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and , thank you very much for the suggestion and the feature. I'm honored to have my work featured today among all those other beautiful pieces.

Thank you to everyone who has favorited and commented on Recalling. I appreciate that you've taken time to look at my writing.

One last time:
Thank you and HOLY CRAP!!

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/25059820/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/25059820/ Sun, 31 May 2009 21:13:46 PDT
So, in three days I will be done with my freshman year at DSOA as a communications major. The evening of June 3 (Wednesday) at 8 PM, I will fly to New York City for the first time to attend the ceremonies for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Most of the people who read this already know, but I won a Gold Key in poetry. I'm fighting my own ego after realizing that Sylvia Plath won something from Scholastic in her school days.

Since summer's about to begin, my newfound seasonal depression is due to kick in full force any day. This self-diagnosed ailment has been creeping up slowly over the past week. I'm not sure if this is a serious paragraph or not. TO explain, last summer while I was transitioning from worthless blob with a high body fat percentage to muscley blob that enjoys running and does productive stuff sometimes, I went through this bout of extreme depression. I didn't mind it, to be honest, angsty and annoying as that sounds, because it made me think deeper and look at things with a different perspective. It edged away as the school year went on, but now that it seems to be coming back, I don't feel like it's necessary to push it away.

But since when do I ramble like this in a public journal?
Since Nov 5, 2007, and not again until now.

Is the show over?
Yes it is.

I'll have fun in New York, for sure. I'll see Flip and go shopping and walk a lot and maybe go to a poetry slam.

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15380403/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15380403/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:53:39 PST

Eh. I'm kinda miffed about something. That something is popular writing these days.

Lately, I've been seeing more and more of stuff that's written with flawless conventions and exquisite command of language, but flat characters - my pet peeve.

For example, look at Twilight.

...-awaits flames-...

Okay, now that that's out of the way, I respect Stephanie Meyer's skills greatly. I have only read one of her books, but from it I can tell that her style is gorgeous, particularly the vocabulary she uses. However, it's really a shame that her style went into writing books like Twilight.

The first time I read Twilight, I loved it until I was about a hundred pages in...something like that. After that, I looked back at the two major characters that had been introduced thus far and realized that they fit two taboo writing stereotypes perfectly.

Our beloved lead, Bella? A Mary Sue with the fault of clumsiness pinned on in an effort to balence out her otherwise perfection. Come on, people - on her first day at school in Forks, every named male character with the exception of Edward falls in TWU WUB with her and the competition begins.

The attractive vampire, Edward? Our good friend, Mr. Gary Stu. Intelligence, superhuman ability, looks, dark past, eternal life...need I say more?

Now, Twilight had a lot of potential. But the characterization along with the competing slew of vampire novels that followed its release is enough to make me hold a grudge against it. In vampire novels, people use the perfection of vampirism as an excuse to turn their characters into Mary Sues and Gary Stus and I. Am. Sick of it.

Mary Sues in fanfiction are bad enough, but when original fiction writers make their main character(s) "perfect", it makes me even angrier. They think they can get away with it by loading the stories with angst and drama and what-have-you, but that only makes it worse.

But, the worst, worst, worst part that makes me clench my teeth and punch inanimate objects is...the reader's reaction, which usually consists of,

"AWESOME! I wish I could write this good!"

kjfgksfgkj.

What seems to follow soon after, in the reader's mind is,

"Wait, I can write as good as that person! Here, I'll try and then share my story with all my friends!"

and then what they produce is a Twilight carbon copy with a slightly varying plot and different characters - their own self inserts or Mary Sues.
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To summarize:

Having a strong command of the language and a sharp vocabulary may make you an above-average writer, but it isn't enough to make you an exceptional writer. To produce exceptional work, the first thing you need is a point to make through your story. If you write the story with the main intent of getting that point across, it's likely to turn out remarkably better.

This concludes today's rant.

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15334198/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15334198/ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:20:53 PDT
Lately, I've been playing around with drawing as well. There are two digital paintings that look perfect in my head by will no doubt come out horribly disfigured on the canvas.

I've been thinking about this absurd idea lately, but I don't want to talk about it because I'll get laughed at and called crazy. Yeah, you go ahead and say you won't laugh. I'll go on not telling anyone, thanks. Why the heck am I saying this in my journal if I don't want to talk about it? It doesn't feel right to erase things that are put down on paper. Or internet. Whatever. If I put it down in the first place, then I probably wanted to say it anyway, so why bother erasing?

I've been reading On Writing by Stephen King lately. Good stuff - I reccomend it to everyone who bothers reading this thing.

Ahhhhhhh fooch. Intarwebz. Nyehehehe. Pylons are everywhere.

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15118360/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15118360/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:44:27 PDT

This, my dear friends, is a very good week for Jrock. Last night, I was poking around iTunes and decided to check and see if Gackt's songs got added get, and to my OMFG WTF YAY surprise, they did. owo Guess who has 23 new Gackt songs on her iTunes?

So yes, while that may not be entirely !!!!!!!!!!!!! worthy, here's a bit of news that is:

X JAPAN IS BACK.

you heard me.

FRIGGEN BACK. and they're putting out a new song - IV - which is going to be used as the ending for Saw IV. And the most epic part:

THERE IS.

GOING TO BE.

HIDE'S MATERIAL IN THIS SONG.

Pre-recorded stuff from back when that was never released. I'm so excited I feel like kissing strangers. Damnit, I feel like renting an airplane and skywriting "X JAPAN IS BACK, SUCKERS"

I'm going to see Saw IV even if the damned thing is a montage of toenail extractions, internet screamers, and airplane crash scenes. And you bet your sweet behind that I will yell at people when they stand up to leave during the credits.

oh and PS: I GOTS A HAIRCUT. and now I look like Miku. Friggen woot.

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15065583/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/15065583/ Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:16:16 PDT

You know, if you want to keep a joke "inside", then don't go around shoving it in people's faces. I know that you want them to ask about it, just so you can go "lulz it's an inside joke". Well guess what...it's not even that FUNNY. My gosh. Inside jokes are getting to make me angry...

What's just as bad is telling the story behind the joke to someone, and then when that person makes reference to the joke, you accuse them of ripping off the joke...whuut. You can have your inside jokes or whatever, just keep them INSIDE.

the end.

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/14778370/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/14778370/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:46:45 PDT

Today, when I was riding the bus home, listening to Endless Rain on my iPod, I went through a rapid kind of series of moodswings.

Those who know me that I hate it when people dwell on greif and sadness. This is a particularly touchy subject when it comes to famous people, such as Kami and hide. I used to be absolutely pathetic about Kami, and when I changed that about myself I think I got a lot happier. Now, hide was a rather unfamiliar topic to me. I learned about him after I changed my views on grieving, so I always casually dismissed those who still seem totally devastated about losing him.

Back on topic - Endless Rain was the second X JAPAN song I ever heard, and I've always associated it closely with hide. Even though the song sounds distinctly blue in color, I think it fits hide's pink personality well. So, while I was listening to it, the thought drifted into my head that I would love to meet hide someday.

Despite the impression I give, I'm not slow, so I almost instantly scolded myself mentally for forgetting. And despite everything that I say, I felt a wave of sadness come over, like that sinking feeling one gets in his heart. It sucked so bad...I felt like I was going to cry on the bus.

Of course, in typical Aoi fashion, my mood jumped to a state of total hope and glee. I noticed that I HAVE met hide. In every chord that he ever played that has reached my ears, I met him - through his music, I have come to know his heart. As cheesy as it sounds, it's so true. It's true for anyone and everyone, as long as they will it to be.

So what was the point of this little loop of emotions and the significant of me sharing it? I hope that it'll make someone, anyone, feel a bit less sad about hide, and about anyone who has passed.

Lyrics of the moment
"No matter how much I want
That figure rising up inside of reality
I can't go back
...
Inside of my heart, only your vanished memory can't be found
Collecting all of your fragments, where should I go?
"
seven (c) Gackt

On a completely unrelated note, my lanuage arts teacher looked uncannnily like Chachamaru today...

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/14650425/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/14650425/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:38:59 PDT

Yes indeed. I recently joined the the Jrock Revolution forums, and there was a raffle that you had to write a birthday message to Miyavi to enter. The messages were then sent to Miyavi, and they picked some of them to read on the Tainted Reality radio show.

The broadcast was yesterday, which was, as well as Miyavi's birthday, my mother's. So, we were going out to dinner while the broadcast was going on, and I missed the whole thing. I was asking frantically on the forums and flashchat if my letter had been read, but I didn't get any definite response.

Today, when I got home from theatre classes, had emailed me saying she had something important to tell me, and when I logged on she said congratulations...I cried I was so happy. xD

I'm really proud of myself for writing a letter that was good enough to be read on that show...I put a copy in my scraps, if you care to see it.
[link]

Lyrics of the moment~
We love you...
Look, the whole world, even at this very moment
Somebody loves someone.
Then
We love you,
the world loves you.
So it's ok, just the way you are, the real you.
Everyday we love you, anytime we love you.
"We Love You" (c) Miyavi

]]> ~aoi-sekirei http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/14478437/ http://aoi-sekirei.deviantart.com/journal/14478437/ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:12:26 PDT
I don't like people any more.

Whenever I'm around people I just turn spiteful and icky and moodswingy. Heck, I'm always moodswingy, but I'll be super nice to one person and then snap at another person.

I'd like to go somewhere with no people for a week and see what I'm like when I come back.

Topic change...I'm impulsive.
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I'd also love to visit Karuizawa, Japan during the winter. That's where the Sekirei PV was filmed and it looks so friggen gorgeous. Probably the only mountain resort I would go to of my own volition, other then the Smokies.
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Life is really too short. People say that all the time, but I really get it. Life is so temporary, and that's why it's hard for me to make important decisions, because I want to be remembered for good things.

This is why I talk about vampires and things so much, because their life isn't something temporary. Despite the fact that life becomes so tiresome for them, that it's a chore to continue taking from others in order to live, they could end their existance at any time, depending on how you look at it. Still, I would rather live forever then for such a short time. It's childish to believe in things like vampires and ghosts, but it's how I look at the world. ><

Reincarnation...blah. Do I believe in it? I don't even know anymoreeeeee.

/ramble

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