If you want to protest against APEC, protest against the traffic it causes.

Holy shit.

I was at the bus stop for an hour yesterday because of APEC. It was windy and raining and cold (for Hawaii) so I was not in a good mood. I had to ask my parents to pick me up because it was about 6:15 (I had gotten out of class at 5:30) and my bus didn't come. There were buses, but they didn't go into town, where I lived, they went straight past that ;-; My boyfriend couldn't pick me up cause he was at work either, so I had to call my parents.

It wasn't until after I called them that the bus I needed to take finally came. Man, I was pissed, and cold, and hungry. My parents took me out to eat at least, but the A/C was on in the car, making it still cold so I was still in a bit of a mad mood >.>

So today is a holiday and I am not leaving the fucking house. Not when traffic is gonna be that bad. Yesterday was one of those days where, if you didn't come in to work everyone understood why. Some people were unable to get into town completely and one of my classes was cancelled yesterday because of the road closures. If only they all could have been cancelled, but no, I still had sewing class.

Hm ... I also need to pick up fabric for my tank top, and start on that skirt still. Fuuuuu so much work to do, but I wanna relax and play video games ;-;

To paint or not to paint?

I've been staring at my illustration project for the last hour, trying to decide what parts to paint. I realized that the background should be painted because coloring it with copics will take too damn long. Much easier to just paint and fill in details with pencil crayon. The figures however ... I don't know how much to paint, if any. Some details are much too small for the brush I have, so it's gonna be marker by default, but other parts I'm a little iffy on. Thinking if I should render the denim with marker + pencil crayon, or try something new :/

Ugh, this project seems so simple but also seems so hard >.<

Oh well, I'll at least get started on inking it.

NaNoWriMo Day 1

Didn't go well. I have 500 words so far, and mostly didn't do as much as I could have because I got into an argument with a friend and we spent a long time going back and forth. I also had a lot of school work to do ... and I went for dinner with my boyfriend.

It was a very nice dinner with yummy unagi rice :3

Tomorrow I work, so I won't make much progress on it either, probably, but I can afford to stay up late since my teacher for one of my classes is still gone for the week.

Oh boy, I have to get started on my paper for my religion class too. It's due at the end of the month. I just need to find a slightly obscure, not too unknown country to write about regarding witchcraft lol. Five page papers are quite easy to crank out, especially since my professor was very specific about what he wanted, so there's a lot of questions the paper needs to answer. I fear that five pages may not be enough D:

While reading some stories on ff.net ...

I was wondering to myself why I didn't put some sort of long monologue in Black Feathers about why Marlisse is the way she is. I also wonder why people worry so much about writing a Mary-Sue. I personally do create Sue0ish characters, of that I have no doubt. If someone rips me out for it, all I have to say is "Yeah ... I know, I couldn't think of anything better at the time and it sounded nice lol"

I don't like it when people get really defensive about their characters though. They're characters on paper, not living breathing children :/ Which is a shame, really, because some stories could have been much better if they just tweaked the character a little.

One in particular bugged me a lot because the author got extremely defensive and basically said "It's fanfiction, so I can do whatever I want!" All power to you, but doing whatever you want doesn't make it good or interesting. While it could draw in some people, it alienates a lot more. She was all "My character's not a Mary-Sue! she has this flaw" Yeah ... except that flaw does not come into play at all. It's not even much of a 'flaw' as it is just some usual teen angst. Plus, the character in question has no growth whatsoever. Growth is what makes them interesting, but no, despite having plenty of opportunities in the story for growth, there is none. She is exactly the same as chapter 1, and that's pretty boring.

I know I'm no expert and I know my characters could use some work too, but that's just my opinion.

ANYWAYS, it's November. That means NaNoWriMo has officially started. The novel I decided to write centers around Telvana and Demetri's life. It takes a much different direction from Dancing With Swords because the novel is more about the canon I created for these characters. For example, Dancing With Swords features a Logan/Telvana coupling. Canon is actually Demetri/Telvana. Marlisse's canon pairing though is questionable XD For Black Feathers is Reaver/Marlisse, but canon is Marlisse/???????? I'll make a husband for her eventually >.> (or not, cause I like the idea of her remaining unmarried)

Hm, I don't know what to do tomorrow morning since my first class got cancelled. Maybe finish drawing the clothes on my figures?