I've noticed there a lot of episodes of unsubbed Sentai and anime shows online, and while I love that sort of thing to pieces, I can't understand a lick of it.

So I'm thinking, what if I learn Japanese? I have had trouble learning languages in the past (I've taken classes in ASL and French, but none of it stuck), and I don't want to shell out the money for Rosetta stone (500 dollars for three lessons of Japanese; I don't want to learn quite that badly).

So, does anyone out there speak Japanese? And if so how did you learn?

If we got Yunie-B a deviantart subscription.

Yunie-B (also known as Akia) was one of the first widely known WG artists, back in the day when we were limited to yahoo clubs and privately run sites like Stuffed online and Fatopia (Yunie's old site), Yunie was one of the major legends of the Weight gain community, up there with such greats as Oji-ryojoji and SketchVG. When she vanished from the scene, she was sorely missed.

But now she's back, and she's begun posting new art (as well as some of her old). And I think if anyone deserves to get a subscription to Deviantart, its her. Even if she doesn't post the rest of her old stuff on Deviantart (which, don't get me wrong, is something I'd love to see), I can't think of anyone who would deserve it more.

So who is with me on this?

Anyways, here is her page for those who aren't in the know: [link]

You know this upcoming revival of the Disney animated film? With The Frog Princess and Rapunzel?

You know what would cool? If they did a Hansel and Gretel movie, and the witches villain song would be about fattening the titular characters up to eat them.

Tell me that wouldn't be a big thumbs up from the Weight Gain community. Our very own villains song.

Honestly, I am surprised there isn't more weight gain themed Hansel and Gretel art on Deviantart.

All I want to do is write comics. Is that so much?

Not that I don't love doing freelance work for guys here and rpg companies, but dammit, I want to write comics, I want to write something that will be seen by a huge amount of people, that I can be proud of (Not that I'm not proud of my work here but... you know what I mean).

But every comic website I go to says flat out: "we do not accept writing submissions."

So I ask you dear friends, what's a writer to do?

I'd like to say something of my own defense, if I may, concerning the recent actions of one TrentChrisman, who posted the chef comic of the talented FA artist S. Sakurai and then had the nerve to offer to sell prints of said comic.

when I first noted that someone had posted the sequence, it wasn't the fact someone had posted the comic without Sakurai's permission or even apparent consent, it was the fact that said person had the nerve to also set up the option to sell prints.

Now, there are certain situations when posting anothers art is fine; trades, comissions, colors or recolors, but in those cases its prudent to note who originally made the piece. Trentchrisman did not, even after being told who originally created the sequence.

I was even willing to give him a mulligan on the whole "selling it as a print deal" under the auspice that he did not realize he was doing it, until I went around and noticed that most other pieces of artwork do not have the option of buying prints, which means its something you have to deliberately turn on when you make a deviation.

TrentChrisman posted art that was not his own, and also attempted to sell said art for his own personal gain, and that is WRONG.

Add to it, after I made my post accusing him of such, he made two very nasty posts on my own page, threatening to report my works, saying that as a writer I have no business on Deviantart (because, according to him, "Anyone can sit down and type), and that he hoped I died a horrible death.

Now I admit maybe I was a bit cross when I made that post, but I did go out of my way to be as civil as possible, although I did say he should be banned, there were a lot worse things I could have said, that I wanted to say, but did not. But what I said was nothing to the nasty and hateful things Trentchrisman said in retaliation. He is a troll and a thief and a person utterly undeserving of compassion.

I know I can sometimes be bad tempered and belligerent; when our little community comes under an attack, I'm usually the first one to bark and bark loudly, but that's only because I care about our little community, and hate it when any of us are mocked or exploited.

In any case, just wanted to clear the air about that.

In other news, I got me an Xbox360 a few weeks ago. A lot of fun, Team Fortress 2 is the best game ever.

EDIT: And he just posted ANOTHER nasty message on my page. This one I'm leaving unhidden so you can all see what kind of person he is.