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So after lurking for some months...
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I'm on tumblr more often now than here. DA still has a lot of bugs, and as of right now I just don't feel like playing tag with the various viruses/trojans/malware/etc on here. Stuff will still be uploaded here, but it's going to be at a slower rate now that I'm in college (which is why I've been virtually nonexistent on here).
Dunno if you yugioh guys are keeping track or not, but I do have a new series which is taking up most of my writing time - The Second Epilogue Chronicles, TSEC for short. It's a bit of a meta, and me hammering out tropes and clichés that annoy the ever-loving hell out of me. Features my OTPs, puzzle, tender, and bronze, and how most realistically they would be handled post-canon/"yamis have a body."
The ficlets aren't going to make much sense right now, until I've finished nearly all of it, because they're purposely out of order. And even if you absolutely, positively despise one of the ships, read all of it, anyway (go big or go home is really how this entire thing ought to be approached). If you like one bit because you like, say, puzzleshipping, but you can't wrap your mind around bronzeshipping - you need to read that other stuff, too, because a plot hole in one is going to be filled in another.
Poems and their general ilk will still pop up. I tend to accumulate whatever it is I write, so I can upload it in bulk - if two or three can be considered such.
Since I'm being overwhelmed with the amount of deviations I have to sort through in my inbox, a lot of people will be "demoted" to just nominally being followed - no new deviations/journals/etc. If I talk to you on some sort of regular basis, or I have a particular fondness for something you do that keeps afloat in my memory, you're golden.
Dunno if you yugioh guys are keeping track or not, but I do have a new series which is taking up most of my writing time - The Second Epilogue Chronicles, TSEC for short. It's a bit of a meta, and me hammering out tropes and clichés that annoy the ever-loving hell out of me. Features my OTPs, puzzle, tender, and bronze, and how most realistically they would be handled post-canon/"yamis have a body."
The ficlets aren't going to make much sense right now, until I've finished nearly all of it, because they're purposely out of order. And even if you absolutely, positively despise one of the ships, read all of it, anyway (go big or go home is really how this entire thing ought to be approached). If you like one bit because you like, say, puzzleshipping, but you can't wrap your mind around bronzeshipping - you need to read that other stuff, too, because a plot hole in one is going to be filled in another.
Poems and their general ilk will still pop up. I tend to accumulate whatever it is I write, so I can upload it in bulk - if two or three can be considered such.
Since I'm being overwhelmed with the amount of deviations I have to sort through in my inbox, a lot of people will be "demoted" to just nominally being followed - no new deviations/journals/etc. If I talk to you on some sort of regular basis, or I have a particular fondness for something you do that keeps afloat in my memory, you're golden.
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Tagged!
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RULES:
- No tag back!
- Tell 5 things about you!
- Answer ten questions from tagger and then make new ten questions.
- Tag 10 of your friends, after that tell them that they were tagged with link to your "GOTTA TAG'EM ALL" journal.
- Do not use "I tag everyone that read this." or kind of that on tagging your friends.
ShadowRoxanne's questions:
1. Kaiba or Yami, bitches?
You know I can't choose between them! ;A;
2. Vampires or Wizards?
Wizards.
3. You look sexy in that shirt.
Thanks!
4. If you saw me flying through the street, what would your reaction be?
Take me with you!
5. PIZZA LANDS ON YOUR HEAD. What do you do?
Flail, take the pizza off. Check if pizza and hair are still good - if pizza's good, eat it (hey, free food is free food XD). If not, cringe and clean off as best I can until I can shower.
6. You open the door and a glittering penguin wearing a thing is waiting for you.
Oh no, Thing! How'd you get on a penguin?
7. Leather or silk?
... Can I get away with saying both? (And adding some lace on somewhere, too?)
8. What's your favorite book?
ಠ_ಠ
9. Where would you travel to if you could?
Mexico.
10. Happy this is over?
Sure?
My questions!
1. Ramune?
2. Best thing to paint with?
3. Light setting?
4. Haiku or sonnet?
5. Least favourite book? (Bonus points if you don't name something like Twilight.)
6. Thoughts on stroganoff?
7. Can you sew?
8. Do you like typing on the computer to compose, or writing?
9. Superwholockian?
10. Most recent movie you've watched?
- No tag back!
- Tell 5 things about you!
- Answer ten questions from tagger and then make new ten questions.
- Tag 10 of your friends, after that tell them that they were tagged with link to your "GOTTA TAG'EM ALL" journal.
- Do not use "I tag everyone that read this." or kind of that on tagging your friends.
ShadowRoxanne's questions:
1. Kaiba or Yami, bitches?
You know I can't choose between them! ;A;
2. Vampires or Wizards?
Wizards.
3. You look sexy in that shirt.
Thanks!
4. If you saw me flying through the street, what would your reaction be?
Take me with you!
5. PIZZA LANDS ON YOUR HEAD. What do you do?
Flail, take the pizza off. Check if pizza and hair are still good - if pizza's good, eat it (hey, free food is free food XD). If not, cringe and clean off as best I can until I can shower.
6. You open the door and a glittering penguin wearing a thing is waiting for you.
Oh no, Thing! How'd you get on a penguin?
7. Leather or silk?
... Can I get away with saying both? (And adding some lace on somewhere, too?)
8. What's your favorite book?
ಠ_ಠ
9. Where would you travel to if you could?
Mexico.
10. Happy this is over?
Sure?
My questions!
1. Ramune?
2. Best thing to paint with?
3. Light setting?
4. Haiku or sonnet?
5. Least favourite book? (Bonus points if you don't name something like Twilight.)
6. Thoughts on stroganoff?
7. Can you sew?
8. Do you like typing on the computer to compose, or writing?
9. Superwholockian?
10. Most recent movie you've watched?
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On Japan and Guns
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Sometimes I have to wonder if I'm ever going to learn a foreign culture correctly. 
A few days after I post Thrice Be Damned, I find this article from tumblr. It had completely escaped my mind how anal Japan is on what people are allowed to have (though they practically have vending machines that spit out babies) when I was writing it, and the entire story has me cringing.
Having a community you identify with is great, yes. A lot of people are forgetting where they come from, and that results in some pretty ugly things.
But.
I just watched Equilibrium an hour ago, and reading something like that makes me want to never visit Japan. (Though I'm thinking that might be in part due to the fact that I am an American, and my view is biased. It's a little hard to tell.)
A few days after I post Thrice Be Damned, I find this article from tumblr. It had completely escaped my mind how anal Japan is on what people are allowed to have (though they practically have vending machines that spit out babies) when I was writing it, and the entire story has me cringing.
Additionally, Japan's tight, conformist social culture does an excellent job of keeping citizens out of crime in the first place. As the head of Tokyo's Police Department explains, "A man who commits a crime will bring dishonor to his family and his village, so he will think twice about disgracing them."
Having lived together for several thousand years without significant immigration, the Japanese have developed the world's most homogenous and unified society. America's ethnic diversity causes tensions and crime, as the first or second generations of immigrants sometimes have difficulty adjusting to American ways.
Having a community you identify with is great, yes. A lot of people are forgetting where they come from, and that results in some pretty ugly things.
But.
I just watched Equilibrium an hour ago, and reading something like that makes me want to never visit Japan. (Though I'm thinking that might be in part due to the fact that I am an American, and my view is biased. It's a little hard to tell.)
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On Japan and Perfumes
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www.chandlerburr.com/articles/…
Chandler Burr is a famous writer about different types of perfumes and their components (though apparently somewhat biased in his opinion on said perfumes). I had run out of ideas on how to describe a smell, and the fact that someone wrote an article on an entire culture and how they use perfumes is fascinating.
(After some skulking about on the internet, I found out that the older a person is, the more likely they are to adhere to traditional scents according to either geography or culture/upbringing. The younger generations seem to loathe such a concept, and frequently sample different perfumes.)
Chandler Burr is a famous writer about different types of perfumes and their components (though apparently somewhat biased in his opinion on said perfumes). I had run out of ideas on how to describe a smell, and the fact that someone wrote an article on an entire culture and how they use perfumes is fascinating.
(After some skulking about on the internet, I found out that the older a person is, the more likely they are to adhere to traditional scents according to either geography or culture/upbringing. The younger generations seem to loathe such a concept, and frequently sample different perfumes.)
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