It's really no surprise that most of the time, when I have to choose between the book and the movie, that I vastly prefer the book. After all, most of the time the books seem to be better than the movie. Has to do with the medium and the amount of space/time they have and all, I'm sure. Books just communicate more successfully most of the time.

Oh, sometimes I love the movies, don't get me wrong. Film can be a beautiful medium to play around in, and there's something about seeing stuff. But there's also something about not seeing stuff, and just letting your imagination jump free from the confines of the clean pages and crisp type and fly off to see what's happening. There's something about the magic of words. Film does have stuff that it is good for as well, but like I said....

And then, on an entirely different level, there's fanart and fanfiction (and then they always spoil the covers of the books by sticking a great distracting thing on there - 'Now a Major Motion Picture!!' and covering that lovely illustration, or replacing it completely with official movie stills or whatever). I get tired of doing searches for Howl's Moving Castle, for example, and only finding the stuff for the movie.

HMC is one of those examples where the book is vastly different from the movie. They both have their merits, and the film does have some gorgeous art, but I prefer the book and wish that more people would read it. I wish it was famous as a book. Instead it's famous as a movie. And there are a lot of people who really love the characters from the movie, but I just want to find them and have them read the book, because it's more so and better and I kind of look down on people who make no attempt to do so, or don't even seem to know that it is a book. They aren't really less of a fan because they were a fan after and are a fan of something completely different, but maybe I get confused about titles too much and consider them too much the same. Or maybe it's just that I miss the old days.

One way or another. Oh, I don't know.

For a while now I've had this idea that I could do an animal of the week, sort of

The idea was - is, actually - to hunt down a different endangered animal every week and do a post on them. To put up information and cool stuff about them and pictures and stuff, because it really seems like there are so many and so few people know about most of them, and idk maybe it could just do something. Maybe. Hopefully.

I still hope it would be able to, because quite frankly I'm not using this journal for much else at the moment. And anyway maybe anyone who cared would be able to learn some cool facts about animals they hadn't known about before.

I dunno. The more you know, I guess. Knowledge is power and all that - if you don't know about something there's really not much chance you'll be able to fix it, now is there?

This is mostly unrelated stuff, anyway, as for this first week I am not doing an endangered animal. No. Actually I'm just putting up some stuff for a very not-endangered animal, and why? Well, Mountain Lions are pretty awesome for one easy reason.

( The Mountain Lion/Puma/Cougar/What have you has the most common names of any animal. )

[19:46:05] littlecentaur: well it's sort of like Orlando Bloom who is really fantastic at mild concern but seems to struggle with anything else
[19:46:11] bluemoon: XDDDD
[19:46:12] snakesonacondor: if he just didn't say anything, he'd be a pretty good actor
[19:46:14] snakesonacondor: he's a handsome devil
[19:46:15] littlecentaur: but if you need mild concern that man is on it!




/never leaves this chat

So somehow for the first time since I found out about nanowrimo four years ago, I managed to completely forget about it. Normally this is something that I look forward to through all of October too, and bounce around and stay up and start writing at exactly twelve o'clock and don't go to bed until I have like 3000 words written at about 4 in the morning when my mom comes down and yells at me to go to sleep already (this was when the computer used to be in the basement, keep in mind). Normally I am there for the kickoff party in my area and eating pizza and writing implausible stories about talking snow leopards with names about 20 words long just to pad my word count.

Normally I am doing all of this at this point. But this year? I really did. I clean forgot. I worked on Halloween, I dressed up as Carmen Sandiego for the trick or treaters and was kind of crushed when so few seemed to know who I was, then I went to bed. It wasn't even until halfway through the first that I even remembered it was November and that this MEANT anything other than 'oh hey a new month.'

I have no ideas for a story, I have other things that I need to do and a new rp that I just joined and I need to be job hunting because my current job isn't even letting me work enough and various other things and I'm already 5001 words behind without the 1667 words needed for today.

But I still think I want to do it.

This is a problem. I could work around everything else - carry a notebook with me or something idk - but that whole I have no story ideas thing kind of puts a damper on writing a novel. And it's not like normally my story ideas are terribly detailed. In the past my story ideas have included 'modern fantasy and something to do with mermaids and unicorns maybe' and 'stars are falling and kids have to fix junk.' But really. This year I've got nothin.

aaarrrrrrrrgggggggggggh

This just officially became one of my favorite manga pages ever.

I had one active rp account, for an oc, and that's it.

I wasn't even really planning on roleplaying at all, except occasionally with my one oc, for a very long time, okay? This is not something I was planning on. Then first I decided that I really missed lightbound_ruka and somehow egged myself into doing something with her and firebound_aki (I mean after all, I spent a long time on those icons I might as well USE them right?). Well, I thought, three characters isn't too bad, right? That and a bit of fooling around in dear_mun was honestly all I had planned.

Only now I've found a little place called stedelweiss.

I think this might just be my doom.

I didn't want to do anything, but this place looks so far up my alley that it's just ridiculous (insanity, torture, and various other such things all in one place?) and I think I'm gonna have to apply. Which is where how crazy I am further shows, because instead of doing a nice, easy sort of character I want to apply with Sesshoumaru.

/goes to work on application or possibly murder self - I don't even want to try and think about trying to do a canon review. And, to make things all lovely, I think I'm going to HAVE to since I haven't even been in the fandom for years.

On a different note I'd forgotten both how pretty he is and how much I love him until I decided to write this puppy and icon myself some pictures for the account, so I guess it's not all bad. But. Still.

I went to the dentist earlier today and got some cavities filled, so roughly half of my face has no feeling in it because the Novocain still hasn't really worn off, despite the fact that according to the dentist it should be gone now. I mean, I'm starting to get the feeling in my face back but it's not back yet, and it's hideous because it somehow itches but when I try scratching it does nothing.

In other news, I am rereading Sunshine, have restarted Fire Red to get pokemon that I don't have (I named my Bulbasaur - now Ivysaur - Frank, my Magikarp Not Magic, and my Mankey Ninja No.1) and am thinking that I need to replay Phoenix Wright.

They're finally painting my ceiling. I still don't have a color for the walls of my room, but the ceiling will be lovely and white and the fact that they're being painted means that the carpet can come in after which I can have my furniture back and have a functional room again this will be awesome.

So in addition to having no furniture I apparently do not have the right stars for food or something.

Anyway.

There's this really, really good Chinese restaurant that's just a little ways away and they're always crazy busy because they're so good. Tonight I thought I'd convinced my mom to just get some stuff from there (I really wanted it, probably at least partially because I was cooking ravioli all day long and Chinese is not much like ravioli in Alfredo sauce) as the kitchen is in disarray as massive as the rest of the upstairs and so that makes doing things in it pretty difficult. However, upon calling, she discovered that it would be an hour before we could get our food.

She decided this was too long.

Okay, thought I, after sitting around and wishing I could have my yummy Chinese food for a while, so I'll have a tuna sandwich. Not as good but whatever, sounded palletable. I go out and look for a can of tuna. I cannot find one. I figure that maybe I'll be able to use this other, non-canned packaged tuna instead and all will be well. So then I look for the bread. All that's left is the heel.

Right, I thought, possibly not that - oh well, I'll make some muffins and have a bowl of cereal or something.

I get the muffin mix and then check in the fridge. There is no milk. There is not even any soy milk. Right, I tell myself, so much for cereal. The thing is that muffins need milk to make them too. Okay, so we're out of fresh - I can use dry milk. So I go and dig out the dry milk. There is none left. Finally I managed to go downstairs and dig around and FIND some of the dry milk that we still had (though the 'best by' date was 7 years ago - you heard me) and then made the stupid muffins in a glass bowl as the metal bowls are all packed away somewhere.

man i wish all this was over.

In my room, I now have my mattress, an alarm clock, a chair, and boxes with stuff in them that I haven't moved out yet.

Oh yes, and the drawers from my chest of drawers - the chest itself has gone outside because there is no room for it inside, but the drawers have not been moved yet. Also, a bit earlier tonight, I ripped some of the skin on one of my toes off on a carpet staple that hadn't been removed (my room is basically the only place in the entire upstairs left that has its carpet). It bled a lot and hurt and was not fun. And I know what I want to do with my room but my mom is saying no, that the color I want is too dark, even if I WANT it dark, so I'm not even entirely sure I'll be able to do what I want with my own stupid room.

Ugh.

Ready for this to be over now.

EDIT: Also, this is the world's best pairing.

Double edit: Shortly after posting this my situation changed to nothing but a mattress and chair. Never mind the rest. I even lost my carpet. :(

So I am giving my room the first real deep clean it has had in a while, mainly because my mom is getting the carpet replaced and the walls painted so lol everything must go out. Anyway, so I'm going along and finding all sorts of things that I thought were lost or just that I hadn't known what had happened to, which is kind of fun. I'm also finding the occasional hilarious thing.


Such as the library receipt that I just found under my nightstand. It is dated 25 Feb 2006.

SO YEAH I JUST FOUND A LIBRARY RECEIPT THAT IS ALMOST FOUR YEARS OLD. Man I think it's time that I did this. In my defense though, it's been a while - like, years and years and years and years and years and years - since I've moved that thing.

So I posted my first prompt over at 5ds_100. I find it kind of hilarious how the first story appears to be pseudo-pairing fluff, the second story is sort of friendship/signer fluff, and then there's my story wherein I murder children.

lol, whoops.

For anyone who should happen to care, I am another of those who picked up a prompt list over at 5ds_100. I'm gonna being doing Divine, and thus every single one of these will be hideous; all that's going to vary is exactly how hideous they are - 'hideous' to 'AAAHHHHHHHH NO MORE, NO MORE.'

Should be fun.

( Table (and later links) go here )

Anyway yeah I'm gonna be posting links to the various stories as I write them in that table, so watch this space for further developments.


EDIT: ... okay so because I'm really just that insane, I picked up another prompt set! (Aren't I special?) This one is Yuusei/Aki - and what a shocker that is, I KNOW, but since I don't want to have tables everywhere I'm just gonna post all of the links here.

But what, you ask, how then shall we know which prompts are which? WELL, answer I, you shall know by the color they are.

Scarlet shall be Divine, Goldenrod shall be Yuusei/Aki.

Unless I change things; it's not like anyone will even be watching this stupid entry anyway.

Cleaning my room, looking at the stuff that I'm finding in these collections of old notebooks. Some of these things are stories or fics.










I'm glad I never web-published most of these.

8D

EEEEEEEE IT'S HERE IT'S HERE omg I'm so excited.

So, naturally (because this is always how things go amirite?) this game that I've been waiting for a week to arrive arrives the first day when I have to work this week, and while most weeks I only work two days a week this week I'm working three. Thus, instead of staying home and going 8D some more and gradually translating everything, as I carried out my threat and when and got a dictionary, I go to work and serve pizza. I brought my ds and my dictionary and my notebook that I'm writing everything down in and naturally my dictionary promptly got soaked with water, so it spent the entire day pressing under my cutting board and boxes of personal pizza. Anyway, as this was the case and thus I was clearly unable to bring my dictionary on my break with me, I just started writing down everything that was said in the game so that I can translate it later. Which I shall. I've been wanting to learn Japanese forever and this is a great way to do that.

Anyway, so I was just writing down everything for later translation and comprehension as lol it's a pretty easy game to understand even if you don't know what anyone is saying and so moving along isn't that hard. After having done this for more or less my entire lunch break I headed back to my work station and the woman who was breaking me apparently became temporarily convinced, when she saw my Japanese notes, that I'd been trying to curse someone.

This made me lol.

*goes to play ss* *eyes diamond* *goes to breed pokemon*

HEY GUESS WHAT YOU CAN TRADE POKEMON AS SOON AS YOU HAVE POKEMON THAT YOU CAN TRADE, NONE OF THIS CRAP WITH WAITING FOR LIKE 4 TOWNS OR WHATEVER. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

OH and also the pokewalker is adorable in unexpected ways. It makes little faces at you to try and get you to do things that it wants you to do, like press the button to let it connect to your ds.

! YES!

Finally I caught a glimpse of Suicune! (again, the first time I saw it I was dumb enough to turn the game off without saving hey at that time I didn't know that I'd be able to find it again). So now it's just a matter of running back and forth, since chasing the pokemon who run like this is next to useless, you just sort of have to wait for them to come to you. And I should probably go grab Raichu or something, as it has moves that paralyze and actually has a half decent speed.

@_@

You know, I really miss some of the features from Diamond at times like this, like say your pokewatch map or at LEAST the fact that the pokedex will stay where you left it. And my team on Diamond, actually, as all the pokemon I have on FR are super low level. Why did I waste my masterball, why? /sob

I have no life.

I have caught and have recorded in Diamond almost every single pokemon (in its lowest evolutionary form, anyway) that it's possible for me to catch with my current games. All I have left is:

Bulbasaur and Squirtle, which will require restarting the whole adventure in FR

Suicune in FR, when I actually manage to find it

Entei and Raikou, which will require restarting FR with Bulbasaur/Squirtle and then beating the entire game

Mewtwo, which I just haven't traded up yet since I'm still trying to find Suicune and need a pokemon who can do the easy OHKO on nearly everything

Gulpin, who is one of the changes-daily pokemon in the Great Marsh and who simply hasn't shown up yet

Trapinch, who requires pokeradar and is a brat since it only shows up 2% of the time and 228 is in the middle of a stupid sandstorm with level 50s everywhere

Duskull, another pokeradar and similarly a brat who never shows up and who lives in the middle of nowhere with high level pokemon everywhere

Beldum, who only show up in swarms and who haven't swarmed yet

Spiritomb, who I cannot get at having talked to precisely no people underground

Heatran, who I just haven't gotten around to yet

I think I need to find a more productive use of my time. 8\

*goes to fill out job applications*

You know, I'd really forgotten how very ugly most of the sprites were in FR. Ho hum.

WELL, THAT'S IT FOLKS. I just went and bought myself SS. It should arrive in about a week I hope, since I want the Yellow Forest unlockable thiiiiiiiing. Apparently there are pikachu who know surf as well as pikachu who know fly. And then a whole lot of just normal pikachu. *forsees hours wasted in the future*

Pokewalkers look awesome. I shall spend who knows how long trying to figure out how to use it instantly as soon as it arrives. You can catch pokemon and find items and trade stuff and all sorts of cool crap. Though I do wish I had one of the pikachu colored pichus so that I could get the notch eared pikachu. :( Hopefully they do an event in America for DPPt so we folks outside Japan can get one too. And hopefully the English pichu works in the same way.

Tomorrow, after work, I need to come home and finish my b&n app and then go over to drop it off and see if they have a Japanese to English dictionary because okay yes the game is simple enough for me to get through without knowing what anyone is saying but dang it I wanna know what they are. And anyway hopefully it will make my life somewhat easier. And possibly help me to learn Japanese, which I've only been trying to do foreveeerrrrr, and which I've made only a little bit of progress in spoken and none at all in written.

I have discovered in myself a talent for making charcoal briquettes out of formerly perfectly good pieces of pita bread. The result of this is that my house smells rather like burned something or other and so I need to keep the doors and windows open despite it being so cold outside that it's sleeting.

And my car's window still won't roll all the way up.

FUN TIMES. /goes back to looking at buying Japanese pokemon games and writing hideous stories

( Desktop Meme! )

I just discovered this gorgeous piece of fanart on pixiv and liked it so well that I played around with it - made it wider and cropped it a bit - so that I could turn it into my new desktop. And, because I am one of the art types, I promptly changed my windows color and the color that Astra's in and all sorts of things. It's all pretty and red now.

Hey there people of the internet, wanna link me yours? I'm curious.

(On a side note - speaking of Astra, it does some very funny things to the avatars of certain people. In other cases it's just kind of unfortunate.)