Saturday, August 25, 2001
::pokes her notebooks idly:: I really should be doing something constructive right now, but I just can't seem to work up the intiative...
...plus Kyla just called and asked if I was going anywhere today and when I said no, she said good and goodbye and hung up, so now I'm confused.. o_o
...plus Kyla just called and asked if I was going anywhere today and when I said no, she said good and goodbye and hung up, so now I'm confused.. o_o
I put on the ReBlogger script.. now I shall place on my other blogs. I missed having comments. ^^; (if it becomes a problem, I spect I'll just take it off again)
This site looks really interesting (still poking through it) but there's a gross amount of broken links...I wonder if I should submit Claris for the award thing.. XP The Editor-In-Chief person's stories are set up like real soap operas, though, and I don't consider Claris to be a soap opera... more like a serialized novel. It has a definite ending. :B;
Friday, August 24, 2001
Well... I feel better now, after talking to Emiko... but now I've lost so much water weight that I think I'm going to pass out. so I'll go do that now.
Mmkay, if Kai doesn't get online tonight, I am going to phone her and harrass her. =P (especially since we have a Dragontears app to vote on :\)
I don't like how-to's in general, Tengu, but one that compares all of its guidelines back to the writer's own work (and always favorably, I might add) is really annoying. Also this person doesn't seem to understand that most serialized newspaper comics will often have no or very little, spare backgrounds (a good example is Garfield..most of the time the only background is a blue wall and the counter/table/whatever that Garfield is always on, and sometimes the scene is in his little bed :3;). True, she's likely talking about comics that attempt graphic novel-ism, but even then, characters are always more important that backgrounds. But it's mostly this whole ego masturbation thing she's got going on that's upsetting.. o_o; (Giving herself an A+ for character design..? o_o; I thought most of her characters looked pretty generic...)
I actually remember that comic... I used to have a pink dress just like Princess Toadstool (minus the blue jewel), if anyone who knows me and my utter loathing of the color can believe that. My room used to be pink, as well. Hmm. =P
Thursday, August 23, 2001
And speaking of video games... I had to help Michelle decorate the submissions box for Lit Mag today and I wrote 'ALL YOUR POEM ARE BELONG TO US' on inside bottom. XD I wonder if anyone (or rather, the first person to toss something in) will get it.
Reading this makes me want to go play video games. To be honest, I'm a fan of video games more than I'm a fan of anime. I got into video games before anime, and I still like them more. But I don't write fanfiction about them, generally, because I'm Not Good At It.
The games that I play--RPGs, of course--are really a lot like interactive anime, to me. I mean, most console RPGs (and some may argue that it's not proper to call these games RPGs and only such pen&paper pursuits like D&D [which I've never played] are worthy of the moniker, and I might agree, but it's still the easiest/best classification) are done in the 'anime' style, with Japanese artwork and storytelling themes. While I can get lost in a good anime, RPGs are in general more immersive--you're not just watching the action unfold, you're making the action unfold. Of course, this becomes frustrating when you come across a puzzle or a boss (twice as frustrating with bosses, IMO) you can't defeat the action stalls, but even so: if I were given the choice between watching a brand new anime and playing a brand new RPG, I would play the RPG. ^_^;
The games that I play--RPGs, of course--are really a lot like interactive anime, to me. I mean, most console RPGs (and some may argue that it's not proper to call these games RPGs and only such pen&paper pursuits like D&D [which I've never played] are worthy of the moniker, and I might agree, but it's still the easiest/best classification) are done in the 'anime' style, with Japanese artwork and storytelling themes. While I can get lost in a good anime, RPGs are in general more immersive--you're not just watching the action unfold, you're making the action unfold. Of course, this becomes frustrating when you come across a puzzle or a boss (twice as frustrating with bosses, IMO) you can't defeat the action stalls, but even so: if I were given the choice between watching a brand new anime and playing a brand new RPG, I would play the RPG. ^_^;
Man, I'm surrounded by Leos.. o_o
Happy (belated) Birthday, blink-fluff. :B
Happy (belated) Birthday, blink-fluff. :B
Life suckage continues, but at least tonight I was smart enough to not let it interfere with my studies. I let it interfere last night and therefore failed, horribly failed, a French quiz today. Tomorrow I have a Government and an AP English vocab test, both of which I have duly studied for and probably need to study for some more...
Umm.. no KS tomorrow... I STILL have no graphics program and I can't post the next page till I do. There should be new Claris verra soon, though, I'm nearly done with chapter 2. I feel your excitement.
Umm.. no KS tomorrow... I STILL have no graphics program and I can't post the next page till I do. There should be new Claris verra soon, though, I'm nearly done with chapter 2. I feel your excitement.
Wednesday, August 22, 2001
So I'm managing editor of the Lit Mag this year, and this girl Michelle Lewis is the senior editor. Today we passed out submission request flyers to the senior and junior english teachers of the school, and I was the Silent Bob to her Jay...since she did all the talking whilst I just kind of stood there and looked around. XP (but I wasn't totally useless: I ripped the duct tape we used to stick the remaining copies to various walls)
Michelle is making me look bad because she's not only a very prolific poet, she's a very good poet. She kicks my ass all over the poetic floor, to be honest. So not only am I inferior to her ability, I also have very little to offer anyway. I promised her I'd bring something I'd written tomorrow, and I really only have one or two things...not the entire folder of (mostly excellent) stuff she showed me of hers today. I'm really more comfortable in a prose environment... I find my poetry very forced and lame, like you can tell that I'm grasping for words that sound nice instead of having them flow naturally. Also my poems tend to be of the angsty, PSN (please stop now) variety. >_>
Michelle is making me look bad because she's not only a very prolific poet, she's a very good poet. She kicks my ass all over the poetic floor, to be honest. So not only am I inferior to her ability, I also have very little to offer anyway. I promised her I'd bring something I'd written tomorrow, and I really only have one or two things...not the entire folder of (mostly excellent) stuff she showed me of hers today. I'm really more comfortable in a prose environment... I find my poetry very forced and lame, like you can tell that I'm grasping for words that sound nice instead of having them flow naturally. Also my poems tend to be of the angsty, PSN (please stop now) variety. >_>
I have cuts on my left wrist from my backpack strap...it looks like I cut myself on purpose or something, plus it's really disgusting because I absolutely hate, hate wrist injuries. x__X; They make my physically ill.
Ahh, life sucks.
I updated my links though. (figured it was time, especially since seiryuu is happily back in business)
I updated my links though. (figured it was time, especially since seiryuu is happily back in business)
I tried to get defensive over that page, but it didn't work out very well. I wanted to be pissed off, but I just couldn't work up the anger. Probably because I (a) don't write video game fanfiction (I've tried to, honestly... The sucky story mentioned below was my only solid attempt, and even then it was so full of my own characters that it doesn't count for much) and (b) I only know Mooncalf vaguely (she seems very nice & intelligent). Plus it is amusing, even though I don't think the page I made for SB is angsty or serious at all. :\ (Just look at the splash XP) It's not my problem if some members of the over zealous video game community use the terms to validate their fanfictiony homosexual fantasies. =P
On a not really related note, thanks to this person for linking me.. x__x I like your blog..and most of the pages on kekkai actually...
On a not really related note, thanks to this person for linking me.. x__x I like your blog..and most of the pages on kekkai actually...
Tuesday, August 21, 2001
When I grow up, I shall become a hermit. I will be that lady with all the cats who keeps a shotgun to frighten the neighborhood children. =P
That's the plan right now, at any rate, because I don't just despise people--I despise how I let them get to me.
That's the plan right now, at any rate, because I don't just despise people--I despise how I let them get to me.
This time I'm going to let it all out
This time I'm going to stand up and shout
I'm going to do things my way
It's my way
My way or the highway
Some day you'll see things my way
You never know, never know
When you're gonna go
Some day you'll see things my way
You never know, you never know
This time I'm going to stand up and shout
I'm going to do things my way
It's my way
My way or the highway
Some day you'll see things my way
You never know, never know
When you're gonna go
Some day you'll see things my way
You never know, you never know
Monday, August 20, 2001
I love Winsor McCay. And I love Little Nemo. *_* Although I don't exactly name my extra characters 'Nemo' as a tribute (Nemo is just the latin for 'nobody'), I still think McCay is a brilliant artist.
You ever felt like your closest friends don't really care about you? -___-; I definitely need that coke now....
It takes a big person to admit when she's wrong... I think I deserve a coke now (too bad none of them are cold and tasty because I forgot to put one in the fridge for myself).
Jazriot, the band Cake does the song Short Skirt/Long Jacket. Catchy, ain't it. :3
Sunday, August 19, 2001
If you never show compassion, people are going to logically think you aren't compassionate. More on this tomorrow, if I remember, but I have to go to bed now.... I uploaded the next Karma page, in spite of its extreem suckiness. Hopefully you'll all be able to read my horrible handwriting when it shows up tomorrow.
Yee! It's beautiful! *__* ::squeezes you:: Are those song lyrics in the onmouseover? They are cool.
The Lord doth make sport of me. I return home from a joyous excursion with Ali and Laris and I attempt to phone Kai, but mother is on the phone, and then when she is off and I attempt for the second time, Heather answers and does not let me through for they are about to eat dinner. Alas.
You know, the Buzz Lightyear animated spinoff is actually pretty neat. Strangely well-written for a Sunday afternoon cartoon. :3;
Today is Kai's birthday. Let us all sing. :3
What's sasuga? ^^;
Does anyone ever feel, like...possessive of their friends? And I don't mean going crazy every time they spend time with someone that's not you, I mean getting annoyed when suddenly a person who has never before associated with them starts hanging around them for some cosmic reason...
Does anyone ever feel, like...possessive of their friends? And I don't mean going crazy every time they spend time with someone that's not you, I mean getting annoyed when suddenly a person who has never before associated with them starts hanging around them for some cosmic reason...
