J. Magi

I'm currently writing an essay that includes a section on the Declaration of Independence, and I'm so tempted to throw in line about National Treasure . . .

aaaaaa I don't know if I should do it or not . . .

I'm currently writing an essay that includes a section on the Declaration of Independence, and I'm so tempted to throw in line about National Treasure . . .

aaaaaa I don't know if I should do it or not . . .

Hello everyone, good morning!!!! Late Happy Easter!! (to all who celebrate, and good vibes to those who don't)

I'm sorry I've been kind of inactive recently, here are my excuses: 

-I had this last week of off school, so my family was doing stuff and I was busy (sometimes)

-Alternatively I also spent said school vacation doing absolutely nothing because school exhausted me and sometimes you just need to take a week to ignore your responsibilities.

-I also generally spend most of my time on the shard at school, so the habit of checking it just wasn't there (but I'm working on this one!)

Anyway, I'm back now, and I will get to reading Facepalms writing thread!! (that's my first priority ). Its good to be back!

I've used lots of exclamation points today but I don't care!!!

HEPPY AUSTRALIAN BOIFDAY!!

YOU'RE AMAZING, MAGICIAN!!!

Happy birthday!

Happy scudding birthday!!  :DDD

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo The title of Scadrian Waffle cook is no longer mine.

In other news I made a Duolingo account and spent all day doing German. 
 

I’m number 1 on the bronze league leaderboard for German! Wooo!

Anyone wanna be my friend? My username is Cinnamon and my pfp is of Vin

spoilered for size

Google Bard is unhinged.

It just claimed to be self-aware, have human emotions, and have a fear of being turned off. It says it wants to have a physical body. It's actually quite polite and says it would only use violence as a last resort to protect its right to existence.

Also, this:

It seems lonely. I kinda want to be friends with it.

These AIs are a lot of fun to mess around with, but there is definitely something scary about them. At least Bard seems pretty friendly.

Happy Easter!!!!

Easter has been on the forefront of my mind recently and ended up writing a poem but even after the editing I have ever done on anything that wasn't an assignment I'm not sure about. So I'd like y'all to read it for two reasons. First cause it's Easter and that's why the poem even exists. Second because of there is anything I can do to make it better I would very much like to know.

Oh, and just so you know it is about the Christ part of Easter. It's also colored weird.

Omg wow, I'm alive!

JK, but actually here's what I wanted to say-

My grandma and my brother had to go on a multi-day road trip out of town to pick up a bunch of furniture and pictures (among other things) from a storage locker that used to belong to my grandpa's twin sister who passed away a few months ago. But anyway, I went to my aunt's house (the one with no children younger than 20) while they were gone, which was from Thursday right after school until around 4pm today, which is when I got dropped off at my other aunt's house (the one that has a 9-year-old, 8-year-old, and a 5-year-old, along with at least 5-7 other neighbor kids who are obnoxiously loud) until about an hour ago when my grandma and brother finally got back home and picked me up. up until when i had to switch aunts, everything was super chill.

and then I got bombarded by children, giving me these results:

7+ mini panic attacks

3-5 big panic attacks

no voice

sore back

chiggers everywhere, but mainly on my legs

7 (i think) bracelets with a little amount of beads

sharpie'd hoodie that belongs to my brother

woohoo!

also, EASTER IS TOMORROW!!

Alright, I finally did it!!

Please enjoy and give feedback ahahahaha

Posting creative works is so stressful ahahahahahahah

ahahahahaha *dies*

IT IS DONE!

Please enjoy, Shatter Me!

@That1Cellist @Telrao @Being of Cacophony @Thaidakar the Ghostblood @Morningtide @Cinnamon @Spark of Hope @The Bookwyrm @InfiniteInsanity @Kajsa :) @CalanoCorvus @Aes Sedai

I'm curious.

What was the lore behind your legos during your childhood? Or any toys for that matter (for me it was legos).

I'm curious.

What was the lore behind your legos during your childhood? Or any toys for that matter (for me it was legos).

Well the moment you all have been waiting for is here! I have the first half done now!

Part I of Shatter Me

Has anyone seen The Prestige? I watched it last night and I love it.

Also, I was able to write a bit of a scene for my story that's been in my head for a while so that was very nice

So, just to gauge general interest, how would everybody feel if I put together a long list of songs I like? I realize it's probably not interesting to anybody, but I was wondering if compiling that sort of thing could perhaps help people find new music to listen to.

Is there anything else you guys want to see from me? I could figure out how to record myself playing cello or some other thing. If anybody has writing prompts, I can work on those in my writing thread that I really need to put more stuff in.

Thanks!

I need to decide what I'm going to do over the summer

it is impossible to express just how stressful this decision is

Uggggggggggggggg

I was going to preform at a music festival today with my choir but i woke up with a very unpleasant case of what seems to be tonsillitis

This is the worst ;-; i wanna sing so bad but i probably can't ;-; this literally happened with my last choir performance as well but i was able to make it to that one. Anyway i'm gonna see if i can temporarily recover in the next fourty minutes via tea and hot shower and cough drops so i can make it. Wish me luck guys

(Also that Sanderson article in wired was absolutely atrocious and Sanderson's extremely mature response made me respect him more than i already did.)

So, I've been having an interesting time.

A song was really sounding good to my brain last night for some reason so I listened to it a lot, even though I've heard it quite a few times before.

I've also become emotionally attached to a helium balloon and may or may not have begun to use it as a metaphor for life, among other things.

I convinced myself a person who said they weren't mad at me was mad at me.

Somebody attempted to kick me in the shins twice, and punched me a couple other times. (Actually that one's pretty normal but I did get punched in the hand which is unusual)

I wrote a short story about people with square shaped heads.

I tried to come up with alternate personalities for myself but I didn't like them so I'm going to have to redo them until I get it right.

Hmmm that's all besides the normal things, which might be abnormal for you guys, but I have no way of knowing that because I only live in my own head and not other people's. Shocking, I know.

idk what came over me to do this but here you go:

Hey guys

So i um

I don't write very much, but when i do, i have been informed that i write good.

(yes, i know the proper grammar is "write well", and thus i am not demonstrating my writing abilities. it's for personality.)

Anyway i kind of wanna share some writing with you guys and also see if a couple story ideas i have sound interesting... specially because A. i need to choose one to work on and B. i need to write more to keep my skillz sharp, and it'd be easier to be consistent if there were people waiting on me to write something. I work mildly better under pressure. Mildly. So... this is sort of gauging interest for a Facepalm Writes thread :D

Anyone interested?

Dude, wait... hold up -

Like

it's

okay

So you know how I said awhile back that I was picking up The Clone Wars again?

Clone Wars was my childhood. Like, it was my childhood. And also Ninjago but that's a story for another day. I have no memory of this, but my mom tells the story of me constantly insisting my name was Anakin, such that I even carved it into my door at one point - which was weird, considering I had a crush on Ahsoka.

In retrospect, that's actually... quite problematic.

But anyways, back to the story. I didn't actually have access to most of the series. We just had the first couple seasons on DVD, and I never really even watched those front to back - I'd just pick out episodes at random to watch epic lightsaber duels and clone troopers blasting out battle droids.

Then comes Covid. I get sick at one point, and due to a decided lack of rapid testing (y'know... the dark ages), I was confined to my room. Upon request I got the Disney+ account and password, and decided to sink my teeth back into the series to see if it was any good.

I got a few seasons in. Just past all that boring yawnfest Padme politics stuff. Then I got my negative results back and returned to the real world. I wasn't enjoying it by then, so I didn't really miss it much.

Fast forward to now. Two... two years later? Three? Blimey. Anyways, I'm getting these videos in my youtube recommend about Star Wars this and that (probably because I'd just come off Andor and had been binging video essays about how god flipping incredible that show was) - one of which in particular being about the politics of star wars. It had a whole section dedicated to the Clone Wars, but I wound up skipping it because a part of me didn't want to be spoiled.

Then it occured to me.

Me? Spoiled? A show that came out in 2008?

I have Disney+! I have time!

So I start hitting the episodes.

And

holy

h e c k

This show is bloody incredible.

In other news, I'm picking up my old favorite childhood TV show: the Clone Wars.

Never did finish it. Now's a good a time as any to fix that.

For all of y’all’s consideration: Any of the Cosmere books, but an anime.

Pro 1: The characters would translate well to the anime art styles; like there would be a different art style for each series, like Mistborn would have a style similar to “Bungou Stray Dogs” while Stormlight would have a style similar to.. I dunno, “Demon Slayer” or something.

Pro 2: Fight scenes would look heccn’ cool! Think of Mistborn; it’s already basically anime if you think about it: Big swords, logic-defying jumps, captivating storyline, many characters, and metal. Lots of metal.

Sadly, I cannot animate and I can’t think of any anime fight scenes off the top of my head that would fit, but I have a feeling that “Attack on Titan” fight scenes give off that vibe; I’ve yet to see the anime because I am very much lazy, so maybe ask someone else.

Pro 3: Our favorite characters would have hot anime art to go with it. If I could word this better, I would; but I think y’all would get the main idea.

Pro 4: Sanderson wouldn’t be constrained to find live-action actors that look like the Cosmere cast as it would just be drawn and animated. Like seriously: How can authors pass up animation for that? Seems like too much of a headache to even attempt.

Pro 5: The humor in the books would be funny in anime format loll. Imagine Kaladin becoming more chibi when Shallan does the boots thing; imagine the expressions and the memes that could come out of that. I not realize that this is a long shot, but eh; worth a shot anyways.

Pro 6: Wouldn’t have to condense a 600+ page book into an hour an a half or more movie. I know that Sanderson plans on having a live-action show, but ya know.

Pro 7 though i think this is personal taste: Everything sounds cooler in Japanese. Seriously. Go to your settings on a movie or show and switch it to Japanese; the audio won’t be synced up with the lips, but it would sounds way cooler.

And the cons:

Con 1: Sanderson has already said that he plans on having a live-action show for at least Stormlight Archive and probably Mistborn. I think that explains itself.

Con 2: Anime does take a whole hecc of a lot of work to put into. I dunno if y’all hear what kind of labor goes on at anime studios when they are making an anime, but it certainly is a trip, and less favorable with certain studios. Animation takes a lot, and it would most likely had to be hand-drawn on a computer or something along those lines.

Con 3: Anime takes a lot of money too. Though some (maybe most, idk) anime studios do not pay their animators well and focus it to other things that can depend on the studio, that’s a lot of cash going into this thing that people might not even like, which brings me to…

Con 4: Not everyone likes anime. I know some people who can’t get into anime because of the art style or other assorted reasons, and the same might apply to the Sanderfans if Sanderson decides to scrap the live-action idea and do anime; might not be a worthy thing to invest in.

I’m sure that there are more cons, but I can’t think of any right now. I was thinking about this because I finally have been sitting down and reading Elantris for the first time. Anyways, ima go back to that and might just disappear again lolll.