The household apparently forgot that I still have class early in the morning for most of the month - they assumed that since my younger brother's finished (he's a graduating high school senior), I would be free too. It's a good thing Dad was up; he drove me to school instead.

It was really nice, to be honest... it's been a long time since he and I have gone alone in the car like we did earlier. He used to make it a habit, driving me to school back when I was still in Poveda. Might be part of the reason why I survived the hormonal shark's pit that a private Catholic all-girls' school is - talking with him. ♥

Anyway, the day was pretty normal up until after my second class, when Anjo texted me, asking where I was and if I wanted to watch The Watchmen with him.

My answer?

FUCK YES.

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Just.

Um.

...

There are no words.




Movies like this? They give you that level of Inspired and Awesome that saturates you so much that you want to write or channel it somewhere but fuck. Fuck. There are no words.

Currently reconnecting with my notes and old works for Endtimes. Looks like I've got something to do over the summer, beyond RP and Return on Investment.

Speaking of summer: still haven't decided on whether I want to take summer class or not. We'll see. I kinda want a real break.

And fuck.

Guys.

Watch it.

Oh and hope that you catch the trailer for Transformers BECAUSE FUCK THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL TOO-- *brainsplode*

...Not for the lack of trying though. Not really. I think I can blame me not going on two things:

1.) My craptastic day yesterday.
2.) THE FOLLOWING Y!M brainspew CONVERSATION WITH ficcentricity.


( TL;DR and possibly incoherent TO THE EXTREME. LIKE DINOSAURS EXPLODING. )


Sorry, not all of it is about my Evil 8059 Plans per se, but-- PLZ TO BE AMUSED ANYWAY? *is shot*

...This is what happens when Plurk goes down. :

An exhausting day is exhausting, but it was also hella fulfilling. I had my two other graduate level classes today, and I'm with really good people and under really good teachers. This might sound a little silly, but this is the first time that I really felt I was in graduate school, and it isn't just because of the hell waiting for me by the end of the semester readings and workload... I feel as though all of the people I'm with are really there because they want to be. Several of them came back just to follow their passion or expand their horizons. Anyway, it's really fucking cool. Work's going to kill me, but I think I'm looking forward to it.

Also: my readings have inspired several possible topics for future ROD articles. dreamlessness, I'm looking at you. :3

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Headed off to meet with yukitsu after class for Kung Fu Panda, which, by the way, was Beyond Awesomeness. Now I have to watch The Incredible Hulk, Get Smart, Wanted and Wall-E when they come out. SO MANY GOOD MOVIES, SO LITTLE TIME!

Father's Day tomorrow, so the whole family will be over. I will have to get some work done, though. And maybe marathon stuff. MY BACKLOG, IT IS INCREASING!

Whether we intend it to be or not, Holy Week almost always means returning to something old... or at least it has for me. I think it's because of the fact that we kids in the Punzalan household are placed under house arrest and nothing's open, so there's no point in going out anyway.

That said, what did I end up doing? I ended up getting bitten by the Endtimes bug, and started re-reading the entirety of my very, VERY old story from beginning to end. I just finished this afternoon.

BACKGROUND: For those on you who haven't been on my flist for a while, Endtimes -- ET -- is a story I started to write (and finished) in my freshman year of college... it clocked in at around 806 pages, and went through several revamps and revisions while I was in my sophomore year. From a very simple premise (Witch Hunter Robin meets gay etc. etc.), it expanded into a gimongous universe from which some of my most endearing characters hail from. It also has several hundred spin-offs, the most popular being Thick as Thieves and Bloodsport.

I originally intended to revise ET once and for all when I was in second year, but academic concerns and other stuff kept me from doing it -- basically, I ended up not touching ET for 3-4 years (excluding an experimental run of the first few chapters in the India & Conundrum online fic journal, which I still have to go back to when ET is really ready), and occupied myself with real life, writing fanfiction and doing other projects, like prepping campaigns for table top RPGs like D&D and World of Darkness. It was a little frustrating, but now that I think about it, it was a good thing: it gave me time to really, really think about how to redo ET and expand the universe properly.

Close friends of mine (namely khursten, ezraelandvari, xhael, yukitsu, kye_kestrel, archangel_dream and omnicrescence, with Khursten, Rachel, Liss and Drew being my part-time editors at various dates) know about my preoccupation with the story, and have been constantly encouraging me to pick it up again, but this is the first time I've managed to really sit down and get started on it. That's the lovely part about graduating: having a few months to check back on what really matters.


( For TL;DR ramblings on writerly stuff and encountering an old work. )


OKAY. Now that the writer stuff is out of the way, what can I REALLY say about all of this? Just one thing:

The original version of Endtimes made a spectacular BL novel.

( Cut for some more TL;DR rambling, this time of the corrupted fangirl nature. )


Even though I didn't agree with what a lot of what she said, my CW professor DID make one point that has stuck with me; she said that sometimes, writers find themselves with an idea or a scene that they can't actually handle yet. When that happens, the best thing that one can do is to write what they can for it, and then leave it for a long, long time.

In my case, Endtimes is an example of that sort of work, something that came at a time where I wasn't ready both as an author and as a reader to handle it properly. Now that I'm older and I know more and I've read more and I have a lot more songs to pimp, I think I can finally go back to it and do it properly.

So! Who's up to sitting down with me and helping me replot? x_X

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Easter Vigil Mass is tonight. You know. Easter Vigil. The Huge-Ass Dose of Holy Where They Basically Cram Seven Readings Down Your Throat in a Single Night.

...At least my parents are home.

Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core finally finished downloading. I'll take a break from the writerly stuff to check it out. ♥