notes from camp and other junk

I should probably make a post here before we go see Spiderman.

Ah, what has happened? My favorite holiday has come and gone, we went and saw fireworks at Mission Hills, I can roleplay again for the first time in what feels like forever but is actually just two weeks, and I have the week of from work! Doing this story had made everyone in this house kinda open up to Overture again, we all used to sit around and play a lot of Accent Core in the old house (ironically, the Overture House) but now the strategy part has kind of made it more interesting. So we've been playing that and the last Assassin's Creed while everyone was away at Anime Expo, and kinda wasting time away because it's summer.

First of all, before I go into the bulk of this post, THESE ARE THINGS THAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM DOING CAMP NANOWRIMO FOR THE FIRST TIME (MOSTLY PERTAINING TO GUILTY GEAR):

• It does not help to try and dye your hair the color of your main character.

• It helps to be in a busy place when you're writing stupid parts because then you write it really quick and get it out of the way to get on toward the awesome bits. This is a problem I always had. I'd get to part that I didn't want to write, get stuck on it, and never write more in the story.

• Buffets are good.
  

• Headers and footers in word 2010 are really stupid and no-one should have to use them.

• It helps to scream about your word count (and that you're TOTALLY GONNA WIN YOU KNOW) on every website you possibly can, because it sort of shoves you into the "you have to get this done, losing isn't an option" territory.

• Overture's game script makes no sense. Like literally, so little fucking sense it's nearly incomprehensible when you delve into it. There is so much that has yet to be explained. And so much techno-blabber that I wish I understood.
  

• Sol probably plays a lot of Touhou.

• It also helps to stop and legit play through Overture with your sister and laugh at all of the homosexual subtext (IDLE THOUGHTS) and play Call Me Maybe when Ky and Sin are talking to each-other and scream at the replay viewer like crazy because you have zero recollection of the fights that were recorded.
  

• P.S.~ You can totally unlock Chimaki and run around as him on the replay viewer. You have to collect all of the Chimaki dolls in the levels before being able to do so. Seriously what the fuck.
  

• Stop every once and a while and formulate a cinematic trailer in your head to Zack Hemsey music. He's the guy who did Mind Heist. For this fic I picked Warrior's Lullaby.

• It helps to look through the Pixiv tags for your characters (if your novel is fanfiction) and find hilarious images that will keep you interested in the current series and not start drifting off into something else, here's looking at you, Hetalia.

• Actually, just no Hetalia at all.

• And it also helps to put all of your other good fics / stories in a separate folder and stare longingly at them, wanting to open them or work on them, but not really able to do so.

• It also really helps to make stupid edits of Sin for tumblr because then you're forced to stare at his adorable face and feel guilty for not writing at that very moment.

• Also out-of-context music works well, I swear I wrote like half of this fic to Karmin's Brokenhearted. And I hate myself for it. And for crossing the word count finish line while listening to Love Distance Long Affair, because lolstupidjpopshit.
  

• Sin's theme song is now officially Some Nights by fun.

• The Overture art book is scary and you should look at it to remind yourself of how scary Guilty Gear is.

• No I really really mean it, Valentine's Charlotte servants are literally the most terrifying things to ever exist. THEY HAVE A HEAD. IN THE CHEST. AND THEY HAVE LITTLE SKIRTS. AND THE FEET. THEY CAN'T WALK. SO THEY HOP ON YOU. UGH I WILL NEVER GET OVER THEM.

• Being at a school (EVEN IF YOU AREN'T CURRENTLY ATTENDING SAID SCHOOL) helps you write more productively.

• It also super duper helps to make a list of headcanons about your stupid main character.
  

• And to fall madly in love with him.

• And to still want to brutally smash his skull in with a hammer.

• Also, That Man keeps his memories backed up on external drive, this is a fact that is new to me. There's a story about him and a story about Raven in the Overture book.

• You're not allowed to play League of Legends. Even when there are fantastical League of Legends things happening in the room while you write.

• NO ASAKIKU MMD VIDEOS.

• Showers are a cure-all for the "I feel like shit after writing for five hours" feelings.

• Oh, and to run out and play in the sprinklers at two in the morning like you're a little kid is fun too.

• And when you finish, one must go to Denny's with friends and laugh at the phrase "Prettophile" and eat pancake bites and talk about LoL and not give a fuck about your crappy fanfiction anymore.

I've decided not to participate in August. In the middle of this fic, I thought the ending would warrant one that followed it (at first I had intended to kill someone important off because the timeline would have been way more stretched out over a series of several decades, but luckily James gave me a kickass plot twist and that didn't need to go down) but now I think it's fine as a stand-alone, and if I'm not writing a second part, I don't want to throw myself into another big story until November. I feel like I've explained the things I wanted to explain, Sin's flag, the origin of why he talks about "the pain of Indra", some other random shit about him that was never stated, the terms they use in-game and tying up a few lose ends with a few of the more favorite characters while still not going overboard with it. I didn't want literally everyone popping up, so I narrowed it down the "the two most likely" to be involved with the plot. I'm ranting now so I'm going to stop. I still have to edit this huge pile of shit. =u=

I've also found that if you don't pick up a pencil for two weeks, your drawing skills go to complete shit. Kind of like string instruments, violins that are really old and are still regularly played sound better than violins that are really old and haven't been played in years.

OH, TOTALLY UNRELATED. I talked to Steve Blum on the phone. My sister apprently went up to him at AX and said that I couldn't make it to the con, so she wanted him to call me and talk in Starscream's voice. And he did. Never in my life did I ever think I'd hear my name in Starscream's voice and scream that loudly. I kinda flipped my shit. It was awesome.

Now we'll all listen to Curtain Call (because I have NO pictures or anything because my camera battery is dead), probably one of the five songs I've listened to more than anything else in my life. I am not even kidding. I was in like 11th (or 10th?) grade and Overture had just come out and I fell completely in love with this song and Holy Orders III. But I listened to Curtain Call like, in excess of forty to fifty times a day, I'm not even kidding you. My sister would hear me blasting it on repeat on my headphones all day and be like "...you REALLY like that song, don't you?" Yes. Yes I do.

Anyway, yep. Summer semester end, Bingo Players songs on repeat, kids on bikes running into cars because of fireworks, tiny dogs next door, Ky burgers, Shin-Chan, Previously on X-Men, salty bracelets, Near ladies at McDonalds, GOTTA GO FAST trip to the mall with Riley, Queen (both the band and the servant that screams obnoxiously) and Ratchet riding on a big Teto. This month has been good. Next post I might describe all the strange dreams I've had lately.

NE NE BLOGGER

SO, HI BLOGGER. I'LL MAKE A MORE COHERENT POST TOMORROW BUT UH

I JUST WON CAMP NANOWRIMO.
IN FOURTEEN DAYS.

SO RIGHT NOW I'M GOING TO LEAVE THIS IMAGINE DRAGONS HERE AND JUST SAY AKLSDLAKD ;LFKS;LFKSF;LKSFS I AM SO HAPPY

I FEEL SO ACCOMPLISHED. HELL YEAH.

IF ANYONE WANTS TO SEE MY STATS, THEY'RE HERE.

BUT, FUCK YEAH. CAMP NANOWRIMO.

holy fucking shit i hate this earth.

I honestly did a long post that I was going to put up on the 1th after I got pictures saved.

Then I remembered that Camp Nanowrimo was this month and I almost had the urge to kill myself and everyone around me.

Last August I forgot and hated myself for it. Last November I got 25000 words into Go Do and gave the fuck up because I ran out of material and broke Latvia. This June, and this November, I refuse to give up.

I want my badge. I want my pride in saying that I wrote a goddamn novel in thirty days. This time, It'll be even better. I wrote 50000 words in 15 days.

Literally the night of the 11th, right before I remembered, I deleted everything in Invictus (fic I started in like 2009 with no idea what I was doing because I still hadn't finished Overture? I was an idiot derpy herp) and wrote down like an intro to the first chapter. Then the next day I flipped my shit and remembered, and I'm just going with it, sort of winging it, because I never had any idea what I was doing with this story the first time I was writing it, and I don't have any idea what I'm doing with it on this second round.

I don't have time to edit or make my sentences nice. I don't even have time to write it in the tense I want it to be in. I only have time to put words onto paper really. The first night I wrote 3000 words. Today I hit ten thousand. If I can get to fifteen within the next couple of days, I will be midly satisfied. I should be at 25k as of today. I'm still so so so behind.

All I can do for the rest of the month is smoosh my face into the keyboard and hope. I'm on tumblr making like word count updates occasionally, but I doubt I'll be on here much.

I started working on the cover so I can upload it to the Camp Nano site after I met my word count yesterday. It's coming out shitty, but I can't edit it right now because I still have another 2000 words to go by tonight. But I don't have any other pictures because... Yeah.


I hate writing. Nano only makes me miserable, but I do it because the feeling of winning has got to be awesome. And I'm gonna do it this time. You people can't let me give up now.

In November I'll do Circus. Planes and Russians and all sorts of nice shit that I already have planned out. But this time, fuck the earth, I'm writing a long-ass Overture fic because it was the only thing in front of me. Written mostly to that Karmin song, Brokenhearted, even though it has nothing to do with the content. I'm that lame.

BUT I'M GONNA DO IT. :3

popop.

Buuuuugh, I'm converting the Thor movie to a quicktime file, and I have work in the morning, but since Bee won't convert as soon as the screen saver comes on, I have to pass some time. It's on frame 63000. I wonder how many frames there are in the average movie? I work in production, I feel like I should know the answer to that already...

Ah, what is there to talk about? Denny's. A few days ago, Denny's happened. Like, all the Denny's. James, Mari, Hunter, Mike, Brina, Xoli, Jessica, and I all decided to go down there. OH, HERE'S A FUNNY STORY. IT'S LIKE A PREQUEL.

So Mari, James and I are sitting at the apartment in the middle of a LoL game. But James was playing some chick character instead of Blitzcrank, so it felt kind of hollow. I get a call from Kaela saying that Mattson is wondering why I'm not at prom setting up.

Ahaha. Prom.

I didn't put it in my calender. My dad had all the lights and the background I used last year. And I was sitting at home playing League of Legends. So I dropped my shit and put on whatever semi-decent clothes I had and got a ride down to Dragonridge, with Felix, and just started taking pictures. I have like, nothing. No flash. No lights. Just my one memory card, not even my order binder. So, I ended up doing it for free, since I was late and I didn't have shit. I felt really bad. I kind of let them down, by totally spacing it.

I got pictures of everyone and it was pretty fun. Bri came along and we hung out with Kaela and Quinn, I saw RJ and Nick for the first time in forever, there was lots of dancing at hanging outside on the balcony and food that I didn't partake in because I was running around in my "YOU MUST CAPTURE THIS MOMENT" mindset, standing on chairs and laying on the floor to try and get the right shot. I don't feel like my pictures this year were as good as the ones I took last year. I really have to start taking more pictures. :|

Anyway, after that was over, we stopped at home and then went to Denny's with everybody at like 10 pm. It was empty, and I'm glad, because we were really loud and obnoxious. I love those guys, hanging out with them makes me relive the days when being loud and obnoxious was the everyday norm, along with flipping trays of ice and ketchup onto scene kids and getting kicked out of the mall, and throwing dead birds at our friends in the parking lot. And playing holocaust and watching Mike punch Hunter to the ground.

We got shared meals and had discussions about LoL and poured Denny's all over the table, like I mean ALL over the table, made an experiment milkshake abomination, and got sung to by a kickass waiter. Eating out like that will now be a weekly thing. It was just a blast. I wish I had brought Felix along.

I'm on frame 84000. I didn't even explain the context of Thor! Well, obviously, I am totally obsessed with Tom Hiddleston's teeth. That is true, but not part of the context. He's like the guy who playes teenage Anakin. I just want to touch his teeth and look at them all day. Anyway uh, the 8th is my dad's birthday, and he still hasn't seen The Avengers. He was so excited for it, but every time we try to see it, something comes up. He hasn't seen Thor, either, and I told him that he needs to, otherwise he won't get the full impact of the movie.

So, I got him a Batman shirt today at the mall, and I'm putting Thor on a flash drive and telling him that he has 24 hours to watch it, because we're going to see Avengers 3D on his birthday. Everyone's taking him to Smashburger tomorrow, and I'll give him the news and stuff then~!

Also, Imagine Dragons is getting airplay. They're at like #3 on popular songs in my city. I knew it, I knew as soon as Kristi showed a few of their songs to me, that they're gonna be huge. They are our next "The Killers." Their music is going to be everywhere, and I feel oddly proud, like I watched a kid grow up or something. Since No Limits has started back up and their Continued Silence EP came out, I really want to make a Sol/Ky FST based around their track "My Fault." But the last thing I need, in this time of posts and formats and unfinished ficlets, do I need to fall back into making FSTs.

Oh and okay, speaking of Ky, I'm bleaching the shit out of my hair. I keep saying that I've always wanted short blonde hair, so I figure, fuck it. I'm going to goddamn Anime Expo in a month. I might as well look like a bishie while I'm at it. I can't cosplay because I bought a fish, aha. But, I don't think it matters that much. GOD 101000 FRAMES. WHEN DOES THIS END?

Yeah, I've had black hair for too long. I want a tablet so I can draw the phases my hair has been through. No-one I've met at CSN believes that it was once ass-length and a hideous shade of reddish purple. Back in those days, a "bad hair day" was my hair just being curly... All I had to do was clip it back and my problems were solved. :C


See? That looks cool. Like all wavy and shit. Yeah, now it does this thing where it's like I'M GONNA CURL ALL TO ONE SIDE LOL.

Ugh, okay, now I don't want to look at my hair anymore. I don't know how being blonde will fix that, and I don't know what happened to my nice cheekbones. I got fat ;_;

I should already be in bed, because tomorrow, edit bay. Yep. But I'm going to work on my neverending Dizzy post first. Bye bye blogger, this has been an absolutely useless post full of my hideous face and my weird hair.

Actually no. Why don't I pollute this shitty post even more? Have some garbage artwork, too. :3

Wow, this looks REALLY bad as a thumbnail? Definately better fullsize. TEF deer from Bishop's family, on the left is Magdalene with her wreath of flowers (which I don't know how to draw flowers so I just kinda scribble) and on the right is his mom Kyrie, and I totally forgot what her pelt looks like.

And then, Gumdrop1, another antagonist from Circus, who is missing an arm and a foot because I'm not sure what they look like yet. I'm not too fond of her head. She's kinda Cappy's baby, but not. That made a lot of sense? Okay, I'm done now.

And now you know, Thor has 165210 frames.

tiiiiny post.

This is gonna be a really short post, because I have to leave for work soon. I just wanted to mention two things: first of all, I have a new fish! He's my third crowntail, still a baby, and just adorable. I actually found him hidden in a sea of ordinary bettas at Wal-Mart (and I really did not go to Wal-Mart intending to buy a fish) and I thought he looked super great. So, yep. I have him. He has no name, so name suggestions are open as always. All my other fish have been named after fictional characters (Jango Fett, Alfred F. Jones, motherfucking Kenpachi Zaraki, Loki, etc) so I want to keep that trend going~!

Second, I'm going to stop roleplaying outside of Gaia. It just doesn't feel the same. So, if I've got a roleplay (or was planning a roleplay) with anyone, just contact me on my account: here. Formats take up most of my time, anyway. Bye bye for now!

whoooooa hi there blogger

So it's been like sixty thousand years since I last made a post here explaining stuff in general. I haven't forgotten about this place, it's just fucking Gaia eating up my time with formats and coding (not even the roleplays themselves, the stupid coding is what takes up most of my time) and Tumblr being easier to just post pictures, and Twitter being easier to just stick posts up. I guess this blog just requires more effort.

Last night, James, Mari and I watched Princess Mononoke, because James had never seen it before. I closed my internet with like 40 or so tabs, thinking that I'd be able to get it back in my recently closed windows. I didn't think about pop-ups on the movie window. So I basically lost everything I had been working on or saving since March. Pretty fucking lame. So I'm starting to recover them from my history, but since Blogger is one of my "basic" tabs that opens every time I start Firefox, I figured I'd post here first. Because the effort thing will vanish as soon as I reopen everything I was working on.

So, where to start? Recapping on like an entire month will be hard. Uh.

No Limits is back from the grave for a third-and-a-half time. Maybe this time we can finally get to Baiken's brithday party. The Endless Forest thing that I may or may not have been talking about on this blog is finally coming together, and watching that movie last night (with the forest spirit and all) has inspired me to write the whole backstory to it. I'm using Bishop and a new deer, Diomedes, who is a complete fucking badass and has no story or personality right now, just random tidbits I've come up with sorta floating around his profile.

As always, I've had weird dreams, too many to list, but one last night about Henry Townsend teaching people at Sunset Station to do this dance thing and my boyfriend wearing legwarmers on his arms, one about killing zombies in a canyon thing with EKA friends and not being able to escape, but instead watching a polar bear swim off and discovering that we could make a home there, and... yep. I could go on but like no.

We went and saw the new Men In Black, and Battleship, and The Avengers (about sixty thousand times) and they were all wonderful. Don't judge Battleship. It was stupid, but pretty damn kickass. I'm trying to recap through Tumblr posts during the past month but it's not really working, since most of the text posts I'm seeing are just me freaking out about No Limits because of it's revival.

My sister found a gigantic beetle and named it The Baron. We had the LVAC luncheon for young women athletes and it was a great success. We had the sales meeting in the same place and it was also great. We had the Race for the Cure, which was really fun and super hot and just kickass all around. I found old EKA videos and uploaded them to youtube, one where RJ sings about diabetes, one where Ann is singing and I'm playing in a water fountain for ten minutes, the original "crouching zombie hidden faggot" video with Bri, just hilarious stuff. I've fallen into most of my friends' habit of playing League of Legends, even though I mostly hate it. But not really. I play Mordekaiser and my name on there is twinkletron, so add me and let's buttfuck some bots together while I learn which build I like most for him. I'm still really new.

And uh, I guess school ended? Has it been that long? I have no idea what my grades for the semester were. But James and I have been at this house playing Assassin's Creed since we got out, and school stars up again on Monday so, derp. We're pretty much done. We took my mom to Sweet Tomatoes on Mother's Day, where she said "I love haters." Oh, and she has a bed. A bed with a storage thing underneath where I scared the shit out of Brina.

We've been invading Tasti D-Lite every night for ice cream and yesterday afternoon we (Bri, Mari, and I) spent several hours at the kitchen table making little things out of pipe cleaners. I don't even know. Oh yeah! Bri and I also went on a shopping expedition with Mari and Jessica for cosplay stuff. Dunno if I've mentioned it on here, but James and I are going to AX with them. So we went around thrift stores searching for tidbits of stuff we can use for our cosplays. I still don't know if I want to be Canada to Switzerland or what.

I think that's the majority of what's happened. Mostly big LVAC events that happen every May, and roleplay stuff. I would post pictures, but I'm feeling really lazy and I want to start on my TEF story plot outline thing. But I'm not dead, and I promise to post here more~ :3