1) Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.

2) NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.

3) They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.

4) You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

( And the winners are... )

Feel free to ask me about them, you know I'm chill about that stuff.

And I plead writing this as my reason for not posting anything substantial lately. It's in my miiiind.

I'm also finally getting around to watching Season 2 of Haruhi Suzumiya. It's pretty good so far!

This just in: the final stages of Elite Beat Agents still trigger a Pavlovian reaction in me like nothing else.

I'll try not to start getting all teary and must-not-cry in the middle of a bus station again.

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

I'll post something that isn't a meme sometime soon, really! Pretty much nothing is sacred with me, so don't feel afraid to ask the HARD QUESTIONS.

You know, I was going to make a post with the pictures I took around the city recently, but then I stumbled across this blog in my perusals. If anyone's ever wanted to know what Jonesy's city looks like, you can't go past this. We even have our own scramble crossing.

I also visited this church the last time I was in the city. If there's anywhere that God truly exists, it's in a place like that.

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Also this

Your dating personality profile: Liberal - Politics matters to you, and you aren't afraid to share your left-leaning views. You would never be caught voting for a conservative candidate. Big-Hearted - You are a kind and caring person. Your warmth is inviting, and your heart is a wellspring of love. Intellectual - You consider your mind amongst your assets. Learning is not a chore but a constant search after wisdom and knowledge. You value education and rationality.

Your Top Ten Traits 1. Liberal 2. Big-Hearted 3. Intellectual 4. Sensual 5. Practical 6. Adventurous 7. Romantic 8. Wealthy/Ambitious 9. Traditional 10. Shy

Your date match profile: Intellectual - You seek out intelligence. Idle chit-chat is not what you are after. You prefer your date who can stimulate your mind. Practical - You are drawn to people who are sensible and smart. Flashy, materialistic people turn you off. You appreciate the simpler side of living. Conservative - Forget liberals, you need a conservative match. Political discussions interest you, and a conservative will offer the viewpoint you need.

Your Top Ten Match Traits 1. Intellectual 2. Practical 3. Conservative 4. Adventurous 5. Traditional 6. Outgoing 7. Big-Hearted 8. Funny 9. Sensual 10. Wealthy/Ambitious

Take the Dating Profile Quiz at Would I Date You

So now you know! 8Db

I love the endings to GTA games. They really are just 'yep, you finished all the tasks we set out for you. top of the heap, that's you. yep.

...oh, you want something else to do? fuck, i dunno...go drive around or something.'

In other news, I have been sucking at writing lately. I should fix that...once this latest Sims kick stops taking over my friggin' brain. I love that the GBA versions, as shitty as they are, have objectives and things to actually DO but...hnnngh. I was planning to go out this week, self.

Probably gonna do a drabble request thing tomorrow. Keep your eyes open!

And for today's meme to make this entry more than pointless rambling: Comment with the name of a character, pairing, etc in one of my fandoms/fandom we share.

I'll post you an "instant" mini-fanmix: a cover and 3-5 songs that remind me of that character/pairing/show/etc.

I'll probably suck and not upload songs, but you all have your Youtube-fu skills. You'll survive.


Icon count!
6 Persona 4
4 Phoenix Wright
4 Apollo Justice
3 Final Fantasy VII
2 Mother series
2 Pokemon
1 Mystical Ninja
1 Sean Connery
1 Asterix
1 Final Fantasy X
1 Persona 3
1 Haruhi Suzumiya
1 Day of the Tentacle
1 Legend of Zelda
1 Elite Beat Agents
1 Warioware Inc.
1 Doctor Who

...more varied than I thought, actually.

( MEANWHILE, AT JONESY'S NIECE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY... )

Oh, sister. You have the best taste in chopping boards.

BRB BEING AN EMO IN TASTEFUL GLASS ACCOUTREMENTS

Also, a meme! Stolen from rmarques.

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" (or you can just ask for the meme, I won't mind) and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.


Also +1, for my Persona broskis, uh...there's...a Neopets-ish game that my nieces showed me tonight. It looks alright, but, um...

It's called Mara Pets.

Yeahhhhhh.

So I just added a bunch of people from theoregontrail. 'sup, guys?

To your left, you'll find screencap adventures of various games with my entertaining/retarded/ridiculous commentary along with them. I don't really have the drive to do them anymore, but there's a fair amount there!

To your right, on the sidebar, you'll find links to most of the fanfiction I've written. Plenty there for you to see!

Straight ahead, you'll find retarded memes and rambling about my life. Something has to be really, really private for me to f-lock it, so it's likely all there.

Do call me if you have any questions!

We currently have one more toothbrush in our bathroom than we do people residing in the house. I wonder if that signifies anything.

A million years late again, but Fahrenheit is really good. It's like an adventure game with a good deal less of the DO IT RIGHT OR YOU'LL DIE of the Sierra generation.

I'm feeling like my old self again. Thank god.

Meme! Stolen from sarahofcroydon.

Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom.

A list of my fandoms (incomplete, but fairly comprehensive) can be found here!
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Edit number, like, 5: Actually, I want to tell you guys a story. Something that my dad seems to enjoy telling very much.

Allegedly, I came home from my first day of preschool, just a little kidling of 5 or 6 years old, took off my shoes, all that. And I said to my dad (paraphrased a little because FUCK MY MEMORY):

"Dad, I did what you told me today. I was sitting between two girls and I was very polite and talked to them and everything, but they just kept hitting me in the arms all day!

Dad...I just don't understand women."

At which point my dad always breaks out into laughter and says "He had it, even from that young age!"

I'm sure this explains a lot to many of you. XD


Also, Pyra?
...I'm still listening to that Shakin' It mix you gave me. Regularly. Hauuugh, this music.

EDIT NUMBER 6: thatjunessound. Why do I do this to myself.

Found $70 in a coat pocket today. Unexpected!

I seem to be becoming somewhat human again, finally. My bladder still seems to enjoy screwing with me - and my ass hurts from wiping so much - but otherwise, we're slowly reviving!

Except I must've done something at work today - did I tell you? I'm a Storage Consultant now, which means doing basically everything at this little storage company outlet - while I was helping this dude move and strained something near the tob of my ribcage, because my chest is really hurting. But whatever, too tired to caaaaare

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...oh, and! Hey, sarahofcroydon!

You live in Melbourne, right? Sunday Arts this afternoon showed this really awesome thing called Maxims of Behaviour that seems like a good time. It's basically this cool light show based on a Lewis Carroll poem over at the Royal Mail House. You should check it out!

Confusion Strikes Empire Back: Jedi's Hope Returns Anew


y/n?

So I've been reading this blog today, and I came across an entry in which this was quoted.

"Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers."
—
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

George Orwell, kids. I'm not exactly the most attentive speller either, but still. I liked it.

I also found a picture of the old dragon coaster that used to be at the top of the Queen Street Mall (ie, the big one in the middle of the commercial district of the city:)



Yes, we used to have a rollercoaster at the top of our mall, which I rode on once as a kid and was scared out of my mind by. I still wish it was there; the whole thing was a big arcade on the top floor, with dodgem cars and arcades and the whole shebang.

It's a cinema, smaller arcade, alternative clothing store and one of those mysterious restaurants that never seems to be open now.

I miss the dragon coaster.

I also have a small meditation on friends brought on by trawling someone's blog about the OC - yes shut up I watched it and liked it I am not ashamed - but that's for a private post.

edit: oh yeah and michael jackson died i guess

I...have nothing really relevant to add. He made some amazing music which I adore and believe can be enjoyed apart from his questionable actions. It's sad that he's gone, but in the most awfully cynical sense, he'll never be anything to most of us other than a source of music...and let's be honest, he hasn't made any good music for decades. You know what I'm more saddened by?

Farrah Fawcett died today too. And this wonderful, vibrant woman who defined a whole decade is going to be overshadowed by sharing the day with him. They were both good people, the best kind of celebrity in their own right (again, until Jacko started doing Those Things), and they deserve to have their own days to be remembered on.

That's all I have to say on that.

Yo, LJ. Questions for you.

1) Is it actually physically possible to bruise your cheeks from blushing? This smacks of being one of those dumb things that can't actually happen, but might actually be possible.

2) Are there any memes as active as badbadbathhouse (Persona 4) and teagueful (Phoenix Wright)? I'd love to trawl them.

Derp derp, I've been meaning to do this for awhile; the deal with this is I'm gonna take my five favourite/most well-received fills from the Phoenix Wright Kinkmeme, polish them up, then post them here and eventually link it to the GS comm. Just because I do really enjoy these, and they deserve to have that extra level of sheen that my write-it-then-post method in the kinkmeme rarely gets.

Our first fic is, naturellement, Whip/Love. It's the longest thing I ever wrote for the meme, at a whopping seven parts, and probably got the most squeals out of anything. I took a pass-through for spelling and grammar stuff, fixed a few phrasing things, added and took away, so hopefully it's better now!

...and it's weird. Reading this? Even after all this time, Phoenix/Franziska is still up there in my top five OTPs. Hurr. ♥

Title: Whip/Love
By: neutraltwin
Rating: PG
Fandom: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban
Characters: Phoenix/Franziska, Edgeworth, Maya, Hannah
Warning: Nothing!
Disclaimer: Don't own Phoenix Wright et al, bla bla.

( FOOLS ♥  )

Next one up...when I feel like it. Herp.

Also: mayathemystic came baaaaack ♥

I entirely blame amongst_thine, weizhijun, atoli, kubinashi, and rending_saber for this.

So, now: a dramatic reading of this most purple piece of prose.

Download here and witness the horror glory of it all.

Finished Persona 4.

The ending is a lot better than P3's, just by sheer virtue of not making me want to cry as much, but damn is the urge to write happy-end where Souji sees his parents, talks it over, and goes straight back to Inaba within the week to stay with all his friends.

I'm such a fucking sap that way.

Had to blow ALL my cash to fuse a Trumpeter to carry me through the final True End boss, though. MY MONEYYYYYYY

And in other news, I finally cashed in all those game-store gift cards I got for my birthday. Finish one game, buy four more, bawww. :B
Now, I have Black, Age of Empires II, Final Fantasy X-2, and GTA: Liberty City Stories. They'll last me for a few months, I think.

God it's been forever since I posted fic here. LET'S FIX THAT.

Title: To Wake Up To
By: neutraltwin
Rating: PG
Fandom: Persona 4
Pairing: Chie/Souji
Warning: Spoilerrrrrs for December and the bad-end thereabouts. ALSO REALLY DEPRESSING.
Disclaimer: Don't own Persona 4, bla bla.

( Spoilers for November/December within )

I've been averaging like six hours of P4 a day since I got it fff whyyyy

GUESS WHICH FANDOM I'M WRITING PORN FOR NOW, GUYS
IS ANYONE SURPRISED

Not much so far, and who knows, I might just lose interest totally in a couple of days, but I figure I should keep the links for posterity.


Adrenaline: Chie/Souji/Yosuke; pent-up hormones after a TV run

Fantasy: Yosuke -> Chie; he's been fantasising about her all day

The Biggest Mystery of All: Chie, ensemble; Mystery Food X causes breast expansion

Peekaboo: Kanji/Chie, Rise, Yukiko; voyeurism

Like A Boss: Souji, ensemble; LIKE A BOSS

Crowned With Sound: Souji/Yosuke; AU where Junes is a nightclub and Souji is a waiter

3:15pm: Kou/Chie, shower sex

A Room to the Left: Souji, ensemble; different Investigation Team members

Stolen from the delicious kubinashi who I have been told tops atoli.

( ANOTHER MEME. THIS ONE IS ABOUT RP. )

I should really put a meme tag on my entries, but that'd mean going back through all my entries and fixing them and yeahhhh, no.

I'll actually write something instead of playing P4 soon I swear

chie is still hot

fuck you shadow mitsuo