| Something I found and completely forgot about. |
[12 Mar 2009|06:28pm] |
The Moonlit Encounter She walked the paths no-one should walk, She drank the drinks only the dead drunk, Looking for wisdom in the murky and slurred talk, Finding meaningful meaningless words in houses that stunk. Long moonlight hair swayed softly in the breeze When she walked down a path no-one should tread, His pale form sunk into the shadows with ease And she felt no fear, no dread. She looks for an epiphany in the dark, Finding only jade eyes half concealed off the path, He smiles as she steps near without a care, The purity of hands reaching for another. Her eyes widen, She stumbles, tumbling into the night, Screams, tussle, fright, No-one hears the fruits of her chase. Tears slip wordlessly down her face, The eyes of death stare, Then she is laid to rest, And her mistaken wisdom is never corrected. It's kind of a remix of a poem I wrote for FFVII, which was also called The Moonlit Encounter. This one is much more vague.
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| Boys Before Flowers (or over them, or whatever else you feel the need to do with boys and flowers) |
[19 Feb 2009|10:28pm] |
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This is a brief review based on the first episode and a bit of the Korean adaptation of the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango (or Boys Before/Over/Whatever Flowers). I have read the entirety of the manga, and watched the Japanese live action adaptation and movie (goood times). I tried to watch Meteor Garden, but just couldn't watch it. I have a weird thing where I find it really hard to concentrate with languages I'm not familiar with. I think my watching a whole bunch of Korean movies recently has sufficiently attuned my ears to the language enough for me to watch the show. Maybe this incarnation is just better than Meteor Garden (please don't kill me die-hard MG fans!).
Anyway, it goes along with MG by making the main character come from a dry-cleaning family (at least, I think she drycleaned in MG, from what I recall), and she does the usual Tsukushi things of being fairly kickass and not bowing down to a bunch of entitled jerks. Rock on. I also really liked the fact Jan Di (the Tsukushi of this incarnation) had a moment where she rants at our Tsukasa (Joon Pyo) character, then blinks and realises it was all in her head, then loses her nerve and lets him away. It isn't until the only friend she makes get put in Joon Pyo's firing line that she finally steps up and fights back. There was a great moment where he was demanding he lick the ice-cream off her shoes in place of her friend, and I'm thinking to myself 'Shove the ice-cream in his face! Shove it! Do it! Noooo!' when she's leaning down to comply, then my joy at her shoving it right in his face. I'm easily entertained like that. But it made me emotionally connect to the story, and that's what's important.
One of things that is currently bothering me about this new version is the portrayal of Joon Pyo and Ji Hoo (HYD's Hanazawa Rui). Joon Hoo is not a balance between relentless bully and loveable idiot. That's a very watered down description of the Tsukasa character, incidentally. But suffice to say, the Tsukasa character is notorious for being lingual-y challenged at times and having this kind of social inadequacy - an inability to properly control himself and demonstrate how he feels about people without, for instance, getting violent. Or misreading the situation. Or acting like a jerk when it isn't the Tsukushi's character's fault. Whatever. Joon Pyo in this is more... just relentless jerk. I think he slipped up in his phrasing once and showed he can smile and be friendly once. The rest of the time it's 'how to destroy Jan Di, muahahah!'
I'm hoping if I continue to watch, it'll change (I'm 99% certain it will because I've watched relatively little of the show). The difference is, in HYD, we were seeing the loveable idiot in Tsukasa even as we were seeing scarily violent Tsukasa. The audience was given hope that he was a redeemable character. We don't see this as much in the early stages of Boys Over Flowers (I know it means the same thing, but it makes it easier to differentiate). If you were in Jan Di's boots, I think you'd be rather unwilling to even give the guy a chance, considering how he acts like the biggest jerk in the world. I think she'd rather punch and/or kick him.
Yet even as she hates Joon Pyo, she begins to gets the hots for Ji Hoo. My issues with Ji Hoo/Hanazawa Rui are quite large. I think my issues don't stem from watching Boys Over Flowers, but directly from the manga. I don't get him. I don't get why the fangirls love him. He intially comes across as running icy cold for humanity. He only 'helps' Tsukushi initially because the attackers were in his way, or he was woken up by the noise, or whatever. Now perhaps an argument could be made that Rui also has some social inadequacy that prevents him from admitting he isn't a complete jerk and that he wants to help people. Really, though, I truly believe that Rui's character is incredibly unfeeling towards people. It's only through his interaction with certain people, and consequently forming a bond with them, that causes him to act in their favour. It's purely selfish. He makes little attempt to help anyone outside of his designated circle. One of the biggest things is that he doesn't put his foot down over Tsukasa's wild actions, preferring to turn his head the other way and ignore it.
Gah, it would take way too long to try and untangle Rui, Tsukasa and Tsukushi's actions and relationships. But I find Tsukushi's attraction to him, when he clearly states he isn't acting in her favour, but for purely selfish reasons, completely mind boggling. Perhaps it's a serious case of 'Shojo-manga-female-main-character-and-love-interest-stupid-itis' (it's a very long and serious disease) to be so blind to his faults, yet so sensitive to Tsukasa's. Maybe it's Rui's apathetic nature, which seems much more peaceful than Tsukasa's violent, yet passionate, behaviour. I don't know; it all comes down to taste. Any sane girl would run a hundred miles from the two of them. But HYD is a 'girl transforms violent-yet-strangely-loveable-idiot into slightly-more-tolerable-and-less-violent-lovable-idiot. If you're wearing particularly harsh and cynical glasses (which I currently am).
I am looking forward to the lovey-dovey moments that will come. And the violent standoffs. And Jan Di/Tsukushi winning through. So, overall, this is positive and I just wanted to nitpick. The last thing I want to say on this matter is this: I find it so laughable how much of a scandal it seems to be in Asian society to become pregnant in school. Over the last three years of school (years 10-13) I'd say roughly 20% of the girls ended up pregnant, and really there was no fuss over it. Oh, England, our standards are so much lower. Or maybe it's our stiff upper lips? But in HYD, they're freaking out on one person in an entire school being pregnant. I mean, I didn't even cover the rest of my school, but it was no better.
In conclusion: Boys Before Flowers will likely entertain me greatly, YMMV concerning the humour of one teenage pregnancy in an entire school, and the characters in HYD were really unlikeable when you think about it, yet managed to claw together enough likeable qualities to make the main character fall in love with them.
Peace out.
EDIT: One thing I forgot! I love girl who calls herself Ginger in Boys Over Flowers drawling 'Oh My God' in an American accent. Man, I wish I could speak in another language with a perfect accent...
Also the use of the noise when the Six Million Dollar Man jumps and stuff for Jan Di punching Joon Pyo out is priceless. I think this is the turning point into true love for me...
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| Just a quick note |
[21 Nov 2006|12:27pm] |
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I am alive. It's true. I got internet in my house and everything ages ago. Then disaster struck. My AC adapter for my laptop broke. Bastard! So it had to be sent off to be fixed or replaced, since it's still under warranty. A week later it turns out they've done SQUAT because they haven't had confimation it's under warranty. And it's been cycling on ever since. Those bastards! It's almost been a month without my laptop. I'm creatively dying! I can't write nearly as fast in a notepad as I can on a computer! And the fanfics I'm missing out on reading properly.
It ain't fair! But such is life.
Also university in conjunction with laptop failure equals a most definite lack in fanfic updates. It's been a real busy semester, I can tell you. It's gone in a flash. It's my birthday on Saturday and it hasn't sunk in at all. Ah, well.
We suffer and toil, etc. It's all rather depressing.
I said this would be a quick note. Well, I better bugger off then. On FFnet I left a note saying I was unlikely to be updating anytime soon. It's been months. So tragic.
Anyway.
Peace out,
Cat Alex
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| Internet in your home - who thought it'd be so difficult? |
[09 Oct 2006|01:48pm] |
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So I still haven't got the internet in my house. Well, I have it just won't let the wireless work right so only one person can get the 'net. Stupid internet. Damn, why do I love thee so?
And when I said I wouldn't order anime right away... well, I just ordered some. But only a little, and it was super cheap. Eheheh... curse me. This is just a small ramble to remind myself not to forget bout my LJ. My LJ is a just a handy place to record things and thoughts and feelings of the moment. It's something I will keep up with, unlike a diary. And despire a lot of LJ's being complete fabrications, mine isn't. It doesn't really cross my mind to lie. What would be the point?
The uni workload is looking to be tough. I read four hundred pages yesterday of this book I had to read. Sped-read it. It was so predicatable, it was fairly easy to coast over some parts of it. English Literature is mind-melty. All the books I have to read... it makes my head hurt thinking about it. Ahh, well. I was the one to sign up for it.
Been reading lots of cool updated fanfiction, which was nice. But still haven't written any more of my own. But I'll get around to it. I will. Totally.
Eheheheh...
Peace out,
Cat Alex
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| I'm in my secret place |
[03 Oct 2006|12:39pm] |
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...If I mean the university's public library, my only source of internet until Thursday. Back in Bath. Eheh... good old... quaint... Bath. I think I got too used to being in my city-sized town. And now I live in a house, instead of halls. Craaaazy! Except it's hard work. But, hey, such is life. I won't ramble too long, promise. Have a lecture to attend and then I'm free, free dammit!
Oh yeah. I'm NOT dead. But I doubt my fanfics will be updated a while. Perhaps a LONG while. It really depends on whether I can read over twenty books for my Eng Lit course in a matter of months. Actually, less than that, because we'll be studying them each week and stuff. I've read some, but man... that number of books suck. I should have done a joint degree to prevent my brain melting (if it hasn't already).
Before I came back, I got into so much anime and manga, it isn't even funny. Now I want Fullmetal Alchemist on DVD, but there's so much of it and they're not selling it in bix boxsets yet. Nooooo! And I like Naruto. And Hellsing. And Inuyasha. FMA. NGE. Samurai Champloo. I'd totally buy them on DVD, but... I should give it time. And Bleach! How can I forget my precious Bleach! Need... more... volumes. And not just so I can get to the Ishida goodness. Ahh, Ishida, the TRUE hero of Bleach... in my mind.
Anyway, ranting over. I'm just glad to be typing again and the lack of deadness.
Ciao,
Cat Alex
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| Back to that place I call... Bath |
[20 Sep 2006|04:38pm] |
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Back to Bath Spa Uni on Friday. Both looking forward and not looking forward to it. Moving into a house with friends, all kinds of terror, like proper bill paying awaits me. Woo...
I've been learning how to make animated avatars. I can only use a really basic GIF program well, the Flash thing is complicated. I haven't got instructions for it, so it's all intuitive, making progress slow.
This is my one creation, which I'm pretty proud of. Which is a little sad, but to hell with it! I am.
I can't believe the Bastion of Questionable Sanity got a lunatic trying to take them down. And using such pathetic methods, no less. If your story is really sue-ish and bad and you put it up on the net and don't accept concrit, you deserve sporking. A little harsh, but people have got to recognise what they're writing isn't good. I'd say I'm an average writer - I just like to make sure that the spelling isn't terrible and my grammar's sound. I don't always get it right - the last thing I was working on got edited when in re-reading it again I found all kinds of horror. But I immediately rectified it, didn't just say 'Sorry, there might be a load of spelling and/or grammar problems and even one continuity error. R&R plz!'
That would just be... no.
Anyway, hopefully will have decent access to the net once I'm back on the uni merry-go-round.
Cheers,
CA (Commander Alexandria)
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| Quizzes are fun! |
[17 Sep 2006|01:48am] |
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This is one of the saddest updates I've done, but screw it! I love Bleach!
 | You scored as Ichimaru Gin. You're Ichimaru Gin, Captain of the Third Division!
There's something that twists the insides of people when you smile in that certain, creepy way. You also might have a few people that you get to do your 'dirty work' for you. After all, it's easier to look uninvolved and keep your hands clean while you pull strings behind the scenes!
Aizen Sousuke | | 75% | Soi Fong | | 75% | Ichimaru Gin | | 75% | Zaraki Kenpachi | | 67% | Hitsugaya Toushirou | | 67% | Ukitake Jyuushiro | | 58% | Komamura Sajin | | 58% | Kurotsuchi Mayuri | | 58% | Tousen Kaname | | 58% | Unohana Retsu | | 42% | Yamamoto Genryuusai | | 33% | Kyouraku Shunsui | | 25% | Kuchiki Byakuya | | 25% | </td>
Which of the Thirteen Division Captains (from Bleach) are you?
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I originally came out as Kenpatchi (WTF?), then changed my mind on the tie breaker question and accidentally wiped everything. And this is what I got when I retook it. Gin is growing on me, though his face kinda freaks me out a bit. If he didn't look foxfaced all the time, I could probably cope... I just noticed I could have turned out to be Aizen! Aw man! I wanna be Aizen!
I also got some external mememory for my laptop. 60Gb of beauty. I call it 'The Horcrux' as I place my precious laptop files within in, splitting my laptop soul. The stuff on my laptop is so precious. If I lost my word files, I would probably just die. Thus, the Horcrux.
I had some fun with this as well. Ah, Bleach, my new lover...
Which Bleach captain are you?
See how quizzes are not to be trusted? Gin and Jyushiro are pretty different people. One didn't betray Soul Society and isn't technically evil, to begin. I could rant about how the person who made that quiz misunderstood Byakuya's character, or the sucky grammar.
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| Personality tests are fun |
[10 Sep 2006|10:32pm] |
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Thanks to Noacat for showing me the way to this test.
My Personality
| | Neuroticism | | Extraversion | | Openness To Experience | | Agreeableness | | Conscientiousness | |
I expected the neuroticism. I'm happy with the openess to experience. I don't think I turned out too bad.
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| Trying to reason with madmen |
[04 Sep 2006|10:11pm] |
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I think I've finally come up against something that I cannot let go. This fanfic writer, Strawberry Schoolgirl, has truly sickened me. Not only is the plot the most retarded thing I've come across, but the spelling is something from nightmares.
It makes me feel sick to think about it. You can find her here http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3137136/1/
Just looking at it is something to run and fear. So I tried to be nice. I didn't want to directly say "your story is something that makes me want to vomit until all my bodily fluids have been expelled out of my mouth", so I focused on asking her to improve her spelling. I dunno if she took it down, or it just hasn't come up yet, but I can't quote my review. You get the gist of it.
So I think, 'Just put it out of your mind and let it be. Wipe the horror out with daily life.'
But then she sends me a PM. Which is so nonsensical and irritating, I lost my head a little and now I don't want to let such drivel go until she sees sence. That, or admits she's a freaking troll. Because it isn't even funny.
Her PM reads as such:
"i cant get a bate cuz they will stela my sotry. BAKA
u cant b eman about the polt bcuz its fione. durh.
u no wat? i am not a troll cuz they r green and warty & ugly. im a
black bat/cat demon xcept beter than teh 1s in inuaysha. but i also leki
bing a preistess"
I found it pretty hard at first to grasp what she was communicating. Then I laughed, because NO-ONE would want to steal a story as bad as that. Now I've sent her a polite PM back assuring her that a beta wouldn't steal a story (in fact that never even crossed my mind) and suggested a few things, that asked her if she was a troll (and if she knew her netspeak SO WELL, then she knew perfectly well what I was talking about) to drop the act, because it made little babies cry and fully grown people want to alternatively stab and scoop their eyes out with sporks.
... I was a little more polite than that.
It has just really got under my skin. The only reviews she gets are people flaming her and telling her to get help, mental or spelling.
Cat Alex
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| Ticked off |
[31 Aug 2006|01:55pm] |
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Very brief. You get a review. It pleases you. You spent the rest of the night and following morning writing the next chapter and correcting mistakes you horrifiying find the night before in your previous chapter. Then you go to FF.net. It is down.
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WHYYYYYYYYYYY???!!!!!!
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| Northern Ireland! |
[24 Aug 2006|09:44pm] |
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I went to Northern Ireland for a while in order to meet a load of relatives I don't know. Mostly cousins of my mother and great aunt and uncles. It was all cool, because N. Ireland is cool. I went to the Giant's Causeway and ran around like a mountain goat without a care in the world.
The B&B was fantastic and they must have been loaded. I kept imagining Cash in the Attic (I'm a sad student who loves those kinda programmes) coming and making a bundle of cash from our room alone. They were lovely people and had some cool cats. And the dude made violins. By hand! And his wife could do make anything she turned her hand to. It was unbelievable.
In between all the meeting people and sightseeing, I reread Goblet of Fire. I'd forgotten how awesome it had been. I made pages of tiny scrawled notes in one of my notebooks on a story I'm definately going to write, but I dunno if I'd ever put it up on FF.net. If I ever finish it (I'm hot on it at the moment, but it might fade), I'd think about it, but frankly I think it's too good for the Pit as it's known. That's a little haughty, I know, but... I think it is. I've been putting a lot of thought and planning into it. I mean I need a freaking timeline to keep what I'm doing straight and I'm constantly questioning myself about motives, whether the situation is realistic, etc. And I'm loving planning all the details. But I'm rambling.
The trip was good. My mother was, on occassion, a nightmare.
And now I'm going to plan and write. It's freaking fun.
Lotsa love,
Cat Alex
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| I think this test is a little inaccurate... |
[15 Aug 2006|08:43pm] |
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be sorted @ nimbo.net
I didn't think I'd make Gryffindor. I seriously thought I'd be a Ravenclaw or Slytherin. I guess it kinda makes sense - a bit sharp, but doesn't work too hard, and not exactly mean. But the test itself was rather see-through.
I've recently become a HP theory obsessive. Yeah, I know... kinda sad, but I gotta fill those hours somehow. And being in a House just isn't that cut cheese. Slytherins aren't inherintly evil, and not all Gryffindors are brave and oh-so amazing.
I'm not gonna rant on this. No point.
Anyway... those results can't have been right...
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| Yeah, Arthur, baby! |
[15 Aug 2006|08:31pm] |
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What Monty Python Character are you?
My addiction to Quizilla is healthy, I tells ya! I kinda wish I'd got the rabbit or the Black Knight, though. Ah, well.
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| The Longest Journey |
[14 Aug 2006|02:10pm] |
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Man, was yesterday a big day. I'm not talking marriage big, but lots of stuff happened. I went to the British ROH (Ring of Honor) show in Broxbourne. It was so freaking awesome. I cannot communicate how a live crowd and seeing the whole thing live was like, but watching it on DVD is NOTHING. I'm glad I got to experience it at least once.
If anyone gets the DVD of that, I'm the girl in the pink top - I was directly opposite the hard camera.
Anyway, everything went wrong. The train from my town to London broke down and we had to get another, so we kinda had to hop on a train we weren't booked to get to Broxbourne. But that wasn't our fault. Getting to the show was easy - Broxbourne is TINY compared to where I live. We got there, show awesomeness ensued, etc. Then half nine we leave for the train station, hoping to get home a little earlier. Then we JUST missed a train to Liverpool Street! "Curses," I cried after my run with my brother and a bunch of other ROH spectators.
Luckily another train came along fifteen minutes later and a bunch of us fans had a good chinwag about the whole thing. Then we went our separate ways come Liverpool Street. It was three quarters of an hour for our train, which sucked. So we left London at half eleven. Fair game. It's not fair game when the freaking train goes at barely ten miles an hour! We were supposed to get home at ten to one in the morning, but we ended up over half an hour late. I just wanted to get home by then. My adrenalin high had worn off and I was left tired from all the screaming.
But it had been worth it, I reckon. I got to see these guys up close. And my mind got changed about some of them as well. Well worth the money we spent to get front row seats.
Well, I just wanted to have an outpouring for a bit.
I'm off.
Love and Peace,
Cat Alex
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| I'm a sucker for mental trauma |
[11 Aug 2006|02:25am] |
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I really shouldn't spend too much time flicking through various fanfic sections looking at stories, because my brain will melt, no matter how high my mental shields are. They can only stand so much before they melt under the horror of it all.
Silent Hill, Harry Potter and Final Fantasy X are a mere drop in the ocean - there are so many more to permanently damage. But I still punish myself by looking about. It's like I think it's going to get better, or something.
http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/2006/08/11/ is very amusing, though. I like to diversify just from the burnination of Sues. Though the Sues should be burninated. *Prays to god that she doesn't own Sues, but knows there is one in the public domain*
Ah, hooplah.
I got one of my stories featured on Godawful Fanfiction once. It was pretty rad. Not the story - that was pretty not good. I even left a comment saying, yeah, it did kinda suck. But it makes me smile, so I'm a too fond to get rid of it. And it never got finished. Even worse. Though I do possess the ending - just not the rest of the middle. Why am I rambling? Is it because it's 2.36 in the morning? Probably. Is it because my brother is reading out bits of hideous, sometimes gratuitous, fics? More likely.
But visit the fanficrants community - it's a pretty interesting place. But be forewarned - brain meltage may occur. Hell, brain melting can occur just if you stray into the wrong part of fanfic.net. Why do I put stories up there again?
Anyway. Check it out. Also I've become sadly obsessed with timelines. Namely Harry Potter. Damn that lexicon site. Too... interesting...
Well, I'm off.
Huttah!
Cat Alex
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| I fell over dead yesterday, but it was a case of being a drama queen |
[03 Jul 2006|02:06pm] |
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I don't know why the subject is that. I just felt like writing it.
So... people are going to start revolting soon because I haven't updated More Than Business. But you know... what Noacat and Just A Starving Writer were saying made me think. I know - me, thinking? Craaazy. Well, it did. It's nice getting reviews, but many of them just ask for another chapter out of my magic hat. And nothing more. Kinda hollow. I get all excited - a review, but then it's like a line long and I get all disappointed. When I review, I try to say something about the story, but generally I'm a lazy bastard, or it has to be something special (or terribly wrong) for me to review.
But I have heart! The people who are brainy and truly appreciate the work are probably just shy of reviewing. Yeah... shy...
We should revolutionise the reviewing system! Or summat... I dunno.
Well... anyway, my love for Yu-Gi-Oh has waned. It waned some time ago. UK TV doesn't play it regularly and you know... technically I'm too old for it. But really you're not too old for anything. But all this stupidity with YGO GX and the fill in season where they've copied Pokemon... it's just retarded. My love has faded. I want to finish the story, but the spark only comes once in a blue moon. The last few chapters I've written were forced out of me. It was like pulling teeth, but once it was done, I was fairly pleased.
I'm getting that same feeling with Destined Paths, my Advent Children fic. I just wrote a chapter yesterday, which was good - I was lucky I just struck gold. I'll probably be alright though - watch AC and it'll all come back how much I wanna write it. Also I have vast amounts of fun writing Kadaj, that crazy kid. Of course, because I started writing my story before AC came out, it's technically an AU. And by technically... it is AU now, coz it ain't nothin' like the film.
God, I like rambling about myself and my fanfics too much. But I've finished my first year of uni and there ain't a lot to do. Three months off. It's all good, but there's both nothing to do, and too much to do all at once.
Also, can't wait for SoaP to come out. I've been following the meme for ages and I'm glad that the film maker's added stuff because of the fans. I'm interested to see how it all turns out - whether it was for the better or worst. Probably better though as fans are getting what they want. Kinda cool.
I really can't wait for Pirates of the Caribbean 2 to come out. I'm a sucker for Jack Sparrow, bless his little pirate heart. It's a film that makes you want to be a pirate, though of course the book Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists made me really want to be a pirate. I'm so easily converted though - Firefly made me want to be a cowboy, along with Cowboy Bebop of course (CB was first).
I've been getting into new anime and manga recently. I officially adore Inuyasha (the manga), Hellsing (watching the anime, but think I'll like the manga better) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (ADORE the anime. I'm waiting for the next volume to be delivered). Ah... God bless the Japanese!
Been playing lots of computer games since I last wrote in. Finished Resident Evil 4 (despite how bad I suck at it), playing Heaven and Hell mode on Devil May Cry 3, stopped playing Shadow of the Colossus (dunno why though, it's good) and various other things. I've really got into the Resident Evil series, though who knows why coz gameplaying wise, I'm easily scared. Yet horror films make me laugh.
Anyway, can't babble all day. Thought I might so well prove I haven't died.
Well, adios!
Lotsa love,
Cat Alex
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| Did she really? |
[16 Apr 2006|06:56pm] |
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Did I really what?
Oh... I'm alive! Or am I really haunting my laptop now (checks pulse) - it's kinda hard to say. It's Easter. Happy Easter, people! Man, I should stop buying things (this is my random post... not that they aren't ALL random). So far I have ordered the Lost OST (I love it too damn much, curse me) and the Firefly DVD for... £10! Including delivery! That's like... nothing pence! Well... that's a lie, but considering that a whole season of episodes, and I spent around twenty to twenty-five pounds on HALF A SEASON OF LOST, that's NOTHING. So I'm pretty pleased about it. I've done Firefly and Serenity backwards, because I saw the movie first and everyone was telling me how great Firefly was (I have a lot of Firefly fan friends), so in my bid not to spend money... I bought off the internet. That's not real money, right? (eheheheheh... really? Well, kick me in the head and toss me in the river, I'll be damned...)
That was bad. Now I'm collecting the Chobits manga, but thankfully its only eight or so volumes, which is nothing compared to my Fruits Basket habit (of which I should be ordering vol. 13 right around now).
Basically, I need people to smack me in the face and tell me to stop spending money on things that won't feed me. Ah, well.
Oh yeah! I finally got my birthday present off one of my friends (only four months or so late!). It's because it was out of stock. It's the Advent Children Sephiroth figurine. I love it soooo much. He's super pose-able and everything. My brother is very jealous, muhahahah.
So. Let's talk about fanfiction. I've been getting back into reading lots of it again, which is good. As for writing it... well... I've been doing stuff. I recently put up some stuff that had been banging around for a while - a humorous FFVIII story which'll be three parts, two of which are written, one of which is up on the site. I like it. The only person who has reviewed me agreed with my declaration 'A guarantee of either laughter or confusion... perhaps even both.' I don't know whether I was complimented or insulted, I'm pretty dim when it comes to stuff like that. Ah, well, she seemed well meaning.
I also finally updated More Than Business, which is finally drawing to a close. I'd give it two more chapters, three maximum. It's been a lon journey and I doubt I will write another Yu-Gi-Oh fic. I'm completely YGO burned out. I had to read my whole story in order to finally shake off my MTB writing block and write another chapter. That's a bad sign, in my book. Losing all vigour in your fic is sad. I feel bad for the people who seem to like my story when I can barely stand to look at it. Damn me.
Also, one day in the close future (my definition is a period of a month, since I'm lazy), I should be putting up another Destined Path chapter. It's funny calling it Destined Paths, coz I always refer to it as FFAC. And in my master file, the title is Fracas, which was a random title I put at the top so it had a title. I came up with the fanfiction title it has completely off the bat because I knew Fracas wouldn't make the cut. Why am I saying this? I just like to hear myself type. Me, me, me.
Anyway. I'll stop rambling so your eyes will stop bleeding. I'm okay, if a little deranged (what's different?) and I hope peeps out there are fine too. I'm sure you are.
Peace out.
PS - Oh yeah, BTW, I've married like thirteen or fourteen people on http://www.myfconline.com/ (Marry your favourite character online). It's a rocking place. So many marriages... so little time.
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I'm marrying a lot of people today! Muahahahahah!
Peace out!
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... but in my defence, the uni I'm at doesn't have crash hot access to the internet. I have to go to the library or somewhere that isn't where my room is to get the internet, which sucks. Never mind. I'm here now, aren't I?
... Not that I've got much to write about. Uni takes up time. I did work. And I hung out with people. And I also took this handwriting test!
What does your handwriting say about YOU?
However, I get slightly different results with my real name signiture when I did it the first time, which I believe is a little more accurate. Oh well.
So take the test. It's pretty damn cool. Also check out the official Dirge of Cerberus website. And the MGS4 trailer. And watch lots of second season Lost.
Peace out, ya'll.
Lotsa luv,
Cat Alex
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