Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
Jul. 21st, 2011 11:39 amI suppose I should start at the beginning: This week, I managed to finish a online TEFL course that I had done with the company i-to-i, after months of dithering and procrastination. Only a few days later and I find out that the TEFL dispatch company that i-to-i works with as a job placement service has been indulging in quite a few illegal practices, including being found guilty of illegal dispatching in both Tokyo and Osaka.
I went on a chat room (well, it's a MUSH, which is kind of like a MUD except not) that I usually frequent yesterday, and I mentioned this. Now this same chat room, in previous occasions, railed me for my interest in Japanese culture and food, in a way which I can't really seem to understand. Are they really annoyed about my liking for Japanese culture? Well, when I talked about TEFL today, I got people telling me I was better off not going to Japan because I'm apparently such a weeaboo that I would repel them:
"pretty much all the outfits there do not have much respect for those they bring over."
"also, weeaboo thing. Weeding you out would be about as easy as that part in Roger Rabbit where the judge lured Roger out by tapping the first bit of 'shave and a haircut.' 'cept in your case it'd be Yapapa or something. You wouldn't make the first round of cuts."
"They do filter on anime/manga types, because there is a notorious stereotype about these people going to japan to teach english, fucking off on the job because they were there for anime and not actually to teach as primary reason to be in Japan, and end up not respecting their time tables, getting fed up because they didn't get to live near Tokyo/Akiba, etc."
"You are comparing your experience so far with JET programs as being someone who visited disney land fo ra week, not realizing that the people operating the rides for you are all college students wearing Depends because their A: their bathroom's a good 20 minutes walk about B: they have a 10 minute break every 4 hours to use it. FURTHER that person operating the ride had to compete with OTHER college students to even get into thata position that pays so little they're living in the slums an hour away from the magical kingdom, and will happily fire someone the moment god forbid walking around in dirty daipers gives them a raging case of e. coli, because omg such valuable internship opportunity! Incidently, this is an internship opportunity Disney Corp basically sat each and every person down during the prelims BEFORE the actual interviews and said 'do you own more than one Disney video' and rejected everyone, without a second thought, who said 'yes'.
Visiting and living/teaching there are NOT the same."
This is especially ironic that they would damn the Japanese like this, considering that most of the other people in this chat room were taking the names of either anime characters, or characters from Japanese games...
I have no idea what kind of idea warrants this: apparently according to this one person, the very idea that a foreigner would be interested in Japanese things makes them automatically repellent to them, and that the Japanese workplace is apparently going to be inhospitable to me just because I'm foreign. One of the people reccomended teaching in South Korea instead of Japan, even though I read an anecdote that suggests that South Korea's working conditions for English teachers are even worse than Japan's.
I don't know what I've done to suggest to these people that I'm some daydreaming idiot who believes that Japan is the greatest country in the world, or that I have no idea how the world works, but it seems that whenever I talk about anything Japanese that isn't say, playing a video game or watching a movie, I get these people coming down on my head and calling me a weeaboo or a Japanophile and hectoring me.
"Okay. here's the thing. Jet programs/ ran by conservative old guys and constantly being flooded with applications. I know, in your absolutely mind boggling view of the world, that there's nothing wrong iwth being a jawdroppingly dense weeaboo of epic proportions, but they odn't LIKE people like that in japan. they really don't~ It'd be like someone wanting to come to the US for a love of what used to be saturday morning cartoons. Only really, really obsessive and frightning about it. to the point where they can't picture life without their scooby doo pajapamas. So. In a field of applicants of well adjusted college students, a good number of them who just want to teach, and others who actually give a shit about Japan other than their anime and anime culture -- yeah, the weeaboos get doors slammed in their faces.
You are RANK with weeaboo and patheticness. You're competing with people who actually want to do shit with their lives other than curl up in a basement somewhere and watch anime until the rest of the world goes away. You do not stand a chance in hell."
I can see why it pays to have no illusions about whatever foreign country or culture that you're interested in. But most of the time, it seems that I only get people who would prefer people who just endlessly complain about the Japanese, or point their fingers at them and go "HEY EVERYBODY, LET'S ALL LAUGH AT THOSE LOSERS!"
Maybe this view is a little bit black and white, but I do not like being insulted for liking Japanese culture or being the victim of prejudice, just because it is what it is: an interest in a foreign culture.
I went on a chat room (well, it's a MUSH, which is kind of like a MUD except not) that I usually frequent yesterday, and I mentioned this. Now this same chat room, in previous occasions, railed me for my interest in Japanese culture and food, in a way which I can't really seem to understand. Are they really annoyed about my liking for Japanese culture? Well, when I talked about TEFL today, I got people telling me I was better off not going to Japan because I'm apparently such a weeaboo that I would repel them:
"pretty much all the outfits there do not have much respect for those they bring over."
"also, weeaboo thing. Weeding you out would be about as easy as that part in Roger Rabbit where the judge lured Roger out by tapping the first bit of 'shave and a haircut.' 'cept in your case it'd be Yapapa or something. You wouldn't make the first round of cuts."
"They do filter on anime/manga types, because there is a notorious stereotype about these people going to japan to teach english, fucking off on the job because they were there for anime and not actually to teach as primary reason to be in Japan, and end up not respecting their time tables, getting fed up because they didn't get to live near Tokyo/Akiba, etc."
"You are comparing your experience so far with JET programs as being someone who visited disney land fo ra week, not realizing that the people operating the rides for you are all college students wearing Depends because their A: their bathroom's a good 20 minutes walk about B: they have a 10 minute break every 4 hours to use it. FURTHER that person operating the ride had to compete with OTHER college students to even get into thata position that pays so little they're living in the slums an hour away from the magical kingdom, and will happily fire someone the moment god forbid walking around in dirty daipers gives them a raging case of e. coli, because omg such valuable internship opportunity! Incidently, this is an internship opportunity Disney Corp basically sat each and every person down during the prelims BEFORE the actual interviews and said 'do you own more than one Disney video' and rejected everyone, without a second thought, who said 'yes'.
Visiting and living/teaching there are NOT the same."
This is especially ironic that they would damn the Japanese like this, considering that most of the other people in this chat room were taking the names of either anime characters, or characters from Japanese games...
I have no idea what kind of idea warrants this: apparently according to this one person, the very idea that a foreigner would be interested in Japanese things makes them automatically repellent to them, and that the Japanese workplace is apparently going to be inhospitable to me just because I'm foreign. One of the people reccomended teaching in South Korea instead of Japan, even though I read an anecdote that suggests that South Korea's working conditions for English teachers are even worse than Japan's.
I don't know what I've done to suggest to these people that I'm some daydreaming idiot who believes that Japan is the greatest country in the world, or that I have no idea how the world works, but it seems that whenever I talk about anything Japanese that isn't say, playing a video game or watching a movie, I get these people coming down on my head and calling me a weeaboo or a Japanophile and hectoring me.
"Okay. here's the thing. Jet programs/ ran by conservative old guys and constantly being flooded with applications. I know, in your absolutely mind boggling view of the world, that there's nothing wrong iwth being a jawdroppingly dense weeaboo of epic proportions, but they odn't LIKE people like that in japan. they really don't~ It'd be like someone wanting to come to the US for a love of what used to be saturday morning cartoons. Only really, really obsessive and frightning about it. to the point where they can't picture life without their scooby doo pajapamas. So. In a field of applicants of well adjusted college students, a good number of them who just want to teach, and others who actually give a shit about Japan other than their anime and anime culture -- yeah, the weeaboos get doors slammed in their faces.
You are RANK with weeaboo and patheticness. You're competing with people who actually want to do shit with their lives other than curl up in a basement somewhere and watch anime until the rest of the world goes away. You do not stand a chance in hell."
I can see why it pays to have no illusions about whatever foreign country or culture that you're interested in. But most of the time, it seems that I only get people who would prefer people who just endlessly complain about the Japanese, or point their fingers at them and go "HEY EVERYBODY, LET'S ALL LAUGH AT THOSE LOSERS!"
Maybe this view is a little bit black and white, but I do not like being insulted for liking Japanese culture or being the victim of prejudice, just because it is what it is: an interest in a foreign culture.
Things I think about
May. 5th, 2011 08:46 pmWhen it comes to Urusei Yatsura, I think I've said enough that I don't really know if I need to say that my OTP is Ryuunosuke/Shinobu. While I, being the big Ryuunosuke fan that I am, often also pair her with other characters (one of my fanfics that I'm having trouble actually sitting down and writing is a Ryuunosuke/Lum story), most of the time it's with Shinobu. The thing is, that Ryuunosuke and Shinobu have their own love interests at the end of the manga, and no matter how I should feel about the situation, that I should hate Nagisa and Inaba for driving a wedge between these two, I can't really bring myself to do it. I guess all my character hate is either subsumed into other characters, like Ryuunosuke's father, or if I'm just not bothered with hating fictional characters any more, unless they're extremely annoying.
On another note, ( I think I've managed to put an end to my credit card troubles... )
On another note, ( I think I've managed to put an end to my credit card troubles... )
NEW FANFICTION!
This Is The Key To Victory! My own personal attempt at long form serialised Urusei Yatsura fanfiction, updated whenever I get the will to write something. It's slightly inspired by a certain Ranma 1/2 fanfic, which posited the idea of what the series might have been like if Ranma and Akane started off on better terms than they did in canon. So my version is basically "What if Lum faced Ryuunosuke in the Tag Race, and subsequently got herself engaged to her?"
Just as a rule of thumb as to where I'm going for this, I've taken inspiration from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skye on the idea of Ryuunosuke being asexual, and I'm running with it, making her a romantic asexual who falls in love with Lum (and gains her own minor harem, but that's a horse of a different colour). The problem is, I haven't get any idea how to write an asexual. If there are romantic asexuals, who would you write them falling in love? Would you be able to write them falling in love, without compromising the idea that they're asexual?
Another thing: Fred Herriot, writer of Urusei Yatsura The Senior Year, just wrote a review for it: "LOL! Poor Ryû-chan! Will Lum EVER get a clue?"
Yeeeeah...
Which reminds me to maybe start planning out my idea for the big "critical analysis of The Senior Year" thing that's been festering in the back of my mind since I seriously started trying to read that fanfic...
This Is The Key To Victory! My own personal attempt at long form serialised Urusei Yatsura fanfiction, updated whenever I get the will to write something. It's slightly inspired by a certain Ranma 1/2 fanfic, which posited the idea of what the series might have been like if Ranma and Akane started off on better terms than they did in canon. So my version is basically "What if Lum faced Ryuunosuke in the Tag Race, and subsequently got herself engaged to her?"
Just as a rule of thumb as to where I'm going for this, I've taken inspiration from
skye on the idea of Ryuunosuke being asexual, and I'm running with it, making her a romantic asexual who falls in love with Lum (and gains her own minor harem, but that's a horse of a different colour). The problem is, I haven't get any idea how to write an asexual. If there are romantic asexuals, who would you write them falling in love? Would you be able to write them falling in love, without compromising the idea that they're asexual?Another thing: Fred Herriot, writer of Urusei Yatsura The Senior Year, just wrote a review for it: "LOL! Poor Ryû-chan! Will Lum EVER get a clue?"
Yeeeeah...
Which reminds me to maybe start planning out my idea for the big "critical analysis of The Senior Year" thing that's been festering in the back of my mind since I seriously started trying to read that fanfic...
Resolutions for the new year
Jan. 2nd, 2011 01:11 am- Try to save more money, and not spend so much.
- Work more on my writing, including starting an analysis of the Senior Year.
- Learn to draw.
- Work on my ideas for computer games.
- Learn a programming language.
- Try to eat less delivered Pizza.
- Try to get a girlfriend.
- Look for a job.
So I watched Gas-s-s-s...
Dec. 28th, 2010 04:11 pmAlso known as Gas! or It Became Necessary To Destroy The World In Order To Save It.
I think there is one scene in this movie that perfectly encapsulates the feeling that this film engenders within myself.
Early on in the film, the two lead protagonists leave Dallas to roam, and every other scene there is a shot of roadside signs reading "VISIT THE ORACLE, FIND THE ANSWER". As these signs keep cropping up throughout the movie, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that these guys are making their merry way to find this Oracle, and the answer it provides, meeting weird people and getting involved in strange situations.
About an hour into the film, our heroes find the Oracle. Or, to be more exact, a massive message scrawled on one of the biggest rocks: THERE IS NO ANSWER BUT KEEP LOOKING -- THE ORACLE.
A long excursion with some kind of a point that turns out to be utterly worthless. That is Gas-s-s-s in a nutshell.
( But wait! There's more! )
I think there is one scene in this movie that perfectly encapsulates the feeling that this film engenders within myself.
Early on in the film, the two lead protagonists leave Dallas to roam, and every other scene there is a shot of roadside signs reading "VISIT THE ORACLE, FIND THE ANSWER". As these signs keep cropping up throughout the movie, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that these guys are making their merry way to find this Oracle, and the answer it provides, meeting weird people and getting involved in strange situations.
About an hour into the film, our heroes find the Oracle. Or, to be more exact, a massive message scrawled on one of the biggest rocks: THERE IS NO ANSWER BUT KEEP LOOKING -- THE ORACLE.
A long excursion with some kind of a point that turns out to be utterly worthless. That is Gas-s-s-s in a nutshell.
( But wait! There's more! )
So, there's something left...
Nov. 16th, 2010 07:22 pmI suppose that the first thing that I should talk about is Nanowrimo. Specifically, that I am participating. It's actually been a lot easier on me than I had thought, mostly because I am also in November's One Month Challenge at 750words.com, which means that I pretty much have to write at least 750 words every day. I was hoping that the site would have had a feature that was mentioned in their blog, where they told you when you reached the Nanowrimo daily average of 1667 words.
However, it hasn't stopped me in the slightest: I now have 32,845 words, which means that I'm almost over half the way to the word count target. The problem is, who do I show it to when I'm finished. It's an Urusei Yatsura fanfic, but it's more like the fanfic to a bloated crossover of UY, Ikkitousen, Ranma 1/2, Harry Potter and Stargate SG-1... And almost none of the characters in those series appear in this story at all! I suppose that anyone who has any knowledge of any of those series could have a look at it, if just to help me find errors in spelling or continuity.
In other news, I have bought the first season of Babylon 5 on DVd, and I'm currently watching through it now. Londo Mollari is already my favourite character. I'm also beginning on my Macross boxset, just to get my fill of space opera...
However, it hasn't stopped me in the slightest: I now have 32,845 words, which means that I'm almost over half the way to the word count target. The problem is, who do I show it to when I'm finished. It's an Urusei Yatsura fanfic, but it's more like the fanfic to a bloated crossover of UY, Ikkitousen, Ranma 1/2, Harry Potter and Stargate SG-1... And almost none of the characters in those series appear in this story at all! I suppose that anyone who has any knowledge of any of those series could have a look at it, if just to help me find errors in spelling or continuity.
In other news, I have bought the first season of Babylon 5 on DVd, and I'm currently watching through it now. Londo Mollari is already my favourite character. I'm also beginning on my Macross boxset, just to get my fill of space opera...
You Know What I Want To Do Right Now?
Aug. 13th, 2010 11:08 pmI really want to get a whole load of money together, seek out all of the best artists open for commissions on DeviantART, and have them draw pictures of Ryuunosuke from Urusei Yatsura... Just so I can sumbit her for an entry on WhyTheyreHot.com
It is my sincere wish that soon anime fans will only remember Urusei Yatsura for nothing but Lum, Ataru and Ryuunosuke... And Ryuunosuke's sexy self whould be ahead of the pack.
And then... I'll make people only remember Love Hina because of Motoko.
It can happen!
It is my sincere wish that soon anime fans will only remember Urusei Yatsura for nothing but Lum, Ataru and Ryuunosuke... And Ryuunosuke's sexy self whould be ahead of the pack.
And then... I'll make people only remember Love Hina because of Motoko.
It can happen!
Leaving home again
Aug. 9th, 2010 07:19 amToday's the day I'm going back to Southampton, to finish the last of my university assignments, and spend a week and a bit hanging around. While I feel some relief in being able to go back to the place I've always liked, especially as it's as far away from my grandma without having to cross an ocean, I do feel a hint of nervousness and melancholy, especially as I'm also going back to see if my friends are still around...
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Jul. 6th, 2010 10:50 pmOn the list of things I've done for fanfiction, I hardly think that trying to seek out a very mediocre magical girlfriend manga series is the worst that I've done, especially since it's a manga that is long out of print, and whose English translation was stopped before the last two volumes of the manga could be released, resulting in a manga that has no ending...
But it may rank somewhere way up there.
Frankly, considering the fact that Kurumi actually presses some of my buttons (fantastical locations, martial arts, flagrant abuse of Far Eastern and Christian symbolism, holistic magitech), I would ignore it completely. But something always seems to make me come back to it, time and again. And discovering cheap copies on the Amazone market place is a hell of a place to start.
Also hardly expected myself to be reading a Blue Beetle III/Robin III fic either...
But it may rank somewhere way up there.
Frankly, considering the fact that Kurumi actually presses some of my buttons (fantastical locations, martial arts, flagrant abuse of Far Eastern and Christian symbolism, holistic magitech), I would ignore it completely. But something always seems to make me come back to it, time and again. And discovering cheap copies on the Amazone market place is a hell of a place to start.
Also hardly expected myself to be reading a Blue Beetle III/Robin III fic either...
My Current State
Jun. 22nd, 2010 12:03 pmWell, I guess I should say something about what I've been doing for the past week.
Last week my tenancy on the house I was living in for my final year at Southampton Solent University ran out, and I had to move out of the house. I had bought a flight ticket to Tokyo months earlier, to spend a couple of months, and maybe find a job there. Sadly, it was not to be: thanks to my grandma insisting I not book anything until right before I was to leave, and my own pigheadedness, neither of us could afford accommodation in Tokyo.
And then came when I was to leave. I had booked a "Man and a Van Service", who would take me and my things, including my clothes, game consoles, TV and computer, and ship them up to my grandmother's house in Worcester for me for £125. My grandma had booked her "friends" in a local taxi service to come down to Southampton, pick up me and my computer, and drive back to Worcester for £300.
Sadly, the man and a van never came, and I found myself stuffed into a mini-bus like taxi with all belongings, and £300 poorer, followed by my grandma's living room being taken over with all my stuff.
And then I discovered the radiator in my bedroom ruptured sometime around Christmas, covered the carpet and futon with water, and basically destroyed them both with mould by the time I arrived.
Now I'm sleeping in guest houses, desperately trying to claim Jobseeker's Allowance (and having delayed, because of my grandma OF COURSE being my appointee, despite being unable to walk more than two steps without grabbing on to something), finally getting around to doing my TEFL course, and get a flat of my own to be able to set myself free once again.
Preferably, this flat would be inside Southampton...
Last week my tenancy on the house I was living in for my final year at Southampton Solent University ran out, and I had to move out of the house. I had bought a flight ticket to Tokyo months earlier, to spend a couple of months, and maybe find a job there. Sadly, it was not to be: thanks to my grandma insisting I not book anything until right before I was to leave, and my own pigheadedness, neither of us could afford accommodation in Tokyo.
And then came when I was to leave. I had booked a "Man and a Van Service", who would take me and my things, including my clothes, game consoles, TV and computer, and ship them up to my grandmother's house in Worcester for me for £125. My grandma had booked her "friends" in a local taxi service to come down to Southampton, pick up me and my computer, and drive back to Worcester for £300.
Sadly, the man and a van never came, and I found myself stuffed into a mini-bus like taxi with all belongings, and £300 poorer, followed by my grandma's living room being taken over with all my stuff.
And then I discovered the radiator in my bedroom ruptured sometime around Christmas, covered the carpet and futon with water, and basically destroyed them both with mould by the time I arrived.
Now I'm sleeping in guest houses, desperately trying to claim Jobseeker's Allowance (and having delayed, because of my grandma OF COURSE being my appointee, despite being unable to walk more than two steps without grabbing on to something), finally getting around to doing my TEFL course, and get a flat of my own to be able to set myself free once again.
Preferably, this flat would be inside Southampton...
Reading Sex and The City 2 reviews
May. 30th, 2010 12:35 pmI'm struck with the greatest, most horrible idea for the guys who would end up being surrounded by fans of this show, who would probably go out and join the droves to watch this tripe, that just hearing the reviews about makes me want to turn into a Marxist.
Tell everybody that you ship Charlotte/Miranda.
I'm serious here.
What could be more transgressive, and resistant to the stagnating tide of Carrie and chums' popularity than announcing to the world about how Charlotte and Miranda are so perfect for each other, and how they want to raise their kids together in a little cottage as wife and wife? It's the perfect crime!
Or maybe I'm just overthinking this...
Tell everybody that you ship Charlotte/Miranda.
I'm serious here.
What could be more transgressive, and resistant to the stagnating tide of Carrie and chums' popularity than announcing to the world about how Charlotte and Miranda are so perfect for each other, and how they want to raise their kids together in a little cottage as wife and wife? It's the perfect crime!
Or maybe I'm just overthinking this...
Stuff I'm doing.
May. 24th, 2010 06:57 pmTwo threads for the Anime Addventure.
An indie game that I'm planning, using the Unity game maker to develop, based around a return to Starfox-style arcade space shooters, in a very cartoony fashion.
And then there's the TEFL course that I'm currently studying, and the upcoming trip to Japan, where I might just be able to get a job there...
- Obnoxious Sentimental Princesses - Yes, I'm still working on this. My envisioning for this story is spreading out so far that it's spanning generations at this point in time. Maybe I could put the sequels in AO3 or fanfic.net...
- The Emperor's Army: The Chosen Men - An offshoot of one of Gorgo's most recent Addventure threads, this time dealing with his favourite whipping boys, the Church of Lum. The current mindset that I have for this Addventure thread is Sharpe's Rifles on another planet.
An indie game that I'm planning, using the Unity game maker to develop, based around a return to Starfox-style arcade space shooters, in a very cartoony fashion.
And then there's the TEFL course that I'm currently studying, and the upcoming trip to Japan, where I might just be able to get a job there...
It continues...
May. 10th, 2010 09:13 amI had another plot bunny bite me while reading through a new Gorgo thread on the Anime Addventure. Again. I don't think it's letting go.
Worse, I've been watching Sharpe lately on Lovefilm, and it's given me the perfect title to use as my offshoot.
I'd better get on it, after finishing the last of my assignments...
Worse, I've been watching Sharpe lately on Lovefilm, and it's given me the perfect title to use as my offshoot.
I'd better get on it, after finishing the last of my assignments...
Random Thoughts
Apr. 27th, 2010 06:12 pmPoint the first: I've bought "Helena" by My Chemical Romance. No real reason, apart from that it followed me listening to a dramatic reading of My Immortal, and I liked the song anyway, as I find it to be a murder ballad on cocaine. I'd say that this would be concerning to my credibility as a rock fan, but considering I'm also a big fan of Meat Loaf (or Jim Steinman, really) AND Demons and Wizards I hardly think I have any right now.
Point the second: I can't get over the new look AFI have. Alright, the music in Crash Love isn't THAT different from Decemberunderground, and I like the album. But I swear that when I watched the video for "Medicate", I was convinced that the lead singer wasn't Davey Havok, and that he was lip syncing to the music. Are they really trying to get away from the "gothic" look? It just baffles me.
Point the last: I feel like I should take my idea of Obnoxious Sentimental Princesses and simply write a fanfic to be placed on FF.net or AO3. I can just start with writing my version of what the previous writer wrote for openers, and then move on to where I was planning to take the storyline. I really want to do this for two reasons: first, I feel that the Anime Addventure is a really troublesome website for writing fanfic; and two, I'm worried that if I stay writing for the Addventure, the original writer of the thread might try to interfer with my posts, writing his own posts on my thread and such... I dunno if I really should, but if worst comes to worst, I'll publish it elsewhere, away from the Addventure.
Point the second: I can't get over the new look AFI have. Alright, the music in Crash Love isn't THAT different from Decemberunderground, and I like the album. But I swear that when I watched the video for "Medicate", I was convinced that the lead singer wasn't Davey Havok, and that he was lip syncing to the music. Are they really trying to get away from the "gothic" look? It just baffles me.
Point the last: I feel like I should take my idea of Obnoxious Sentimental Princesses and simply write a fanfic to be placed on FF.net or AO3. I can just start with writing my version of what the previous writer wrote for openers, and then move on to where I was planning to take the storyline. I really want to do this for two reasons: first, I feel that the Anime Addventure is a really troublesome website for writing fanfic; and two, I'm worried that if I stay writing for the Addventure, the original writer of the thread might try to interfer with my posts, writing his own posts on my thread and such... I dunno if I really should, but if worst comes to worst, I'll publish it elsewhere, away from the Addventure.
A Nasty Choice
Mar. 2nd, 2010 09:33 pmI've made quite a few posts regarding the fanfic series Urusei Yatsura: The Senior Year, mainly because it's one of the best known fanfic stories for an anime show that has been relatively forgotten in the American anime fanfiction world. I've also written about how I don't really think the series is all that, despite being so fully fleshed out: it's pacing drags, Ataru is basically a saint who can do no wrong, and the writer seems to have a thing for lesbian relationships.
Well, an idea recently popped into my head for a story, or a series or stories, set in the Senior Year universe, designed to totally be its own thing, independent of continuity, and present the universe in a different, probably better written light than usual.
The only problem with this idea is that, for the sake of trying to avoid fans of this fanfic, I'm probably going to have to read the entire main series, from end to end.
The whole 50 chapter series.
The whole almost a million words including side stories on fanfiction.net series.
The thought of it makes me shudder.
But if I'm going to write this, I'm going to get up to speed. I just hope I don't go crazy in the meantime...
Well, an idea recently popped into my head for a story, or a series or stories, set in the Senior Year universe, designed to totally be its own thing, independent of continuity, and present the universe in a different, probably better written light than usual.
The only problem with this idea is that, for the sake of trying to avoid fans of this fanfic, I'm probably going to have to read the entire main series, from end to end.
The whole 50 chapter series.
The whole almost a million words including side stories on fanfiction.net series.
The thought of it makes me shudder.
But if I'm going to write this, I'm going to get up to speed. I just hope I don't go crazy in the meantime...
A Yuri OTP Revelation
Jan. 16th, 2010 09:33 pmYes, I've just had a revelation about one of my favourite OTPs, Ryuunosuke and Shinobu from Urusei Yatsura...
In one of my fanfic ideas that I should really be writing these days, Ryuunosuke and Shinobu are a pair of badasses who always work the best when they're together, because they're so together they know how the other thinks. As a result, Ryuunosuke's fighting expertise combined with Shinobu's raw strength make them a nigh-unbeatable team. And in the future, they raise a son of their own, who grows up to become as much as a badass as they are.
So basically, my ideal future for the pair of them is for them to become the female Apollo and Midnighter of Wildstorm's Authority...
In one of my fanfic ideas that I should really be writing these days, Ryuunosuke and Shinobu are a pair of badasses who always work the best when they're together, because they're so together they know how the other thinks. As a result, Ryuunosuke's fighting expertise combined with Shinobu's raw strength make them a nigh-unbeatable team. And in the future, they raise a son of their own, who grows up to become as much as a badass as they are.
So basically, my ideal future for the pair of them is for them to become the female Apollo and Midnighter of Wildstorm's Authority...
Random Thoughts
Dec. 4th, 2009 12:34 amRecently I've been watching videos on The Spoony Experiment, one of the better video review sites in the vein of The Angry video Game Nerd and the Nostalgia Critic. I've watched several of his game reviews, including the Let's Play for Phantasmagoria 2: a Puzzle of Flesh.
You know what I wanna do?
I want to commission a pic (if I can't do it myself) of Phantasmagoria 2's player character Curtis and his token gay friend Trevor in a romantic embrace, and then send it to Spoony, if only to see his reaction.
Why yes, I am that crazy, madam...
You know what I wanna do?
I want to commission a pic (if I can't do it myself) of Phantasmagoria 2's player character Curtis and his token gay friend Trevor in a romantic embrace, and then send it to Spoony, if only to see his reaction.
Why yes, I am that crazy, madam...
