garden of the mind

/dusts journal off /shoo all you little dust bunnies

I've been neglecting TCG stuff this month, due to how strangely hectic August has been. But you know what else I've been neglecting? Writing. I don't have an accurate word count for 2015 so far but it's definitely far lower than it ever was in the past few years. I get the feeling it's because I had to step up my art game this year for school and otherwise, but that's probably just in my head since I don't think there's such a thing as better art == less writing...right? (Haha who am I kidding)

I did get better at web development though! It's somehow comforting to know I can throw together a functional basic layout in just a few hours.

Speaking of web dev, school. oh god, school. I'm in my thesis production term and there's so much that I'll have to keep track of...and honestly it's still sinking in that I'm in my fourth year of college and that I'm an adult and that I'm getting ever closer to graduating going out into the 'real world'. It also means I'm definitely going to be even busier for the next three to four months than I was in August so this is probably the worst time to be getting into a new MMO (WAKFU) and deciding to write more in the coming months.

I'm fairly confident I can manage, but it's still going to be a pretty intimidating and daunting term.

On to fannish things. I haven't really made a dent in my list of 200+ to watch anime (it's now at 300+) but I did watch a lot of things so I feel good about it anyway. I just finished reading Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro today and I'm still reeling from all the feels. I can't hold all these feels, man. (Also, Neuro is hot ♥︎ in both demon and human form)

Other fannish things I've been getting up to - well, I've decided to revamp one of my old Golbez roleplay blogs (formerly kneelbeforezot, don't worry I saved that URL).

Anyway, recently I did a thing:

( Leveling up from 2005 to 2015! )

So yeah, plans for the upcoming months: dying over thesis production, trying to git gud in video games, watching anime when I can, and hopefully writing a lot more than I have in 2015 so far.

And some random things:

• summer 2015 anime that I'm watching - Rokka no Yuusha, Overlord, Akagami no Shirayuki-hime, Sore ga Seiyuu!, Gakkou Gurashi!
  
• anime sitting in my laptop waiting for me to watch - Symphogear G, Owari no Seraph, Nagi no Asukara, Shingeki no Bahamut
  
• fanfic wip count - somewhere in the 60's to 70's...

Oh boy this is pretty much a dead account isn't it?

Weeeelll I found out about Colors TCG soooo I'll be using this account for that mostly probably...My writing can now be found on minstrelsy @ tumblr.

Gotta note though! I recently have gotten into Assassination Classroom and Magi: Labyrinth of Magic and I'm absolutely in love with both of them.

09/12/2014 - Rediscovered Pokemon adoptable sites! I'll be using this post as a sort of master post for them. Also, hello DW, it's been a while.
( Read more... )

I'd been planning on posting a new entry back in May, but I got so caught up in the festivities and start-of-school things and then I recently got hit with weird stomach problems and, well, I ended up putting this off. I sadly haven't gotten any further with my project to add art to my fics. Hm, gotta work on making journal entries a habit. Anyway, life things first!


Basically, May 24 saw the third annual Promstuck of Homestuck Philippines (HSPH), but it was my first time to attend a prom. As in. I didn't go to my high school prom and I didn't go to graduation ball. I never really saw the point of it and thought it was all just really silly and a hypocritical event for the school to hold. Anyway! Promstuck was amazing and I had a lot of fun! It wasn't quite enough to completely remove the negative reaction I immediately have to the word "prom", but it's a start! Probably the greatest part was getting to meet all these amazing people and knowing that I had at least something great in common with them (namely, Homestuck). It was also awesome to see people dressed up in ~not quite~ costumes. I went as a Humanstuck Meenah! Here's a shot some kind soul took of me :)

I'm soooo excited for whatever prom HSPH comes up with next year! I even have plans for my outfit already and I pretty much managed to snag three friends to go as the Midnight Crew with me!


Now for some school related things! I went in for class today I saw that they had installed these huge lockers in our school and they were open for rent starting today. So I went ahead and rented myself one for the term. It's more of as a precaution than out of necessity, and honestly it would have been great if they had existed in the school five terms ago. Ah well, the locker slot is mine and I'm sure I can find some way to use it. Most likely I'll be leaving stuff there whenever I have to switch campuses, so I won't need to lug my books and possibly my laptop as well across three blocks of not-very-safe territory.

So far my classes have been pretty relaxed, although I can already tell which ones are going to be exceptionally stressful later on X.X

My Graphic Design 3 class is more of an advertising class and we're going to have to rebrand stuff and come up with ad campaigns. God, just typing that made me feel stressed already.

I'm not really too concerned with my front-end design class and its back-end counterpart class. I like the processes that go into designing user interfaces, even if I'm not that good with design itself. I like back-end programming even more so. I'll have to be careful still though. This kind of thinking has led me to being complacent and reckless in my work before >.>

3D Animation is still a little worrying, but I think I've gotten an all right grasp of 3DS Max after playing around within it. Still a long way to go though, we're only on our second exercise. That said, here's what we've done so far!



In our first activity we had to 3D-fy any character, so I ended up with Anpanman, a character from my childhood. The second one is to create a 3D bike using only splines in 3DS Max. Splines are basically 2D shapes represented in 3D. While Anpanman was made with 3D shapes (spheres, mostly) this bike is basically just all lines. It's not done and the above is basically a progress shot featuring the one part I spent most of my time on: the front wheel.


That's it for school stuff, really. Now - media updates!

( Recent Books )

Movies next! Just two of the latest movies here.

( Recent Movies )

Anime!

( Recent Anime )

Yeah, I need to get to work on my huge anime backlog. Well, games now! Just one that I really finished, actually.

( Recent Games )


Right now I...haven't progressed with Mirai Nikki at all, and I'm still not sure what to read next. We're watching Edge of Tomorrow this week though, so there's that.

Game-wise, right now I'm playing Pokemon Black, alongside a million rom hacks on the side. Progress in Final Fantasy X has been slow, sadly.

Bea out o/

Silence Like Cancer Grow (5086 words) by Beaslays
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cecil Harvey, Golbez, Kain Highwind, Rosa Joanna Farrell, Rydia, Edge Geraldine, Edward Chris von Muir, Anna (Final Fantasy IV), King Giott, Luca (Final Fantasy IV), Yang Fang Leiden, Palom, Porom, Tellah, Cid Pollendina, FuSoYa, Zemus (Final Fantasy IV), Non-Player Characters
Summary: Is it better to stay silent, or to speak up? Sixteen people whose lives could have been different, had Cecil Harvey not stayed silent.

Found some old stuff I wrote that I sort of like? Most of them were crossovers. Anyway, this one was a Marvel/District 9/Transformers one... yeah, I don't know either.

( All this just to make the 'Or Stark' joke. )


//