I've been thinking. About politics.

Considering I got a ballot in the mail yesterday, why not.

I'm registered Independent.  I grew up with Democrats in a very Republican town.  I will admit that I generalize a bit, thanks to my dad always joking with me about 'those silly Republicans' or 'those crazy right-wingers' and I'll also admit that I don't understand the logic behind a lot of their ideas.  (Trickle-down economics?  Really?)  However, I do understand a few of them, and if it makes sense to other people, then that's their deal and I can accept that.  Even if I would like to debate a bit.  Maturely, of course.



George Washington didn't want political parties to form because he foresaw them essentially taking over the decisions.  (I don't know how to word that very well in that sentence, but it can be summed up as Republicans will vote for Republicans because they are Republicans and that's what Republicans do, same with Democrats.)

And it's true.  I know a lot of people who discredit what the other party is saying because it is their "opposition," if you will.

Another thing - if we spend so much time going back and forth between the Big Two (Democrat/Republican) for presidential terms, during which they spend all too much time trying to undo things they don't agree with that the last president did, we're going to go absolutely nowhere.  We won't progress.  It'll just be a tug-of-war between the red and the blue.

Why can't we just have purple and be done with it?


Anyway, having a political scientist for a father gets me into some pretty philosophical conversations about politics sometimes, even at the dinner table, where Mom always brings up her intense hatred for the Electoral College system.  But it's also helped me realize that I believe in different things than my parents in some cases, even if I was the third most liberal in my sophomore government class and I had to get that from somewhere.


This post has been brought to you by a rewatching of Liberty's Kids.  (The weird thing is, I'm absolutely serious.)  If I derped up anywhere, blame it on the sleep deprivation because I'm at that point where I can't be assed to fact-check anymore.

Ssssso...

I am not surprised that this gets quite a few hits from people Googling anything with the word "CrowAki" in it.

But it is kind of weird when the search that led someone here was "crowaki sucks."

Just saying.


Anyway, I have returned from my sewing frenzy and subsequent convention with some serious sleep deprivation and a lot of wig touchups to do!  My Aki wig is slowly killing itself.  I will probably have to break out the big guns (read: silicone caulking, glue, massive amounts of super-strength hairspray, and detangling spray).

It feels good to get stuff done, you know?  Now I just need to get them to 100% completion and get better pictures of everything and I'll be set.  Like right now I'm looking at wigs for Belgium when I cosplay her in September.

Oh, also?  I bought a wig at the convention from Epic Cosplay, and it's even nicer than the one I got at a local wig shop for $80.  (Yeah, I still cringe about that price.  Nice wig - very realistic - but oof.)

They are definitely getting a repeat customer out of me.  I wanted to check out Arda too, but they didn't really have what I was looking for.  Maybe some other time!

And now I should go get some sleep. ♥

In this Post: I have no life, apparently

So Zexal started last night!

...And as I said I would, I haven't watched it yet!!

Again, I think I'll wait a while.  Apparently I'm still not over 5D's, because even though I got Sound Duel 3 in the mail today and am really excited about it, I don't think I can handle listening to the last 5D's Sound Duel just yet.  (And it is the last, or it wouldn't have things like Yakusoku no Melody on it.  Unless they do something about those apparently unreleased tracks, but I doubt it.)

I also got Over the Nexus with it, but I'm not letting myself open that one until I get some costumes done.  Ugh, less than two weeks!  What am I doing, renewing my Netflix account like that?

...Oh right, I also renewed my Netflix account last week.  I've watched Enchanted, Tangled, the Princess and the Frog (twice), season one of Hey Arnold! (my childhood), an episode of Liberty's Kids, Adrenaline Drive, and Fashion.  What am I doing.


Also, I have little TeamSat Kiryus running around my screen and they keep multiplying.  Shimeji are adorable.  Now if I had the rest of Team Satisfaction and an Aki, I would be the happiest.  (Speaking of, I wonder how Kiryu would get along with Spain?  Or any of the other countries I have.  Or Antinomy.  Hmm.)

I had to mess around with his coding a little for him to work, though.  Which was pretty easy; I just needed to copy/paste some things.

........He sure does like crabwalking and just sitting there.

Anyway.


Things I should be working on:

1. Costumes.
2. Translating chapters 4-6 of Crow that strays off rose garden because I am ridiculously behind.  (But I'm mostly done with 4 and 5; just a few hangups.)

And thankfully, I'll be getting access to the hard drive on my dead computer any day now, so I'll have all my works in progress back!  Hopefully this means I'll be able to kick my writer's block in the teeth and actually write until something is done for once.  And have Paint Shop Pro 9, Animation Shop 3, JquickTrans, and a slew of other programs I have no idea how I ever went without but somehow did.


And that is what I've been doing in the 10 days since I last posted.

The plotbunnies are attacking again

This would be a good thing if it meant my block would disappear.

But does it ever disappear?  Nope.  Never.  Maybe for a week or so every six months if I'm lucky.  Usually it's less than a day, sometimes only hours.

Possibly the worst part of my block?  I can still come up with plots, I just can't write more than 200 words at a time.  So that pretty much only covers writing down the basic plot before inspiration goes out the window again.  I have so many ideas floating around right now that I have no idea what to do with them.

Well, actually, one of them would involve watching the quicksub for 5D's 153/154, and I'm not exactly ready to do that yet because I might cry again.  And I don't want to cry again.

It's just...ugh.  Maybe this is why I like putting the characters in miserable situations when I write; it's like therapy for all that frustration toward my block.

Seriously, I love reading fluff, but I cannot write it without making the characters involved absolutely miserable first.

I want two characters to get together, but there's a plausible love triangle?  DOUBLE UNREQUITED LOVE.  Always.  There is no other way with me.  (Which is probably also why I don't mind actually really like reading Crow → Aki → oblivious Yuusei, because everyone is being emotionally tortured.  I am a terrible person.)

That's probably also why I can't get rid of one of my biggest plotbunnies from last year, which is a 'what-if' type thing where Divine comes back from the dead again and there's a whole common enemy theme going on toward Illiaster and everyone gets mindscrewed (or has a mental breakdown Aki) from it, because isn't he technically a bad guy in this series, I mean really.  I love it to death but can't write more than a little bit of it for the life of me.


I think the weirdest part is that, when I was in school, writing was absolutely no problem.

So I'm pretty sure this means I can only write the way I want to when it means I am procrastinating on life-changing tasks.

...Crap.