Silver Star

June 27 - I was in the Amassment chat yesterday. Shrine timelines, upcoming shrines, internet memories, website reviews and recommendations, Amassment plans, celebrities, computers, time zones, temperature, transportation and randomness. XD It was fun. While I was there I made an orange Ashram layout for Fantasy Bit far too early for October. ^^;;

June 29 - There was a bit of a blackout today. I played Gurumon for a while. It doesn't have much of a story, but it's so cute! It's like Atomic Betty + Summon Night + Ratchet & Clank. So cute! I just got through the third forest stage and I'm heading over to the lake towards the east.

June 30 - Afternoon... I'm on episode 21 of Lost Universe. ^^ Also played a little more of Gurumin today. Such a cute game. Parin's fighting style reminds me of Ark from Terranigma. :D I had not been keeping up with Korra since episode 1 so I'm watching more episodes now, currently watching 2. The probending arena looks like a Pokemon stadium! XD It's even white and red! XD Episode 3... yes Korra, mornings are evil! The Fire ferret mascot is sooo cute!!! Later... Watching episode 4... I wonder if the girl on the bike is related to Zuko or Toph. Looks like she's not... lol Aang's middle granddaughter is hilarious. She reminds me of Tai Lee. XD I want to see Tai Lee's descendants, they would be so fun! Night... Lol Korra! Watching episode 5, it's like fanservice city bring on the shipping wars. XD I'm not taking sides, at least not yet. Why does Korra call the wolf bat water leader pretty boy... He's not pretty. Lol at the announcer and not pretty boy on episode 6. Episode 7 lol at the new cabbage man! XD

July 1 - Watching the finale of Korra season 1. I was amused when the guy with Zuku's voice came up. It's pretty clear he's Zuko's descendant, I mean really, he's even named Iroh. lol at the wise hobo too. XD I like the humor in this series. I don't like the old tech. I love tech, but I don't like the in-between of modern and near-medieval. One or the other, magic or tech, hi tech no magic, no low tech, not a fan of prototypes. I liked the mechas, but not the old looking airplanes. I guess it's because I don't like too many similarities with Earth unless it's modern Earth, but Earth in itself is boring and so is the past. I prefer high fantasy, which this is given the fauna, but I don't like too many references to historical real Earth. Modern Earth can be fun and so can future Earth, but those historical-like portrayals give it a hint of anti-climax. None the less, the fantasy elements and the fast action balances it out.

July 2 - It seems that I always have more plans than the day has hours. XD There are many things I want to write and many pixels I want to make...

Fantasy Bit
http://piratesboard.net/mikari/
June 26 - Added another new layout, Ashram from Record of Lodoss War.
June 27 - Revamped all 4 layouts and made them more functional.

Fanfics:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/300106/
http://piratesboard.net/fiction/viewuser.php?uid=4
June 28 - Revolution 7: A Gust Of Wind (X-Men: Evolution)
July 2 - Revolution 8: Memories (X-Men: Evolution)

Art:
http://mikaristar.deviantart.com
June 29 - Miku Hatsune Icons and Cursors (Vocaloids)
June 30 - New Zerenitia Icon and Cursor (Saving Zarkavia)
July 1 - Victoria and Tsubasa Icons and Cursors (Beyblade)
July 1 - Tiny Tidus Cursors (Final Fantasy X)

May 14 - I had some really weird dreams last night... One was about sitting in front of a TV watching an odd movie. It was sort of a high school theme with some girl that looked a bit like Moni from TWTYH and some asian guy. I think they triggered the dream, except Aki didn't have his hair dyed and their backgrounds were different as they both went to school in America. There was something about some evil sorcerer they had to stop. Odd... The other dream followed the same theme, except I was also a student of the same school and for some reason I was there when the evil wizard was trying to sacrifice the students. The protagonists should have been just outside the gates at that time. I was trying to escape, though a statue carved into a tree tried to prevent it. I fought it and reached the school gates anyway. Sure enough, the protagonists were there, arriving for the finale of the movie, but then I woke up. It's like I had a dream about watching a movie, then I had a dream about dreaming about the movie I just dreamed about. Weird. XD

May 17 - Horrible weather for most of the afternoon. It just stopped storming and I finally got online. Stupid bad weather affecting the electricity and getting in my way.

May 18 - The weather isn't cooperating these days, but I'm making progress with my upcoming fansite. I should have it done in a week or so. Most of the information is all typed up. I just need to go over it for any corrections, organize everything and finish the visuals. I actually started with the writing just to see how much I could write about such a minor character. I think around 8,000 words of information makes for a decent fansite, yes? I'll have lots of pretty graphics too, I just need to make them. I'll be focusing on that so I'll probably only update Slayers: Alive until this is done, then I'll get back into updating Loyalty (Pokemon) and Slayers: Days. Once Loyalty is done I'll get started on the Golden Phoenix revamp since I'll only have Days to update then, so I'll have some extra time. I have the full outline for Loyalty done and the outline for several upcoming chapters of Days. I also have part of Loyalty chapter 14 written (it'll have 15 chapters in total) so rest assured, I fully intend to finish all these stories.

May 21 - I'm making progress with the upcoming site. Been listening to the ending chapters of Blessed Defiance. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6302466/1/Blessed_Defiance

May 23 - The upcoming fan site (those who follow me on Deviant Art already know what it's about) is coming along nicely. It's taking longer than I thought, but I'm getting somewhere! I've been focused on that for the last few days and have only been updating Slayers: Alive. As soon as this is done, I'll make a few small changes to Golden Phoenix and dub my collective revamped. I'll still be updating Slayers: Alive the whole time. I'll get back to Loyalty (Pokemon) and some more cursor and icons for TWTYH and Slayers. Next up is Slayers: Days, then my new Mario story.

May 24 - New site! http://piratesboard.net/mikari/way/cool.php

To Do List:
- Finish uploading fanworks to Fanart Central
- Finish making fansite... it is related to the Mario fandom
- Loyalty (Pokemon chaptered fic) (start round robin)
- Finish the Fantasy Bit notes page.
- Slayers: Days (writing challenge collection)
- Revamp Golden Phoenix Layla (Kaleido Star) fansite
- Update Missions and Deliveries (Final Fantasy VII)
- Write new Mario fanfic, it will be lots of fun!
- Write X-Men: Evolution fic, main characters to be decided.
- Write Sailor Moon fic, sort of Molly-centric?
- Write Lufia II fanfic, Dekar-centric.
- Make a ton of pixels!

Way Cool
http://piratesboard.net/mikari/way/cool.php
May 24 - Site open, everything is new!

Fanfics:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/300106/
http://piratesboard.net/fiction/viewuser.php?uid=4
May 15 - Slayers Days 12: Witch’s Brew
May 15 - Slayers Alive 119: Forgive! Put Regret To Rest
May 17 - Slayers Days 13: Ten Steps
May 17 - Slayers Alive 120: Identity! Name It And You'll Get Attached
May 18 - Loyalty 13: Associations (Pokemon)
May 18 - Slayers Alive 121: Fusion! All For A Common Goal
May 21 - Slayers Alive 122: Awakening! Forgotten But Not Gone
May 23 - Slayers Alive 123: Secret! For Us To Know

Fanart:
http://mikaristar.deviantart.com
May 15 - Chocolate covered marshmallows (photo)
May 17 - My Snack (photo)
May 17 - Vending Machines (photo)
May 17 - One Key (photo)
May 17 - Umbrella (photo)
May 17 - Many Keys (photo)
May 17 - Ketchup (photo)
May 17 - Airplane Engine (photo)
May 17 - Airplane Seats (photo)
May 17 - Radio (photo)
May 17 - Rose (photo)
May 18 - Hand (photo)
May 18 - Chocolate and Chocolate (photo)
May 18 - Pepsi, Choco Cake & Cheetos (photo)
May 19 - Boshi (Super Mario)
May 23 - Boshi's Cookie (Super Mario)
May 24 - Boshi's Cookie version 2 (Super Mario)

May 7 - Meme!

1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each.

Todd gave me the letter I http://yeerk.livejournal.com/56234.html

1- Iris from Lufia II... Technically her true name is Erim, but Iris she goes by Iris for most of the game. An interesting sneaky character that put up a convincing act. She helps the hero along his journey though she is technically supposed to be an antagonist. I like how the line is blurred for her.

2- Idura from Lufia II... Not a particularly interesting character, but he serves his purpose as a mid-boss.

3- Itachi from Naruto... Bishounen... he was cooler when he was evil, mostly because his "tragic" logic is so flawed that I see him more as an idiot than a martyr now.

4- Impa from Zelda... The mysterious warrior is pretty cool. There have been many different version of her over time, which ironically when from old to young, rather than the other way around.

5- Invader Zim... He's funny adorable, cute, love him!

6- Indiana Jones... Technically called Henry, but few remember that anyway. I like the original trilogy best. Fun action hero with a whip FTW.

7- IG-88 from Star Wars... I thought the design was funny, he's supposed to be a scary human hunter but he just doesn't look it. XD

May 8 - I finally finished revamping my Summon Night site yeaterday. I didn't even remember today was my day off. I guess I'm getting used to the 6 days slavery, it's so sad. At least I have tonight off. I'm planning to write fanfics tonight and stick with that until Loyalty is done. I'll still update Days while I'm at it. After that I'll revamp my Kaleido Star site while I continue with Days and I'll keep going with the revamps alongside Days until they're all done.

To Do List:
- Finish uploading fanworks to Fanart Central
- Loyalty (Pokemon chaptered fic)
- Pokemon one shot (title pending)
- Slayers: Days (writing challenge collection)
- Revamp Fantasy Bit
- Revamp RED Reno (Final Fantasy VII) fansite
- Write hero's journey for Layla (rewatch Kaleido Star)
- Revamp Golden Phoenix Layla (Kaleido Star) fansite
- Write and post as of yet untitled Dekar-centric Estpolis fanfic
- Make a ton of pixels!

Surreptitious (Summon Night):
http://piratesboard.net/mikari/summon/night.php
May 7 - Revamped the current layout and made two new layouts. All three are available as skins. Organized and revised all the pages. Completely rewrote the Shipping page. Added a bunch of stuff to the media sections. Added two more characters to the Comparisons. Wrote a new section: Epic Hero.

Fanfics:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/300106/
http://piratesboard.net/fiction/viewuser.php?uid=4
May 5 - Slayers: Alive 114: Unstable! A Dangerous Combination
May 8 - Loyalty 9: Ruins (Pokemon)
May 8 - Slayers: Days 8: Hostage Situation
May 8 - Slayers: Alive 115: Panic! False Accusations Of Despair

Fanart:
http://mikaristar.deviantart.com
May 8 - Ureksa (Summon Night)
May 8 - Miyabi Cursor, Icon and Gif (TWTYH)
May 8 - Chibi Ureksa (Summon Night)

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December 29 - Does Dream Width have ads? I don't know because I block all ads anyway. Does the real blog http://mikaristar.dreamwidth.org look like this screen shot? http://mikaristar.deviantart.com/art/Dream-Width-276315520

December 30 - Happy Birthday Hikou!

December 31 - I had fun yesterday. ^_^ I slept in late, had a nice take out lunch, played around on online forums and comm while listening to a bible chapter (not getting confused). Watched anime, played video games, wrote fanfiction, drew fanart and had a good day at work. The system was down, the flight was oversold, it was deliciously chaotic! (Did I just say deliciously chaotic? Oh yeah, I would definitely be a monster in the Slayers world. XD) The most amazing part was that I actually did all of that, giving a good amount of time to each activity without feeling rushed or overloaded. Was it that yesterday had more than 24 hours? Technically it was half of yesterday and half of today, but my days start in the afternoon so it balances into a single day so to speak.

As for today, the day is not so great because it's new years and I have to work, which is not a problem as I'm sure I'll be endlessly amused watching my coworker pathetically cry like idiots (oh yeah definitely of the monster race in the Slayers-verse XD). But you know parents get idiotic because boo-hoo I'm going to be a whole fifteen minutes away. Phff! Still, I'm going to leave their idiotic overly emotional junk behind and have a blast handling another chaotic flight. :D My coworkers are starting to think I'm crazy because I enjoy chaos so much. ^_^

January 1 - Happy New Year Everyone! Today was more chaotic than yesterday because it had all the same things plus a broken baggage conveyor belt. I sent out a whole bunch of texts and it looks like most if not all of them got to where they were going. Snow, Cherri, do you have the same numbers with the new phones, email me. I was surprised that a few people still have the same numbers, it's been forever since the last time I messaged them.

I'm slowly making progress through my Slayers fanfic novel. After that it's that Pokemon story "Loyalty" which will be maybe about 25k-30k words? I don't know yet, I haven't even done the outline yet and lately I've been using lists of events to make chaptered stories esier to keep up with in the writing process and to make sure I don't forget any important details. I'll do all that after I'm done with "To Live Another Day" I still have plenty of events in my outline for that one. After that I would like to write something Valkyria Chronicles II related, possibly a short reader insert, but in first person instead of second so I can post it at Fanfiction net too. After that I have an idea for something web-design related... talk about having a ton of busy plans and they're all quite time consuming so it'll be a while. As for my resolutions... I have only a to do list really and I just detailed it. XD Overall, I had a great year! Some of the most notable events were my new job and learning a lot about writing thanks to practicing with long fanfiction.

January 2 - Happy Birthday Matt!

----- Updates -----

Fantasy Bit:
http://piratesboard.net/mikari/

January 1 - Added some links at Surreptitious (Summon Night) and Golden Phoenix (Kaleido Star).

Fanfics:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/300106/
http://piratesboard.net/fiction/viewuser.php?uid=4

January 1 - To Live Another Day 26: Hidden Potential (Slayers)

Fanart:
http://mikaristar.deviantart.com

December 29 - A Few Icons (Valkyrie Profile, Summon Night, Final Fantasy VI)
December 31 - Link (Legend of Zelda)
December 31 - Filia (Slayers)
December 31 - Onyx 3 (Slayers OC)