RoseSagae

Hello friends, it's been a long time...

I'm finally coming back to this because I was mostly wondering if any of you still play Neopets.  I know, I know, we all abandoned it a long time ago BUT I logged back on the other day to discover my account had been hacked and two of my beloved pets had been discarded.

So I'm foolishly trying to get them back.

Does anyone who still plays have any pull on the site?  Are you popular?  Would you promote my story?

If you don't play any more, do you have pets you would allow me to use as bartering to get mine back?  Do you have NP you would let me have?

Anyways, I know it's likely a futile attempt and I shouldn't care about this anymore (I'm 30 for God's sake!) BUT I do.  They were with me for a long time and I can't leave them to dust so... 

...help?

Hi guys.  I know I like NEVER come here anymore...  but here's an update:

1. I'm Tumbling. As of yesterday.  Yes, I'm a n00b and yes, that took me forever, but it's happening.  No, I won't share my username.  Why?  It's going to be my outlet of fangirling so... I don't really want anyone I care about to see it.  Lawls.

2. That said, I'm fangirling.  HARDCORE.  Like, I haven't fangirled this hard for something in a long time.  I'm fangirling so hard that I've gotten back into FANFICTION.  ME!  It's been over 10 years since I last read a proper fanfic!  What has me converted?  BBC Sherlock.  OMFG if you haven't seen it, you need to.  That's all I'll say.

3. NaNoWriMo.  I won this month - won on the 12th!  Story got way off track, though, so I'm unhappy with the manuscript as a whole and will need to do some serious fixing... but it's getting there.  The story has a lot of promise so at least there's that!

4. Original art for original characters.  This was kind of a problem I ran into... what to do with art that I create for my own stories?  For the stories that I hope to some day publish for realz?  I don't want to upload them here under this username (this one is for fanart and Neopets, mostly, I guess?).  So I've, for now, just put them on my author Facebook page.  I don't really want to create another DA account, but I may have to if I decide I want to showcase them somewhere else.  I dunno - what do you guys think?

5. I'm not sure what else to say.  How's everyone else doing?

I'd better add a new journal since my old one was so... old!

I just got back from visiting Seattle and going to SakuraCon for the first time!  Unfortunately, it was probably the only time I'll go to it since I'm really from Colorado...

But the artists I met there were so talented!  The Devmeet was PACKED and it was a lot of fun to talk about art with people since I don't get to do that in my everyday life!  I passed around some papers and we did some collab doodles so I'll be scanning and uploading those hopefully today.  Here's a list of artists who made it to the meet:
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Anyway, that's about it!  Though I do feel inspired to actually work on some more artwork at some point.  My poor DA account was getting rather dusty.  That, and my Dev ID is four years old XD Woops.

So I know it seems like I haven't done any art in the last year but that's not true!  I actually have, I just haven't uploaded it!

See, I've written novels (two now, omg) and doodled some things to illustrate them.  I don't want to post them here, though, because I don't want to run into copyright problems against myself... if that makes any sense??  Like... they were drawn by RL!Rose and the stuff here is drawn by online!Rose.

So anyways, that's it.  I did create a fan page on Facebook (LOL RITE???) so I can post them there under my real name x)  If anyone's interested, good luck finding me - I have 5 fans, including myself and four of my friends from my writing group.  HA!

So yeah, I've done a lot of planning for NaNo this year.  I'm really going all out   It's going to be the first book in an epic fantasy trilogy.  I've got half-breeds, talking animals, magic, and all the good stuff.  I've drawn characters, maps, and I've got over 15,000 words done of planning and character bios.  I'll be much more prepared this year than I have EVER been!

And, for the record, here's the status on the other two novels I've written:

Novel 1: NaNo 2009 "The Goblins of Lost"
Complete and in good shape!  About 70,000 words and about 70% edited/proofread.  I hope to have it fully finished editing... oi.  Maybe by Feb?  And once I'm done, I'm going to hand it out to some friends to proofread.  Then I plan on querying to actual editors!  OMG!

Novel 2: NaNo 2010 "The Ambassadors"
Finished and at 50,000 words (I won), but it is reaaaaally poorly written.  I basically went into NaNo unprepared and vomited a lot of words into Microsoft Word.  It will never see the light of day unless I do a LOT of work to it.  It IS a decent story, though, and could have a lot of cool potential if I ever get around to finishing it!

So yeah, that's where I've been!  I'm really excited for NaNo this year and I've been preparing for it ALL YEAR!  I'm doing word prompts at 500 words a day to get me ready!  Is anyone else doing it this year and do you want to be friends on the NaNo site?

Anyways, I think that's all I have for now.  Adios!!

So... I got in last Friday and I've been playing and brewing on it like CRAAAAZAY!  It's a lot of fun!

I sorted Hufflepuff which was a major surprise.  Some of you may remember my screen name "GryffinRose".  I sorted Gryffindor a million times when I first read the books on a million different quizzes so I always identified myself as such BUT Dumbledore himself said that he thinks they sort to early and that people change.  Snape changed, maybe I did too?

Besides, getting to read all of the stuff about Hufflepuffs and the common room and stuff was really cool!  So I'm going to work hard and do my best to help them catch up!

And I guess I'll call myself a Gryfferinpuff from now on!  LOL

BTW, if you see old HP drawings by me on the site (and I mean old... we're talking 2001-2005ish!) they'll be under my username: YewBlood88.  If they aren't under that username, plz report it, okay?  I guess makani had a lot of drawings stolen and I want to keep an eye out for those art thieves!

Anyone else into Pottermore yet?  Any other Hufflepuffs out there?

Oh yes, and I added some stuff to my website to help Pottermorers.  Also made a bunch of cute new pixel arts for it: www.rosejay.com/pottermore/

Enjoy!  I may need to make a 50x50 Hufflepuff icon and upload that too.  We'll see!  *off to find Hufflepuff Communities on DA*