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NOTE: If you're looking for my fanfiction, you won't find it here. I share a writing blog with kaiousei at prolific_geeks.

Holy crap, I can't believe I hated 'Sam's Town' so much the first time I heard it. This is an amazing album. o__O It took Bling (Confessions of a King) (holycrap this song is so awesome how did it not warrant a music video wtfffff?) to change my mind, but I think this might be one of the most listenable albums I know of. Like, up there with 'Mechanical Animals', 'Born to Run' and 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy' and... and... 'Bat Out of Hell'. And speaking of 'Born to Run' am I hearing things, or is The Killers new sound TOTALLY Bruce Springsteen-esque?

Now that I've revealed my totally lame musical taste, I need to know: guys? Are The Killers still popular? Because they should be.

52034 / 137700 words. 37% done!

I'm falling behind due to insomnia/depression. I spent the night in the emergency room the other day because my kidneys were all: "WTF BANG BANG BANG" only it wasn't actually my kidneys, it was just my back pain seeping into other parts of my body. Or so the doctors said; my left side still hurts like a bitch, but they didn't find any traces of infection in my OMG URINE SAMPLE, so I'm going to trust that none of my important organs are failing. I'm still kind of embarrassed- the only thing a hypochondriac fears more than dying of something really inexplicable and obscure is wasting a doctor's time over nothing. The ER tenure satisfied Becca, however, who I think was seeking revenge for all those times I made her go to the hospital BECAUSE HER INSIDES EXPLODED. *eyeroll* I adore that girl. Really. :P

Nick showed up at my door the other day with a bag containing the following things: Persona 4, Tales of Vesperia and a WoW timecard. APPARENTLY HE NEVER WANTS ME TO FINISH WRITING THIS STUPID BOOK. But on that note:


This only took me seven months and three servers.

WoW is bad for my creativity not because I play it too much (much the opposite, if my level indicates anything ha ha) but because I get a little too into the head of my character and then all I want to do is write about her. Curse you, Wyrmrest Accord's Amazing RP Community! I was gone for three months and yet I got innumerable /waves and "welcome back!"s running through Stormwind on a shopping trip today- a lot from people I barely know! Seriously, if not for this server I'd probably hate the game.

Lilifred Bartleby Bumblehurst. Mercenary. Politician. Alcoholic. Failure.

I'm going to miss The Guild With Name Pending quite a bit, but I'm- far as I've gathered- the first gnome in my new guild, which is something kind of fun in itself I guess oh god they're going to eat me alive.

I'll miss [GWNP] forever. D: We were puerile and immature as a FAMILY.

BLAH BLAH BLAH I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT MY LAME RP. I'M NOT COOL ENOUGH TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR CRAZY MULTI-FANDOM LJ THINGAMERS OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU KIDS DO THESE DAYS. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT WHEN I USED TO TEXT RP ON EZBOARD! *shakes old person stick*

Thoughts on Persona 4 coming soon (beyond: SHINY SHINY SHINY). Also, thoughts on why I passionately hate my favourite literary genre (Fantasy). Because oh boy, do I hate Fantasy books. I hate them as much as a Star Wars fan hates Star Wars.

But I love A Song of Ice and Fire. *sparkles* Why did no one force this series down my throat earlier? For srs!

Look, I appear to get worked up about a lot of things but there's only this one thing I'm really passionate about, right?

I'm a good little lefty and I pretend like I see all sides of the argument like we well-behaved, educated Liberals should. I tear Michael Moore a new one for his sensationalism and fact-stretching and I say that "crazy" Lefties are just as bad as "crazy" conservatives. I have that weary cynicism about young people and their "competitive", "loopy" and "unrealistic" lefty attitudes that are obviously put on so that they can impress others with how edgy and progressive they are.

But ok, y'know.

When the protests began in Iran I was chewing my lip nervously. I've never been in the position where I've had to fear my government and so I cannot fathom the bravery it would take to speak and act out against a fundamentalist dictatorship (even though I know I know I know the government really only has as much power as people are willing to give it). I was more terrified for them than truly cognizant of what was happening. A day or two after they started I asked my mother if she'd heard about them and she just pumped her fist excitedly and said: "Yes. Isn't it amazing!"



This shit gives me hope, guys. It should give all of us hope. Look at all those people- we can't even hope to fathom how utterly, how stunningly, how amazingly brave these people are and every single one of them is marching for their fellow Iranians as much as they are marching for themselves. A dictatorship by definition thrives by offering a better deal to self-serving individuals- the men in that crowd aren't just marching because they want media reform, they're marching for the stifled rights of their sisters/mothers/wives/daughters as well.

Look, I'll admit it: what we currently (in Western discourse, I mean) define as "Right Wing" politics are an amalgamation of backwards, selfish, unsustainable ideas that stagnant ever more year by year. A political spectrum does not mean we should hold on to ideas and methods forever, otherwise we'd still be defining conservatism as monarchy or some stupid shit like that. Modern "conservatism" is a cancer and I just can't politely nod along and grant it any sort of legitimacy like I used too. I have a gut feeling that it only experienced/is experiencing a renaissance because it's in the beginning stages of some pretty epic Death Throes.

Fuck being a "reasonable" Liberal- I won't lie: I'm happy I'll be alive to witness that particular passing.

Brave protesters, thank you for proving the better aspects of human nature that we- in our leisure and comfort- often discount and forget.

♥

So.

The new interim President of Mount St. Vincent University....?

................................

ALEXA MCDONOUGH!

Fuck yeah.

For those of you who have no idea wtf I'm talking about or why it's so FREAKING AWESOME:

1. Mount St. Vincent is the post-secondary institution I attend. It has an extensive and groundbreaking women's studies program, unique courses and is widely known for it's arts program. Our student body is something like 80% women- a lot of girls make the decision to come to the Mount because of its women's programs even if they never intend to take those classes. The school is small for a University, fostering a very non-corporate, personal feel.

2. Our most recent school President was attempting to make the Mount into a cash cow, essentially, focusing on things like our newish PR program, cutting back on the arts and attempting to axe the Women's Studies Major without even informing the student body properly. The program was essentially single-handedly saved by a friend of mine who went to the local newspaper about the issue. Once there was press surrounding it, the President was less willing to slash back such an important program. So, now she's gone and we have Alexa.

3. ALEXA MCDONOUGH is freaking AWESOME. She's a retired politician; former leader of both the Provincial and then the Federal NDP. She... pretty much saved the New Democratic party (which was holding less than ten chairs in Parliament before she got in power) and made the party attractive to the Atlantic provinces.

4. I am now less worried about my University spontaneously morphing into a technical college over the next decade. :D

Apparently this summer is all about making a million icons out of series only 1% of my flist knows or cares about! :D :D :D

47 Icons, ElfQuest



( Here we stand in a world not our own; Skywise from the sky and me from my home... )

So I wasted a bunch of time re-reading pretty much all of ElfQuest that's worth reading aaaand- I finally got my hands on that album of ElfQuest music WaRP put out, like, forever ago (can something be official "filk"?).

In summation, the internet is a wonderful thing and as I have illegally downloaded this shiny bit of fandom so I will illegally share it with you, flist. The few of you who have actually read EQ, that is. :P

MUSIC DOWNLOAD POST! Accompanied by a "shit, this is the best comic ever" song-relevant pic spam!

( If I ran to the sun, would you still follow me? )

I have a dreamwidth account now (thanks, hyujin!)

I doubt I'll do anything with it expect post/talk about writing, but my "access" list over there is feeling a little lonely. XD

So I should totally be writing but but but but...

ALL OF ELFQUEST. ONLINE. FOR FREE.

*reads Kings of the Broken Wheel*
*reads the Shards arc*
*reads In All But Blood*
*READS EVERYTHING*

Just copy and paste the following into your webpage:

28,238 / 150,000 (18.8%)

So, like everyone else on livejournal I've been spending the past week reading through the comments on cereta's post on men and rape. Eventually, I stumbled across this shockingly, horrifically, incredibly wrong minded post on how modest dress does indeed prevent rape and I just stared wide eyed and boggled and now I need to get out my thoughts about a bit of a conundrum I've been thinking about lately in regards to this issue.

( Cut for discussion of rape culture and a somewhat ambiguous question... )

I'm really embarassing when I'm drunk. But I digress:

I love you Lici.

I love you Leslie.

I love you Rebecca.

Wherever life takes us, you are my "girls" now and forever.

I'M NOT USUALLY THE KIND OF PERSON WHO SAYS DUMB SHIT LIKE THAT BUT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THE TRIAL OF FIRE TOGETHER

I MEAN

THAT'S NOT EVEN A METAPHOR.

THAT'S HOW AWESOME WE ARE.

♥

*fail fail fail*

The correct answer, of course, is that I am JENNIFER YOUNG. However, this was a fun quiz (and my result is eerily accurate. Although I like to think that I am funnier than this guy).

( So...? )

17,448 / 150,000 (11.6%)

From abyss_of_colors.

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their Livejournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had at the moment, not what you want to show people.

( 'What are you doing?' '... cheating at chess. Is it working?' )

02. This background is a commission I had done at Animaritime back in March by a very charming and ridiculously talented young girl named Gabby. It's a beautiful drawing that perfectly captures the characters. And it's beautiful. And she draws my own character better than I do. T__T Also, it's beautiful. And kind of hot I dunno.

On an Unrelated Note: It's not that I dislike FFVIII (I certainly like it more now than I did when I was younger), but this guy's ongoing "review" of the game has had me in stitches all day.

12,052 / 150,000 (8.0%)

And yet I'm only a little over two chapters in. T__T

I'm all settled. No more excuses. Starting today, I am going to clock MINIMUM 1,700 words on my novel a day with one amnesty day a week. If I keep this up, it'll amount to roughly 150,000 words by the time I go back to school.

*crosses fingers*

I'd say wish me luck, but luck's not going to help me. I just have to buckle down and do it.

2,990 / 150,000 (2.0%)

So a_white_rain and I are both posting our top ten favourite Disney songs. Let's make a meme of it! :D

Almost all of these are from the 90's so perhaps it should more accurately be called: Cephied's top ten favourite Alan Menken tunes. *cough* I'm limiting myself to one song per movie to prevent this list from being 75% Hunchback of Notre Dame and 25% Lion King spin off album.

( Youtube videos and a lot of text underneath. I'm kind of passionate about my nostalgia. Also, I am a huge nerd about music. )

I've almost finished my frantic addiction-speed watching of Babylon 5. So, for the, like, three of you who have also watched it (or those of you who just like listening to me ramble about cheesy, early 90's sci-fi)... another "ILLUSTRATED" SUMMARY along with commentary, mostly re: early season 4.



( Understanding is a three edged sword- your side, their side and the truth... )

I made a post to the...

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

- yesterday. Pimping it out again because as much as I'm "ehhh" about Anonymous memes, I'm more curious what people think about my writing. ^__^

So tomorrow we're going to file against our former landlord with the tenancy board. I'm pretty confident that he's going down: Crystal is going to testify, my mother has pictures of the condition we left the apartment in and I've been learning the Tenancy Act inside and out. I'm all doin' that thing Viggo Mortensen did in Eastern Promises where he was like: "I'm makin' a horizontal peace sign at my neck and then I'm all makin' it at you indicating that you are gon' be dead or something. Russian Style." Yeah. That.

Anyways, I'm halfway through season three of Babylon 5. It's, uh, pretty excellent. It's been a very long time since I've rushed through a show just for the pure joy of watching it (the last few times I've tried to watch anything I've mostly been *forcing* it for, I dunno. Fandom participation reasons?).

I just watched Sic Transit Vir (the one where Londo tried to marry Vir off to that crazy bitch. And then Vir was awesome). I have lots of thoughts on the awesomeness of this series, but I'd rather express my love with google images and stupid captions.

( DO YOU LIEK MAH FANCY BROACH? )

RE REAL LIFE: I think our old Landlord is going to take us to the tenancy board. But he's lying his pants off under the assumption that we're young and naive and have no clue wtf is going on. Lol for him- I'm pretty sure our case is fantastic and we are going to clean his clock. :D :D :D

RE NOT REAL LIFE: In a twist of beautiful irony, I finally got WoW working again and now find myself too distracted by other things to even play. I've been dicking around with RPG Maker VX (not as pretty as XP, but easier to use) and finally, finally, finally watching...

.... Babylon 5.

So here's the thing about me- I think maybe I judge science fiction television series based entirely on production values: the nicer the show looks, the less likely I am to enjoy it. I mean, I hate the new Battlestar Galactica with the passion of a thousand slowly expanding supernovas because I can't forgive it its American chauvinism and its initially flaccid characterization and the utterly pretentious, straight-faced manner in which Ronald D. Moore takes it all way too fucking seriously but I guess if you made the CGI look horrendous and hired some worse actors and bought lots of smoke machines and tossed a few fabulous purple jackets in there I'd be sold on BSG because hey: I am freaking LOVING Babylon 5 and it does most of the same things wrong. The future is just like America! Most of the humans are boring until well into season one (Talia and the doctor have yet to grow on me and I dislike Sheridan more every episode he's in). And J. Michael Straczynski might just be the more pretentious sci-fi writer of the two.

This holds true with Star Trek as well. Undeniably, Enterprise was the nicest looking of the bunch but, uh. Y'know. FUCK Enterprise you sexist, purile, unimaginative, hackneyed waste of Scott Bakula and the Trek name :D :D :D :D :D.

So in conclusion I am unnervingly shallow but if you like Babylon 5 you should talk to me about it (annwyd?) because I am so, so, so late on catching this particular train and am rather astonished that it's taken me so long (maybe it was a bit of the stubborn DS9 fan in me; I can't count how many times I've been told that my love of DS9 is stupid because B5 exists. Uh, wat?).

Also, I think I ship it because, y'know, I'm gross. I'm not sure how serious I am about that statement, I just grin and grin and grin every time these two have a scene together but I'm fairly certain that the draw of their relationship is half text half them being the only two actors on the show who I'm comfortable actually calling "talented".

Uh, that being said I'm off to watch more *cough*.

I went into this movie quite literally not expecting anything. My mother was practically bouncing on her feet from nervous anticipation and I was just like: "Eh, I'm more excited about going to Kinko's and printing off art to put on my wall."

BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT-

( Star Trek )

Yay, I've got internet back!

Still no WoW unfortunately (Nick informs me that the Guild has gotten a little quiet in my absence which is kind of making me nervous. Jenn/Lilifred: worst Guild Mistress ever, Y/Y?), but I now know definitively that it is the patch that fucked it up. :P

Anyways, free gaming time is always good free time: Cat (in her infinite generosity and awesomeness) gave me her extra (mint condition!!!) copy of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue which I've been marathoning like a twelve year old with no responsibilities for the last few days (I got to the final dungeon and took a break (I AM SO TOTALLY LOOKING FORWARDS TO DOING THAT RIDICULOUSLY BRUTAL FINAL BOSS BATTLE AGAIN. OH YES). I've sort of endeavored to spend my summer writing a book replaying awesome PS1 RPGs because new games suck.

Okay, maybe that's not completely fair but y'know, it has been a long freaking time since I've been truly and utterly floored by a game. I've been wondering the past few years if being completely bowled over in adoration and wonderment for a game is an ability that we lose as we get older. This has not happened to me in any other form of media: I can still hear a song, see a movie or read a book that moves me, puts a sparkle in my eye, carves out a special punch-shaped place in my heart but as far as games go there's a ton that I love and I play at least one fantastic title a year but in the end, nothing will ever compare to Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Lunar: The Silver Star Story. No games have made me feel as strongly as these three did back when I was a wee lass in elementary school (Xenogears came close, but our affair was an intellectual one at heart). Every time I hear the FF theme against that sort of pinkish, half-lit background, every time I catch the opening notes of The Best is Yet to Come, every time I start randomly humming that damn "La la la" song I'm all...

... actually, I don't know what I'm all like. All I know is that the time I've wasted replaying these three relics of the 32-bit era could have been used to beat any number of newer games which I've been told are equally amazing. I guess my point is this: have the rest of you experienced this odd phenomenon with gaming? I've noticed that games are developing into a rather rigidly generational thing- oh, we'll play the new games but 16-bit kids will never budge from their A Link to the Past and their Chrono Trigger and their Super Metroid and I often find myself grumbling the same rhetoric regarding the PS1/N64-era ("RPGs suck now! What are you talking about, OF COURSE Goldeneye is better than Halo! Like, DUH! Pfft.") I'm like my father who stupidly maintains that good music stopped being produced after 1979 (the year her turned nineteen :P).

UH. WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT IS THIS: I'm sick of blogging about my stressful life so over the next week or so I'm going to make nostalgic gaming posts about how the Playstation was the best thing that ever happened to RPGs. Starting with, of course, the games I'm currently knee-deep in replaying: the Lunar remakes.

( I can't say no to a game with Disney-esque musical number smack in the middle of the action! Videos and a million icons likely only Cat will care about under the cut... )

NEXT: Star Ocean: The Second Story (or, the only RPG I own that I've never beaten o_O)

EDIT: OH, FLIST! I must know- what are *your* games: y'know the few games that you can replay over and over and over again and never get sick of? The games that set your expectations for every game to follow? Are you lot just WAY LESS passionate about video games than I am? Uh. Yeah.