Thursday, August 7th, 2008 09:30 pm

Still typing. Still making mistakes that prompt tiny giggles. To make it easier on me, I hereby declare that Rufus Shinra will now be known as "the ice president". We'll get him some white furs, or dress him up like Shiva, I don't know. Raise your hand if you find that hot, because I want to know who you are.

Drowsy still too, which doth not help. New medications are good, they help Amarissia be less down and anxious, but gah, the drowsiness. And since Japanese also makes me drowsy, I'm gonna completely forget whatever I've absorbed about te verbs. Beastly things. And when the Choir mocks me, do they do it with the polite forms? Nooooo. I have to rely on sweet Cloudy to innocently translate for me.

Also, my head is spinning. The Madness of Angels has officially broken 600 reviews. I cannot process this. Thank Gaia it didn't happen during my recent block, or the pressure might've caused irreparable damage. I'm very happy and grateful. And sad, because the writing is only four chapters or so from being done. I don't want it to be over!

I will mention this again at some point, but fair warning - I've got family visiting in about a week, and that'll be ten days of entertaining and catching up. Please have yaoi waiting for me when I return in a crazed Zangeal-withdrawal.

One last thing. So the big FFVII announcement was about AC Complete and not an FFVII remake? I need to learn how to write threatening letters in Japanese. Just for, um, my own curiosity.

Friday, August 8th, 2008 04:49 am (UTC)
*raises hand*
i wouldn't mind seeing Rufus all dressed up. teehee<3
i'm also learning japanese (or at least attempting it). all i can say it, the informal form gets less painful with time and a ton of practice.
Friday, August 8th, 2008 04:59 am (UTC)
Okay, that's one. You're going on a list! :)

I'm determined to learn the polite forms first, since that's apparently what foreigners are supposed to do. It's not much help with the Choir, though, or Japanese movies, since I have to do a mental translation of verbs I hear that I barely know anyway. Gah, the verbs are killing me. :)
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 07:27 am (UTC)
ehehe. it looks like this is going to be a VERY long list.
i find it's been easier to learn both at once. polite forms for tourists at work, and informal for my own use.
maybe you could have the choir help you study :D
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 03:34 am (UTC)
Thankfully, my course-thing is beginning to give me the plain forms with the polite forms, which is indeed helpful. Whew!

If only the Choir would help me! They refuse, because they're afraid (well, Zack's afraid) that if I learn well enough, I'll start writing my angsty stories in their own language, and they object to that.
Friday, August 8th, 2008 05:11 am (UTC)
Oh OH OH! -raises hand while jumping in the air- I soooo wanna see that! The first is, like, Pimp!Rufus, which I can so see him doing, and the second really needs to be drawn as fanart. That would be great!!

You know, if you don't want to stop writing Madness you could always do a sequel. Like, Zack and Angeal in the Lifestream watching Cloudy go fight Seph! Heh, j/k. Madness is just so much fun to read. -doesn't want it to end-
Friday, August 8th, 2008 05:20 am (UTC)
Oh, Gaia, another one. :)

I was thinking of doing a sequel...not anytime very soon. Needs much more brainstorming. And a long, LONG nap.
Friday, August 8th, 2008 05:31 am (UTC)
I am also raising my hand, and I'll bet your list will be incredibly long.

(Edit: Congratulations on 600+ reviews!)
Edited 2008-08-08 05:31 am (UTC)
Friday, August 8th, 2008 05:34 am (UTC)
Thank you so much!

And sheesh, I was joking! :) You guys would really want to see Rufus made up like an ice drag queen?
Friday, August 8th, 2008 06:22 am (UTC)
*joins in with the hand raising* Rufus as Shiva? Icy hot! :D

Good luck with the studying! I'm waiting to see if semester three of my Japanese class is going ahead...it's not a very popular class here, it seems. *sigh*
Friday, August 8th, 2008 06:44 am (UTC)
Thank you! I'm teaching myself, which is probably more difficult, 'cause I have to keep pushing myself. Also, every method these days focuses on conversational language, and I'm better at learning the boring grammar stuff.

*facepalm* Had to open my big mouth about Rufus...now I'll have nightmares about a ShinRa gay pride parade, with Rufus on the lead float dressed in white feathers and silver sequins...
Friday, August 8th, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)
Had to open my big mouth about Rufus...now I'll have nightmares about a ShinRa gay pride parade, with Rufus on the lead float dressed in white feathers and silver sequins...

By nightmares, do you mean wet dreams? ;)

Ugh...the grammar is what I'm bad at. LOL And given that I haven't properly studied in a couple of months...I'm probably even worse at it now. :(
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 04:34 am (UTC)
My big complaint was particles...then I kinda got those, and then it was "te" verbs, which my course taught me ten lessons ago and only just showed me what they're used for now...and now I'm just generally annoyed with myself for not picking it up faster. :)

One person's wet dream is another's nightmare. Oh Gaia, I can picture it so clearly...with all the Turks behind him...okay, Tseng is wearing glitter and a feather boa, so I have to go put my head in the sink now.
Friday, August 8th, 2008 11:02 am (UTC)
I don't know if he would be hot, but it certainly would be fun. I'd probably fall of my chair, so *raises hand shyly*

Congrats on the reviews and *bows* for the self teaching, I really wish I had the willpower to do it.

And tell the choir that if the don't stop teasing you, I'll send Squall to bore them to death or something :P
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 05:19 am (UTC)
Squall! *bounces* He would drive Zack crazy. Zack would be all hyper, trying to make friends, and Squall would be all "..." :)

Thank you. Oddly enough I don't have much willpower, I think I'm just doing it now to spite Zack. Hee.

*headdesk* Stupid, glittery Rufus. Get out of my head!
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 11:47 am (UTC)
Hee, it would be a really weird converastion :P

Zack is a good motivator. I think I need a Zack in my life. I'd prefer a Sephy, but I wouldn't weant a Masamune through my ribs for every error...

No, please don't, we all want to see a glittery Rufus :P
Friday, August 8th, 2008 02:45 pm (UTC)
HOSHIT.

Ruffles Shinra in pure white furs. I'm also picturing him in a sparkly blue rhinestone studded thong and thigh high white leather hooker boots.

Yeah. I think I like this idea.

(Psst. Got more 'p' word story. I'll clean it up and send it to hopefully tide you over. ;3 )
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 05:06 am (UTC)
Oh, it SO tided. *glomps, Zack-style* Thank you.

I need to keep my mouth shut in the future about Rufus. Now I've got a whole ShinRa gay-pride parade floating through my head...Rude's all in leather, Reno's got fairy wings, and I better stop there, 'cause Sephy can't handle anything involving Tseng that might be construed as sexual.
Friday, August 8th, 2008 03:32 pm (UTC)
Unfortunately, I'm joining with the hand raising. I think Reno would get a kick out of it and you know how he is at the moment. Besides the point, I'd get plenty of blackmail photos. *grins*

Man, AC Complete? That sucks. That really sucks. I was looking forward to seeing a high res Cloud in a dress.

And congrats on 600+ reviews! I'm happy for your milestone!
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 04:38 am (UTC)
Thank you, Amaya! And I should withhold part two of Becoming for you supporting this Rufus thing, but I'm impatient. :)

Well, whatever Rufus and his Turks get up to is fine, as long as I don't have to see it. And you know how mental Sephy would go if he had to see Tseng doing anything remotely sexy.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 09:57 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I know how mental Sephy-Pants gets about that. *shrugs* Well, in the end, I only really wanted it to see Reno's reaction. He's well on the mend, but repressed basically everything that occured so we might see a relapse in his state at some point in time. It's a 50:50 chance.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 03:49 am (UTC)
*nods* I know the value of repression, I've seen Cloud do it, and he's happy, cuddling with his playmates and his kitten. But it might be healthier for Reno to remember and work through the trauma.

Give him a hug for me!
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 03:32 pm (UTC)
Healthier? Definitely.
Ok! *runs off to give Reno a hug*
Friday, August 8th, 2008 11:58 pm (UTC)
According to some stuff I've read, it looks like it's stupidly likely there will be a remake, but it's not been put in writing yet. The head-honcho dude really wants the entire original FFVII team for it but they're all busy doing FFXIII stuff (*growls*) so it's all up in the air at the moment. But he said to expect something really spontaneous and out of the blue, it only took them two days to decide that they were going to make CC afterall. ^_^ congrats on the reviews! I'm really looking forward to the Cloud/Seph stuff.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 03:51 am (UTC)
Thank you. :)

Argh, forget about FFXIII! *waves copy of FFVII at creators* Focus, people! This is what we want! More hot SOLDIER action! And I mean that in both the military and the naughty sense.
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 06:01 am (UTC)
Amarissia, did you honestly think there wouldn't be girls out here who want to see Rufus Shinra dressed like the ice queen of drag? *Raises her hand with the other fangirls*
Honestly.

Anyway, good luck adjusting to your medications. I just got put on new ones too, and I hate them. Bleah. Also good luck on the Japanese! It gets to be a killer around the third semester. I've forgotten most of what I learned.

And if they ever do make a Final Fantasy VII remake, they better make a remake of VI as well. Kefka in 2D pixels was awesome. Kefka in 3D OMG-TEH-POLYGONS will be even better. Plus, fruity laughter that is not in 8bit sound = epic win. [/FFVI patriotism]

~LoLoChan
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 03:40 am (UTC)
I'm learning Japanese on my own, which means I have only me to motivate me. No wonder my progress is so slow. :) I get excited when I hit a word I learned from FFVII, though.

While SE is taking requests, a sequel to VIII wouldn't suck. Seifer and Squall have to admit their feelings for each other at some point. I mean, look at what all that pent-up sexual frustration did to them before.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 03:49 am (UTC)
I'd dig a sequel movie to VIII. I'd love to see something like that. Seifer and Squall DO need to work things out, but knowing Sqeeeeeeeeeeeenix it would be so Squinoa centric you'd want to puke. It was supposed to be a romantic game, after all. *Rolls eyes*

My sister and I were bored and we wrote part of the supposed script for an FFVI movie, but since the game's not open-ended like VII, we had some trouble. Also, FFVI characters aren't as slashable as VII and VIII are... There's, like, ten male playable characters and only three female characters. You'd think someone would give off a gay vibe! [/FFVI rant part two]

Apparently KH is becoming an anime *Cringes in terror*. I REALLY don't want to see that happen. I'm afraid of the Disney characters. *Runs away*
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 05:48 am (UTC)
The Disney characters scare me too! Not quite as much as anime, but both together? That's a nightmare far worse than Rufus in glittery drag right there.

Oh, Squeenix. Just stop pretending! They're all gay, they're all screwing, in every game! Why else do you make the guys prettier than the girls?
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 05:52 am (UTC)
To make matters worse, Squeenix has a bad reputation on it's animes. I watched Unlimited when I was fourteen... never... again. Though the Vincent character was pretty cool.

It's really amusing how pretty the boys are. They know that Yaoi sells well, they just don't want to openly make a yaoi game. Give it a few years... it'll get there. XD
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 05:59 am (UTC)
:) From your lips to Gaia's ears, Lolo.
Monday, August 11th, 2008 02:02 am (UTC)
Um, my friend is cosplaying Rufus, and we all feel really super sorry for her having to wear 5 different layers of black and white in addition to that sheet he keeps around him. Plus, I think it would be really amusing so...*raises hand*

Congrats on the 600+ reviews!
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 03:44 am (UTC)
Gah, another one! And I thought I was weird.

And thank you. :)