This may be old news to most people (the hits from Kai's blog have certainly slowed), and I was planning on just letting it go. But you know, when someone actually lies about going offline to work when in actuality they've only blocked you and are still talking to everyone else, and when you've been completely ignored for three solid days, then you kind of become aggravated. When you call this person to ask the reason for this, and they will not only refuse to answer but they call you a stalker and exchange insults about you with the other person ignoring you, then you become very aggravated.

Now, I don't know how many people even know where Kai's blog is, but I'm guessing that it's a great deal more than she suspects, given the amount of hits it generated over here and the amount of people I talked to who had read it...

...actually, no... I'm too bothered and scattered to do this tonight. I will sleep on it and tomorrow I will be logical and coherent and will not be as tempted to get all emotional, because even though I'm not crying or even feeling like I'm in the Pit of Despair right now, I know I could definitely get emotional really quick..because I still like Kai and Sally, even though they're being... like they're being... I don't know, maybe it's a little harder for me to suddenly stop caring about someone I've cared about for years than other people, but I really just can't do it. So I will wait until I'm collected and rational.

Playing FFX and coloring your comic and so on are all well and good activities, but three days of not much besides that with nearly no one else to talk to is just nuts. I'm going to do something drastic soon, I think... especially since I've reached that horrible point that we all eventually reach in video games if we are the sort who don't spend time getting stronger in the first place--where you meet a boss who is so overwhelmingly powerful that he crushes you like the weak, underdeveloped bugs you are and you must go back and train. >_> (I am talking, of course, of the boss met in Mt. Gagazet. No, not the two at the gate of Gagazet, the other one. Yes.)

The idea of creating a story that pokes fun at anime cliches is a good one in and of itself, but it turns bad rather quickly when you don't do anything amusing with those cliches... instead you just copy them and then say it's a parody. :\

I'd like to talk about Final Fantasy X, but I know if I did I would end up writing something spoilerish and a lot of people haven't even played it yet, so...
But suffice to say that it's very amusing to go looking for info on this game and mostly getting sites that were created before it was released in English. You can tell this because they're full of incorrect information and speculation garnered from video game intelligence sites and magazines. :3;

::squees and falls over:: I love FFX! XD The scene with Seymour and Yuna in Bevelle--PRICELESS!! (I tried to make that vague so as not to spoil, but I probably spoiled anyway :3;) I love Seymour. XD (even if his name is kind of dumb)

Okay! Now I'll talk about all the stuff I've been neglecting cause of the holidays and FFX and my own miserable laziness.

Clarity: Umm, not going anywhere until I finish the third Claris chapter, so I really don't have much to say about it... except I hope no one thinks the plot twist about the Scary Mansion belonging to Charon is a lame plot twist, because I know that it kind of came out of nowhere. But hey, he couldn't have lived in that shabby apartment all his life, eh? =P (actually he never really lived in the mansion, it just belongs to his family, but anyway...)

Claris: I'm at a really important scene in the chapter I'm working on, and it's also a battle scene, so it's incredibly hard to write. So I left off from that scene and drew a 10 page comic thing as a Christmas special. Don't get too excited--readers of Karma Slave know that my comic skillz are limited to mostly mug shots and lots of dialogue. :3; It's not inked or colored in yet either, so I have to do that and then scan all the pages... It doesn't make a whole lot of sense (as nothing I write seems to, to me --), but it does tell you a bit about my angel information (all my own and not taken from Kaori Yuki or anyone else, thanks :B The only bit I took from Angel Sanctuary was the thing about angels developing gender as they mature, because I think it makes sense). I really like writing comics... but I'm just no good at drawing them.. especially without references... -_-;

Karma Slave: The plot is th(s)ickening! If you don't understand the most recent page, that is OK. You're not meant to. KS is very strange to me, because it's not about a group of people banding together to save the planet from certain doom like Claris and Clarity are--it's more about (you may not be getting this right now, but you will) love and relationships and the ties that bind, so to speak. And on a secondary level, being a better person in general. :3;

::yawns:: I think I like Final Fantasy X better than IX. The voices grow on you after a while, and it seems to hold to the general spirit and theme of FF without having to get oldsk00l like 9 was. Plus all the characters--including Tidus, who I still say looks like Cloud and Squall's Hawaiian lovechild but who is very cute in all respects--are extremely likable. This includes Yuna, who holds the same slot in the game that was previously held by Aeris in 7, Rinoa in 8 and Garnet in 9... and while Garnet was likable, I could not stand Aeris and I despised Rinoa. :3; But I love Yuna. ^_^

Eek, looks like blogger's back... perhaps I should change my password, although I don't know what anyone would want with my things... :3;

Anyway I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. I have been playing FFX and it is wonderful. x_x I played the Bouncer first, and while it is very shiny, I reached the last boss in an hour and a half... I knew it was short, but I didn't think it was that short. o_o;
I also got one of those light up Lord of the Rings glass goblets, which I love. X3 I went and saw it for the second time with my family on Christmas Day (well, not really with my brother, because he was working in that same theater at the time... but my folks at least) and I want to see it a third and a fourth time... X3

Aww yeah.

J.R.R. Tolkien was a Catholic who attended mass frequently. For some reason this makes me happy. :3;

New Karma...

Man... if people were upset by the ending of the first movie (of Lord of the Rings :3;), then they're going to be REALLY upset by the ending of the second, if it follows the second book. I can't really say anything out of courtesy to those certain persons who may be reading this who have not yet read the books and intend to, but it's like this: the first movie's ending leaves you thinking "What? Wait! What next?" and the second (like I said, if it follows the book) will leave you thinking "OH MY GOD you did NOT JUST END IT THERE." XD