.: i'm sure the view from heaven :.

Urgh. Boy howdy I did not want to wake up this morning. Blah. So let's DO this thing.

Day 3- Your favorite character

...bahahahahahaha.

Okay, okay, as I will get chewed on if I don't answer that properly; Ed, of course. Roy's going to give me an injured look for a week, but I don't think that there's any competition. After all, I don't have a soccer team of different variations of Ed kicking around in the ol' headspace or anything.

To be honest, Ed became my favorite character early on because I had not had a single fictional character for whom it was so simple for me to slide into their headspace. He was a viewpoint character I understood. There was not a single choice he made that didn't make sense to me; even if some of his actions might have upset me none of them were entirely unexpected.

( Other days. )

Gih, still sleepy. Gonna lay down for another half an hour (or until Pernelle eats my face) and then off to woooork.

Wow. I have officially posted to this journal 5,000 entries. That's a lot of talk, a lot of mindless blather and fangirling and doujinshi and picspam. Here's to hoping for 5,000 more!

At any rate, Supernatural is on notice again. I was generally pissed off at the episode to start with; if you need a creepy creature of the night to eat brains, you don't first go to kitsune of all creatures. It bothers me a lot that kitsune are generally trickster characters and not, as a whole, malicious ... and the most fun part of their nature, the shape-shifting and the general tomfoolery is completely ignored to turn them into ... what. Something that sucks out parts of people's brains. Fox-demons.

Overall I liked the episode, though, despite my aggrievement over the misuse of kitsune ... until of course the last five minutes of it. Another dead female to add to the gallery, another dead (former) flame of Sam's. I can't even be angry about it any more. I'm just disappointed. I thought the writers had moved past this, I thought the show had moved past this.

I don't even know. I have found more interest and more excitement in the new episodes of The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle than I have in a show that actually got me to write fic for it. I think this is why I don't fall into Western fandoms that often, especially for ongoing shows ... I always wind up disappointed.

I would honestly rather a show be killed off in its prime than ran egregiously into the ground like this.

In other news, I am stealing a meme blatantly from zakai_, because it is relevant to my interests and I feel like rambling at length.

Day 1 - How were you exposed to the phenomenon that is Fullmetal Alchemist?

I never was much; it was not yet a phenomenon when I found it. I found some scans on my external hard drive dated from 2002; scanlations of the first few chapters of FMA that I must have downloaded when I went on missions of "download ALL THE MANGA" ... back in those days there weren't things like MangaFox to find chapters easily. One would stumble across direct downloads on websites, or you had to know what you were looking for. I would often download the first few chapters of the most random series, just looking for a gem here or there. I honestly don't recall if I read those first handful of chapters or not or what my thoughts were. I possibly never opened the .zip files.

I watched the first episode of the first anime almost completely by accident. I was on the hunt for the first episode of Peacemaker Kurogane - it was airing in the same Fall 2003 anime season. Long-time readers of this journal know how big a fan I am of Rurouni Kenshin, this Shinsengumi show piqued my interest so I wanted to get in on the ground-level. On the direct-download page I found for the first episode of PMK was a show labeled "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 1: Raw." As direct download pages for full anime episodes were rare as hell in those days, I went ahead and downloaded that too. I was in Japanese 201 and full of bluster that I would be able to at least glean some understanding from the episode.

My roommate and I put the episode on. We had no idea what was going on, there were little kids and a magic circle and narration that was going too fast for either of us to hope to parse. They were doing something, and things went bad, really really bad - and then the episode cut to a short guy and a suit of armor flailing about in the desert. We were completely confused and stopped the episode, deciding to wait for the subtitles. I found the episode subtitled the next day.

That was in October of 2003, eight years ago.

I realize I've kind of answered the second question with the first one here; so I will leave off the more detailed thoughts I had once I was able to understand what was going on at the time for tomorrow. To be honest I kind of want to answer them all today in long form, but I will be patient. This is meant to make me actually post more often, after all.

( The Other Days )

Haaaa I have nothing important to contribute to the internet today, so have a meme!

( Yes, I started another '30 days of' meme. I don't think I ever finished the writing one. Whoops. OH WELL. )

I just finished up Gundam X, and it reminded me a great deal of Gundam Wing. The music, the character designs, the incomprehensible politics, and so on. 懐かしよね...

My life has been consumed by this fic, what was once a dinky 4k fic has blossomed into over 13k of words - AND I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE SMUT. What in the SHIT, brain. This is almost bigbang length. I am beginning to pull out my HAIR. I want to shake them both and go GET WITH THE GOOD STUFF. vndsfsdkgf. This fic ate my productivity. T____T;

Had a dream last night, involved Ziva and Tony and was ... odd. Something about garage doors and PTSD. Seriously, I have no idea where my brain comes up with this shit, really. I mean, I watched all of the second season of NCIS this week, but... Ziva's not IN the second season. Ahh, my brain, my brain.

( 30 Days of Writing )


10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!

I write about Edward Elric. Every day is a weird situation. I've never written a single character who gets into so much shit so quickly, it's just amazing. It's like he's a weird-situation magnet.

I blame the alchemy.

(New icon WHEE. Oh Ed, I love your shit-eating grins.)

Augh, I got no SLEEP last night. Just tossed and turned all night long. No explanation or anything, orz. Then I had a dream in the handful of hours that I was actually unconscious about McGee and DiNozzo from NCIS. I just remember that they were in it, not what it was about. Fail, self.

Interesting note is that the ending of Ga-Rei Zero kinda syncs up with mashup!Kenshin's origin story. I kinda made a lot of o____O faces and moved on.

( 30 Days of Writing )

6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?

B) all of the above.

I do most of my writing at my laptop; but if I'm at work I write by hand. I have several notebooks full of fic that I've handwritten - I tend to like stuff that comes out hand-written even if it needs a lot of tweaks to it, because there's something about not going back and being able to edit and just getting the story out of your head. Time of the day rarely plays in to it, really, but I don't do a lot of writing at night because I'm usually so fried from my day that I don't want to do any hard thinking, or I giggle about the characters I would be writing about to other people.

Case in point, last night talked a lot about Nick & Takeo's story, and how Takeo got his hands on Envy's blood that kickstarted the whole thing; and a lot about the shit that went down between Roy and Ed in that 'verse too. <- depressing stuff. Someday I'll write the full story and not just under-1000 word prompts.

God I'm so sleepy. Today is gonna suck balls.

So, Green Hornet trailer. I'm kinda excited but I'm also really, really apprehensive. I'm still kinda meh on Seth Rogen overall, but bbbff the gas gun thing. It's never a good sign if a film has a January release date, though.

Anyway, onwards!

( 30 Days of Writing )

4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!

If I go back in time enough, I know that in the 2nd and 3rd grade I was hand-writing an epic account of the Pony Wars, which was what I called the conflict between the ranks of my My Little Ponies. The King and Queen ponies and their legions of purple and pink soldiers were fighting this harried lot of blue and yellow and green resistance fighter ponies, and the POWs ended up under the chair in the dungeon, or carted off to the slave mines of a Barbie Dream Home.

I was an interesting child.

( 30 Days of Writing )

2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?

I have... a butt-ton. But what writer doesn't have a butt-ton of characters? That would be weird if you only wrote like one or two EVER. If we want to go the route of the musebox, there's usually about fifteen rotating characters in residence from several different storyverses. The majority of them are male; not through any real design it just kinda happened that way. (As several of them are AU versions of the same character that's not much of a surprise.) Also, there has been a rise in female characters hanging around the musebox, they just refuse to stay at the 'Sou because it's a Boys Club.

In the actual process of writing I tend to write more about boys overall, but that's because most of my stories right now are fanfic; and a further percentage of that is smut. I write what I want to read, unless I get requests.

Speaking of which, I feel like writing now. WOO!

( LOOK MA I MADE IT!!! )


Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd I'm done! Woohoo!

So, the dub of FMA:B. Dude, did Vic always sound that whiny? I'm not gonna watch it in English although I might DVR it just for the hell of it (DVD/Blu-ray out in May huuuuuzzzzaaaaah, where's the original anime on blu-ray huh?), but there's no escaping the commercials with the amount of [AS] I watch. I am tickled to death that it's being dubbed while still airing in Japan oh importing of anime, we've come a long way. Speaking of anime, where's my sub of FMA:B 43, spammit? I need my weekly dose of painFMA!