- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalelluia!!!!!!!! 2003-05-13 10:07:04 DSL was down for the last four days. Literally just got back up and running a couple hours ago. Mugiwara no Evangelion's going well, have nearly a minute edited. And I can start the pre-rendering on End of Eva.
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Rollin' rollin' rollin', RAWHIIIIIIIIIDE!
2003-05-08 20:44:50
"Mugiwara no Evangelion" has officially begun. I got impatient, and I figure I wanna have time to finish this sucker and do "Sky Pirates" (One Piece) if Farmboybob isn't up to it. Otherwise I'll pull off a One Piece video to the theme from "Hook" (which I have a kickass arrangement of).
Two vids = productive summer. Yeeeeeeeeeees............. -
Lights! Camera! EDIT!
2003-05-08 13:35:04
Initial production on "Mugiwara no Evangelion" has officially started! Just ripped Death and Rebirth, and while I'm working on getting End of Eva on DVD, I figured I would get a head start and do all the prerequisite rendering specified in the Guides. So now I'm looking forward to a cushy 3-hour rendering time to convert Death and Rebirth into M2JPEG for editing purposes ^_^
Meanwhile, I'm heading to the planning table to make editing less painful. Still need to track down Episode 9....
::singing "Mugiwara no Jolly Roger" in the background:: -
Mugiwara boushi no Jolly Roger....
2003-04-20 03:26:29
I'm obsessed with the One Piece soundtrack. I've breathed, eaten and slept it for the past two weeks, and it's even inspired the AMV I'm going to ekk out over summer break ("Mugiwara no Evangelion").
As well as inspired a fanfic. And I need another fanfic to write like I need the proverbial hole in my head. But it won't leave me alone >.<
My FF.net profile if anyone's interested in reading my fics: http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=10616 -
Why why WHY???
2003-04-14 16:48:30
Why must I condemn myself to finding the most two-faced hypocrites to talk to as friends? And why can I never tell people what I think of them to their faces? I guess that's what journals are for.
But anyway, the latest hypocrite award goes to a fellow fanfic author I make a bad habit of hanging around in the computer lab. The funny thing is, I used to agree with most of her reasoning when I first spoke to her, but now that I examine it logically, it has more contradictions than the four Gospels.
For instance, she claims she can't stand OOC behavior in fanfic, yet she's a yaoi fan and fully supports writing canonically straight characters gay. Does the sense of that statement escape only me, or is it really as absurd as it sounds?
She's of the school that canon hetero relationships are evil and must be written off so her two favorite male characters can have it out in the bedroom. Yeah, I'll admit that there are a lot of useless anime girls. But keep the same personality and slap a penis on it, and suddenly she thinks it's the sweetest thing imaginable. Like Mitsuru in Utena. He's the quintessential idol-worshipping wimp for Nanami. Yet just because he's a boy, he's excused from all annoyance factor, and my friend is wanting to hug the TV. But when any idol-worshipping female character (like say, Relena) gets screentime, she's suddenly an interfering bitch (I personally hate Relena, but I hate my friend's double standard even more).
She's also of the assumption that writers of hetero fanfics are 14-year-old hormonal fangirls who can't spell, yet conveniently forgets to acknowledge the fact that yaoi is home to just as much bad writing (if not more, since most of yaoi is written for the sex, and plot seems to take a back burner seat).
It's not that I'm an intolerant person. Quite the contrary. I just don't appreciate the fact that she's one of those girls I mentioned in a thread in the General Anime forum way back when that thinks just because I'm a girl and an anime fan, I'm automatically a yaoi fan as well. We met by talking fanfic in the comp lab on campus, and the first thing she showed me was a Gundam Wing yaoi fic. When I mentioned I wasn't into yaoi, she DID apologize. But since then she's made a point of cramming yaoi fic down my e-mail box when she KNOWS I don't like it. It's like she's trying to convert me without outrightly telling me so. I know she doesn't like hetero, I don't shove hetero fics down HER throat. Couldn't she at least show me that small amount of courtesy and quit directing me to Kingdom Hearts yaoi lemons (which I wouldn't read even if they were het because the characters are vastly underage)?
She's also a vehement dub-hater who worships Japanese voice actors even when they aren't that good. For instance, she's a Koyasu Takehito fangirl. I personally don't like him all that much, and thought Brian Drummond did a much better job as Zechs than he did (not to mention that for being a pop star over there, Takehito's got a horrible singing voice. Nasal and flat). What's hypocritical though is her main anti-dub complaint being that the English voice actors don't portray the characters "the way they were intended" and should thus be shot multiple times with a harpoon launcher. And yet, she has no problem with fan authors who completely destroy a character for the sake of plotless pornfic. See the ill logic here? Or is it just me? If she's going to demonize an English VA for portraying a character differently than the writer originally intended, then she could at least be fair and demonize fanfic authors for portraying a canonically straight character differently than the original source writer intended.
Last but not least, she's also of the school that original characters in fanfiction are all Mary/Martin Sues, and that there's no such thing as a good fic with a canon/original pairing. It's not too far of a stretch to guess that she'd rather read bad yaoi than a good het canon/original pairing just because it would prove her wrong.
Being a fanfic author who has written (in my most humble opinion) a pretty good canon/original fic (and DAMN good by a lot of readers' reviews I've received), I take silent, boiling offense to her opinion, but bite my tongue for the sake of both friendship and because it's her opinion and she's entitled to it. I just wish she would realize that her opinions are just that: opinions. And not act like she's the only one who's right and that everyone who thinks differently from her can't possibly write a decent fanfic. I hate to think how many good fics she's missed out on because she's so vehemently anti-hetero. I, on the other hand, have tried on numerous occasions to get into yaoi, but couldn't. Even fics she recommended to me as being really good I found to be horribly sub-par in characterization, most of the time portrayed so rigid, cold, and angsty (even if the characters themselves were not canonically, nor were they canonically gay in the first place...Kenshin and Sanosuke come to mind) that it was like reading hate-porn. And she wondered why I didn't like it.
But I suppose that's my little venting session for today.
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