Muffin dog

Oh dear lord it moves o__O

Celebrated saint Patric's day a tad too early, even if it wasn't my intention. Have a good one.

Friday!

Just a quick resume of my current state(s) of mind. It was mainly rocking out to the bad boys of Boston (poor Steven Tyler, I shouldn't sing duets with anyone, especially him) Besides that, I've also been singing along like an idiot with Voltaire's silly death, death, devil, devil, devil, devil, evil, evil, evil, evil songs. :Đ

And it's so easy when you're evil :Đ

Detox'd?

This meme was born from an old Serbian movie! This is pretty much the only moment in my life that I'm proud because I'm from Serbia. Ok, I'll shut up now.

Did have

Wants to have

Laku noć, dame i gospodo. Eto, i ova predstava je završena. Nadam se da ste uživali u njoj. Bilo je zadovoljstvo glupirati se za vas sve ove godine. Nadam se da ćemo se ponovo sresti u nekom drugom gradu, na nekoj drugoj predstavi, u nekom drugom cirkusu...

An unlikely ally

Today I realized that I've found and made an unique and very interesting co-fighter. She's been sticking around for a while, and we were always on good terms, (the first time we spent time together we made way too much toasts and got drunk together, we're bound for life now :P) but now we became quite closer.

She's pretty much my polar opposite - bold, very comfortable and skillful in social situations and crowds, confident and active. Pretty much a valley girl with a heart of gold. She's very good with the opposite sex (although gives the cold shoulder very often), and became somewhat like my wingman... woman... um... person!

The only traits we share is being snarky, an irresponsible mess and we both spent most of our schooldays in cafés. Oh, and we're both a magnet for weirdos and psychopaths with sharp objects :D

We have much to learn from each other. She's showing me how to be more confident, defiant and a bit more reckless, while I'm teaching her how to avoid all the unwanted attention she gets by showing her the advantages of stealth, stoicism and calmness.

I'm interested to see what the results will be.

On a train with a coyote ghost

Oh god I feel like a child again. In a good way. In the best possible way ever. Well the last few days I pretty much gathered people from my youth and forced them to play Heroes of Might and Magic 3 with me :P And it was awesome! It's all coming back to me now...
It's not like I've never player Heroes before, but after playing it and catching up with a childhood friend memories started flooding me. We ended up talking for hours about our (mis)adventures we had as kids. We counted so many things...

Running away from dogs while armed only with an umbrella, jumping down from train rails and jumping over dead corpses that were laying around (o__O it's actually creepier now that I look back) chasing white rabbits on our bikes, simply wandering off out of town, seeking cover together from a storm while carrying a poor puppy under one jacket, playing in a field of dandelions, searching for "gems" on a construction site, taking a nap on the hottest part of a summer day in a random crater outside town (we thought it was an archeological site x3), encounter with strange old ladies that gathered herbs and saving the world from necromancers (naturally :D)

Dear lord, what haven't we done? All the silly little things, like my jacket that mysteriously spawned 50 dinars in it's pockets (that was actually quite enough for a kid before the inflation) every day, the field of four-leafed clovers (and we actually found a few five, even six-leafed ones too!) under my friend's balcony are the past now. It's a shame they all scattered around the world and our little group parted ways. I'm actually feeling somewhat guilty that I'm on good terms with the ones that moved away, but have neglected and grown distant with the girl that still lives practically next door. Thankfully, we finally started fixing that.

Lololo hurr durr c:

Nostalgia - lyrics
Moar nostalgia - lyrics

Viva la coffee and nostalgia intoxication ^^

Since I've continued reading a few comics (mostly online) again, I've had the urge to write a bit about it. I have some unfinished business with some of them, and I read a few for the very first time. Some of them are very dear to me, some were simply a interesting read/high quality, and the others were just meh, but still nice to read and may or may not be skipped. If you're having trouble with reading them, simply open them in a new tab.

Calvin and Hobbes

Watterson is a genius. He made a comic about a young boy that has a way too much fertile imagination, incredible wits, but is hyperactive and a bit crazy. He "catches" a tiger, Hobbes, which is actually a tiger plushie toy which is manifested in Calvin's mind like an anthropomorphic tiger.

The nature of Hobbes' existance is never explained and is rather surreal. He becomes a plush toy the moment someone beside Calvin sees him, and when Calvin's too busy to daydream it's the same. Yet again, it is strongly hinted that Hobbes does exist in reality, because he does some things that have an impact to reality, things that a kid like Calvin would not be able to do himself.

Quite a few comics are devoted to Calvin's daydreaming and imagination. He has many "alter egos" and personalities while playing and daydreaming. The girl is one of the very few (about 5-6) characters that appear beside Calvin's household. He was somewhat minimalistic with the number of character, but he did it rather well. This was also a chance for me to show off Watterson's artistic skills.

Definitely a sweet read that went for 10 long years. Watterson finished in a heartwarming way, saying goodbye with grace and stepped away from the business in 1995. He did not allow merchandising of his work, and the fans are grateful till today. I would recommend it to everyone who wants to awake that warm feeling of childhood innocence again.

Count your sheep, by Adrian Ramos a.k.a. Adis. The first comic :)

Adis wanted to make a comic about a little girl, Katie, counting sheep every night. But he realized that it won't work and it'll become monotone after a few comics. So he proceeded to showing parts of Katie's life and her adventures with Ship, her only counting ship (that's why he's so at his job, she only needs to count him). The comic is inspired by Calvin and Hobbes and has many adorable moments and scenes full of innocence that will make your heart melt.

Katie's mother, Laurie, is quickly introduced and she is one of the three characters that appeared during the comic's run. That's how Watterson inspired Adis too. You can also see how his artwork got cleaner and his drawing style more defined later o. This is also something that pretty much every teenager can relate too!

Laurie gets her episodes as a child too. Instead of the classical blue, they appear in a more purplish tone. Ship was her imaginary friend too, but she can still see and interact with him, unlike Calvin's parents. She is a young widow that is struggling with difficulties of being a single mom, but Ship helps her out as much as he can.

The comic's blue colour was first intended to portray that the comic is occurring during nighttime. Adis later decided to keep the look even during the daytime strips. The palette of blues enchants the feeling of melancholy that Laurie's experiencing during her grieving for her late husband. Katie, unable to understand death like an adult, found her way to cope. She believes that her dad communicates with her through the Beatles songs.

Katie is the typical innocent, optimistic child that isn't fully aware of the suffering that exists in the world, including her mother's grief. When he's not making us cry our hearts out, Adis makes adorable little comics like these.

While her childish innocence does not completely shield her from the problems and horrors of the world, it does help Katie to slowly begin to accept them. Like Calvin, she shows signs of above-average intelligence for her age. Many strips include her questioning beliefs and having philosophical conversations with Ship.

This one always makes me cringe. When I was a kid, my parents faced financial problems too, but I was too young to understand that. No child should ever experience poverty. How can one explain to a kid that people have come to take away your possessions, and you're unable to do anything to stop it?

To conclude, Count your sheep is an adorable, really great comic that will make you laugh, cry and "aww" while reading, especially if you're a sucker feeling nostalgia all the time, like me. One is never too old for counting sheep ^^