Nov. 24th, 2009 @ 12:32 am [info]rpwrimo progress
Well, look at that! :D It was amazingly easy once Crystal and I got our groove back.

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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 11:49 pm (no subject)
Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal.
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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 10:13 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: accomplished
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The Girl and I spent the evening working on campaign setting and rules for teh shineh rpg. :D I have managed to successfully spam my own flist. (I'll probably take the IC comm off my watch list since it'll be watched on character journals.)

IT HAS MAPS MADE OF HEXAGONS.

[info - livejournal.com] newhope_rpg and [info - livejournal.com] newhope_ooc are the homes to the new crack. All the campaign setting stuff is in the OOC community.

We haven't gotten apps and posting format hammered out yet (posting will probably be like what we had back in RV just 'cause it's easy to use). [info - livejournal.com] no1detective and [info - livejournal.com] gogglesdozip's complete profiles are probably the direction we're going to go in as far as character information. It's a bit more general than before, but that helps let the app become the roleplaying test and saves us some space. Also not 100% sure how we're going to do fandoms. I'm tempted to just say "anything that fits the campaign setting" and see what people want to play.

0:3


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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 06:00 pm [info]rpwrimo progress
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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 03:08 pm (no subject)

I made mac and cheese. Delicious homemade mac and cheese. FROM SCRATCH.

And since I have a shit-ton of it, I shall now spend a good time in a food coma. At least I won't have to worry about feeding myself if I can get around to packing the kitchen today.


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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 02:09 am (no subject)
Back in Tampa, which is about 5 hours too far from the BFF. Just worked a 10 hour shift (what, so I fail at leaving ON TIME apparently) after driving for 5 hours to get home and am so very exhausted.

I really need to get on that whole moving closer thing. I don't get nearly enough BFF time.

Also, poor Narcissa misses her Ronald and all the people, I think.
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Nov. 21st, 2009 @ 06:29 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: giddy
Current Music: Astro Boy - Uran's Theme

OMG I LOVE LJLOGIN!

It's got cross-platform support that includes DW! I can easily and lazily switch between main and rping accounts on both sites now! :D

In other news, my apartment looks like a bomb made of boxes went off and I'm still about halfway done with packing. (I need to get the junk in the closets and the kitchen.) OMG OMG OMG

I also made an RP account for Uran after going through a million Youtube videos because I can't get screengrab for free from the DVD player. XD Can't wait to chuck her at people. (At this rate I'll end up tweaking things since I haven't completely finished the 2003 series she's drawn from and I know I'll probably want to screw around with icons. The Girl and I have a pact to watch Astro Boy together, so I can't cheat and watch ahead even on Youtube. Darnit.)


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Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 03:31 pm [info]rpwrimo progress
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Nov. 18th, 2009 @ 04:27 pm (no subject)
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OMG GAIZ I AM MOVING NEXT SATURDAY WTF I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

I spent most of this afternoon moving my utilities and doing other change of address stuff. NOW it's finally sinking in. HOLYCRAP. (This does mean I'll be without internet for a couple of days.. but it's just 'til the Monday after, and I'm getting both faster DSL and better phone service out of the deal. I think my net connection might even be faster than Mom's cable connection after I move!)

And now back to making phone calls. O.O


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Nov. 18th, 2009 @ 01:03 pm The Muses - Light of May
Muse ~ n.

1. Greek Mythology Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science.
2. a. A guiding spirit. b. A source of inspiration.
3. A poet.

The Muse has inspired English poetry since Chaucer invoked her in 1374. Muse comes from Latin Mūsa, from Greek Mousa. There are Greek dialect forms mōsa and moisa, and all three come from an original *montya. As to the further origins of this form, a clue is provided by the name of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and mother of the Muses. Her name is the Greek noun mnēmosunē *memory,* which comes from *mnā-, an extended form of the Greek and Indo-European root *men-, *to think.* This is the root from which we derive amnesia (from Greek), mental (from Latin), and mind (from Germanic). The reconstructed form *montya that is the ancestor of Greek Mousa could then mean something like *having mental power*. )
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Nov. 18th, 2009 @ 12:38 am (no subject)
I am not too ashamed to admit I just watched The Babysitters Club movie thanks to Netflix.

Oh, nostalgia.
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Nov. 17th, 2009 @ 02:48 pm Passing ENDA - Call your reps! National Call-In Day for Equality
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180630476026&ref=nf

As we move closer to a House vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination, we need to burn up the phone lines to Congress, and let them know that ENDA is next, ENDA is NOW! We must let Congress know how important ENDA is to LGBT people and all those who care about equality. With your help we can end job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Tomorrow is the National Call-In Day for Equality. It’s the day when we flood Congress with our calls demanding equality in the workplace. Tomorrow, talk to Congress. Call them at (202) 224-3121. Give your zip code and ask to be connected to your Senators, and then your Representative. If you haven’t contacted your elected officials, NOW IS THE TIME. Let them know that you support ENDA and you want them to support it, too. If you already have, please do it again.

Prefer to email your representative and senators? Click here and urge them to pass ENDA.

Talk to your friends, family and neighbors and let them know. Start with the simple opening: "Did you know that Congress is considering workplace legislation? Did you know that only 40% of the country is covered are clear laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination?" Ask the people in your life how they feel about that. Then tell them they can help protect people from discrimination based on who they are--ask them to take action.

Share this event with your friends and family and ask them to join this event and pledge an email or phone call to Congress.

It just takes a minute to do your part to end discrimination in the work place.
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 06:56 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: CHEMISTRY - Now or Never (CHEMISTRY meets m-flo)
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So The Girl and I were thinking about getting the band back together.

I used to GM a Megaman-based multiversal game on LJ. Eventually rp started conflicting with work (and, indeed, I was rping like 4-5 hours a night and going craaaaaazy) and I had to pry my hands off the crack. The game actually managed to survive a few more months before caving, and in all it managed to outlive the average lifespan of an LJ rpg. (18 months of really active play is nothing to sneeze at) It was a happy time.

I also really miss getting to do awesome story-based rp. Playing on RP servers in WoW just ain't the same. And while I've kept up playing out stuff with The Girl, well, there's stuff you can do in a two-person rp and stuff you can't.

I've been slowly pecking away at worldbuilding stuff for a new campaign setting. The Girl's been helping a bit. And since we've both developed an unhealthy fondness for Astro Boy in addition to our Megaman addictions, we've been trying to figure out a more inclusive list of possible fandoms to draw on. (And it would be cracky. Just saying.) It's a generally SF setting with a huge element of robotics, cyberspace/VR, and transhumanism mixed liberally with a bit of high-tech frontier town. No plans to connect the setting to the Nexus or have it be a Nexus-based game, just because I wouldn't want to end up having to deal with fallout from plots happening elsewhere.

I would be interested in feedback on what fandoms might be cool for a setting like this or what characters people who also miss rp would be interested in playing. (we've already settled on allowing all the Mega Men, Astro Boys, various robot movie type fandoms, and Reboot.. I'm of two minds about Transformers or Gundam even though both pretty heavily feature different types of robot. Maybe some Big O action? I just don't want giant robot fights to erupt since they could take out the entire setting pretty easily and I'd rather make people have to work to destroy the setting! I'm also debating just throwing it open to any SF sort of fandom and let Bob sort it out.) I'll probably be posting a lot of development stuff over the next few days, if only to have some backups of the material.

The game itself would have to be on LJ-- I don't have any illusions about the general rp community moving off LJ anytime soon.


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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:55 am [info]rpwrimo progress
So I kind of haven't updated this for.. 12 days. Mainly because I wasn't writing much. Over the last several days, I've mainly been writing with Crystal privately and I'm kind of amazed by how much we've done.

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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 01:34 pm (no subject)


eligeremod * holds * app * premise/rules

Eligere is a Magical Boarding School game set on the coast of Oregon at a school for the Pureblooded Elite. In an effort to ensure the old lines and customs continue, arranged marriages are encouraged, something which the school fully supports with special classes for those involved in arranged marriages as well as special accommodations for the engaged upperclassmen at the school.

Proper lineage must be proven to gain admission to Eligere Institute, but we are accepting characters of all political affiliations - both those who support the purist ideals of the school and those who do not. We're looking for an even mix and lots of diversity within the Pureblooded magical population


Game opens at 20 applications/characters!!!
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 10:50 pm (no subject)
location: Phoenix, Arizona
Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: Ricky playing a game

My vacation time from work officially started yesterday and I don't have to go back until next Saturday!

Yesterday, Narcissa and I drove up to Georgia and we hung out with Crystal and her fam. She missed Ronald. We could tell because of the growling and hissing. Crystal and I stayed up far too late watching movies (Footloose and Australia - AWESOME!) and playing on our computers. Then, today, we got up and drove to Jacksonville so I could catch a plane to Phoenix.

I'm now hanging out with my awesome sister and her crazy adorably little girl. We've had wine and cheese sticks - AWESOME COMBO! - and we are RELAXING. It's awesometimes!

I miss my kitty, though. :( I'm not used to being away from her. Luckily, I know Crystal is taking good care of my baby.

I also love how indignant Isaac (Crystal's youngest son) was when he found out I wasn't spending my whole vacation with them. He was all "WHAT?!?!? But you're the BEST FRIEND!" It was cute.

ALMOST as cute as my very precocious little niece. She is fifty-two flavors of awesome.
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 09:45 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: tired

Got to spend some time with The Girl. We watched Up since I managed to score the DVD of it yesterday. It still made me cry. And the new little short about Dug also made me cry. Both in a good way.

I don't know what it is about movies geared towards children and making me cry.

I'm actually tipping at a bit of fanfic. It's an idea that's been kicking around my head for a while so I thought I'd try and do something with it. Let's just say it's Dr. Light's revenge for getting fridged and/or made into a bit of an ass in a lot of my fanfics. XD And that Blues takes after him far more than he'd like to admit.

It's gotten chilly again. I hope this means fall's here to stay finally. I hate it when the temps see-saw like they do a lot of the time. I usually end up getting sick when it happens and I have too much crap to do to get sick right now.

Continuing also to watch the 2003 Astro Boy. And.. well.. This is their character model for Dr. Tenma:


(image ganked from Wikipedia, for the curious)

As you can see, he has a rather unfortunate resemblance to a chicken. And since I've taken a bit of an instant dislike to him as a person, at least on-screen, well... there's been a lot of clucking involved. Especially since in a lot of his dramatic scenes he's backlit in profile so he really looks like a chicken.

And since I am dead tired this is hilarious. So I shall leave you with that.


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Nov. 10th, 2009 @ 09:16 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: accomplished

It's been nearly two years since I moved off LJ.

To be honest, I've been missing the company. D: Most of my LJ friends didn't migrate off the site, and while I've been lurking and making the occasional pithy comment as usual, it's like half the normal conversation has been missing.

Sooooooo.. I made the call to add LJ to my DW crossposter. That way nobody has to try and follow me to Dreamwidth (where I keep my primary journaling account-- after the crap-up back in 07, I just don't want to have my data only be there/be tempted to give them money) but people can still see what I've been posting. I'm not going to be moving any fics back to LJ, but at least this way people can get the links to my fic journal and all when I start actually putting stuff together there.

(I still have like a billion invite codes if anyone does eventually want a DW and doesn't have one. I will be glad to dip into my stash.)

The footer you see at the end on the IJ and LJ posts is just the link back to the Dreamwidth account, if only so you know where the primary entry is hiding, etc.

My tags are probably going to end up a TRAINWRECK.

BTW, I've gotten a bit less fansquee and a bit more bitchy in the last two years. I hope nobody minds cussing. Though I am easily distracted by robots.

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Nov. 10th, 2009 @ 08:57 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: amused

OK, so after [info - personal] lostangelssong's last post.. I kind of want to start a community called My Gay Agenda or The Gay Agenda or something like that. Just so that we can all get our secret decoder rings and bitch about our gay agendas. Like, you know, laundry. And buying milk. XD
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