A little bit of everything

[kiaxet]

First of all, Songfest is ridiculously awesome hell yeah. I need to post a picture of my makeup and costume. There's a reason we start with Thriller. X3

The rest of this is incredibly fannish and full of squee and such. You have been warned.

First of all, lovediamond! I have been fail and a half at tagging and I seriously owe you an apology ;;; I also need to chat you up again, because I have half a tag written and saved and then I totally blanked on what direction we're going with this thread. MY APOLOGIES FOR THE FAAAAAAAAIL [/grovels]

Also, in that direction, I saw a comment in the last anonmeme about how damn difficult it is to play a villain when everybody wants the Good Guys to triumph 100%. I feel like, with Facilier, I can now relate to that sentiment. I mean, I promise not to kill your character unless you want them killed, but come on now, it's a game full of high schoolers. Not everybody is smart enough to resist the guy offering to make your wildest dreams come true. I mean, look at the two I have in the game: J trusts his Music Sense, and Facilier's music is creepy and a half, so he'd be out; Levitas, however, would be suckered in ninety seconds flat. Thing is, I'm not getting a lot of response for Facilier. A big part of it is definitely my recent lack of activity - I will definitely own up to that. The other things is, I have maybe three volunteers and I can't seem to get anyone else interested. I dunno. It might require a different approach, or I might have to work around the "but I don't want my character creeped on even though he has no reason to avoid the Shadow Man" reaction, or maybe both. Either way, planning needs to happen for Facilier.

While we're on the RP front, I'd forgotten how much fun Death can be. I've got to post for him more often, and should I ever get time to read again I really need to do a canon review. Same with Rosette, though I don't think it's my tag there.

So far as jobs go, I'm still working on my I Can Has Cheezburger questions, if anyone's interested in giving me feedback. I think I need lessons in being funny. |D I'm also still on the job search and thinking that I need to write an abstract of my thesis to send out with my resume, since that seems to interest a lot of people. While I'm at it, the thesis needs work too.

On the epic fansquee front, Soul Silver and Princess and the Frog are shipped and should arrive around Monday, which means I'll probably get them Wednesday. Good times there. :D aviekokyre, if it's physically possible to get one in this game, I'm totally taking you up on your offer of a Spinda.

Today's Woot! Shirt is absolutely fantastic. I don't have long to figure out if I can justify spending the money after the aforementioned big purchase, but dang do I want one.

While we're on the subject of things Kia shouldn't spend money on, these necklaces are beautiful and commissionable. Why must everything tempt me so ;~;

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

On Idol the other night, they had my favorite Idol performing my most-played song in iTunes. Behold the epic:

And for those of you who would also like the epic on their iPods, iTunes was kind enough to put it up. I'd lay really good odds that this cover sells more than all of the Top 12 singles combined.

I do so love it when my fandoms collide, especially when music is involved.

On a totally random note, this pretty much describes my life. It's brilliant in a scary and strange sort of way.

I think that's about it. I need to go crash out so I can be coherent for my internship and another Songfest show, huzzah :D

Comments

[kiaxet]

Best laid plans, huh? |D

It's up to you! Any reasons you think they'd go to him?

[ghettopeach.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see how it would be really difficult to RP a villain. Or to RP anyone, but especially a villain. It would be hard to let your characters lose, to not see how (or if) they were going to get themselves out of a tricky situation. It's different when you control all the characters and know where everything is going (and plus they're all yours, so you still "win")...it would be very hard to trust the other person to hurt your character just enough, but not too much.

Still, without villains, nothing freaking HAPPENS.

[kiaxet]

See, the thing is, I really don't mind Facilier losing. I do love me my happy endings, and villains don't usually win in those. I'm just dying for some CR. I know there can be trust issues, but that's why we plan things out beforehand and have mods to make sure stuff doesn't get too crazy. It's just a touch frustrating when people don't want to take the risk.

Still, without villains, nothing freaking HAPPENS.

AMEN.

[spiritsshadow.livejournal.com]

I suppose you just have bad luck with places and villains ;; Admittedly XI is loaded with hero-type characters, but I still can't believe so many people wouldn't want their characters to be suckered in... :\

[kiaxet]

I'm starting to think this is the case, yeah. ;;; And the thing is, XI is also loaded with teenagers, who tend to make bad decisions by definition.

IDK, I think part of it is me needing to try harder.

[ormery.livejournal.com]

I think I've said so before but I am defs entiiiirely willing to fling Megan at Facilier once I'm done with my hiatus.

Or Teddy, actually, he's going to be in a bit of a state when he comes back.

[kiaxet]

I do not remember that, but I think that speaks more to my memory than your volunteering spirit. XD I should love to do either whenever you're up for it.

[aviekokyre.livejournal.com]

Yay for David Cook's JJF! 8D

I am very interested and will totally take you up on a thread with Shadow man! I know you wouldn't let muse breaking things happen to Derrick. But... I also know there would have to be some fancy outside planning because of the Music sense and Derrick being rather vulnerable. Hmm... either way, count me in. We just need to brainstorm about stuff. =D

And as soon as you get access to trading, I think I'll be able to send a Spinda to you from my Platinum game. (Don't have my Silver yet.) I got lots of the cute critters because I'm looking for a certain spot pattern. >> I need to figure out the online trading mechanics, but it's a little hard when your wi-fi is protected. The DS can't connect to it.

[kiaxet]

Oh man I am so happy they put that up for download. XD Sooooo much squeeing when I saw that tweet.

The main question for the thread is, would Derrick's desires - not wanting to be alone, etc - be able to override his listening to his Music Sense? Because if they're strong enough to make him go against that, we're in business. If not, that thread will pretty much go nowhere. |D It'll require a good bit of discussion.

Wait, you're getting Silver too? :D And I'm not sure I can help you with the wi-fi thing - I think the DSi treats that a little differently than a DS does. But yaaaaaay small cute creatures :Db

[aviekokyre.livejournal.com]

... Oh yes they would. The thing Derrick wants most of all (but not what he needs) is for his family to be back together and happy. He would do just about anything for them and even more if his brother got involved. Whatever happened to him, he wouldn't care. =< ... So, this third person that comes to save Derrick from being stupid... We should find one. |D;;

Yup, I'm getting Silver. And the wi-fi problem is mostly on my side because of the protection ours has in the house. I'd have to get it turned off. So, I'm going to check to see if there is free wi-fi around campus that would work and start from there. =)

[hitokiri-neko.livejournal.com]

Riku would probably avoid Facilier on general principle (since I can't him smelling good/light at all), but if you need peeps to get suckered in I'm willing to offer Squall and Sephiroth.

I don't think either of them really know what they want, but hey, it's a start, right?

[kiaxet]

Yeah, I can't imagine Riku (or anyone with that sort of sixth sense) would be duped by someone so obviously creepy. |D If you want to offer the other two, though, half Facilier's job is figuring out what his client wants, so we could make it work. :3

[hitokiri-neko.livejournal.com]

I'd have to find a way to get them out to where he lurks, but sure, I'll offer them. So far they both seem to know want they don't want more than what they do want so far, so he'll have his work cut out for them.

Squall would probably also be easier to prey on, thanks to his issues. Sephiroth tends to default to his military-esque training more.