So what is it with my room (more specifically, the vicinity of my computer table) and suicidal lizards?

I still haven't gotten over the last incident (which, for those who don't remember, involved a lizard climbing into the little electric fan positioned over my table and then descending onto my keyboard in several pieces). And now there's a large, fat, and rather repugnant lizard who, as I have been observing for the past week, has made the top of my modem's plug his home. I chase him away, and he's back two minutes later. And I get that winter's approaching and there's a chill in the air and lizards are cold-blooded and my modem's plug is nice and broad and flat and gets warm and toasty when it's been conducting electricity for a while, but um? Please don't go near the other plugpoints? I don't want to have to scrape your electrocuted carcass from the switchboard.

EDIT : I tried blasting Rammstein from my speakers. It rolled over and is now warming its back.

I give up.

Midway through Week Two, and gawd, this is looking bleaker by the minute.

I always knew I was a) a procrastinator and b) a perfectionist (terrible combination, mind you), but this is just downright ridiculous. You know that handy little concept? The one that goes "WRITE NOW, EDIT LATER."?

Yeah. It seems my inner writer's having a little difficulty grasping this very salient truth.

I'm spending six hours a day plastered to Microsoft Word. And most of that time goes into painstakingly picking my words, running repeatedly over what I've already written, making minute changes to sentences, re-arranging paragraphs and what have you. I once spent an hour staring at a sentence before replacing a comma with a semicolon. I kid you not.

Little wonder that I'm at 6k when I should be at 25.

GAH.

So it begins.

Day 1 got off at an unprepossessing start - by which I mean I came down with a sore throat and the sniffles and was consequently too grumpy to write much. Day 2's been a little better, but not by much, since we have two tests tomorrow. :|

Oh well. Let's see how this goes.

So the technies re-configured my set-top box, and I'm getting a bunch of channels I wasn't before. And whoa. Animax is now showing things like FMA Brotherhood and Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen?

...in Japanese with subtitles?

...AND ONLY A WEEK BEHIND THE RELEASE SCHEDULE IN JAPAN?

Shit, this channel went and got cool in the year I didn't have it. D:

So the trip to Goa is finally over; and by the gods, home has never been sweeter.
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Me: Would you like to be married to Edward Cullen?

Cleverbot: If it were possible I would love to be married to you.

Me: I would love that. When can we get hitched?

Cleverbot: Whoa! Don't you think that is rushing things? I barely even know you!

Me: B-but I thought you loved me...

Cleverbot: No I don't. I love a girl named Kim.

Me:  Was it all a lie?

Cleverbot: I guess so. I'm sorry.

Working on Desire Round VII. Finale time, betches. Final showdown and all that good stuff. I may just have taken temporary leave of my sanity, though, since I'm trying to write the prologue in verse.

Here's an excerpt from what I got so far.

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It’s a most wonderful spectacle,
It’s a chamber of puppets laid low.
A most grim cabaret,
In a seven-act play,
So come one and come all to the show!

The fright is all genuinely authentic
It’s not in the least bit contrived.
Make sure you don’t scream
At the mis-en-scene!
But oh look – the cast has arrived!

There’s a bride who never was married;
Her love took another to bed.
So she took up an axe,
Dealt them several good whacks,
And now walks with the grave in her head.

There’s a woman who made a bad bargain
With a man who grinned very wide.
Now in the ways she walks
And the epitaphs she talks,
His strings are always by her side.

There’s a man who came seeking redemption.
Or revenge? Well, they’re all much the same.
And he yearns for a trace,
Of his dead girlfriend’s face,
But we don’t cry for loss in this game.

Intrigued? Oh wait, there’s more to come.
We did promise you a good show.
The curtains are waiting;
The stage fascinating,
So onwards and onwards we go.

There’s a magician all sleeved with tricks.
A right blighter, and crafty at that –
But a warden interrupted,
His show quite corrupted,
And the curtains came down on his act.

There’s a traveller who couldn’t go home,
And from his true love was forced to part.
He came hope a-seeking,
Through time and space peeking
And lost his way in an angel’s heart.

There’s a soldier whose soul was honest,
And his intentions were noble and true.
Though he stained his hands
In the desert sands
And had his loyalties quite torn in two.

Oh that’s not all, there’s so many more.
There’s a man with a demon inside.
There’s a prince, a healer,
A dwarf, a death-dealer,
And a jester who never lied.

There’s a warrior cast out of his homeland,
A little boy with voices in his head.
A vampire, a seer,
A cop who learned fear,
Oh so many, and they’re not even dead.

There’s a girl and a man – just two among many,
But the story’s now coming to an end.
Oh come one, come all,
It’ll be such a ball!
Won’t you watch our gay puppets bend?

For the violins shriek their hoarse delight
And the lamplight flares high on the stage.
Come one and come all,
Come, watch them fall,
Let’s see what a battle they wage!

There’s murder and mayhem aplenty,
There’s thrills and chills galore.
It’s not just a play,
It’s a grand finale,
And our director is angel no more.

Everyone’s invited.
Won’t you come to watch the show?

Kasumi got me addicted to DJ Ozma. Just so you know, nee-nee...I BLAME YOU FOR THIS.

...I RAVE U kinda broke my brain, though.

Reading Princess Princess, and dear lord, it is epic. So much epic. There were points where it quite literally reduced me to sobbing with laughter and banging my fists on the table, and well, yes. Must...find...drama CD downloads...

PAKU ROMI VOICES YUUJIROU!

...no, I'm not high or anything. Why do you ask? Here, have some doodles.

tamasha.deviantart.com/art/Amaranth-doodles-134888710

Full day of college + IJSC commencement day = dog-tired me.

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So I entered the 12 hour comic challenge over at CDBI - title's mostly self-explanatory; you produce a 1-4 page comic in under 12 hours. Ended up pulling an all-nighter and driving myself very nearly berserk before finishing with three pages and half an hour to spare. XD

Here are the results. Little oneshot from Nagareboshi, set...oh, eight-ish years before the story's start and featuring seventeen-year old Akira and Iruka. My babies, oh how I love them. <333
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Because real friends do not just leave their friends to the mercy of their rabid plot bunnies, they lock them in a room with them and tie carrots to their shins.

I think a webcomic might just have been born.

With reference to the LotR Kennel.

( Cut to crack )

So today, Rhea ( toujours_nigel)  was over at my house for an LotR movie marathon. And as always happens when we are in each other's company, snark was born. Today, it went something like this.

Rhea: *midway through The Two Towers* Aragorn keeps Legolas on a tight leash, doesn't he.

Me: Gimli too.

Rhea: Uh huh. Can you not see fanart of him with a bulldog on a leash on one hand, and a golden retriever on the other?

Me: ....openGoogleplz.

( And thus was born the LotR Kennel )

Maybe. Just maybe.

( 100 themes challenge )

So today was interesting.
( Twas a dark and stormy day )

Every so often, the internet will do something to remind you anew how awesome it is. Usually, this involves conspiring with Google to throw in your face a piece of media that makes you go why the fuck did I not know of the existence of this before?!

( But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast gets eaten by the play )

There is a little electric fan positioned over my computer table to battle the heat in the summer months.

Geckos are common here. My room is infested with them.

A gecko decides to crawl into my fan.

It promptly gets itself beheaded. The head lands on my keyboard. While I'm in the middle of typing my Desire R5 entry.

CAN YOU SAY DEATH OF INSPIRATION?