Loyal minion-doods, GIFs and macros are no longer enough to act as our “condiments of daily internet living.” Inspired partially by NSFW, here are some youtubes and such that should provide some much-needed aural spice that could, used properly, convey the appropriate assessment of the win or fail (…mostly fail, as it may seem here).

Instant Rimshot, for those “ZING!” moments. You, too, can get your inner late-night host on. Press the big red button, receive BA-DUM-TISH!

Instant Crickets, for when someone says something really un-funny (but not offensive). Again, press the big green button, and receive crickets.

(iPhone/iPod Touch owners take note: The above along with “golf clapping” and “sad trombone” are available as a free app, search for “Rimshot & Crickets” in the app store.)

Next up is the Fail Horn, hailing from the Price is Right, but we of the internets have coopted it as the sound of EPIC FAILURE. (YouTube sauce!) Sadly I have yet to see an iPhone or other cell phone-friendly equivalent of this. :(

Dramatic Look is another favorite, and has widely circulated the internets (and has even made some appearances on TV). Nice for those “OMFG!” moments.

And finally, my personal favorite, BOO THIS MAN! I heard it on NSFW and just HAD to find it and once again, YouTube delivers. Even now I crack up every time I watch this. IDEAL for those moments that just demand that the source of such failure GTFO. It is available in GIF form but you NEED the sound for maximum effect.

Tell me, internets, what are your favorite sound bites meant to express epic win, epic fail, GTFO or what have you? :D

and yes, I am totally stalling on coloring that ramen. Or not. Nothing really on TV, and I don’t think my brother is awake yet for me to go bother him in WoW (not that he considers it “bother” but it just sounds fun to say. BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER) so, just… I dunno. DOOD.

I was just going to post the most recent WIP, but I figured I’d throw both of today’s, thus completing the line art.
I tried to keep the middle/wide shot as close as possible to the rear detail, but that didn’t quite work. (Simply shrinking the details, repositioning and finishing them wouldn’t have looked very good…) Just assume a few seconds pass between the two views to account for the slight differences in positioning.

Also yes, Lord Numair gets a new Maximillian, the “Death” spec that is formed when he’s bound with Lord of Death.
So, that bumps the count up to five:
- Ralse: “Dark Rose”
- Lord Numair: “Crimson” (Episode 0) and “Death” (Episode 2)
- Hikaru: “Azure”
…and then the one Lord of Death’s projection wears, which is the Maximillian in its base/inert form.

Coloring this new Maximillian is going to be fun~ :D
It’ll be all icky and bloody in the general color scheme, but it won’t actually BE bloody… oh, just wait until it’s done!
Of course, coloring Hikaru’s Maximillian is always a trip. Shiny blue metal, laa~ ♥

But, for now, I need a break.

Hm, wonder if I can finish this before 2/27 (aka Hikaru’s birthday)? Probably not, but I can try. :P

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Dood, my secondary hard drive has the MARK OF THE BEAST.

…

…awesome! :D

(LJ Edition: *equips the “Naughty Etna” icon*)

Dear internet, this is why you do not taunt Cthulhu Yoshi’s Imagination:

National Pancake Day PANCAKEALYPSE 2010!!!1
(OST: Dramatic Chipmunk)

♥, Yoshi the Painter Twitterazzi (or is it Twitter Painterazzi? Which one rolls off the tongue better?) and worst fangirl EVER.

Ahem…

Not even my voice actor idols are spared from the wrath of my tablet.
So apparently it was National Pancake Day at IHOP and when these doods tweeted from there and one of them mentioned eating his pancakes with his hands, the above image came to mind. Never mind that IHOP actually gives you just a small stack of 3 pancakes or that I actually had no idea what they were wearing, this HAD to be drawn.

It’s, like… you see an opportunity for lulz, you know the other guy’s going to be cool with it… I had to go for it. Really. It was SO ON.

UPDATE @ 11:10pm:
This calls for some FF4 victory theme. *adds yet another new tag: yoshi wins*
UPDATE @ 11:14pm:
DOUBLE VICTORY. What is this, I don’t even…. XD!

If you read Ayarane Project through the main hub, this is probably irrelevant to you since AP sticks my tweets on the sidebar. I don’t do a daily Twitter round-up in the LJ/Facebook feeds as a courtesy to those who, understandably, don’t care to be tweet-bombed (though I would like to think that the Twitter hate has died down since then… hopefully).

That said, I would like to apologize in advance to those reading through LJ who harbor a seething, deep-seeted hatred of the Twitter and would advise you to skip this post for the sake of your blood pressure. :P Hell, if you’re reading this on the LJ feed, I’ll even cut it for you.

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Dear internet, I am a twit. I tweet the peeps. I am anything BUT a Twitter Quitter. I even own Twitter-related shirts! (Seriously, proud owner of this shirt and next time I make an offering to the ThinkGeek gods I am SO getting this.)

I made a post along these lines when I first opened my Twitter account last year but for some reason I’ve not plugged it much if at all since then.

You should follow me! Here, my Twitter handle, let me show it to you:
@ayarane

“But Yoshi,” random internet dood says, “didn’t you say you hated this self-promotional business and denounce it as pointless vanity?” Yes, of course. I still have a pathological fear of vanity that no doubt gets me REAMED in the job hunt (this alongside my equally-pathological fear of cold-calling) but this is one of those freak moments in which I’m on a snark streak and I’m going to roll with it. o_o I know, it’s really weird. Please put down the bootstrap whips, doods who would lecture me about applying this elsewhere, as such talk is still generally not welcome here.

AHEM.

Why should you read my tweets?
Well… you know those fun-sized candies that we tend to decry as a rip-off but are, in fact, kind of awesome if you need a bite-sized sugar fix? Yeah, that’s what Yoshi-brand twitter is.
Imagine these little Yoshi Candies with Twitter-colored wrappings, and when you pop one you get a little burst of Yoshi-ness that would otherwise be too small to justify a post (most of the time… sometimes they are links to WIPs/finished arts, replies or, gasp, RETWEETS).

Just as I have been told that I have this thing about making the most mundane, daily nothings interesting enough to read about in blog form (whether or not this is true, well, that’s on you to decide), Yoshi-brand tweets are the same way, just… bite-sized. Omnomnom.
To continue with this horrible candy analogy, the Forrest Gump rule is also in effect– contents are randomized and may contain nuts. NAUGHTY LIBERAL NUTS. That is, I can, will, and often do shoot my mouth on politics and, NOT ONLY THAT, also let my raging voice actor fandom (particularly of one Yuri Lowenthal, who, by the way, is absolute hilarity on Twitter and MORESO when he and his wife Tara Platt are up to no good :3 :3 :3) fly free as a little tweety-bird without fear of having a fireball flung in my face. :D

Oh, and as if you didn’t need any more incentives, this is also what you want to follow if you want to see pictures (and, hopefully more frequently, VIDEO) of my big orange furball. So, in a way, Kestine gets in on the Twitter action, too.

I promise I’m not drunk, internet. I don’t even drink. I’m just naturally this smarmy.

So, internet doods, please follow me on the Twitter machine. I don’t have an awesome Robot Skeleton Army like Craig Ferguson does but… hm… maybe I can amass a Tweeting Prinny Legion. (Dood.)
Well, you could just read the tweet-feed without having to actually sign up for Twitter, but something about having a follow list that isn’t littered with bots and MLM-shills and other not-people-who-are-legitimately-interested just kinda tickles me pi… blue. Twitter blue.

As an aside, I’d considered making a Twitter feed just for the Cthulhu-like entity otherwise known as Yoshi’s Imagination but I decided against it since in most cases it’d break the 140-character limit. Sadface. :( Though, maybe I could make a Facebook fan page for it instead? HMM.

This concludes my shameless Twitter-mercial and I promise I won’t make such a horrible plug for a very long time. :P

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Holy shit, it’s almost the end of February. March is when we REALLY get to the COUNTDOWN TO YOSHI DAY 2010 (aka “Yoshi Day Episode 26″ aka “Yoshi Day 1st Season Finale” aka “Yoshi’s Birthday But Not April Fools Day”). Sadly I have no spoilers to offer for the upcoming not-television event, aside from it likely involving cake and other tasty food.

Also, unrelated: CURLING. Listen to a curling match without commentary (and no video). Doesn’t it sound really naughty?
I’m very sorry, internet, my mind is in a very lulzy place right now. XD I’m going to bum around on YouTube until Craig Ferguson’s on.