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So. I am both now a graduate of the Massachusetts Hunter Education class (perfect score on the test), and have finished my senior project. I'm also going to call tomorrow and register for a free one-on-one firearms training session one of the sportsmen's clubs is having in early May as part of the NRA's 'Women on Target' program.

In short, I am teh pwn tonight. Photos of Sephiroth, prom outfits, and the almighty cheese log to come later.

Prom was Saturday - pretty fun, aside from the fact that the music kind of sucked - too much shitty hip-hop. I blame the juniors. But the food was excellent, and everyone looked great, as did the place we had it. Other than that, I've spent my free time working on Sephiroth, and going to my hunter safety class. Sephiroth is actually almost done (for my given definition of 'done') - just need to cut bangs into the wig, and attach the buckles to the front of the coat. And it's weird, I'm so used to being stressed out and having stuff that has to be done, right away, that now that I don't really know what to do with myself, and I feel like there's something that really needs to be done, even though there isn't. The fact that I currently need both food and sleep probably aren't helping.

And I have continued to manage to hold out against KH2. Because I am a cheap bastard, and I have too many other games to finish anyway. Oh, and I got accepted at UBC, which means I now have to make up my mind where I want to go - there, or the University of Washington. Leaning more towards UBC, though.

First, to Winter:

Happy Birthday!

Hope things get better for you <3

Secondly, to all the Shinra's Finest people - I love you guys. No, really, as much as I nag about posting. Everybody's characters are so totally awesome (I even like Zhi! Who hates everybody!), and the quality of the writing is always top-notch. You lot have drawn me in and gotten me utterly addicted to the world of RP, and at the same time, totally spoiled me with such a good game for my first experience. Which makes it hard to find another equally awesome game to fill my time with inbetween s_f.

And Jesse! Where are you ;;? I need someone to babble excitedly at other than Mara and Jo. And Touya and Yuki are still at lunch.

Ugh, apparently I spoke too soon in my last entry. I forgot this week was midterms. So - Calc 4 and Microbio tomorrow, and then British History Friday. I also need to do another 13.5 hours on my senior project to meet the time requirement. I think I may start keeping score at the bottoms of entries or something. Had hoped to have it all done by Friday, but...so not happening. Prom is also this weekend, and while I wanted to sew a little something new to wear, I'm not sure I'm going to have the time, particularly with the hunter education class as well. So busy, agh.

And to top it off: it snowed last night and this morning. Yes, it's April. I hate New England weather so much sometimes.

Things that made yesterday evening and this morning rather nice:
- My first Basic Hunter Education class. More on that later, but for now - it is so refreshing to have the instructors really, really care about what they're teaching.
- Not getting lost going to or from said class, particularly after dark in the rain.
- Writing Asher.
- Having writing Asher go a lot more fluidly than it has in the past - I'm getting better, yes!
- Got into the University of Washington. Now I'm just waiting to hear from UBC.

I'm not sure if the AU!Eva that's been forming in my brain is a good thing or not, but Eva is totally from the North End, and a MILF. And it's sad how more people will understand the second part of that.

Also, today is Asher's birthday. No idea how old he'd be, as Midgarverse time has no real relationship to real-world time, and Shinra's Finest has it's own internal timeline (where we've been on the same day for six months now *cough*), but happy birthday to him anyway.

You know you spend too much typing stuff up on the internet when you're emphasising something in a paper journal and almost do it like _this_.

And I got up this morning with the intent of writing a long ramble about canon and my relationship to it, but then I spent my whole afternoon working on my project, grocery shopping, and watching movies. So only two little things, for the moment - I really want to bounce my Leon off of someone, although I know the few RE fans reading for this are spoken for RP-wise, and I wish I was better at plot. Plot is my biggest problem as a writer/RPer - all my other flaws are things that practice will fix, but plot is my big frustration, because practice hasn't really done much on that, as far as I can tell, and I don't know what will.

And Sephiroth is actually starting to resemble some sort of finished product, yaaaay.

EDIT: Dude, where the hell is my copy of X13? I need annoyed!Satsuki, because she totally needs a 'People suck.' icon. Yes. I am playing a savior of humanity (AU RP, for those who don't know), who hates people. This actually works. And somebody totally needs to make a Satsuki-tenatcle porn crack, because it's asking for it. And call her on how stubborn she is XD; Also, I will laugh so much if someone actually takes Kusanagi, because the whole fandom pretty much pretends he doesn't exist. Including, uh, me. Except when I'm laughing at his eyebrows, which look kind of like a small rodent crawled onto his face and died. Sorry, Kusanagi.

We have already covered that I don't like multi-fandom AU RPs. The hard way. I don't care if they need a Rufus and Samira's kind of gone under. No. Don't even think about it. You just want to play with Rufus because you can't play with Asher and Ally until one of the three different people holding those threads up actually post. Go think of good ideas for icons for Satsuki and Eva, their default ones kinda suck. Particularly Satsuki, as they'll get used, and I have plenty of source material.

Yes. I'm now posting at myself. Sanity...slipping away...

EDIT: I'm not sure which is worse - the fact that I'm vaguely upset I can't remember all the kekkai shapes from the X manga, or othat I actually can remember most of them.

Okay, I am hitting the point in the year where I am this close to snapping. I think the only reason I haven't yet is that it's been nice all week, and nice weather puts me in a good mood. Paper due Tuesday (yes, I've already started it), Sephiroth needs to be done by Friday-ish (goal for tonight: finish the boots entirely), I have to do fifty-six hours of community service by the first week of May (grad requirement), and to top it off, I've spent the entire afternoon being moody about RP stuff. No, nothing to do with anybody I'm currently playing with (although, uh, Asher would really like that cup of coffee sometime this century). No, this bit of moodiness can probably be summed up as follows:

Dear Leon Scott Kennedy,

I'm already writing you. Lots and lots. More than I've written anyone other than Rufus, and Rufus is an irritating, insistent little bastard (fun, though). I am not playing you, no matter how much it would give me yet more opportunities to get inside your head and play around with your backstory - for starters, I don't have anywhere to do so, nor anyone to play off of. So please, leave me alone for five minutes.

-Cocoa

PS: Claire, that goes for you too.

...Who's sleep deprived? I'm sleep deprived! And going to find food before more Sephiroth-work.

A few assorted thoughts as I force myself to work on this summary paper:

I really should just admit that I ship Leon/anyone. Well, except maybe Leon/Ashley, although that's more because of Ashley - my dislike of her and Caitlin feed off each other and makes me dislike both of them even more. Ada/Leon is my primary ship, with Dante/Leon as my utter crack ship, but the Claire/Leon is slowly growing me, and I could totally be there for some Leon/Luis, or Leon/Chris, or Leon/Krauser...hell, Wesker/Leon if it had any canon basis at all. Oh, and Claire/Ada/Leon, which I think I may have to try write seriously, just because.

And I like chicks with guns. Hawkeye, Eva (well, okay, my Eva, anyway), Ada, Claire, Ally...they are all so much win.

Also, "Feather Moon" is really good music to calm the fuck down to. All of Warm Strangers, really, but that one in particular. Although "Harbor" remains my favorite of her's (right now I'm going 'SO ADA/LEON.', but it works for Claire/Leon, too, and, hell, most of the pairings I ship.)

For people to actually read all the rambling, a little bit about fandom that is so, so true.

Pluses: My hair is now bright royal blue, and thus, totally awesome. There will be photos later. I also got smacked with a bit of inspiration for a little snippet of Claire-Leon post-C:V conversation, which will probably join the Ada-bit in my binder tomorrow during calc.

Minuses: Apparently we had a project summary due today. Needless to say, I haven't started that. I'm going to have to at least make myself begin it tonight, although I can finish it tomorrow morning. I also still haven't figured out how to import .m3u playlists to my mp3 player, argh.

And I totally can't concentrate on anything right now. Blargh.

Argh. I decided to upgrade Winamp and my mp3 player firmware, because the new version of Winamp has support for the Dell DJ. Upgrading the firmware is a pain in the ass - doing so deletes all your files, so I had to back up a bunch of stuff - but I thought 'Hey, it'll make adding playlists a lot easier!', as I've had a bunch I kept meaning to add but decided that it would be too much of a hassle.

So I spent two hours that I probably should have spent sleeping backing up assorted files and installing stuff, only to discover that while I can sync my music library and all that jazz, exporting playlists to portable devices isn't supported yet. I think I may kill something.

Oh, Claire/Leon. I want to love you, I really do. You're sweet, and fluffy, and have some sort of canon basis (more than any of the Leon yaoi-ships), and god knows they both deserve some shred of happiness - Leon in particular. I'm not sure what it is that makes me shy away, though. Maybe because it's a little too much like Asher/Ally (Asher has started bleeding over into my Leon, now...I need to make it stop), which Doesn't Work. Which is probably a topic for another day, because once I get started on those two, I can go for a while. Sigh. Maybe I just need a really, really good Claire/Leon story to win me over.

And Mara wins so much for being willing to edit fic for a fandom she has no part in at one am in the morning. So there will be Ada/Leon soon, once I finish beating it with the Editing Stick. She also gave me an idea for a silly little Ada-drabble, that'll probably get written during Calc tomorrow.

Also, I just realized that in the absence of canon-proof of siblings, I tend to write characters as being an only child. The only three exceptions to this are all OCs - Damien has a younger brother, unamed; Sam has multiple siblings, without ages or names (although as his family has kind of disowned him, they're not really relevent); and Julian, who had an older brother and sister - the brother was kind of important backstory-wise. Arguably, the whole Asher-Ally-Sam-Jey-Damien-Naomi thing is kind of a family dynamic, but it's not really the same. I'm not sure why I do this - maybe because it makes family relationships less complicated to figure out, and, in Asher and Leon's cases (also someone Ally's, but not so much), isolates them. Both of them are kind of lone wolf-type characters - a bit funny, as Asher's personality formed without the influence of Leon's. They are in some respects very, very different, but at the same time, they have certain similarities.

Random bit of amusement - I dug up Julian's character sheet - he was for an aborted VtM game - and his older brother's name was Albert. Actually, Albert Edward Delaval Astley, 21st Baron Hastings, because I decided to be neurotic and have Julian come from an actual aristocratic family. But the Albert bit is what's amusing me.

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So, due to a minor mess, I don't have Nocturne yet. I do, however, have my b-day present from my little brother, which is the PS2 version of Psychonauts. And it is utter wonderful platforming crack-goodness. Now, as the majority of of people reading this are probably going '...Huh?', a brief summary - you play as this kid named Rasputin (Raz for short), who's at a summer camp for psychic kids (actually, he runs away from home - which is a circus - to go there), and someone is stealing the brains of his fellow campers. All the levels take place inside the minds of other characters, and reflect on what type of person they are - the mind of the possibly schizophrenic (think 'A Beautiful Mind' and the newspaper clippings on the wall) conspiracy theorist is a suburban neighborhood that twists back on itself, with black helicopters flying around and satellite dishes, and suspicious men in trenchcoats doing jobs and saying things like 'I am on the road crew. This is my stop sign' and 'I am trimming the hedges. My landscaping adds property value to the whole neighborhood.'

The artstyle is wonderfully wacky to match, and you do things like pick up figments of the imagination to level up, and sort emotional baggage to unlock little slide shows (emotional baggage looks so happy when you tag it). Typically, my favorite character so far is Agent Nein - the one in the suit and dark sunglasses. It helps that he has some great lines: "Is this where you give me a lecture and I learn another lesson." "No. Here's your merit badge, let us never speak of this again." I'll have to transcribe the 'A Victory For Good Taste' video clip, it's great.

On the real-life front, I have been totally exhausted for the last couple weeks, and I don't know why. It's really starting to get me down though, because I don't have energy to get anything done, and I'm grumpy and unhappy all the time. Ugh. I need it to be spring already, and I need to have Sephiroth done and have this year be finished.

I had a bit of a reminder the other day of exactly how much fandom is kind of a little world unto itself. One of my school-friends in my calc class asked what I had been doing instead of actually listening to the prof, and I said fic, and then added 'It's so weird having a canon het OTP.' To which he went '...What?' We practically speak another language, really.

It is weird, though - said canon het OTP is Ada/Leon, which as of late I've fallen completely and totally in love with, probably as a result of Ada being totally and completely effing awesome, and Leon being the epitome of dorky!cute, which I love. It's one of my few almost true OTPs, where either of the characters being with someone else is a great big 'no' - I was reading a bit of Leon/Claire earlier to give it a try, because I like both of them, and I like the hints of canon friendship, and I just...couldn't do it. My brain was just going 'Arghnonono'.

Tangentially related - damnit, Leon, stop trying to associate yourself with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in my head. Ada and Vienna Teng is bad enough. Or Asher. Trust me, you two wouldn't like each other (although they could knife-fight. Mmm, Leon-Asher knife-fight. That'd be hot.)

...Yes, I'm going to bed now before I do any more talking to the characters in my head, and thusly, myself.

So, as I've mentioned before, I finished RE0 a few days ago. Not one of the better games in the main storyline, although it had it's moments. I think the biggest problem is that saying that Billy has the personality of a brick is insulting to bricks, and Rebecca takes damage roughly three times as fast as basically every single other character in the series. Even the twelve-year-old. The partner system was an interesting idea, though, even if the execution wasn't great. And I think Marcus is the only character in any of the games to actually have anything resembling a midwestern accent. He also has the worst taste in clothing of anyone in the series, and next to Alfred that's saying something. I'm of the personal opinion that the real reason that Wesker helped kill Marcus is because Marcus constantly refers to him as Albert, which nobody else does, probably for good reason. And mmm, scientist!Wesker. I do have to admit that both Billy and Rebecca grew on me a bit, and the time the ending cutscene rolled around, I went 'Aw, that's kind of sweet.'

And two quick movie reviews. I borrowed Mirrormask from Michelle the other day, and finally had time to watch it this weekend. Bizarre, but interesting, and the art style was absolutely stunning. We also went out to see V for Vendetta, which I personally enjoyed a lot. Best use of the 1812 Overture ever (second best goes to Farscape...ahhh, crazy!Crichton), and...I dunno. There's something about it I can't put into words. But I liked it, as did my mom and my brother.

(or 'Why My Brother Shouldn't Take Away the Gamecube and Thus RE4')

Cloud: *walks by Sora*
Sora: "HI DAD! :D"
Cloud: "..."

Hades: Let loose and have some fun!
Cloud: "...I don't have 'fun'."

Hercules: *throws Cloud over one shoulder*
Cloud: "...Could you take your hand off my ass, please?"

Oh, Kingdom Hearts. You're utter crack, but you let me smash things with bright pretty colors, and thus I'm appeased. It's like DMC's cousin that's perpetually high on LSD or something.

...Well, that might actually explain the 'Leon'.

So, I now have a Wesker-crack playlist on my mp3 player, which is very silly, but I couldn't help myself (actually, the greater irony is that I have a totally serious Dante playlist). I was listening to it this morning, and then had the Imperial March (more crack with that later) stuck in my head for all of my British History class. So the class more or less went like this:

Prof: Blah blah buy the books blah do the reading blah blah blah interpretation blah did I mention do the readings?
My Brain: Dum dum dum da-da dum da-da dum...

Anyway, for my last two classes, which I didn't talk about last time. I think I love Microbiology already - the professor has a wonderfuly dry sense of humor and has already make jokes about both STDs and bioterrorism, and mentioned Robert Hooke. Calc 4 will be...okay. The professor is tall and loud (although not quite unpleasantly so) and tends to write everything on the board six inches high, and all the homework is optional. So I'll survive it.

There will be more RE later, particulary as I'm almost done with RE0 and haven't talked about it at all, but for now - I've decided what I'm going to do for Halloween this year. Zombie-scientist, complete with a little Umbrella id badge. And possibly a sign that says '4 Itchy Tasty' just to see if anyone else will get the reference. Yeah, I'm a huge geek, I know.

So, as of 10:28 this past Sunday, I'm legally an adult in the US. Which means I can finally have bank accounts and things in my own name, and buy porn. I should probably be more excited about this than I am, which I think is due to the fact that my insomnia has kicked in big time over the last few days. However, my official apologies to everyone whose pr0n I looked at/read underage. Had a little party Saturday - mostly just some video games and cooking and movies. Comfortably low-key, really. Grace brought a cake from work which was delicious.

Anyway, spring break is now over, unfortunately, and classes have begun again. All I've had so far is my history class for the term, Industry and Empire in British History. It looks pretty interesting, although I don't know how long I'll be able to stand the prof's voice - he has a really strong New England accent and at nine am, it could be a bit grating. Microbiology is next, at eleven, and then Calc 4 which will probably be hideously boring.

RE rantings and ramblings to come! Because I've been playing RE0 and squeeing about Wesker at Jo, who is trying to corrupt me to the Wesker/Chris side of the Force and mostly succeding. And I'm attempting to apply logic to RE in hopes of extrapolating backstory stuff for Krauser and thus Leon. Yeah, I know, I'm going to give myself a headache. At least I'm not trying to apply science, which is probably a good recipe for frying my brain in frustration.

Inspired by some comments on Jo's latest game-rant - I can't stand PC gamers with superiority complexes. The fact that your PC costs more than my PS2 does not make you a better person than me, nor does it automatically mean your games are better. There are good games for the PC, and there are bad, just as there are for all the consoles, and all the handhelds out there. And different systems have different sets of good games - this is why I don't play our Xbox at all - from what I've seen, the vast majority of excellent Xbox games are first-person shooters, which hold basically no appeal to me. However, I don't spend my time more or less calling people who do like those - or, hell, PC gamers, for that matter - idiots. And no, this isn't directed at anyone probably actually reading this - I'm mostly just venting so I don't bite anyone's head off over there.

On to fun things! I finished Code: Veronica tonight, so some final assorted thoughts on that, which I will cut this time for spoilers - there are one or two people reading this that haven't played C:V and might. ( In no particular order... )

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Yeah, I refound my layout groove the other day, so, a new layout over at the blog, finally! I was going to make a Midgar layout, but I had trouble getting the image I wanted - a screencap from the game - off my brother's old computer. And by 'trouble' I mean a blue screen of death every time I tried to write the file to floppy.

So you all get sexy, sexy Ada Wong in her RE4 dress. Which does have butterflies on it, you just can't quite see them there. She is utterly awesome, as are most of the rest of the Resident Evil gals. Which means this is probably time for another RE mini-rant - what is Capcom's obession with Leon's middle initial? It's never 'Leon Kennedy', it's always 'Leon S. Kennedy'.

(Now I just need to finish my sexy Ada LJ icon...)

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