insaneladybug: (nesbitt_lector)
Sometimes I have characters I'm working with who fascinate me personality-wise but whom I'm not exactly swooning over. What usually tends to happen is that sooner or later, after writing for them and developing them for a long time, I end up crushing on them and then do the fangirl squee.

Like with Lector, I'll admit I didn't find him so physically attractive at first, although I was intrigued by his complex personality and found it fun to work with. Somewhere along the way, I ended up finding that he had my heart and then it was "Ohmygoshsqueeehe'scute!**glomp**" And (silent) fangirly squeals watching him in episodes. At the moment I'm in one of my states of wanting to leap over the moon because I'm so thrilled with him. LOL. (And maybe also because I was looking at somebody's YGO Tumblr who sounds like she's open for possible RPing and I'm excited at the thought of maybe asking her if she would RP with me. I only have one RP going in my life right now, but I used to have as many as half a dozen at once! I would love to get another one going.)

I have to admit, when I wrote the ficlet of Lector being bothered by Vivian, it opens with her just being fangirly and I was channeling my feelings for Lector into that scene. LOL. (I would love to stroke his hair and beard!) Of course later, when Vivian got gross and wanted Lector as a love slave and hurt Gansley to try to force Lector's hand, that was all her and not me.

I also scraped together some more money because I just had to get another picture from ElfBean right away. I am eagerly awaiting the results.

... And in one of my silly explorations of random stuff, I looked up an episode guide for OK K.O. (which I have never seen beyond a clip from the Sonic episode) and completely snarked at one called Let's Not Be Skeletons. The title is hilarious, and the plot is, some new device people are excited about starts turning them into skeletons and the main character has to let everyone know it's a dangerous device. Gee, you think?! **snarks.** ROTFLOL WTH.
insaneladybug: (lector)
So I heard about the latest goings-on in the IDW Sonic comics and I got mad. Didn't like what was happening with Shadow and I also didn't like that the comics were getting so dark in general. I was so excited when I heard about the Archie comic stopping and Sega wanting something closer to the games, because I thought that meant we'd be getting something more light and fun instead of so dark with such a complicated plot and so many characters to keep track of. But the IDW comic is just going really dark too, and out of utter frustration I decided to do the unthinkable: try Boom.

I looked up an episode guide and found an episode that sounded hilarious, where Eggman wants Sonic to Friend him online. ROTFLOL. I watched that and really was amused for the most part, although I thought the "humor" with that old monkey character getting hit by the car was in horrible taste and not funny at all. And of course, I didn't feel characters were exactly IC. But I can't deny the basic plot was funny, especially when Eggman kept sending Sonic stuff every two seconds. I can relate.

Then I saw a clip from one of the Shadow episodes and decided to look at it, since I'd read about them worrying about writing for Shadow in a way that wouldn't make him look silly or goofy. Well, there are other ways to be OOC. Shadow came across more like Bass, concerned about his pride above all else, and when he accidentally demolished something Sonic and company had been working on, he said their shoddy craftsmanship was a blight on all hedgehogs everywhere, or something equally preposterous and insulting. I also looked up more detailed information on his Boom incarnation and in his other appearance, he gets so upset at indignities happening to him that he decides to blow up the world. **repeated headdesk.** Really? This isn't Shadow at all. And while I can appreciate the writers were trying, I feel like they were just as insulting and unfair to Shadow as if they had written him goofy. Really think about Sonic Adventure 2's climax for a minute, not to mention Shadow's choice to still be a hero and save the world from the Black Arms in the climax of his self-titled game, and tell me they didn't absolutely demolish Shadow's character.

Shadow in the Boom games isn't quite so horrible, but his continually trashing friendship seems really shallow and lame, especially given his backstory with Maria. Of course, Boom Shadow has no known backstory yet, but knowing of the backstory from every other Sonic verse, oh gosh, this is such a trainwreck.

I probably will look around and see if there are other Boom episodes I might find enjoyable, but the Shadow episodes certainly aren't among those, and I highly doubt Boom would ever be satisfactory for me as another verse I could fully immerse myself in. I guess for me, the games and Sonic X are still the only verses I love enough to really consider canon.

Seriously?

May. 12th, 2019 03:14 am
insaneladybug: (lector)
I have enough gift card money now to get one of those YGO figures, only I wisely decided to watch the YouTube reviews in more depth prior to deciding which to get. And the end result is ... I'm not sure I want either one of them. Most of the reviews seemed to be fairly glowing, but they also discovered that the figures can come apart. One person got Yugi's arm off completely by accident, and a Yami Yugi figure broke apart in half. .__. Part of me wants to say that the reviewers were just playing too rough in trying to see all the movement points, but I'm still disturbed that such things happened. They should be sturdier than that and not fall apart just because someone is trying to see how well they can move! Also, they're smaller than I thought they were, only around 6 inches, and for me that makes them too much for the price. I still don't have Sailor Pluto because her price doesn't drop (and I haven't been able to snag her on Clearance; ugh, I wish so much I'd gotten her along with Tuxedo Mask and Chibiusa, even though I didn't think I could afford three at once, even on Clearance).

Also, one thing I am highly amused by is that Mattel figured out how to make a Duel Disk that detaches from the arm without taking part of the arm with it and it folds up and snaps together just like the real thing, but these fancy Japanese figures don't have Duel Disks that can do that! I feel like making a video where I review all three Marik figures I have so that I can point that out about the six inch Mattel Marik. I doubt anyone would care, but it just seems like a fun thing to do.

Amazon is finally going to have a Nintendo 2DS for slightly cheaper than Walmart, but it's not in stock yet. I still want to play Nightmare Troubadour and the emulator versions just aren't working, so I've wanted to get the 2DS and find the game and play it that way. But Amazon is notorious for not getting things in stock when they say they will and GameStop is saying the local stores don't have the game. I wanted to buy from them since they make sure to test all the games first. But I don't want to buy on the website and have to pay for shipping, and I'm not even in a position to do that right now (although I might be by the time the thing's in stock). Still, I can't decide whether I really want to drop all my gift cards on the 2DS or have a shopping spree and get several fun things. The 2DS is the one that comes with a Mario game, so I'd have a lot of fun with that, and then I want that YGO game, but I'm already actively playing two mobile games and I don't know that I should add two more. (Plus, I kind of wonder if the screens would be too small for me and I'd get eyestrain. I can't do much on my Smartphone because it's often too small of text. I prefer tablets.)

I did finally get another My Little Pony. I badly wanted Bow Tie because she's such a gorgeous shade of blue, and I found her! Squeee. I really wanted to get at least two Ponies, but I couldn't spare more than the money for one. But that's alright. I can hopefully get another one or two soon. LOL, there are Ponies everywhere in the room. I love it.

I have the second New Orleans fic done in first draft form. I changed the location of the climax to the cemetery from the third floor of the house. I'm amused that most of the story takes place in one location. Sometimes I can't write fics very well that have one major locale, but this one has flowed, possibly because I've drawn heavily from my haunted house dreams to put the house together. I have certainly rebelled against that Nancy Drew parody book that promised "a ghost in the plantation" and then barely spent any time at the plantation.

Evangeline certainly became an important character in the fic, which I hadn't intended on but I suppose it's not a surprise since she's Lector's younger sister and they're staying at her house. She's going through quite an arc of her own, growing more and more embittered at most of the family while Lector just grows more and more sad and weary. I don't think Evangeline's bitterness will resolve for a while, and it may continue for many years, honestly. It's hard to blame her for her anger, considering the father deliberately set Lector up as a target to be potentially killed to turn Dr. Raven's attention away from the rest of the family, and the rest of the family doesn't treat Lector very nice either, despite not liking what the father did. Evangeline started as just a cute, perky character who still idolized their father, and has changed quite a bit.

The next fic I'm planning will probably have some of Gansley's family showing up wanting to reconcile. It may also include problems from Bandit Keith's Rare Hunters and Duel Monsters spilling into the real world again, because I got plunnied for some scenes with Kuriboh mad at Gansley and later feeling sad after Gansley is badly hurt trying to protect Atem. I don't really want to wait on either idea, so they may combine. Also, Lumis and Umbra will duel Lector and Nesbitt and think they have it made when Lector and Nesbitt start arguing about strategy, LOL. Of course, Lector and Nesbitt show that they can pull through and their friendship triumphs over their arguments.

I have Lumis and Umbra in Duel Links now. I'm happy for any new characters in the classic YGO world, but I can't help wondering ... why are we getting such minor characters when so many major ones still aren't here?! Although between Lumis and Umbra becoming unlockable and Rishid having an event right now too (training to get stronger to save Marik), I wonder if there's any chance we'll finally get to have Marik soon. I really hope the game won't pull some dumb thing and say we can't have Marik because then Yami Marik can't be around. Yami Yugi and Yugi are both there, in separate bodies! We can certainly have both Marik and Yami Marik!

Lumis and Umbra are unlockable as part of a new tag team event. I wasn't too impressed with the last tag team event, as it was basically the same as the first one, but this one is really fun again. I am so amused at some of the team-ups, especially Yami Bakura and Bonz! One thing that surprises me, though, is that the classic YGO tournament is the second one instead of the third one. I would think that they'd make players wait until the last tournament to get new characters unlocked. The GX tournament is the last one instead. Its prizes are some new GX cards or something. I haven't even played the GX cup. Since it comes after the classic YGO one, I saw no need to bother since I don't care about GX. Heh. Instead, I've played the classic YGO cup three times. And I read you're allowed to play the cups more than three times, so I might do it again before the events ends.

Oh, and it looks like I never got around to recording that I did get Darkwing unlocked in the Disney Heroes game. Squeee. After I leveled up high enough to unlock a place called the Coliseum, I was able to earn chips to make headway towards unlocking him, and when I got Guild Wars unlocked and won a Guild War, they offered me Darkwing chips as a reward and then I had enough to get him! So awesomely satisfying. I focus most of my attention on leveling him up and he's my strongest character now. Next most important are the Wreck-It Ralph characters. I finally unlocked Calhoun the other day and now I need to get Buzz from Toy Story. He's very hard to get; Darkwing was 30 chips and Buzz is 80, and I only have two. Or there's always the chance I may unlock him by opening a Diamond Crate with him in it. We'll see. I have Woody, who I was totally chuffed to get. I also have Rex. I need Buzz too! And Jessie.

... WTH.

Oct. 7th, 2018 09:01 pm
insaneladybug: (duke)
So for months I've seen those weird Bendy and the Ink Machine toys in Wal-Mart and I've wondered what the heck that's about. Yesterday I finally remembered to try looking it up after seeing them advertised in an FYE email. I thought it was some cartoon paying homage to the 1920s cartoons or something. Instead I find out it's a horror survival game with this former animator coming back to his old studio after his friend sends him a message. He finds an ink machine gone haywire and turning everybody at the animation studio into cartoon monsters that he has to fight. And the creepy Bendy character, who is apparently the studio's mascot, is a cartoon devil/demon. Wow. Yeah, I doubt that would have flown in the real 1920s.

Well, at least their wolf character is generally a good guy? He looks like a Goofy knock-off, though, which is kind of eerie. Bendy looks like a cross between Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.

Honestly, I was never crazy about 1920s cartoon character designs, and this isn't helping. I thought Five Nights at Freddy's was disturbing, but what I've learned about the plot of this thing's chapters disturbs me way more. People being turned into dark versions of the cartoon characters they drew? Eeek! That makes me picture 1920s cartoon characters in the real world coming to life and coming after people. In the game, there's another character who absorbs the cartoon characters' powers and kills them to try to become a stronger version of herself. Disturbing as it is, and worse if she was a real person corrupted by the ink machine.

I guess the game does its job of creeping people out. It sure is me. Although I can't deny that I ponder on the idea of a YGO fic with a similar premise, maybe Yami Marik deciding to send everyone into a life-size version of the game (or a game similar, but clearly based on it, like I did with my send-up of Five Nights at Freddy's called Five Hours at Frankie's). I used to write some horror fics, and I'm trying again now with my Bad End Night-inspired one. I'll have to think about this. It seems like a lot of my YGO fics involve someone sending the crew into life-size games of different kinds, though. Maybe people are getting tired of it. I like it, though, and those are the kinds of plots I'm getting ideas for. Seems like each game is pretty different, at least.

Another idea would be doing the Bendy send-up with Ginger and Lou. It's always fun to visit them, and that's just the kind of problem they might run into in my verse.

Yay!

Nov. 21st, 2017 04:09 am
insaneladybug: (Default)
Happy Birthday to the awesome Joseph Campanella, who is turning 93! I'm celebrating (so far) by continuing to post the Pokemon story that features his Invaders character guest-starring. It would be nice if later I could watch something with him. (I did re-watch the Invaders episode before I started posting the fic, by the way. I adjusted a few things after doing so, but basically I had him right.)

And seriously? As if we needed something else to go wrong. Now our current car is having the traditional holiday flip-out. Why is it we can rarely get through the holiday season without that happening? And why does it have to be right now, when Dad was actually willing to take me to use the birthday coupon and this is the last day? All hope isn't lost yet, but it's really not looking very promising. Ugh.

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