catastrophic: (♕ monochromic dreamers always lie)
Kiri ([personal profile] catastrophic) wrote on October 31st, 2010 at 09:05 pm
thrills, chills, and research papers
Halloween suddenly rolled around the corner without me even knowing it! I don't really celebrate it, to be honest - hell, I rarely celebrate anything unless it involves me getting presents. And even then, that's not me "celebrating," that's just me reaping the benefits of a holiday. There's nothing to reap from Halloween though - you don't get candy unless you dress up in some heinous costume and beg strangers, going from door to door... Too much work! Just buy candy from a store and eat it, huh? After Halloween, the price of candy gets slashed right in half too - so there, you can have your Hersheys bars and eat 'em, too! I guess I'm not very spirited when it comes to matters like this - we didn't even buy candy for Trick 'o Treaters this year. Mom says it's because she didn't want me sneaking my way into the candy, and I guess that's a good enough reason. Yeah, I can see myself gorging on candy if we had any of it in the house - lately, I've had an incurable appetite, I've always got the munchies!

Last night, I took two strawberry cereal bars and piled some ice cream on top of it while watching anime - Togainu no Chi, to be in fact. Man, little things like that, just having a snack while kicking back on a Saturday night and watching anime, I'll never forget it! To others, I guess little things like that are trivial memories, but me just having fun is the best thing I can ask for out of life, really. When I think back to my summer, all I did really was play video games, watch anime, and read manga, and hell, I had a great time! I read some really great titles (Akumetsu, Ikigami) watched some classic anime (Elfen Lied, Gantz) and played some fun as hell games (Tales of Vesperia, Harvest Moon: Animal Parade). Sure, maybe I wasn't very productive, but can't a girl just sit back and enjoy what she wants to do? Especially now that five days out of the seven day week I'm busy as all hell. Even today, a Sunday, I was busy! Writing my research report for Human Development wasn't an easy task, especially when your group members aren't very cooperative...

I am still recovering from my system restore. I just re-downloaded iTunes today, and I have to restart my music collection all over again. I've no idea where I should start first when it comes to this sort of thing, to be honest. Currently, I just have really awesome Soul Eater soundtracks from the OST, but hopefully my little music collection can grow big, just like it used to be before the restore. Man, I've been so much more paranoid about the Internet ever since the restore. I'm just lucky that things turned out okay, really. I still don't know what kind of virus infected it. All I know was that it was a program called shell.exe. How did it get on my computer? What did I do wrong? I still really don't know... All I can hope for is that it never happens again.

Also, before I forget, I finally got my cubes from [community profile] storycubes !


1. Lock: Maybe a secret? Someone with a closed off heart? A room that no one is allowed to go in? Someone who is mute, who cannot speak - thus, their lips are sealed?

2. Compass: Someone who is lost? Someone who is directionless in life? Someone asks for their fortune to be read, but it does point to any clear answer?

3. Bug: The feeling of bugs crawling on your skin - the heebie jeebies? Maybe a bug that records someone's conversations? An actual bug that causes disease/illness?

4. Moon: ... lunar? Lunacy? Someone who draws their powers from the moon, and is insane for it? A werewolf that transforms under the full moon? A moon elf (or any race with moon- attached) who is sensitive to the moon? The destruction of the moon? Water - the tides, being pulled by the moon?

5. Castle / Pawn: It could either be a castle, pawn... or a watchtower? Haha, if you want to be cliche - a princess stuck up in a high tower? Nah... I like the pawn idea, better! Maybe someone playing chess? Someone who is a pawn in someone else's actions... Someone royal? A pawn for royalty who is stuck in a watchtower?

6. Tent: At least, it looks like a tent? I dunno, camping? Pitching a tent? (Isn't that a euphemism for something...) Roughing it outdoors...? Shelter? Camaraderie?

7. Scales: Looks like the scales are unbalanced... Uneven odds? The chances of survival or slim? Just a really unfair situation... Or maybe it's weighing something? Still, I like the idea of weighing the odds, and the odds of ___ end up being slim.

8. Speech Bubble: Talk is cheap? A piece with nothing but dialogue? A picture's worth a thousand words? Words won't get you anywhere? "You talk too much." Uggh, no scratch that, I hate that line.

9. Apple: The apple of my eye? Or, lyrics! "The apple of your eye, the rotten core inside." A gift to a mentor / teacher? Forbidden fruit?

How to tie it all together...

There's a big bad, whose insanity is influenced by the moon(4). and is perhaps of royal or at least noble descent. Maybe fallen royalty? Big bad has a bug(3) placed on the "hero" by his pawn(5). Perhaps pawn is the only tie the big bad has to his rightful place on the throne or whatever the hell. Pawn is confused(2) and knows he shouldn't be doing this. Pawn takes shelter(6) somewhere and ponders on his own actions. Big bad has a secret(1), he is in love with his pawn. He presents pawn with a gift, and the big bad thinks of how much of a forbidden fruit(9) the pawn is. Does he taste the forbidden fruit? Even if his scheme were to work, the big bad realizes that the odds(7) of him turning out happy in this fair again against him. The final chapter deals with the phrase: words won't get you anywhere.(8)

Haha, I'm excited to write this, actually! I may change some things up, since this was just a quick brainstorm, but I actually like the ideas I cooked up!



Man, I can't even believe tomorrow's Monday already. Where does the weekend go?
 
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