...Man, choosing an icon for this post was kinda painful. Maybe I should actually spend some time updating icons here. :|;

Nothing much to talk about! Got a raise at work to go along with my new responsibilities, have employment until at least December, and still living with my siblings in a rented house.

Still playing at Luceti. Somehow managing four characters right now, and playing with the idea of apping at another game. I keep tossing back the pros and cons, especially since I know four characters can already be difficult to balance. There's going to be a freaky Halloween/Majora's Mask event for this next week, and I've got some ideas I might use.

Considering doing NaNo this year. I'm totally skeptical about actually getting anything done between work, RL, and RP, but it did help me move a fanfic forward a little bit last year. Maybe I'll do that again this year? ...At that rate, I'll finish that fanfic in about six years. XD Bah, we'll see. I'm out of practice.

So NaNoWriMo starts up in a few hours (in this timezone, at least). Good luck to the people participating. :|b I don't think participating this year will be very ... conducive to my current level of motivation. 8| I have trouble enough finding enough motivation to write drabbles, so 50k in a month is kinda ... daunting.

So while others work on cracking out novels (as per National Novel Writing Month), I'll be trying to crack out ... drabbles. I've got two themes in mind: revisiting Suikoden Chaos and exploring AU ideas in the form of a broader The Infinity idea. If I can actually get this multitude of ideas out coherently, I'll consider the whole thing a success.

...To spare the likely drabble spam, I'll probably find another place to post the eventual messes. *will have to think this through in the next few hours*

edit: Drabbles will be posted on starlight_tears.

Why is it that, every time I comment on something in one of my LJ entries, I want to do the exact opposite? Like, as soon as I mentioned how weird it would be for me to consider writing an original novel right now, I get ideas. What the heck, self. Do I just want to prove myself wrong or something?

And whaaaaaaat. Why do I have an article on this wiki? Did they just pick everything and everyone out of FF.net and slap it up there? 8| Man, it's not even my good fanfiction anymore. 2007 was forever ago. Maybe I should be going "fuck yeah!" that I got the name "Athena" in that wiki.

...With that detour over, the original story idea involves combining two or three past Epic Novels I had used and not been able to flesh out. One story's magic system, another's plot and characters, another's ... land. Maybe. Probably take one story's characters and make them the gods of that universe. One of the lovely things about writing fantasy is that you don't need to dig too deeply into the sciences behind cloning -- magic is just awesome that way.

It'd probably loosely follow what little I'd mapped out in RPGMaker a few years ago. Man, I need to get another copy of it so I can work it again. ...Just another distraction I'd be adding to my pile of stuff.

I also want a place I can RP Albert. Luceti's great and everything, but sometimes I feel so out of sorts with what's going on flist/plot-wise that I want to find something else to do. Kinda the reason I joined Damned. But Albert's my favorite character to play, and I ... don't really want to throw him into another game because that'd require canon review to get his "original voice" back. dear_mun is too much about the mun for me to put Albert out there, too. I wish Caesar was still around, but life's such a kick in the pants sometimes. Why so selfish, self.

Someone wanna help me revive gensodressing and make it inhabitable? :|

In a writing and RPing funk. What the hell just happened?

It's like everything just drained out of me.

...

Oh well. Whatever.


These lyrics reminded me of [my] Walter even before I could understand everything being sung.

This constant longing for your touch
This bitter ocean of hatred and pain
This loneliness I need to be who I am

The oceans are as alone as I
Somebody take away this gift of mine
No charisma for the beast! But still I love you forevermore

Ganked from karthur.

Directions:
1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I write.
2. I will reply with the following information:

a. Something I like about the character
b. Something I don't like about the character
c. My favorite pairing for the character
d. A bit of my own fanon for the character
e. When/how I plan to write the character next

Acceptable fandoms:
Suikoden I through V, Kingdom Hearts (all three of 'em), Fire Emblem (even though I don't really write for it), Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Destiny, Final Fantasy (preferably VII)

( List of characters I've RPed, more for my information than for the meme... )

Things I have to do
-- Stat 311 homework for tomorrow (13 problems)
-- Notesheet for Stat 311 test on Friday
-- Study for Stat 311 test
-- Homework for Stat 321 due on Saturday
-- Stat 321 test on Tuesday
-- 2 pages of final Envir 202 paper due Tuesday

Things I want to do
-- Write next True Runes drabble (probably Fire, Wind, or Blue Moon)
-- Write next Silverberg drabble (almost definitely Albert and Caesar now)
-- Write another Silverberg drabble (Mathiu's funeral; Leon, Tir, Sanchez, and the generals)
-- Write exchange-with-Amber drabble/fic (Luc and Leknaat)
-- Finish next chapter of Tabularasa

Things I don't want to do
-- Go to class

Edit: Jenny got into TC, too. *grins* Now I've gotta find out from Sean tomorrow.