Roleplaying

I'm attempting to get back into Roleplaying over at RPGchat. Jedi Academy isn't working and the clan is dying and I can't do anything about it! I feel guilty for not getting on the forums... but if I do it just depresses me...

Yoyos

I've gotten into yoyoing again, it's a whole lot of fun. I've also started on Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene And It's quite good,

Ahh...

Things are looking great! My writer's block is gone, I've picked up drawing again, I've been inspired into a new project and best of all, I'm now going out with my Best Friend <3
I finished the Divine Comedy and am about to start on Spencer's The Faerie Queen

I've been a bit busy with life to post lately

Chrono Trigger Get!

Woot! I have finally obtained Chrono Trigger for the DS. I've played it a bit (just until you get to the castle in the Middle Ages) But will play a lot tonight. It came with a really awesome poster of the cover art, which Is now watching over me from above my desk.

Can't wait to go to bed!

Update 2.

So, grandparents in town, NCIS and House marathons recently, so I've spent most of my time downstairs on another laptop playing zOMG. No writing whatsoever has been accomplished.

I've been watching a lot of Doctor Who... Oh! and they FINALLY ported Chrono Trigger which means that I have to get it ASAP

Not much else... Sorry again for the cruddy updates.

OHONELASTTHING
I wrote a 14 stanza Poem. It's on my deviantART site. www.ruik.deviantart.com

Problems and Poems

Okay, I'm not actually writing poems much right now, but it sounded nice for the title.

I've started writing a Doctor Who inspired story called 'The Wizard of Bree Hill'. It takes place in a steampunk English town named Lowridge. A girl goes to a house outside of town where a wizard is said to live. It turns out this wizard is merely an expert clockmaker not much older than she is. He was the apprentice to the previous wizard and so on up the line. They fall in love, hilarity ensues.

But life is beginning to churn up again...

Rewrite

I'm rewriting Chapter I, but having trouble getting started. I can't think of a quote or passage to place at the start. I could start the actual story, but I wish that I could think of something!

Sorry for the short posts, not much to say lately.

Finally!

Things are really looking up. I just finished Chapter IV and am about to start rewriting Chapter I. Life's not too bad right now, I just wish I could write faster!

Fear

I'm getting worried again, that's happening a lot lately. I guess that it comes with the territory.

My writing is going well, I plan to finish chapter IV soon and start on writing 'Romulus'. I'm writing a .hack inspired story with no clear end, so I'll probably never finish it.

I wanted to rename Selah to Sarai, but Selah is married to Isaac and biblically Sarai was Isaac's mother so that would be weird. I'm sure I'll think of something.

Update!

Chapter IV is almost done! I've just got a few more days of writing.

Things have been going pretty well, I just hope that they stay that way.

Secrets

They can be so hard to keep.

Sonnet

I had to write a sonnet for English class, and I actually enjoyed doing so. I'm not particularly pleased with the outcome, but I may write more in the future.

As I do Gaze Upon the Princess Fair

As I do gaze upon the Princess fair,
I am overwhelmed by her great beauty,
I think I might could have her, if I dare.
I wonder if she could ever love me.
But I question if I should take the risk,
If the end does not justify the means,
Will I be praised or will at me the tisk
And is there more to her than first it seems?
If I fight for her, will I end this way?
A noble knight lying dead in the streets.
Will I be remembered beyond my day,
Or will no one sing of my many feats?
But should I fight to save her in this mode,
Or like the other Knights take a different road?

Also, I'm hoping to write 100 haiku in a single day sometime soon. Wish me luck!

Where knowledge must end

I came to the realization today that every generation adds about 30 years of history to be learned in class. Each time something new must be learned, time is taken from older subjects and redistributed to newer ones.

Eventually, I assume, we will simply have too much to learn. At that point I guess we will see a rise in the number of historians. We will require entire agencies of people simply to keep track of all the stuff we have done.

Sadness

I came to the sad realization today that what I'm writing is not what people want to read. Heroes nowadays are dark and morally ambiguous with a clear goal and a lot of ammunition; not a short, somewhat reclusive (and not in an angsty, mysterious way) teenager who kills things and then goes home to a house full of misfits.

People want to read about (or watch) dystopian futures with robots and a cruel (or non-existent) legal system; not a fantastic, slightly steam-punk place where the world is flat and people ride birds.

No, as things stand my stories will attract only the younger teens/nerds of the future. I'll likely end up like whoever wrote Eragon (though, I think that my story is better) with maybe a movie that doesn't follow the story and a small following of kids who like dragons.

So far I've been very conservative, trying to stay very realistic in my writing. Maybe that's the wrong route. Maybe I should add more fantastic elements. Maybe a greater divide between the peoples living in LeRoth. Work in things like crystal caverns or forgotten valleys. I've tried very hard not to have a gimmick; a single, attractive element on which the whole story rotates.

Maybe I'll think it over.

meh.

Don't feel like writing a full entry today, Here's a revision I did of Uruz' 'Ward' Spell. Its been made to fit the Kidou style better.

'Oh Ye, Keeper of the Lock'
'Remember thy Pact with Mankind'
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'The Beast does not suffer a broken heart'
'But by Conflagration does spread its Pox through the Waters.'
'The Iron Butterfly hangs in Limbo'
'And the pains of the Earth are Avenged by the Guard'
'Ruler of Men'
'Open thy Heart'
'And loose the Waters that do lie within!'
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'I call Upon'
'The Heaven's Ward!'

I'm considering removing that last part.

...

People (even those who usually are rational) are stupid.

Ovum et Lingua Latina

My breath smells like Eggs for some reason. Oh, and I'm learning Latin.

I'm almost done writing Chapter IV (Forgotten Lands) and am very much enjoying it. Composing Light Magic Spells is very fun. I've ruled that Light (Lalil) and Dark (Lalilfen) Magic (Morsus) don't have to be sung in Elessic and that the words are not Concrete.
I've modeled them after Kidou from Bleach.

'Oh Ye, Keeper of the Lock'
'Remember thy Pact with Mankind'
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'Walls of Sand'
'The Iron Butterfly Passes'
'Opened by the Heart'
'A Torrent does Pour forth'
'Bent-Style'
'Number Eleven'
'Ward'

Determination

Sometimes, I think I can do anything if I try hard enough. Maybe if I put all of my thought into it I can stop time. Maybe if I spent more time writing I'd be done by now. Maybe if I take it slow and concentrate I can draw what I think. Maybe if I put my heart into it I can keep my hands steady. Maybe if I just stick myself out there I won't be afraid anymore.

Maybe there aren't enough hours in the day. Maybe the world is winding down. Maybe its not my fault that I can't do certain things. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm not. Maybe if I spend a week fasting I'll understand the world better. Maybe someone out there is looking for me.

Maybe I'm missing the point.

More fun with my Sentence

I've translated the sentence 'But I thought that that thing that he had would have had to have had an arm' into various languages (using Google translator) and will post them in those languages and then their direct translation.

Original:
But I thought that that thing that he had would have had to have had an arm.

Japanese:

しかし、と思っていることをしていたことが腕がしていた。
(However, I think that it was the arm.)

German:
Aber ich dachte, dass das, was er hätte haben einen Arm.
(But I thought that what he would have one arm.)

French:

Mais je pense que ce truc qu'il avait aurait dû avoir eu un bras.
(But I think this thing he should have been an arm.)

Russian:
Но я подумал, что это вещь, которая им пришлось бы имели руки.
(But I thought this thing that they would have to have hands.)

I believe that I have successfully stumped the internet.

Baa!

Tonight was Open House/Fall Festival at school. Whilst meeting with my art teacher I was asked to show my Parents my Sketchbook. Upon opening to the first page, which contained an Angel (see previous posts), my Mother (The Artist) remarked something like 'Ah, an angel. An Anime angel; but still an angel.'

I brushed this off at first as simple criticism of an unusual art style.

But then in short time she said in a discussion with my teacher that they (My teacher and Her) would have to ween me off of drawing anime!

That is the single most unsupportive thing anyone has ever said to me! Atleast when people say 'You Suck' it's aimed at my abilities as an artist, not my ideas. My characters are Manga Characters, I think of them in those terms, they act in those terms, it's who they are. I often imagine what a movie of my stories would be like, what music they would use, what the voices would be like, et cetera. And NEVER do I think of it as being live action.
Anime has a charm to it not found in western art. If you draw Western, you have to follow certain guidelines. If you draw to exagerated then you become a sunday morning comic cartoonist. If you manage can to have skills and style, you can be a Super Hero artist and work for DC or Marvel churning out trash written by other people. If you are absolutely fantastic, you can get a job illustrating books, doing novel covers and political cartoons with slightly offenisve characatures of people in power.

I want to draw what I want to draw; Wars, Angels, Knights, Magic! That is my world. I'll just become better, maybe if I'm a good enough artist then I'll be more than a Japanophile with a Pencil and Paper. Then no one can say that I should change. Brittany didn't, she's still making awesome art and she was the best artist in the school. Her Manga was THAT good, no one could deny her talent. Why don't my hands work?!

School 2

Graaah, I hate it!

I spend most of my time doodling in my sketchbook rather than taking notes. I don't have any problems in school, I just don't like having to do the work.
Writing is especially draining.

I keep forgetting to do things... I should write them down more, I guess.

Linguistics

It seems that I have developed the single most difficult to translate sentence in the the history of mankind.

'But I thought that that thing he had would have had to have had...'

Over complicated? Probably. But epic none the less. You can add whatever you want to the end of that.

I'm quite fascinated with the use of the English second person singular pronoun, 'you'. While it is commonly used singularly, it can be used as a plural. Additionally, even when in its normal, singular, tense it is still treated as plural.
Note that 'is' is conjugated as 'are', which is also used for 'we', 'they', and 'you(plural)'.
Fascinating, I know. Did 'you' used to be only used in plural? I might have to do some research.

Europe Rocks

Seriously, they've got more stuff than just 'The Final Countdown'; I know, shocking!

I'm currently listening to 'Rock The Night'. I downloaded their whole discography.

My brother and grandparents are in town for labour day, and I've been neglecting JKA >___< My watch didn't go off for the meeting (I'm part of the temporary council too!)

Ultra Beatdown

Currently I am listening to a liberated (read: pirated) copy of DragonForce's new Album, 'Ultra Beatdown' and I'm someone saddened.

This album, while up to par on guitar-shredding-awesomeness, lacks the all-out, epic, adrenaline gushing lyrics found in their previous album, Inhuman Rampage.
For the most part the songs have switched from war and battle (as found in 'Revolution Deathsquad' and 'Operation Ground and Pound') lyrics to more base fantasy lyrics as were found in 'Fields of Despair' and 'Heart of a Dragon' from their older albums.

Personally, I was hoping for something like 'Body Breakdown' as far as lighter lyrics go, but still it is not all bad. Many of the songs still contain lyrics that inspire me greatly (especially the use of 'Star Chaser' in 'Heroes of our Time')

That is not to say that 'Sonic Firestorm' and 'Valley of the Damned' ('Soldiers of the Wasteland' remains one of my favorite songs ever) But I was hoping for more of their progressive style.

I'm listening to it again, however, for I often miss the awesome in songs the first time I listen to them (I didn't like 'Body Breakdown' after the first time I heard it)

I'm hoping for them to show up on Guitar Hero IV

School

I was very excited about school starting back.

Then I remembered that school bites.

Posting from beneath a Rock

Ever have those moments where you want to die? Yeah, I had that.

Some people got on Jedi Academy, I saw their connection name and thought that one of them was Hashiba, Someone who has a reputation of irreverence and general boisterousness. They weren't doing anything at first, but they quickly moved to using the clan's private chat (which is password protected) and Hatamoto Level Admin Powers (Also passworded, I don't even have this power)

I knew Hashiba Had Hatamoto powers so I told him to drop the act and the two quickly spiralled into slinging racist slurs (by slinging, I mean that's all that they said. No, Seriously. EVER SENTENCE) and killing me with guns. After a while (this while included using their power to kick me from the server) They claimed to be AZ (Our long time enemies who lack any respect whatsoever and were originally and still mostly are, rebels that we've kicked from our clan) and eventually left. I made a thread about it on the forums.

Heres where things start sucking.

I said that I thought it was Hashiba, based on very good evidence (Same manner of speech, Same connection name, Same Powers, Hash was signed into the forums while this was happening) and in his first post Hashiba said "lol dude, it wasnt me" I have problems with reading comprehension (see wikipedia article, dyspraxia) and saw it as "lol dude, it was me" which then lead me to scold him. He retaliated (along with his like minded cohorts) by cursing at me for about two pages. Eventually, After being told off by other members of the clan, I looked back at the first page and saw my mistake.

Dang.

I appologized and left it there but man I want to just curl up and die. Now, I still think that it might have been him, somewhere in the back of my mind. But for now I accept his claim otherwise. If he ever reads this, I'd like to say I'm sorry if it wasn't you, if it was, then man I'm going to hunt you down.

In other news, I drew something really awesome in artclass today (so awesome infact that I stole my Sketchbook from the room just to scan it)

Computer Problems

I am back from Tennessee, and while I did write on my PDA while there, I for some reason am unable to sync with my desktop, rendering it useless. I'll transfer manually later...
Today was the first day of school and I am very excited with my classes and am eager to see how this goes.

Back on my computer issues, I managed to get a terminal running as my wallpaper (see attached file) which makes me quite happy, though there are still a few bugs.

I got very little writing while I was gone, but I am getting closer to completing chapter IV

**EDIT**
Oh! Additionally, I am quite ticked at Russia. We are currently signing with Poland to build a Missile Defense System to protect against Russian attacks. Russia sees this as a sign of distrust, calls us paranoid and threats to invade us as soon as they're done screwing over Georgia. Paranoid Indeed.

Short Vacation

I'm leaving to take Brother off to college, so I won't post until Wednesday, I will however write while I am gone and will likely release a very large post upon returning.

School is starting soon.

I've abandoned the Idea of renaming Selah to Rachel. Mostly because I just remembered that I already named Dante's Sister (who will be appearing in the chapter that I am currently writing) Rachel. I'll still be looking for another name though.

Mainspring

Today I purchased Jay Lake's 'Mainspring' and I am quite curious as to the blasphemy that I have stumbled upon. Still I shall keep reading with eager anticipation of some form of Christian return in this book. I shall be regretful if it turns out as another 'Religion is a Scam' story.
Not that I specifically mind such tales. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and Luminous Arc are both quite enjoyable games; but books do not excite my tactical prowess.

Currently I am researching Jay Lake in hopes of learning more.

Note: I may be changing the name of Selah (Third Angel) to Rachel, thus keeping with the theme of biblical names; Unless of course I find someone named Selah in the bible.

A theme!

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Ah, Two days without writing. I'll try not to make it a habit.
I've decided on a theme for this blog though. I shall make it about my writing. Keep track of ideas and so on and so forth.
Hopefully this will work better than writing it down.

Anchored

So, I'm not writing this one from my PDA like I have previously, Mostly because it's kinda late and I'm at my computer.

Brother and I went and got fifty dollars off of an eighty dollar laptop bag at Circuit City today, They got pretty mad, but they had a 'match price +10% of competitor's price' policy.

The right way to do things

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Today I thought, 'What if I'm blogging wrong?' Honestly, I've never even read a blog and haven't the faintest idea of what to do. I figure I that I will continue as-is until someone informs me otherwise.
I've been playing Final Fantasy VII quite a bit lately, I never made it very far before but I had to start over and I'm still not caught up.
I've also been playing Final Fantasy III for the DS, I accidently erased my old record (I was right at the end, too!) so I had to start over. I feel that I'm doing much better than I had previously.

Strange thing, When I went to post this, It told me that there was a problem with my cookie for the site. I had to clear my Cache to get it to login.

The Origin Story

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I suppose I should reveal why I chose to start a Blog. I was mostly inspired by the webcomic 'xkcd' which often mentions blogging.
This, however is not the only reason. I find writing very enjoyable and do not talk much so this seemed a fine way to record things without paper.

I went to the orthodontist today, they added some hooks and said I'd be extremely sore for a few days. I don't feel it yet.

War Games

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I saw War Games today; amazing movie. It made me really want to play my PDA in chess. I use GNU2 and it beats me at every turn!
Blasted machine...

Pet Peeves

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Days seem to pass very slowly now; very monotonous. I'm very sleepy...

I'm compiling a list of pet peeves:
1. Misuse of 'two', 'to' and 'too' (including the use of 2).
2. The use of the term 'me three' following 'me too'.
3. The term 'chillax'.
4. Smoking

I'll continue later.

Convinience

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Summer is hard. It's so hot and there's nothing to do.
Curiously, I cannot indent on my computer (tab cycles through links on the page) but indention on the PDA is quite easy.

It's neat though, being able to write anywhere. I woke up the other day and scribbled in a dream I had. It was one of those dreams where you set out to do something; to save the world. I'm not sure exactly what it was about, but I'll give a summary and then probably do an artistic rendering of it into a shortstory.

Mobile Blogging (kinda)

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I am writing this on my palmpilot; and midway through 'this' I gave up on the handwriting recognition and switched to the on-screen keyboard. Hopefully, it will transfer to jPilot (ubuntu program) wihout problem.

Oh! I use ubuntu (form of Linux) on my laptop, it's much better than Windows. Though, it seems that jPilot does not work as easily as its windows counterpart. I'll have to mess with it.

I'm now writing this on my computer after getting jPilot working. Who'd have thought that I could find what I needed in the documentations on the website. I love Ubuntu.

I'm planning to buy Jay Lake's 'Mainspring' Looks interesting.

First Entry

For this first entry, I am simply going to get this blog started. I will likely go in-depth about myself tomorrow when I don't have a splitting headache. Expect art, expect literature, and expect inconsistency in posting frequency.

I'm not going to tell anybody about this until I have about 8 posts in. You know. To get it started.

I probably shouldn't have mentioned that.