Ramblings and Musings of the Insane, Philosophical Ladybug

I actually had another dream that was useful! It was so sad, but I loved it all the same and I wanted to see if I could get a blurb out of it, so I tried and I came up with this:

( Pull the Trigger )


And I've been debating on posting this for a while, but I finally have decided that I will. XD; It's a Monkees blurb from that fic I was talking about. It's a later scene, and incidentally, I've since started writing it from the beginning and it's coming along great. This scene here goes back and forth between seriousness and humor, as some of the greatest Monkees episodes (The Devil and Peter Tork) did. It's been a long time since I've written for them, but it felt natural to slip back into it. ^^ It also feels good to write for them with more detail than I used to.


( Return of Baby Face )


And I remembered another reason why I'm not extremely fond of season 2. It seemed that sometimes Micky's and Peter's roles reversed and they tried to make Micky the dummy while Peter would rag on him. XD; That just seems wrong for their characters. I know that Peter was getting tired of playing the dummy character, and I don't blame him, but I don't like having his character insulting Micky like he did in episodes such as The Monkees Watch Their Feet and The Monkey's Paw. It just seems OOC. I can't imagine season 1 Peter doing that. And I also can't imagine Micky being as stupid as they tried to make him seem sometimes in season 2. ("They won't learn much from him. He doesn't know much.") He seemed quite intelligent in season 1.

I finally got a picture of Apollo and Veleda drawn. ^^ I also threw in Damen, a mischievous, preteen doppelganger who idolizes Apollo. I just came up with his character on Saturday evening. XD

ADVfilms.com is having another anime sale. ^^ I decided to buy Saiyuki volumes 7 and 8, plus another one of Sakura Wars. They're still out of 1 and 2, and I have 3, so I got 4.

... I just found out that my grandma died today. I don't know how I feel about that. I'm sad to lose her, but I'm glad that she's finally out of her misery. She's been saying for some time now that she wished she could die.

Probably won't be on later. We need to finish taking care of the new house so that we can finish packing and get outta here. XD; We're rushing because we need to get this house fixed up after we move and try to hurry and sell it before we have double payments.

Dad bought some huge 30-gallon plastic bags and I've been using them to put my plushies in. I'm just about done now, and the only ones remaining are a few that I've left out until the day we actually move out there. My YGO plushes are among those, but I'm not planning to put them in a bag like that at all. They'll be separate from the others. Since they're homemade, and fashioned in the Japanese UFO style, I'm extra-protective of them and I don't want them in a situation where they could end up badly jostled and such. XD;

Another of the plushies remaining is a Calico kitty that my aunt gave me for Christmas. ^^ I still can't decide on a name for her. XD; I've been debating on Jillian/Gillian, Scully, and Scarlet, for some unknown reason. I've been addressing the cat by all three of those names.

And I found that this 3-foot doll I have is losing her hair. .__.; Literally. It's falling out in chunks, but it looks like the roots are still in the scalp. I'm so confused. Maybe it's because she's been leaning on a wall that has the cold garage on the other side? At any rate, I'm sure my other old dolls don't have this problem. I'm rather ticked about it, though, and I know Mom won't be happy either. She loves my dolls and stuffed animals about as much as I do. XD I've been checking doll repair websites and trying to find out how much it would cost to reroot the hair, but I can't find any price estimates at all. -.-; For right now I tied a handkerchief on her head to try to keep the hair there while I try to figure out what to do.

Over the weekend I've been plotting more with my doppelgangers. I love them so much! Now I've been pondering over the Council's assassin Apollo and his twin sister Veleda. They both have raven hair, though Apollo's is straight and probably about to his shoulders while Veleda's is long and flowing and slightly wavy. Veleda is on the Doppelganger Senate and has whitish-blue feathered wings, and she's against the Council, which has set her at odds with her brother. Apollo, BTW, has one white wing and one black wing, both feathered. I imagine Apollo is the sort of rebel bishounen that fangirls usually coo over. XD; I'm trying to further develope his character and figure out why he's in support of the Council. I'll probably come up with something before too long.

I don't think I've ever been as excited about my OCs as I am about these doppelgangers. They really feel like something that's mine that I can freely develope and someday write original fiction about. And since doppelgangers are a phenomena that is usually ignored in favor of other supernatural creatures, there's not really anything that I have to conform to. All I have to do, really, is bring in the angle of doppelgangers causing chaos and mayhem and appearing to their charges shortly before the charges' deaths. And that angle is already covered where the bad doppelgangers are concerned.

My Monkee boxsets came on Friday, along with the Headquarters album I ordered from Best Buy. ^^ I think that's probably their best album. You can really hear in the songs how much fun they were having then.

I watched several season 1 episodes on early Saturday morning, and then later on I watched some of season 2, and my opinion that season 1 is superior was enforced all the more. XD; Season 2 just doesn't have the same magic and fun, in general. I still love The Monkees Blow Their Minds, though, and by the way, I discovered that the Screen Gems version cut out about five minutes of the episode! .___. I have to get to work further revising my novelization with those other minutes of footage.

These are the episodes I watched:

--Episode #25: Alias Micky Dolenz (Classic! Absolutely classic! And a Micky-centric episode. XD I was in Heaven. **purrs.**)
--Episode #28: Monkees On the Line (More brilliance. Not quite as good as I expected from the summary, but nearly! The scenes with the bed in the wall were great. XD And I loved Mike and Micky trying to find the girl who was threatening to commit suicide.)
--Episode #31: Monkees at the Movies (My least favorite of these three, but still a good Monkees romp. But I don't think they focused enough on Davy and on how stardom was going to his head.)
--Episode #57: The Monkees Blow Their Minds (As always, my favorite, and even more so now that I've seen the missing scenes.)
--Episode #49: The Monkees Watch Their Feet (Bizarre. XD The narrator was priceless, and the plotline was promising. I can tell Micky had fun playing his robot clone, but I think there should have also been scenes with the real Micky being interrogated. The way it was, I think the Micky character got gypped and upstaged by his clone! Also, it just wasn't the same with Mike only at the beginning.)
--Episode #4... I forgot. XD; But it was The Christmas Show. It was okay, and cute, but not as good as it could have been. And I think the boy's fantasy sequence lasted too long.
--Episode #41: The Card-Carrying Red Shoes (Another Mike-less episode, so it felt like something was gravely missing. But there were still funny scenes, and Chicken Lake was hilarious. XD Overall, though, it wasn't the Monkees' best spy episode. That honor belongs to episodes #5 and #26.)
--Episode #43: A Coffin Too Frequent (This was one of the first episodes I watched, but I hadn't been able to get it recorded, so I haven't seen it for six years. I loved it then and it's still a lot of fun now, though I find I like it a bit less this time around. I kinda wonder if I originally remembered it so sweetly because it was the first Monkees episode I saw with hurt/comfort (Micky got knocked out when the lady hit him with her umbrella). XD; Knowing me, it's highly possible.)

And now I must flee. XD I'm going to watch the angsty The Devil and Peter Tork.

On Saturday night I was able to receive my daily fright due to someone's colorbar. **laugh.** It read as follows: "Herr Siegfried is a pink-haired, German sex machine." Errr ... okay. Nice to see you have your mind in the gutter, madam. XD; Siegfried's little fun with throwing his rose to the audience in episode #186 makes me think he's not above flirting at times, but that's a far cry from being a "sex machine." .__.; Seriously, he's probably a virgin. He's too busy obsessing over making his company better than KaibaCorp to bother with jumping in bed with people.

I loved the YGO episode! =3 I know the dub altered some things here and there, but I couldn't see as how they changed too much, and it really didn't bother me anyway. And it sounded like Ted Lewis is still doing Bakura and Yami B, even though it didn't sound like him in that preview I saw before. Yay for Ted Lewis! ^^ Aubrie put up the Japanese raw version, both in a downloadable size by itself and also in three segments, but I'm having trouble getting MegaUpload to cooperate with me. It keeps freezing during the 45 second wait. And if it does get through it, it sticks an ad over the button I need to click, and there's no way to get rid of it. -__-; (Yes, I've looked for something to use to close out the ad window.) I'm afraid all that leaves me with a bad impression of the site.

http://www.setsunakou.com has a whole bunch of YGO dolls now! It's so awesome. XD I wish they weren't so expensive, but maybe for custom-made dolls, they're actually a decent price. I wouldn't know, as I don't often go shopping for custom-made dolls. ^^; They have some strange pairings, including BakuraXRebecca and the dreaded SetoXSerenity, but I just try to ignore them and concentrate on how awesome the dolls look. ^^ Hey, they even have a doll of Rishid! They have most of the main characters right now, except for Yami B, Yami M, Solomon, Cecelia, and some more of the anime-only characters (Doom bikers, Dartz, and the von Schroiders). And they've made Marik, Tristan, Miho, Yugi, Vivian, Mokuba, and Pegasus dolls, but the links aren't up for them yet. ^^; But go see the ones they do have! Pretty much whoever I didn't mention here they have working links for.

I wrote a bit more for my story with Seras and Schrodinger (whoops, started typing Schroider there), and had Alucard come and talk to Seras. Now I must figure out how to resolve a plot problem that I've been musing over for several weeks. How on earth am I going to get Schrodinger into the Hellsing Institute? XD; Alucard and Integral aren't going to want him in there, and Seras won't want to go against them, but she also doesn't want to just leave Schrodinger bleeding on the battlefield. ^^;

Oh yeah, and thanks to a lady I saw at church, I now know how to draw Alister with realistic hair! LOL. Since Side7's not working right now, I'll put it here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Marik4Me/alister_realistichair.jpg Now I need to figure out how to do the same with Valon. I want to keep the star-shaped formation while giving it a more real look. Is that even possible? XD;

EDIT: I need to figure out where SchroiderCorp is located. What's a large German city that has mountainous areas nearby? I doubt Siegfried would want to travel too far to get to the company building.

And I have Eyes on repeat. It really reminds me of him, for some reason. XD; Maybe because he and Leonhard appear in the final ending sequence, when they're playing Eyes in the background? I was surprised when I read the translation and found that it only added to me associating it with him, after the events of the Grand Prix.