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About Me Varied / Hobbyist Member ArachnakidFemale/United States Recent Activity
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Ten things about me:

1. I love spiders (although I wouldn't touch/mess with one, I also wouldn't hurt one).
2. I am very nervous around strange dogs.
3. I have very strange taste in music (ren-faire/medieval, Shania Twain, Yanni, Evanescance, Megadeth, Daft Punk)
4. When I was in elementary school, I would become so absorbed in a book that I didn't notice everyone had gone out to Recess.
5. I love to nitpick about grammar.
6. I am an amateur philosopher.
7. I can understand most Spanish (I'm too out of practice to speak it) and I can speak enough Mandarin Chinese to get my point across in most situations.
8. Most of my really good friends have either ADD or Asperger's Syndrome (or both).
9. I am notoriously tactless.
10. I am a virgin and intend to stay that way as long as possible (see number 9 if you find this offensive/innapropriate).


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1. :iconnoniway:
2. :icontrivia-master:
3. :iconartfuldodger98226:
4. :iconlostxhope:
5. :iconchaochio:
6. :iconpopcorncomics:
7. :iconsceyeballkid:
8. :iconrage1986:
9. :iconselinafenech:


My questions:

1. If you had a choice, where would you live in the world?
Deep in the forest, alone but for my cats. Ideally, I would still have internet though. :)
2. If you dropped some food on the floor, do you still pick it up and eat it?
Depends on the floor. (and the food!)
3. Your perfect partner?
Someone who is smart enough to see through my bullshit, and kind enough not to rip my head off for it.
4. What's your most hated pet peeve?
Abuse of animals and/or children by otherwise "good" people.
5. Do you believe in destiny?
No, but I do believe in cause and effect.
6. In theme of my Demonic Ghost,  which Seven Deadly Sin are you most guilty of? Vanity, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth or Wrath?
Either Sloth or Gluttony, mostly Gluttony (I have a serious sweet tooth that doesn't quit.)
7. Can you drive a car?
Not legally. :) I had to get at least a temp license before joining the Army, but it expired and I still don't know how to drive well enough to get a real license.
8. You get to have one super power, what would you choose?
Time travel.
9. First thing that pops into your mind when I say.... "Scarecrow"-
The batman villain. I don't even know that much about him, though (except that he messes with people's minds and makes them terrified).
10. What is your dream job?
Either a linguist or (no thanks to you, lol) an editor.
  • Listening to: Traditional Chinese Erhu
  • Reading: Tons of Paperwork
  • Watching: Simon's Cat
  • Playing: Minecraft
  • Eating: Pizza
  • Drinking: Mountain Dew

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~Arachnakid
A Spider On the Web
Artist | Hobbyist | Varied
United States
I'm currently a soldier in the US Army training to be a "Chinling" (Mandarin Chinese Linguist), so I don't have as much time as I'd like to art these days. I mostly do digital art and poetry with occasional forrays into other mediums/styles. I make up conlangs for fun, although I rarely get very far before being distracted, and I have a huge, Tolkein-sized story/universe in my head that has very rarely found its way to paper. I try to be as open-minded and tolerant as possible to all kinds of people and ideas (within reason), about the only thing I find really offensive is people discriminating against each other for stupid reasons like color, gender, religion, sexuality (why anybody cares so much what you do consensually in the privacy of your bedroom is beyond me) and people trying to force their beliefs/lifestyles on other people. I am very philosophical and spend a lot of time thinking about life, the universe, and everything, mostly trying to figure out what I should (or can) believe and what path I should follow. I pretty much have no idea what I should be doing with my life. In the meantime, I'm just trying to be a good person and persue my interests (art, languages, etc.) although I feel like those are shallow goals and what I'm looking for is something more important.
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:iconbercley:
Hey Bud,
Thank you so much for your support. I appreciate it from the deepest corners of my heart. I'm only starting out as an artist and it's the little things like this that really encourage me to keep fighting. Thank you so much.

If I'm not asking for too much, would you also kindly "Like" my Facebook Page if you are on the Social site. It'd mean a whole ton and I'm hoping you'll Like the work I post on there.
I don't mean to itch your nerve but Thank you, sorry if this came out the wrong way.
Here's the Link [link]
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~Arachnakid 3 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
I love to watch the growth of artists and give them helpful critique along the way. That is primarily what I do on this site, since I'm not very skilled at the technical side of art and probably never will be. However, I am very conservative with my facebook account and prefer to limit my contacts there to people I know in real life. I really don't like giving my real identity to people I only know on the internet. Sorry, but that's the way of things. The best way to get lots of likes (not just from me, but from anybody) is by making awesome art. Even if you are not very skilled right now, if you have that muse of real inspiration on your side, it will show in your art and people will recognize it. If you have powerful ideas you want to show the world, draw them. You can always redo them if you're not satisfied with the results.

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Peace to the dead, hope to the living.

Uff da: what you say after drinking first the cold, then the microwaved coffee.
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:iconbercley:
Thank you for that and I appreciate the kind, inspirational words. You have my respect and love. I completely understand. Thank you so much for all the support.
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*JacintaMaree May 18, 2012  New member
Hello again sweetie, sorry I tagged you! Tagged

:love:

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*** My story began when my heart stopped beating - ***

The chains are set, I'm trapped in your breath. And your eyes, so demonic, twist my thoughts to dust. You hold the whip like reins, but I can't help but fall for you.
-My Demonic Ghost-
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*JacintaMaree May 15, 2012  New member
Hey again hun, thank you for the fav, and thank you so much for reading Dusty Blood. >.< I really appreciate it. :love:

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*** My story began when my heart stopped beating - ***

The chains are set, I'm trapped in your breath. And your eyes, so demonic, twist my thoughts to dust. You hold the whip like reins, but I can't help but fall for you.
-My Demonic Ghost-
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~Arachnakid May 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No problem! Once again, you have me absorbed with a good story. This one is really well crafted, feels like a book when I'm reading it. There are some cliches I would have preferred you avoided (such as Maemi's reaction when Sebastian saw her bathing, which feels slightly out-of-character for her) but overall very good. I was a little confused at first to find T-shirts and swordfighting in the same setting (I'm not sure how much of that was intended), but everything is integrated very well so that it feels like its own legitimate world rather than a medieval clone.

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Peace to the dead, hope to the living.

Uff da: what you say after drinking first the cold, then the microwaved coffee.
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Mood: Love *JacintaMaree May 16, 2012  New member
Wow, I always love reading your reviews, you are so honest and true, I'm learning a lot from you so thank you.
Aww, thank you for your kindness. :blush: It's been sitting on my computer for a while, it wasn't till I uploaded it onto the web that I finally got some motivation to keep writing it. It's killing me, I have a few twists coming up but I can't seem to get the characters in the right places. Things keep jumping in the way and making it impossible. *sigh*
Hmm... in all honestly I didn't do it intentionally, I'm probably rushing the story a lot trying to keep it moving that I'm making a lot of silly mistakes. Hence the cliché parts, where my brain isn't working properly and I'm throwing in scenes that have been done to death ^^;
Sorry for the confusion, one day I'll go back over the entire thing and edit it properly. Knowing me half of it would be rewritten as well.

Oh, good point as well. The Medieval part of it all. I didn't set it in a place or a time that we know, but I've taken a lot of qualities from our medieval era as guidance. Being in a fantasy world, I think the illusion would be lost if I start introducing cars and television. I'm so happy to hear that it's working. :love: You really really should become an editor, you are AMAZINGLY good and thorough. You are able to pick up on details that even I missed, and I wrote the damn thing. Ha ha.

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*** My story began when my heart stopped beating - ***

The chains are set, I'm trapped in your breath. And your eyes, so demonic, twist my thoughts to dust. You hold the whip like reins, but I can't help but fall for you.
-My Demonic Ghost-
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~Arachnakid May 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you! I'm really just happy to throw my two cents in, I'm not used to anybody taking my suggestions seriously! (It's a nice feeling. :D) It's ok to take your time and let your characters do what they please, the plot moves better at a pace that is not too fast or too slow (but you seem to have pacing pretty much down to an art, so just keep doing what you're doing.)

On the setting, I think it's perfectly fine to have some modern-ish things within reason (if you don't believe me, look at Steampunk) but it would also be good to do a little research and see what people actually used back then before modern technology took over. For example, those plastic dishes Maemi was eating off of in the mines? Although plastic did not exist until fairly recently, in the Middle Ages spoons and other utensils were often made of bulls' horn, which can be easily shaped when heated by a flame and is slippery and resilient like plastic. T-shirts are not actually much of a stretch--the most common garb at that time was a "T-tunic" which is longer but the same basic design.

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Peace to the dead, hope to the living.

Uff da: what you say after drinking first the cold, then the microwaved coffee.
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~honeybunz-yum May 10, 2012  Student General Artist
Thank you very much for the :+fav:
本当にありがとうございます、まじ感謝です:heart:
:icontotoroplz: :heart:

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click the link above. YOU WON'T REGRET IT
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*JacintaMaree Apr 30, 2012  New member
And thank you so much for faving my work ~~ I really appreciate it! :blush: :hug:

Are you much of a writer yourself or more into reading?

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*** My story began when my heart stopped beating - ***

The chains are set, I'm trapped in your breath. And your eyes, so demonic, twist my thoughts to dust. You hold the whip like reins, but I can't help but fall for you.
-My Demonic Ghost-
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