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Spent the majority of the day cleaning the kitchen. Didn't finish cleaning but at least the countertops and floor are clean and lots of random spices & jars of what-the-hell-ever have been sorted and/or thrown out. Tomorrow's plan of attack: scrub the hell out of the refrigerator, sort the junk in the cupboards, and ideally get started on cleaning the dining room.

The area around the oven was the worst to deal with. My parents just kind of cook stuff without paying much attention to what they are doing or cleaning up after themselves so the walls and floors and, honestly, everything nearby was discolored by grease and smoke. Like, the walls went from dull yellow to white during the cleaning process and it was PRETTY GROSS. eeeeeerrrrrghhhhhhhh

On the plus side, the kitchen is by far the worst room so now that it's out of the way, the cleaning process should be less rigorous. And while everything smells like windex and febreeze right now, that's an improvement over old, burned grease and garlic.

Hopefully the whole house will be SHINY and CLEAN by this time next week. c:

I MISSED TWO DAYS IN A ROW

/o\

And I would like to say it was because I was super busy or sick or you know, something major and life-altering, but no. I was doing a lot of (forced) holiday shopping and cleaning and I was pretty tired in the evening, completely forgot about posting and fell asleep at 9pm instead.

As for Saturday night, I just lost track of time @_@

OH WELL.

Anyway, here is some more questionable Madoka Magica art. I'M PRETTY BAD WITH MARKERS AND PROPORTIONS just so you know ;o

( what is this i don't even )

I had a lot more colored pencil stuff I was thinking of scanning in, but looking at them now I am filled with self-loathing and see nothing but a pile of mistakes SO you spared...for today. When those feelings pass NO ONE SHALL BE SAFE FROM THE PICSPAM!

Title: First Fall
Original Fiction
Rating: G
Summary: Children, and a discovery.

( when the ground opened up )

Ugh. I have a headache from sitting in an auto garage for two hours and I started cooking my first meal of the day at 8:30pm.

:[

In not annoying whiny girl news, a friend pointed me in the direction of a writing program called Autocrit; it's essentially an automated beta reader. I've never made use of a beta before (too shy and paranoid, lol) so I was curious to see if this program would be of any use.

( And it turned out to be quite helpful )

I would suggest trying it just for fun/curiosity's sake. and if you try the full version tell me what it's like o3o

I spent all day looking for my writing notebook, without success. :c During the search I did find a couple of old filled notebooks and a sketchpad, though, and it was kind of interesting/mortifying to see some of that older stuff resurface.

anyway, continuing with the oft-abandoned daily meme...

6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

I'm...not sure? I first tackled this question by looking through my past stuff and counting how many fics/drabbles were written from a female character's point of view and, going by that measure, I write slightly more female characters than male. (I think, anyway. I didn't count everything... /o\ )

However, I'm not sure how fic where the POV is female but the actual focus is on a male character ought to be classified. I mean, I think just about everything I've written in Soulcalibur about Amy is /really/ about Raphael so...I don't know if that counts as writing about a male character or as a female character or, or WHATEVER.

As to what I prefer without looking at what I've actually produced...I still don't know. I generally write only write fic about my favorite characters, and I'm split pretty evenly between male and female characters on that front. So....I don't have a gender preference per se?

I do find that when writing about male characters I tend to write them at...a distance, usually using another character's perspective to explore the nature of the first. It's a bit of a voyeuristic approach, and I often worry that my creepy fangirl is a little TOO obvious, hah. (Particularly in what I've done for Soulcalibur, where I write a lot of Raphael while writing very little from his perspective.)

Uh also most of the stuff I haven't posted publicly online is slash which probably says something about my preferences. Like, I write a lot of porn that I don't finish/am too shy to post, maybe. :P

( the rest of the meme )

My brother has been playing Arkham City lately (which is AWESOME, btw) which has led to a number of exchanges like the following:

Brother: Jane, do you know what criminals are afraid of?

Me: What?

Brother: The night.

Me: Oh. Is it because criminals are...

Both: ...a superstitious and cowardly lot?

*high five*

Since finishing Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I've fallen completely in love with it.

Anyway, I'm starting this a bit late, so screw an introduction - here's a bunch of fanmade remixes of some of the fantastic music from the series. For those who haven't seen Madoka, the original version of each song is listed first...partially in the hopes that the awesomeness will entice you to watch the series. ;)

Be aware that you will probably be weeping buckets by the end! ;o;

Ending: Magia

( Remixes )

Opening: Connect

( Remixes )

Credens Justitiam (Mami Tomoe's Theme)

( Remixes )

I hope you enjoy.

And just because, here's a video that will only make sense if you've seen Madoka's last episode and a certain Japanese drink commercial.

The wedding (well, more like the wedding afterparty) kicked my ass last night. I spent most of today feeling like I would explode into a fountain of half-digested food and beer at the slightest provocation. I could only keep down water until about half an hour ago, when I upgraded to chicken soup.

I tried to go ahead with the Otomedius Excellent unboxing post, but SURPRISE SURPRISE those kinds of things take some time and preparation to make interesting. On the other hand, tomorrow's post is like half-finished already. Also: Otomedius Excellent has some hilariously perverted extras. It's not as...um...tasteless as the Record of Agarest War Limited Edition extras, but it does get close.

Just in case you were curious about weird special edition merchandise for niche game comparisons.

HEY GUYS! Do you know what was released today? If you guessed Skyrim, YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

BONUS QUESTION: Guess what I DIDN'T get today? ...that's right, it's Skyrim. I didn't preorder it and when I went to the local Gamestop they were all sold out of the 360 version. OH NOOOOO T_T

On the other hand, I wouldn't really have much time to play it tonight and tomorrow is the wedding so realistically if I had it, I wouldn't around to popping it in until Sunday night at least. Possibly longer. Besides, I also have this silly game to waste my time:

( Otomedius Excellent )

It's another shmup (japanese arcade shoot 'em up) based on the Gradius series. Only instead of ships, they're cyborg girls or something, because somewhere along the line shmups changed from being about sci-fi space war sagas into magical and/or cyborg girl stories. (Okay, Touhou probably had a big hand in that...)

Anyway, until I can devote my life time to Skyrim this is pleasant tide-me-over.

This also seems as good a time as any to link to the quite possibly faked, but still hilarious, account of a guy coming home drunk and destroying Cyrodil while not remembering a moment of it.

So, I've yet to compete a 30-day meme. I may never finish one, but they are handy to have around on days when you can't think of anything in particular to address...

First up, a few questions from this long-abandoned music meme...

( day 23: a song that you want to play at your wedding: The Days of Wine and Roses )

( day 24: a song that you want to play at your funeral: Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic )

( The rest of the meme )