On the last day of the entry period, I completed my second drawing for the Flash Fire contest. The venerable Turaga Vakama can be found in the same topic as my Jaller drawing which I mentioned in the previous entry. It feels good to have completed two entries, but if the entries before I had submitted my own were good, the ones that followed in the final hours of the entry period included several that could only be described as stellar. Truly I'm having a hard time deciding what to vote in any
Ackar was the first of my new Glatorian Legends I opened, for no reason in particular. This review was typed up after the fact, but I still tried to preserve whatever emotions were attached to the opening, building, and playing.
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From the design of the box to the instruction manual, these are the first things you see before building the set.
The Glatorian Legends canisters intrigued me a fair amount. The first thing that caught my attention is obviously their shape. Although
Not sure if anyone is still following this blog. Can't think why anyone would be; there haven't been any updates since 2009 (and the updates weren't that interesting even back then). But if you are, I'd like to update you on how I've been doing since I was last active on BZPower. I'd also like to offer a warning: Things are going to change here. I can't say how much, or how soon, but things are going to change. Where have I been since I was last active on BZPower? Well, I think I stayed active
Don't forget, the final polls in GAC #18 are up! Click here to go to the poll! My entry, Swarm of the Century, is in the running! Now, other updates. On Monday I drew and inked a piece based on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novels, which I will be attempting to color. I haven't decided how I'm going to color it. I was able to color something very well digitally recently (and am near finishing an older drawing that has been incomplete for far too long). But digitally coloring a piece with l
Well, I already mentioned my thoughts on the Korra finale in the Avatar: The Last Airbender topic in COT. I'd rather keep them there where they can be part of an ongoing discussion than talk about them here. I mean, I'd love to jump on the bandwagon, but something else has happened since I watched the finale this morning. That being that my family's Amazon.com order for the Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novels The Lost Adventures and The Promise parts one and two came in. My goodness. T
Just was rereading Comic 2 of this year, and noticed something very intriguing.
By now I'm sure most people have noticed the sillhouetted weapons by each Agori bio in the centerfold. Atakus's has a Skrall shield, Tarduk's has one of Vastus's vinelike shoulder armor pieces, Metus's has one of Gelu's swords (I'd have loved it if in story those were some type of multi-crossbow, but I suppose it was not meant to be), Raanu has Ackar's flame sword, Berix has Kiina's trident, and Zesk has a Thornax
Dear Reader,
If you have paid attention to the world around you over the course of your life, you are probably well aware that certain unpleasant characteristics are to be found on the faces of many people, just as they are to be found on many people's left ankles. The Baudelaire orphans were exempt from many of these conditions, having inherited their mother's pleasant facial features, but sadly, there are many who do suffer from such unfortunate facial features. Shiny eyes, for instance, are
I discovered today that it's really easy to make a clean edit from the posters in the "Downloads" section on BIONICLE.com. I discovered it rather fortuitously, having copypasted some hi-res Mistika and Phantoka pics from there with the intention of making some generally simple edits. You know, a quick negative and then a complete hue reversal, which in essence kept the colors the same but swapped the light and dark areas of the original image.
The point to this, of course, was to sort of get
Here. First time I've posted art in some time. If it gets any attention, I'll consider posting more of the stuff that I've done recently-- as of right now I've been mostly posting it on other sites, where I can more easily keep track of it.
Yay for Gelu!
Merry Christmas, BZPower! Or... a late Merry Christmas, anyway, if that's how you see it. Anyway, Lyichir was kind enough to give me two wonderful gifts: Mazeka and Makuta Icarax. A review of the latter should come soon. Sorry this will be pictureless, but I'm more comfortable with pictureless reviews-- with my sloppy photography skills, I couldn't really count on the pictures to explain anything by themselves, anyway, so hopefully the text would suffice regardless.
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From the de
Dear Readers,
Yesterday, on that day of misfortune we call Friday the Thirteenth, even more adversity came upon us in the form of a Volume Favorably Discouraged known only as The End. To be succinct, which here means "short and sweet, as this book definitely isn't," this book is an unpleasant novel that you good people should spare yourselves the agony of reading. To be verbose, a word which here means "long, wordy, and likely to cause strife or agony, as this book is," Lemony Snicket's most re
-The following is copied shamelessly from my comment in ChocolateFrogs's blog-
I'll be there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Not sure what times. My family's registered this time, so hopefully some of the activities and such will be cool. And we're bringing several MOCs-- three Agents MOCs, a sort of Space Police III spinoff, and one that's either BIONICLE or System depending on your point of view. I haven't (yet) been able to convince Lyi that we should bring our Toa Nidhiki MOC, but if we do
Just about one week to go in the General Art Contest #18 preliminary polls! I encourage voters to show their support for my entry, Swarm of the Century, in Preliminary Poll A! It's Entry 6 in the poll. In other art-related news, recently a friend of mine who is also an artist had a birthday, and I gave her a portrait of her I had drawn. To my delight, she really liked the drawing! Since she's also an artist (and a much better one than me, all things considered), I was thrilled to have her appr
Not only on this site, but on the Lemony Snicket official site. (I am forbidden to post the address, since it has links to sites with forums, but shame on you if you can't guess.)
Here's what I got last year in an email from those delightful folks at HarperCollins:
So who knows what tomorrow might hold!
With all due respect,
Aanchir: Rachira of Time
Here's my latest attempt. Now if you really care what exactly a Rachira is, you know where to look.
Thanks to Lyichir for fact-checking this.
I don't think I'll have time to revisit that topic, and moreover it is not the sort of topic that one wants to clutter up with comments. Therefore, post any comments you might have here rather than there.
With all due respect,
Aanchir: Rachira of Time
This poem is an excerpt from my commonplace book:
Despite its Very Fearsome Denotation (that means "name")
its Venom doesn't Feel quite as Deadly as they claim.
In fact, instead of frightful,
why, the Viper's Found Delightful,
but it's feared by all the experts, what a shame.
About the Viper's Friendly Disposition, this I say:
He's Visitable, Fun, and quite Distracting, in a way,
and at the time Vital For Dreaming,
his eyes stop their jewellike gleaming
as he curls up at your feet
As the topic suggests, I have created a Topic Archive content block. This block links to all my relevant topics, which include MOCs, artwork, and stories but omit any answered questions or disproven theories (including my far-too-hopeful Aquaraiders theory from a while back). If anyone remembers any topics I have neglected to include, post it here. Remember, you are my last hope that the creative abilities of Aanchir: Rachira of Time can be shown to the general public.
With all due respect,
Does anyone else keeping tabs on the BIONICLE storyline and anticipating the movie find themselves spotting random BIONICLE pseudo-references everywhere?
I listened to the album "Tres Lunas" by Mike Oldfield today during my little brother's baseball game, and stuff jumped out at me.
Track listing: Misty** No Man's Land Return to the Origin Landfall Viper* Turtle Island** To Be Free Firefly* Tres Lunas Daydream Thou Art in Heaven* Sirius** *It's kinda a stretch to connect these at all with
A new initiative in the BS01 forum has been established to decide which regions were governed by Makuta Antroz, Vamprah, and Tridax. Here's my take on the issue. Read my opinions if you like (I tried to keep them short ), then cast your vote!
Let me get this out of the way, since the new Good Guys topic in the reference corner reminded me of this unpleasant aspect I have seen in a lot of stories.
Please, for the love of Pete, STOP sticking Onepu in Toa teams with the Chronicler's Company!
Yes, we were all weeping and moaning when Nuparu became a Toa Inika instead of Onepu. This is, of course, completely sarcastic. Onepu never was anything more than a "Mata Nui Cowboy" in the storyline, and no matter how cool that is, Nuparu had
