Valentine's Day is Nearing
Change of pace for today's entry: instead, I'm gonna write about the stuff that makes me happy first and the stuff that pisses me off last.
I've written 90 stories thus far on fanfiction.net. I am officially happy with myself as a fanfiction writer. ^___^ Granted, those are mostly stories that I haven't finished/updated/mulling about abandoing, but it makes me happy to see that number on my author's page. I owe it all to my latest Persona 3 oneshot. (Male MC and Female MC FTW!!! My P3 OTP!!!)
Speaking of fan fiction, I've been attempting to get back into the Naruto series. By which I mean, I'm trying to jazz myself up over the series again. Seeing the fillers end and the real storyline begin in the anime for Shippuuden helps some (although it was no fun seeing Naruto getting beat up in live action. T__T). I read the most recent Naruto chapter on the day it came out (although I still think it's stupid that if you survive being swallowed by Tailed Beast, you'll get some of it's chakra. Really, Kishi. You couldn't just say they're long-distance Senju or Uchiha or Uzumakis now could ya?). I've been looking for Naruto fan fiction to read...until I realized that most Naruto fanfics were basically the same thing: a lot of NaruSasu, a lot have Naruto having a shitty life and leaving the village or being nearly killed by a mob... The last one I read had Sakura punch and verbally abuse Naruto after he brought Sasuke back (Sound Five arc AU)...like several others I'd read before. Things like that are so freaking overdone that it seems like everyone's copying someone and it's almost laughably pathetic now...
I've also been trying to write up a new Naruto next-gen fanfic that's something of a crossover between the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series. Trying because I always seem to wind up forgetting to write an actual story. Team 14 and Akasha shall be present, even if there are changes in their backgrounds and current situations (and in Akasha's case, personality). Same with Naruto and Sasuke (Oh, Sasuke's fate isn't as pleasant as it is in Naruto X. Two words: no eyes.) The hard part will be choosing which creatures to feature as Persona and what their final form will be--or if they'll even have any at all. Megami Tensei wiki has been a major help on figuring out some things (like not all Persona have to be the same gender as their user or historical counterparts. I'm looking at YOU Eros and Orpheus!) and I might have a chapter posted soon. Of course, if it doesn't get reviews, I'll just stop doing Naruto fanfics for a while (or for good. Threatening readers for the win).
I just got Dragon Quest IX this week. It's been...I think months since it was released, but there was only one copy of it left in FYE that was brand new. I was hoping to reserve Dissidia 012 that day, but it turned out that the only things they had were sucky Lego games and sports games on reserve. T__T So I bought the game to ease my sorrows. It's your typical RPG with a create a character functioin. I made myself and made an all-girl squad of asskickers. It's a nice time waster. I'm also currently downloading Record of Agarest War from Playstation Network... It's currently only 8% downloaded... Why did they make an RPG with static sprites over 9000 MBs large? It's like it's torturing me, and I'm resisting the urge to download Persona for PSP as well to help tolerate the long wait.
About Valentine's Day...not fond of it. I can't remember the last time I got an actual Valentine's gift or card that wasn't given out of feelings of Holiday obligatoriness (if that's even a word) or pity. I've never even had a boyfriend, really... Thank this stupid holiday for me of that. Yes, I know that it's not ALL about couples, but it's hard to tell when media keeps making it focus on couples. It's not exactly as stress-inducing as my schoolwork at the moment, but it's enough to slightly annoy and depress me...a little. I was thinking about doing a Valentine's fan fic for a series favorite of mine: Kingdom Hearts...Persona 3...maybe Naruto if I could find the muse for it in the trash heap that is my mind.
Talking about school... Why is it that most of my college classes insist that I have to do an essay/report/project on subjects that interest me? Honestly! The stuff I like is hardly the things that college professors find interest in...nor is there a bunch of information on it. It's not like I'm intrigued by how forced prostitution demoralizes future generations of children or why marijuana is illegal despite having "medicinal properties" or gender inequalities at jobs... Those are all examples of the things my classmates are doing for their English research papers. Me? I'm doing a paper on whether or not psychotherapy or antidepressants is best for depression. Not that I'm interested in either therapy, antidepressants or depression--I just needed something to write so I picked it up for a commercial... For science, we have to choose a subject that's related to science that we are interested in... I might just do psychotherapy-antidepressants-depression thing again and see if I can get away with it. (Psychology is a science, right? That's why it has an "ology" in it.) Humanities...is personal. And stupid at times. In one chapter, we have to write our own myth about an animal hero and the things he overcomes. You'd think I would be able to get into it, but I found it...stupid. Maybe I just prefer my main characters human. After that was the essay on what two-or-three myths had an effect on your childhood and how they shaped your perspective. I honestly didn't remember anything from my childhood about myths...or legends...or fairy tales...or bible stories. My parents didn't tell me any bedtime stories and the closest I got was story time in kindergarten, and I never took those to heart. I even wrote it on the paper: "what changed my perspective was not a story of sorts, but the harshness of reality". ...I probably either got a failing grade or I'm gonna see a message that says "see me after class" for that, but it's the truth! The only class that doesn't follow that is PLS. It straight out told me that my subject was Stress Management techniques. Why can't all classes do that? They automatically assume that all of us know what we WANT to write about...not really knowing about those of us too stupid to figure out what interests us (or rather, find something that interests us that has enough info on it). Giving you a subject to do is what they did in High School, but they think that if you think it's interest, it'll inspire you to do it faster. T__T Please. Just tell them it's worth most if not all of their grade and give 'em a choice of subjects. That'd make things easier on idiots like me.
Well...I've got a headache. I think I'll hit the hay. TTFN.
(Hmmm... Wonder if BlakkBlaze is dead or busy IRL?)