...To Jo!

Happy Birthday!

And now, back to my flute-playing :D

EDIT: It is somehow deeply comforting to be able to pick up my flute after almost two years of not playing, and still be able to do the simplified line of Ode to Joy from memory.

Yeah, should be asleep (eye doctors' appointment at eleven, ugh), but eh. Anyway. Who's coming to Yaoicon this year, and what are people doing cosplay-wise? I'm kind of trying to figure out what to haul out with me - current vague line-up is yukata!Tatsumi and wedding!Seishirou, because they need more con-time and hell, it's Yaoicon, and mafia!Leon for something new, hopefully. May also bring Virgil (note spelling) with me, to hold Jo to a certain promise she made last year XD; This, however, may change depending on what other people are doing - there any outfit in specific people want me to bring out?

Yoinked from shineko

1) Comment and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and make you an icon.
2) You have absolutely no say in what I make.
3) You can pick between having a normal icon or an animated icon. I too haven't done animated in ages, and don't actually have my animation program on this comp, so still it is.
4) If you do partake in it, please put this in your LJ so I can do the same for you.

I may be a bit slow about getting these done, but hell, I could use the practice.

This list is more for me than anything, but I figured someone out there might enjoy it, and hell, I'm happy for suggestions for homes for any of them, or anyone who wants to play around with them with me or whatever.

Issac and Raphael: They have their own post of description from last fall, and are my current frustrations - they have personality, some backstory, but all I ever get out of them is little snippets of conversation. I was hoping if I let them sit around long enough, plot-things would happen on their own, but it's been eight months, and...nothing. Argh.

Mira and Alex: Haven't actually met, but they're from the same universe so they get grouped together. Dunno if anyone remembers me going on about how the Sprawl would be a great RP setting, but, uh, I got bored and came up with characters for it. Yes. A game that doesn't exist. Alex is half-Greek, and used to be a mercenary. Now he's a bouncer with an alcohol problem (which is why he's not a merc any more). Mira was a molecular engineer working for Maas, but decided that she needed more excitement in her life, and left with a lot of confidential research data, which she sold for a great deal of money. She's currently working as a console jockey and won't take shit from anyone. Either Mexican or Indian (never decided), and Mira isn't her real name.

Malcolm: Some variety of storm-mage; I never got around to really defining his powers. Lives in the modern world or some close variation, in England. Probably wanted to be writer or something, but ended up in a shitty managerial position in a big company somewhere. Hates his job, hates his life, finds his powers more of a nuisance than anything else - bitter and cynical, pretty much. Also has that Neil Gaiman/Tim Burton-sort of crazy hair.

Unamed Water Mage: Incredibly short-tempered, and possibly also a ship's pilot. Born out of the observation that it's usually just the fire mages who are short tempered; she hates it when anyone points this out to her.

Unamed Lab Tech: The only one of these who has a definate home - I was considering offering up a lab slave research assistant to Dr. Petras over in City of Mako - hopelessly naive, totally enamoured with science, and thinks Hojo is absolutely brilliant, not knowing what a crazy asshole he is. She's proably a bit stereotypically nerdy, but CoM could probably use some people who aren't either perpetually grumpy or totally spastic and high on something.

Just a bit of frustrated venting. Something Julie posted brought it out, but this has been simmering for a long, long time now. For non-ranty things, skip down to the next entry.

( rant )

There's a handful of communities on LJ I'd like to join (almost all DMC, actually - - no other fandom I've been in has been so damned obsessive about hiding their pr0n), but haven't, simply because they require you to be over eighteen, with a year of birth listed in your profile. And I'm not comfortable doing that, even now that I am over eighteen, and it took me a while to figure out why.

I think it's a carry-over from my earlier days in fandom, particularly with X. I was fourteen when I first started getting into the X fandom, which skews a lot more towards early to mid-twenties. And I never told anyone my age unless they outright asked, because I didn't want to be seen as the young kid in the fandom. And I still don't. Yeah, I'm eighteen now, but I still hang with people a lot older than me, and I don't want to be judged by how old I am, I want to be judged by who I am as a person.

Which I guess means no DMC pr0n for me >.>

So, as I may have mentioned before in the past, I tend to have really bizzarre, vivid dreams. Most of the last week these have had weird Project Runway twists (Jo being crowned Miss Japan is the most memorable - kind of woke up and went 'What the hell?'), but last night, my brain decided to make things more interesting (in a good way, actually).

The first bit was a cross between DMC and Nocturne - some powerful spirits or something decided to resurrect a group of demons to traverse the Temen ni Gru for some unknown reason. The first bit of it went slightly awry, and they ended up with Dante, half-dead Vergil, and the demifiend. Then there was a brief interlude of school issues mixed with basement renovation mixed with camp in the middle of the woods, and then there was an X and Nocturne crossover which I don't remember quite as clearly, other than that my brain apparently thinks pixies come from eggs.

The really strange bit is that people I knew kept being used interchangably with characters - I was Vergil, Mara was Kamui, I think Jo was Dante, although I'm not entirely sure, and the demifiend may have been one of my friends from elementary school, Margot, but I'm really not sure about that. I do remember that in one of the moments when we were more us than the characters, we were drawing the huge magical tattoo-thing on her.

And augh don't wanna go to work. Particularly because there is more Shoebox Project out, after like a year of none.

Ways To Utterly Destroy Any Good Mood I Was In:

Coming home to find
-my brother has left my monitor on for two days straight (I have no screensaver, because I had problems with it freezing, and always the moniter off)
-one of his friends has rifled through my stuff
-while the Idiot is gone for now, he'll be back this weekend and next weekend.

And good god, does this connection blow. Or maybe it's this computer, I don't know. New laptop FTW!

Thanks for the comments last night/this morning, though - I feel a lot better about stuff now. You guys are awesome ♥

Oh my god, why did I not find out about Google Notebook before today? It is wonderful and fulfills my deep burning desire to organize things. I already have files started for Eva, Leon, and assorted gun info, although I may add one for Tseng shortly.

Speaking of, I just had the revelation that while I personally like revolvers better than semi-auto, Tseng would probably opt for a semi-auto, at least for work, for the pure and simple reason that they chamber more. Most of the large-caliber rifles are only chambered for six rounds, and you're supposed to leave one empty for safety. The large caliber semi-autos, though, hold ten in the magazine plus one in the chamber, and it's really easy to carry an extra magazine and switch when one is empty, as opposed to reloading a revolver.

Now to decide if he'd go for something more exotic than a 1911-style semi-auto or not.
(...And I totally need an Ada 'girl with guns' icon)

EDIT: Randomly, where the hell are all the cool RE people hiding? I know of a few interesting people over in the Claire/Leon bit of things, but I'm afraid to talk to them because almost all the C/L fans are some variety of Ada-hater and would either try to kill me or irritate the hell out of me, because while I like Claire, I like Ada too (Claire/Leon/Ada OT3! ...Yeah, crack, but it's fun crack)

EDIT 2: And the cool DMC people, too, although I know a few of those. There the problem is less crazy shippers as it is finding the ones who aren't totally bitchy.

Gah. Sometimes I feel like I should just not talk to people at all, to avoid embarassing myself and annoying people I like and respect in the process. Because I keep doing it lately.

I have roughtly the social aptitude of a rock or something. It's pathetic.

Anyway! Aside from that, life is pretty good. My dad and I finally went to the range today, and I learned that 9mm semi-autos have alot of kick to them. As much as I'd like to try larger calibers, I think I need to force myself to stop flinching firing the 9mm first - you can tell exactly where the trigger fires on that S&W, which doesn't help at all. But it was lots of fun anyway. We also went out to dinner the next town over and I walked around and explored some.

And I'm entertaining the idea of cosplaying RE2!Leon, which is a Bad Plan because it's the dorkiest thing ever, pretty much.