Updated Kurai. Much in the way of newness. (including Clarity's fourth chapter... read?)

'Genius' would also be a good song for Angsty Lyric day, but it is very short and I think I've posted it before:
If dysfunction is a function (and people learn from their mistakes)
then I must be some kind of
genius [genius must be hissed acidly]

With me it's a religion
Fifty thousand strong.

Angsty Lyric Day, eh? Well, I'll go ahead and post the full lyrics from the song Sattva's singing. It is indeed 'Almost Honest' by Megadeth (good job Kirryn :3), and while the song itself is fairly biting and angry, the lyrics themselves are pretty angst. Sorry I missed bad poetry day. I could have picked any poem I've ever written for that one. =P

I lied just a little
When I said I need you
You stretched the truth
When you said that you knew
Just can't believe it
There's nothing to say
I was almost honest, almost

Living alone, can't stand this place
It's four in the morning and I still see your face

I was nearly pure
When I said I loved you
You were semi-sincere
You said I'd bleed for you
We were kind of candid
Now you've gone away
You were almost honest, almost

Living alone, falling from grace
I want to atone but there's just empty space
I can't face tomorow, now you're not coming back
Walked off in the night and just left me the tracks

I question your call by the tone of your voice
I know I should hang up but I don't have a choice
It happend that night when you told me to go
Don't ask who's to blame, I don't know

Almost, almost honest
Almost, I was almost honest

::convulses with laughter::
"I'm an unstoppable death machine, you know."

I love Zim. XD I wonder how many more of these they've got. Hopefully enough to last until I'm out of school (which would actually only be about eight episodes or so..).

"He attacked me!"
"You must have been taunting him!"
"You know, you should be a rape counselor."

XD I love Greg the Bunny.

Okay, my livejournal will henceforth serve almost the same purpose as Fatal. One difference--it will have roughs of Claris and Clarity chapters. I don't think I'll post the chapters piecemeal to Kurai anymore, but you can still read them unfinished on the LJ (and comment if you please). I like this idea because LJ has a reliable comments system and also I can sort the entries into categories (poems, sarah and steve, fanfic, misc, etc) using the Memories functions... I'll move all the old Fatal entries over to the LJ and sort them.. and post newness... soon. Fresh art will still be posted here (I'm drawing Rei from Breath of Fire III right now... I forgot how much I love this game, though the Okage obsession still burns strong within my heart).

Nichole-bug, two things... first, happy belated birthday. ::hug:: Second, that article is an April Fool's joke (thank God). ^_^;; Most of those artists write dojinshi themselves. Also Ms. Takeuchi has stated many times in her asides for Sailormoon that she LOVES fanfiction and in fact collects it. Additionally, and I may be wrong on this, but I thought Kurama and Hiei were a -canon- couple in Yu Yu Hakusho? Yes, no? I haven't seen much of it, admittedly...

The only truth in that article is the stuff about Anne McCafferey, which I think I may have talked about before. If I ever become an author of note, I will probably do--or try to do--things the Japanese way and promote fanwork (just like I do now... anyone is free to draw or write with my characters, though I really appreciate it if I'm told about it.. especially if it's writing)... as long as no one writes a fanfiction and then sues me after I put a story out that may have a similar plotline or something. I think if that happened to me I would be seriously pissed off and I know it's happened to some North American authors, so I can understand at least that contempt for fanfic.

I'll never understand why people do drugs or would want to do drugs. You people are fucked up enough as it is, why the hell would you want to make it worse.

Anyway, I finished the fourth clarity chapter. It'll be up (along with some other things...) as soon as I fix the glaring errors I've made (and have heard back from a few more people...). But, you know what that means--back to Claris. I can feel your excitement, truly.

Oy... Bryan was rejected from Rice University and mom got her pocketbook stolen overseas. Double plus ungood.

And.. my apathy for school grows more each day. Still, I am forcing myself not to give up completely, and thought I was actually progressing forward in Adv. Alg & Trig... but I received a 0 on a quiz handed back today. Not because I got the answer wrong, oh no. My answer was correct. But because I didn't write down one of the steps I took to solve the problem. WTF. She has a drop policy, but I already have several poor grades... if this grade causes me to have a C for the six weeks... oh, man, will I be pissed. Uselessly pissed, since arguing with teachers (especially this one) is always an exercise in futility, but pissed nonetheless. I leave out one step and I get a zero. Please tell me there is something wrong with this.

New Karma. Can you guess the song Sattva's singing? n_n

Oh, and Happy Easter... hope everyone had a nice, family-oriented day.

"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm." --Marcus Aurelius

He was also one of the least-freaky of the Roman Emperors, as I recall...