“Welcome Scapula”

It’s been a month now, and there are no signs of winding down.  Instead of “welcome back”, I choose to use “welcome scapula” (no matter how much Majordomo complains about the anatomical location of human scapulae) to greet returning artists to the TLKFAA Sketcher.  It’s far too late to stop me now!  Muahaha!

(This began when BooYeh and I were “trying to remember” the correct phrase in March, substituting various nouns until we reached “scapula”.  Like zombie Sketcher layers, I will not let go of this, because I am incredibly stubborn and annoying and don’t like change.  I am set in my ways and there is no going back now!)

Nightmare

So, I just had a really bizarre nightmare.  It comes from going into REM sleep in the middle of the day when I shouldn’t be sleeping (bad dreams abound), and also probably from the fact that I read a scary book before doing it and watched “The Silence of the Lambs” for the first time last night.

Why do I want to post it here?  Because it was about TLKFAA, which indicates how much this site has swept into my life.  I’m not going to get too detailed, because it was so freaky weird and disturbing, and I don’t want to mess with anyone else’s head.  There was drama (I can’t remember what the drama was) and suddenly TLKFAA artists started disappearing.  And when I say disappear, I mean that they were murdered.  There were death threats out on the archive, and I was attacked at my college dorm at one point.  Apparently I was blamed for saying something at one point, and was a main target.  Brian basically shut down the Archive entirely, leaving just an operating shell (where for some bizarre reason pictures of 101 Dalmatians fanart could still be posted – now that IS a nightmare of offtopicness) and no TLK artwork could be uploaded.  He also posted a very strong message to the murdering faction.

Members of my family were kidnapped by the people trying to get to me, and fanartists were still being killed (not going to tell you who they were in my dream, but yes, artists I knew).  My family hired a lawyer to draw up a statement for me, not sure what about, but some kind of legally binding document that said I would not draw fanart again and then hopefully the kidnappers would return the people they took unharmed, and that I apologize for somehow initiating this cycle of murders targeting the TLKFAA community. The dream ended when I read over the document and was not sure of whether to sign it or not, because my family had left me alone to read it and I had no one to talk to, and I really did not want to see anyone hurt but I also loved TLKFAA.  I got mad because I was an artist who actually cared about this community and I did not know why anyone would target people to kill through it; I wanted to do something besides helplessly sign the statement, and that’s where logic broke through. I realized it was a dream, and I woke up.

So I guess that’s one of the perils of being a Lion King fanartist…it seeps into your nightmares, just like every other aspect of your life does. I warn you now: NEVER combine scary books and a horror movie you’ve never watched before with a nap in the middle of the day that goes too long, especially during any time where there’s been recent drama on the Archive.  IT WILL MESS WITH YOUR HEAD.  I’m still freaked out…

Fun Fail

Yeah, I didn’t do anything for April Fool’s Day this year. -_-  I’m lame.  And this post is even lamer.
If you want to see the fun that was had last year on TLKFAA, when I was not lame:

The Prank: http://fanart.lionking.org/piccomments.cgi?Koraden+GoodbyeForNow.jpg

The Reveal: http://fanart.lionking.org/piccomments.cgi?Koraden+AprilFools.jpg

I Can Has Presence?

Happy Birthday to my new blog, “Confessions of a Lion King Fanartist,” from this day forward affectionately known as “Coalf” (which sounds like some adorable combination of a calf and a foal…might have to draw that sometime.  In fact, I think I will have to personify Coalf as some African calf/foal so I can upload it to TLKFAA…now on my to-do list).

“Coalf” is pronounced like “Coal” with an F sound at the end, similar to “golf”, I guess.  But with a C.  And an A.  Who teamed up and cornered the G in some dark alley and “persuaded” it that its position in the word was misguided and letting the C and A take over that duty would certainly be in its best interest.  Coalf is therefore golf+mobsters, which sounds like a bizarre yet oddly appealing mixture, just like calf+foal.

So anyway, Coalf is here because I am a person who draws Lion King fanart (as is obvious), and because I am a person who writes (I’m a Creative Writing major).  And I wanted to have a cyber-presence in the blogosphere…we’ll see how long this project lasts, and if Coalf will ever make it out of infancy.  Right now I’m very happy with my new pet, and am looking forward to blogging merrily away in the future. =)