Sims and In the Company of Shadows characters amuse me. It all started with Peach and her Simscapades that she took some screenshots of over at the forum (http://sonnyais.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=36 or under General Chat / MY SIMS, let me show you them).
Then I ended up joining the craze.
I got a Wii (finally! YAYYY!) and when at the game store I ended up getting Sims 2: Pets for Wii. I had no idea they made Sims for Wii but there you are. Since I can't have pets at my place I thought I'd be lame and make some family so I could have one through there. The first family I made was totally random people I just made up from scratch but it was too much work dealing with 2 Sims and 2 dogs right away without knowing how to play the game with Wii. (I had Sims a looong time ago, closer to when it first came out and I'm pretty sure that shit was on floppies or something, so of course I'd forgotten pretty much everything and the game has significantly improved since then.)
So then I created Boyd and Sin and had them live alone, because I'm a nerd. It was hilarious; the first thing Boyd did in their new home was go play chess by himself, and the first thing Sin did was piss some random people off XD Anyway, it took me a bit to get used to the system and there are still things I'm confused about...it's a little annoying that it didn't come with a manual so I could at least know what the career tracks are and shit. I have Boyd in Law Enforcement now only because it paid the most and idk wtf Sin is in, he looks like he's wearing some construction shit when he leaves but I forgot what track it was. It may actually be campaign worker or something who knows.
Anyway, so I found out that you can have same sex relationships on Sims 2 Pets, you just can't have any Sims at all having sex/making babies/really making out/whatever. But they do have little romantic options that pop up. At first, Boyd did a better job wooing Sin, but then Boyd tried serenading Sin and Sin was like OH GOD MY EARS. So that lost some points XD
Then later they made up but after that, Sin tried to give Boyd a gift and to give him a friendly hug and Boyd was like WHOA THERE PARDNER BACK OFF. It even said "No thanks, I'm not interested in your gift." So Sin set it on the floor so sadface XD
Anyway, eventually I got the propose option to pop up for Sin to Boyd, but even though it was all going well, I tried leading up to it and Boyd got turned off somewhere between the backrub and friendly hug. So they lost points and the option disappeared. But the next day they were both in great moods so Boyd cornered Sin in the kitchen and talked a bit but then proposed. Sin was all happy and accepted.
After that was the most hilarious wedding thing ever. They both disappeared behind their changing curtains, then came out with tuxedos and top hats, with an angled circle of hearts around them. They did this totally ridiculous dance XD With their feet kicking up and leaning back and forward and then they kissed and it said "Congratulations! You're now coupled with Sin!"
Several parts of this amuse me greatly, including the fact that they kept being all great and then cranky toward each other (twice, Sin randomly cornered Boyd and was mean for no apparent reason) and that their big breakthrough happened in the kitchen by the fridge. Monterrey, much? XD That wasn't done on purpose at all; I didn't even think of it until now.
Anyway, yay XD Boyd and Sin are married and have a dumbass cranky cat named Claws who whines for attention but Sin ignores and who claws Boyd when Boyd tries to play XD
Sadly, I have no idea whatsoever how to get screenshots and I sort of doubt I can. So I can't show anyone the skins I have for them but that's ok since they're not that attractive up close anyway. Sims 2: Pets only has one face for men and even though you can adjust parts of it, they're still pretty ugly XD
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In other (still ICoS related) news, we're probably going to start posting new chapters on the first weekend of January. So it's coming up pretty soon!
We just finished Chapter 26 today. ~10 chapters or less until we're finished with writing this book!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Ais' thoughts from this side of the hiatus
I've been totally digging this hiatus. It gives me a chance to breathe, to chill out... to actually be able to have a Saturday to fuck around or have fun instead of being consumed with the logistics and background work of posting the story.
Although when we first started the series, I didn't mind the extra responsibilities that came with the story (coding, putting on the website, releasing announcements, etc), by now we have so much going on that I really need to revamp how we do this because it takes way longer than it should. (boo on PHP, still need to redo the site with that. I'm almost thinking I should just pay someone at this point since it'd get done way faster than me dragging my sorry ass along the way...)
Some scenes have, with time, become more complicated to write. And others are as easy and fun as the first scene like that. Sonny and I have both determined that there are scenes with certain characters that we both look forward to writing. It's hard to really explain the difference, and I could try but it would involve spoiler central so I'm not going to even start, but suffice it to say there are some chapters that take us awhile to finish because neither of us are as enthused and others are written and finished in no time. We're actually working on one of the mostly fun chapters now.
It's so weird to me how this has all happened. First of all, it doesn't seem like over a year (or wait, is it closer to two now?) that we've been working on icos. I never would have thought I'd be writing something this long and involved without having conceived of it far ahead of time. I still have the fantasy novel I've been kicking around in my head since I was like 12 so it's so odd that there's this random story that I had nothing invested in and was just writing with a friend for the hell of it, that's become something this long and involved. I really like it, though.
Even though we take these breaks now and then, I just want people to know that they don't need to worry about us no longer writing. I know we said we may not have come back from hiatus without reviews but we mostly meant there was no point in putting the effort into editing, coding, posting, releasing alerts, etc, if no one was interested in reading it. We would have continued writing the story regardless. Even if we stopped posting from now on, we'd still be writing the story in the background because it's truly fun for us overall. Because we know where the story is going and there are scenes I want to get to.
It's almost a detriment because I keep being interested in scenes in the future so sometimes I put less effort into the present scene because I just want to get it over with. That's what editing's for, though.
Point being, we're still writing. And I do want to say we really, really, really appreciate all of you who read, even if you don't review, but we appreciate +++++++ times more those of you who do give feedback. It's not because we're trying to be punks and forcing people to say shit if they don't mean it. It's because hearing from readers that the story is fun, interesting, inspiring, etc, to them is a really good way of recharging the battery, so to speak.
I very rarely continue putting effort into shit when it's just for me. But when I know that others are involved, I get more interested. It's probably because if it's just for me, it feels like it can wait-- which is probably why I don't have that fantasy novel any closer to being finished than when I was 16.
But icos is out there in cyberspace now and that changes things, it makes me more inspired to keep working. Because, while we write it for us, we share it for you.
At any rate, as a quick update... I'm still trying to finish that damn Owen side story and I've started a Viv/Ced one set in 1998. We're currently working on Afterimage Chapter 26. So far it looks like we may start posting the beginning of 2009 but I don't know yet for sure. (It shouldn't be later than the first week of January as far as I'm guessing but I don't know yet whether it'll happen before. There are still some editing issues that need to be resolved in chapter 7.)
Although when we first started the series, I didn't mind the extra responsibilities that came with the story (coding, putting on the website, releasing announcements, etc), by now we have so much going on that I really need to revamp how we do this because it takes way longer than it should. (boo on PHP, still need to redo the site with that. I'm almost thinking I should just pay someone at this point since it'd get done way faster than me dragging my sorry ass along the way...)
Some scenes have, with time, become more complicated to write. And others are as easy and fun as the first scene like that. Sonny and I have both determined that there are scenes with certain characters that we both look forward to writing. It's hard to really explain the difference, and I could try but it would involve spoiler central so I'm not going to even start, but suffice it to say there are some chapters that take us awhile to finish because neither of us are as enthused and others are written and finished in no time. We're actually working on one of the mostly fun chapters now.
It's so weird to me how this has all happened. First of all, it doesn't seem like over a year (or wait, is it closer to two now?) that we've been working on icos. I never would have thought I'd be writing something this long and involved without having conceived of it far ahead of time. I still have the fantasy novel I've been kicking around in my head since I was like 12 so it's so odd that there's this random story that I had nothing invested in and was just writing with a friend for the hell of it, that's become something this long and involved. I really like it, though.
Even though we take these breaks now and then, I just want people to know that they don't need to worry about us no longer writing. I know we said we may not have come back from hiatus without reviews but we mostly meant there was no point in putting the effort into editing, coding, posting, releasing alerts, etc, if no one was interested in reading it. We would have continued writing the story regardless. Even if we stopped posting from now on, we'd still be writing the story in the background because it's truly fun for us overall. Because we know where the story is going and there are scenes I want to get to.
It's almost a detriment because I keep being interested in scenes in the future so sometimes I put less effort into the present scene because I just want to get it over with. That's what editing's for, though.
Point being, we're still writing. And I do want to say we really, really, really appreciate all of you who read, even if you don't review, but we appreciate +++++++ times more those of you who do give feedback. It's not because we're trying to be punks and forcing people to say shit if they don't mean it. It's because hearing from readers that the story is fun, interesting, inspiring, etc, to them is a really good way of recharging the battery, so to speak.
I very rarely continue putting effort into shit when it's just for me. But when I know that others are involved, I get more interested. It's probably because if it's just for me, it feels like it can wait-- which is probably why I don't have that fantasy novel any closer to being finished than when I was 16.
But icos is out there in cyberspace now and that changes things, it makes me more inspired to keep working. Because, while we write it for us, we share it for you.
At any rate, as a quick update... I'm still trying to finish that damn Owen side story and I've started a Viv/Ced one set in 1998. We're currently working on Afterimage Chapter 26. So far it looks like we may start posting the beginning of 2009 but I don't know yet for sure. (It shouldn't be later than the first week of January as far as I'm guessing but I don't know yet whether it'll happen before. There are still some editing issues that need to be resolved in chapter 7.)
Monday, November 10, 2008
The power of suggestion
Man, talk about the power of suggestion. When I'm rereading old chapters and it mentions Boyd making himself a cup of jasmine tea, most of the time I get this sudden urge to go make some myself. Then I can sit there drinking jasmine tea while editing/reading/writing the story.
Incidentally, I like jasmine tea the most with Silk soy milk in it, the original kind (not vanilla or any other flavor). I steep the jasmine tea for very little time-- about 30 seconds because otherwise it tastes bitter to me -- and then fill the mug mostly with tea but leave about an inch or two for the soy milk. It's also best not to have the water boiling before pouring it over the leaves. I use loose jasmine leaves that I get at a local Asian grocery store.
And that, my friends, is probably more than you ever cared to know about my jasmine tea preparations. ;P
Incidentally, I like jasmine tea the most with Silk soy milk in it, the original kind (not vanilla or any other flavor). I steep the jasmine tea for very little time-- about 30 seconds because otherwise it tastes bitter to me -- and then fill the mug mostly with tea but leave about an inch or two for the soy milk. It's also best not to have the water boiling before pouring it over the leaves. I use loose jasmine leaves that I get at a local Asian grocery store.
And that, my friends, is probably more than you ever cared to know about my jasmine tea preparations. ;P
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Trying to gather the inspiration -- and thanks
Ugh... I go in such waves of extreme excitement for writing the story and then complete, unenthusiastic lack of interest. It's pretty annoying, to be honest; I wish I could stay consistent with this shit. But I guess since I get so emotionally involved in writing the characters, it's no wonder that I periodically burn myself out.
For... hmm, at least a week (closer to 2 weeks?), I've been sitting on writing my part of the chapter we're currently working on (Afterimage 21). It's pretty silly, since this was a part I was looking forward to writing several chapters ago. But of course now that I'm here I just feel like I stare blankly at the screen and feel utterly uninspired.
I actually had a dream last week that had something to do with the chapter; I woke up with this really intent feeling and sat down at the computer to write, but then I had to research several things and I was checking some previous chapters and got distracted rereading something, and then I wrote out a start and hated it and had to go to work. Since then, I just can't get into it. Every time I open that page, I stare at what I had, then try to start over entirely and feel like it's just not right.
It really bothers me when I can't get description or the psychology down right. If it doesn't seem intense enough to me when I'm reading it, I feel disappointed in the scene, as if it's failed to be effective and now it sucks.
I'm such a perfectionist -_-; That flaw will kill me someday.
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One thing I wanted to say -- thanks for the thorough response to our Boyd question, sglily! That was not rude/offensive at all; in fact, it was helpful.
I think one of the problems is that when we were editing, we removed some parts that in retrospect we perhaps should have kept in. We were worried about certain aspects of the characters seeming a certain way (ie, the first version had a scary sappy Boyd) and in editing I was just like UGH TAKE IT ALL OUT I HATE EVERYTHING. Like I usually do XD I'm very black and white about my own writing if you haven't all noticed yet XD
For the most part, our decision was the right one for the story and character. But I think maybe we went a little too far and accidentally took out more of Boyd being concerned/worried than we should have. At the same time, those were parts of paragraphs or parts of the scene and not the point of the scene so we didn't totally compromise the story by doing that or anything. But I do think that since we know the whole book, so we see everything in context of everything else, it seems different to us compared to what it would seem like to readers.
So that's another reason I'm glad we're doing this hiatus. I really think that in order to best tell the story to readers, it needs to be in arcs. We've started to split it up in our minds to figure out which chapters go with which... I can say that you will be getting 3 chapters at once in some cases, which I think will be more useful and interesting for all of you.
-Ais
For... hmm, at least a week (closer to 2 weeks?), I've been sitting on writing my part of the chapter we're currently working on (Afterimage 21). It's pretty silly, since this was a part I was looking forward to writing several chapters ago. But of course now that I'm here I just feel like I stare blankly at the screen and feel utterly uninspired.
I actually had a dream last week that had something to do with the chapter; I woke up with this really intent feeling and sat down at the computer to write, but then I had to research several things and I was checking some previous chapters and got distracted rereading something, and then I wrote out a start and hated it and had to go to work. Since then, I just can't get into it. Every time I open that page, I stare at what I had, then try to start over entirely and feel like it's just not right.
It really bothers me when I can't get description or the psychology down right. If it doesn't seem intense enough to me when I'm reading it, I feel disappointed in the scene, as if it's failed to be effective and now it sucks.
I'm such a perfectionist -_-; That flaw will kill me someday.
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One thing I wanted to say -- thanks for the thorough response to our Boyd question, sglily! That was not rude/offensive at all; in fact, it was helpful.
I think one of the problems is that when we were editing, we removed some parts that in retrospect we perhaps should have kept in. We were worried about certain aspects of the characters seeming a certain way (ie, the first version had a scary sappy Boyd) and in editing I was just like UGH TAKE IT ALL OUT I HATE EVERYTHING. Like I usually do XD I'm very black and white about my own writing if you haven't all noticed yet XD
For the most part, our decision was the right one for the story and character. But I think maybe we went a little too far and accidentally took out more of Boyd being concerned/worried than we should have. At the same time, those were parts of paragraphs or parts of the scene and not the point of the scene so we didn't totally compromise the story by doing that or anything. But I do think that since we know the whole book, so we see everything in context of everything else, it seems different to us compared to what it would seem like to readers.
So that's another reason I'm glad we're doing this hiatus. I really think that in order to best tell the story to readers, it needs to be in arcs. We've started to split it up in our minds to figure out which chapters go with which... I can say that you will be getting 3 chapters at once in some cases, which I think will be more useful and interesting for all of you.
-Ais
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Posting Status/Update
Chapter 7 and all Afterimage chapters afterward are now officially delayed.
We're going on a posting hiatus for a month or two. We'll still be writing in the background and will be around to talk/answer questions but we won't be posting any new chapters, including 7. When we return, we hope to post in mini arcs – sometimes several chapters at a time if it makes sense for the themes of the story.
This decision is a combination of multiple factors but the two main reasons are that our personal schedules have drastically changed, which reduces the amount of time we have to work on the story, and with fewer reviews/feedback lately than ever before, it seems like the weekly posts have not been as important to readers as we'd initially thought it may be.
This has nothing to do with the recent topic of Boyd in Afterimage. The fact that that debate/conversation came up was a good thing because in showed reader interest.
That being said, we don't by any means want to diminish our appreciation for those of you who have been reviewing. It's solely because of you that we'll even bother to come back from hiatus at all. When we started this story, we were writing purely for fun and had no intentions of posting it anywhere so we will continue to write, even if we think not very many people are interested in reading.
So, thank you very much to those of you who have been fantastic and have been reading and reviewing—we heart you. We'll see you all with new chapters in a few weeks to a couple of months. We think that ultimately this will be better for readers as well, allowing us to give you mini arcs that will make the story easier and more cohesive to read.
See you in a few!
Sonny & Ais
We're going on a posting hiatus for a month or two. We'll still be writing in the background and will be around to talk/answer questions but we won't be posting any new chapters, including 7. When we return, we hope to post in mini arcs – sometimes several chapters at a time if it makes sense for the themes of the story.
This decision is a combination of multiple factors but the two main reasons are that our personal schedules have drastically changed, which reduces the amount of time we have to work on the story, and with fewer reviews/feedback lately than ever before, it seems like the weekly posts have not been as important to readers as we'd initially thought it may be.
This has nothing to do with the recent topic of Boyd in Afterimage. The fact that that debate/conversation came up was a good thing because in showed reader interest.
That being said, we don't by any means want to diminish our appreciation for those of you who have been reviewing. It's solely because of you that we'll even bother to come back from hiatus at all. When we started this story, we were writing purely for fun and had no intentions of posting it anywhere so we will continue to write, even if we think not very many people are interested in reading.
So, thank you very much to those of you who have been fantastic and have been reading and reviewing—we heart you. We'll see you all with new chapters in a few weeks to a couple of months. We think that ultimately this will be better for readers as well, allowing us to give you mini arcs that will make the story easier and more cohesive to read.
See you in a few!
Sonny & Ais
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
voting and working, Sonny
I got up at 6AM to go vote, the line was down the block, over an overpass, down another block. Fuck this shit I'm going home. Went back 6 hours later and there was no line. I hope that doesn't mean like. no one else is going to vote in this area. Maybe everyone will go after work.
I'm pretty confidant that Obama will win but I'm still paranoid that some insane shit will happen and he won't. Think positive, Sonny.
So, lately my whole deal has been that I've been working part-time, going to school full-time, and living off my savings account which I managed to build up pretty nicely when I was working two full time jobs and just using my pay check for groceries/transportation/aya and kids while using my savings to pay bills. But then my boss was like "i'm going to only give you 6 hours a week if you don't work more" which seems really contradictory since the company has cut hours since the economy died but whatever. So now I'm basically going to be working full time again.
Which isnt going to kill me obviously since I previously did 15 credits + full time waiter job at night + full time HR job during the day but I was enjoying my freetime.
So yea. This means inevitably I will not be able to write as much, which really sucks. So things are going to slow down. So maybe that's another reason why switching to biweekly is a good idea.
I'm pretty confidant that Obama will win but I'm still paranoid that some insane shit will happen and he won't. Think positive, Sonny.
So, lately my whole deal has been that I've been working part-time, going to school full-time, and living off my savings account which I managed to build up pretty nicely when I was working two full time jobs and just using my pay check for groceries/transportation/aya and kids while using my savings to pay bills. But then my boss was like "i'm going to only give you 6 hours a week if you don't work more" which seems really contradictory since the company has cut hours since the economy died but whatever. So now I'm basically going to be working full time again.
Which isnt going to kill me obviously since I previously did 15 credits + full time waiter job at night + full time HR job during the day but I was enjoying my freetime.
So yea. This means inevitably I will not be able to write as much, which really sucks. So things are going to slow down. So maybe that's another reason why switching to biweekly is a good idea.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
SPOILER FOR BK2 IF YOU AREN'T THROUGH AT LEAST CH4 -- Some Boyd Stuff
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR AFTERIMAGE/BOOK 2 IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THROUGH CHAPTER FOUR YET. DO NOT READ BELOW IF SO.
Ok that should be enough warning right? ;p
I have to admit that I'm intrigued and a bit confused by some of the response we've been getting so far to Afterimage as it pertains to Boyd, and why doesn't he see what's happening with Sin. Not a lot of people have mentioned it, but I'm curious as to why anyone feels that way.
The part that confuses me is why he would know what's going on. We mentioned in narration that Sin has become very good at lying-- in a way, he always was. Think about how Boyd didn't know exactly how much pain Sin was in when in the car that one ride-- he knew Sin was sick or didn't feel well, but it wasn't until Boyd saw Sin on the hidden camera later that he realized exactly the extent of Sin's injuries. Sin is used to needing to hide his weaknesses, to displacing doubt or questions, to making people believe what he wants.
Granted, from the start Boyd knew that Sin was lying about being such a tough guy, but it didn't mean he knew exactly who or what was beneath. And the explanations Sin has been giving make sense -- Boyd knows Sin isn't feeling well, but it's completely logical to believe that it's because of the lack of sleep, because Sin's stressed again after Monterrey, because he's recovering from all the crap he went through. Whenever Boyd has seen any weakness at all Sin has shown, it's always been in the context of something explainable as being tired.
Anyone who's gone a long period of time with very little sleep is going to get weak, exhausted, sick-- even Sin. Boyd knows how little sleep Sin's been getting, and he knows that Sin's been having nightmares. Neither of these things are new; it's been that way since he met Sin. It's just that now Sin's getting even less sleep than normal so the nightmares are hitting Sin harder-- at least, that's what Boyd thinks. And the fact that Sin had a taste of relaxation then went through hell after that... Boyd's been through his own versions of hell before so he understands that it takes awhile to get back on track. And they haven't been able to spend a ton of time together either, so all the times he sees Sin looking worse, it makes sense that it's because Sin hasn't been sleeping, and with that probably comes not eating well, not exercising, etc.
The times when Boyd has wondered if there was a little more going on, Sin has given a perfectly logical explanation that diverts attention while also falling completely in line with what Boyd understands of the situation. He has no reason to suspect that Sin is seeing things, hearing things, that he thinks he's going crazy. The only reason Carhart figured anything out is because he happened to see Sin almost fall off the roof, and because Sin has been especially careful to hide everything from Boyd.
We initially had a much longer chapter 1 which included more narration, so part of me wonders if there was some key element that we took out that would make sense to those readers who are confused by that. Or is it because we don't have a lot of specific examples?
The part that intrigues me is I wonder if we'd be getting the same response if this were set up the same way Book One was -- all in Boyd's POV.
I mean, think about it. If this whole story was told through Boyd's POV, if you weren't seeing Sin's side of things, you wouldn't even know that Sin's going through that. So why would Boyd know just because the readers do? Is it just that it seems like Boyd should get something more is happening after a few months of this? I'm very curious/confused about this.
At any rate, I love getting feedback because sometimes peoples' responses aren't what I'm expecting, so it makes it interesting ^_^
Ok that should be enough warning right? ;p
I have to admit that I'm intrigued and a bit confused by some of the response we've been getting so far to Afterimage as it pertains to Boyd, and why doesn't he see what's happening with Sin. Not a lot of people have mentioned it, but I'm curious as to why anyone feels that way.
The part that confuses me is why he would know what's going on. We mentioned in narration that Sin has become very good at lying-- in a way, he always was. Think about how Boyd didn't know exactly how much pain Sin was in when in the car that one ride-- he knew Sin was sick or didn't feel well, but it wasn't until Boyd saw Sin on the hidden camera later that he realized exactly the extent of Sin's injuries. Sin is used to needing to hide his weaknesses, to displacing doubt or questions, to making people believe what he wants.
Granted, from the start Boyd knew that Sin was lying about being such a tough guy, but it didn't mean he knew exactly who or what was beneath. And the explanations Sin has been giving make sense -- Boyd knows Sin isn't feeling well, but it's completely logical to believe that it's because of the lack of sleep, because Sin's stressed again after Monterrey, because he's recovering from all the crap he went through. Whenever Boyd has seen any weakness at all Sin has shown, it's always been in the context of something explainable as being tired.
Anyone who's gone a long period of time with very little sleep is going to get weak, exhausted, sick-- even Sin. Boyd knows how little sleep Sin's been getting, and he knows that Sin's been having nightmares. Neither of these things are new; it's been that way since he met Sin. It's just that now Sin's getting even less sleep than normal so the nightmares are hitting Sin harder-- at least, that's what Boyd thinks. And the fact that Sin had a taste of relaxation then went through hell after that... Boyd's been through his own versions of hell before so he understands that it takes awhile to get back on track. And they haven't been able to spend a ton of time together either, so all the times he sees Sin looking worse, it makes sense that it's because Sin hasn't been sleeping, and with that probably comes not eating well, not exercising, etc.
The times when Boyd has wondered if there was a little more going on, Sin has given a perfectly logical explanation that diverts attention while also falling completely in line with what Boyd understands of the situation. He has no reason to suspect that Sin is seeing things, hearing things, that he thinks he's going crazy. The only reason Carhart figured anything out is because he happened to see Sin almost fall off the roof, and because Sin has been especially careful to hide everything from Boyd.
We initially had a much longer chapter 1 which included more narration, so part of me wonders if there was some key element that we took out that would make sense to those readers who are confused by that. Or is it because we don't have a lot of specific examples?
The part that intrigues me is I wonder if we'd be getting the same response if this were set up the same way Book One was -- all in Boyd's POV.
I mean, think about it. If this whole story was told through Boyd's POV, if you weren't seeing Sin's side of things, you wouldn't even know that Sin's going through that. So why would Boyd know just because the readers do? Is it just that it seems like Boyd should get something more is happening after a few months of this? I'm very curious/confused about this.
At any rate, I love getting feedback because sometimes peoples' responses aren't what I'm expecting, so it makes it interesting ^_^
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
A lot going on lately..
Kids, school, work and a new...whatever she is, has been tying up my time lately and keeping me from working on all of the things I want to work on. Afterimage writing has been going steadily but my side stories have been put on hold as well as my ideas for a novel I'd write solo (although I got another idea today). It's kind of frustrating but whatever. Things will get done when they get done and I doubt anyone really misses the updates anyway.
In other news, I'm excited because we've plotted out the series until the official end of all major storylines which would either bring this series to an official close so we could move on to different plots or ideas for the remaining characters. So far we're planning on several stand alone stories to further the plot after Afterimage, another multi-part "book" called Fade and then a final multi-part that is unnamed as of now. Even if people lose interest and stop reading, the fact that we can possible have such a lengthy series written to completion is exciting to me although I don't necessarily know if we'll keep posting if interest dwindles because really what would be the point?
In other news, I'm excited because we've plotted out the series until the official end of all major storylines which would either bring this series to an official close so we could move on to different plots or ideas for the remaining characters. So far we're planning on several stand alone stories to further the plot after Afterimage, another multi-part "book" called Fade and then a final multi-part that is unnamed as of now. Even if people lose interest and stop reading, the fact that we can possible have such a lengthy series written to completion is exciting to me although I don't necessarily know if we'll keep posting if interest dwindles because really what would be the point?
Saturday, October 4, 2008
lolz
Ok, srsly folks, I'll stop bombarding the blog soon.
But it amused me just now to realize I had three chapters open at the same time and I was somehow trying to read/edit all at once. I had them open for awhile and then all these things happened that distracted me (like phone calls) and when I came back I got very confused when I looked at the list of chapters 4, 5 and 17, and couldn't figure out which one I was supposed to be working on XD
Firefox: 1
Ais: 0
wtf ftw
But it amused me just now to realize I had three chapters open at the same time and I was somehow trying to read/edit all at once. I had them open for awhile and then all these things happened that distracted me (like phone calls) and when I came back I got very confused when I looked at the list of chapters 4, 5 and 17, and couldn't figure out which one I was supposed to be working on XD
Firefox: 1
Ais: 0
wtf ftw
A secret of Ais', and pronunciation
It is one of my life's ambitions for someone to call me "Infidel."
It has to be in completely casual conversation and it can't be a complete joke (they don't have to seriously mean it but it has to be deadpanned or otherwise seemingly serious even if they aren't) but it can be offhandedly said ("Ais, you're such an infidel. Like I was saying..."). And it has to be unsolicited-- so it won't count if someone calls me infidel now just because they read this entry and know I want someone to.
I'm going to be so excited on the day it happens...
By the way, it came up in conversation the other day about how to pronounce my name. If you pronounce it like "ice" you are WRONG. But you are also like everyone else I've talked to. (I guess I can see why people say it that way? But it never even occurred to me that anyone would.) I say it like "ace."
It's short for Aislin. Which I actually found out I also pronounce incorrectly, technically, if you're going according to how it should be said in Gaelic *cough* But I take no responsibility for this because all the research I initially did led me to believe that it was pronounced "ACE-linn." (It's apparently pronounced Ash-lynn).
I AM AN INNOCENT VICTIM SLASH BYSTANDER SLASH PASSERBY! And that's is all I have to say about that. ;p
It has to be in completely casual conversation and it can't be a complete joke (they don't have to seriously mean it but it has to be deadpanned or otherwise seemingly serious even if they aren't) but it can be offhandedly said ("Ais, you're such an infidel. Like I was saying..."). And it has to be unsolicited-- so it won't count if someone calls me infidel now just because they read this entry and know I want someone to.
I'm going to be so excited on the day it happens...
By the way, it came up in conversation the other day about how to pronounce my name. If you pronounce it like "ice" you are WRONG. But you are also like everyone else I've talked to. (I guess I can see why people say it that way? But it never even occurred to me that anyone would.) I say it like "ace."
It's short for Aislin. Which I actually found out I also pronounce incorrectly, technically, if you're going according to how it should be said in Gaelic *cough* But I take no responsibility for this because all the research I initially did led me to believe that it was pronounced "ACE-linn." (It's apparently pronounced Ash-lynn).
I AM AN INNOCENT VICTIM SLASH BYSTANDER SLASH PASSERBY! And that's is all I have to say about that. ;p
Friday, October 3, 2008
Lou - reason to be missed
I really want to write Lou and Boyd back stories. We'd started to write their first kiss awhile back now-- god, those two were such dorks-- but the fic was never finished.
I've been thinking about Lou on and off lately, though, because I found a song I was obsessed with for him. Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park -- I hear this song and it immediately makes me think of his death scene, of a collage of Lou moments, of the thoughts that must have been going through his mind as he stared at Boyd but couldn't reach him, as he died and couldn't help it, as the last view he ever had of his best friend and lover was him screaming and crying and begging on the ground, held down by enemies, struggling, and sprayed in Lou's own blood.
I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared
But no one would listen 'cause no one else cared
After my dreaming, I woke with this fear
What am I leaving when I'm done here?
So if you're asking me, I want you to know
When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating, I've shared what I made
I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through
I've never been perfect but neither have you
So if you're asking me, I want you to know
When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty, keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest
Forgetting all the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
So, since I'm on the subject, RANDOM LOU ENTRY. Someone (was it you, whynotmi?) had mentioned in a comment that they like to hear more about the writing process so here's some (interesting?) background.
Lou's a bit of a weird case because he's actually Sonny's character. Sonny created him and played him at Neulan/District9, the old RPG where I first created and played Boyd. The dynamics of Lou and Boyd's relationship there were somewhat similar, in that they were good friends who eventually had an attraction for each other, but it was a lot different because they had more than just each other. And I'm not sure they would've ended up together in the end.
When we first started writing Lou back stories, Sonny wrote Lou. But then came The Birthday. That whole period of time was some of the most fun, most efficient writing we've ever done. It was out of control. We were multi-tasking like mad. We were roleplaying Lou's death scene while Sonny wrote Sin's narration in The Birthday while I wrote all the background Boyd videos-- the beach, the kitchen scene, etc.
The original Lou death scene was pretty short, though, and when I was looking it over again I thought it needed more. (Of course I did, I'm Little Miss Description XD). So I went through and added all those details -- the blood, the expressions, etc. I guess I just wanted it to show why it would be so gut-wrenching for Boyd, why this was what pushed him far over the edge, why he shut down so completely. The original scene didn't get that visceral reaction and I was concerned that Boyd would seem lame or over-dramatic.
So now, Lou's one of the characters we share. I wrote Lou in the background videos but Sonny wrote Lou in his death scene. Sonny writes Lou in most of the back stories we're writing but I write him occasionally when I have an idea for a story and want Lou in it but don't foresee us sitting down to rp it out any time soon.
But, I don't know. I still don't really feel comfortable with him because he isn't mine, he wasn't my idea. I love the little rascal but I feel like I can't write him correctly?
This is a good reason why, should we ever have a problem where one of us drops off the face of the Earth, the story would likely not be finished. We share a lot of the ideas/etc and to an extent the characters, but there are some who are very much Sonny's or Ais's. I couldn't write Sin properly for more than a line here or there anymore than I think Sonny would feel comfortable writing Boyd.
Some day I'll have to write out some of the stories in my head...
Uh, anyway. So the whole thing I was trying to say is 1) I think that's a perfect Lou song but I don't know if Sonny would agree because I feel like I don't know for sure if I totally grasp Lou, and 2) I really like the idea of "leave out all the rest"-- of finding something to remember a person by.
I feel like by the end of Book One, not only does Boyd find some closure, but maybe Lou's spirit could too. Like Boyd was finally able to hear what Lou had wanted all along, like after all the struggle and the stupid little things Lou had done in his life and the things that became monumental horrors, all that time I think he was trying to figure out who he was and he acted tougher than he was, stronger than he was, the fear of just disappearing like his parents had, of not being remembered by someone, all those times he was there for Boyd--
There was something left behind, something more than the fear. Something that was just beautiful or good; memories that could make a person smile and not cry.
Reasons to be missed.
I've been thinking about Lou on and off lately, though, because I found a song I was obsessed with for him. Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park -- I hear this song and it immediately makes me think of his death scene, of a collage of Lou moments, of the thoughts that must have been going through his mind as he stared at Boyd but couldn't reach him, as he died and couldn't help it, as the last view he ever had of his best friend and lover was him screaming and crying and begging on the ground, held down by enemies, struggling, and sprayed in Lou's own blood.
I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared
But no one would listen 'cause no one else cared
After my dreaming, I woke with this fear
What am I leaving when I'm done here?
So if you're asking me, I want you to know
When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating, I've shared what I made
I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through
I've never been perfect but neither have you
So if you're asking me, I want you to know
When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty, keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest
Forgetting all the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
So, since I'm on the subject, RANDOM LOU ENTRY. Someone (was it you, whynotmi?) had mentioned in a comment that they like to hear more about the writing process so here's some (interesting?) background.
Lou's a bit of a weird case because he's actually Sonny's character. Sonny created him and played him at Neulan/District9, the old RPG where I first created and played Boyd. The dynamics of Lou and Boyd's relationship there were somewhat similar, in that they were good friends who eventually had an attraction for each other, but it was a lot different because they had more than just each other. And I'm not sure they would've ended up together in the end.
When we first started writing Lou back stories, Sonny wrote Lou. But then came The Birthday. That whole period of time was some of the most fun, most efficient writing we've ever done. It was out of control. We were multi-tasking like mad. We were roleplaying Lou's death scene while Sonny wrote Sin's narration in The Birthday while I wrote all the background Boyd videos-- the beach, the kitchen scene, etc.
The original Lou death scene was pretty short, though, and when I was looking it over again I thought it needed more. (Of course I did, I'm Little Miss Description XD). So I went through and added all those details -- the blood, the expressions, etc. I guess I just wanted it to show why it would be so gut-wrenching for Boyd, why this was what pushed him far over the edge, why he shut down so completely. The original scene didn't get that visceral reaction and I was concerned that Boyd would seem lame or over-dramatic.
So now, Lou's one of the characters we share. I wrote Lou in the background videos but Sonny wrote Lou in his death scene. Sonny writes Lou in most of the back stories we're writing but I write him occasionally when I have an idea for a story and want Lou in it but don't foresee us sitting down to rp it out any time soon.
But, I don't know. I still don't really feel comfortable with him because he isn't mine, he wasn't my idea. I love the little rascal but I feel like I can't write him correctly?
This is a good reason why, should we ever have a problem where one of us drops off the face of the Earth, the story would likely not be finished. We share a lot of the ideas/etc and to an extent the characters, but there are some who are very much Sonny's or Ais's. I couldn't write Sin properly for more than a line here or there anymore than I think Sonny would feel comfortable writing Boyd.
Some day I'll have to write out some of the stories in my head...
Uh, anyway. So the whole thing I was trying to say is 1) I think that's a perfect Lou song but I don't know if Sonny would agree because I feel like I don't know for sure if I totally grasp Lou, and 2) I really like the idea of "leave out all the rest"-- of finding something to remember a person by.
I feel like by the end of Book One, not only does Boyd find some closure, but maybe Lou's spirit could too. Like Boyd was finally able to hear what Lou had wanted all along, like after all the struggle and the stupid little things Lou had done in his life and the things that became monumental horrors, all that time I think he was trying to figure out who he was and he acted tougher than he was, stronger than he was, the fear of just disappearing like his parents had, of not being remembered by someone, all those times he was there for Boyd--
There was something left behind, something more than the fear. Something that was just beautiful or good; memories that could make a person smile and not cry.
Reasons to be missed.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Children's shows, Novels & Homework
"They", the ever elusive they, make the most hideous children's shows. My three year old is watching some ridiculous cartoon... thing about talking bugs, and instead of "everybody", they say "everybuggy". If I hear it one more time I'm going to slam my face into a wall.
I have an idea for a novel and I really want to get started on it but I'm trying not to get too immersed in something else while writing Afterimage. I think I could handle it but I have all of these other ICoS projects I want to start... I don't know which I should focus all of my attention on.
The idea would be a YA or Middle Age fantasy/science fiction novel and I would seriously try to send it out and find an agent to get it published if it turns out any good. I'm inspired by the loads of bad HP fic writers getting published left and right.
But before that, I have to finish (start) my Concepts in Gaming paper, finish my Children's Lit reading (Harry Potter... god.) and catch up on Spanish. I wish I was a more industrious student but there's always so much other stuff I'd rather be doing than homework.
I have an idea for a novel and I really want to get started on it but I'm trying not to get too immersed in something else while writing Afterimage. I think I could handle it but I have all of these other ICoS projects I want to start... I don't know which I should focus all of my attention on.
The idea would be a YA or Middle Age fantasy/science fiction novel and I would seriously try to send it out and find an agent to get it published if it turns out any good. I'm inspired by the loads of bad HP fic writers getting published left and right.
But before that, I have to finish (start) my Concepts in Gaming paper, finish my Children's Lit reading (Harry Potter... god.) and catch up on Spanish. I wish I was a more industrious student but there's always so much other stuff I'd rather be doing than homework.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Questions I doubt anyone will answer
Would anybody be interested in a Young Sin mini series? A series of one-shot stories about his past? I kind of have been kicking the idea around and can't figure out if I really want to do it or not...
On the one hand i think it would be interesting and I would start from as early as when his parents first met but on the other, i dont know if anyone cares.
-Sonny
On the one hand i think it would be interesting and I would start from as early as when his parents first met but on the other, i dont know if anyone cares.
-Sonny
Validated \\ Ais
Bwahaha... I have almost the entire site validated right now, including (what I think is the most amazing part) the index page, with all the forms from other places for our free stuff like the mailing list. Of course, I could've fucked the forms up and they may be unusable now -_- So if people notice issues with trying to sign up for stuff, lemme know! There are about a million ways to contact us if you check the contact page listed on the left.
I'm happy because I think I even caught the majority of the foreign languages and have them properly coded. I like to code it so it's not just <i> or <em> but the full explanation of what language it is and which way it should be read, so it's better for all the browsers + programs that read the stuff aloud.
So, instead of 'lo más chingón' it's coded as <em lang="es" xml:lang="es" dir="ltr">lo más chingón</em>.
I wonder if that will even show up... hmm. [Edit: Hoho, I r smart. It worked.]
Anyway, it gives me some bizarre sense of pleasure to get things validated, to know I have it set up right. I want the site to be accessible to different capabilities so if I have all these problems everywhere that sort of defeats the purpose. I mean, eventually it'll look better (after the redesign like I keep talking about) but yeah. For now, at least most of the pages should be working now.
And I got the blog listed on every page! Go me?
Ok, I'm done with the website ramblings since I'm pretty sure no one cares about these things *cough*
I'm happy because I think I even caught the majority of the foreign languages and have them properly coded. I like to code it so it's not just <i> or <em> but the full explanation of what language it is and which way it should be read, so it's better for all the browsers + programs that read the stuff aloud.
So, instead of 'lo más chingón' it's coded as <em lang="es" xml:lang="es" dir="ltr">lo más chingón</em>.
I wonder if that will even show up... hmm. [Edit: Hoho, I r smart. It worked.]
Anyway, it gives me some bizarre sense of pleasure to get things validated, to know I have it set up right. I want the site to be accessible to different capabilities so if I have all these problems everywhere that sort of defeats the purpose. I mean, eventually it'll look better (after the redesign like I keep talking about) but yeah. For now, at least most of the pages should be working now.
And I got the blog listed on every page! Go me?
Ok, I'm done with the website ramblings since I'm pretty sure no one cares about these things *cough*
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Deja wtf + I resist your conformity! \\ Ais
lolz, I actually would have forgotten about posting the chapter today if Sonny hadn't mentioned it *cough*
It's so weird because we're currently writing chapter 17-- which, when you get to it, you will see it's a pretty important chapter-- so when I go back to the early chapters I keep having this moment of confusion in which I'm going, "Wait, what? Why is __ happening? Why does the narration say __? Why are __ talking about __ when it's way past that now?"
So confusing for poor little Ais.
By the way, in relation to Sonny's side stories entry... wtf XD If we had a contest between us about who could write more side stories in a set period of time, I would FAIL. EPIC FAIL. *looks around shiftily and leans in conspiratorially* Sonny just has to be better than me. Don't tell him I told you.
XD Kidding, of course. I wish I were that bad ass but idk, too hard for me to write side stories. I get all distracted. The fucking Owen one has been Almost Done for months now. I decided I hated the only one I had up previously so I removed it. Now the only one I have up is one that's all sadface.
So XD I'm not really adding to the lighthearted, humorous side of the story right now...
--
I am so obsessed with Metallica's newest album Death Magnetic. It's pretty out of control... I love The Unforgiven and The Unforgiven II, and at first didn't think I was a huge fan of The Unforgiven III, but now I'm friggin' obsessed with it and listen to it over and over and over... Considering it's a 7 minute song, that pretty quickly gets up to half an hour of Ais rocking to:
How can I be lost,
If I've got nowhere to go?
Search for seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
There are a few songs on it that I think are pretty pertinent to Afterimage, too.
PS: It cracks me up when I mishear lyrics. For instance, I thought James was saying, "How could he know this new dog's life would change his life forever?" but really it's "How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever?" which, not only a lot more poetic, makes a hell of a lot more sense. Unless, you know, he got a hellian dog he needs to send Cesar's way XD
PPS: I also really like Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight and am a definite fan of Little Things Give You Away.
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you...
---
Dude, I am so ADD sometimes. I started working on replacing the navigation to include the blog/remove the chat. SIMPLE, RIGHT? Except then I decide to fix the header issues that were going on, and then I decide to validate a page, then fix all those errors, and get it down to the same issues I've been having -- no allowtransparency attribute in iframes, and no "name" attribute in headers, which is lame? Because in my web design class recently, we purposefully did id and name so it would be cross-compatible with Macs, PCs, etc.
I decided to look into the allowtransparency dilemma again and GUESS WHAT I FOUND? Apparently W3C decided a few years ago it was no longer kosher just because, although one person said they thought it may be because HTML isn't supposed to be a visual language so you should be doing that shit with CSS.
Which, ok, would be a valid point except as far as I can tell there is no other way to get the same result.
Brilliant.
Not that it's a huge deal, I mean it's just on the shoutbox. But this irritates me, damnit! I WANT TO BE VALIDATED *criez* My life is meaningless without that green checkbox saying I'm a-ok and not worthy of death! DRAMA DRAMA.
Ok not really XD But it does piss me off XD I should just remove the fucking attribute and be done with it XD But I'm all stubborn and resistant, like, "Fuck you, W3C, what do you know anyway?"
So anyway. Ranting aside, I guess I should actually finish changing the navigation on every page, huh? *cough*
-Ais FTL
It's so weird because we're currently writing chapter 17-- which, when you get to it, you will see it's a pretty important chapter-- so when I go back to the early chapters I keep having this moment of confusion in which I'm going, "Wait, what? Why is __ happening? Why does the narration say __? Why are __ talking about __ when it's way past that now?"
So confusing for poor little Ais.
By the way, in relation to Sonny's side stories entry... wtf XD If we had a contest between us about who could write more side stories in a set period of time, I would FAIL. EPIC FAIL. *looks around shiftily and leans in conspiratorially* Sonny just has to be better than me. Don't tell him I told you.
XD Kidding, of course. I wish I were that bad ass but idk, too hard for me to write side stories. I get all distracted. The fucking Owen one has been Almost Done for months now. I decided I hated the only one I had up previously so I removed it. Now the only one I have up is one that's all sadface.
So XD I'm not really adding to the lighthearted, humorous side of the story right now...
--
I am so obsessed with Metallica's newest album Death Magnetic. It's pretty out of control... I love The Unforgiven and The Unforgiven II, and at first didn't think I was a huge fan of The Unforgiven III, but now I'm friggin' obsessed with it and listen to it over and over and over... Considering it's a 7 minute song, that pretty quickly gets up to half an hour of Ais rocking to:
How can I be lost,
If I've got nowhere to go?
Search for seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
There are a few songs on it that I think are pretty pertinent to Afterimage, too.
PS: It cracks me up when I mishear lyrics. For instance, I thought James was saying, "How could he know this new dog's life would change his life forever?" but really it's "How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever?" which, not only a lot more poetic, makes a hell of a lot more sense. Unless, you know, he got a hellian dog he needs to send Cesar's way XD
PPS: I also really like Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight and am a definite fan of Little Things Give You Away.
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you...
---
Dude, I am so ADD sometimes. I started working on replacing the navigation to include the blog/remove the chat. SIMPLE, RIGHT? Except then I decide to fix the header issues that were going on, and then I decide to validate a page, then fix all those errors, and get it down to the same issues I've been having -- no allowtransparency attribute in iframes, and no "name" attribute in headers, which is lame? Because in my web design class recently, we purposefully did id and name so it would be cross-compatible with Macs, PCs, etc.
I decided to look into the allowtransparency dilemma again and GUESS WHAT I FOUND? Apparently W3C decided a few years ago it was no longer kosher just because, although one person said they thought it may be because HTML isn't supposed to be a visual language so you should be doing that shit with CSS.
Which, ok, would be a valid point except as far as I can tell there is no other way to get the same result.
Brilliant.
Not that it's a huge deal, I mean it's just on the shoutbox. But this irritates me, damnit! I WANT TO BE VALIDATED *criez* My life is meaningless without that green checkbox saying I'm a-ok and not worthy of death! DRAMA DRAMA.
Ok not really XD But it does piss me off XD I should just remove the fucking attribute and be done with it XD But I'm all stubborn and resistant, like, "Fuck you, W3C, what do you know anyway?"
So anyway. Ranting aside, I guess I should actually finish changing the navigation on every page, huh? *cough*
-Ais FTL
Side Story Mania//\\Sonny
I can't get enough of writing Emilio and Zach and it saddens me because their fun time backstory days will never happen again in the present story. :( I keep trying to limit myself to "okay this will be a three story back arc" and then "okay four", but then I get more ideas and want to write even more. So I decided to map it out for myself. Two stories for the very beginning (which means I have to go back and add one *wince*), three in between stories, and two that occur at the very end before Emilio disappears.
I doubt I'll ever follow that but I'll try. Also I want to write out the entirety of their multiple month undercover mission but I don't know if anyone would be interested/if its a good idea. Right now I'm just writing brief excerpts from it.
Anyway, I rambled about that too much.
Other stuff I have planned is a multi story Ryan arc but I have to figure out the timing of when that would happen and when I should post. I only have a page of it written so there's no rush on that.
There's not enough time in my day to do all I want to do. =/
I doubt I'll ever follow that but I'll try. Also I want to write out the entirety of their multiple month undercover mission but I don't know if anyone would be interested/if its a good idea. Right now I'm just writing brief excerpts from it.
Anyway, I rambled about that too much.
Other stuff I have planned is a multi story Ryan arc but I have to figure out the timing of when that would happen and when I should post. I only have a page of it written so there's no rush on that.
There's not enough time in my day to do all I want to do. =/
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
damn you, errors!
Sometimes being a perfectionist + knowing at least a bit of web design information is annoying as hell. For instance, when I created this site off a css template, I didn't know anything about W3C validation, etc, so it didn't occur to me that if the website looked all pretty and worked in front of my eyes that there could be evil, insidious creatures in the background, unraveling all my hard work, fucking the site up for people from different browsers, etc, and making it look like I don't know wtf I'm doing.
Which, ok, granted-- would be true.
Point being, when I went to create this blog.html I decided to take the plunge and check the W3C validation. WTF ERRORS. Then I realized I didn't have it set to Transitional, and then there were all these other little errors that no one really cares about BUT THE POINT IS IT'S NOW CLEAN. Except for some mumbo jumbo about an iframe issue and allowTransparency not existing and Microsoft says you lie, bitches, so there. (This is probably the one time I'll side with Microsoft instead of W3C and that's only 'cause they're not telling me I suck ^_~)
Anyway, guess I'm just saying I now know enough to know when I suck at coding, but I don't usually want to take the time to fix stuff. I actually love web design/coding, but when it's working on this site, I get so unenthused. I supposed because if it's a choice of working on ICoS-related stuff, and it's "writing" or "coding," coding always fails the popularity contest. Not even Miss Congeniality in my mind, it's way off stage in the Ais Is Too Lazy To Consider wing.
EVENTUALLY, there will be exciting things on this site. I'll finally get the thing redesigned according to the designs I made in Photoshop, I'll make sure all the coding is correct/validated, I'll get the external navigation files going, and comments on the chapters... all these stupid little projects in the waiting, which are going to stay that way indefinitely because I'm the one in charge of it and I am really not so great with follow-through.
But for now, the newest exciting thing on the site is this blog, courtesy of Sonny's idea.
Later will come Operation Make This Site Efficient And Pretty. Or MTSEAP, as we call it for short. Uh. Yeah, witty comments elude me right now.
-Ais
Which, ok, granted-- would be true.
Point being, when I went to create this blog.html I decided to take the plunge and check the W3C validation. WTF ERRORS. Then I realized I didn't have it set to Transitional, and then there were all these other little errors that no one really cares about BUT THE POINT IS IT'S NOW CLEAN. Except for some mumbo jumbo about an iframe issue and allowTransparency not existing and Microsoft says you lie, bitches, so there. (This is probably the one time I'll side with Microsoft instead of W3C and that's only 'cause they're not telling me I suck ^_~)
Anyway, guess I'm just saying I now know enough to know when I suck at coding, but I don't usually want to take the time to fix stuff. I actually love web design/coding, but when it's working on this site, I get so unenthused. I supposed because if it's a choice of working on ICoS-related stuff, and it's "writing" or "coding," coding always fails the popularity contest. Not even Miss Congeniality in my mind, it's way off stage in the Ais Is Too Lazy To Consider wing.
EVENTUALLY, there will be exciting things on this site. I'll finally get the thing redesigned according to the designs I made in Photoshop, I'll make sure all the coding is correct/validated, I'll get the external navigation files going, and comments on the chapters... all these stupid little projects in the waiting, which are going to stay that way indefinitely because I'm the one in charge of it and I am really not so great with follow-through.
But for now, the newest exciting thing on the site is this blog, courtesy of Sonny's idea.
Later will come Operation Make This Site Efficient And Pretty. Or MTSEAP, as we call it for short. Uh. Yeah, witty comments elude me right now.
-Ais
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
First post, test post, stuff.
Hi, welcome to our blog. I'm not really sure I suggested having this but it seemed like a neat idea at the time + it could be interesting and/or useful for a couple of things. For example we can feel free to bitch about how difficult a chapter is, real life getting in the way of writing, editing being a pain or whatever. It's our little soapbox.
We could also bitch about RL stuff if we feel so inclined and people who are actually interested in that could be amused and/or annoyed by whatever they read. Who knows. The possibilities are endless.
I don't have anything to blog about right now atm, but maybe I'll think of something clever. That may be a problem. This may turn into Sonny Trying To Look Clever instead of Sonny Blogging, which will become a huge pain in the ass for me because I am very rarely clever. I'm usually just high and dumb. Ais is the brains behind this operation.
Okay dudes, peace out for now.
Sonny.
We could also bitch about RL stuff if we feel so inclined and people who are actually interested in that could be amused and/or annoyed by whatever they read. Who knows. The possibilities are endless.
I don't have anything to blog about right now atm, but maybe I'll think of something clever. That may be a problem. This may turn into Sonny Trying To Look Clever instead of Sonny Blogging, which will become a huge pain in the ass for me because I am very rarely clever. I'm usually just high and dumb. Ais is the brains behind this operation.
Okay dudes, peace out for now.
Sonny.
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