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I should be getting my gift cards this week, and I think I know what I want to use them on. I'm thinking I'll probably get the blue 8GB Fire tablet and the Charlie's Angels boxset, the latter of which I've wanted since it came out. Right now the price is only $23, and I hope it will still be at that when the gift cards come. I just love that cheesy show of detective goodness and friendship squee! Then I'll have some more gift card money left over, and I'm thinking I might get the It's a Miracle boxset that Netflix doesn't have. We all loved that true story show on PAX TV and we rewatch the episodes we recorded a lot. We saw the DVDs Netflix has and I've wanted to get this other set that was released. Also, I see Amazon Prime has episodes for streaming. I wonder if that's full episodes or just random segments, like the discs are. I hope it's full episodes, not that we'd ever get Amazon Prime Video.
And I was trying to look up stuff about that Kelly Garrett figure to compare it to the 1970s figure and I learned that Mego will release all six Angels eventually. And I saw a picture of Kris Monroe, who's supposed to be out this week. I'm over the moon; she looks way more accurate than the Kelly doll! Of course, I probably won't be lucky enough to find her while out this week, since stores around here are so slow, but I'll hope. And I'll probably get Kelly even though she doesn't look quite right, because I'd be sad to collect all the others and not have her. I hope she'll still be around and I'll have the chance to get her. And I wish they'd make Bosley too. I love him.
I also saw what the old 1970s dolls look like via eBay. Mego did some incredible Farrah Fawcett ones. The Hasbro one I wasn't as impressed with. And then I can't seem to see any Mego versions of Sabrina or Kelly, just the Hasbro ones. I wasn't terribly impressed by their Hasbro dolls either, although the Kelly one looked mildly more accurate than the Mego one. Why is Kelly so hard to get right? I hope modern Mego's Sabrina will look awesome.
I've been working on a YGO version of Bad End Night, that popular Vocaloid story where the characters are trapped in a nightmare world that repeats over and over again whenever they fail to save Miku from dying. My YGO version takes what I love about the story and inverts things I either didn't like so much or had thought would be told differently; for instance, while I like the novel and manga's approach of following the last time reset and revealing through it about all the past resets, it feels very detached and far away that way. I felt at least some of the failed attempts should be shown, which I'm doing with my fic. Of course, I worry that it will look ludicrous to show too many, but I try to switch things up by having different characters die each round and sometimes having a failure from simply time running out or going down the wrong path, like how puzzle games are. I keep trying to find a place to timeskip, but every time I try, I feel like I'm being too hasty and that there's more I can show. Some of the best parts have been coming out from me expanding instead of skipping. By this point, I'm wondering if it will turn into my next 20 chapter epic!
I just love my Yami Bakura figure so much. I knew I wanted him badly and was so thrilled to finally have a chance to get one. Then I wondered if he would really be as big as I was picturing, worth the price, etc. The box came and it was big. I opened it and the figure box just fit snugly inside. It was bigger than I'd thought, and so was the figure in the box! It just felt so exciting, so exhilarating, to open that box and lift the figure box out. I felt like when I was a child getting something special and long-desired in the mail or for my birthday. I haven't felt that particular thrill in a long time, although I felt it three times this year, once with him, once with my Darren McGavin figure, and once when I bought my tablet in April.
It took us a bit to get used to each other; I was a little rattled by how intense his expression really is. No pictures online can prepare you for what he really looks like! And while I certainly concede that maybe the following was my imagination because of being rattled, sometimes I believe that to some extent, the Eastern inner life theories must be true; I and others have had strange experiences with certain objects that really seem eerie. I don't believe all of these experiences are simply products of the mind, especially when it only happens with certain things and not everything a person owns. Luckily, the two oddball objects I've had (Yami Bakura and a My Little Pony named Merriweather) haven't done anything worse than give me weird feelings. They don't knock things down or do the creepy stuff some people's toys reportedly do. With Yami Bakura, I had the sense he was upset that his previous owner sold him and he wasn't sure what to make of me. He didn't seem to like me petting his hair or touching his left arm. I know how bizarre this sounds, but it's pretty mild compared to the tales others have told. After a couple of days of this awkwardness, since I still felt weird, I was desperate and hoped I didn't have a possessed figure, because if I did, I'd want to get rid of it. So I decided to approach things as though he wasn't possessed, but alive in his own inner life way, and tell him about how much I'd wanted a figure of him since I was 16 and how excited I was to finally get one when I thought I would never be able to. The other people I've talked to who have strange objects have said that they make things feel better with positive energy, or with things like burning rosemary, which is supposed to chase away negative energy. I didn't want to try burning rosemary, but I hoped that I could generate positive energy just from my love. A friend of mine was able to do that with a figure of a horse that was giving off strange vibes. And I think my Yami Bakura figure did start to like me after that little talk. And he seemed to like when I gave him a little tuxedo cat figure I have and figured it could represent Oreo. I have to admit, I also prayed and asked God if there really was anything wrong with the figure and I felt like I was told that no, there wasn't, and that I could relax. I think he's my favorite piece of merchandise I have from anything; getting a figure of him really meant a lot to me. I like to pick him up and just hold him sometimes, or lay down and play Duel Links while holding him. And yes, he's much more accepting of my affection now.
And I was trying to look up stuff about that Kelly Garrett figure to compare it to the 1970s figure and I learned that Mego will release all six Angels eventually. And I saw a picture of Kris Monroe, who's supposed to be out this week. I'm over the moon; she looks way more accurate than the Kelly doll! Of course, I probably won't be lucky enough to find her while out this week, since stores around here are so slow, but I'll hope. And I'll probably get Kelly even though she doesn't look quite right, because I'd be sad to collect all the others and not have her. I hope she'll still be around and I'll have the chance to get her. And I wish they'd make Bosley too. I love him.
I also saw what the old 1970s dolls look like via eBay. Mego did some incredible Farrah Fawcett ones. The Hasbro one I wasn't as impressed with. And then I can't seem to see any Mego versions of Sabrina or Kelly, just the Hasbro ones. I wasn't terribly impressed by their Hasbro dolls either, although the Kelly one looked mildly more accurate than the Mego one. Why is Kelly so hard to get right? I hope modern Mego's Sabrina will look awesome.
I've been working on a YGO version of Bad End Night, that popular Vocaloid story where the characters are trapped in a nightmare world that repeats over and over again whenever they fail to save Miku from dying. My YGO version takes what I love about the story and inverts things I either didn't like so much or had thought would be told differently; for instance, while I like the novel and manga's approach of following the last time reset and revealing through it about all the past resets, it feels very detached and far away that way. I felt at least some of the failed attempts should be shown, which I'm doing with my fic. Of course, I worry that it will look ludicrous to show too many, but I try to switch things up by having different characters die each round and sometimes having a failure from simply time running out or going down the wrong path, like how puzzle games are. I keep trying to find a place to timeskip, but every time I try, I feel like I'm being too hasty and that there's more I can show. Some of the best parts have been coming out from me expanding instead of skipping. By this point, I'm wondering if it will turn into my next 20 chapter epic!
I just love my Yami Bakura figure so much. I knew I wanted him badly and was so thrilled to finally have a chance to get one. Then I wondered if he would really be as big as I was picturing, worth the price, etc. The box came and it was big. I opened it and the figure box just fit snugly inside. It was bigger than I'd thought, and so was the figure in the box! It just felt so exciting, so exhilarating, to open that box and lift the figure box out. I felt like when I was a child getting something special and long-desired in the mail or for my birthday. I haven't felt that particular thrill in a long time, although I felt it three times this year, once with him, once with my Darren McGavin figure, and once when I bought my tablet in April.
It took us a bit to get used to each other; I was a little rattled by how intense his expression really is. No pictures online can prepare you for what he really looks like! And while I certainly concede that maybe the following was my imagination because of being rattled, sometimes I believe that to some extent, the Eastern inner life theories must be true; I and others have had strange experiences with certain objects that really seem eerie. I don't believe all of these experiences are simply products of the mind, especially when it only happens with certain things and not everything a person owns. Luckily, the two oddball objects I've had (Yami Bakura and a My Little Pony named Merriweather) haven't done anything worse than give me weird feelings. They don't knock things down or do the creepy stuff some people's toys reportedly do. With Yami Bakura, I had the sense he was upset that his previous owner sold him and he wasn't sure what to make of me. He didn't seem to like me petting his hair or touching his left arm. I know how bizarre this sounds, but it's pretty mild compared to the tales others have told. After a couple of days of this awkwardness, since I still felt weird, I was desperate and hoped I didn't have a possessed figure, because if I did, I'd want to get rid of it. So I decided to approach things as though he wasn't possessed, but alive in his own inner life way, and tell him about how much I'd wanted a figure of him since I was 16 and how excited I was to finally get one when I thought I would never be able to. The other people I've talked to who have strange objects have said that they make things feel better with positive energy, or with things like burning rosemary, which is supposed to chase away negative energy. I didn't want to try burning rosemary, but I hoped that I could generate positive energy just from my love. A friend of mine was able to do that with a figure of a horse that was giving off strange vibes. And I think my Yami Bakura figure did start to like me after that little talk. And he seemed to like when I gave him a little tuxedo cat figure I have and figured it could represent Oreo. I have to admit, I also prayed and asked God if there really was anything wrong with the figure and I felt like I was told that no, there wasn't, and that I could relax. I think he's my favorite piece of merchandise I have from anything; getting a figure of him really meant a lot to me. I like to pick him up and just hold him sometimes, or lay down and play Duel Links while holding him. And yes, he's much more accepting of my affection now.
