This was a bit of an eventful week, and I'm not really sure where to start. I guess I'll begin with that everything's being packed away.
It's always weird to watch everything disappear a little at a time. The house becomes empty yet messy at the same time. It makes you realize just how much you own and wonder why you ever let yourself accumulate all of that stuff... *tick mark*
And that's not the sad part, just the annoying part. No, the sad is telling everyone you're going. And for a lot of people they had literally no idea until the last minute.
I gave Coatrack a huge hug along with a few other closer friends in my last days. One was a friend that I don't think I ever gave a nickname... But he looks kinda like Carter from The Kane Chronicles, so I'll call him that. I knew I was definitely friends with him, but we didn't really hang out as much during classes or lunch or anything, it was more like every once in a while. So I was surprised and a bit saddened that when we later texted he told me how sad he is that I'm going and that he already misses me. *tearful pout* Sweetieee, Y U DO DIS TO MEH?!
For the majority of Thursday and Friday, my dad was out on an interview in Utah, so Mom and I were by ourselves to get some packing done. And... it brought back some nice memories.
We were on our own without my dad and sis for the last weeks of Alabama, and we were on our own for the road trip aaaaall the way to the other side of the country. We learned a lot and grew closer during that time when we only had each other. It was also nice to find out that we could make it on our own if me and my mom had to be together for some reason or another in the future.
So yeah. It reminded me of our last moments in the South, though this time certainly didn't last as long.
I feel so bad, though, that I wasn't as useful as I always wish I could be, but- especially on Friday- I kept distracting myself. There hadn't really been anything to do on FFN that day, and so I decided to go look at a bit of Tumblr... and I was sucked in for eternity. Seriously, I had downloaded and screenshoted- if I was counting correctly- over 80 pics related to FMA within that day, plus a small amount (like 6?) of screenshots for non-FMA material. Plus I got about 24 more yesterday, I think. So I've seriously gotta be careful about Tumblr, oh my gosh.
At least a good thing about this trip through FMA Tumblr is that I managed to not see those inappropriate things that I sometimes ran into by accident that made me regret everything. The closest was tags for yaoi ships, but nothing was even really happening in the pic besides the two standing closer to each other than they would in canon, practically. Wow, I am SO glad I didn't see... Blegh.
Anyway... Yeah. I was quite sucked in Tumblrland and it was so hard to get out of it. I never really did (even when the missionaries came to start loading up boxes) until at the end of the day, when my dad came back and we went out to eat. (Turns out the Pad Thai at that restaurant was a lot spicier than I remembered.) Tumblr is very addicting, kids.
Ugh... Oh dear. So I'd planned to email more of my Graphic Design stuff to myself, but I forgot to in the end until it was too late. So one thing I may not actually get to show you guys- unless in the future we own a computer that isn't just my dad's that has Photoshop and I can download the .jpeg version of the file out of that- and the other I'll have to take pics of.
So, one thing we did is that at the end of the semester, he let us make designs to iron onto a shirt. I hadn't been entirely sure what to make, but then I remembered my Wattpad profile pic. So, I put my Wattpad profile pic onto a shirt.
You like??? *wink*
It's at the bottom corner of the shirt, so that when I use this shirt underneath others the design won't show, but I can still wear it by itself if I wanted to! Yay clever!
There's another one (dang it, I really wish I emailed the original version to myself!) that I made when we were making logos. I decided to make it so that one way it could be read as "FMA" but the other way as "WFAM" (cuz, you know, gotta start advertising for a story that isn't even actually written yet) plus give it kinda the feel of a transmutation circle. This is the one that's ready to be ironed onto something if I ever decide to actually do that:
Above is the trial run, below us that actual iron-on paper. So on a shirt or whatever the letters would be reversed (of course) and it'd look all cool.
At the end of Commader Zucchini's last chapter for her awesome Modern AU fic, she said "review and Al will have an autographed drawing of a cat for you". And then she decided to make that a reality.
I was the first to review and at the end I'd been like "Gimme dat kitteh, Al!" or something like that, but I hadn't thought something would come out of that! And Commander Zucchini was so cool that she followed through!
I might be overreacting, but it was just such an awesome surprise and it reminds me again of just how great fanfic writers can be. They're so nice and adorable and we all basically become friends with each other because we all review to each other and sometimes even do more than that, like send fanart to each other and stuff like that. Doesn't that sound like a great community? It's one of the reasons why I like FFN- or at least my little corner of it, with all the other FMA lovers and a few other random fandoms I dabble in. Sometimes the fandom feels a bit dead, but these awesome people are actually keeping it going, and new people join in all the time. And my trip through FMA Tumblr reminded me that the fandom really as dead as I'd thought. Sooo many people are a part of it and are as obsessed as me!
I actually found out on Facebook a few days ago about a site called HitRecord that also seems like a cool community, on where everyone inspires each other and pushes each other to keep creating. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before, but oh well. I was thinking maybe once we're all settled down then I'll consider joining that website too. Hopefully, at that point I'll get to focus more on writing and doodling and stuff like that. I don't wanna leave FFN, but this new site could also be a good opportunity. We'll see what happens.
I was gonna talk a bit more about the new collab fic, but Liz is waiting for me to write some more on it (apparently, she forgot that I mentioned not wanting to do fic stuff on Sunday, but I guess there isn't really any harm in writing a bit more in ours since neither of us are comfortable with much swearing and romantic stuff. Hopefully, the battle scene will be left for tommorow). Therefore, I'll just mention that last night I learned a pair of American girls had created a new Vocaloid named Ruby a few months ago, and she's used for English songs (though I guess she wouldn't sound too bad in Japanese, either). I listened to a few covers people have already used her for, and she's definitely interesting to listen to. It's just the first version of her so some things need tweaking in fluidity- she has a lot of lilts while singing, and it actually makes me thinking of Irish singers even though she's American) but otherwise I like her. I hope she starts becoming popular. Maybe someday she'll actually have her own PVs and hologram concerts and stuff one day...
I tried to explain to my dad what Vocaloid is. He was unimpressed. (He called it "cheating".)
That's all for now! Bai!
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