Monday, June 25, 2001,08:27 a.m.

"If fate has already been decided, can nothing against it be done? The end and the future are one, but we keep on living...for the future." ~"X"

Yes, and if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college

deep breath... best Lewis Black impression...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN??!??!?!?!!?!?!?

I seriously just cannot escape X. It's everywhere I look... on pages, blogs... and now people are even using the "ambiguity and contradiction posing as deep thought" on their e-mail tags.
It hurts, mommy... it hurts... or to quote the always disturbing Dilendau from Escaflowne: It stings, it stings, it stings.

A month-long drought suddenly gives way to two chapters on one night... and the vicious little hack writer toils on. : D

Saturday, June 23, 2001,01:13 p.m.

Why do I even pick up True Crime books? All they ever do is make me edgy, pissed off and paranoid.
Oh wait, I'm always pissed off.

Thursday, June 21, 2001,01:43 p.m.

Where is my Spent Casings link?! I /hate/ this two computers/one hookup thing... >.<
Thursday, June 21, 2001,09:27 a.m.

It really amazes me that we found /another/ "older woman with enormous breasts has crush on boy much younger than her, causing much comic hijinks and American censors gnashing of teeth" series to take the place of the one we just finished in club. (In this case, Steel Angel Karumi for Photon: the Idiot Adventures)
... and wow, I still suck at DDR on the big screen. One day, I swear, no matter what it takes, Paranoia will fear me.
Wednesday, June 20, 2001,04:02 p.m.

Did I mention that me, Ann and Heather all saw the giant horse... and Escaflowne... and Food Fight?
... giant horse...

God, I need a Slurpee.

Wednesday, June 20, 2001,03:10 p.m.

Just finished "The White Bone," a story of elephant life told from their point of view. Much more realistic and fully-formed than Watership Down (I read about 2/3 of it before losing my page and never finding it again) or Tailchaser's song (though I loved that too.) Somehow, it felt much more real and authentic, not simply humans in elephant bodies. I dunno... 'twas good.
Wednesday, June 20, 2001,03:06 p.m.

I was looking at your site again Lunar . I still can't believe all that stuff has gone up in the time I've known you. Damn woman, what are you on and where can I get some?!
... and I'm taking no responsibility for continued Ashely torture. The Gina-caused Sydney torture, I'm fine with, ; ) but the Ashely torture is all you.

... and someday I /won't/ go and spoil all the surprises before you read the chapter, I hope. hee hee

Wednesday, June 20, 2001,12:44 p.m.

Kurai , I'd have to say go with the snake... and I like the new look too. Ever think of doing something in yellow? Maybe with that crazy redheaded chick in your original sketches? (I've been trying to write a story with her and Petra but they keep destroying too much stuff to leave any scenery for a plot or anything... )
I wish I could get something accomplished, but I keep running into roadblocks. Man, it just sucks...

Well, if Lilack can rant about Tokyo Babylon and X, then so can I... not that anyone cares or that it matters in the least... in fact, I'm just doing this for me, all the rest of you just skip this entry.

The many, many reasons I hate X and Tokyo Babylon:

1. I can't get away from it. I swear, I wouldn't even be writing this if every time I didn't turn around, there wasn't a new picture up on someone's site.

2. X has really gorgeous art, and I thought they really outdid themselves in book 16. Damn them for not having a story to back it up.

3. Killing children and frail girls with heart conditions in such dramatic manners is equivalent to throwing a bulldozer onto a butterfly. Just yell "Boo!"

(and sorry for the redundancy, Ann but maybe if I get this all out in one blog I'll finally shut up about it.

4. Picking as your targets overly kind-hearted children and childhood friends who will do anything but fight you (and weigh about 6 pounds soaking wet) does NOT make you a badass. It makes you pathetic.

5. The hand through the chest thing was cool the first dozen times it was used. Come on, just get a Glock and cap one or two in the head, please?

6. Where the hell is this story going?! I mean, it's fairly safe to assume it's not going to follow the plot of the movie (what plot, actually) but come on... not only is it not going anywhere, it's going there slower than my dead grandmother.

7. Why are they so obsessed with people weeping, draping and bleeding in artistic ways? Fight! Fight damn it! Stop whining, grab something sharp and FIGHT!!!

8. Natalie Baan's Sakura and Snow is so much better than the actual story, it's a damn shame she isn't CLAMP. (and I'll read anything she writes, whether I like or even know the series or not... she's just an amazingly talented writer who writes such complex stories you can't help but read them.) It's too bad writers can't go to war if they think they could tell the story better (although I think Lunar could take me in hand-to-hand (especially if she was sans popsicle) so maybe that isn't a good idea.

9. All the side characters in X are lost in the shuffle, when many of them are much cooler than Kamui is, except when he was badass, an attitude he's apprarantly misplaced for the rest of the series. >.<

10. It's just dull. The tragedy just goes on and on and on and on and on and you /know/ the ending's going to suck and none of it seems to have any hope or point at all... and why the hell would anyone want to read that stuff?! (and yes, this is a very personal grudge. I like stories that provide hope, or at least are not a series of continual downers... books aren't real life for a reason.)

Yeah well now I'm getting mopey so I'll shut up. Next time maybe I'll remember to make a sidebar listing of my favorite web comics and talk a little bit about World's End Wonderland (so pretty, so obvious, so much I can't understand because I can't read Japanese... >.<)

Being pissed off and scatterbrained is a hell of a way to go through the day.

Sunday, June 17, 2001,10:25 p.m.

lookit me... a new layout. : )

current obsessions

Dance Dance Revolution and actually /finishing/ a chapter of something... argh! ... and buying Amano's "Biten" artbook

music

Escaflowne soundtrack

Twig

writer, artist, egomonkey, keeper of angels

AIM

TwigBrnch

website

The Academy

e-mail

TwigBrnch@aol.com

blog, baby!

Takoyaki Journals

Tea Time for the Bishop

Viva Hate

narcissistic anima

K's handy little rantbin

velvetpaws

Neil Gaiman

pitas.com

Will she ever shut up?!

All I'm saying is, if you look at Seishiro's body count, not only is he not in the double digits (I don't think) but his scorecard includes such highlights as a little girl, some other chick and his mother.

Watch me tremble in fear.

If I was running little grannies over with my station wagon, I could be a badass too.




		Monday, June 25, 2001,08:27 a.m. "If fate has already been decided, can nothing against it be done? The end and the future are one, but we keep on living...for the future." ~"X" Yes, and if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college deep breath... best Lewis Black impression... WHAT DOES IT MEAN??!??!?!?!!?!?!? I seriously just cannot escape X. It's everywhere I look... on pages, blogs... and now people are even using the "ambiguity and contradiction posing as deep thought" on their e-mail tags. It hurts, mommy... it hurts... or to quote the always disturbing Dilendau from Escaflowne: It stings, it stings, it stings. A month-long drought suddenly gives way to two chapters on one night... and the vicious little hack writer toils on. : D Saturday, June 23, 2001,01:13 p.m. Why do I even pick up True Crime books? All they ever do is make me edgy, pissed off and paranoid. Oh wait, I'm always pissed off. Thursday, June 21, 2001,01:43 p.m. Where is my Spent Casings link?! I /hate/ this two computers/one hookup thing... >.< Thursday, June 21, 2001,09:27 a.m. It really amazes me that we found /another/ "older woman with enormous breasts has crush on boy much younger than her, causing much comic hijinks and American censors gnashing of teeth" series to take the place of the one we just finished in club. (In this case, Steel Angel Karumi for Photon: the Idiot Adventures) ... and wow, I still suck at DDR on the big screen. One day, I swear, no matter what it takes, Paranoia will fear me. Wednesday, June 20, 2001,04:02 p.m. Did I mention that me, Ann and Heather all saw the giant horse... and Escaflowne... and Food Fight? ... giant horse... God, I need a Slurpee. Wednesday, June 20, 2001,03:10 p.m. Just finished "The White Bone," a story of elephant life told from their point of view. Much more realistic and fully-formed than Watership Down (I read about 2/3 of it before losing my page and never finding it again) or Tailchaser's song (though I loved that too.) Somehow, it felt much more real and authentic, not simply humans in elephant bodies. I dunno... 'twas good. Wednesday, June 20, 2001,03:06 p.m. I was looking at your site again Lunar . I still can't believe all that stuff has gone up in the time I've known you. Damn woman, what are you on and where can I get some?! ... and I'm taking no responsibility for continued Ashely torture. The Gina-caused Sydney torture, I'm fine with, ; ) but the Ashely torture is all you. ... and someday I /won't/ go and spoil all the surprises before you read the chapter, I hope. hee hee Wednesday, June 20, 2001,12:44 p.m. Kurai , I'd have to say go with the snake... and I like the new look too. Ever think of doing something in yellow? Maybe with that crazy redheaded chick in your original sketches? (I've been trying to write a story with her and Petra but they keep destroying too much stuff to leave any scenery for a plot or anything... ) I wish I could get something accomplished, but I keep running into roadblocks. Man, it just sucks... Well, if Lilack can rant about Tokyo Babylon and X, then so can I... not that anyone cares or that it matters in the least... in fact, I'm just doing this for me, all the rest of you just skip this entry. The many, many reasons I hate X and Tokyo Babylon: 1. I can't get away from it. I swear, I wouldn't even be writing this if every time I didn't turn around, there wasn't a new picture up on someone's site. 2. X has really gorgeous art, and I thought they really outdid themselves in book 16. Damn them for not having a story to back it up. 3. Killing children and frail girls with heart conditions in such dramatic manners is equivalent to throwing a bulldozer onto a butterfly. Just yell "Boo!" (and sorry for the redundancy, Ann but maybe if I get this all out in one blog I'll finally shut up about it. 4. Picking as your targets overly kind-hearted children and childhood friends who will do anything but fight you (and weigh about 6 pounds soaking wet) does NOT make you a badass. It makes you pathetic. 5. The hand through the chest thing was cool the first dozen times it was used. Come on, just get a Glock and cap one or two in the head, please? 6. Where the hell is this story going?! I mean, it's fairly safe to assume it's not going to follow the plot of the movie (what plot, actually) but come on... not only is it not going anywhere, it's going there slower than my dead grandmother. 7. Why are they so obsessed with people weeping, draping and bleeding in artistic ways? Fight! Fight damn it! Stop whining, grab something sharp and FIGHT!!! 8. Natalie Baan's Sakura and Snow is so much better than the actual story, it's a damn shame she isn't CLAMP. (and I'll read anything she writes, whether I like or even know the series or not... she's just an amazingly talented writer who writes such complex stories you can't help but read them.) It's too bad writers can't go to war if they think they could tell the story better (although I think Lunar could take me in hand-to-hand (especially if she was sans popsicle) so maybe that isn't a good idea. 9. All the side characters in X are lost in the shuffle, when many of them are much cooler than Kamui is, except when he was badass, an attitude he's apprarantly misplaced for the rest of the series. >.< 10. It's just dull. The tragedy just goes on and on and on and on and on and you /know/ the ending's going to suck and none of it seems to have any hope or point at all... and why the hell would anyone want to read that stuff?! (and yes, this is a very personal grudge. I like stories that provide hope, or at least are not a series of continual downers... books aren't real life for a reason.) Yeah well now I'm getting mopey so I'll shut up. Next time maybe I'll remember to make a sidebar listing of my favorite web comics and talk a little bit about World's End Wonderland (so pretty, so obvious, so much I can't understand because I can't read Japanese... >.<) Being pissed off and scatterbrained is a hell of a way to go through the day. Sunday, June 17, 2001,10:25 p.m. lookit me... a new layout. : )		current obsessions Dance Dance Revolution and actually /finishing/ a chapter of something... argh! ... and buying Amano's "Biten" artbook music Escaflowne soundtrack Twig writer, artist, egomonkey, keeper of angels AIM TwigBrnch website The Academy e-mail TwigBrnch@aol.com blog, baby! Takoyaki Journals Tea Time for the Bishop Viva Hate narcissistic anima K's handy little rantbin velvetpaws Neil Gaiman pitas.com Will she ever shut up?! Grrl Scout layout Kaworu Nagisa layout Utena layout Meryl Strife layout All I'm saying is, if you look at Seishiro's body count, not only is he not in the double digits (I don't think) but his scorecard includes such highlights as a little girl, some other chick and his mother. Watch me tremble in fear. If I was running little grannies over with my station wagon, I could be a badass too.