ASSASSIN'S CREED: LINEAGE PART ONE: [link]
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Gah. I've had no time for everything I want to do. Heck, I don't even have enough time for what I need to do sometimes (mostly because I get lazy and sleep in and slack off watching the History Channel only to realize I have a ton of crap to do that I now only have a few hours to complete). So my poor deviantArt has been stuck on the back burner. I will try to get to messages today and tomorrow and though I doubt I'll catch up with everything, I'll try to catch up to what everyone's doing (yes I do in fact read most journals I'm subscribed to before I remove the alert. But sometimes I forget if someone is on or off the alert).

I still have a ton of pictures begging to be put up on here. I'll see what I can do about them. And I'd really love to write some more AC2 fanfiction before the game comes out and I no-longer have as much of an excuse to use creative but inevitably wrong situations or characters. But I doubt I'll get to that (about 2 more weeks!!!!). Especially with NaNoWriMo now officially started! I plan to keep up on my word count and try to get ahead too. Which means I should stop blogging and go write!

Sooo I'll work on it. Sorry for my (possibly continued) disappearance. But does anyone read these anyway? It's not like anyone's hanging on the edge of their seats for my next picture (that'd be the day! I'd be a millionaire!)

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New Info on AC2: [link]
New Info on AC: Bloodlines: [link]
ASSASSIN'S CREED 2 DEV DIARY 5: [link]
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Man I'm so excited x]

Sorry I still haven't replied to... anything. I've barely been getting online recently. So I will work on it when I have time, as well as posting up all the pictures I've been taking. I also wanted to do a submission for 's contest, but considering it ends soon and I still have had no ideas (or time) I may not get to it.

But AC2 is only a few weeks away, and NaNoWriMo is starting up soon (which is good and nerve racking).

I think I've also come to a decision for what to do with Tucker (who is still in CT). But it makes me bother happy, and sad.

So I will try to get back into the swing of things soonish.

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ASSASSIN'S CREED II FOCUS ON THINGY: LEONARDO! (FINALLY)
[link]
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BAH.
I HATE CHEMISTRY.
A LOT.

Yes. That may change as the semester goes on, but at the moment, I hate chemistry and am realizing my hate of math again.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT... I've been so friggin busy. Sorry for disappearing on you guys (not that that's any different than normal, and it's not like I have anyone dying over the next day I'll post something ) but I am once more behind in messages and journals, all because I've had no time for anything this week between course work, classes, work, and then spending Friday driving up to CT to see Tucker again, spending several hours at the stable watching others work with him than taking a lesson on him, then spending the rest of the night attempting chemistry problems I didn't understand. Then I spent Saturday driving back home after talking to the people at the stable again, continuing trying in vain to answer the chemistry problems, and straining over finishing up my faerie costume because on Sunday my family, and I all went to the Renaissance Faire, not getting home till nine something after which I had to CONTINUE to try to figure out my chemistry work.

So yeah, I kinda wanna curl up and lay in bed for a few days. But alas, I still have to continue with my week again.

But for what it's worth, visiting Tucker was good and everything went well. I rode him after watching the end of one person riding him, than watching another lesson with local collegiates, and he was pretty good. But the best part was that when the lesson finished, I actually wanted to ride more. That rarely happens after I've been riding for longer than a half hour, especially on Tucker (who's very physically demanding). Almost always I'll be happy to get off and go home, but this time I wanted to just keep riding him, which I hope is a good sign.

Plus, everybody still loves him there. Even the riders who's he's shown his bastard-ish side to all still like him. But I still don't know if I can keep up with what he needs by myself. I can't get out to the stable and ride 6 days a week. Only 3, maybe 4 days, and then it's only for an hour or so because I just can't do much more after that, and horses aren't the only things in my life. Right now Tucker's being ridden several times a day, 6 times a week. He'll NEVER get that at our current stable, but maybe once me move.

But I'm thinking I should keep him up in CT, on a lease or sell him to those trainers or something, so I know where he is, know he's treated well, and know I'll be able to visit and ride him if I want to(which I will). And then if I have time and money, I could try training another horse that would be a "better match" for me. But I'm not ready to completely let go of Tucker yet. But I keep thinking that he'll be better off there and there's not much more we can do for each other.

Sigh. Most people wouldn't figure horses could cause so much drama (well, horse people will know, but non-horsey people may be surprised).



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NEW(ISH) ASSASSIN'S CREED 2 WALKTHROUGH THINGY: [link]

Well, I really should be working on my French now, but I'm lazy and easily distracted. But hey, what's new?
I fear I'm lagging behind again on replies and journals, so I'll have to get to that but I just don't feel like it right now :flail: But these delays will only get worse as November inches closer, because...

NANOWRIMO IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY!

Gaspers. The pressure is building! Well, for me at least. I'm having a terrible time deciding which story to prepare for NaNo this year, and trying to develop each of them is proving difficult @_@ But that shall not stop me! What may end up stopping me, though, is everything else I'll have to keep up with during November ._. I'm having trouble keeping up with everything now, so on top of at least 3,000 some-odd words a day, I'm probably gonna go insane next month. But NaNo was just too much fun last year NOT to do it again. So I am.
BLeh, I'm also behind on my Live By the Creed stuff already. Oh goodness, I'm screwed.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, go here: [link]

Anyways, I'm taking a short photography course which seems more like a photographer's club thing this month, so hopefully I'll manage to post new pictures as well.

Aaannnnd, Tucker. Yes. Well, uhm... yeah I dunno. He was doing well up until last week, where the trainer actually called him a bastard and is now telling me his "quirks" will never go away and it's just the kind of horse he is. (It's not like I haven't been saying that from the very BEGINNING.) So I have no clue what's happening anymore. I doubt I had any clue before too. He may end up staying there longer (as in through the winter) since I won't be able to ride him much in the winter anyway because of weather, travel, and not having an indoor ring to ride in (all of which ARE NOT MY FAULT. Some people seem to forget that my parents have to drive me to the stable, but they have other kids and work and lives of their own too, so I can't be there 6 times a week). Heck, I haven't felt up to riding at all lately. Ugh. I'm thinking everyone may just be better off if I just give up horse back riding, period.

And, completely irrelevant of that, a funny thing happened the other day. I've been trying to brush up my French skills (which are practically nothing) and at the moment the only way I could do it has been Rosetta Stone, which seems to work but gets a bit tedious (as everything, really though) and doesn't help me pronounce stuff (something's wrong with my mic) nor does it cover conversational French, which is really one of the most important parts. So we've been searching for a French tutor and kept running into dead-ends for months now. That is, until I went to a yarn shop the other day to get some stuff for my costume and ran into my French teacher from three years ago! Totally out of the blue. And she agreed to tutor me

Gotta love fate. (or divine intervention, or whatever you wish to call it. I tend to lump them all together).

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*squeals* NEW ASSASSIN'S CREED 2 TRAILER [link]

Goodness, it's so exciting! I'm going to die of excitement before the game even comes out! I can't wait to see more of the storyline! I love plot, and AC2 looks like it'll have a bit more story than AC1. Still loved AC1, but all the new things they're trying out with AC2 sound so amazingly cool!
Plus, now we get to see his face! I predict many many MANY fan drawings to come, (including some of my own x]).
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(EDIT) BLOODLINES INFO/RANT
Well I searched youtube for more info on Bloodlines, and found that there's actually a crapload of interviews ubisoft did with gamespot that aren't getting a lot of attention. They show more awesome gameplay and some more random technical stuff and a few pieces of story information. And according to one I watched ( [link] ) Desmond and Lucy aren't going to be in Bloodlines! But the animus is supposed to still have a big part, but honestly it looks like it's just gonna be like Altair Chronicles where you have the animus's health bar and maybe those glitches again, but nothing actually modern going on. I thought this game was supposed to show us the big link between Desmond, Altair, and Ezio?

AND something I found interesting, at about 4:00 minutes in that trailer I linked, the guys says something interesting: "You're still playing Altair, but it continues his storyline and also enhances the relationship that started at the end of the last game between Altair and Maria who are the two primary characters in (this game)." Please watch that trailer and tell me if I heard that right.

If I did hear that right-- Holy crap! That took me (obviously) by major surprise. I was not expecting any more of Maria, at all. Which, honestly, made me sad because she sounded very interesting (and the only friggin girl in the game grumblegrumble) I'm still kinda flabbergast, actually, I'm not quite sure what to say. I just kinda keep doing this ->
But hey! I think I'm gonna like that. Maria, as I said, sounded very interesting, and I think any of their interactions must be very amusing, considering the kind of stubborn, tomboyish "I can do anything you can and 5 times better too" personality she seems to have, she is going to be sooooo amusing with Altair. Altair will probably have no clue how to deal with her, which will make me laugh, a lot. Maybe they'll be more there too, since Altair's mom or dad (I can't remember which) was European, hmmm... maybe this game will have more story than I thought! I can't really say I'm expecting or hoping for a romance between Maria and him, I dunno, sounds kinda weird, but I love the thought of their relationship, whatever that may be. (But I'm really hoping it'll be more like Malik and his relationship, hate-brotherlylove. Except with her the hate part wouldn't be based on jealousy or bitterness/blaming(I can't think of a better word of Malik blaming Altair for his nub and death of Kadar), but maybe it would since she seems to have really loved/respected Robert, and Altair killed him...

Oh man, I'm getting excited now I'm really REALLY hoping I heard that right!
*strolls off singing how do you solve a problem like Mariiiaaaaa~*


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