Just to keep track of them for my own reference, zomg ...

( I'm not even sure I'll use half of these ever )

1) Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.

2) Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.

3) Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy.

4) List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection, being sure not to direct-link! (or not ... w/e!)



( Collected Candy )

This is long and has a few spoilers:

( Spoilers for suck! )

Do I lack poetry, or is the simplicity more elegant?

How can something that feels so much like a hack bring such good feelings?

let'sgetmarried

So I worked all day and it was exhausting but thankfully it's money, which I need badly. The lack of full time job has really been wearing on me and at the same time my writing ability has basically dropped to zero which makes me incredibly morose. I wish I could find that perfect balance but I know I'm not going to find that downtown, I need something in my suburbs. A 1 hour commute is too much!

Well ... Damn.

So as some people might know I was sick as a dog yesterday and felt like complete and utter fail, but, that's ok because I was going to go to IHOP and eat delicious shrimps for dinner, only to be t-boned by a car when getting onto the highway. Doh. I'm fine, my neck hurts just a little and I'll see if it's really hurt or just a little shocked probably tomorrow.

WTF! And I haven't even gotten Layton yet.

FML.

( pic of our car )

Job interview tomorrow! It's temp to hire too so I might actually get a full time job!

So ... I don't usually bother to get worked up about what I perceive to be 'fail' on the topic of gender, race, orientation or anything else. I try to let it roll of my back and consider it the cost of doing business in the world. That's not to say that I passively accept it and don't complain so much as I don't get *irrationally angry*.

I'm not irrationally angry, I'm not even really angry, but damn I'm just so disappointed right now.

So ... Mass Effect. If you're on my flist you might be familiar with it. I enjoyed playing the first installment very much, it is, in fact, the game that made me purchase and xbox 360. I had *no other reason* to purchase the hardware. In effect, that game cost me like $350 dollars because I wanted to play it *so badly* that I was willing to plunk down hundreds of dollars to play it.

Anyway. Those little XBox Life 'Mii things' apparently are getting custom skins that get sold for obscene amounts of Live Points. I wasn't going to buy them anyway, it sounds like a waste, but ... They released the 'N7 armor' you know, that armor Sheppard is wearing in every promotional material ever, as a Avatar skin and wow, isn't that at least a little cool? But no, it was released only for male avatars, not females. Ashley's pink armor that *she* wears in all the promo materials was also released, for males and females. What the fuck?

I figured, hey, maybe it was a mistake, it happens, Bioware and EA have been fail at rolling out their content this week it's like dumb and dumber week. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if it comes out for the ladies in the next 24 hours with a 'heh, our bad'. What just hammers it home as so much worse is you go look at the Mass Effect Forums thread the response to the relatively mild, but entirely justified anger is "well you can make your avatar male and give it a female head" or "well, having it for ladies would be nice but that's just for diversity" to "what's the big deal it's a waste of money anyway" and that just made me so ... upset.

Not two weeks ago the girls over at masseffect a community I created and recently handed over modding duties on, were talking about how they loved this space because it was a nice female space where they could squee over male characters, talk about slash or just talk about things without having to have a male say 'hey your opinion is stupid', and ... just wow.

I know to a certain extend, Bioware can't change what sort of knuckle heads play their games and come to the forum, but it doesn't help when the official party line is 'oh whatever' for the most part. I'm sick of it.

Stop gender failing just because your game has guns in it!

The How's My Driving? Meme

Be nice... I know I only just got off hiatus.

Spoilers through Chapter 11:

( spoilers, like I said )

Fine...

Leave me a comment and I will reply with why I like you. If I don't know you, I'll either make something up or tell you why I like your LiveJournal. You must pay for the privilege by posting a message like this one on your LiveJournal.

I stayed up until almost 4am watching Beyond Good and Evil again on Youtube. I played it a million years ago when it first came out and it was just as good all over again. I forgot how little meat there is right on the end of the plot, though. No spoilers, but the secrets and mysteries never really get unraveled enough for my tastes. It was clearly designed for a sequel that didn't materialize in a timely fashion.

Also I need Jade and Double H icons now ... they are cute and I want them and I have like 50 icons and am only using like 20~

Additionally. SMT: Devil Survivor is on its way here (screw you Ten) and I should have it around the beginning of next week.

Still no movement on any jobs. Sigh.

The How's My Driving? Meme

Additionally, because I'm a whore, I'll take love for Joseph Falls as well .... /whores.

adumbrate • \AD-uhm-brayt; uh-DUHM-\ • transitive verb:
1. To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
2. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow.
3. To suggest, indicate, or disclose partially.
4. To cast a shadow over; to shade; to obscure.

The sun poured down on Kimiko's back, he was hardly fair skinned but she could feel the places that were already red and would be flaking at the end of the day despite her heavy cover. The technaeologist were chattering off close behind her, giddy over another artifact the RAM bus of the Almighty Colonel or something like that.

She didn't care. Scraps of solid state silicates weren't her expertise or interest.

Instead, she held in her hands a shattered bit red-brown clay pressed into a inorganic pattern. She had thousands of them she had collected over the years. Sometimes pieces fit together into a saucer shape, or a pot or a semi-cylinder worn by water and preserved by earth.

It never made any sense and never gave her any more closure about what they used to be like than the pursuit of /dev/null. Nonetheless, she carefully catalogued the patch of earth the scrap had come from and continued to dig.

I actually have never really posted original fic for public consumption before but ...

Universe: Lets call it 'Soul Society' for the moment to be an ass
Character: Ich
Word Count: about 550
Warnings: Kinda sad. Characters property of me.
Thanks: tenshinoakuma with a side order of tasogareika

( Ficlet below )

His Dark Materials meets Pokemon meets Bleach

A story where the physical manifestation of your soul battles it out to be a master and/or has multiple 'release' forms .... Bankai-daemon-pokemon.

I'm never allowed to eat those little calamaris again.

I find myself desperately wanting to snap up random_prophet and whipping up a pokemon lj-rp. There are hundreds of problems with this idea, not the least of which is that I have very little time for it. I (and Ran) even have a few plot ideas and just ... I want it.

It's frustrating. The real questions I see in that sort of situation is: panfandom vs OC, and definitely the modding of getting pokemon. There's also the issue of limiting where players can go. My current RP takes a nice approach to this and most other RPs are confined to just a city or two so that eliminates that problem. Would a game played mostly over journals even work, especially when there's hope for major logged plots?

Talk to me, flist!