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This is so overdue, it ain't funny.
IN CASE YOU DON'T WANNA CHASE TEAL DEERS:
+ I managed to submit my paper as planned! I also finished my teacherly work, although it took a lot longer than it should have. Lol, vacation mode. Good job, brain.
+ I may have discovered something that could land me a research scholarship thing in Japan.
+ This semester ended with a bang and lovely family things.
+ SENGOKU BASARA 3, CAN HAS.
+ Slept over at the Cheng Chua pad since Khursten is house sitting.
+ RP is starting to lose its flavor.
+ Fandom never gives me pretty things. :|
+ NaNoWriMo is coming up. I need to get my ass in gear and start warming up with ficcage. Undecided on what project to do, though.
GRADUATE STUDIES, TEACHING, ATENEO STUFF; In spite of the lack of sources and an acute lack of personal motivation on my part, I managed to sit down and pound out my paper for my Development of Poetry tutorial. The findings and conclusion did not quite turn out as I had thought it would, but that's never a bad thing when it comes to research. I also know a whole lot more about the sonnet and the haiku than any respectable scholar who can't read poetry for shit should.
On that note, I think I have enough material and know-how to restructure my Literature 14 class for the next semester. I plan on making it developmental this time, rather than stick by the conventional method of teaching via elements. Here's hoping that I'm good enough to make it happen.
Related to that: I am officially free until semestral break ends! I gunned the last few batches of papers while I was hanging around with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
khursten just yesterday, so now all I have to do is encode the scores, calculate their grades and submit! This semester has been... an interesting one, I'll tell you that.
HOW SAMURAI FAGGOTRY GAVE ME A RESEARCH PROJECT IDEA; As those of you who have been in contact with me either IRL or in plurk, I've been all over Sengoku Basara and the taiga drama Tenchijin as of late, and I admit that it's part of the reason why I wanted to do a comparative study of the historical development of the sonnet and haiku as forms within their respective literary traditions. Me thinking about haiku got me thinking about this fanfic idea I had for SenBasawhich I will totally write one day, I swear: Kojurou waking up after a long and lovely session of fucking, to see his young master writing a poem in the aftermath. I was planning on tracking down translated versions of the actual poetry of Masamune Date, only to realize that they're pretty much nonexistent.
That got me thinking about how we always hear the whole thing about samurai being warriors of prowess and artists/poets to boot. Which then led to the crazy idea of translating them. Which then led to "o hai maybe I should do an anthology or something".
Voila. Potential research proposal for Mombugakusho.
It SOUNDS pretty simple, but it actually isn't. For one, I'll have to learn Japanese for real. For another, I'll have to land a scholarship, somehow survive in a university like Tokyo Dai and be very familiar both with Japanese history and with Japanese classical literature. Then there's the fact that I'll also have to study ancient Japanese, which is different from contemporary Japanese. It'll be a life work, trufax.
...Good luck to me, I guess.
ON VACATION; last weekend was a lovely way of ending the first half of the school year. While I wasn't able to hang out with my friends, I did get to do a lot of family stuff, since Saturday was the day my brother Petrik and his wife Yas picked to have their newborn, Marco, baptized. They doubled it up with my niece Anika's birthday, and the celebration was really fun.
I also got to drive with my little bro Peter going to the celebration, and then drive my him and my older bro Paolo home that night. Made me feel vaguely like a boss.Yes shut up I am a dork.
I elected to stay off the internet that Sunday because it was the first Sunday that Peter and I got to spend free of school work, so we ended up kicking around and marathoning. Then the entire family went out to Trinoma because Mom wanted to check out a sale, Peter wanted to buy Starcraft 2, I wanted to get Sengoku Basara 3 and a second controller for the PS3, and Paolo had a Blood Bowl tournament to participate in. Suffice to say, both my bro and I got our games, and Mom managed to guilt trip Dad into us all eating out for dinner. FUCK YEAH, SUSHI.
Had to stay home on Monday, but that is okay because I had my game, which I will fag about at length in another section. Now I've just gotten home from spending yesterday and most of today at the Cheng Chua pad, sincekhursten is house sitting. I had a glorious sushi/sashimi dinner with her, and we got to kick around and play a lot of Sengoku Basara together! \o/
Looking forward to this weekend. CRAB DATE, GET.
SENGOKU BASARA 3; It's as epic and campy as I expected it to be, although playing it made me sad over the fact that Capcom never translated the second game, which is kind of important to the story. ...Time to add the thing to my list of stuff to play/watch/read once I learn Japanese.
I also want to play the second game because you get to play Kojurou. Yeah.
While it's your usual hack-and-slash kill everything on the screen sort of setup in the tradition of Dynasty/Samurai Warriors, SenBasa, I realize, actually requires a bit more precision. The play style of each of the characters is different from the other - you've got to consider the reach of their weapon, whether they go for Normal Arts or Special Arts, and their own base stats. Doing the stages right also requires some strategy, which is always fun.
That said, out of the characters I have tried out so far, I have to say that I like Masamune and Mitsunari, no joke. Masamune's combos are plain out awesome, and Mitsunari's moves are also really cool once you've gotten the hang of it!
...Also, the game was totally gayed up for people like me. I see what you did there, Capcom, and do not deny it. 8|
LJ RP; A recent plurk from my cousin's lovely girlfriend along with the usual wank on the anon meme led me to make several posts about the RP community. After reflecting on what was said, here's what I have to say.
I dunno whether it's just that season or if it's because I'm on vacation and I therefore have more time to do all of the things that I really couldn't do when I had to deal with school schedules and whatever else, OR if it's because I'm getting old and more conscious of my time and therefore less generous with it when it comes to stupidity and people. It's probably a combination of all three. Either way, these days? The LJ RP crowd - or more like, the whole concept and social milieu of LJ RP in general - pisses me off.
Don't get me wrong: I am not planning on dropping any of the games that I'm in right now, and I plan on remaining as active as I can possibly be. I'm in it to PLAY and build stories - it's not about making friends, or shipping, or escaping from some pressing shit in my actual life outside of the internet. It's also about having fun, but ultimately having fun by committing to a game and helping OTHER people have fun along with me.
...And that is probably why I'm getting annoyed. It seems as though most people who get into RP online are all about making friends, or shipping, or play in order to ignore their own problems and therefore get too serious, too entitled, or overall, so totally sucked into the game that everything becomes personal for them. There are so many things or people that really rile me up - mood RPers, or bints with entitlement issues, or serial appers, or flakes, or preferential players who only ping their friends, or people who complain and complain about CR/logging/other players "stealing the limelight" when they barely do anything themselves, all the trolls on the anon meme... the list goes on.
If I meet good people and end up befriending them outside of RP, well and good. But I'm not looking, and I have come to believe that usually? Establishing "connections" usually turns out to be a lie, for whatever reason, with a lot of the folks you end up pinging with. And it just gets complicated later on, when the in-game issues start cropping up, and in-game stuff ends up getting taken OUT of game.
There are times when I encounter a situation that makes me want to flip tables and I wonder why I still bother to tag around and try and put my muses out there. I think about all of the things that I could be doing with my time, and all of the people I would rather be pinging or plotting with. I suppose it's hitting a point where I'm going to start slowly withdrawing from RP altogether, and stick with muse boxing or the games that I have committed to participate in.
FANDOM; On a lighter note, I find myself at a serious disadvantage on the fandom front, with SenBasa and Gintama. There is a distressing lack of good fics to read.
...I guess this means I'll need to write my own, but that benefits other people more than it benefits me. orz
NANOWRIMO; With November just around the corner, though, I really should get my ass into gear and start doing drabbles for a warm-up, at least. Been tagging so long, I may have forgotten the proper way of fic writing, since they're two wholly different types of creative writing.
Still undecided on what project to work on, between Bloodsport, Return on Investment, Fiore di Nuvola or whatever else I've got on the backburner. Will likely end up doing either ROI or Bloodsport, but am also considering not realy doing NaNo per se, but following with the word count.
The cat has greatly missed me, it seems, and it is also time for dinner.
IN CASE YOU DON'T WANNA CHASE TEAL DEERS:
+ I managed to submit my paper as planned! I also finished my teacherly work, although it took a lot longer than it should have. Lol, vacation mode. Good job, brain.
+ I may have discovered something that could land me a research scholarship thing in Japan.
+ This semester ended with a bang and lovely family things.
+ SENGOKU BASARA 3, CAN HAS.
+ Slept over at the Cheng Chua pad since Khursten is house sitting.
+ RP is starting to lose its flavor.
+ Fandom never gives me pretty things. :|
+ NaNoWriMo is coming up. I need to get my ass in gear and start warming up with ficcage. Undecided on what project to do, though.
GRADUATE STUDIES, TEACHING, ATENEO STUFF; In spite of the lack of sources and an acute lack of personal motivation on my part, I managed to sit down and pound out my paper for my Development of Poetry tutorial. The findings and conclusion did not quite turn out as I had thought it would, but that's never a bad thing when it comes to research. I also know a whole lot more about the sonnet and the haiku than any respectable scholar who can't read poetry for shit should.
On that note, I think I have enough material and know-how to restructure my Literature 14 class for the next semester. I plan on making it developmental this time, rather than stick by the conventional method of teaching via elements. Here's hoping that I'm good enough to make it happen.
Related to that: I am officially free until semestral break ends! I gunned the last few batches of papers while I was hanging around with
khursten just yesterday, so now all I have to do is encode the scores, calculate their grades and submit! This semester has been... an interesting one, I'll tell you that.HOW SAMURAI FAGGOTRY GAVE ME A RESEARCH PROJECT IDEA; As those of you who have been in contact with me either IRL or in plurk, I've been all over Sengoku Basara and the taiga drama Tenchijin as of late, and I admit that it's part of the reason why I wanted to do a comparative study of the historical development of the sonnet and haiku as forms within their respective literary traditions. Me thinking about haiku got me thinking about this fanfic idea I had for SenBasa
That got me thinking about how we always hear the whole thing about samurai being warriors of prowess and artists/poets to boot. Which then led to the crazy idea of translating them. Which then led to "o hai maybe I should do an anthology or something".
Voila. Potential research proposal for Mombugakusho.
It SOUNDS pretty simple, but it actually isn't. For one, I'll have to learn Japanese for real. For another, I'll have to land a scholarship, somehow survive in a university like Tokyo Dai and be very familiar both with Japanese history and with Japanese classical literature. Then there's the fact that I'll also have to study ancient Japanese, which is different from contemporary Japanese. It'll be a life work, trufax.
...Good luck to me, I guess.
ON VACATION; last weekend was a lovely way of ending the first half of the school year. While I wasn't able to hang out with my friends, I did get to do a lot of family stuff, since Saturday was the day my brother Petrik and his wife Yas picked to have their newborn, Marco, baptized. They doubled it up with my niece Anika's birthday, and the celebration was really fun.
I also got to drive with my little bro Peter going to the celebration, and then drive my him and my older bro Paolo home that night. Made me feel vaguely like a boss.
I elected to stay off the internet that Sunday because it was the first Sunday that Peter and I got to spend free of school work, so we ended up kicking around and marathoning. Then the entire family went out to Trinoma because Mom wanted to check out a sale, Peter wanted to buy Starcraft 2, I wanted to get Sengoku Basara 3 and a second controller for the PS3, and Paolo had a Blood Bowl tournament to participate in. Suffice to say, both my bro and I got our games, and Mom managed to guilt trip Dad into us all eating out for dinner. FUCK YEAH, SUSHI.
Had to stay home on Monday, but that is okay because I had my game, which I will fag about at length in another section. Now I've just gotten home from spending yesterday and most of today at the Cheng Chua pad, since
khursten is house sitting. I had a glorious sushi/sashimi dinner with her, and we got to kick around and play a lot of Sengoku Basara together! \o/Looking forward to this weekend. CRAB DATE, GET.
SENGOKU BASARA 3; It's as epic and campy as I expected it to be, although playing it made me sad over the fact that Capcom never translated the second game, which is kind of important to the story. ...Time to add the thing to my list of stuff to play/watch/read once I learn Japanese.
While it's your usual hack-and-slash kill everything on the screen sort of setup in the tradition of Dynasty/Samurai Warriors, SenBasa, I realize, actually requires a bit more precision. The play style of each of the characters is different from the other - you've got to consider the reach of their weapon, whether they go for Normal Arts or Special Arts, and their own base stats. Doing the stages right also requires some strategy, which is always fun.
That said, out of the characters I have tried out so far, I have to say that I like Masamune and Mitsunari, no joke. Masamune's combos are plain out awesome, and Mitsunari's moves are also really cool once you've gotten the hang of it!
...Also, the game was totally gayed up for people like me. I see what you did there, Capcom, and do not deny it. 8|
LJ RP; A recent plurk from my cousin's lovely girlfriend along with the usual wank on the anon meme led me to make several posts about the RP community. After reflecting on what was said, here's what I have to say.
I dunno whether it's just that season or if it's because I'm on vacation and I therefore have more time to do all of the things that I really couldn't do when I had to deal with school schedules and whatever else, OR if it's because I'm getting old and more conscious of my time and therefore less generous with it when it comes to stupidity and people. It's probably a combination of all three. Either way, these days? The LJ RP crowd - or more like, the whole concept and social milieu of LJ RP in general - pisses me off.
Don't get me wrong: I am not planning on dropping any of the games that I'm in right now, and I plan on remaining as active as I can possibly be. I'm in it to PLAY and build stories - it's not about making friends, or shipping, or escaping from some pressing shit in my actual life outside of the internet. It's also about having fun, but ultimately having fun by committing to a game and helping OTHER people have fun along with me.
...And that is probably why I'm getting annoyed. It seems as though most people who get into RP online are all about making friends, or shipping, or play in order to ignore their own problems and therefore get too serious, too entitled, or overall, so totally sucked into the game that everything becomes personal for them. There are so many things or people that really rile me up - mood RPers, or bints with entitlement issues, or serial appers, or flakes, or preferential players who only ping their friends, or people who complain and complain about CR/logging/other players "stealing the limelight" when they barely do anything themselves, all the trolls on the anon meme... the list goes on.
If I meet good people and end up befriending them outside of RP, well and good. But I'm not looking, and I have come to believe that usually? Establishing "connections" usually turns out to be a lie, for whatever reason, with a lot of the folks you end up pinging with. And it just gets complicated later on, when the in-game issues start cropping up, and in-game stuff ends up getting taken OUT of game.
There are times when I encounter a situation that makes me want to flip tables and I wonder why I still bother to tag around and try and put my muses out there. I think about all of the things that I could be doing with my time, and all of the people I would rather be pinging or plotting with. I suppose it's hitting a point where I'm going to start slowly withdrawing from RP altogether, and stick with muse boxing or the games that I have committed to participate in.
FANDOM; On a lighter note, I find myself at a serious disadvantage on the fandom front, with SenBasa and Gintama. There is a distressing lack of good fics to read.
...I guess this means I'll need to write my own, but that benefits other people more than it benefits me. orz
NANOWRIMO; With November just around the corner, though, I really should get my ass into gear and start doing drabbles for a warm-up, at least. Been tagging so long, I may have forgotten the proper way of fic writing, since they're two wholly different types of creative writing.
Still undecided on what project to work on, between Bloodsport, Return on Investment, Fiore di Nuvola or whatever else I've got on the backburner. Will likely end up doing either ROI or Bloodsport, but am also considering not realy doing NaNo per se, but following with the word count.
The cat has greatly missed me, it seems, and it is also time for dinner.
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Wish my life were that busy.
I don't believe I've ever RPed in my life, the process just seems to complicated for me and I always worry I'll get stuck with the exact people you described. I always like to just enjoy my fandoms and make fun of them when they deserve it.
And finding good fics seems to be an issue with every fandom. People just throw things up these days.
I thought it might be fun to participate in NaNoWriMo, but I don't think I have the dedication.
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What do you do for a living? And yeaaaah, stay away from RP, seriously. At the most, you can get together with close friends and musebox if you really want to try it out, but don't ever go into a game!
'Throw things up' gives me the image of barfing out bad fic, which is actually what a lot of people seem to do, in my opinion.
Have you considered trying out mini-WriMos? Like, 100 words a day for a month and stuff!
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I work as a warehouse stocker/custodian on base. The people I work with are cool, but the people I work FOR kinda suck. Aside from my actual boss, who I directly work for. I don't know what I'd do without her, but she takes just as much shit from the other managers as we do, so she's on our side.
That is kind of what they do. Don't even do a spelling/grammer check half the time, not that it excuses the poor writing/bad plots. I miss when I was younger and it was all new and exciting so it didn't matter to me half as much. Then again back then there were more actual writers posting fics, and not random idiots with their 'omg, I can totally write, teehee, watch me make your eyes bleed!'
Haha. I think I have a hard enough time with the fics I write for fun, and those don't have a deadline! But I guess if I couldn't turn out hundred-word mini-challenges I'd really have to laugh at myself.
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^ this, x 9,000 man.
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...Also wondering if people still read it. Haha.
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ARGH ARGH ARGH THIS THIS THIS
also it's annoying when you join a game and then start having fun and then someone STARTS SHIPPING or playing a smart character stupidly and it's like ??? why are you doing this, what are you doing this for hrnnghhh
... Hahaha I guess that's why I'm not really RPing anywhere. I mean, for me, I still do- like bits and pieces here and there and I lurk on
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