Meme time!

[rkold]

I should be drawing, or even more importantly cleaning and making food for my company tomorrow (hehehehe) but who wants to clean and make food when they can be wasting time on LJ and doing a meme! :D

Questions courtesy of isachi who is back from the non-LJ void

1. Leave me a comment saying "interview me"
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the questions and the answers to the questions in your journal.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to interview someone else in the same post.



1) Favorite President?

Teddy Roosevelt. >>;;

Despite his love of hunting maybe he just had really big critters in his garden eating his tomato plants! I love the fact that they tried to make him VP in hopes of getting to vanish and then McKinley met Leon and Teddy got the White House. I love that Teddy was the first to work on the issue of monopolies, something I would love to see a President take on today.

Plus he was from NY!

2) (this is a mean question I know hahaha) If you had to chose ONE of your cats, which one and why?

I shall give you the standard answer which is also which cat is my favorite...

I would save whichever cat was closest because that is my favorite cat. At the moment this is Basil since I've no idea where Cookie is vs. yesterday night it was Cookie since Basil was hiding and Cookie was snuggled up with my butt.

3) How did you get into doujinshi (making it I mean) because this happened while I was AWOL from lj and I really don't know :)

Erin!

Or ok the long version:
I'd first thought about it when muscatlove saw something about some Fuji uke event in Osaka and we were joking about getting a space and doing a copyhon of Yumiko x Fuji ♥ But nothing came of it.

Then hinoai and dilettantka tried their hands at making doujinshi. I even got to use one of their circle passe for SCC and I just found it all so fascinatingand is the reason I am NEVER doing an R-18 doujinshi unless I become fluent in Japanese and can do a text only R-18 book . I picked up a flyer for a GinoSuza event and thought, wow, I should get a space, then I won't have to wait to get in! The GinoSuza event sold out spaces super fast, so that didn't happen.

Meanwhile I was becoming much better friends with ee970 (I'd met her and akaisakura with Kim at K-books in 2003 because they were foreigners and they liked HikaGo and were reading Wankage lol ) Erin and I were both into Geass and Erin has family in NY so we got to hang out when she came to visit them. Erin also likes food and is super funny and enjoys doing semi-normal things like sightseeing and visiting onsen ♥ ♥ Erin had helped contribute to 2 of Eda and Jamie's (or maybe it was just Eda's) doujinshi, since Eda, Erin and Jamie were all friends. In Oct we went to Kairaku-en and started to talk about how it would be fun to try to do a doujinshi and since we were both into Geass it seemed the obvious choice. We picked an event and uhh then procrastinated, but did actually do a book!

I knew there was a Suzaku puchi at Haru and I wanted to sell at it cause my favorite circle was running the puchi. Plus circle pass! So I applied for Haru alone and got in. I meant to apply for SCC but missed the deadline, but now I am trying for a Suzaku event in October again! :D

It's surprisingly fun and addicting but is a lot of work and expense. I like that it makes me draw. I'm working on plots and layouts for my next books assuming I get the space I applied for. It also makes me feel like I'm more a part of fandom and giving something back more. There are many better artists than me so it can be discouraging, but I still like trying.

4) Favorite vegetable?
To grow or to eat?

To grow probably green beans, so incredibly easy! Plus they enrich the soil with nitrogen.

To eat... uhhhh I'm not sure. I love arugula, but also like green beans and peas a lot. I adore tomatoes but those are fruit and I've never met a squash I did not like.

Speaking of which, expect some out of date garden pictures soon!

5) If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?

...Hmmmm I would like to be less hairy ;;_;; but if we're talking non-physical things... I would love the ability to finish more things and not get so distracted by the new and shiny. I hate thinking back to all my unfinished projects and even if they're not all entirely my fault, it's still something that bothers me a lot.

Comments

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Well, it is different eating and cooking with a vegetable vs. growing it. I do like growing arugula a lot but it bolts quickly. Squash and tomatoes are slow, and I'm hoping this year to finally get to harvest something!

I have to say, having now found out more about it from the inside the whole doujinshi process in Japan is fascinating and amazing. I only wish I spoke a lot more Japanese because I am sure there are facets I am missing. Like it wasn't until I was helping Eda and Jamie I found out there is actually a porn inspector who goes around to check your porn. It's also just amazing how many people do them. I went to a copy place in March in Shinjuku and all the other people there were making copyhons for Haru as well.

If you'd ever like to see my 3 books, let me know lol I think I am getting better and will hopefully continue to do so. I do wish I was still into Tenipuri because the quality of the artists that are still doing it is much lower than the series I do collect, plus the costumes are so much easier to draw ;;_;;

So do I get to ask you 5 questions now?

[isachi.livejournal.com]

O.o porn inspector? What does he inspect it FOR? Because you know I have some stuff that I'm pretty sure doesn't meet anybody's standards of decency XD

And yes! Ask away! :D

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is a porn inspector. Jamie's book for SCC failed and she had to use a black marker to better hide some girl bits. Pretty much the inspector makes sure the bits have a large enough line through them. The porn inspector I met was a guy in his like 50's or maybe 60's. He also makes sure the books are marked R-18 and that it is clear the items you are selling are R-18.

At Haru when I bought some Reborn doujinshi for Kim I actually got CARDED. I was horrifically amused.

I can't imagine having to look at all those R-18 yaoi doujinshi since some of them are really disturbing lol

In happy news, I got my confirmation email so I am in for my event! ^_____^ Now to work on my books I am sure you will not be surprised to know I am now theming everything on FairyTales

So questions!
1) What are you doing right now, literally
2) What are you doing right now, with your life
3) What person that you met through the internet would you most like to meet in real life who you've not met before in real life?
4) Do you ever still follow anime/manga anymore?
5) Who was your least favorite President?

[isachi.livejournal.com]

And here are your answers (http://isachi.livejournal.com/132157.html#cutid1) :)