Warrior Cats: The Four Clans

Wednesday, July 23rd, 8:19 PM
Okay i am unsure how these journal things work but i would like to post some stuff about myself! XD Anyway, Hi! My name is Ebonycloud or just Ebony for short. I dont know if many of the people on this forum know me all that well but i know a lot of you!
Anyway, some of my RP buds and regular buds might think me a sweet and innocent person... well the innocent part perhaps... but in truth i am kind of bad tempered... I like using big words and joking around. I do have a hard time opening up. Same thing happened for me on this forum. Back when i started out there wasnt a whole lot of people playing. Still i was very timid and i really talk to anyone. When i started posting some of my art work i got a little renown. Every so slowly many of the people on this site gained my trust.
So i really enjoy talking to everyone here!!! I have also grown a nasty habit of befriending new members. That isnt a bad thing i guess... still i am a noob magnet or something XD
In real life i find it really hard to talk to anyone. That began to happen back when i was in the 8th grade and my parents divorced. Now i am a Junior or will be in August and i havent really had much progress. All of my real friends moved away and left we hanging out with second hand friends.
Anyway, the only way i managed to talk to others was throught my art! Just like on this forum!!
I ahve been on the swim team at my school and found it to be a great experience!!! If any of you people are kinda looking in to doing a sport but are hesitant, stop what you are doing and get out there!! Team sports are so much fun! I made great friends on the swim team despite the fact we had to swim in such cold conditions... well, we swam from like Janurary to Febuary.
I have a short temper myself... i do explode on a lot of topics... but i do have a cool head. When in public i have a nice personality but it is hard to joke around. I can be rather rude when i am in the mood but that just adds to my charm! XD
I find that i myself am not very talented... I am not athletic or super smart... i am just your average Jow kindah gal. I do have an aptitude for sciene though. I am really good at remembering things. I can act rather well but i am not the next broadway star. I cant dance so dont ask. Singing... i dont know, never tried. I think i draw good enough. Not the best but fair enough. I love to use slang when i am with friends but when i get really angry i get really polite... i start my buiness routine and use very intelligent words... i like to read a lot so thats where i get my vocabulary... i excelle in English... i hardly paid attention in my class this year but passed my CASHEE in english section with an above average score!
I have never had a crush whether it be on a friend to a TV star. I am attracted to boys but i have never had a boyfried or anything resmebling a crush... I like to listen to other people. I dont talk much but i love listening to others...
Well that is pretty much all that can be said about me. Not much. Just your average Ebony!



Thursday, July 24, 12:29 AM
Hey guys! Its just me again. Well i have decided that every time i post a new journal that i am going to make a new banner to go along with it! As of now i have four banners. The first two you have seen. I am making the banners of my favorite RP characters that i have played! See if can guess who they are!!! Now come of you wont be able to guess because you are difinantly not familiar with them.
Well i am really trying to perfect the my style. I used to copy other peoples styles and prided my self on being able to make very similar copies. But it always left a hollow empty feeling in me. Why couldnt my drawings every be good? Well, one day i went searching through dA and found so many different styles. All of them were so good! I realized that the reason people like to look at art is because it is different.
If all of our styles were the same it would be so boring. I new then that i had to use my own style. If it was worth recognition then i would continue with that style!
I tried so many times to get my own style. Like many of you, and admit it, i tried doing anime style. The eyes and the way the faces and everything was shaped. I tried using that. But... i failed miserably. I realized that i had to make a style, all to myself. Just like they fact that we all love Rainy's art because the way she draws it. If everyone drew like that we would get bored.
So i finally found a style all to myself. over the last few months i have begun to perfect my style. It isnt complete, but then again i dont think it will ever be.
Rusty always looks at my art and goes, "I want to draw just like you!" i always tell her to use her own style. If you use mine it wont be special anymore. Your style is unique and your own. If you use mine it wont be special anymore.
Well, enough of that!! To get back to the anime thing. I may or may not seem like it but i love anime/manga. Now for you who are completely enthralled in the world of anime/manga i might seem like a noob... and you would be correct. I am a noob. But i want to stay that way. I love my anime and manga as much as the next person but i am not obsessed. I love reading them for the stories behind it. Some are just fun to read. I like mangas cause they are a change of pace. I love reading but there are some things only a manga can pass off. Such as the over the top emotions in the characters.
If you tried to describe the over the top emotions in a book it wouldnt be the same. I probably would have put the book down by then. Reading a line that would say, 'Then her head grew to three sizes as she yelled," i would freak out and pick up another book...
I will rant more about my favorite mangas and animes in my next entry. Until then i remain,
Just your average Ebony!



Thursday, July 24th, 2:06 PM
Well hello there!. Just me again! Well as i said in my last entry i am using different banners each time. This time it is Ivoryclaw!!! He is sort of my punk emo kinda character. He was really fun to play because he just couldnt ever catch a break.
Anyway back on to the top left off on last time! Well, i was talking about animes and such so this time i will tell you my favorite ones!
I am a big Shojo Beat fan. They are a company that i believe draws/translates them... not sure... any i tend to stick to their mangas and animes. My all time favorite manga from them is Kaze Hikaru!!! Tis the best manga i have ever read. It takes place in the Edo period i think... the year is 1863, or right around the time of the American civil war. The main characters are apart of the Shinsengumi, they are named Kamiya Seizaburo and Okita Soji. Kamiya is a young warrior looking for revenge. Be little known to everyone is that he is acctually a she!
Kamiya's true name is Tominaga Sei. She has joined the band of warriors in search of her father and brother's killer. It is a wonderful tale that i have grown to love. It is a comedy, action, drama and romance. Now i might warn our younger viewers that their is a lot of violence in this and some adult related topics. But there is nothing like nudity or something. Just some crude humor and strong language. There are no F-bombs if i remember correctly. If it was made to be a movie it would more than likely have been rated PG-13.
My second favorite manga would have to be... Skip beat! That is one of the best comedies i have ever read! It is about a 16 year old girl named Kyoko Mogami. She fell in love with her child hood friend named Sho Fuwa. Sho ran away to Tokyo with her to become a famous singer, but little did she realize he didnt bring her along for love. She was pretty much his house maid. Because of this she wants revenge. The only way she knows to bring about a satisfying revenge is to completely beat him at his own game. She enters the world of entertainment. But not as a singer, as an actor. She dyes her hair and manages to get in to the agency of Sho greatest rival. Ren Tsuraga.
This one had has left me completely laughing. There are so many instances where Kyoko is so closed off to the feeling of love it is hilarious. She has forgotren how to love someone because of Sho. She becomes part of the angecy's "Love Me" section and is forced to where a hot pink jumpsuite to her auditions and work. Along the way she befriends Ren and meets back up with Sho. This is one of the best Comedy, romances i have ever read. The style in which the author draws the characters often either leaves me laughing or mezmerized. There is some strong language in this one, but once again no F-bombs. As far as i remember, and i am rather good at remebering, there is no nudity. Just a hint at some adult themes but nothing to strong. More than likely you wont even notice.
Well those are my two favorite Mangas of all time. I have so many more but it would take me forever to get through them all... So now on to the animes!
My favorite animes would have to be... Naruto, but then again who doesnt like that one? Another would be, Inuyasha. But my all time favorite one was Ouran High School Host Club.
Now i am not sure many of you are familiar with this one but then again some of you may be X3 This is about a character named Haruhi Fujioka. She is mistakenly take as a boy and when she breaks a very expensive vase she is forced to work as a host in their club. It takes our other main characters a while to figure this out. Though this anime has many themes that relate to homosexuallity and incest you kindah have to over look this. The people in this host clud portray characters for fan girls. The character behind the people the portray are much deeper and more complicated. They pretend to be the character like the cool guy, the prince, the wild one, the innocent young boy, but in reality the characters are much deeper. I got a good laugh out of this romantic comedy!!! Well for now that is all i have to say. I will probably come up with a more useful topic next time!!! Until then i remain,
Just you average Ebony!




-- Edited by Ebonycloud on Thursday 4th of June 2009 03:04:33 AM