The sun may rise in the east but at least it settles in a final location.

I threw this together to fret about my snake.
 
[Don't continue if you don't like hearing about snakes eating small dead rodents.]
 
I fed her tonight and usually once she's gotten it, she's done fine for like, the last forever. Only tonight, she was struggling with swallowing--which has happened before, I mean, she has no hands and feeding is tough--but I looked over, and noticed some of the bark in her tank got caught on the mouse's tail which was the only part not in her mouth and I was worried she was going to eat that. But then--
 
she spits the whole thing back out. Which I've heard of happening, but my Kitty has never done this before.
 
And since then he's been opening and closing her mouth and making similar movements to swallowing, or generally just snaking about her tank, but I am worried to death she has a piece of bark still caught her her throat and I don't know what to do because I don't really have a way of checking. Now she's balled herself in the corner of the tank, and seems ok but I'm still worried because all I do is worry and 25% of my worrying goes into making sure my snake is alive.
 
On top of it she' shedding which I swear she just did. The good news is she finally shed her head and specs which he hasn't done in like the last three sheds--and ALL those came off as well. But that's basically as far as she's gotten. She seems to be trying to get the rest off too.
 
Probably the best thing to do is leave her alone and not try to feed her again til next week [she's wasted two mice this week, one by sitting on it, then other being this. And those f*ckers aren't cheap.]. But I don't want to sleep or go to my Indesign summer school class tomorrow [I work ahead of the teacher and I have to sit through lectures on things I've already figured out and urrrgh it's way more boring that it could be.] and all I want to do is wait up and worry about my damned snake.
 
I salvaged this set by making it a camp circe set.

AUDITION FORM
★Name★ Jacqueline 'Jac' Force
★Age★ 20
★Hometown★ Half Moon Bay, Ca
★Education★ Jr. College-- graphic design.
 
★What's your everyday style?★
With the exception of what I make for myself, it’s way casual. You can’t grow up on the California coastline and not want to wear knit hoodies and shorts for day on end. It’s also pretty cheap stuff--mall stuff, not going to lie here. We can’t all be fashion bloggers with mysteriously large sums of money taking pictures of ourselves looking great everyday for a living. Anyway, I’d rather make what those vapid wannabes are wearing. That’s not what the question was about though, right. I’ve been inspired by lots of things all my life, and the way I dress reflects whatever interests I have at that moment. But it all comes back to that beachy, comfortable, surfer girl thing [not that I surf]., somewhere in between bohemian, rock n’ roll and sportswear. Hair brushing is always optional.
 
★Type of clothing you design?★
What I design is a bit more theatrical than what I’d normally where. It comes from the same spirit, the same inspiration. It’s a reflection of Highway 1, and a northern California climate, but mostly it comes from fantasy. I think that’s why fashion exists, ultimately [whoever says it’s for sex is a crazy person, because every boy I met could care less about my wearing clothes.]. I take a lot of my inspiration from time periods and movies, and I espeically design with a ‘sci-fi’ sort of asthetic in mind--sometimes it’s dystopian, sometimes it’s shiney happy party like it’ 1999 all over again craziness. I use a lot of fabrics that would be weird together, and cut that don’t entirely make sense at first, and I am an illustrator so I also do a lot of my own graphics. I certainly don’t take fashion ‘seriously’, and often times my favorite shows aren’t the one’s the critics like--they aren’t ‘chic’ or ‘modern’ or ‘upscale--they’re usually humorous, or lively, or even verging on insane. That what makes a good show. That’s what makes an innovative designer--telling the critics to go eat themselves, basically.
 
★If you could describe your design style in one word, what would it be?★
Spirited
 
★What colors do you use and wear the most?★
Bright colors, actually. It’s hard to say which more than another, but I guess I go through brief phases. I’m kind of on an aqua blue and silver kick lately. A week ago it was berry pink. In high school I used to wear a lot more black--you know, then you like strive to be that edgy alternative kid, and then you move to a city and everyone’s an edgy alternative kid. Studded shoes stopped impressing me when forever21 started selling them in bulk, and I’m waay over those Lita boots, and even more so over my everything black lamé period--so now I stand out by wearing colors that make me happy.
 
★Favorite designer?★
Miu Miu (M. Prada), the Rodarte sisters, Gaultier, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Marc Jacobs, Mara Hoffman, Prabal Gurung, and the DSquared boys. I also like less expensive fashion brands like Chaser, Wildfox Couture, Haute Hippie--you know, stuff that’s mostly more in my price range. I’m a starving community college student, what do you expect?
 
★Article of clothing you cannot live without?★
 
★What makes you different from the other designers?★
 
★Which celebrities do you think have the best style?★
 
★If you could style anyone, alive or dead, who would it be and why?★
 
★What is the thought process behind your designs?★
Well, my latest collection, a tiny little Resort 14 showcase-slash-portfolio work is inspired by the Cloud City in Star Wars, healing gem stones, and sea creature. I just wanted to design these sort of light, airy looking things that someone who would wind surf in the clouds 1000 years from now would wear. Ok, and mostly I just wanted an excuse to play around with hologram materials because it’s cool right now. That. and a lot of gauzy cotton, denim, and scuba material. The thought process started when I cut up one of my old rashguards and turned it into a crop top. So I did a lot of sketches, watched a lot of Empire Strikes Back, and made a few looks.
 
★What type of themed challenge would you like to see?★
 
★If you won the million dollar prize, what would you do with the money?★
 
★Portfolio★ (link to collection here)
 
★Model★ Monika 'Jac' Jagaciak
[Ok. This whole picking a model that looks like you was stupidly hard for me. Anyone who has seen me in rl [ @rosesareroses ] can probably vouch that I do not under most circumstances resemble a famous person entirely enough to use them as my model. I have this theory that the closest thing would be to squish Georgia May Jagger, Edita V, and Andie Arthur together and you might get either a mutant or my doppleganger. I also thought about using my Bus-verse model Jennifer Lawrence, but my younger sister is totally going to look like her in 5 years, you watch. So I went with Jagicack because I’ve never used her before and both our first names can be shortened to ‘Jac’. Explanation out.]
 
★Taken by★
@ducktape

This set pleases me.
 
Oh hey I got one of these things:
http://ask.fm/uran0s
 

Ever since my dad hand-me-downed me his Kindle, I've finally managed to read the Percy Jackson books, which I really should have done eight years ago. I'm on the 5th one now, and only have the first books of the next series, from which I recently realized isn't entirely the same group of characters. Anyway, I enjoy the whole concept, but I do feel I would've been way more into them had I read them in Jr. High
 
Also, I never saw the movie but I was looking up screen caps and one of my biggest pet peeves on book-to-movie adaptation--despite that I've really mellowed about them on the whole--is when directors can't even bother to get the character's hair right. I understand somethings are cut to make the movie flow better, be shorter, etc. That's fine. BUT HOW HARD IS IT TO DYE AND CURL SOME STUPID ACTRESSES HAIR. What is Annabeth doing being a straight-haired brunette when she is very explicitly and repeatedly noted as a curly haired blonde. Drives me insane.
 
BUT GOOD NEWS. We mysteriously own it too.
 
Anyway, all this has prompted me to do this:
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/contest.show?id=413979&type=entries
 
More people need to enter tho.
 
NAME// Kaileigh Prim
AGE// 16
YEARS AT CAMP// This is her second
GODLY PARENT// Eros. That makes Aphrodite her grandma, so she stays in that cabin.
WEAPON// The only thing Kai is remotely good at is archery, but she doesn’t use it as a weapon, since most the camp bows are too heavy for her.
PERSONALITY// Flighty, superficial, hopeless romantic, childish, vain, dreamer, neat freak, intuitive, definitely a girly-girl, drama queen, loyal.
SKILLS// Regards herself as Aphrodite’s cabin stylist and love advice guru [she’s actually terrible at the later.], makes awesome headscarf turbans, and has the ability to psychically push people to do whatever she wants.
ENJOYS// Lavender, blush and periwinkle [also, she never uses ‘regular’ names for colors. It’s always mint and coral and mermaid tail turquoise and so forth], floral arrangements, TRUUUU LUUUUUV, surfer boys, doll collecting, spas, putting people on [terrible] blind dates, shiny things.
FATAL FLAW// Hubris. Definitely thinks she’s the sh*t.
HOMETOWN// Lagoona Niguel, CA
FACECLAIM//Lidsey Wixson
BIO// Soooooooon.

I have decided to get back into this.
http://www.polyvore.com/can_you_paint_with_all/collection?id=2129608
 
19/70 Field Green
 
Filed green is a sprite, with a tiny fashionably whimsical wardrobe. She lives under a cactus garden, drinking it's milk, small enough to navigate through its needles.

6.14-6.15; introductions.
make an introduction with your character, so you can plot relationships with other characters
 
Read all about Felli here
http://www.polyvore.com/every_day_im_hufflin/set?id=84419503
Ooooh I forgot to finish writing her bio though, I'll do that soon.
But you get the general idea of what she's all about.
 
"Hey-o.
I have this saying. It goes 'Touch my stuff for a free gypsy curse, douchenugget!' But it's just a saying, I don't really have any gypsy curses up my sleeves. Or the regular kind.
Pretty much a disappointment to my Scottish bloodline. But whatever."
--Felli
 
Felli is grumpy but she likes having friends.

@sarahstardom
@leboutonderose
 
Sorry I got to the party late.
I decided this round I will be designing with my fake clothing line in mind, Golden State Blues

Pttttth it's been a moderately crazy weekend.
Mainly revolving on the car my dad and I share having its transmission blow out and it now being in the shop by some miracle.
And band practice. Oh god, why did I sign up for that.
And it's still only sunday. This is the first sunday I have nothing to do in forever and a year.
 
Making sets on my dad's new ridiculously large computer is a bit weird so if this set looks weird it's only because I'm not used to things this size.
 
Um. But this my last character set before I make a proper intro. Wait for that to do anything the relation ship stuff por favor.
-------------------//||*||\\-------------------

||Millicent 'Millie' Moondust||
/Runaway Siren
/Youth Demo
/Kelly Mittendorf [aka Miss Mittens]

"Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused"
 
Millie Moondust went by another name once. But she ran away from her crumbling castle outside Atlas City, and has forgotten the way home. Now she's quickly making her way to the main act at Sirens.

===>Cool people read long real life crap.
 
I feel like groveling before I get ready for class.
 
So I started a summer school course on Adobe InDesign Monday and for the past two days we've been going over basic functionality and it's BORING because all Adobe software functions similarly and I already have PS and Illustrator background, like enough to know where buttons are.
 
So naturally I spend a lot of lecture time on polyvore.
 
But I just assume no one's looking at what I'm doing. Until yesterday when the guy next to me said something to the extent of, "Do you ever get promotions?" or something. He was referring to those people on here who have been contacted for companies to make promotional sets for products or money. It took me a second to even realize he was talking about polyvore because it just doesn't occur to me that people in real life have used this site. So I answered, "Oh, no...well, I have gotten messages but the sites were lame" [true story. Twice now I've been offered and twice they have looked really shady. I attract shady companies.]. Then he asked if I'd been invited to events. And I'm like, "No, but polyvore themselves invited me to their offices last summer." [Also true story, but I think I've told that one.]
 
So the whole thing caught me off guard to begin with. But then I was thinking--like, my perspective of polyvore must be way different from normal people's. That sounds pretentious. What I mean is, being immersed in this community so long, longer than some of the polyvore employees have even worked for this company, [reason number 1 why I want to be an intern.] I've have been able to see polyvore from the inside out practically. Worse yet, I'm involved in the high-fashion roleplay community which you know IS YOU MY AUDIENCE most likely, but we're a sect of polyvore that they are just like oblivious to. We are like a secret society of people with better style, less generic than the users who are 'blogger' users, the top set types, the minimal layout types--the ones who, I dunno, use polyvore for polyvore. It's very weird to me, if I were to see polyvore from the point of view of one of those users, how immesely different it would feel. Does that make sense?
 
I just feel that...I dunno. I want to make a larger point but I can't quite grasp it.
It's almost as though I feel like, as usual, I was a rock star that's now obslete. [is totally full of thyself.]
 
In other news, had a dream where Kurt Cobain and I were werewolves it was pretty great.

Gladiator sandal contest.

I try to not make sets like this but the outfit just had that mood to it and I actually wish I would wear stuff like this. This Tatooine chic kinda thing.