(This was all written last week except for the last few paragraphs.)
I'm currently playing "Cough Syrup" on loop since other songs keep getting stuck in my head that I'd rather not have stuck in my head right now. *silly shrug*
I can't believe I forgot to mention last week that I saw (most of) Kung Fu Panda 3, and loved it! I was more into it than most of the kids there, I think. (It was cool hearing some of them speak Arabic.) They were showing it in my neighborhood with a projector against the wall of the building I live in, so we could literally see everyone from our kitchen window. It's a great movie, just like Broranges said!
After the last post, I contemplated on Adelin and Merritt, and tried to figure out what they looked like. I now have a pretty good idea of both in regards to looks, but I'm still having a hard time with personalities.
If you thought I stopped the gross iPod doodles a long time ago, you're wrong. (Though, admittedly, I rarely do that nowadays.)
I then had the idea that, for whatever reason, she decided to upcycle one of her favorite childhood dresses into a shirt when she was older. This is the really bad attempt at representing a few of the ideas to accomplish that:
It's a lot easier to understand with the pencil drawings I did after these doodles:
As you can see, the style of the dress is now clearly not a kimono (that had been on accident... it seemed weird to make her unintentionally look Japanese when she's actually not), but the form is still different from how dresses usually were. I wanted the point to be that the dress had a very loose-fitting design, thus making it easier to make it look decent in the future.
I figured maybe the reason why she does this in the first place is because he lost a lot of her precious possessions in a disaster, like a fire or flood, and a few things from her childhood were all that survived. And, well, maybe she has a really hard time letting go of the past, and wants to carry it around somehow. (Does that sound familiar? *wiggles eyebrows while holding up Ed's pocket watch*)
So yeah. She does some cutting and sewing and all on the dress, successfully makes it a rather unique shirt, and then just wears dark blue skinny jeans and combat boots or something like that. I felt like she should probably have metal somewhere, like an extravagant piece on her arm or just a necklace- likely gold, not silver- but I'm not quite sure on that. I also had the idea that Merritt might've given this thing to her, which is why she treasures it so much. (Yep. I think they have known each other for a long time.)
As for Merritt, I think he was actually kinda a rich kid, but wasn't really a big fan of that fact. He generally just did things to make his parents happy, like dress how they want him to dress and be polite, but he had moments of rebellion, like refusing to cut his hair or go to fancy-pants parties.
That's as far as I know, though, really. I just don't know what he'd be like when he's older. Like, he'd probably still dress kind of nice because he's too used to that, but wouldn't do everything he was forced to do as a kid. But he's also more mature than Adelin/Adelyn, so it wouldn't be like he's a rebel without a cause it something. He's frustrating me.
This is him when he's older, because the face for that doodle actually came out decent. (The other's so bad I don't dare to show it. Yeah. That bad.) His hair was once blond, but it darkened into brown over the course of his childhood.
I'm too lazy to crop my pinkie out.
He's a bit of a chubby kid. That goes away when he's older.
Alrighty, now onto the actual week! Dang, I took a longer time with that than I expected I would... The fact that I'm also texting Carter isn't helping.
On Monday, my aunt took us to Olive Garden, supposedly as a late celebration of my birthday. I don't think me, my mom, and my sis had ever gone to that restaurant. We liked the food a lot more than we thought we would. The plates were also HUUUGE. I was overstuffed with just half of my pasta (and I'd been ordered to finish my soup before that arrived, so how I even managed to eat that much...).
I finally got to the most recent episodes of Adventure Time and RWBY. Just like Carter had said... Dang, the third season is pretty dang dark. AT had quite some interesting episodes of varying genres, like usual, so I'm glad about that. They also revisited some important events and famous episodes from a long time ago, so that was cool. I plan to rewatch the episodes about his flower arm, because I just never really grasped what happened with that... But it was still kinda cool. (Martin isn't, though. He's never cool.)
The day after, my sis went on a trip with some of her friends to St. George, and just came back today... As expected, they did some fun stuff, but there was also a lot of drama with one of her friends. I'm secretly a little happy I turned down the invitation to go with them...
I noticed something really odd. At some point that week, I didn't really feel inclined to read fics... And that was a little disconcerting because I basically always want to be reading fics. That meant my boredom meter rose. A lot. I kinda coaxed myself back into reading a few at some point, and now I'm back to my normal self. Is it bad I feel relieved? People who don't understand the greatness of fics probably would've been glad that I stopped!
Though I guess it's good that I was a little less inclined to read online, since it meant I was more inclined to read actual books once we got a few new ones at the library. Among what I got, there was:
Kagerou Daze. I'd seen a clip (in an AMV) of one of the characters in this manga's anime adaptation, which is what inclined me to check out the books. They actually have a rather interesting premise, so I plan to continue with it.
The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire Graphic Novel. I'd read the first of the graphic novels years ago, so I was pleased to see that this one had come out. I think what annoyed me about the second and third book in the series, though, is that there is technically, like, a dozen people Carter and Sadie are taking care of, but very few actually get any spotlight on them at all. We just know their names and place of origin. It felt kinda pointless to be saying that was part of the Kanes' lives, but not actually ever focus on that? I mean, I think it'd be cool if another book came out that was more like slice-of-life of everyone in the Mansion, and we could learn about everybody and what they do.
Kasumi. Yet more manga. I'm a little more unsure about this one. It's cool, but the background (being straight-up magic) is not as appealing to me as that of Kagerou Daze. But that's just personal preference.
Okay, I'm just gonna post this now so I don't lose this work, as so often happens when I type this up on my iPod. The rest of the week shall be talked about in the next post.
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