Cleaning out the Closet/Junkheap
As I mentioned earlier, Dad's endeavouring to turn my room into a 'workstation'. Unfortunately this meant shifting a bed that I think is older than myself, with a contemporary mattress, and about, oh, seven years of accumulated papers, knick knacks and General Junk. So, it was with slight reluctance I set to work digging through the pile in order to free up some floorspace to dance on. Perhaps, I thought to myself, I shall find that old cartoon I made of Chin Isou, Cookies nyam nyam and Cho Gonou.
Minutes into the search, I sms-ed firnheledien excitedly, 'Cleaning out sum ancient junk n i found a pic of d shark fr petra o d ocean 8-)'. Isn't it nice to know even Mweeble uses smspeak? Petra Of The Ocean was a comic I cooked up long before I even touched my first fanfic. She started out as a guy who rode a dolphin--not a merperson, a plain ol' guy--who fought a badass cowboy shark and later went on to save three magickal jewels in a storyline I never quite managed to banish from my subconscious. (Ah, you know the drill--three jewels/blades/people must be found and when they come together they shall save the world...) It was so. OLD. It was an innocent time, the times of Petra and Peter Penguin's Proverb Stories (which had a horse literally bite a girl's head off, it must be said, with flying blood trails and all. I was a gory kid.)
There was a lot of stuff I dug up from high-school and middle-school exam papers, and even a few of them really really old newsprint scribbles. ^_^ Here's what I ended up keeping for review:
Pen-on-newsprint doodles of Sanzo and Gojyo
Goku and Hakkai have their own sections, but gods alone know where THOSE went. A whole bunch of faces, a full-body or two, rather unsuccessful sketches of the shoureijuu, some pictures of Kouryuu and chibi!Gojyo...nothing really fantastic. But there was a lot of studying Sanzo's droopy eyes, and the Sanzo sketches were titled something to the effect of S3 - Silly Sanzo Studies. Gojyo's portion was titled G3 - Guide to the Gojyo Glomper and hastily subtitled '(which I am not.)'
Anyone want some irony? It's particularly delicious this time of year.
The Mulan script for Lit Night 2003
...Yes, this made Mrs N call me Mushu for THREE. YEARS. Yes, I showed the world just how disgusting a dragon could look digging its ears. Still...you know what? I had a hell of a lot of fun pulling that off. :D And I didn't have to wear a jester's hat, which is always a plus.
An early picture of War Angel Sha Gojyo, and chibi!Gojyo with an armful of flowers.
An old AU project I'd batted around for a while. Tenshimaden Angelyuki--stop laughing!!! *emo tear* And hey, what can I say, chibi!Gojyo and flowers inspires puns about being loved and being killed. 愛される、殺される、パターンいいじゃん！ｗ
Another sketch of Angel!Gojyo/Goku and Archangel!Sanzo meeting Daemon!Doku and Archdaemon!Touten.
The twist? DokugakuJien was Gojyo's old partner; Touten killed Sanzo's master/partner. Goku's kind of standing there looking dazed @@
The lyrics to Shousetsu Sentai Museman
Yes, it's a tribute to Maskman; yes, it's altered to reflect almost everything about fiction writing. And the first chorus goes, in slightly shaky Japanese, "Fic! Fic! Aura Power/Keep on writing, Aura Power/Fic! Fic! Aura Power!/Post it up, Aura Power/And you who keep on writing are beautiful, Aah/Fanfiction Battle Team Museman".
It's crack, but I don't make this stuff up. And that's not even the part where the keyboard is the path to reviews...
A sketch of Sha Touma, Gojyo's father.
Think Jien, with stubble, a longer face and less meat on his bones. There's a not-bad pic of Gojyo there too. You can tell where the son got his sex appeal from XD
Ultraman Chaos and a mid-complete Tobiron
Both come from my old fic, HSG, or my half-completed rewrite of it. Now if only I knew where THAT went. -_-
Chaos isn't quite mine, technically - the original idea belonged to Mosugoji, but I wrote his backstory and I'm not sure if I already asked him if I could use the guy. Heheheheh...
Zoffy coming face-to-face with Chaos, and some backstory
And more shaky Japanese, and a bit of fun being poked at the Malay translators for UCG. "Wah ah ah!//Seorang wira Ulutura sebenarnya?" And there's some kind of planning for the final art exam for that year. I think it was a florist's logo.
Jared (son of Jack Redshirt) getting blown away liek woah.
...Funny, I didn't know explosions went 'Shuuuuugogogo', kid, I thought they went 'DON'. [/dry] Ah, anyway, so there's Jarecchi getting caught in some crossfire and a picture of the three remaining Ultra Brothers. They look OK, still very fierce despite being superdeformed with big goo goo eyes. x_x
There are also some dogs with mad eyes.
Jared getting blown away liek woah AGAIN.
Only it's in pen! And it's fiercer! :D;;; And some stuff about the next monster, and some kind of chant to revive Tobiron's Ultran consciousness.
A set of debate notes from 2002
I think this is the one where I got so worked up I gave my then-classmate the smackdown when she objected one time too many. Sorry Shob =_=;;;
'Storyboarding' for the end of Hikari Sabre Gekiden Ultra Mitsurugiden.
Miyuko's there, and so's Tobiron, and of course Zoffy.
Of course it's coincidence Miyuko's hair looks like mine! Honest! @____@ And there is the terse, scribbled comment of 'you have no idea how HARD it is to put an oxygen mask on a bird?!'
UM Arion proposing to his huge crush, Hoshi. After a fashion.
A brief factoid: Hoshi is actually M2000's design under a different name. *shame* And there is a LOT of blah Japanese. And I'm still trying to figure if the daisy ring is an old reference, but the core material? Pretty gorram sweet. X3 Go Arion, you clumsy green git. And go Zoffy!
The best part, what made me notice this bunch of scribbles in the first place? The great line 'Arion tersipu-sipu' (Arion is tongue-tied). Mwahahahaha!
UM Ajirou's stats
Nothing to see here, move along. The Japanese makes my eyes bleed. @@
The many quotes of Scudwan Armath-Olon Ultraman Chaos
One particular pearl of wisdom: "Die, old man! Die die die! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
There is also, for some inexplicable reason, an attempt at making more Ultran words.
Some picture of Mweeble glomping an Ultra plushie with Tiga and Taro looking on
Dear old self: why in eight hells would Tiga refer to you as MAIDEN? Even chibi-chancalls you M-san in sketches!
Badly proportioned picture of Komyo Sanzo
Considering I ended up sending the final version to Delilah, or rather giving it to her when I went over to Japan, I cringe thinking what it must really look like. >_< Koumyou looks like a stick with limbs, a staff and a big konogasa.
And, I save the best for last:
A full printed version of a fic called 'The Battle of Chibi-Poke-Puff'
Lemme tell you something: this was bad. No, BAD beyond BADNESS. This was 24 and a half pages of pure badasshattery. You've been warned. Turn back now. I might break your sanity.
...Gee, you brave. Kay. So the premise can basically be summed up in the one paragraph I reproduce here: "What a horrible thing it would be if these three (Giovanni(Pokemon), Him(PPG) and Kuzinther(son of the Empera Seijin))joined together and destroyed the protagonists of their modern time dimensions-the Six ChibiUltra Brothers, The Powerpuff Girls and Ash Ketchum. Unfortunately when you have Him around, nothing is impossible."
I think I was no older than 14 when I wrote this, but all the same, it is sheer EVIL. I'd just discovered the footnotes function in Word, and I used it like crazy. Lots and lots of fourth wall breakage, self-insertion (this was before exposure to serious fanfic and/or Ultra Ninja Manual, mind you), author's notes, flattish characters, mashing of all canons (...even for the Ultras...), changing of tenses and the incredible buttrape of characters. Prof Utonium didn't seem at all surprised to be talking to the mother of a TV-show character, and as for the gen-1 Poketrainers...feh. It was the only time I wrote them with any modicum of respect. For some reason Ash was able to command an Ultramon he'd never seen before.
Ah right, that. Part of the good-badness of the thing was the all-out Pokebattle at the end. I think I ended up giving Ash Ultra-versions of Pokes (Aboras the Fire type, Naas who would NOW be a Rock-Steel mix, Aprasal the Ghost type...) and Team Rocket fought with a bunch of clones with names like Darticuno, Genguard, Bulbasher and...Pricklechu. And they fought like, 13-14 rounds. Running. I had not played Pokemon ONCE.
Yes folks, good times those were!
Count yourself lucky there's a chapter called The Mystical Writer that's now lost to time and hard drive reformats. ;P
So yes, that was my day. :) Oh, and Hikacchi is fine now. ^^
Minutes into the search, I sms-ed firnheledien excitedly, 'Cleaning out sum ancient junk n i found a pic of d shark fr petra o d ocean 8-)'. Isn't it nice to know even Mweeble uses smspeak? Petra Of The Ocean was a comic I cooked up long before I even touched my first fanfic. She started out as a guy who rode a dolphin--not a merperson, a plain ol' guy--who fought a badass cowboy shark and later went on to save three magickal jewels in a storyline I never quite managed to banish from my subconscious. (Ah, you know the drill--three jewels/blades/people must be found and when they come together they shall save the world...) It was so. OLD. It was an innocent time, the times of Petra and Peter Penguin's Proverb Stories (which had a horse literally bite a girl's head off, it must be said, with flying blood trails and all. I was a gory kid.)
There was a lot of stuff I dug up from high-school and middle-school exam papers, and even a few of them really really old newsprint scribbles. ^_^ Here's what I ended up keeping for review:
Pen-on-newsprint doodles of Sanzo and Gojyo
Goku and Hakkai have their own sections, but gods alone know where THOSE went. A whole bunch of faces, a full-body or two, rather unsuccessful sketches of the shoureijuu, some pictures of Kouryuu and chibi!Gojyo...nothing really fantastic. But there was a lot of studying Sanzo's droopy eyes, and the Sanzo sketches were titled something to the effect of S3 - Silly Sanzo Studies. Gojyo's portion was titled G3 - Guide to the Gojyo Glomper and hastily subtitled '(which I am not.)'
Anyone want some irony? It's particularly delicious this time of year.
The Mulan script for Lit Night 2003
...Yes, this made Mrs N call me Mushu for THREE. YEARS. Yes, I showed the world just how disgusting a dragon could look digging its ears. Still...you know what? I had a hell of a lot of fun pulling that off. :D And I didn't have to wear a jester's hat, which is always a plus.
An early picture of War Angel Sha Gojyo, and chibi!Gojyo with an armful of flowers.
An old AU project I'd batted around for a while. Tenshimaden Angelyuki--stop laughing!!! *emo tear* And hey, what can I say, chibi!Gojyo and flowers inspires puns about being loved and being killed. 愛される、殺される、パターンいいじゃん！ｗ
Another sketch of Angel!Gojyo/Goku and Archangel!Sanzo meeting Daemon!Doku and Archdaemon!Touten.
The twist? DokugakuJien was Gojyo's old partner; Touten killed Sanzo's master/partner. Goku's kind of standing there looking dazed @@
The lyrics to Shousetsu Sentai Museman
Yes, it's a tribute to Maskman; yes, it's altered to reflect almost everything about fiction writing. And the first chorus goes, in slightly shaky Japanese, "Fic! Fic! Aura Power/Keep on writing, Aura Power/Fic! Fic! Aura Power!/Post it up, Aura Power/And you who keep on writing are beautiful, Aah/Fanfiction Battle Team Museman".
It's crack, but I don't make this stuff up. And that's not even the part where the keyboard is the path to reviews...
A sketch of Sha Touma, Gojyo's father.
Think Jien, with stubble, a longer face and less meat on his bones. There's a not-bad pic of Gojyo there too. You can tell where the son got his sex appeal from XD
Ultraman Chaos and a mid-complete Tobiron
Both come from my old fic, HSG, or my half-completed rewrite of it. Now if only I knew where THAT went. -_-
Chaos isn't quite mine, technically - the original idea belonged to Mosugoji, but I wrote his backstory and I'm not sure if I already asked him if I could use the guy. Heheheheh...
Zoffy coming face-to-face with Chaos, and some backstory
And more shaky Japanese, and a bit of fun being poked at the Malay translators for UCG. "Wah ah ah!//Seorang wira Ulutura sebenarnya?" And there's some kind of planning for the final art exam for that year. I think it was a florist's logo.
Jared (son of Jack Redshirt) getting blown away liek woah.
...Funny, I didn't know explosions went 'Shuuuuugogogo', kid, I thought they went 'DON'. [/dry] Ah, anyway, so there's Jarecchi getting caught in some crossfire and a picture of the three remaining Ultra Brothers. They look OK, still very fierce despite being superdeformed with big goo goo eyes. x_x
There are also some dogs with mad eyes.
Jared getting blown away liek woah AGAIN.
Only it's in pen! And it's fiercer! :D;;; And some stuff about the next monster, and some kind of chant to revive Tobiron's Ultran consciousness.
A set of debate notes from 2002
I think this is the one where I got so worked up I gave my then-classmate the smackdown when she objected one time too many. Sorry Shob =_=;;;
'Storyboarding' for the end of Hikari Sabre Gekiden Ultra Mitsurugiden.
Miyuko's there, and so's Tobiron, and of course Zoffy.
Of course it's coincidence Miyuko's hair looks like mine! Honest! @____@ And there is the terse, scribbled comment of 'you have no idea how HARD it is to put an oxygen mask on a bird?!'
UM Arion proposing to his huge crush, Hoshi. After a fashion.
A brief factoid: Hoshi is actually M2000's design under a different name. *shame* And there is a LOT of blah Japanese. And I'm still trying to figure if the daisy ring is an old reference, but the core material? Pretty gorram sweet. X3 Go Arion, you clumsy green git. And go Zoffy!
The best part, what made me notice this bunch of scribbles in the first place? The great line 'Arion tersipu-sipu' (Arion is tongue-tied). Mwahahahaha!
UM Ajirou's stats
Nothing to see here, move along. The Japanese makes my eyes bleed. @@
The many quotes of Scudwan Armath-Olon Ultraman Chaos
One particular pearl of wisdom: "Die, old man! Die die die! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
There is also, for some inexplicable reason, an attempt at making more Ultran words.
Some picture of Mweeble glomping an Ultra plushie with Tiga and Taro looking on
Dear old self: why in eight hells would Tiga refer to you as MAIDEN? Even chibi-chancalls you M-san in sketches!
Badly proportioned picture of Komyo Sanzo
Considering I ended up sending the final version to Delilah, or rather giving it to her when I went over to Japan, I cringe thinking what it must really look like. >_< Koumyou looks like a stick with limbs, a staff and a big konogasa.
And, I save the best for last:
A full printed version of a fic called 'The Battle of Chibi-Poke-Puff'
Lemme tell you something: this was bad. No, BAD beyond BADNESS. This was 24 and a half pages of pure badasshattery. You've been warned. Turn back now. I might break your sanity.
...Gee, you brave. Kay. So the premise can basically be summed up in the one paragraph I reproduce here: "What a horrible thing it would be if these three (Giovanni(Pokemon), Him(PPG) and Kuzinther(son of the Empera Seijin))joined together and destroyed the protagonists of their modern time dimensions-the Six ChibiUltra Brothers, The Powerpuff Girls and Ash Ketchum. Unfortunately when you have Him around, nothing is impossible."
I think I was no older than 14 when I wrote this, but all the same, it is sheer EVIL. I'd just discovered the footnotes function in Word, and I used it like crazy. Lots and lots of fourth wall breakage, self-insertion (this was before exposure to serious fanfic and/or Ultra Ninja Manual, mind you), author's notes, flattish characters, mashing of all canons (...even for the Ultras...), changing of tenses and the incredible buttrape of characters. Prof Utonium didn't seem at all surprised to be talking to the mother of a TV-show character, and as for the gen-1 Poketrainers...feh. It was the only time I wrote them with any modicum of respect. For some reason Ash was able to command an Ultramon he'd never seen before.
Ah right, that. Part of the good-badness of the thing was the all-out Pokebattle at the end. I think I ended up giving Ash Ultra-versions of Pokes (Aboras the Fire type, Naas who would NOW be a Rock-Steel mix, Aprasal the Ghost type...) and Team Rocket fought with a bunch of clones with names like Darticuno, Genguard, Bulbasher and...Pricklechu. And they fought like, 13-14 rounds. Running. I had not played Pokemon ONCE.
Yes folks, good times those were!
Count yourself lucky there's a chapter called The Mystical Writer that's now lost to time and hard drive reformats. ;P
So yes, that was my day. :) Oh, and Hikacchi is fine now. ^^