it's that time again!
Do you or your loved one want a custom made figurine for Christmas or birthday, or just because you love them?

just message me, comment, or email me: lilipton@gmail.com if you want your own!
check out my Etsy for reviews & feedback! here.







keep in mind, i do any figurine!
[excluding human beings, although it depends on the character]
from any video game, and they can be made at any size, keychains too!
i have done wedding cake toppers, too.

more examples here;
Gallery 1
Gallery 2

cruise on through the pages to see more!
always a pleasure
xoxo

x-posted elsewhere <3

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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

I've been looking for some good online/multiplayer Xbox 360 games so that I can justify buying an Xbox Gold subscription (I'm still looking so if you have any suggestions....). Halo 3 and CoD4 are really common recommendations, and so I was wondering - do you need to play the first games in a series in order to enjoy them?

From my own (though slightly limited) experience, I've found that you don't. I got the Orange Box last Christmas (mainly so I could play Portal), without having played Half-Life 1 and I found that didn't detract from Half-Life 2 at all. Same with Saints Row 2. What do you guys think?

So remember when I was warning everyone about the XboxLive bannings? Well apparently Microsoft isn't playing around. It has been reported that Microsoft has dropped the Ban-Hammer on between 600,000 to 1 Million consoles.

Needless to say, right now used Xbox 360s are selling for next to nothing- Craigslist is flooded with them. But be forewarned, Microsoft says "If you purchase a modified console second-hand, the warranty is not transferable and the purchaser assumes the risk for any previous modifications... If you purchase a console that has been previously banned, you will not be able to connect to (Xbox) Live.

On the other hand, if you're looking for a modded system (with no interest in going online) your in luck! Their dirt cheap and readily available.

One last thing. There have been people on Craigslist and other forums offering money to un-ban peoples systems. Don't fall for it! Honestly you're better off just buying a new 360.

(edit: The pic is not a console ban. I posted it cause I thought it was funny.)

Also, dig my cross-over icon. :D

my internet soul mate
by rachel haywire | 11/14/09

never have i met you but i think it might be fun
you'd validate the fact that i was not the only one
you have these sorts of interests too - you actually exist!
you're more than just a figment of my social contact list
we'd sit down and we'd talk about our years of endless chatter
serve our private thoughts to one another on a platter
maybe we'll be cool some day and meet at some convention
realize that we're more than freaks who redefine pretension
maybe we could fall in love - now wouldn't that be grand?
we'd do it all in person too - enough of cyberland!
but you could be an asshole - you could smash and break my heart
not that this is what i want - but things do fall apart
what if you went back online and told the world i failed?
that anyone who dated me would get their shit derailed?
cause if you couldn't stand me i'd become your stalker-ex
you'd pretend like you forgot about our endless kinky sex
i'd be another way for you to drop an online friend
you'd macro me on 4chan - that shit would never end
but really now i like you i just don't want any drama
you're the only other poly-goth with babysitter trauma
people like us don't exist - at least outside the net
who else can use the civil war to make their pussy wet?
we really have to meet some day - there's no one else this clever
who cares that i'm a stranger - i've known you forever!

Bad mod. Bad. Will try to be better about this.

Pieces in order of appearence:

Games People Play by lee_terati
Sunday Girls by saare_snowqueen
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? bynot_quite_queen
and....
Cadence by zombie_bandido

AND THE STRIP CLUB NAMES:

The Black Dog Public House
The Interface

Vote twice for your favorite story and once for your favorite strip club name. Once again, I'm SORRY.

EDIT! Votes are due by...oh, let's make it the twentieth. Once again, bad mod.

I haven't posted here before, I've left a few comments - firstly in the very early days of bereavement and also today, when reading this community for the first time in a year and a half.

My husband, Seamus, passed away just over 18 months ago. May 12, 2008. Three and a half months after we married. He was 27, I was 25. He was hit by a car on his way to work and never regained consciousness.

For the first while, I honestly thought I could not go on. I was in a terrible state and absolutely dreaded the idea of "moving on". Thought it meant leaving my Seamus behind. Eventually I realised that the love we shared will never be lessened by anything, certainly not by me taking charge of my own life and actively seeking out happiness. That he would want me to be happy. One of the things he always said to me was, "I just want you to be happy. That's the most important thing to me."

we were so close, we almost lived in our own little bubble. We could spend hours together just doing nothing, and laughing about the stupidest things.

I moved halfway across the world, partly because of my career and partly because I really needed the change. I haven't lacked support here, either - my best friend and numerous other friends live here too and they have been wonderful. Life has been changing so rapidly over the past year, especially since my move to the UK. I've grown and changed a lot as a person. I feel like I'm stronger than I have ever been before, and that losing Seamus, although the worst thing I've ever had to endure, has helped me to know myself so much better. Most importantly, I've learned what's important in life and what really isn't worth bothering about. I've learned to be more assertive about what I want, and also more easygoing when it really doesn't matter all that much.

I've been with a wonderful new guy for the past three months, and things are going so well with us. Looks like it's going to turn into a long-term thing... early days yet but the signs are so good and we are really happy together. We 'get' each other in a way that's completely unexpected. I didn't think I'd find anyone who got me, not after losing Seamus. He also understands that my grief over Seamus has nothing to do with him, and although he is a little uncomfortable at times (who wouldn't be?) he respects that I've got things to deal with and knows that my feelings for him coexist and don't compete. I'm incredibly lucky to have him in my life.

anyway... for the past week (or thereabouts) I've been feeling pretty melancholy. Missing Seamus. Wanting to share these new, exciting adventures with him - even just as my best friend. Just to TELL him about all the great stuff that's going on and know that he's happy for me. Even the new boyfriend... I'd love to tell him all about it. But I can't. He's gone, and he's not coming back. I've felt so lost this past week, and I really want to get it out...

but I can't cry. I want to cry, so badly. I've done everything that usually triggers it: listened to songs that remind me of Seamus, looked at photos of him and us together, watched the small amount of video footage I have of him, re-read journal entries from around the time of his death...

nothing. I might shed a tear or two, but just the slow trickling down the cheek kind. Not the real, raw, sobbing kind that releases a whole bunch of tension even while leaving you utterly exhausted.

THAT is what I need to do. and I can't. it's horrible. it's why I'm awake at almost 3am for the second night in a row. it's why I've been a complete hermit for the past couple of days. it's why my boyfriend is sensing something is up with me and is subtly giving me some space. We have a date tomorrow night, it will be wonderful to see him... but I couldn't see him today, even though we almost always see each other on a Friday night.

so, I can't cry. I'm terribly blocked up. any of you experienced this? help? advice? just a little bit of support?

sigh. I guess I should try to go sleep now.

Backseat Betty

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Episode Summary
Hilda has doubts over her relationship with Archie after seeing an old flame Bobby Talercio. Marc helps Justin to fit in high school by telling him to become friends with some mean girls. Elsewhere Daniel is lured into a trap by Bennett. Wilhemina tries to come up with money to help Nico out of trouble.


Enjoy! :)

Unless..you've been living under a rock and havent heard..


The NA/Eu release date of Final Fantasy XIII is officially March 9 2010.


/dance

source: http://kotaku.com/5403678/final-fantasy-xiii-hits-north-america-march-9

Also in PlayStation Home's theatre (PS3 movie room.)

Also..Apparently..Leona Lewis is singing the theme song for FFXIII. Not too sure how I feel about that.

Anyway, share your reactions. I'm mostly curious to see whateverone thinks of a mainstream music artist being put in the game.

Just thought I'd post here rather than reply to you all individually! I'll shell out for the Elite, I probably would have regretted getting an 'inferior' model anyway, and with the Christmas sales I'm sure it'll be more than worth it. I completely forgot about the whole 'burn the game onto the hd' thing.

Does anyone have any game recs? So far my list includes only Saints Row, GTA4 (I have it on my PC but it doesn't wanna work AT ALL), Fallout 3 (again, my PC isn't happy about that), and... the Orange Box. Just so I can play it and be thankful my PC can at least handle TF2. ;)

I'm COMPLETELY new to the Xbox scene! The original Xbox is the only "next gen" (then gen?) console I didn't own so I have no idea what titles are meant to be awesome or not. I keep seeing games I quite like the look of and then forgetting all about them because, hey, I don't have an xbox. :P

I've just joined Poupeegirl -- I can't help it, it's so cute and Japanese, and I am a shameless weeaboo inside <3 I hear it is wonderful crack. Does anyone else play?

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR TONIGHTS EP!!!

Go here for his reasons not to miss tonights UB. Major spoilers about MAJOR plot details.