So maybe I'm mixing up a couple different games, but I thought I remembered that Bayonetta was supposed to be the horrible femme version of Devil May Cry that was just pushed out to the masses to offer bouncing tits and big guns and naughty-librarian-with-a-rocket-launcher fantasies?

So, I was somewhere on a site called Just Push Start looking at a guide for gift giving in Dragon Age: Origins (because I must use the gifts in the best way possible if I want Alistar to be MADLY IN LOVE WITH ME AS 'ALISTAR' IS JUST A SYNONYM FOR 'ARFUR' IN DRAGONAGE-IAN AND I SIMPLY MUST TAP THAT) and I saw a link to a review for Bayonetta so I thought, okay, I'll go look at that while I'm waiting for this other content to download into DA:O (SHALE. YES.). AND, WHAT THE CRAP, 5 STARS OUT OF 5?! ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?

At first, I thought apparently Just Push Start is getting paid to write good reviews for terrible games or the reviewer is just an ass-backwards casual who likes to play DoA Beach Volleyball at night while his mom's asleep because I was fairly CERTAIN that Bayonetta was just Bullet Witch 2: Return of the Poorly Constructed Dante With A Sex Change.

Don't get me wrong, I'm completely okay with a healthy level of shameless fanservice in my games, male or female targeted - I will not deny playing through a few missions of DMC3 with shirtless Dante. Changing the gender of the character doesn't make it any less shallow. I just also like a large portion of the game to be, ya know, actual decent game play and/or story (while I've come to accept that Capcom's writing staff will constantly on lollerskates, the stories still keeps me very entertained and GAAAAAAHD DID I LOVE THE GAMEPLAY IN DMC4 LIKE A MOFO).

So then I started to look for more reviews on Bayonetta, thinking, well, maybe this game is actually decent and maybe I may actually want to look into it. And WTF, IGN and Game Trailers have rankings for it in the 8 and 9 range. So I watched a video review for it.

Okay. She summons demons with her hair. Uh. Okay, kind of a little too ridiculous for me. But again, I DID enjoy the DMC series, so I can't really complain. LOLRIDINGAMOTORCYCLEUPABUILDING. Right. I really love that you can equip weapons on both her hands AND he feet. That's a kinda crazy and seems pretty fun. As far as how to game play looks... I don't know. It seems like it could easily be played like a button masher (which would be my complaint on any normal-difficulty versions of DMC that aren't the original copy of 3 or 4) so if it turns out that this game is anything put a retarded kind of hard, there's a good chance I'll get bored with it, in which case, the story and characters better save it. It seems like it's got a decent amount of alternative methods of combat you can use, like the aforementioned hair demons (lolwut) and your witch magic that does funny things with time and etc.

So, I'm no longer completely convinced that Bayonetta is a tarted up version of Bullet Witch (insert venomous hatred here), and I'll probably be at least trying to rent it or steal it from a friend when it comes out =) Wee! Yay for not judging games on their naughty-librarian-in-stretch-vinyl protagonists!

Jacked this from kawara26 ~

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

Titles marked with a + have two possible answers. Two +'s mean three!


Some, if not most of these, will be really easy for Leaf. No cheating and looking at my character journals.:


1) Ouran High School Host Club + - Hikaru! (Guessed by Mari)

2) Samurai Champloo - Mugen! Guessed by Al!

3) Merlin (BBC) – ARFUR! Guessed by Mari!

4) Gravitation - K! Guessed by Mari

5) Angel Sanctuary + - Kira and Katou! Guessed by Leaf!

6) DOGS – Haine! Guessed by Leaf!

7) Devil May Cry - Vergil! Guessed by Al!

8) One Piece ++- Luffy! Guessed by Mari! And Zoro and Ace! Guessed by Leaf!

9) Trinity Blood - Tres Iqus! Guessed by Leaf!

10) Trigun - Knives! Guessed by Torie =3

11) Final Fantasy - Zack Fair! Guessed by Torie!

12) Hellsing +- Maxwell! Guessed by Leaf!

13) BECK -

14) NANA - Nobu! Guessed by Leaf!

15) Weiss Kreuz - Farfie-chu! Guessed by Torie!

16) Guilty Gear - Testament! Guessed by Jeffy!

17) Fruits Basket +- Akito and Hatsuharu! Guessed by Leaf!

18) Escaflowne - Dilandau! Guessed by Al!

19) Pineapple Express - Saul! Guessed by Leaf!

20) the GazettE - Reita! Guessed by Mari!

Open your eyes and stretch your hands
This house is clean but it is not my home
Did I make this bed
The two hands touch on two

Sometimes I think of some place colder
The sound of traffic and the way it's worn
When you feel yourself grow up inside of here

And you love me just like a stranger
But you love me just like I am

Remember we ran through lovely streets
We made our rules and then we broke them first
It felt like we were running all the time
When I wouldn't give one ugly moment
I'd wrap it up, I'd keep it in my sock
I can keep it, yeah, I know what's yours is mine

And you love me just like a stranger
But you love me when

I stand to the sea ..., lets me love some other day
We get bored of weakness all the time
Now I won't know how much I lost until I've gone away
Your sun sets when my sun starts to shine

So, Lake Jackson was around 70, maybe 60, the whole time I was there. It was lovely. Annie complained about it being cold out and I was like "Are you kidding me, this is awesome." I loved it. So pleasant.

And then on the flight home, when we're about to come into Lubbock, the pilot says "We're flying over Lubbock and it's 33 degrees outside with slight snow and slight rain" and I was like "-.- Fuck this noise. Turn the plane around. I want to go home."

On the upside of things my friends and I went to a hibachi thing and had delicious eats but I spent much more money than I wanted too. Ugh.

I will be so happy when finals are over.

You.

I talked to you on the phone for four hours. That's longer than I've talked to Sarah or Annie or Hunter or anyone from Lake Jackson, excluding Matt and my family, in the entire semester.

So please, do not bitch at me for not paying enough attention to you. You are not a chia pet. You do not need daily care.

I promise, it is not some deep seated fear of interaction with you that is making me avoid you. The phone is simply not a great way or reaching me.

No one else causes this much of an issue if I don't text them back. I'm horrible at remembering to respond to texts. And I don't answer the phone when I don't have time to talk. Everyone else knows that and accepts it.

This is just silly.

And feeling a ridiculous kind of hyper.

Which works very well for this project, actually.

Someone will have a pinwheel on their head. Just because.

Dane Cook.
Gacktney.
Charles William Sandmann III.
Jackie Chan.
Hokuto Umeda.
Johnny Knoxville.
Bradley James.

So I found the video I was talking about in the last post where Colin Morgan and Bradley James put the LOSER sign on Angel Coulby's door but then found this gem and decided it was much better for displaying the manchildishness that occurs in the Merlin cast, most particularly, at the whims of Bradley James - our heroic Crown Prince Arthur.

OMFG THIS SHOW.

HOW I LOVE IT SO.

So, since I have no other friends obsessed with this show like I am to froth over it with me, I'm whoring it to my flist : D mainly Leaf in hopes that someone will become a fan.

So, the show itself is called Merlin and plays on BBC1 (and on NBC in America, Sunday nights at 7c). Do not watch this show if you're a big stickler for accuracy to legend, because first of all, Merlin and Arthur are the same age. And Arthur knows he's the King's son and lives in the castle being all princely and he's also a douche (sometimes/most of the time/he has his good moments that makes the douche baggery well worth it). But otherwise it's a really fun show that does a pretty good job of sticking in actual Arthurian Legend where it can and keeps it amusing, making the legend and the story of the show connect really well, etc etc.

So, synopsis, basically this show is about Merlin and Arthur, PRE-Arthurian Legend. It follows Merlin, a young man who's had the gift of magic since birth and experienced it not by his choosing but just as second nature. He leaves his small village and goes to Camelot where magic is punishable by execution, so immediately things are tough on the poor guy. So he runs into Arthur and discovers he's actually a huge douche bag and a spoiled brat and that's all pretty amusing up until a talking dragon at the bottom of the dungeon in the castle tells him his destiny is to protect that giant douche bag he just met, to which Merlin is not at all pleased to hear. So the show follows the adventures of Arthur and Merlin and all the bickering that goes on between them, along with their friends and that have been plugged amusingly into the show - Morgana le Fay, Guinevere, Lancelot and Merlin's keeper-person, Gauis.

It's a very different take on the characters from the legends, and really interesting as a 'seeing how they all got to where they ended up' thing. Particularly Morgana, as she's so noble and good during the show. Her trauma from the magic that is inherent in her is really incredible to watch. I'm partly excited and partly sad to seeing how she's going to transform into the evil sorceress that Morgana becomes.

I also really love how the show looks at magic as something that chooses the person. Like Merlin couldn't have stopped it if he wanted to, so it makes the executions that happen because of magic that much more painful.

Hurr, some clips for Arthur and Merlin doing their thing where they hate each other a little.

Matt is in the hospital. Having surgery in the morning. And I'm 10 hours away. 10 effing hours. Normally I would go up there and stay up all night and, I dunno, guard his room from invaders or something while he slept. And even if I paid $500 for the flight from Lubbock to Houston tomorrow morning (YEAH. $500. FOR A TWO HOUR FLIGHT. WTF), I still won't get there before he had to go in or be there the second he comes out and I'm so incredibly frustrated and so terrified and feeling so helpless and despairing. It makes me feel almost physically pained not to be there. That I can't be there if not at least to reassure him and keep him company (because I'm certain I'm freaking out a lot more than him) than to keep myself sane with the knowledge that I've got an eye on him and I can visibly see and feel and know that he's okay.

My dad had to have an ear surgery once. For the entire day prior I was convinced in my brain that something was going to go horribly wrong and he was going to die and I would never see him again. I hate stuff like this. I always dread the worst. And today it was just like, around noon, his stomach was hurting, okay, lay down, take some medicine, whatever, then around 8pm it was still hurting but really bad so he left work early, then he went to the hospital because webMD told him that it had been hurting for long enough that he should. Then I didn't hear anything from him for, like, 4 hours and I don't get an answer when I called and I'm terrified out of my mind that something horrible happened to him at the hospital and he's in an emergency room. Then I get the text saying "Can't talk. Having a kat scan." and I'm like FJDKLAKFJDSKLAFJ WAT. and then nothing for a while and then "I have appendicitis. Having a surgery in the morning. Can't call." and I was like "WHATTHEFUCKISTHIS FDSFSFJKDLSAJFKEJFIELJFEDFSK HOLY JESUS WHAT THE CRAP"

I did get to talk to him for, like, two minutes to say goodnight. I was like "WHAT'S GOING ON, ARE YOU OKAY, WHEN IS YOUR SURGERY, WHEN CAN YOU CALL ME TOMORROW, ARE YOU DEAD, ARE THEY TREATING YOU NICELY, DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH POCKET MONEY, HOW'S YOUR HOSPITAL GOWN, NICE AND BREEZEY, IS YOUR PILLOW FLUFFY ENOUGH, IS YOUR UNDERWEAR CLEAN?!" and he was like "... I need to sleep now." and I was like "DDDDDDDDDDDDD: OKAY."

And earlier today when he said pepto didn't help I jokingly said "You're dying!" DDDDDDDDD: I CURSED HIIIIIIIIIIM

I hate it D: We're supposed to be making this perspective thing with optical illusions and other stuffs in it. And she wants us to do something more than fill in the blanks with color, but I have no idea how to fade things out or do any kind of shading with paint and she hasn't taught us how to either. I would ask but it's due tomorrow =\ Life sucks. I hate art.

My high school drama teacher just sent me this because he's heard me talk about cosplay, and this is pretty adorable! This On The Street reporter encounters cosplayers for the first time! XD And he totally loves them! It's pretty cool, watch watch!

CLICK MEH!

Also, I posted it on Facebook right hurr, so go there and tell me how many characters you can name.

I JUST FINISHED A HUGE COSTUME DESIGN PROJECT.

AND WHILE I AM CERTAIN I COULD HAVE DONE IT BETTER IN SOME WAYS, I FEEL VERY MUCH LIKE A BADASS, ATM.


FFFFFFFFFFDORIANGRAYCANSUCKIT.

Today I had an incredibly busy day. We had the local high schools participating in UIL come visit the theater and we taught a bunch of workshops, acting and tech and everything, and it was fabulous. So I got up there at 8:30 am x_X and the workshop I helped teach was in the costume shop we were doing really basic stuff (because Fred didn't want the high schoolers using the machines o.O), handstitches, buttons, snaps, hooks and eyes and we showed them how to do repair jobs on mainly minorly damaged costumes (patches, rips in fabric, zippers) and explained to them how the design process works, from the designer's renderings to the costume construction and getting it on stage and showed them one of the (really gorgeous) in-progress gowns we're working on for Les Liaisons Dangereuses. But yeah. I TAUGHT CHILDREN. IT WAS CRAZY.

And then we had a work call from 1-6pm (with no breaks D:) and I stitched so many button holes @_@ I am the magical pants fairy for this show, apparently. Or the magical stitch-in-the-ditch fairy. I also fell deeply in love with iridescent fabrics. *_* So pretty. Really, though, I love how much more I'm getting to handle the actual costumes and how much more Rose is trusting me with now that I'm on staff shop. I GOT TO MANIPULATE A PATTERN THE OTHER DAY XD Granted, it was really simple. I also got to trace and cut a lot of pieces the last couple weeks, which I really love. Seriously, I love plugging into my iPod and spending the next four hours tracing, adding seam allowances and cutting things. It makes me feel so efficient. I developed zen-cutting while working at Sew Unique (the draperies and alterations place I worked in over the summer). O_O I really love cutting. But it's not as satisfying as assembling the final garment and watching it all come together and being like XD Yeah. I did that. XD Except that Rose told me how to do every step of it XD.

And afterwords some of the other shop staff and I went to Which Wich for a celebratory post-uil/Saturday-work-call-YAY-I-SURVIVED dinner party and I learned how much more intense the design program gets after jurying into the BFA O_O Also, I learned about politics within the faculty, between the different realms of design. It's pretty scary, and pretty exciting. I WANT TO BE A HORSE. O_O

IN TWO WEEKS WE DO GENDER BENDING IN STAGE MAKE UP. I AM RETARDEDLY EXCITED.

"Don't be an asshole" is the mantra that would cure the world.

I'm going on an adventure in South America. BBL.

I like waking up to a really nice rain. My window is right next to the head of my bed, so it sounds really pretty. Normally I hate thunderstorms, but it's not thundering too bad this morning and it's just a nice constant shower. Very pleasant. Makes me want to go stand in it.

I can't listen to The White Stripes' 'Rag & Bone' without imagining the singer as Badou.

Life has always been okay. Somewhere between okay and enjoyable, usually. I've been spending much time recently with a person who takes life from the 'okay' or the 'enjoyable' status and raises it to 'fulfilling'. 'Meaningful,' even.

For the first time in a very long time I can genuinely believe myself when I saw it'll all turn out alright, without any guarantees for tomorrow.