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Apr. 12th, 2012 07:48 amForgot to mention yesterday, but here are pics of:
Rin Todoriki (Mahoromatic)
Cream the Rabbit
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Found this website that's supposed to allow you to create forums for free. Even though I've had this burning desire to create a new outlet for people to rant about their favorite and/or least favorite moments in any given work, after what happened on TV Tropes' page for Dethroning Moment of Suck, I just couldn't bring myself to get started. Maybe at a time when I'm not focusing on a million other things like kanji and Parasitic Trio.
http://www.forumotion.com/en/create-forum/
Yeah. It's good that you can still use all-caps, bold, and italicized text everywhere else on TV Tropes & Idioms, but that only makes the fact that you can't do that on DMOS that much more irritating. If that rule applied to the entire website, though, that really would have done it for me, in that I wouldn't even bother registering a third account, even to make a certain edit to the site's Konami page, lots more of my time would be spent on better things than re-reading stuff I've already read, and in fact, even creating some kind of free-for-all would be a moot point.
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Had a brief conversation with Jake about Parasitic Trio yesterday afternoon. The following has been nagging away at me for a bit, but he was unable to form any kind of opinion about it.
To start with, even though Chelle says that my writing style is subpar and wouldn't appeal too well to readers, sometimes beige and sometimes purple, I can honestly say that I find it sufficient on my own, as far as Fuyuki's Hot Night, my version of the Yoshi's Island fic, and the prologue to Cult go. However, that's more than I can say about The Furrysitters' Club (at least chapters 2 and 3) and my version of the first chapter for Parasitic Trio.
True, I did enjoy doing all the math and writing all the basics of what goes on in said first chapter, but for that ficseries, part of me thinks that the amount I was capable of writing would have been insufficient even if Chelle never offered to ghostwrite MCC for me in the first place, an offer which she has since revoked.
Speaking of which, not long after said revocation, but before I asked Jake to GW PT for me, I did ask him to rewrite the Cult prologue for me, which he said he'd take care of after the holidays were over. At some point, someone on DeviantArt asked me about the second half of the prologue, which I took as a cue to stop waiting and just post it with an author's note saying that I'll have Jake rewrite everything in his own words and style. At this point, I've already changed my mind on even that and decided that it looks fine the way it is.
I think what the difference is between Monster Collection Chronicles and Parasitic Trio, is that the latter is based on an already existing game, while the former isn't an adaptation of anything, just a non-canon sequel to Mon Colle Knights. Then again, SMW2: Yoshi's Island rewritten is also just that: a remix of a certain existing game, but of course, the actual Yoshi's Island isn't nearly so intricate as any Pokemon game, and the only times where the dice were ever used were in deciding at the end of each non-Fort chapter whether a bonus game would be played or not and which squares would be selected and reveal what prizes during each bonus round. And yet, it had enough material of its own to make something not-beige out of, though some explanation would be required to make sense of that.
I can't really place a finger on what it is about Parasitic Trio that I deem insufficient. In any case, the amount of detail that Jake has proven able to write, supplemented by his talent for writing fanservice, is nothing short of impressive. Unfortunately, given that he is completely unwilling to write any scenes that take place in the PokeWalker (which someone helped me reconstruct on the Bulbagarden Forum) and the Gen IV Battle Frontier, I'm probably gonna have to find someone who is just as talented as him, lest the decline in both quality and fanservice for those scenes and arcs become noticeable. For that, I'm thinking of offering $1 per page to anyone else who might be interested in ghostwriting for me and is sufficiently talented in the same author's note where I will give Jake credit for having ghostwritten the first chapter for Ellen's fic. I've also contacted Ionuneos, author of It Takes A Genius and its sequel Only A Madman, asking if he'd be interested in reading Parasitic Trio when it first gets hosted, though not asking him for now if he'd be interested in ghostwriting for me.
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Mom told me last night that Grandpa Bob is actually due to come live here in two weeks, and that he's staying at a nursing home for the time being. I guess this is a good time now to play Getter Love!! for a bit while my room and my TV set are both free, and by the time he starts living here for the next few months, I'll probably be losing interest in the game already.
She also said that she won't be able to go to work today, but we'll probably be able to go somewhere to find packaging for those Ebay items.
Rin Todoriki (Mahoromatic)
Cream the Rabbit
-----
Found this website that's supposed to allow you to create forums for free. Even though I've had this burning desire to create a new outlet for people to rant about their favorite and/or least favorite moments in any given work, after what happened on TV Tropes' page for Dethroning Moment of Suck, I just couldn't bring myself to get started. Maybe at a time when I'm not focusing on a million other things like kanji and Parasitic Trio.
http://www.forumotion.com/en/create-forum/
Yeah. It's good that you can still use all-caps, bold, and italicized text everywhere else on TV Tropes & Idioms, but that only makes the fact that you can't do that on DMOS that much more irritating. If that rule applied to the entire website, though, that really would have done it for me, in that I wouldn't even bother registering a third account, even to make a certain edit to the site's Konami page, lots more of my time would be spent on better things than re-reading stuff I've already read, and in fact, even creating some kind of free-for-all would be a moot point.
-----
Had a brief conversation with Jake about Parasitic Trio yesterday afternoon. The following has been nagging away at me for a bit, but he was unable to form any kind of opinion about it.
To start with, even though Chelle says that my writing style is subpar and wouldn't appeal too well to readers, sometimes beige and sometimes purple, I can honestly say that I find it sufficient on my own, as far as Fuyuki's Hot Night, my version of the Yoshi's Island fic, and the prologue to Cult go. However, that's more than I can say about The Furrysitters' Club (at least chapters 2 and 3) and my version of the first chapter for Parasitic Trio.
True, I did enjoy doing all the math and writing all the basics of what goes on in said first chapter, but for that ficseries, part of me thinks that the amount I was capable of writing would have been insufficient even if Chelle never offered to ghostwrite MCC for me in the first place, an offer which she has since revoked.
Speaking of which, not long after said revocation, but before I asked Jake to GW PT for me, I did ask him to rewrite the Cult prologue for me, which he said he'd take care of after the holidays were over. At some point, someone on DeviantArt asked me about the second half of the prologue, which I took as a cue to stop waiting and just post it with an author's note saying that I'll have Jake rewrite everything in his own words and style. At this point, I've already changed my mind on even that and decided that it looks fine the way it is.
I think what the difference is between Monster Collection Chronicles and Parasitic Trio, is that the latter is based on an already existing game, while the former isn't an adaptation of anything, just a non-canon sequel to Mon Colle Knights. Then again, SMW2: Yoshi's Island rewritten is also just that: a remix of a certain existing game, but of course, the actual Yoshi's Island isn't nearly so intricate as any Pokemon game, and the only times where the dice were ever used were in deciding at the end of each non-Fort chapter whether a bonus game would be played or not and which squares would be selected and reveal what prizes during each bonus round. And yet, it had enough material of its own to make something not-beige out of, though some explanation would be required to make sense of that.
I can't really place a finger on what it is about Parasitic Trio that I deem insufficient. In any case, the amount of detail that Jake has proven able to write, supplemented by his talent for writing fanservice, is nothing short of impressive. Unfortunately, given that he is completely unwilling to write any scenes that take place in the PokeWalker (which someone helped me reconstruct on the Bulbagarden Forum) and the Gen IV Battle Frontier, I'm probably gonna have to find someone who is just as talented as him, lest the decline in both quality and fanservice for those scenes and arcs become noticeable. For that, I'm thinking of offering $1 per page to anyone else who might be interested in ghostwriting for me and is sufficiently talented in the same author's note where I will give Jake credit for having ghostwritten the first chapter for Ellen's fic. I've also contacted Ionuneos, author of It Takes A Genius and its sequel Only A Madman, asking if he'd be interested in reading Parasitic Trio when it first gets hosted, though not asking him for now if he'd be interested in ghostwriting for me.
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Mom told me last night that Grandpa Bob is actually due to come live here in two weeks, and that he's staying at a nursing home for the time being. I guess this is a good time now to play Getter Love!! for a bit while my room and my TV set are both free, and by the time he starts living here for the next few months, I'll probably be losing interest in the game already.
She also said that she won't be able to go to work today, but we'll probably be able to go somewhere to find packaging for those Ebay items.