Hello all, G-star here, all that crud. I just wanted to post real fast so people would see the poll I put up. It's for how I should change the blog. At this point I only have on vote. It's from MC and she only voted for what she did because she saw her name on it. I'm currently working on a background picture, so it's settled at least that I'll change the background to a personal drawing, but what else should I change? Please vote so this can be decided. Until tomorrow, this is G-star, signing off.
April 13, 2014
April 11, 2014
The Pretty Boy Bible (My Tablet is an Illusion/Saving For Internet).
Hello, all. G-star here, and yeah, I know I ditched that promised post about character skeletons, and sorry for it. But I got distracted, had a short period Wednesday, and a test in class yesterday. I went to the library yesterday (big, worth it, downtown one, not the school library) and got a crudload of manga in addition to a book I've been wanting to read for several weeks. (Score!) ^_^ These include Train+Train vol. 2, Bleach vol. 12, and Kobato vol. 2. I'm also on vol. 16 of Special A, but I didn't check out the next book....because it's the last one. T-T My problem with fiction is that I can't stand it ending. I have to know what happens to the characters, even after the narrator stops writing about them. This is why I don't normally do anime marathons and I don't read manga I can get at the library online. If it's a long series (like Naruto) I'll check out two volumes at a time, but I'll usually alternate between six or seven series, getting the next one volume of each to read until I can next go to the library and get the other series. (This is usually due to the library not having half the books I'm looking for. =_=) Usually the reason for me not having an anime spree is the fact that I don't have my own laptop, touch device, or anything with internet. It's quite frustrating, but I'm saving up to buy a laptop. Every Christmas my grandparents send me some money in a card, and I save it up little by little until I have a crudload of dollar bills in a 'save' envelope, which is where I am now. I believe I have approx. $125 right now, and while that's not bad, it's probably not enough to buy a laptop. Also, MC says that I shouldn't buy a cheap one just because it's all I can afford. Apparently her old one was always getting viruses, even though she didn't download much. Much...
Another series I've been reading from the library is Princess.Princess by Mikiyo Tsuda. In fact, I have it with me now. I've been waiting all day for someone to ask what it is so I can say: "This? This, my friend, is the PRETTY BOY BIBLE." I shall bide my time...
I'm considering changing the site. Like, a LOT. New background, new color scheme, new everything. Hey, it's 2014, a year of change. (Even if I am a few months late.) I'm not exactly sure why I picked the color scheme I did, it's just that pastels and neon seemed to work with a gray and pastel picture. *shrug* But I've been slowly accumulating anime pictures that look like me for avatars on various forums. I have a ton now, and only a couple of them I've shown on G+, so it would probably be a surprise. Thing is with the background picture, it has to tile or it won't work because the blog covers up the center. It's a tad frustrating, but I think I'll try to see if you can move the blog. It probably won't work.
I might draw my own picture, actually, to avoid accidentally using a picture from an anime or another blogger, but that would take a lot longer, especially since my electronic drawing pad is screwed up now. I went to color one of my old pictures and suddenly the shortcuts wouldn't work; I couldn't undo or zoom in nearly as easily, and those are essential. Not to mention that the eraser (you could turn around the pen and use the back as a digital 'eraser') suddenly did nothing. The tablet became way more sensitive and it glitches out quite often. You're probably all wondering "well, why doesn't she just go to settings and fix it?"
I CAN'T.
APPARENTLY MY TABLET'S SOFTWARE NO LONGER EXISTS.
IT MADE ME WANT TO BREAK SOMETHING.
I got the tablet for Christmas. It was one of the things on my list, and at the time it was the best thing that ever happened to me. The thing was awesome, it worked great, and I could draw better by that time so I actually had a reason to use it. I'll have to ask Dad at some point to take a look at it, but either he's always working or my brother is always on.... *sigh*
Either way, look forward to some big changes in the near future. If you like the blog as it is, just tell me and I'll keep it this way, though! Until next time, this is G-star, signing off.
Another series I've been reading from the library is Princess.Princess by Mikiyo Tsuda. In fact, I have it with me now. I've been waiting all day for someone to ask what it is so I can say: "This? This, my friend, is the PRETTY BOY BIBLE." I shall bide my time...
I'm considering changing the site. Like, a LOT. New background, new color scheme, new everything. Hey, it's 2014, a year of change. (Even if I am a few months late.) I'm not exactly sure why I picked the color scheme I did, it's just that pastels and neon seemed to work with a gray and pastel picture. *shrug* But I've been slowly accumulating anime pictures that look like me for avatars on various forums. I have a ton now, and only a couple of them I've shown on G+, so it would probably be a surprise. Thing is with the background picture, it has to tile or it won't work because the blog covers up the center. It's a tad frustrating, but I think I'll try to see if you can move the blog. It probably won't work.
I might draw my own picture, actually, to avoid accidentally using a picture from an anime or another blogger, but that would take a lot longer, especially since my electronic drawing pad is screwed up now. I went to color one of my old pictures and suddenly the shortcuts wouldn't work; I couldn't undo or zoom in nearly as easily, and those are essential. Not to mention that the eraser (you could turn around the pen and use the back as a digital 'eraser') suddenly did nothing. The tablet became way more sensitive and it glitches out quite often. You're probably all wondering "well, why doesn't she just go to settings and fix it?"
I CAN'T.
APPARENTLY MY TABLET'S SOFTWARE NO LONGER EXISTS.
IT MADE ME WANT TO BREAK SOMETHING.
I got the tablet for Christmas. It was one of the things on my list, and at the time it was the best thing that ever happened to me. The thing was awesome, it worked great, and I could draw better by that time so I actually had a reason to use it. I'll have to ask Dad at some point to take a look at it, but either he's always working or my brother is always on.... *sigh*
Either way, look forward to some big changes in the near future. If you like the blog as it is, just tell me and I'll keep it this way, though! Until next time, this is G-star, signing off.
April 8, 2014
Mini-Ramble: A Lengthy Description of Something MC Hates (Learn to Roleplay).
Hello, all. G-star here. Sorry I didn't post yesterday, but we finally started the written work in business class and didn't have time. But I'll make up for it today, with an in-depth article about something Patveli and MC treat with disdain...roleplaying.
Firstly, roleplaying is not a chat room. It can be if used the wrong way, but I try to avoid those kinds of sites. Done right, it is no more and no less than multiplayer creative writing. One person (sometimes two) come up with a plot, set up a thread, and gather users to play characters to certain conformities. Sometimes there is a limit to the number of characters, sometimes you just make one up and jump in, but almost always there is a character "skeleton" with the required information the GM (Game Master) will need to know about your character. Personally, I prefer skeleton threads, since the characters are a little easier to tell apart and look up facts about, but if you don't like spending time writing up a whole background then you might like jump-in roleplays.
That being said, there are a couple different types of websites for roleplays. The one I prefer has a couple different categories for the plot and you can make your own stories whenever you want, with an Out Of Character and an In Character thread, separately. On the site I'm currently using, skeletons are required and admins have to check over each and every OOC thread. It must be hard.
A site I tried a while ago was completely different, though. There were maybe fifteen roleplay 'worlds' in each genre category, and each one contained hundreds of threads. You couldn't interact with every character at once like in the smaller stories I favor, but instead had to write a short plot somewhere within that world and invite some people to join you in it. That was just too complicated and didn't have enough choices, so I ditched it.
I enjoy roleplaying because you can write whatever you want, but you don't have to do it by yourself. I've known some people to write short stories or even books about roleplays they participated in. It can give inspiration for stories or just be practice for future writing. And chatting is very rare and is usually limited to questions about the roleplay.
Well, MC? Do you understand my hobby a little better now? Have Patveli read this. I'll continue it tomorrow with how I make my character skeletons. I had intended to do that today, but figured I had better make sure you understand what I'm talking about first. (I never did that Pokemon, but oh well. That's sort of to be expected.) So instead, I'll talk about character skellies tomorrow. Until then, this is G-star, signing off.
Roleplaying Vocabulary
Firstly, roleplaying is not a chat room. It can be if used the wrong way, but I try to avoid those kinds of sites. Done right, it is no more and no less than multiplayer creative writing. One person (sometimes two) come up with a plot, set up a thread, and gather users to play characters to certain conformities. Sometimes there is a limit to the number of characters, sometimes you just make one up and jump in, but almost always there is a character "skeleton" with the required information the GM (Game Master) will need to know about your character. Personally, I prefer skeleton threads, since the characters are a little easier to tell apart and look up facts about, but if you don't like spending time writing up a whole background then you might like jump-in roleplays.
That being said, there are a couple different types of websites for roleplays. The one I prefer has a couple different categories for the plot and you can make your own stories whenever you want, with an Out Of Character and an In Character thread, separately. On the site I'm currently using, skeletons are required and admins have to check over each and every OOC thread. It must be hard.
A site I tried a while ago was completely different, though. There were maybe fifteen roleplay 'worlds' in each genre category, and each one contained hundreds of threads. You couldn't interact with every character at once like in the smaller stories I favor, but instead had to write a short plot somewhere within that world and invite some people to join you in it. That was just too complicated and didn't have enough choices, so I ditched it.
I enjoy roleplaying because you can write whatever you want, but you don't have to do it by yourself. I've known some people to write short stories or even books about roleplays they participated in. It can give inspiration for stories or just be practice for future writing. And chatting is very rare and is usually limited to questions about the roleplay.
Well, MC? Do you understand my hobby a little better now? Have Patveli read this. I'll continue it tomorrow with how I make my character skeletons. I had intended to do that today, but figured I had better make sure you understand what I'm talking about first. (I never did that Pokemon, but oh well. That's sort of to be expected.) So instead, I'll talk about character skellies tomorrow. Until then, this is G-star, signing off.
Roleplaying Vocabulary
- GM/Game Master - Creator of the roleplay, approves character skeletons and creates the IC.
- OOC/Out Of Character thread - Where a short summary of the roleplay plot is given and people can submit their character skeletons for approval.
- IC/In Character thread - Where the real roleplaying goes on. Any and all OOC questions and chatting is to be avoided here. Timeskips and lengthy two-person interaction is common here.
- Forms/Character skeletons (Skellies)- Short forms with relevant information about roleplay characters. Often include anime-style pictures of the characters in question. Ex:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance (pic please!):
Personality:
Short Bio:
Other: - Thread - A part of a roleplay forum that can posted, taken down, or edited at will. They are the first post of the IC or OOC of a roleplay. This is where everyone involved in the roleplay posts.
- Post - A submitted segment of your character's interaction with another. I really can't summarize this.
- Subscriptions - Specific threads that are set to send you notifications when posted on.
- Signature (Siggie) - The pictures and/or text that appear underneath your posts. Can be personalized to preference.
- Bio/Biography - A short (sometimes) summary of your character's past, family, and experiences. Sometimes includes their personality as well.
- Accept - A function of GM's; to look over a character skelly and make sure it meets specifications.
- Timeskip - A common occurance in more detailed roleplays where the GM skips any and all interactions until a set time (often used to avoid lengthy conversations before exciting or important parts).
April 4, 2014
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!
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!
April 3, 2014
Mini-Ramble: A Summary of Flubber.
Hello, all. G-star here. I originally had a set-out plan for this post, which I came up with last night, but as always, I forgot everything I thought yesterday overnight. So I'll just talk about MC's birthday instead.
Patveli and I forced her to walk home while we biked ahead to pick up some cupcakes (white with purple buttercream frosting) that my mom and I had bought and get to her house. We waited for a couple minutes and then shoved cupcakes down her throat (virtually) when she arrived at home. I got her a thing called a Splat-Back, an odd sticky ball that flattens when you throw it at something hard enough, then turns back into a spherical shape.
Patveli named the material "flubber". Oddly, it fits.
I also got her a kneaded rubber eraser, because she was continuously stealing the one from my pencil case whenever she saw it. She appreciated that as well, and has been messing with both presents since yesterday.
Patveli got her guitar supplies -- 'handmade' strings and picks -- and Rory (the formerly unmentioned fifth member of the dynasty) made her a 'showoff' card, but couldn't come. We watched the fight scene between Edward and Mustang in Full Metal Alchemist, threw the flubber at various surfaces, and ate cupcakes until my lips were purple and IT WOULDN'T COME OFF.
It was a good day. G-star off.
Patveli and I forced her to walk home while we biked ahead to pick up some cupcakes (white with purple buttercream frosting) that my mom and I had bought and get to her house. We waited for a couple minutes and then shoved cupcakes down her throat (virtually) when she arrived at home. I got her a thing called a Splat-Back, an odd sticky ball that flattens when you throw it at something hard enough, then turns back into a spherical shape.
Patveli named the material "flubber". Oddly, it fits.
I also got her a kneaded rubber eraser, because she was continuously stealing the one from my pencil case whenever she saw it. She appreciated that as well, and has been messing with both presents since yesterday.
Patveli got her guitar supplies -- 'handmade' strings and picks -- and Rory (the formerly unmentioned fifth member of the dynasty) made her a 'showoff' card, but couldn't come. We watched the fight scene between Edward and Mustang in Full Metal Alchemist, threw the flubber at various surfaces, and ate cupcakes until my lips were purple and IT WOULDN'T COME OFF.
It was a good day. G-star off.
April 2, 2014
Mini-Ramble: Gaming in Literature (The Braces Control Me).
Hello all, G-star here. First things first; a big happy birthday to MC! She turned 15 today, two months before I do.... -_- But whatever. For some odd reason I'm wide awake first period and then start dozing off second period. And second period is always ridiculously boring; first two terms it was French, now it's Physics. Of course, I generally enjoy Physics, but we're currently going over everything I already learned at the beginning of Mechanics, so it'll be quite boring until we start learning about gravity, velocity, force, etc. Until then I'll have to live with re-learning the metric system and 'sig figs'.
I wear braces (or more like they wear me; they have all control), but I get them off fairly soon. Probably some time in the next month or two. Anyway, until I do I have to wear these thick rubber bands on a few brackets. I have no idea what they're for, but I don't understand a word the doctor says when he's messing with my mouth, so that's not really a surprise. I was yawning second period (my aforementioned 'snooze class') and they both snapped. I'm just giving up until I'm more awake.
I started a book today called Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It was recommended by a friend from Book Club, and it's great. I've always liked books about intensely realistic video games (like Deadly Pink by Vivian Vande Velde), and this is one of the best for sure. (Apparently there's even a movie.) I wish I could play Oasis.
A similar media about video games is the .Hack// manga series. I'm sorry to the big fans, but I really didn't like most of it, because, although the art was great, I didn't understand any of the plot at all. .Hack//Twilight was great and made sense, but none of the others did. I've heard it said that you have to play the games and watch the anime for it to make much sense, but I think that sounds like too much trouble. There was another gaming novel that I started reading, Game Boys: Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest For Cash in the Battleground of Competitive Gaming by Michael Kane, anticipating an interesting realistic fiction, but instead it was like a documentary; nonfiction, no consistent characters, no particular plot, just information. I was disappointed. If you like that sort of thing and wish to learn more about professional gaming, whatever, go at it, but I couldn't appreciate it.
Until tomorrow, this is G-star, signing off.
I wear braces (or more like they wear me; they have all control), but I get them off fairly soon. Probably some time in the next month or two. Anyway, until I do I have to wear these thick rubber bands on a few brackets. I have no idea what they're for, but I don't understand a word the doctor says when he's messing with my mouth, so that's not really a surprise. I was yawning second period (my aforementioned 'snooze class') and they both snapped. I'm just giving up until I'm more awake.
I started a book today called Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It was recommended by a friend from Book Club, and it's great. I've always liked books about intensely realistic video games (like Deadly Pink by Vivian Vande Velde), and this is one of the best for sure. (Apparently there's even a movie.) I wish I could play Oasis.
A similar media about video games is the .Hack// manga series. I'm sorry to the big fans, but I really didn't like most of it, because, although the art was great, I didn't understand any of the plot at all. .Hack//Twilight was great and made sense, but none of the others did. I've heard it said that you have to play the games and watch the anime for it to make much sense, but I think that sounds like too much trouble. There was another gaming novel that I started reading, Game Boys: Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest For Cash in the Battleground of Competitive Gaming by Michael Kane, anticipating an interesting realistic fiction, but instead it was like a documentary; nonfiction, no consistent characters, no particular plot, just information. I was disappointed. If you like that sort of thing and wish to learn more about professional gaming, whatever, go at it, but I couldn't appreciate it.
Until tomorrow, this is G-star, signing off.
April 1, 2014
Mini-Ramble: A Lot of Books I Have and Haven't Read.
Hello, all, G-star here. I think I may begin posting Mini-Rambles every day during third period; I get the work done fast so I have time to blog, and it would be a lot easier than trying to write a lengthy post on Wednesdays and failing....but they'd be a lot shorter. What do you think?
While I'm not exactly a social butterfly at school, I've been having a lot of fun with Google+. I don't use Facebook or Twitter (besides, I don't have a smartphone) but G+ can, for now at least, fulfill my sharing needs. I'm subscribed to several different anime fans, one of whom set up an 'anime vote'. They commented on the post with several different anime and you +1'd your favorite to vote. I thought this would be fun until I went down the list and realized I'd never even heard of any of them.
By nature, I avoid popular anime unless I'm forced to watch/read it (by it being the only thing at the library or MC holding me at gunpoint), with the exceptions of Naruto, Bleach, Black Butler, OHSHC, and Fairy Tail. Other than that, I'm a manga junky, preferring small stuff by authors I've never heard of (like Me and My Brothers from Hari Tokeino, one of my old favorites <3). Needless to say, after being disappointed by the variety of anime to vote for, I reposted it with my own list. I doubt anyone will vote, though.
Does anyone have a good series for me to read? (Not you, MC. I know what you're going to say.) Normally I get several chapter books from the library at a time that might be interesting (or parts of series I'm reading), binge read the twenty manga I got, and then finish maybe half the novels only to return the rest without renewing. But I had a LOT of reading time over spring break and I'm almost done with the second-to-last book in my library bag. I just finished the Maze Runner trilogy, tried the Chaos Walking series and couldn't appreciate it, and am one book into the Halo (?) series. Fantasy would be good....I'm currently rereading the Bartimaeus Trilogy. If you've got anything, please comment.
Now that BOB is over, the book club is left with nothing to do. The members who hadn't ever intended to do BOB and just came for the books are ecstatic, but the rest of us just spend lunch chatting, watching funny Youtube videos, and, in my case, reading freshly checked-out comics. Speaking of which, the librarian recently received a few new manga series, including the first ten or so volumes of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle~! Sadly, they're all volumes I've read.... T-T I may reread them just for the heck of it.
She also has a new series called Ororon by Hakase Mizuki. I have no idea what it's about, but it's really tempting....all I can see of it is the yellow cover, yet I desperately want to read it. With all hope, I'll be able to check it out today at lunch. I'll write a review as soon as I do!
Well, that was all mindless gibberish. Gonen'nasai. G-star out.
While I'm not exactly a social butterfly at school, I've been having a lot of fun with Google+. I don't use Facebook or Twitter (besides, I don't have a smartphone) but G+ can, for now at least, fulfill my sharing needs. I'm subscribed to several different anime fans, one of whom set up an 'anime vote'. They commented on the post with several different anime and you +1'd your favorite to vote. I thought this would be fun until I went down the list and realized I'd never even heard of any of them.
By nature, I avoid popular anime unless I'm forced to watch/read it (by it being the only thing at the library or MC holding me at gunpoint), with the exceptions of Naruto, Bleach, Black Butler, OHSHC, and Fairy Tail. Other than that, I'm a manga junky, preferring small stuff by authors I've never heard of (like Me and My Brothers from Hari Tokeino, one of my old favorites <3). Needless to say, after being disappointed by the variety of anime to vote for, I reposted it with my own list. I doubt anyone will vote, though.
Does anyone have a good series for me to read? (Not you, MC. I know what you're going to say.) Normally I get several chapter books from the library at a time that might be interesting (or parts of series I'm reading), binge read the twenty manga I got, and then finish maybe half the novels only to return the rest without renewing. But I had a LOT of reading time over spring break and I'm almost done with the second-to-last book in my library bag. I just finished the Maze Runner trilogy, tried the Chaos Walking series and couldn't appreciate it, and am one book into the Halo (?) series. Fantasy would be good....I'm currently rereading the Bartimaeus Trilogy. If you've got anything, please comment.
Now that BOB is over, the book club is left with nothing to do. The members who hadn't ever intended to do BOB and just came for the books are ecstatic, but the rest of us just spend lunch chatting, watching funny Youtube videos, and, in my case, reading freshly checked-out comics. Speaking of which, the librarian recently received a few new manga series, including the first ten or so volumes of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle~! Sadly, they're all volumes I've read.... T-T I may reread them just for the heck of it.
She also has a new series called Ororon by Hakase Mizuki. I have no idea what it's about, but it's really tempting....all I can see of it is the yellow cover, yet I desperately want to read it. With all hope, I'll be able to check it out today at lunch. I'll write a review as soon as I do!
Well, that was all mindless gibberish. Gonen'nasai. G-star out.
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