Day 1: smattering nine

Started off around 0:30 today and wrote 9 whole words. I was very pleased with myself.

Yes, childrens, minions, and kitten cats: it is once again that time of year, a time for screaming, binging, and coffee drinking: it is NaNoWriMo!

Since I cannot pick a novel off the bat, I decided I am going to jump between Death Eaters, Through Struggle, Orpheus Rising, and Write This Down. Only till I actually pick which one I will be sitting down with and diligently plod on through.

Death Eaters: 2012 NaNo winner and 2013 Camp NaNo winner. A post-apocalypse, paranormal novel about teens fighting the horrifying, death eating creatures called Death Eaters.

Through Struggle: 2013 NaNo winner. An urban fantasy about necromancers battling it out for power while a main, zombie-like protagonist struggles to keep his necromancer master safe.

Orpheus Rising: Mystery/Thriller/Adventure. A young girl lives a rather droll life till a letter appears on her piano one day, sent by an unsigned writer who desperately wants to save her. Question is, from what?

Write This Down: Fantasy. The harrowing adventures of a mysterious dark stranger who rides a "night-blood" steed. He tries to protect a small girl in order to fulfill a promise he made years ago, but every turn he makes sends his life into further hell and makes the fulfillment that much more difficult.


So we shall see which one I will be choosing by the end. As of today, I wrote 9 words in "Write This Down".

So stay tuned for more.

Peace out, minions!

I Would HATE Being in Twilight

Good Gawd. If you haven't guessed already, I hate Twilight.
Breaking Dawn Part 2 came on TV, (must have been comedy hour cause that stuff was da bomb). So I made this list whilst watching it.

WHY TWILIGHT WORLD SUCKS

If you're a vampire...

If you're a human...

You are screwed. Seriously. Unless you somehow manage to chop vampires up and toss them in a bonfire, they will eat you. Do you know how long it takes to burn a body? DO YOU? A long friggin time!

Sherioushly guys...

Twilight sucks.


Peace out, minions.


P.S. Halloween tomorrow!

New LARP Swords!

So my little friends (I will call dem PickleBunny and Wolverine) wanted some swords for their Halloween costumes. And as we all know, I am a nerd sent from Cthulhu's darkest realm to corrupt everyone in the ways of nerdom. So naturally, I made them LARPing swords for when they come of age to embark on the nerdiest activity ever with me (that being LARPing, not brony conventions).

For PickleBunny, I GIVE YOU LINK'S MASTER SWORD FROM THE ZELDA FRANCHISE!

My reference material.

The base.

COLOR COMING SOON!

And for Wolverine, A WITHER SKELETON SWORD!

My reference material.

The base.

COLOR VERSION COMING SOON!

 THIS BLOG WILL BE UPDATED ONCE I GET THE COLOR VERSIONS UP!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to me.

Noragami!

So, I told you all about an anime I started watching that I really liked. I didn't give away the name right off the bat, because I didn't want to get all excited only to find that it actually sucked. Some of the anime out there have great pilot episodes but the rest is sucky, that sort of conundrum. Kind of like Walking Dead. So I finished the first season, and after careful consideration, I have decided that it is one of the best anime I've ever seen and you all should give it a try!

Available on Netflix, the first season of Noragami is about a minor god named Yato who runs around doing small jobs for people. He bumps into a girl named Hiyori when she gets hit by a bus. She survives, but now has the ability to turn into a partial phantom and interact with the spirit world. She becomes best friends with Yato and his weapon Sekki. Phantoms pop up now and then to cause trouble, along with other gods and really creepy people whose plots I won't mention for spoiler purposes.

What I loved about the anime was, well, everything really. There wasn't any fan service shoved in your face or full on dependent girls failing at life miserably without their potential boyfriend. Though Hiyori would often go to Yato for help, it was more or less because she couldn't kill the evil Phantoms plaguing the city rather than she is a useless waste of flesh like a lot of anime females I stumble across. In fact, she could probably kick some serious ass if she only had a Phantom slaying sword too.

Art and music were also a plus. There are a lot of glowing effects, especially during battles and with the characters' eyes. I love glow-y eyes!

The mood never dragged you down into full out depression. As my friend once said about finishing wolf's Rain, "Don't you just want to commit suicide right now?" Yah. That was intense, but very suck-ish. I couldn't watch anime for a while, and I just felt very, very depressed for the longest time. Noragami was not that bad. But it wasn't a silly, stupid, goofy show either. I typically dislike those. I did my fair share of laughing and tear-shedding throughout. It was a good balance that would let you sink and sink, but then bring you back up so you could breathe again.

Of all the different characters in the show, it's hard for me to say if any one of them was my favorite. I think Yukine was one of my tops. He barely squeaks by the rest of them for position of being my favorite. He had a lot of intense, emotional moments in the show. In fact, he pretty much drives it all by himself. It was very distressing to watch him going through episode after episode struggling with such immense loneliness and hatred, and everyone wants him dead. And all he wants is to just be a normal person, which he can't be. It's very sad. *hugs Yukine*.

I would give this show a perfect 10 out of 10, but since there has yet to be any wind of a second season in the works, I will point out this sad, sad flaw that often comes to short animes: unresolved plots.

A lot of stuff was slowly introduced to the show and a lot was left unanswered in the end. Though we were able to glimpse a bit of Yato's past, it would be nice to know some of the other characters' histories or some of their stories. How did Yato and Bishamon meet? Why did he kill a Regalia? Why did Kazuma owe him a debt? How did Yukine die? Why won't Yato tell him how he died since he obviously knows? What is up with Nora? And quite a few more questions of that nature.

It's a very rich universe and the anime did everything right for a first season, but unless they plan on making a second, they fell rather short. The characters need more developing, the side characters need more screen time, the bad guys need to get badder, etc. 

On the other hand, they have not done everything that is in the manga and so they have a ton more material to work with. They can easily make a second season (some of the manga fans say they can make a possible third). Also, the makers have not said there won't be a second, so it might just be some wait before the next season emerges. Kind of like this painfully long wait for HOTD season 2...

Currently I'm trying to get through Shugo Chara Doki! and Durarara. There are some other anime that I started some time ago and need to finish (Magi, Moribito, etc) but the above two are the ones I'm really going to work on finishing. Mania tells me to watch Tokyo Ghoul and Zankyou no Terror, but I have a lot on my lsit to get through and those two aren't quite finished yet D:

Another anime I finished recently was Berserk. I watched it all the way through just to watch the movies only to be SO FRAKKIN disappointed by that god awful ending, AND only to find out that the movies ARE the show, just done in a much better art style with a completely finished and wrapped up plot.

WHY NO ONE TELL ME THIS BEFORE?????!!!!!! >.< 

But I want to end this review on a happy note and not stain it with bad words. So I leave you with a cookie that looks like Yukine's spirit and my final rating of Noragami at 9.9 Yukine spirit cookies out of 10!

Peace out minions!

New Happy Puppy!

Say hello to Ursani!

(me and Ursani)

These are pictures of the gorgeous Ursani! She is owned by the family whom I now live with, so she's 1/5 mine in spirit (not in money, cause I paid nada). She is a Plott Hound, a dog bred for hunting down bears and wild boars. 

Ursani was the name of a gypsy Clan that would tame bears for medieval courts, circuses, and more. 

This Ursani is such a loving, sweet girl and really enjoys giving hugs and kisses!

note: both pictures courtesy of Southern Illinois Humane Society

I Hate Being Dead-Beat

No school and no job. That's what happens when you move states several days before school starts. Now all the college kids (all 100,000+ of them) have taken all the jobs and I got here too late to apply for classes. Thanks for nothing, FAFSA!

So, what do I do with my time? Occasionally work out, write my stories, watch anime (currently working on Berserk which is interesting to say the least), and of course, rp.

The problem with being a dead beat while all my rp friends are in school is that I have no one to talk to when I need to vent about my feels. It's so annoying. Especially when Liam's all, "Let me post this traumatizing reply to our rp. GottagonowhavefunBYE!"

Speak of the devil and he JUST appeared on chatango. Damn him.

Well, might as well talk about something else I suppose.

I killed off one of my longest lasting and favorite characters ever: Kieran Draeyva. All because Liam killed off one of his. Payback's a bitch.

We both cried during this rp. There were just too many feels. I've never had this many feels in an rp before. Ugh. It's so mentally and emotionally exhausting. Plus the song that was playing on the site didn't help either.

I think it was so intense because we had these characters so long, all the way back in good old 2011-ish. And even though the site was dead for a year, I was still plotting out Kieran's story an personality and everything. Liam probably was too, I don't know. And because of that, slipping into their mindset was so easy. Like putting on your favorite t-shirt. Kieran drove his own story and reacted to things on his own. Granted, the beginning of it was rather rushed. We had been planning out this plot before the site died, so we thought we would just pretty much copy what we remembered.
But then it took a turn for the worst when the characters started taking over. Lorcan, rather than help them out, decided to eat his twin brother instead. I shot Kieran with ice during their breakout, and then realized my mistake because he is a fire dragon. I had the guards catch up with them, also a mistake since neither of them could really fight. Then Kieran got pissed. Lorcan picked Adrian up with his teeth, and Kieran just lost it. He mauled Lorcan till he killed him, then died. The events shaped themselves as a result. Now Lorcan and Kieran are dead. So I suppose, in a way, I didn't kill anyone. They just wound up dying because of the shit that Lady Fate dished out on them. It's bad luck when Lady Luck turns her back on you.

So what will happen next? That's for the characters to decide. I still have the reigns on what I throw their way, but I ultimately lost control of them long ago.


EDIT: we decided Lorcan was necessary for a plot, so we are using the magical Spirits to make him a zombie, which will ultimately unleash chaos on the world, both spiritual and physical. Fun-ness. Kieran was also revived (cause from what I learned, you can still revive people up to three minutes after their heart stops. any longer and there is a risk of brain damage from lack of oxygen and blood to the brain)
So yes, both of them are alive (at least one is, the other is merely "alive")
But only for now...

... just for now...


Keep an eye out, minions.