The Reason Behind My L33t Sp34k (Shooting Down the Sad Kitty Hat).

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  Sorry I haven't posted lately; I'm at the last bit of the curriculum in Business Class and haven't had any computer time at home.  Also, there hasn't been anything worth talking about...
     Bibbidy asked me a couple days ago how many fandoms I was a part of that weren't anime or manga.  I had to think about it surprisingly hard, only ending up with a whopping eleven, but the first one I counted was Megatokyo (I even had an omnibus in my hand at the time).  I've loved the thing for about a year now.  I found the first omnibus on display at the library and quickly became obsessed; I read the omnibus and then spent the next several months catching up to the web comic on the site.  I pitied Piro's lack of self-confidence, cheered on Kimiko's pluckiness, gasped at Erika's hidden secret (I'll never tell), and laughed at Largo's majorly self-inflicted pain.
     Miho, on the other hand, always kind of weirded me out, and by the most recent posts I gave up trying to understand what she was saying...but that didn't stop me from desperately wanting that sad kitty hat she and Piro wear so often.  <3  It's in their Megagear store, but I'm not sure how my parents would react to my wanting to order something online from a site they've never heard of.
     For some reason I always related to Sera(phim), Piro's fashionable, angelic conscience.  I don't know why.  I don't care how I look, and I definitely can't give advice about what's right and wrong.  Maybe because our names sound similar...?
     Fred Gallagher has been updating it recently, if rarely, and that makes my life so much better.  Unlike Applegeeks, which hasn't had a new comic since 2010 (thanks for ruining my life, guys T-T) this is still a continuing story, four omnibi long and then some.
     The two main characters, Piro and Largo, are gamers of different sorts: Piro is an otaku, obsessed with dating sims and who turns to shojo manga situations to solutions to his problems.  In fact, he's probably what got me really into manga in the first place.  Quite often Piro's seen wearing a really cute black hat with big cat ears folded back, sold in the website store as "Sad Kitty Hat".  Needless to say, I WANT IT.
     MC asked me just today what I wanted for my birthday and that was the first thing I named.  She shot me down faster than my cat eats her dinner.  Unfortunately, there's not much else I want...there's a t-shirt from Applegeeks that I'm pretty sure they don't sell but that I could fairly easily make for myself.  Haha, this sounds selfish.  But she asked.
     Anyway, until about chapter 3 I pronounced Piro's name as Pyro.  I was convinced that made sense until I heard (I dunno where) someone pronounce it "Pee-row".  I still think it sounds odd...
     Largo, on the other hand, specializes in first-person shooters.  He's apparently extremely paranoid...or maybe he simply sees things others don't.  To him, everyone is a zombie and they must all be eliminated.  Somehow he has constant access to destructive weapons.  That pretty much sums him up.
     This guy taught me how to speak l33t.  Sure, the only times I use it productively are when a username I want is taken, but it's kinda fun.  Sometimes I'll catch myself saying "j0" or texting "j00".  Also, doing chats with l33t-sp34k is fun too.  (Not that I do chat rooms like ever...seriously.  Just when I'm messaging with rl friends.)
     So.  There's an extremely vague description and review for Fred Gallagher's (and, technically, Rodney Caston's) Megatokyo web comic.  Check it out!  It's been in my "Check These Out" link list for a while now, so...
     I really want to make my own web comic.  Most are based off real people and completely random or unrealistic plots.  And that works for me.  I'd have myself, MC, and Patveli.  Possibly more, but I don't like having lots of characters.  I can draw well enough to maybe pull it off, but my main problem is drawing fast enough.  Like I've said before, I'm a perfectionist, and it would take forever to get it exactly how I want.  Not to mention the humor part of it would be tricky with making each strip a stand-alone.  But that doesn't change the fact that I desperately want to do it...
     If I ever manage to pull it off, this is the first place I'll post it.  I probably won't be able to post until maybe midway through next week.  Until then, this is G-star, signing off.

Quiz Attack (The Anime Marathon/Club Time)!

     Hello, all.   G-star here.  The business classroom smells like grilled cheese sandwiches.....and it's right before lunch.  Cruel.
     I think Basketball has quickly become my favorite class.  I get to play a sport I actually enjoy, the teacher seems to like me, and one of my best friends is in the class.  I've also found out that there really is such a thing as a 'good' sweat.  The only problem I have is that it's first period....
     I found out from MC about a part of Death Note (an anime I've mentioned before but never finished) where Light loses his memory.  Now, something like this immediately catches my attention because of the implications; there's plenty of room for comedy and goading by other characters about things the amnesiac can't remember.  So now that I've been dragged over brambles back into the show, MC has decided that we're going to have a Death Note marathon over the weekend.  I agreed to this, but only if we could watch the anime I've been watching, Meganebu!  Apparently it's only 12 episodes long (....T-T) and is ridiculously unpopular on animelist.com, but I've always liked obscure manga and anime and this one is right down my alley, even it's not for MC.  It has no real plot, which is what annoys MC the most (just like Lucky Star), but it's my one condition and she'll abide by it.  I'm also going to model for her, since she got an old-timey camera in Arizona (that's where she was all spring break).  We did something similar in middle school with her phone camera and the nearby bike path, and they actually turned out pretty well.  This should be fun.
     We discussed all this last night while Skyping.  We had intended to get some co-op Geography homework done, but when we finished that we immediately became distracted.  I opened quizilla.teennick.com out of boredom (I surf quizzes there when I have nothing else to do on the internet) and read the title of the newest one, "What Jellybelly Flavor Are You?"  MC gasped and ordered me to do the quiz for her.  (She was cleaning her room while we talked and so couldn't access the internet.)  We did this by me reading her the question and then the answers, or, if the list was extensive enough, just let her name one (we did this for color questions).  She ended up getting this odd cherry drink flavor, and I got peach.  While mine suited me fairly well, hers said she was "delicious."
     Mmmmm.  One Miss Cappuccino, please, hold the ketchup.
     After this we continued on to several other quizzes, including (but not limited to) a Disney Villain and a superpower (more like elemental power, though) quiz.  For the villain one MC got the Evil Queen from Snow White (hehe)...and I got Gaston.
     WHA?
     It continuously described me as "narcissistic" and "proud", before ending the result with "congratulations, jerk."  Okay, the jerk was only implied, but still.  I'm not narcissistic!  Okay, maybe just a little, but aren't all bloggers?  I mean, we spend our hours talking about ourselves.  But what else could we write about without extensive research?  Sandwiches?  Video games?  (Admittedly, that is one of my main topics, so I don't talk about myself all the time...)  For the superpower quiz MC got water.  It suits her quite well, I must say.  I, on the other hand, got....DARKNESS.
     Usually quiz writers put a picture in each result to jazz things up a little.  The one for darkness was a little girl in a chair holding a skull.  Um....
     Apparently, if I were a boy, I'd be the coolest guy around, but since I'm a girl I'm constantly being crushed on.  Yeah, yeah, sure....I wish.
     The Chemistry Club had planned an awesome event for today's meeting: the ULTIMATE cola fountain.  They poured five gallons of cheap cola into one of those plastic water cooler containers with a long pipe attached.  A nail near the base would keep the 99 Mentos from falling into the soda until we could reach a safe distance and pull it out with a (long) string.  We did all this in the science courtyard, and there are full-length windows along the two bordering hallways.  A huge crowd gathered in those two hallways, and several people were recording.  Everyone in the courtyard backed away and another member of the club counted down before pulling the string....
     ....and nothing happened.
     The two main members fiddled with it, shaking it, hitting the Mentos off the bottom, shaking the tube to make sure none of them were stuck, even putting salt in it to start the reaction, but still nothing happened.  Everyone slowly trailed off and eventually I had to leave for class.  But it would've been cool....probably....
     Minecraft Club was canceled by the chaperone, AKA my Physics teacher, AKA the Chem Club advisor.  Apparently he didn't get enough sleep last night.  He's nice, but he incessantly ditches club.  We all look forward to it, too, and he doesn't tell us until we're all waiting in front of the computer lab without a ride home.  It's frustrating.
      There is a good side, though.  I got to meet up Bibbidy, who apparently decided to go the meeting that day.  After finding out there was no club today we went to the library.  The librarian recently got in a few new manga series, including Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle~<3  I recommended it to her and finally got Vol. 1 of Ororon.  Looking forward to reading it.
     I had this whole rant about Pokemon Mega-Evolutions prepared, but I think I'll save that for later.  I enjoyed posting once a day, but writing a big, decent one is probably better.  I'll continue posting the daily Mini-Rambles, though, for entertainment purposes.  Until Monday, this is G-star, signing off!

In-School Snowball Fight (Talent Show Update/Half Band)!

     Hello, all.  I remembered earlier this week that the talent show came and went and I never told you guys what happened. (Sorry about that.)  I ended up changing the key of the song, but it turned out well anyway.  I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but there were cash prizes for first, second, and third.  I didn't win (a little disappointing, but to be expected).  Instead, this guy who performed an original piano piece called "Spontaneous Combustion" (Chemistry club, anyone?), and performed it well.  It was INTENSE.  He deserved it.
     You were able to buy roses (or maybe some of them were carnations?  I'm not positive) before the show or during intermission to send to the performers backstage.  Smore sent me one first thing (<3 love ya, marshmallow chick), but the odd thing was that during intermission (I was in act one) I received another rose from an anonymous group of "junior girls" who said "<3 you're awesome!!"  Awww, thanks, guys. ^_^  I really have no idea who they are, though...I thought it might be Perk and Lee (I've mentioned these two before; they go to my youth group and are juniors at my school), but they weren't at the show.  It's things like this that make life worth living.
     It snowed today.  Everyone agreed the local school grid was completely idiotic to allow school to go on as planned.  By third period, everyone had cabin fever and were just jumping around, trying to make a snowman in the classroom by catching snow out the window (this actually happened <_< Obviously, it didn't work), and incessantly asking the teacher whether we were going to be let out early.  We weren't.  (The jerks.)
     Apparently, I was the only one with enough sense to wear gloves, although they were the fabric kind and weren't particularly waterproof...  At lunch we all scarfed our lunches (when I say 'we all', I mean Smore, MC, half of MC's friends and I; the whole school was, unfortunately, not in on this) and shot outside into the courtyard to 'build a snowman'.  As soon as we did, Stulte, Bibbidy (a girl from OBOB club; I call her this because she's always wearing a powder blue hoodie that reminds me of the old color of my room, inappropriately labeled "Bibbidy Bobbidy Blue"), and Link (friend from Minecraft club) appeared out of nowhere, along with a girl who had a bright red streak in her short black hair (none of us had ever seen her before and she disappeared after five minutes without supplying her name...).  Our 'snowman' ended up being a three-inch high lump.  But the snowball fight we had was fun.  I have pictures!  I'll put a couple up at the end of the post.
     About five inches fell today, so it'll still be on the ground (and frozen solid) tomorrow.  The school network has finally let out a sigh and let us go.  ^-^  Patveli sent out a text copied from the school website announcing the closure.  He may as well have said "WOOP WOOP!"  Tomorrow was going to be a half day anyway, so it won't really affect the rest of the school year (those several snow days we had back in November broke the limit for our days off, so they had to take out a bunch of furlough days; any more full days off and we'd have to continue further into June).
     The Handshake Dynasty (I'm just giving up on keeping the name private...if you read this blog, you probably read my other mini-blog for the HSD anyway, so there's really no point anymore) is still hard at work on forming a band.  Patveli is trying to teach Stulte drums, but it's not really getting anywhere...Patveli has another friend who wanted to form a band and plays drums, so he may join.  We've altogether decided to form two separate bands, one with lots of vocals (that I'm in) and with...um...gentler songs, and another with mostly instrumentals to show off their (partially nonexistent) musical skills.  We'll see how this goes.
     Is it just me or was this post slightly more subdued than most?  Ah well.  I feel calmer today.  Probably because I made some good memories during lunch...or maybe because I really just have nothing to be particularly exited for.  *metaphorical shrug*  Or maybe because I need to finish writing in ten minutes.  That's likely it.  I'm in a rush.  Well, until next time, this is G-star signing off....enjoy the pictures!

P.S.
Top pic: from left to right, myself, Leroy, Smore, Stulte, and that hidden person in the blue jacket down there vv is Bibbidy.  Second picture's Smore and I, third picture's Stulte and last one's me.

Leroy wants me to say that, in one (unshown) picture, he screamed "SWEET FROSTING OF THE GODS" and flopped down to do a snow angel.

MC didn't get any pictures.

She's camera-shy.

I'm putting up one for her next post.