Ramblings and Musings of the Insane, Philosophical Ladybug

http://www.side7.com/cgi-bin/S7SDB/Display.pl?act=image&iid=324703 Vermouth, being her typical flirtatious self. XD Still gotta draw that picture of her teasing Gin and Vodka about Bourbon's claims.

I also had an image floating in my mind of a teenage Ayumi meeting up with Gin again. I didn't draw that, because I didn't have the shot from The Countdown to Heaven on hand where Ayumi had that experimental picture of what she might look like in ten years, but I did start writing a blurb based on it in my notebook. XD; It's turned into a follow-up to Empire of Dirt, and takes place five years after the events in that. Ayumi is 17, and she meets a wounded Gin on the street. They start talking, and Ayumi insists on tending to Gin's injuries. She's training to be a doctor, she says. And Gin ends up stymied by her again. XD I don't know if I'll finish writing it, but it's rather interesting.

I also wrote a little more of chapter 8 of Evil Never Dies. I don't know why I'm having so much trouble with that chapter. Part of me wants to keep writing that story, and another part wants to end it and continue the misadventures in a third one.

I finished the prologue for my Dr. Portman fic and posted it. I've decided to call it Breakdown. Breaking Benjamin again, and it works too well. XD; And I will be telling two stories throughout the fic instead of having one long stretch of flashbacks. It will be kinda like Ghosts, with a story in flashbacks interspersed throughout, only the flashbacks will be longer and more connected to each other. Chapter 1 will start by telling what led up to Gin's capture, and then go back to the present to see how he's currently dealing with things, and then flash back again, etc.

This is going to be a hard fic to write, for several reasons. In the flashbacks, I'll have to write Gin descending into madness, and what leads up to that (and I'll have to do some hard thinking to come up with stuff that would result in him ending up like he is in the prologue!), and in the part of the story that takes place in the present, I'll have to show the results of his treatment. He'll still be not really sane, and he's very angry, and pushing people away. And Vodka's trying to stay sane himself while trying to figure out how to help his partner. And I imagine at some point, Vermouth will turn up. XD

And the Hong Kong subtitles aren't as wonky on The Countdown to Heaven as they are on the eighth movie. XD Yay for subtitles that make sense!

My icon is brilliant. It comes from many hours of Aubrie's hard work coloring and shading, and it shows! **pets it.**

Well, I wasn't going to post this picture in my Scrapbook, but Side7 hasn't gotten to upgrade my account again yet, so here:



I got hit by more insomnia yesterday. Ugh. Sometimes it stays for a week. I hope it won't this time....

I watched the music videos for Like a Virgin and Bad to see the kinds of things Weird Al parodied visually, since I already know how he messed with the lyrics. XD The entire Fat music video is a parody of Bad, and it's just so priceless to watch one, then the other! And the lion in Like a Surgeon is there because it's a staple in Like a Virgin. Also, Weird Al imitates some of Madonna's actions and dance moves. LOL. It's definitely something to see. Weird Al is a comedic genius.

I ordered DC movies 5 and 8 from meganimedvd.com and I got the email that they shipped yesterday. ^^ Now it says that Countdown to Heaven is out of stock, so I must have gotten the last copy.

I wrote chapter 3 of Evil Never Dies! I'm so pleased. Now I really know where I'm taking it! I'll start chapter 4 later today. This will probably be the same length as Ghosts, possibly shorter. Probably not longer. And I dunno if I'll be doing flashback scenes in this one. I love how intense it is, especially with the Gin and Vodka angle.

Last year my cosplay aspiration was Alucard (and I never did get to gather things together for that to happen). This year, I've been toying with the idea of being Gin. XD

I found a music video the other day using Princess Tutu and the Amazon Trio's theme, so that made me wanna get that song. XD I used to have it years ago, but had to delete it during a space purging. So I went to sailormusic.net and downloaded the SuperS soundtrack, but it's in OGG format because the site owner feels that MP3s are trash. Then I had to download a codec to play the songs in Windows Media Player. Now I have to delete most of them for space, keeping only the ones that I like extremely well, such as the one I'm playing right now. I love it so much. ^^ I think of it as the Amazon Trio's Redemption song. This soundtrack doesn't have the Lemures song, though, which I think was the actual name of the one I had before. But it does have a couple of tracks with the Amazon theme music.

The Amazon Trio are some of my favorite antagonists from the show. I don't really like the Quartet, as child villains have never appealed to me, but the Trio is great. XD And I love the AMV someone did where they sing I Feel Pretty. I knew there had to be something like that out there. It's too perfect for Fisheye. And now every time I hear the musical version of that song, I think of them (whereas with the Adam Sandler version, I will forever think of Gin).

YouTube had to get rid of Detective Conan stuff because of problems with the Japanese copyright holders. I can understand taking down episodes, but I think they should have left AMVs alone. Now I'm trying to get back a couple that I especially liked, without much luck. I contacted the person who had the Gin I Feel Pretty parody up, because she said she'd accept all Friends requests so that people could view the DC videos she had that had been made private, but she hasn't accepted me yet.

I went looking on eBay for cheap DC DVDs, and then asked Lisa if she knew of good websites that have them. She recommended two. One only had the American releases, but the other, http://www.meganimedvd.com , has the stuff I want, that hasn't been released in America yet. Oh yes. And the prices are wonderful. Once Wells Fargo's website stops having a hiccup, I'm going to order a couple of the movies, definitely 5, and probably 8. I wish the TV Special that is probably episodes 176, 177, and 178 wasn't out of stock. I want that a whole lot too. Other than the fifth movie, that trilogy has the most Gin/Sherry hints I've found. X3

I started a sequel to Ghosts. It wasn't going to happen, but I got a couple of requests for one, and I wanted to do something else, so I decided to see if I could combine the ideas. I got the first chapter written, but now I'm slightly stuck on how to get Ayumi involved without having her abducted. XD; Suggestions are appreciated!

I also got distracted by a one-shot, which was originally just going to be a blurb. This time Gin and Vodka got stranded in a blizzard chasing down a traitor (and admittedly, the traitor was only a plot device to get them to the setting and to cause more trouble for them later on). Each thought that the other was suffering from hypothermia, and they ended up having a tense confrontation, which I must admit, I think turned out quite well. I loved writing the thing. ^^ I finished it and posted it on FF.net.

Writing for new characters is always exhilarating and fresh. And it usually gives me new perspectives. Now I'm much more interested in rebellious natures of characters, such as Marik's. I used to just leave that side of him alone, but now I'm intrigued by it.

That reminds me, I was supposed to write an essay about the Black Org's members and their relationships with each other, according to canon. I love those guys. XD

I always seem to get interested in characters largely ignored/forgotten about. Like with Fang from the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom, and the bikers from YGO, and now the Black Org. I must admit, I rather enjoy "pioneering" in these fanfiction categories, and writing stories about these characters.

My icon amuses me. XD I love the mail locker scene. Too bad that clip has gone bye-bye now, too.... **sniffle.**