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thanks everyone

update again in a few months probably.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/27146449/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/27146449/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:18:45 PDT
not sure if that's a good thing or not, but i'll take this opportunity to commemorate those who lost their lives in the attacks on the world trade centre, the soldiers who have lost their lives in the fighting that has followed, and to the disproportionate number of innocent Afgans, Iraqis - Arabs in general, who have lost their lives as a result of the mess we (i'm not going to hedge this one. America predominantly, though not solely) have been largely responsible for creating.

oh and for the record i was never anti-war. the attacks on 9/11 were wrong and the Taliban needed to be removed, and on paper the removal of Saddam should have been a good thing too. the fact that neither of these things have led to improvements in the respective countries (and i'm not being impatient. these things take time, but the ay we're going about things, they'll never happen) is down to the failures in the politics and the planning.

but that's beside the point.

R.I.P innocent victims

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/25113944/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/25113944/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:23:30 PDT
if you haven't already (and why wouldn't you? )please check out the X2XII Myspace at [link]

first two songs have been uploaded there, any feedback would be greatly appreciated

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/24986760/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/24986760/ Wed, 27 May 2009 19:44:36 PDT We're the best behaved supporters in the land
We're the best behaved supporters
Best behaved supporters
Best behaved supporters in the land (when we win!)

We're a right bunch of b*st*rds when we lose
We're a right bunch of b*st*rds when we lose
We're a right bunch of b*st*rds
Right bunch of b*st*rds
Right bunch of b*st*rds when we lose



this is pretty much the end of the rant, to give the jist of the rest of it to save those with little patience from reading something they're probably not that interested in:

"to conclude this rant - DO NOT DARE COME AND SAY THAT BARCELONA DESERVED TO WIN, DO NOT DARE SAY THEY ARE THE BEST SIDE IN THE WORLD - THAT'S THE BIGGEST LOAD OF BOLLOCKS YOU COULD POSSIBLY SPOUT. BARCELONA SHOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BEEN IN THE FINAL, THEY CHEATED THEIR WAY PAST CHELSEA THANKS TO A FANTASTICALLY SHIT REFEREE. we didn't deserve to win either, however, as we'd have lost to any team that turned up, performing like that. THIS ONE MATCH DOES NOT PROVE BARCELONA ARE THE BEST, IT DOES NOT MAKE MESSI WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR - HE DID FUCK ALL APART FROM NOD IT IN THE BACK OF THE NET WHEN HE WAS UNMARKED

FUCK OF FUCKING FUCKERS, IF ANYONE DESERVED TO WIN THAT COMPETITION IT WAS FUCKING CHELSKI, WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FINAL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

barcefuckinglona my fucking arse, arrogant pricks - here's to next year when they don't even make the fucking final"

slightly more balanced argument contained within the rest of the rant, read if you want.

ok.

i've never been famed for taking a loss lightly. i'm often put under that irritating banner of 'sore loser' however i, unsurprisingly, do not agree with this label.

if i lose but have tried my best...then i'll be frustrated, but accept that i'm simply not yet good enough, and be as gracious in defeat as my frustration allows. on the other hand, if i'm more than capable of getting a win...and fail to do so...then, yes, i'll not be happy...not happy at all.

and the same applies to teams i watch and support. as a United fan, i'm somewhat accustomed to watching my team play well and win. but i apply the same rules to my feelings about the team performance as i do a performance i put in myself. if we play as well as i know we can, but lose, then we're just not good enough yet, but we'll improve and strive to be good enough to win the next time. if, on the other hand, we are capable of playing at a level noone else can match...but fail to do so...then i'll be pissed off.

and so, we come to the UEFA Champions League final clash between my team, Manchester United, and the Spanish 'giants' Barcelona.

now, United are rarely labelled as 'over achievers'. this is because, consistently playing at the highest level and showing the necessary attributes to win any trophy presented at us, there is no possibility of over achieving as everyone recognises that it's within the capability of our team, our players, to win anything.
underachieving on the other hand is all too easy to do when you're a top flight team (look at Arsenal - always so much hype, and never anything to show for it at the end) but, thankfully, we've been good enough over the last 2 years at least to avoid falling into the category of underachieving.

we've had a fantastic season. we've won the Carling cup, and the Club World Cup (though they're hardly considered the biggest trophies in football) and we've won, most importantly, the Premier League trophy for the third time in a row.

but then that really makes the second item listed in the title - underperforming - even harder to take.

we had a glimpse of this in one of the first matches of the season. using the UEFA Supercup thing, whatever it's called, to Zenit St. Petersburg. in that match, we badly underperformed.
and then for the first few matches of the season, results were proving hard to come by. scraping through the ones that mattered, but never convincingly. compared to the team we'd become used to the season before, this was underperforming. but then you get used to it once it goes on, and so long as you grind out the results it's not too bad. and gradually we picked up a little, results became slightly more encouraging.

but underperforming has plagues United more than usual this season - the two matches against Liverpool come to mind, and Fulham too.

don't care now, we won the league, we performed where it counted.

BUT THEN WE GET TO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL.

we did it by humiliating Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium - their home ground. Arsenal are, as i like saying, the English (using that loosely)equivalent of Barcelona, but not quite as good.

when we played Barcelona in the final...yesterday evening, since i... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/24878753/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/24878753/ Thu, 21 May 2009 18:07:03 PDT
now, am is this new to everyone, or have i fallen out of touch a bit with the whole pokemon gaming world (which is excusable, in my opinion, as the last 2 generations have been shit)

ARE THEY REMAKING THE BEST OF THE GAMES?!?!

i might just have to dig my DS out of its grave if this is true...


but yeah, any info anyone has that'll give me the full picture would be very much appreciated

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/24829792/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/24829792/ Mon, 18 May 2009 20:01:33 PDT
*Dreams End has now been faved 100 times personal milestone - thanks to everyone who's read it, thanks to everyone who's faved it, thanks to Miya for the pic which helped make it as popular as it is*


right...well...it's been around 2 months since i last posted a journal entry, so i thought it was about time for another one. also, just general conclusions about life have been made, and info regarding my future committment to DeviantART.

it's coming up now to my second anniversary here on DeviantART, during which time i've met many people i'd now regard as being friends. Most of the people i have met share, in varying modes and intensities, my desire for a form of escapism from life (though phrasing it in this way may not be the most appropriate) and an enjoyment found in reading works of fiction by the fans of a show we've pretty much all grown up with.

kinda decided to write my own mini autobiography...dunno why, seems appropriate - i've reached a milestone in life lol

Of the past

i've enjoyed my time here thus far, largely due to the friendship shown by the people who are a part of the AaML community on DeviantART and, though my activities recently have been limited, and even then those are not AaML related, i've still been keeping track of everything going on with the whole AaML side of things that brought me to DeviantART in the first place. seems funny really, nearly two years ago (and it seems longer) i first made an account here and began submitting every AaML picture i could find from Google - and i think it is testimony to the kind nature of many people here who did not complain about my activities to the friendly DA admins, even though their own work may well have been amongst those deviations i foolishly submitted.

might as well skip forward, it's coming up to 3 in the morning and i usually ramble a lot around now - just skim read all the random crap it's not really important.

anyway, eventually (and once i'd been corrected in my understanding of the rules of DeviantART) i then turned my attention to trying to emulate the great fanfiction writers i found on Fanfiction.net in the months before joining DA. i'd been reading AaML fanfiction ever since i woke up strangely early one morning and caught the end of the movie Pokemon 4eva being shown on ITV of all places - something clicked then. i remembered how much fun i'd had as a lil kid with the cards, the games, the anime and, despite being...14? at the time, i found something in that 10 minute film clip that really appealed to me. i wanted to catch up with everything that had happened in the years since i'd stopped watching the show - was promptly horrified by two things. firstly they'd changed all the voice actors (Ash's voice is getting steadily deeper, he'll end up being voiced by Vin Diesil in a few seasons time) but, moreover, i discovered that the cast had changed too. and for some reason, the removal of Misty from the show really did hit me quite hard. didn;t really have much of an idea why but, as i've recently been reminded - i'm a deep thinker. and i agree with that, i spend my time thinking more than anything else about things that seem small or mundane to many others, and about myself, my personality and the personalities and feelings of others. where am i going with this? well, i was going through quite a rough patch at the time for various reasons that i will not explore here. suffice to say i was in a bad place, very depressed, and looking for a way to forget about everything that was making me feel that way.
i've come to conclude now that the reason i twigged on Pokemon and the whole Ash/Misty relationship idea was because it was something i'd never experienced in real life, was not likely to experience any time soon, but that represented the kind of emotional attachment i believe i desire above almost all things.

i actually had no idea that Pokeshipping existed. it didn't seem obvious to me at all that other people would share my feelings - i guess i wasn't used to it. but, after one or two searches on google for related topics i came across a page on Fanfiction.net entirely devoted to Pokeshipping stories - i read one, and was instantly captivated. i think i got lucky in a way - it takes a certain kind of fic to really capture me. i'm quite picky really, but the first fic i found on FF.net...i'm sorry to say i don't really remember. there are about 5 on this particular page that i really, really enjoyed and they fuelled the fire, so to speak, and made me want to do my own.

And so i continued my AaML binge. the first image search on google led me to DA and i spent several months looking through the gallery of ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/23625792/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/23625792/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:24:48 PDT thanks very much to everyone who's visited my page, commented on n favd anything i've done, it means a lot

the 10,000th view was, i learn, caught by so thanks very much for that m8 lol think i promised a couple of journals ago i could write something for the person who caught my 10,000, if they so wished, so yh if u think of anything just let me know

thanks again



yh i'm moving all of the lyrics i've done to which will be the deviantart account for the band. anyone who's interested and/or likes the lyrics i've done so far, please watch that account too it'll host all the work done by the (currently) four of us.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/23066136/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/23066136/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:13:49 PST it's writted almost entirely in the form of postcards...leading to the title, Postcards from Far Away (stolen the title, obviously)

there's probably going to be too endings to this one cos the first one i came up with is typically...me...those who don't really know what i'm getting at will understand by the end of the fic. i like the ending, but it might be kinda moreofthesame. then again the other ending is a bit generic...anyway yh, enjoy. you'll find postcards from Ash on my page, Postcards from Misty on 's page, and then at the end we'll probably put it all together into one document n sibmit the whole thing on both of our pages.

anyways hope you enjoy the fic.

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oh n since i'm bored i felt like doing this old tag again

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first few lines from the first 30-50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating.
Step 5: If you like the game post your own


1 "I did my best to notice
when the call came down the line - The Killers: Human -
up to the platform of surrender
i was brought but i was kind"

2 "i've been walking in the same way
as i did
missing out the cracks in the pavement
and tutting my heel and strutting my feet
is there anything i can do for you dear?
is there anyone i could call?
no and thankyou, please madame
i ain't lost, just wandering"

3 "Just because i'm losing
Doesn't mean i'm ---- - Coldplay: Lost -
Doesn't mean i'll stop
Doesn't mean i won't cross"

4 "---- ----- ----- -------
and i won't know
that you weren't happy the day i
watched you go"

5 "going back to the corner
where i first saw you, gonna - The Script: Man Who Can't Be Moved - +
camp in my sleepingbag
i'm not gonna move"

6 "come up to meet you
tell you i'm sorry
you don't know how lovely you are - Coldplay: The Scientist -
i had to find you
tell you i need you
tell you i set you apart"

7 "i dreamed i was drowning
in the river Thames
i dreamed i had nothing at all
nothing but my own skin"

8 "when it started we had high hopes
now my back's on the line - Coldplay: Yes -
my back's on the ropes
when it started we were alright
but night makes a fool of us in
daylight

9 "i wish that i could be
in the cellars of the sea
i disappear in them
never to be seen again"

10 "as far as i can see
all time and circuitry is wrong
as far as poetry
sit down, and sing to me a song"

11 "i shake through the wreckage for signs of life
scrolling through the paragraphs
clicking through the photographs
i wish i could make sense of what we do
burning down the capitals
the wisest of the animals"

12 "------, -- --------
tell me what are we fighting for
we got to end this war
we should love one another - Blessid Union of Souls: Brother My Brother - http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/22888487/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:45:28 PST
whoever catches my 10,000 page views - leave me a comment on this journal, i'll do a request...within my capabilities obviously - story (doesn't have to be AaML, anything really), song, w/e i'll see what i can do.

i'll probably rewrite this journal closer to the time or something so...yh.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/22223201/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/22223201/ Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:21:39 PST

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/20873086/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/20873086/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:59:41 PDT at 8000+ now, n there's been even less to look at since i thanked everyone for 7000+ views and apologised for the lack of new material.

doubt there's gonna be any new AaML stuff coming for a while but then i dunno, i might get a sudden urge tonight n have something submitted by tomorrow, or not, we'll see how it goes.

thanks again

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/20276002/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/20276002/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:44:34 PDT
i think now it's about time to stop kidding myself - i'm not back, and to tell the truth i'm not sure i ever will be back here in the way i used to. don't get me wrong, i'm not leaving deviantART, nor am i ceasing to be a pokeshipper, but i'm scaling down my activities here now. i've got problems of my own to deal with that can't be pushed to one side. i'm starting college - new exams, new people, new subjects...old friends leaving, old hobbies and haunts abandoned. times are changing and there's nothing i can do about it, i'm sick of feeling the way i do now, i've got to sort it out...if possible.

so then, this isn't strictly a goodbye, i'll probably still be here just as often...in fact very little will change probably, but i'm only going to write fics now that i really have a desire to write, rather than forcing myself to do something half-hearted and rubbish. also i will be devoting much more time to studies and the like as i will inevitably have to, and also to the Sollus Project to finally get it up and running.

thanks to everyone, you've made my time here on DA one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life...and with any luck will continue to do so

cya around then, oh, and...AaML FOREVER!

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/20073317/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/20073317/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:22:45 PDT

THANKS FOR THE 7000 VIEWS

i appreciate there's been precious little to view, and what there has been to view i personally don't think is my best work, but rather than be depressing and negative and say my golden age here must have passed, i'm instead going to say thanks to everyone who has viewed my page regardless, keep checking back and hopefully i'll eventually get around to producing something which i think is worthy of your notice.


secondly


I GOT MY GCSE RESULTS TODAY

and if i'm honest i'm half impressed/relieved and half disappointed. i'd convinced myself i'd not done brilliantly in general, failing four but doing well in one i would normally have failed at...turns out i was completely wrong, i did well (for me) in pretty much all of them, even the ones i thought i'd fail (got a B in additional science and a C in music tech ((the most shite subject in the world i got the highest mark in the year for the mocks and that was on a re-count - dead on a C)) which was a pleasant surprise) and a D in the one i'm predicted to do worse in...so really everything went almost as predicted except i got higher in maths than i was supposed to...i think. anyways ended up with 5 As 2 Bs 2 Cs and a D. think i got more As than i thought too, and all in the subjects that i'm carrying on for 6th form. bit lucky really i missed a whole question in history but still got an A in that, answered a science question with Mcvities digestive enzyme...maybe i got marks for humour i dunno lol but yh, not bad then. oh AND i took the piss in music tech cos i was annoyed not knowing what we'd never been taught, even having done music for around half my life but still got a C so...yh, pretty pleased if i'm honest (except for the f***ing science that was gonna be my first F since division in lower school lol or maybe media in yr 5...dunno, anyways...)


thirdly

...THERE ISN'T A THIRD BIT...

so then fanfic stuff i spose. still working on the Final Gambit and Old times and Old Age though i haven't done anything on either for couple of days. as i understand it 's contest ended yesterday...i don't like my entry for that much atm don't think it's that good but congrats to whoever wins it, it's been good reading some of the entries there's some really good stuff there.
oh and speaking of contests i need to get around to doing something for 's contest too...

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19958253/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19958253/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:53:57 PDT
anyways so yh currently i have two projects running if you hadn't noticed those being Old Times and Old Age, and the sequel to the Rocket Initiative - the Final Gambit.

if i remember rightley i always used to be careful about overloading myself...but then i had a period of block and pretty much stopped writing, and now i'm back with no thoughts towards overload, i'm just going to write what comes into my head at the time.

a brief summary of the two current projects then:

Old Times and Old Age - i suppose it would be fair to say i started this one first, as the Final Gambit i began a long time ago but never really started. for the first time i'm deviating out of my usual time-setting for fanfictions. ordinarily i have written at a time when Ash and Misty are at/around my own age, however on this occasion that's different. both Ash and Misty are well into their 90s now, living together with a load more old folk in some home thing. not entirely sure even now what kind of home thing would have them all there like that together...well that didn't make much sense but i won't try and explain now. anyways this fic jumps around a bit, with it being set when they are old, but frequent flashbacks into key moments in their lives/adventures together which will probably either not be too age specific, or again around my own age. anyways so it's basically a series of small fanfics contained within one larger fic. it should be remembered however that a lot of what i write in this fic will be more downbeat, not necessarily with happy endings...basically cos i'm a sucker for sad romance i suppose lol but i'll try my best to keep it balanced and not seem like all that happens in their lives is upset and misery. enough rambling about that anyways, onto the next one.

the Final Gambit - i'll try and restrict myself to fewer words with this summary/explanation to save boring whoever bothers to read all the way down here. the Final Gambit is a book i've been planning to do for some time now, but with block and changes in life etc. it's been delayed. anyways now i have finally started it properly. this is the final part in the Ortus Malum trilogy. not really a trilogy yet mind, i've written the Rocket Initiative which is the middle book, but could serve as a beginning if i decide not to do the first, therefore keeping it as two books rather than three. anyways a little bit of pressure on me for this; the Rocket Initiative remains the longest fanfic i have written, and since i intended to make it as much like a proper book as i could (length etc.) i feel i must try and do the same with this. i want to do the same with this too, but i worry a bit because i don't think my ideas for this one are as clear cut, i don;t have as much of an idea of what i want to happen as i did with TRS and it isn't flowing too easily atm. with any luck though that will pass as i get used to writing a long fic again.

right so that is...not much of a summary, more a description of what i think about my current two projects. obviously since i lack the necessary amount of brain power, resolve and number of arms i cannot write both at once, so instead i've decided i'll just write which ever i feel like writing at the time. therefore submissions may be a little scattered and uneven, but they should be steady because i'll be updating both as i go along, and anything else i happen to feel like writing.

anyways i think i'll go to bed now, nothing much else to do and i've just spent time writing this journal when i could have been adding more to one of my fics. oh well, time's up.

bye for now

Join ’s contest at [link]

Misty Petition SIGN IT - [link]

Guess the last few songs - [link]

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19866854/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19866854/ Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:10:33 PDT but i could have got that wrong because i’ve just spent a week doing stuff and updating kinda slipped my mind. Here goes anyway:

The rules are:
Choose a singer/band/group.
Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.
Tag 6 more people (let them know they've been tagged).

Group - Coldplay


Are you male or female?
yes 

Describe yourself!
The Scientist

What do people feel when they're around you?
Poor Me

How would you describe your previous relationship?
Only Superstition

Where would you like to be now?
Lovers in Japan

How do you feel about love?
What If?

What's your life like?
The Hardest Part

What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
One I Love

Say something wise:
Everything’s Not Lost
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In other news i’ve just spent a week or so with and which has been fun. I’d elaborate on that but...quite frankly i can’t be bothered, and i’m going to bed.
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Join ’s contest at [link]

Misty Petition SIGN IT - [link]

Guess the last few songs - [link]

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19683859/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19683859/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:57:27 PDT THIS MESSAGE IS TO WATCHERS/FRIENDS OF

just in case you don't spot the comment i posted on his page - he has asked me to inform you that he will be AFK until Monday, at which point normal service will be resumed with possible delays in some cases given that myself and will also be with him.

apologies for any inconvenience caused
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[1] First of all, what username(s) do you go by?

-well usually benmrules or variations there-upon. Neverstoptrying on [link] cos i was in a weird mood at the time...when am i not, anyways...

2] Do you role-play any original characters (name them) ?
- well that depends if writing parts for characters in fanfics etc. Can be counted as roleplay. Assuming it can then a few misc characters in various fanfics, that Samuelson Jackobi dude in the Rocket Initiative, me in the Rocket Initiative, and probably a few others here n there too.
I’ve briefly roleplayed some random dude in the 14 day trial of WoW, and various characters in Star Wars Galaxies.
Then running along the same lines as the first group i mentioned, when work commences on the Sollus Project then i guess i;ll be doing the same with a few characters in there, especially my main one but that’ll probably count as a spoiler since no-one outside the writers knows anything about it so...not telling who

[3] Role-play any character's (not original)?
well again loads of people from fanfics so Ash, Misty, Brock, Gary etc. Etc. Etc.

[4] We're do you tend to hang around?
is this in real life or whilst RPing? Which i’m still not convinced i actually do. Errm ok then well Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh then in WoW i never left that first place u start at when ur an...actually i can’t even remember what race i was so scratch that, and then in SWG i was one of the few people after NGE who went anywhere other than Tatooine and Kashyyyk so yh, a lot of places. And then with the Sollus Project it’ll be Archos which, if i remember rightly, is the name of our world.

[5] Everyone has a favorite RP buddy, who's yours?
since i’ve played WoW and SWG with, and will be writing the Sollus project with him, i’ll say

[6] Any other RP friends?
aaand since i’ll be writing the Sollus project with him too then it’ll be

[7] Where do you most hate to RP?
i don’t really know because like i said i’m not sure if i ever have done RP

[8] Which of your original characters are you most like?
well since he’s me...Me, in the Rocket Initiative

[9] Everyone tends to take a little bit of themselves and place it into their character, tell us what your character(s) inherited from you.
with my own character then he inherited nearly everything from me, with the occasional tweak/change. With other original characters...not much really, since i was writing them as separate characters and i try my best to make sure every character, no matter how important, has a personality of their own...dunno if i succeed, but i try. In the Sollus Project then my main chara for the first book will probably inherit the occasional trait from me, perhaps an evil streak but also a desire to do good by people (cos believe it or not, that kinda exists) and probably some other stuff, not sure as of yet, and then Sollus (main chara of the second book but not belonging to any one writer) might inherit the occasional trait too depending on how much of him i write.

[10] Now, name the same characters again and tell us who their BFF is!
BFF meaning Best Friend Forever? I dunno there’s gonna be loads

[11] Any lovers?
Ash – Misty
Misty – Ash
Me – a certain Someone
Main Sollus Proje... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19593943/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19593943/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:30:27 PDT 2.People tagged must post 8 things each about themselves in their journals.
3.Tag eight people and post their icons on the same journal.
4.Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5.No tag-backs.

1 – i’ve now finally had a bit of inspiration for another fanfic
2 – i’m in love with someone out of my league, but so long as i can speak to her, i’m not depressed
3 – i support Manchester United – the king of clubs
4 – i like Coldplay, Keane, James Blunt and other similar artists but Coldplay are my favourite atm
5 – i don’t really like myself all that much 0-o
6 – if i was amongst a group of people taken hostage at gun point i’d willingly jump up and take as many people out as possible and not really care too much if i got shot...random, but that’s just me really
7 – my home consoles are the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii, as that combination renders the 360 obsolete
8 – i can act evil, i deliberately come across as a tw@ a lot of the time, i take the piss...but that’s all an act mostly...

tagging...oh i dunno, i really don't have the patience to go around doing notes n everything, i'm supposed to be writing a fanfic, so i tag whoever wants to do this.



Misty Petition SIGN IT - [link]

Guess the last few songs - [link]

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19236167/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19236167/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:28:40 PDT [link]

might have already noticed this on and journals, but i thought i'd do what little i can and spread this onto the...none of you, who don't already watch the above artists. in case the text didn't copy - this is a petition to get Misty back to the main cast of the Pokémon anime, after news at another website that i cant remember the name of in which apparently a main...person...dude, of the anime, was interviewed and said that Misty would not be coming back as a main character. actually after reading what this dude had apparently said i discovered that i really, really don't like him, cos he doesn't sound like a particularly pleasant person but oh well, as i said, let's prove this arsehole wrong and bring Misty back to Pokémon. SIGN THE PETITION NOW! and play your part.

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now a random quiz thing that i stole from 's journal.


oh, and then i extended it to 50, in effect stealing it from as well bit of a pointless edit i spose but hey, there ya go.


Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first few lines from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating.
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.
(------ occurs if the song title is in the lyrics, but the number of ---s has no relation to the number of letters in the omitted word )

1 "i've had enough of this parade, i'm thinking of the words to say..."

2 "when you try your best but you don't succeed, when you get what you want but not what you need..." Fix You - Coldplay congrats

3 "i noticed tonight that the world has been turnin, while i've been stood here dithering around..."

4 "bad day, looking far away, looking for the ----- ------. get's in his car and drives away far from all things that we are..."

5 "i wish i could surrender my soul, shed the clothes that become my skin, see a lie that burns within..."

6 "i used to rule the world, seas would rise when i gave the word, now in the mornin i sleep alone, sweep the streets i used to own..."

7 "i heard there was a secret chord, that david played and it pleased the lord, but you don't really care for music, do you?..." Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (cba spelling it properly atm, my version is John Cale which is much easier to spell, and i prefer that version..anyways) congrats

8 "manys the time i ran with you down, the rainy road to far old town..."

9 "and the ----- ------ was letting go not taking part, it's the ---- ----. and the strangest thing was waiting for that bell to ring..."

10 "so you lost your trust, and you never should have, and you never should have. but don't break your back, if you ever see this, don't answer that..."

11 "i knew that this moment would come in time, that i'd have to let go and watch you fly, i know you're coming back so why am i dying inside?..."

12 "my song is love, love to the loveless shown, and it goes up, you don't have to be alone..."

13 "everyday i wake up and it'... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19061457/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/19061457/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:56:59 PDT ) anyway yh it was wkd, or the trip there was, the actual thing got a bit boring n depressing after a while.
brief account of what happened? ah sure, why not. right so basically i still had no trousers (pants, for the American readers) so we went out today (me n mum) to get some... took ages, went in loads of different shops but i was either too tall, too short, or too thin to fit in most of them and none of the shops had the right size in stock, til we went to one which did have some, some cheap £30ish ones and some expensive £60ish ones, naturally since this was supposed to be a special night i went for the latter, and mum coughed up (nice of her)so yh that took a few hours, we had about n hour n a half to get back, get changed, and get out again, but i wanted to get something for special someone who i was taking to the ball, and hadn't got anything beforehand cos mum's suggestion of something to get was (frankly) rubbish, so yh we went into a shop n i chose something i quite liked, mum wouldn't let me spend too much on it so i had to make do, but still i quite liked it, but then she had to go and say something which even I (and this really is quite something) hadn't realised: "are you sure it doesn't look like something...it shouldn't be?" so anyway no time to go change it, i still quite liked it but the name sparkly sperm kept floating round my mind, did explain this later n it was ok, don't think anyone would have noticed it if it wasn't for mum pointing it out. anyways so yh more time gone, went to get the car from the car park...locked in, she'd parked in the Natwest carpark (which she shouldn't have done, she is a customer, but not on that day) and the bollards had come up, so anyways we had to wait for someone to come n lower them n he did, nice of him, n we rushed back. then it became quite relaxed cos we had more time than we'd thought, so got changed (pretty original outfit if i do say so myself, and well recieved later on) then the car dude came along with his car (old 19...something or other, red 3-wheeler Morgan) n i got in n we drove off, mum n her boyfriend following taking pictures at every opportunity, anyways arrived n waited a bit cos, typical of a girl (ooh not that i'm being sexist or anything) she wasn't ready yet lol really beautiful though, really really really beautiful (but then i'd always said that, but yh particularly) so worth the wait, got in the car...and it started to rain, yay no roof either so pretty windy, lucky my hair's quite short now (had it cut for the occasion) n waxed pretty solidly but big risk or messing her hair up, mum gave me n umbrella to hold WHILE WE WERE MOVING! so did that, 5 mins down the road that'd broken n looked more like a flag, so then we stopped n Morgan-man put the roof up, even less room then. there was no room before it was pretty cramped, but yh, even less room, but whilst not particularly glamorous it was a good laff so well worth it. anyways then we carried on, lil convoy (us n families behind in 2 seperate cars) n stopped at the embankment near the venue (and the geese) for mor photos, which was funny again, raining n cold but yh fun, then we got there n got out in front of quite a lot of ppl...and then we discovered we'd forgotten our tickets but no matter, they let us in anyways and then...well we went our seperate ways n then it all got a bit boring tbh, loud n annoying music which i don't like so spent most of the time out at the bar. fun for a bit, just talking to loads of ppl i know, very impressed with the outfit apparently, it pays to be original, even people i didn't really know were commenting on it so yh that was good, apparently some people (one of them ironically looking like a bit of a drug-baron) were apparently caught doing cocaine in the bathroom so they were kicked out, n then it just carried on the same really. more loud music, more talking, but then most of my friends eventually went inside to all the dancing ppl, n i was gettin in one of my pointless and annoying depressed/miserable moods, so, since there was nothing to do i left early n me n mum went to a pub (no alcohol at the ball shocking, that would have made it much more bearable) and anyways now here i am, typing about it. miserable a lil bit cos i'm so shite at... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/18876317/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/18876317/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:18:21 PDT
i'm back

finished my last exam today, ETC (or a mixture of RE and Philosophy) did the full course so had 2 of these, one at the beginning and one at the end, bit stupid, but still. yea so not been too bad really, doesn't actually seem like too long since i started the exams, just a few poor people have a couple more to do but then exams are over, hooray, until the next set -_- but yh, GCSEs over with, all that's left is to find out how many i failed...positive eh?

oh well i've got nothing on now really, except a couple of 6th form induction days (or 1, i'm trying to get out of the 2nd one) aaaaaand the yr 11 prom, which should be...great, hopefully, gonna be special

anyway i'll try and kick off my return with a couple of small things probably, entering a couple of contests just to get back into the whole writing thing, then see how it goes from there.

til the next time then, cyas

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*clubs*




*The Sollus Project*



]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/18433766/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/18433766/ Wed, 21 May 2008 15:48:55 PDT
MANCHESTER UNITED!!!! 2007-08 champions of England and Europe

GLORY GLORY MAN UTD

expect random n crapp phone-taken pictures from my TV screen to be flooding my gallery very briefly, i'll convert this celebratory mood to alcohol consumption eventually lol

CMON UNITED

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17761854/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17761854/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:17:55 PDT
my apologies to everyone, but once the exams are done i'll hopefully have built up a well of creative...whatsit, so i'll have plenty to submit.
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ok, so it's still difficult writing anything atm, probably because i seem to be in the mood to write in the early hours of the morning, but i'm constantly feeling tired n going to bed early to try n be a lil bit more wide awake for school the next day.

for some reason though, over the last couple of days, ideas for songfics keep jumping around inside my skull. bit odd really, i've never been sure about the whole songfic thing. i've read some good ones, but i'm still not sure i can write them very well. oh well, might as well give it a go.

Carry You Home - the one that i've been thinking about doing for a while, probably gonna be a sad(ish) one. (original song - Carry You Home - James Blunt)

With or Without You - song has just literally got stuck in my head, or more specifically the intro but what the hell, i really like the song. this will...i think...be an angst or something, i dunno yet. no idea really what i'm gonna write yet i actually want to write this one first. (original song - With or Without You - U2 but i prefer it done by Keane.)

and so, around these 2 and school and other life stuff, i'm gonna cram in the Final Gambit and the Sollus Project as best i can...bloody hell i'm tired though, there's only about 2 hours in the day when i don't feel like i just want to float off somewhere and not bother with anything. still, that's life i spose, and there's less than 4 weeks left of school...ok then i got exams, but still, we won't think about those

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*clubs*




*The Sollus Project*



]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17681553/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17681553/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:05:20 PDT
i wrote a fanfic at last, i finished another one, and i hope everyone who reads 'catch me a bug pokemon' enjoys it, despite any mistakes or what ever that are bound to be present. next i'm working on the next chapter of the collab with and maybe another short song-fic called Carry You Home. that one will probably be a sad one though, if i do it, and so its getting written depends on what mood i'm in over the next few weeks. the Final Gambit will also be an on-going project, perhaps not as fast as the Rocket Initiative as things have become more difficult time wise. oh, that reminds me too. atm it looks as though i only have 4 weeks left of school before study leave (4 weeks which could be shortened due to a strike by the NTU. i take an interest in that kind of thing so if anyone wants any more info on it, just ask.) but it's likely that the teachers, should they be in school, will think it a good idea to lumber us with excessive amounts of work in the run up to the exams. this then, is my excuse if i don't get much done over that time period. personally i hold anything to do with AaML above school work, but given the importance of the upcoming exams i might have to make an exception to that rule.

finally then, a note about the first non-AaML writing project that i have become involved in. the Sollus Project, as it is currently known, is a collab between me and which we are about to begin writing. it's a long one, an epic one, and entirely our own (own world, own characters etc. etc.)

visit for more info, though given that we only set up the account yesterday, there isn't much to look at yet.

oh, and one more thing... AS Roma 0-2 Man Utd D Champions League is OURS i can feeeel it (does emporer Palpatine impression)
anyway, right, enough of that.
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*clubs*




*The Sollus Project*



]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17562284/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17562284/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:56:10 PDT so here goes:

List 100 things about your self

1) Full Name:
depends who's asking Ben is fine

2) Male/Female:
Male

3) Were you named after anyone?
middle name after my great Granddad

4) Does your name mean anything?
Hebrew for 'son of the right hand' if i remember right...fair enough, i think i'd be quite a good right hand man, but...religion...meh

5) Nick Name(s):
Mercer...cos that's just imaginative :S, Dracula (on a bad day) and the rest of the nicknames have pretty much disappeared with time.

6) Who do you think you look like:
James May at one point, or Pepe Nedved at a stretch and according to one of those online face recognition things, but both before i had a haircut. not sure anymore

7) Date Of Birth:
27/09/1991

8) Place of Birth and Current Location:
place of Birth - Bedford Hospital, Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK (i think)
current location - on my sofa

9) Nationality:
just over 1/4 Irish. mostly English but i've got bits of almost everything north-European in me if you go back far enough

10) Astrology Sign:
Lebra? i think it's Lebra

11) Chinese Astrology Sign:
the zodiac sheep (lol sounds wkd when u say it with one of those movie-ad type voices)

12) Religion:
baptised a catholic but i frequently take the piss out of almost all religions. i'm agnostic, but the atheist side of agnostic.

13) What’s your favorite smell?
not sure...burning wood, and some others.

14) Political Position?
not decided. although...atm i'm quite a fan of our good old Labour party...or ok, not old necessarily given that it is New Labour, and was founded after the other two but...well they're pissing off the NTU (National Teachers Union) i think, and the NTU teachers are going on strike. those strikes, though rare, are often quite...interesting

15) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
water...or a bit of what ever's left if there was a party the night before

16) Hair + Eye color:
brownish - blue

17) Do you look like anyone famous?
i swear we've already had this question

18) What do you look like?
evil sometimes, otherwise...i dunno. the fairly unattractive nobody who you'd rather not meet down a dark alley

19) Any unusual talents?
ability to sit and do nothing for days on end, knowledge of politics and world affairs (a lot of people just don't give a crap) failing socially (if that's a talent) reading/guessing what people are thinking, games, playing the footy pundit. not really unusual i spose, but... well there we go

20) Rightly, Lefty, or Ambidextrous?
Right

21) Gay, Straight, Bi, or other?
straight

22) What do you do for a living?
school, play games n write.

23) What do you do for fun?
play games, write, MSN etc. etc.

24) What are your favorite art materials to work with?
a laptop if that counts as art materials, i write using the laptop

25) What kind of materials would you like to work with?
i dunno... a more expensive laptop? mine's pretty new, good, so i don't really need any better

26) Have you met your grandparents?
no they live down the road and i've just managed to avoid them for 16 years yes, i have

27) Boyfriend / Girlfriend:
still waiting...

28) Crush:
one person...need a name? look back a few journals ago n the name's probably there somewhere

29) What celebrity would you date if you could?
tbh i wouldn't. the above crush is the only person for me.

30) Current worries?
i tend not to think about things that might worry me, i find it easier that way.

31) Favorite online Guy/Girl(s):
well given that i speak to her more online in one day than i do in person in a month, i'll have to refer u to the crush bit again

32) Favorite place to be?
Old Trafford footy stadium - biggest a... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17244772/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17244772/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:15:00 PST i looked at my gallery stats today for the first time in God knows how long, and i discovered, to my surprise, that i actually have all of 51 watchers i was actually shocked, i had no idea i had so many. also, Dreams End got its 53rd fav earlier today, so thanks to everyone who read that, and i hope you all enjoyed it. now, i know there has been very little reason to visit my page of late, i have been slack for some time, in fact i haven't accessed MS word for any purpose other than homework for a period spanning months now. BUT this sould all be about to change. now, i know in my last journal entry i said that i would refrain from going so far as to say i am back, because the last few times i've said t i've just disappeared again. but, now, for reasons i can't really be bothered to explain atm, i think i might finally be over my writer's block. tomorrow i'm going to do a spontaneous fic, and with any luck from then on i'll be back into writing again, full time. obviously school, revision and coursework deadlines will place some constraints on my schedule (yes, i'm in a wordy mood and yes, i'm watching something political, hense the word use) but i want to write, that has never been an issue, so with any luck this fic will kick start my creative side again.

the voice acting idea thing - i've got a list of everyone who showed an interest (i think it's everyone), so if that's still the case then please just leave a comment here, or reply to the note i'll send u as well. oh, btw, do u all have a headset? and i need to figure out what, on the PC, can actually record. Windows Media player? dunno if that does it, but anyway...yea, any suggestions would be most welcome.

the current list is as follows:

Oldpokeshipper
Pokeshipping4ever242
Feathers-forever
Blue-ultimate
AAMLlover
Rpgman
Phaedrolous
MPmetalmel
yu-gimoto
flamegirl88
Countseamus
lyrical-harmonies
oh, and me of course.

thanks for your continued patience and support, the next fic should be up soon

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17227004/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17227004/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:43:23 PST
HELLO

i'd say i'm back, but as the last few times i've said that, i've disappeared again the next day, i'm not going to. fooling myself i guess, i think i'm in a creative mood but...well i'm not.
how's everyone been then? good? i hope so, but forgive me when i pass on the most encouraging and enlightening bit of information - it probably won't last. yes, i'm in a great mood -_- no particular reason for it, i just am. doesn't help that i've had time off for being exeptionally tired, so i guess that contributes.

i.hate. being. depressed.

can't help the above, i just am. irritating then, that once i found relief from this afore mentioned condition by writing, and now one of the main things contributing to the depression at the moment is my inability to write. i have a few ideas, yes, but i can't form them like i used to, and i can't get my head around this invisible wall that's stopping me from sitting down and typing away for hours like i used to. why, i'm even losing my awareness of the key placement on the keyboard, i actually have to look at it sometimes now

writers block? perhaps, but i hope it buggers off soon if that is the case. perhaps my golden period has already come and gone...who knows.

oh well, i might as well go to bed and try think of some more ideas to put onto paper, heaven knows it's well overdue now. still, if that fails, i can always go off and play footy, seems to be my favourite past time at the moment.

hoping i haven't brought you all down too close to my level

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17007820/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/17007820/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:21:03 PST
→ Pick your birth month.
→ Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.
→ Bold the best that apply to you.
→ Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months
→ Tag 5 people from your friends list.
(Strike out HTML: < strike > )

You Don't Have To Read Every Month!! Just the First one!! MINE!!

My month:
SEPTEMBER:
Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.

MONTHS:
JANUARY:
Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and serious. Loves to teachand be taught. Always looking at people's flaws and weaknesses. Likes to criticize. Hardworking and productive. Smart, neat and organized. Sensitive and has deep thoughts. Knows how to make others happy.Quiet unless excited or tensed.Rather reserved.Highly attentive. Resistant to illnesses but prone to colds. Romantic but has difficulties expressing love. Loves children. Loyal. Has great social abilities yet easily jealous. Very stubborn and money cautious.

FEBRUARY:
Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent and clever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexy.Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest and loyal. Determined to reach goals. Loves freedom. Rebellious when restricted. Loves aggressiveness. Too sensitive and easily hurt. Gets angry really easily but does not show it. Dislikes unnecessary things. Loves making friends but rarely shows it. Daring and stubborn. Ambitious. Realizes dreams and hopes. Sharp. Loves entertainment and leisure. Romantic on the inside not outside. Superstitious and ludicrous. Spendthrift. Tries to learn to show emotions.

MARCH:
Affectionate. Shy and reserved. Secretive. Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic. Loves peace and serenity. Sensitive to others. Loves to serve others. Trustworthy. Appreciative and returns kindness. Observant and assesses others. Loves to dream and fantasize. Loves traveling. Loves attention. Musically talented. Loves special things. Moody.

APRIL:
Active and dynamic. Decisive and hasty but tends to regret. Attractive and affectionate to oneself. Strong mentality. Loves attention. Diplomatic. Consoling, friendly and solves people's problems. Brave and fearless. Adventurous. Loving and caring. Suave and generous. Emotional. Aggressive. Hasty. Good memory. Moving. Motivates oneself and others. Sickness usually of the head and chest. Sexy in a way that only their lover can see.

MAY:
Stubborn and hard-hearted. Strong-willed and highly motivated. Sharp thoughts. Easily angered. Attracts others and loves attention. Deep feelings. Beautiful physically and mentally. Firm Standpoint. Needs no motivation. Easily consoled. Systematic . Loves to dream Strong clairvoyance. Understanding. Sickness usually in the ear and neck. Good imagination. Good physical. Weak breathing. Loves literature and the arts. Loves traveling. Dislike being at home. Restless. Not having many children. Hardworking High spirited. Spendthrift.

JUNE:
Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite and soft-spoken. Having ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Sexy. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly. Knows how to make friends. Able to show character. Easily hurt. Prone to getting colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Brand conscious. Executive. Stubborn.

JULY:
Fun to be with. Secretive. Difficult to fathom and to be understood (I think sometimes). Quiet unless excited or tensed. Takes pride in oneself. Has reputation.Easily consoled. Honest. Concerned about people's feelings.Tactful. Friendly. Approachable. Emotional temperamental and unpredictable. Moody and easily hurt . Witty and sparkly. Not revengeful. Forgiving but never forgets. Dislikes nonsensical and unnecessary things.Guides others physically and mentally.Sensitive and forms impressions carefully. Caring and loving. Treats others equally.Strong sense of sympathy... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16548418/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16548418/ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:48:09 PST
think of it as a time where caution and self-restraint can, pretty much, go out the window. if you love someone - use the day for it's true purpose. forget the corporate suits who love their businesses and nothing else, ignore the persistent and annoying TV ads; think of the one special person in your life (assuming there is one) and even if you'd normally stick well clear of it, just tell him/her you love them, and wish them a great day.

o a side note i think today's probably gonna inspire me to start writing properly again, and i'm going for another of those daring and unexpected (from me at least) efforts like i did with xmas, and i'm gonna send a highly cliche envelope with a rose and lots of petals, and some little note that probably makes no sense because when i write i my mind will most likely be racing, and when that happens i ramble, and when that happens people just tune out. still, it's valentines, and the day is meant for little else than to give the opportunity to everyone out there to speak those 3 words, that so often get taken for granted nowadays, but in the knowledge that when you say it you mean it, and there's nothing in the world that'll make you think otherwise.

CLUBS










assuming this works i can finally return the favour and feature...



...who was kind enough to feature me



idea

i thought of this a couple of days ago, lying in bed feeling crap. now, i know a lot of my watchers write fanfics, but i guess this applies even to those who don't. has anyone ever thought of getting a group together n trying out a bit of voice acting? my idea was this. a group of us choose a fanfic we've done, assign roles for characters we'd like to try, n then read out the parts. once the seperate parts are recorded we could email the seperate audio files to someone with the appropriate software (i could probably get it, if no one else has it already) who could patch the sound files together, perhaps add music where necessary, fine tune everything n then email the complete thing back to everyone. i was also wondering whether or not deviantART handled audio submissions? if they don't then they should, n i'll try speaking to the right people n see if they're ever going to do it. just an idea anyway, probably haven't thought it through, but i thought it might be interesting to try out.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16374614/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16374614/ Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:32:02 PST

couldn't have done it without you (because without you there would be noone to view the page...you know what i mean) so thanks vm for the 3000 views

since i've taken the time to update my journal i might as well try and find some news from outside deviantART...no, can't really find any...errm... well school - boring, obviously but footy in the rain on Friday was fun...wet, my shoes (trainers but shh they're black trainers, don't tell anyone cos the teachers haven't noticed ) let in more water than they keep out so i went the rest of the day with my socks soaking (this was morning break btw, and it was only me n one other person who decided to brave the rain n kick a ball around. bit offputting having all the rest watching but it was a good time to practise shooting and crossing, both of which i did fairly well then we did it again at lunch but it wasn't raining so everyone played...everyone and more - too many people basically so me and a few others went and played with some more people whom i'm familiar with, though their ball was flat, it was still funny lofting it and watching people try to head it clear, cos it practically stuck to their faces lol

oh and i suppose there is one more bit of news...well i kind of got a little tipsy (on a thursday? yea, even with school the next day, i had a little bit) aaand...i emailed Sophie :-S nothing unusual there really, i do it a lot but...ok well i kind of mentioned the words 'i love you' in the middle of a load of rambling that was the result of my nerves being killed off by alcohol. still at least i said it, that's a plus, but i was kicking myself too because of all the opportunities i had to say something, didn't i just have to pick the most romantic option there - hotmail anyway i sort of avoided her the next day (well not really, i never see her anyway so it wasn't as though i tried to do it) until i got home and went on MSN, cos i can actually talk more freely there, lets me forget certain...inconveniences, let's say, of life. anyway i spoke to her and...well i reckon i must be developing precognition (think that's the right word) because i got pretty much the same answer as i wrote into Reunion a month or so ago lol anyway so yea it's basically the 'just friends' thing, which is fine cos tbh i only wrote the email because i felt i needed to say it, i'd overstretched the limit as far as keeping it bottled was concerned. i wasn't expecting an answer that befitted what i could have dreamed for, and as i said to her, being good friends was perhaps more than i could have hoped for anyway (or words to that effect)
so yea, getting that off my chest made me feel a little better, in a sence, but then on the other had it means that i now don't know where to go. i had a sense of purpose in that i was trying to build up the courage to say what i felt. well...now i have (if you can call it that) and i have the answer, but now what? i stand by what i said before about the good friends thing, but still... this is exactly why i don't trust to dreams

ah well i guess i did find more to say after all, so all that remains is for me to say thanks again for the 3000 views, and leave you with the links.

[link] - roleplay


[link] go here (youtube), watch the video and...


VOTE POKESHIPPING

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16327212/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16327212/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:12:18 PST
Firstly i've finally started getting back into writing again, cos i had a brief time (xmas and whatnot) without, and i guess i had a few problems picking it up again.
on what i suppose is a similar topic, there's a roleplay thing just started here [link]
it's taken a few posts to actually get started, but in the end i got tired of the topic being dead and started it myself. the reason i'm telling you this is because i know there's a lot of talented writers out there, and people with great ideas, so i'd like to see as many people join in with this as possible. all you have to do is go to the site (pokeshippers.proboards) and sign up, then you can start posting if it doesn't work out then i'll use my beginning for another fanfic or something, but i think this could actually turn out really well if enough people get involved.
(btw i think i may have got roleplay confused with something else, i think this will be more of a collab fanfic)
anyway here's the link again
[link]
and again
[link]
and one more for luck
[link]

otherwise the news is all the same
[link] go here (youtube), watch the video and...


VOTE POKESHIPPING

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16298515/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16298515/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:32:54 PST [link] go here (youtube), watch the video and...


VOTE POKESHIPPING

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16289038/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16289038/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:46:17 PST
nothing to say tbh; just bored, tired, miserable and depressed. back to school tomorrow, that's crap. might see a few people but again, i cba atm really,with perhaps one exception, but then what's the likelihood i'll see and/or speak to her? minimal at best. why am i writing this? no idea

fair enough then, i think i'll stop.

tata.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16209055/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16209055/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:56:46 PST
New years party was wkd as always (wkd...that was one of the few not present actually) if a bit different. drink, lots of drink that was great, and the cocktail fountain worked well too
it was the first time i'd seen some of those present when they were...tipsy...to avoid using the word drunk, on the off chance that Sophie may stumble across this and set out for revenge lol ah 'twas a laugh it was...she's bloody brilliant, have i said that before? if not then you'll hear it a lot in the next few sentences. SHE TOLD MY SISTER TO FUCK OFF!!! HAHA YES a group of 8-10 year olds, really were asking for it. i can scare them off just by standing up but they always come back, but that...that was brilliant not sure if they heard, there was a lot of other noise but it sure was loud enough. no, she wasn't drunk though just...dizzy, wobbling, somewhat hyper. what can i say, i love her...i fecking love her and given one...or two...or a few (hundred) more hours and i might have come somewhere near telling her, but nope, as always the things you enjoy go by too fast. i suppose the fact that the party ended two hours earlier than usual contributed to that feeling. damn it, i'm a coward, that's it. i would willingly stare death in the face but being open about how i feel, or even just speaking to her face to face...nope, not happenin. it's not that i don't want to either, cos i do, so much but i can't. is it my fate then, to just sit and observe, dabble in others affairs and (do my best to) sort out their woes? i'd hate for that to be it, but it keeps coming back to me. i could blame several factors contributing in my inability to do anything about my own relationship, but in the end i have to blame myself, cos there's no one else to blame. i just wait for things to happen, i don't set out to make them happen and for all i tell myself that i should, i still don't. i tell myself that i will, and i hope i follow that pledge through but...well i don't know. i deservingly slammed my head into a wall after the party (and once during it) for being a slack idiot.

still though, ending the rant on a positive note, the party still more than lived up to my expectations. it was still fun, great fun and it's still the thing i look forward to most in a year, more than my bday and more than xmas, if for a different reason now than it used to be. and hey, even if i can't pull myself together; we're still friends, and it's still bloody brilliant


oh as for the delay...my fanfic, i couldn't do much on it obviously because of the party, but i'm back on it now. (that was short in comparison lol)

oh, happy new year again

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16149315/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16149315/ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:02:23 PST oh and btw, it's intended to be something of a multiship, and i'm trying to fit in almost every kind of shipping (or the main ones) including *cough* advance and pearlshipping, orangeshipping, egoshipping...of course, you'll have to wait and see how it turns out, though you can probably guess what's going to happen in most cases

anywho i'll be off then, just woke up, i'm gonna do as much on the fic as i can today i think.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16121565/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16121565/ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:53:47 PST mine was good, i got an ipod (nano) and istation, and then today i got me a new £800 laptop actually it was £200 off so we got it for £599. anyway on top of that...WE HAVE INTERNET! the homehub flickered into life earlier today and so now i can have unrestricted access to deviantART again also i now have a laptop better than any computer we've ever had before, with a better word processor, better graphics card...just generally better everything, perhaps even image software so when i'm bored i might try my hand at some images, rather than just words but yea, anyway, i'm pleased with what i got.

as for...other events, i'm not sure really how successful my xmas venture was, and i don't think i will until New years Eve. still though it helped me get a little off my chest, i don't see as it can have been a bad thing.

anyways i hope everyone had a merry xmas

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16047590/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/16047590/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:42:18 PST i just saw it in a shop when i was out xmas shopping and thought sure, why not. why not spend £20...£30...no i think it was £20 on something for a girl who i'm not sure (and i doubt) likes me in the same way. Still though she knows i'm weird and rarely do these kind of things by the book so hopefully it wont be a complete failure...hopefully (doubtful) it'll be a resounding success. mi mam's delivering (dunno why i change accent randomly in this kind of situation) the 'ackage' tomorrow, and i've given her strict instructions to put it through the letter box and leave without a word, because if she opens her mouth then it could be potentially disasterous (it probably will be anyway). i'd deliver it myself but c'mon, that's TOO forward lol (and besides i'd never be abl to convince myself to do it, not without either plenty of alcohol or a head-rush)

will this be the end of 16 years of relative solitude? or just another episode in an ongoing saga of...nothing :S well i'll find out either tomorrow or at New Years Eve. wish me luck
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ARGH DAMN IT! ok so yea xmas is supposed to be a great, happy, fun and cheerful time of year but my God does it disrupt your schedule or what?! i'm not officially back from my no-internet-period either, though i'm at my mum's until xmas day so i do have access to a comp and internet, but anyway... yea so i'd seen in some peoples journals that they were appologising for lack in activity, stopping requests etc. because of xmas and i thought: "why? surely it isn't that disruptive" ha, that coming from a complete deviantART n00b. this is my first xmas since i joned DA and i can safely say that i underestimated how much xmas gets in the way of schedules. my xmas is probably far less hectic than most peoples too, apart from swapping between houses and familys etc. but i'm still finding it impossible to actually settle down and write anything...except this now... but i can always find time for complaining.

anyway so life up until this point. well the last day of school was crap. i say crap, but it was crap because i was actually looking forward to going, only my dad decided half way through the night that i didn;t need to go in and so didn't wake me up or take me in the next day. the reason that i wanted to go in was because my mum had bought me a present to give to 'any special someone' to quote her directly. obviously given that it was my mum who bought it, it would probably not be the best gift in the world but there just happened to be a 'special someone' who i had been planning on buying something for anyway, and since i hadn't been able to it seemed like a sign (my mum randomly buying this thing). so yea, i'd kinda emailed her the night before just warning, to quote myself directly: "i've got something to give you tomorrow btw. just a heads up, to give you time to run away screaming if necessary" sp i had myself all geared up to be the most forward about my feelings that i have ever been, EVER! and then along comes 11:30 am the next day when i finally wake up and discover that my chance was blown by my dad being overly kind and generous. sooo yea that was a bummer, though i've been talking to the 'special someone' by email for a bit now so i've probably completly screwed it up anyway ahh aren't potential relationships fun. ive never come close to one myself, just dealt with countless ones for my friends, so i know loads about it, but can't pluck up any courage at all to do anything about it for myself.
aside from that not much has happened, save a nice big festive argument with my mum that almost saw me leave again only to stay and in the end everything sorted itself out. we didn;t talk about it, which was good, because i was never going to back down from my argument, and she rarely does either.
as for the festive day itself, two days from now? yea, i think that's right. what's everyone getting? i think i know what i'm getting, but i wont bore you all with the short list.
oh and we FINALLY have a sofa, or in actual fact two sofas at the new place now, so it finally brings an end to sitting on the uncomfortably thin coushins on the floor

as far as fanfics are concerned th... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15917974/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15917974/ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:25:59 PST well anyway back to the first point then. i have finally managed to begin work on Reunion, and i think i'm ready to submit the first couple of chapters, so yea, i'll get on with that.

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New Years Resolutions - (i'm making this up as i go along so it's subject to change) well it's the end of another year and Ash, Pikachu, Dawn and Brock are all headed towards Pallet Town. New Years in the small town has always been a celebratory occasion, but this is the first time that any of our heroes have been there to join the party. it isn't just these four who will be there however, as some more old friends have also been invited. Misty, Daisy, Tracy, Lily, Violet, May, Max, Drew, Gary... a match makers dream then, but for all that 'certain people' have the strongest bonds from the past to the future, it doesn't stop a few others trying their luck and threatening to mess things up. who will kiss who at midnight?
coming soon

Reunion - what's this you wont ask? well it's the prequel to The Rocket Initiative and the beggining of the trilogy. i started work on it a while ago and plan on resuming work on it once i have finished the Halloween fic. once started i will update weekly as i go along because there aren't likely to be any other submissions whilst i'm working on it.
teaser...ish - Reunion is the first part in the trilogy. it accounts the events leading up to The Rocket Initiative. Ash and Misty have been apart for some time now, though they have missed each other day by day. it's Misty's birthday soon which is just another reason why Ash is keen to get back, that on top of a supposed party that a brief and frankly rather suspect letter from his mother had informed him of. Misty is alone in the gym and miserable, yet when a strange trainer (yours truly ) arrives and offers to take her to Ash she jumps at the chance. things don't go according to plan to say the least and the two parties look set on missing each other along the way. Coming Soon

The Final Gambit - well i mentioned that it was a trilogy, so logically this would be the third no? well it is, the third and final chapter in the Ortus Malum trilogy. any loose ends will be tied up, but what will be the fate of those concerned? i made the mistake of starting both this and Reunion at the same time, and so one must lay in the sidelines whilst the other is being completed. for the sake order i will be writing Reunion first, though this is the one i am most looking forward to writing.
teaser...ish - evil has stirred. the events in the aftermath of The Rocket Initiative have not been as positive as people first thought, and rather than seeing an end to the conflict war has begun between the forces of the Confederacy of Unified Powers and the Pokemon League. all is not as clear cut as the fight between good and evil though, for it seems to be everywhere. those who should be trusted are traitorous, and the most unlikely people may rule the fates of many. a third faction has emerged, a faction once in support of the Pokemon League that was disbanded by League Chairman Ketchum. this mysterious organisation is cloaked in shadow and rumour, with officials from both sides denying its existence. still though, the Resistance Movement Liberation Army are alive and well, and will play a major part in the events that follow. The world is in turmoil, and even the strongest of bonds face the threat of breaking. Coming Soon

AaML Halloween - *COMPLETED* not sure i like it, i guess i quite like reading dark fics but not so much writing them, so it'll probably be a one off until next Halloween when i guess i'll do another one.

The Rocket Initiative - *COMPLETED* thanks to those who have read it and given me such encouragemen... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15844662/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15844662/ Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:16:58 PST
in actual fact it's probably not that important but i'm moving house over the course of the next two days (including this one). that's right; the house that has been my refuge from most of society and unwanted family intrusions will no longer be, and my shadow will instead fall over Higham Ferrers for about 6 months before we move AGAIN.
in all honesty i don't want to move. i like it here, and always have and on top of that it means we're leaving the cat (Willow, a bit of a strange creature but loveable nonetheless) and my dad's long term partner...ish Linda, whom i have become good friends with over the course of the five years? no must be more than that, but i don't know by how much. i don't like change, i never have and so i'm expecting to be pretty down for the next few days.

as a result there may be another Dreams End style submition though of course i can't be sure, as i tend to write that kind of thing on a whim. Oh yea, that reminds me, i may not be able to check my deviantART for a few days as we wait for our new internet package to arrive, but in the words of the Terminator: "I'll be back"

on reflection though this house has given me a lot of happy memories...and probably several illnesses as i never cleaned my room until today. it was also the front line in my family war with my mum and various other pat-time agents of evil, and proved to be an exceptional fortress. (kind of like the Kremlin to her White House....i say that because i prefer the Kremlin, though of course for this purpose it could be vice versa, it makes little difference)
it is also the house in which i first discovered deviantART, fanfiction.net and Pokeshipping in general, though rest assured if i could only take one thing from this house to the next it would be that, and so it will be.

that's pretty much the end of the update then, i think i here the removal van outside.
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New Years Resolutions - (i'm making this up as i go along so it's subject to change) well it's the end of another year and Ash, Pikachu, Dawn and Brock are all headed towards Pallet Town. New Years in the small town has always been a celebratory occasion, but this is the first time that any of our heroes have been there to join the party. it isn't just these four who will be there however, as some more old friends have also been invited. Misty, Daisy, Tracy, Lily, Violet, May, Max, Drew, Gary... a match makers dream then, but for all that 'certain people' have the strongest bonds from the past to the future, it doesn't stop a few others trying their luck and threatening to mess things up. who will kiss who at midnight?
coming soon

Reunion - what's this you wont ask? well it's the prequel to The Rocket Initiative and the beggining of the trilogy. i started work on it a while ago and plan on resuming work on it once i have finished the Halloween fic. once started i will update weekly as i go along because there aren't likely to be any other submissions whilst i'm working on it.
teaser...ish - Reunion is the first part in the trilogy. it accounts the events leading up to The Rocket Initiative. Ash and Misty have been apart for some time now, though they have missed each other day by day. it's Misty's birthday soon which is just another reason why Ash is keen to get back, that on top of a supposed party that a brief and frankly rather suspect letter from his mother had informed him of. Misty is alone in the gym and miserable, yet when a strange trainer (yours truly ) arrives and offers to take her to Ash she jumps at the chance. things don't go according to plan to say the least and the two parties look set on missing each other along the way. Coming Soon

The Final Gambit - well i mentioned that it was a trilogy, so logically this would be the third no? well it is, the third and final chapter in the Ortus Malum trilogy. any loose ends will be tied up, but what will be the fate of those concerned? i made the mistake of starting both this and Reunion at the same time, and so one must lay in the sidelines whilst the other is being completed. for the sake order i will be writing Reunion first, though this is the one i am most looking forward to writing.
teaser...ish - evil has stirred. the events in the aftermath of The Rocket Initiative have not been as positive as people first thought, and rather than seeing an end to the conflict war has begun between the forces of the Confederacy of Unified Powers and the Pokemon League. all is not as clear cut as the fight between good and evil though, for... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15693569/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15693569/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:16:36 PST
not quite as good as i would have hoped, but then, i didn't revise at all, they're only mocks and i'm predicted to rise at least a grade by the end of this year, so here goes:

for those not familiar with the UK marking scheme here it is, from best to worst.
A* A B C D E F U

English a) - A
English b) - C (apparently there's 2, a reading and writing paper or something. i bet i got the C in poetry, cos there's very little about poetry that i like)

ETC - A (Ethics, Theology and Citizenship)

PE Theory - D (no surprises there, i hate the subject)

Music Tech - C (got a D first but later discovered an unmarked question that turned out to be correct, pushing me up a mark and raising me from a D to a C. HIGHEST MUSIC TECH MARK IN THE YEAR!)

Geography - C (again surprising, this time because i thought i would fail it)

History - B (disappointing, i've had As in all other History tests so far, so i put it down to a mistake over the Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan, cos we had a stupid trainee teacher during that period)

Mathematics - C (high C which is good, considering how i hate Mathematical bollocks)

Science - B (lost interest in Science at the start of year 9. we NEVER learn any of the interesting stuff, stuck with electricity and binary code, which is all mathematical bollocks)


so yea i think that's it. not the best result i've ever had but i can tell you now many people got worse, considerably so. Personally though i feel i got my best marks in the subjects i'm looking to continue with, so screw the others (Geography and PE Theory in particular) and so hopefully by the time the REAL exams come around i might get a little better (and i might revise too)
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Fanfics

Christmas Lights and Mistletoe - *COMPLETED* - this is my entry for the AaML-club winter fanfic contest. i hope you like it, please vote for me (or however it works) in the contest, but ONLY if you like the fic, BE HONEST, there are some other great writers in the contest i'm sure.

New Years Resolutions - (i'm making this up as i go along so it's subject to change) well it's the end of another year and Ash, Pikachu, Dawn and Brock are all headed towards Pallet Town. New Years in the small town has always been a celebratory occasion, but this is the first time that any of our heroes have been there to join the party. it isn't just these four who will be there however, as some more old friends have also been invited. Misty, Daisy, Tracy, Lily, Violet, May, Max, Drew, Gary... a match makers dream then, but for all that 'certain people' have the strongest bonds from the past to the future, it doesn't stop a few others trying their luck and threatening to mess things up. who will kiss who at midnight?
coming soon

Reunion - what's this you wont ask? well it's the prequel to The Rocket Initiative and the beggining of the trilogy. i started work on it a while ago and plan on resuming work on it once i have finished the Halloween fic. once started i will update weekly as i go along because there aren't likely to be any other submissions whilst i'm working on it.
teaser...ish - Reunion is the first part in the trilogy. it accounts the events leading up to The Rocket Initiative. Ash and Misty have been apart for some time now, though they have missed each other day by day. it's Misty's birthday soon which is just another reason why Ash is keen to get back, that on top of a supposed party that a brief and frankly rather suspect letter from his mother had informed him of. Misty is alone in the gym and miserable, yet when a strange trainer (yours truly ) arrives and offers to take her to Ash she jumps at the chance. things don't go according to plan to say the least and the two parties look set on missing each other along the way. Coming Soon

The Final Gambit - well i mentioned that it was a trilogy, so logically this would be the third no? well it is, the third and final chapter in the Ortus Malum trilogy. any loose ends will be tied up, but what will be the fate of those concerned? i made the mistake of starting both this and Reunion at the same time, and so one must lay in the sidelines whilst the other is being completed. for the sake order i will be writing Reunion first, though this is the one i am most looking forward to writing.
teaser...ish - evil has stirred. the events in the aftermath of The... ]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15299530/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15299530/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:58:46 PDT

the first half of my halloween fic is now up at [link] so i hope you enjoy it.

well i won't be trick or treating tonight. the police announced they would arrest (on sight) anyone with eggs or flower on sight (it's like having a WMD apparently) but now, from what i hear, anyone over 13 years old isn't allowed to trick or treat!!! omg!!! free country my arse lol but yea, i wouldn't have gone out anyway, i'm going to a standup comedy show tonight.

anyway that's all i have time for right now, have fun this night, and try not to come across any of my devlish minions tonight

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15285173/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15285173/ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:15:05 PDT
ok so just a couple of things. firstly, sorry for the lack of prose submitions recently, i haven't completly abandoned it though and i don't plan on any more editorials for a while.
also yes, i've stopped updating the Rocket Initiative for a while and that is because i simply haven't had the time. i got a bit behind on coursework which is now, finally, off of my shoulders but another deadline is worryingly close and that is Halloween - tomorrow. i'm writing a fanfic for it, dar this time, as i mentioned before but at the rate i'm going (fast but not fast enough) i'm not going to have it done. it's going to be in at least 2 parts again though by the looks of things and i have to say that i'm quite proud of it so far. based on the probability that i might not have it finished by tomorrow then i will at least submit the first part and have the next up as soon as possible. i'll return to the Rocket Initiative after that, but i dont think anyone has read the 40 chapters up already so hopefully i'm not going to get too much stick for it

anyway i'm off then, live long and prosper (random)

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15213370/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15213370/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:22:52 PDT
1000 views!!! or 1018 views to be precise.

i'm still not too sure what to do to mark the milestone so for now, thanks everyone for visiting and reading my fanfics, i hope you like and will continue to like them

i think it was June when i joined Deviantart with absolutely no idea what i was doing etc etc. and so 1000 views in 4 months is...well... can't really find the words for it so, thanks

and yea, i'll try and resist adding another journal entry for a while

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15197430/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15197430/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:12:14 PDT tut tut but anyways yea, that's crap.

in other news; my next fic is progressing well and i should by half term at the latest
my flu is FINALLY going, i actually managed to sleep in-ish this morning without waking up feeling completly shite.
in slightly more irritating news it would appear that i have some form of early on-set arthritis in the fourth finger on my right hand it's not bad, aches occasionally so at least it isn't as bad as it could be, and it hardly ever does happen but it is bloody annoying when trying to type. crap it makes me sound old too lol

finally, I'M ALMOST ON 1000 VIEWS!!! D and i have no idea what to do to celebrate it when i actually get there

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15170113/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15170113/ Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:39:13 PDT anyway the reason for the update is i just wanted to say that my current halloween fanfic, whilst being completed and i'm quite happy with it, will not count as my Halloween submission.

the reason for this, is that i have just now started another fic which more suites Halloween - my first attempt at a dark fic. it will be AaML of course, however none of the light and cheerful stuff that i've done so far (with the possible exception of Dreams End) anyways i'm gonna do my best on it, and this time i might actually be able to submit it on Halloween

have a good day

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15153124/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15153124/ Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:04:52 PDT
final score after 80 mins - South Africa 15-6 England but then, looking at how crap England were in thr group stages, i think it's quite impressive that they got into the knock out stages at all.

anyways in other news, my Halloween fanfic is almost done, though is distinctly un-halloween like. i could change about three words and then use it for christmas AND new years. still i quite like it, though it is quite similar to the others i've done, and it means i can challenge myself to think of something new for the rest of the project.

otherwise not much to report.
half-term = boring
flu = crap
late nights = good
DIY man making a racket = bad
random story-making convo with a friend yesterday at 1:00am = good
forgetting to save and submit it on DA = bad
feeling depresse = also bad

oh on a final note, i'm on the hunt for fanfic requests and ideas cos they prevent me from doing exam revision and coursework and are therefore a very very very good thing so any ideas would be most welcome.

finally finally - goodluck with your exams MiyaToriaka DA will feel empty until your return

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15127137/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15127137/ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:37 PDT
right that's my rant for today, now back to MS word...

oh yea and the rugby tomorrow...well i'm not particularly interested in it and i think it's a foregone conclusion but what the hell the England football team was crap in Russia so, for the rugby, COME ON ENGLAND!!!

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15085614/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15085614/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:22:22 PDT
two...no four now i think of it, big events coming up for the rest of the year and for those 0 of you who don't know i'll list them:
.Halloween (Hallows Eve and i think i prefer that)
.Christmas Eve
.Christmas Day
.New years Eve
.New Years Day (January 1st)

ok i know i'm pushing it a little by counting christmas eve seperatly but the reason will be made clear.
anyways the reason i am going on about this is that, as of yesterday, i began a project which should hopefully keep me occupied for the rest of they year. the nature of this project you won't ask? well i am going to try my best to write fanfics for each and every one of them Hallows Eve first and i started that yesterday and quite like how it is going so far, and i'll be racking my brains as to what to do for the rest of the occasions. anyways so yea that means that there will probably not be many deviations from me until said days, with the exception of the Rocket Initiative which i will continue to update weekly.

oh and any suggestions as to a story line etc. either for one of the above events or just in general then please let me know cos i'd be very grateful

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15044700/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15044700/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:44:05 PDT
thanks so much to everyone who's been viewing my page and work, and i hope you'll continue to return and enjoy the new deviations as i upload them

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15012938/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/15012938/ Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:56:40 PDT
detention after school monday cos i attached the wrong file to the email. geography tracher actually said that she believed me but no i do't get off of the detention cos she's a facist. dad's writing a letter to the school now cos the Geography department have been giving out after school DTs like there's no tomorrow. last resort? bugger that, it's the bloody first resort!!!

October 11th 2007 I hereby declare war on the facist state of the first floor humanities block for being full of controlling facists an for pissing me off in general.

have a nice day

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14998120/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14998120/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:12:24 PDT
logged on today at about 6 and discovered that i had 501 views. only thing is, the 1 on the end was me cos i hadn't logged on :S

thanks again

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14984297/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14984297/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:46:51 PDT
over 10 times i tried to submit my new fanfic!!! 10!!! and did it work? no, not a single bloody time. just appears blank after i've submitted it. ARGH!!!

anybody had a similar problem but found a way around it then i'd really like to know, as soon as possible please.
til then i'll peruse the FAQ but i bet i wont find anything there ><

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14966853/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14966853/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:53:28 PDT right, my problem is this:

until recently my parents had remained blissfully oblivious to this whole fanfic-pokeshipping-aaml business and so it worked out fine. my downfall though, was when i had said they could read my book when it was finished. even then though i could have figured out a way around it, at least until mum managed to find it on the computer and read it.
she;s read quite a lot of it now but (and this is where the problem comes) her comments went something like this.

'it's really good, there's lots of words (duh) but you know it kind of...it's like *sighs* why pokemon?'

then my dad managed to find some of the short stories on the other comp too and so for the first couple (little bit of AAML and AAML-Dreams i think) he said he really liked them and that they were really good. next thing i hear (after he read another one but i'm not sure which) is that he likes it but he thinks i should try some different styles, and that he thinks that university would help me do that.

don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that i don't want to go to uni, but to be honest i'm happy with the style i use now. my inspiration IS AaML always has been, and always will be. to be honest i don't want to write anything else :S

anyways whilst writing i've found a loop hole in that, in that he said different style well i suppose i could experiment with a few dark fics, maybe a horror or two, and The Rocket Initiative has adventure elements... so of course if that's the main theme, then surely a little AaML romance on the side wont hurt will it?

of course if he meant style as in the fact that it's all pokeshipping then that's more of a problem cos i don't want to do anything else...hmmm...oh well, enough of a rant, hope you enjoy the rest of your day (the rest will probably have been taken up by my droning on and on)

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14915314/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14915314/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:13:10 PDT
on the off chance that anyone who likes AaML has not devwatched MiyaToriaka (and i think that highly unlikely ) then follow [link] which leads to a superb pic LEID - Love Ends In Dreams

this pic has been very well and very kindly drawn by MiyaToriaka based on the last scene in Dreams End. (personally i think prefer the picture lol)

you'll probably be sick of hearing this by now but:

thanks MiyaToriaka

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14895956/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14895956/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:07:57 PDT
i'm going to be posting (or trying to post) 10 chapters, with most being posted in pairs to avoid flooding my watchers inbox with deviations cos that would t be annoying - also cos i'm also writing another short fic and, to be honest, i think the short ones are better recieved

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14867202/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14867202/ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:52:09 PDT or i would have done, had i realised that in order to include italics when submitting text on DeviantArt you had to put and before and after every section you want italicalised (woo new word) so now i've got to go through the whole thing adding that.
anyways i started that last night and was doing well, i'd managed to get up to chapter 6 i think it was, converted and put into the text submission. then i decided to go to bed and guess what, when i clicked submit, i discover that it has to be below 65 kb!!! mine was currently 650kb!!! so yea that was a waste, and also it looks as though i wont be able to post the full version anyways, so prepare to see my gallery become flooded. (it'll jump at least 40 deviations) i'm going to stick some of the smaller chapters together to minimise the amount i submit but yea, it's still going to be a lot.

anyways that was a pointless rant, just explaining why it isn't up yet.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14853366/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14853366/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:32:21 PDT anyways i'm feeling a bit guilty now cos i promised a few additions to my gallery on my bday, but fate transpired against me (in the form of the internet at my mums being down) so i could not oblige, and you were left with that depressing little birthday poem thing. i'm still not sure where that came from, but i was depressed all day :S
anyways i'm back now and i'm busting a gut (so to speak) to get the book finished and posted, and i've also got one or two more little things to add.

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14802830/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14802830/ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:14:46 PDT 16 ago, september 27th 1991 i was born and now here I am, sitting at a computer a little more mature (i hope) than i was all that time ago, and considerably better informed as to the harsh realities of life (i trialed for Marvin from the Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, you can tell cant you )
anyways a little later today and i'll be making an adittion to my gallery, or many adittions as it will probably turn out, but until then...

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14769085/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14769085/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:08:33 PDT D and i get thursday off for a reason that will be explained on the day

suppose i'd better pick up the French again then:

Je vais en France vendredi, j'obtiens un jour de l'école pour lui aussi, enfin : D : D et j'obtiens jeudi de pour une raison qui sera expliquée sur le jour

hope that translated right

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14728437/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14728437/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:53:47 PDT -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
btw in a break from editing my book, i wanna try taking a few fanfic requests? i cant draw but i see how people make requests for art so, if you like my writing and have an idea but are not sure as to how to transfer it on to page, or not comfortable with the idea of writing it yourself then hey, here i am!!! (so long as it's pokeshipping of course )

]]> ~benmrules http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14685160/ http://benmrules.deviantart.com/journal/14685160/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:23:40 PDT
not sure i've told her just how much but hey, there we go, and she's not on deviantart (i dont think) so cant see this but i just felt like putting it up...i guess because i'm too much of a coward to actually do anything else.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

to S.L.
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incidentally, 10 years ago (that i'm not too sure about so don't quote me) and 10 days ago (September 8th) saw the first airing of the pokemon show on US TV. an important date then, as not only has the show gone on to become one of the most successful ever, but also, more importantly in my oppinion, September 8th was the birthday of pokeshipping too!!! that's right, pokeshipping was the first, remains the best and will continue to be

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