"To hell with the handkerchief."
Misc
*Cricket, cricket*
May 25th
You know, crickets really make more of a chirping sound, but I worry if I wrote that you’d think the post was about birds and not the silence that’s been hanging over my blog lately.
Nothing much to report.
Ranma costume: 80% completed.
Misa costume: 95% completed.
Death costume: 98% completed.
Still waiting on a few wigs, still bumming around looking for a job (I am not really bumming, I’ve still got a job. I just feel like I’m bumming), still not making video game review shows.
I keep saying to myself, “After A-kon, things will get calmer because my free time won’t be used to get ready for A-kon.” But who knows if that’s really true.
Next comes the costume I’ll be wearing to The Last Airbender midnight release. Has anyone seen that new trailer?! The Blue Spirit was in it! I almost shrieked in the theater. I loooooved the Blue Spirit.
I think I’m definitely going to put together a fire-nation costume for that. I’ve always liked the water element better, but the fire nation is just so misrepresented by their leader. Allllthough…maybe I should do a costume for each movie release and go as the themed element? That means water, then earth for the second, More >
The cake is a lie. Or in this case, success after getting a degree is the lie.
May 20th
Give me an argument and I can write a wonderful paper disputing or supporting it. Ask for a story and I can give you one better than at least Dan Brown, if not many more respectable authors. On my free time I read, I write, I sew, I study languages, I study everything – I am a researcher by nature. If not for academic articles on the internet, I would have gone mad at work ages ago.
I am, in a word, a scholar. And I am good at being a scholar.
I am not good, however, at figuring out how to make money on being a scholar alone.
I could write, and I am, but that takes time. And while writing, until the writing starts to pay for itself and then some, I still need a job, which takes away time and energy. It’s sort of a small, vicious circle.
I could teach, but everyone is doing that right now and I don’t have a university certified teaching degree, just an alternative certificate, and while that would ordinarily work for me – seeing my gpa, my work with kids, and whatnot – I graduated during the worst recession in whatever amount of time More >
It’s been quiet…Too quiet…
Apr 28th
I’ve been busy, okay? Sheesh.
Haha, no one reads this thing to care.
But I have been pretty busy.
I’ve got one month until A-Kon and I don’t have any costumes ready, and I know my affiliates who are joining me on this trip are nowhere near ready either; work’s been hectic like woah, almost to the point where I can’t even breathe without thinking and stressing about it a little; the affiliates and I have launched a new group site dedicated to geeky reviews (you can check out the new site at www.afterthought-studios.com, although it’s already getting a little neglected. I never thought playing games in order to get footage and information on them would feel like a chore); and I’ve been trying to work out the details on a small road trip I plan on taking in July.
All in all, chattering away on my own site hasn’t been a top priority, although it has been hovering over me like a guilt-inducing shadow, especially since I was planning on doing so many articles between my last post and now.
Ah well.
In my attempt to de-stress this past month, I’ve tried my hand at watercolor painting, which I’m enjoying very much, I’ve been watching More >
To Do List
Mar 30th
So this site has been pretty text heavy lately. This post, sadly, will not be any different because I don’t have access to my image files, but I do plan on changing that a bit tonight and tomorrow.
Plans for the next week/things to look forward to:
- Film my first video game review episode.
- Post said video game review episode.
- Do a couple Picture Posts for the following old games:
- Policenauts
- The Last Express
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Sweet Home
- Missing
- Submit myself as a fan to the Jordan database for the fan-made update of Snatcher.
- Kick my affiliates’ asses for:
- not working on cosplays for a-kon (two affiliates).
- (I changed my mind about this ass kicking. I want my affiliates to participate. And then we could totally have special joint vid episodes, like the War Room! So go on, I’ll kick your ass if you don’t join in now! (Shhh, I’m Dev, I can change my mind if I want)).
- writing THE LONGEST POSTS IN THE WORLD after not posting for weeks (one awkward affiliate).
- Clean up those damn links to the left.
- Play Final Fantasy XIII, because I haven’t played in over a week and that’s just crazy.
On a side note, I’ve started really watching Code Geass and I’ve gotta More >
Woooooo! (Second Post for the Day)
Mar 25th
Guess who has the best affiliate evah? Ya huh! Me, me, me!
Frozen bought me and AwkwardS a handheld camcorder! WAH! WAH! YEAH!
*Dances*
How cool is that? Video Game Show, here I come!
Thanks Frozen! XD
All Riiiight
Mar 25th
Okay, so what do you all think about this theme? Nice? I think it’s nice. I think it’s a nice improvement from the usual bland themes I have up here. You can thank AwkwardS for the stylish-ness of this one. He showed me where he got his nice new theme and I went a-browsin’, and voila. Here we are.
Look at those pictures at the top – you can scroll through them and look at featured articles (which are “featured” for no other reason than that they have pictures)! Or look to the left there! That’s my new video space! My sidebar still looks pretty shitty but I’ll work on that later. For now, I’m pretty pleased. Even the color scheme is nice, in my opinion.
So yes, enjoy looking around. I think it’s much more browser friendly now. And by browser I mean you, the person browsing. Not IE or Mozilla or Chrome.
Blah blah blah. Okay I’m done talking.
So, here we go.
Mar 24th
Again, another new theme.
This one is REALLY boring and plain, but it’s nice how clean and clear it is, plus it’s a great theme for having a video in the sidebar. This isn’t my dream theme, but it’ll do for now. I’m going to have AwkwardS work on the colors for me so it’ll at least be black soon, and then maybe I’ll throw a custom banner up in the header. *shrug* Who knows.
Really, though, the important thing is the video. Not the particular one I have embedded, although you should watch that because it’s hilarious, but rather, the fact that I can have a chosen static video sitting there at all. Yes, essentially I could have had the same feature in the pink diary theme, but come on. Show of hands. Who was tired of all that pink after the first day? *raises hand*
Anyway, if you caught what I was saying about Heavy Rain a couple of times, it was that I want to start a video game review youtube show, and once I get over this damned illness/once I have enough game footage to make at least 3 min video, I’m going to air episode one. There are More >
Okay, it’s time for a lifestyle change…
Mar 20th
So I must be failing to do something right (which isn’t surprising), because AGAIN I feel some sort of cold/sickness coming on. I’m putting my money on my diet and lack of exercise lowering my immune system, honestly. And I’m really tired of being sick all the time.
So, time for a change.
The problem with having a healthy lifestyle is that it’s so damned expensive. I usually eat twice a day and the meals are 2$ specials from a fast food joint. My water intake is stupidly low cause I don’t buy bottled water and I hate tap. My exercise consists of standing behind a desk for 8 hours and since I can’t afford to eat and drink right, I’m too tired to work out at home.
But really, it’s just that my stinginess is misplaced – I always save my tips for video games and comics, which I’ve never had a problem with before, but seeing how I’m completely independent now, and momma’s not making all my meals for me (god, when was the last time I had that privilege? u_u), I’m gonna have to prioritize differently.
WHICH MAKES ME SO SAD.
But being sick makes me sadder, so I’m just going to More >
Update!
Mar 18th
Bwuahaha! Look how pink! It’s like cotton candy!
I know it’s not the standard Dev site, and it probably won’t last long, but I wanted a dramatic change and I like the cuteness of this one. Plus it has more of a diary feel.
Which this is hardly a diary…but whatever!
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I picked up my first dress patterns the other day, for like 2 bucks a pop. That is cheap! They are usually about 18$. Anyway, I got several regular styles that are kind of just basic patterns I should have on hand, and I got a couple that’ll be great for particular cosplays I already have in mind. I found a trench-style pattern that could work for both a steampunk costume and as a coat for Hei from Darker Than Black, who is a character Frozen has expressed interest in cosplaying. I picked up a military uniform pattern as well, maybe as a guide for Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist or maybe a Code Geass student uniform someday.
So far my line-up for A-Kon is: Neil Gaiman’s Death, Random Steampunk Skypirate.
Possibilites: Ed from Cowboy Bebop, The Red Whirlwind/Juliet from Romeo x Juliet, Hungary from Hetalia: Axis Powers, Female Ranma from Ranma 1/2, Kyoshi More >
Blah blah
Mar 4th
So I really need to do a review of Heavy Rain soon. I finished it within two days of purchasing it at 1am the night of its release, and I’m replaying it for a different ending – and for video footage, because really, if I’m going to do a review, I want to do it as a vlog.
But I’m at work right now and I have neither the resources nor the time to do it here. So you’ll just have to wait.
I don’t really have anything to talk about this post except for how excited I am about FF13 AND Resonance of Fate coming out this month. If I’m being honest, I’m more excited for Resonance of Fate. That game looks awesome. Like really freaking sweet. Like, holy smokes I want it now. I just hope it’s long. Please? I mean, I thought Heavy Rain was supposed to be long, but that took less than two days!
Except I’m not talking about that right now. That’s for later.
Anyway, yeah that’s all I really have to say. Resonance of Fate. AwkwardS says someone described it as looking steam punk, but it looks more industrial punk.
Yes, there’s a difference. There’s an art to these More >
