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zillah-nightshade
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[2010-03-18 22:34:55 +0000 UTC]
"Daciana"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 72; Deviations: 23; Watchers: 10
Watching: 33; Pageviews: 6455; Comments Made: 230; Friends: 33
# Interests
Favorite movies: I don't really know. Sorry.Favorite bands / musical artists: I love All Time Low and Within Temptation, a bunch of others that really don't match.
Favorite writers: Jack London <3 or Charlotte Bronte, or maybe Suzanne Collins
Favorite games: Dreams Have Died; my beloved role-play
Favorite gaming platform: My desk!
Tools of the Trade: Paint.NET
Other Interests: Reading, writing, art of any kind, music
# About me
There's nothing much to say. I'm a writer... I'm fascinated with the supernatural world and with images that evoke fantasy... hehm... oh, and I love to role-play!Favourite genre of music: I listen to all sorts of stuff, usually in the realm of rock or punk.
Favourite photographer: SaturdayX <3 Alex Evans for the win!
Favourite style of art: Digital, drawings, or paintings
Operating System: Dell
MP3 player of choice: iPod Nano
# Comments
Comments: 83
Hi there, I'm curious, are you still taking Proboards Skin requests?
Your skins are very good. :3
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Thank you so much!
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Hi zillah-nightshade!
I requested a skin from you some time ago, and I received your PM about it, and thanks, but I don't need that skin anymore, sorry. BUT, I wanted to see if I could request another skin... I just wanted to know if you would be so willing as to make an anime-themed skin for me? I know you're used to creating real-life forum skins, so it's no problem if you can't do this for me; like I said, I was just wondering. The thing is, I need it as soon as possible for the forum that I just opened. Anywho, I'm just gonna post the form for requesting this skin anyway in case you decide to take up the challenge!
Basic color scheme - black, grey, any dark colors (I REALLY LOVE this skin, and I want something pretty much just like it: [link] I love all of the colors and just the look goes so well with my site! So if you could whip something up that's really close to it, it would be much appreciated!)
Site theme/plot- A non-canon, yaoi Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) RPG. Demons are roaming the world and harvesting young boys' souls and corrupting them in the process. Angels have been sent to put an end to the Demons, and the Grim Reapers are also out to get the Demons since they are unable to gather the synematic records of the people who's souls have been contracted with a Demon.
Site name- In Our Darkest Hour
Site URL- [link]
Skin class - dark
Generic theme - a dark, sort of depressing (the skin I have now is a bit too light for my taste xP), and moderately Victorian/Vintage (since the roleplay is set in the Victorian Era)
People or pictures - preferably pictures of any anime that seems like it would match with the skin and the time period or plot. Zerochan.net is the best source for these kinds of pictures
Any images you would like me to use? - Like I said, just any pictures (must be anime) that fit with the skin, plot, and/or Victorian Era time period. Please don't use any pictures of the main characters from Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler)- the anime my site is based off of- because it is a non-canon site, and I don't want to confuse people xD
Any additional codes you would like me to add/special requests?- I love everything that is portrayed on the site I gave you, so any/all of those codes are welcomed and appreciated! I also like the action where you hover over a staff member's name and their picture comes up, and it is different for each staff member; I don't think the site I listed has that O.o but it would be a nice touch I think xD
Any codes you do not want used?- nope, I like most everything
Any things you like/do not like when it comes to skins?- I like when there is an image/part of an image behind the text & cbox on the sidebars- the site I posted has the perfect example in their side tables.
Thanks so much for your time! And please feel free to PM me when you get this telling me whether you are up for it or not!
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Sorry, I haven't been checking my dA much lately, but I'm back now! Still need it?(: (I feel like I've had to ask you that so much, hahahah)
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To everyone who's tried to PM me lately:
I'm EXTREMELY sorry but my PM system isn't working. I can't even read the PMs that have been sent to me. I don't know why this is. I just want to make sure that I'm not offending anyone by neglecting my PMs; there's nothing I can do.
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To everyone who's tried to PM me lately:
I'm EXTREMELY sorry but my PM system isn't working. I can't even read the PMs that have been sent to me. I don't know why this is. I just want to make sure that I'm not offending anyone by neglecting my PMs; there's nothing I can do.
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To everyone who's tried to PM me lately:
I'm EXTREMELY sorry but my PM system isn't working. I can't even read the PMs that have been sent to me. I don't know why this is. I just want to make sure that I'm not offending anyone by neglecting my PMs; there's nothing I can do.
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Hey hun, I'm not sure why nobody got notice of the 'Announcement' that I posted for the Firefly group but if you head over to the admin area you should see it listed...check it out when you have some time
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Oh yeah, sorry about that... I've had a really busy week and I just managed to get on for the first time.
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Thanks so much for the recent 
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Welcome 
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Hey dear ,
i thank you so much for joining
JN // AMAZING MOMENT ' Z
Its a Honor to welcome you
I wish you an amazing weekend <3
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Aw, thank you!
I hope I submitted right, I wasn't really sure which gallery folder my art belonged in...
You have a great weekend too!
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I thank you my dear <3
oh thats no problem ^^ ill correct if you do it wrond dont worry 
Its really cute of you .. thank youuuu .. i wouldnt be as great as it is without members like you
thxx <3
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Welcome 
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llama 4 llama ? here's yours:
…And if you're interested in getting a lot more llamas check this out [link]
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Gave you yours too!
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You're welcome. ^^ I love Serenity! And your pics are great.
I checked out your novel website; I've written a novel as well.
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wow! four partial requests is so good! what's your genre? i'm guessing fantasy... is it YA? have you heard of the upcoming WriteOnCon? who are your partials (and full) out with? (if that's not too nosy?) i love meeting other aspiring writers! have you joined the blogging community? i find it really unnerving, but it helps to make connections.
i sent out three queries forever ago (and made that little website). i thought my book was to the point where i was ready, but as i've learned more (which wasn't hard to do, i knew nothing!) i came to the understanding that i need some rewrites before i'll be ready to query again. so, that's where i am now. learning, rewriting, trying to do the blog thing, and hoping to come out of it with a better book!
tell me about your book! please!?!?
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Hah! Sure, lol...
Well, my genre is YA urban fantasy/paranormal romance. I haven't heard of WriteOnCon! What is it? I haven't sent out my partials and full yet, so I don't really feel comfortable telling you who they're for (if that's alright... I'll let you know once they're sent out). I do find the blogging community kind of unnerving; I used to blog some but I really don't anymore.
Yeah, I hate the rewriting phase... it's fine though, I had the same situation. I thought my book was ready, then I got requests for partials and such and I was like... oh dangeetz. I haz to rewrite. And so, now, I’m in that phase, though I hope to get some of my partials out tomorrow and the next day…
I swear that the conference I went to was like the best thing that ever happened to me... honestly, half the agents that requested my stuff, including the agent who requested the full, I wouldn't even have queried in the first place! I didn't know how much value there was in meeting someone in person... O_o I mean, if I'd sent my query to some of those agents, they probably wouldn't even have read it; they'd have dismissed it as spam... it's kind of funny, really!
I'm getting ready to go to bed, so I'll fill you in about the story of my book later... what about your book?! Tell mehhh!
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did you get any of them out?
i've never been to a conference. that's part of why i'm planning on checking out the writeoncon thing. i'm glad it worked out so well for you! i'm not very good at verbal communication, so the conference thing scares me (i stutter sometimes. it's annoying)but i'm starting to think that it might become a necessary evil someday. (if i could just get the darn writing up to par!)
can't wait to hear about your book! (esp. if your art is an indicator to style!)
here's sort of what my book is about... (i'm feeling lazy so i just cut and pasted from my blog! sorry! i had a LONG day at work today! so many dishes to wash so little time!) anyway...
The genre is YA paranormal, but as I work on my rewrites, I wonder if I'm going to boot it into YA Horror, not sure. A lot of the content I want to add would probably do that.
The story is about sixteen-year-old Haley Martin who moves to the tiny town of Linney, KS. Haley and her sister find journals hidden in their new house that were written in the late 1800's by a woman referred to as The Linney Witch. Shortly after, Haley discovers a homeless boy named Beau sleeping in her shed.
Beau tells her of a secret society founded by the Linney Witch. Beau witnessed the ritualistic murder of his sister and father by the society, and his mother The Mayor is their leader, and now they're after him!
Beau introduces Haley to the scraggly remnant that has fought them for generations, and together they search for evidence to build a criminal case against the society. In their search for evidence ghost stories and folktales become truth, cloaked sociopaths stalk them by night, and two ghosts strive to guide Haley on her quest.
and this is why i SUCK at query writing! lol.
ok, your turn!
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Haven't gotten any of them out yet... >.< The conference I went to was actually really helpful though, and I plan to go next year for sure... also, have you heard of NaNoWriMo?
Okay, well, my book is Ya paranormal romance/urban fantasy and it tells the story of Daciana Thorvald, a werewolf with a conscience who's constantly trying to atone for all the regrets of her past. One day, an old friend comes knocking on the door saying that her husband's disappeared, and Daciana agrees to help her - and does - but at a terrible price. A chain of events ensues that seem random to Daciana at the time, but are actually all linked and connected to a single event in her past that she'd all but forgotten. It's like the vampires and werewolves of Twilight meet the inner turmoil and forbidden love of Blood and Chocolate.
(That was basically the pitch I gave at the conference, lol)
I strongly dislike revisions... I've spent like, the entire past week revising my chapter one. >.< Evil.
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i've just heard a bit about it. doesn't it force you to write a whole bunch superfast?
sounds interesting! i love werewolves (vampires not so much- but that's because blood gives me the heebie jeebies!) never heard of blood and chocolate.
sounds like a good pitch! i thought it was a no-no to compare ot other books though. must of been wrong, because it seems to be working for you!
how long until you need to send out the partials? yeah, my revisions are going so slow. i rewrite, then decide that i liked the other version better, then hybrid it, then... well indecision- that's my problem. evil is right!
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Yeah, NaNoWriMo is a competition to write 50,000 words in a month.
Thanks for the interest!
A few good examples the agents gave - "Jane Austen meets zombies." "Gone With the Wind meets Terminator." That type of thing... successful works or concepts together... yeah.
I need to send out the partials pretty soon, but I'm making revisions and I can't really decide which way I like it. >.< I do basically the same thing. It's an evil, EVIL process.
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hmmm... i think i could do that... the problem would end up being the quality of those words!
so funny, i just read in an agent profile that she actually WANTS the queriers to tell her what books their work is similar too. jiminey christmas! i'm out of luck! it feels kinda presumptious to claim my work is similar to anything published, you know. but i understand their desire to see some semblance of high concept. it is their job to sell it after all.
man, i really am going to need to work on that...
rewrites! grr! but i got two chapts done today! now, i'm going to go read! i just started The Mortal Instruments series, and i got book 2 today! read through the first one in like three days and i'm a dreadfully slow reader! have you ever read them?
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Yeah... I actually found when doing NaNoWriMo that my writing was much better for doing it in such a condensed way!
Comparing your novel to other works can be kind of hard, since we spend so much time trying to make them unique... >.<
Yeah, I'm STILL editing my partial. I haven't read The Mortal Instruments series, but I've always wanted to/intended to... I'll have to get around to it. Are they good?
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hmmm... when does nanawrimo run?
so true. maybe i'll ask my critique partner. she might be far enough away from it to see a similarity to something else... plus she's better read.
eek! are you still editing now?!?!
OH MAN!! You HAVE to read The Mortal Instruments series!!! They're so addictive! Page turning YA fantasy at it's best! I'm halfway through the second one! and i want to get offline NOW so I can go READ!!!! def worth the time!
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November.
I just finished my first 50 pages and I'm sending them off today, but now I have to go through the whole rest of my manuscript before sending it off for the manuscript request...
Hah, okay, I'll defs check those out! I've been intending to read them for a while now...
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i'll have to think about nanowrimo... it might be worth a shot.
Yeah! partials out! come on full! you can do it!
Oh man! I'm almost done with City of Ashes! Eek! Not enough hours in the day!
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Hah, thanks
And NaNo is DEFINITELY worth it.
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i do have some ideas that could use a little motivation to get started on... nano could help with that.
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Yeah, it definitely could
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Stupid manuscript... stupid editing... stupid STUPIDNESS.
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i hear you! hang in there! not everyone gets full requests, take advantage of it. you can do it!
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anytime! (giving encouragement is my FAVORITE hobby!)
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Haha...
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