Lost Fon Drive

It's... been a rough few months. But, I think things are finally looking up-ish. I hope.

I've kind of been on Tumblr a lot recently; I actually made my account there initially because I was writing a fic for two Vocaloid askblogs and I was like, "You know, the smart thing to do would be to post it on the same site, yeah?" And then things snowballed from there. And I swear I'm adopting all of my followers as younger siblings.

There was also some hilarious light RPing the other night after I changed my url to senpai-has-never (and later to senpai-saw-you-and); I don't know how, really, but everyone started changing theirs when they saw mine. I guess because I pointed out that I was doing it for RP lulz and they wanted in, too?

And then I started an RP blog for one of Kagamine Len's Project Diva modules... which has actually been really fun so far.

But I digress.

The point of this post isn't any of that. The point of this post is that my iTunes is a bag of dicks. Let me explain.

So the other night, I decided to select a random playlist and just push play, yeah? And since it's on shuffle, it randomly selects one of the songs on the list. My random selection ended up being the Tales of the Abyss soundtrack; shuffle's random selection ended up with "Belief," and suddenly I'm just this mess of feelings because I'm just - I'm remembering the escape from Baticul and the people explaining why they're willing to lay down their lives for Natalia even though she's not the princess by birth, and it's like... Natalia. Natalia. You are the epitome of a royal who actually does something. You are so kind and compassionate toward your people. And why can't real-world leaders be like you?

And I'm kind of like, "Man, I want to start my 80th playthrough now..."

But I hold off, yeah?

Then I'm listening to the TotA soundtrack again tonight.

And it plays "mirrors."

And I'm like D:

And as soon as that finishes, it plays "promise."

My iTunes is conspiring against me. What are these feelings?!

Finished putting together Tomorrow's Dream. I have to take screencaps before I put the code up on bodhum, though, and the posted version will use orange accents. I just decided to customize it to red for my own journal because I'm really big on red right now. The changes I made from how this layout was previously make it a lot more flexible, though, and that's one of the biggest things for me right now. Well, that and easy color customization.

So anyway, yeah. Hopefully I'll be getting that all posted up in a little while. And the rest of the day will be spent with the Rangers game and possibly writing.

Anyone else trying out the beta features? I'm kind of liking the JS changes so far - things seem to render a little faster on my end and the icon browser actually works on my iPad (and I can only assume on my iPhone as well, but I have that charging right now and don't want to go grab it, but since they run on the same OS and have the same browser, it seems a safe bet) instead of stalling up and lagging to hell and back. I do get the complaints about it, though, especially in the loss of size options, but since the DW team already said they're going to look into that side of the accessibility issue now that they know about it, I kind of trust that it'll be dealt with.

But the update page. Oh damn but I like it. The tag browsing is glorious since I have my ridiculously organized tagging system. I'm really liking the changes to the update page overall. It's nice. :3

/random dorkish heartfarting, don't mind me

Back to idea organization and attempting to write...

Hee. Got my case for my iPad today; it's red (so it's automatically hot) and really slim, which were pretty much my two main reasons for picking this one. Oh, but I adore having typing position now rather than having to prop the iPad up with books and the like. This, of course, means writing on here is about to become a whole lot easier.

Now if I could just get into characters' heads, it'd go way better.

Also, still can't get terrible ideas to start an RP out of my head; I hate myself right now. orz

Started streamlining the CSS for my Junk Dealer layout... I decided to move all color definitions down to their own section at the bottom so that I only ever have to change one value per color when I want to switch colors around. I also have to go back and finish defining the bits and pieces I haven't done for it yet - the list and cloud displays for tags, for example, and the custom comment pages. It's not really worth sharing the code without finishing at least those parts, anyway.

I kind of want to make adjustments to Tomorrow's Dream, too... not sure where I'll go with that, though.

I'm a complete dork, but I'm happiest about the fact that the Junk Dealer layout displays perfectly on my iPhone.

For now, though? For now, I'm going to try to get in some writing before I have to begin tackling my part of the team final project for this class. Which, I mean, my part shouldn't be so bad - I picked the sections I'm most interested in and I only have to write 600 words as well as create one slide per section - but I'm so frustrated that looking at the guidelines is making me want to punch kittens.

Also, hee, one more day. Just one more day and I'll have my iPad! And believe you me, this is going to do nothing to stop those thoughts of, "Maybe I should get back into fandom RP..."

I could have my freaking endgame party from Final Fantasy XIII and Jihl Nabaat might still kick my ass. (This is saying something since endgame parties in XIII are way stronger than endgame parties in XIII-2.) Holy crap, man. Holy crap.

Ruthless doesn't even begin to explain. And that Sadistic Surge of hers? It's killing my sentinel. In Tortoise.

I can't figure out a paradigm deck to go with for this... the worst part is, I almost had her down. And then her damn behemoths tossed everyone into the air, her stagger expired (fucking 500% to stagger her, by the way), and she decided to consume all of her summons to heal up. She proceeded to do this until she was at max HP again. So not fair.

But damn if I'm not giddy that they made her a fucking worthwhile opponent after the shit they did to her in XIII.

...

ETA I just realized I'm going to have to fight her multiple times if I intend to tame her. Fuck.

It really kind of sucks being the odd one out at family functions, since it means I'm tossed at whatever table, off on my own with no one to really talk to.

Maybe I'll spend the time putting together background info for an RP profile for Maqui.

I really don't want to think about just when I started the whole set of these, but I've finally finished up my 200 Maqui icons. I figure I'll post them to finalfantasy in a little while, too, just to share them. I kind of doubt too many people would be interested, but you never know, I guess.

In other news, I bought something for myself last night. Or, rather, I spent the money I was given on Christmas on, well, exactly what my mother intended for me to spend it on - an iPad. I waited until now, obviously, so I could get the new version. So it should get to me next Friday or sometime thereafter; I decided to get it engraved with my name and Hope's "We'll make our own destiny" line, since they have this whole free-engraving-when-ordering-online thing. I didn't get a case for it yet, though. I'll pick one up once I get the actual product since I don't really like those smart covers they've got (they only cover the screen and they stick to the side - most product reviews say the magnetism for that isn't so good).

My main reason for buying this is I wanted one that it actually comes in handy for writing on the go and all of that. It'll also be nice for doing classwork without having to stay pretty much tied down at the desktop. It also might be useful for something else I'm... considering delving back into a little more fully.

Go ahead. Ask me about the really bad idea I've got running around in my head. I dare you. Tags may or may not give you a hint.

So...

I failed spectacularly at convincing myself not to get that rename.

Yeah.

Goodbye, artes; 'sup, maqui. Yes, this post is really just so you're not like, "Wait, who the fuck is this asshole on my reading page?"