A Safe Space for Moogles

There's a song on Overclocked Remix's FF7 album Voices of the Lifestream that reminds me, worryingly enough, of the romantic music from Princess Bride. Which is giving me some weird-ass mental images, let me tell you. Of course, it's a nice break from the unrelenting waves of angst the FFVII crowd has been beating me with lately. Hello. My name is Cloud Strife. You killed a metric buttload of people. Prepare to die.

*ahem*

So work today was... well. First, the water heater had broken last night, so the building resembled a kicked anthill while everybody dealt with the floodwaters. Meanwhile, there were still animals to be seen to, so there was me wrestling a half-dozen FRIGGIN HUGE DOGS in and out of their runs all by my onesie (seriously, guys, there was this one dog who outweighed me by about fifty pounds and he absolutely refused to go back inside. It took me fifteen minutes just to get him through the door, no exaggeration.). And let us not even mention the massive cat in whose Cheerios somebody evidently pissed, the massive fragrant piles of poo, and ah yes, the puddles everywhere. And did I mention we had no hot water? Yeah, the water heater had asploded, so.

Suffice to say it was not one of those days where I was done by ten and could sit around reading trashy paranormal romance novels the rest of the time.

Luckily, I have the day off tomorrow, so I can catch up on my writing! :D *peeks at next kinkfest prompt* ...oh god, motorcycle porn. Iiiii... think I'll start on that tomorrow. XD

First: How cute is this? TRANSFORMING ROLLER, U GUYZ. (okay, they call him Rollar, but screw that.) I want to pick him up and hug him.

Second: Added another plotbunny to my hutch. I want to write what happened during Roddy's little playdate with the Decepticons in (lj)childofatlantis's and my round robot. (No, it wasn't sex. Exclusively.) >_> Look, I'm getting some really pretty images, all right? Leave me alone.

Third, related: I have got to get some priorities straightened out on my writing. If nothing else, if I don't get back in the saddle with TF/Mythbusters soon the series will end before I finish the damn thing.

Fourth, further to above: I may not have a choice right now. Fluffiroth-angst, it compels me.

Fifth, possibly affected by above: I could use a job. Barring that, a hug and someone telling me that I'm not doomed to live in my parents' basement forever.

Sixth, apropos of probably nothing: I first got this song (warning, Axel/Roxas shounen-ai pix set to it- look, just put it in another tab and listen) as a Jenova-to-Sephiroth theme, so if you think of it in that way the lyrics are really disturbing, but oh my lord it's such a beautiful song. If I had that in my head I'm not so sure I wouldn't follow it either.

Seventh, apropos of yesterday: I really need to stop accepting the free samples they wave at you in mall food courts. That's how they hook you. Five minutes later you're sitting down with a plateful of chicken and limp, under-flavored noodles and thinking, "welp, there goes another year of my life to cholesterol poisoning." God, chinese food is crack. -_-

Eighth, speaking of crack: there was a D.A.R.E. booth set up outside of Michael's today. I appreciate what they're trying to do and all, but guys, Hasbro got to me long before you did.

Limp by Fiona Apple has a piano bit during the verses that sounds a lot like the unsettling music you hear when you're in the Shinra Tower. Just five notes, minor key (I think).

That's all. Carry on.

"Shawn," I called plaintively, "help?"

My favorite professor came running to my aid - and winced when she saw the state of my monitor. "Ooh," she said, "that's not good. That's a kernel panic."

That wasn't reassuring at all, but even as I resorted to a hard reboot, my Zen reaches into its memory and pulls out Eric Idle. "Always look on the bright side of life..."

So I went and got some animal crackers. Nom nom nom.

(I didn't lose any data, so don't panic.)

I've decided that this is my theme song for the next few months.

...When I'm not indulging my inner angsty Roddy, anyway.

Today in class we were introduced to GarageBand, and and and I made musics! Look, look! :D

First song: about 2 minutes, sort of techno-piano-ish.

Second song: about 3 minutes, far-east themed and heavy on the percussion.

Now I remember why I'm doing all this. The chance to be creative and make shinies.

This afternoon I dreamed that I was a pregnant Aeris, running around trying to avoid capture by Shinra (in a real-world suburb, if a rather run-down one - definitely not Midgar). They found me anyway, but Cloud and Sephiroth were there to help me, and we tricked our captors and scamperfoomed for the living of a life on the lam.

Also, I heard "Doctor Feelgood" and "Doctor Love" on the radio today, both of which put me in mind of Ratchet in an amorous mood.

My subconscious and my stereomancy are just going to have to battle for supremacy, is all.

"The Death of Optimus Prime" by They Might Be Giants never fails to make me cry. And get ridiculous images of Autobots singing sadly around a bonfire. And then I cry some more, because dammit they all miss him that much.

Winamp insists on playing that song for me every single day for two weeks straight. This is not conducive to my mental state.

ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM TRYING TO WRITE PORN.

Zen player update: still dead. Am still an idiot. Sending off my DS tomorrow to be repaired. Am still an idiot. Wasn't feeling well today, so stayed home from the shelter; will go a couple times during the upcoming break to make up for it. Feeling the lack of fuzzies right now. Am still a fucking idiot.

Had a fun weekend, but because fun weekends usually lead to floppy moogles, I'll leave the report 'til tomorrow and hope you'll be content with a linkdump.

So beckyh2112 showed me this, which is basically an index for a Japanese fanart site. Because I couldn't find any comprehensive image list links, I took it upon myself to look through every single image in search of the ones y'all might be interested. That's right, my dear flist: I looked at scary Japanese porn so you didn't have to. Well, unless you want. ;P

Divided into links for Transformers, FF7, Kingdom Hearts, and a few random ones I didn't recognize but thought were cool. The rest were all characters I didn't recognize. WARNING: a good handful of these are not worksafe. The bad ones are marked with a **; click at your own risk.

( Transformers )

( Final Fantasy 7 )

( Kingdom Hearts )

( Other )

Also, FF7 fan remixes from our friends at OverClocked ReMix! Absolutely gorgeous. *pokes BitTorrent to download faster, dammit*

In other news, I finally got my hands on the last issue of Megatron: Origins. I... think I need to switch factions now, excuse me... *wobbles, swoons, thuds and worships*