Too Into It >_>

I'm sorry. Really, that's all I've gotta say. Kinda. I mean, this blog's not ALWAYS been all about the anime- actually, it almost never was. Not even the manga. Or the games. Or anything I'd been thinking about making this about! It was more of a journal or some crap of the like for me- really, I got too personally into it. Which is why I'm trying to revert it. I'm probably going to add my own little personal notes into everything, but I'm gonna try and revert this blog into what it was supposed to be- a site for anime fans ^_^ It doesn't mean I'm gonna get all professional and shit. Seriously. I'm going to be exactly the same, but I'm going to talk a little less about school and friends and a little more about the latest series.

Which means- TADAAAAAAAAAAA! I need to get INTO more series :3 YAY! MOTIVATION! I can never get myself to do anything without good reason.

Anyway, let's get started I suppose.

I'm getting REALLY into this not-so-new series called D.Gray-Man, by Katsura Hoshino. As a newbie to anime and manga (about one year a week from now, I believe, I met Andrea- AKA Demyx- who introduced me to the whole thing) I haven't exactly gotten around the bend much. Mostly, it's been what was reccommended to me, what I heard was popular, and what I can find myself, which isn't much considering how inexperienced and incapable I am. I'm pretty proud of myself- this is the only GOOD one I've discovered for myself! XD

D.Gray-Man is, essentially, a religious demon type manga. The main character is an 'exorcist', Allen Walker, who became an exorcist (someone who hunts a specific demon called an 'akuma') after he was cursed by.......... SPOILER :3 Can't tell. BUT. Allen is headed to join the Black Order- an organization dedicate to hunt down Akuma and gather cubes of what is called 'Innocence" to save the world. It gets so complicated- I don't think I can explain it all myself! You'll just have to read it, and trust me when I say this: It's a fantastic manga- while there is TONS AND TONS of action, there's also a huge sidedish of comedy! And the author has hinted to some future romance >_>

I'll admit I'm not that far in- volume 8- but I'm already hooked! Hoshino does a fantastic job with the writing and the art of course, the characters are believable and very likeable, but the storyline is incredible. Demons and such have always fascinated me, and this manga takes that subject to an entirely different universe.

There is only one thing that bothers me about this manga, and that's fight scenes. They're awesome, full of action, really well portrayed and all.... but they're confusing. Hoshina skips around, jumping all over the place with weird flashes of I-don't-know-what and, all too soon, someone's won and you have no idea how or what happened in between. You have to super-examine every single panel for pages and pages of fight scenes to understand what's happening, and I don't suggest skipping over the fights. that's 3/4 of the manga! I mean, it's managable, but I would like it if maybe Hoshino could clean them up a bit and not jump around like he's on hot rocks.

Anyway, I started the dubbed show a few weeks ago (I'm not going for the Japanese one on this >_>") but I've decided to lay off that and stick to the manga until I finish my list- or at least Soul Eater ^^. I'll update on D.Gray-man for a while I supposed- it's a pretty long series! But don't worry, I'm not giving anything away.

Tomorrow I'll most likely post a little something on Soul Eater- also, I'll be posting some new sidebars today with lists of best and worst, and what you can look forward to around the corner! ^_^

Yay for off-tasking....?

DON'T JUDGE ME T_T
I'm getting tired of talking as if someone's actually reading this blog.
Anyways.
Don't judge me that I am supposed to be doing so many other things right now- sleeping, finishing my journal, finishing Soul Eater. It's so hard to write out my whole day when I JUST lived it, I'm exhausted, and my wittle hand huwts :(
High school hath gotten no better, sadly. It's not BAD or anything, I have great teachers and have, so far, encountered no major douchebags (Jordan's in my Algebra 1 class though). But my locker hates me and without my friends around to support me I'm terrified of talking to anyone! It's this whole terrible cycle- they give the the confidence to make new friends. If I were with them moments before I headed off, fine. If they had been there for the first day, fine. But they haven't been anywhere in my general vicinity since whenever, and I feel a bit lost without them. The good news is, this Friday (tomorrow) is the first football game, which I'll be attending with at least ONE of my friends. Which is cool.

I never knew Disney had so many animal movies. Really. I should've noticed but I haven't. Is that terrible of me?

La Vie Boheme!

Is love (B

Why hello there, mother Earth. Welcome to my blog post in which I talk about absolutely nothing. Except for the fact that, sadly, this is the second to last day of my summer vacation. My final vacation before I become an official high school student. Again, today, I just did not feel like handwriting it all out in my journal. Of course I will, but I felt the need to type. Maybe one day I could put one of these urges to use my keyboard to be PRODUCTIVE, and WRITE SOMETHING Bl *Knows she probably won't.* Seriously, I have no idea why I don't.
I haven't been working on my writing seriously for quite a while, which, frankly, scares me. I KNOW I'm not straying off permanently, I can't! But I'm kind of losing my touch, and before I know it it'll have been too long to pick up my previous stories. Then I'll either have to rewrite, which I hate doing, or some up with whole new ideas, which is actually one of the most difficult parts of the whole process for me. That and filling.

I'm thinking this year, less fanfiction and more books, though it's difficult for me, especially when I've hit a road block in my own stories and yet have some great ideas for short fics. but that's the thing- they're SHORTS. Shouldn't I be focusing my attention on what I intend to be novels??

I think everyone else has lost faith in me as well, which is one of the things that scares me. People don't notice that I'm a writer anymore, which is just one thing that should worry me, if only because that means I'm not writing as much in school anymore. And once school starts, I'll have LESS time! And now my own family no longer asks to see my work or how it's going or anything. I mean, Ron and Mary Ellen do, but they don't count because they are the writers and artists and musicians of the family- of course they'll be interested, I'm the only other part of the family that has interest in such things (Jacqueline IS a fantastic artist, but she refuses to share it, so they don't exactly take note). Plus they don't live anywhere near us and we see them less than any family in PA, so they haven't lost interest because they don't see us enough to realize I'm FAILING.

Am I really going downhill?????

But enough of that, really. Tomorrow is the last day of summer. I suppose I'll be doing something with Andrea and them, but nothing has really been planned so it probably won't be anything epic. A possible bonfire, but not likely, as we don't even have a location yet. I hate planning things last minute, but I also hate planning things in advance. So just in general, really XD Otherwise, my backpack is all packed up and I'm prepared for the new year!
Bring it on, high school!
Go away, writers' block!
Shut your face, Jordan Osman!

The Metaphorical Closet:

My question to the world is this: Why can't we just let gay people BE? We're all standing outside the Closet door with our pitchforks and torches, waiting to prosecute for.... um..... well.... making biased people uncomfortable.
Well guess what guys. If you don't like it, then DON'T WATCH. It's not like gay people are jumping out of the closet waving knives around- they want to stroll out, hit the street, and find a nice homosexual to have dinner with. What they do after dinner is their own business; nobody need see nor CARE what they want to do with their own love lives. The only ones who have a say in ANYBODY'S personal life is themselves and their mothers- and even Mommy's power is limited, especially in the sexuality area.
They are not hurting us. They are only PEOPLE!
If you don't want to see them, either leave or close your eyes.
There is no need for names or prosecution or prejudice of any kind.
They are just people
Who happen to like a different thing than most.
I like black. A lot of people like blue.
I like the opposite sex- some people like the same sex.

If you don't like homosexuals, here's a question for ya:

THEN WHY DO YOU CARE SO FREAKING MUCH?

Leave the gays alone!

HD Free For Life

I kinda just put that title in cos it was the first thing I heard from the TV..... ANYWEHS. *Ahem*. I am now back home, watching a very strange pimp movie and feeling guilty about the fact that Jacqueline is helping me finish off my LA project. It's nothing big, but still. It's supposed to be all mine, even the artwork. I just can't DO artsy stuff, you know? Luckily it's essentially finished with, so she isn't even really doing it for me. She's just helping out with the background and stuffles cos it needs more color I guess.

We arrived home generally late last night (or early this morning if we're getting technical about it) but it wasn't too bad. I said hey to my doggie and my daddy and went STRAIGHT to sleep- we just wrote a lot and watched a movie on the way home, but somehow it was truly exhausting. We also replayed the video I took of Chris Patton singing the intro to La Vie Boheme from Rent OVER 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!! times (Sorry, I'm still in con mode). This morning mom woke me up early- I didn't even remember why I was so happy to see her at first! I was all groggy until I heard the word "bookstore". I went to Barnes & Noble today, and I got four books for myself (one for Mom's b-day in two days) which I'll review if I remember to when I finish each of them. The first one I'm reading is called Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. It seems pretty cool so far, if not strange. I mean, it's an ALIEN book, you know? Normally I'm not into this stuff but I read a book in which there was a bookworm RAVING about it, and soon after I heard about it somewhere online and I just had to read it. It was actually on a school's required reading list apparently. Shame it wasn't ours, because it sounds entertaining.

But this movie, strange and stupid as it was at first, is actually GOOD. It was all gross and cliche, lots of cutsie "I Love You" moments and the daughter rebelling against her protective policeman father because he doesn't like her boyfriend. But the BF gets all abusive and obsessive, and soon she finds out that he's some sort of sex addict/rapist-pimp. So that little love nest has completely fallen out of the tree. But he's still all obsessed. So he and the dad are going at it and they're abusing her and her best friend and being all stalkerish and finally they end up cutting the girl's dog's head off and invading the house. The head completely freaked me out, though I could see it coming for miles when it started lagging on its way through the door all creepy-like. And the pimps tie up the parents and go after the girl, her brother, her friend who was there as well, and her mom. And that's where I am- but we're back from commercial break. the kid's calling the cops.

Well there we go. There is an epic fight and daddy wins. That was an extremely weird movie. And very awkward. Slightly bad. But not totally.

For now, I'm going to either read or walk around being bored. most likely the latter, because I've been back for about ten hours and already Mom is yelling at me for being lazy.

Another fantastic failure

http://www.formspring.me/JennRamolt

I don't get the purpose of this site, as nobody who is on it really gives a shit about my life, but OKAY! LOL(B
In other less-pathetic sounding news I'm now sitting in a hotel room in Michigan, reflecting upon the awesomeness that has been my day. I've been at another anime convention for the past two days, meeting some super-great people and just having a generally fun time with all of them! I got a couple new buddies on Facebook, but there is one girl who i really want to contact whose name is SO generic that I cannot even FIND HER on Facebook! It's just really a shame that I didn't get her DA account. I ended up friending 6 different girls who had remotely silimar faces, plus a few with no pictures, to see which ones would accept me! God I feel like a creeper....

Anyway, at this new con I actually had the chance to meet the Late Great (LOLRentpun) CHRIS PATTON! gawd is he amazing. Andrea was ready to piss herself. It's not even funny. I mean, I was excited, and I knew she had to be MORE so, but you would think she were about to shake Jesus's hand with how happy she was. It was actually... a little irritating. Which i feel bad for thinking because I know if Sarah Dessen read my writing and critiqued me, I would never shut up about it, and Andy would put up with it. So I'm not saying anything. But do I even really have the right to complain? I'm already a shit friend to her. I don't even know why she still keeps me around, honestly XD I'm such a douchebag it's not even funny.

ANYWAY. We also met Vic Migongna, which was AWESOME. he's such a sweetie- he doesn't just take pictures with fans, he gets up and glomps every one of them. And not just putting his arm around you. He seriously hugs you. Like, TIGHT! 8D I would call him a pedo, but.... he's Vic Mignogna. So......................... no. XP

I've been attempting to work on some of my more serious writing lately- it's been a long time, I've been obsessed with my fanfictions for too long. i'm afraid I'm losing my stories! *HORRORHORRORHORRORHORROR* But it's not working very well, as I have a lot of work to do. As soon as i'm home I have to FINALLY put the very finishing touches on my HFLA projecrs. I really like how they've turned out- which is rare. Usually there's ONE out of three that I'm not so pleased with, but not this time. Well, there's still time to screw things up (:

Facebook is driving me CRAZY, and though I love it I'm not as addicted to it as before. I read and comment and generally keep in contact, especially with the people that I now know only through internet (8D CON BUDDY JUST ACCEPTED MY FRIEND REQUEST! YAYZ!).

So the con is exciting, and so is summer work (HAHA GOOD JOKE B) and so is the movie Inception. God, that storyline, the script, the effects the idea the characters they were all GENIUS in an extremely confusing horrifying breathtaking way! It's probably one of the top 3 or 2 BEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. I could watch it I don't know how many times and still not get over it- still be reeling at the end. I'll watch it for the q6328591651th time on my fortieth birthday and be like "WHOA." Because it is THAT awesome. i can't even DESCRIBE IT. Just..... WATCH IT. RAAAAUUUUUUUGH.

In other news.

*Ahem*

I'm getting those stupid feelings again. Like, I want to do something important. Something big. Something more. And I can't figure out exactly what it is that I want to do... but this is kind of helping. Maybe I should vlog or something. I dunno. What do you think?

Yeah I know. Bad idea. I'm just... too AWKWARD for that. But, you know. WTF am I supposed to be doing? And WTF is taking Andrea so long in the shower????