Back from party time! It was pretty awesome, to say the least. Put me in a completely different moodset than my last post, that's for sure, haha. Finally got a tan again, after being freakishly pale (by Filipino standards) for like two years oh god. Hopefully less people will mistake me for being Chinese or Japanese now. ):

Because... well, we were at a water park, I didn't get very many pics because my camera is unfortunately not waterproof, but I still managed to get a couple!

( even if they are scarce an azn is obligated to post pics )

... Wish this post had more substance, but oh well, I'm too tired to process anything else. Since no one replied to the meme on my last post, that counts for this post's obligatory meme...!

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Idea dumping for mgs_clichefic:

FIC

- AU where Otacon is a vampire. I have all the details for My Vampires Being Different that will let me whine about how MGS4 sucked make metastatements about the game as a whole, and it will be awesome once I figure out a plot for it. Maybe someone else needs to be a slayer or something? Maybe he can have mortal vampcombat with Vamp? I don't know. Ugh. Throw some ideas at me or this won't get written.

- Finish off that Snake/Otacon kidfic thing. I have about three pages and the plot hasn't started. I like it and I think it's some of my best writing (read - I can read it back and not cringe horribly several days after writing it), but - again, there's a lot of material I want to get and not a lot of plotting ability I have.

- The MGS/Twilight crossover Miri and I plotted while she was helping me with the dishes. ONCE AGAIN, while I have plotted out in my head how it fits in the verse, what Meyerpires are in the verse I'm making and so on (while conveniently ignoring the timeline because it makes more sense in my head for the verses to cross over during MGS4 but Bella needs to be a human for the plot to work), I still have no idea how to conclude the plot or make it all fit together. Right now I'm stuck on the fact that I've set Bella up to try to de-vamp Edward, but Bella would never do that even if she wanted to, and Edward would want to be de-vamped but would never let Bella do it, so basically I'll end up with the two main characters both wanting something but arguing about how they both want it and not doing it for no reason. However, this is IC, so I may leave it in as soon as I can figure a way out of the infinite loop which isn't 'AND THEN NAOMI KILLS ALL THE VAMPIRES AND EVERYONE CHEERS, THE END'. Also, I realise writing this will force me to ape SMeyer's prose, and I can't even ape my own prose most of the time; not to mention I'll have to actually reread the book to check that I'm doing it right, aaaugh.

I might end up giving up and just write a meeting between pre-MGS1 Snake and the Cullen family when they were living in Alaska.

- Blanketfic. I have the most terrible fondness for the whole blanket scenario, especially when it comes to forcing men to cuddle. The problem is that I can't decide if I should do Snake/Otacon or Raiden/Rose. On the Snake/Otacon end, there's the fact that I had the idea rolling around in my head like an old rotting pea in a thrown-out tin can for a while, which means I'll have a better idea how to set it up and what to do with it; there's the fact that the pairing would be more inclined to at least a semi-happy resolution; and also, it's my OTP. On the Raiden/Rose end, I could work it into the 'I'm afraid of the night! That's why I don't sleep next to you!' line; the main source of conflict will be based in canon rather than in headcanon; and everything else I write for this challenge will be Snake/Otacon anyway so it'll add some variety. The biggest problem is I can't figure out how I could make it have a happy ending.

VIDDING (yes, really)

- Linkin Park AMV About A Character Being Sad. Not sure how to twist it to make it creepy-awesome, though. Maybe tell a really weird story that's the total opposite of the lyrics' sentiments, or use some kind of insane remix, or something?

EDIT: HAVE THOUGHT OF AN IDEA, AND IT'S NOT A RIDICULOUSLY AMBITIOUS ONE. Now off to listen to some Linkin Park remixes.

Good Omens is an awesome book. Why didn't I read it earlier? :D

Segue: I've been distracted from starting Bones and Supernatural in favor of watching every episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway ever recorded. I am so not ashamed of this.

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So today I went to THE GUN SHOP. (Cultural note: I am English. Gun control is extremely strict and you cannot just buy guns from the supermarket - you have to go to seedy little places of which there is about five in the whole country.) As I walked in, I began to feel creeped out, being surrounded by people casually handling devices specifically designed for ending lives, and in order to not feel funny I forced myself to look at something that wasn't a gun. It was a huge rack of nasty looking hunting knives. I began to feel extremely strange, got my hysterical giggling under control after my mother whacked me for it, and left feeling disturbed.

On the bright side, they had a .44 Magnum revolver in the display under the counter, so it was quite nice getting to see Dirty Harry's gun. But, still, auuugh, guns. How do you Americans cope?

The town we went to in order to reach the gunshop was - let's just say that, if it also contained the heart of the technology industry, I would be able to understand the usual colour scheme of current-gen games. Unfortunately it didn't and I was left vaguely wondering if my colour vision had somehow gone. Maybe it looks better in the sunlight.

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Things are calmer now.
So that's good.
Learning a lot about myself and how to deal with others in a healthy way. It's funny how little it turns out that I know about things.

Ready to dive back into art, which I had taken a break from... just need to pay off my new glasses. (I um, crushed my one pair in my hand few weeks back. Have been walking blind since. It's funny, trust me.)

So I guess that's me.

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ALRIGHT

LIFE IS SHIT

I THOUGHT I'D HAVE A SERIOUS GO AT DRUNK!WRITING BUT IT TURNS OUT THAT NO, I STILL HATE THE TASTE OF ALCOHOL.

Oh genetics. You've thrown me some curveballs. Awful manky British teeth which braces can only help, not correct. A slightly too high forehead. A viciously heavy period. Ugly feet. Dark dense body hair. But, of all the genes, why did it have to be aversion to alcohol? It's just - I tried summoning my Inner Big Boss and drinking anyway, but I couldn't. My throat just closed up and said 'no, this is poison'.

I'm a failure as a writer, a student, and as a Brit.


EDIT: Oh I put my music collection on Shuffle for the first time in weeks and it turned up a really nice cover version of Michael Jackson's Thriller. It's really good, I love the sampled voice effects.

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Is there anyone on here who could help me out?

I need four pieces of pixel-art, of the faces of four different Metal Gear characters. They should be on a transparent background and not be any bigger than about 25x25.

They should be of Raiden, The Boss, Fortune and Sunny.

Any style is fine as long as they all match.

Please help me. ♥

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So I watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly today. Or, more accurately, The Prick, The Prick, and The Prick Played By Clint Eastwood.

IT IS A FANTASTIC FILM. OMG. REALLY REALLY LONG, BUT SO GOOD AND MY FANDOM HAS TRAINED ME TO WATCH THINGS FOR HOURS.

I don't care if you think Westerns are lame or whatever, just see it. There is no excuse. It is marvellous. If you enjoy seeing manly pricks manipulate each other in an increasingly-unstable spiral of manipulating that nonetheless comes down to an awesome boss battle, and seeing characters being repeatedly described as blond despite having hair that's clearly dark brown, it is more than worth a look. Soundtrack is fapworthy. There is moralising about war. There is gunporn. Angsty backstories. Fighting. Symbolism. Long periods of time when no-one's speaking and they just kind of stare at each other. If you are a normal human being you will love it.

Also, MGS fan trivia because I know my audience - 1) Lee Van Clef is in it playing a character who is basically MGS1 Ocelot and 2) the outfit Clint Eastwood wears in the mid-section (from the hanging scene to the scene where they steal the Confederate wagon) is the same outfit, down to the hairstyle, as the one Snake wears in his cameo in Boktai where he's introducing himself to Django as 'a man with no name' I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE HIDEO.