Busy busy!

[merimask]

Just a quick update 'cause I am SO very busy now and it feels great!   A little success is better than turbo-powered coffee when it comes to motivation.  I'm having a hard time getting my sleep when I should 'cause I'm just cranking out the orders with glee I say...GLEE!

Though, I AM close to succumbing to the siren-song of Okami again...DAMN I love that game.  I have been working like a mad monkey & listening to the lovely Okami soundtrack that my dear buddy  moonphasedsent me.  Of course, the music follows along the storyline, so as I'm listening I'm saying "This is the song you hear when Amaterasu uses 'bloom' for the first time...this is Waka's fight theme...Ooo this is the part where Oki learns the meaning of loss", and of course it naturally follows that I want to play it again & see my old friends Ammy & Issun.  I've never played a game where I've been so utterly charmed by the fantasy world it immereses you in.  Which is saying a LOT considering how elaborate all the Final Fantasy games are.  Still, if I had to be trapped inside a video game (like in the movie "Tron"), I'd want it to be Okami.

Must...resist...Okami.  

In other news (fannish!  I'm tired & so my thoughts turn to fantasy I suppose) , I can't help but be excited about the way the Inuyasha manga is headed (I think...  Takahashi-san has a way of leading you down the path & then stranding you there).  Yay Kagome...you go girl.  Can't wait to see what happens.  I think I know where it's heading & it'd be SO cool (and ironic!) if I was right for once.  You never know though.  I suppose it's terribly Pollyanna-ish for me to still be excited about this manga, but I can't help it.  I just want to know what happens!  And what about Sesshoumaru?  I suppose he's still wandering around in a snit about that sword.  *sigh*  Poor Sess.

Funny thing;  Many times when I go to type "Sesshoumaru" I do it so fast that I hit the "y" instead of the "u"...and so I have to be careful & always check.  Because of this tendency I have, in my head I often think of him (especially when he's all moody & pouty & practically hormonal) as "Sesshoumary"...& that's not dignified!

Oh man...I need  rumdiculousto draw "Sesshoumary" for me.  To go along with "EmoSess".   Now I see why Rumiko Takahashi has been busily emasculating poor Sess in the manga...it's fun!   I do hope she tapes his balls back on soon though.  I feel so sorry for the poor guy.

Anyway, I've babbled enough.

Oh!  And a happy welcome extended tosilverontherose.  *waving* 

Comments

[indigos-angel.livejournal.com]

!!!!YAY!!!!!!!!!

I'm glad that you're so happy. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, because you're following your path so brilliantly :)

Love Elle

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Whee! It's so good to be busy & actually have a good REASON for it. ;-)

Thank you for the warm fuzzy thoughts...I'd rather spread cheer than angst & it bugged me to be all negative last week.

[moonphased.livejournal.com]

Hee!! :D I've always loved that video games can do that. Ookami and most of the Final Fantasy games always do that for me and the MUSIC! OMG, the music is so utterly gorgeous for both seriesusususs!! :D I think that's why I utterly adore people like Sakaguchi-san so much because his stories always have so much heart in them. :D

Ee! And I've totally been wanting to huggle and pounce on you for the last week in your entries! I'm so glad that you got some good responses on the packages you sent out!! I was starting to worry about your discouragement, but I really hope everything works out --- either way, I'm so glad to hear that you're busy and HAPPY!!

Me loffs happy meri!! Well, me loffs meri no matter what, but happy meri = happy kuro, too!! ♥ ^___^

As for Mr. Yasha there... XDDD OMG, POOR SESSHOUMARU!!! And!! I thought I was the only one who accidentally kept typoing his name "Sesshoumary." XD I do it all the time!! How undignifying!! Then again, you're right, he's been so thoroghly neutered in the manga, it's depressing.

Hehe, I've definitely got my own opinion on Kagome's development. ^^; I'm a little (well, a little more than a LITTLE) disappointed with the sudden "I have hidden skillz that have been sealed in me the whole time!" because it just felt too darn sudden for me. Like with Mama-sama, all this just happened so late in the game, and it was like, "So all those sword upgrades... really DON'T matter after all, do they?!!" XD Ah well, I was arguing with myself (as I am apt to do sometimes...) about how things like the sword upgrades were "necessary" to build Inuyasha's character and get himself and everyone else to accept his hanyouheritage, but even that doesn't seem to matter much anymore. RAWR!! XD

Kagome's mikoskillz were always kind of randomly there, and I actually thought that it was really cool for it to stay kind of unexplained. Or, if it needed an explaination, I'd have felt so much better if we'd have been made to kind of care about it waaaay long ago. ^^ But that's just me. :) It just feels like it was supposed to be a plot twist but somehow fell short on me. Aaaaaaaah. What happened to my Inuyasha lurve!?!

*clings to meri* I need to sypon some excitement off of you!! Aaahh!! *LOL*

BUT!! Mostly I just came by to randomly pounce you and say, I LOFFS YOUUuUUu!! :D

[merimask.livejournal.com]

That Ookami music is really, truly incredible stuff. I love it so much I want to grab strangers & make them listen to it. It does such a wonderful job of balancing dramatic orchestral music with traditional Japanese elements...and some of the songs are SO in character that you know immediately what the mood is & what's going on (I LOVE the Kusa village theme & the "fishing" songs). Really, I can never thank you enough for sending that to me. :-)

Hee! I like being happy too. I hate being a downer in my own journal, but I have to say it DOES help one to focus & think more clearly about a problem. Everyone was so supportive & sweet and that really means a lot when you're at a crossroads & feeling a bit panicky.

*pounce* I luffs you too! You're my very favorite far-away friend! :-D

[silverontherose.livejournal.com]

*bounces on you like a super-cute kitsune version of Issun*

Noes! You can't resist Okami! How will the laundry get hung or the radishes dug if you do not play? There's fish to catch and kimonos to dye... *weeps* You must give in and save the busty babes!

*giggles and waves back* Thanks for having me, lovely Meri!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

lol! Oh man there are animals to feed and trees to bloom and races to win (omg I totally own that final race in Wep'kir...I beat her in just three tries last time I played *proud*).

You know, if you feed all the animals...nothing spectacular happens. :-/ I was a little disappointed 'bout that. You just get cash when you get praise...& by then you sort of don't really need the money.

Welcome! I'm afraid I'm only occasionally witty, but I do try to be interesting most of the time. ;-)

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Yay, yay, yay. Yay!

I'm always surprised how happy I am for my LJ friends' successes. You'd think I'd be jealous and I've only realized in the past year that I am NOT a jealous person and *never* feel jealous of other people's accomplishments even if they are ones I would like myself.

I find it weird, anyway.

I hope you get a bunch of galleries in TO (or anything really) after you do that Artist show :) I really have to go down to TO sometime to see these big ol' artist conventions, I LOVE shopping for weird art stuff. (Especially jewellery, of course, I am a huge fan of really freaky, unusual jewellery.)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

*hug* You're so sweet. :-)

I hate being angsty in my journal...it stresses me out to think that I might be bringing people down or sounding whiny (I know you feel that way about your LJ too). However, I have to say it REALLY helped to vent & get some encouragement & help from all of you. It sucks to be alone with a problem. Being able to write about it here is a wonderful outlet.

I hope that if I do this show in Toronto (the lead you sent me was excellent!), you might be able to come see me. :-) That'd be wonderful fun. Plus, anyone who's ever hung out with me at a show can tell you...we have a great time! (Shveta, Rummi, & Eloise can all testify)

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

Hi! She's right - hanging out at the booth is fun! Of course, my exposure has been SCA and I-Con, so there's the additional entertainment of watching the freaks. But playing friend-of-the-artist/hanger-on is tons of fun. AND you get to fondle the merchandise - and it's way cooler in person than in pictures.

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

Poor Sessh. He couldn't get anything to go right for him even if he had a lucky horse shoe shoved up his...hakama.

I'm stuck in Okami. lol For some reason I can't beat Blockhead at Ogre Island. wtf? I hit the right spots and it doesn't want me to have it. (I made it through just fine the first time.)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Sess is just so pathetic right now that it hurts. I hope this is the prelude to a rally in which he beats the crap out of everyone...but who knows? I keep fearing that he'll get tossed aside like Kouga and Kagura and Kikyo. The only thing he has going for him is that his name doesn't start with a "k".

Ack! That sucks about Okami. Enlist the help of your Dad. Ask him to remember the first three dots...you remember the last three & between the two of you, you should be able to get it. I HATED the last blockhead in Wep'kir. The only way I beat him was with Charlotte's help & it still took a dozen tries.

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Kouga's dead? (By that theory, Kagome mmust be next...)

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

Last time I checked he just gave up and left. I think he told Kagome, "Well if you DO happen to change your mind, hit me up" or some b.s. I was so upset that he left so...abruptly. It was nice having him stick around the group and I got all excited because I thought that maybe that all important ending was coming up and everyone was going to do some Naraku-ass-kickery. But no. Weapon upgrade got in the way.

All characters with the name starting with a K seem to get swept to the side.

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

That would be the best ending ever. Sesshoumaru just kills everyone. XD Ok, not so much but him whooping on Naraku would be nice to see. Instead of getting smacked around by a mere minion.

And Naraku, wtf mate? Another minion? You've got to be shitting me. Just get on with the final battle already.

OMG I have the memory of a tadpole. This is why I can't beat blockhead!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I have a theory! Did you notice the new minion's arm? His super stripey cool arm that looks almost EXACTLY like the one Sess lost to Inu in that fight they had at the start of all the sword soap-opera crap? THAT arm?

Yep. I just think Sess might get his balls AND his arm back. It's just a theory (but if you look you'll see Takahashi-san REALLY showing off that arm...& it's a left arm too). Hmm!