Jack the first sentence from the first entry of each month this year you've made and copy and paste it here. Call it a year in review.

( oh shit it's a meme )

Not very interesting. SURPRIIIIISE.

And Christmas notes to my f-listers.

( oh shit it's utterly sappy )

Merry Christmas, all. ♥

For lythdan!

Prompt: Franziska/Ema, late night at the office


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And in happier news! I entirely blame Tash for reminding me that I find older Ema Skye unendingly sexy and that I cannot resist her in any way, shape or form. And that I would kill for one in Paradisa. This was building up recently anyway but hnnnngh

Give me prompts for Ace Attorney ficlets. Ideally with Ema, but it's all good! Any pairing, any prompt you please, and I'll knock something out for ya. ♥

You know, since Saturday, I think I've clocked my first forty-hour week. I think I'd like to go back to slacking now. (EDIT #1: Hnnnngh looks like I'm working ten hour days today and tomorrow too WHOOOO) Feeling much better otherwise, though! Although hnnngh Internet is slowing down VERY early this month, please don't give me slow connection speed for Christmas. :C

Durrrp, that's about it, really; nothing much has been happening in Jonesyworld. I picked up Resident Evil 5 for Dad, since he has played RE4 to DEATH, and Parappa the Rapper 2 for myself, which I am...failing pretty miserably at. Boo.

Still feeling that disconnect from Discedo, too. I love the Persona cast there, but other than that, I don't really want to get into it any further than I have to, you know? I figured if I just pushed through it, maybe, but...nope, not really.
On the upside, Paradisa is going from strength to strength! I was initially hesitant when I introed Apollo there, but now he's settled in, I think I'll be happy with him and Yukiko for awhile. It's a thing, really; if I have three characters in there, no matter how much I love them, I immediately start getting stressed and worrying about AC. With just two, I can take my time and hit it, no troubles, totally relaxed. All that's left is to RESIST TEMPTATION and not apply anymore. Not that I can until December is over.

So, yes! Hi guys. Happy holidays. ♥


EDIT #2: Oh, Suki and Angie? Go on ahead with the FFVII playthrough without me, if you haven't already. I'll catch up when I can.

And Kat? POST THOSE DAMN MEMES WHERE I CAN SEE THEM. 8|

EDIT #3: HANKYYYYYY
C-CAN YOU PLEASE SAVE YUKIKO FROM THE PEDO VAMPIRE D:

So I've done some stupid shit lately.

I had a bunch of apologies and excuses all lined up - I'm the sort of person who doesn't show it much on the outside but intensely beats themself up over and over for every tiny mistake internally - but then I realised, hey, Jonesy? You're overthinking things. Here we go.

I've been acting like an ass lately, largely due to a lot of stress from all angles that I don't want to talk about, and I'm sorry if I've treated you badly in order to relieve my stress. Shitty mood isn't much of an excuse, and frankly?

I don't like the person I'm becoming. So I'm gonna stop becoming that person. Sorry, guys. It's gonna stop now.

And that's all!

DUDE TODAY HAS BEEN SO GOOD

I get a call yesterday to say that I've got a shift 8am to noon to cover for some stuff, which is fine; more ca$$$h for Jonesy next payday, right? So I get there at 8, do some thangs, and at around 10am, the boss says "...yeah, there's nothing else for you to do. Just head home and we'll say you worked five hours."

I'm naturally like, "Dude, alright :D " and head out! Take the train into the city, grab a coffee, and pound out another 1,000ish words on the novel for the first time in too long. Pretty pumped, head home, check my RP places since McDonald's free wifi sucks balllllls.

AND I FIND OUT
MY BAND AU
HAS GOTTEN A THIRD MEMBER numnums I love you so much marry me

It is so awesome to see this thing taking off, you have no idea. My dream is to have, like, the whole cast tripping around the DR playing instruments and shit, but even having two other people with me makes me so, so happy. Today has been the best day I've had in weeks.

TL;DR SHIT IS LOOKING UP FOR JONESY
SO PUMPED
YEAHHHHHHHH

I might tl;dr edit this post a bit more later TOO LATE, but this thought just occurred to me since I was trawling for TWEWY stuff, and it's cleared up a lot about why I like Neku, as a character.

( this got a little long )

So, it looks like that if all goes well, I might be travelling next year. I'm socking away at least $400 a month from the paycheck, more if I get more hours, and even with the retarded cost of flights and cost of living, I think...yeah.

Hopefully, I'll be in New York by around May next year. I dunno for how long; awhile. If I can find a job, I might stay a few months.

Heads up, Americans. Jonesy's coming over.


And yes, Emma, that means I'm probably crashing on your couch. I'm sure that'd go over great with your parents!

Okay, so despite it not being entirely fiscally responsible, I picked up the 100 Classic Books Collection (DS) and Eternal Sonata (Xbox) games today. I only have praise for the books one, since it's actually really intuitive and they have all this lovely ambient music on it. I'm about nine chapters into Moby Dick at the moment.

Eternal Sonata is fun too. But I just came across my first antagonist.

And you'll never fucking believe it.

He's voiced by goddamn Adachi-baby.

I damn near squealed.

Also, a meme! A simple one.

Don't make an edit or change anything. Just post what you have on your Ctrl+V command right now. We will all learn something new about each other.

( For myself, it is this! )

( Largely uninteresting lists under here )

I bought some new shirts from that six-dollar site, too! Woulda been better if shipping wasn't twenty fucking dollars dngklnberklbnver

From lumati~

▪ Leave me a comment saying "GUREITO!"
▪ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
▪ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
▪ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

( Actually, this is huge. I should LJ-cut this. )

I will warn you guys now, you might hear a lot about Saints Row 2 as I progress through the game. The characters and the narrative are just a great deal stronger than the GTA series, so there's a lot more to talk about.

Anyway, the last mission I did? I drove to a weapon store, picked up a geiger counter, drove to a dock to steal a speedboat and go over to the power plant (nuclear, on an island) to locate some toxic waste with said counter, killed a bunch of security guards while waiting for my ride back to show up. Then I proceeded to shoot down three helicopters with an assault rifle from my own helicopter while my bro held the pilot at gunpoint. Then the plot dictated that we crash-land (presumably the pilot died because hur, side character), drive to a tattoo parlour on the opposite end of the city and lace the tattoo ink with the toxic waste.

The practical upshot of which is that one of the rival bosses gets a lot of tattooes. The next one he got was on the side of his face and it proceeded to burn his skin off before the cutscene ended.

I...am still not sure whether this game is taking itself seriously or being as ridiculous as is humanly possible. That's probably a good thing.

Also: I did that entire mission while dressed and shaped, surprisingly closely, to this person. Which just makes it aaaaall the better.

Pros:
- Got my Red-Ring'd Xbox 360 replaced for no charge today with a newer model
- Tried Saints Row 2 on doxinator's recommendation. Forgoing my first try at the aunt's place of an obese topless Asian man with a blonde afro, I have made a white chick with a black beehive hairdo in a cocktail dress. All the better to cap some asses with!
- Finished Fallout 3. That ending was shocking, but in another way, I couldn't see how anything else could have happened.
- Got Yukari accepted into discedo! Delicious canonmates, mmyes.
- Picked up some new clothes when Kim took me shopping the other day. +5 fashionable!
- Fucked your mom.

Cons:
- Fucking Xbox red ringed on me! D:
- uuuuugh all these journals to add what is the deal
- Had to drop Kumatora in order to keep myself free. To be honest, I just feel constrained having more than two characters in a game. Even if the AC is low, it's just a weight on my mind. She was done there, anyway.
- Generally just...really friggin' tired all the time, due to that real life drama. It's ebbing down now, but still. Ugh. So tired all the time.
- Fucked your mom.

FUCKING AWESOMES:
- FUSED MARA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PERSONA 4
FELT SO VALIDATED GUYS
YOU HAVE NO IDEA
FUCKING MARA

So here's that talking aimlessly meme I should have done awhile ago! Shit was difficult over the last week and I really didn't have the proper levels of radical to do it properly. But here it is now!



And now, to bed.

Oh, Internet.

Feeling much better, too! Drive to write is back, RPing is going well, friends are back on track and I finally, finally finished Dragon Quest VIII after leaving it for about seven months. The urge to play the protag is...worrying. I'd really want a cast to play him off, though, and that's about as likely as a golden penguin.

Fallout 3 continues to amuse. Only in the Wasteland can ruthlessly murdering an entire town give you Good Karma, simply because they were slave-traders. Apparently there was an entire sub-quest where you go to a hidden orphanage and accept a quest to save the slave kids from the slaver town and THEN go there, but I had no idea of that. I just went in and killed them because SLAVE-TRADERS. B|

Anyway! Don't mind me, I just love the morality choices in that game. And the way the head explode. LET'S DO A MEME AND ALL MOVE ON.

Um. Right. Meme. I can find one of those. Surely the f-list has...wow, no they haven't. Weird. Alright, no prob. Uh...

OKAY. TELL ME WHAT SONG ~*REMINDS YOU OF ME*~. And why.

Links optional but highly encouraged!

OKAY SCRATCH THAT. Give me more questions for another TALKING AIMLESSLY MEME! Pyra has inspired me once again and I am so charming that I think I can make lightning strike twice, clearly.


Also: christ no I am not doing Nano. My motivation is far too sporadic to get one of those done, and bad writing happens when I force myself.

Holy shit, I created Apollo's account exactly one year ago. October 27th, 2008. Happy...anniversary? You've lasted longer than anyone else.

Though fff, I think I know why; I might have waxed lyrical about this to other people, but the boy really resonates with me like no-one else I've ever played. In a way, I look up to him. Despite all the bad things that have happened in his life, he goes forward with that passionate heart burning red and commits himself to what he does. He doesn't stand for lies and mistruths, and while I don't really want to be the stick in the mud he can be, I still admire his resolve. For a time, while I didn't find myself thinking 'what would Apollo do here?', I still ended up acting a bit like him. Same deal with Souji Seta, but for different reasons.

So yes. One year of being the Pollybug! Go me. Go him. ♥


EDIT:



...thanks, Internet. No, really.

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Here's those pictures I was talking about! None of me just in eyeliner, alas, but I'm sure you'll all survive.

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Now if my Internet connection doesn't speed up sometime soon, I swear I'm just about to break down into sobs. This is so frustrating, my god, how could dialup people ever handle this.

So I introed my made-it-for-the-heck-of-it Yosuke, thatjunessound, over at smtdressingroom. Just because I felt like it.

...is it worrying that he comes really easily to me?

Left the house at 9am yesterday; had to buy a costume for a bro's 21st that night. Was informed about this on Wednesday, but whatever.

Ran around the city like a headless chicken until I found a totally awesome zombie outfit. Rented that shit and ran into the birthday boy and his girlfriend (my best friend, by the by, the bro was just a bro by assocation at the beginning) and ended up picking up Kat #1 to head back to their place to help prepare.

Spent the next three or so hours running around with balloons and ribbons and shit, getting things ready. Was blasted before the party even started. By which I mean TIRED, not drunk. No-booze Christian family, you know how it is.

Got some ballin' zombie makeup done by Kat #1. Many pictures were taken which I will show you guys once they make the rounds at Facebook. Sang far too much karaoke. Imma let you finish'd the whole party.

Got home at 1am today and slept for four hours. Somehow still woke up at 5am. Goddamn body clock.

And now I have a ten-hour shift at work! This will probably end horribly at some point, but whatever.

Yesterday, I think, was good.


...I don't think I got all the eyeliner off, though. Tips for that?