With the death of my social life in the last month or so, I think I need a fandom again =_=. I don't usually go into them for any conscious reason like that (hell I don't usually have to try!), but I haven't been in a fandom for kind of a while now, and I do miss the sort of outlet it is.

I keep P4 and 3 stuff on my friendlist, but the P3 writing is slow/dead with the game being over two years old now, and 4 pretty much is too. There's some occasional stuff for both but it's never really for the stuff I ship. (In 3 I like a fairly popular pair, but they're only written by about 3-4 people, and in 4 I like maybe the third most prolific pair, but it's a genderbendy/gay pairing, and a lot of the writers just make them plain OOC heterosexual- laaame)

I randomly check recclists for Ronon/John for SGA, but it's SGA which I can't work much interest in anymore, even if the pairing is fairly appealing.

Only game I've played a lot of lately is FF12, which isn't really character strong so much as it is plotty. I like the chars and all but maybe it's in part due to how I take on the game, I just do gameplay and grind/do sidequests a ton because it's actually fun. And aside from Balthier and Fran no one has any chemistry, haha.

I think the last anime I watched was Code Geass, didn't care to ship it for more than a few weeks. Generally sort of afraid of the yaoi fandom still. Far as normal shows go I tried Merlin a long time ago, which is pretty gay, but I couldn't get into it, I did stop like 4 ep's in though, maybe it gets better? People seem to like Supernatural a lot, but I'd like to have a pairing, and not sure I'd like to ship incest <_<.

So, I dunno, anyone have suggestions? I'd kind of prefer something with a slash pairing and at least a fair amount of good writers.

( blah, boring personal stuff I should've maybe locked, oh well )

I started this to get myself in the mood to write my essay on Persona 4's use of drag and gender bending, I promise. Not... procrastination...
Then like two weeks off of my usual schoolworkload, except for projects, whoo!

Ugh. I exist.

I strangely feel compelled to maybe use LJ a bit again, despite having probably even less time for it than when I initially stopped posting. Just... yeah, facebook is lame and I get tired of getting only so far on it with anything. I can't properly document anything on that, and I still feel the need to write comprehensive reviews after something that had an impression on me.

Maybe I just need this to organize what's important to me again ^^;.

Anyyyway. I so desire for there to exist a Mars Volta fanwork area of their fandom. They aren't even that obscure of a band anymore but I suppose all the fans are either freaked out by making fic or anything for them or just too much the realistic types. I'm not even sure how I'd feel about it I guess, RPS has always been an awkward area for me. But I dunno, I'm just interested in these people and I sort of only know one way to celebrate/explore it, it's been my main outlet for so many fandoms.
(I recently went to my first concert of theirs, so yeah, temporarily life-altering, and permanently alters the way I hear their music in general. Maybe I'll do a real writeup on it before I lose the feeling and go back to being boring.)

Not fond of these CA fires and all that, making me basically have cold symptoms. And tired =_=, and still so much reading to do, and need more drawing time ;.

RL needs to kindly stop kicking my ass.
( school=fail )
( DW, SGA, TVstuff )

( games ~ )

Well, today is Saturday, the last full day my relatives are going to be about. I may have other company tomorrow depending on how things go with the leaving Sunday.

But at the moment there isn't much to do, since half the family are out shopping, one of my cousins asleep in the back, and the other just went back there again (seeing as neither of us seem to know what to say to each other most of the time, especially this early in the morning.)

Most days we all seem to hang about watching stuff and sometimes eating out. I was getting my uncle to watch Haibane Renmei yesterday, since he's sort of an anime fan apparently. I'm always super hesitant about showing that one, despite it being totally my favorite, it's got just about the slowest start possible (but still more relatable for me than Evangelion pretty much ever was) since it's just talking and some minor drama. And technically that's all the story is (though with much greater drama) but the ambiguously developed society and characters, and the constant dark undertones that go on all the way through. Just agh, I love it, and the soft art just makes it better. (And wait, they're finally releasing the manga here @_@ why did I not know this?)

We almost did Lain, but um, that one is weird and never fully makes 100% sense, so I thought Haibane might've been safer <_<. I want to rewatch it myself mostly though, being all into that darkish philosophical computery stuff with Megaten of late. ( rambly about P2 again )
( P4: 3 hours in, and surprisingly gay )
( wee Nocturne )

Few more days before I can get hardcore or anything, though ^^;.

I'll post up all the gift drawing stuff I've done for people later on I think. (I did all but 1 that I can be held responsible for, yay!)

Relatives been over, which we sort of weren't expecting due to weather delays and got called up 8 AM Tuesday all "Hey we're 6 hours away." Which turned into some omg cleaning panic, but that's okay.

Gifts this time was some random stuff from my visiting family, and P3:FES, P4, SMT: Nocturne, and some blankets I badly needed from my mom/grandma. Everything I wanted, so yay to that ^^;.
(I'm trying not to think about all 3 of those games so the wait isn't so bad. I can't honestly decide which I'd rather play first.)
( eh, went on too long debating the particulars with my 3 options here )


We're watching Coupling which my relatives brought over on DVD. Which I've watched on BBCA here and there, and is fairly amusing (although it makes me despair for humanity on a level that very few shows do.) The show is pretty heterocentric overall and I really wouldn't bother otherwise, but due to my uncle's weird (vaguely homophobic) reactions anytime something remotely bi/gay comes up on the show, makes me really want to read slash for it x_x;.

Or just read a lot of slash in general, yeah. (Oh wait, this isn't unusual ~~)

Ah well, happy holiday, friendlist~.

Also! It's raining here today! Glee!

Okay, I just might be playing too much Persona. I had a freaking dream that Baofu was in last night (well more accurately probably early today since I don't sleep at "night") and I don't really get many fandom dreams ^^;.

Although he's not really in Persona 2: Innocent Sin, so I dunno if I can blame that (but he's a main char in the sequel!) Katsuya was in it too! And it was randomly shippy, like a plot I never would've thought of, but I think it was pretty lame. I guess it'd make sense if they met up post-game because of policework/Katsuya's job, considering Bao does such shady stuff, though.

It took a while to figure out the translation patch yesterday but it was worth it. I've always liked having RPGs on handheld systems or on my laptop since I can take it with me wherever and multitask it easier (and I'm secretly glad that it makes demon contacts less time consuming.)

But, after playing for most of yesterday, a bit of the "omg I'm playing Innocent Sin FINALLY" shiny wore off a bit. Eternal Punishment really was a rehash of this game in terms of the dungeons and stuff so far. Which I was planning to replay and all, but naturally I'm not as in a big a hurry to push myself to play things I already have. I know IS is sposed to be better also (and that we never saw it due to Hitler ressurrection, a gay cast member/option to go out with him, ect) but I miss/am dismayed at the prospect that Katsuya (being serious and dorky) and Baofu (always teasing Katsuya) wont be there sniping at each other for the entire game too, you know ^^;.

Mind you I do adore Eikichi (I think he's the kind of char Junpei is sort of meant to be, but just a lot more fun due to how camp and over the top Eikichi is) and Lisa is much better than I expected, Tatsuya is a good silent protagonist, and hell even Maya is surprisingly likable considering she's the cheerful positive type. So it might end up to be a "better game" but I'll still probably like EP better because I'm so attached to Bao (being one of my favorite game characters ever, and something I cosplayed) and Katsuya. But either way, does it matter? They'll both be awesome.

We'll see after I get Jun too >_>, he brings on the gay.


And my relatives aren't coming for a few more days! Yay! More time to prepare that I really needed, omg @_@ (not the least of which being christmas drawings. People need to stop sucking at making requests so my life is easier x_x)

And I didn't notice, why did I wake up at 7:30 AM?!