( Bad Kitty )

( Psychonauts )

Surprise! A meme!

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.
4) I am very flighty with my character affections. A lot of these have multiple answers. A few of my favorites I left off the list 'cause it'd be like... everyone in the blasted series. I. I hate not picking people.

1. The World Ends With You Beat to the max, professor_prof.
2. Shadow Hearts (Covenant)
3. Okami Amaterasu, danidanidanica
4. Homestuck Rose Lalonde, overbringer
5. The Farseer/Tawny Man Trilogies.
6. Astro Fighter Sunred Vamp, professor_prof
7. Seimaden
8. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
9. Pokemon (guess my favorite character and favorite critter for bonus points!)
10. Psychonauts Linda, overbringer
11. Metal Gear Solid, EDIT: 3: Snake Eater. The Boss, drcanadianninja
12. Gurren Lagann
13. Soul Eater Tsubaki, drcanadianninja
14. Slayers
15. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
16. Chrono Trigger Foxfire like Ayla best, danidanidanica
17. The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer Samidare Asahina, professor_prof
18. Howl's Moving Castle
19. Girl Genius
20. Deep Space Nine

Been so sick past few days. Sinus infections, dealing with admittedly snazzy new glasses (went with thick dark frames, very geek classic), megacramps... In more adorable news...

( Weekly Kitty )

Finished Shadow Hearts! Bad End, that is (god it was depressing). Alas, saved over the file I was gonna go for the Good End in, and I did not feel up to gaining like ten levels and backtracking through over nine thousand sidequests. Okay, maybe less... I finished the first runthrough ending at level 70/71 for like everyone, and the final boss was pretty easy. >> Grinding so addictive.

Started Psychonauts! It is definitely pretty fun despite my fail at platformers. Currently at the party, bouncing around. I like how blase the campers are about you trying to set them on fire. "GOD Raz go pyrokinesis someone who CARES."

Thoughts on Claymore 97: Vague 'cause I am too tired and lazy to ljcut.

1. Man they just keep on scaling up the hardcore don't they

2. Omnomnomnomnom

There is a small disease-ridden child in the classroom.

She keeps coughing and making this odd plaintive grating "eeeeeehn" sound. Her mother keeps quietly but distractingly fussing over her. Yeesh, if your kid's sick, keep her at home where she won't infect other people and not in your college literature class. Seriously, we discuss rape and violent murder in here.

Also I may have a small phobia of children in person

thiiiiis close to hyperventilation

Charlie has a trick! He fetches. Seriously. His regular toys, pencils, sticks... Sometimes he'll run and bring it right back, and sometimes he'll play with it a little first. He looks so cute carrying things in his little mouth &hearts

( Who wants KITTYPICS )
Cats in motion are hard to photo. I should either borrow a good camera or video him.

Shadow Hearts continues to be awesome. Turns out that in order to access a few questy bits you gotta enter the final dungeon and leave to pursue them. I caved and looked up the locations of a few things sob. Nearly done. Just some lottery, a few more items, a final dungeon, and this One Fucking Minigame to go. I hear that it gets easier if you lose enough, though. I have losing down pat. And at least it's fast. Also gotta snap a few more enemies for library but yeah pretty much almost done. I hear there's a new game + option. Maybe I'll make a script next run-through.

Valor slowly sucks me further into its addictive grasp. I'm makin' a character for Prof's Disgaea game. He shall be a human cyborg on a mission to defeat The Overlord. I've planned out more backstory than is healthy.

Should probably catch up on RP proper. >> Will do so after this entry.

Charlie is adorable. He can stand on his hind legs for up to seven seconds, and plays fetch. He now sleeps on my pillow with much less head-attacking. I figured it was time to speak in a language he understood, so I bit him on the scruff of the neck when he tried. It worked. He still likes to maul my hand, but I'll leave him that.

( Obligatory Kittypicspam )

Shadow Hearts! It is still fun and I am coming on endgame. Did some research. First Shadow Hearts, which apparently contains I don't know how much of A Certain Thing, came out in 2002. Second Shadow Hearts which I am actually familiar with, has a great deal of a firmly established Certain Thing came out in early 2004, about a year and a half before Twilight. This is important. By A Certain Thing, I mean that there is an entire family of sparkly vampires. I am not even kidding. They glow in the dark and shed glitter from their wings. This amuses me to no fucking end I swear.

( Obligatory Disjointed Shadow Hearts Rambling )

Dilemma:

1. I should do homework. Gotta lab and a takehome quiz due tomorrow night and a sociology paper due the day after.

2. I should also RP. Catch up in ME, SRWUG, NW... Get my Sami groove on...

3. Seven volumes of Black Jack

...Maybe I'll multitask. Some reading, some iconmaking...

5:30 am and I cannot sleep TIME FOR UPDATE.

So how is Charlie? Very cute. This Saturday, he was lying down in the sunshine, purring away... He stretched up to me... I leaned down to him... Then he bit me right on the nose. He's gained a pound or two and is looking very happy and healthy. He keeps losing his toys. He's on catnip mouse #5 so far at least. He's nosy as hell and sleeps next to me on my pillow. He still attacks my hair. I'm trying to stop him doing that. Combined with the previous fact... I've gotten a paw in the eye more than once and it's a lucky thing he didn't get me with the claws out. Soft paws, though. ♥

So how is Shadow Hearts? Awesome as usual. My party now contains a very pretty man who transforms into a very pretty furry moon goddess, as well as a historical Russian princess who is a bit of a brat and fights with Faberge eggs. Got to smack baddies around with a fish for a bit. Not playing as the fish. Used it as a bludgeon. It was a tuna. Heroes getting both more serious beeswax and ultra lulz as plot progresses.

So how is Valor? Episode six point five has the game recently revived and pretty darn good. Out of practice with Clauria, gotta HERO SPEECH more. We have a new player who is a sentai hero (well, not the hero. He's blue. So more of a Lancer) and a semi-new character, as well as an older character who I have not played with before. Rainer is a soft-spoken wibbly bishounen who apologetically collateral damaged everyone on the team. Megumi is a Magical Girl Idol with a big and dangerous squeaky hammer. Richard was unhappy because he fights alongside crazy people. Clauria was unhappy because her brand new technique flopped. Dexter was unhappy because Lyle wasn't around. Megumi obligingly took over Lyle's duties of a) tanking, and b) calling Dex gay. Oh, and we fought some very tough guys and also a couple swarms of an evil horde who had invaded the school. Then everyone except Richard, Rainer, and the familiars went off to have lunch.

I do not, in fact, have a kitten. According to the vet, he's actually at least six months old and very very tiny. Seriously he is FOUR POUNDS EVEN. I can nearly fit my entire hand around his middle. Backstory: He was found abandoned on a wet blanket in a cemetery. With a giant polyp on his throat. What with the stress of all that plus the surgery and possible malnourishment, I guess it's not surprising he's such a little guy. And now he's so HAPPY. It's like one of those heartwarming stories you see in shelter pamphlets.

Charlie is just full of surprises these days. I found a couple extra toes on his hind feet, too. He's up to 24 total now. He'll be going back to 22 claws in a while, though - apparently the inner extras have a high chance of overgrowth and Dad's pretty sure he won't stand for regular clipping. He let me hold him for a while on a few occasions the other day but he likes his independence. He'll climb all over you; he just likes doing it on his own terms.

In non-surprising news, he's been SO CUTE. More kittypics!

( Kitty At Play )

So Shadow Hearts; how is that going? Welp, I just flew in a thing that is called the Bacon Jet. So yes it is doing pretty awesome

The kitten is now named Charlemagne. Charlie for short. I took pictures a few days ago but didn't get around to posting 'em offical-like until now. Haven't seen him since Sunday night... I wanna go back to dad's and get my kittenfix.

( A cornuopia of adorable kittenspam )

New kitten!

He is orange/white and fluffy and cuddly and tiny and curious and friendly and purrs like a motorcycle. He chews on hands and sticks his face in mine and likes to put his paws up on surfaces to gain height, but he's not much of a jumper yet. He's got seven toes on each forefoot and a temporary condition that makes his pupils different sizes. He's got a lot in common with Merc, but not enough to be painful.

Finished Odin Sphere, started Shadow Hearts: Covenant. I was worried about the Judgement Ring Mechanic but it adds spice to the battles. Rather than standard menu->choice->choice repeat it's super-dynamic. I like the characters, too. Yuri is an entertaining snarker, and some of his choicer angsty lines are also kinda hilarious. Karin doesn't have much of a personality, but she looks awesome and has bitchin' attacks which she learns by reading freakin' OPERA. Wish she'd kept the uniform, though. I liked it so much better than the thighboots/miniskirt/halter top combo. That thing ain't practical for running about the countryside in. Blanca is a cool laid-back sort of dude. And soooo damn pretty. Wolves for the win. Geppetto gets points for being charming, having a semi-tragic past, being rude to Yuri, and, infamously, fighting with an adorable puppet for whom he purchases equips with MANSERVICE cards. And then there is Joachim who I have only just recently officially gotten. He's a huuuuge ham which gets him like +10 points. He does improvised weapons! He does hammy hammy speeches. He is like the bastard child of Kamina and Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer. There's even a little kid who calls him Bro for crying out loud. I love that kind of character even when they aren't good guys. Also he is a gay vampire. He turns into a bat for a while every few battles.

I really like playing video games with kitty observers. He sat above me on the couch and put his forepaws on my head &hearts &hearts &hearts

I just used a PC.

I feel so uncleeeean.

Actually the control shift is screwing with me. Right click so craaaazy. *cuddles macbook like a big electronic kitten*

I dislike Tuesdays.

Also it hurts when I breathe.

On a lighter note, turtles.

Soon off to lack of internet land. Will hopefully finish Odin Sphere while there. Will complete meme upon return.

Have been neglecting to gush about Valor.

Episode Three: Our Heroes face off against their rivals from Gundam Tech. What promises to be a ferocious grueling battle ends rather quickly as New Kid Richard the Fairy Hero picks one up and throws it into another Gundam. Then shit starts getting real and they're all crunched within one or two rounds because we are awesome. Lyle and Dexter break up for five minutes before realizing that Clauria and Quaro are terrible banter partners.

Episode Four: Our Heroes face off against a pair of jerks who keep mugging pizza guys and playing Ding Dong Ditch. This actually was a close down-to-the-wire grueling battle. Lyle's Dark Secret was revealed and he was facing off against Old Friends from his Past when Dexter gleefully teamkilled him from behind (side note: to add insult to injury and also more insult, Dex got the final blow against everyone) and it just got even worse from there. It ended with half the team unconscious but thankfully not dead and the other half badly injured and inches from defeat except for Quaro who saved their asses, minced off like a douche, and left Clauria and New Kid to drag everyone else off to medical attention.

So the bus fare from home to town just... like... tripled. Overnight. Fuuuck.

In other news, memes!

1. Ask any of my RP characters a question and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer. Ask anything, regardless of whether you know their canon or not. Also, feel free to ask them IC. Follow link to musebox over there. Or just ask here if you like.

2. You know; I swear I've done this one before but I have a terrible memory. I dunno I'm just a meme sheep like that.

Give me a character I RP, and I'll tell you:

01. Full name
02. Best friend
03. Sexuality
04. Favorite color
05. Relationship status
06. Ideal mate
07. Turn-ons
08. Last sexual experience
09. Favorite food
10. Crushes
11. Favorite music
12. Biggest fear
13. Biggest fantasy
14. Quirks in bed
15. Bad habits
16. Biggest regret
17. Best kept secrets
18. Last thought
19. Worst sexual/romantic experience
20. Biggest insecurity

Haven't said much about it 'cause I figured I'd burn out on it and then I'd feel silly, but hey, looks like the habit stuck. I've been doing one hundred situps per day for the past few months (it was thanks to a post of Ari's; I could stalk back on her journal if I reeeeally wanted to know the date but I'm lazy). Actually, it's been over that for some time now - it's small steps, slowly increasing until it gets to the hundred at one go. First I did sets of around fifteen, then five of twenty, then four of twenty-five, then three of thirty-three/four... I was doing two of fifty when I realized that either I'd need to do, like, one of forty-five and one of fifty-five which struck me as silly, or I could just ramp it up and go with two sets of fifty-five and keep on raising the bar 'till I was at two hundred per day. I went with the latter. Currently at sets of seventy-five. Anyway, it hit me today when I prodded my stomach for some reason and holy crap I felt hard muscle under that layer 'o blubber. Said layer's reduced quite a bit, too. So yep, feeling hella fit. *keeps it the hell up*

Also started sophomore year college a couple days ago. It's not the super awesome fun of last year, but it's not too bad at all.

Yuuska Gakuen continues to be awesome. One of the jerkasses was absent, but fortunately, we had a non-jerkass with a cool hat waiting in the wings.

Approximate breakdown of session:

15% Lyle and Dex implying unsavory things about each other's mothers.
15% Lyle and Dex calling each other gay.
10% Lyle and Dex trading misc. insults.
15% Clauria yelling at people
5% People yelling at Clauria
5% Halla being adorable
30% General dysfunction
5% Actual fighting                 
110% Unspeakable fun

We leveled this time and already I cannot wait 'till Clauria gets the chance to strut off her new stuff and/or gets more cool stuff to strut.

Bad News: So after all that schedule shuffling Research Methods In Psychology was canceled. ><

Good News: Have new video games.

Cloud to Silver Lining News: Stupidly ordered more than one. Not sure what to play first and only have access to consoles one/two days or week whoops.

Awesome News: In non-LJ based RP. So. Awesome. Party best described as three different flavors of doucherocket and Girl Kamina. Getting two more players soon though so more yay.

So got back from con Sunday but am slow like a slowpoke.

( So how was that con )

And now, a meme!

( Meme it up )

I think I had other things to say but I forgot.

~Birthday~

Huzzah; eighteen! I can uh. Smoke. Look at porn. Work in porn. Get kicked out of the house. Get a license to fly a plane. Go to Vegas. And most importantly, give my year of birth to El Jay so's I don't gotta deal with that "This content may be unsuitable for minors" header.

Celebrations were fairly low key - mom, dad and I went out together for the first time in like twelve years. And I dropped my the animal shelter to cuddle cats. It's a good time of year for that - so many kittens *_* What really caught my heart were the ferrets, though. I keep hearing that they nip, but these two didn't and they were so cuuuuute and so sociable and so long and so floppy. I also heard of a ferret war dance but never actually saw it. Two employees were kind enough to give a demonstration, but apparently the ferrets themselves do it better.

So, loot!

- Games! Chrono Trigger and Henry Hatsworth.
- Glowsticks! My dad is odd.
- Socks! It's a tradition.
- A new phone card! I lost my old one. This one hasn't actually arrived yet.
- Box spring! It'll be here in two weeks or so.
- Kisses! From Oscar the ferret. This was Cute Overload territory so I should probably be calling them KEESES.
- Cash! From various relatives. I'm honor-bound to not save the rest like I usually do. $50's going towards books, and I'm gonna get something really nice and expensive I wouldn't normally get at Connecticonn. Unless nothing catches my eye in which case I dunno I'll think of something.
-EDIT: A box from mom containing essentials - socks, underwear, shampoo, ect - and an alarm clock and some very nice cloth. And some bubble wrap.