In Dr. Horrible news, Bad Horse is my new villain hero.

In video game news, I'm about halfway through Mercedes's story and fuck you, Beldor, fuck you so hard. Die in a FIRE. I'm not playing right now to avoid further screaming. Literally. Cornelius is totally adorable, and I love the little glimpses of Gwendolyn from his storyline. Meanwhile, in Persona 3, we just acquired Fuuka. Yeah, I'm slow.

In manga news, everything in D. Gray-man is absolutely sldkfjsldf awesome, and everything in Bleach is awesome. I want this fight like burning and I want to see Orihime involved. And sdlfkjsdlfkj ALLEN

( Avatar finale goes here. )

All three seasons of Avatar were worth watching just so that I could be "in" on The Ember Island Players. I cannot even list all the things that were hilarious or otherwise awesome. It would simply take too long.

Strangely knowledgeable cabbage merchant, you win.

/finale starts here in a half-hour

"My Persona being Thunder-based, I can take Thunder attacks all day. But Ice is another matter.
...isn't Mitsuru's Persona is Ice-based? But if my Persona is weak to Ice... and my Persona reflects my personality..."

Akihiko, just admit it, you're whipped. Mitsuru tops you so hard


P.S.: Today wrote 3449 words on The Last Dreamer. \o/

Writing for Yesterday
Another Side: 3264 words
The Last Dreamer: 790 words

I know those word counts look terrible, my massive fanfic opus compared to my actual awesome original stuff, but I'm trying to stick to a regular structure instead of just a lol-whenever structure with TLD. Since lol-whenever is my method with AS (I tend to do nothing, nothing, nothing, and then a sudden burst of AS whenever I'm inspired) it looks impressive now, but that impressiveness will definitely fade since I expect to only fill in a description or two for the next, oh, two weeks (since the next chapter is libekory).


I sincerely believe in my policy of hate the stupid fans, not the subject matter. A lot of people get all "I hate the KH fandom, so I hate KH! I hate the fans, so I hate Ichigo and Orihime!" but I believe this is, itself, stupid. There are intelligent fans and good reasons out there for everything. To say "I've never played X but I hate its fangirls, so I hate it!!"

Look, remember the saying, "A person is intelligent. People are stupid." You can't let a group of people change your view of the source material. You're missing out.

I live this belief. I hate the KH fandom, but I still enjoy KH. A lot of Ichigo/Rukia fans make me want to strangle someone, but that doesn't make me hate Ichigo and Rukia's relationship.

And I feel like other people don't do this. They write off pairings and fandoms just because they're too popular, or the fans are too something, or they feel the need to denigrate the relationship between two characters just because they don't like them as a ship.

TLDR: Hate the shipper, not the ship. Hate the fandom, not the series.

It's rapidly becoming my favorite saying.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Pretty much everything I'd hoped it would be, and then some, since fortunately I wasn't asking for plot twists or subtlety or anything. It can stay.

Bleach 317

That color spread is gorgeous. Ichigo and Rukia's reunion was adorable. I fangirl Orihime more with just about every passing chapter.

DGM 166

I so didn't even realize that was Allen until I read it again, I are inattentive. Also, Mana, whaaat. Goddamn the art in this series is gorgeous.

Odin Sphere

Finished playing through Gwendolyn's story, started on Cornelius's. The pooka are so cute aaaah. Oswald/Gwendolyn can stay. I kind of want to drabble for them, but I guess I should play Oswald's story before I write anything involving him. Myrissss This game gets really hard -- I die on every boss, mini-boss, and some random battles -- but since death is totally painless, it was less a matter of difficulty and more a matter of patience.

Me

Why do I have the flu sdlkfjslfj

The taxi picked me up a half-hour early to get to the airport; then they were forty minutes late boarding the airplane, and then we spent two hours sitting on the tarmac waiting to be allowed to take off. I was traveling for literally close to twelve hours (left the house at 5PM EST, arrived at my house at 4:15PM EST).

Then, to make matters worse, I had an aisle all to myself, but the two people in the next aisle were jealous of the extra footroom that I paid extra for and so they just... moved on over and took up the entire rest of the aisle. I hated everyone for a while there.

But I had this Lorna Doones package on the way to NY, and I haven't had those in years but they were quite good, so I asked for them on the way back, too. The woman said, "We don't bring those out this early in the flight, but I can look for them for you." Then she didn't come back. But then a million years later when we were about to go into our final descent, she comes back looking for garbage and I asked, "Lorna Doones?" and she said she doesn't think they normally distribute those on these flights, and anyway she couldn't find them. But then just as we started to really make our descent, she ran over with two packages of Lorna Doones and pressed them into my hand and then ran back to get seated.

Somehow, that made me feel better about the whole ridiculous trip.

And it feels so damn good to be home sldkfjslf

Jason and I played up to the first dungeon sequence in Persona 3, and I approve. Characters and game system seem cool, I like the atmosphere and the ideas. Jason pondered something that may not actually be addressed in the game: what does it say about Minato, that he has all these Personas, which are supposedly representations of your soul, etc? It's like he switches personalities, identities, at the drop of a hat. What must it be like to know someone like that? Wouldn't it be freaky? Silent hero syndrome, though.

He also showed me the complete collection of videos of Gwendolyn's story in Odin Sphere. I'm glad she and Emo Knight Oswald? got a happy ending, for about two seconds before the end of the world. I'm probably very spoiled and it won't have the same impact as if I'd played it from scratch (assuming you open the character scenarios one at a time; this may not be correct) but it was very engaging.

So they're both on my list. Sigh. Might buy them on Friday, when I go to see Hellboy lololol

+ Oh goody. Another Bleach pairing comm. sdlkfjsdf my pet peeve.

At least it's not just for some totally fringe pairing this time. Still, what is with this fandom and its love of comms? Just make a X/Y is love banner like everyone else! It's the only fandom I'm in where every single crack ship anyone comes up with gets its own four-member single-post LJ community. I think Kira/Kiyone would be awesomesocks and totally work, but I'm cool with just thinking that, because I am not a sheep.


+Tomorrow madfnorder is coming over to attempt to addict me to Persona 3 before I have to leave for the airport. Since everyone on the internets likes Persona 3, I suppose I'll give it a shot. I hear there's a Persona 4 due out in December for the PS2, so it's a good time to get interested!


+Although speaking of sheep, I have compulsively done some icon weeding and fished up 45 new icons that I will sift through and upload Wednesday, probably.

I love banners and other pretty things like, and I desperately want a banner, but I don't want a "Friends Only" banner. Friends Only just seems like... so much work. It means I have to friend everyone who friends me in order before I can know what they'll be like, and it means that unfriending people is an ordeal -- all these friends cuts and "if you don't want to be cut" and the like that everyone juggles... I can't be bothered with that stuff, I'm lazy.

What I want is that picture of Lenalee pinching Kanda's cheek, and it'd say, "Friend me if you think you can put up with me."

This is how you know LJ is running out of ideas: Their Writer's Block thing of the day is, Post some pictures of outhouses or bathrooms that have given you a lasting impression, and talk about what the restroom means to you.

( Death/family/funeral/etc )

I come away feeling really good about it. I feel like maybe the rabbi was right, and that... for a lot of us (obviously not for my aunt, but for a lot of us) there was closure when he was blessed and buried.

Don't think I'll need to post about it again, unless something wacky happens while we sit shiva.

Attitude here is dismal, with occasional bursts of loud. My aunt has to give a speech at the funeral, but she kept getting frustrated and tearing up her speeches, so my mother convinced her that I should write the speech. Thanks Mom, no pressure or anything, right?

I can't write because I don't have access to a good computer or writing surface; I can't move because my backneckshoulder are killlling me. But I've been driving. :D

More on the funeral tomorrow, or Monday, or something. I KNOW YOU'RE ALL REALLY EAGER TO KNOW ALL THE GORY DETAILS, RIGHT?

( Six Feet Under told me that grieving in the open is better, but I disagree. )


ETA: I forgot to mention today was my grandfather's birthday. Do you know how hard it is to get a birthday card that isn't "Wishing you the best birthday ever!" or "Enjoy your special day!"? Not exactly appropriate, when it's the day before your grandson's funeral.

I want to thank you, all of you, who commented on my earlier post. I can't comment back, my brain is on ice or something, but it's really tremendous, knowing that all of you guys are there with hugs and well-wishes.

Now, to ruin the impression that I mourn at all: Holy crap shiva what, are you serious? I've never had a family member more significant than a cat die before, so what? For shiva I have to sit, in a room, with my family, for a day, with absolutely nothing that might make any of us feel good. No TV, no games, no decks of cards, no books, no happy thoughts. Nothing. And in more out-of-touch with reality more traditional families, this can go on for up to a week! Don't you all wish you were Jewish?!

So, yeah.

Excitement is spending your 4th of July crossing the country on a plane instead of watching fireworks I don't wanna go I wanna stay here nooooo I don't wanna go don't make me go ahem.

But apparently madfnorder and maladaptive and wy1d will all be in NYC while I'm there. Potential bonus?

Well, it's finally happened. My idiot cousin, Scott, went and did it. We all tried to rein him in, to tell him, you know, Scott, maybe hanging out with drunks and druggies and then partying all night and driving around like a lunatic with them until dawn isn't the way to go. He used to listen, when we told him those things. Or anything. He didn't really have any opinions until I moved away to college; he was four years younger than me, and did anything I said, hoping to impress me. He went to SUNY Albany because I went there.

We all tried to tell him. I knew, when he didn't listen, that he'd get in trouble.

I just thought he'd have a chance to learn from it.

The funeral is Sunday.

Sorry for the depressing post.

He was scared of butterflies, when we were kids, and there are pictures of him dressing up in our grandmother's clothes with me and my sisters.

Peter Jackson approached Guillermo del Toro to direct Halo (2009), and even though del Toro considered it, he turned the offer down so he could direct this sequel. Also, Del Toro turned down I Am Legend (2007), One Missed Call (2008), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2008) for the same reason.

...del Toro is either really confident in Hellboy, really attached to the franchise, or stone cold crazy. I mean -- a Harry Potter movie? For Hellboy? Did it really kick that much ass in the box office? Whatever the case, keep rocking, sir.

Must -- resist the urge to read Hellboy comics -- until after I've met my wordcount on the Dragon/Ambassador story.

ALSO LOL HI NEW FRIENDS. Umm, look, I'm totally awesome, I... I am this cool:



And that's pretty damn cool, evidently.

I got nothing.

My WoW account has been hacked. Last night I had a weird problem where hitting Tab would close WoW. I had to log back on like every five minutes.

I guess someone stole my password when I did.

This morning I woke up to find that Saiyene was transferred to Duskwood, almost all her items are gone, all her gold is gone, and most of her bank items AND the bags they were in. (Still have Awbee's Scale!!) My hearthstone was used only 15 minutes ago. Some of her gear has been savaged, too -- she has Benediction on, but she wasn't using Benediction, she was using something from a high-end BC dungeon.

It's been so long since I really played Saiyene, though, (because I wanted to move her back to Eonar and not get her entrenched in her new server) that I have no idea what's missing. I can't give them any useful information.

Oddly, things that I do still have include both her mounts and 100 Burning Blossoms for the Midsummer Fire Festival. I guess they went and raided a Horde city for me on my new server. How thoughtful.

Now I can't transfer her back to Eonar...

Edit: And they ditched her professions. Great.
Edit: Blizz has restored some of her vendored items. Welcome home, Black Kingsnake! Still no word on the gold, the realm transfer, or the epic fail.

...why won't these damn microants leave us alone. We used vinegar/water and bought Ant-B-Gone and everything. :\

Hoping to keep to a Monday/Friday schedule of updating Another Side... Starting July 1 I'm going to try novel_in_90... I need to write more Last Dreamer... I need to finish the Red Queen series so I can be done with TWEWY... I have way too much writing to do, and not enough time to do it in. And I'm unemployed, I don't know how much more free time I could possibly have.

And I need to play WoW. Neeeed it. And I keep coming up with RP ideas for characters thanks to wow_fanart. Everyone there seems to have an idea! Only I never actually want to RP it. I just want to have RP ideas. Fail.

Finally, click my purple dragon. I rescued her last night when she had only an hour left to live. Now she has only half a day left to live. Save her. D: Update: She's saved! Look at my scroll instead if you're interested.

So life is going good.

Awesome #1: The Guy In Our Living Room
There is a guy staying in our living room -- a potential for third roomie, who needs a place to crash while he shows up for a ten-day job a few blocks from here, so he's forking out $10 a night to camp out. The first night we have vacuum troubles for over an hour, so intense that libekory is reduced to snapping at people in frustration, but the guy staying in our living room goes, "Oh, a Kirby. I used to repair these." He then proceeds to fix it.

Awesome #2: The Warcraft Girl
I'm playing Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, again, because I don't want to level my 32 warlock until she can get a mount in the upcoming patch to WoW, when the second potential roomie shows up. We give her a tour, and then she goes, "Is that Warcraft III music I hear?" I immediately realize that this girl is a keeper. (Furthermore: Horde fangirl.) She also loves Kingdom Hearts, understands about our cats peeing everywhere, and wants to cook for us, as long as someone else does dishes. I don't mind being the dish girl.

Awesome #3: The Job Interview
After all this time, someone finally gives me a call back from the many resumes I submitted. She gives me a little phone interview, we both talk about graduating from SUNY Albany and NY weather, and then she tells me she'll give me a call next week about setting up an interview. Nice!

Awesome #4: The Free Furniture
The guy in our living room comes home from a bike-hunting adventure and says, "Did you guys want any furniture? Because, there's a Salvation army truck next door, taking away an entertainment center and a loveseat..." We have had zero furniture in our living room. Our TVs were on the floor, and we sit on the floor to watch them. (Guy in our living room sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor.) Now we have a free loveseat in good condition, and a free entertainment center that is a perfect fit (34" wide) for our TV (33" wide).

Awesome #5: The Dragons
Okay I'm stuck on this Dragon Cave thing a little. But I'm raising dragons! And the cute one already has wings! "Aww...It's a cute baby dragon. It enjoys gathering pebbles and other small rocks and putting them in a pile." TELL ME THAT ISN'T ADORABLE. Grow up my little dragonets.

I hear that there's a lot of negativity on LJ lately. Not in my corner. :D

You will not hear me say:
bottom line, game plan, role model, scenario, or hopefully.
I will not kick back, mellow out, or be on a roll.
I will not go for it and I will not check it out;
I don't even know what "it" is.
And when I leave here I definitely will not boogie.

If anyone says George Carlin passed away, or he expired, they're doing it wrong.

omg I have B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L Megami Kouhosei icons now~~



I love almateria~~

Apparently, Colorado lost my unemployment claim. I'm going to have to call them tomorrow and cry on them. Still job hunting, but haven't gotten any interviews yet. I guess the current job market isn't too great for people with next to no experience and way too much education.

OTHERWISE I'm playing World of Warcraft like a crazy thing. We need 70 Hordelings before the expansion hahaha maybe. I'm sad we don't have 70 Hordelings now -- this little guy drops off Ahune and he really needs to be Reth Reth Reth's guild mascot. :\

1. Why would someone put a single bolt of silk cloth in a level 175 lockbox?

2. This Gray Bear that I fought clearly has a tongue. I can see it. So why doesn't he drop Gray Bear Tongue? I should take a screenshot and complain to a GM.

3. After an SM Library run on Kirin Tor, I have insecurity about my druid tanking. A, at least, no one complimented me, and I know there was at least one really chaotic fight where I totally failed to keep the Houndmaster's dogs off the priest -- I FAIL AT LIFE SOB.