I love when things fall into place.

Of course, I ended up buying the Doom arc. I am still frustrated with myself for thinking I wouldn't want it on DVD. Buying it in a separate order meant having to buy another DVD to get the 50% off the order. At least it only makes it around $2 more than if I'd bought it with the first order, but even that makes me cringe. But I found something nice to go with it, Batman Begins, so hopefully I won't be too upset. I know I shouldn't have bought them at all right now, but I was afraid the sale price would go away if I waited. And hey, I've meant to buy Batman Begins anyway. It's the only installment in that trilogy I really liked. (Okay, I didn't see the last installment, but I didn't like what I heard.)

I've really gone to town buying stuff lately. Of course, a lot of that was in gift money, but part of the money for the Darren figure and all of the money for these YGO DVDs was not part of the gift money. Now I've really got to reel myself in unless I can get some more cash flow soon. Being an independent contractor means you're never sure when you're going to get hold of more. And I like to keep some on hand for emergencies instead of spending down to the last dime. I spent more than I really wanted to, yet I really wanted those DVDs. I have been having a blast with them! I watched some of the second season 1 set earlier and got a kick out of Yami Bakura's reappearance in The Night Before. LOL, I can't believe I forgot that. That was an epic scene and I even showed it to Mom years ago. Tonight, I had to stop watching after the second part of Yugi vs. Pegasus because of stuff going on. I'm going to finish up that arc before laying down (I hope). Ugh, today was filled with plumbing problems.

I have also been planning out more of Dragons at Dawn. I should stay cautious, but it really does look like finishing it might happen. I have two full chapters ready to post and am almost done with a third. I think I know approximately how things are going to play out from here on out. Joey falling to the Neo-Orichalcos takes center stage. Everyone is upset about that and there will probably be conversations with Serenity. Seto and Mokuba will learn Alister and Rishid are responsible for the Neo-Orichalcos (at least in part; they didn't start it in the first place, but were corrupted by the stones to take over after the previous ones using them were killed). Seto is not going to be pleased. Dartz won't be either, when he learns of it. Eventually Joey will defeat Duke, probably right before the climax since I don't want Duke out of commission for too long.

Alister and Rishid are now being poisoned by the stones for rebelling against them, with Alister suffering more as the ringleader. I think the climax will have Alister managing to destroy the source of the Neo-Orichalcos right before the poison makes him drop dead. Shadi shows up to straighten things out and Valon and Raphael plead for Alister's life. Yugi probably joins in too. Alister is, of course, allowed to live. Yami Bakura wonders if this is the conflict where he was supposed to prove himself, but Shadi tells him that time is still coming. What he did during this conflict, however, may help prepare him for the future. Yeah, I decided to bring in The Pendulum Swings verse into this, because there's no reason why not. LOL. I also kind of think it happens before Lead Me Through the Fire, although I'm not positive on that.

You know, one problem with writing characters into antagonists is that I can have a hard time forgiving them for it. And then I feel rotten because it's my fault they did it in the first place. LOL. I struggled with forgiving Barney Stockman for a long time. I think it took reading a story someone else wrote where he was a truly horrible person to make me feel better. I'm having the same problem with Alister now. I have it that the stone did influence and corrupt him from the beginning, in addition to his grief pushing him to the brink of madness, to try to make him seem more sympathetic. And for the rest of the story from the point I picked up writing again, he's trying to atone for what he did and being punished for it at the same time. And yet even with him ending up (temporarily) dying because of it, I'm still thinking it's not good enough, that he should have known better after the Doom arc, that basically becoming Dartz and trying to decide who deserves to be attacked by the Neo-Orichalcos is inexcusable. And yet by that very thought, I'm doing what he was doing, in a way. Judging, that is.

Oh, the woes of a writer....