*dusts off ellgay*
It's been far too long, journal. Let's see... What have I been up to this past month or so? :V
-Nothing
-Pokemon B&W mall tour!
-Went to Arizona for a week!
-The finches died. /)_(\ RIP Vulci and Lys and I love you forever
-It snowed for a small while~
-Registered for spring quarter but had difficulties. Gonna do yoga, linguistic anthropology and Spanish. Need to fill in requirements for AA, especially on physical ed. Hence yoga. (all the other classes were taken by this time sob but yoga does sound fun. on a waitlist though.) I really should go to school in Japan. Or a school with good Japanese/language programs.
-Pimped out chicken coop with new shavings ~o~
-CLEANING HOUSE FOREVER LIKE HOUSEWIFE. Someone marry me and I'll do this forever
-Failing absolutely at rp. gtfo and drop so someone else can do better.
-Fidgeting with AUs
-and nonexistent art skills and aaaaargh
-when did I become so negative about myself aaaaargh
I thought I was fairly set with what au I picked for Falkner: basically instead of obsessively revering his dad he was going to be made to feel the opposite way and become a rebel who tries to do everything he can to stray away from his dad's path. tl;dr he trains electric types and doesn't afraid of anything, funky style changes and tight pants a near 180 personality flip. Screw authority, screw being a gym leader, he's gonna do things his own way. I already had his design imagined too and lovely lovely Bret sketched it for me and I was so happy eeee *3* So I thought it was set in stone, right?
BUT. Suddenly I was impacted by a new idea. ;~; I have plenty of wacko crazy rainbow madhouse AU ideas I could use for Falkner but decided that one would be most appropriate, until something happened. I was being my usual mythology geek self and, inspired by Japanese myths a couple days ago, began reading up more on tengu. Since I'm always overanalyzing characters I love I began to notice that Falkner's newest design's clothing resembles that of many tengu. Everything from the hanten coat, the yuigesa pom-poms, the hakama that ends at the knees. Aaahhh, so fitting! Even some of the descriptions are fitting, too. How can I NOT make Falkner into the cutest little tengu? ;3; Imagine all the designs I could entertain~! I looked some art up for even more inspiration because I was curious. yessss. fucen bird people! Ohhh if only I could draw like they could, though. I'd be willing to give it a shot. orz
But here's my problem. While I like the idea of settling with that idea, I feel a little... bad for not being able to incorporate it into the Pokemon world. The closest I come to an equivalent to tengu myths in the Pokemon world is with Shiftry, and uh no. That's unfortunately not what I'm looking for. ;-; /notbirdyenough.gif Dig a little further and I come up with something perhaps related to... Murkrow? I mean, the birdy tengu are mostly named kotengu and they're the ones who take on more avian characteristics and are sometimes called karasu-tengu for carrying crowlike traits. Argh. How about Moltres? They come to those who are lost in mountains, which is where tengu dwell. Articuno also lives near icy peaks... hmm. Then I dig a little further and funnily enough I run into yamabushi, the ones who worship tengu. 'Maybe I can find something here', I tell myself. Then one word stands out to me. 'They follow the Shugendō (修験道) doctrine...'
'修験道' I've seen this 修験 'shugen' before. Where... oh. Morty's... Morty's Japanese title. BUH....
千里眼を持つ修験者. (senrigan no motsu shugenja) trans: The ascetic (shugenja) who holds clairvoyance. Does this mean Morty worships tengu!Falk-/shot ded SO WHAT DO 'ASCETICS' IN THE POKEMON WORLD WORSHIP. I-is it ho-oh.
If it's ho-oh this goes back to the conversation we had one day in rtv chat about ho-oh being falkner's dad %D C-c-can this be my au? Feels bad man.
OTHERWISE uh. So we learned two things 1) angela thinks about things waaaaaay too much and 2) angela is also the biggest nerd that ever sat in front of a computer. She also remembers too much when she doesn't need to. And that she wishes she could pull this off but is too gdamn worried about incorporating tengu!Falkner with the Pokemon world. She also talks in 3rd person when she feels embarrassed kdfjkds. Why should she feel so embarrassed when she's just plain embarrassing to begin with?
WHAT DO OMG. WHY DOES IT MATTER SO MUCH. I am this close to whipping out a poll because I am chronically indisposed to making decisions for myself.
-Nothing
-Pokemon B&W mall tour!
-Went to Arizona for a week!
-The finches died. /)_(\ RIP Vulci and Lys and I love you forever
-It snowed for a small while~
-Registered for spring quarter but had difficulties. Gonna do yoga, linguistic anthropology and Spanish. Need to fill in requirements for AA, especially on physical ed. Hence yoga. (all the other classes were taken by this time sob but yoga does sound fun. on a waitlist though.) I really should go to school in Japan. Or a school with good Japanese/language programs.
-Pimped out chicken coop with new shavings ~o~
-CLEANING HOUSE FOREVER LIKE HOUSEWIFE. Someone marry me and I'll do this forever
-Failing absolutely at rp. gtfo and drop so someone else can do better.
-Fidgeting with AUs
-and nonexistent art skills and aaaaargh
-when did I become so negative about myself aaaaargh
I thought I was fairly set with what au I picked for Falkner: basically instead of obsessively revering his dad he was going to be made to feel the opposite way and become a rebel who tries to do everything he can to stray away from his dad's path. tl;dr he trains electric types and doesn't afraid of anything, funky style changes and tight pants a near 180 personality flip. Screw authority, screw being a gym leader, he's gonna do things his own way. I already had his design imagined too and lovely lovely Bret sketched it for me and I was so happy eeee *3* So I thought it was set in stone, right?
BUT. Suddenly I was impacted by a new idea. ;~; I have plenty of wacko crazy rainbow madhouse AU ideas I could use for Falkner but decided that one would be most appropriate, until something happened. I was being my usual mythology geek self and, inspired by Japanese myths a couple days ago, began reading up more on tengu. Since I'm always overanalyzing characters I love I began to notice that Falkner's newest design's clothing resembles that of many tengu. Everything from the hanten coat, the yuigesa pom-poms, the hakama that ends at the knees. Aaahhh, so fitting! Even some of the descriptions are fitting, too. How can I NOT make Falkner into the cutest little tengu? ;3; Imagine all the designs I could entertain~! I looked some art up for even more inspiration because I was curious. yessss. fucen bird people! Ohhh if only I could draw like they could, though. I'd be willing to give it a shot. orz
But here's my problem. While I like the idea of settling with that idea, I feel a little... bad for not being able to incorporate it into the Pokemon world. The closest I come to an equivalent to tengu myths in the Pokemon world is with Shiftry, and uh no. That's unfortunately not what I'm looking for. ;-; /notbirdyenough.gif Dig a little further and I come up with something perhaps related to... Murkrow? I mean, the birdy tengu are mostly named kotengu and they're the ones who take on more avian characteristics and are sometimes called karasu-tengu for carrying crowlike traits. Argh. How about Moltres? They come to those who are lost in mountains, which is where tengu dwell. Articuno also lives near icy peaks... hmm. Then I dig a little further and funnily enough I run into yamabushi, the ones who worship tengu. 'Maybe I can find something here', I tell myself. Then one word stands out to me. 'They follow the Shugendō (修験道) doctrine...'
'修験道' I've seen this 修験 'shugen' before. Where... oh. Morty's... Morty's Japanese title. BUH....
千里眼を持つ修験者. (senrigan no motsu shugenja) trans: The ascetic (shugenja) who holds clairvoyance. Does this mean Morty worships tengu!Falk-/shot ded SO WHAT DO 'ASCETICS' IN THE POKEMON WORLD WORSHIP. I-is it ho-oh.
If it's ho-oh this goes back to the conversation we had one day in rtv chat about ho-oh being falkner's dad %D C-c-can this be my au? Feels bad man.
OTHERWISE uh. So we learned two things 1) angela thinks about things waaaaaay too much and 2) angela is also the biggest nerd that ever sat in front of a computer. She also remembers too much when she doesn't need to. And that she wishes she could pull this off but is too gdamn worried about incorporating tengu!Falkner with the Pokemon world. She also talks in 3rd person when she feels embarrassed kdfjkds. Why should she feel so embarrassed when she's just plain embarrassing to begin with?
WHAT DO OMG. WHY DOES IT MATTER SO MUCH. I am this close to whipping out a poll because I am chronically indisposed to making decisions for myself.