So, as I may have mentioned before in the past, I tend to have really bizzarre, vivid dreams. Most of the last week these have had weird Project Runway twists (Jo being crowned Miss Japan is the most memorable - kind of woke up and went 'What the hell?'), but last night, my brain decided to make things more interesting (in a good way, actually).

The first bit was a cross between DMC and Nocturne - some powerful spirits or something decided to resurrect a group of demons to traverse the Temen ni Gru for some unknown reason. The first bit of it went slightly awry, and they ended up with Dante, half-dead Vergil, and the demifiend. Then there was a brief interlude of school issues mixed with basement renovation mixed with camp in the middle of the woods, and then there was an X and Nocturne crossover which I don't remember quite as clearly, other than that my brain apparently thinks pixies come from eggs.

The really strange bit is that people I knew kept being used interchangably with characters - I was Vergil, Mara was Kamui, I think Jo was Dante, although I'm not entirely sure, and the demifiend may have been one of my friends from elementary school, Margot, but I'm really not sure about that. I do remember that in one of the moments when we were more us than the characters, we were drawing the huge magical tattoo-thing on her.

And augh don't wanna go to work. Particularly because there is more Shoebox Project out, after like a year of none.

Ways To Utterly Destroy Any Good Mood I Was In:

Coming home to find
-my brother has left my monitor on for two days straight (I have no screensaver, because I had problems with it freezing, and always the moniter off)
-one of his friends has rifled through my stuff
-while the Idiot is gone for now, he'll be back this weekend and next weekend.

And good god, does this connection blow. Or maybe it's this computer, I don't know. New laptop FTW!

Thanks for the comments last night/this morning, though - I feel a lot better about stuff now. You guys are awesome ♥

Oh my god, why did I not find out about Google Notebook before today? It is wonderful and fulfills my deep burning desire to organize things. I already have files started for Eva, Leon, and assorted gun info, although I may add one for Tseng shortly.

Speaking of, I just had the revelation that while I personally like revolvers better than semi-auto, Tseng would probably opt for a semi-auto, at least for work, for the pure and simple reason that they chamber more. Most of the large-caliber rifles are only chambered for six rounds, and you're supposed to leave one empty for safety. The large caliber semi-autos, though, hold ten in the magazine plus one in the chamber, and it's really easy to carry an extra magazine and switch when one is empty, as opposed to reloading a revolver.

Now to decide if he'd go for something more exotic than a 1911-style semi-auto or not.
(...And I totally need an Ada 'girl with guns' icon)

EDIT: Randomly, where the hell are all the cool RE people hiding? I know of a few interesting people over in the Claire/Leon bit of things, but I'm afraid to talk to them because almost all the C/L fans are some variety of Ada-hater and would either try to kill me or irritate the hell out of me, because while I like Claire, I like Ada too (Claire/Leon/Ada OT3! ...Yeah, crack, but it's fun crack)

EDIT 2: And the cool DMC people, too, although I know a few of those. There the problem is less crazy shippers as it is finding the ones who aren't totally bitchy.

Gah. Sometimes I feel like I should just not talk to people at all, to avoid embarassing myself and annoying people I like and respect in the process. Because I keep doing it lately.

I have roughtly the social aptitude of a rock or something. It's pathetic.

Anyway! Aside from that, life is pretty good. My dad and I finally went to the range today, and I learned that 9mm semi-autos have alot of kick to them. As much as I'd like to try larger calibers, I think I need to force myself to stop flinching firing the 9mm first - you can tell exactly where the trigger fires on that S&W, which doesn't help at all. But it was lots of fun anyway. We also went out to dinner the next town over and I walked around and explored some.

And I'm entertaining the idea of cosplaying RE2!Leon, which is a Bad Plan because it's the dorkiest thing ever, pretty much.

I crave DDR and RP, and I can't have either because my DDR pads have mysteriously disappeared, and nobody is online, pretty much. 'Cept Winter, who doesn't do fandom-RP (still, anybody up for it later, as per my last post? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?). And my house is full of dumb, by which I mean teenage boys, so I can't go smash stuff in KH or DMC or something and work out my annoyance, which is why I'm sitting on my back walkway at quarter past midnight, leeching my next door neighbors' wireless.

...And my dad got a Death Cab for Cutie song stuck in my head. Argh kill it with fire.


EDIT: Okay, cityofmako totally brought the love tonight. I am laughing my ass off, and my inner Tseng is headdesking because he knows he's partially responsible for anything the other Turks do. Ahh, eyeballs.

At Mara's house right now - I'm not entirely certain when I'll be home again, because I may be going out to the Berkshires after this, but I should have some internet either way. I also have my new laptop after a lot of headache - UPS came by to deliver it, and the only one awake and in the house was my brother's utterly dumbass friend who didn't bother asking if he could sign for it, just said he couldn't and that the guy should come back tomorrow. Which necessitated driving a town over at eight to go pick it up, ugh. But it is here and lovely.

Yeah, I know, the trip was three weeks ago. I'm horrible and slow and the world's greatest procrastinator (somewhere, I still have a half-finished con report from Shoujocon '03. I someday may actually finish it) so it's getting done now. I'm also cutting it to spare all of you that don't want to read it's massiveness, because I know I have a tendency to ramble, and we did lots and lots. I'm also likely to forget big important things that happened beause my memory fails at life, and it's almost two am. So there may be a secondary NYC post later.

( I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps )

And for anyone who doesn't want to read that, but just wants the photos, they're up here, although intermixed with Boston and Salem.

I just got soaked, and it makes me totally happy. I decided to go for a walk and return some movies we rented, because while I wanted to sit around and spaz at people about Nocturne, the only two friends I have who actually play it both have real lives and thus were not online. Such is the downfall of small fandoms, I guess.

So, after seeing vague flashes of bright blue thunder off in the background for pretty much all evening, it decided to finally start pouring rain about fifteen minutes into my walk, complete with soundtrack provided by my mp3 player - it decided to put on Zelda: Ocarina of Time Riveroftime AmIEvil, from OC Remix, which has rain and thunder in the background, just as the rain was starting. It was glorious, even if it did mean I got two sets of perfectly clean, dry clothes soaked today (Grace dragged me, Ben, Anthony, and Dan swimming at the state park - I wasn't expecting to go in but did anyway).

And Tseng's profile is now a thing of beauty, even if I still need to make icons for that account. It even has a little header and everything. Mostly because the screenshot was too awesome not to use, but iconned poorly.

Do not project your desire to own large-caliber revolvers onto Tseng. Instead, sit down and and figure out what Tseng would like to own.

This was a lot easier for Asher and Ally, mostly because there were some definate situational limits. Asher only has one gun, and as they're not really his thing, it 's something basic that can be found on the black market for cheap. His knives are definately black market, and basic military issue. Ally's main gun is also basic military issue, as it was her dad's (probably 9mm), and while she's got others, most of them are other varieties of semi-auto pistols. Maybe one revolver, although it was probably pretty beat up when she got, and if she's got a rifle, it's more of curiosity and rarely gets fired.

Tseng, however, doesn't really have the limits of cost and avalibility that they have. He's the leader of the Turks, he can pretty much own anything he wants to. Some things seem unlikely - assualt rifle, machine gun - but there's still enough variety that it's hard to pick.

...I'm going to end up going with the large-caliber handguns, aren't I.

Was going through Last Order yesterday to get some Tseng screencaps (the man has like...three facial expressions, total. Argh), and I realized that while Squeenix didn't quite royally fuck up the timeline, they came damned close. Mostly because when Tseng leaves at the end, to go after Zack and Cloud, all the BC Turks are still there. And it's kind of implied that Cloud's escape was really near the start of the game (although correct me if I'm wrong, my memory of FF7 is not the world's greatest). I guess it could be argued that they either all left right before the game started, or that there were more Turks we never see in-game (although, again, it may be canon that there's only Reno, Rude, Tseng, and then Elena - can't remember). Also, Tseng is apparently allowed to fly the helicopter, whoo. And on further consideration is also probably something of a lightweight when it comes to drinking, being not!Asian and all. Working in a bar (my backstory; it, uh, kinda happened) and going drinking with Reno and Rude have probably increased his tolerance some, but not that much.

And entirely unrelated to that, playing John Crichton in a multiverse game like Canon Wars or the Nexus would pretty much be the greatest thing ever. Because he's all about the pop culture, and pop culture references, and would also think the whole thing is another hallucination. And then complain that the one with Crais in the red heels was a lot more interesting. Because John is totally and completely nuts. I am sadly not skilled enough with the pop culture and the crazy to pull it off myself, but I'd love to see someone else try.