So, uh... I haven't posted in this in over a year.

I'm still commenting places! Just... not actually posting in my journal, despite decided in one of my last posts that... I would post in my journal more! I know, I'm awful, and no one reads this so I'm basically talking to myself.

Anyways, just thought I'd include an update just... because! School is going fairly well... I'm not doing so hot in one of my classes, unfortunately, and I have some work I really need to get done, but other than that, it's great. I love most of my teachers.

Still don't have a job... thank my parents I can afford to live here at college. I need to consider getting a job at some point.

I haven't been able to do much roleplaying at all lately. Various things popped up, the forums I could RP on have been gone for a while... it really sucks, honestly, but what can you do? (Besides making my own, of course, but while I do have a project like that in the works, I can't possibly do it on my own, so it's just gathering dust.)

I did create some new races for writing and roleplaying purposes, lately! I'm diverging away from my normal habits of them being really humanoid for the most part, or extremely based on mythical creatures. (Though, as usual, they tend to be heavily magical. One of the races, though, can be magical OR non-magical without losing much, so, take that as you will.)

The first of these two races is the Dravari. They're... hmm, I need to learn to describe things more clearly sometimes. They're semi-bipedal desert-dwellers. The easiest way to imagine them is to take a lizard as a base. They've got this light-tan pebbled skin, and very long and thin bodies... fingers, arms, legs, tail, etc. They've also got a large frill that, by default, is kept back against their heads, but they can expand outwards in something like a mane around their faces... if you've seen some lizards, you know what I'm talking about. They use that to radiate away heat for body temperature maintenance. They've also got two extra eyelids. One is completely transparent and serves mainly to keep sand out of the eyes, and another is tinted so as to let them see better in the bright light of the sun (and reflected light off of the sand). Lastly, the tip of their tongue tip is hardened and there's a tube running through their tongue almost like a straw. (They use this to extract water from cacti.) And of course they have claws and teeth to protect themselves. (Skilled Dravari can use their tail very effectively as well by whipping it around.) And yes, they reproduce by laying eggs.

They've got a very honor-related culture. Their main law is to always keep your word if you give it. So they're primarily traders of services and goods. (Though they don't really use money! They don't like it because it's something you give in place of giving someone something precious to you, like your time or one of your possessions. They view it as holding no real value.) They're also very good at metalworking and glass-making, because of how well they withstand heat. They tend to live in either small nomadic groups of around 20-30 Dravari or larger cities made out of baked brick or sandstone. Because of their honor-based culture, the government is largely made of those that volunteer for a position as leader; to break your word is unthinkable for a Dravari, so they are bound by their oaths when they enter office. (When a leader, or ANYONE for that matter, breaks one of their oaths, well... it isn't pretty. Dravari that are discovered breaking their word tend not to survive the day.)

If you want them to be non-magical, you can leave them at that; if you want them to be magical, they have the power to turn into sand and back again. This has a drawback in that if their sand touches water, they say goodbye to that part of their body. There's even an allergic reaction of sorts if their skin touches water; they instinctively turn into sand, which then gets wet... yeah, it's bad, and the usual method of execution when they have this power.


The second race I haven't actually named yet. Instead of being desert-dwellers, they're deep-ocean dwellers. They have smooth dolphin-esque skin, with lines of bio-luminescence running across their skin. This bio-luminescence actually changes color based on their emotions. The lower half of their body is actually much like a jellyfish, with a large hemisphere with tendrils trailing out from the edges of the hemisphere. They move like jellyfish or squid, by sucking water into that area and compressing it out to propel themselves forward. The top half of their body has four tentacles coming out on each side of a cylindrical body with a large spherical eye on top, providing an ability to see in almost all directions. The tips of the tentacles are actually where their mouths are; inside those tentacles is their throats.

They communicate entirely visually, through patterns of bio-luminescence; they have fine control over which parts of their body light up and which do not. They even have enough control so as to determine the color of the patterns, much like if a person was to fake being happy so well that everyone around them was fooled. This serves a dual-purpose; they can hide their emotions when necessary if they really need to, and the same 'word' or pattern with different emotions can have a largely-different meaning, expanding their language greatly. Another thing that changes the meaning of the 'word' slightly is the brightness of the pattern, as they can shine brightly enough to light up a small chamber by themselves, or barely bright enough to be seen.

Culturally, I don't have them defined yet. I do know that they possess magic allowing them to manipulate water temperatures, which they use to transport lava from the volcanic vents they live near in order to make structures out of pillow lava. This has the result of making their cities seem carved entirely out of a single piece of rock. They can dye or stain rock in such a way that it doesn't wear off despite being underwater. This allows them to use stone as writing materials, altering temperatures in order to reshape the stone's surface, and using dyes to give emotion to the recorded 'words'.

If someone actually sees this and feels like responding to this question... anyone have any idea what I could name this second race?

Well, having only gotten one response on my last post, I suppose I have to go with that. And also go off the assumption that only one person even reads this anymore (Thank you Skeller! You're awesome!). I am a lonely person apparently.

So, the decision reached is that it'd be a combination of all of the options. Ok then.

Well, there will then be three types of tags.

personal, which will be me talking about online stuff or real life stuff.

dreams. This one is self evident.

Then there's the third type... the journals. Because I've so many characters, in order to organize things, I'm going to have two tags with each character journal entry. The name of the character is one. What type they are is the other.

For versions that come from my own stories, they will be given a tag of '______ canon'. For example, versions of Xero, Prythian, and Wraith all are part of the world of Druthisrael, so they would get the tag of 'druthisrael canon'. The Immortal and the Wave/Surge/Inertia trio, on the other hand, hail from my superhero verse, and since it's nameless, they would get 'superhero canon'.

On the other hand, a lot of my characters are roleplayed on forums, and these are usually fandom based forums, so I'll set those apart with '______ fandom'. You'll usually see 'kingdom hearts fandom', for example, because that's where I have a lot of my characters.

In the rare case that I'm doing a journal for a character on an original forum, I'll simply make a tag ' fandom'. Just to confuse people. At least, confuse those who don't realize I'm only using canon to refer to my own original things, and fandom to refer to stuff not my own.

Likely tonight or tomorrow I'll be making two posts, one a character journal, and one a personal post. In fact, I may type it up right after this post. Only reason I'm not including them is because I like to keep things semi-organized.

Prythian out!

In college.

Just finished moving in. Classes start Wednesday.

I go insane Thursday.

Just thought I should let you all know.

You know what?

Screw this.

Ok, let's try changing the purpose of this journal again so I actually, you know, post more in it.

As some of you may or may not be aware, I aspire to be a fiction writer, specifically a fantasy one. To those ends, and also because it's damn fun, I've been creating an entire fictional world inside my head.

However, it's pretty much impossible for me to KEEP it all in my head. Consciously, at least. So I'm going to start using this journal to store information about it.

I'm encouraging ALL of you to help me by posting up comments on the posts with world info for clarification, or if you see something that you think might need changing, and I'm also practically begging for all of you to ask questions for the next post, as it really helps me formulate my answer properly in my head.

I'm hoping all of you reading this are willing to help in that small bit. ^^

Next post planned: Very basic information on the world. Like, skeletal information.

Quick edit: I would like people to please comment on this post if they want me to do this, just so I know there's a least some interest in it. I'll still use this as a database, but it's nice to know people are interested in your creations.

I haven't gotten much use out of this journal lately.

SO! FOR ONE WEEK I WILL ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ASKED OF ME IN THE COMMENTS.

Yyyyup. That's pretty much all I can come up with.

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I'm so boring. ;-;

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...

Tcarah's Questions:
- i don't know much about you you know that so how about got any siblings?
Yes, I have two sisters. One is my twin sister (fraternal) and one is older than me by two-three years.

-what character are you having the most fun rping now?
I'd have to say Prythian. XD That doesn't really narrow it down, since I've had like a dozen charries named that. I like the name. Anyways, this particular Prythian is on my forum. www.s1.zetaboards.com/Act_Of_The_Pact. It's a fantasy forum I'm running with a site-wide plot. (Shameless plug) Of course, he has to be my favorite, since he's the only character I have right now... XD

-can fly only when it rains or can turn invisible when no one is looking; which would you pick?
Fly when it rains. Turning invisible when no one is looking would be nigh useless, and flying has always been something I wanna do.

-can you do the robot?
No. I can't dance. D:

-speak any other languages? which ones would you like to speak?
I'm learning to speak spanish in school, but I don't speak it very well. I'd like to learn to speak Japanese... and not just fan-japanese that otakus and fangirls do; actual Japanese.


Questions from Roren: (Cause I totally got two people to interview me :D)
1. Would you rather have super intelligence or super stregnth?
Probably super intelligence. With that, I might be able to figure out how to get super strength and all that. XD Yay loopholes!

2. What aircraft would you pilot if you knew how to fly it?
I have no idea. Jet plane? Helicopter? Blimp?

...Blimp. :O Totally a blimp.

3. What were the ealiest comic books you remember reading?
Nnnnnnnn I didn't read many comic books... not in the strict sense of the word. Most comic books I read were books with collections of newspaper comics... and I'd have to say Garfield in that case.

4. Whats your favorite thing to do when you are alone in the house?
Get on the computer or play video games. x3 Pretty much what I like to do when I'm not alone in the house.

5. Dogs or cats?
Cats. :D

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There are no words to fully describe this. Please. I ask you to read this.

Back from the family reunion!

D'awwwwwww little kids. :D

Just how many people are actually paying any attention to this journal? I wanna know.