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World-Without-You

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Hello to anyone who is still active out there,

Obviously I haven't used this account in forever, but I thought I'd keep things up just to preserve them. I did a little quality control and purged some truly awful things from my gallery. (Though I suppose everyone is entitled to a "horrible high school age" period of art. I kept a few things that were bad but not terribly revolting.)

Still doing what I'm doing. Third year university, BioSci major, loving it to death.

I am still working on my Visual Novels (Ondine's curse, etc), am on Dreamwidth in a few RP games, and just doing some Science in general. Anyway, not sure when I'll be back, but it's been a blast. Best wishes to everyone.

-W
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Lol busy

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Hey everyone.

All of you have probably wondered what the heck happened to me after Japan, huh? XD What happened to Syndemic and my VN? Weeeeell, I've been SOOOO busy it's ridiculous. xD

I'm in a four year program in physiology and developmental biology and needless to say these classes are really insane. Sorry I haven't gotten much of a chance to socialize/work on shit. I'm still game on all my projects/art/stories/etc.

UM. SO. Attention Ondine's Curse auditioners/cast members/people.

I bet every single one of you is wondering, "what happened to World?" "Why hasn't she been contacting me?" "I bet she's contacting a bunch of other people but she hasn't been contacting me!" "Ajkdfhasfk"

Wellll the truth is, no one's been contacted at all xD I've just been that busy. Yeah, I picked up three lines from Sno-Oki, but that's pretty much the extent I've done with the voice cast. Things still aren't 100% concrete right now. Now that the script is coming together, I found I've got new characters that I need to cast, and that some of the voice actors I already have would be great for them, but then I'd have to do an entire cast reshuffle. I've also found main characters I *completely* forgot to cast. So basically all that's set in stone in terms of parts right now is that some people are in it. Can't give a *full* cast list until I've written at least 80% of the script...
But I'm not firing anybody either. xD Don't panic.
If anyone has a problem with this, please comment :3

So when will the script be done? Patience. I have about 15% done right now, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it is for the amount of time I've spent writing the script (about 3 days orz). More or less, I write when I'm inspired. That's what I did with my other visual Novel, The Suicide King, and it's already over 10 gameplay hours long (that's almost 5000 pages in Microsoft word) and I haven't even been working on it a year. So finishing a 3 hour game really isn't hard at all, in comparison. I just want it to have the quality of writing that The Suicide King does (because that's probably the best shit I've ever penned xD).

If you HAVE to have an ETA, I'm gonna guess March. I know I wanted to have this done by September, but who knew Summer could be so busy? o___o

So yeah sorry about the hiatus, everyone. A LOT of my trouble is also that

1)I'm coding a feature length video game entirely BY MYSELF WITH NO HELP AT ALL.
2)Writing is the labour of love and must be done right :3
3)I have to do ALL the art. Every tiny sprite is hand-drawn and then coloured for hours on photoshop.
4)I HAVE TO RENDER CUT SCENES.
5)Colouring everything will take over 60 hours easily and
6)GAME ANIMATION AND MENUS ARE ALL CUSTOM WRITTEN AND RENDERED BY ME
7) Finding royalty-free music is downright impossible and takes a huge chunk out of my wallet, which leads me to
8) Since all photographs are copyrighted, I have to take EVERY location photo myself. Meaning all the parts where it takes place in Japan? In a surgical suite? In Venice? I have to literally GO THERE and take pictures personally. xD

So yeah. This is taking a LONG time. xD No one freak out. It's getting done. THEN, once it is all FINISHED, I have to go back and direct all the voices and code and time every individual line into the script and basically change everything! 8D

Fun!

So why am I complaining about this? XD I do love doing it. I'm not complaining because I hate it. I'm complaining because I love it xD It is fun, and I enjoy every moment of it, but holy hell is it a timesuck. I just kinda want everyone to understand the kind of commitment I'm making <3

Oh, and also because I'm accepting volunteers/part time work. xD

Yes, I'm actually offering a paying position for colouring this shit. You'd have to submit a portfolio, though. I'm like... Nazi specific with this, since I'm gonna be paying someone. Guys, I work at a shitty bakery for 9 dollars an hour. This is how desperate for colourers I've become xD

Or taking Photographs of neat locations around your home. I live in a city literally plopped in the middle of freaking nowhere, so getting out and finding good locations for visual novels is very hard. All you'd need to do is take a camera, point, and shoot. Of course, should you choose to help, I'm *very* specific. I'll have to send you examples of two or three scenes I've already taken photos of for the game for you to understand. xD

Uh that's not a paying position, though. XD

But any volunteer help would be welcomed and loved and greeted with kisses <3333

World.
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BRB.

GOING TO JAPAN.

SEE YA ALL IN 3 WEEKS :3

-World <3

PS - Cast list below! I am still accepting auditions for open slots!

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I just wanted to make an announcement that voice acting auditions for my Visual Novel, Black Jack: Ondine's Curse, are open to the public (and I mean EVERYONE!) now!!! :)

For those of you who don't know what a Visual Novel is, it's a full-length, fully voiced and illustrated novel with music and animation that has voice acting and choose-your-own-adventure elements.

Ondine's Curse will run at about 3 to 4 hours long with six different combinations of endings, periodic Game Overs, and a main good/bad end.


THE PLOT:




Do you believe that we are running for survival...?



“Have you ever heard of Ondine’s Curse?”

“Ondine said, ‘Since you swore to love me with every waking breath, if ever you stop to sleep, you shall forget to breathe...’”


The date is January 1st, 2000; and Pinoko Hazama lives estranged from civilization after the death of her father.

She calls herself “Doctor Black Jack.”

Plagued by an incurable illness simillar to "Ondine's Curse," her new body is a living timebomb: it will shut itself down if ever she stops too long to rest. Caught between upholding her title and spending her remaining time wisely, she has become a shadow of the surgeon she used to be.

But after a series of indiscriminate homicides begin, Black Jack and her autistic assistant Hansel find themselves thrown into a web of conspiracy and murder. The serial killer calls himself “Doctor Kiriko,” but the man of that name has been dead for decades... hasn’t he?

With little time left, Pinoko must race for a cure for her mysterious affliction and track down the murderer before time runs out.

Manga timeline and canon
Run time: 3-6 hours long.
ETA: May 30th 2011
700MB, Requires Windows Vista and higher




Has nothing at all to do with that dumb B-Movie of the same title that came out after I came up with all of this D<

I'll be working on it most of the summer, and since my other Visual Novel runs at about 7 hours and took me 5 months during school time, I'd say the ETA for Ondine's Curse is September 15th. A big fat lie, life hit me hard!

Oh and don't sweat the random new character, he's really just a nurse and not a big deal xD I don't like original characters much, too much risk of marty stuedom. Just imagine him as the male young Pinoko except will a lot less emphasis.

Keep in mind it's JUST A REGULAR FANFICTION, I won't be making money off of this at all, I'm doing all the art myself, I'll have a proper disclaimer and royalty-free music, and don't sue me, it's just for fun :(

[Now that I think about it, maybe I should advertise on the Kiriko Group. Ehhh.]

Here's a list of who is taken and who I desperately need. xD

Main Cast

I have to redo the entire castlist, so right now, these are the only two 100% assigned roles:

  • Black Jack (Pinoko Hazama) - SNOW OKI.

  • Hansel Anderson - :icongamegirl244:

  • Dr. Kiriko - :iconkaisersephiroth:


Edit: I used to have Kunomi Kuwata up here, but I removed her because in the prelim script, she didn't fit. I felt as though her story concluded enough in the original Black Jack manga, and I really couldn't fit her in ;__; I'm sorry, everyone!!! She may still get a mention though.

Any auditions would be LOVED AND WELCOMED <3 Open to EVERYONE! Just send me a one-minute or more clip of your voice, introducing yourself, and then reading something or acting! Email them to world.rescue@hotmail.com!


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...

In other news, I HAD MY PROM.

It was fun and amazing and I really loved it x3 Except that when I went to go take pictures, I came back and the party staff had confiscated my vodka AND ALL MY DRINK TICKETS THAT COST ME LIKE 30 BUCKS kfjshflsjhdflskjdhf.

I raged. Then I was over it xD

Then I danced and everyone was tipsy and it was so amazing because everyone was so happy and crazy xDDD It's a side of them you could never have seen at school. Everyone was so cheery and totally accepting of my failsauce dance skills. xD I can't dance, but it was amazing trying to.

Aha, when they were doing the "most likely to"... speeches, some random kid got "Most likely to become a Doctor." NO FREAKING WAY THAT KID IS A DUMBASS. I AM 99.9999999% SURE I AM GOING TO BE A DOCTOR, not this random idiot who has failed Physics 3 times. I was ticked until my boyfriend said, "Don't worry, he'll just be the Black Jack to your Kiriko."

I love you, Ian. xD You always make everything better.

All in all, prom was amazing and I loved it xD I was the only one who dressed completely in black (oops xD) but I really loved my dress <333 And :iconyume-inc: was so beautiful <3333333333333

YEAH! I'm finally graduated! I hope everyone had a great end of the year x3

World out!
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...Well.

That wasn't fun. [/extreme sarcasm]

Okay well first I want to have a little disclaimer here. When I went into surgery, I wasn't afraid at all. I was kinda psyched =P It would be a learning experience that would help me empathize with patients, since I wanna be a surgeon and all.

Besides, I had a really sexy surgeon. xD

And really, surgery did go absolutely fine.
But I'm having such a negative reaction to the general anesthetic that I kinda wanna die right now @_@

So I wake up in the recovery room about 50 minutes after I went under.

Going under was actually really cool. The nurses were really, really nice, and the anesthesiologist was a pretty cool guy. He knew about drugs and doesn't afraid of anything. Well they attached the oxygen mask to my face, save me an IV of saline, and then gave me an injection of the anesthesia. Yes, so it was the injectable kind of general anesthesia. The nurses smiled at me and said the next thing I'd know, I'd be in the PACU (post-anesthetic care unit). All of a sudden my legs feel like they've been emerged in a hot tub, then my arms, then my chest, then my head... and I feel asleep. It took about 4 seconds. Coolest 4 seconds ever.

Can you dream under anesthesia? I'm pretty sure you can't, but I know I did have some crazy hallucinations about Eternal Sonata or something.

Anyway.

Yes, next thing I knew, I was in the PACU with the oxygen mask around my face and the nurses were calling my name.

I was shaking and trembling as if I was having a seizure and they couldn't stop it. So really I was laying in a bed with intense (read: as if you were stuck in the middle of the arctic without a coat) trembling for an hour for no reason at all. The nurses said that this sometimes happens with people and that it's nothing to be afraid of unless it provokes a seizure.

It sucked.

Oh yeah, and for some reason, when I woke up I was crying hysterically...

I consider myself a pretty tough girl, and I'm pretty ice-queen-ish when I'm at home and something (pain, family issues, illness, etc) bothers me. I'm a 3rd-degree Black Belt who wants to be a military doctor, I can handle myself. I wasn't relieved that my surgery was over at all, I knew it would go absolutely fine. I didn't want to see my Mom because she's an insane woman. All I really remember wanting was to see my boyfriend and to stop shaking so much. But yeah, I could NOT stop crying. And I mean sobbing. For absolutely no reason!!!

It was scary O_O Can you imagine crying for four hours straight over absolutely nothing and not knowing why?! It was awful...

After about an hour of this happening (after it started getting really bad), the nurses told me that in some rare cases some people have intense emotional reactions (such as crying like crazy) after anesthesia and no one knows why it happens. The patient themselves don't feel any emotion, but their body acts like it's been agitated and responds to stimuli in a sad or overly happy or angry way. It was weird. I hate crying.

So I went home half an hour after that, and...

I calmed down a little bit after I got home a few hours later. But all I wanted to do was sleep and no one would let me. My Doctor said I wasn't allowed to go to sleep for another six hours, and I couldn't eat anything but broths for 24 hours. So here I was, starving and exhausted from drugs and I wasn't allowed to eat or sleep. Fail. =P

THEN I get this antibiotic where I have to take it every 6 hours, and stay awake for 40 minutes after I take the pill. So this means that for 5 more days this week, I can't get over a 5 hour and 20 minute sleep.

This isn't even the worst part yet, kids x_x Sorry if this seems whiny, I'm just really scared about what's going on right now.

I take my antibiotic pill every 6AM/PM and 12AM/PM. So I wake up this morning at.... 6:38, and my parents didn't wake me up and give me my medication like they're supposed to. I know what happens when you miss a pill, so I got out of bed by myself and went to get my T-3s and antibiotic.

Halfway through pouring my apple juice... I went completely blind.

I am not kidding or being melodramatic. I seriously went blind. Just like that. One second I'm pouring juice, the next second my vision is black and I can't see a thing.

I started freaking out, dropped my glass and my pills, and groped around the kitchen to find a chair. My Mom woke up from the noise of me dropping things and ran out of her room and started asking me what was wrong.

I was crying. "Mom, I can't see anything, I'm blind...!"

I sat in the chair sobbing for 15 minutes with my Mom stroking my hair (nicest thing she's ever done in my life, lol) before my sight finally started coming back. It was back by 7:15. I was so scared. I thought I was never going to be able to see again.

SCARY SHIT.

So none of us have any idea what happened. Wayne thinks it was malnutrition since I haven't had anything to eat in 3 days. I really don't know what it could be. I just hope it doesn't come back. I really wish my Doctor would have warned me about this...

So that brings me to right now. I've been in bed for the last... 17 hours... and I still want to sleep. And I look extremely fugly. My face swelled to five times its normal size and if my boyfriend saw me I'd kill myself. xD

But yeah I survived. Hopefully this anesthetic wears off today and I go back to being normal x_____x

And I hope that blind thing never, ever happens again. To anyone.

Signing out.

World. <333


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Hey guys! I get my 4 buried wisdom teeth removed via surgery in T minus 12 hours!

Just thought I'd let you know, I may/may not be on in the next four days. Lol, hiatus.

Just in case the 1/100 chance comes up where the anesthesia kills me.... bye! 8D

Lol jkjk <3333333333

Wish me all luck. <333 See you tomorrow! X3

Love!
World.


WAIT
...There's a person on the internet somewhere I promised pictures of my Tenenbaum cosplay. Sorry it is taking so long. Dx I haven't forgotten about you! Thanks for being so patient.

Byebye!
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Online registration starts at 9:00 AM.

At 8:59 AM, there are 200 out of 1200 seats left in Physics 124 for the entire year.

At 9:01 AM, there are 2 seats left in Physics 124.

I got the last seat.

I lost 6 years of my life in 2 minutes.






IN OTHER NEWS

I am in love with 'The Wars' by Timothy Findley. Seriously. If I could make love to a novel, it would be this book.

If the title/author doesn't catch your interest, this should:

It's about a Canadian 18 year old boy who goes to fight World War I to punish himself for letting his beloved sister die.

Holy. Shit.

GO READ IT NOW.

Seriously, effing amazing. I almost had a heart attack several times from the sheer awesome. It's a Canadian classic, so most Americans probably haven't heard of it... please, spread the word. You don't have to be Canadian to enjoy this. It's just beauty in 198 pages of heartbreak. Just.... awesome.

It's a very polarizing novel (it has a LOT LOT LOT of homoeroticism and even a few gay rape scenes, so not for the faint of heart, I am warning you beforehand) but in all heartwrenching and just beautiful.

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

It reminds me of a certain character. Puts a LOT in perspective. fskajfhdlfjhdslfkjhsdlfkjdhs *explodes.* *Then, is shot*

NO IGNORE THAT I SUCK PLEASE IGNORE THE BLATANT FANGIRLING.

Anywoot how's life with you guys? I had to register for University today.

I am going to be 17 and 5 feet tall when I start university. The Littlest University Student. *sigh* I'm such a pipsqueak xD

I got Early Admission AND a scholarship to the University of... Well, you know where. I major in Biological Sciences with a stream in Physiology and Developmental Biology. 4 year program. I get to take 10 Zoology courses.... one of which is Parasitic infections. YAY!!!

Then it's off to med school with me. WHOO.

You know, I'm considering selling my soul to the Canadian Armed Forces (no, not because of The Wars, get that out of your head right now). They pay you $300,000 your first year serving to be a Doctor for them at a base. PLUS they pay your med school. AND give you a full time wage during school so you don't need a part time job.

And you only need to serve four years. With a wage of $150,000 a year.

Just... yes.

Besides, when you enlist you automatically get a permanent Lieutenant rank while you're in school (COMPLETE WITH ARMY FATIGUES *explodes from patriotism*), and when you get your Medical license you get a Captain Rank.

This means as long as I take no time off - AT ALL - I will be a general surgeon and an Army Captain at the age of 26.

Captain Doctor *insert my name here* = best title ever to have on your future office door y/y?

Anyway, it's just an option, since I'm dirt poor. xD

Unfortunately they DO choose what field of medicine you specialize in, because I'm pretty sure they only fund you if you are a family Doctor, a general practitioner, or a General Surgeon.

I would not mind being a General Surgeon.

World out~ <3
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