Can you guess what both things in the header have in common? :b give you one hint and put the answer at the bottom _{harhar for reader enticement -shot-}
Hint: fleas

Anyway, I wanted to ask the opinion of my oekaki watchers: OekakiBBS, PaintBBS, ShiPainter/Pro, or Chibi Paint? _{lol I bet half of you are going "WHAT THE HELL IS OEKAKIBBS?? D:" well let me tell you it's a very old program and Canvas and OekakiCentral [I think?] are the only ones I know that have it. If I had a sub this question would be the first poll I'd post.}

And also: do you prefer to stick with one oekaki or jump? I used to just stay at one but then I tried to expand my range as far as I could reach. The bad thing about the latter is oekaki becomes a little less personal and you lose that sort of ~bond~ with oekakiers AND IT'S SO HARD TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM ALL ASDJFKL. I remember when Canvas's chat still worked and hanging out there three hours every day of the summer |D awesome times...


So yeah, happy fourth and crap. Set some stuff off, go crazy and stuff.

and how awesome is my cousin? SUPAH AWESOME AMIRITE

finally... finally got some crazy motivation to draw. |D most of my gallery is from last year's summer AND I HAVE TO BEAT THAT and show some improvement before I waste away or something happens. This last month has been nothing but writing _{which is good. Not bad, very good. It takes a lot to write 60 pages in one month let me tell you! And chips. It takes a lot of chips and dip to get that motivation. It works every time.}


hey did anyone know that my favorite emote is that optimism one? Every time I see it I just want to take over the world or something IT'S AWESOME

_{wow major adolab* attack amirite}


SO THE PROMISED ANSWER TO THE ABOVE RIDDLE:

both tolling bells and sleeping ONLY AT NIGHT were considered cures for the bubonic plague :b

_{lol I'm such a middle ages geek fanatic/obsessed lunatic. but it's all so interesting I can't help myself. How about the fact that stairwells wound only to the right/clockwise [going up] so that the defenders from above would have the advantage over the attackers coming from below? We went to the art museum [got to see some John Singer Sargent; the last one is the one at the Cleveland Museum of Art that I got to see : D] and they had a room with armor and the like on display which is so awesome because how many times in your life do you get to see that stuff right in front of you but yes sort of made me consider more outside of England-ish because there was some Italian and German stuff in the mix. I was looking at the rapiers and then when my dad swung by [little brother in tow... lolol] I was like "oh this is just the later medieval period" and he's like "oh?" and I was all "OH YEAH see here these rapiers have basket hilts and you see that ring? well you see it was a common form late 1600ish to put a finger on the crossguard and they eventually put a ring on the guard to conform to this and look at this! There's a latin inscription on here!" lol /nerd}

if you read that paragraph, kudos. If you didn't, tl;dr

_{*adolab = attention deficit--oh look! a butterfly! /prancy prance}