japanese style anime/manga art.

It's like someone eating Taco Bell and thinking they've tasted authentic Mexican food. Or someone eating a California Roll and thinking they've had real sushi. No way.



I'm going to totally regret posting that tomorrow morning. XP

My former friend was definitly not the best "manga artist" in the world. Sure, she DREW well, with smooth lines and good proportions and all, but every single character had the same face, same eye style, same height, same body width, and so on. The only things that changed were colors, clothes, and hair styles. She even gave every single female character earrings of the exact same style, just different colors. She even has a cat girl character named "Neko" for farks sake.

I remember, back when we first came friends a long long long long long time ago, since I "knew" Japanese, she wanted me to give three of her characters Japanese names. Armed with a japanese phrase book and an online "kanji tattoo" website, I named her characters Seitama Kano, Seitama Mizuno, and Seitama Hikarino, which I thought meant "Pure soul of fire/water/light". Apparently "ka" is a different pronounciation of the Kanji that means fire and it was supposed to be "hi", and I have no idea if "seitama" actually means "pure soul" or not, but she got really, really pissed off at me five years later for getting the Japanese name wrong on her favorite character.

Bleh. It seems with the whole anime-fad going on right now, things that are drawn good looking are more popular than things that are drawn well.

Edit: http://www.makenai.co.uk/characters/kano.php <--- I love how the random fact isn't actually a fact, but made up to make it look like the name "Kano" was intentional. (It's my fault her series is named "makenai" too. Forgive me, I was young)

*leaves for school* o.o~

Meave do not really understand backgrounds....there are 3 types of background for profile, is it?

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Hey Meri, are we alloud to use your avatar edits to cover our avatars, if we give you proper credit? *has yet to go back through the chatterbox yet* Forgive me if this was asked ;-;

One more question, would you be able to add to the edit on the side that it was an edit made by you, not a real gaia avatar? I don't want to do it myself, seeing as we aren't suposse to edit the edits in any way.

Thanks for your time, Meri heart The CSS resource thread is super helpful <3