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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
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Plot bunnies have been bouncing in my head screaming "write me!! write me!!" for days now. But uck, I simply don't have the time or the inspiration to write them! And that angers me because I'm really interested in them, but I have What came After to update. Still. I've only completed two fricking pages, in what, months? I guess I just don't have much inspiration for SouMi anymore. I mean, no one does anything at the LJ group, I only have 1 SouMi freind to talk to, on top of that there's been so little SouMi just...EVERYWHERE it's not exactly encouraging. *headdesk*
Okay, here are the plot bunnies, so shut up, sit down, and quit screaming! >_<
1: Soujiro is a commander during WWII. I have tons of scenes in my head, most of which including Sou in a sexy army uniform making out with Misao pacing about this expensive looking room while bombs go off not far away. Some more including Misao as his assistant....person, but not as cheerfull as she is in the series. I have this one scene in my head where Sou's just stressed out like hell, face buried in his hands as bombs sound off in the distance, and Misao just walking up behind him and putting a hand on his shoulder. Among some other sappy/dramatic scenes, but I haven't quite plotted them out yet.
2: This was originally going to be a challenge for the SouMi LJ group, but seeing as everyone is SO EAGER to participate, I decided not to issue it. It was a valentine's day challenge centering around caramel chocolates. I got the picture of Misao huddled up on her couch, throwing half eaten pieces of caramel chocolate at the screen. She had asked Aoshi to be her Valentine the day prior, and the ice-man said no, of course. So then she's all bitter and sad, until Sou shows up the next day to bring home notes and assignments from school. And the fluff insues.
3: Soujiro is a pshychiatrist in Tokyo, happily engaged to a woman named Mariko and things couldn't be better. They're wealthy, they're respected, and they're perfectly happy with one another. Until Soujiro meets his new patient, Misao Makimachi. Misao is a paranoid schitophrenic, so bad she's kept in a ward by herself. The sole thing in the room is a red kimono, which she is constantly by and constantly looking at. At first Misao is difficult to treat, because Soujiro has never encountered a patient like this, but he tries his best with her. After a few months her fits and tempers are better, and he realizes that maybe Misao is becoming more than just a patient.
3: I want to make icons. Soooo badly. But I haven't got the right pictures for the icons I have in my head! Whenever I see a particullar brush or text, I get an icon in my head, but I don't have the right pictures to make it. It's very annoying. I jsut want to make icons *sigh* but I don't have the time today because I have to clean my room and prepare a presentation for school tommorow. Among other unimportant, boring things.
*Listens* Hmm...I think the plot bunnies have calmed down now. YAY.
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
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I hate my English teacher. This is saying something, because in all my years of school I have never truly despised my teachers. But there's a first for everything! She is honestly the most difficult teacher I've ever met. No, not strict difficult (though she is) just annoying difficult. All my teachers annoy me to some point, but she takes the cake of annoying-ness.
Why?
First: She picks favorites in her students. I wouldn't mind it if she didn't make it so obvious. She's always talking to certain people, or complementing others, or acknowleding one or two for their work or feedback. No teacher should do this, I think, because it makes the other students feel like crap, and that's only one teacher! No, I don't think this will make them "work harder" like all the adults in High School are preaching about picking favorites. It makes them depressed and angry more than anything else.
Second: She's so bloody picky, I'm tempted to rip my papers up and throw them in her face. In essays and reports (and she assigns them every fricking week) she has to know EVERYTHING. If she doesn't know who a person is you're reporting, you practically have to write a biography in your report just so she knows who the person is. Even if you're just mentioning someone, she has to know who he/she is and what they did, in detail, and how it affects the other people. If you ask a question, YOU have to explain it in full detail and explain how it pretains to your report.
Your grammar has to be perfect. No, not satisfactory with a few misspellings or punctuation errors. Per-fect. If you overuse something, she WILL make a snide remark all over your paper and harass you for it if you do it again. If she doesn't like the way you wrote a sentence, she scribbles it out and writes it over how she likes it. Hell, why not just write the bloody report for us?! If she doesn't like ONE aspect, ONE, she will tell you why she didn't like it and critisize your writing for it. Like it makes this HUGE difference whether or not I put one word in place of another? What difference does it make if I don't get straight to the point and come out wth my questions in the first paragraph? Not everyone wants rushed explanations like she does. Not everyone wants to know why this happened, where it happened, how it happened, how it affects you and other people, and what you think about it.
Third: She expects too much of her students. She wants us to read 1 classical book (do a 5 page report on it) and two Accelerated reader books and do a book report on one, and another report of a book of her choosing. This wouldn't be so bad if she had us to this year-long, but no! She wants us to read 3 books (mind, not everyone can read as fast as she does despite what she may think) and write reports on them in 3 weeks? I can't do that, and I'm above average in Language and Reading/Vocab in both National and Reigonal scores. I can't juggle those AND my other school work. And that's me, what about people who have trouble reading or writing? She expects too much from everyone.
Yeah. -_- I'm done now.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
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I've had some pretty freaky dreams lately. But this one takes the cake.
I dreamt I was playing Marius from Les Miserables, in our High School. Um, yeah. Problem? Our school is too poor to do Les Mis, and why would I be playing a male roll? Im a soprano for God's sake! Maruis is a Tenor roll. Other problem? Ceasar was somehow involved in the play. Er...Les Mis takes place after Napoleaon's downfall, Ceasar is centeries dead. Not only that, he somehow had something to do with the deaths at the barricade. Also, I forgot my lines and had to do inmprov. Umm...okay, I wouldn't be on the stage in the FIRST place, and second, I know Les Mis like the back of my fricking hand. I can recite the entire play and key parts of the (1222 page!) book. XD
In other news, obi hasn't come yet. Damn slow mail << I wonder what mail would be like in the future. Like, you'd order something and it's just pop out of your computer, haha.
I also woke up late. Great. I have 15 mins to get ready, yet I'm somehow on here typing this.
Annd...um. I also found my freinds on MSN, I can't tell you how flipping happy I was. We were all just about having seizures of happiness. I should talk to them today again after school. And -
OMG. EW. SHUT UP. Damn song. Stupid stupid song. It wouldn't be so bad if the lyrics weren't horrid. Oh, ALW, what in the bloody hell were you thinking when you hired that lyricist!?
Meh. I have to go now. Stupid school.
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
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Just dumping some icons I made last weekend.
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Soujiro: 20
Misao: 20
SouMi 2
Total: 42
[x] Don't claim as yours
[x] Comment when taken
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
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The bad:
1: SO MUCH HOMEWORK
2: I officially hate the pairing Kenshin/Kaoru. Why? There's so much of it I'm f***ing sick of it.
3: The guy I like has a girlfreind. Great -_-
4 It's snowing. Now my obi order will be late or sent back.
5: No one's doing a flipping thing on the community.
6 ^ I'm sick of doing everything myself. What is so hard about spending a minuet or less to type a message?
7 No inspiration for fanfics or art.
8 I'm failing American Government.
9 Why can't I write poetry?
10 I wanted to see a preview for the school play today. But 2 little asses got into a fight and all 200 or so students were sent back to class before the thing even started.
The good:
1 I'm finally getting an obi for my new kimono.
2 I'm passing most of my classes with A's and B's.
*snort* Yeah. I'm done now.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
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I'm officially FED UP with people.
I was on a Harry Potter RPG, this August being two years. Yeah, I improved my writing, made one or two freinds, and enjoyed writing with different people of different writing skills on there. Why did I leave? I liked very few people on there for a reason, because the others were either one: Immature snots, or two: Immature snots who happened to be full grown adults. Yes, over 20, and they acted worse than the little 13 year old brats who whined about everything. Oh no, some of the moderators and admins got too big for their own bloody shoes to know how to treat others. But, we can't have that can we!? We just CANNOT see how FEELINGS of another human being matter through the internet! It's just crazy! We can chew you up and spit you out because WE CAN because we're older than you!
Oh, it doesn't matter that you don't know this person in real life. It doesn't matter that we don't know what's going on outside the RPG. Hell, you can go cry yourself to sleep because you're too immature, don't worry, dozens of people just insulted you and dragged you through the mud, but that's okay because it's just the internet! That's the attitude most of them portray. They don't care who they step on or how it affects them, because apparently what someone says to you through the internet shouldn't matter. But you know what? It does matter, even if you can't see this person face to face, you KNOW that's what they're saying and thinking about YOU. Damnit, I have to go to school. I'll finish this later.
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
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Yeah, I'm gonna rant for a bit, alright? Just hang in there, it'll be over soon.
Do you know why I hate posting my stuff on the internet?
Especially fanfictions. And especially on fanfiction.net. Why? The flipping stupid reviews I get. I swear half the people there skip over the main parts of a story and read the last few lines. And if they don't do that they ignore what I'm trying to say in my Author's Notes. I've been writing on fanfiction.net for over 4 years, and I haven't gotten a single memorable (much less usefull) review from the moment I joined. I always get "hey nice story update" or "how cute update" although those ARE reviews, there's only so many of them I can take. Couldn't they at least take 2 minuets of thier time to type out some decent C&C?
No, because a lot of people these days don't really care, I think. Not all, mind you, so don't flip your lid and start bashing me. This is also why I don't keep journals, because if I say something even remotely offending people go flame-happy on me. Can't I express my (strong, I know..) opinion without worrying about insults? I get enough of it at school, for Pete's sake, I don't need it on the internet as well! Some people don't understand that there is an actual person behind those posts with actual feelings because computer's "de-humanize" people. I never understood how someone could put down and critisize another without even knowing the person in real life.
Uck! I cannot tell you how bad it is on one of the RPG's I'm on! There's ove..I think, 900 members and counting. More than half of them are around 13-16, but the others are adults in thier twenties. And do you know what some of those adults do? They chew out as many younger members as they could, just because they CAN. Do they get in trouble for it? Oh nooo, because they're ADULTS and it shouldn't matter that they're putting down the younger members, becase apparently WE DESERVE IT. For being young. Yup. We get flamed and bashed for no particullar reason, and when we (I did this once) speak against it the adults go "Well, you did this and blah blah blah so you're breaking the rules!" And the adults that don't, they don't get listened to. I'm sick of rude-ass, uncaring people on the internet. Main reason why I stay away from people on the net.
Anyway, to the reviews. Could you believe a review I got was just "oro?" yes. Just Oro. WTF, man? I spend six fricking hours writing a story, and I get ORO? I don't think that's an actual word! Oh, and here's my favorite! "nice fic, but can't you write something more unique? like angst or something" oh yes, and I suppose YOU can spend three extra seconds to tell me what you actually liked about my stories? I'm the one writing them. I'm the one who gets to decide what genre they will be, so if you don't like them QUIT READING THEM. It's not going to change because some people get tired of it. My main genre of writing is "fluff" (not romance, uck) because I don't want to write about depressed people, because I'm already surrounded by them! I'm surprised I'm not suicidal myself, because with all the moping and whining I hear, anyone would be tempted to blow their brains out, I bet!
I love writing, really I do. Sometimes that's enough for people to be satisfied, is just writing. But I'm not one of those people. I want to know if people enjoy what I write, I need encouragement to continue or do you know what happens? I give up. I get tired with it and I simply don't want to continue. And I don't want that, but sometimes I can't encourage myself to keep going. So I want to know what other people thing to keep writing.
Ooh, and don't get me started on my art! I spend more time on my art than on my writing, I take more thought into what I want to draw than what I write. On average I spend an hour simply sketching, another 2 hours fixing the sketch, and another 4-6 hours coloring it on Photoshop. I spend eleven hours of the day with my drawings, while I spend half of that on my writing. I don't know which is worse, getting useless reviews for my writing or no comments at all for my drawing. I post them at over 6 different websites with MORE than enough people to offer C&C.
Well, whatever right? It's their loss, because the more encouragement I get, the more I do. I know the number of fanfiction and drawings I have online would be doubled, if only people would take the time and tell me if they liked it; and even if they DIDN'T like it, and how I could improve on it. We'll see, I guess. Although, after 4 years I'm starting to doubt I can wait any longer.
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
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Meh, just dropping by to dump some of my old and inhumanly ugly icons I made a few months ago. More info under the cut.
Crappy teasers:
 
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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As I've been meaning to, I'm posting a little oneshot (and a "mini" icon) challenge for those who'd like to take it. There's two themes and you may include both or just one in your oneshot.
You don't have to do both the oneshot and icon challenge. I put the little icon challenge in for those who don't really write, so there's at least something else there. So here's my first oneshot/icon challenge, and I hope it's successful. If not then I'll just forget about challenges but seriously, even a tiny drabble, poem, 100 word fic would make me very happy. I'll definately review it if you do!
Oneshot challenge #1 Theme 1: Marriage Theme 2: Secrets (any kind) Main pair: SouMi. Must include at least one: 1: Apple juice 2: Something pink 3: Ribbons 4: A diary What’s a oneshot? A oneshot is a one-chapter fanfiction, varied in lengths and usually has one theme. For me, oneshots are much easier to write since they don’t need to be updated, and I can just write about anything I want. It can take place whenever I want, I can make it as short or long as I want, etc. I encourage you to take the challenge simply because they’re so easy to write. Just have fun with it! If you would like to take this challenge, just reply to this post. When you’re finished simply post it under an LJ-cut. If you have an account on ff.net, please put it up on there too, one more SouMi fic wouldn’t hurt. However, if the rating is NC-17 you can only post it on your journal. When you do (all challenges must be posted either on ff.net or here, we’d all like to read it =) ) The oneshot is due at the end of the month, but you may post it sooner if you like. Icon challenge #1 Theme 1: Loneliness Theme 2: Happiness You may make more than 1 icon, but they either have to have Soujiro, Misao, or SouMi on it. All icons must be 100x100 and posted before or within the duedate (same as oneshot due date) The themes are simply guidelines; they don’t necessarily have to have text on them.
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
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Icons!! YAY. Took me long enough!! Well, I hope the wait was worth it for you guys. Lets hope I got it right this time. If not, oh well, they're here. More info under the cut ^^
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
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Just testing how to use an lj cut. I swear I'll actually post something soon XD
Cut?
I don't get it. What's the difference between a cut and a hyperlink?? O.o livejournal is so new to me.
In other news, I've been thinking about making this into an icon/fanfic/general blah journal. But I dunno, I'm pretty busy with my Soujiro and Misao community even though I have a grand total of ONE effing member. More people better join, I'm telling you. I'm sick of making communities and watch them die because of lazy-ass members.
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