Bitch, are you for real?

Of course, my weeaboo tolerance isn't helped by my feeling ill and tired and vindictive, but holy fuck. Really.

Decided to quit Digital Dive - just waiting until I can be assed to post an actually cordial farewell, and not just a rant. Guess it's for the better.

But I have something new to rant about.

stilllost

Yep. Clockwork's got a Wose. Gag me.

I'm being a two-faced bitch, aren't I? I mean, well, I wasn't lying, any new characters in fandoms I recognise are a good thing in my book. On the other hand... Rose. Ugh. I was intrigued by her appearance in DW 4.01, yes, but that doesn't mean I can't be extremely annoyed when a version of her turns up in my happy pretendy fun-time games and starts fawning all over the Doctor.

...I know I don't have any reason to feel this way other than being a batshit hater. It's in-character for her to fawn over him. It may not be so in-character for him to immediately go back to yay let's blow up the universe we don't have a care in the world, but that's another rant for another time.

Unfortunately, it's in-character for the Captain to be head-over-heels for her, too. And Nick wouldn't snark out loud in front of a fairly inoffensive character, because he's a nice person. Rrgh, almost wish I had dropped Jack and picked up Owen just so I'd have a character perfectly willing to shoot her.

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So let's try this "vent like a wanky bitch where nobody can call you on it" thing, shall we?

http://community.livejournal.com/digital_dive/

Okay. I checked out your RP waaaay back when it was first set up and spammed over seemingly half of LJ. The fact you seemed to be so desperate that you'd plaster your banner onto totally-unrelated-to-Digimon comms didn't give me the best first impression, I have to say. I'll accept that your founding mod probably didn't rip the idea from me uncredited, since I never mentioned it to her directly and the person who suggested she might've stolen it anyway was a bit of a paranoid nutcase. I just didn't like your founding mod much. The bias there is entirely on my part.

Even so, I checked out a few of the character apps you were initially letting through - my normal way of judging an RP - and decided, no, it wasn't for me. But I'm just one player, and my ego isn't quite big enough to suggest your game is losing out by not having me, so no hard feelings, eh?

One of the people on my flist did join the game, and enthused about it massively. Good for her. I avoided saying anything about it in her comments, due to the whole "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything". I do quite a lot of saying nothing on LJ because of that. But I was only in Clockwork and Clockwork's rules wouldn't allow me to pick up a character I really wanted to play somewhere, so when she gently prodded me again and I couldn't think of any better games to join, I went there. What a coincidence, the founding mod who I really couldn't stand had left the game for good just a day ago, and the new guy in charge seemed nice enough, with experience moderating Digimon comms in the past and all. Boded well, right?

...Right.

Didn't spend as long on the app as I could've done, but they were going for "quality" over tl;dr and I figured it wasn't that bad if I skimmed over some details as in fucking Gwen, cough. It's been about, oh, four days since I got accepted. I haven't even uploaded all the icons I'm going to need yet (still need one for Dorimon).

I've always looked down on the people who app, set up their journal, then after less than a week before even getting properly into the game delete their journal and flounce - and now I'm seriously considering doing just that. Only reason I haven't posted my dramatic exit is in case I'm letting down the couple of players there who knew me already.

Y'know, it's not the people there. The people there are lovely and friendly and obviously very close-knit, and I'm not even being sarcastic about that. It's not even the OOC, because some people are just better RPers than others and it's the fun part of pretendy funtime games which is important. Every game has OOC. OOC I can deal with. I'm fully aware that my characters are never perfect. Hello, ridiculously-ditzy!Luna and spoilt-brat!Takuya.

No, the thing that immediately made me snap and rush off to type this rant was this.

http://snax-whiz.livejournal.com

They introduced her as Masami Izumi. I guess it's a bit much to expect your average Digimon fan to know the names of all the parent characters, considering none of them are ever mentioned in canon. If the mun had invented a completely random (within reason...) given name for Koushirou's adopted mother, I wouldn't have looked twice at it.

But, Masami. Meaning that the mun obviously knew about all the Adventure/02 parents being named after their seiyuu, switched the names of his mother and father, and was still accepted.

...

I know, I know, this sounds so trivial and I sound unnecessarily vitriolic. But that's the real reason I'm about to give up on staying active in your RP and join this newer IJ game with the same character. I lied when I said I was just being fangirly-possessive. Sorry.

( because I can't count )

You know what the beauty of having a journal which nobody reads is? It's being able to post complete shit or get rants off your chest without anybody ever knowing.

...Maybe I should try it sometime.

Not going to be crossposting from here on. Reason being, nobody actually cares any more. And I at least have a flist of two people on LJ D:

...I had something else to stick in this post after looking through WPP's torrents, but I forgot it.

I often keep an online thesaurus open when writing fic. I get the feeling I should be ostracised or something for that. Okay, I generally only resort to the thesaurus when I know which word I want but not exactly what it is... if that makes sense. But hey.

While I was looking through one page of results, the entry for "to exist" came up. (I was actually thinking of a word similar to "persist" which means something else entirely, but what're you gonna do.) And under antonyms, it had "to die", plus stuff close to that like "to decease".

Is that accurate? I mean, if you equate "exist" to "live", it is. But not for the definition of the word I'm most familiar with. I can say with complete honesty that a flying polka-dotted anteater probably doesn't exist in my room, but saying that a flying polka-dotted anteater died in my room is a totally different message.

...Mind, I can't really think of any real antonyms for "to exist" except "to not exist", so maybe it's just me.

Or maybe they were just talking about it. ffrcubed because ffrantsrantsrants would be too long. Wonder what happened to it... Not that this post is a valid rant or anything, I'm just picking at one throwaway point in an otherwise innocuous post. You know, as you do.

( Yeah. Anyway. )

(And I'm going to stop tagging the crossposted entries on LJ from now on. It'll save time, and nobody except me cares.)

Post on JF's fandom_lounge plugged the TV Tropes wiki as an excellent way to waste time. So I've just wasted three hours on it. It's cool. Of course, what I did was click around a couple of pages then immediately tried to find the Digimon page. And surprise, there was not only one, but five! It's so nice to see Tamers the separate seasons fully appreciated.

( Nitpicking at stuff on LJ: easier than editing the damn wiki page yourself. )

Mind, I'm fourteen and almost all the guys in my year at school still sound closer to Izzy than Ryo. Though there's one of them who might be a decent Henry sound-a-like if Henry had a British accent. Me, best I could probably manage is Japanese Junpei's imitation of Izumi on his Tsutaetai Koto track. Maybe I should be worrying about that.

And for something slightly less Tamers-related, I'm pretty sure Wallace only had one voice actress for the whole movie. She sang his song in Natsu e no Tobira which was mostly in Japanese, but had one line of English at the end which sounded the same as all his other English lines. And although it's a whole better than the usual Engrish you get in Digimon attack names or similar matorikkusu eboryuushon!, it still reads a little bit stilted to this native speaker. "Can you tell Mom-ay me that I'm going to Summer Memory? [...] It's okay, I'm going to call you back, okay? I'm going to call you back." On the other hand, I don't like Wallace's voice that much anyway. Girly voices I don't usually mind - I fangirl Takato, after all - but there's making a character seem a couple of years younger than they actually are and then there's making a mockery out of the whole thing.

But yeah. Here ends my tl;dr. TV Tropes is cool. I get the feeling I'm gonna be spending quite a lot of time there in upcoming school years.

Yeah, I've heard it all before, randomly quoting conversations on IM is one of the more egotistical ways of showing people that you're omg-awesome-no-really-I-totally-am. ( So I cut the quote itself and you don't have to look at if you don't want to. )

Sure you didn't. Sure you didn't. X)

Though, I have to worry a little. I've never even heard of Geneshaft and wouldn't be able to tell if that particular character would be IC as a Katara substitute to save my life. But, Tacky... I don't know, should my alarm bells be going off at this point? He's no Takato, and I do remember him snarking at a few points, even in the bits of the original that I watched (Japanese being a pretty difficult language to convey stuff like that in). Even so, Sokka's particular level of cynicism is practically fourth-wall breaking. Takuya kind of fits his "big brother" aspect if you squint, but when it comes to snark there's no way he's going to compete with Sokka the meat and sarcasm guy.

Still, I think Takuya and Aang could turn out interesting. Clueless heroes gotta stick together, you know? Wonder who could tag along as a Toph replacement later...

Everything below this line is taken directly from my LJ.

( Except this cut text. :3 )

Is coincidental even a word? I'm assuming it is, based off "incidental"/"incidentally", but my mental dictionary has been full of fail lately.

Yeah, anyway. It was fun watching Aang and Edgeworth get Tacky'd, at least. Though watching Phoenix/Edgeworth was funnier and kind of ;-; . But today I didn't feel like making any IC posts just after waking up, and there wasn't much new on my flists. So I went and did what always turns out to be an enlightening time-waster and trawl the F_W wiki. At least it wasn't being robust. Random page, got to Nicky the Goth, hit up one of the wank reports listed because it's always nice when I get a writing confidence-booster.

And what do I see, but this~? (It's at the bottom of the page.)

It's a wank from November last year, mate. If you keep showing up late like that, nobody will notice you. So they wouldn't be able to mock you appreciate your genius or immense wit either, and that'd be a crying shame, wouldn't it?

He got in! And it pains me to say this, but... I think it's more fun snarking with him than it is snarking with Guilmon. Terrible of me to say, I know.

...Tomorrow I will set gogglehead on the path to the picture on the 10th Anniversary CD cover, count on it.

It's submitted now. I even set up the journal with userpics and fancy colours. All I gotta do is wait.

http://ore-wa-honoo.livejournal.com
[omae wa hikari...]

I'm impatient, aren't I? Oh well. I do really want to play him, and I still don't know why.

Okay, so. Up until about two days ago, I had no intention of taking on any more characters at Avoria or applying for any new RPGs. Yesterday, I got the idea that although Tamers was definitely out of the question (I am not applying for the entire cast minus Shiuchon, that's what fanfic is for), maybe I could try apping from another season. After all, there's four of them, three that I've watched, and one with a goggle boy I fangirl nearly as much as Tamers'. Today, somebody suggested that, with the current absence of any Digimon girls ;-; , I could pick up Izumi and marry her to Koushirou when that mun gets off hiatus.

( But instead of those reasonable ideas, who do I suddenly get a muse for? )

...It's infuriating.

Uh huh.

On the other hand, I'm aware that lavieneko has been on f_w at least once, and - let's say - didn't particularly come across as the saner side of the argument. Which says something because she(?) was arguing with blackjackrocket. On the other other hand, she actually seems to be reasonably calm there. It's tl;dr for sure, but it didn't look that much like frothing-with-rage tl;dr there. Although, because it was tl;dr, I can't say I read all of it carefully. There might have been a "so stfu cunt" in there that I missed. I tend to skip over stuff like that when skim-reading, unless it's capslocked or sparkly or size 20 or something along those lines.

Yep. Sometimes I wish this fandom wasn't so overlooked. If we were a bit more popular, we might be able to give HP a run for its money. Well, maybe not that far, but... we've definitely got wankers who're vocal enough already, am I right?

Oh and before I forget: hooray, fictional snow!

http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/70702.html

Okay. I know this defeats the entire point of the secrets comm, but I'm too chicken to comment and prefer lurking in any case, so. Number 12? Despite the image being one of the worst eyesores I've seen since I friended the community (not that long, but you get the point), I do too! I totally do! And what's more, I like to fantasise that one day my little Echoverse will have a fandom of its very own, so I as the author can run a website a whole lot easier to get around JKRowling.com but still just as full of nearly-canon tidbits, and I could make a pseudonym and publish fanfic and become a BNF without anybody ever suspecting, and I could post long tl;dr manifestos on crackships like Tech/Feldi because omg theirloveissoboldableoffenceoneljay...

Right, right, okay, breathe. There. I typed it. It'll never happen, but that's blitzente's dream.

...And now I'm contemplating Echoverse/Digimon crossover pairings. X( No, I'm not going to draw Dell/Izumi. Or Aero/Izumi. Or Dell/Junpei, or Deph/Ryou, or Falke/Juri. It'd only be one step away from those dA denizens who fill their galleries with awful sketches of themselves plus <insert omg!bishie here>. *contents self with redesigning era 1 characters instead*

Wikipedia is where I research everything, apparently. Google scares me. I'm skimming the page on synaesthesia because I couldn't remember how to spell it and I wanted to make sure I actually had the right name for it. If I hadn't, it would've been embarrassing. But I did! Joy. I think I did pretty well remembering that word considering the only phrase I associate it with is "What a crumbly yellow voice you have!" And yeah, please don't ask where I heard of it.

Heh... What I had in mind, right, was that voices and shapes and numbers triggered colours. So after getting back indoors out of the snow he's going to sit down to watch the pretty rainbow for a while and eventually get a headache. I realise in most cases it's not that many things and apparently synaesthesia isn't technically an impairing neurological condition. But it's crack RP and I know I would get a headache if I looked at colours for that long, so yeah. Basically I want an excuse to inflict more pain on my characters and get away with it. Hehehe.

( Rant on! )

I didn't have such a good day - it mostly consisted of Gamecube time, general bitchiness and a small amount of vomiting - but then I checked my flist out of boredom and look what popped up.

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1104166.html

♥. So much ♥. Haven't finished reading the entire thing yet, but this? Come on, would any of you really put it past her?

On an unrelated note, does anybody know what's the best thing to do when you encounter friends who're feeling particularly sorry for themselves? I've run into three in the past 48 hours (none of them were because of me, I swear...), and it's all a bit depressing. Are you meant to try and talk them out of it, or be quiet and supportive and attempt to pat them on the back through instant messenger? See, I know what I would want: I'd want them to keep talking, go completely off-topic and serve as a distraction while inner cynic!blitzente reasserted itself. But I realise I'm weird, and I'm still completely clueless. It's bugging me, let's say.

And... I suddenly got the feeling I should watch a bit more of Frontier subbed. I have absolutely no idea why. I'm not writing fic for it, I tend to avoid discussing it unless someone else brings the subject up and - can I keep my Digimon fangirl license if I admit this? - I didn't like what I saw of Frontier. Some of the characters and a handful of scenes, yeah, and I have defended its better points a couple of times, but I don't like Frontier itself overall. I still think I should try and watch a couple more episodes, at least, so that when people are discussing Japanese Frontier I can pretend I know what they're on about a bit more convincingly.

But first, I'm going to rewatch either subbed or dubbed Battle of Adventurers! Because somebody posted a bunch of icons off episode 34 (you know, the incredibly ugly one - I can't say if the icons themselves are ugly because I don't make them myself, but the episode definitely is) and I gotta look at something cuter to take my mind off them. What could be cuter than Takato + Minami? Well, Takato + Juri, I guess, but that's not the point. D: