Sara

[color=#db2007]These are actually great. I love the gritty feel you get from MSpaint. You really took that and ran with it, which is fantastic. I would lose the text on your avatar though?after all, the top of your post already has your name in it, so it seems redundant. It's also hard to read, and I think it takes away from the image you've got. If you want to keep the text on the banner, I would make it either a lighter grey or a darker grey than the spray can stuff around it. It blends in and looks like an accident. You can make it a different color and still have it be subtle. I like the first RP banner better. The off-kilter red splatter works really well, and I prefer the red/white text to the grey. I think you chose a great font for NIGHTMARE, and the Dreamscape font looks okay, too. I [i]am[/i] going to have to protest your use of Parchment, or Papyrus, or whatever the heck that other font is called, though. Couple reasons: You've already got two unique fonts going on. Having [i]three[/i] fonts in such a small space (where all of them are so different) seems disorganised. Also, I really hate Papyrus. It's the new Comic Sans. Steer clear of it. =p (Also, for the record, I like the tagline "nothing is real anymore" better than "Life's no longer real.") Two other thoughts: I'd get rid of the red splatter on "dreamscape." It's bright white?if it's going to pop, have it pop all the way. Also, I don't know what your RPG is about, but your banner indicates "slasher film," except for the little red tagline at the bottom, which indicates a sort of spooky, surreal vibe. If you want to balance those two things a bit more, I would change the Dreamscape font to something smaller and smoother, knock the word into lowercase letters, and do something like this: [center][b][font=courier][spoiler]... ..[color=white]d[/color] .[color=white] r[/color] .[color=white] e[/color] .[color=white] a[/color] .[color=white] m[/color] .[color=white] s[/color] .[color=white] c[/color] .[color=white] a[/color] .[color=white] p[/color] .[color=white] e[/color].....[/spoiler][/font][/b][/center] ...to contrast the splatters and NIGHTMARE text. 'Course I don't know if that's what you're going for. (Can everyone read that, by the way? It looks fine in my browser, but I feel like different ones handle spoiler tags differently...)[/color]

[quote name='The Boss'][color=darkred][size=1] God blessed us with our colorful language, haha.[/color][/size][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]I dunno. Most swears really aren't that colorful, just various permutations of a few stock words. Anything creative wouldn't be censored anyway.[/color]

[quote name='SaiyanPrincessX'][SIZE="1"]In my wallet I have my drivers lisence, a library card that is probebly expired...[/SIZE][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Really? Your library cards expire? All the ones I've seen are good forever.[/color]

[quote name='Shy'][size=1]I'm a college student and I wait tables for a living. Even if I wanted to do drugs I probably couldn't afford them. I'd much rather use that money on things like food and [b]spoiling my English Bulldog.[/b] -Shy[/size][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Who is adorable. By the way. But yeah, I simply have no interest in drugs. I occasionally get an espresso drink, but that's about it...[/color]

[quote name='John']Back-left pocket: Wallet, with cash, various assorted cards, and a Chinese fortune that says--and I am not making this up--"Ignore previous cookie."[/QUOTE][color=#db2007]HaHA! That's awesome. I actually have a bunch of fortune cookie slips in my wallet, as well. I always save them, and... forget about them. None of mine are that clever, though a few of them are winners at the "in bed" game.[/color]

[quote name='songsofsorrow']first a couple of rules no using drugs as anti-drugs[/QUOTE][quote name='The Boss'][color=darkred][size=1] Sex and Vodka do me just fine. Who needs drugs when you got that?[/color][/size][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]=p Anyway, it's been a long time since I've seen an "Antidrug" commercial. Is an "anti-drug" something that you do [i]instead[/i] of drugs, or is it a specific thing you do/person you know that is a reason that you don't do drug? Because those are slightly (sometimes significantly) different things.[/color]

[quote name='r2vq'][color=#007520] My [B]wallet [/B]with my [I]health card[/I], [I]library card [/I](now defunct), and [I]random bubble tea stamp cards[/I].[/color][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]There's this wonderful little place on campus where I frequently get bubble tea/smoothies. It took me years to actually fill up a card, though, because I kept losing track of them and starting over. So I've gotten [i]one[/i] free smoothie, and have three almost-filled cards (they always turn up later) in my wallet. Until I started carrying around this silly bag, I would keep my keys (on a lanyard, hooked through a belt loop and sitting in my pocket) and my wallet-on-a-string (also hooked through a belt loop and sitting in a pocket) with me. The wallet-on-a-string is so mind-bogglingly useful. I can't tell you the number of times I've just dropped my wallet and let it hang from its string while I sort something else out. I guess it's like a purse. Except it fits in my back pocket, and I don't have to worry about setting it down somewhere and losing it.[/color]

[color=#db2007]I recently embarked on a photography project, so I've been trying to keep my camera with me at all times. Unfortunately, even though it's a little digital point-and-shoot, it doesn't usually fit in my pocket... So, for the first time in my life, I've started carrying around a... [i]purse[/i]. And I have to say that it is [i]the worst idea I've ever had[/i]. I mean, it's useful?or would be, if I could ever find anything that I put in it. I've got a small drawstring pouch (bigger than a grapefruit; smaller than a bowling ball) that I've been carrying around. I mean, it's [i]not big[/i]. And I only keep a few things in it?wallet, keys, camera, pocket sketchbook, pencil, and extra camera batteries. That's what, six things? And I [i]can never find what I want[/i]. The item I need invariably sinks to the bottom of the bag, eluding me. Three times out of five, I have to dump the whole thing out to even make sure that, [i]yes[/i], I did put it in there. It's frustrating. Anyway, here's the question: [b]what items do you have with you at all times?[/b] Be it a camera, a pocketknife, a purse (what's inside?), or a lucky penny. Do you use frequent-buyer punch cards for free stuff? Do you always have a tin of altoids on your person? You know, whatever.[/color]

[quote name='Semjaza']My favorite moment here was when I stopped being a category moderator. Not because I hate OB or hated it then or anything in that vein. It was just because being a mod on a fairly active site is a [I]pain in the ***.[/I] It took up a lot of time, you never knew what was going to happen, you got constant PMs about who knows what (usually bitchy ones), weird people IMed you out of nowhere and sucked up to you. It was extremely tiresome and, yeah, sometimes you'd get fed up with things and say things you'd probably not say otherwise. I know I'm guilty of it and I'm a pretty patient person otherwise. Afterwards, I think it puts you in a position where perhaps you appreciate the concept of a moderator more than you would have if you never were a mod. It also makes you appreciate being a normal member a Hell of a lot more. It's just a load off of your mind, I guess.[/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. That incident with the stolen phone was pretty funny.[/color]

[color=#db2007]Except for the dizzying camera work during the fights, the movie was really pretty. I loved that shot where two of the robots crashed through an office building, and you watched them go all the way through.[/color]

[quote name='Gavin'][SIZE="1"]I know, and it's really awful when you get that great smell early in the morning and can't stand the taste, I've tried a bucket of different types in different ways and like with you, they all taste awful. It's just God damn wrong to make something that smells so great taste so horrid.[/SIZE][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]QFT Chai tea is good. I make it in hot milk and add a bit of sugar and a bit of nutmeg or cinnamon, and it tastes just like pumpkin pie. You know, without the pumpkin.[/color]

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray]The buzzing grows louder, louder, shriller?a terrifying, metallic crescendo. Louder, higher, impossibly high?I keep waiting for it to break, for the sound to stop, but it doesn't. It doesn't stop. [i]It doesn't stop[/i]. I want to run, to scream, to cry, [i]anything[/i] to lessen the sound around me. Cory says something, but I can't hear him. [i]The buzzing pierces my ears?[/i] I follow his eyes. [i]A hundred giant wasps?[/i] He's looking outside. [i]A thousand electric drills?[/i] Our small town is in chaos. [i]A dozen chainsaws?[/i] There's a horrible knot in my stomach. Something brushes my shoulder. [i]...A lone, angry fly on a hot Sunday afternoon?[/i] Something inside me snaps. I whirl around, startled, almost mad. Cory jerks away, drawing his hand back. His lips move. I hear nothing. I scream, shove him away from me, and [i]run[/i]. Out of the shadowed pharmacy?an explosion of light as I burst into the street?I can hear again?cars swerve onto the sidewalks?a fire hydrant has been upended?water shoots forcefully into their air?it tumbles down from the sky?there is screeching?screaming?a woman?red, wet blood? For an instant, almost a whisper, I think I hear my name... I turn. [i]Impact[/i].[/color]

[color=#db2007]I think it's clear that the [i]real[/i] reason this thread is open is because I was the first person to respond, and no one can bear to close a thread that I have adopted. If there's any favoritism going on here, it's toward [i]me[/i].[/color]

[quote name='Nerdsy'][color=deeppink]Tea, Earl Grey. Hot.[/color][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Ah, Nerdsy. You never disappoint me.[/color]

[color=#db2007][center][b]Welcome to the cafe![/b] [URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6195/mojoes20outside20windowsz1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] (image is from [url=http://www.mojoesroscoe.com/]here[/url].)[/center] After a few comments in the "Who would you like to meet" thread, I thought I would make a post about tea. And coffee. And all that goes with them. [b]Tell me about your coffee-and-tea drinking habits![/b] Where do you go? What do you buy? What brands do you like? Is there a local cafe you frequent? Do you have a favorite mug, a preferred cream/sugar ratio, a secret recipe, a morning ritual? Do you eat cookies with your tea? Bread? Biscuits? Lately I've been drinking some tea that a dear friend gave me for my birthday. It has, no joke, Ms. Frizzle on the tin. (See attached image!) Anyway, it's delicious.[/color]

[quote name='DeadSeraphim'][SIZE="1"][FONT="Arial"][color=indigo]I'd meet Sara but be on my best behaviour[/color][/FONT][/SIZE][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Haha, you'd better be. And yes, Nerdsy. We definitely need to do that, as well.[/color]

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson]Josh- An old bud of mine, if I'm ever at AE or in Cali it would be fun to say what's up and scare him in person. It's weird to come to realize that I've known Mitch and Josh for like half a decade, lol.[/color][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Oh my word. That makes me feel [i]old[/i]. Shy and I go way back, so that's one. And me and [b]Nerdsy[/b] need to get together and watch [i]Labyrinth[/i] and slash or [i]The Princess Bride[/i] some time. Also, Aaryanna_Mom gets a big salute from me for becoming OB's mom. I feel like I played that part for a long time, and it's awesome to have someone else be the kind, responsible one. (Do you like tea? We could do tea some time!) I'd be pretty game for meeting most people who have been here for a while, actually. Not to set an arbitrary limit or anything, but there's no point in seeing someone offline if I have no idea who they are online. But there'd probably need to be some sort of movie night planned so it wouldn't just be people standing around awkwardly. You know?[/color]

[color=#db2007][b]Connection[/b]: This was shot in my backyard. [center][URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9391/multiplicityiu0.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Shot at 2007-07-01][/center] We built/dug/whatever that patio last summer, and my dad built the table I'm sitting/standing on.[/color]

[quote name='Desbreko'][color=#4B0082]Huzzah! Quick reply is back in working order, and is now also using AJAX to post the reply without having to reload the entire thread. And to go along with it, quick edit is also working now, which lets you edit posts without having to load any new pages. Now shower me with praise, for I am so great and stuff. :bow:[/color][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Consider yourself showered, Des. =][/color]

[quote name='James'][color=#606060]The main thing I'm happy about is that damn message receipt thing on PMs. I can't tell you how much that was bugging me for years, lol. I'm glad it's now gone. [/color][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]Oh my goodness, it's really and truly gone? I am so happy.[/color]

[quote name='Sojiro47'][font=book antiqua]Quick, what is it on a lap-top without a number pad???[/font][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]I don't have a clue, but I suppose you've always got the option of old-schooling with a double en dash, typewriter style. It's easy--see what I mean?[/color]

[color=#db2007]Actually, I apologise. My post was meant to be lighthearted, but I can see how someone might be hurt or offended by it. This forum exists so people can ask questions, and they ought to be able to do so without fear or ridicule. My apologies to Saikoro, and thanks to Viewfinder for calling me on that.[/color]

[quote name='Desbreko'][color=#4B0082]Alt+0151 on the number pad makes an em dash.[/color][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]On a Mac, it's [b]option[/b] + [b]shift[/b] + [b]-[/b]. (And that's your hyphen/en dash key).[/color]

[quote name='Shy'][size=1]Indeed! Isn't Ajeh's user name a throwback to the old trend of adding '-Eh' at the end of everyone's user name? I know James was 'Jeh,' and Break was 'Weh.' Someone tried to call me 'Sheh,' but it never really stuck. -Sheh[/size][/QUOTE][color=#db2007]I used to have an AIM handle that involved "reh," too. Hm.[/color]

[color=#db2007][center][URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/4361/10195081wv1.gif[/IMG][/URL][/center] I sometimes am convinced I recognise places I have never been before, which is kind of odd. Certain buildings, the lay of the land in certain places, maybe the ambience of a restaurant. I guess I attribute it to having an active imagination, and the fact that there's only so much variation in the world. But it's still kind of weird.[/color]