I just watched the movie Titanic.
This will be kind of short, because, well, how can you even put that shit into words?
Fuck.
When I was little, we had these kids books on the Titanic. Little twenty page things with fully colored pictures, and those were horrible as it is, but then to see it on screen. Well, duh, it was worse. What am I saying? A picture is worth a thousand words, and at all those frames per second, that's billions upon billions of pictures all explaining what words never can.
There is something so heart wrenchingly beautiful about people accepting death with such dignity and grace. I broke down sobbing my little heart out when that lone violin player begins playing a sad melody, and one by one the other musicians join him. And then I just kept crying even till after the ending.
I understand that war is hell and war movies are sad and movies about losing loved ones are sad, but watching 1500 innocent people trapped, unable to escape, dying without hope but still trying to defy the inevitable, and then those around them who just come to a certain point where they're not afraid anymore...
One boat went back, only one boat ever went back to the people in the water. It's not just a movie thing, it's the truth. Only. One.
It's the worst thing I ever saw, but I am so very glad that I watched it. If you haven't seen it, do! It's on netflix. It's at libraries. it should be at the store.
Warning: nudity.
But ignore that. Hell, fast forward it or whatever. Even if all you watch is some of the beginning and then the end. Even if you don't get to know some of the characters, just watch it. And bring a box of tissues. You'll need them.
I am a naturally, over empathic person. Every single death was like a gut shot to the chest (one of the worst ways to die by bullet, by the way. slow and long and painful. moving on). Even the random Passenger #1432, I could feel their terror, their pain, their distress as they plummeted to their death or wound up trapped behind a door or bobbing in the water screaming for help. And the sailor that shot himself in the head. And the people jumping over the side. The woman with the baby. The captain. Mr. Andrews. The sailor that went back. Everybody.
So maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe it's just cause it's 2 in the morning, I haven't eaten anything today literally, and I'm way over tired. But I really don't think I am or that I should be feeling any different. I can't even really say how I feel. But I don't think there's any more need for words as it is. What happened was horrifying, and we should never forget it.
Adieu, minions.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Antiitari: What's It All For Anyway..?
Presented by the Antiitari: For All Your Depressing Needs
What's it all for?
Roleplaying I mean.
It's better than video games in a way because you have absolute control over what you do and what your characters do and all that. So I understand the appeal.
But what's it all for?
I put a lot of effort into my sites, the ones I really love anyway. I throw a lot of thought and time and creation and editing and re-evaluation and deleting and reconstructing and planning and plotting into the whole thing. I try to find good graphics, I try to think of cool powers or abilities or races. I delve into the history (and sometimes religion for fantasy worlds) and all the little details that make it great. Mania knows about my site Infinite Sorrow and that exhaustive guide I am nowhere near completing. Or Downfall Zeus with all the details on wars and demigods and how battles will be played out.
But no one really joins my sites. No one really cares.
Yes, one can argue that "Oh, Downfall Zeus isn't finished" or "You're not really on Evanescent Penumbra that much anyway". But that's not the point. I'm also talking about my other sites. Ones that I built and had to watch die in a matter of weeks. Ones that I built years ago or months ago. Sites that I had such high hopes and dreams for. Hopes and dreams that were never realized.
What is it? What's the secret to making a site a success? Back then, you just had to breathe the word "new website" and people would flood towards it. The average lifespan of a site back then was two years. These days, it's more like five or six months.
Is it just me? I don't think so. I have a huge list of sites on my characters page and in my bookmarks folder that started up and shut down before anything could happen.
But even if it was just me, why is it just me then? What is the secret? What am I doing wrong?
I think it's the roleplayers themselves.
There's Old Generation roleplayers and New Generation roleplayers. I won't really get into the details because there is a lot when it comes to why and how I separate them into these categories, but for simplicity sake, I'll just say this.
Old Gen are the roleplayers like Mania and Filigree and Dawny (to name a few). They join a site and stick with it, seeing it through its worst pitfalls, its slow crawls, and its dullest dregs. They will try and give it some boosts to see if it will get going. They come up with cool plots and intriguing, three dimensional characters with vivid personalities and amazing backgrounds. They take the information they're given and weave it into something new, exciting, and personal. They take risks for the sake of roleplay because they love the adventure, and they aren't afraid to step outside the box.
New Gen are the roleplayers we a lot of these days. I'm not naming names because they might take this offensively. New Gens are the kind that are opposite of Old Gens. They join a site going "OMG this place is awesome!" They make a character or two and make one liner posts. They immediately want their characters in love triangles or just plain old love. Their scrippies are short, their characters are 1-dimensional. When things get tough, they bail out. Then they join a whole new site and the same repeats, a vicious repetitive cycle that is slowly causing the downfall of roleplay. They won't take risks, they won't develop their characters, they won't step outside the box.
We helped create this new generation by not stopping them where we should have. Granted, not all of us know any sites with these kinds of people, but still. We let it get out of hand.
My sites have faced toughed times, and you guys have seen them through. Especially Aisthesis. So far, that one is about to hit it's one year anniversary, which, considering what I've just said, that's a big moment.
I'm happy with the people who are sticking by me and my sites, I really am, but we need more minds, new minds, fresh ones if we're going to keep our sites afloat.
And I think it's stupid.
Why do people avoid great sites? Are they that terrified of depth and complexity? Why do they crave simple? Yes, I enjoy simple easy-peasy sites now and then. I've taken off to play on warriors rps and crappy newbie rp sites. I do. But that doesn't mean that everyone should just go on those all the time. Those sites have a purpose: to just be there for random entertainment. But we need to support all the big, complex sites that come our way. We need to raise them up and spread the word like wildfire, and get people to commit to them.
NEVER use homework or life as an excuse. Teens have no lives. That's why they roleplay. If you have enough time to get online in the first place and join a site, then keep getting on.
AND STOP relying on your site owners to make stuff happen for you. This is not a movie or a book. You want something to happen, make it happen!
We are not a taxi service. We do not drive you. You drive us.
Drive in, minions, and make the worthwhile sites worthwhile to their owners too.
What's it all for?
Roleplaying I mean.
It's better than video games in a way because you have absolute control over what you do and what your characters do and all that. So I understand the appeal.
But what's it all for?
I put a lot of effort into my sites, the ones I really love anyway. I throw a lot of thought and time and creation and editing and re-evaluation and deleting and reconstructing and planning and plotting into the whole thing. I try to find good graphics, I try to think of cool powers or abilities or races. I delve into the history (and sometimes religion for fantasy worlds) and all the little details that make it great. Mania knows about my site Infinite Sorrow and that exhaustive guide I am nowhere near completing. Or Downfall Zeus with all the details on wars and demigods and how battles will be played out.
But no one really joins my sites. No one really cares.
Yes, one can argue that "Oh, Downfall Zeus isn't finished" or "You're not really on Evanescent Penumbra that much anyway". But that's not the point. I'm also talking about my other sites. Ones that I built and had to watch die in a matter of weeks. Ones that I built years ago or months ago. Sites that I had such high hopes and dreams for. Hopes and dreams that were never realized.
What is it? What's the secret to making a site a success? Back then, you just had to breathe the word "new website" and people would flood towards it. The average lifespan of a site back then was two years. These days, it's more like five or six months.
Is it just me? I don't think so. I have a huge list of sites on my characters page and in my bookmarks folder that started up and shut down before anything could happen.
But even if it was just me, why is it just me then? What is the secret? What am I doing wrong?
I think it's the roleplayers themselves.
There's Old Generation roleplayers and New Generation roleplayers. I won't really get into the details because there is a lot when it comes to why and how I separate them into these categories, but for simplicity sake, I'll just say this.
Old Gen are the roleplayers like Mania and Filigree and Dawny (to name a few). They join a site and stick with it, seeing it through its worst pitfalls, its slow crawls, and its dullest dregs. They will try and give it some boosts to see if it will get going. They come up with cool plots and intriguing, three dimensional characters with vivid personalities and amazing backgrounds. They take the information they're given and weave it into something new, exciting, and personal. They take risks for the sake of roleplay because they love the adventure, and they aren't afraid to step outside the box.
New Gen are the roleplayers we a lot of these days. I'm not naming names because they might take this offensively. New Gens are the kind that are opposite of Old Gens. They join a site going "OMG this place is awesome!" They make a character or two and make one liner posts. They immediately want their characters in love triangles or just plain old love. Their scrippies are short, their characters are 1-dimensional. When things get tough, they bail out. Then they join a whole new site and the same repeats, a vicious repetitive cycle that is slowly causing the downfall of roleplay. They won't take risks, they won't develop their characters, they won't step outside the box.
We helped create this new generation by not stopping them where we should have. Granted, not all of us know any sites with these kinds of people, but still. We let it get out of hand.
My sites have faced toughed times, and you guys have seen them through. Especially Aisthesis. So far, that one is about to hit it's one year anniversary, which, considering what I've just said, that's a big moment.
I'm happy with the people who are sticking by me and my sites, I really am, but we need more minds, new minds, fresh ones if we're going to keep our sites afloat.
And I think it's stupid.
Why do people avoid great sites? Are they that terrified of depth and complexity? Why do they crave simple? Yes, I enjoy simple easy-peasy sites now and then. I've taken off to play on warriors rps and crappy newbie rp sites. I do. But that doesn't mean that everyone should just go on those all the time. Those sites have a purpose: to just be there for random entertainment. But we need to support all the big, complex sites that come our way. We need to raise them up and spread the word like wildfire, and get people to commit to them.
NEVER use homework or life as an excuse. Teens have no lives. That's why they roleplay. If you have enough time to get online in the first place and join a site, then keep getting on.
AND STOP relying on your site owners to make stuff happen for you. This is not a movie or a book. You want something to happen, make it happen!
We are not a taxi service. We do not drive you. You drive us.
Drive in, minions, and make the worthwhile sites worthwhile to their owners too.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
The Asian Phase: a good phase to be in
NOTE: when I say English in this post, I am referring to caucasian white people.
So I'm in an Asian phase, and what do I possibly mean by that? Well, it means I become deeply obsessed with all things Asian. I listen to my anime theme songs. I name characters Asian things. I raid the Oriental Store. I spontaneously buy chopsticks. I drink aloe vera leche juice. I eat chile mango pops (those things are ugh). I speak random phrases in varied Asian phrases. I spout random Asian culture facts that are probably wrong.
But now I'm taking it on a different level. I read an article on it recently, and it has bugged me a lot lately as well: cultural diversity in entertainment.
Now yes, there are a lot of characters in shows and things now that are black. That's great. Thanks Obama (for once). But there aren't any MAIN characters that are of different cultures and races. It's always side characters or supporting characters that are of another race.
So in my most recent stories and now in my roleplays, I'm making Asians. This includes Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. Others here and there, but those are the main three that I choose from. Yah. I love Asia! Whoot! I'm so jelly of Asians. I don't know why. Mostly it's their ninjas and samurai and awesome FLAWLESS hair and anime. Yah. And sushi and stuff. Yah. I'm really making a fool of myself with this paragraph right here, but this is what happens when the Niitari decides to make a blogpost on two hours of sleep :3
I'm also making a bunch of other cultures. I am not racist for Asians, okay. I am also sticking by French, Italians, and Russians. Russians are kick butt.
The point here is that my characters are not going to be English. If that sounds racist, I really don't care. I'm not English. My characters will speak English since I can't speak any other language except enough German to be a tourist.
So how does this affect my stories? Well, it doesn't. Race should never affect a character at all.
I also think how stupid it is that people get all worked up about race. They act like if they change the race, they have to change the character.
Here's a hint: no. I used to think this too. At one point, I wanted to make a character in a story black. I thought it would be cool if the main character in my book was black for once: probably my first step towards real racial diversity in my writings. The problem was that I felt I hit a roadblock. My mind spat this question at me: what are black people like? What do they do? How do they act around other people? What everyday things, like TV shows or sports, do they enjoy?
Suddenly I felt bogged down, like I had to do research before I could write this character and it was "all because I made him black."
Then I realized how BS that was. We are PEOPLE. Believe it or not, we're all the same. We like what we like, hate what we don't, and in between.
Well, then, there's the issue of culture. I think that's another reason why books with MCs as other races don't work out when they're written by English people. The author gets so bogged down about getting the culture right that they lose sight of the fact that they're writing a book. They go into the whats and the whos and the whys and the do this and do that and don't eat that on this day when that sun is there.
But when we look at an anime show, for instance, they hardly talk about their culture. Only the basic, everyday stuff is there, like calling people with the proper honorifics (-san, -chan, -sensei, etc), bowing, removing shoes when entering a private dwelling, drinking tea like Iroh, and those simple things. Can you write a short list of the most common things you see in anime that aren't typical behavior of American culture? You can? Good. You have all you need to know to go write a fiction novel with an all-Japanese cast in Japan.
Does this mean you are safe from those whining, conniving know-it-alls who will nit pick your story and point out all the cultural habits you missed? No. But the world is full of little shits, so just brush them off like the dirt they are and move along. If someone tells you something that you ACTUALLY did get wrong that is VITAL, then go thank them and change it: don't get on your high horse. But just be confident in your writing. You're writing about characters. You're writing about adventure and magical swords and chicks with gravity defying boobage and gun slinging motorcyclists. If you forget about the festival where all the females where kimonos and the children get to set fire to their teachers, that's perfectly fine. This is not an anthropology document, it's a story. I'll bet you were so wrapped up in your favorite anime show anyway that most cultural things slipped your notice. Well, it'll be the same with your writings. The readers will be so wrapped up in the flying elephant laser battles that they'll probably ignore or just hardly notice when you slip a cultural reference in there. Kudos to you if your story is so enthralling, the reader both forgets and doesn't seem to care that they forgot where your story takes place.
So go ahead and write a story with somebody who isn't your a-typical white kid. If they're white skinned, make them Russian. Russians are awesome.
I really want to promote racial diversity, and this probably isn't the BEST way to do it, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
I myself am following my own advice. My HOTD site is full of characters from different countries. Hunger Games site, I have a Hispanic kid and three Asians. My story-in-the-works called The Secret is about Chinese people in China. Through Struggle has a female Asian character (a side character, but whatever. She was originally going to be white).
Another thing: when you write red head characters, don't always make them these bubbly, free-spirited, sexy, adventurous people. Three TV shows I've seen have these darn red heads in them that are all the same and rather boring. The first was Charlie in Supernatural. Then there was that red head in Beauty & the Beast (or whatever it's called). There was a third one, but I forget where she was. But you know what I'm talking about! Whatever happened to gingers being soulless? Or how about making them shy and cute or strong and proper (Ginny Weasley: little and older versions). Red heads can be diverse too.
Yah, that's my rant for today.
ONE WEIRD THING!
Dawny showed me this site www.mortalitatis.weebly.com . What does this page remind you of?
So I'm in an Asian phase, and what do I possibly mean by that? Well, it means I become deeply obsessed with all things Asian. I listen to my anime theme songs. I name characters Asian things. I raid the Oriental Store. I spontaneously buy chopsticks. I drink aloe vera leche juice. I eat chile mango pops (those things are ugh). I speak random phrases in varied Asian phrases. I spout random Asian culture facts that are probably wrong.
But now I'm taking it on a different level. I read an article on it recently, and it has bugged me a lot lately as well: cultural diversity in entertainment.
Now yes, there are a lot of characters in shows and things now that are black. That's great. Thanks Obama (for once). But there aren't any MAIN characters that are of different cultures and races. It's always side characters or supporting characters that are of another race.
So in my most recent stories and now in my roleplays, I'm making Asians. This includes Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. Others here and there, but those are the main three that I choose from. Yah. I love Asia! Whoot! I'm so jelly of Asians. I don't know why. Mostly it's their ninjas and samurai and awesome FLAWLESS hair and anime. Yah. And sushi and stuff. Yah. I'm really making a fool of myself with this paragraph right here, but this is what happens when the Niitari decides to make a blogpost on two hours of sleep :3
I'm also making a bunch of other cultures. I am not racist for Asians, okay. I am also sticking by French, Italians, and Russians. Russians are kick butt.
The point here is that my characters are not going to be English. If that sounds racist, I really don't care. I'm not English. My characters will speak English since I can't speak any other language except enough German to be a tourist.
So how does this affect my stories? Well, it doesn't. Race should never affect a character at all.
I also think how stupid it is that people get all worked up about race. They act like if they change the race, they have to change the character.
Here's a hint: no. I used to think this too. At one point, I wanted to make a character in a story black. I thought it would be cool if the main character in my book was black for once: probably my first step towards real racial diversity in my writings. The problem was that I felt I hit a roadblock. My mind spat this question at me: what are black people like? What do they do? How do they act around other people? What everyday things, like TV shows or sports, do they enjoy?
Suddenly I felt bogged down, like I had to do research before I could write this character and it was "all because I made him black."
Then I realized how BS that was. We are PEOPLE. Believe it or not, we're all the same. We like what we like, hate what we don't, and in between.
Well, then, there's the issue of culture. I think that's another reason why books with MCs as other races don't work out when they're written by English people. The author gets so bogged down about getting the culture right that they lose sight of the fact that they're writing a book. They go into the whats and the whos and the whys and the do this and do that and don't eat that on this day when that sun is there.
But when we look at an anime show, for instance, they hardly talk about their culture. Only the basic, everyday stuff is there, like calling people with the proper honorifics (-san, -chan, -sensei, etc), bowing, removing shoes when entering a private dwelling, drinking tea like Iroh, and those simple things. Can you write a short list of the most common things you see in anime that aren't typical behavior of American culture? You can? Good. You have all you need to know to go write a fiction novel with an all-Japanese cast in Japan.
Does this mean you are safe from those whining, conniving know-it-alls who will nit pick your story and point out all the cultural habits you missed? No. But the world is full of little shits, so just brush them off like the dirt they are and move along. If someone tells you something that you ACTUALLY did get wrong that is VITAL, then go thank them and change it: don't get on your high horse. But just be confident in your writing. You're writing about characters. You're writing about adventure and magical swords and chicks with gravity defying boobage and gun slinging motorcyclists. If you forget about the festival where all the females where kimonos and the children get to set fire to their teachers, that's perfectly fine. This is not an anthropology document, it's a story. I'll bet you were so wrapped up in your favorite anime show anyway that most cultural things slipped your notice. Well, it'll be the same with your writings. The readers will be so wrapped up in the flying elephant laser battles that they'll probably ignore or just hardly notice when you slip a cultural reference in there. Kudos to you if your story is so enthralling, the reader both forgets and doesn't seem to care that they forgot where your story takes place.
So go ahead and write a story with somebody who isn't your a-typical white kid. If they're white skinned, make them Russian. Russians are awesome.
I really want to promote racial diversity, and this probably isn't the BEST way to do it, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
I myself am following my own advice. My HOTD site is full of characters from different countries. Hunger Games site, I have a Hispanic kid and three Asians. My story-in-the-works called The Secret is about Chinese people in China. Through Struggle has a female Asian character (a side character, but whatever. She was originally going to be white).
Another thing: when you write red head characters, don't always make them these bubbly, free-spirited, sexy, adventurous people. Three TV shows I've seen have these darn red heads in them that are all the same and rather boring. The first was Charlie in Supernatural. Then there was that red head in Beauty & the Beast (or whatever it's called). There was a third one, but I forget where she was. But you know what I'm talking about! Whatever happened to gingers being soulless? Or how about making them shy and cute or strong and proper (Ginny Weasley: little and older versions). Red heads can be diverse too.
Yah, that's my rant for today.
ONE WEIRD THING!
Dawny showed me this site www.mortalitatis.weebly.com . What does this page remind you of?
Yah, coincidence? A clue: no.
No, the owner (kshi) has not stolen anything. Her site is purely original and purely awesome. She has been known to make intense sites. I just thought it was the creepiest thing ever and almost fainted, I swear. I got these weird heart palpations and had the urge to sit down (already was). So yah, really creepy.
That's all for tonight minions. Adieu.
WAIT! Fooled you! There's a bit more.
Aisthesis revampire-ing! (revamping but with a vampire cause I missed Halloween). Gonna go through some major changes with more info added to make things clearer, some actual stuff will bed added to the other pages, lots of graphics, and maybe some new ranking systems. Not totally sure yet, but it will be awesome.
Evanescent Penumbra will also be updated. I will finish Cuprumbria. I will add more graphics and site content to those empty pages. New characters will be added to the database.
Lots of fun to be had by all. Cheerio minions, and I mean it this time.
I'm leaving this time.
I'm serious.
Stop reading this.
:P
Alright seriously, goodbye.
STOP READI-
Sunday, December 1, 2013
December Is Here
Ahh yes, December. >.< Next two weeks I'm going to be taking exams, exams, exams. I'm going to be blowing at least 125 dollars on just the one exam. I hope nothing else costs such ridiculous amounts of money. I'm also working at the hospital on Wednesday. I was going to do it Friday, but then I was sick. Ugh.
Leif and I are also making a buster sword for LARPing. I will post pictures up once we're done, so if you're interested, stay tuned for that.
RP is doing okay. I've been working and working and playing around with the sites.
Got the new Aisthesis characters blog up, and I am slowly adding people. I need to work on my character bios too.
Evanescent Penumbra looks dead. It isn't, but it looks that way. Sad. Star will be joining it! Whoot!
Worked on Prelude to Merde today because it needed some love and a recent dream I had inspired me to start working on it some more.
I joined a zombie roleplay with the riveting title Zombie Roleplay. Magic from MBS owns it. It's pretty cool. Very well managed. The forums could be worked on some, but that's okay. My three characters are Sorrel Magdog, Merlin Scarlett, and Hasu Fauste. Sorrel and Hasu use bows. Merlin uses a scimitar. Whoot! If anything, my Hunger Games rp site has given me a love for the blatantly weird names as well as a plethora of new ideas on weapon usage.
What am I saying? I always loved weird names. My future sons will be named Taikatalvi, Caradhras, and Lazlo. Or Altair, Malik, and Kadar. But yah know, I think the first three won't be laughed at so much. The last three will be teased for having their names after Assassin's Creed. Well shun you, laughers. Altair means eagle, Malik means angel, and Kadar means strong. I loved the name Malik a long time ago anyway. It was the name of Arashi Alkara and Mystique de Spiritus' son, which was decided a year before I saw Blassreiter and two years before I heard of Assassin's Creed. So there.
Anyways, off of that tangent, apparently Mania wants to get Sync and Advent together on Janlea City.
Oh gods, I ship them SOOOOOOoooOOOOooo HARD! *squeee* I even drew a really crappy picture of them together *hehe*. But anywhos, I really hope we can do that if Flamer ever gets her butt online to free up Sync >.<
Mania also wants to finally get her characters into a relationship. Hrmm, well that shouldn't be too ahrd. She has AWESOME characters that my characters would be happy to date. Problem is, hers are male, mine are male. Meh. I just don't want to make females. I finally caved and made one on the Hunger Games site and then one on MBS, but except for Marsala on Janlea, I had a pretty good No-Females streak going.
On ANOTHER note, you all are probably wondering why I make so many roleplay sites when it seems I can hardly keep up with them. Well, actually, I've been doing okay. Hunger Games is going slowly, but no one cares. It's not dead, it's just on hold cause two people are having exams, Kiba is lazy (love ya grandpa keebs), and I figure I should just postpone posting till they get on already. Aisthesis is going fine. I really don't need to elaborate. Everyone is initiating to some extent and keeps themselves accountable. Everyone poofs on and off on Half Breed's War... Evanescent Penumbra is just there to be there. I think the sheer size is dwarfing the tiny spoonful of members, so all it needs is more members really. And then that's about it.
So I make new sites here and there and everywhere because I am always getting new ideas and always trying to better my roelplay sites. So first I make a new site, my little test run. If it floats, whoot! If it sinks, scrap it and start over. Right now, quite a few are in the works. I think Mastercraft Online is my biggest endeavor ever to grace the roleplay world. Like holy crap... I really shouldn't be making it... O.O I mean, it's just me: one little piddly person, and here's a site that usually a team of ten or twenty people create together. Well, I dream big I guess.
So if ever I pop on and be all "hey guess what! I'm making a new site" don't just roll your eyes and sigh and say "there niitari goes again", because there's going to be something more to it than the actual plot or concepts I throw out there when describing it. I don't demand or even ask that you join the darn things, but if you check them out, maybe you'll see something there that you think would be cool to do on your own site.
That's all for now minions. Peep out!
Leif and I are also making a buster sword for LARPing. I will post pictures up once we're done, so if you're interested, stay tuned for that.
RP is doing okay. I've been working and working and playing around with the sites.
Got the new Aisthesis characters blog up, and I am slowly adding people. I need to work on my character bios too.
Evanescent Penumbra looks dead. It isn't, but it looks that way. Sad. Star will be joining it! Whoot!
Worked on Prelude to Merde today because it needed some love and a recent dream I had inspired me to start working on it some more.
I joined a zombie roleplay with the riveting title Zombie Roleplay. Magic from MBS owns it. It's pretty cool. Very well managed. The forums could be worked on some, but that's okay. My three characters are Sorrel Magdog, Merlin Scarlett, and Hasu Fauste. Sorrel and Hasu use bows. Merlin uses a scimitar. Whoot! If anything, my Hunger Games rp site has given me a love for the blatantly weird names as well as a plethora of new ideas on weapon usage.
What am I saying? I always loved weird names. My future sons will be named Taikatalvi, Caradhras, and Lazlo. Or Altair, Malik, and Kadar. But yah know, I think the first three won't be laughed at so much. The last three will be teased for having their names after Assassin's Creed. Well shun you, laughers. Altair means eagle, Malik means angel, and Kadar means strong. I loved the name Malik a long time ago anyway. It was the name of Arashi Alkara and Mystique de Spiritus' son, which was decided a year before I saw Blassreiter and two years before I heard of Assassin's Creed. So there.
Anyways, off of that tangent, apparently Mania wants to get Sync and Advent together on Janlea City.
Oh gods, I ship them SOOOOOOoooOOOOooo HARD! *squeee* I even drew a really crappy picture of them together *hehe*. But anywhos, I really hope we can do that if Flamer ever gets her butt online to free up Sync >.<
Mania also wants to finally get her characters into a relationship. Hrmm, well that shouldn't be too ahrd. She has AWESOME characters that my characters would be happy to date. Problem is, hers are male, mine are male. Meh. I just don't want to make females. I finally caved and made one on the Hunger Games site and then one on MBS, but except for Marsala on Janlea, I had a pretty good No-Females streak going.
On ANOTHER note, you all are probably wondering why I make so many roleplay sites when it seems I can hardly keep up with them. Well, actually, I've been doing okay. Hunger Games is going slowly, but no one cares. It's not dead, it's just on hold cause two people are having exams, Kiba is lazy (love ya grandpa keebs), and I figure I should just postpone posting till they get on already. Aisthesis is going fine. I really don't need to elaborate. Everyone is initiating to some extent and keeps themselves accountable. Everyone poofs on and off on Half Breed's War... Evanescent Penumbra is just there to be there. I think the sheer size is dwarfing the tiny spoonful of members, so all it needs is more members really. And then that's about it.
So I make new sites here and there and everywhere because I am always getting new ideas and always trying to better my roelplay sites. So first I make a new site, my little test run. If it floats, whoot! If it sinks, scrap it and start over. Right now, quite a few are in the works. I think Mastercraft Online is my biggest endeavor ever to grace the roleplay world. Like holy crap... I really shouldn't be making it... O.O I mean, it's just me: one little piddly person, and here's a site that usually a team of ten or twenty people create together. Well, I dream big I guess.
So if ever I pop on and be all "hey guess what! I'm making a new site" don't just roll your eyes and sigh and say "there niitari goes again", because there's going to be something more to it than the actual plot or concepts I throw out there when describing it. I don't demand or even ask that you join the darn things, but if you check them out, maybe you'll see something there that you think would be cool to do on your own site.
That's all for now minions. Peep out!
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