http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:P-Sempai&section=today deviantART RSS for by:P-Sempai en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:49:21 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/26583302/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/26583302/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:30:15 PDT
Just need that little push to get it all done, I suppose.

I'm about 80% done with the third part of 'Visions of the Future', which details the life of my character in the distant future of the Matrix Universe. I'm enjoying writing that piece but I'm fairly sure I got carried away during the third part making it too depressing and morbid. When it's typed up from its written state we'll see how it looks, then I can tone it up or down. But nearly there.

Furthermore, I've nearly finished the second part of my Star Wars: The Old Republic character backstory, 'A Path's Beginning'. That, too, is all written up and nearly all typed, as well. Only problem is I don't believe it to be nearly long enough to be ready for submission yet. It doesn't tell enough of the tale to be any more than useless filler (which I despise).

And finally, on the writing front, the second part of 'Find Your Way' has been on the precepice of being finishe for quite some time now. Once again, I just need that tiny little incentive to push it forward and into completion. That said, however, I'm probably going to find it too short too. But we'll see. I'll just be glad to get the three pieces finished. I'm really enjoying writing them all.

The last note about actual work for deviantART is related to the late Matrix Online; I uploaded the piece 'The Endless Void' [link] several days ago and that's the final piece I've done for MxO, and the last in my '>Re: War' collection. Now that my grieving of sorts for MxO has subsided, my desire to continue making graphical work and tying up all my loose ends has subsided somewhat, so I'm in no rush to make anything new.

However, I am thinking about uploading all of my 'War' collection from MxO to deviantART. I'd like certain opinions from you, my followers, about that; both from those of you who have already seen the collection and those who have not. What do you think? Worth it?

Finally, how about me? Not much has been happening in my life during the Summer. Up until two days ago (Wednesday, that is). I had heard that Mr. Eddie Izzard was running a leg of his 1000 mile Marathon through Liverpool then, so a friend and I conspired to go see him and give him our support. We had originally planned to meet him at the ferry dock in town, where he was getting the ferry across from Birkenhead, but by the time we were aware and ready, he was running again.

So, we went to our backup plan; catch up with him. We hopped on our bikes and began our journey. We made very good progress and travelled the 10 miles he travelled in a third of the time he travelled it. By the time he got to Orskirk (about 9 miles from where we started), we were half a mile away from him.

Eventually, we overtook him somehow--we think he stopped for Lunch out of sight--and so waited for him at a pub. Eventually he showed up, shook all of our hands, took a picture with me (in the process of being obtained), signed my boxset (see here [link]) and then thanked us and moved on.

10 miles of riding for 5 minutes of meeting Eddie Izzard; it was more than worth it.

Of course, then we had to ride 10 miles back. So now my arse hurts from a bruised pelvis. But oh well. My Dad was very proud of me, having been an excellent cyclist in his day.

But anyway, I'm running out of things to say; not much has happened beyond me meeting Mr. Izzard, but I'd certainly say that was worthy of a large chunk of this journal. Until next I have something to report, watch this space; I should be uploading all of the new writings during the next two weeks.

Pleasantry,
- Signature ]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/26006268/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/26006268/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:39:39 PDT
Oops. I meant to update this journal like a fortnight ago, along with the update I posted, but guess what?

I forgot. Fancy that.

But anyway, yes. I'm not actually dead, and this is possibly my shortest recorded deviantART absence. At any rate, I'm still around, and for those of you who know me at the minute or have seen my gallery may know, I'm in a Star Wars mood.

What I've posted is the first part of my character's backstory. Not chronologically, but I was having trouble picking a starting point and, well, the beginning is boring. If my encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars serves me, the Treaty of Coruscant is 30 years before The Old Republic starts, so at this point we'd be on Tython. That was causing all kinds of nerdy trouble last week trying to figure it out.

That aside, life has been relaxing but, ultimately, dull. I'm getting a lot of reading and writing done, and a lot of hanging around with friends too. In more sad news, the Motherboard on the PC has died (I write this to you from my laptop) and won't be fixed until Tuesday at the latest. So probably Monday, but I'm not holding my breath. The PC hasn't been working properly for a while (2 weeks or so), so I haven't been using it much. But once you know it's going to be fixed you get impatient for its return.

Anyway. Not much more for me to say, to be honest. I'll be uploading the next part of 'A Path's Beginning' within the next week and, if I can find the drafts I have, I might even gets the next part of 'Find Your Way' uploaded. It's not that far from completion, I'm just inherently shit at updating things once I start.

But I digress. 'Till then.

Fluh
- Puh ]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24936159/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24936159/ Mon, 25 May 2009 04:45:21 PDT
Indeed. I think Find Your Way will be waiting until after my exams, which are at the end of the week. As usual, I'm woefully ill-prepared for them, so I'll be cramming most of the week to remember as much as I can about ... Medieval Literature and ... late Renaissance Literature. Wonders shine upon me.

Other than that, I may seem like I'm in a really cranky mood at the moment, and you'd be half right. I'm always carrying an undertone of happiness, because I'm that sickeningly optimistic, all the time. But my sleeping pattern and body clock have been out of whack due to having no schedule, so I've brute-forced myself back into gear by getting myself out of bed this fine morning at 11am... After going to bed at 4.

I used to live on 6 hours of sleep, or less, and now I find myself struggling with 7. Psh, where's my backbone gone? At any rate, two 8am starts on Thursday and Friday will soon sort me out, I'm sure. After that, who cares, I'm on summer vacation.

Which is the next hurdle... money, and its necessary accrual. There may, apparantly, be a job for me, as some kind of phone answering monkey boy, somewhere. Which is money, no matter how I look at it, so I can't entirely complain. Well, I can. I generally do when I have to do anything that isn't sitting at home playing video games or watching movies. That said, I do hope I get this job and get some money in, I'm notoriously bad at getting myself work. Not that I don't try, I do. But nobody seems to bloody want me. I blame the recession, like most Radio 2 listeners do. But I don't give a shit about Andrew Sachs.

If I were a DJ, I'd totally be suspended for that.

But there we go. Money is possible. My old boss can go to hell for giving me the cold shoulder, which I'm sure I've mentioned at some point in one of my previous rants.

Arrivadeuchi
Peterrisimo ]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24791411/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24791411/ Sat, 16 May 2009 17:34:08 PDT
So. Here we are. 20 years since I popped from my mother's stomach like Alien; because she was too small to drop me from the vulva. Bless.

At any rate, yes. Here we are. I've heard a lot of people ranting on about how scary being 20 is (mostly girls, I must add) who say that hitting 20 is a dangerously depressing milestone in your life. Well bull to that. It's kind of cool. I mean, I'm only one day older than Friday, and the day before that I was 19. Strange how in one second, between and after midnight, you're not a teenager anymore and then suddenly you're 20, in a split-second. It's like you're one year older in that one second. You're not, of course, but it's a fun thing to observe. People don't fret the day, the minute or the second before their birthday, but the second the clock strikes 12, life is one step closer to being over.

As my friend said, I'm not a quarter of the way to being dead. Fun.

At any rate, fun times were had. I went to see Chicago on the Wednesday with my parents and some family friends as a gift, which was excellent, and then we went to lunch on the thursday. A BBQ on the Thursday night with some friends turned into a surprise, and mortifyingly embarrasing, if not heartwarming, party in my honor. Good friends, good times. I've spent the last couple of days with the other half, which is fun. Today, we went to the cinema; which brings me to my next point.

Angels and Demons. Part two of the "people-take-books-too-seriously" trilogy. I, fortunately, haven't read the books, and don't take any of them seriously, and as such I can say I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, and enjoyed Angels and Demons even more. I love a good old religious conspiracy movie, even if they're fictitious, which the movies and the books are explicitly labelled as being. At any rate; strong cast, entertaining story. I'd definitely go to see it again. You take it as it comes, and I think a lot of people will enjoy it. I can understand not liking the books because they may be badly written, but I could go on and on and really don't want to.

In more depressing news, I have to get 2000 words done for Critical Theory for Friday. I should be able to crank the thing out when I get going, but I just have to start. Eh, maybe tomorrow.

Enjoy yourselves, folks.


]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24604406/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24604406/ Tue, 05 May 2009 16:04:33 PDT
Not much tonight, just brace yourself for a stream of consciousness rant. I'm just randomly musing on the state of my gallery. It's a site for fanboy/girl's eyes, I think. Not that I mind. I'm a bit of a fanboy, which is why the gallery is in the state it's in.

That said, I don't think I'm really doing myself any kind of justice by sticking to just that kind of stuff. There's some work in my gallery: poetry, prose, random stuff, that seems to be appreciated. I don't think what I'm writing is bad. But I don't know whether it's limited...

I don't really know why I'm writing all of this; I must seem full of my own self-importance right now. Not my intention, I swear. I guess I'm thinking out loud. I mean I'm not even touting my own abilities; if there's anybody who'll be first to criticise my work it's me. I just wonder if there's a distinction between the loftiest poet and the 'common' novelist. I'm not saying there is, I'm remarking on what's in my gallery and what isn't.

I know people, people who will be reading this, who write the most astounding verses and original stories, composed from nothing but dirt and dust they have in their mind. I find myself latching constantly onto franchises and universes that already exist. I wonder if there's more I can do, or whether it really is more? I commend their powers of imagination and wonder if mine are up to scratch.

It's a Tuesday night and I have nothing really to do beyond reading for a University Assignment, which I'm dutifully doing, so I find myself writing this journal in the meantime. I'm not in any kind of morale dilemma, I just wonder whether people who frequent my gallery would get anything out of me writing on other subjects; whether it would be better to write an original story if I can, or some poetry with a social conscience. I don't want to seem sanctimonious or, worst of all, naive.

At any rate, I won't be halting Find Your Way. I just feel like making like a tree. It's been a while.


]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24525062/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24525062/ Fri, 01 May 2009 04:30:21 PDT
Figured an update was in order, to let people know I'm still truckin' on. Whoever cares, that is.

Well yes, I am still alive, and working semi-hard (giggity) on Find Your Way Chp. 2. I have about 1100 words typed, with some more written that need serious work. With any luck I'll get it out by Monday and then focus on my uni work. Once that's done, I can start doing revision, but I'll have the time to work on this again.

So. Uni work. Fun. I have a 2000 word essay (a scoffable amount, I hear you... scoff) to do for the 20th (that's right; two weeks) and I haven't started it. Which is a bit annoying, because I was halfway through my last one by this relative point a month ago. It's a tricky bastard because I have to apply one of the Critical Theorys I've learnt and apply it to a literary medium (books, movies, documentary). I need to ask my tutor whether or not we can apply it to a game, because if we can I'll get a first no problem!

Anyway, I'm sure that'll be fine, if not a little close to the edge come deadline day. And on top of that, I have to make next year's Special Subject choices for next year by this Friday. That won't really be that much of a problem, but it's all happening at once. I hate it when things get on top of me, but oh well.

Finally, I'm hoping that one of my friends eases up a little bit, and isn't so in-my-face when I go back. I don't usually get stressed and angry at people (in fact, it's almost a natural event when I do), but I found myself so wound up at the end of last semester that I was just gagging to get away--even though I usually hate leaving uni because I'm leaving behind the other half. But I needed the space. So anyway, here's hoping that things are a little more relaxed this short semester. Somehow, I doubt it, but I can hope anyway. Even if they're not, I only have a week of contact time before I can take some time away before exams, so I'll manage.

And those are my woes of the week. Tune in next week; same bat time, same bat channel!

Yours ever wanting,
- Witty Enjoiner ]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24398834/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24398834/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:47:10 PDT
I made myself laugh with my own subject title.

But yes. I don't particularly want to try and justify what I write in a vindictive manner, but I just thought it's worth explaining the outlook I take on my fiction, especially fantasy fiction. Or even life, for that matter.

Sexuality is, obviously, a large part of my life, as it is everybody's. Everybody is, at times, driven by their sexuality, "be they heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, bisexual, trisexual, quadrisexual, pansexual, transexual, omnisexual or that thing where the chick ties the belt around your neck and tinkles on a balloon". The point, as Dan Akroyd's ever-miserable character in that movie goes on to say, is that "It has absolutely nothing to do with who we are as people".

That's a mantra I like to live my life by--not the balloon thing, the second part. I wasn't inspired by Akroyd, he just happened to put it amusingly and well. You see some homosexuals who go out and about dressed like they should be in Narnia and put a pink and, I might add personally, totally unwanted stain on the notion of homosexuality.

Myself? I just live my life like a normal person. Some men ogle at women when they go past, or have a list of top 5 chicks. My eye can be caught by a guy, and I have a top 5 list of men, but so what? If somebody asks me if I want to see a movie, I'm not going to say 'Sure! So long as it's a gay movie!'. That's just suffocatingly antisocial. And gay, obviously.

The main point is, I act like any normal person (I'd say like any straight person, but straight people are weird too). The boundary of 'gay' and 'straight' is purely sexual, and has no bearing on how I act. I don't claim to want to change the world, but I think if all sexualities were just normal--with our individual human quirks, obviously--then this world would be a lot less torn up. This is what I try to convey in my writing.

Not to say the worlds in which I'm writing in aren't torn--they most definitely are, but I am saying I like to enjoy the idea of a certain ideological utopia with regard to sexuality, which I convey in my writing. Men will like men, and women. The women likewise. People aren't going to break bones about it, and it's not really going to be questioned a whole lot. Not everyone will be gay, so I'm not trying to push any agenda other than a certain general respect people should have to at least one thing in life.

I suppose the lack of any organised religion in these premade fantasy worlds goes a long way to abolishing sexual persecution and nurturing understanding, but I'm running the risk of stacking a second soapbox on top of the one I already have, so I'll leave it there.

Oh, and to be clear, I won't be changing the sexuality of any of the main characters in Find Your Way. I will absolutely respect the fact that Tetsuya Nomura probably created them straight, even though half the teenage girl fanbase wants otherwise. Baaawh.

I apologise for being really preachy here, at least it seems so to me, but there are a few things in life I'm particularly passionate about it, and writing and sexual/racial tolerance are two of them. I figure by combining those factors I can create a society that I think is above the one we have now, by and large, if only on paper. If you don't like my ideas, then don't read my work.

- P

This journal entry brought to you by me. If it was by the Gay Rights people I'd have been forced to include the suffix 'ariffic' to certain words. ]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24364695/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/24364695/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:20:55 PDT
So. Here we go again, hm?

I've been getting the writing bug again recently (which is good, what with the English degree and everything), so I decided I'd head back over here. Yasamuu said he kickstarted his dA again and that certainly helped my decision. A lack of any real feedback (as well as inspiration) drove me from this place, but it's good to know that there's a clique of people still here who'll read or comment my work, even if it's only 2 or 3, because that's really all I need, or even want.

I wrote up a strangely stream of conscious, not to mention entirely pretentious discourse about why people write blogs yesterday, but I don't think I'm in a particularly preachy enough mood to post it up here at the moment. Maybe I'll put it on my livejournal, or just completely forget I wrote it.

But yeah. The writing bug is back, and I can never complain. Except for the fact that I got the bug, so to speak, in the shower, which is nowhere to be getting any kind of bug, let alone a writing bug. My mind is fresh with ideas. Mostly additions to old projects that are still in limbo, so they're not really fresh, but...

I digress. To cut a long story short, I have things in mind, and I'm even typing away at them as I speak.

As for using this place as a blog? I think I'll take a leaf from Yas' book (or a page from his tree, since we're using that eternally mixed metaphor) and keep this updated as there are things to say. That might not exactly be weekly, as his is, but I'll try at least to keep some sort of update routine, if not entirely regimented.

I never really thought people would be interested in hearing about how my life is progressing. I still don't. But perhaps it's a good idea that I get some of my thoughts down here, rather than letting them fuzz around my head and eat at what's left of my sanity.

I can never really complain about life, although often there are menial things I can and possibly should. To be sappy, I'm still very much in love and that doesn't show any sign of dying out. Two weeks to go before I go back to Leicester and can finally see him again. The reason for not being able to go and see him, as I've so beautifully segued into, is financial.

I'm roughly 250-300 quid overdrawn at this stage of my existence and, whilst I'm not overly worried, it does leave me having to cut back on life's flourishes (a deviantART subscription not being one of them...). The reason for my fiscal fiasco? Well, I've not got much work this holiday (read: any) season from that dear Boss of mine. To be brutally frank, I feel he's trying to give me the slip without actually firing me. I know of his deeds and misdeeds with other people he deals with, as he's told me straight up, in a manner of trust. I suppose he shouldn't expect me to really think that he's not got any work on all the time after his exposé, but whether he does or he doesn't, he's still getting away with it. Oh well. Even if I was working, I'd probably moan about not having any free time at the weekends, or have spent my money on frivolous commodities and be even more into my overdraft.

It just means I'll having to be getting an extra loan next year (which will give me a ton of expendable, but ultimately repayable, cash) or a job. I do want to get a job, but my luck on the working front is just above 'non-existent' and just below 'hobo'. At any rate, I'm never paricularly worried. Seems to be my curse. Probably all those stupid love endorphins swimming around in my head. Anyway...

Expect another journal when a new piece is uploaded to dA. 'Til then.

(Oh, and my new display pic is of Alan Shore, if anyone wondered, which I doubt. However, I was just after a picture of a snappy suit)

Ever procrastinating,
- I'll sign here later ]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19874523/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19874523/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:22:40 PDT
So yes. If anyone cares to remember my 'Summer Releases' journal a while back now, you will notice, by looking around my account, that the journal in question is looking more and more, with each passing day...

...Like a crock of shit.

However. I am working on a few things. My attention these days, however, is dragged in lots of different directions. I still have the first few paragraphs for that FF Fanfic I mentioned, but then I started writing another one. And also I started to doodle an original one-shot (Yes, that's right. NOT a fanfic. GOOD GOD). I also have a sketch or two I'd like to get finished and up.

So. Keep your eyes peeled. But not incredibly peeled, but quite peeled. Like half peeled. Not totally peeled, as that would be dissapointing for you, but fairly peeled, so that you can enjoy something when it does show. But not terribly peeled, like you're watching for enemy ships...





Check back here every now and again, I guess is the main bullet point I'm going for here.

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19664032/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19664032/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:12:34 PDT
I'm gonna be using it for random blogging/discussion of some of the writing I do.

Why not give it a look, seeing as I'm shamelessly plugging it for you.

[link]

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19610629/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19610629/ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:11:50 PDT
Well, is such a thing as Cinematic Perfection really possible? I'd like to think so. But if not, think about the single greatest moment of your life.

Now multiply it by 10.

Now multiply it by 10 again.

If this estimation of elation is pretty damn high by now, then we're reaching a level of understanding of how good The Dark Knight was. I hope I'm making myself clear in my intention of declaring this movie the best movie in decades, if not ever.

I know many people said beforehand that the movie would attract people because of sympathy over Heath Ledger's death, and be that as it may, the fact that he was never around to see the film released is irrelevant and forgotten once the movie is underway. Ledger is a Tour De Force in every single scene he's in. When he first arrives you're captivated by his entrance.

You forget he's Heath Ledger. You forget Heath Ledger's dead. You may even forget your name and bank PIN. You are absorbed by his character: What is he going to do? Is it going to be masochistic? Is it going to be funny? Will I be disturbed?

Yes. On all counts. You will laugh, and then squirm uncomfortably in your seats at what you laughed at. The Joker will scare you. He will take what you believed the Joker was, be it through Ceaser Romero, Jack Nicholson or the multiple Joker Comics, and redefine your opinion of the Joker into his. Ledger is now the definitive Joker.

I could go on indefinitely about all the actors and how they fit their roles perfectly, creating personas and characters that drive the movie to its perfect destination, but I'd be writing for an awful long time. Bale continues his accurate portrayal of Wayne/The Caped Crusader, Michael Caine continues the new style of Alfred, much preferable to the old. Aaron Eckheart delivers a tragically moving story as Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent, and Gary Oldman's 'James Gordon' delivers the movies closing statement with a powerful definiton of the Batman and of Gotham.

All in all, The Dark Knight redefines the boundary of 'Good and Evil', demonstrating that, sometimes. Not always, but sometimes, it's hard to say that they're two different entities, and that with a little "push", its far too easy for the two to be one. As the Joker says:

"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order... Well then everybody loses their minds"

And he doesn't just say it. He proves it. In the most monumental of ways.

Put 'The Dark Knight' on the list of movies to see before you die. Because, my summarising statement says it all.


It f****ng owns.

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19326164/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19326164/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:45:11 PDT
I like it. I think it does look really sleek. True, it will take time to get used to, but a shiny, good looking site is always good, and reflects (most) of the art within.

So stop whinin'!

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19114210/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/19114210/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:47:14 PDT
I'm happy to say the veil of ineptitude and writer's block is lifting from me, and I've had an idea I want to run with.

It's a fan-fiction, again, but this time, I'm setting it in the universe of a Final Fantasy game (I think I'll leave which a secret for now. Some can guess ) and it will be standalone from the main story of the game, interacting with the original protagonists in a brief, irrelevant way (Unlike my current fiction, which includes known characters a lot).

On that note, my current fiction will be on hold until my muse arrives (set to arrive within a week or two), then I can get cracking on it, at a slower pace, because I'm rather excited about this current idea.

Now I can hear the audible groan from the readers of 'Oh no, another crappy FF Fanfic', so it's worth mentioning how I despise the label 'fan fiction', due to the rather lewd connotations it draws to mind (Especially in the fantasy genre). However, there is no other way to describe a fiction you have created in an already existing world of which you are a fan. But with God, or the closest thing to a deity in this universe, as my witness, I will fight to change that stereotype. If only in my small clique.

So yeah. I know a lot of you don't care for fan fictions. But if you like FF games, then why not give it a read.

That is all.

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/18945425/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/18945425/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:43:19 PDT
I suppose this means I have to actually do things now. And also figure out how to make headers and footers work, and get style sheets and ...

...Yeah. We'll see. Anyway, should be stuff on its way from me in the coming weeks. So stay tuned. Same bat-time, same bat-channel.

- P

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/18691530/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/18691530/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:26:27 PDT
I'll shoop the print screen I just took and whip up something for you kind dozen people who have continuously veiwed my page over the last year or so.

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/17789244/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/17789244/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:42:20 PDT Why is there never a black marker for inking drawings when I need one!?

Sigh. I need a Wacom. In other news: Finding Dawn Part 4 is slowly coming together.

That is all.

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/17750361/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/17750361/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:40:06 PDT
Yes, yes, it has been long treck through the wilderness that is me being lazy, but I have returned, with the 3rd part of Finding Dawn, no less!

I know only 2 or 3 people actually care about the fanfic, but I've grown attached to it, and I think I'm doing a pretty good job so far.

Anyway, that's all the important stuff. I just want to take a moment to plug Yoko Shimomura's new classical album, 'Drammatica', celebrating her 20th Anniversary in the Video Game Music industry. Shimomura's work, especially in Kingdom Hearts, is hauntingly beautiful at times, and real A grade stuff. Having it adapted into a full orchestral score is the perfect recognition; the album's absolutely amazing. So yeah, check it out.

'Till next time, whenever that may be,
- P-Sempai

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/15097255/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/15097255/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:32:52 PDT Captain's log - Stardate 64409113 - Today the Captain is feeling Artistic -- and obviously nerdy from having made a Star Trek joke.

But yes, I have returned from the misty zone that is the real world without internet. For you see, in the last 2 or 3 weeks, I have been undergoing the process of moving into University accomodation and starting my courses (and getting obscenely drunk, too). That in itself would keep my busy, but I also had no laptop here and, as such, no access to the internet, other than leeching a flatmates internet to check on purely academic pusuits.

But fear not, for my pimpin' laptop has now arrived, and everything is, as they say, the shit. So my non-social life (that is, my e-persona) can be re-ignited.

To tackle first a point of contention: The third part of Finding Dawn--My KH2 fanfic, which I started a while back and promised the third part to a while back--is undergoing revision. It might not be as fluffy as I promised, but rather grittier and more story compelled. Something that always attracted me to Kingdom Hearts 2 was its ability, despite being cast for the most part in a Disney endorsed and populated universe, and being a PG game, to deal subversively with darker and more threatening themes. The chance was there, I found, for those who enjoyed the darker level of the game to explore and find out more about it. That's something I plan to be exploring as I create my own story set around the series.

But don't worry, the Axel/Roxas relationship is important to the story, so there will be elements of relationship and fluff between them in later chapters. I don't yet know where it will end, but I do know how. So =O

I said I'd tackle that point of contention first, and ... to be honest, that was pretty much the only point I had to update, other than my imminent return to the land of the internets. In other, less journal-worthy news, I'll probably not be uploading any more drawn pictures, as I don't have the time for drawings, nor do I have a big fat scanner available to me. I'll try and sketch something up around Christmas time, when I'm at home, and have that big fat beautiful scanner that I do miss so much. But seeing as I'm doing an incredibly interesting and thoughtful English course at University, I'll probably be inspired to write a lot of prose and possible even more poetry exploring what I learn, so that'll probably flood my gallery.

So yes, after that totally verbose section of I R SERIOUS CAT information that most likely nobody will give a rats ass about, I think something silly is in order.

Is it just me, or does the 'Lazy' mood look less like a fat smiley sleeping, and more like a smiley getting a blowjob from another smiley? Perhaps it's just my gutter mind, but it strikes me as pretty icky, as far as neutrality goes. I tell you, if a blowjob is 'neutral' these days, then we're all doomed to an early grave. Doomed I say!

Right. I'll close then, with a publicity stunt--not for me, but for someone else.

MDAS [link] is a friend of mine I met while playing The Matrix Online. He will not admit it, and probably loathe me for doing this, but he is, in my mind, quite an asounting writer and creative mind. I linked his profile there in the hopes that people will go there and read his work--even if you're not a fan of the Matrix or its subsiduaries, his work can be, and should be, admired from a literary point of veiw, rather than a subjective point of veiw. He's got talent, and that's one of the most awful things to let go unnoticed.

So take a look, you smug bastards!

Sempai, OWT!
- P-Sempai

P.S - I'm also ill, so therefore you all suck.

]]> *P-Sempai http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/14181121/ http://P-Sempai.deviantart.com/journal/14181121/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:31 PDT Peppermint-Tea ¬_¬

The rules are:
1-post these rules
2-each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3-tags should write a journal/ blog of these facts
4-at the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named
5-go to their page and leave a comment telling them they’ve been ‘tagged’


1. I'm bisexual -- well it's hardly a secret, but not a lot of people know.
2. I work so hard in PS because I aspire to make at least one piece of work like Ryom08/Pyraci. P
3. I always like the pieces of work that everyone else thinks are 'meh' - Especially my own.
4. Classical music owns all.
5. I judge people who use poor grammar. P
6. I'm scared of my exam results tomorrow. >.<
7. I haven't liked anything I've written in a few months.
8. I play the Matrix Online.

I cba tagging anyone else, they'll just hate me, like I hate Peppy for it. ¬_¬

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Triumph is also conveyed through other medium: I've been in a KH2 obsession for the past week now [again] and you can probably thank [link] Peppermint-Tea for that... Long story. Anyway, after my original obsession when it was first released months ago over here, I defeated the mighty Xigbar with a glitch, and thus never legitimately defeated him.

...Now it's been 7 months, but I have finally defeated him legitimately. And in honor of his momentous occasion, I shall be either writing, or drawing something to commemorate this spectacular incident.

Also, I feel triumphant due to the fact I'm managing to sustain my fanfic [link] - That's the first one, and I also made a picture of Axel which I'm pretty delighted with: [link] Especially considering I'm more of a writer than I am a ... drawer? [I don't wanna say artist, as it's a bit of an ambiguous term, but whatever, you get me]

Also, I've been working on some new--for me--photomanipulation, which are in my gallery too [link] It's not ground-breaking stuff, really, but I'm pleased with how I'm doing for a n00b to this kind of manipulation, and I've been continuing to do it--I might post some more of it, but I dunno if I want to plaster my butchered face all over DA.

I'm pressed for time nowadays what with my exams coming up and needing to revise for them, but I'll get the Xigbar peice done, and try and get part 3 of Finding Dawn out of the way [Warning, contains very light AkuRoku] and then I might be a little quiet. Thanks for the comments thus far people and y'all keep up your good work too.

> P

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