Leave suggestions in the comments! I'll see what gets the most comments and see what I can do from there :]

Edit: Name specific characters if you have someone in mind

Hey! Check out this cool project my friend is working on!

[link]

It's a magazine project for artists. If you've ever wanted to get published this might be your chance!

Thank you everyone for your well wishes, my hand is mostly recovered now. The doctor says I can even go snowboarding but I don't believe him!

I haven't drawn for more than a month:



Doctors say I have a cracked bone and a partially torn ligament. I probably won't be drawing for a couple of months because ligaments take months to heal, and I want my hand to heal right.

Life without drawing is strange, I feel like I am on vacation. I've taken the opportunity to read fiction; something I haven't done in more than a decade. I wonder how rusty will I be when I can draw again?

As for what happened; it's really stupid, I got into a car accident even though the car was stationary It's funny how accidents can happen in the most unexpected places.

A FRIEND SENT THIS TO ME
SO AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT IS THE BEST ENVELOPE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(contents were not Naruto related)

Jen Zee on how to find me:

"LAINEEEEE are you back from LA? YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS... I was trying to find your blog via google and I typed things in like "laine blog art" "laine lee blog art" but I couldn't find anything. So finally I was like... WHAT WOULD BE A SUREFIRE WAY? So I typed in "LAINE ART BLOG NARUTO" AND IT'S TOTALLY THE FIRST RESULTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ON GOOGLE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!"

The Original Comment

made me proud today ;DDDD;



Don't let her awesome cute illustrations fool you, Elda made items like the Orinkage

I've seen Star Trek on IMAX 4 times! 3 times in 7 days @o@! I want to make a Star Trek post before the fever dies down.

This picture cracks me up every time







I have more in my folder BUT I THINK I WILL SPARE THE PICSPAM

Discuss: Star Trek and how awesome it is

You can't tell from my gallery, but I'm actually a big Metal Gear Solid fan. Today, I had the following convo (it's realllyyy mildly BL so if you can't handle that, turn back now!). It's important in understanding the convo that "N" *IS* actually a real, qualified, practicing/licensed doctor.

N: today is a srs business day already!


Laine:
haahaaaaahahahahaah
PURELY SCI FI STANDPOINT HE IS NAKED
TO DETECT PULSE U KNO
ITS ALL SCIENTIFIC

N:
HEY, I'M A DOCTOR, IT MAKES SENSE TO ME
but you gotta have it really tight, then
gotta get all up in there to feel THAT pulse
it's in the crease of the thighs

Laine:
WHAT
CANT YOU DO THE ARMPIT PULSE
OR FINGER PULSE

N:
no
not good enough
also, armpit pulse would be hard to get on a muscular dude like raiden
it's easy on a baby
I guess they could TRY to go for the wrist
but if you're REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE CENTRAL PULSE like if someone
is losing blood or something
you check the groin and the neck
so his suit SCIENTIFICALLY has to be that tight you see
*nods solemnly*

Laine:
yes
ahhaha
ALL SCIENTIFIC
they cant put a pulse detector on his neck coz uh
he needs to keep his neck mobile
yes

N:
see, now you are beginning to understand science

Laine:
when you do thermometers, i guess anal ones are better too? hahhahha

N:
central temperature!
...oh dear
....
well, the skull suit IS high-tech >_>

Laine:
aahah i want to post this conversation on DA XD

N:
go ahead XD
look mang i am a very well-trained doctor you know
i KNOW THINGS

Laine:
yeah you had the bestest of educationsz
your opinion is purely objective and in the best interest of the mission

Recently, the awesome invited me to draw some guest art for her Naruto doujin:



LOOK AT THAT GORGEOUS COVER FROM !!!!!!!!!!!!!  BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Many exclamation points needed to express my excitement!!! I'm so honored to be in such an awesome doujin ;D; Thank you so much for inviting me ORZ

She will be selling it at:

COCORO / COMICON ROAD IV
Date : 26th April 2009
Time : 11 am
Venue : St. Louis Hospital, Bangkok

For more info, see her journal entry: [link]

A friend at Viz sent me some Naruto gifts recently; she also included this awesome drawing with the package lol:



lololol <333

Spent 5 minutes to throw this summary of Naruto 443 together:

This weeks Naruto 442 was another uneventful chapter, everyone's fate is to die by Rasengan lol. "Useless chapter is useless", as they say!! I really hope the fight ends next chapter, but it probably won't

But other than that, it's hilarious seeing people freak out over Nagato's hair and Hinabeewbsss. Why are people excited over the hair color anyway?  

Here is another 100% authentic, unstaged email conversation from work, about work. Read it from bottom up.

Naruto 441 was pretty non-eventful, so instead of talking about it, I'll just post some tard im conversations for posterity:

W 4:11
yah i think in the end i wd not want to be famous
it seems too stressful
i wdnt want people taking pics of me when im in my hoodie picking up
bananas at safeway or something

Laine 4:13
i would do naruto poses all day long

W 4:13
HAHAHAHHAHA

Laine 4:13
i'd appear in those sections "celebs are just like us !!!"
"they watch naruto !"

W 4:13
HAHHAHAHAA
aaaaaah i LOLd in my cubicle

This is a 100% real , unstaged conversation from work, about work. In the conversation, I'm Laine and Julie is asking me about a test server.

Julie 6:12
ok, thanks! I am sending out the email to the team

Laine 6:12
okkk

Julie  6:12
just wanted to make sure it wasn't username/pass

Laine 6:13
if the login box is red it's test login

Julie  6:13
cool, thanks Lainekage

Laine 6:13
hahah

Just wanted to record it before I turn off IM...hahaha

The scanlation came out early! Maybe even SleepyFans felt the URGENCY ?? lol.

This chapter was full of fanservice and plot diarrhea, I feel...drained ....it was super waffy but I didn't feel like it was satisfying, it felt very perfunctory!

Kishimoto is having fanservice diarrhea for this arc wtf!! Guess he can't wait to finish up Naruto or something? It has been 10 years after all.


Also, some SPOILER comments below:




"That's no moon"
and
"I am ur father"

in the same chapter!! booooo. Though I was expecting it, it's still disappointing to see it follow through.

Thank you so much to kamizuki ([link] and PurpelBlur ([link] for the Daily Deviation feature of The Last Samurai! ([link] I am really honored and humbled! Thank you very much for your support *bow* It means a lot! I feel very encouraged when I read everyone's comments!

My reaction:

[link]

How can strawberry cream sandwich taste so good? It's inconceivable!

There was a documentary Blue Planet and it had this part where the whale could eat plankton and then not eatfor 8 months. 8 MONTHS!! I wish I could stop eating for 8 months, I mean every 6 hours I have to think so hard about what to do for lunch/dinner/food and then waste another 1 to 2 hours finding food and eating it. It would save me so much time if I could just eat once every few months!