1). So on a fangirlish whim, late last night, I pulled out my trusty kanji dictionary and attacked one of my Gensou Suikoden doujinshi with it. I decided to start with the title 'Gensou Suikoden', which I already knew meant something along the lines of 'Tales of the Water Margin'. So I looked up that particular 'gen' kanji.
And, of course, right there in the entry for 'gen' there is 'gensou': 'fantasy, illusion'. Well, Tales of the Water Margin, I thought. That's about right.
And then I laughed myself sick.
2). A quick quiz to determine if you can still be saved from the poison of fangirlism:
However, if after you do that you go on to gleefully force the poor model maker to create lifelike representations of RPG characters in their underwear (say, for example, Miklotov from Suikoden II), you are indeed a dork.
And should you then go on to open up Painter and do something like this, you are a sad, sad little fangirl and your situation is hopeless.
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And, of course, not an hour later I notice that I completely ignored the existing light source and shaded from the wrong side.
Oh well. I suck. But it's funny! Funny, I tell you!
Posted by Mooncalf @ 09/27/2002 03:20 AM EST
Do Camus! Do Camus!!! And then have Mik do C-- *slaps self*
Posted by Meriko @ 09/27/2002 10:43 AM EST
That is some damn skilled adding-of-clothes with paint though. For an extremely fangirlish thing of course.
Posted by Bloody Ink Pen! @ 09/27/2002 01:20 PM EST
I'm considering using it to make the characters from the story I'm trying to write, but I can't figure out how to get more clothes... It's fun and all, but it isn't too useful if you only have five different tops and bottoms to try on. And if I can't play with the contours of the face, then it just won't look like me!
Posted by Kara Jade @ 09/27/2002 07:16 PM EST
Yeah, its main purpose is to sell you fashionable clothes and stuff, not to look precisely like you. Or, really, like anyone. It's neat, though, and according to the person who introduced me to it (thanks Whit!) they're always refining and updating the system to make it better.
Also, I, um, appear to be in severe violation of their ToS for modifying the picture and posting it on my blog. Um. I think I'll stop playing with the model maker and hope they don't notice this one... cough... anyway, if you're going to use any of their stuff publicly, be sure and read their ToS first. The way that, you know, I didn't...
Posted by Mooncalf @ 09/27/2002 07:29 PM EST
If you go to the 'go shopping' bit of the site, it'll offer you many links of places with many more clothes. Put Lane Bryant clothes on! Land's End! Wedding dresses! ....I like playing dressup with dolls.
Posted by Whitney @ 09/27/2002 11:15 PM EST
i am like sleepy right now so sorry in advance if i am being a dork mentioning this :P
Gensou is not part of the original title "Tales of the Water Margin" . The Gensou was added by Konami , the original title of the hcinese novel is just "Sui-ko-den" , "den" = tales , "sui" = water. "ko" i'm not sure what it means but i've seen it translated as "marsh/swamp"
since Konami's suikoden iso nly loosly based on the original suikoden , it makes sense to add the Gensou ( like how Saiyuuki became Gensoumaden "illusionary magic world" Saiyuuki under Kazuya Minekura )
hope this has been informative !
Posted by Laine @ 09/28/2002 01:08 AM EST
he he he.. rockin'. Great job with the clothes. They look really good!
Posted by Sheerlyevil @ 09/29/2002 03:16 PM EST
