I feel like I need to swear in this title too to make it match the others.
It is 5 AM. This has been a trend for the past few days for reasons that are beyond me (besides "I woke up at 1 PM today and Boston is weird no seriously why is the sun setting at 4 PM"). I really shouldn't be up this late at night, but considering the fact that my jobs are all online blog writing (because the internships I'd applied for have yet to get back to me, and while I could very well go work for Bath & Body Works again because it's the holiday season, I'm just not that much of a masochist), I feel I can get away with it.
So, updates. Updates, updates. Quick run-down of ~*~things~*~.
Offline
1. Paper due on the 29th (serialization of the book and its relevancy in modern publishing -- which I swear to God is more interesting than my pretentiousness makes it sound). Twelve pages, double-spaced. Ask me how much research I've done so far. Answer: Still formulating the thesis.
2. Another one due early December. Close reading of a work that we've covered so far in the lit seminar. Sort of tempted to expand upon the five-page response paper I wrote last week on fridge horror and its effects on an audience of sci-fi lit. Also thinking of the Kafka paper.
3. I still haven't finished that article on the Boston Book Festival. A month after the event. Whoops.
4. November newsletter. October's probably isn't sent off due to miscommunication. Need to check. Boss told me never to do it; supervisor told me to do it. Niiice.
5. Found a nice little site (kudos to a classmate of mine) where I can write blog posts in exchange for cash. Exploiting that like whoa when I've got the time. Which at this rate will be December because damn.
6. THE LEEEEEAVES ARE TURNING. I need to do photoshoots of the Common sometime. When I'm actually awake when it's daylight out. (No, seriously, I swear to God, the sun did not set this early in Northampton. Did it? Or is my brain still going, "lol last year you were in Texas where it doesn't set forever"?) The squirrels are cutely plump and fuzzy, and there are leaves everywhere. I should not be tempted to coax one into climbing up my leg the way I saw one do this one time with a guy in the Common. Wild animals carry fleas with the plague, Jax.
7. Things I also want to do: Bake. I get the feeling the house will be largely deserted for Thanksgiving, which means I'm waking up early each day of break to bake. And there will be allspice involved because I've never used that, and it's not autumn until something gingery with allspice is made.
Sites
1. Deactivated my FB due to dramadramadrama. I didn't fight with anyone, but I did end up doing an entire project that should have been spread across two weeks in just two days due to procrastination habits and me going on FB and emoing over really odd and seemingly random things. Also seeing someone about that soon, so in case anyone saw that last note/status on there and was wondering... yeah. Totally getting that taken care of. Like a boss. I'd also go into more detail about the drama part of things, but y'all know I don't like talking about that kind of thing in a public entry... which I'm really trying to limit on this journal and whatnot, but anyway.
2. Tumblr. I have two, and I don't get it (and consequently have never used them). Do I just reblog? That's awkward. In any case, I'm starting to like visiting that place for awesome Tumblr blogs. Like this one from the creator of Kagerou, which has pretty much pushed me into liking Homestuck.
3. I really need to update SRNet. And work on stuff for the BBS. I have an idea for an ASBN giveaway for Christmas. Specifically: Time Lord Eevee? Fits perfectly with Bill's birthday, too. Because as Ole_Schooler once mentioned on one of my posts, Bill is clearly a Time Lord.
4. Things I need to update: Anyone else remember the fact that I have a cooking blog? Yeeeeeah, oops.
5. And also, need to respond to stuff. Like, I forgot about the friending meme on the Big Bang comm. Oops.
Fandom
1. mabaliciousness summed up Homestuck and my relationship with it pretty well: it's one of those fandoms where the fanwork is more interesting than the actual canon. Or she thought it would be, anyway. And while I like the story, we all know how much of a headache I got from attempting to read the comic. Meanwhile, I'm adoring the fanwork. There's the Tumblr blog I mentioned earlier, and on top of that, the various Ask (troll)s vids on YouTube are downright hilarious (and full of pretty cool art).
2. On that note, Karkat. Definitely my favorite character, just for the lol-worthy capslock rage. I'm growing to like Nepeta thanks to the Ask vids, along with Gamzee and Dave. I also think Feferi is absolutely adorable. I thought this in the actual comic, but GiraffeStuck sort of cemented this for me.
3. Playing a lot of Incubator has reeled me back into Puella Magi Madoka Magica. There's an essay I want to write (and have partially written in my last lit seminar) on the subject of Puella Magi and Christian symbolism. I mean, there's the obvious Madoka = Jesus thing going on, but there's also the subject of despair and the parallels between the Old/New Testament and pre-Godoka/post-Godoka, respectively. The series encourages you to be pretentious, okay?
4. Speaking of essays and fandom, there's another one I want to write that was spawned by my lit seminar... that may or may not be another idea for a final paper. Basically, fairy tales. You know they've been heavily edited, right? Evidently, Wilhelm Grimm, after a bit of criticism, edited the Grimms' tales to be more kid-friendly, and by that, I mean, "Vague on the subject of sex." I say sex specifically because Grimms' versions tend to be the most violent renditions of fairy tales you can get. So, one of my response papers commented on the fact that it seems like a double-standard to censor sex but not violence, and my professor wrote in the margins that this could be applicable to pretty much all media. (And it's true. Modern example of that principle in effect are movie ratings. In fact, these can be whittled even further on the subject of male and female nudity.) So... exploration of why violence is more okay than sex using examples in fandom, anyone?
5. Hey, weren't we supposed to get a second season of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt by now? We were totally being trolled, weren't we? GAINAX. *fistshake*
6. Ouran High School Host Club: The Movie. Why I can't wait for it in a single GIF:
Actually, I just wanted an excuse to post that. No, seriously, what are you doing, Tamaki?
Writing
1. Haha, NaNo. Let's talk about how I'm totally not winning you this year. On the positive side, I hit 10k this weekend. So... personal goal met = close enough?
2. On the positive side, I finished off the 23rd (!!) chapter of AEM tonight. I also lied to the chan. Apparently, Word was malfunctioning, and it's actually twelve pages without formatting, not four. (Yeah. I totally made that mistake.) So proofing that later this week between "oh god oh god I have a paper due soon."
3. And almost finished with betaing something that was due a week ago. Sorry!
4. Demodokos & Lila has barely gotten anything written for it, which is weird because you'd think with a premise of "it barely has a plot, and I write stuff in whatever medium on whatever subject I feel like using these characters," I'd be able to come up with more than a couple of poems and half a short story.
5. And yet another false start for everything else.
6. But I came up with a rather interesting experiment I might throw onto FFNet for kicks and giggles. For a complete summary of what I have in mind, see the entire concept of Magia Revolution (also why I'm getting back into PMMM). Yes, it throws the site guidelines out the window, but then again, so does half the fic in the section anyway. So why not, right?
And it is now 5:30 AM. I get the feeling I should probably actually sleep. After tagging this post with ALL THE TAGS.
So, updates. Updates, updates. Quick run-down of ~*~things~*~.
Offline
1. Paper due on the 29th (serialization of the book and its relevancy in modern publishing -- which I swear to God is more interesting than my pretentiousness makes it sound). Twelve pages, double-spaced. Ask me how much research I've done so far. Answer: Still formulating the thesis.
2. Another one due early December. Close reading of a work that we've covered so far in the lit seminar. Sort of tempted to expand upon the five-page response paper I wrote last week on fridge horror and its effects on an audience of sci-fi lit. Also thinking of the Kafka paper.
3. I still haven't finished that article on the Boston Book Festival. A month after the event. Whoops.
4. November newsletter. October's probably isn't sent off due to miscommunication. Need to check. Boss told me never to do it; supervisor told me to do it. Niiice.
5. Found a nice little site (kudos to a classmate of mine) where I can write blog posts in exchange for cash. Exploiting that like whoa when I've got the time. Which at this rate will be December because damn.
6. THE LEEEEEAVES ARE TURNING. I need to do photoshoots of the Common sometime. When I'm actually awake when it's daylight out. (No, seriously, I swear to God, the sun did not set this early in Northampton. Did it? Or is my brain still going, "lol last year you were in Texas where it doesn't set forever"?) The squirrels are cutely plump and fuzzy, and there are leaves everywhere. I should not be tempted to coax one into climbing up my leg the way I saw one do this one time with a guy in the Common. Wild animals carry fleas with the plague, Jax.
7. Things I also want to do: Bake. I get the feeling the house will be largely deserted for Thanksgiving, which means I'm waking up early each day of break to bake. And there will be allspice involved because I've never used that, and it's not autumn until something gingery with allspice is made.
Sites
1. Deactivated my FB due to dramadramadrama. I didn't fight with anyone, but I did end up doing an entire project that should have been spread across two weeks in just two days due to procrastination habits and me going on FB and emoing over really odd and seemingly random things. Also seeing someone about that soon, so in case anyone saw that last note/status on there and was wondering... yeah. Totally getting that taken care of. Like a boss. I'd also go into more detail about the drama part of things, but y'all know I don't like talking about that kind of thing in a public entry... which I'm really trying to limit on this journal and whatnot, but anyway.
2. Tumblr. I have two, and I don't get it (and consequently have never used them). Do I just reblog? That's awkward. In any case, I'm starting to like visiting that place for awesome Tumblr blogs. Like this one from the creator of Kagerou, which has pretty much pushed me into liking Homestuck.
3. I really need to update SRNet. And work on stuff for the BBS. I have an idea for an ASBN giveaway for Christmas. Specifically: Time Lord Eevee? Fits perfectly with Bill's birthday, too. Because as Ole_Schooler once mentioned on one of my posts, Bill is clearly a Time Lord.
4. Things I need to update: Anyone else remember the fact that I have a cooking blog? Yeeeeeah, oops.
5. And also, need to respond to stuff. Like, I forgot about the friending meme on the Big Bang comm. Oops.
Fandom
1. mabaliciousness summed up Homestuck and my relationship with it pretty well: it's one of those fandoms where the fanwork is more interesting than the actual canon. Or she thought it would be, anyway. And while I like the story, we all know how much of a headache I got from attempting to read the comic. Meanwhile, I'm adoring the fanwork. There's the Tumblr blog I mentioned earlier, and on top of that, the various Ask (troll)s vids on YouTube are downright hilarious (and full of pretty cool art).
2. On that note, Karkat. Definitely my favorite character, just for the lol-worthy capslock rage. I'm growing to like Nepeta thanks to the Ask vids, along with Gamzee and Dave. I also think Feferi is absolutely adorable. I thought this in the actual comic, but GiraffeStuck sort of cemented this for me.
3. Playing a lot of Incubator has reeled me back into Puella Magi Madoka Magica. There's an essay I want to write (and have partially written in my last lit seminar) on the subject of Puella Magi and Christian symbolism. I mean, there's the obvious Madoka = Jesus thing going on, but there's also the subject of despair and the parallels between the Old/New Testament and pre-Godoka/post-Godoka, respectively. The series encourages you to be pretentious, okay?
4. Speaking of essays and fandom, there's another one I want to write that was spawned by my lit seminar... that may or may not be another idea for a final paper. Basically, fairy tales. You know they've been heavily edited, right? Evidently, Wilhelm Grimm, after a bit of criticism, edited the Grimms' tales to be more kid-friendly, and by that, I mean, "Vague on the subject of sex." I say sex specifically because Grimms' versions tend to be the most violent renditions of fairy tales you can get. So, one of my response papers commented on the fact that it seems like a double-standard to censor sex but not violence, and my professor wrote in the margins that this could be applicable to pretty much all media. (And it's true. Modern example of that principle in effect are movie ratings. In fact, these can be whittled even further on the subject of male and female nudity.) So... exploration of why violence is more okay than sex using examples in fandom, anyone?
5. Hey, weren't we supposed to get a second season of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt by now? We were totally being trolled, weren't we? GAINAX. *fistshake*
6. Ouran High School Host Club: The Movie. Why I can't wait for it in a single GIF:
Actually, I just wanted an excuse to post that. No, seriously, what are you doing, Tamaki?
Writing
1. Haha, NaNo. Let's talk about how I'm totally not winning you this year. On the positive side, I hit 10k this weekend. So... personal goal met = close enough?
2. On the positive side, I finished off the 23rd (!!) chapter of AEM tonight. I also lied to the chan. Apparently, Word was malfunctioning, and it's actually twelve pages without formatting, not four. (Yeah. I totally made that mistake.) So proofing that later this week between "oh god oh god I have a paper due soon."
3. And almost finished with betaing something that was due a week ago. Sorry!
4. Demodokos & Lila has barely gotten anything written for it, which is weird because you'd think with a premise of "it barely has a plot, and I write stuff in whatever medium on whatever subject I feel like using these characters," I'd be able to come up with more than a couple of poems and half a short story.
5. And yet another false start for everything else.
6. But I came up with a rather interesting experiment I might throw onto FFNet for kicks and giggles. For a complete summary of what I have in mind, see the entire concept of Magia Revolution (also why I'm getting back into PMMM). Yes, it throws the site guidelines out the window, but then again, so does half the fic in the section anyway. So why not, right?
And it is now 5:30 AM. I get the feeling I should probably actually sleep. After tagging this post with ALL THE TAGS.