Mare’s Soul

Errgh! I finished Twilight a couple hours ago and I’m quite happy. That book is just so amazing. The trials that a relationship between a human and vampire have are just astounding. I don’t think my emotions (or my heart rate) have been so affected by a novel. Edward and Bella’s relationship is just so beautiful to watch that I begin to involuntarily smile. This usually happens when I’m reading an uber cute manga (e.g. Fruits Basket, Lovely Complex), but it just so happens that Twilight is the very first novel (I think) to have accomplished that very feat.

However, I’m now feeling frustrated and anxious and I don’t think I can start writing the next chapter of Zincian Legend: The Chosen if I don’t vent. So be warned, about 95% or more of the rest of this post will be venting.

So, I was at the mall today hoping to buy New Moon knowing that I was going to finish reading Twilight by tonight. I was not expecting that both of the bookstores in town were, le gasp, OUT OF STOCK! I know for a fact that two weeks ago they had New Moon in stock. So why now? So I found that to be quite frustrating. I did, however, order it at B. Dalton (even though I hate that store) and was told it would take a week to come in. However, my father happily reminded (probably to get me out of my shocked, depressed state) that we could go to the nearby city to check if their bigger and better bookstores had it in stock. The problem: we’re going in the morning tomorrow. And that would be the reason of my anxiety. Can’t tomorrow come sooner? I could sleep, but even though I’m tired, I don’t think I’m capable of sleep. It’s almost like the same anxiety one gets the night before the first day of school that makes sleep impossible to find. I did, however, buy Eclipse, the third installment to the series today because my friend was joking to me that when I went to get New Moon today (like me, she thought I was definitely getting the book… ) that they would magically be out of stock of the last book tomorrow (which was probably when I’d finish the second book anyway… So out of precaution, I went ahead and bought it.

*sigh* My friend is coming over tomorrow, which is exciting. We share a lot interests (could she be my sister from another mother?) and we haven’t seen each other in a while because she attends college now. I believe we’ll be playing Disney Scene It? and I’ve already recruited my brother because it’s soooo much more fun to play it in a group rather than two people. She’s quite educated in Disney just like me, so she won’t be sitting there like my poor dad was when me and my brother recruited him. I felt so bad because he didn’t know any of the answers except one or two!!

Now that I’m calm again, I think I’ll run off and start on that new chapter. My novel-in-the-making is still quite rough, but I think the first quarter of it or so is actually…dare I say it? Publishable. Time will tell how the rest of it looks…

I was looking through my blog’s pages and I realized that I haven’t updated the writing page in quite some time. So, because a lot of the flash fiction and short stories I have aren’t quite polished up (I continue to procrastinate on that) I decided to post some of my old fanfiction! I was looking through one of them, and it’s just absolutely corny, but you have to start somewhere, right? I checked the publication date of my first fanfiction, and it was March 24, 2004. I published 4 fanfiction, but because 1 of them is like…uber terrible, I decided to unveil 3 of them. However if you’re actually really curious about the terrible one, it isn’t too hard to find if you know how to search. So, if you’re bored and want to be humored by my somewhat ridiculous attempt at fanfiction, check out the writing!

I went through and fixed the header and navigation problems with this layout. It works fine in IE7 now, though it still looks better in Firefox. I haven’t checked the site in IE6 yet, but I probably won’t. IE6 continues to elude me. It’s quite mysterious. So, for everyone with a Wordpress blog, if you’re patient, this layout just might be up for download soon enough! I need to come up with a snazzy title (I’ll probably go Latin on this) and I’ll place it for download sometime by the end of the month. Exciting, no?

Oh! I just finished the recent volume of Love*Com and let me tell you, it threw me off guard completely! This manga moves fast. Almost like light. It’s the end of the fourth volume, and the characters are already in their second year of highschool and on their class trip. I don’t read many highschool drama manga, actually, the only other highschool dramas I have read are W Juliet, Fruits Basket (it’s close enough to a highschool drama), and Vampire Knight (yet again, close enough). I don’t own W Juliet and I don’t remember all the details, but comparing Love*Com to Fruits Basket timeline…Love*Com seems to go by in a blink of an eye! The class trip in Fruits Basket happened in volume 13!! *takes deep breath* But, going back to how adorable Love*Com is. There are a lot of cliches in the story, but it’s given in a way that makes it seem fresh. By the end of the first chapter, you already know who’s going to get together, the only frustration for the reader is when are they going to get together. The art is done in a cute way, and although the panels aren’t exquisitely detailed and colored like NANA or Fruits Basket, the story is engaging enough to make your eyes divert away from some of the blankness that can appear on some of the pages. I checked the Shojo Beat website, and I’m happy to know that I don’t have to wait for long for the next volume, which comes out in March!!

With the release of my anime blog, Beautiful Addiction is slowly getting more and more interactive, which is fine by me. It’s been so full of information (which I’ve lovingly procrastinated on), that I was afraid visitors might get, well…bored. There’s even a poll regarding the Dragonball movie on the blog. I’m so proud of it. *sniff*

Raven took a daemon quiz (I thought it was pronounced ‘dai-mon’ because of the diphthong. At least, it would be in Latin…) I thought it would be fun to see what my daemon would be as well. I ended up getting this really cute hare daemon named Araphon. Isn’t that just a cool name?!

Oh, as for my current avatar: that would be the chibi form of Kaia Ketoki, my main character in the story I’m currently writing. She’s currently wearing Fai’s coat from Tsubasa and is sporting an ubi fan from Naruto. I’ll have to post a picture of her and a full description of her when I get bored one day. It’ll help with the writing process anyway. I just love her chibi form; it’s so cute!!!!