So they sent me out here...

"The first female ninja robot!"

Pff. Oh, G1. XD

ETA: I swear, at the beginning of this episode, I didn't ship Megatron*Starscream. But now--! I swear, it sounds like Megatron's going to dump 'Screamer so he can date Nightbird. HAR. XD

Also, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is awesome. I-IT KINDA LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT TURN INTO A HAREM ANIME (two episodes in, and Pink Supervisor-chan already has three girls in love with him, though they're all amazingly neurotic and hilarious and oh my GOD this is funny) but I don't care, I love it anyway <3

Return of the ETA: ...

This show just WANTS me to ship Megs*everyone ever, doesn't it? I mean, he just called Optimus "Very photogenic." >.>

Bride of the ETA: "I?! Starscream?! Pride of the Cybertron War Academy?!"

Interesting.

Also, "A Prime Problem" sets up precedence for the Screamer clones in TFA. Neat!

why do I not have an icon for pure love and adoration

You've heard of WALL-E, right? Well, you're going to go see it. Tomorrow. If you don't, I will cry for your sake because you delayed seeing the most beautiful movie ever.

You know how you love Pixar, but this one scene especially, this one that makes your heart swell and you liffe feel complete and everything shines after it? This movie IS that scene. Oh my GOD.

(Also, I really went "2001! :D" the instant I saw a certain robot, and I WAS NOT DISSAPOINTED. <3 This is the second Pixar movie they've used the 2001 theme in, hee~ and I approve. <3)

- G1 hasn't stopped being hilariously bad. XD Also, I hadn't realized how many callbacks TFA made to G1! Heeee <3

- Turtles are the most boring creatures to take for walks... ever. >.> Minerva went maybe ten feet in fifteen minutes, and Loki only moved the six inches that he did because Ross (boyfriend's dad) nudged him with his foot. Milo was fairly energetic, though; she made if halfway around the house, with me trailing along beside her. Puck hasn't been out yet. (Also, TURTLES. <3 )

- Hee, House and Venture Brothers. <3

- I accidentally left my wallet in my room and didn't realize until I was at the bus station. GO ME. But Mom and Dad mailed it right away, so now I has it again. |D

- THE SPORE CREATURE CREATOR IS AMAZING OMG I'll have to take some pictures of my favorite creations. ESPECIALLY KIWIBIRD IT'S REALLY CUTE :D

-it becomes very difficult to type when a cat starts nuzzling your hand and crawling in your lap. Thanks, Giovanni, I love you too. <3

- Today is Boyfriend's birthday! EVERYONE, WISH XENOM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

- Boyfriend's scorpion is named Joshua. REASON #8 THAT HE NEEDS TO PLAY THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU. :B

- It is very important that I leave you guys now and go back to watching G1 episodes. Drake, you sure I'll get used to lusting after giant asexual robots? D: Because I keep unintentionally thinking that G1 Megatron is AWFUL pretty... and G1 Screamer is a hoot, BTW. XD HE'S KINDA AN IDIOT ABOUT HIS TREASONOUS INTENTIONS and I love him for it. <3

In about eleven hours, I'll be on a bus to see my boyfriend. :D HUZZAH <3

In the meantime, though:

- silver_drake has gotten me hooked on Transformers through the gateway drug of Transformers Animated. I now ship things I never would have imagined myself ever shipping in my entire life, like Lugnut*Megatron (which is... actually halfway canon. OH LUGGERS YOU AND YOUR ENDLESS DEVOTION TO YOUR MEGATRON) and Luggers*Blitzy, and Prowl*Ratchet, and Sentinel Prime*Ultra Magnus. DAMMIT, DRAKE. <3

- I am, at the moment, loading up G1 Episode 1 on YouTube. Of the minute I've watched so far, I've gotten the following impression:
-- The intro is hilariously dorktastic
-- If that's not Bumblebee, I'll eat my hat
-- They use the same stock sound effects of my favorite SF radio show EVER XD

- I have a dice with more sides than some of the rocks in Beast Wars. Just sayin'.

AND NOW, TO PACKING! :D

ETA: *Cracks up* Oh wow. G1 is... heeeeeeeheheheheheheehee XD OH MAN. THIS IS HILARIOUSLY HORRIBLE AND MADE OF EIGHTIES. XD *Goes back to watching a show older than she is~*

Depressing Logic: The Novel!

I clocked it in with Word. 590 words.

Jesus, self, write moar next time. XD;; That post is longer than a lot of my fanfic!

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25 Silent Hill
59 Star Control 2
- 39 Art, Quotes, Species, Etc.
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Male cardinals are such handsome birds. <3

Wild turkey are, too.

God I love this place, there's so much wildlife, but we're only, what, half an hour from Kansas City? So much love. <3







In other news, I can't seem to get in touch with my girlfriend. It's making me worried. >: Jourdaaaan, where aaaaare you? *sadfaces about a bit* She's supposedly been getting my AIM IMs on her phone, but I've heard nary a peep from her... I know I neglected her the last couple weeks of school, but now that I have all the time in the world (or, well, all the time before and after I go to visit my boyfriend in Sioux Falls) to hang out, she's fallen off the face of the earth. It's actually keeping me up at night, uwah.

I'm going to describe a character from a TV show-- a very popular show, and a very well-liked character. I want to see who people think I'm talking about.

- She's a small, blonde cheerleader, sweet-faced-- very pretty.

- Her mother's doting, if somewhat oblivious until later in the show, and obviously loves her daughter very much-- but just as obviously doesn't understand her.

- She doesn't see her father as often as she likes.

- She has super-human abilities, abilities she was born with that didn't surface until high school.

- Her closest guy-friend is a sweet, kinda dweeby dark-haired guy who cares about her a lot, most of the time.

- Her boyfriend is tall, and stalks her a bit at first before revealing his own unusual traits.

- She's died and come back.

- She's deeply involved in saving the world.



Well, guys? Who am I talking about? (There's more than one right answer. :3 )

As you all know, the Star Control communities are widespread and mighty. Unfortunately, some of them are also quite insular, in the way that news from them travels more slowly. Whether this is because of their secretive nature, or because visiting them tends to break something inside you is up for debate. First and foremost among these is probably frungy_lovers, a lovely livejournal community mostly populated by what could mildly be termed "deviant schoolgirls on speed". It's not a place for weak people. It's a place where both images and fan fiction can scar you badly, unless you have a very special... fondness for Admiral ZEX (and the less well known Sub commander DAX). Thankfully, some of us still visit occasionally, for brief enough intervals to avoid being *seen*. Because I have as feeling that if they *see* you, they will want to *play*.

I love you too, SC discussion board. XD

I love mucking about with the Toll House Cookie recipe. This experiment is particularly awesome, though~

What I added to the Toll House default:

- 1 cup (instead of 3/4ths of a cup) brown sugar
- Doubled vanilla extract
- Splash of rum
- ~1/4 tsp pure orange oil (If you lack: replace with 2-4T orange juice, maybe? Perhaps with ~1tsp dried orange peel and more sugar or flour to make up for the extra liquid?)
- ~2 T baking cocoa
- No walnuts

SO MUCH TASTY. I just ate like five while typing this up. <3 EVERYONE SHOULD TRY THEM. (Though I think next time I should do less orange, more rum. The orange is kinda overwhelming the rum, which is a shame, 'cus rum is the best alcohol ever to put in sweets.)

(Another good one is Toll House + lemon juice and dried lemon peel, with dark chocolate chips. Mmmmyes. :D )

I think my next batch of cookies should be... hmm. Dark chocolate-cinnamon? They make cinnamon-flavored chips, don't they? Add a couple shakes of ground cinnnamon, maybe just a touch or nutmeg or cloves... oooh, I could do cinnamon chips in a chocolate-and-spices dough, that would be scrumptious. :D

/lol cooking

AND NOW, MUSICAL PROOF THAT SONDHEIM IS MY GOD, AND SHOULD BE YOURS TOO.
Invocations and Instructions to the Audience ~ Hee hee. <3 This version is from the Putting It Together show.

Every Day a Little Death ~ A Little Night Music has some beautiful music. Also I'm a geek and mentally equate this song to Sub-commander DAX. Which... says something about how I view his relationship with ZEX. XD;;

I'll Follow the Sun ~ Admittedly, not Sondheim, but The Beatles + The King's Singers (an incredible, long-running A Capella group) is nearly as magical.

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10 Metal Gear Ac!d (mostly Venus)
16 Kingdom Hearts
33 The World Ends With You
44 Metal Gear Solid
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So, though it's not a burning all-consuming rage, I've always been kind of annoyed that Rose (Raiden's girlfriend in MGS2) exists. She's nagging, annoying, intrusive, lying and manipulative...

... but in a cycle of inspiration, my B.B. journal (blackboard_hax) inspired firefly99 to make 3djiggle inspired me to make rosemaryandtime. And after introducing her to fissionmailed, I... don't hate her any more.

I'm actually growing kind of fond of her.

And have drawn her in my sketchbook. Twice.

... huh. I should RP characters I dislike more often.

Also, making her icons? WAY too much fun. Especially the codec ones; despite the annoyingly intrusive scan lines, they actually look pretty good.

I love having a computer right in front of a window, and that window being right in front of a tree. <3 It's a rather barren view during the winter, but right now it's a riot of green leaves and pink blossoms.

As the sun comes out from behind a cloud, you can see the sweep of gold across the crabapple a few houses down, gilding the garden trees of my neighbors, then shimmering on the upper leaves of a tree near enough to touch and picking out a grackle's blues.

(I'm actually rather fond of grackles. For a pesty blackbird, they're remarkably pretty, and they tend to sit less than ten feet away from me when I'm at the computer. Watching one straighten its feathers or puff as it squawks or argue with the squirrel trying to build its nest is an awful lot of fun. <3 )

Speaking of birds, we saw a pair of what we think were thrushes, this morning. They were very pretty, too-- Sparrow-colored, with pale breasts flecked brown, small-bodied and long-tailed. And there was a type of sparrow I'd never seen before the other day, with white bands on its head.

We've also gotten a red-breasted woodpecker at the bird feeder. <3 I haven't seen him since, but I hope he's one of a mating pair in the area, like the cardinals.

Also ducklings are the cutest things ever. Especially pet ones (belonging to a friend of a friend) swimming in bathroom sinks; that pretty much killed me with cute after I was horribly wounded by the fluffiness and the chirping and the thinking-it-was-a-ferret. (Seriously, this duckling knew no fear and lots of "Can I climb this person and try to eat their purse? Yes I can! :D " hahaha so much cute. <3 ) I hope I get to meet him again, he was awfully adorable.

So I've recently become interested in "dressing room" RPs.

Which are total lulz-tastic crack.

And I found out about this one called fissionmailed for MGS.

And it's total lulz-tastic crack...

... especially when Hideo Kojima himself shows up and starts Engrishing at everyone. <3

BEST PART:

100heartbeats: .. Goodbye, fourth wall.

chibikojima: I have not cared for such things, previously

8D MY GEEKY LULZ, THEY CANNOT BE CONTAINED. <3

ALMOST AS GOOD PART:
endlesswarfare: You-- damnit--

[It's useless to argue with this man.]

If anybody finds out about you...

[cqcs kojima and drags him out of sight]

chibikojima: EYAAURGH.

痛いいいいいいいいい！！

Why must I have put that in the gaaaaaame

[is dragged]

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5 SF Magazine covers (From here)
9 damned-themed
30 Star Control 2 (From zarla's art, with permission)
31 Kingdom Hearts

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I've failed at the internets for the past couple days, and I have two reasons why:

Sailor Nothing, a darkly fantastic take on the Magical Girl genre. There's some flaws-- occasionally gratuitous fan Japanese, cultural mistakes, that sort of thing-- but there's also a lot of very high points, like the occasionally unconventional chapters (ch. 5 is split into several different pages, each one a different character's perspective on what's going on in their lives; ch. 7 is an animated slideshow of events) and the really, really good characters.


My other reason is The World Ends With You, a new RPG-thing published on the DS by Squeenix, which I totally didn't expect to find so bizarrely entertaining and addicting. I won't spoil it for anyone, since the plot (while kinda strange) is intriguing, but there's a nifty cast of likable characters (I think my favorites so far are Rhyme-- CONCENTRATED ADORABLE-- Joshua-- the kinda smug mildly creepy prettyboy that I always tend to adore-- and Minamimoto-- he has the best insults EVER. Hee!) and the battle/fashion/pin system is way too much fun for what it is. (Except for the part where you can control both Neku-the-main-character and his partner at the same time; the battles are busy enough that I've found just letting the AI handle the partner works better than me dividing my attention.)

I've also been playing New Super Mario Bros. on the DS. :D Which I fail at pretty fantastically. But I don't mind, because it's-a Mario! :D *Goes back to being stuck halfway through world five*

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6 Kingdom Hearts
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*Looks out her window*

Bluejay! :D Even better than the woodpecker that I saw the other day!










... yeah that's pretty much it. :3

Ha!

Or, more specifically:

HA. XD

Oh, ZEX. The captain's sitting over in a corner worrying about your mental and physical health, and you're about to get kissing explained to you by a sadist. <3 You poor little monstrous pervert you~

I'm totally grinning so hard that my face hurts. XD This is just too funny~ *Wonders if she'll have a chance to have Captain glance around and go "ZOMG ZEX IS MAKING OUT WITH SOMEONE O_o *Shields Claude's eyes* NOTHING TO SEE OVER THERE oh hay maybe it'll distract him from trying to get into my pants. Hmm."