~silvestris

So, my birthday's come and gone.
I just want to thank you, all of you, who helped make that day truly, really special by doing selfless acts and giving money, time or possessions to make others' lives a little better.

Together, this is what we accomplished.

We fed the hungry. Many, both far away, and the forgotten ones in the shadows of our western societies.
We brought medical aid to those in need.
We planted trees, and we gave away lifestock to give the poorest a livelihood; seeds that can be spread on by themselves once planted.
We helped give kids an education that might one day make the difference between poverty and a future.
We gave clothes to shelters for abused women, and toys to their children. Even hair to make wigs for children so ill their medication has robbed them of their own.
We were kind to the environment; either starting or continuing good habits of changing to low-energy bulbs, turning off the light in empty rooms, recycling and not leaving the water running.

So many people joined in, and so much was accomplished. Like a little ripple of good karma sweeping across the world. Unnoticed by many - but meaning everything to those who were given back hope because of what we pulled together to accomplish.

Together, we really did make a difference.

I for one will keep making that difference, every little now and then, whenever I have the chance.
Will you?

28. Wow. Ancient.
I am now officially older than Lazuli. XD

I was awoken this morning by a ~chigrima who had not only made the coolest ice-cream cake ever, with a little cacao tpbod-logo on top, but who also gave me the most adorable/amusing plushie ever. A Tpbod-plushie. I kid you not, it's perfectly horrid in the most adorable charming way, deranged grin and floppy ears and all.
Pictures in my LJ later, promise.



Now, for my online birthday wish that I wrote about one month ago...

A wise man (aka Zidane Tribal XD) once said: " You don't need a reason to help people".
This is the big moment, and I'm all tingly with anticipation to see how this worked out.

Will all you who donated or otherwise helped out your fellow humans/planet/whatever cause is closest to your heart please step forward?
You don't have to tell how much or even to what cause, but please, comment and let me know we made a difference!


Of course ordinary birthday wishes will make me happy as well, but you can post them on my main page instead.

Here I just want to see the coming together of everyone who share and live by my heartfelt belief that even though one person can't change the world, together we can make it a better place one little step at the time!

Next month, July 19, is my birthday.
Thus I had originally intended to write the annual shameless begging for fanart/fanfic post here, but I changed my mind.

The other day, I stumbled upon this on YouTube.
Watch it. Really. More people need to. (No, it's not fandom-related.)
It just turned out to be the catalyst needed to make me stop and think for a bit.

And what I thought was, really... Fanart is a lovely lovely thing. My favorite thing actually, quite possibly. But you know, making a difference in someone's life, that's great in a different scale altogether.

Did you know somewhere every 5 minutes a child dies because of malnutrition? Odds are another one died while you read this. That's quite disturbing, isn't it?

According to the United Nation's World Food Programme, $21 will keep a kid fed and in school for a year. I've got 1887 people watching my gallery as of current date. Some quick calculations show that if each and every one of those watchers donated, say, 5 bucks to the World Food Programme, that'd be 450 kids who won't die every 5 minutes over the next year, but who will get a whole year of food and education.
Dang, sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

Well, I know many of those watchers are young, students or otherwise not too well-stacked in the money department. But one dollar? Anyone can give one dollar. That's still 89 kids with a future.
And we can make that difference, right here, right now.


So I changed my mind about that birthday present.

You.
Yeah, you.

If my art, stories or friendship ever brought a smile to your lips, brightened a day, or just generally entertained you, how about you give me this for my birthday?

Go throw a few bucks at UN's World Food Programme or Unicef or any other similar organization of your choice.
If you can't donate online, go drop those dollars into the collecting box of the local branch of whatever suitable charity you can find.
Doesn't matter how much, as long as you get off your butt and do it.
Doesn't matter if you're a cynical bastard who don't believe in this sort of thing - do it anyway, and say "Happy Birthday, Silvy" under your breath as you do it, if it makes you feel less silly about the whole deal.

It may be a tiny difference for you, but for someone, somewhere, you just gave the greatest thing anyone could possibly give; enough future for a fighting chance.


I think I'll be posting a Happy Birthday To Myself post on July 19, and if you did this thing, you can proudly comment there and tell me so.
It would make my birthday great like nothing else to see lots of such comments there.
Counting on you, guys. ^_^

It'll probably not come as much of a surprise to anyone that KH is my current fandom, Vexen my current favorite character, and 411 my die-hard OTP. X3

Finding good fanworks containing Vexen is tricky at best, and finding 411 is even harder - I've been scouring the Internet back and forth a couple rounds, and managed to find quite a bit, but still I manage to stumble across new, well-hidden things almost daily.

The 411 is out there, it's just so hard to find!

FROSTED FLOWERS

So I created a community.
Its purpose is to bring fans of Vexen x Marluxia together, serve as a forum for discussion, inspiration and feedback. A place to post and share links, to pimp your own work, or favorite pieces of 411 you've come across online.

To make it easier for everyone to find the good stuff.

It's an open LJ-based community - this means you have to have a (free) account to post entries, but that anyone can post comments.

Go join!
For the sake of 411!

So just as a side note, I'm currently madly fangirling Kingdom Hearts, and more specifically the Organization.
No, the amount of Fangirl is not at all very dignified. You have been warned.

Vexen is my (bitch) role model, and I will (molest) become him when I grow up. u.u

I'm doing quite a bit of doodling on the KH-theme, images that aren't polished enough to be uploaded as deviations, but that I still think funny enough to share, so you may want to check out my Scraps from time to time.

For more yaoi-ish themed art, check out my Y!Gallery, and for updates, sketches and art in general, my LiveJournal is a good bet.

The fangirlism makes me ridiculously creative, so at least for the time being, it's almost worth the trouble of checking my gallery every now and then. X)