Btw. I made a Tumblr last night.
http://pokemoonguides.tumblr.com/
Nothing there yet though
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Parallel Worlds :: Maturity :: Writing :: Rambling
I made an AO3 account a while ago and finally posted my first story earlier this week.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Pokemoon/works
Parallel Worlds is the name of the series I created. I've been thinking up fanfictions since my childhood, although I didn't know what they were back then, and they're finally bearing fruit. I can't really explain it, but I'll try.
There are 3 major powers in the alternate universe and Oceania, who is doing it's own thing. And they're all ruled by kings except for Oceania, who is, once again, doing it's own thing.
At the moment, all my stories will take place in N. America, though in my parallel universe, all the Americas are 1 kingdom called America. Europe and Asia are another kingdom collectively know as Euraia. And Africa is Feyjou. There's a relation between those two, I swear.
I have 3 major fandoms(?) planned for Parallel Worlds, the first being Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom, the second being Eragon, and the last one is from a game I used to play during recess, although there is a part of it that was influenced by Digimon.
They're all, for the most part, original works, but it's pretty easy to tell what they're based on, most notably Dawn After the Eternal Night, which is based on Phantom. I don't really feel like laying out all my ideas for the world to read, at least the terrible bored or extremely kind portion of the world, so I'll add more as I inch along.
They're all monsters that I've carefully fermented in my mind for the past few years at the very least, so I don't plan on finishing in the near future.
Also! I've had this blog for 2 years! I read my profile and it said that I'm 13, which is currently a complete lie! I must change it soon!
To wrap things up, I want to add some insight about people and myself, but mostly about myself.
When I was in preschool, I remember feeling mature and I'd always tell my family that I'm not a kid. I think that's something that everybody does though. It's kind of like how if you have bad eyesight, but no glasses, you think that's just the way the world is. And then you fail the mandatory vision test at school and your parents yell at you for ruining you vision and they take you to get a pair of glasses and yell at you at the doctor's office while you fail their vision test and then the glasses are made and you put them on and you suddenly realize your eyesight sucks.
You're not keen on wearing glasses because you hate them for making your parents yell at you, but you kind of do need them to read the board, so you put them on every once in a while. After a few years, you enter high school, things have finally blown over between you, your parents, and your glasses, and you start to wear your glasses more often. In fact, sometimes you walk around with them on. Then one day, you think back to that fateful morning in PE when you had to go to the nurse's office to take the mandatory vision test and just think about your eyesight and computer use and the nights/mornings you'd stay up until 4 playing HM DS Cute and come to terms with the fact that you don't have 20/20 vision, but it's ok because you've got glasses and they've got you covered.
Then, sometime later, we'll be ruminating with our thoughts and realize that someday, soon or far, we'll need to get new glasses because our vision will eventually get worse.
I think it's the same with our perception of maturity. When we're kids, we think that we're mature, and who knows, maybe we are compared to our pre-school friends, but we're still kids and can't compete with the maturity level of grown-ups. Then as we grow up, so does our maturity. I'm not saying that kids/adolescents can't be mature, I just think that we all have a ways to go, including adults.
I visited China a few years ago and I got this fever and got pretty cranky, petty, and childish. Afterwards, I overheard my aunt teller her sister, my other aunt, that even though I seem really mature, I'm still young. Eavesdropping, tsk tsk, I know.
Where I want to go with this maturity thing is that I started this blog when I was 13, which I had though was pretty old at the time, but looking back, only two years later, I realize how childish I was. Back then, I made promises to write stuff and post stuff and then covered the unkept words with apologies and excuses that were largely exaggerated. I knew that was a problem of mine, but I never tried to actively fix it. Now that I'm older, I feel like I've begun to actually face my problem head on. I don't know if anybody's noticed, but lately, meaning early this summer, I've made more realistic, although painfully meager, goals and been more frank with my inability to meet deadlines. I still barely met the goals I set, but I'll settle for the time being.
Secondly, I think maturity has greatly influenced my writing. I wrote this fanfiction called K: Side After, I don't know if I've mentioned it here, and it sucks. I say that in present tense because it's currently unfinished and I need to get back to it. I started it a little under a year ago, but I think I've improved so much in that time.
I had this epiphany over the summer. I just suddenly realized how to not write such terrible fanfiction. I won't go into detail because this is getting really long and you guys probably don't really care, but things just clicked for me. I'm still not great, but I think my writing is at a tolerable level yet. I read this post an author I like made and she said that grammar is the basis of a good story. I think she's absolutely right and, by this point, I'm pretty sure I've made it clear that my grammar is a train wreck. So that's the one thing I'm focusing on most.
As an afterthought, I just want to add that my new found writing skill are extremely slow and I've been unable to finish any of the three timed writings I've had this year.
Sorry that this was so long, but I had a lot of thoughts to get down.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Pokemoon/works
Parallel Worlds is the name of the series I created. I've been thinking up fanfictions since my childhood, although I didn't know what they were back then, and they're finally bearing fruit. I can't really explain it, but I'll try.
There are 3 major powers in the alternate universe and Oceania, who is doing it's own thing. And they're all ruled by kings except for Oceania, who is, once again, doing it's own thing.
At the moment, all my stories will take place in N. America, though in my parallel universe, all the Americas are 1 kingdom called America. Europe and Asia are another kingdom collectively know as Euraia. And Africa is Feyjou. There's a relation between those two, I swear.
I have 3 major fandoms(?) planned for Parallel Worlds, the first being Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom, the second being Eragon, and the last one is from a game I used to play during recess, although there is a part of it that was influenced by Digimon.
They're all, for the most part, original works, but it's pretty easy to tell what they're based on, most notably Dawn After the Eternal Night, which is based on Phantom. I don't really feel like laying out all my ideas for the world to read, at least the terrible bored or extremely kind portion of the world, so I'll add more as I inch along.
They're all monsters that I've carefully fermented in my mind for the past few years at the very least, so I don't plan on finishing in the near future.
Also! I've had this blog for 2 years! I read my profile and it said that I'm 13, which is currently a complete lie! I must change it soon!
To wrap things up, I want to add some insight about people and myself, but mostly about myself.
When I was in preschool, I remember feeling mature and I'd always tell my family that I'm not a kid. I think that's something that everybody does though. It's kind of like how if you have bad eyesight, but no glasses, you think that's just the way the world is. And then you fail the mandatory vision test at school and your parents yell at you for ruining you vision and they take you to get a pair of glasses and yell at you at the doctor's office while you fail their vision test and then the glasses are made and you put them on and you suddenly realize your eyesight sucks.
You're not keen on wearing glasses because you hate them for making your parents yell at you, but you kind of do need them to read the board, so you put them on every once in a while. After a few years, you enter high school, things have finally blown over between you, your parents, and your glasses, and you start to wear your glasses more often. In fact, sometimes you walk around with them on. Then one day, you think back to that fateful morning in PE when you had to go to the nurse's office to take the mandatory vision test and just think about your eyesight and computer use and the nights/mornings you'd stay up until 4 playing HM DS Cute and come to terms with the fact that you don't have 20/20 vision, but it's ok because you've got glasses and they've got you covered.
Then, sometime later, we'll be ruminating with our thoughts and realize that someday, soon or far, we'll need to get new glasses because our vision will eventually get worse.
I think it's the same with our perception of maturity. When we're kids, we think that we're mature, and who knows, maybe we are compared to our pre-school friends, but we're still kids and can't compete with the maturity level of grown-ups. Then as we grow up, so does our maturity. I'm not saying that kids/adolescents can't be mature, I just think that we all have a ways to go, including adults.
I visited China a few years ago and I got this fever and got pretty cranky, petty, and childish. Afterwards, I overheard my aunt teller her sister, my other aunt, that even though I seem really mature, I'm still young. Eavesdropping, tsk tsk, I know.
Where I want to go with this maturity thing is that I started this blog when I was 13, which I had though was pretty old at the time, but looking back, only two years later, I realize how childish I was. Back then, I made promises to write stuff and post stuff and then covered the unkept words with apologies and excuses that were largely exaggerated. I knew that was a problem of mine, but I never tried to actively fix it. Now that I'm older, I feel like I've begun to actually face my problem head on. I don't know if anybody's noticed, but lately, meaning early this summer, I've made more realistic, although painfully meager, goals and been more frank with my inability to meet deadlines. I still barely met the goals I set, but I'll settle for the time being.
Secondly, I think maturity has greatly influenced my writing. I wrote this fanfiction called K: Side After, I don't know if I've mentioned it here, and it sucks. I say that in present tense because it's currently unfinished and I need to get back to it. I started it a little under a year ago, but I think I've improved so much in that time.
I had this epiphany over the summer. I just suddenly realized how to not write such terrible fanfiction. I won't go into detail because this is getting really long and you guys probably don't really care, but things just clicked for me. I'm still not great, but I think my writing is at a tolerable level yet. I read this post an author I like made and she said that grammar is the basis of a good story. I think she's absolutely right and, by this point, I'm pretty sure I've made it clear that my grammar is a train wreck. So that's the one thing I'm focusing on most.
As an afterthought, I just want to add that my new found writing skill are extremely slow and I've been unable to finish any of the three timed writings I've had this year.
Sorry that this was so long, but I had a lot of thoughts to get down.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Sectioned Ziploc Bags
I had another stroke of genius: sectioned ziploc bags.
I don't think they've been invented yet because I googled them, but maybe I used the wrong words or something.
I was inspired while thinking of ways to carry around origami. When you make kusudamas, there's usually 2 different parts. The petal or whatever and the connector. I suppose you could carry them both in 1 bag, but I prefer to keep them separate, which is where the sectioned ziploc bags comes in!
Essentially, it's two ziploc bags stitched together. I made a diagram. The dotted lines aren't supposed to represent perforations, but the kind of stitch-seal-thing used on the sides of ziploc bags.
You could also give some leeway between the two bags like so:
I haven't decided what to do with the seal part. I think that it'd be best to use two separate ones. They should go from side to side of each part of the bag, so if there's no space in between the two bags, then they should basically touch.
And that's the gist of it. As of September 23, 2014, I officially claim the idea of sectioned ziploc bags as mine! Feel free to actually make them, just be sure to give me credit! Unless, of course, they already exist. Then disregard this entire post.
I don't think they've been invented yet because I googled them, but maybe I used the wrong words or something.
I was inspired while thinking of ways to carry around origami. When you make kusudamas, there's usually 2 different parts. The petal or whatever and the connector. I suppose you could carry them both in 1 bag, but I prefer to keep them separate, which is where the sectioned ziploc bags comes in!
Essentially, it's two ziploc bags stitched together. I made a diagram. The dotted lines aren't supposed to represent perforations, but the kind of stitch-seal-thing used on the sides of ziploc bags.
You could also give some leeway between the two bags like so:
I haven't decided what to do with the seal part. I think that it'd be best to use two separate ones. They should go from side to side of each part of the bag, so if there's no space in between the two bags, then they should basically touch.
And that's the gist of it. As of September 23, 2014, I officially claim the idea of sectioned ziploc bags as mine! Feel free to actually make them, just be sure to give me credit! Unless, of course, they already exist. Then disregard this entire post.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
HM ANB
I read my last post and I retract my statement. Early to bed early to rise, my foot. More like early to rise late to bed because school sucks. Yeah, I have no idea why I was so excited four, short weeks ago. I'm ready for summer vacation again.
Anyways, I got into A New Beginning again, hence the title. I just wanted to post a few thoughts about it.
First of all, I started a new file. I had played almost 4 seasons in my first file before restarting because I always screw over my first file to get a feel for the game before making better choices in the next one. So I was walking in the forest area near the big tree when I saw a butterfly off the beaten path. And after playing over 100 game days, I discovered a new area next to the big tree. I never noticed it. It wasn't a 'hidden area' or anything, I just walked past it 100+ times and never knew you could go there, which makes me concerned because I read over my RF4 pages again and it makes me afraid that I've missed something very important and very obvious.
Secondly, I was never really into ANB. It was okay until I saw the graphics for autumn and that kind of killed it for me. Autumn is my favorite season and I love the graphics for autumn in almost every game because it's just really beautiful. Notice the almost because autumn is nowhere near beautiful in ANB.
Another reason that I didn't really like it was because I felt so restricted. In most Harvest Moon games you can go wherever in the world you like, but in ANB, there's an invisible wall everywhere, which I hated until just recently. I was playing it last weekend because that's almost the only time I have to do non-school stuff and I realized that the invisible walls and lack of places to explore gives you time to do other stuff. What I remember most vividly about ToTT is that there were never enough hours in the day to do everything I needed. The mountain areas were massive and took way too long to get through. Whenever you need to go to the other town, you always have to pass through the mountain ( until the tunnel gets unblocked ) and I would always get distracted by all the stuff because... you know... money... and it'd take forever to get through. I get that the mountain was basically the focus of the game, but since ANB is more on the music notes and construction, it makes sense that the wilderness area isn't too large.
I still wouldn't call the restriction of space a blessing because it still makes me feel caged in, but I do understand that it's not all bad. I don't know if that's the actual reason why there are so many places you can see, but not go through, but that's my take on it.
And that's my opinion of ANB. I don't really have an opinion on the rest of it. I mean, it's not bad or good, just how the game works. But as a bottom line, ANB isn't my favorite Harvest Moon game. I don't know how other people feel about it, but I think that there's definitely room for improvement. I don't think that it's a complete disaster. I know that some people really hated Puzzle de Harvest Moon and by no means do I think ANB is like it, I just think that it could be better.
Anyways, I got into A New Beginning again, hence the title. I just wanted to post a few thoughts about it.
First of all, I started a new file. I had played almost 4 seasons in my first file before restarting because I always screw over my first file to get a feel for the game before making better choices in the next one. So I was walking in the forest area near the big tree when I saw a butterfly off the beaten path. And after playing over 100 game days, I discovered a new area next to the big tree. I never noticed it. It wasn't a 'hidden area' or anything, I just walked past it 100+ times and never knew you could go there, which makes me concerned because I read over my RF4 pages again and it makes me afraid that I've missed something very important and very obvious.
Secondly, I was never really into ANB. It was okay until I saw the graphics for autumn and that kind of killed it for me. Autumn is my favorite season and I love the graphics for autumn in almost every game because it's just really beautiful. Notice the almost because autumn is nowhere near beautiful in ANB.
Another reason that I didn't really like it was because I felt so restricted. In most Harvest Moon games you can go wherever in the world you like, but in ANB, there's an invisible wall everywhere, which I hated until just recently. I was playing it last weekend because that's almost the only time I have to do non-school stuff and I realized that the invisible walls and lack of places to explore gives you time to do other stuff. What I remember most vividly about ToTT is that there were never enough hours in the day to do everything I needed. The mountain areas were massive and took way too long to get through. Whenever you need to go to the other town, you always have to pass through the mountain ( until the tunnel gets unblocked ) and I would always get distracted by all the stuff because... you know... money... and it'd take forever to get through. I get that the mountain was basically the focus of the game, but since ANB is more on the music notes and construction, it makes sense that the wilderness area isn't too large.
I still wouldn't call the restriction of space a blessing because it still makes me feel caged in, but I do understand that it's not all bad. I don't know if that's the actual reason why there are so many places you can see, but not go through, but that's my take on it.
And that's my opinion of ANB. I don't really have an opinion on the rest of it. I mean, it's not bad or good, just how the game works. But as a bottom line, ANB isn't my favorite Harvest Moon game. I don't know how other people feel about it, but I think that there's definitely room for improvement. I don't think that it's a complete disaster. I know that some people really hated Puzzle de Harvest Moon and by no means do I think ANB is like it, I just think that it could be better.
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