Happy Belated 4th of July!
Another apostle has passed away. *tear* Boyd K. Packer! We'll miss both of you! My Sunday School teacher showed us part of the last General Conference talk he shared, and it was about the Atonement. He said Packer must've felt that his time was ending and wanted to give us a final reminder of what he thought was most important. Everyone in the General Presidency is such a sweetie! I love watching all of them speak.
While it's sad to lose these great leaders, it also means that at the next General Conference we will be able to meet new ones that we will come to love! The teacher mentioned earlier said he hoped one of them would be Mexican. *conspiratorial wink and giggle*
I highly recommend Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus. I read this book today and loved it. It is such a crazy story and it's true! I wanted to tell my sis everything that happened in the book and get her as excited and amazed as I am! Too bad she seemed uninterested... I think it had to do with the book having to do with Japan, since by now she seems pretty bugged by that kind of thing because I like Japanese stuff. She's probably like "Not again!" Not my fault Japan's cool and makes for interesting stories! *sassy snap*
Dude, Manjiro is, like, my hero! *gushing a small amount of fangirliness* And the Captain is pretty cool, too.
The only part I wanted to complain about was that he never went out with his crush! Or at least we could've been told about who he actually married... Gosh, am I really turning into a romantic? Well, I'm definitely not as bad as some *coughmostcough* girls I've met... And some guys like Darkrai.
Speaking of... Darkrai, where are you? I hope you're just busy, not in a bad place... I hope you know, bud, that I'm totally up for texting sometime if you want to.
Okay, stuff I did outside of reading! *yay*
On Friday, we all went to Seaside, which is basically next to Cannon Beach. Seaside has more of a variety of things like restaurants, stores, and other things besides being out in the sand, but Cannon Beach is prettier. The sand was also really hot and burned my sister's feet. *tear* At least she got something else out of going to Seaside... She got her first henna tattoo! It's a turtle on her ankle. She was disappointed I didn't want to get one too (same as when I don't want to dye my hair) but we both still think the creature on her skin dubbed Mr. Turtle is cool.
Honestly, I actually had been thinking of getting a specific henna tattoo in a certain place... Wouldn't it have been FREAKING AWESOME if I got Al's blood seal on the back of my neck? Just a little one, as little as it could be, in a place where some shirts would cover it and some wouldn't.
There's problems with that, the biggest one being that no one would get it. The amount of people that like anime in the world is surprising, but it's still not really that many people once you compare it to the vast majority. The henna artist (most likely) wouldn't get it, my family wouldn't get it- any otakus roaming the school might get it, but I haven't even gone to school here yet, and it would be gone by the time I did anyway! (There's also the fact that my hair would probably cause problems while it was being drawn and while it was drying. And, even though it's only temporary, I just really have a hard time imagining myself with a tattoo of any sort. Same with dying my hair! It's just not me. I'd appreciate it if you didn't push me to do something so I look like someone I'm not.)
I don't think I've mentioned this awesome person on Tumblr: rollingthediices. (I don't even have a Tumblr account and I know how awesome they are. I feel like that should mean something.) They make cool FMA art, stuff I really hope with all my heart will end up catching on in FFN and become unofficial headcanons there.
One is FireBreathing!Roy/Dragon!Roy. Basically, he doesn't use his fire alchemy gloves (or at least doesn't have to use them). He has the fire alchemy circle tattooed on his neck- on the front, not the back. So when he uses his fire alchemy, fire shoots out his mouth, not his hands. He breathes fire. (There's also another AU made as a joke where Roy is just a dragon with a wig.)
Yeah. Awesome.
And later on Friday, I checked up on their site to see if they have made anything else that'll make my life, and I saw something that made me nearly pee my pants from laughing.
Just... see it for yourself. Go to rollingthediices.tumblr.com and look up the tag #fma crop top movement. Do it and you will not regret.
Anyway, when I found this golden treasure (I died at the pic of Al), I wanted- no, I needed- to share it with someone who would appreciate this just as much as me. I considered Facebook- no, imagine what would happen if Grandma got curious and clicked on it? A few relatives already got upset over me and my sis watching Dexter for a few days. I considered putting it in an AN on "Visiting Homeland"- no, not enough people read that. And just publihing something new that tells people to go look at the page wouldn't work either. Same with Wattpad. Someone just barely commented on "Family History" on that site. The first someone.
Hey! I thought. How about I find a really popular page on Facebook about FMA or at least sometimes posts about FMA and tell them about #fma crop top movement so they can tell their followers?
I tried a few different character names, then I settled with just typing in the search bar "Fullmetal Alchemist" and seeing if there's anything really popular. Sadly, I didn't really find a page with enough likes for me to believe they'd spread the word successfully. Though, my search ended up with me finding something else...
Old statuses from my old friend. Back from before I even owned a Facebook account. Probably before I'd even met her. And she posted she was watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. 3 different times.
No. Way.
I never knew she had ever been into anime when we were friends. True, I myself hadn't become a fan until after our friendship had basically ended... But if I'd known, who knows how everything could've been. Maybe I would've ended up watching more animes and seen them a lot sooner. Maybe I would've met different people in middle school. Maybe we'd still be friends...
I actually considered sending the rollingthediices link to her by FB Messaging, to see if our friendship would start up again... I actually started writing the message. I thought it was a bad, maybe horrible, idea- I mean, how awkward is it to not talk to someone for a few years then they show up out of the blue sending you weird fanart for a show you watched a long time ago? Yeah... I dunno what happened, but my message got erased before I finished typing. I took that as a sign that I shouldn't send it, and didn't try again.
Man, dude, I haven't even talked about what happened yesterday! (Wear the flag colors with PRIDE! But please don't have any clothing articles like American flag leggings...) My family went to watch Inside Out. It made me cry near the end. (♪Tears come streaming down your face...♪) WHY, PIXAR?!
But seriously, it was a good movie. My dad commented afterwards that it actually wasn't far off from how the mind really works, and was kinda more directed to adults in a sense. We all laughed pretty hard at some parts and others just made me smile big because it was so cute. It's not the kind of movie I'll watch a gazillion times... But it's not one to just watch once in your lifetime either.
After that we went to the mall, but we just ended up in H&M and then leaving again. *shrug* While there, I got two plain shirts (it's astounding how many I have- as in, I only had maximum 3 plain tees until I got these) and a cool red, white, and blue jacket. It doesn't look cheesy and patriotic, actually, though I suspect I'll use it around Independence Day next year besides all the other times I will wear it.
Super lame, I know, but I actually never saw fireworks. I didn't go outside last night. I opted for reading a Gravity Falls fic ("Walk the Line") that's actually a bit scary. As you get further into the story, you watch Dipper become more and more like Bill... And not once can you figure out where the author is actually going with the story. I'm still not sure what direction it's taking. But it gets you hooked.
I've got things ready for when we go to Mexico- well, just my iPod. I actually went and copy-and-pasted WIP stories into my iPod Notes so I'll get to add to them while at Abuelita's house. "Visiting Homeland", of course, is top priority, but, along with "Speak No Feeling" and the FMAxLab Rats crossover I already had there, I put "Waiting For a Sign", "No Light, No Light", "Adventure Time With Ed and Al" (I hope that, if I ever post this crossover, by then I would've thought of a more creative title)... and I even added "Two Souls, One Armor", even though that work is a few years old by now (right?) and is on a permanent hiatus... Or it was, at least. I dunno, maybe I can find little things to improve flow of what's there, find inspiration in it for VH, maybe suddenly take it out of hiatus and start really working on it... And, if nothing else, it'll be something to read. I still have "Mai's StoryZ" in my Notes for the same reason- to read when there's nothing better to do, and see if I've really improved. Yep, I have definitely improved from that era in my life. Even though I still feel like my work is pitiful compared to some authors, at least it isn't like that anymore. Gosh, I was once a bit proud of that work, and now I know it's not actually that good. It has its moments, but it's mainly rushed and all over the place, changing direction and being a bit aimless at the same time... Wait, that last part sounds like my current work too. Oh dear.
See ya after Girl's Camp! K bai!
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