My family have been driving me nuts lately. Family and a few friends. I don’t really want to go into details, because while this is my life I’m talking about it’s theirs too and I have no right. Things are crazy, I’ve cried twice now and I’m not really much of a crier. I hate crying it has a lot to do with my upbringing at a private school I don’t really talk about it much. Anyway I figure while I’m feeling the way I am I’m going to remind myself of five things I like about the people I care about who have stressed the heck out of me it will make me feel better. My dad (1) His brave (2) he doesn’t let the way trashy people treat him get him down (3) His about to lose something important to all of us but he says its okay even though its not. I’m really proud that he can handle it better then I can (4) He always knows how to make my little ones smile (5) His done everything he could for us and I mean worked his butt off My mum (1) She has a very gentle personality (2) she has a heart bigger then her back pocket. Sometimes she goes without to let others have things they need (3) she cries and shows humanity wish I wasn’t so frigid and could be like that. (4) A lot of times she makes peoples moods happier she likes to joke around. (5) She looks after nana like a sore thumb. My brother This one will be a bit harder. Not saying I don’t love my bro but he can be a tough little cookie (1) My bro does lots of different things his uber active. (2) My bro has this awesome attitude where nothing can touch him (3) My bro is the ultimate fisherman (4) My bro would look after my girls at the drop of the hat (5) My bro is very, very protective of me even though I’m the older one My Sister (1) my sister really tries hard to be part of the family I love that (2) she is probably one of the wittiest people I know with her mouth. When we get together we are evil (3) My sister is pretty but she is also humble about it (4) My sister loves cars and things she can show an interest in just about anything (5) my sister is a great mum My friend (1) she sticks to her guns (2) she is loud and is so funny I almost cry when I’m with her (3) She is a very talented person (4) She has this way of getting the opposite sex and luring them that I could never manage (5) she’s had a really tough time of it but she always bounces back. There now I’m not grumpy and I don’t have to offload to people I feel heaps better. Now I pity the poor people who have to read this anyone interested in taking up journal tags by the way. That’s when you do a questionnaire and then tag three or so other people to do the same questionnaire. Let me know if your keen guys.
This has been annoying me for ages, what do you guys think a Gothic is. I’m curious to hear your thoughts… Myself as a Gothic In general I share the views of other gothic people. Like most Gothics I’m artistic and enjoy literature. Music means a lot to me, I’m constantly listening to it. I can’t sing or play an instrument but I will write lyrics. What type of Goth am I? There are a lot of different groups of gothic people now days. Which differs from the stereotype that once existed. First of all this is most amusing… http://www.odk.com/wilson/goth/150.html http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php I myself am probably classed as a Lolita Gothic/ I could also at times be mistaken for a rivet head (I don‘t however follow the matrix fashion trend that is happening right now). I enjoy the Edwardian garb and wear it often. I guess other gothic peoples would possible call me a J-Goth also due to the fact I love the Japanese style (however I really wouldn‘t call cosplay an Gothic trend). Other types of Gothics I think are awesome Caberets I love the forty’s and fifty’s style. It’s beautiful and suits some people so very well. I also must say fetish is wicked if you can pull it off, I can’t >< What I hate I’m sorry, I really don’t consider emo’s to be gothic, nothing is worse then poor me syndrome. Quite frankly I couldn’t give a rats *** about attention seekers. Sure the Emos can do some pretty decent prose I just can’t like an idiot who threatens to waste him/herself every five seconds just for a little love… Also some baby bats annoy me because what they think is gothic isn’t exactly what a lot of gothic people stand for. The ones that I find annoying are the trend setter beginners who think they are cool for it… Anyway that’s enough of that for now. I’ve probably done more the enough whining for one day.
I was having a great time writing my novel, but now my brain won't share. It had all started with the kitty in the mailbox. There had been a strange smell in the front yard that morning. Niah would normally step out of the front door a coffee cup in her hand and her keys dangling from her mouth. She had stopped because of the strange black staining on her letterbox. It was the colour of rust in places. As she had stepped closer it was thicker in places a dry crust. She had put her fingers on the stuff and let it crumble between them. As she pulled them away she couldn’t help but raise them to her nose for a sniff. The metallic smell had alarm bells ringing, it was blood. At the base of the mailbox a thick syrup of red tainted with brown oozed and dribbled down the white post to form a puddle beneath like a moat surrounding a castle. At this point Niah had began to tremble. Her flesh blossomed with goose bumps, she had become so terrifyingly cold. The silver watch on her wrist jingled as with a shuddering hand she reached for the lid of the mail box and opened it. ........WHY ME?
Hi guys a quick one for today, so what’s the drama? Well I want to talk about posting reviews today. Before I start I want you all to know I’m not trying to gratify myself or anything, I just feel like the way posts are being reviewed lately could be better. I know I’m no moderator and I most certainly will never be. It just makes me sad to see a lot of people going unreviewed. I don’t know what the reason behind this is and I’m not even asking about it. The way I see it this forum is more then just that, it’s also a community. A community can only thrive when all its members are working in harmony with one another. When members go unattended they seem to fall beneath the cracks. I know I really should save this for some other place, but I truly am concerned. I hate seeing posts with 0 replies I hate it when people do it to me. It’s not a case of awww I’m not popular. It’s more like if my work is so bad that it can’t be read or boring or cliché. I would much rather be told then have my post go unread, surely everyone else must feel the same? Well anyway I’ve decided that I will only crit posts with zero comments or with minimum comments. What’s sad about that is that I am far from the right person for that job, as I am one of the members with lower gramma skills and structure skills. As it is at the moment my writing is on hold, I just cannot write anything decent and haven’t the motivation so I may as well put myself to some type of use. Well that’s it for tonight, if anybody finds this offensive or not right for this blog then please let me know or tell a moderator, thanks
Good cop, bad cop! Well I swore I’d never do it but I did, the cliché of good cop bad cop >< Lets start from the beginning, I’ve been working in an RPG on another forum ABD. The story is basically this sinister little town in the middle of Texas full of nut cases cons and you name it. So anyway both of these cops are old characters of mine. I collect my characters and the ones I don’t use I store the information for in a big spiral bound book. The first one is called Cody Lordly a very old character of mine. She has grown since I first created her, I’m very proud of the current state I have her in. So she’s the good cop, the one who always comes across as caring. She believes criminals don’t always just do things because they are bad. She also appreciates the effort that other members of the police department put into their work. The bad cop is Surreal Camsly, fiery and going with her instincts. Her mouth gets her in trouble and she is lucky she hasn’t been fired as of yet… So yeah very cliché aren’t they. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can make the two characters more interesting?
Friends are flowers, …yeah it’s a cheesy cliché line I know. Think about it for a moment, when a flower begins to die the petals start to wilt then they fall away. I have two internet buddy’s Mae and Scott and once a year or so ago we were great friends, unfortunately our friendship was based around an RPG we worked on together. At first their were ten or so of us. Each of us took on the role of a character in a small town. Like most RPG’s people started to drift away from the RPG and soon we were the only ones left in it. We managed to keep it going for a very long time, then I drifted from Mae and Scott. Scott is a very quiet person he never really tried to stay in contact with me, I guess I didn’t make it easy considering my msn Address was changed. Mae sent me a lot of personal messages on the ABD site I went there occasionally and replied to the messages, I never made much of an effort. I guess you could say I’m a selfish person, my concepts of friendship aren’t the greatest. I feel like if people aren’t going to make an effort for me I won’t either. Anyway enough of the blah, blah. So recently we start talking again and I even joined another RPG they are in. These guys pretty much taught me everything I know about grammar and structure in my paragraphs and so on. I was useless before that, I owe Scott a lot for the help his given me. The friendship isn’t like it use to be. Mae’s kids have grown up and she’s making the most of her life getting into her work study’s Scott’s still Scott and as always I’m never sure where I stand with him. His had a lot of hurt in his life so he lefts people come to him and not the other way around. I think the friendship is starting to die again already. Do friendships made on the internet ever last?
I had an interesting thought last night for a character. I've often thought about weaknesses in characters and realised I hate the idea of my characters being weak. I've managed here and there to find weaknesses for characters but not without grumbling why must he/she be weak. So what about a character that in highly in tune with nature not nature as in all things flora and fauna. Just certain plants reacting to him. The plants seem to feed off of him where ever he goes, as though he is their sun. As he walks tendrils follow after him. So what's the weakness in that? Well if he was to stay still for to long the plants would grow upon him. So he is always moving when no one is there to look out for him he can't stay still to rest. no sleep for the poor man. And now a question has it been done before?