All art is at once surface and symbol

What riveting saga lies beneath the cut?

( *dundundun* )

So during my quest of Raggedy Ann & Andy research, I discovered this song sung by Liza Minnelli. I couldn't find the lyrics to the song anywhere, so I interpreted it the best I can. I'm poor at making out lyrics... anyone please help me out with a couple lines?

( Here's a nice charming little Christmas song about two ragdolls... oh yeah, one of them ends up lonely for the rest of her life. )

This song makes me *baaaaaaaaaaw*. It starts off sweet and nostalgic, then it slaps you with a sad ending. Best way to describe it: FOREVER ALONE.gif.

...Uh. On a lighter note, Geno figurine. DO WANT. Except it's $75.00 and expensive. *sob*

Hey guys! Any of you remember that screencap adventure of Super Mario RPG I started almost a year back? Wait... two years back. Fuck.

I'm picking it up again! I even have the files where I left off! We'll bounce right back to the Mushroom Kingdom in no time! Best of all, we'll get our first Star Piece! X3 The caps are uploaded, it's just a matter of organizing and applying commentary. But since my poor audience has endured Production Hell for so long, you deserve a little something special. Let's start a file of SMRPG... in Japanese!



My my... the menu looks different...

( Even the way Mario moves! )

More information about Japanese!SMRPG can be found here. Which saves me a lot of capping. XDD! There's a little more mentioned at SMRPG's page on TVTropes, but I'll bring them up as I cap along so nobody gets sucked into the abyss, aka TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. XD Next up... actual update! :D

lol I forgot this meme. Let's do three! 'Cause I want to end this post on a happy note, haha. :P

# Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?

( Oh dear. XD )

# Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?

( Hmm... )

# Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?

( PIC SPAAAAAAM )

( 30 Day Shipping Meme )

I need more Red/Lucas pics. ;-;

I was not looking forward to entering the pirate ship in SMRPG. Sure enough, we just survived being tentacle-raped by King Calamari. Thanks to a certain disgusting short story I read, I know what intestines are supposed to taste like. That did not make matters better with those tentacles slapping my party around. Because I'm awesome, the team passed on without dying and recovered from their Fear Status in a snap (and Mallow recovered from his fear faster than Mario and Bowser! Dude, kid is made of iron. :P) Geno levels up. I cheer. Until I saw the new spell he just learned and I computed a small irony.

You just had to have a move called "Geno Blast", didn't you Geno? Yes, I know it's actually a prismatic slamdown with Rainbow Rays of Doom. But the images, they aren't nice. Not what I needed after fighting a boss that made me uncomfortable like that. Just... WHY. *sob*

On the plus side, I learned why I couldn't get Geno Whirl to work. First I timed it before the first disc hit the enemy (I believe that's how you time 1-Hit-KOs apparently. It's super hard), then I read online that I had to press before it left the screen. I was still confused why I got nothing. But then came an "Ohhhhhh" moment. I had to time it before the tail left the screen, not the first disc itself. Man no wonder I couldn't 9999 anything. But that's fixed now. I'm in awe of Geno and his ability to cut down annoying enemy encounters by slicing certain troublesome foes in half~ ♥

Obviously I'm not using it for Exor. That's cheating. :P

Whoa. Sonic 4. English name unveilings for HG/SS. Quite a bit's happened huh?

Both computers at my house have completely busted, and my Dad's been working on getting them to function properly, backing up everything and paying bills and having his life drained away by those devil pieces of junk. :/ There's other financial stuff I'm worried about, but eh. Hello from the library!

I'm hoping to get my learner's permit and Shiny Pichu. :o The latter almost slipped my mind. I've been playing a ton of video games to pass the time at home, namely Super Mario RPG and Wario's Woods (SNES). I just beat Bubble Bobble (first round) with my brother and Bubble Bobble Part 2, and I played M.U.L.E. until I was bored and frustrated why my colony keeps barely surviving (CPUs get rich on Smithore while I barely dig up a scrap. wtf).

I was fiddling around in SMRPG looking for secrets and little bits and pieces (like giving the mole a Carbo Cookie and stealing her bucket for free coins from Midas River) and saving a B'Tub Ring so I'd later get the Mystery Egg and go for the Lamb's Lure and develop my Army of Sheep. I stopped before entering Seaside Town though. I'm dreading the Sunken Ship, it's my least favorite part of the game. DDD: WHY JOHNNY WHY. Yaridovich too, oh gods. I think he kicked my ass the most other than Jinx when my levels weren't high enough (Culex doesn't count, he kicks everyone's ass. :P).

I discovered my brother had a guide for Final Fantasy Anthology in his room, so I picked it up, turned on FFV on my SP (My DS is in need of repairs. D:) and got myself unstuck. Now I'm in World 2 and I'm almost caught up to where I was stuck last time! I get to go further and see new stuff in the game, nomnomnom~

I wanted to watch Twilight so I could MST it, but Mom wanted to watch it with me, so that killed my plans. Dear god, what a boring movie. You could only go so long on the most mundane details and auuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggh. I did laugh at a few parts though, and Mom had to turn twice and tell me, "Giselle...!" Namely when Edward's diamond marble skin started glittering in the sun and he says in the most dramatic and serious expression, "This... is the skin of a killer." The highlight? Him screaming at the top of his lungs after buzzing around like The Flash, "AS IF YOU COULD OUTRUN ME!" It's... wow. XD Other than that, everyone was so wooden and boring, it's like watching paint peel. I suppose it's better than being annoyed by Bella and Edward's whining in the books, but still, it was painfully boring. Uggggh.

But Mom liked it. Wat. She said that it was "different" and not like "your usual gory vampire movie" and then she proceeds to ramble on and on about how this was the start of Pattinson and Stewart's career like it was for Cruise and Pitt and Dunst back when Interview With the Vampire came out blah blah celebrity talk I could care less about, and Oprah interviewing the cast and going, "How could you star in something that's got so much blood, so much gore?" To which Cruise would tell her over and over, "It's a vampire movie."

I think some things are just a given. What do vampires do? Drink blood. What will be in a vampire movie? Blood. That's putting two and two together. It's like going to a fantasy movie and complaining that there's magic in it. "I like my erotica without nudity!", "I like my ice cubes when they're not cold!", "I like rain, but why does it have to be wet?" It's just what Twilight feels like to me. Take out the "vampire" bits and Edward's just some weird pale guy with a stalker obsession. It's vampire fakery for people who don't like or care about vampires. Or is it the biting they want? I have no idea.

That's all. Time to post before I lose my data. @.@;;; That's it, Mr. Sun. Bite Mario and make him sparkle!

So I had a dream Tim Burton was doing a movie adaptation of Into The Woods, and we were watching a trailer in which Red Riding Hood is tricked by the Witch to go into her house. (Eh?) Lots of tall yellowish/green grass under a gray sky, might even be swamplands, who knows. But wait, it gets better. It turns out that Tim Burton was making a movie out of Super Mario RPG. You know Jim Henson and Frank Oz's The Dark Crystal, where everyone is played by puppets? It's exactly like that in the SMRPG movie. Mario and Peach are played by real people, and somehow Mario manages to be an innocent and serious hero without being tacky or using Charles Martinet's falsetto. oO;; The most I could see of the movie was three trailers, and go figure, I was wetting my pants and super excited, and I especially wanted to see what Burton did with Geno. I kept being scared and preparing to be super disappointed that I would wake up and it all be a dream, but my parents kept pointing to the trailers and newspapers. But damn. That would suck if I woke up before I saw Geno. Luckily I did, and we'll get there in a bit.

I remember Frogfucius being humongously badass. He was probably the most AMAZING part of the dream. His puppet was like a green bearded Moses, damn. He held Mallow to Mario and asked him to take care of him, and... Movie!Mallow is strange. oO;; He was yellow and his eyes and mouth are black and sunken in, like some kind of demented frownie-face garbage bag from Yume Nikki. He must have made some kind of squeak, but I don't think he had any lines at all.

Now we finally get to Geno (Puri assumed Burton was going to save him for last), and Geno is just... weird. oO;;; Even Puri in the dream thought this was a far cry from what she imagined him being like in the game. Basically, Mario and Mallow find him on a wooden stake hanging as a scarecrow. He separates but here's the kicker: there are two Genos. The puppet strings show clearly from both, but only the Geno in front talks; he's super cranky and cynical, and then he's yanked at by the other Geno puppet and they switch places, letting the other Geno ramble until it's the other's turn. It's like, Movie!Geno has multiple identity disorder and his two "selves" are kept separate in identical bodies, pulling the strings and fighting to be "in control."

It was... weiiiiiiiiiird. D:

Speaking of Geno:


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I love the person who made this Squibie. ;________; I hope she makes a Mallow one! No, I haven't forgotten the Screencap Misadventure. :o I'm almost done with Croco, I just need to retrieve missing caps. @.@;;;

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Seriously. Go listen to him.

HAL 9000 and TEC were super close, followed by Gilliam (Outlaw Star), Metal Sonic, Gamma, EVE (Earthbound 0/Mother), EVE (WALL-E), WALL-E, M-O, Tom Servo, Croooooooooooooooooooooooooow! R2-D2, C-3P0, and the Starmen as runner-ups. Omega gets an honorable mention because of his devotion to Shadow and his immortal meatbag line in Chronicles. XD And the Axem Rangers if they count.

I probably forgot somebody. I just love robots and self-aware computers, okay? XD

Blegh, I'm on a coughing fit. Mmm, Shadow Androids. ♥

Super Mario RPG is out on Virtual Console.

I wanted to bust out a screencap adventure to celebrate, but it looks like this icon is the closest I can get. Better than nothing right?

I can't help but absolutely dread tomorrow. I have zero confidence in starting college again. Somehow I can't help but feel I'll miss a billion classes tomorrow. How fun.