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delurks

2009-11-13T18:11:42Z

Stolen from epicureal

Give me a character from any fandom you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-11-02T00:29:00

2009-11-02T05:29:29Z

Roleplay Love Meme

I'm so sorry. Please forgive me.

2009-10-31T00:40:02Z

Urgh. Damn you Jami. Gimme that damn candy.

Trick or Treat

2009-10-30T23:35:02Z

~~yes it's butt ugly stfu 8(~~

1) Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.

2) Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.

3) Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy.

4) List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection, being sure not to direct-link!

Snow - bich

u gotta make a jurnal 4 a compleetly ooc wINry n post her 2 tha DR, n u have 2 keep goin all nite

Jami - post the most horribly ooc girly chibified ugh picture of elricest you can find without it being explicit

put it on your lj without a cut

Alley - FOOL.

You must type everything backwards for the next hour 8)

chibi_scriber @ 2009-09-27T18:26:00

2009-09-27T22:30:38Z

I've been feeling good, overall lately. I mean I'm kind of nervous and worried since so much has been happening in terms of my family moving and all these plans to study abroad and getting my citizenship, but it's a good sort of nervous. I feel, at the very least ecstatic that I have at least a general knowledge of where my life is headed now, and it's not a bad place.

This weekend was Homecoming weekend which I again didn't go to (Elizabeth, my roomie, didn't either). I feel I should go to it at least once but the way things are looking that won't be till senior year. That's okay tho. Just as long as I do. Since so many alumnae come I figure it would be a good way to do some networking.

Other than that not much has been happening.

THE "i've always wanted to tell you"

chibi_scriber @ 2009-09-27T16:50:00

2009-09-27T20:52:32Z

To all my friends (which I've come to realize, is a lot) in the Phillipines, please stay safe :< you are all in my thoughts

chibi_scriber @ 2009-09-18T20:50:00

2009-09-19T01:10:21Z

First a big welcome to everyone that I friended through Fandom Secrets! Nice to meet you all :> Look forward to getting to know you more.

Naturalization

Things are ok on my end. I'm still have some trouble with the UCIS getting some stuff rescheduled, I'm going to have to call again since they sent me an email saying that I needed a reason for the rescheduling...which is confusing since I told them I moved because of school but /sigh what can you do? Hopefully they won't force me to go all the way to Philly.

School

School has been going well. I got most of my books and the ones I don't a classmate right across the hall has and she lets me use them when she's done. I'm been talking a lot with Tiffany Cummings who is the head of the Study Abroad program and we've been looking at different places in Asia (mostly Japan, China, and India) where I can do some studies. She also told me about this one year long program where I can study Urdu in India for one year, all paid, which despite not being something I ever considered before sounds interesting none the less. Do that, then remain in India for my intended studies, and return. Which means I will be studying for five years, but if it is free of cost I don't mind. As always it is finances that are my biggest concern.

It'll still be difficult getting everything I need done, so I might do some summer classes at HACC if at all possible. I'm still waffling between Gov/International Relations and History or Gov/International Relations and Religion. And I still have no idea what I actually want to DO with that or what sort of job I might want to be able to take up afterwards but at least it promises a lot, and stable jobs too.

Family

Unfortunately I can't say the same for my family. That notice we got a while ago from the bank was legit, as I had thought, and I know for a fact that my parents are keeping stuff from me as always. Blad told me a little about it. They are moving, and doing so under his name, but I'm pretty sure we're being evicted or something like that. They have a place to stay if that happens before Blad buys a house but just knowing that it came down to that worries and saddens me. I feel bad about being here and having everything I need while they are back home and struggling. Especially since it's so hard for me to get in touch with them.

But that's all the more reason why I need to buck down and make sure I stay on top of my grades.

Roleplay

I've been a little worried about soul_campaign . I know a lot of roleplays have gotten pretty slow recently, and it's probably related to school and whatnot but I know it's more there. A lot of the applications we had were withdrawn. Thankfully mods gave modding rights over to Jami and Alley so I'm sure it'll pick up. I've been helping with some of the minor tasks as well. I'd hate for this place to go. I've been having a lot of fun in it, and there's still a lot I've been wanting to do.

I was particularly sad to see the Naoto (from P4) app withdrawn since I was so looking forward to interacting with a Naoto with my Rise. I get the feeling the Yosuke apper won't be coming back either, but here is hoping. At least we still have Armstrong and Shang coming along, that should be fun <3

chibi_scriber @ 2009-09-13T18:16:00

2009-09-13T22:16:38Z

⇘ASK MY PUPPET MEME⇖
Ask them a question!

chibi_scriber @ 2009-09-10T13:08:00

2009-09-10T17:08:52Z

YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE ULTIMATE PIMP WHEN...

chibi_scriber @ 2009-09-05T19:11:00

2009-09-05T23:15:34Z

Sorry for the double-post guys. Just a few small things I wanted to let y'all know.

First I've gotten back into Plurk again since Twitter just isn't my thing. If any of you have it, feel free to friend me: http://www.plurk.com/CalledVertigo

Second: I and bialleyhooes have started media_corner. Basically it'll be sort of like a book club, only not just for books--for movies, games, animes, etc. If anyone would be interested in joing, we're pretty small right now and most likely will be starting with the Harry Potter series.

Third: Does anyone know where I can download a VLC format of the Mulan movies? I want to take screenshots so I can get more icons, particularly of Ping. Or if any icon makers out there could make me some, I'd really appreciate it

in which Eme gets ranty, emotional, and tmi

2009-09-05T19:05:21Z

Back in school. It's going pretty well so far. This year I'm taking Intro to Creative Writing, Intro to International Politics, Intro to American Gov, and Multicultural Religious America. I got a lot of my gen eds done the first year, and because of my AP tests I'm done with my English reqs, and because of my Spanish I only need to take on course in that to complete my language req which I plan to do next year. Things are looking pretty good.

I still don't know what I wanna major in tho and we have to declare next semester. So far I'm really, really loving my Gov classes though. I'm probably going to do more International classes next semester, and maybe something in Comparative Politics as well. Religion is still fun, and I'm thinking of maybe doing Buddhist studies in Japan next year so maybe a double major in Religion and Government? I'd like to do some History too but I don't know if I'll have the time for that.

While on the subject of Government, I'm sure I've mentioned before that I'm working to get my citizenship. I sent in the application in June and got finger-printed a little bit before I returned to school. A while ago I had a bit of an episode because the address change I filled out online didn't go through, I screwed up something, so they sent the information for my interview to my address back in PA. Which means the place it was set up to be was closer to there--Philly--which is an 8 hour drive from here. Haha, to make it even worse I thought it was for the actual date so I was all "SDFIJOJISER OMG 8 HOUR DRIVE, LESS THAN ONE MONTH TO STUDY!"

I called the UCIS though and got things fixed. I'll get a new appointment within 45 days that'll be closer to school, and it'll just be an interview. It's still really nerve-racking though. I mean what kind of things are they going to ask me? Why do I want to be a citizen, I suppose, which wow. Talk about a loaded question. I'm not even sure if I entirely know the answer to that.

I feel like I'm going to get overly sentimental and cliche in this.

I don't really remember much of what my first couple years over in the Dominican Republic was like. I'm talking ages 1-7. My family came to the United States when I was 3, but they sent me back to live with my grandmother so that I would be able to speak proper Spanish and have more of a cultural background. I went back to visit when I was 9 and when I was 14, and I'm so glad I grew up here. Yea, I'll be frank, there is the shallow side of me which is glad for all the material pleasantries that I have here, but just looking at how the state of things are there, speaking in terms of civics, makes me so depressed. As a child not much was ever expected me of me. My parents would get so annoyed at my brothers if they got bad grades, but if I got a bad grade they just really didn't care. They didn't harp on me or anything, which I know sounds like something weird to be upset about, but it's like they never really expected anything out of me and of course I figured it was because I was a girl.

Whenever I was in DR the questions were never "How is school going?" or "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Always "Oh do you have a boyfriend? Why not? You really should get one. How can you not want one? Who is going to take care of you?" God I hear that so many times. I still hear these sort of things, but thank God my parents have gotten so much better about it. Especially my father. I love him so much, he is always so supportive of me and always encouraging me now but I think those first years and how it almost seemed to be drilled into me that I would always have to depend on others kinda messed me up. My Middle School years were hard because of this. It was really hard for me to find initiative to bother with my school work or anything which is why I had to repeat the fifth grade, though my poor English was also a deterrent. On top of that is the suffocating Catholicism---emphasis on the suffocating, not the Catholicism, that was rampant in the village I was raised in, and the still incredibly narrow view of an 'ideal' person, much more ideal woman made me really bitter towards my country when I was young. Which was bad in in of itself, but doubly so since both my parents are incredibly patriotic.

So I was always grateful and very happy to be here. The US has really given me a lot of freedom and opportunity that would have been laughable back in DR. Had I stayed there I would probably have been married right now, if not worse. Despite this gratitude, however, throughout all of Middle School I knew nothing of politics, the world, ANYTHING. I was inclosed in my own tiny, self-serving world and didn't really see much beyond that. Was oblivious, really. To be honest I still am to a huge degree. I haven't really been keeping up with the news well at all. I never watch it, and I don't get a newspaper (but I'm planning on subscribing to the online Washington post today). It was until Upper School, roughly ninth grade that I really started getting into these kinds of things. I have Mr. Smedley to thank for all that, for really showing me how fascinating and beautiful the world can be, all the things that are going on outside my sphere, all the things that can be done.

I think the whole school--not just my grade started to become a lot more politically active around my junior year. I surprised myself, especially when I realized how completely devastated I was that I wouldn't be able to vote. The previous election was the first I was really, truly aware of. Sure others had happened in the past but I never got to know any of the candidates, never cared to know about any of the candidates. Somewhere along the lines between learning more, being brought out of my bubble, and participating and creating all sorts of campaign I came to realize just how important this all was.

Most of all though I felt happy. I felt really, really, happy. I hear all these stories about how awful High School is but those four years, particularly the latter two, have been the best of my life thus far. It felt great to be something important, and it felt great to be doing it with some other people. I think, in part, some of the reason for this was the whole dependency issue I mentioned earlier on. I still have problems with that. Above anything, I hate being in debt. I hate, hate, hate it. I want to be able to do things on my own and not have to depend on others, and it has really caused me a lot of trouble in the past. Many of you know that period of time when my father was away--it was really hard for my mom, Blad and I. There was that one four, five, I don't even remember month period where both of them were out of work and I was the only one with a job. My grades took such a nosedive because of that, and when my teachers found out about the situation they asked me why I didn't tell them about it.

I couldn't answer. I had no idea because it hadn't even occurred to me to tell them. I'm sure though the reason is that I would hate their pity. I would hate the fact that they would go easier on me, because I felt like I should be able to manage anyway. Writing this down now I always thought I was a pretty modest person, but I guess I'm actually really arrogant.

I've kinda lost track of where I was going with this. Honestly I don't think I was headed anywhere in particular since I'm still not entirely sure of the answer to that question, but after everything I've said I guess I can say the reason I want to become a citizen is because of gratitude. Because of this country and the people I have met, I have the potential to become something so much more than I would ever had been back in DR. It and they have given me something to be passionate about. Becoming a citizen will not only let me show that gratitude, I believe, but also help me in continuing my love of reaching out to and helping others.

I just hope that I can live up to that potential.

Which is why I have been thinking about something very hard as of late. It's only a thought, and I still need to do a lot more reading about it, but I think once I am done with school I am going to join the Peace Corps. It's a decision I'm sure my parents won't be thrilled about, and hell I'm still kind of scared about the idea myself, but a part of me just keeps going yes, yes, yes.

And man. There were a lot of other things I meant to talk about but after all that I think I'll leave it for another entry.

Ciao flist. Love you all~

chibi_scriber @ 2009-07-28T23:08:00

2009-07-29T03:15:47Z

Ho boy.

Hard to believe it's almost August. I go back the 22nd which I have mixed feelings about. I dread feeling the same way I did my first semester, but it'd also be nice to have something to actually do. Wal-mart never got back to me which was a huge slap in the face because...well it's Wal-mart. Seriously, when AREN'T they hiring? What can you do though? I've been spending time at least helping my dad out with his work which isn't exactly my ideal kind of job but it's something. I've basically been his translator and I help him out with shipping every now and then.

Still, it'd be bad of me to assume that going back will be awful. I did start getting to know a couple people near the end of the second semester, and one of them is a girl I'll be rooming with so I won't have to go through all that crap again. Can't say I know her too well but she seems very nice, and we share similar interests so here hoping we become good friends.

I haven't been up to much of anything. Met up with a couple of friends earlier in the summer but most of them seem to be on vacation somewhere. I might meet up with David sometimes soon though and I'm looking forward to that. OH. I did start the process to get my citizenship though. Got fingerprinted last Wednesday so now it's time to study, study, study. From what my brother told me though the test is really easy--and I'm going to try and take my permit test this Friday so keeping my fingers crossed for that too.

Things are still a little tough, but they've been getting better bit by bit and I'm sure we'll see relatively smooth road soon.

RP wise I dropped out of Dollsy, TST, and going to drop Adstring too. I've been having a lot of fun at Soul Campaign though, even if I do worry about my Rise more than I'm use to worrying about a muse but it's been getting easier.

/flops

chibi_scriber @ 2009-07-13T01:22:00

2009-07-13T05:23:13Z

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

Also, taking muse suggestions over at the muse box.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-06-10T13:11:00

2009-06-10T17:29:08Z

Life.

Sent a lot more applications to Park City. When I went back to the places that had I had already sent apps to most of them said that they would be looking over them the following week (that is this week). Wet Seal, however, was hiring and I had a group interview yesterday. It went pretty well I think, and I'll know by the end of this Friday if I am in or not. I'm still hoping to get a call from some of the other places since I'm not exactly what I would call a fashion diva and it's a pretty high end clothing store. They did talk about having a fashion sense and I was just like "duuhr eerr 8[". I think I got some points from having dealt with thieves at Walmart a lot, though.

It'll be a long week waiting to hear something. I talk to dad to know about what exactly the situation is and the run down is pretty much this: As I talked about before dad's business isn't going all that well. He borrowed money from a lot of people to get it started, and thankfully they are all friends that trust him but that pretty much means that at this point most of his profit is going to simply paying them off. Which means he can't help mom with any of the bills. Bladi is helping, by since Circuit City closed down and Neta hasn't gotten a job that's all we have to help. We're about three months behind on the house payment and who knows what else.

Hence my desperation to land a job.

Roleplay

Dropped Aeris and Fumie at theskytides . Applied for Rise at soul_campaign . Inching back into TST is hard, I guess that's one downfall of a plot-based game, if you are out for a long time you miss a lot. Still with a less serious game event (or so it seems, I suppose you can never be sure with TST) around the corner I won't have to concentrate of that as much and just focus on catching up. Winry is in the midst of srs biznizz so it's a good time to get this story on the roll. I need to find things to do with Matilda though--I've been meaning to have her ship hop to the Fierta for a long time and I guess this upcoming event would be a good time but I didn't really get to do all the things I wanted her to (mostly just building up CR). Oh well, maybe I can have one open log with her.

Speaking of which tho--kiyuu do you still have Coraline there? If so we should totally have them meet.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-06-03T22:55:00

2009-06-04T02:56:01Z

In celebration of TST's anniversary, we are having a fourth wall event. It's a little different from other fourth wall events though. Given the nature of TST (that people aren't brought from their respective worlds) none of it is happening canonly. All posts go to an entry on the crack comm.

For anyone interested Matilda's thread is here: http://community.livejournal.com/theskytits/75694.html?thread=11426478#t11426478

Winry's is here: http://community.livejournal.com/theskytits/75694.html?thread=11431854#t11431854

chibi_scriber @ 2009-06-03T18:52:00

2009-06-03T23:02:12Z

Job-wise things are still a little iffy. I went to see what the camp was about and I might be able to get a job there but not for the first session and it's only about two weeks. They didn't have any of my work info and that might take at least two weeks to process. I also have to take a training course on line regarding youth protection.

In the meantime I went with Fior to the outlets and we picked up a couple applications there. Tomorrow we're going to Park City and I can bug some of the places I already applied to and maybe pick up more. I'd really love to work at Spencers. Or some place downtown, that way I can just walk.

At this point though I'm getting really desperate so I might even go back to Walmart, even though I was really miserable there; but part of the reason that is, is because I had to work a lot of hours one time since at that point I was the only one in my family with a job. It was back when dad was still in Santo Domingo. My grades plummeted then and I had just gotten fed up with a lot of people at work. Ugh. Still, not all my memories are bad. There were a lot of awesome people there who helped me a lot--like Dara, Millie, Yao, and Nicole. I know Dara and Nicole still work there. It'd be nice to see them again, and since things aren't that bad it'll be less stressful. No school either.

Besides the endless search for a job I've been walking around Lancaster alot. It's great to be back. I started watching Heroes which I've been enjoying a lot so far.

Today is theskytides anniversary. Hard to believe. Happy birthday TST. I love you all.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-05-30T13:55:00

2009-05-30T18:01:22Z

I haven't posted since I've come home. In fact I haven't been online much period since I've been home. It's been a bit difficult to be honest. It's not like I've been particularly busy or anything, but I just haven't really been able to pick myself up. Don't get me wrong, I love being home but being here as long as I have has told me what I was afraid of. Mom and Dad have in fact been lying to me about our financial situation, and it just seems everytime it is brought up it is so much worse. I've been desperately trying to find a job, and I think I might have one babysitting for two weeks that'll give me about 400. I'm not sure, I'll be going to the church tomorrow to figure out the details.

Besides that Tia Mercedes had just gotten worse in her condition and I just haven't really been able to bring myself to get on and talk to people. I guess that's a big part of it. I'll be honest. I've been avoidant of pretty much everyone and not because anyone has made me upset or anything but just because I've been in such a bad mood since finding this all out. This isn't the first time something like this has happened, its an awful habit of mine. Then I start being avoidant because I'm afraid of having to explain that I really don't have a good reason for avoiding everyone to begin with.

Hopefully I'll get this job though. Even if it's just for a little while it'll take at least that off my shoulders, and in the meantime I can continue to look for something more permanent.

Again sorry guys, I'll try and be on tonight but now my mom just told me that we're doing a prayer session at 7 so I don't know exactly when.

Fic Meme

2009-05-09T05:17:47Z

The rules are simple: there are ten prompts. Answer each prompt with ten words or less (articles like "a", "the", etc don't need to be counted).

The prompts are:

1. Angst
2. AU
3. Crack!fic
4. Crossover
5. First Time
6. Fluff
7. Humour
8. Hurt/Comfort
9. Smut
10. UST

Prompted by darklightshades, with Winry/Isako/Naoto, TST-verse. Like her I'll accept request but then I get to ask some of you as well <3

1. Angst

Talk is unnecessary. They've all lost the same thing.

2. AU

Doma took them. Without one another they'd have become lost souls too.

3. Crack!fic

Fed up with Winry's pranks, Naoto and Isako team up.

4.Crossover (Soul Eater)

Two souls in one sword meant putting up with alot of arguing.

5. First Time

Well that was unexpected. Not to mention awkward.

6. Fluff

"I'll kindly kill you both quickly."

7. Humor

Poking fun at the crew in private offered so much stress relief.

8. Hurt/Comfort

They all hated pity, but presence was enough.

9. Smut

It just never seemed to work.

10. UST

They never spoke about that time in the food pantry.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-04-28T22:26:00

2009-04-29T02:51:01Z

Oh it's been a not so good week for various reasons. Getting better now, thankfully. This Friday I'm hopefully headed home so I can see my parents renew their vows on Saturday. Will have to be back to school on Monday, so it's going to be a rough weekend but I really want to be there.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-04-23T20:44:00

2009-04-24T00:45:05Z

ANON MEME

FMA EP 2

2009-04-12T20:47:25Z

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 2

http://revolution-anime.net/index.php?/full-metal-alchemist-2-episode-2

Pre-watching.

I have more hopes for this one than the previous one, partly because I adore kid Ed, Al, and Winry. This is suppose to be the flashback episode, and yea, I know a lot of people are a bit miffed that we have to go through all this but I actually like that. I wanna see how they do it differently this time, and we also have to acknowledge that there are probably just as many people completely new to FMA as there are oldies watching this. They need to know all that has happened.

My post about the first episode was puerile, I do realize it, so I guess I should be a little more specific about what I disliked about it. The actual plot of the episode was good, but I just felt that it was bogged down way too much by emoticons and gimmicks from the old series. Really, all they needed was Ed freaking out about milk and Roy going on about miniskirts and they would have hit pretty much all the stuff from the old anime and the manga. Yea those things are humorous but when crammed all into one episode and repeated several times? No.

One of the serious scene also really bugged me. That moment when Hughes is talking to Gracia. It sets you up for a long, interesting discussion but then all Hughes says is how he can't believe someone so young like Edward is in the military. Especially for someone who is a first time viewer I think they are trying too hard to get you to sympathize with him, and this is before we might even know what he's like.

Anyway, onto the show! Taking bullets again.

Introduction: Seeing the Sephirot after studying it in my religion class makes me squee.

I still adore the opening. I will probably say this for every single episode. Nah, I'm sure I'll start skipping it probably after episode 5 but it's still cool xD;

2:09- Mentions of Lior. Ooh.

2:29 Mention of Xerxes

2:42-oh that's a beautiful background. I love Rizenbul.

3:02- Trishaaaa <3

3:36 awww. They became obssessed with alchemy because of her praise :(

3:51 - agh. That was...abrupt. They already killed her?

4: 38- Winry :D

Why'd they switch the order of deaths tho?

So far the episode is feeling incredibly rushed like the first one. Even as someone who knows everything t hat happened it still kind of confusing and too jumpy.

7:42 - I love the look of transmutation circles.

7: 58- OH GOD THAT CREEPY D8>

I will not lie. The whole human transmutation scene and Ed's visit beyond the door was AMAZING. I also forgot to mention it last episode but I do really like the music and during those scenes it was great.

11: 59- SDIFHJIUASER WORST PLACE FOR COMMERCIAL BREAK.

12:36- First mention of Xing :D

16: 40- ...*giggles* That's a very interesting expression there, Riza /gutters

2: 44 - HA. Pwned.

Rizenbul reminds me a bit of Villa Altagracia. I think that's why I love it so much. You would think it'd make me feel the opposite.

22:00-That was campy.

22:20- Lior is bigger than I thought it would be o_o

Preview: Holy shit Rose looks pretty.

Overall, a hell of a lot better than the disasterous first episode. The pacing still felt really off in some sections, but I genuinely enjoyed this one. The first was just real hard to get through, didn't feel that much here. They dropped the emoticons, there were a couple here and there but they fit well enough.

There were some moments where I felt they were trying a bit to hard to get us to feel one way (Hughes and Roy's conversation about the Elrics / Roy+Riza exchange when trying to get Ed to join the army) but that's prevalent in both the old anime and manga sometime and....just about all anime, really.

As mentioned in my bullets the transmutation scene was amazing, and I liked the conversation between Winry and Riza a lot. Winry's voice is kind of weird, but I'll get use to it.

I was kind of disappointed that we didn't get to see just more of their lives as kids. I would really love to see a bunch of shorts of just the three of them before their lives went down the crapper. Misadventures of chibi Ed, Al, and Win. It would be so adorable.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-04-11T13:34:00

2009-04-11T17:35:17Z

The How's My Driving? Meme

chibi_scriber @ 2009-04-08T13:26:00

2009-04-08T17:33:44Z

Waiting for Relig class to start.

Yesterday I did the official drop of Fencing so I no longer have to worry about that being counted against me. I also dropped the Honors course I was in because honestly...I wasn't learning anything from it, it was three hours that could be put to better use, and I felt that it would have just bogged me down for my other classes as well. I felt so freakin' relieved and I just feel all around brighter about things.

I mean it was interesting what we read, but it was so disorganized. Hell, even the teacher admitted the first day of class she didn't have a scheduled prepared and was pretty much doing stuff on whim. Meditation is interesting and whatnot but you can only talk about it for so long before you just keep saying the same things over and over again.

Registration begins tomorrow at 11 for me. I forgot we had time slots. =/ Which means I really better look into other classes for that Banned Books class and Creative Writing since they will most likely be filled by the time I can register. Hopefully it'll still be around in the future.

I call my parents about the skin issue. Mother said she always thought I had a lot like her, but that we would get it checked out anyway when I return home which is around May 14. Still a bit worried about since I'm sure I've gotten more but now that I know somethings going to be done about it I'm not going to agonize over it.

I predict that half the comments I get are going to be of all the retarded typos I make. xD

And yet another post.

2009-04-05T21:16:27Z

Post watching the first episode...

-Ugh. There is that guy who came before the Xingese. I hope he isn't major. :|

-The appearance looks better in animation. Bradley and Roy look fine, I like their voices.

-....Edward still looks incredibly retarded tho

-HOHO PAPA.

-The movement is very smooth. That's nice.

- I like the opening song a lot. But still no signs of Xingese characters. This displeases me.

- 2: 50 Lol I like how that one cop just stands there while he sees his friend being fucked up.

- wtf Ed. A bat with your head on it?

-Hmm. HMM. The anime cliche faces aren't doing it for me. They look out of place.

-Ishbal "Extermination" War?

-Hughes voice is weird.

- ....6:40 bubble of exasperation around Roy's mouth TOTALLY out of place.

-9:40ish - Ack. Shatter O_o

-9:15 AUGH THE HAIR AGAIN....and what's with the speech bubbles? Please stop with the emotive exaggerations. Those do not belong in an anime like FMA.

-12:05 WHERE ARE ARMSTRONG'S SPARKLES?! NOT ENOUGH SPARKLES

--The way Alphose defended Edward with his body was kinda neat.

--13:20 lol Roy got pwned. I'll admit that was kinda funny.

--14:00 ...what the fuck?

-14:30 ooh, hm. Interesting So Isaac is trying to destroy Central because of what it's up to. Still, eh.

-So much for following the manga. What the shit is this all about? It was so incredibly boring. It took more more than an hour to finish a 25 minute episode because I just had no motivation to keep going.

-The END if cute. All crayon-drawing-y. Haha they should do the whole show like that :|

Yea bullet style bitches. Onto other things about the episode in general. Can we talk about choppy? OH HEY ROY AND FUHRER. OH HEY ED AL. OH HEY RANDOM ISAAC PERSON. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. SHORT RANT SHORT RANT. FIGHT. ROY AND ED. LETS GO TO HUGHES HOUSE. OM NOM NOM. ISAAC PERSON AGAIN. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. ARMSTRONG. ISAAC. ED. AL. FIGHT. END.

There you go. I saved you saved 25 minutes. Or an hour and a half if you have the same problems I do. This is the first time I've ever felt angered by a show just by fault of its quality. I feel so petty for feeling as such but, agh.

chibi_scriber @ 2009-04-05T15:18:00

2009-04-05T19:19:30Z

Heh, started this yesterday but fell asleep halfway through. Sorry if it's a little choppy and disorganized.

Lemme say this first, since I'm sure it's the question most will have. xD

I like BOTH anime and manga, but I -DO- prefer manga. I think the verse wars are incredibly retarded. There we go.

So this has been coming for a while now. The new FMA anime is airing (or will be airing) and I have very mixed feelings about it.

I figure if I'm going to talk about that, why not just go talk about my opinion of FMA in general. I never do fandom rants here soooo why not.

I don't remember when I first got into FMA. I think it was sometime back in ninth grade? Emily was the one who showed it to be and I was smitten. I saw the first eight episodes at her house, and at the time it was near some of the best I had ever seen. I honestly hadn't been exposed to much anime outside of what you could see on TV, so the only anime that I really was into was Cowboy Bebop (which I love but let's not get into that right now). I began to watch the anime on my own and it just kept getting better and better--then episode 25 happened and from there it started going really downhill for me. At first I thought that perhaps it was just because after Hughes' death there really couldn't be anything that could top that.

After I finished the anime, feeling incredibly disappointed by the ending I learned that there was a manga. I picked it up, and I couldn't stand it. The first few chapters of the manga are so incredibly painful. I don't remember how I managed to get through them. The pacing was completely nonexistent, the art was weird at some points, and the whole Nina arc really almost made me quit. I loved the Nina episodes in the anime, and I still think that those first few stories were executed so much better of in the anime than the manga. I was sniffling and in the manga I was like: "Huh. Well. Okay =/" Honestly? I don't think it was because I knew it was coming. If I had read the manga first I still would have felt the same way.

I got through it though, and fell in love with it. I think when it comes down to it, plot-wise it is simply a matter of preferences. It's been ages since I saw the anime so pardon if I forget some things different, but the anime took more of a fantastical turn whereas the manga became very political. I adore both genres but the latter is more in my tastes. I do thing the execution was a little haphazard near the end of the anime, but I think the manga is beginning to suffer the same. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the slightly survivor horror-esque turn it's taken and I have this feeling in my stomach that it's gonna end as disappointingly as the anime did.

I'll admit, I probably haven't said the nicest things about the anime, but I've come to realize that that's because I associate it with the movie too much. The anime still holds a lot of fond memories for me, and I think it's still good. I will not mince words with the movie, however--I absolutely detest it.

Now onto the new anime.

I always thought there was gonna be one because let's face it. FMA is a cashcow. When it was finally announced, and announced that it was going to follow the manga more I got so excited. The more and more I started to see, the more and more I began to feel bad about it. I don't follow FMA fandom so I haven't seen what others have said of it but apparently there's been a lot of wank about the art. I hate wank, but I won't lie. I really don't like the look, it looks wonky, misshapen, and the coloring is just way off.

I'm also a little irritated by the fact that the XINGESE characters haven't appeared in any of these ads but they are already shoving other creations of their own inside. I'm still giving it the chance it deserves, but there have just been a lot of things I've heard/seen that I haven't liked very much.

Molly just linked me to the first episode, so I'll cut this rant a little short for now. For anyone interested, here it is: http://www.anilinkz.com/full-metal-alchemist/full-metal-alchemist-brotherhood-episode-1/