name: loren leah
age: 16
bday: may 15th
sun sign: taurus
bloodtype: o+
page:
the janus zeal network
email:
spoony@icybrian.com
aim:
LadyMarrah
member:
winged haven bbs
legion of fantasy
current faves
band: our lady peace
anime: mobile suit gundam
food: ice cream
tv: none
book: none
movie: austin powers 2
game: none
chara
rockman: forte, blues
msgundam: kai, garma, haro
gwing: wufei, trowa
bof3: rei, teepo, ryu
ff9: zidane
ff8: seifer, squall
chrono: magus, crono, mystic trio
hp: draco, percy, snape
painter: rosarion, leary, ellisander
du freak: crepsley, steve
smoon: uranus, (e)endymion
slayers: zelgadis, gourry
buffy: spike, wesley
mtt: takeo, ayanojou
lunar: ghaleon, nash, nall(l2)
harry
house: slytherin
year: 6
pet: owl
wand: rowan/dragon heartstring
suck up to: snape
avoid: moody
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There are a lot of Mega Man sprite comics out there. o_O
Bob and George- This is, by my understanding, the original...
Life of Wily- Seems cute enough. I like the side story Adventure Season because it stars my fave characters, Bass and Protoman... ^^
IRONBUSTER- Wow, much longer strips than the other two.
There was also an X-based comic that I found a long time ago, but I don't have the URL for that... anyway, it's kind of bizarre. I wonder why people don't do sprite comics for any other series?
~loren leah glomped kai @ 9:37 p.m., Monday, September 3, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"That will be quite enough, Mr. Malfoy."
Draco looked up with a start upon hearing the quiet voice that filtered across the room. The rest of the students in the classroom turned slowly, staring at the figure who had just entered.
He was tall; looking at him, Harry suspected that this man might actually reach all the way to Hagrid's chin. This combined with his exceedingly slender frame made him look vaguely skeletal. His high cheekbones and long nose were reminiscent of ancient nobility; skin so pale it could almost be called white framed dark eyes like the sockets of a skull. His short-cropped hair looked black, but shone purple-brown where the light touched it.
His ears were pointed.
The class watched in complete silence as the man turned and walked toward the front of the room, setting down his bag on top of the desk. Standing behind it, he opened and briefly inspected a few of the drawers before straightening up and turning back toward the assembled students. He regarded Draco with a cool gaze.
"You and your friends have a class to be getting to, don't you, Mr. Malfoy? I suggest you remove yourself before I am forced to take disciplinary action."
Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle just stared at the man, eyes glazed over as if in a trance.
"Go."
Without a word, the three turned and quickly exited. The rest of the class looked uneasily back and forth between the door and the newcomer.
The man sighed. "Now then," he murmured, looking around the room, "with that over, please take your seats. I will call roll as soon as I find my class roster." Sitting down in his chair, the presumed teacher dragged his bag a little closer on the table and began to rummage through its contents. The class seated itself, and after a short while, chatter of a semi-normal volume began to resume itself. Harry, Ron, and Hermione took seats near the back of the room.
"That guy... he's creepy," Ron whispered.
"You can say that again." Harry shuddered.
Hermione laid her chin on one hand, expression thoughtful. "Hm. Well, it could be that he's just very good at commanding people, and that he accidentally transfigured his ears, but somehow I doubt it... He's probably not human, Ron."
"Yeah, I figured that, but..." Ron frowned. "But then what is he?"
Hermione smiled.
"Well, from what we know right now... I've got a couple ideas."
**
Normally I don't use my blog for writing projects, but I wanted to start out with this little Harry Potter plot-inkling and see what I could come up with. It's turned out quite well... I've been able to extrapolate better through writing than I did through thinking. I think I'll go further with this.
~loren leah glomped kai @ 9:31 p.m., Saturday, September 1, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"I seem to recall I have a bit of unfinished business with you."
Hehehehe... that's from Mega Man: The Series, Book 18. Finally, a Mandi fic with Forte in a decent role! I love the scene where (spoiler) he shows up the second time through Wily's fortress... *snerk* It's so fun to see Blues and Forte interacting. Mandi plays them as almost-friends. Nyaaaaa. XD XD
~loren leah glomped kai @ 12:09 p.m., Sunday, August 26, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Not everything in this magical world is what it seems..."
I have that Nelly Furtado song stuck in my head. What's worse is that I don't even like the song. -.-;
Well, not much to say... (or rather, I just don't feel like typing...) I just wanted to check in and let everybody know I'm alive. The first couple days of school weren't too bad, but things are looking to get pretty hectic pretty fast.
~loren leah glomped kai @ 10:09 p.m., Saturday, August 25, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Electrical communication/Tearing through imagination/Break free from the circuits binding the future..."
Well, today has been my last day of freedom, seeing how school starts tomorrow. *long sigh* I'll try not to forget to keep writing in this thing...not like anybody cares, but oh well.
Whee...I've been on a Rockman kick as of late. (I live in America, but I happen to like the Japanese names much better. If this offends you, please get over it.) Of course, what's really funny about my love for the Rockman games is that I don't play them. ^_^; Well, aside from renting 7 and X/X5 once or twice, that is. I just like the characters and the story. I'm a lot more fond of the original timeline than I am of X, though... *glomps Forte* XD XD Forte and Blues rule! ^^ I even wrote a fic about Forte... go me. (I've been trying to write a fic about Blues forever.) I wish there were more MM-series fics. It seems like most people only write about the X games. -.- X is an okay series, I guess, but it doesn't have as many cool characters... like any good little fangirl I'm fond of Zero, but the only really interesting thing about him in my mind is his relation to Wily (and by extension, Forte).
~loren leah glomped kai @ 4:36 p.m., Wednesday, August 22, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Chris Jones, wants to bear Yoko Shimomura's love child... or vice versa."
I'll miss you, Chris. I've been visiting the GIA since before the site's official launch (I still remember my acute surprise when I got an email from Brian Glick, fellow Cosmo Canyon fan, asking me to check out the site... ^_^); out of all the letters columnists, you've easily been my favorite. And you have good taste in game composers. *worships Shimomura* XD I hope the next Double Agent does as good a job as you have.
Well, not a lot going on right now. The first day of school is slowly, inorexably creeping closer, and I haven't beaten a single video game this summer. Or done anything else that would feel like an accomplishment, really. *sigh* I know every other student in the world is thinking something along these lines right about now, but I don't want to go back to school... I'd rather spend another three months alone in the house with just my sister to talk to instead of having to go back there and face people. Well, not people in general, just all the other students. I have nothing in common with anyone at school (at least anyone I'm acquainted with--and I live in a very small town, so I know most of the other students). The closest thing I have to friends are people I sit with at lunch and talk to about classes and things; I never see them outside of school...and even if they did invite me to come over or something, what would we do? What would we talk about? We don't share any interests. I like reading, video games, anime, and interesting philosophical discussions. People around here like sports and the wanton, needless murder of innocent animals (also known as fishing and hunting). Well, those are just the boys, really--the girls don't seem to have any particular interests at all besides talking, boys, and makeup/clothes, if those can be called hobbies.
I hate my life. I'm all by myself in this damn little town with no one to talk to. I don't necessarily have to have someone who feels the same way I do, just someone who'll listen nonjudgementally. There's no such person around here. If I didn't have the internet, I don't know what I'd do.
~loren leah glomped kai @ 10:53 a.m., Friday, August 17, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Life is waiting for you/It's all messed up but we'll survive..."
Well, since it's technically Thursday now, I don't feel so bad about writing more than one entry in a day. ^_^;; I usually don't get to stay up this late, but my aforementioned cousin from Las Vegas has me and my sister staying over at our grandma's house...we've got a sleepoverish thing going on. We had to call her boyfriend back in Vegas. *cue eye roll here* He seems nice, but we got to talking video games, and he swears Legend of Dragoon is the best RPG ever made. o.O;; To each their own, I suppose... I've never played it personally, but I've also never met anyone who liked it until now. (He also hates FFVIII, but sadly, that seems to be a pretty widespread opinion. Sigh.)
Well, surprisingly, registration turned out great. I didn't have to make a single change in my class roster--everything was stuff I've been really wanting to take (except no World Religion, but maybe nobody's teaching that this year). I think whoever filled out my class form must be someone who knows me. ^^v
And in other news... my Gundam fic was going so great, but it's kind of fallen flat on its face--after I watched today's episode, I hardly had enough ideas for a single scene. I think my problem is I've been trying to stick with canon too much...but I can't really go for straight AU-type stuff because I don't know the original story to begin with yet. I'm really growing to like the vision of Amuro and Kai I've created, though. It's so fun to play with the poor boys. XD *hugs poor Kai...I love the guy so much I just wanna put him through hell. -_^*
~loren leah glomped kai @ 12:16 a.m., Thursday, August 16, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"I'm not quite sure, though...I mean, it was over a year ago."
Read this, then read the next chapter, and then you'll understand the title quote. It's a Lunar 1 fic called Magic's Heir... I don't know who the author for Chapter 2 is yet (because this is a Cold Fusion fic), but they need to learn more effective reading skills... In my chapter I established that it's been over a year since Ghaleon's death, and in their chapter they say it's been six months. -.-;
In IRL news, class registration is today for juniors. Ughh, school starts on the 23rd... it's several days earlier than we're used to, probably because we have air-conditioning now. I'm going to have a mess when I go to registration this afternoon; I never got around to filling out a class form last year... ^^;;
~loren leah glomped kai @ 11:41 a.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Y'know, Amuro, I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as Casual Fridays on White Base."
I'm so proud of myself. I wrote a Gundam fic. And it actually almost jives with canon. ^_^;v I'll write the second part after I see what happens to Amuro in today's episode...
...and on that note... Would anybody who happens to see this like to be a beta-reader? You'd have to have basic knowledge on several different fandoms, I'm afraid, since I tend to switch back and forth frequently with my fics... but if you're familiar with any fandom on my fic list, I'd be glad to have you. It'd be great if you have some writing knowledge as well, but that's not required--"lay reader" opinions are just as valuable as far as I'm concerned.
Well, IRL, my aunt and cousin came from Las Vegas to visit. I have a feeling it's going to be a long couple of weeks... they're awesome people and I love 'em both, but we have nothing in common. If my cousin went to my school, she's one of those people we'd call "preps"--she gets along with my little sister a lot more than she does me. (Sis likes "normal" things such as makeup and the Backstreet Boys, whereas I'm an otaku, gamer, and Our Lady Peace-loving rebel. ;p)
~loren leah glomped kai @ 10:34 a.m., Tuesday, August 14, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Ranma no baka!"
I love being wrong sometimes. XD Not too long after yesterday's entry, I got into an RP with a couple of Ranma cast members... Akane and...Happosai, of all people. XD XD You can probably guess what went on once Happy noticed the very feminine Ayanojou hangin' around... ^_^; Fortunately, he realized his mistake pretty quickly with some, uh, help from Akane. ;p Afterwards she and Ayanojou introduced themselves and spent the afternoon in the library together... It was a pretty satisfying RP, although I don't think I held up my end very well (Ayanojou's a bit hard to play... it's tough doing somebody so restrained and yet still being able to portray those little slivers of emotion like he shows in the anime o.O;)... I'll put up the log somewhere eventually.
Well, I got a call from the music director at my church, and I explained to him about my nasty cold sore... so I guess I'm not singing in the service this Sunday. Actually, that works out great, because now I can really enjoy my shopping weekend. ^_^;v The singing date has been postponed 'til next Sunday, the 19th.
I can't wait to go shopping. I had a really bad night last night... I got yelled at by both mom and dad, and reasons aside (not that my dad had any valid ones) I ended up crying basically all night, and I still feel rather down in the dumps...doing laundry all day sort of reminded me of the argument(s). ...Anyway, shopping always makes me feel better. XD XD
My mom accidentally got some cleaning stuff in her eye when she was cleaning the bathroom ceiling. She says it'll be all right... (she's a nurse, so I guess she knows)... I really hope she doesn't decide she needs to go to the emergency room or something. I couldn't think of anything to say to her, and "I'm sorry" would've sounded pretty stupid/mean when she came rushing out of the bathroom angry and asking for some saline drops (and my sister gave her NOSE drops by mistake o_o;), so I didn't really do anything for her either, and that makes me feel bad. I hope she'll be okay.
~loren leah glomped kai @ 8:18 p.m., Thursday, August 9, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Takeo, I can feel your heart beating against me."
RP on Hometown Legends has been nonexistent so far. Of course, part of my problem might be that I'm the only Mahou Tsukai Tai cast member there (^_^;) but still... I've been on in the evenings lately, and seen little to nothing going on... I hadn't even spoken with another member until yesterday. I wonder if Tendou Akane would consider moonlighting as Aikawa Akane? -_^
Hurrah! We're going to the mall this Saturday! Mom let me pick the destination for back-to-school shopping... XD I don't have a lot of money, but there'll be enough for an anime tape, maybe two. I wanna get the next Mahou Tsukai Tai volume on DVD... and maybe some Rurouni Kenshin...
~loren leah glomped kai @ 1:05 p.m., Wednesday, August 8, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Back into the coffin."
The above is from the Mobile Suit Gundam dub currently playing on Cartoon Network, said by Kai as he's heading back into Guncannon. I like Kai, even if he is a big jerk. XD *hugs Kai* I meant to talk about Gundam yesterday, but it slipped my mind... go figure.
Yesterday's episode was so sad ;_; (Warning, spoilers ahead) Gaaaaaaaaaarma ;_; Poor Garma, I can't believe what happened to him. I didn't like Char much in the first place, and I really hate him now. "Yeah, Garma, thanks for being my friend, but I'm sending you to your death now, hahahaha..." Can you believe that!? O_O It's horrible!! Revenge or not, I don't care, I can't believe he did that...and then LAUGHED about it!!
Ah well, at least I know MSG is a good series now, if it gets me emotional enough to be all mad at Char. ^_^;v I didn't realize Cartoon Network was also playing 08th MS Team... I'll have to start watching that as soon as I find out what time it comes on. Prob'ly real late or something, that'd be just typical :p
Hoo boy. Have I become a mecha fan? O.o;
~loren leah glomped kai @ 10:41 a.m., Saturday, August 4, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"I want to hold on tightly/To the wings of purity..."
Not much going on right now. My sister re-rented BoF3, and as I try again and again to kill that annoying Mikba I have found myself abandoning my love for Teepo and winding up with a new appreciation for Rei's character. There's more layers there at first glance than one would think... it's really rather tragic how he goes from the well-meaning teenager who isn't "into hurting people" to the bitter adult obsessed with gaining bloody revenge. Bitter? I can just see my nonexistent readers' eyebrows raising right now... yeah, I think he is pretty bitter (and somewhat jaded at that), sense of humor notwithstanding. The speech he makes to Mikba--"A game...that's what your guys called it when they came to kill us, they said the game had gone too far"--I can just picture the look on his face, the tone of his words... And then, of course, there's what he did to Syn City. The old Rei could never have done that. It's obvious he hasn't completely surrendered his humanity, but before he was reunited with Ryu I'd say he was definitely headed that way.
Reading over what I just wrote, I think my title quote (from BoF3's ending song, Pure Again) is a bit ironic. I didn't plan it that way, really. ^_^;
Lessee... in other news, I got accepted at Hometown Legends MUCK (I'm playing Aburatsubo! From Mahou Tsukai Tai!)... and I've been seeing more of Skye lately on his MUD. Yaay. :D
~loren leah glomped kai @ 5:32 p.m., Friday, August 3, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"With flaming truth set fire to the shadows of the world..."
The above lyrics are from Liberi Fatali (Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec), FFVIII, translated from the Latin. I love that song. *_*
Well, Skye and I have been trying to meet up on his MUD with little luck. We never seem to be able to catch each other online... of course, it didn't help that my computer was disconnected for most of the weekend. (We had to move the computer cart so we could paint the wall behind it. We spent all weekend painting. I HATE PAINTING. X_X;;)
The FFVIII blog isn't going too well... right now it's my fault, though; Dana-chan posted, but I don't know how to reply. I think maybe I should've just stuck with the personal thing I planned originally...I still have the Livejournal account so I may do that as a separate project.
I joined "Choco-Boko Booyaka" writers' guild today. It looks pretty interesting...on the downside, though, I had to join their mailing list before I could get into the BBS. I hate mailing lists. -.-;
Oh yeah, and I also rented BoF3 over the weekend (played it in between painting ;p)... whee. Still as good a game as the first time, I'll have to buy it someday... *glomps Teepo and Rei* I was a bit disappointed when I went looking for fansites, though. It seems Mieu's famous archive is still down, which practically leaves the series fandom-less. I guess I could read more of Reborn Again if I was really bored... :p
~loren leah glomped kai @ 12:38 p.m., Monday, July 30, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"And some days they won't tell you/When everything's the same..."
Ehh, not much going on right now. I've been very FF8-hyped for awhile now, and I'd say the Seifer obsession is becoming permanent. *grin* My roleplaying project hasn't been going too well so far, though... only three members (if you don't count Tomoyo, who has Fuujin "reserved" for later), and I'm basically the only one who posts. Oh well...it was originally going to be a solo project anyway.
Mom made me drive all the way to my grandma's house and back the other day. I was nervous. I didn't feel remotely ready to be on a stretch of highway. (I didn't know how to turn on the turn signal in my car until mom showed me before we drove out. Tell me I was ready after that. :p) But, since I'm here to type this, you can see I didn't get us into any hideous accidents or anything... but I don't understand how anyone could do anything remotely like that every day. Cars are evil. They should be outlawed or something. o_o;;
~loren leah glomped kai @ 6:17 p.m., Monday, July 23, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"I kind of liked it your way/How you shyly placed your eyes on me..."
The above is from Eyes On Me, the FF8 vocal song. It doesn't really have much to do with the rest of this entry. I'm just (still) on that FF8/Seifer kick. XD
Anyway, a big shout out to Rya-chan!! (Spaz-chan, hehe ^_^) I'm so glad you're okay and I hope you get to feeling your very hyper best soon...!! :) Hope I see you around more online, too. *high five*
Guess what happened to me today? I finally went and took the written test for my driver's permit. It took two tries (^_^;;) but I passed... *shows off her cool permit card* XD Really, it should only have taken one try, but whoever made up the first form test needs to be shot. It's not nice to test on things that aren't even in the stupid book. -.-;; Now it's just six months until I have something approximating a regular license...
Mmm, I need a Seifer fix. I better go find another fanfic. I wonder if Dana-chan finished hers yet...? *scurries away*
~loren leah glomped kai @ 11:23 a.m., Thursday, July 19, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"This is the scene where you swear your undying hatred for me!"
Haven't had much to write about lately, have I?
In any case, the above quote is from Final Fantasy VIII, spoken by--who else--Seifer Almasy. I'm on a major FFVIII kick. Scratch that, I'm on a major SEIFER kick. I've been considering building a page, since I can't find any that work. ;p
I did do some fanstuff, actually--a piece of fanart, and a fanfic of sorts--it's a novelization of the scene that the quote comes from.
...I'm stuck in FFVIII, though. I can't seem to beat the boss at the missile base. -_-;
~loren leah glomped kai @ 7:46 p.m., Monday, July 16, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Two 'impossibles' is still simply impossible, not twice as impossible."
Above quote is from one of Jerm's fabulous fanfics, said by Magus. I've been rereading lots of CT fanfics... I'm really bored x_@;;
Good news, though...the whole WH thing got worked out. Yay, everyone's friends with me again. Best of all, Iris isn't mad at me. *hugs Iris* And she has yet to bug me about laundry. I think we need a new injoke, anyway... ^_^;
And I'm stuck on FFIV. AGAIN. -_-;; This time it's at the Calbrina. I can *almost* beat the individual dolls... I'll have like one or two left, and then they metamorphose, and then I don't have a chance ><;;
Could y'all do me a favor? If you read my blog, would you let me know? I'd like to link your blog in return... I didn't realize how many people there were who read this thing...
~loren leah glomped kai @ 6:29 p.m., Tuesday, July 10, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"Just because you said it doesn't make it right."
*sigh* This reminds me of Ye Goode Olde Dayes when I'd write something in my blog, think no one had read it, and come up with a hysterical freaked-out email from Raven a day later.
I'm just issuing a public apology to Iris. I'm sorry about what I said, I had no right to say anything like that to you--I overreacted in the extreme. I hope you don't hate me too much.
~loren leah glomped kai @ 10:08 a.m., Monday, July 9, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?
"The prophet's aura is full of hatred and sorrow. He'll destroy himself, and those he loves."
That line from Chrono Trigger suddenly seems more significant for some reason. I was thinking about using it in my new layout for my Magus page. (Wow, could I actually be working on my Magus page? ;p The new layout is to celebrate FF Chronicles...)
Anyway, this entry is mostly being made to get all the old ones off the page... I finally made myself archive the stupid thang. I'm not sure I like where I placed the archive link, though... (oh well, it's not like anyone except me will go back and read my old posts anyway)... What do y'all think? (*probably talking to herself, LOL*) Sound off in the GB if you don't like the location, and I'll move it. ;p
Hm. Speaking of Magus, I think I'd better go finish that fanart...
~loren leah glomped kai @ 4:02 p.m., Friday, July 6, 2001
~~~yak at her about it?