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.

Not Back To The Future

Just the future.

Really tired because LARP reasons. So first, a little blurb about LARP!!!!

I did not get to PC because money reasons, but I did get to NPC. My various roles included lost boys, thirteenth story ghasts, a dead eye, lots of zed, and a banshee.
A friggin banshee <3

Banshees are very strong. VERY STRONG. And they scream.
Loudly.
So I screamed at the top of my lungs, literally I compressed my body to force all the air out. Ever screamed like that? It is freaky as hell. Especially when you're sleeping soundly at 2am and then there's this hellish, piercing scream from just outside your door. And it wants to come in. And eat you.
Even indoors, people in the OTHER cabins could hear me loud and clear. So, it is VERY loud.
I went from behind the one cabin (called the Lodge) and walked to the second cabin (called Pinecrest). Screaming maybe two-three times as I walked. When I got to Pinecrest, they of course went to the door to see what it was. I stopped screaming, just kinda growled. So they let me in, thinking they could take me on.
Hehehe.
I stood in the hallway taking deep breaths, just staring at the small line of five-six of them. Everyone else in the cabin slowly wakes up like "what's going on??" Then I let loose my scream. Which is NOT fun up close. The line of people facing me all LITERALLY stumbled backwards as one unit. Total Fus Ro Dah moment. Then I whaled on them with my swords. They killed me, and my dead body faded away (aka, I left)
So then I respawned outside and went for the Lodge. Screaming all the way.
All the lights are off in the lodge save a very small lamp. I can see someone moving inside, probably alerted by, ya know, the screaming. So I stand in front of the door (there's a window in it to see in) and wait till the person inside approaches the door. I put my face an inch from the window and scream and scream and scream, and slam the door with my swords as hard as I can, making the whole thing bang VERY loud and shudder horribly. This brings more people to the door. They too open it to get me inside and take me down. I walk in. The place is very echo-y (concrete and wood, baby) so of course, I unleash my screams, and they are so beautifully amplified. The poor people coming to face me... they confess that they're ears hurt so bad after that. So I just screamed and screamed and whaled on them with my swords. They all ganged up on me and killed me. I left.
Meanwhile, some raiders had kidnapped a guy and were dragging him off to go eat him. Three people went off to rescue the victim as he got dragged down by the lake. The marshall made me respawn right behind the rescue party.
Cue my scream as I charge at them full speed. I have a LOT of lung space. I was screaming at top volume for a good fourteen seconds. And then I was attacking them, and got RIGHT UP in one guy's face and screamed. They all back up when I do so because ouch.
They knocked me down and I'm bleeding out. Some guy with a BIG sword asks "Do you consent to physical roleplay?" which is asking permission to touch (we are very respectful). I of course say yes.
So he gets behind me as I kneel on the ground and he puts his sword to my throat. I start gurgling all undead-disgusting like and he shouts "This is how we silence you forever!" and he calls out a killing blow while slitting my throat.
I couldn't have asked for a better ending to such a beautiful mod. I loved it so much *squee*

It has earned me the love of several storytellers xD They want me for all the screaming mods xD

I have more stories, but this one was long, so I'll leave it at that.


Random future stuff!

I am moving to my new residence on Tuesday (most likely).

I am also working on costume/weapons for my new DR character that I will be bringing out.
She wasn't supposed to be my new one. My new one was supposed to be a slave. But fate decided that no, I was going to play my super deranged, undead bride. Because here is the wedding dress that fits me perfectly so I bought it.

Not the best picture. Hehe. I intend to get better ones when we actually have zee camera. And it is daytime. This was just a quick one so I could show the photo to my friends.

The skirt, unfortunately, is a really long as fuu train, so I will have a different skirt. But the bodice is totally legit. And it will be covered in lots and lots of blood ^^

Admire while you can. We're gonna be painting it red soon.

Support "Write This Down"

My poor babu novel needs critiques!




You can read it on wattpad. As it is on private settings, you need to be my follower to read it. If it still won't show it to you (occasional site error) just let me know and I will send you a PM with the chapter links.

By critiques, I don't mean "ermg, college level nitpickery!" Unless you want to I guess. What I need is some help combing for spelling/grammar errors, pointing out info dumps, unclear passages, and general stuff like that. My friend raindrop has helped me a lot, but I need more sets of eyes on this thing so I can get all my bases covered.
I would like feedback relatively SOON. So if you can take a few hours out of your weekend to read and comment, that would be the best thing ever. Thank you.

Let's Talk Anime!

Got nothing better to do. *cracks knuckles*

I have seen a LOT of anime in the past week alone. Let's get started (I won't do ALL of them. Just the ones that stand out for reasons)

A TREE OF PALME

(movie)

The setting of the film can't possibly be summed up. At all. It is such a bizarre, unique world with so many strange and wonderful things. If anything, watch it for that.

The plot, as short as I can muster to make it, is about a living puppet that is journeying with four acquaintances to return a special egg to an underground cave where the underground people's god's child is supposed to rise and presumably wipe out their world.

It is an EXTREMELY depressing film that takes some very disturbing, dark turns, especially when Palme tries to be human. I mean, the story opens with Palme being so depressed he tries to kill himself. Except he can't. Cause he isn't real. 

But despite that, this was a very brilliant movie that somehow managed to deal with a wide number of deep themes despite being a movie. There was more to each and every character than what met the eye, and even though it made me feel, well, depressed, it is somehow a favorite of mine. In a weird way.

CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES

(movie)

This was made by a guy dubbed as "Miyazaki's successor" and you can SEE WHY!

This feels like a Miyazaki film. No, not like "oh, he is copying Miyazaki". But the same incredible creativity, character depth, and overall quality just screams something that Miyazaki would probably approve.

The story is about a girl who hears a strange song come over her homemade radio. She returns to the same spot to try and hear the song again, and meets a boy named Shin. After that, she gets chased by people with guns, is taken hostage, and then goes off into a whole other world that desperately wants her gone by any means possible.

It's a story about overcoming the loss of loved ones. The main characters all lost someone very important to them, but how they deal with it is expressed individually. Yes, I cried like a baby. But it was well worth it.

CHIRIN NO SUZU

(movie)

I had to put this here, ermg.

So, it starts off like Japan's version of Bambi. Chirin is a little lamb who has bunny friends and his mom loves him. She gets killed by a wolf.

But this time, Bambi got ballsy.

Chirin runs off to the mountains to fight the wolf. But he's a little lamby-wammy. So he becomes the wolf's apprentice to get stronger and "become a wolf". He trains for years and grows horns and lots of strength. But his years fighting and killing have turned him into a ruthless killer. The wolf tells him to go kill all the sheep in his old home. He kills the guard dogs, but when he goes for the sheep, a little lamb calls for his mother, and Chirin is reminded of his childhood. He can't kill them. So the wolf attacks. They fight and Chirin kills the wolf. But Chirin realizes that he is a monster, neither wolf nor sheep. He can never be accepted for he is too twisted and demonic. So he runs back to the mountains and fades into legend.

Well, thanks Japan. Thanks for that...

PRISON SCHOOL

(show)

Hehehehe

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Watch censored plz >.> mah poor eyeballs. When they send the massive light glares that wipe out seven eighths of your screen, it really is necessary.

(taken from wiki)

Hachimitsu Academy, one of the strictest girls academies in Tokyo, has decided to admit boys into their system. Kiyoshi Fujino is one of these new boys, but he discovers to his shock that he and his four friends—Takehito "Gakuto" Morokuzu, Shingo Wakamoto, Jouji "Joe" Nezu, and Reiji "Andre" Andou—are the only male students among 1,000 girls. Even worse are the draconian laws that are still in place, which punishes even the most minor infractions with a stay in the school's prison. A series of perverted accidents causes the five boys to be "arrested" and receive an ultimatum: either stay a month in the school's Prison Block or be expelled.

Of course, there are lots of "sex-y" shenanigans that ensue throughout. LOTS.

But the HUMOR! Ohmygawd, I couldn't stop watching this show once I started. The humor is solid gold. I recommend it for the humor ^^

Oh and... and....

Captain Levi is our sexy mc Kiyoshi with purple-haired-kuroko-no-basuke-guy as blondie Shingo.

Not. Kidding.

RIDEBACK

(show)

A former ballerina joins a Rideback (robot motorcycle) club. She bonds strongly with the Rideback Fuego. But entering races and doing fancy spins aren't all that Ridebacks are good for.

They can also be used by terrorist organizations to gun down malls and rise up against the current world superpower that is corrupt and tortures innocent teenagers to cover up their murders.

Don't let the first episodes fool you. This anime quickly spirals down somewhere dark and dangerous.

Give it a watch. It was very well done. The plot was great. The characters fun. I had a lot of fun with this one.

TATAMI GALAXY

(show)

A super convoluted show about a college guy dissatisfied with his college life. So ensues a series of parallel universes where he traverses many multiple possibilities of what college could be like. There are lots of downs, but in the end, he realizes there were a lot of ups too. Every character has a million faces. 

It's a hard show to watch, but the ending is, strangely, worth it. 

The animation is also incredible on so many levels. While the art style is unusual, it is beautiful. Watch it for that, if anything.

GAKKOU GURASHI!

(show)

Still in the middle of this one. My current binge show.

A group of moe who have a club called School-Live! They get into all kinds of adorable shenanigans.

You should watch it.

​*hint hint*

like right now, seriously, will not regret

Pay attention to the subtle hints in the first episode. Leads to best plot twist ever. I died of squee-dom when they revealed it ^^

That's all for now. :3