Alright, who just won at life? That would be me.

[crankyoldman]

Alright, so that lab practical I thought I failed... I didn't. In fact, I did pretty good despite. Not perfect, like I had before, but not tragic. I need to do pretty good on the final but an A is still possible.

My pilot lecture... omg, this is the best thing ever. So apparently, I only have to get a 50% on the final to have a C. A MOTHERFUCKING C! I THOUGHT I WAS FAILING. If I get a 92%, I GET A B. So studying for that exam I took this morning that was optional was FULL OF WIN!

Kids, you don't have to be smart, you just have to be really goddamn tenacious to make it in engineering. True fact. Smarts help, but they can be worked around.

Good things include my complete win at this paper, which while still not done is really getting there. One more huge spurt and it'll be done. I kind of love this subject, creativity and education are sort of dear to my heart. Hopefully this will mean I get sleep, as I want to sleep. XD Means I miss the Women in CS dinner (ah, I know someone in CS, and they go have beer, and she invited me), but oh well.

Alright, I need off the internet before I waste more time. I WILL FINISH AND TRIUMPH. This is what being stubborn does, it gives you ulcers and surprisingly ok grades!

~Cendri

P.S. Oddness: apparently if you put Rufus Shinra in a story, suddenly people want to read your Before Crisis fanfic. Why does this only confirm my suspicions about humanity?

P.P.S. OMFG I WANT TO ADOPT THIS GIRL. Ahem. Sorry. I know it's unoriginal, but I'm such a fangirl.

P.P.P.S. Bowie, your wife is hot. Damn.

Comments

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Well, Sailor Moon gets pointed out to me a lot as an argument, but you have to be a certain type of person anyway to like it. I? Don't really get into it. It's cute, they have powers, but it's almost a little too silly for me. XD My anime cliche I like the most is Giant Robots, and a lot of the times they are also silly. Like, I know I probably should like it considering the things I tend to like, I just... don't. Don't hate it, just am kind of ambiguous.

Though, how there isn’t an enormous onslaught of Elena fiction completely and utter mystifies me.

Honestly have no idea. Shocks me too. Maybe the self-inserting is just too obvious that way?

And you're right, but I do think that video game fandoms at least seem to have a bit of a bias. XD And I read a lot of stories just for the title, this is why I spend a lot of time trying to think of good titles.

~Cendri

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

You have to keep in mind the genre. While there are several exceptions female characters do tend to be less fleshed out so with all the anti-Sue rants and such are going to keep less confident writers from attempting to work with female characters.

For the most part the interactions between the female characters are fairly limited. A good example would be Tifa’s relationships with Cloud and Barret vs. the one she has with Aeris. More than a good portion of the plot is wrapped up with her relationship with Cloud and Tifa and Barret start off with a friendship and they continue it through the game through various dialogues and I’m pretty sure out of all the characters who are not Cloud they speak to each other the most, while Tifa and Aeris have one bonding conversation over cross dressing then they girl chat and that’s about it, other than Tifa’s comment’s on Aeris death. I could be wrong as I only had Aeris in my party my first game before I realized she died and didn’t want to wasted time leveling her up on other games. That said outside of the big three most of the in AVALANCHE relationships between each other weren’t fleshed out but this leads to point three.

Also a lot of the girls lack a common point of bonding as you usual have a princess, a fighter, the ordinary girl, and the magic girl all from diverse backgrounds all involved in the general quest for different reasons. With the boys you usual get to see them interacting and in turn get to see that point of bonding of course this one isn’t all always the case as FFX has all the girls coming together but then while I disliked the game it did have well developed characters.

So I guess I’m trying to say to work with girl characters you have to either gutsy or new to the fandom and have to be willing to do a lot of canon manipulation.

While I will say several of the themes in Archetypically reminds me of Sailor Moon, I can see why it’s not your kind of thing. I enjoy it as much as I do because it has practically everything I love rolled up into one story: fantasy, science fiction, all the types of love, friendships, kick butt girls along with an awesome maternal tough girl, fairytales, Greek myths, having to choose between what makes you happy and duty and realize it’s not about duty, epic feel, you know it’s a tragedy but it’s about hope. While it far from perfect it was the first manga of its type I’d ever read and I have lots of warm fuzzes whenever I think about it.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Well, gutsy is my middle name! Right next to my confirmation name of crazy.

~Cendri