The Promised Homestuck Post

I promised I would write about my opinion on Homestuck a while ago. I made the promise before I realized that there are more interesting things to do than writing about Homestuck all day. These things include looking for Fanart of Homestuck, Reading Homestuck Askblogs and re-reading Homestuck. (And reading fluffy Homestuck AUs. OH Gog so out of character, it's all homestuck's fault)

But yeah, a promise is a promise.

First of all I'd like to thank The Rambler once again for making me read the amazing webcomic/game thing that is Homestuck! Thank you!

Anyways, Homestuck starts out a bit boring, with John just running around doing random stuff, but it gets way better. Once Sburbs gets installed it gets really interesting and after the trolls are introduced it will become part of your soul. Homestuck will infiltrate everything. Zodiac signs, colors, trolls, irony; anything you can think of will now be related to Homestuck, at least that's what happened to me (I am now proud over being a Libra! Yay! (even though I'm like one minute away from being a Virgo but Kanaya is cool too so it's fine)

Terezi. The LIBRA troll. Awesome.

This might have been annoying if not for the fact that Homestuck is really really really awesome! You might've noticed how at least half of my blog posts are Homestuck-related lately so yeah, I'm addicted.

So what's so great about Homestuck? I am tempted to say everything but that would be a stupid answer. The story is really incredible. It's a bit complicated but really well made and you can tell the author really plans his stories, but despite having a rather serious plot it's still really funny and crazy awesome so you'll be entertained even when you're really confused. Mood Whiplashes are very common but it's part of Homestuck's charm.

Another awesome thing about Homestuck is the cast. So. Much. AWESOME! So many lovable characters! Terezi is just awesome! I've dedicated my Display Picture and Font on MSN to her! I haven't had a display picture that isn't a cat in like forever! Since the first moment she showed up I knew she was going to be an awesome character and I was totally right!  Oh, and Tavros is just so pathetic and pitiful in such a lovable way, the poor thing. And Karkat is awesome and Rose and Kanaya and Sollux and John and Dave and Nepeta and everyone! (Well almost, I don't like the fish people. Part of it is discrimination against fish but I don't really like their personalities either)

They're actually called sea dwellers and are actually royalty but I don't care, they're just fish people to me.

But yeah if you haven't read Homestuck yet you really should. Not just because I am sort of obsessed with it at the moment but also because, as I've mentioned quite a few times in this post, it's incredibly awesome. Read it and you won't regret it!

Dream Part 1.

Not as lighthearted as the dreams I usually write about (or rather wrote about, on my old blog Naisu) but it was really enjoyable. So of course, I'll write about it. Carefully edited into a format that's (hopefully) both and understandable and pretty accurate recap of my dream written in a nice and story-like form. Aren't you lucky? Split into two because the dream became really long in this format and walls of texts are bad. Part 2 will be posted later

It all started with me and Nondescript Companion walking around in the woods without any real destination, just searching for something out of the ordinary. Luckily we found this something pretty much right away as we noticed an old looking shed on top of a hill. We, or perhaps just I, found this interesting and I immediately started running towards it as fast as I could.

When we came closer to the shack we saw a woman sitting on a very low bench. She had long dark hair and inhumanly pale skin ,obviously a Stringy Haired Ghost Girl but that didn't bother me as I happily waved at her.

 The woman didn't look up but somehow managed to speak loud and clear without even moving her mouth. She told us that we had to check an old house on the other side of the hill and we obeyed without any questions.

We quickly reached the rundown building and proceeded to push the door open very slowly. Inside was a room full of dusty old-fashioned furniture and a dark figure sitting in one of the corners. My Nondescript Companion grabbed my shoulder and tried to get us away from the thing but I simply walked towards it and dragged him/her along with me.

As we walked towards the creature in the shadows it turned around and showed a face frozen in a large grin, glowing red eyes and the same unnaturally pale skin that the woman who sent us there had. As we got closer the thing started waving its arms around frantically and trying to scratch us with its horribly long nails. We avoided it, my Nondescript Companion screamed  and I grabbed its wrists and pushed it into the wall. Suddenly it was gone.

Confused but satisfied I turned to my Nondescript Companion and told him/her that we should go back to the lady and tell her about this. S/-he protested with the completely logical and rational argument that since the woman and the aggressive creature we just fought looked similar and she sent us here then she probably wasn't a good guy but I protested and said that the lady was really cool and once again dragged poor Nondescript Companion with me.

Scary-looking? What are you talking about? (Picture not actually from dream of course but as fitting as it gets)

The Stringy Haired Ghost Girl sat on the bench just like we left her but once again she managed to talk without even opening her mouth. She thanked us for getting rid of what was apparently some kind of demon and explained that only the once with shining eyes were mad and that they were once sane like her. I didn't get a glimpse of her eyes until she, along with everything else around me, faded away in favor of my own room.

Yes, suddenly I was in front of my computer as if nothing had happened. Looking at the screen I found that I was already logged onto Facebook (I don't really have a Facebook account but dream me does apparently). On the screen was an app I couldn't remember seeing before. There was nothing on it except a prison cell surrounded by brick walls, an experience bar and one single button. I was outside the cell and inside was a shadowy creature, a creature with a large grin on its face and unnaturally pale skin, waving its arms frantically...

CLIFFHANGER

TL;DR: Me and Someone went to a house and saw a creepy lady who sent us to another house and we fought a weird thing and then went back and then I was in front of my computer and found an app with the weird thing in! Also I acted sort of stupid.

I'm up to date with homestuck

And it feels sort of empty.

I mean it's nice to be able to browse the wiki without worrying about spoilers and knowing that your knowledge of homestuck is as god as anyones but, well, homestuck is fun! Having thousands or at least hundreds of pages of fun stuff to read is nice, having to wait for an update every day and reading about 3 pages each day is less fun, at least I think so. I'll write yet another homestuck post later just like The Rambler did but I'm tired today so you'll have to wait.

WTF youtube

When I go to youtubes main page I am automatically redirected to the song Monster by Paramore. This isn't really a problem since it's a good song but it's kind of strange. Has youtube started remembering what youtube page you've viewed the most and made that your homepage or what? Wait, that doesn't make sense, I haven't even viewed it that much. So why? I haven't even watched it in a while... Strange.

Why I Didn't Post Anything Today

I went to Stockholm with my younger cousin (who's not really my cousin but my grandmother's sister's granddaughter but yeah) who was going to buy some sort of old dolls made of porcelain that she apparently collects. With the help of my superior guidance through the older parts of the town we found said dolls quickly but my not-cousin thought it was too expensive and bought a normal doll at a toy store. Both of us then slept at my grandmother's sisters house and spent the rest of the evening trying to open the goshdarn package with the doll (which is near impossible.), drew things in a book she had and ate chips. That's how all cool  people spend their Fridays right?

Also, all the cool people say gosh darn instead of god damn.
All of them.

Heheh, I'm not much of a Simpsons fan actually but this picture is pretty darn appropriate.

Youtube + Google = Annoyance

Or rather the fact that the accounts are connectable. This would've been O.K. if there was a way to deactivate it but it's not.

Some of you might not see the problem with this but I have to e-mails.  I used one to sign up on youtube and later used the other one on blogger and now I have to switch between them every time I post something here and then visit youtube, which is pretty much any time I post something here.

My youtube account isn't really that special but I like having my old favorites playlist and such so I'd rather not switch account and well, I shouldn't have to! I mean how hard can it be to make "Remember me on blogger only" an option?

It seems that to some people being able to connect anything to everything and always being part of a social network regardless of site is practical and stuff but I don't really think my blog have anything to do with my blog and I have no interest in connecting one with the other. At the moment I am using Chrome for blogging (which is just as well because Opera seems to have some problems with loading the Stats on blogger) and Opera for Youtube.

Here's a random but funny picture The Rambler sent a while ago. Just so I won't have a pictureless post.

 Also, note the posting time here. I'm not going back to scheduling all of my posts but I've decided that when I do posts scheduled posts I'll pick even times for them.

Naming Your Posts

I do not understand how you're supposed to do it! Or well, sometimes I do but most of the time it's just a simple word relating to the post (examples: Dreams and Nostalgia Critic). I got no idea why but this annoys me. I really do try to come up with a somewhat original title but sometimes I just can't do it.

It feels so stupid and nondescript. I mean a post named Dreams doesn't really stand out that much and really tells nothing about the post except that it's somehow related to dreams. I guess it's sort of silly but this really annoys me.

A post named dreams may very well be this as well. Actually naming a post about this Dreams is better than naming the post I wrote dreams. I get the feeling that didn't make any sense.... 

I'm Considering Watching a Magical Girl Series

Or well, a deconstructed Cosmic Horror story version of a Magical Girl manga which has it's own High Octane Nightmare Fuel page on TvTropes and is written by the same person as the Nitro+ Visual Novels. So yeah...

The anime I'm talking about is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, an anime that has quickly become really popular but that I personally didn't have any interest in since I didn't know about the Cosmic Horror story parts. I really like mixing happy and cute stuff with dark stuff and I hope it's good. I probably won't watch it right now since I'm not really in an anime mood right now but it's officially on my watchlist now!

Though having something that looks like this on my watchlist feels extremely silly

Why I Haven't Bought Dead Space 2

And no, not because I'm afraid my mom will hate it. My mother used to really like the Quake series and plays all sorts of video games so I really doubt she'd have a problem with a game being a little bit violent.

The thing is that if a game is trying to sell through telling us our mothers will hate it and that it's cool then it probably isn't that good of a game. Actually when all they have to say about it is that then it's like it doesn't even try to be a good game, it seems like it just aims at being as violent as possible like that's all a good game is and it really isn't.

I liked Dead Space 1 though I have yet to purchase it but sequels are generally not as good as their predecessor and that commercial pretty much proves it. There is no mention of what the game is about or anything, just that it's really violent and cool. Really, thinking people above the age of 15 (the game has got an 18+ rating) will buy the game for such silly reasons is stupid.

ANOTHER Homestuck post

And there's nothing saying there won't be yet another one. I haven't played Homestuck since Saturday (feels like forever) since I am waiting for The Rambler to catch up (she's at page 4900-something now while I am at page 5350) and also because [SPOILER IN WHITE] I don't want poor Nepeta to die, she's too cute to die! Ug [SPOILER END]

The new gameplay parts are really fun. You can walk around and talk to people and do stuff (the parts often called Alterniabound) , which is even more fun now that plot relevant stuff is in the game parts. Quite different from the games in the beginning of Homestuck I must say. It gets continuously m ore awesome despite being awesome all along (or well, at least after Sburbs is installed).

On another note I really like Vriska, sort of. I feel like punching her pretty much every time she does something but I don't know, I still want to imitate her writing quirk and draw her and stuff. I guess Love It or Hate It Characters aren't necessarily a question of or. There's probably a trope for that too. I really like that hair flip thing she does but that's sort of unrelated.

Since I can't (or well, won't) read Homestuck for a while I instead spend my time talking about it (which fails because I want to talk about recent events and that would spoil stuff for my friends), searching for pictures on the internet or replaying/reading my favorite parts if I can find a link to them. It's not as fun as homestuck but it's still pretty fun.

Bioshock 2

I spent most of today playing it. I've played it a lot but I am still horribly bad at it. So far I have only managed to complete easy mode but yeah, It's still awesome (the first one as well of course). It's not Bioshock in particular but First Person Shooters in general I think but since Bioshock is the only FPS I have really played (and not just played-a-few-minutes-at-friends-house-played) so I can't really tell. I'm getting better at it though, I haven't died a single time on this playthrough and finished like five levels (I think).

The weapons are really fun, especially the plasmids. Telekinesis isn't all that unusual anymore and I don't know if it's just me but I can't really make it useful but the Electric Attack is both awesome and very practical. I also quite like the drill weapon despite it being a meele weapon in a game full of guns, perhaps because I don't have to aim, but the machine gun is my favorite I think, effective and fun to use. I don't really like the shotgun though.

I always play as at least a fairly good guy and always save the little sisters. I guess I should try harvesting them on some playthrough to se the "bad" ending and if it has got any other effects on the playthrough but I don't really feel like it, it's just sort of pointless. I mean I can justify killing the NPCs but I really don't like the idea of killing brainwashed children just to get some upgrade quicker.

This post most likely doesn't make any sense if you haven't played Bioshock but if you haven't I strongly recommend it. The story and atmosphere is amazing and the gameplay is really fun. I guess if I really wanted you to play it I would at least tell you what it is about but really, you can just google it. My explanation would probably suck anyway.

 

Nostalgia Critic

The Nostalgia Critic is actually pretty funny. I normally don't find reviews very entertaining (in the end of let's-plays I always skip the part where the player talks about his opinion of the game) but he's actually really funny. I guess that's why he's famous though.

The movies/shows he reviews are always older than a certain age and for someone like me who've barely watched movies in the last decade this is actually a good thing. I remember several of the shows and almost all of the cartoons from when I was young and watching his reviews is a pretty good way to sort of, uhm, be nostalgic about the shows without having to watch the whole thing again. Watching reviews for my old favorite shows and movies (Sonic SatAM, Secret of Nimh and the X-men cartoon) and seeing that the shows I liked as a kid weren't trash is also fun and as stupid as it is I'm sort of proud over having such good taste even as a kid. (Even though I guess it's logical that kids like quality stuff too, they aren't that retarded I guess)

This is The Secret of Nimh. Pretty cool for a movie about mice I must say. (It had an Ages 11+ rating but I watched it when I was like 3 and loved it. I don't know if stuff like that is what made me love dark stuff or if I liked it because I already loved stuff that was a bit too scary for my age.)

The reviews for bad stuff I've never heard of are of course just as fun, if not more so. Watching people mock things and being sarcastic is almost always more fun than watching people praise things after all (pretty much the reason why Accentuate the Negative is so popular: Poking fun at things is fun). Either way, you can find the Nostalgia Critic here (or through a simple google search), my favorite video is the Carebears Sequel.

Dreams

I used to have really awesome dreams, so awesome I used to write them down and blog about them and tell people about them, but now it seems I'm in a period of boring dreams. Normally my dreams consists of things like me running around being badass and fighting insane murderers, mario snowmen and doing awesome stuff but the last week it's just been confusing and boring dreams on the rare associations that I actually remember them. This is a little depressing.

My nightmares never involve dark woods or graveyards or post-apocalyptic scenery, that stuff is just ordinary awesome dreams. My nightmares are about water.

It might just be because I'm sick and my mind is too tired to make up fun stuff but it's still really freaking annoying. Sleep feels much more exciting when you have cool dreams, even if said dreams would sometimes be classified as nightmares in the eyes of most people while my actual nightmares would be classified as normal dreams for most people.

I am considering writing about some of my dreams here on this blog but at the same time I don't really have the energy to and well, as i mentioned my dreams aren't all that entertaining at the moment so I guess I won't do it right now at least. Oh, by the way: I really got to stop this nonchalant meh-attitude I tend to have over my blog. It's probably not very pleasant to read.

My Blog Is Ugly

Really, I don't even have a header! All my other blogs had headers before they had  posts! What happened?

I 'll fix it eventually, I promise. I got no idea what I want it to look like though. It should represent me and this blog but just putting a cat and some manga in the header feels boring. I don't really want to have an avatar on my header either. I had that on Otakubin and that one was really awesome but for some reason I feel like I can't use that sort of avatar when I'm using the name Catzy and making an avatar that actually looks like me is incredibly boring.

This was my Avatar at Otakubin. The Rambler  (who I shared the blog with) drew it.

Hmm....

Or is it?

Oh well, I'll get some sort of header some day anyway, Look forward to it!!!!!!!!

Mushishi

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these deadly creatures, mushi, came into terrifying being. And they still exist and wreak havoc in the world today. Ginko, a wanderer with a sardonic smile, has the knowledge and skill to save those plagued by mushi . . . perhaps. (This is the Official Description, I don't feel like making my own)

Mushishi is mostly a collection of oneshots (at least so far, I'm on book 2 of 10) with a recurring main character but the one shots are all varied and interesting. The Mushi are very diverse, some look like ranbows while others look like snails, and it's very interesting to learn about the different types. Some stories revolve around Ginko trying to get rid of the Mushi and protect a human but just as often he just observes the Mushi.

Mushishi isn't much of an action manga, it's calm and takes care in building up an atmosphere. It's pleasantly strange and the stories do not feel repetitive, something that almost-oneshot-mangas often fall victim . The stories could easily have been played for scares (is that a real saying?) and well, sometimes it's still somewhat creepy I guess but rather than antagonizing the Mushi (which would have been very easy considering they sometimes end up killing people) the manga shows they are just creatures trying to live.

The biggest problem with the manga is the artstyle. Not that it's ugly or anything but it's very hard to tell characters apart and almost all oneshot characters look the same, luckily this is  not a big issue since the oneshot-characters rarely return after their chapter.

Mushishi is, like most things, not for everyone. If you do not like oneshots or can't stand strange things it's probably not for you, but I really líked it. When I write reviews I have a tendency to Accentuate the Negative (if you remember my Higurashi Spinoff Review, I thought that  book was fairly entertaining.) about every work I do not consider really awesome so that should say something about my opinion of the manga. I'll keep reading it!

Posting Trollface Makes You Popular

32 people have viewed my post about my trolling teacher today. The second most popular post is a tie between 4 other posts, all with one (1) view each. Since it's apparently getting views I think I should consider actually making it into a comic, sometimes in the future (read: never)

The Rambler wrote about something similar happening to her, with a trollface comic she posted ending up on the first page of Google Image Search and being her main source of "readers". Of course these readers aren't interested in our actual blogs, they just want Trollface.

Most people who find my post this way are probably going to be disappointed since they get here by googling Trolling Teacher and probably want to play a smart prank on their teacher, which is the complete opposite of what my post is about.

 Isn't this a very special 100th post? To be honest I don't see why the 100th post should be so special anyway...

Make A Post About How You're Neglecting Your Blog

End up posting much more than usual

Is that irony or will I be flamed for suggesting it might be?

The Story of Frans

Frans is a little red cat born about 5-8 years ago. He's been quite an unfortunate kitty all of his life but hopefully he'll be happy from now on.

At first Frans was my sisters cat and lived at her home together with another cat, the younger and rather silly-looking Nelson. Since I very rarely meet my sister despite us living  in the same town I didn't really see him a lot until the day my mom said she had to take my sisters cat to the vet and I asked to come with her.

This wasn't the brightest idea since I had to sit at a cold bench and wait for the doctors to finish whatever they were doing. I don't remember what exactly was wrong with him but I remember it requiring several operations and giving the cat medicine every day for X weeks.

Since my sister worked all day and apparently didn't have time to give her cat medicine mom ended up visiting him every day for these weeks and I often came with her, though I just as often ended up just playing with the younger and more energetic Nelson while my mom gave Frans his medicine and petted him a little.

Once again I have forgotten the exact circumstances but for some reason my sister couldn't keep her cats and both of them ended up living at my fathers house. His sickness as well as a neighbors cat bullying Frans had left him timid and careful while Nelson was silly and carefree. My father isn't really all that good with easily frightened animals and has a tendency to try and pick them up and carry them away whenever he feels like it and use a really loud voice when talking to them. This was fine with Nelson who thought getting attention and having someone to play with was like the best thing ever but didn't really work as well with Frans.

Frans at my fathers house.

Because of this Nelson quickly became my fathers favorite and he unconsciously begun to favor Nelson to the point where he thought the silly little cat literary couldn't do anything wrong (when my father found a shattered flower pot and Nelson next to it, covered in dirt he still thought poor Frans was the one responsible despite the older cat not even being close to the flower pot because, according to him,  Nelson never broke anything!) and with Nelson being a lot more social than Frans the shyer cat got sort of pushed away.

And one day my father was supposed to move in with his girlfriend (this didn't happen because he's got a job here and she lives two hours away and now he lives with my mom, giving me sort of a complicated family situation to explain to people, what's with my divorced parents living together despite not dating and the father having a girlfriend who's aware of it) and got rid of his home . This meant the cats had to find a new home since my fathers girlfriend has got a dog (a big and very playful dog).

Nelson ended up living with us (mom, dad, me) which was really fortunate since my father and the silly-looking cat ended up being reunited again but finding a home for Frans was harder. Of course we would have adopted him as well but the cat we already had (Sonic, commonly referred to as the meatball with legs or Beuf) hated him and the one time we had tried to introduce them to each other (a long time ago when my sister was on vacation and Frans lived with us) Frans got banished to the top shelf in the closet for a week with Sonic chasing him up there again every time he attempted to go down (we put up food and water of course and closed the closet so he would get to be alone).

Getting someone to take care of  a five year old cat of no specific breed and a history of diseases isn't easy and we had almost given up when one of my friends who already had two cats stepped in.

Soon Frans was moved from my fathers house to my friends house and I was the one to drop him of. At first things were a little chaotic and we had to chase one of her cats into another room with the help of a vacuum cleaner and I was a bit concerned about if it would really work. However looking down at Frans and seeing him actually rubbing his cheek against my friends leg, letting her pet him and purr I was reassured.

Less than a year has passed since Frans started living with my friend but I can tell he's happier than ever. Now he's got two considerate humans (My friend and her mother) who want nothing more than to make him happy and he's befriended both of the other cats. When I came to visit at first he would run away from me, perhaps because he thought I would take him away again, but now, just a few months after he started living with them, I can already see changes in his behavior. He no longer  runs away as fast as someone opened the door but now he comes to see who it is and sometimes even lets the visitors pet him, something that would've never happened a year ago. He's walking around the house and playing instead of hiding and comes to his owners seeking affection often. It seems Frans has finally found a home.

*All pictures except the 2nd one belong to Omia (Current owner of Frans) and are used with permission

My First Meeting With TVTropes

Written on the request of the Rambler.

Once upon a time a slightly younger Catzy, at the time called Charles, was browsing through an image site she'd found by mistake. Said image site was called E-shuushuu and is still regularly visited by Catzy because of it's worksafe material of high quality, but that's a whole other story.

In the comment section I found a link to a site I had never seen before, a site with articles full of potholes and weird words Charles did not understand. Charles simply closed this site without further investigation. (It seems that when Charles refer to herself in third person Charles wants to call herself Charles and since that was Charles name at the time I''ll just refer to myself as Charles in this text)

However it seemed this site followed Charles. It started popping up everywhere! On forums, on Google, even some internet friends brought it up.

Soon Charles had become curious about the contents of the site and decided to read something from it. At fist this was nearly impossible because of all the words (What's a Freudian Excuse? Who's The Scrappy? Poe's Law?) but within a few weeks Charles could understand every single one of them and completely fallen in love with the site.

And that was the story of how I, Catzy formerly known as Charles, first found TvTropes. Today I can not imagine a life without it, it has become the source of information, inspiration, recommendations (for manga, video games and books) and some way to say fun that ends with -ation! I have also introduced several of my friends to TvTropes with varying results and it has changed the way I talk. TvTropes even has a trope called TvTropes Will Ruin Your Life to explain the addiction it caused but in my case it didn't ruin it, it enchanted my life! Or something...

So there you have it Rambler, the story of how I found TvTropes. At least I think that's how it went.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Spinoff

Here's the first of the reviews I said I would do! Enjoy!

Now I love Higurashi, it's got mysterious and dark, nice characters and effective contrast between happy and scary. The spin off however... Not so much....

The spin off, whatever it was called, is quite a bit different from the rest of the series. First of most of the original characters aren't even in it and those who are aren't a central part of the plot. This is not a problem by itself but it requires the Author of the spin off to come up with and develop their own set of likable and sympathetic characters so the audience cares. This spin off did not do that.

It seems like too much effort was put into making the female main character the average girl that her actual personality was completely forgotten in an attempt to make the audience relate to her more. I have no idea if this works for the average girl since I am sure I am not average but since Higurashi is Seinen, aimed at men in their twenties, I doubt it was such a good idea.

No, actually, scratch that. The original higurashi was seinen, the latest spin off is definitely shojo. The art style makes it look like Tokyo Mew Mew and suddenly a classic shojo romance with prince charming and bland school girl takes a central place in the plot. Prince Charming, of course has got no personality besides being her boyfriend.

Is that Momoiya Ichigos twin sister? No, it's Higurashi, can't you tell?

To anyone who's read or heard about Higurashi a shojo romance might sound strange since Higurashi is usually dark and bloody and people murder each other. It is strange, very strange. It's a badly blended mix between a shojo romance and murder mystery where on one page Bland Girl is on a date with Bland Boy and on the next one Bland Girls grandmother is drowning puppies in the bath tub. Oops, spoiler.

Oh well, I am making this sound worse than it is. It's actually pretty decent and the dark parts are still entertaining even though there's boring shojo drama in between them and the characters are bland. Compared to the rest of Higurashi it's trash but for a shojo horror manga it's actually pretty good.

Sorry

I am neglecting this blog in favor of Homestuck. It just seems more productive somehow.

THIS IS MEANINGFUL

Potato Chips! Potato Chips Everywhere!

As the title implies, the world seems to be showering me with potato chips lately!

Yesterday a friend found a half eaten bag in one of my drawers, of course I ate them after he'd left since I love potato chips. Today my friend and I decided to buy some potato chips to eat while watching a movie and now my mom randomly bought me another bag of potato chips.

I never thought I'd refuse an offer for tasty potato chips but I really can't eat anymore.

Or can I? They still look tasty! No, no I can't. I'm going to be sick if I do.

Oblivion, I Guess

The Elder Scrolls IV AKA Oblivion, I purchased it

In october last year, when my internet wasn't working and I had the worst freaking cold ever and couldn't go outside and had absolutely nothing to do.

I installed it today.

I feel a bit bad about neglecting it like that, I bought five games and the other four have been installed months ago, I can't help but wonder what made me ignore Oblivion.

As for my opinion of it I just started playing but the world seems nice and character customization too, the latter however is completely pointless as the game is played in first person view.The controls are weird, I do not understand how I am supposed to talk to people or examine things, all I know how to do is hit things (I should probably read the manual). Also I find windowed mode utterly pointless since the game crashes if you try to change activity, I man what?

The world is pretty, though I have barely seen it yet...

 Oh and one more thing, why are there two CDs of it? I only needed one to install and play the game so what is the second one? I am confused

Hello

I am stupid. I visited the manga bookstore and bought 11 books today. Came home and realized I bought one of them last month  but forgot to bring it with me to Norrland. Is anyone interested in getting Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei 9 for free? Or maybe I should return it? I have no idea what I should do with it... I'm so stupid. Talk about waste of money. I could've bought Natsume's Book of Friends 7 or Mushishi 4 instead! Why!?

Ah oh well, I'll just ask my mom to return it and buy me another book. But ugh, I'm still stupid.

I'm Home!

Trip was nice, I ate weird but tasty pancakes, saw a waterfall and almost got stuck in the middle of the night 60 swedish miles away from home.

And I read manga, lots of it! I bought quite a few new mangas before I left and will review them as well as a stand-alone spinoff to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. This will be a grand total of at least four reviews! Look forward to them.

During my 12 hour trip home I also got a few ideas for scary stories, chances are you won't get to read them but I've changed my mind before.

I'll be reviewing this.

Things I Want To Do Before I Die

• Become immortal
• Become really rich
• Become a cyborg
• Have at least ten cats at the same time
• Have at least three houses at the same time, in three different countries
• Learn boxing (Or karate or something else, become really badass anyway)
• Learn at least six languages (I already know 2 completely and am learning 3 so only one more)
• Make a video game (I am already working on a simple Visual Novel)
• Make a GOOD video game (Said Visual Novel does not qualify)
• Invent something awesome

Worst Earworms - Top 5!

As with everything, your mileage may vary!


5. Johnossi - What's the point (This one is definitely Your Milage May Vary . It's pretty bland and not as upbeat and simple as normal earworms but for whatever reason I can't get the chorus out of my head.)

4. Poker Face - Lady Gaga (Though that might be more for the fact that it was on the radio at least 6 times every hour for like half a year. I'm sort of tired of it know but it still gets stuck in my head each time I hear it. Haven't watched the music video but since it's Gaga it's probably weird as hell)

3. Electro Gypsy

2. Anything By Kesha (Even though she really can't sing. Catchy is not = good!)

1. World Is Mine - Hatsune Miku  (Though I guess everything by Hatsune Miku is really catchy this one is by far the worst. The second worst is Sweet Devil)

Unusual Opinions of Mine, Formerly Called "Things I Hate (That Everybody Else Loves)

Things I Hate That Everybody Else Loves:

-Swans. Gosh, anyone who's ever met a swan knows they aren't worth all the (positive) attention they're getting. They are the most evil birds in the world! I've been chased by a swan twice after trying to feed it. I mean they're always portrayed as wonderful and kind in stories, how was I supposed to know they were insane? Stupid birds.

-Soda. It just tastes so weird, it's like drinking something you created in chemistry class. I much prefer natural, non-bubbly stuff like orange juice and homemade lemonade.

- Babies. Uhm, I guess hate is a strong word but I really don't like them. It's not personal or anything but they can't even use the toilet themselves or eat properly and they scream all the time. I'm sorry but I find that gross, not cute. No offense to babies everywhere or their parents or siblings or something, I've been a baby too you know, I just don't like being too close to them.

This is soda, not a baby, but if I put it in it's proper place it looks strange.

ON THE OTHER HAND
I just realized I don't want such a negative post on my blog so I'll also list 3 things I love, things not many people appreciate.

- Social Science. If School only consisted of Social Science I'd love going to school. I like knowing how society works and learning things I'll actually get to use everyday, or at the very least once every fourth year. The assignment are mostly things I'll do for fun like debates.

  - Spinach. I really don't get why some people hate it so much. It's tasty and easy to eat and unlike tomatoes and oranges it doesn't hurt if you eat it after you've bitten your cheeks. And the little leaf shaped things make you feel like a rabbit or something when you eat them. That's a good thing, in this case.

- Spiders. Okay, this may be related to my love for things other people consider creepy but I don't think they're creepy. I mean they look funny with all their little legs and round body. And they have fur! I mean they aren't as cute as cats but for insects (or whatever they are) they're adorable. And friendly too, at least if you're bigger than them. They just sit in some corner and eat all those really annoying insects, you know like mosquitoes, the ones who actually get in your face and bites you for no reason. Uhm, this doesn't include the poisonous spiders in Africa and stuff, I mean they still look funny but only an idiot would call those friendly. This post mostly applies to the harmless kind found in old houses and stuff.

This is a Goliath Bird Eating Spider. I don't think it's scary but since it is one of the worlds largest spiders people have a perfectly acceptable reason of being terrified of it. The tiny things you are most likely going to meet however...

Best Things About Summer (Vacation)

- Sleeping until noon

- You have time and energy to actually do stuff when you aren't in school all day

- You Don't have to bring a jacket with you everywhere you go

- You don't have to worry about falling on ice and die

- Summer vacation is a justified reason for both laziness and overindulgence in all things fun (or tasty!)

- If you're falling behind in any subject in school you have time to work with it (Yeah right!)

And pretty much everything else about summer. Summer is even more appreciated in Sweden and other cold places I think, since our winters are often painfully long. This one has to be a new record, the first snow came in like October and we even had snow in May, What - The - Hell?! After that summer is like heaven, even with the mosquitoes and the fact that everything will melt if you leave it in the sun too long.

Favorite Sites

• TVTROPES! My beloved TvTropes where I can find entertaining and accurate information about any series without having to risk mind scarring! Also extremely useful when writing stuff since you can make sure to use, subvert, deconstruct, reconstruct, parody or avoid certain tropes. Oh, and it's really addicting and fun too.
   
• Know Your Meme. Are you bored? Why not learn something? I am not talking about learning German or memorizing the periodic table, I mean learn something USEFUL! On Know Your Meme you can find every notable meme, complete with history, common uses and examples. With your newfound knowledge in memes you can go from n00b to LEET in no time flat!
  
• Youtube. Youtube has got everything you could ever want. Want to see the music video to the latest Lady Gaga song? Youtube has it. Want a clip from a cartoon from the early 90s? Youtube has it.
  Want the english translation to a rather obscure Vocaloid song? Youtube has it. Want to see cute cats eating for fifteen minutes? people Let's Playing their own Mario ROM Hacks? People making fun of the person Let's playing his own ROM Hack? Youtube has it.
  
• Cracked. The number one source of unnecessary, somewhat reliable facts! Who doesn't want to know about The 4 Most Homophobic Comics Ever Created or The 6 Most Wildly Irresponsible Publicity Stunts in History? And if all that text is too much for you there is always charts like The 7 Stages of Not Doing the Dishes, Caption Contests and Photoplasty Contests like If Everything in Life Listed the Side Effects.
  
• Creepy Pasta Wiki. A wonderful site full of nicely organized after topic. Of course many of the stories are pretty bad but many of them are actually good as well. Not only are there stories, there are pictures and videos as well, and many of them too. Lots of good stories you haven't already heard a million times, all you need is the energy to find them!
  
•  Microhorror. Uhm okay, so there is no way to casually browse through all the stories and they are not sorted in any way but if you have the energy to actually do that you'd probably just use the Creepy Pasta Wiki or some other site. MicroHorror is for the time when you want to read something creepy but have no energy to concentrate longer than a minute or something. All stories are less than 666 words long. Teheh.
  
•  Mangafox. I remember a long time ago when I first started to read manga in English, I was amazed at how much good manga never got translated to Swedish! With mangafox even Americans and Englishmen can be annoyed at all the manga nobody ever makes an official translation they can read of! This, of course, goes for any site with fan translated manga but I choose mangafox because of the superior layout and advanced search system.
  
•  E-shuushuu. I really can't decide! I must admit E-shuushuu's got a way better design and every picture is most certainly a picture of high quality, something that can not really be said about Zerochan. E-shuushuu's tagging system is also great and they even have a special tagging team who make sure everything is tagged correctly. A perfect image board in all ways except one: They forbid their users to upload any picture not featuring at least one female. Oh, well, you can't have everything.
  
• Zerochan. The other Image Board I like. This one is clearly dominated by females, with 41K pictures of Hetalia and where more than half of the 20 most popular Haruhi Suzumiya pictures are yaoi. It gets a bit annoying when trying to find pictures of female characters but it's pretty much the only descent image board where not at least 90% af all pictures are pictures of Bishojos.

Huh

My Strange Habit

(At least some of them)

- Singing and shaking my head from side to side when I'm really bored. This has led to some people questioning my sanity when I randomly start singing in Japanese while we're waiting for our english teacher.

- Randomly snapping my fingers while walking. I did it all the time before but now I only do it every once in a while.

- Making weird faces when waiting for something/someone. Not mocking faces, just weird ones like pulling my lower eyelids down while squeezing my cheeks together and trying to smile.

- Wanting to rephrase sentences to avoid using "that" in the "wrong" way just because I don't like how it sounds. The "wrong" way is for example "The cat that loved cheese". "That cat loves cheese" is okay however.

- Making up stories for all the original characters I draw despite having no intention of involving them in any story. They're usually related to each other if they're on the same paper and most of them are insane. All of them have plenty of flaws, probably a bit too many...

- Always posting a picture in every post, even if it's an irrelevant one.

Day 30 - Your favorite anime opening/ending theme

The Final Day is here! I am actually far away by now. This is a scheduled post!

Pandora Hearts - Parallel Hearts

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 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Season 1 opening with the same name

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Naraku no Hana

Higurashi no Naku Koror ni Rei - Superscription of Data

Shakugan no Shana - Hishoku no Sora

Vampire Knight - Still Doll

Vampire Knight Guilty- Suna no Oshiroi

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (STUPID TEXT WON'T MOVE TO THE LEFT AUGH AND THE VIDEO WON'T WORK HOW ODDLY FITTING I SHOULD MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT HOW I AM IN DESPAIR BUT I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT GOOGLE THE OPENING YOURSELF BYE WHAT A NICE WAY TO END THIS 30 DAY CHALLENGE DON'T YOU THINK!)

Things I Want In My Residence When I Grow Up

• Cats. Of  course. Lots of them! I want a whole pack! (<- I know you don't call a group of cats a pack, but I do)
  
• A really large swimming pool, and by really large I mean larger than my house. And I want a large house.
  
• A fountain. A large one with many layers or whatever you call them and with pretty sculptures. No actually I want many fountains! One close to the pool, one in the front garden, one in the hall and so on.
  
• Chickens. A magazine I read said you could have them as pets. Apparently they are very friendly and personal and you can have them in your garden without any sort of permission. Also, free eggs (not that I care, I just want a funny pet)
  
• My very own roller coaster. It's not a realistic dream, really, but if I ever get rich enough I'll build my own roller coaster, an awesome one. Way too many people spend their money on shoes and plastic surgery when they could be building an amusement park.

Stupid Hen refuses to go where I want it so I guess I'll just randomly put it at the end of this post.

Day 28 - A manga you think is so brilliant it’s like literature

Hmm... Well, I think many mangas reach the quality of ordinary literature but the ones that would actually fit as literature are already adapted into light novels.

Let's see... Baccano, Haruhi Suzumiya, Durarara, Missing and so on all begun as light novels and both Death Note and xxxHolic have spinoffs in novel form (or is the Death Note novel an adaption? I don't know) so yeah... I mean there are many good mangas which haven't been made in to novel but those are simply the ones more fit as manga. I mean a novel version of Natsumes Book of Friends would sort of fail since well, the visuals are sort of very important.

Day 27 - A manga you would never buy

Stuff like Negima! Okay, I bought it once upon a time after trusting the words of a lying friend and reading the very nondescript text on the back of the book but now I am smart enough to avoid such disastrous purchases. Hopefully.

I won't buy boring realistic stuff either, unless it's by accident.

Borrowed this one from Varelsen/The Creature once. Read like half of it, seemed pointless

Day 26 - The last manga you read

Sanka Rea. It's weird, very weird. Description bellow from Mangafox!

Furuya's obsessed with zombies. He collects any figurines, watches any movie, and plays any game with the living dead, and is even only interested in zombie girls. When his cat dies, Furuya begins trying to raise it from the dead using an ancient book of the occult he bought from a shop. But what will happen when he sees the idol of a nearby all girl's school walking close to where he conducts his experiment, wishing to die and be reborn as a different person?

Most people can probably figure out what will happen to the girl.

I'm not sure why I like this manga but I do. I read like 6 chapters in a row when I only intended to check out the first few pages. It's got way too much fan service and there is a lot of Seinen Romance stuff in it but yeah, it's entertaining.

The Zombie Girl. Doesn't really look like a walking corpse, does she?

So far everything is sort of not-so-serious and even the girl's abusive parents are played for laugh half the time, as is Furuya's Zombie Fetish. It's sort of Dude Not Funny but still it sort of is funny. God, I don't even know. All I know is I somehow ended up finding it entertaining, sue me. Hahah, if only I had found this a few days earlier and I would have had a proper answer to the question about guilty pleasure manga.

Day 25 - The best manga oneshot

Hmm, well I don't really remember most oneshots I read but Crimson Shell (by the author of Pandora Hearts) was pretty good and so was The Enigma of Amigara Fault (by Junji Ito). I only own Crimson Shell since The Enigma of Amigara Fault isn't available in english but yeah, it's a tie! I've already answered this once on Otakubin i recall.

I'll use the same picture as I did back then because I'm lazy!

On The Subject of Haunted Houses

I hope to visit an authentic one someday. You know, one with a dark and horrible past with rumors about real hauntings. I don't think I'd want to go on a group tour or something because being with too many excited people really destroys the mood. I'd be happy to just bring a friend and walk around on my own in some old castle with a history of murder and where screams and whispers can be heard at night.

 So far, this is impossible. The reason for this is that I don't know anyone else who's interested in creepy stuff. Or well, there are some guys I know over the internet but yeah, I've never actually met them and I really don't feel like bringing them with me to an abandoned house and they live 20 to 80 miles (swedish miles, 1 mile = 10 kilometer) away from me.

I mean I've been trying to get someone to visit Gröna Lunds haunted house in years and I've been there with at least five different people but all of them refused, claiming that it was too scary. They are awesome people but I really need a friend who loves creepy stuff.

Putting a non-creepy picture so nobody has to lie awake thinking about smile.jpg or something.

Day 24 - The best long manga series

Hmm... How long is "long"? If it has to be more than 20 books then the answer is Full Metal Alchemist but if about 15 books is enough it is rivaled by Higurashino Naku koro Ni. Now that I think about it 15 books isn't that long. So yeah, Full Metal Alchemist it is.

I have no pictures of FMA though so I'll put a Higurashi Picture here instead.

Day 23 - Best anime villain

Oh, come on, you know who this is. I've already dedicated three posts to the trolling, phonestamping, awesome but evil Izaya Orihara. Also, Izaya and Yuki are the only characters who have their own tags on this blog so far.


So Yeah, Izaya Orihara it is!

Gröna Lund For The Win!

Gröna Lund is a Swedish amusement park. I visited it with a classmate called Felicia (not the Tsundere Queen Yokohime in case anyone who knows her and me thinks so, another Felicia) and it was awesome!

Apparently Alice Cooper was at Gröna Lund at the same time, me and Felicia agreed it was better than Erik Saade or something but as Gröna Lund started to get more and more crowded and the lines to food and rides started to get ridiculously long we considered going home.

However this was not needed as all the lines disappeared once Alice Coopers performance actually started. In other words, once Alice Cooper started singing we had the whole park (well, save for the music scene and the restaurants next to it, as well as two rides which they closed so people could stand on them) for (almost) for ourselves! Yay!

We, however, ignored most of the park and just rode the light blue roller coaster Jetline like 200 times

However, all these things fade next to the fact that I got someone to visit the haunted house with me! I am so happy! Really Really Really happy! All of my other friends are scared to death of mildly scary stuff like haunted houses and survival horror and creepy pasta and even though Felicia mostly ran through the Haunted house and I couldn't stay to study the design of things or check out everything it was still fun!

I mean sure, it's not really creepy and the people (/"ghosts") just look kind of cool and not really that creepy it's still pretty fun. I would have probably enjoyed it more if not for the fact that The Haunted House somehow ended up really crowded and I sort of got pushed along when I would have rather explored things. Haunted Houses are lovely anyway!

<3!