Avian Revolution

4 x Thallid
4 x Sprout Swarm
4 x Essence Warden
4 x Thallid Shell-Dweller
4 x Utopia Mycon
3 x Pendelhaven Elder
3 x Strength in Numbers
3 x Sporoloth Ancient
3 x Herd Gnarr
2 x Life and Limb
2 x Scatter the Seeds
2 x Savage Thallid
2 x Edge of Autumn
2 x Siege Wurm

Mana Curve

12 + 16 + 0 + 8 + 7

1 CMC = 12
G Thallid
G Thallid
G Thallid
G Thallid
G Essence Warden
G Essence Warden
G Essence Warden
G Essence Warden
G Utopia Mycon
G Utopia Mycon
G Utopia Mycon
G Utopia Mycon

2 CMC = 16
1G Pendelhaven Elder
1G Pendelhaven Elder
1G Pendelhaven Elder
1G Thallid Shell-Dweller
1G Thallid Shell-Dweller
1G Thallid Shell-Dweller
1G Thallid Shell-Dweller
1G Edge of Autumn
1G Edge of Autumn
1G Sprout Swarm (Convoke) (Buyback 3)
1G Sprout Swarm (Convoke) (Buyback 3)
1G Sprout Swarm (Convoke) (Buyback 3)
1G Sprout Swarm (Convoke) (Buyback 3)
1G Strength in Numbers
1G Strength in Numbers
1G Strength in Numbers

4 CMC = 8
3G Life and Limb
3G Life and Limb
3G Herd Gnarr
3G Herd Gnarr
3G Herd Gnarr
2GG Sporesower Thallid
2GG Sporesower Thallid
2GG Sporesower Thallid

5 CMC = 7
3GG Savage Thallid
3GG Savage Thallid
3GG Scatter the Seeds (Convoke)
3GG Scatter the Seeds (Convoke)
3GG Sporoloth Ancient
3GG Sporoloth Ancient
3GG Sporoloth Ancient

The day after finals.

Mum promised to take me this morning to the fish shop and decided to go to the mall instead, and to take me later. She tried out the chicken at the mall - not the smartest move - and now has food poisoning. Which sucks ass, seriously.

Dad and I spent most of the morning fitting in a new fan for the living room/pool table room, crawling through the attic and fiddling with wires. Why the building companies do not just use a layer of insulation and cover that with wood or something so that it is safe to breathe I have no idea. You could even potentially build a small storeroom up there. If I ever get a house built, my room and office is going in the attic and all the insulation built into the walls.

I'm waiting for him to finish up and go pick up my sister to school so that we can all drive to the fish store together. Of course, she's going to end up whining or something. Speaking of that, I need to find some large ants for her ant farm Christmas present. I'm not going to order ants - that's just stupid - there are huge nests of ants around my house.


Was able to collect three ants without being bitten. Went to the store and bought previously mentioned fish, a Pink Kissing Gourami and another two fish. The Pinkie and one other fish were in the same tank - thankfully they were in a second bag. I come home and find out that one of the fish in the second bag (with the Pinkie) had Ich. Wonderful. This was AFTER I put the fish in the tank. Picked up Matthew and returned them, and went back to the store.

They were really nice - they refunded us and I got three very beautiful guppies. My male mosquito fish is currently horny as hell and keeps trying to mate with them even though they're three times his size. If he does successfully mate with her, it's going to produce some interesting results. Eventually something - probably one of my larger fish - is going to kill him.

The Benefits of Bats

( Anne Rice - Amazon.com )

What do you honestly think of this?

RPG Game Sheets

... Found this. It was posted on the typical CF Hardcore community, and then x-posted to stupid_free. As a bit of backstory - I was and still am constantly teased by other children. They were rarely punished for their actions towards me. I felt so bad that I didn't even want to go to school anymore. I have an anxiety disorder and very thin skin then. Then after a bit of surfing time on the interwebs, I realized I could fight back. That there were other people like me. I feel slightly confident that if I did go back to regular off-line school again, I could handle it. These two messages were posted by the same person, and it made me feel... happy. Uncomprehendably happy.

( ... WTF? )

( Is there a god? )

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of
owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of
years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable...

... I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Has anyone seen this yet?

The sheer stupidity of the statements - the first woman likes to draw the Nazi symbol because it's fun and yet says that she's respectful of other people's feelings - the old man in the second part says that he's more attractive than Denzel Washington just because he's white. I agree with Louis that he's delusional. He thinks that if a black man is out of line he should be lynched. "I don't want to hang one at a time - I want them all lynched." One of the guys admits to being a cocaine kingpin.

She says that kids would hate her because of her last name and that makes them racists, which makes fucking no sense because being a Nazi is being a racist. He wouldn't have a Jew in his house with his daughter. And then he complains that whites have heavier punishments than blacks. I'm... disgusted.

Turtle Excluder Devices

Turtle excluder devices are perhaps one of the most innovative devices that have been created with regards to the safety of marine animals. Turtle excluders, also known as a T.E.D. are simplistic yet efficient, result in no loss of the shellfish, and help preserve an already greatly endangered marine reptile.

The first thing to consider is simplicity. A turtle excluder device is a simple grate of spaced bars that do not allow turtles and other large marine animals to pass through. Shrimp can pass through quite easily, but turtles that are trapped cannot, and they do not end up in the net – they are ejected. Turtles are not fast swimmers, and as such they cannot avoid the trawl nets. This is a simple, efficient, and cost-effective way to keep the turtles from entering the net.

The second thing to consider is that this method does not result in the loss of shellfish. So, it does not negatively affect the fisher. This would make the law of having them in the nets much easier to enforce, as the fishermen cannot say in defense that their nets are being deprived from shellfish and profit.

The third thing to consider is that a T.E.D. are made to protect – and do protect – endangered animals that are essential to the ecosystem. With a T.E.D. installed on every net, the turtle population goes up, helping their species. And because of new modifications in the light of recent study, it also helps preserve the greatly endangered leatherback turtle, along with several species of large shark.

As you can see, the turtle species would benefit greatly from the installation and regulation of a T.E.D. on every fisher’s net, along with making a T.E.D. mandatory in the production of these nets. This simple method can help save endangered sea animals that are tossed aside as excess trash.

Hello, Spunky Eevee! Just corrected that chapter you sent me. I apologize for the double-space - it was single-space on my Microsoft Word document, but it seems that the whole thing got b0rked when I copied and pasted it to my journal. Oh, well. Double-space is better than no space.

Just a few things I want to cover.

1. Grammatically, you're improving in leaps and bounds. As a note, though, after someone speaks you want to use the ENTER key to make a space. Also, if your character is talking and the speech ends with something similar to '- said' then you want to end the speech with a comma. You also want to insert commas where there would naturally be a pause in the speech. Here's an example.

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"Hello," said Bob, idly ruffing the back of his black hair with his right hand.

"Goodbye," said Steve. "See you later!"

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2. Please, please, do not be afraid to use detail! I encourage it! I will warn you if you use too much. In the beginning, try describing the scene. Are they walking along a dirt road surrounded by trees or a paved road with houses on either side? What does the sign look like? New, metallic and shiny? Wooden and with block text carved into it? Does the girl who answers the door have black hair? Brown? When Misty walks in, Ash and Brock will notice the change in her hairstyle immediately, as well.

3. The awesome part about writing Pokemon is that you cannot understand them - they communicate through body language and tone rather than understandable speech. For example, when Pikachu remarks on the fact that they've seen the sign, does he look angry, with his tail rigid? Does he look scared, with his ears back and a sad look on his face? Was his voice harsh or cheerful?

4. Don't be afraid of writing more than one character at a time. Don't just say that Ash, Brock, and May walked into a room. Try to describe the characters in parts so that the reader gets a picture of what each one is doing.

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Ash wandered in the house, Brock following behind him. May yawned and sat down upon the couch, looking apprehensively towards Ash and Brock who were familiar with their host. Max flicked open his PokeNav, idly opening a page without really looking at it.

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Found my old Pokemon Leaf Green and had Dad pick up a SP charger. Thinking of restarting it, depends on if I get bored or not.

We got a pair of Angelfish (one black/white, one normal) from a store for about eight dollars today. Really nice looking. Trying to convince mother to get more, she likes the way they float together in a school. It's in the display tank that is between the pool room and the kitchen. If we do get more, I plan on moving my skittish clown loach to my personal tank. Running out of room, I'll have to save up for a new tank with trimmings. I'll set it up in our garage and everything, I currently keep my turtle in there as well. Give me good reason to clean up in there and make sure all chemicals are out of Jack's reach.

As an added note, I got one of those live birth tanks and put my female in it. Going to need a suctioner to pull the babies into the second container, and the cord on mine is chewed from some animal. Going to need to get a new one.