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Thursday, August 30, 2001 You never know. On Blogger's front page, there's a quote from some article from Caterina.net: "Do you find yourself without a partner? Solo? Don't want to be? And a comment: "So remember, boys and girls, edit your posts with care—you're being watched. Maybe by someone important..." Upon reading this, I smirked and said, "Yeah, as if." Then I went to my weekly Wensday Anime club meet. There a friend of mine (who has only been mentionned here once - I never seem to write about important stuff, do I?), actually confessed his love to me. He said he thought he'd better make it clear when he read my blog entry about how hint-proof I am. How did he get my blog? We were surfing from a Cafe once and he saw it because I use it as a quick-link list whenever I surf from NetCafes. And he asked if he could save it on his HD because he liked the layout. And there you have it, the first instance of any guy ever who told me he actually loves me. Not kinda-sorta likes in a promising way if I would just go to bed with him, but actually loves in an emotional, caring way. The weirdest thing is that he actually is younger than me. It isn't very apparent because he's taller, but there you go. This is odd, because I was always attracted to guys older than me. I suppose my emotional side felt they could protect me better, and my logical side thought it would be best if at least one of us knew what they were doing. But I guess we'll just have to make it up as we go along. How does it feel to be in love? I hope repeating the same things over and over and feeling like an idiot about it is part of the picture. After the first half an hour we agreed we should stop beginning every sentence with "I don't want to offend you but...", and I told him that if he said "I understand" one more time I would hurt him. Talking to him was... I wanted to say it was great, but it was more like frightening. Totally new ground, opening up souls (or whatever metaphisical equivalent was handy) to each other. Each side frightened that they may harm the other's feelings, but determined to get this through. I was glad to be home. Maybe falling in love means you want to always be next to the other person, but I really needed to sit down and think all this over. And I decided that I want this. I really don't care if our relationship will last a year or fifty years. I want to live this through, I want to care for him and let him care for me. I want to be in love. Wednesday, August 29, 2001 Ladies and gentelmen, Meagen's Meantal Images Ltd. Proudly Present: Meg-chan and Repairman Jack! [Note: I've got no idea what Jack actually looks like, so the dude here is randomly made up. Just pretend it's him, 'kay?] Monday, August 27, 2001 I will not make that joke I will NOT make that joke... Ah, what the heck. [grabs a microphone and sings] Luci in the sky-y with daimonds! The new picture won't load for me. But I bet it's cool anyway. ;) Ver. 10 already? I'm only thinking about 3.0... Anyone but Firefly read the "The End" thread on The Unicorn Jelly forum? I must say I'm shocked, because (as I alluded in my response) I actually know that girl (well, know about her, anyway) on-line. I'm against flaming, even if she deserves it, so I won't say anymore about the communities, the other forums, her works, or that fanfic which features torture rape of her online personality. In a dark and forbidding forest, a scientific abomination is out to destroy humanity, and only Buck Cadman can stop it! Egon Freeman stars as Buck Cadman, a CIA operative sent into the Fullbright Forest after reports surface of a race of radioactive mutants plotting against the world. After rescuing a pesky reporter, (Meagen K.), from certain death, Buck must stop the mutants from destroying the world, with only the wisdom of his Tibetan Guru, (Loziu), to guide him. It's non-stop action, adventure and horror in The Slaughter! Don't ask about the male names, 'kay? ^_^' Friday, August 24, 2001 Oooh, Book of Fate? I suggest you read Pratchett's Small Gods for inspiration. There's a History Monk there who nudges history in the right direction and keeps Bonsai Mountains. Where'd you get that screenshot? It does look like Harry Potter Anime, but it might as well be Candra, Mark and Lucas. Oh, and while we're on the subject, here's an interesting mental image: [I think you can guess the plot by now. ;)] Lucas Hathaway as Ron Weasly Also wik Special Guest Star [How To Induce Disturbing Mental Images Without Use Of Sex Or Gore (Or Bush For That Matter), chapter 1.] This is just a joke, really. I've been reading too many Anime spoofs. ^_^' That might be Carter being protective of Candra on the left, I'm not too sure. Anyway, the question is: could Cam and Mark be faking the whole gay thing for reasons of their own? Sorry for the lateness of this post, Blogger won't co-operate. Here's my design of Sparkle Star's new outfit. (This is a slightly darker version if your monitor is brighter than mine) The plot of Sparkle Star includes space travel, so a more "cosmic" twist has been put into this costume. The baisic design for the main part has been imported from the original version. The sleeves have been made wider and a bit puffed, and the middle was cut in a particularly daring and non-symetric way. A pair of bracelet-like armbands has been added, as well as a single long white glove. The heroine's sybmol, a golden star, is placed in the middle of the chest. The mini-skirt now has only one layer and is merged elegantly with the bodysuit. For a more "sexy" look, this costume includes white stockings. And finally, the original's "ballet shoes" have been replaced with armored boots, suitable for kicking bad guy ass, litterally. Sparkle outfit done, Tenchi interview done. I only have to do the special In-Depth review for the Kamipost before next week. For the LotM fanart contest I'll be entering from one to four pics, depending on how many I manage to draw before the deadline. PS. Yuken isn't Ken: Ken just thought he was playing a game, and Yuken is psycho. Sunday, August 19, 2001 PS. The pic linked below, even though it is in my own webspace in a folder cunningly named "myart", is actually by the one and only Meg who created Lucas and thus owns all the right to use his name, chara design and body language in any and all publications. Just to avoid confusion there.
Ick. ICK! Just, y'know, ick. Lala, I wonder what I shall review next... My page has gone un-updated for too long. And school starts in September and I won't be able to do much updating then. I've still got to put up the Mystery Moonies Shibai page. And send episode 2 to OW. I got some Beatle Winamp skins! ^_^ They're on the site named "Beatle stuff" in my link list. I can now look at a Yellow Submarine or AHDN Ringo while listening to Anime MP3s. (Sorry Lucas.) No, I meant "Don't you know it's love", the end theme from the Ranma 1/2 movie. (There's a MIDI of it in Bishoujo Senshi Sailor...? ep.3). I've got the MP3 at home now, along with "It's Love... Panic!" (the OAV opening) and The Ballad of Ranma and Akane. Got them from a Polish ftp server. Anyway, you wouldn't want to trade files with me, I've got a 14400 modem. I ran the Eva selector a while ago and also came up with Lover Boy. I guess that explains why I can't stand the series, since the character I could most relate to was a homosexual albino angel. (I wonder how I got it though, if there was an "are you gay?" question I'd probably say no. I guess there must have been an "are you particularly fond of wimpy boys?" question.) Excuse me while I drool. Drool drool drool. Lucas' stunt double from CSM: [now off duty so he doesn't look a bit like Lucas] Until the owner of this blog gets over her fangirly episode, we end this post. Thank you and good night. Drool drool. Wednesday, August 15, 2001 Meagen's Webcomics Corner! [hastily brushes off thick layer of dust which has settled in the corner] Incoming flashback! I remember when the Senshi United universe was still under development (wait a minute... it still is ^_^'), I had an idea to put in a horny bisexual girl who'd hit on the main character but never get anywhere except in danger of severe harm. PS. And what's with Poya? Has Yuken killed her dead or just sent her to an alternate dimention? PPS. Shouldn't Yuken have nekomini? I sympathise, Chou. There's nothing worse than having to cope with an irresponsible mom. Just this Monday as we were driving home, we stopped at a small restaurant to eat lunch, and mom left her car key in the door. Thankfully on-one noticed or took advantage of it. [end MWC] You find out shocking things about people when reading their blogs, ne? ^_- Shouldn't that be PS. Lance does look cute in that pic. Tuesday, August 14, 2001 Oh, and I forgot to mention, during my trip I saw the first episode of Serial Experiment Lain (aptly named Layer 04: Religion). It had some of those scenes where they flash up a lot of stuff really quickly and let the fans sort it out frame-by-frame, and a lot of footage of scantily clad computers. The plot, as far as this episode goes, is like this: (I may have got some details mixed up) There's a young girl by the name of Lain who's a computer geek with virtually (pardon the pun) no life outside the World Wide Wired. Someone is killed by a little girl, and some students commit sucide, but all that happens off-camera and after having read Hogfather it's not really a big deal. Then Lain's classmates talk about how much she has changed, although no-one seems to be sure how or when. They might mean the fact that her skin is deathly pale and her pupils are about one third the size of theirs, but it's not a sure thing as she may have always been like that. Then another poor sap is attacked by a cheaply-rendered labirinth and the vampire kid, and it seems he's trapped inside a game or something, which is not surprising as he's got a pirate copy. (Subliminal message: Only use original software - or this could happen to you.) Then he finally figures out that since he's in the game, he might as well play it, and shoots at the demon child with an invisible gun and kills some innocent greenish sheets which were drying in the wind and mindning their own buisness. Then Lain reads her voice mail and we find out virtual reality games have been mixing with the real world and each other, thus giving even the most dense of viewers a solid clue as to previous scenes. Then we have the "Religion" as there's one voicemail about some evil sect who mercilessly spam innocent people's mailboxes (the fiends!). Lain's dad then tries to talk her out of hooking up her councious mind to the Really Big Worldwide Virtual Network Thing by claiming it doesn't exist. But he keeps doing the Thing With The Glasses he's learned from Gendo as a kind of "signed Richard Nixon" thing. Then the guys from Microsoft get word that Lain uses Netscape, so they annoy her by flashing their red laser pointers through her window, but she goes Esper on them so they drive away in a Big Black Conspiracy Car (TM). (They do all this most likely in an effort to stay inconspicious and get their victim by surprise.) And that's how it ends, and there's probably several more episodes of this and I'd watch it if only for the undressed computers, but it's on a pay channel and we don't have it, and it would be silly to buy it for just the anime segment as all the movies there stink anyway. Actually, I was talking about myself. ^_^' I used to get quite violent whenever someone hurt my feelings on purpose. This happened a lot, as in my first school a popular class game was "see how fast we can get Meagen to cry". (Kids can get cruel on someone who cries easily.) I must have developped a tendency to get agressive if pushed too far somewhere along the way. Then I went to high school, and everything seemed fine. People were a lot more mature and besides, no-one knew me. And then at the end of the first year it happened... to a friend of mine. I guess she was just being stupid and didn't realise she was hurting my feelings. (Although the way I ran out of the room crying should have clued her in.) Then sometime later, as I'd almost calmed down again, she pinched me. Again, more as a stupid prank than anything else. I just, well, overreacted severely. Since then I've fortunately managed to control myself better. PS. Dora-san? It might help with your dying problem if you stop learning German phrases like Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!... Well I'm back from holiday and typing on my own keyboard again, instead of Net.Cafe's along the way. I've been to Sopot for two days, seen the famous pier there, and I've eaten sushi in a sushi bar run by actual Japanease people who knew just a little more English than Polish. It was cool. ^_^ I got myself the latest Winamp so I could use the skins from Shiwase. I got "Little Firefly" (with Hotaru) and the Lucas skin, and am currently indulging in some harmless fangirlism by drooling over it a lot. And I got "It's Love" from the Ranma movie in MP3 from a server I found while browsing from a cafe. I still want The Ballad Ranma and Akane, and My Heart Iidasenai from OMG. Nice idea, Meg. A chance for the kyara to speak out... Hm. Maybe I should do one for SailorM... [imagination] Monday: Coke is good. ^_^ [/imagination] Then again... In related news, exchange of e-mails over the Lucas Case has begun. I was going to redo CSM vol.1 anyway, so expect a new and improved version sometime this year. Oh, and here's something I typed up in a cafe last Friday, I think. Ribby, you make a cute Sakura.... ^_^ And thanks for your support. I'm not even sure if you read my blog, but apparently I get most hits from your link. Frecklegirl apparently still reads my blog, too. I just wanted to say, glad you agree on A Day In The Life. Yup, it's weird, in fact the whole CD is weird. Swingin' Sixties, and all that stuff. Anyways, I wanted to try this thingie too: 1) Open up your CD player, what's inside?: Back home, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A few last listens since I promised Magnesse I'd lent it to her. Saturday, August 11, 2001 Firefly and Dora have both suceeded in the difficult operation of Getting Through Meagen's Thick Skull, but what Meg said was what really made me understand. (You might call it a fellow feeling, but I won't get into that right now.) What's more, it made me very much ashamed. And it made me want to stop writing right now. I could walk over people's copyrights, but walking over people's feelings is a totally different thing. It's been done to me, and I would never want to do it to others. The problem is, I'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to feelings, especially other people's. I'm totally hintproof, you see. You can go and say "um, not exactly" and "I don't think so" for months and I'd never get the hint, then when you've had enough you come out and say "stop doing that, it hurts me" and I'd be all "why didn't you say so?". You might call it the equivalent of Pratchett's "people who had the opinion of sadists because in their language, 'Argh' meant 'Quick! Extra boiling oil, please!'". I can understand Firefly's reaction better now... And based on what I did once, I'm really, really glad I'm living miles away from her. What next? Well Meg and co, you've seen the first two-and-a-half episodes. Write and tell me what I got wrong. Then I'll send you the scripts for eps 3b-5 (as well as some loose fragments to be used later) and you'll tell me what I got wrong. Then we'll see wether and how that can be fixed. If it isn't possible, the whole project is scraped, removed from OW and everywhere else and we can forget it ever happened. Don't worry about me in any case, I've got plenty of ideas to develop which don't require trashing someone's work as they watch. PS. Chris, Frecks, Ribby, thanks for the support, but I'm afraid the author bunch is right in this case. Anyway, even if CSM stops the wacky comedy won't: I already got an interesting idea after reading about some show named Jackass. I named the project Doctor, it hurts when I do this, and even did some chara design. Friday, August 10, 2001 Firefly wrote to me. Hoooboy, did she ever. Okay, I could start trying to get funny ([sarcastic] "oh, I'm sorry, let me check the manga again... what? it's not out yet?..." [pseudo-paranoid] "all characters are (c) Meg and Firefly who own their asses" [plain old insulting] "(and everything that's been there)"), but since that ususally gets me misunderstood, I'll just respond as well as I can. > I'm not sure what your angle is but I'm not flattered. What you've done to Lucas (and company) isn't really fanfiction. It's just ripping off the name and character designs from Meg. I'm not really sure what you're saying. I'm not trying to give accurate renderings of their personality (heck, I don't even know what they are like). I'm not trying to pass them as my chracters. I'm just writing a funny story which I thought up. I suppose you might call it a parody, although it's based on a second-hand account of some roleplaying, so I never thought it would be very accurate. > That's not Lucas. That's not Mark. That's not Cam. No, they are not. I suppose I should've done what MAD does and named them Lucky, Mike and Carl. > It's fucking shit, that's what it is. They're like ghosts with the same face and name. Like I said, they weren't really supposed to be accurate. > And no matter what either of us have said to the contrary, you keep defiling our characters. I don't remeber one single email, post, or blog entry, which specifically said "stop writing". On the contrary, the whole CSM series arose from a Kami joke which some people on the Kamishibai Forum (including Meg) liked, so I thought it might be fun to develop it. > And if you haven't caught on so far, I'm a little offended. I understand. I just can't imagine why you're only saying so now. I've already made two and a half episodes without any trouble. I suppose that's because some of the more glaring differences which have sprung up lately. > There is no CSM Lucas or Cam or Mark. All said kyara are copyright Meg and I. It's just a kind of acronym for "the horribly fucked up versions of these characters which I made up for the purpose of this story". Like you could say "the 'Evolution' Satoshi" to talk about the grown-up version of Ash Ketchum from that fic, which doesn't in any way suggest he is not (c) Nitendo and whoever else. > I'm not in the mood to be light-hearted at the moment, and besides, this is serious to me. Stop fucking with our characters and ignoring us when we say you're messing them up. Do you want me to stop writing my Kamishibai series and/or have it removed from OW and my website? You've got the right to say so, and I will do it immediately. Neither of you have said so yet, that's all. (Side note: I believe a parody is listed somewhere in the copyright law as legal use of characters, and anyway I live in a different country, so legal action against me would be difficult at best. But I'd be insulting you and Meg as authors if I tried to use that to my advantage.) In conclusion, I hope you're feeling better now (some soothing cream would probably help). Ask me to stop and I will, there's no need to send the men with conference laser pointers after me. (y'know, Lain ep. 1?) Tuesday, August 07, 2001 As you said, AH isn't out yet. When the idea for CSM first popped into my head, the only thing I knew about Lucas was that he was cute and had blue hair. (Unlike some people you mentionned, I'm not the co-author of the manga.) And then he became evil because in the Senshi United universe, demons are a kind of couterpoint to Senshi and are always evil. In fact, in the original SSU fics, demons are mostly repugnant and no Senshi could ever fall in love with one (except M, but she's just weird). In the CSM universe it seems to be a worryingly common thing. You might say he's actually closer to the Evil Lucas, except less Me See Me Disembowel and more cool. (By the way, I think the thread in the Kami Korner where they all meet should be continued by all means. This could mean some very interesting discussions... Well, maybe after they stop trying to kill each other [again].) And anyway, he's only violent in M's compagny because quite frankly, wouldn't you? As to the death list, well, worse things have happened on your RPs. (Except for the fruit salad.) And anyway, CSM's Cam&Mark are even further away from the original. Especially Mark, who is not allowed a weapon since he accidentally disemboweled himself... And hasn't been chucked out on his ass only because Cam insists on keeping him. And let's not get started on You-Know-Who (the head honcho demon boss). So in conclusion, let's just accept that universe as a really weird offspring of two which would not normally mix, so it was only possible with some very radical twists in one of them. Kinda like Cam and Mark's kid. ^_^ Thursday, August 02, 2001 Wow! I've caught up on Meg's blog and it seems she actually tried to read mine sometime around the layout change! If you're still checking this page Meg (it's no longer on your links list ;_;), I'd just like to tell you that I read Legacy of the Messiah... 's cool. I'll draw you some fanart if you'd like that. Oh, and as a tribute to your characters' and general Anime tendency to be unable of staying dead, CSM's Lucas (now officially a Completely Different Person than Original Lucas) has died in the following ways: 72 times by disembowelment, 58 times by being hanged, 47 times from falling objects, 34 times from drowning, 17 times from poison, 12 times from being plunged into a harmful substance, 9 times from an electric shock, and once in a freak accident involving a fruit salad. And come back to "life" every time, of course. James Bond has nothing on this guy. :) All righty, looks like my blog's up and working again! 'Cept for the archieves, which still only show the stupid "insert archives here or somethin' " thing. I'm going North first thing tomorrow. See the lovei lakes (and hopefully no bloodthirsty furry animals such as the majestic moose) as well as the Baltic Sea. Which means no computer, no Internet and no Nethack. [sobs] Let me dwelve on Nethack for a moment. It's a very fun CRPG with ASCII graphics - a little @-sign is the main character, while various other letters are monsters. The objective is to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor from the Dungeons of Doom. You only have one life - when you die, the game is over. There's no save-games except when you exit, to get back to the same game later. There are various classes your character can be. The obvious rpg ones like Knight, Wizard, Ranger, Healer or Barbarian, but also some more obscure ones like Valkire, Archeologist or even Tourist. There are various races and three alignments to choose from. (But some classes and races can only have some alignments.) I usually play Meagen the chaotic elven Ranger, Ami the neutral human Archeologist, Setsuna the lawful human Valkire, Esk the chaotic elven Wizard, Akane the human Monk, Kasumi the lawful human Healer, Haruka the chaotic orcish Barbarian, Stan the human Priest or Sylia the lawful human Samurai. Nethack is highly randomised and bloody hard. I got one Setsuna to about the middle of the game and one Sylia to about a third. All the others died very early on. I read the newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack regulaly and post there too, with my own tales of YASD (Yet Another Stupid Death), YANI (Yet Another New Idea) and YKYBPNTLW... (You Know You've Been Playing Nethack Too Long [or Late] When...). I hope to post my own YAFAP there too one day (Yet Another First Ascention Post, "ascending" means winning the game since then you ascend to Demigod[dess]-hood). This is a test.
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