December 2011
8 posts
November 2011
9 posts
...an excerpt from bram stoker's dracula
“A house cannot be made habitable in a day, and after all, how few days go to make up a century. I rejoice also that there is a chapel of old times. We Transylvanian nobles love not to think that our bones may lie amongst the common dead. I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young, and...
“The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed...”
– Aldous Huxley (via imfantasyparade)
October 2011
11 posts
...shapeless things
From the edge of the waterfall clearing Beliath heard something rustle. He focused his gaze on where he thought the noise came from and he was right, and quite taken aback by what he saw. Three figures, black and round, almost shapeless, as if they were made of upright shadow, standing free. Beliath rubbed his eyes and looked again. The formless beings approached him in silence, stretching their...
The Daily Doodles: "The Never Lonely Lonely Girl" →
thedailydoodles:
Dinah used to always worry that she’d end up alone, Because she struggled to abandon her comfort zone. Surrounded by books is where she felt right at home, Many weekend nights spent pouring over a new tome.
And while she has friends, she’s no one’s one and only Despite no significant other,…
...war epilogue (c. 2003)
More writings from the disc I found from 2003. This one is called War Epilogue. ——- The pale moon served only to illuminate the faces of the dead. Their blue drow skin glittered in its radiance. Wretched fogs crept between the valleys and hills and naught but for moments eased their presence so Belimar could heed his gait. He stumbled, tripping over foul brethren of Arkenndar and...
...i've always been a cheery sort
I’m moving. As such I need to take all of the things and put them into boxes; this means going into my closet, a place I haven’t been in almost a decade. When I did I found a CD-R with a bunch of old files burned onto it. There’s some hits, there’s some misses, and there’s some that are just wtf. I believe this to be one of the latter. This is a poem I wrote, date...
2 tags
...good things
•My friends that offer their support (you know who you are<3).
•Using my pain to propel my writing. It is a strong and creative force I’m feeling, and this book is going to mean something big when it is finished.
•The future, dragging me to a better place, kicking and screaming.
•A new Shirley Jackson book, well, new to me.
•She finally gets to meet him face to face.
•Teetering on...
August 2011
4 posts
...blondes in space
FemShep is making an appearance on the box art for Mass Effect 3. When I heard about this I was ecstatic. I know that the fan base of Mass Effect has a large female contingent, so it’s great to see their gender represented in this way. Bioware had six possible designs for the default female Shepard, they put these designs on Facebook and asked people to ‘like’ their favorite to decide which should...
July 2011
9 posts
...let me impress you with a lot of japanese words
I’m a Japanophile. Some might say otaku. My interest in Japan spans several areas, some of which wax and wane over time, but all remain constant. When I was a kid I was very into tokusatsu (in short, superheroes from Japan). I had played Ultraman video games, I had seen Guyver, I had seen Kamen Rider, Godzilla, Gamera, Daimajin, I remember having a keen interest in these things. Then something...
...well, what about dragon's lair?
Passive experiences like books and movies can be fantastic. I could watch Ghibli films all day. But my true media passion is video games, and part of that comes from their interactivity. I’ve been a gamer for twenty-seven years; I owe my childhood to Nolan Bushnell and Shigeru Miyamoto. I’d suspect that I’ve pushed more buttons in my life than a stenographer does in an entire...
...blizzard decorates, so it counts!
Tomorrow is MMORPG Day, well… today, I suppose; it is after midnight. It’s also Independence Day, I can tell because Microsoft is trying to sell me a Confederacy uniform for two dollars for my avatar to wear. I’d prefer the Union, but that is oddly unavailable. Oh, and the Civil War, you know… came more than eight decades later than the adoption of the Declaration of...
April 2011
2 posts
...conan the libertarian
Conan O’Brien has been getting on my nerves lately. Donald Trump is thinking about running for president. Donald Trump is also an idiot. Conan delights in this. Every night, after Conan makes some Donald Trump joke, he goes on and on about how terrific it is that the idiot Donald Trump might run for president, because it makes his job much easier. I think every comedian is guilty of this. I...
...being the smartest person in the room makes me...
Ah, FortressCraft; simultaneously the bane of my recent existence, and the primary form of my entertainment. Things have been happening, bad things. Everyone keeps losing their worlds, but not me. I back mine up on a USB stick. When I tell this to people they don’t quite seem to understand it for some reason. I’ve been working on my castle like crazy, a huge castle, one of the largest...
March 2011
5 posts
...the horse, it's dead
I wrote this a long time ago. It’s about the whole video-games-can’t-be-art debate. Look, I’m as sick of hearing about it as you are. But after I wrote this, several people told me that it was insightful in regards to this argument in a way that they had not seen before; that was the highest compliment. Some people that I know might not have read it yet, so I wanted to give it...
...fake plastic trees
Dragon Age II has been getting a lot of negative feedback from the gaming public due to its recycled cells. Let me lay something out here; Dragon Age II is a play, essentially. Narrative components unfold via a recounting, something like The Princess Bride. From the word go I’ve been viewing this game as such, more of a play than anything. These recycled cells, they’re like set pieces,...
...divulgences
I saw someone else do this once, and it seemed fun so… here I present a list of five things most people don’t know about me.
1: I once ate kangaroo meat.
2: I once saw William H. Macy in a Publix.
3: I’ve never seen It’s a Wonderful Life. I know, shocking, right?
4: I’ve read all of William Shakespeare’s published works.
5: I used to play the alto...
...and the times, they've already changed
Perhaps it’s because I grew up in the 80s, but I have a particular fondness for 2D cel animation. But I think my fondness of it moves beyond the trappings of nostalgia; I see it as an art, and these days, I see it as a dying art. I’ve written pieces like this before, so if you’ve known me for awhile, please excuse me as I rattle on about this for the umpteenth time. But for me,...
...it's just an old double standard
Write book about rape, incest, and sexual torture.
New York Times best seller!
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Make a video game that contains a 10-second scene of conscensual sex.
Ban this game!!
...the best things in life are free (after initial...
On March 6th, I’m buying a Kindle. I was saving up for a Nintendo 3DS, but after seeing the launch line-up (No Mario games? Has a Nintendo console ever launched without one?), I decided to wait. So, I’m getting a Kindle instead. Yes, ordinary books are fine, but I just can’t get past the benefits of a Kindle, of which there are plenty. Most notably, shelf space. Anyone who knows...
February 2011
2 posts
...hazelnut
I walk to Dunkin’ Donuts every day. I view it as part of my treatment for agoraphobia; I once was told that a daily outing can help. Every time I go there, I walk right by a mom & pop coffee shop. I always feel kinda bad, walking by like that, on my way to give corporate America my money.
Today, as I was walking by, the mom & pop shop had a sign outside that said I could get an...