All the World's a Stage

Or something. Just needed a fancy title. I don't do stage stuff, sorry.


WRITING
Nothing.
The end.
Okay, I've done a little teeny amount.
I have stuff and projects and things that I want to write so bad, but they are all on my laptop. Which apparently has a major fucking issue. Could be the charging port. Could be the damn logic board. Not gonna know till I send it in. First I have to rip everything off the hard drive. Then I can send it in and find out how expensive it will be to fix it. *sigh*
ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR SHIT, CHILDREN!!!
I started a sort of short little novel thing using google docs (gawd I love that program). It's called Polaris: the Cursed of Sarnath, and jsut like the title implies, it is a conjoined smash up of the H. P. Lovecraft's short stories "Polaris", "the Doom That Came to Sarnath", and "the Alchemist". It's more or less a sequel to "the Doom that came to Sarnath" and features the survivor of Sarnath's fall, Cantarella, wandering the world with his faithful bodygaurd as they search for a cure to his curse. It kinda has a Final Fantasy feel to it (at least that's my aim) cause at the time I read those stories I was watching Final Fantasy Brotherhood.
I also finally buckled down and wrote out stuff for my thriller The Collector, for any of you who heard me ramble about that one.
And I believe that is all the writing. Except for LARP backstory shenanigans, there really isn't anything else that I have been writing.

READING
I mentioned that I was going on a reading binge, but thanks to my new job, I don't really have time. Once I get adjusted to my new schedule, I hope to pick up reading again. Working through "Maximum Ice" so far as well as the Lovecraft collection. For the Lovecraft collection, I'm on "From Beyond", which chronologically is the 21st of his 100+ or so works.
I also learned that my collection does not contain EVERYTHING he wrote, which makes me sad, but oh well.

ROLEPLAY
I finally got around to making a blog pertaining to rp http://websiteprometheus.blogspot.com

Otherwise, I am slowly getting back into rping. It is slow...

CRAFTING
New projects of which I will post pictures soon!


WATCHING

------------------Rurouni Kenshin

Binge watching while I craft because why not. When I do crafting, I get too bored with just music in the background, so I turn to long, uncomplicated anime like this one for relief. That's how I got through re-watching Kuroko seasons 1 and 2. I am on episode 31 of the 95 episodes. Thankfully I have more crafting coming up so I can hopefully get through another big binge of them.
It's a good show. I prefer the dub to the sub. It happens.


=============Psycho Diver

Piece of shit anime.
Like it would have been better as a series with actual character development and more actual psycho diving. It was just very, very weak with a forced love plot and there was way more tell than show and it was just... ugh. I honestly can't believe some people call this anime good. It is horrible. And like, they say it's a "cyberpunk" but you would NEVER know that by watching it. It has no world building, character development, or anything just.... no.
Also why the hell did people call this anime violent? There were like, three scenes at best with blood in them and they weren't even that bad. Like really.


-----------------------Psycho Pass

I'm watching this, slowly, with a friend. It is interesting so far, but I'm not sure.... idk.
It looks good. I'm starting to get more and more into it. Probably need to watch it a second time so that I can absorb things better.
The theme songs are definitely awesome.


=============Infinite Stratos 2

Because reasons.


------------------------Parasyte

BEST ANIME EVER,
HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
HAVE NOT HAD FEELS LIKE THESE SINCE ATTACK ON TITAN.
THOSE ARE VERY SPECIFIC FEELS.
GO WATCH THIS.
IT IS SO AMAZING I CAN'T EVEN!!!!!!


==============Senyuu.

Amazing comedy. Super short episodes, like four minutes no joke. Love it to death. It's up there with Nozaki-kun and Bludgeoning Angel as one of my favorite comedies ever!


---------------Sunday Without God

Just started it. It looks SO promising. First two episodes and I was hooked. Animation is beautiful. The feels creep up on you. Starts out deceptively happy with an undertone of dun-dun-dun. Kinda like Gakkou Gurashi on the deception, but not that extreme.


IN SHORT, YOU SHOULD WATCH: Parasyte and Senyuu.
Those I haven't finished yet I don't recommend, because again, haven't finished them yet.

Also my friend yelled at me for blacklisting the second season of Code Geass, so guess what I'm watching next >.>

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Writer's Frustra-Block!

There is no actual term in the writer's circle to describe this particular emotion. Maybe because not everyone goes through it. Maybe I'm the only one.
I tried calling it "Writer's Frustration", but that term popped up a bunch of articles related to "I'm not getting published". I don't have the qualifications to read those since, ya know, I'm not published. They don't apply to me. Calling this feeling "Writer's Block" usually turns up articles on finding creativity again. But this is not what it's about. I have Writer's Frustra-Block!

I'm so frustrated that I'm blocked. In writing :3

Someone give me the Nobel Name Come Up With Prize (coined by PeanutButterGamer).

Basically this feeling is where I HAVE creativity. I KNOW what I want to write. I want to write. I want to DO THE THINGS! WRITE ALL THE THINGS! I just can't. It's like when something really, REALLY is on the tip of your tongue, but it won't get the fuck off your tongue already. And so you sit there and get frustrated, and the more frustrated you are, the more your thoughts get jumbled and blood pressure rises. And that just makes you more frustrated because you really, really want to write. OMG! You're so excited! You have everything in place. Just type the damn thing! But your fingers just hover over the keyboard keys and your fingertips are aching to push down on those square buttons and your eyes strain at the white page with the endlessly blinking | that indicates where text is supposed to appear. But for SOME reason, you just can't make it happen!

This is what I'm going through. Writer's Frustra-Block.

And it sucks.

Days Gone By

This is a blog post. Not a very good one, but I need to post something. So here are some updates about what I'm reading and watching.


READING
Yes, I am reading! How magical.
No really. I have had my personal library stored in various boxes and inaccessible since October, and it was very depressing. But now I have my bookshelf set up and all my paperback babies out on display so I can finally READ again.
Back in So. Illinois, I had a deal with myself that instead of buying junk food, I would use that spending money from my job to buy books at the half-price bookstore instead. Some of them were gems, like "The Hallowed Hunt" by Lois McMaster Bujold or the first two books in the Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo. But still, a lot of those fantasy paperbacks were only $3, so I splurged now and again on random titles that intrigued me. And now I'm finally going through my massive stacks of paperback fantasy stuff.

First and foremost, I am reading the COMPLETE works of H. P. Lovecraft. I binge read about ten stories a day, then take a break and turn to one of my fantasies. Currently my favorite Lovecraft stories are Polaris, the Cursed of Sarnath, the Outsider, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness. I'll add more as I read them, I'm sure. But so far, those are the favorites.

Now, for the fantasies, I have finished one and am halfway through a second. The first is called "Silver's Edge" by Anne Kelleher. It's pretty cool, being all about Celtic lore, the fae, the realm of Sidhe and man, and there is lots of political intrigue to be found within. It was pretty decent, I won't go too much into it. You can read the premise online. My main problem with it was that the ending was building up to this ermahgerd climax and then just sort of fizzled out into a hastily wrapped ending because "ermg, we need to make monies with a sequel". So I was not very happy with how that was handled. I'm sure the sequel is necessary. By the end of the book, there was still a LOT that needed to be done/answered, but she could have handled the first book's ending better.

Second one, the one I'm currently reading, is "Luck In the Shadows" by Lynn Flewelling. It's a story about spies and their encounter with magic. Or something. It's really a bigee when you're halfway through a book and there is no established plot. So far they just wander around, eating food, sleeping in inns, and listening to ENDLESS WORLDBUILDING..... ugh! I genuinely find the world intriguing. It's very rich and varied, and I would maybe like exploring it sometime, but the delivery is very... not good. Huge chunks are sprinkled throughout, and the characters drop these bizarre names of places, peoples, and historical figures at the drop of a hat to the point where I can't keep track of them all. And then there are also the random bombs they throw. See, the world was introduced as a very realistic one, for the most part. The strangest thing around seemed to be "oh yah, wizards exist". But while the characters are meandering around, they pass by a centaur. A friggin centaur. And they act like it's no big deal. I was like, "wait... a centaur? A real centaur? Omg. When did that get there? Those exist in this world?" It was really, really disturbing. And then it just kept happening... and it got annoying... really fast. Also, the lack of any real depth to the characters. I think they're ok in general, but there is no reason on earth why I want to care. I feel like the book wants me to care, but I have no reason to. UGH!

Ok, that was a bit of a rant. On to other things.


WATCHING
Anime.
Of course.
I'm not going to go on rants or big descriptions, I'm just going to tell you names and what to watch.



----------Noir

 - Was... slow. Very slow. Pacing was awful. One of the most painful things I've ever sat through. Great story. Intriguing characters. Not-half-bad action. Just THE PACING!!!! D:
  Would recommend for veterans.



----------Ookami Kakushi

 - Think Higurashi but poorly done. Was interesting at the least, not as gory as I was hoping, and there was that weird pedophile-ish/rapey scene that really weirded me out until it was later explained but that didn't help much either. Ugh. Just go watch Higurashi.
 Would not really recommend.



----------Akira

 - Ermg, right in the feels. Futuristic powers out of control, sci fi elements, really well done. I loved it. No wonder it's a classic.
  Would recommend, more for veterans, but everyone should give it a shot.




----------Angel Cop

 - Rather boring. Both voice casts were mediocre. Characters were pretty 2D. Action wasn't interesting. Lots of senseless blood and gore. Not enough to be entertaining.
  Would not recommend.



----------Future Diary

 - Was very "meh" throughout, but the ending was gold. Very messed up, but in all the right ways. Yuno is the best yandere I've ever seen.
 Would recommend.



----------Denpa Teki no Kanojo

 - Short but perfect. Loved both episodes very much for how very DEEP they were. I loved the characters so much!
  Would recommend!!!



----------Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

 - OMG! My favorite shoujo romance comedy ever. This one takes the cake! It was funny in all the right ways with very good taste in humor. The characters were SO 3D IT WAS TRIPPY! I loved all of them so much. The attention to each one of them was perfect! I loved the romance as well, and I'm very picky about my romance so that should say a lot.
  WOULD RECOMMEND SO HARDCORE!!!!



----------Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan

Best. Anime. Ever. Four episodes of absolute perfection.
WOULD RECOMMEND SO HARDCORE!





That's all for now. I'll talk about life or something next time.