Sunday, April 24, 2005

My computer is a foul and evil beast and undoubtedly sired by Satan himself.

I can't access "My Computer", nor any of my drives via dropdown tabs. Some careful manuevering (and previously existing desktop shortcuts) lets me access the content on my other two drives, but everything is significantly hampered by this turn of events. On top of that, Firefox ate my bookmarks and won't let me make new ones.

I am having. A bad. Day.

At least the Chicago trip is on.

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Friday, April 22, 2005

Ack, don't want to go home this weekend. :P

And, I started crack!fic. Again. Crossing RK-02 with FMA = weirdness. Also, since it's crack!fic, I'm using my Catie character so it's kinda self-insert. (I dunno if my Catie character is even considered Mary Sue because I tend to beat her up and then leave her out of the story for expanses of time just because I'm mean like that.) So... crack!fic ahoy!


"What," Catalina Storm said slowly, disbelief spreading across her face rapidly, "is that?"

Edward Elric glanced up from where he had been crouched, kneeling at the far side of the small dingy room that had been commonly termed 'the coal room.' "It's an array," he said, matter-of-factly as he smacked chalk dust off of his hands.

"I can see that it's an array," Catie said, standing in the door and trying to read the complicated glyphs that spiraled around the complex circle. She gave up halfway through ... she hadn't stolenread enough of Edward's books to even begin to comprehend the sigils. "What is it doing in Karen's basement?"

Edward rose then, stretching his arms over his head as he glanced over his work. "It's a test," he said. "I want to see if the magickal energies of this world can parallel the alchemical energy we use in mine."

"You can harness some energy for your alchemy," Catie pointed out with a frown. "If you couldn't, your arm and leg wouldn't function ... you yourself pointed that out."

Edward bobbed his head. "Yes, that's very true." A pensive expression crossed his features. "But, I can't seem to harness it for much of anything ... small transmutations here and there, or anything related to my automail seems to be okay, but anything large and I..." he closed his fist. "I fizzle out."

"So you're going to see if using an array will actually boost your alchemy skills," Catie said, an eyebrow raised.

"Not quite." Edward stepped delicately over some of the lines until he was standing in the center of the smallest circle on the array, which was surprisingly not in the middle.

"What's this fuss about?" Kenshin Himura wandered up behind Catie, yawning. She had left the reincarnated battousai asleep on the couch in the den, where they both had been reading more of Edward's alchemy books. The subject, while not boring in the slightest, did tend to drop lids faster the later it was in the evening. He peered at the white chalk all over the floor of the coal room and gave a low whistle. "Karen's gonna have your hide when she sees that, chibi."

"WHO'S SO SMALL--!!!" Edward's face had turned very quickly a shade or two darker than his favored coat.

"Ya, ya." Kenshin waved a hand and yawned again. "We all know the routine. What are you doing?"

"Blowing himself up," Catie supplied helpfully.

"Trying something." Edward didn't seem interested in elaborating further, he just crossed his arms and glared at the two red-heads in the doorway.

"Well, I want to see the results of this, if only to immeaditely inform Karen and seal your doom," Catie said, crossing her arms as well and leaning into the doorframe.

Edward rolled his eyes at them, but seeing that they weren't interested in leaving, he instead sighed, then clapped his hands together once, before slamming them down onto the line closest to him.

The coal room was instantly lit by a dazzling blue light as it spilled out of the array. Catie and Kenshin both nearly shut their eyes at the brilliance, but Kenshin threw up a broad hand to block out a lot of the light. They could hear Ed muttering in the middle of the array ... 'no, no...that's not right at all, I need an array sealed with fire then to draw out the Phoenix...'

Kenshin gasped. Since Kenshin rarely showed a lot of surprise or fear, Catie glanced to him, then to the area where Kenshin's attention was raptly fixed. "What is it, 'niisan, what do you..." Catie's words failed then too as Edward gave a muffled shout... somewhere between an exclamation of triumph and one of total fear. She had heard tell of this monstrosity from Edward before, but hadn't quite known what to make of it. Now that she could see it, though, there was no disputing its existence....

They were staring at The Gate.

It was huge. It was taking up more space than the wall could possibly give it, and dimly Catie knew that there was no more walls. They were standing in a white void, staring and obsidan gates that seemed to resonate with the cries of a thousand voices. What the hell is that? Catie wanted to ask, but found herself voiceless. Kenshin's strong presence was still right beside her, and if she glanced to the right, a way aways, Edward stood entranced.

The doors started to creak open, and they knew. They knew that they didn't want to be here, that this was Edward's territory and not their place to interfere. Yet they were here and there was nothing to be done as the black hands curlicued out of the darkness and wrapped Edward in their dark grasp. Catie couldn't find voice to shout out her consternation, and then the eyes God there were thousands of them oh God don't let them see me turned towards her and Kenshin, and the hands that had drawn Edward into the darkness were coming for her too and there was nowhere to run or anywhere to go but DARKNESS

***

The muffled thump shook the 'Sou to its very foundations. Kennichi Himura followed Karen Kansaki into the basement, yawning and wondering why she had been so adament about thrusting the sword into his hands.

"What the hell was that noise?" Sanji Harris asked, stopping halfway down the basement stairs. "It sounded like one of Kat's explosives. Muffled, but one of hers."

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MESS?"

Kennichi sighed as Karen came stomping back, ranting about children drawing in chalk all over HER GOOD FLOORS dammit and where the HELL was that ingrate bastard alchemy otaku he was going to CLEAN UP HIS MESSES after she got through with him! Sanji rolled his eyes and yawned hugely at Karen. "You have fun finding the chibi," Sanji said cheerfully. "I'm going to back to bed."
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Thursday, April 21, 2005

*sighs*
Okay, I was going to make a layout. Really. Maybe I still will, at some point in the near future. I've been busy.

Finals are coming up, oh joy. Watch me jump in excitement. I can't wait for this semester to be over, but I don't want to go home for the summer. I'm 22 years old, I shouldn't have to spend the summer with my parents. :/

I'm 90% done with my costume for Anime Central. I got the outer coat done last night... just have to attach the Flamel. Go, me! I just need gloves and to bleach my hair back to blonde and I'm good to go.

Now, I have a paper to write. :/ Joy.
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Sunday, April 17, 2005

AUGH
Some days I like having a younger brother. He's useful, we used to get into all sorts of trouble and scrapes together.

Then there are days I want to strangle him and beat his head into the wall. Like, say, today.

He just called me. And told me he's moving out of my parent's house and in with Don, who is his "manager." You see, my brother is an aspiring musician, and he does have some vocal talent. HOWEVER. My brother isn't even out of high school yet. My parents don't like Don. Because Don is about TWICE my brother's age.

I can't even begin to describe how many worlds of wrong and how much of a problem I'm having with thsi at the moment. The fallout to this mess is not going to be pleasant.

Now, I've probably got a load of work to do. Today was a great day before my brother called... it was gorgeous outside. A whole bunch of my friends and I got together and kicked a soccer ball around, played in the sand, sparred and acted like a bunch of twelve-year-olds. It was great fun.

I finished my inner jacket for the Ed cosplay I'll be doing at Anime Central in May. I only have to do two things for my costume to be complete... bleach my hair and finish making the red coat o'doom. Woo.

Man, I'm gonna murder that boy.
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Friday, April 15, 2005

Tell me, is it wrong to want to violently slap people in the back of the head with a dead trout for being close-minded and intolerant? I swear, more than half of the reports I've dealt with today were of pictures of two guys kissing. There is nothing against shounen-ai or yaoi pictures on this site as long as they're pg-13, so get over yourselves, people! Let me put this plainly:

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T LOOK AT IT. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME REPORTING PICTURES JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T THINK CHARACTER X SHOULD BE KISSING CHARACTER Y SINCE THEY'RE BOTH *gasp* MALE!!!

*takes a few deep breaths*

Content forthcoming. Once I'm done being peeved.
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I have finished my paaaaaaaapeeeeer!

*celebrates*

Now, I'm going to get something to eat, play some FMA and then slog through my pile of (fun) work. Woot.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Gaah. I'm glad I got this game at the end of the semester, because otherwise... yowza. It's completely consumed my braaaaaain. I had to leave the room (and leave chuusa to playing it) so I could get work done on my paper that is now due in... *looks at the clock* sixteen hours! Woo! Go me, I put things off to the last possible minute!

Good thing that puts me "in the zone" for writing papers. Hoohah!

Only bad thing is now is the best possible time for my art. When I'm pressured to do something else, I want to draw like nobody's business. I shall have to deal with this when I break from paper-writing. >.>

Schindler's List is one of the most depressing films ever. But it is a glorious masterpiece and a great movie about the human condition. I'd never seen it before, we watched it for my Cinema History class this week, and finished it today. The first part that we watched that dealt with so many atrocities... people around me were actually crying. I don't cry. No, I take that back, I do cry, but the things portrayed that made the people cry are what make me angry. I came out of that film so pissed at the human race it isn't even funny. I wanted to punch things. Grief and rage are more often than not the same emotion for me... when I can see the suffering personified and there's nothing in my power that I can do to fix it I get so angry I can hardly see straight. Angry at the cause of the suffering. Angry at myself for not being able to do anything. It's irrational and odd, but it's the way I'm wired.

I came back from class on Tuesday, stormed into the room, punched the wall, announced that humanity was a race of fonging pigs, and flopped onto my bed and curled up with The Mirror of Alchemy.

Ten minutes later, I'm still stewing somewhat, and I glance up to see taisa still staring at me. "What?" I snapped, quite irritated at the world.

"You really are Ed," she said, shaking her head and turning back to her computer.

Indignant, I flailed for a second before grabbing a shoe to fling at her. Then I realized I was threatening taisa and that meant certain death and destruction, so I went back to my book. >.<

Between taisa and chuusa, I really am gonna have complexes soon. ((I swear, if the next time I clap for any reason and chuusa looks astonished and says "Nothing happened!" I'm gonna do more than punch her in the head. -_-))

Hrm. I love my little blog-thing, (I adore those Indiana-Jones-ish Ed pictures), but sometimes I get too verbose for its size. Hm. Maybe I can set up my page better...

Okay, that's a project for later. *settles in to write* Wish me luck!

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First things first: Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel has completely eaten my brain. Not that FMA didn't devour my brain to begin with, but I think I clocked seven hours of gameplay yesterday. I have a six-page paper due in, oh... thirty hours or so? Yeah. This. Is. Bad. So, it's official now, up on the frontpage and everything. I need to write a short bio for the staff page. n.n Woo! I'm two comics behind and I think chuusa is going to kill me if I don't catch up soon. ^^;; I'm about halfway done coloring one, the second I haven't even started yet. Well, once I get my paper done I'll be able to finish them with no guilt at all! I need to draw something. I haven't really actually drawn my own stuff in quite a while. I should rectify this... crappy doodles aside. :P I had a bizarre dream last night that involved the Philosopher's Stone. Sadly, I didn't get much out of the dream (like what the prima materia truely is), but maybe it points to me being on the right path? I dunno. I woke up with the Ed plushie having migrated across my bed and was under my head, so maybe he was just chewing on my brain or something. Welp, Astronomy lab beckons.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Well, my birthday didn't 100% blow chunks, so I'm happy. My friends got me Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel for PS2. <3 Of course, I have a paper due on Friday, another one on Tuesday, a test today and a test Monday to worry about. .__. I wanna play my shiny new game!! So I did. :D It's fun! And not super-hard, which is good since I have no talent when it comes to video games. I don't play many. In fact, I think I've played four. ((FFIX, which I didn't finish, the Inuyasha fighting game for PS1, which I beat, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, which I'm currently struggling with and FMA.)) Eyup. The cel-animation cut scenes make it all worthwhile. That, and Ed's hysterical. Really. He keeps making funny faces. I was having trouble making them jump from a platform to a second platform (Hey, I said I sucked), and as I was complaining vocally about having to do it again, and man, was Al lucky to be a suit of armor that didn't get tired after all these repitions, it went into some dialogue about Ed being frustrated since I hadn't made it yet. XD It was really funny. Since he said something about Al not getting tired! ...*facepalm* I *am* turning into Ed. Or something. Or Ed is copying me. >.> Anyway.... "Guiness Book of World Records?" *snickers* And the 'your mama' joke *killed* me. Anyhoo. Gotta go to class, since we all know that's the real reason for being here. :P When I get out, though... time for MORE FMA!! *whee!*

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

I'm cold, I'm wet, I'm sick and I'm pissed at humanity. Wow, what a lovely day this is turning out to be. I'm thinking about writing up a "submission tips and pointers" type of thing so people know what is being looked for in art submissions to theOtaku. So that way I start seeing less of doodles done on lined paper. :P Mm. Gotta finish this wallpaper so I can color the comic(s) I have lined up. Mrr. Need to get better, too. Hate being sick.

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