I got tagged by capslock_mgs  and mgs_slash , and made me a bunch of friends. May have gotten me interested in meta via the writings of firefly99 .

2. Conventions: I go to two: Otakon and Zenkaicon. I met frickninja at the latter (at a Bleach panel led by Johnny Yong Bosch that kept getting derailed into other fandoms: we were both there for the Adachi more than anything else), and we proceeded to hang out and babble about games and anime together for the next two days, all the while disguised as Otacon.

3. Persona 4: The other game I got addicted to. Made a lot of friends via it, for example, frickninja , since we both attempted to annoy Adachi's voice actor at a panel and promptly got to know each other, plus the entire cast of D!, mumumugen , jougetsu , pengiesama , and just a whole lot of everyone. I LOVES THIS GAME AND MY SOCIAL LINKS IN IT. Also I play Naoto in a Twitter RP (this is terrible and indefensible for many reasons) and am the Hanged Man social link to numerous people.

4. Kanji: When it comes to Persona 4, one character stands out from all of the others to me. That guy is Kanji Tatsumi, the sewing-est, sexually-confused-est, toughest-delinquent in Inaba. I love him, I can act a bit like him, and I will talk about him excessively if prompted. Hence why he's in two of my icons. GET BENT.

5. Spicy Lo Mein: At Zenkaikon, I blew all of my money on an action figure of Raiden. Luckily, I was with the gracious and wonderful frickninja , who let me stealshare her delicious lo mein. I am forever in her debt for this.

Mother took laptop. Can only access internet from school computers. Said computers block 75% of the internet I normally use.

Can't instant message.

Sorry.

Once upon a time, this pretended to be an artblog. Now it's gonna try to be one again. OHSHI-

( terrible drawings with nary a tangible fanart amongst them )
Some icons I made for people are here, too. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TINY ICONS, JUST ASK. THEY'RE EASY TO DO.

I FEEL REALLY GUILTY FOR IT, BUT I LOVE CRISIS CORE

Even though I'm in the dumb filler parts with those silly made-up characters. Pff, Genesis, pff, Angeal. You're just filling out time until Nibelheim, guys. I can't hate 'em, though. Angeal's a likeable dude, and Genesis is so pretentious and petulant and OH GOD I CAN'T TAKE HIM AND HIS POETRY SERIOUSLY to the point that he's become the comedy king of the game.

Zack is great, really. CLOUD IS SO CLOUD, though, man. Can't even hold down Hollander, who's clearly not in the best shape. You tiny wimp. I have a few issues with how Aeris is presented so far (like how I'm going to punch her voice actress), but she's still recognizable. Sephiroth is great, and it's nice to see him "human" for once. Tseng is amazing (and a bit like an older version of Prince Poo), I could hug Cissnei for being so well-executed and not a Sue, I could go on, really...

But the actual star of the game is clearly Kunsel. I love him and his creepy omniscient texting. Possibly ship him with Zack in a terrible, one-sided way.

STILL GRAPPLING WITH MY HUGE MANCRUSH ON CLOUD

...My dad is friends with Quinton Flynn on Facebook now.

I-I don't know what is real and what is fake anymore.

WHY ARE THINGS THIS WAY

I AM SO CONFUSED

THIS GUY ARE SICK

AAAAAAAAAAAAH P3P IS COMING IN JULY

If anyone cares, I made a game production log thing for it. Feel free to stalk/contribute if you're getting masochistic urges.

heroesofsaiga is it.

I lost my voice. It's surreal, not being able to talk. I hate being sick.

Also, beat AC2. Ignoring Desmond and stupid framing plot? Yes. Climbing around, fulfilling my destiny as an obsessive completionist? Yes. God, that game is so pretty.

And I got a PSP, but it has no memory stick. This is the part where you all tell me what games to get (I already have Crisis Core and Metal Gear Ac!d, for the record.)

since I cannot makes polls, I will just ask you straight:

I need a good name for Old GreggSouji Seta. Since I will soon be partaking in a New Game+ sans overbearing sister, I'm gonna make it the best ever, with 100% more brohugs, doing the social links and fusions I want to, basketball and drama (I am going the High School Musical route this time, apparently), no dating the ladies or Naoto, not shunning Naoki, and sitting at the girl-side of the table in the Cultural Festival expressly for the purpose of making Yosuke uncomfortable. In short, all of the Good Stuff.

But more than anything else, I need a name for our dashing hero on par with the greatest. My current list includes:

• Sergeant Pepper
• Mister Muscle
• Pepper Jack
• Mayor McCheese
• John McCormick
• Sofa Tan
• Victoria Age 15
• Admiral Ackbar
• Karate Kid
• Poker Face
• Lindsay Lohan

All votes/suggestions are welcome on this CLEARLY IMPORTANT MATTER.

I normally don't do much pimping on behalf of anything, but this BEARs mentioning!

I'm going to direct your attention over to here, to the journal of my BEARY good friend mumumugen . He's determined to get out of unBEARable Venezuela, where he currently lives, and needs all the help/info he can get on emigrating/getting a job! I know how important this is to him, so please BEAR with me and try to give whatever help you can!

I suppose that I'm supposed to make a soundtrack for Kaito.

He's a short-yet-easygoing baseball-playing high school student. Very protective of younger kids and gets into a lot of fights because of it. This is because he got saved by MYSTERIOUS BASEBALL PLAYER SENPAI when he was a kid.

I have absolutely no music for him.

ADSFHKDASJ I HATE THINKING ABOUT MUSIC AND PRETENDING TO CARE ABOUT STUFF IN MY FIRST LANGUAGE

Hi, I'm Ramen, and I'm currently operating on approximately two and a half hours of sleep. Jet lag, caffine, and moonlight combined into a potent force that kept me from getting any meaningful amounts of rest.

So why the hell am I at school right now?

Man, I don't even know.

On the bright side, I saw The Princess and the Frog. GOOD TIMES. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it. If you have seen it, just... just go again. It's worth it.

And my stupid art exhibition thing is on Saturday how the hell did I get involved in thaaaaaat.

So, I went to compile a list of character types and design elements that I love using/seeing used. I guess it's roughly what I find "moe." It turned out so weird that I thought I'd post it up as the first entry of the new year. Because, really, nobody wants a recap of events from me. Seriously.

• Silver/white-haired smokers with a laid-back attitude.
• Big shiny glasses and a bowl-cut.
• Renju Sonozaki (er, rather, short, boyish-looking female characters with glasses)
• Zettai ryouiki!
• Caps with brims, hopefully worn with an overcoat of some kind.
• Itoshiki-esque hair and a really really huge sword.
• Boobs! (This is astoundingly vague but WHATEVER.)
• Long coats!
• Slicked-back medium length hair and sunglasses, hopefully combined with a nonchalant attitude.
• Baggy/large clothing that make a character's silhouette into a triangle with legs!
• Really big goggles!
• Bird-people!
• Shorts and long socks on a young male character!
• Short hair with a hairband!
• Raincoats worn as dresses, rather than over them!
• The beloved ahoge!
• Sideburns that point forward, like on Renji and Balthier and Raidou Kuzunoha.
• Really really long scarves!
• Big round hats like in .hack!

I have no idea what this says about my taste in characters, or about my thought processes. Doubtlessly nothing good at all.

Also, is it time to retire wreath-moustache Snake?

Can I start living out here? Seriously, Washington and Oregon are huge improvements on the East Coast.

To give a quick rundown (there's been a lot):

-The mountains. Also massive pine forests. Also moss. Also, everything is GREEN this time of year. GREEN. It's majestic.
-The fog. It's thick and ominous and absolutely GLORIOUS. Between joking about the Village Hidden in the Mist, joking about FFIX, joking about FFXII, and joking about Persona 4, it's been REFERENCE HEAVEN. And awesome-looking.
-THE COASTLINE AHSDKFHKSJDFHSDJHDSK. T-th-the ocean. The cliffs. WHY CAN'T THE ATLANTIC HAVE THAT MORE OFTEN. I would talk more coherently about it, but but but OCEAN. Pacific, marry me.
-Seattle. You are so cool. You make up for Philly having next to nothing Japanese, since you have such huge amounts of it.
-My uncle. He's pretty rad. Take my word for it.
-Takoyaki! Curry! Strawberry mousse cake! Various other things I ate for the first time!
-Kinokuniya! I want to live there. I almost bought the P4 artbook, but was short on cash and didn't have time to borrow any from my mom. Ah, well. Some other time. Why don't we have those back in Pennsylvania, goddammit.
-New Years! It hasn't happened yet, but we're getting to go to a Shinto shrine on the first, courtesy of Keiko, my uncle's girlfriend.

In short, I like it here more than at home. A lot.

MERRY HOLIDAYS, GUYS

AUGH, SO MUCH CHRISTMASSPAM. I'm gone for like a day and the internet explodes with cheer or something. I'll try to get caught up in an orderly fashion, but I'm using my step-grandmother's desktop with Internet Explorer, so.

Oh, right, I'm in Oregon. Taking a plane. That. That was the most amazing experience of my life. I just want to fly for the rest of eternity. Because FLYING, GUYSSSS. FLYING. Also, Washington/Oregon are pretty rad. Lots of atmospheric gloom and pine trees and mountains and water. It's like being in another country. I kept seeing Mt. Hood yesterday and saying "WTF, who's trying to trick me into thinking I'm in Japan?" because. Really. Okami music is appropriate here. But the fog is unnerving. Really. Because if it's foggy and vaguely Japan-esque... Well, next thing you know, Mayumi Yamano's hanging from a TV antenna and I'm sticking my hand in a TV...

But, uh. I owe shit for gift exchanges. I'm done the lineart for two of them, but they're on hiatus until I get my tablet back/internet on my laptop/finish my fucking college applications. SO, MGS_SLASH, PLEASE DON'T MURDER ME. I'll get yer gift done. And I'll look at mine when I'm on a computer when I'm more comfortable since I know it's NSFW.

I need soundtracks. Video game soundtracks. Silly vocal music might be alright if it's got something interesting about it (like having absurd lyrics, featuring some bizarre musical elements, being in a non-English language...) But, uh. I mostly want video game soundtracks.

I suppose animu musics are okay.

Ummm, I already got the Crisis Core soundtrack, and MGS3 is on my to-do list. And I've got Persona 3 and 4 musics, too.

But, yeah, taking suggestions.

(This is because my music library exploded a while ago, and I'm now restructuring it.)

NOT AVATAR.

HEY KIDS.

DO YOU LIKE PERSONA 4.

DO YOU LIKE ROLEPLAYING? WITH ORIGINAL CHARACTERS?

DO YOU LIKE ABSURD HUMOR?

ARE YOU NOT ALREADY A MEMBER OF DISAPPEAR!?

BECAUSE IF THESE APPLY, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW TO GET YOUR ASS ON OVER TO DISAPPEAR!. RIGHT NOW. THERE'S AN OPENING FOR A PERSONA-USER OF THE STRENGTH ARCANA, AND WE'D ALL LOVE IT IF YOU, THAT'S RIGHT, YOU, WERE TO MAKE A CHARACTER FOR THAT ROLE.

So, it's pretty common knowledge that I'm unhappy with the "general fandom perception" of Naoto Shirogane, as well as how the game handles hir for the most part after the "big reveal." But where I tend to have trouble articulating is how I personally interpret Naoto as a character.

So I finally hammered out my personal interpretation of the character (it is canon-plausible, but I don't believe it to be 100% canon; there's plenty of room for ambiguity in P4, as well all know.) It's mostly for my own writing of Naoto for RP and fanfiction, rather than to assert an opinion over anyone else.

And please keep in mind that I may have an empathy bias. Since I'm trans, I like to think I understand the issues at hand a bit better than the fandom layperson, but at the same time I realize that I'm not Naoto Shirogane and therefore do not have the ultimate say on Naoto's personal thoughts and gender identity.

So, without further ado.

( tl;dr re: Naoto's gender identity and THOROUGHLY OBJECTIONABLE TO 75% OF P4 FANDOM, I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING. )

ART POST

ART POSSSSSSSSSSST

This one has a semi-naked lady in it. Just thought I'd warn ya.

( drawings are huge and many )

ARE YOU GETTING SICK OF THESE YET?