Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, it's that time again.

Yume has gone and made a few financial missteps and needs to do that thing again. Yes, Yume needs to open commissions. I'm so sorry. Yume needs to raise... hmmm, let's see... about sixty dollars. Well, that isn't so bad, if six people each buy one ten-dollar icon or some such. Anyway, I see we have some rules here, but only a few:

RULE NUMBER ONE: Payment is done on a revised C.O.D basis. In other words DO NOT PAY ME UNTIL YOU HAVE WHAT YOU COMMISSIONED ME FOR. I do not want you to click 'send' on your Paypal until you have the drawing on your busily whirring little computer. I have all the recall of a stunned goldfish and absolutely no facility with bookkeeping. This spares everyone the headache involved in the possibility of payments being made for commissions that are then forgotten.

RULE NUMBER TWO: Be specific, but not too specific. Tell me what the subject(s) in the drawing look like, what's being worn, what they're doing, what the background is, if any, what the lighting would be, etc. HOWEVER. Please don't tell me the life story of the individual(s) I'm meant to draw. Knowing that So-and-so has a scar across the left side of his face from a sword wound is great. Knowing that he has a scar across the left side of his face from a sword wound received in a duel to the death on a moonlit roof against his arch-enemy who later turned out to be his half-brother, a fact he didn't know until after he killed the poor bastard and his fiancee ran onto the field of battle to tell him this only to get accidentally stabbed and utter these words with her last dying breath is too much.

RULE NUMBER THREE: Sorry, no genitalia--human, anthro, monster, or otherwise. The furthest I go is some kinds of 'classical nude' or '40's era pinup.' I maintain that what one doesn't see is sexier than what one does see. COROLLARY: I do not believe in Rule 34. I do not believe in 'OTP's, 'OT3's, 'OT-everything-including-the-llama,'s what have you (The exception I will make is for roleplayers, whose characters are shown to have established said relationship in-game). It may sound elitist, but there it is. I reserve the right to refuse what subject matter I choose, just as others refuse the right to refuse, for example, monsters, animals, machinery, or anything that isn't anime.

NOTICE: Due to my financial situation and the precendent of individuals managing these kinds of things on such sites as eBay and Etsy, I have lifted my self-imposed restriction on charging for the rendering of copyrighted material. There are still, however, things I cannot, in good conscience, charge for rendering, and those are properties against whose fanartists the creators have signed injuntions/cease and desist orders, or have threatened to do so. That list includes:

Simpsons/Futurama/Matt Groening
Elfquest/Pinis
Anne Rice
Pernverse/Ann McCaffrey
Disney

...and probably others once I find the updated list. Therefore these fandoms are off my commission list at the moment.

PAYMENT: Paypal is the preferred medium of payment, though arrangements can be made for alternate methods.

COLOUR ICON: $10
(100x100, drawn, inked, layer-coloured)

PENCIL CHARACTER RENDERING: $10
(variable size, grayscale w/texture and shading)

PENCIL SCENE RENDERING: $20
(variable size, grayscale w/texture and shading, background, action, etc)

COLOUR CHARACTER RENDERING: $20
(variable size, drawn, inked, layer-coloured)

COLOUR SCENE RENDERING: $30
(variable size, drawn, inked, layer-coloured, background, action, etc)

Prices are negotiable if one wants, say, a portrait (static character against a background) or a 'cel' (action with no background).

Examples can be found here: http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/yumegari/
and here: http://yumegari.deviantart.com

(x-posted to yumegari memrylikeasieve dmooc love_crafting

Been internetless for a couple weeks, now. Just in case anyone was wondering where I went. Just sans internet. Erh. Again. Yes, this is the second time. *sigh* Money, money money money. Should be resolved at the beginning of next month. Such a simple thing to keep up with and I've fumbled it again. o.O

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first xx songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses the titles and artists correctly and put the name of the song/who sings it and the username of the person who guessed it at the end of the lyric.
Step 4: Looking them up on google or any other search engine is really not very nice.

I sat and hit that button over and over and OVER for ages, because I have so many instrumentals.... o.O

1) Blowin bubbles outta the window / chewin bubble gum and blowin big bubbles / gettin gettin ridda ridda alla my troubles / watchin the tadpole glubba glubba in the puddles...

2) I don't care aboutcher kharma / I don't care about what's hip / no space cadet's gonna tell me what to do!

3) An old man turned ninety-eight. / He won the lottery and died the next day.

4) May it be an evening star shines down upon you / may it be when darkness falls your heart will be true

5) You and me, we used to be together / every day together, always....

6) Did you ever think of me as your best friend? / Did I ever think of you? I'm not complaining....

7) I'll tellya a story believe me it's true / I tellya best hope never happens ta you....

8) I said let's talk about it / as she walked out on me and slammed the door.

9) Put on your red shoes and dance the blues....

10) I used to think maybe you loved me, now, baby, I'm sure.

11) Go berserk / let it work / now go do the right thing....

12) Everywhere I go I see your face / every sound I hear / is the sound of your voice. / Why are you haunting me?

13) Doctor, every night I have the strangest dreams....

14) I'm not right I'm not fine / I wanna be rain that tastes like wine...

15) Oh, Miss Elphaba, the things one hears these days! Dreadful things! I've heard of an ox / a professor from Quox / no longer permitted to teach....

16) Hey, everyone / listen up / your attention, if you please....

17) Alms! Alms! / For a miserable woman ...

18) Everything's so blurry and everyone's so fake / And everyone's so empty and everything thin is so messed up....

19) One day, while talking to Doctor Archibald, Larry confronts one of his deepest fears: If my lips ever left my mouth / packed a bag and headed south / that'd be too bad

20) Jesse is a friend / yeah, always been a good friend of mine....

I think I met a dreamwalker early this morning, so I mentioned the encounter on IRC.

YumeThingee: We talked about... how there's more than one way to get things from dreams to reality and vice versa and how things will sometimes follow you or that you won't know you put them in one place only to find them in the other.

YumeThingee: This, of course, was amidst almost Delerium-like patter about anything and everything else.

YumeThingee: We were... I think... on a stairway going down. There were other people but we ignored them and they ignored us apart from one woman who this person tried to talk to, but she reacted rather violently to him. I intervened and he ended up almost clinging to me.

* Matt stretches

YumeThingee: The conversation went a few other places and for some odd reason I saw screens announcing bus departures. I thought I saw a bus departure for Carcosa and was terribly confused but he told me that wasn't possible. "If that were so, the universe would turn to crystal and shatter."

@Terana: How many steps? >_>

YumeThingee: A lot. A lot, a lot. I didn't count them.

YumeThingee: Could have been seven thousand. If so, we didn't reach the bottom.

@Terana: Darn.

YumeThingee: I know.

@Terana: They need to install an escalator.

YumeThingee: XDXD

YumeThingee: I thnk the only reason we didn't reach the end of the stairs is because my phone rang. And this time I didn't sleep through it. ;o;

YumeThingee: Seven Thousand Steps Of Deeper Slumber my ass.

@Terana: ;_;

@Terana: X3

Matt: XD

YumeThingee: What was really interesting is that he looked rather like Some. He had a big poof of spiky black hair (only it was just one colour) and big big eyes that were all black. He was thin as a rail and wore layers of dark clothing.

[He was short and a bit fluttery. That and an impression I got when he touched me pretty much convinced me he was not Dream, depsite the hair and the eyes and the pallor. Far too... solid. Mortal. Definitely a dreamwalker.]

YumeThingee: His voice, though, never stayed the same.

@Terana: Was he wearing a very nice hat? If so, you might want to worry.

YumeThingee: No hat.

@Terana: Whew.

YumeThingee: So I doubt it was Nyarly.

YumeThingee: I was... wearing yellow, though.

Matt: XD

@Terana: Snrk.

YumeThingee: IMAGINE THAT.

@Terana: We'll still love you if you become an unknowable eldritch being or go gibberingly mad, Yume!

YumeThingee: He didn't seem to mind until I mentioned Carcosa.

YumeThingee: awh, thanks.

YumeThingee: When I did mention it, he got even clingier and started patting me a lot, all comfortingly as though wanting me to stay put.

YumeThingee: Don't take the dream-bus to Carcosa.

YumeThingee: I dunno.

@Terana: Noted.

YumeThingee: *nods*

takhys: Were there invisible cows? http://lh3.ggpht.com/abramsv/SA1CdSdowZI/AAAAAAAAPAM/_nsv94YasbA/19785068_04f07e241e_o.jpg?imgmax=512

YumeThingee: erm, no.

YumeThingee: But there were a lot of buses outside.

YumeThingee: I think the Dreamlands has a bus station now.

YumeThingee: Or ... there's a bus that goes to it, or....

Matt: XD

YumeThingee: ...

YumeThingee: . . .

YumeThingee: I should write this.

Zo. The idea popped into my head of a giant ethereal bus station with all manner of buses that would take one to all manner of dream-locations. Perhaps it would have an escalator instead of the seven thousand steps. (And I imagine Nasht and Kaman-Thah at a desk on a landing before you get to said escalator. Still solemn and inscrutable. The more things change...)

I doubt the buses would fly or anything ridiculous like that, though they'd likely pass through things like the Knight Bus. Rather, if one's destination is another world/planet/whathaveyou, they'd drive into a tunnel and then come out the other side on said world/planet/etc. Said tunnel would probably be terribly disorientating for the passengers, but obviously not the driver.

The drivers themselves would likely never be recognisable. Sort of that dream phenomenon wherein you either never see his/her face or you do and never remember it.

More later when I remember it or think of more ideas.

And so. New journal, new way of looking at things, maybe. The old online "me" just didn't seem to fit any more. We'll see what happens.

In the meantime, MEEHEEHEE, typewriter buttons! *points at 'em*

Recovered from old journal: Narcolepsy Rant

( It's about as smart as letting a narcoleptic drive you long-distance.... )

Recovered from old journal: Description of sleep study and brain MRI.

( two medical experiences )