catystorm: ([SPN] Manga!Dean with sawed-off)
Friday, November 25th, 2011 11:02 pm
....at first I was like "arrrrgh" and then I realized that there wasn't a new Supernatural tonight that I missed. I am glad I remembered that before I got home on Sunday and got pissed that the DVR didn't record anything.

Thoughts: Castiel cameo in SoF? Too much? I dunno, I keep finding ways to sneak Sariel into my mashup canon, but that is such a clusterfuck of FMA and SPN all in one bundle that I don't think anyone notices.

Trufax: hunter!Ed's brain would asplode if confronted with wolf!Ed and vampire!Roy.

Brain is in a weird place tonight. Musebox is quiet, but that's because Kenshin had a coronary at all the Elrics and threw about half of them out. Dean is not pleased by this development because they all retreated to the garage and he's afraid that the car's gonna get dinged again. What the hell, guys; guys what the hell. I need a vacation from my vacation.

Have two entire nightbreed arcs plotted out well in advance; and somehow started a new SoF arc without realizing it and now Roy has acquired sidekicks. I DON'T KNOW. There are chalkydri and nephilim all up in everyone's shit all of the sudden and ... I don't even know.

I would say it's Ed's fault but then again when isn't it? Rian, come be a man and take responsibility for all this shit while Roy runs around trying not to be eaten by the angels-turned-into-monsters-chalkydri.

Dude that reminds me of that My Little Pony special where the ponies got turned into those huge dragon-y looking things by some centaur dude. Wow, 80s flashback.

I am going to wake up tomorrow and read this entry and realize that most of my flist thinks I am probably completely insane.

I might have offered to exorcise a coworker's house. It made sense in the context of the conversation; let me preface everything by saying You Had To Be There and it Made Sense At the Time. This was after a long debate on the futility of security measures in the average apartment and how one of my other coworkers has decided that he going to start a campaign to eliminate doors. Which then transitioned into an argument about whether or not Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character in Dark Knight Rises is actually Dick Grayson in disguise and having to debate the merits of Bane as an intelligent villain with people only passingly familiar with the comics from about, oh shit, when was Knightfall? Fifteen years ago? Mid-nineties, I think. Maybe closer to twenty years ago.

....fucking balls I am not that old. Although I didn't read any of those comics until I was in high school and they were already old then.

I seem to forget if there was ever a point to be made with the entry. Maybe it's just that I write too much. I dunno. Off to sleep, then The Muppets in the morning, and a belated Thanksgiving in the afternoon. Night, all!
catystorm: ([FMA] This takes a lot of thought)
Saturday, June 11th, 2011 02:12 pm
I really, really enjoyed Super 8.

Spoilers Be Here )

I highly recommend it; the movie didn't hold any surprises for me (except for the shape of what was being transported in that train) but I enjoyed it immensely.

There was a butt-ton of trailers on the movie too, some new ones and some not. First time I've seen the full final trailer for Harry Potter in theaters, at this point I'm not ashamed to say it made me tear up. I can't believe it's almost over. Captain America, (in 2D this time), the full Transformers trailer, that goddamned Zookeeper movie I'm sick of hearing about, Cowboys & Aliens, Abducted and the fucking Breaking Dawn trailer.

Now, let me talk about Abducted for a sec. Mostly because I was sitting through most of the trailer going "...wut." It's like Jason Bourne as a teenager, apparently, judging by the stunts and the crazy, but mostly I was being slain by the similarities to Kennichi's backstory and the fact that the main character in this movie who apparently goes through a lot of the same shit Kennichi does is played by TAYLOR LAUTNER. You know, that kid who's most famous for being a werewolf. Things that made Catie almost bust a gut laughing in the theater: This. THIS RIGHT HERE.

I almost have an obligation to see this movie so Kennichi can rofl it up, lmao. Oh Hollywood.
catystorm: ([FMA] Busy at (computer) work!)
Friday, May 13th, 2011 02:10 pm
  •  Today is my parent's 34th wedding anniversary - and in fact it is falling on the proper day of the week this year as well. (Yes, my parents are the sort who purposely got married on a Friday the 13th.) 
  • I have an apartment number, a move-in date and a truck rented. THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. Thank fucking muffins.
  • Tangentially: AUGH I AM MOVING IN A WEEK HALP.
  • Said trainer mentioned in last post apparently got on Facebook and friended a bunch of us co-workers today. Since I have a Facebook primarily for work purposes (and because my mom wouldn't stop bugging me to get one), I friended him back. First thing he said when he saw me this morning was "So you have a State Alchemist's watch too! No wonder you know so much." "...uhh, actually I lost it a few years ago." "Just like Ed!" fjkdsfvdfv lmao - At this point this is just funny.
  • I meant to watch Ao no Exorcist 4 and forgot last night because I was distracted. -__-; 

Gonna go see Priest tonight with some coworkers. Dunno if I want to poke around on a scans site for the manwha to brush up - it's been for-fucking-ever since I read any of that .... seriously, like 2002 or 2003 ... but, effort. 

Apparently there are shenanigans afoot this weekend. Hohoho. 

And that's all I've got. I need to write but, uh ... can we say STRESSED OUT BY MOVING AND MANY OTHER TANGENTIALLY RELATED THINGS RIGHT NOW. vskldf Rian is chewing on one lobe and Sariel on the other. At least regular!Ed and Kenshin are being all quiet and peaceful and tea-drinky at the moment.

...wait, why is Ed drinking tea? >___>; KENSHIN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM THIS TIME.
catystorm: ([FMA] WRITE/WORK MOAR)
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 09:48 pm
Today at work, five separate people asked if I was going to apply for the supervisor position that has just recently opened up. Five. On one hand, that's a significant ego boost. On the other, no way in the seven hells am I going to do that. I rather like where I'm at right now, and it's just not worth the stress or the fact that I'd lose out on my commission. Plus, I'm not enough of a people person for that job. Yeesh.

In other news, walked outside and it was all BAM. SUMMER. Humidity dropped on us like a ton of bricks. Bleaugh. But it's back to rain and storms and 60-degree weather here in a few days! Thinking about starting to build my own ark.

Anyway, interactive meme time. Pick a character I've written and I'll tell you five things from my personal head-canon about them. (Hoping this might trigger the writing itch, since I've got stories in my head but they don't seem to be interested in coming out just yet.)
catystorm: ([SPN] Dude. Always right.)
Monday, May 9th, 2011 07:55 pm
Edward,

"Fucknuggets" is not a term you use in polite company. I'm afraid to even ask what the hell that was about, but I'm sure I'll get a full report from Kenshin later. In the meantime, please refrain from your random profanity-ladden outbursts when I am trying to drive.

Sincerly, Your Writer.
catystorm: (Creative Impulse)
Saturday, May 7th, 2011 11:48 pm
So today is apparently the four-year anniversary of me coming up with Sceptre of Flamel, according to my LJ. Cannibalistic plotbunnies, you have served me well. And the beautiful, wonderful, oh-so-talented [livejournal.com profile] moumusu  put pretty pretty pictures in the package she sent me, and I decided I wanted to color one - the one of Sariel, naturally!

Warning for, as [livejournal.com profile] wire_birdcage calls it, "boyfuzz."

Mildly NSFW; no visible boyparts but nudity. )

Bah, cold. I ended up not emerging from my cocoon on warmth today, but there is a 9 a.m. showing of Thor I will go to tomorrow, dammit.
catystorm: (Creative Impulse)
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 08:04 pm
Catie: What is this? This is an old smut fic! Hmm, it has potential, but man, the execution sucks. Plus, it's so far out of my canon that I don't know where it is. I KNOW! I shall REWRITE it! FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

10,000 words later...

Catie: WHAT IS THIS WHERE DID ALL THIS PLOT COME FROM WHY HAVEN'T I GOTTEN TO THE PORN YET?

/Catie's day
catystorm: (Do You Know the Story of Icarus?)
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 07:36 am
I cannot believe that the last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist is next Sunday. I did most of my flailing with the final chapter of the manga, but this is a huge thing for me. It's the first time something I've loved so long and so dearly is coming to a close. I didn't have to deal with this with Rurouni Kenshin; that canon was long closed and done by the time I came onto the scene. The only other thing I was so heavily involved in was Wolf's Rain, and that community was only active for about a year. I loved those characters dearly but they didn't invade my life like FMA did.

I feel like I'm supposed to say goodbye to these characters but I'm not ready yet. I won't ever be truly ready, and I know in reality, they're not going anywhere. If Kenshin and Kennichi (and to an extent, Yuukito and Soujiro) still hang around my musebox, I KNOW Ed and Roy and Winry and Alphonse and everyone else isn't leaving anytime soon. But it's an ending, and that is always sad.

I still haven't watch 62. Granted, the Eclipse sub came out on Friday but I haven't watched it because I know I'm going to be an emotional wreck by the time it's done and that's draining. I have work to get done first, heh.

I did watch the finale episodes of Angel Beats! and Durarara!! - both of which are getting DVD-only extra episodes. I loved Angel Beats! to death, and that final little bit at the end just tore me apart. It was a unique show; specifically tailored to hit all those points but it hit them well. I just wish some of the supporting characters had their pasts dug in to more. Durarara!! ended just about how I expected - I love how whenever they show that big TV screen and it's in the background, it's running Baccano, I really need to rewatch that. I do wish/hope there's more to Durarara!!, I know through fandom secrets that there is, the light novels keep going. It, along with Angel Beats! (And Bounen no Xam'd, Allion & Lillia and a handful of other shows I really enjoyed) are both on my "buy this shit if it gets licensed" list.

I forgot to do a writing post, yesterday, so you'll get a two-fer, but not right now.

In closing, I actually stumbled across some of my earliest LJ entries about FMA. The first time, ever, I posted about Fullmetal Alchemist was in October of 2003.

Almost seven years ago. And that little blond brat of an alchemist stormed into my musebox, kicked over a table and forcibly ejected some older muses to make himself at home.

Really, I couldn't be happier about it.
catystorm: ([Fic] The Water-Stone of the Wise)
Friday, June 4th, 2010 08:14 am
Pick a character I've written, either in RP or fanfiction, and I'll tell you five things from my headcanon about them.
catystorm: (Creative Impulse)
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 06:55 am
So, for lack of anything else to do this weekend I completed a butt-ton of prompts. Since I am now at 73 prompts completed (out of 250) and almost 54k total, I figured I'd link my favorites so far.

For several links. )

I intended to get up early to watch the TWO EPISODES of FMA I am behind on. That... didn't work so well, now I'm out of time because I needed to shower. But the upside is there's no new NCIS on tonight to distract me so I can watch them once I get home tonight.

Nnrgh, five hours of sleep and I managed to have a dream about Nick & Takeo. Well, more specifically Nick, and it had something to do with apple juice boxes. I don't even know. NGL, they were on my mind all day yesterday. I've gotten more written for their entire universe in the past two months than I've written since I created them back in '06. (Good fucking god, four years and I'm just now getting around to them. No wonder I haven't really written much SPN fic, it's gotta percolate FOREVER.)

Gah, caffeine. I need caffeine...
catystorm: ([RK] Battousaikun)
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 04:41 pm
So I've been watching Angel Beats; and the show amuses the crap out of me on about three different levels. The whole afterlife setting is one thing, the other is the entire cast of characters are frigging insane and hilarious (... Firefox recognized "frigging" as a word, but not friggin. o_O) and I like them all. But this third level? Makes me lawl so hard. The main character, Otonashi, is going to make a wonderful stand-in for Kennichi.

Screencaps, of course! )

Now, back to transcribing!
catystorm: (Creative Impulse)
Friday, May 14th, 2010 10:34 pm
So something I do at work to pass the time is hand-write fic in notebooks. I have a million or so colored pens so I used a different one for each page, making rainbow fic notebooks. As I'm getting really close to filling two of the notebooks I've started typing them up to keep. Since each and every fic is what I'd call "crackfic" I may not post it - it's written more to pass the time and keep me writing, but it's a lot of fun.

I just transcribed 5000 words and I've barely gotten started. I TEND TO FORGET HOW MUCH FIC I CAN FIT IN A NOTEBOOK. /is a lot of fic.

At least it's musebox fic.

Now, I am exhausted as all hell and I have an insistent kitty licking my arm and wanting to know why I'm in bed but not asleep yet, so... I think I'm gonna sleep. YAY WEEKEND. And stuff.
catystorm: ([FMA] In the distance)
Monday, May 10th, 2010 10:51 pm
Ahahahahahaha I learned that word from a KGB commercial! If I sit down and try to read-read the raw scans I'm at about a 20% comprehension level without a dictionary. I AM IMPROVING IN MY JAPANESE. *feels so awesome despite lazy studying skills*

Today was... eventful, with my internet self-destructing and then the cable going out midway through NCIS. I have a feeling that the cable going out was when they were fixing the line in general because not long after everything else came back. So, uh. YEAH.

I think the anime for Angel Beats might cause Sariel to have a stroke, or at least make a hasty exit from my head. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GO RECRUIT, DO YOU HEAR ME? Kenshin will have kittens at you and probably try to KILL me if I let you start a garrison. NO. NO. He wants IN that show so bad, practically bouncing up and down and all over the place. How epic a Stu would HE be if I let him loose in there? Christ.

Also, the main character-whose-name-escapes-me reminds me of Kennichi, so I think of him as Kennichi. This is me Missing The Point I'm sure but it cracks me up.

God, I can only imagine Dean and Sam and Cas returning and Sariel having dragged all these fledging angels out all over the place. There would be a lot of o_______________o. And feathers. And Toothless would have plenty of things to chase that are not Sariel and Kennichi!

THIS IS A BAD IDEA, SOMEONE SHOULD STOP ME.

Also, I love Durarara so very much, but that should come as no surprise to anyone. So, so awesome.
catystorm: ([RK] Kenshin!pod)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 11:05 am
Been somewhat busy lately. Finally got my phone upgraded; it is now new and sexy. And red. I can has red phone, huzzah! Also came with a bluetooth headset. I am kind of confused by this, but yay! Technology!

My phone plays music. IT IS COOL.

I do not know what to name it. D:

Put in my notice to vacate at the apartment, I have until September 30th to vacate. Whee! I'm probably going to be getting rid of 90% of my furniture, including my bedroom set. Anyone in the area looking for stuff? I've got three dressers, two desks, a full bed frame and a bookcase headboard that will be looking for a home. (Same with the washer & dryer, if I don't hear back from anyone in a few days.)

Also thinking about selling my desktop. I don't use it at ALL, so. I have to think about that more.

[livejournal.com profile] starving4scotch and I are probably going to go up to IKEA in West Chester, Ohio on Sunday to oogle the goods. I'm going to make a list of furniture to save up for. :3 And I'll get to go shopping with my mum. That is always made of awesome.

Finished up Gundam 00 on Tuesday. The ending was full of "uhh..." I'm really glad there's going to be a second season, it started to get really interesting toward the end, all OMGWTF politics aside. Also, dude. The last four episodes were all like "LET'S CULL THE HERD OF CHARACTERS LOL." So much DEATH. Bwha.

At any rate, cross-stitch progress! )

Chuggin' along on that. I started on Gundam Seed, and, uh. That's going to be. INTERESTING.

My muses are beginning to react to the overflow of GUNDAM with deciding that they want to play rock'em sock'em robots with Gundams. Uh, NO. BAD IDEA, GUYS. Edward still wants an x-wing. HALP ME.
catystorm: ([DH] Status not Quo)
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 09:09 am
Oh, good grief. I barely did anything of value yesterday, went to bed right around midnight and STILL slept through my alarms. All four of them.

This does not bode well for the sucky meeting of suck at 7am tomorrow. At least [livejournal.com profile] starving4scotch is gonna let me stay over at her place, so I don't have to get up at four-some-odd in the morning just to make it to work.

Nothing much of interest has been going on in my life - having a real life, went out drinking Tuesday night. That's about been it. Cleaned out approximately 1/10th of my room, have a box of stuff to sell. Mostly anime/fandom related crap - should I post it here first to sell, or go straight to e-bay with it?

Forgot to post that I finished Excel Saga on Sunday. Cross-stitch progess. ) So now I've finally seen all of Excel Saga! Moved right into Gokusen S2, and finished that up really quickly. Didn't expect to; so I've got the next stage of progess: Cross-stitch progess 2: Electric Boogaloo. ) Gokusen S2 was amusing, and I'm three episodes away from the end of S3. Make no mistake, I'm enjoying the show but the formula to it is getting old. I wish things would shake up a little bit. However, the fact that the soundtrack sounds disturbing like FMA at times makes my head tilt.

And now I've got this mental image of Edward (and Kenshin!) in boy's school uniforms that won't go away. Some days I wish my talent could keep up with my imagination. *sigh* I am also completely nonplussed at the fact that Kennichi now has purple streaks in his hair. That's a new one, even for him - he and Nick are my two most "normal" muses, lineage nonwithstanding. So, uh. What?

Still haven't watched the Avatar finale. I at least watched the Southern Raiders, but I've got the other episodes sitting on my desktop. I keep looking at them, knowing I want to watch them and I just can't bring myself to watch them. I don't want it to be over. I'll prolly watch them on Sunday or so, especially since Sozen's Comet has all four episodes batched together.

GAM08 update: 1167 episodes. I feel like the Gokusen episodes ought to count as 2, being almost twice as long as a regular anime episode, but I won't.

Couple new Dr. Horrible icons, courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] carrole, who is made of win and cake.

Off to go pay the water bill, then work. Zzzzgh.
catystorm: ([CT] News today...)
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 01:00 pm
[livejournal.com profile] starving4scotch drunk is, well. Funny. Also, she cheats and puts water in her scotch. XP I don't like it watery.

But yay! Glasses fixage! It's gorilla glue and it's more or less a temporary fix, but it should last until my insurance kicks in because I need new lenses and frames. Since I'm gonna get new lenses anyway, I have absofuckingloutely no qualms about gluing them to the frames. (Note to self: get normal-shaped glasses.)

The Indiana Jones novel has reached a plateau of me foaming about it; I've gotten through three chapters without so much as throwing my hands in the air.

Can't wait to get home tonight. I love [livejournal.com profile] starving4scotch to death and I love how often she lets me stay over but I kinda miss my home and my bed. And, uh, the fact I've left piles of laundry all over the place. And still have a kitchen full of dishes to do. I'm going to hit up the Mart of Walls before actually going home; do some quick grocery shopping and grab some cake mix. I might be a day late, but dammit. Kenshin!muse (and I) demand cake.

(Good cake. Not store-bought already made cake. And I have been informed that Ed is not allowed to help with this; wtf? I don't want to know what's going on, seriously, not gonna ask.)

Also among my list of things to procure: jumper cables, as I don't have any; gorilla glue for myself; sheets (because I realized yesterday I've had the same set of sheets for my bed since I was 12); and general food stuff. Things to procure in the next week: bicycle that is not made of rust.

Things I still need to do:

+ GET RID OF STUFF. LOTS OF STUFF. Now that I've got Paypal and my bank account straightened out I might actually venture into the world of e-bay again to get rid of some stuff. Like, oh, doujinshi. Lots and lots of doujinshi. I've got a huge "keep" pile as it is but I've got a fairly decent size "taking up space" pile. Plus action figures and other fandom-y stuff that I can't really sell anywhere around here.

+ REFORMAT HARD DRIVE. Wednesday's adventure, keep your fingers crossed.

And last of all, best wishes to [livejournal.com profile] koohii_cafe; as it's her wedding day today! Hopefully they didn't get rained out.

[Edit] a;dfklasdf annnnnnd now we're on about the tomb of Hermes Trismegistus. And (within the book) they've pretty much decided that the Voynich Manuscript is the same thing as the Book of Abraham the Jew.

*bangs head into desk repeatedly*