All art is at once surface and symbol

My bf and I are back from con! We only signed up for Friday, but we attended so many years we knew what to expect anyway.

Lots of big name VAs came to visit! I got to say hello to Joshua Seth (Taichi, Knives, and Tetsuo). I told him Digimon was one of the rare shows on TV that made me cry and he was glad it got to emotionally affect me in that way, haha. XD He also said Tetsuo is his dream role and the one he’s most proud of. :) We got to visit Officer Jenny’s VA too, but the biggest winner was Veronica Taylor. She was super sweet. ;; I told her my sister saw herself in Lina and me in Amelia, and she called us a dynamic duo. She even gave me two cards so I can mail one of them to my sister. ;; She also really liked my green shirt and said it was pretty.

I got a few people nerding over my Undertale and Deltarune pins, and one of them even thought I was wearing an ita bag (I guess I wear that many pins, haha) I was hoping to find LISA merch, but I had zero luck. But that’s to be expected for a niche fandom in a small con, haha. XD I managed to find and buy a Rule of Rose and Yuri Kuma Arashi print though! The vendors were so happy I recognized them. The latter said I was the first person to recognize Yuri Kuma and it really made her day. :D

Now to save what little money I have for Reptile Expo at the end of the month. Boy oh boy~ ♥

Buggerpantx ran outside on his mop and said everyone we need to talk.

"What do you know, Buggerpantx? You're just a little MTT employee!"

"I MAY BE A MTT EMPLOYEE...." Buggerpaintx paused angrily. "BUT I AM ALSO A SATANIST!"

The 6 Male Characters Women Never Get to See in Movies

This is one of the best feminist articles I've read in a while. I especially lol'd at #2.

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God, I would've made Mario/Kirby/Pokemon/Yume Nikki/Mother 1+2+3/Harvest Moon/Super Smash Bros/Ib/OFF/etc. prompts in a heartbeat. ;; Oh well. Still a lot of prompts I got my eye on. :3 Like the Kid Icarus ones... go figure, I still haven't played Uprising and I even own the damn game. Until Pokemon Bank comes out and Smogon uploads movesets for Gen VI, I don't have much to do in Pokemon except breeding and grinding. I have until the 30th to make claims... hm... *dundundun*

Again, sorry I haven't been posting much. I've been working my ass off in college (hence I gotta miss out on Poke Exchange. Sorry! ;;), and I gotta work on yet another paper. I got an A- for my Composition II assignment, and I'm not about to let my good record slip! :o

Next month promises to be full of fandomy goodness (including Yuletide!) to make up for my lack of productivity this year. Oh boy oh boy oh boy~

God, the radar stuff at the hot springs with Ionia was awful. So why did I laugh?



Aww. I forgotten that I named my Favorite Thing that.

Zar's doing a screencap adventure of Mother 3, so I've picked up my file to keep ahead of the recaps. Last night I finished Chapter 4! Without spoiling anything, I want to hug Duster and be his friend. He needs all the love and support and pick-me-ups he can get. ;;

I find myself really disliking Wes(s) a lot more this time around. I dunno, probably after experiencing it with my Mom during her manic episodes, I feel a lot more sensitive and uncomfortable whenever there's verbal/emotional abuse. Not a "ZOMG IM BEING TRIGGERED" thing, I just find myself identifying with the victim a lot more in a "I feel you, man" way. Reading Misery by Stephen King got a whole lot scarier because Annie Wilkes did and said things that my mother had, and the way Mother Gothel in "Tangled" complinsults (???) Rapunzel always unsettled me and I never saw her as a good parent. We'll see if Wess redeems himself in later chapters, but until then, I'm :/ towards him.

Cori Falls would have a heart attack if she ever played Mother 3. She thought Team Rocket had it rough? Weeeeeeell... :P

Speaking of Cori, I finally got my boyfriend James (we'll call him Jimmy to avoid confusion with Team Rocket!Pod!James) to read her writing and rants! We skipped ahead to the DnD session of "A Fair Fight", which he identified as Edition 2. He said there weren't any inaccuracies he could spot with the game they were playing, and if it wasn't for the Ash-bashing, the ridiculously OOC Team Rocket and Gary, and the Mary-Sues, it would've been a heartwarming story about a group of friends playing DnD. The Pod!Rockets and the Sues bullying a 12-year-old reduced to a mentally retarded mindset aside, Jimmy pointed out that the DM Sue had deliberately screwed him over, rather than Ash digging his own grave like Cori insisted.

Jimmy: *in response to the DM Sue literally slapping Ash* Hitting your fellow players. That's totally acceptable DM behavior!

Jimmy's reactions are pretty great to watch. He pumped his fists going "Awesome! :DDD" when it looked like a particularly bad segment was about to begin, laughed his ass off at the Ash-bashing scenes because they reminded him of injokes and Chris-chan, wanted to shoot himself at the obvious Author Filibusters, and pulled up reaction videos to particular segments that made him cringe.

Jimmy: *reading "The Thrill of Defeat"* *facepalm* Oh god. Really?
Me: Which part?
Jimmy: "Velvety"? Ugh.
Me: Velvety what?
Jimmy: *points out "soft, velvety kisses"*
Me: Oh, that's common in romance novels. You have no idea...

Funny how this is one of the things that sets him off, but he takes the crazier shit in stride. :P

Reading Cori with Jimmy is making me want to write a parody Team Rocket fic with the most obvious and out-of-place Author Filibusters possible. You can totally tell Jessie, James and Meowth aren't interested in the same things as I am, especially when they're discussing their favorite Cinema Snob episodes! Oh, and throw in Mary-Sue friends with names like Kanaya Ashtear, Lucca Andonuts, and Homura Lovecraft. They could share their love of Tori Amos and Patrick Wolf. (Since Cori already beat me to Nine Inch Nails. :P)

It makes me wonder what would happen if Cori was in Homestuck fandom. Aside from her blatantly denying any slash in the series (despite it clearly stated to be CANON), I imagine she'd be an Eridan/Feferi shipper and woobify Eridan to the max, while also shipping Karkat/Terezi. Gamzee and Equius would creep her out, she wouldn't like Doc Scratch or Jack Noir, and she'd absolutely detest Vriska and bash her every chance she'd get. Then she'd ragequit the comic canon after Feferi's death, because she'd plug her ears screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO ERIDAN WOULD NEVER DO THIS TO HER!!!!111!11" and then proceed to write AUs where this was all in Vriska's sick fantasies and that Eridan and Feferi are actually living Happily Ever After with a billion grub children.

Of course, if I tell Jimmy that I'm writing a fic where Jessie, James and Meowth are Homestuck geeks, he'll tell me to choke myself. XD Haha. :P

It all began when I got Fluttershy, my favorite pony of the Mane 6. Then I thought she'd be lonely and decided to get the rest of her friends. James happened to be given Cupcake for his birthday, so cue the endless stream of "Cupcakes" jokes. In the end, he decided to let me keep Cupcake and her raccoon friend because he felt like I wanted her more. I let Cupcake "join" the gang, and it grew from there...

So now, I like collecting G4 ponies. <.<;;; I've been meaning to make a list for a while, so I could show off the ones I owned and which I still wanted to get. I'm thinking of keeping an eye out for G1 and G3 ponies in yardsales and possibly get some from eBay (Namely the Mane 6 "prototypes" like Firefly, Surprise, Twilight, etc.), but for now, G4 is way easier and more affordable for me to collect. :P

Anyway, onto the list!

( Puri's Equestria )

Will be updated as I collect more ponies and discover more releases. Mwoiiiiiiiing~! ♥

And electric flying squirrels. What is this tom-foolery I don't even. My god though, all those Emolga icons youendme made are adorable.

My novel is finally getting a kick-start! At least in terms of plot. I'm not stuck in the same scene anymore! Raggedy Andy and his friends are heading out into the wide world of the museum and it makes me happy~ I'm amused by their reactions.

"Oh shit, we're leaving the nice big safe cheerful preschool room and we're going back to dusty gritty hell and worse. D:" "UM. SUDDENLY I FEEL DISCOURAGED. DD:" "*sigh* I expected this. Might as well face the music and get ready to die." "We can do this, everyone! I know we just met a few days ago, but we worked together and discovered we're stronger than we gave ourselves credit for. If we made it to start our journey, we'll make it against anything that stands in our way. *leads everyone by the hand* Now let's get out there and stop those chimeras! :D"

Guess which one's Andy. XD And now I've got Pollyanna (I Believe In You) stuck in my head. DAMN YOU FUCKING RAG DOLL.

Speaking of lovely music, I'm gonna jump on a bandwagon and take the music meme Carrie, Indie, and Tifa have been circulating. :3 I thought of starting it but stress and family matters got in the way, but I'm definitely free now! Oh boy oh boy oh boy~ ♥

Day 1. A song/artist you're currently hooked on

Alongside Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers and a few scattered songs from that movie, Kate Bush is my primary musical influence for my book. :3

( She couldn't have made a worse move~ )

( 30 Day Music Meme~ )

I'm getting a sore throat. Not fun at all. :(

But what IS fun is that I finished making a fanmade trailer for my friend James~ ♥ We're going to have a Bad Movie Night together, and I thought I'd make a little something for him to show off my AMVing skills and since it's so long I got to do anything video-related in the first place. I got him curious about Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure after all the crazy articles and clips I showed him (as well as a little art history) and as MarzGurl and Linkara explained, one cannot watch Cool World alone. So we're teaming up to help me finish watching that monstrocity. :P If we still have energy after all, we'll celebrate by watching an actual good movie; I never seen Kubrick's The Shining, and now that I have someone I'm comfortable enough to cling to when I'm scared, now would be a good time. :o

We're hoping to get together this Friday, but Mom probably won't let me go without a chaperone at James' place. :( So we'll have to see what we can do.

You can download the .zip of my Bad Movie Night Trailer here. This is something I only feel like showing friends as opposed to YouTube, nom. WARNING: It will traumatize you and break your brain. Just sayin'.

We're not watching Plan 9 yet (though James needs to~ ♥) but I have a warm fuzzy place in my heart for Ed Wood, so here he is. :3 My only regret is that the sound quality of one of the clips could be better. I need to hear both the sound clip and the music clearly for that one scene, dangit. :(

Funny how the mood fluctuates depending what music is playing and what kinds of fanart you're looking at.

Since my Mystery Dungeon picspam post on ontdpokemon and people unfortunately finding themselves in the same predicament as I am (aka gigantic PMD fans but their fanart folder is emptier than it should be, except for a couple moths), so I browsed pixiv in hopes of recovering some of my favorite pieces. To those of you who have played the final Special Episode of Explorers of Sky, I dare you to look at this picture while listening to this song. After a while of repeated listenings, you'll end up like this.

Then Puri discovers hot Morty/Eusine pr0n (Obviously NSFW, and since it's Rule 34, there might be ads. :P) she's never seen before when she least expects it. On Rule 34 of all friggin' places, and that site isn't exactly known for its yaoi. No censorship! No rape or weepy ukes! Morty doesn't even have his headband on, dang. :o Puri's mood changes to this.

I wonder what kind of sound effect "nnk" is though. Oh well, pr0n's goofy like that.

Speaking of pr0n. Save for being trapped with my Mom and Dad on last minute shopping, I spent most of my day writing smut for Jean's birthday~ ♥

Well that was fun, spending hours in there watching two guys play Sonic games for clean water in Ethiopia. It's fun watching the chat argue which game (Heroes, Shadow & 06) was the worst of the three. XD The highlight was when Tim started singing My Sweet Passion during a tragic cut scene with Shadow & Maria. Nothing beats busting Chaos bubbles on the ARK to the tune of shaving the Sphinx! XDDD

It's making me feel kind of nostalgic for Sonic games again. Sure, Heroes/Shadow/06 was bad, I'll admit that, but I'm still attached to them in a weird way. Especially Shadow the Hedgehog. I'll never stop loving that black bastard. XD Which again, makes me realize how deceptively dark Sonic games can be. All the bright colors and you're busting out cute critters after they've been through horrendous experimentation and used as fuel for robots. Then there's Shadow, which is a whole new ball altogether.

Several years ago, I couldn't pinpoint why it made me uncomfortable to see Shadow as the bad guy/villain. But hey, it's my birthday, I've turned 22. I think I know now. Since SA2 he's an anti-hero, yet I've admired him as a kind of Byronic hero in my eyes. O RLY? Lemme fetch Wikipedia: The Byronic hero is an idealised but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterised by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818).

( It's been a while since I've been on a tl;dr fangasm about Shadow! :D )

Off to bed so I can better celebrate a year closer to death. Oh boy! XD