Ramblings and Musings of the Insane, Philosophical Ladybug

First three chapters of A Change in My Life, the Second Look fic, are up. X3 I really like how they turned out, especially the meetings, but I still wonder if they need more. XD; Chapter 2 is really short, for one thing. It's driving me nuts. I keep wondering if there's something I can do to lengthen it, or at least Barry's scenes in general. He's really hard for me to write for, but actually, all of them are hard to write for very long in this scenario. They won't remember for ages, but the main action only happens when they meet. The fic is much easier to write when they meet, and I hope it will continue to be. XD; I kind of stalled a bit, wondering what happens until they do remember, but some more ideas came to light.

For one thing, I realized that it's kind of like Princess Tutu, in that the characters are trapped in a "story" and are trying to break free of their assigned "roles." X3 The double is Drosselmeyer, pulling all the strings and delighting in their suffering. Though unlike Drosselmeyer, who just wants to tell a good, tragic story, the double relishes the pain he's causing because of how much he hates Scott. ;___;

There's other characters in the double's "story" too---so far, Double Trouble and Mrs. Pumpkinclanger have appeared. And pretty much everyone is being manipulated. I'm toying with the idea of a scene where Scott meets Louie once they break the double's spell and Louie is bewildered because he thinks he remembers Scott from somewhere. And Scott, knowing the full truth would be too bizarre to relate, tells him, "Well, maybe in another lifetime...."

I had actually also been toying with Louie and Ms. Parker and those other minor OCs not even being real and only being products of the double's mind, but I think I want them to really exist. XD;

I also wonder if I need to change the chapter titles. Originally it was slated for six chapters, enough to have all the lines from A Change in My Life's chorus as titles. But now I wonder if it will be more chapters than that, and if other lines from the song would fit some chapters better than the chorus lines. XD;

I picked up a Sonic shirt at Wal-Mart. X3 I just love it; it's red (one of my best colors) and has Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles in their Sonic Adventure designs. I was at Hot Topic several days later and saw some old-school Sonic shirts, but I like mine much better. **prefers the Sonic Adventure designs.** Beside, Knuckles is only on mine. X3 He's my favorite. (It was Sonic, until Knuckles was introduced. And yeah, aloof, tough, loner = me definitely being interested. I think he was one of the first characters of that type I liked.)

I hate going in Hot Topic because it's so loud, but luckily, it wasn't so bad this time. XD; Especially a good thing because Mom was with me, and I would have been embarrassed to take her in there if heavy metal was blaring out. It was fun looking at the old-school Sonic, Mario, and TMNT stuff, but I didn't locate any of what I was trying to: Disney Afternoon and Carmen shirts, all of which I'd heard they had. Maybe those shirts are just on their website now....

I might actually go back to Hot Topic and buy an old-school Mario shirt sometime. X3 They had a cute one I liked that said Team Luigi. Other than the Mario stuff, I didn't really see anything I'd want. I also prefer the new TMNT over the old, and they only had stuff for the old. XD; They did have some awesome KH shirts, but nothing with Cloud or Seph. ;___;

And Crystal showed me an episode of Shining Time Station. X3 LOL, that show was always awesome. It still is. Schemer = LOL. And I realized how much he reminds me of Sach from the Bowery Boys, but I think that's mostly because of how he looks wearing a baseball cap rather than his actual personality.

The episode was hilarious! It was the one where they're going to stay overnight in the station so Stacy (Stacey? Which way?) can make sure some automatic mail thing works right, and Schemer tries to scare the kids by pretending to be The Man With His Head On Backwards. LOLOLOL. (We never do learn that myth's backstory, but maybe that's a good thing. XD;) He ends up seeing some Jack-O'Lantern decoration on the wall and gets scared himself, after putting his clothes on backwards and trying to walk backwards to look like the guy. **snarks.**

I was surprised not to see Didi (DeeDee?) in the jukebox scene. LOL, when I was little, Grace was the only one I liked. XD; Tito scared me because of his nickel obsession, and the cowboys kind of annoyed me because they seemed kind of ... well, like idiots, LOL. And Didi scared me because I couldn't see her eyes. XD I'm not sure how I'll feel now.

I was really surprised by the train segments. Thomas was so meaaan in both of them. I remembered Thomas could be irresponsible, but I didn't remember he was mean to the other trains. ;___; Gosh, he was made to believe Percy was dead in the first segment and he didn't care at all. He was thinking, "Oh bother, now I'll have to wait for them to clear the line so I can go through." At first I thought Percy was mean to play the trick after Thomas had teased him, but then when I saw Thomas's reaction it was kind of ... Blurgh. The next day he was talking to Toby and said, "I knew you'd be feeling sad about Percy ..." I mean, bleh, he acted so heartless about the whole thing. And he really did believe Percy was dead, so he wasn't being blasé because he knew it was a trick or something.

Afterwards, I watched a little of the Thriller MV (and was amused at how MJ poked fun at the werewolf clichés), but I didn't watch the whole thing because I wasn't sure I wanted to see him turn into a zombie for some of it. XD I'll work up to it, maybe.

So I went and watched Beat It, then went to Weird Al's parody Eat It. Priceless! LOLOLOL. I just love how he had the same locations and choreography and stuff, all while singing about food. "Why are you such a fussy young man? Don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisin Bran." LOL! And then him waking up at the end of the MV with a stomachache.... **snarks.**

Read cases 2 and 3 on Saturday night. (Yeah, I wasn't doing anything in order. 4 was what got me really excited, so I read it first.) Maya was such a ditz in some parts near the beginning of case 4 that I was afraid she was going to be a walking cliché. But I did love her part in getting the trial extended, and of course, she saved the bullet! And after reading 2 and 3 she's starting to grow on me. I watched some cutscenes, too. Found case 4 on YouTube. X3 Now if I could just find case 5! ;__; The script for it wasn't complete at the place where I got the others.

The TGS trailer with voices is fun. XD I think everyone sounds perfect. I just wish that the English version would have voices. I could only find a fandub, which I liked (and it's rare for me + fandub = love), but I wanted to hear something official.

Been working on a ficlit with Seph and Zack. It's coming out cute! X3 I'd wanted to finish it Saturday night, but that didn't happen, and it's still not totally done. Gotta fix up that thing with Hades and KH Seph too.

And why, why, WHY do the Wandering Hammer Brothers in the Mario games make me think of the Rakeshes every time? **headdesk.** I have an odd fondness for them because of that.