We are all pawns in Zeus' great game

And we should be thankful for the part we play.
Hoooo boy let's discuss some motherfucking shit.
I don't even know where to start with this shit. I guess "the start" is the most logical place.
In fact, yeah, let's discuss this fucking title: "Nii-san is all that matters."
If you're not a weeaboo cunt then you probably don't know what the fuck that means but Nii-san is a friendly (sort of) way of saying "big brother".
So already I'm getting some creepy vibes but let's read on. I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation.
Also I can't help but notice two of the most common tags are "depression" and "ramblings" so I HAVE A GOOD FEELING.

If you arrived at your front door and saw your first love standing there, what would you do or say?

"BOUNGIORNO" then I'd close the door because who the fuck are you and what are you doing on my doorstep?

First & Last Love= Onii-chan.

I would say: "Let's be together forever, Onii-chan <3~!"

>/////<

You'll always have my heart, Onii-chan~

If a girl said this to me I'd punch her in the cunt.
I was about to say "if she's not Japanese" and I'm not sure what made me want to qualify that. No, under no circumstances should you say this shit to me.

If a movie was made of your life, what actor would you want to play the lead? What about the romantic interest?

I sat here for like 5 minutes trying to think of an actor that wasn't active before 1989 and I couldn't fucking do it.
I'm just going to say Clint Eastwood circa 1965 for me and Vivian Hsu in a reference so obscure I startle even myself.

Actor: Me. There's definitely no one who could do it better!
Romantic interest: Onii-chan!! Onii-chan!! Onii-chan! *Falls over* Hahaha! No one in this world but Onii-chan <3~!

Whoops, my nose is bleeding just thinking about it... oAo

>what actor
>implying you're an actress

Also I'm purposefully ignoring the other shit because I'm about to get fucking angry.

Recently, I've been eating more frequently and in larger portions. It's like the more I eat, the emptier I feel. I don't even care about being slender anymore.

SO HUNGRY

I'm so stressed out about studying and university right now, and I'll be taking classes all year round for the next two years...my head's in a mess.

WHATCHA STUDYIN'?
Something uuuuuseful, I'm sure.

Even the world's gone topsy-turvy right now... I just hope that the situation in Japan won't get worse...I send my wishes out to those unfortunate people.

Please come back, Onii-chan. I miss you...

ONIIIIII-CHAN God I want to hit you.

People are liars.

People are inherently greedy.

Side note: I feel like throwing up. My head's all blank.

Yeah-- what?
And the rest is just a note to herself:

I will fall asleep tonight

Ok.
Now here's a post entitled "outfits I want people to buy me" but all the pictures are animu, soooooooooooooooooo--

I need to moe about Kazuki from Kage Tsuki. 萌え！！！！

すうううううううううううううううごいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
Holy shit.

With the way things have gone, I probably have just written something terribly offensive.

Offensive to the senses, maybe. She wrote "MOE" which is difficult to translate into English but it's kind of like being young and cute at the same time but really just translates to fucking annoying in my book.

Why does every day seem harder than the last one?

The only easy day was yesterday.
Except tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be far easier than today.

I have no f**king clue.

Sorry, but I have to rant. Yes, I'm being a bitch.

Holy goddamn I have to take a piss all of a sudden.

Stress tends to make me that way. I'm already procrastinating, I don't need anymore of this.

I have several (more than I can handle) midterms within the next few weeks, plus weekly homework and assignments.

Man that was a good one. I actually feel lighter now.

I don't understand aggregate demand/ supply shock and the returning to long-run aggregate supply. I wil get it soon enough.

aggregate demand I'm guessing is the demand any discreet group will have for a resource and supply shock is when a sudden influx of a resource goes unnoticed because of the previous relative scarcity of the resource?
Literally just guessing.
So 5 hours later I finally looked it up and it's some shit I was kind of close on one but not so much on the other.

What was the last juicy generalization from which you freed yourself? What caused your perspective to change?

Generalize always.

That anyone not a believer in a religion would go to hell. The turning point is when I saw people I dislike as believers of religion and decided that heaven and hell aren't so different if they'll be "saved".

ZZZZZZZZZZZZEUS.
We are all bound for Hades, though.
Pindar has this to say:

And those that have three times kept to their oaths,

Keeping their souls clean and pure,

Never letting their hearts be defiled by the taint

Of evil and injustice,

And barbaric venality,

They are led by Zeus to the end:

To the palace of Kronos

HEAR THAT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES? KEEP YOUR OATHS AND DON'T BE TRAITOROUS SCUM.

So, I was procrastining on something that was supposed to be memorized by tomorrow, but whatever. I was watching the fourth episode of hatsukoi limited with Koyoi's brocon, and I decided to surf the net and see what people think of these complexes.

AND ZEUS ALSO SAID DON'T FUCK YOUR RELATIVES.
Actually that was Apollo but whatever same pantheon, same rules to live by.
With the Old Gods the rules are very simple.

Inside anime forums, for the most part, people said having romantic feelings for a sibling/ sibling complex was disgusting. A few others said that it's not their problem, so they don't have the right to judge. I'm one of those people. I think that people that have siblings and have sibling complexes are possible, despite claims from people (even animes!) that people who don't have siblings are the only ones to have sibling complexes.

So--
wait, what?

I have a brother, but when I watch anime/read manga, and I see a protective big brother who's really nice to his younger siblings, I'll think: "I wish I had an older brother like him". I'm not sure if this is a sibling complex, but I may have proved these naysayers wrong. It's possible, I think, to have a sibling complex, though usually it's not towards your actual sibling, but towards a character that you think would make the best sibling ever, as in you wouldn't mind having a complex towards him/her.

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE MOST CONFUSING FUCKING THING EVER CAN'T YOU PEOPLE BE ATTRACTED TO THINGS I UNDERSTAND SO I DON'T HAVE TO READ THIS SHIT LATER?

Then I went onto forums that were related to this, but talked about it in reality. Boy, was that a whole 'nother can of worms. I'll sum in up: People there think that a sibling complex will ALWAYS (and I'm not talking generally, I'm saying "Every time") lead to sex, and babies with birth defects, backward thinking, and continued generations of inbreeding. What?

What?
What?
What?

People tack on the complex as always "lust, not love".

Here, let me make this simple for you people.
So lately in my new classroom that I'm now teaching in (long story) and there's this inclusion teacher (longer story) and he has an assistant (assistant to an assistant, what) but before I could make any jokes at all I noticed she was pretty fucking nice and she's totally been flirting ever since.
Which hasn't gone unnoticed.
END OF STORY.
We're not related, she's not a man, I'm not a gender confused, pre-op transsexual lesbian--
this is a simple tale.
In fact most of it was setting up unrelated shit.

How do they know? I'd think the bond between family was a little closer to love, not the drunken one-night stands between unrelated strangers.

Although ironically the thing that brought her into my class was incest.
Oedipus Rex~

Not the girls who seek out an attractive guy because of his "package". I am not saying that people who molest their siblings are in love, hell no. Also, I'm not talking about people who get a kick out of the forbidden.

Seeking the forbidden--
isn't that the goal in life?

But I'm talking about a character crushing on a sibling because they believe that they feel the safest with them and know that their sibling has the ideal traits they look for in a romantic partner. Is that lust? Are they all simply horny perverts and in need of a release?

Apollo will put a plague on your city for that shit.
And praise be to the Plaguebringer.
Lycian Apollo, engineer of all hellish disease and pox and plague and withering blight of the field.

What about the people who keep on dating people who abuse them? Is that love, not lust just because they're not related?

And the cure to all our woes.

I'm not denying that sexual feelings wouldn't occur (it would be foolish to say that two people with romantic feelings would never want to have relations, even if it's illegal), but what if both people didn't have the ability to reproduce?

Wow, what are we talking about? I was talking about this girl at my horrible school and then I kind of got sidetracked.

I mean, I understand the deformed babies and how it would be unjust and cruel to bring them into the world if you knew there was a really high certainty of them having to live a hard life. But what if you weren't bringing children into the world? What then?

That's why you pick people who look different from you.
I mean fuck, the Lord Jesus didn't die on a cross for you to just marry the girl next door.

I think anime/manga forums are more accepting because everything is more theoretical, which may seem hypocritical. And I love watching siblings with complexes in anime/manga. I haven't seen any in real life, so I'm not sure if they exist.

How is it every anime I have ever seen in my entire life avoids complex issues like siblings fucking?
Fist of the North Star: Kenshiro loves YUUUUUURIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and he'll do anything to get her back from Shin so he fucking kills people until he gets her back but then she kills herself (but not really) and he decides to create a better world.
END OF STORY.
Except for the part where she's the secret descendant of the Nanto house and actually lives only to reunite with Kenshiro later but we're getting off topic.
Gundam 0083: Ensign Kou Uraki wants to bone this Nina Purpleton girl but she's kind of a cunt but then she's kind of nice but then she betrays him and the crazy kids work it out anyway.
END OF STORY.

People sound like it'd be better to hate your sibling (want to kill him/her)/have sex with a hooker than have any romantic feelings for a sibling.

Better to hate than spawn a mutant, yes.
Here's her "song list" and it starts with:

I Hate Everything About You - 3 Days Grace

I don't even know what that is but it sounds fucking amazing.

I should take a poll: Which is better to play downloaded games (iso's)? The PSP Go or PSP 3000.

I didn't know the PSP 3000 was hackable.

Even after my fruitless searching, I learned that .iso's can't be converted to UMDs or .elf files.

And about a UMD emulator. Does it allow you to use it with the PSP emulator?

UMD emulator-- what
Do you mean an ISO mounter?
Well I think that's about enough for today. Usually I like to end on a stronger note than this but nope, I'm done.
Fuck it.

Requiescat in pace

Don't you just love Japanese? It's a great language. If I had to pick my three favorite languages they would be, in no particular order, English, Japanese and Latin. All three of them, I think, can sound poetic yet have a certain concrete sound and to the point attitude. Something sadly missing, I feel, from a lot of languages.
However, there's something English and Latin have over Japanese, and that is the fan base for Japanese is pretty much shit.
Let's go over this title, shall we?

夢に向かい進んでいく。

Maybe my grammar isn't as pro as I thought but I'm not honestly sure what she's trying to say here. While there's nothing technically incorrect about "de iku" it's kind of an odd turn of phrase. The verb is "to come" (not sexual in this case, presumably) but you're doing the coming in something (or maybe it is, yeah).

It was almost torturous to wake up this morning! Bahhhh. 9am lessons should be banned! LOL.

Was looking through cosplay pics and came acrosss Bou's picture. Not a cosplay, its the man himself. Xuanny couldnt believe that he is a guy! LOL.

... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG MOET WAS WONDERFUL. First initial taste was UGH but after the first mouthful, the after effect was AWESOME. Warm and fuzzy feeling! "We sound like we are in love" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA OMG LOL. Really very nice leh! Omggggggggggggg I can totally understand why Uruha loves Moet COS I LOVE IT TOO! LOL. Uwaaaaa <33333>
Fist of the North Star is a documentary based on real life events, by the way. Remember in 199X when the entire world was engulfed in nuclear fire? I do.
Now here's a "beautiful song" which I'm going to listen to. Better be worth interrupting Queen for (it won't be and I fully acknowledge this before I do it).
Ha, ha oh I was expecting a woman singer, based off the thumbnail of the video.
Huh, you Japanese guys.

ANYWAY. Ruha-chan said the GAY-EST THING. HAHAHAHHAAA OH GOSH WHATS WRONG WITH HER LOL. MOET~~~~!

I can match you 1:1 with Fist of the North Star screen shots to your douchey lines, bitch.

And so, I PANICKED LA DUH. "OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"-ed frantically and then i seriously thought chibi reirei has died. And then ruha-chan came to my rescue again! She revived the code for me

YAYYYYY. THANKS A LOT BUDDY!

Woaaaaaaaaaah. Gosh. Gosh! Yokatta~~~~

"Yokatta" is an irregular adverb (they conjugate adjectives in Japanese, go figure). Present tense would be "ii", dictionary form is "yoi". It means "good". You'd translate that to English as "I'm so glad."
WE HAVE A PERFECTLY VALID PHRASE IN ENGLISH. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

You know the stove? The part where the fire comes out? I TOUCHED THE METAL PART and went "ow. fuck." and i thought i was almost fine even though i touched that damn hot part. Until the pain came gushing out LOL. AND I STARTED WHINING~~~~ UWAAAAAAAA T.T

Maybe I'm making fun of a three year old. YOU KNOW THE HOT PART OF THE STOVE?
No, this is news to me.

Eto... i kept procastinating about psycho COS ITS SO BORING.

>Psycho
>boring
>using "eto..." instead of "umm..."

I cant believe i actually teared a little. Wifey patted me on the head! HAHAHA AISHITERU YO!

Motherfuck.

You know they always say money is the root of all evil?

So then, man created money right?

And a certain group of them say ____ is the creator of all including man right?

So does that mean _____ is the root of all evil?

What?
Also: shut up.

I don't get how some people can be so superficial.

Judging a DVD by its jacket is just like judging a book by its cover. S-U-P-E-R-F-I-C-I-A-L.

A cover is just a cover isnt it. What matters is the content. Bah.

Well you certainly would know about being superficial, wouldn't you, Mrs. "It's Japan so it's automatically good"?
Whoa sorry, started doing everything else for about two hours before coming back to this.
Uhh-- where was I?
Oh yeah: entry over.

What is a man?

Here's our pro animu artist. Rather telling when I can't find any of his drawings even though I've located his blog, his myspace, and pictures of him.
Cool mutton chops, by the way. Very Chester A. Arthur.
So in the first entry he sets his schedule for the summer (very cute, by the way) and it's all this regimented shit that I suppose is supposed to make him better at drawing, but I don't know.

-a page a day in the sketchbook at least (is actually kind of required now that I've gotten in the BFA program) ...that's the one thats actually kind of assigned

-Listening to at least 1 animation podcast a week (most likely more) I just have a lot to catch up on...

-I'm going to try my best and keep up my anatomical studies... an hour a day just working my way around the body, like usual

Fine, fine, but what do you learn from that? Senseless copying and drawing probably won't make you better at it through sheer force of repitition. Life isn't really like an RPG, friend.

I'm amazed that It's a friday night (and a beautiful one at that) and yet I'm here int he art building working... I guess it shouldn't suprise me but it really does... I turned down 3 chances to drink tonight (some harder to pass up than others)... just to work in peace... funny right?

I'm sure you don't mean "ha ha" funny and I don't actually know you so I can't say if this is strange behavior, so don't fucking ask me.
Now there's a song I'm not reading.

Krazy night last night... and call me greedy but lately it seems no matter what happens or what I do I want more...

>Krazy
Easy.
Also, yes, that's pretty much the definition of greed.

Fuck.

I don't like being this vulgar usually but I can't think of a better way to express how I feel...

>fuck
>vulgar
Tee-hee.

Nightmare, rolling constantly and ajusting to the point where I ended up just watchign the last two hours pass before I had to get up thinking I wish it would all end soon.

So suck it up like a man, faggot. So you had a nightmare and rolled around all night like a goddamned pussy. Deal with it.
They say dreams are from Zeus, and he's probably punishing you for being a twat. Let this be a lesson.

Why has this goddamned neccesity plauged me my whole life?!!

Plauged. I'm going to be unusually generous and assume this is a typo.

(keep reading if you wanna hear a whole dialouge with myself inside my own head...)

All right I take it back, you can't fucking spell. Every time I'm generous with my typo allowance I get screwed. There's no such thing as a typo, just people who can't spell. Really, dialouge? Let's say that word outloud. Die-uh-louwj.
Protip: it's dialogue or dialog.

she was refrenceing some of out other firends who seem to constantly be stuck in either a mediocre or grumpy sour puss kinda mood all the time, but still I liked this thought.

>refrenceing

(it's a complex emotion)

If infact Sense and Sensibility is the title of my autobiography then only time will tell nothing I can do about it, the Colonel is just himself and goes and does his own thing untill others discover their mistakes and his real worth, sucks but that's life, nothing I can do about it, so why try to speed up some kind of idealized fate?

Holy shit, what? Let's take a time out from these bizarre philosophical ponderings and focus on your diction and grammar.

It's the end of the book anyway, lets not spoil the ending and just enjoy our journey through the pages right?
Be yourself is all you can be.

No, actually. Actors and spies pretend to be different people all the time with varying degrees of success.

There's not one lyric in the world that means more to me in this world (and I don't even like the band!!!) and I might seem like a broken record by now but thats what you get for listening into the thoughts of a crazy person, I have all the answers I know I get hung up on these things because of the long lonely nights alone stuck in a 3 colored building or inside the brick walls of my head where silence truely dwells, or because of the altered state of reality I land in after high levels of stress on a regular basis and low levels of sleep on a much more regular basis.

Jesus Christ, what? I've read opium-fueled ramblings that were more coherent than this (I'm dead fucking serious).
All the answers to what? Why should the color of the outside of a building make a difference to your disposition? What brick wall in your head? Are you Pink Floyd? Am I dying?
You're definitely not cool enough to pull of the vaguely emo "building a brick wall in my head that keeps people out" bit because you aren't backed by awesome guitar solos like Pink Floyd was.

It's kind of funny really, just like being a better artist or being funnier in general it's simple really I just have to be more careful, and that always sounds loads easier than it actually is...

Do you consider yourself funny? I have yet to read anything in this blog I'd even classify as a joke. I bet he's someone who thinks talking loud is like being funny.
They aren't the same thing, by the way. Being loud and being funny, that is.
Oh poetry. My favorite time of the day: shitty poetry time.

The cold air from the open window ony cools my tea prematurely...
Unlike those surounding us, I realize I don't have a chance with you.

That'd be "surrounding", Captain Phonics.

But still, the taste of tea is comforting
But stil, I love to enjoy your company

Unlike the tea, you make it hard to concentrate
both seem like an addiction
why can't I just focus anymore?
maybe it's always been this way?

I'll give you this one because you spelled "still" one line above.

I think I couldn't live a day with out my tea
but I'd try for you
I think I can't live a day with out a smile,
but making someone else smile is much more rewarding

"without" is one word, chief. Also, I'll tell you someone who isn't smiling: me.

Thinking about you're current predicaments and frowns, only torment me
when I can clearly remember those watermelon smiles and endless gigles in such clear proximity.

You're predicaments. You are Predicaments. Rare is the day I see people screw up grammar backwards like this. Also "giggles", Captain Phonics. You seem to have trouble with double consonant sounds.

So here we are (or here you aren't)
I've tried my best (possibly too hard)
and you won't change your mind...
nothing can stop my tea from growing cold.

Seems like a temporal impossibility to me. "Here we are (or here you aren't)" since the only (given) characters of this poem are the speaker (presumably the author in this case) and the person to whom he's speaking, it would be impossible to have "them" there and yet one absent, unless we're speaking psychologically absent, but I seriously doubt he's good enough at this to pull something like that.

But maybe tomorrow will be warmer?
I guarantee you I will try again
I promise a new cup will be brewed
Maybe tomorrow will be a better day...

(for you and me...)

That was pretty dire, brostorm. Further proving that all poetry is just paragraphs with random line breaks.
Of course I have read books of poetry similarly written, and they were staples in many universities as far as I can tell, so I'm clearly either a poor judge of poetry (doubtful) or all poetry is bullshit.
Except epic poetry, of course, which is the greatest form of writing there is.

Communication is one of the biggest gifts from God to man.

Oh-ho, is it?
I seem to recall a certain quote:

Come, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:7.
I must say, though, in terms of trolling that one was pretty good. Not as good as Eris "this golden apple will start the Trojan War" daughter of Zeus and Nyx (according to Hesiod's Theogony, anyway), but still pretty good.
Sure the end result is presumably greater than one war, but Eris didn't even really do anything to start this insane chain of events, whereas God had to change the way everyone spoke. Seems like a lot of work to me, and that's always an important consideration in rating the troll. Less work, greater result. That's my trolling moto, anyway.

"Judement day can not be stopped, only postponed... " okay that doesnt soud half as kool as I thought it would but... you get the point...

You're quoting fucking Terminator 3, what did you expect? Quotes that look good on paper?

You said tonight is a wonderful night to die.

"Baby, every night is a wonderful night to die." Sorry I'm not writing a biker movie set in the 1960s, am I?
All right I finally know this guy's name. DAN. HI DAN.
All I can say about your previous entries is this: learn what a paragraph break is.
GOOD BYE, DAN.

Persona 4 is out, fags

Best be going to your Gamestop and getting that shit.
You can thank me later.
So today is our typical weeaboo, which felt appropriately hypocritical after my PSA about Persona 4.
Although, no, wait, this isn't a regular weeaboo, this is a super weeaboo.
JLPT is, for those of you not familiar with Japanese, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Basically you take a ton of tests to prove you're fluent so you can be a translator.
A translator of anime, of course, because there isn't any other possible translator job related to Japanese.

You might not be able to stick to it, but you should at least try. I forced myself to learn 50 vocab words a day plus 3 to 4 grammar points.

Ha, ha there's no way you retained 50 new words. You must have a super memory.

It's partly for my own benefit--the next time I take the JLPT, I want to study better instead of harder.

Maybe it's my limited fucking understanding of how languages work, but it's basically impossible to study better. Your only option is to slave through it.

Skip the reading questions and go directly to the grammar questions. Answer them as quickly as possible.

Exactly what you want to do with grammar: answer as quickly as possible. Don't spend any time because God forbid a grammar test is never knit-picky.

If you can't, just guess and move on.

You are the best grammarian ever. JUST GUESS.
I bet her next tip is "pray. Pray everything turned out okay."
Of course now I see why she's doing this sheer madness of attempting to learn 500 words in a single day. She signed up for this test October 6, the test being a little under two months later.
At her current skill level on October 6, she had to learn 4000 words by December.
Good job pacing yourself, boss.
Her current method of study? Why, to put words she saw in a video game into an electronic dictionary!
This'll work. I have a good feeling.

Haven't been on The Internets much lately because The Internets keep giving me headaches.

Didn't George Bush or whoever say this shit four years ago? Isn't it about time we moved past the whole "internets" thing?

What's more, I'll be leaving Japan in August,

Yeah, returning to the motherland you weeaboo fuck?

Le sigh.

Yeah keep it up. Just keep it the fuck up.

He thinks it's going to be easy to just walk into a foreign country and get a job and place to stay.

Depending on the country it probably isn't as hard as you make it out to be.

Can anyone give me some advice on finding work/residence in Japan (especially Tokyo) that I can pass on to him?

Google it you stupid cunt. You're on the goddamn internet.

Names of English schools, good districts to live in, contacts, etc. I've never had to hunt for a job or apartment while actually in Japan, so I don't actually know very much information that's immediately useful to him.

Gee I didn't know this blog came with a homework assignment. I might have reconsidered my involvement had I known this.

Am 99% sure I passed, yay! I did terribly on the listening section though...the girl sitting next to me had a really loud pencil, it totally distracted me.

At what point are you just making excuses? A loud pencil?

finish and mail off my test for my lame-ass Japanese course for JETs (the textbook not only has terrible explanations, it's also racist and sexist and discrimates against left-handers. I guess it's leftist?)

That textbook sounds like it kicks ass. Fuck left handed people. They're sorcerers.

As a sidenote, my family once caught pufferfish while we were fishing in the Philippines. But we threw the suckers back, since we aren't stupid.

Too bad.

This site lets you bypass your workplace's firewall so you can access blocked websites! Yay!

Holy shit welcome to 1999.

as I'm sure you're all dying to know about my sordid little life.

So why are you posting it? Your blog is arguably the most boring fucking thing I've ever read. I've skipped through 45 entries just waiting for something to comment on and it hasn't happened yet.

Today my students asked me my age and I answered truthfully (twenty-three). Her response was along the lines of, "No way! I thought you were way older! I thought you were older than _____-sensei!"

The teacher she was referring to is close to forty years old.

Shit, destroyed.

It's funner than it sounds.

AND YOU TEACH ENGLISH.
Here's the thing, though: had this been Japanese you know that would have been conjugated perfectly.

First off, my computer attempted to commit suicide tonight so if I suddenly disappear off the face of the net (more than usual, I mean), it's because my computer succeeded in its attempt.

I know I might try just to get away from you, holy shit.
I can't take this anymore. This is so fucking bad.
Flonnebonne, this is bad and you should feel bad.
You seem to like Japanese, so let me say something in a language you can appreciate:
糞食らえ、われめちゃん。
It's always good to know your favorite words in several languages, that way you won't be caught unawares should you suddenly find yourself in Japan and in need of calling someone a cunt.
Which happens to me quite often, I might add.

I Get It.

Obama won. Yay for Obama. Can we please, please, get past it?
That was a rhetorical question, of course, because of course we can't.
Thankfully there are people like Lilyaquarius, though. Too busy swimming in lake me to even pause for a moment of introspection.
Her first post confirms my worst fears: she can't log in to Myspace. My God.
Also she seems to have a bizarre ban on cussing, but like any reasoned adult she doesn't simply avoid cussing because she finds it unsavory, instead she uses the words but censors them. Yes, the word "damn" is a lot less offensive when you reverse the 'n' and the 'm'.
Then she has a long (like two times longer than one of my posts long) post about how Marvel comics (I know) is going downhill and is shit. Since I'll be goddamned if I'm going to refute her ignorant opinions one by one I'm going to give my blanket response to it:
comic books are for children and therefore contain infantile stories. That is why the stories are shit, because they are for children.
I never understood this logic before. WHY DOES THIS CARTOON I'M WATCHING AVOID THE DEEP PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES? Because it's a fucking cartoon. Jesus.

But one thing went through my mind - "anime fest. Anime fest. ANIME FEST!"

Ha, ha cool kids in Texas watch the fuck out.

It was two thirty when I finnaly got out of line.

Second time you've done this, captain phonics.

Now as anyone who knows me knows that my favorite VO is Scott McNeil.

I couldn't even name one voice actor.
I'm not saying that like "oh look how cool I am" because I know every single character in the Shin Megami Tensei series (first and last name) so this is like ultra-nerd right here.

Next weekend my big sis and I along with (maybe) some of our friends are going up to Dallas to see Scott McNeil!!! IN person!!! :falls over and dies of squealing:

I have to feel bad for these anime voice actors. They probably got into this thinking it'd be steady work. Little did they know they'd have to deal with the most annoying fanbase ever.
All right I looked this guy up and I've actually seen practically everything he's ever done (I'm a big Gundam fan fuck it) and I didn't even know.

Who here likes DB/DBZ? Raise your hand if you do.

In a nostalgic sense sure because I was 12 when I was into it but I can't honestly say I've given it serious attention in this decade.
Also before this turns into a serious thesis on the DBZ mythos I'd like to point out the entire plot is basically an excuse to have a 15 episode fight scene so please don't overanalyze this.

Well, lets talk about my favorite character from that franchise, none other then the green alien himself: Piccolo.

Imagine that. You talking about yourself.

Now as any fan would know Piccolo is a namek, who is from a race a green aliens, who can create the Dragonballs, and who are all asexual.

Yes as any fan would know. Pfft.

Wait! What was that last part again? Oh yeah... asexual. Meaning he doesn't have it or anything else. Now I'll admit I didn't know that Piccolo was without that at the start.

Who gives a shit?

All right. I'm out of time but I will continue this little rant-a-thon as it were much later.

lilyaquarius tackling the tough issues of our time. God bless you, lilyaquarius.
That's it. That's her last post. Well, besides the introduction post which continues the trend of being boring as fuck.
Ha, ha, ha I clicked on "friends" and she has none. Livejournal just destroyed you.

WEEABOOS!

What is a weeaboo, some of you may ask?
A weeaboo is someone who is creepily, annoyingly into anything Japan.
People who like anime aren't necessarily weeaboos, but all weeaboos invariably like anime.
The distinction is the annoying factor, I think.
But how can you tell if someone is annoyingly into Japan?
I have a simple test.
In the following paragraph, one word should set off all alarms:

Wow, I'm tired. My parents dragged me out to the county fair today, and then turned me loose while they volunteered for the gardening association for two hours. And ... *squee* Quilts! Legos! Old photographs! Chickens!

Yes. I'm basing my entire entry around seeing that one word. I'll have to play it by ear now.

I saw a chicken and I wanted to take him home. The feathers on his head were really long and, well, think of Einstein hair on a chicken. He had funky feathers, and it was awesome. I dragged my parents back to see that chicken. I admit, I'm eclectic and weird.

Eclectic. That would be from the Greek exlegein, I think. ex-, which is out, and -legein, meaning to gather.
More specifically, it's someone with an assortment of interests or tastes in something. I think officially it would be defined as "a mixture of philosophies" but that doesn't really help.
More to the point, eclectic is rapidly becoming one of those words. People who don't know many words all independently decided that would be a good word to pepper into their speech, regardless of its actual connotation. What about this situation makes me think "WOW THERE'S SOMEONE WHO'S ECLECTIC, LOL"? Nothing. At all. In fact I'm not even sure I'd use eclectic to define a person.
Why do I point all this out? Firstly because I want everyone to see how smart I am because it makes my balls feel big, and second, this is a common thread with weeaboos. Like furries, goths or emos they pride themselves on being unique snowflakes. Unfortunately being unique doesn't necessarily make you useful, so they quickly latched on to the "eccentric genius" stereotype common with their Japanese cartoons, and indeed all cartoons.
Like all humans on the internet, this particular weeaboo seems to fancy herself an author du jour.

I had a monster of an entry written up about Gambit and its current delay. And then LJ ate it. *grumblegrumblegrowl* The short of it is that ... taking a chapter that's written, and then swapping out one character and hoping that the chapter won't need to be completely rewritten is foolish. As I have discovered the hard way. (read: I've now had to rewrite every scene in the story to accommodate the skewed dynamic)

So she's angry her characters sound unique. Most probably her characters only sound unique to her, because indeed she wrote them.

I should be glad my characters don't swap out so easily, because to me that says I'm doing something right. (Even if, technically, it is one character that's just dressing up as the other people. No, I'm not sure how I'm keeping all the people switching roles around straight either. I am, just don't ask me to explain it .. or at least don't expect it to make sense.)

I love it when what I'm reading makes no sense. It's like trying to solve a maze, but instead of being greeted by a way out I get a headache.

That's one thing I have to say about Gambit: it makes sense when you're reading it, and writing all the personality sleight-of-hand isn't that difficult, but explaining it coherently is impossible.

Sounds like a flimsy excuse for piss-poor writing to me.

However, the most interesting thing I'm experiencing with this chapter is that character interactions change, and change drastically, if you swap out characters. Things like past history and perception get in the way. It's a good thing, as social interactions should be nuanced enough that there's a distinct difference between different people; It's just not something I'd really ever considered before. Granted, I've never had muses refuse to budge until I changed an entire chapter to suit them either.

You must be new to writing. Welcome. Not every interaction has to be, as you call it, nuanced. If every interaction were, why, I'd reckon those characters would be fucking irritating quirk-sticks. The rule for "nuanced" interaction should be, I think, like perfume: enough to see that it's there, but not enough to see that it's coming.

On a side note, I think this is why most fanfics with alternate pairings don't work.

No, most fanfics (all of them) don't work because they're thinly veiled authorial self-insertion fantasies.

Something happened today, because Gambit suddenly skyrocketed in hits. I've no idea why, but ... yay? Though I think Ithilwen's going to never ask me a question in a review ever again. I have a slight obsession with Kuroba Kaito. He's on my cellphone screen in fact. Him and a water lily.

I have no idea what any of that means.

This is why Shinou and Chi and Emy and Midoriko had to threaten my life no less than five times while I was writing Gambit, because I spontaneously decided no one else would want to read it and I wasn't going to post it. I think there was also a moment I decided it was too cliché and no one would want to read it, no matter how much fun I'd been having writing it.

That little voice in the back of your mind is trying to keep you from making an ass of yourself. You should have listened.

I've noticed something. I'm perfectly content working on all my current stories, but once I've played with them enough to get a solid grasp on their world, the part of me that thrives on world-building is off to find a new toy. Apparently, the new toy is now 19th century Paris with alchemy, witchery, and something that may be the Bavarian Illuminati thrown in for snaps.

Bet you think you're really clever with that one, huh? Throwing a bunch of seemingly --lol random-- elements together and forcing them to work, no matter if it's like sewing the head of a dog onto a dolphin's body?
Well I'm here to inform you that you're a no-talent hack. France, like most of Europe, had witch burnings. One of the grandfathers of alchemy (Nicolas Flamel) was French. None of these elements seem at all unrelated to anyone with even a tenuous grasp of history.
While to most that's good news (fantastic this story won't be apeshit crazy) to you I'm sure that's like a punch to the kidneys. YOU MEAN I'M NOT A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE? No.
Also if I hear one more fantasy story that starts with "so an alchemist..." I'm never reading again.

*peers into her author's Bag o' Ideas and wonders if she dropped it in LSD at some point* You can't give me any ideas that don't require a staggering amount of research, can you? There's enough work there to keep me from doing any writing on it until early 2008.

Staggering amount of research, huh? Yeah I bet. Fifteen minutes on the Wikipedia entry for "France" followed by "alchemy".
Also quite a number of entries ago I recalled mentioning "no one cares what your mood is" and then mentioned that everyone used huge vocabulary words to describe their moods, half of which weren't even moods. I think I even used "quixotic" as an example.
Well I was being facetious before, but goddamn if her mood isn't listed as "quixotic".
I hate the fucking internet.

Found out yesterday that Funimation is going to dub Ouran Host Club. Am I the only one that thinks this is an exceedingly bad idea? I love Host Club. It's hilarious. It's just ... not going to translate well.

Yeah because you understand Japanese humor so well it made sense to you.
Here's a spoiler for you: humor isn't so specific to any one culture that its humor will be lost on all outsiders.

Dear morons that couldn't keep their porn addiction at home,

That's how all open letters should start.

Though, have you ever had a series of days where you just feel like you fell off the ball, and then someone greased it?

Yeah I just wanted to take that out of context.
I'm going to check through her tag list, because I'd wager I'd find at least one of my "words and terms I check for" before I write a blog off as shitty.
Yep, there it is: tarot.
I fucking love tarot. I think the entire mythos behind it is fascinating, and to write it off as a device for fortune telling, to me, degrades its actual meaning.
Let's see-- oh she took one of those internet quizzes. Well fucking fuck who cares what tarot card you are. THE STAR, huh? Big fucking deal. What does it say-- oh, she represents hope and dreams realized.
I wonder what card I'd be? LET ME TAKE THIS QUIZ AND FIND OUT, THEN POST MY RESULTS HERE LIKE ANYONE GIVES A SHIT!
Seriously if you're going to post the results of an internet quiz don't make an entry.
That's today's lesson: don't make frivilous entries.
Also sorry about forgetting Friday but fuck it I was busy.
(By "busy" I mean "I forgot").

A New Record

Usually it takes me about 10 clicks to find a good journal. I got this one in a record three.
This one appears to be unnamed, which is just fine-- not everyone can have an awesome name like "Edie Finds a Corpse" for their blog.
http://duowolf.deadjournal.com/
There.
What made me pick this journal was the entry right on the top. Usually I read through it a bit to make sure it continues to be promising, but with an opener like this it just has to be gold.

Well I finished playing Crisis Core and I have to say that though I didn't actully cry at the end it did make me tear up. Square really do know how to play on the heart strings thats for sure. I really enjoyed the game and I even like the new characters that they added to the back story as It was done in such a way that it didn't really mess up the story that was already stated.

I'm now playing through Final Fantasy 7 yet again so that I can see how things messure up in terms of location and story flow as it were.

Bold added for emphasis. If you tear up at a Final Fantasy game then you also tear up at Lifetime Movies. And the news. And puppies wandering down your street. I've played all of the Final Fantasies. I've been playing them since I was... Seven or so. I am a longtime fan, and even I couldn't be bothered with the dreck that is Crisis Core. Also have fun replaying Final Fantasy 7. I'm sure it'll be a tour de force for you, right up there with going to the mall and eating at McDonald's.
I wish it stopped here, but it keeps going.

Watched both The Mist and 1408 last night and I have to say I really enjoyed both of them though I liked The Mist best out of the two.

1408 was a really werid film and things were really werid for most of the film as things in the room got more and more extreme. It was a fun film even so and the second Stephan King based film that John Cusack has been in. The first being Stand By Me which is another excellent movie.

The Mist was a damn creppy movie and very fucked up in places. Espically the part where the go into the pharmacy and get attacked by the spider creatures. Animals that have human teeth always freak me out. The ending was also pretty damn depressing as well and I'm kinda shocked they got away with doing something like that.
I have to say there were a couple of things that reminded me of Silent Hill as well. Mainly the part right at the beginning when the air raid sirens blow and then the fog comes rolling in and the other thing is the crazy religous lady remins me of Dahlia Gillespie the crazy cultist. It was the way she spoke and moved mainly rather then the stuff she was saying.

Also mangered tio finished Devil May Cry 4 today and I have to say I really enjoyed the game. I only wish I'd got to play with Dante a bit more but watching his interactions with both Trish and Lady made up for that.:) The only really annoying bit was the fact that you had to fight all the bosses 3 times, twice with Nero and once with Dante it was really uncalled for.

Crisis Core, Devil May Cry 4, 1408 and The Mist. That sounds like something I'd do to prove I was hardcore. I CAN PLAY AND WATCH ALL THIS SHIT WITHOUT CRACKING. Again, if you find "The Mist" creepy, you also find those little cardboard cutouts of ghosts creepy. And Halloween-themed candy. And puppies walking down the street.
To be fair I haven't seen 1408, so it may be fantastic. Considering it came from the hack mind of Stephen King, I seriously doubt it. But I can't know for certain. The reason I haven't seen it is a vow I took after he released his new book: "I will stab myself in the scrotum before I pay for anything involving Stephen King." And I never break a vow.
The part that gets me about this entire blog so far isn't "this is shit" it's "all of this is fantastic and achieves exactly what it intended to." Good Christ this must be how the Nazis came into power. How can you be so bankrupt of taste that anything Hollywood (or God forbid, Square Enix) shovels your way you consume happily? If you have to watch and play this shit at least complain about it so I know you're a human with hands and senses.
Going to June 25, 2008 (I'll be goddamned if I'm reproducing a 100 item list here) I must say good taste does win out (kind of) as some of these underlined books aren't shit. Watership Down and Dune in particular are great, but Harry Potter is underlined as well so I wonder if he (and this has to be a guy) isn't lumping those into the same category.
Also you might want to read The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye, because they're, uhh, oh that's right, THE GREATEST EXAMPLES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Holy fucking Saint Peter riding a cockcycle there should be a law. How can you read ALL of the Harry Potter books and not those two? Don't they teach these kids anything in school anymore? That's a rhetorical question, see, because I graduated in 2005, and I know the answer. The answer is "no."
Also I wonder who compiled this list, and for what purpose?
I don't even want to know. Fuck it, this is making me crazy.
June 23rd, 2008
oh ha ha ha. Die.
June 15th, 2008
So he found "The Happening" to be a quality cinema. That's the movie where Marky Mark (sans Funky Bunch, unfortunately) outruns the wind. OUTRUNS THE FUCKING GODDAMN WIND. ALSO TREES ARE TRYING TO KILL US BECAUSE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY EVOLVED THE ABILITY TO RELEASE A DEADLY NEUROTOXIN.
Every movie M. Night Shamylan or whatever the fuck his name is makes is absolutely horrendous dog shit. I remember seeing The Village, and right as I started watching it I said "I bet the monster is modern technology" and as this bullshit went on and on and on about nothing I said "no, there's no way it could be that fucking stupid." I still have yet to recover as SURE AS SHIT SOMEONE GETS RUN OVER BY A BUS.
Also apparently this is a girl, which goes to show I can't determine gender anymore.
May 1st, 2008:

My other half drew this for me after I feel in love with the pairing after playing Persona 3. It's a kinda cracky crossover pairing but I think it would be pretty cool anyway. I just wish other people shipped it.

The picture is horrendous but in a bland kind of way that makes it not even worth mentioning. What I'd like to point out, though, is I hate it when people who like Stephen King and The Happening and all that also happen to like something I love, because then it makes me feel like there's something wrong with me. Persona 3 is awesome, and people who like The Happening or 1408 or Crisis Core SHOULDN'T FUCKING GET IT. I mean literally, they shouldn't buy it. Maybe they liked it for all the wrong reasons. Yeah, that has to be it.
April 26, 2008
I fucking hate blog quizzes. If you don't have anything to post, don't fucking post. No one cares what number you are or what anthropomorphized animal you are, each with a bigger dick hole than the last.
April 25's post is entitled "anime ramblings" which is a surefire way to ensure I won't be reading it. They're children's cartoons, for fuck's sake. If you want to watch, keep it to yourself.
April 21st, 2008
I read through this entire post before I realized it tricked me. I READ A POST ABOUT ANIME. To be fair this show sounds awesome, but considering she found it to be quality automatically means I won't watch it and would never admit to its quality, because I'm a petty, vindictive dick.
Clicking on "previous 20 entries" I'm filled with a loss of purpose.
I'm just going to assume it's more of the same, and skimming through these entries, yes. Yes it is.
One thing I'd like to mention is the whole "what are you listening to, what's your mood?" thing. I personally find it a bit tasteless, kind of like this entire blog. No one cares that you're pensive, or magnanimous or just a bit melancholic or whatever big fucking vocab word you can think of. I also like how most of the moods aren't actually moods but states of being. I wasn't aware feeling cold was an emotion. It's that sort of cynical shit that makes me wonder if this entire thing isn't a huge joke that I'm just missing, but it can't be because EVERYONE IS IN ON IT.
I'm losing my goddamn mind.
So in conclusion, to not be like this blog:
Evolve some taste.
There, quite simple, I think.
Also I just came to terms with my "SHE LIKES SOME THINGS I LIKE" it must have been luck. Kind of like how a whale will occassionally get a shrimp instead of some plankton.