一期一会

So I just pre-ordered Portal 2 as a two-pack off Steam. One is going to Mike because buying the two-pack got us the 20% as opposed to 10% discount.

That also means I have two extra copies of the original Portal, which were given as pre-order bonuses.

First two people to comment and give me their email address, I will send them each a digital copy of the game.

A few things you should keep in mind if you want Portal. You will need to install Valve's official software, Steam, and register an account with them. If you already have Steam, you can hit me with your account name instead, and I will add you and send the game to that account.

One of my guilty pleasures is watching Smallville and reveling in what a terrible adaptation of the Superman mythos it is. I'm not even going to start on the acting, writing, or dialogue here.



The tenth and final season, Clark has still yet to adopt the Superman costume even though the S shield emblem has been shown many times before. Hell, we even have a Supergirl before a Superman. All we get is his Thriller jacket.



Darkseid as la the smoke monster from Lost will be epic, or at the very least epically bad!

( More gif spam below the cut because I think Smallville gifs are the funniest thing evar! )

Not gonna lie, I totally pretend-played as the Yellow Ranger when I was a kid.

It seems the internet is trying to send a pretty strong message that we should all watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magical.

In fact, my SO has been trying to convince me to watch it with him since last week.

I do love a good magical girl pony show...

I am admittedly suffering from a bout of mostly writing-related anxiety.It's a vicious cycle of being anxious over not producing anything, which makes me unable to produce, and then continue to beat myself up about not writing. After coming off from the high of finally finishing Joey, I'm kind of lost. Joey was easy to finish because I had the overall picture of where it was going and how I wanted it to end. All my other plot bunnies and WIPs are currently in a much more nebulous state. But the overall anxiety level is so bad that I am resisting even working on the simplest of drabbles (and playing hours of Dragon Quest IX instead).

I'm learning toward working on Looking Back in Retrospective. But honestly? As it stands, the flimsy premise needs some overhaul, fine tuning, and a lot less lazy narrative and storytelling device. And I haven't even begun to tackle the huge pile of research I need to do to justify writing an ancient Egyptian setting to myself. I also don't have a concrete enough plan/timeline and am just wasting myself away being anxious about not having one.

I'm tempted to go work on a follow-up to Life Eternal instead. I am continually surprised to find people still periodically read/discover it.

I need to snap out of it.

Eight years and 100,000 words later, Joey is finally complete?

( Some thoughts in retrospect )

I know I'm behind on a bunch of writing, so to help myself concentrate I'm compiling a list of my plot bunnies. There's no guarantee I will write all/any of these, but I have tried to order them in how likely I am. This will be updated as I get more?

Index
☆ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters ☆
☆ Harry Potter ☆

( Take a peek under the cut )

Still don't know if I'm actually going to sign up. There are only so many fandoms I am comfortable writing in...

So I've been pretty inactive over the last month or so. Things I have managed to accomplish would be some house cleaning (so overdue!) and the second to last chapter of Joey. I'm so excited to be almost done! The story only took 7 years to complete!

In lieu of NaNoWriMo (which I haven't done in several years anyway), I'm holding out for yuletide sign-ups. Because of a change in their criteria threshold, it looks like Yu-Gi-Oh may be one of the YT'able fandoms this year. And that makes me happy! xD

“One of the biggest things I deplore about our culture, Asian culture, is this need to be perfect. It comes from a place of arrogance to think we’re perfect because that means we believe we’re better than everybody else. We will always be looked at through a filter of one dimensional positivity and never as multi-dimensional humans. It’s because of this insidious need to be perceived as perfect that, as a culture, we rarely ever directly address topics of taboo and dysfunction. We deal in avoidance, suppress emotions, turn away from confrontation, only to let it fester like a cancer so it eventually expresses itself in ugly ways...The reason why I’m producing this K-TOWN show is because I want to celebrate being Asian and all the wonderful baggage that comes with it! Yes, we Asians are smart, play the piano, work hard, but at the same time we’re sexy, stylish, have swagger, and we can party and fuck up just like everybody else."
- Mike Le

The article is deeply personal and surprisingly honest. I feel it comes from a place that a lot of Asian Americans share about their heritage and background- our ambiguity and reluctance about how and where we fit.