Entry 008

Okay, so I played Final Fantasy X again yesterday with my friend. I basically waited for her after school without properly knowing why, but when she finally finished with her group project we came up with playing for a change XD
I'll call this friend of mine Scarlet from now on. She's the same person I introduced on Entry 001, btw :3

Now I'll just jump right to the main subject of this post.
Seymour.

Just look at that raep face.

Scarlet is not the type who spoils you every single plot turn of a story, quite the opposite. She didn't have to say anything, and right from the very first time I saw this man in the game I just knew that he wasn't good news.

This boss fight proofed that I was right.

The beginning, no big deal. There's two minions of his there to protect them, and the only thing that makes them really annoying is their Auto-Potion trait. I was able to take down the whole lot with a single aeon's overdrive. I don't even remember which one I used.

Then comes Anima. This is where things start to get VERY exciting.

The first time we played this part through, Scarlet wanted to show me Anima's overdrive Oblivion just because that would be the only time we would have been able to see it. I guess it was worth it, it really was something. Too bad it was the reason we lost that fight.

Oh, yeah! Almost forgot!

SHE. IS. GORGEOUS!

 

Sorry, just had to.

And the first thing that comes to my mind when I see this? "Now that would be some epic cosplay." Yeah.

 

It's a good thing really that Scarlet was there to give me advice. I would have not used her if she didn't suggest it to me. No wonder this is one of her favourite summons, I can see that more than clearly.

 

But, back to Seymour and Anima.

We were KOed by the hell unleashed by Seymour after beating Anima, so we had to take that match again.

This is going to be a joke that Scarlet will never stop hearing from me. I think we had a party consisting of Auron, Kimahri and Tidus at the point when Anima unleashed Oblivion for the second time, and to Scarlet's surprise (and mine as well) KIMAHRI was the one to be the only survivor from the strike and the saviour of our fight. She always complains that my Kimahri is weird be cause he's too useful. She has never been able to make him useful. Hehe.

 

Ah well. That was some fight. And after that we made it to the oasis. I still haven't found Yuna there, Rikku is leading us to Home.

I'll just leave this ENORMOUS entry here and end it with this:

 

What is more frustrating than being killed by Seymour from the first strike?

-Being killed by a random encounter from the first strike after running several miles through a desert.

Entry 007

I'll make these two things clear before saying anything else.
1) I love it when other people recommend new series to me to watch. Otherwise I wouldn't have found half of my current fandoms at all.
2) I also like it when people talk about their interests and fandoms, even if I didn't belong to them. I myself am poor with starting conversations, so it's a relief to me really.

We are clear with these two things? Good. Now to the topic.

You could say that I use my tumblr account in three different ways. 1: I keep my own tumblr blog, of course, mostly reblogging things I like, 2: I follow what other people within my fandoms (Umineko, for example) do, and 3: I follow how my friends hype their own fandoms and what they do in general.

I have quite few tumblr blogs to follow, but my dashboard is always full of stuff.
What stuff, you ask? Well...

Sherlock.
Tom Hiddleston.
Doctor Who.
And other random stuff.

I'll discuss some of these fandoms separately some other time, but yeah. My dashboard is full of these guys. Not complaining or anything. It's just interesting to notice that these are probably one of the most active fandoms on tumblr. Not just my dashboard, EVERYWHERE on tumblr. (or even the whole Internet)
Another interesting thing is that spending time on tumblr is most likely one of the main reasons that have lead me to become almost a Sherlockian myself! And without even noticing it! Isn't that frightening?
...I mean, when you are reblogging some single sentence about Moriarty hacking the Olympics just because of Stayin' Alive, you SHOULD be alarmed :'D

Entry 006

What do you do when you have nothing better to do? Turn on your computer and do random things online 'til the late night. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? In Finnish you'd call it "yödataus".
WELL...

Let me tell you something about my sleeping habits.
Before I turned sixteen I went to bed at latest 10.00pm. My need of sleep is enormous. I slept easily 10 hours a night. And not much less would've been enough.
Then came the upper secondary school and the one-hour school trip.
AND THEN CAME THE WIRELESS INTERNET.
I had to say sweet goodbye to my 10-hour sleep.

Well, nothing bad comes without something good. I'm able to do all-nighters every now and then, which I never thought would be possible. It's kind of fun. And I get to contact some of my friends only online, so the slight lack of sleep is keeping me away from a lack of social life.
Thank you, MSN Messenger and a bunch of other sites, for making this possible.

Entry 005

You may have noticed from the pic in Entry 003 that I used Internet Explorer until May. So many people were almost forcing me to get Firefox because "IE just sucks".
Well, I was forced to get it when I noticed I COULDN'T PLAY THOSE GAME BOY COLOR GAMES WITH IE. It was too slow.
So, now I'm surfing with Firefox. I actually like it.

Anyway.
I've been playing Pokémon Crystal version a lot lately. In a month I've played all the way to Blackthorn City. And there would be the last gym of Johto with its leader. She'll use Dragon type, so one of my goals last time was to get my crappy Magikarp to evolve to Gyarados. I made it, and oh how happy I am for it. She's so much more powerful when she can actually DO something besides splashing water and tackle others with poor success rate. She can't use Thrash, though. Guess I should have caught a Gyarados instead of a Magikarp in first place.

That's my current party, featuring my lovely, grown-up Gyarados~
Alongside with Gyarados, I'm planning to use Poliwhirl. I taught her Ice Punch, so maybe she'll be useful. Maybe I should consider catching something of the Ice-type, too. My pride, 38-level Typhlosion, won't be any good because he's Fire-type and wouldn't do much damage.

Don't say anything. I'll call them he and she depending on their gender. I've even planned making a team consisting only cute girls. My Gyarados is a cute girl, and so is my Butterfree. And sure I'll take my cute Geodude with me, too :'D
No, I really love Geodude. She can do a lot of damage and has a very good endurance against almost anyone. Just as long as I don't use her against any Water- or Grass-type, I'll love her more and more every second.
I also love my Furret and his Fury Swipes and Strenght I taught him. It's a pity that he's male. He could've easily gotten into my merry cute girl gang. Ah well, I think I'll let him in anyway, he's just so cute and strong~ And not that the gender matters that much after all.

OK, that's with the chatter this time, and back to training. The Pokémons of the latest gym leader were lvl 30, 30 and 35, so I'd better catch them up!

Entry 004

Would this be the first time I'd do some fangirling? Would you let me do it?
Ah well, I'll do it anyway.

Umineko no naku koro ni. When seagulls cry.

A family convention in an island. A typhoon. A series of murders committed in disturbing circumstances. Who is the murderer? There are 18 people on the island - or are there? Is the murderer one of the 18 - or a witch? Is the witch a witch at all?
This is the target of my current obsession. Briefly said.

I was introduced to this one about three years ago when the anime came out. I watched it through and thought it was ok. Then, some time later, I discovered the originals. The sound novels.
I. Was. Stunned.
For a doujinshi sound novel it was absolutely amazing. It's a perfect combination of detective stories and fantasy - a true battle between those two genres, Battler in the detective story side and Beatrice in the fantasy side. I fell in love with the music pieces, the athmosphere, the story and the characters. Ok, the art is a bit crappy, but to me it didn't really matter.
And i just love the character development, especially in case of both Beatrice and Battler. The God-Damn Battler from EP6 on... Y U SO AWSUM I WANNA TAKE YOU HOOOOME~
Ok. End of fangirling.

This summer, I'm going to do some cosplaying. One of the characters will be Furfur from Umineko EP6 (and EP7). Furfur is a demon of love with Zepar, and they always appear together when summoned. Me and my Zepar will have some goooood time.
Oh, and they are of opposite genders. You sure can see which is which.

 

Furfur at left, Zepar at right.

U MAD? >:D

Anyway.

These costumes need some time. What we already have is all the fabrics, base for both torsos, shoes, Zepar's berret and hair, Furfur's socks, Zepar's stripy sock and those stripy insides of Zepar's bottom.

We also have Zepar's other sock and one of Furfur's gloves in progress.

I guess I'll have to use my own hair with this. I just hope it's not too red-red. That's a bit more... Orange-red.

Here are the socks and the shoes!

'Til next time!

Entry 003

For once I was the one to find something... WONDERFUL.

In my neighbour lives a family of five, all the children are boys younger than me. Even the eldest son is three years younger.
When I was still in elementary school, every one of these boys had their own Game Boy Color consoles. AND they had Pokémon to play with them. I had no consoles, so I just sat there and watched them play and wished I could too.

And now, after almost ten years, I find THIS.

You see that --Select A Game-- there? There are for example Pokémon games Red, Blue and Yellow. And of course many more.
OMFG, I can play them even without having the console itself! AAAAAAAA~

...well, I tried this yesterday. My computer was being a snail, so I didn't get any further than choosing names. Ah well, I'll try again someday later.
But this was a finding one of a kind. Thanks Tumblr! I love you! Even though you are sometimes VERY strange.

Entry 002

Start roleplaying, they said.
Become a Game Master, they said.
It'll be fun, they said.

It sure is fun, I admit. Until you realise the amount of planning required for each and every session.

I had my first proper Dungeons and Dragons -session as the GM a couple of weeks ago. It was a great success, but the lack of preparations made it a bit... interesting. I had to improvise almost every name that came across (apparently my imagination still works yayy), and my lovely and active five-player party didn't spend that much time on tasks I had planned beforehand, so I had to come up with something extra while waiting our classroom reservation time to expire. I didn't even give them any experience points because of the simple nature of the tasks (and therefore, myself).

What is this I don't even.

Yeah. Note to self: plan your sessions properly and ALWAYS ADD SOME EXTRA in case your players are faster than you expected.

Ah well. Now I should plan our next session. Luckily, I've got some ideas already (not gonna tell them here, my players might be reading)! Oh, and we should, or I should, decide when and where it will be.
I'm just hoping they all get it there, we haven't had a single session without someone missing... And they are so much fun that I just want to share the happiness with ALL of my wonderful players.

Second entry in two days... I don't think I'll be able to continue this kind of posting pace for long.
Well, let's enjoy it while we still can!

Entry 001

What would be better than doing something you love and seeming strange to outsiders - AND at the same time having only little knowledge of the area and looking like a clueless little being to insiders?

One day I got this idea of starting a blog about being the weird insider and the sane outsider at once, mostly based on the scenario described above: my everyday life.
Basically, my life is full of curious little things and people talking about and keeping busy with them. Most of the time I understand and am able to discuss them, but there are also some topics and sub-topics I'm not quite familiar with yet.
So, I'd like to share some of my thoughts of these things as a somewhat well-informed outsider while explaining about my doings as a somewhat novice insider :'D

What will I be writing about?
Mainly games, anime/manga, tropes, cosplay, maybe something else occasionally.
Currently, I don't have any gameplay consoles besides my computer and a PS2, which is in my little brother's room and which I rarely (read: never) get to use. All the gaming I do usually happens visiting my friends.
For example, I've been introduced to the Final Fantasy series by a friend of mine; she's been making me play FFX every time I visit her. We have a very good time each time! And I'm always a bit afraid of using Yuna's White Magic too often and reducing her MP too low too soon...

To tell something about this friend (won't be the last one introduced), I'll just drop this here for starters. This is the cute reaction I get to see every time she has been playing something that pleases her :3

Oh yeah, and I apologize for any grammar errors and weird choices of words beforehand. I'm not a native English speaker, so please forgive me ^_^"

See ya later!