Currents of Time

Aniko has improved a lot in her Silent Hill-ing since changing her strategy to RUN AWAY UNSUCCESSFULLY (usually including doing things like running into the monsters and running into walls and running past the target door and usually ending in death) to RAAARGH KILL IT. We've been through the hospital, and I've taken to entertaining myself by, you know, being annoying (BUSINESS AS USUAL).

Also, I renamed the Air Screamers as "shenanigans birds" after running away from a flock of them and hollering that I didn't have time for them and, I don't know, it made sense at the time.

ANYWAY, my new hobby is queuing up inappropriate music while Aniko is running around. Last time we played, I kept playing "Rufus' Welcoming Ceremony" and then pausing it and restarting it randomly. Then I stuck to just playing it when she had the map open, and playing the victory theme whenever she found an item... and the YOU LOSE! death music every time she died (which was probably a bit mean, but also hilarious). I also had a track for whenever I messed up and gave her the wrong instructions. Once or twice I played the fight music when she was swarmed by monsters. I had a whole selection. It was pretty fun and also kept making us (or at least mostly me) giggle.

...Actually, it is still in Winamp. My list of songs included: from FFVII, Continue, Rufus' Welcoming Ceremony, Fighting, Still More Fighting, Fanfare, Trail of Blood, Chasing the Black-Caped Man, Crazy Motorcycle, and J-E-N-O-V-A. From FFVIII we have, A Sacrifice, The Loser, The Winner, The Man with the Machine Gun, SeeD, Waltz for the Moon, Find Your Way (she asked if I had a track for wandering hopelessly and I said, "actually..."), Junction (that was the save music), Shuffle or Boogie, Slide Show Part 2, and Silence and Motion. From FFIX, not too many because I was getting sick of pulling up files, Slew of Love Letters and Black Mage Village, and from FFX (same story), Prelude, Mi'ihen Highroad (Harry does not bounce in time with it, thank goodness), and Bevelle's Secrets (though technically that's from FFX-2).

If I do it again, I'll undoubtedly add more.

If I destroy our router, I'll have no more excuses and will have to buy a new one that hopefully hates me less and works properly. I swear, this is getting ridiculous.

Also, I keep losing the midnight hour. I honestly have no idea what I did during it. This happened last night, too. I know I must've done something. Aniko got a phone call and left with some friends, before that she was playing a game... and I look at my playlist and I remember all these songs played, but what was I doing? Must not've been very exciting, I guess.


Anyway, Aniko and I watched the director's cut of Watchmen this evening ... and might've mocked it kind of a lot (including making inappropriate comments about owl suits, and giving Dr. Manhattan an ear fetish for some reason, I don't even remember how that came around. It amuses me a bit how much I make fun of things I actually like when I can't be bothered for most things I don't), and then we had a short video game discussion (because she's playing Saint's Row 2 but there is still a long list of games that she needs to play or at least watch me play. Silent Hill, we decided, is still at the top of that list and yes that fact is relevant), and then while I was washing my hair, my brain tossed this thought out:

If Rorschach walked into Silent Hill, working off the assumption that he survived it, who would walk back out? Rorschach, Walter, or something else entirely (possibly a mix of the two)? Aniko and I discussed it briefly (and came to the same conclusion), and now I kind of want to see it written so that I could read it. But it'd probably be near impossible to do properly. Oh, well.



...It always surprises me when something I'd been a fan of or known about for a long time doesn't have a tag. The movie came out when? I read the graphic novel how many years ago? This actually happens a lot.

I don't (well, didn't) have a tag for not having a tag, either, it turns out.

So, Aniko and I beat Silent Hill 2 a bit earlier this evening...

I just went looking for the Chibi Silent Hill comic to show it to her, and... and it appears to be gone. The artist has left DeviantART (or, wait, was banned? SOMETHING. NOT THERE, ANYWAY).

My Google-Fu is weak. Does anyone know if it's up anywhere, or must I be content with only my icon as a reminder? (The solo LJ entry DA points you to gives nothing.)



In utterly unrelated news, I found this amusing. Aniko's been browsing around for Jak fanfic (having ignored my warning that the fandom is largely full of unreadable self-inserts and/or stories featuring dragons for whatever reason), and she said she had one she had to show me. Meanwhile, I was looking up Save Point: Hell Is Repetition to throw it at her, since we'd just completed the labyrinth. Ficlink swap?

Bizarrely, the one she wanted to throw at me had a fairly similar premise. Also it was preceded by, "Have you heard of Riona?"

SO I DUNNO WHAT THAT SAYS, rionaleonhart, but three and a half years later, people are still finding and reading your stuff on the apparently mostly dead jak_fanfics...




... PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE TIME STAMP OF COURSE I'M NOT UP AT 4 AM DON'T BE RIDICULOUS


(PS GUESS WHO HAS A LEVEL 60 THIEF IN FULL AF NOW)

Reason I have the best microcomputer applications class in the history of ever: in this week's class, we elected Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as president and vice. (The professor was showing us one of the problems with computer-based voting! We had two elections - each "ballot" was the same, but in the results for the second tally, he wrote a program to miscount votes.)

Awesome award. ...Boom.

(Why does "awesome" prompt a boom? Very simple reason, actually. Michael Bay is an explosions lunatic. That article is hilarious.)


ANYWAY. Over at the anonymous meme, someone (I do not know who! Because it is anonymous!) commented that sie wished we had more in common! And I thought about that a bit and it occurred to me, I am not really sure I actually have that much in common with anyone on my friends list!

So I am going to list all of my major fandoms! And maybe why I like them in some cases, and whether or not I actually lurk the fanbase. And then people should feel free to leave comments telling me fandoms they think I should get into! Because I really love getting into new fandoms!

And this an open invitation to everyone! Not whoever left the comment! Because, as I said, it's not as if I'll know, anyway.

( In no particular order, then... )

....Aaaand now nothing else is coming to mind. Am I missing any important fandoms or categories? PROBABLY. But, yes. Do we share more fandoms than we thought? Or do I have any fandoms you are interested in? Or do you have any fandoms I should be interested in?

I've been thinking for a while now about Silent Hill crossovers. I know both of mine (an Original Character-centric one and the recent Transformers one) draw heavily from Silent Hill 2, and, even before I finished the first, I thought it was a bit weird. Almost - or maybe all of the Silent Hill crossovers I've read have done the same. Why?

( Actually, the answer's obvious. )

On a completely different note, cards?

Listening to radio. Commercial. A couple is debating what to do.


Mary wants to start her Christmas shopping!


James wants to hang out with friends!



...

The commercial cuts off before James snaps and murders his wife, though.

in som

nia

I am tired.


So I've been plotting and typing at the thus far unnamed Transformers/Silent Hill thing, which I still do not know why I am writing. I don't want to be writing this. I'm supposed to be working on "WST-Live!" and ten pages worth of school essays. Really, I have better things to be doing, depending on your definition of better, so, okay, by my definition, I guess maybe I don't, but ... why is my word processor defaulting to Verdana size 10? I mean, that's better than the standard Times New Roman 12, which is vile, but... why?

But I'm not. Working on my schoolwork, I mean. Obviously. I just said I wasn't, though I suppose I could be lying, but I'm not sure what that would accomplish.

Anyway, The Hapless Victim (Prowl, for the curious) likes logic, so Silent Hill - or whatever it'd be called on Cybertron, anyway, I'm not directly naming it because I am oh so clever or something - is probably one of the worst places I could possibly put the guy. I'm probably going to get to the end to find I've destroyed his mind. ...Well, I know the end, so I shouldn't be placing bets on it. I'm not adverse to betting against myself, though, so don't take that as anything definite.

I really like this character. Why am I doing this? ... That statement, of course, means nothing in this fandom of mine, because I can truthfully say that about everyone, for the most part. There are probably one or two exceptions, but nothing comes immediately to mind. There's no one I actively dislike, I do know that.

I'm barely into the story and he's all ready come up with logical explanations for several things.

At least so far it is moving straightforward, unlike "GT," which just bounced all over the place and then fell into something resembling a coherent order shortly before I finished working on it.

This isn't going to be as long as "GT," unless, as I told Aniko, maybe, since "GT" contained a lot of dialogue, and this one isn't going to be quite as full of talking, so maybe the actual content amount will be about the same? I don't know. I want it to be over with faster, though, so I am hoping it is not. All I know for absolute sure is the list of appearing characters (though I might toss a few more cameos into the ending bit, just for the heck of it). It is a very short list. Seriously, it's like four characters.

And the plot-twist makes me feel a bit ill.


... This entry feels disgustingly incoherent and scattered. ...you can... really, really tell I am exhausted, can't you? SHUT UP JECCA. adsfgkhm

I was just blindsided by possibly the most awful Transformers/Silent Hill crossover idea in the history of the world. Literally struck. I physically reeled.


WHY DO I NOT HAVE A DELETE FUNCTION?



At least the Beast Machines one that I'm still kicking around has some degree of reasoning behind it. This one appears to have spawned itself solely in an attempt to thoroughly disturb me. (It has successfully accomplished this task.)


And I am horribly, horribly intrigued by it. Save me.

Creepy day. It rained all morning and all afternoon, and let off sometime in the evening while I was at work. Nothing new or weird, just saying.

( It really was creepy, but you probably had to be there. )

I shouldn't have been so surprised by this. People have been driving rather terribly lately, so I've been seeing / hearing / passed by a lot of emergency vehicles. You know, ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars. Sirens and flashing lights et al. The usual.

There's a spot about half a mile from my house where one of the radio stations I listen to just stops coming in for a few seconds. Interference of some sort.

I was listening to that station tonight while driving home. It's dark, sky's clouded up, there's no one else on the road... There aren't even any streetlights around this area. I enter the radio-static area and, immediately, I hear loud sirens start going off in the distance.

I'd like to say I was calm and composed and didn't think anything of it, but really the truth of it is that I nearly jumped out of my skin.

Also I tried to hit both the gas and the clutch at the same point, which didn't go over so well, but at least I stopped that almost before I started.


Funny how Silent Hill-esque things happen like that on occasion.