Warning: Contains Glee

February 11th, 2020

Various Notes To Self & My Fanfiction Masterlist

2/11/20 12:00 am

This post just contains things that I want to remind myself to do in the future--not things like "Clean room" or "Take out garbage", but FUN stuff. Important stuff.

It might have other things too at some point, but for now it is just...

( The To-Do List of Doom )

Also, I've decided to start keeping a masterlist.

( My Prince of Tennis Fanfiction Masterlist )

( Rules of the LJ (read: Things To Expect From Me) )

November 1st, 2009

NaNo 09

11/1/09 04:13 pm

So I kept my annual tradition of staying up until midnight to begin writing my novel. I got about 167 words finished, and then I deemed this Good Enough and slept until 8:30 this morning, when I woke up, opened my computer, and stared at those selfsame 167 words until 11:30, with mounting despair, at which point I went to my housemate,

pkelfin and said "O Kelfin, what *shall* I do?"

So we talked about it and I came to the conclusion that I really don't actually want to write steampunk this year, if at all. It's too hard to think about and it hurts my brain and it makes me grumpy to try to include all the societal quirks and governmental dystopia in a highbrow victorian voice. I don't want to have a grumpy NaNo. I want to just have FUN this year. That's all. I don't want to do anything meaningful or relevant or with any literary merit whatsoever. I, a girl, just want to have fun. That's all I really want, some fun.

So Kelfin and I chatted about fun things to write about, and the sorts of things that she would want to read, and finally we decided that the most fun thing I could write is gratuitous and over-the-top fantasy satire. So I restarted my novel at 12:07 this afternoon, and now I have 1774 words and it is going great!

I have two characters, Caleb and Raewynn. Raewynn is bossy and domineering and gets shit done. She's strong and independent and your typical coarse country bumpkin. She has plain brown hair and plain brown eyes and big hands and feet with lots of dirt ground into them and filth under her nails and she doesn't like flowers or wearing shoes. She's a farmer's daughter. Caleb is tall and people would call him willowy, but the jolly people of this quaint village don't know that word cause they are peasants. He has glossy golden hair and luminous green eyes and he likes the kind of books that have the word "willowy" in them. He's the innkeeper's son, and Raewynn told him that they're going to get married, so he's going along with that cause what she says *goes*. But soon a crazy old guy in a wheelchair is going to turn up with twenty surly midgets for hearty companions and he's gonna tell Raewynn that she has to save the world, so she's gonna be all "Right, cool, sure thing." and Caleb will hear from the Chief Midget, as he packs Raewynn's bags, that they're going to be eating primarily canned beans and packets of peanuts, so Caleb's going to run and complain about that and Raewynn's going to be like "Uh, are you some kind of pansy ass little bitch? Shut up. That's what people eat on quests."
So Caleb's going to pout and decide to tag along so that he can make sure Raewynn eats plenty of healthy, nutritious and well-balanced meals. Along the way, they will attempt to save beautiful princesses from falling in love with brooding, soulful monsters who will surely eat them, stumble upon colonies of sparkling shape-shifting unicorns who sing through their horns (it is THE MOST BEEYOOTYFULL THING EVAR, but Caleb thinks it sounds like a tone-deaf goose), and join forces with a mysterious, dark and rugged woodsman, carrying the shards of his ancestral toothpick. The woodsman and Raewynn will have a passionate and torrid romance, and it will hurt Caleb's feelings.

:DDDDD SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?

October 21st, 2009

Adopting NaNo Newbies

10/21/09 12:12 am

Goddammit, you guys, I keep sending off self-introductions to newbies and I've only gotten one reply and that was from someone who had some... serious religious differences with me. (read: He was a super-orthodox roman catholic and was getting offended at the nanochat AIM chatroom. I... am maintaining a mutual Understanding with the cosmic powers, where we do certain favors for each other from time to time, and there's no copping out allowed!)

Anyway. Frinky thinks I'd be a totally awesome mentor, but how can I if all these newbies keep being picked up by other people? Jesus fucking Christ. >=\ I just sent out four more introductions. We'll see how that goes.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: The Clockwork Dolls--"The Impartial Orchestra"
Tags:
adopt-a-newbie, nanowrimo

Write me a love song

October 18th, 2009

NaNo titles

10/18/09 10:43 pm

Okay, I has NaNo titles. Here they are:

Three in the Lamplight
Death and the Machine
The Hieronymus Machine
Inventions and Incantations
Steam and Silence

PLZ TO BE VOTING! :DD

1. Pick your favorite (or your two favorites, if you're torn between 'em.)
2. Pick your LEAST favorite. Which do you hate most?

Wondering what the novel is about? Here's a synopsis!

To complete his latest invention, Frederick, a reasonably successful scientist, must get government approval for some unethical testing. The first half of the novel follows his struggle with morality; the second half details his slow descent into madness as he becomes more and more distant from his wife and family. Then he uses one of his own children in the experiment. :D

Also I want to do something with apprentice magicians called Alfred and Percival. They're like ten. And totally gay for each other. But in an ten-year-old sort of way.
There's also going to be a large amount of time devoted to tea in its various forms. Perhaps Frederick owns shares in a tea plantation? Also I'm twiddling with the idea of mentioning the apprentice's past lives, but that's sort of an afterthought.

Time to vote! (if you have already voted, thank you and do not vote again or you'll screw up my numbers DD= thaaaanks <3)

Current Location: in bed
Current Mood: sleepy
Tags:
nanowrimo

October 6th, 2009

Hmmmm....

10/6/09 10:55 pm

So I've been thinking that I really should post more often. Even though, like, no one in the world reads this journal. I think it would just be good for me.

Anyways, I'm super excited for 25 days from now!! NaNoWriMo means more and more to me every year... My brain is just READY for it. With NaNo comes interesting weather, and then there are Christmas lights and good food and getting to stay indoors wearing snuggly sweaters and fluffy slippers, drinking tea and looking all writerly...

But yeah, NaNo! Last year, my personal goal was to write 100K. Instead, I wrote 50K in half the time. Eh. This year, my goal is to write less than 5% wordvomit. It'll be hard, but I think I can do it with the proper cheerleading. :D

I just discovered what I'll be writing about a few days ago. It'll be steampunk, like last year. It'll be set in India during the British Empire, and the main character will be a reasonably successful inventor--he has wife, a few kids, and he's THIS CLOSE to a major breakthrough on his latest work.

Thing is, he figures out that to finish it, he'll have to do some unethical testing, and to do THAT, he'll have to get government approval and additional funding (an anachronistic concept for the British Empire, but it's steampunk, so I can do what I please).
The first half of the novel will be his struggle with morality. The second half will be his slow descent into madness as he becomes more and more distant towards his family. Finally, he will use one of his own children in the experiment. >D

But I don't have a title, nor any names for these characters. Any suggestions? Can you tell me about the invention?

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Dar Williams--Flinty Kind of Woman
Tags:
nanowrimo 2009, posting guilt

July 1st, 2009

Intensive Tennis

7/1/09 04:29 pm

Right, so. Recaps of Prince of Tennis episodes, OVAs, myus, and assorted extras (ie: Shinpuri rants and wibbles, the occasional fic or badfic rec, and much meta, charts, and essays).

Go read it. It's by ~~three~~ ~~four~~ five people, counting me. Go read it! It is a lot of fun. Kelfin is HILARIOUS.

Current Location: In Bed
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: No Doubt -- "Different People"
Tags:
intensive tennis, kelfin

Write me a love song

May 31st, 2009

Hello flist

5/31/09 01:35 pm

Yes, hallo. Just thought I would say that.

Natsu desu! Semester no Nihongo wa futatsu dekimasu yo! Yatta! Ahahaha. Fluent desu ka--atashi? Iya iya iya. Demo, ganbarimashita. Kore kara motto motto ganbarimasu! Hai! Arubaito wa... arimasen. T_T Demo, kinou wa arubaito no interview arimashita!
Ja... Atashi no nihongo wa dou desu ka? Tensai teki? 8DDD

That is all. :DD

February 27th, 2009

Birthday!

2/27/09 08:23 am

It's mah birthday!!

Also. I wish to inform you all that I has the BEST. BOYFRIEND. EVER.
Yes. YES I DO. Don't you even try to argue, because I have two words that will win every debate about S/O Bestness from here to when Ryleh rots.

That's right. Oh yeah.

STUFFED.
CTHULHU.

He gave me a STUFFED CTHULHU. OMFG. OMGOMGOMG OMFFFFFG.

I HAVE WANTED ONE FOR ALWAYS!!!! He made me sit down with my eyes closed and had this whole little speech about when we first started dating, he always found it endearing that one of our Things was to answer "Cthulhu" to any request to change the subject. At which point I was like "O___________O" but with my eyes closed and started omg-ing because *I KNEW*. So I started subvocalizing my "eeeeeeeee" so that when he put the, yes, STUFFED CTHULHU in my hands, I was already ready to climb a few octaves.

Then I remembered that a few months ago, he mentioned that he already bought my birthday present, and no I could not have it.
Then I remembered that I'd MENTIONED wanting a Cthulhu plushie more than anything ever a few months before THAT.

And so my mind is just blown. Just. And. He. And. ASDFGJKL:.

Also, he carried me over a puddle yesterday.
So, yes, I am going to keep him for *ALWAYS*. ASDFGHJKL: his exes are IDIOTS for letting this treasure go just cause they don't want to deal with long distance. PSH. PSH, I say.

*SNUGGLES CTHULHU PLUSHIE*

Give me birthday wishes!!!

PS. I am thinking of naming Stuffed Cthulhu "George". Thoughts?

Tags:
stuffed cthulhu

January 21st, 2009

About fic.

1/21/09 07:07 pm

It has been a while since I've written any new fic, hasn't it?

I should probably do that.

Kelfin (my new real life BFF) has been nagging me to get around to writing more of the crossover, so maybe you'll see a new chapter one of these days.

Maybe.

What do you guys think?

January 4th, 2009

Here, There Be Dragons--A Rec

1/4/09 05:48 pm

So I just finished reading this book which you guys may have seen, Here, There Be Dragons, and commenting to

coppervale (the author, James A. Owen) about how much I liked it.

Now, I'm going to be honest with you here. Before I picked it up, and while I first started reading it, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. I'd heard some rumors about it, and, well... I'd been spoiled as to the identity of the three main characters. So I Doubted. And I Questioned. I was lost, so lost, childrennnnnnnnnnnn.

Weirdly, what saved the book for me was that I knew who those three main characters were! Every time James pulled something that looked suspiciously like--I'm sorry to say--the rather newbie-writer thing to do of copying popular mid-20th-century fantasy, I squirmed because I wanted to like the book, I did, but that sort of thing is, well, wrong... but then I remembered--"No. No, shit. Shit, he has an EXCUSE. A really GOOD excuse! The only excuse that you could possibly get away with! Is he going to get away with it?" and so for the first half of the book or so, that was a great source of cognitive dissonance, because even while the stern, cruel-hearted Inner Editor disapproved of it, the wide-eyed, eager-to-learn Inner Writer kind of admired him for:
A) Thinking up the only, ONLY good excuse for reviving the ~~cliches~~ old standbys, and
B) Having the guts and bravery to do it. I wouldn't have, and for that, I forgive him.

Then I got over it, and kicked my Inner Editor in the face when she tried to manipulate my feelings and guilt-trip me by crying, and about that time, the Inner English Major had it dawn on her that there were TEN QUINTILLION PUCKILLION literary references in this book and... she was catching them all.
It was kind of amazing. I remember being younger and reading books which supposedly had literary references in them, and boring to boot, and being sad and disappointed when they flew right over my head. It sort of made up for all of that childhood sorrow.

And it's FUN! Oh my goodness it's such a fun little novel! Charles! I love Charles! Bug! I love Bug *SO MUCH*. John and Jack are pretty cool, too, but I don't have the great affection for them that I do for Charles. And Bug, especially in terms of how the Three-Who-Are-One gave him knightly training and swimming lessons (<--a favorite part of the book).

In conclusion: You should read this book! And buy it, because the author is a cool guy. Especially read it if:
1. You are English. (The three main characters are all Oxford men!)
2. You are not offended if Cambridge University is insulted and belittled. (The three main characters are all Oxford men!)
3. You've ever read any literature of the fantastic: Tolkien, CS Lewis, HG Wells, Lewis Carrol, Jules Verne (eeeeeee), Shakespeare, Dante, Poe, Doyle, and any and all fairy tales.
4. You spent your childhood with your nose in a book, esp. Narnia. If you liked Narnia, you will luuuurve this book: More English people sent on wild adventures to fictional places! During the War! Yay! We love those sorts of books!

Also, there are BEAUTIFUL full-page arts at the beginning of every chapter, drawn by the artist himself! (For samples, check out his livejournal,

coppervale. He makes art posts every once in a while.)

PS. Off topic, but also relating to lit: I will be writing more in the coming semester! Stay tuned for rants about the latest problem in the novel!

Write me a love song

December 31st, 2008

ChatSnippits 2008! wooo!

12/31/08 01:19 pm

Hello, dears! I know I haven't been around much... ^^; Did you miss me?

On to business, then! What you've all been waiting for!

( Chatsnippit FTW! )

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chatsnippits

August 2nd, 2008

Inui Juice photos and SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERY SPOILERS FOR VICTORY OF EAGLES

8/2/08 09:20 pm

Okay, as promised, the photos of the Inui Juice that I had on Friday:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Ariaste/img_0067.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Ariaste/img_0068.jpg

Aaaaaaand me totally having a Special Moment with my daifuku:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Ariaste/img_0075-1.jpg

And now, SPOILERS.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOOIIIIIILER. Most of the reason that the spoilers are here is because

readerofasaph enables me to be really awful and torturous to those UNLUCKY LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZARS who don't have Victory of Eagles yet. You know that I couldn't have thought of this kind of cruelty on my own.

(AHAHHAHA. SO HERE ARE THE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. WHICH YOU CAN'T READ. BUT YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. MUAHAHA.)

( Spoiler spoiler spooooooooilery spoilers like nothing that has ever been spoilt before SPOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIILERS. LOOK THEY ARE HERE )

Current Mood: INSANE WITH LOVE

TEMERAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIREE~~~

8/2/08 08:04 am

VICTORY OF EAGLES, DO WANTED!

CAN HASDED!

YSPLZ!

CAN HAS VICTORY OF EAGLES U SAD LITTLE PPL. CAN HAS WHEN U SAD LITTLE PPL *DO NOT CAN HAS*. >DDDDD

KTHNXBAAAI!!! *sticks nose back in it*

August 1st, 2008

lawls

8/1/08 09:21 am

"So by that time, half of the 35 people there for Christmas dinner have been in and out of the laundry room where are my dirty underwear--but at least it was the purple ones, cause they were pretty."

--Jodie, mom's best friend.

Am on a day trip to Tampa with the two biddies. Currently at Jodie's house, waiting for some other travel companion to arrive. Yay for her wireless and funny stories!

When we arrived, it was 8 AM and she had coffee and smoothies and cinnamon buns ready for me and Mom, and she said "Would you like coffee or smoothie?" and since food in the morning makes me ill, and caffeine counts as food, I said "Smoothie, please.

So she hands me this glass of something feckin' green, and I take one look at it, peer more closely, put it RIGHT down on the counter and ran out to the car for my camera.

(MY CAMERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. MY BEAUTIFUL DIGITAL CAMERAAAAAAA. IT'S NAME IS FANON AKAYA. BECAUSE IT IS A CANON ELPH, GET IT?)

Pictures of the Inui Juice smoothie forthcoming.

I drank it and it was really good, though! When I asked what was in it, I was told "Welch's, green apple, carrots, spinach, a slice of pineapple, and a little lemon," and I nodded sagely, for it is indeed true Inui Juice! *delight* The right color, the right combo of weird ingredients, and they even have this special blender that apparently has blades that spin so fast that they break down the cell walls to make vital nutrients more easily accessible without enzymes!

*wibbles*

July 31st, 2008

D:

7/31/08 08:20 pm

You guys, you guys. I was just told by some guy that initially, he got some redflags from me because of the loving Prince of Tennis so hard, but now that he's talked to me, he can see that I'm okay.

"Ahahaha!" says I. "I give everyone red flags! 'She's crazy! She's obsessed! She's weiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiird!'"

"Yeah, I thought you may have been sarcastic when you said you don't like anime--"

"--I was being honest--"

"But now I believe you. You're much too sane!"

.....

....

..... I'm. I'm what.

He... and... *I* am *TOO SANE*? ME. I. MYSELF. ARII, THE EMBODIMENT OF RIKKAI BOYS DOING CRAZY THINGS AND QUEEN OF THE CAPSLOCK.

TOO SANE.

I... I'm troubled that I have been accidentally leading him astray or something... DDD:

D: That's the first time anyone's told me I'm TOO SANE.

Too sane. Jeez. *snort* What am I supposed to do, paint a squid pink, put it on my head and shout "TARUNDORU"?

THE BEST IDEA EVER

7/31/08 07:33 pm

So Adam is a bit of a GENIUS. We were talking about the documentary, and I showed him the beginning of my draft of the Credits, and how I'm doing *EVERYTHING*...

"That's right, you played every instruments--"

"No," I replied, "I can't play anything--"

"--Kazoo...recorder..."

"Well," said I. "Those ARE legitimate NaNoly instruments."

SO THEN I HAD THIS BRILLIANT IDEA FOR THE SOUNDTRACK TO BE CHARIOTS OF FIRE PERFORMED ON KAZOO QUARTET! 8D AND THEN MACEY SUGGESTED THE THEME TO TITANIC AND I TOLD HER THAT THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA AND I CANNOT SEE ANY SITUATION IN WHICH IT WOULD FAIL. :DD

July 30th, 2008

asdfghjkl;

7/30/08 04:59 pm

WOW I really don't post here much, do I? XD It's been nearly a MONTH since I said anything.

It's not because I don't love you guys.

(I do.)

It's just that you all know ANYWAY that if you want to hear any information about how my life is going, you have to get me on IM and either subtly prompt or wait five minutes and then settle in for the giddy, vertigo-inducing digressions and trails of thought.

Right? Right.

That said, NANOWRIMO DOCUMENTARY. OH YES. It will be epically awesome. "Humorous, yet insightful," I've been telling some of you. "Contemplative, yet inspiring. Dramatic, yet profound. With clearly-staged moments of epiphany and swelling background music. Maybe Chariots of Fire?"

I'm directing, producing, consulting for music (with Macey), kidnapping a film major to run the camcorder (borrowed from the library), kidnapping music majors and stalking the school choir for music, puttering around with the college's video editing equipment (chyeah, like I know what I'm doing. I'll have to flirt with that film major that runs the camera. Hn. =|)

... Yeah, I have big visions for this. The documentary while also tackling the NaNo's 100K Challenge, AND taking sixteen credits AND trying to survive the cold...

At least my suitemates are awesome and my roommate, being tiny, is only like half a roommate. =| She is pocketsized. I am going to use her for a footwarmer. But that is beside the point.

The title of this documentary, worked out with the lovely lovely Teffy, is: "TruNoWriMo: The Inspirational Tale of Truman State University Novelists (or: 30 Days, 50000 Words, and a Whole Lot of Numb Butt)"

Thoughts questions comments suggestions accolades? <3

July 4th, 2008

Death in the family!

7/4/08 04:07 am

Yup. Atobe-fishie died. I came home from my gayboy's house and mom told me and I was like "Really?" so I went to look, and yup. So then I was like "Huh. Damn. Well, I always hoped she'd die before Yukimura."

Cause I did. Said it the first day I got them. XDDD

So yeah, flushed Atobe. >.> The service consisted of "Oh come on, pour out of the damn bowl already--ah, there! Bye fishie!"

Um. A moment of silence? XDD

Yukimura-fishie is still happy and healthy and swanning about knowing he's pretty. *coos at him*

July 1st, 2008

Help! DDD:

7/1/08 02:21 pm

Okay, I know that there is SOMEONE who can be useful, I just can't find her. I'm agonizing over the crossover, and I can't trouble Mellow about it because she hasn't been feeling well lately, so...

Who wants to make herself available to talk about sub-plots and pairings and set-ups and such? *hopeful* It would be awesomesauce if SEVERAL people wanted to and we all got together in a chat and brainstormed. D: So. Anyone? Please?

June 24th, 2008

Kanatest

6/24/08 12:20 pm

Another one of the programs that I have installed on the TARDIS is... well, it says it's a game, but I call it amazingly addictive drugs.

It's called Kanatest, and it's this program that drills the Japanese kana--there's all sorts of preferences: You can do drills line by line (a-i-u-e-o, ka-ki-ku-ke-ko and so on) and go for as long as you like while the kana show in random order, or through while showing each kana once, or once through and reshowing the ones you got wrong... You can also set up a user-defined test and pick from the bank of all 104 kana so you can drill just on the ones that trip you up,

I've been playing for a little over 24 hours now: I've learned all of the hiragana, and I can do any one line (a 5 question test) of the basics (a to n) in 5 seconds with 100% accuracy. The more complicated ones (like pu and gyo, both of which have that hateful " addition--is there a name for those kana?) take a bit longer, and I still slip up from time to time.

And I am SO. ADDICTED. Memory games have always been some of my favorites, and I have been known to creep out my friends and family with the unnatural skillz. So you can imagine the glee.

First time this morning: 104 hiragana in 5 minutes 27 seconds with 93% accuracy

2nd: 104 in 5 minutes and 5 seconds with 94% accuracy

3rd: 104 in 4 minutes and 51 seconds with 95% accuracy

4th: 104 in 4 minutes 38 seconds with 98% accuracy

( Additional rounds can be found here. )