Joshawott

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  1. Posted

    I get sore throats every morning because I sleep with a fan on, and it gets into my mouth.

    PS ARGHHHHH! Writers block is no fun :cry:

    If one plans a story properly, then there's no such thing as writer's block. See the SirJoshizzle theory.

  2. Posted

    Damn.You're alot more organized than me.It's so well organized it makes me look up to you.

    Haha, thanks. :embarrassed:

  3. Posted

    I LOVE Bleach! I'm waiting for ep. 144 to come out this Wednesday in Japan, and I can't wait!

    I first discovered it two weeks before school started this year... I watched the first 140 episodes nonstop in one week just to catch up with the rest of Japan.

    Ichigo/Orihime FTW

  4. Posted

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    いらっしゃい! !

    Irasshai!

    Here, I'll be willing to make anyone a signature with their title of choice in Katakana or Kanji!

    Here are some rough examples of past signatures I've made for other people.

    All signatures are sized 429x170 and go for five Rupees, with an additional Rupee for add-ons. Add-ons are basically any other text you want, and will go right underneath the English translation of the Katakana/Kanji: your website, your XBOX Live ID/PS3 Online handle/Wii Friend Code, messenger screenname, email address, etc. All signatures also come with the watermark at the bottom left and my signature "Enjoy Life and SmileTM" message at the bottom right.

    Guidelines/ガイドライン

    1. Limit add-ons to three

    2. The only font available is Century Gothic. Katakana/Kanji comes in your choice of Century Gothic or MS Mincho (see the Katakana/Kanji Shop banner).

    2. Leave numbers out of the name/screen name to be translated into Japanese, becuase it looks kind of awkward. Also, no initials, please.

    3. Kanji signatures will only be made when it is applicable. For example, the Yumi-Chan one. "Yumi" and "Chan" are by default Japanese words, so the Katakana for "Yumi" was switched with its Kanji, and "Chan" was replaced with its default Hiragana. If you fall into this category, you can choose to to substitute Kanji where applicable, and no extra charges will be made.

    4. I'll send you the finished signature personally, and that's when you can pay me.

    5. In addition to the finished signature, I will add the code do that it becomes clickable myself upon request at no extra charge.

    Rates/レイット

    Banner: Five Rupees

    Add-ons: One Rupee for each contact (up to three); one Rupee per line for the personal message

    URL Code: Free! :biggrin:

    Order Form/オーダーフォーム

    Color Sheme: Two colors: one for the background and one for the font. Be specific: use either ###### or RGB form. If left blank, the default neutral blue and gray will be used (the SirJoshizzle sample banner to the left).

    Add-Ons (Optional): Up to three contacts of your choice (one Rupee each), or a personal message (one Rupee per line). Separate contacts with semi-colons and message lines with slashes.

    Japanese Script: Katakana or Hiragana/Kanji. Specify what you want in Hiragana/Kanji. If you are unsure, then PM me with what you want translated and I will clarify for you if Kanji/Hiragana is available.

    Script Font: For the Katakana/Kanji to be used. Century Gothic or MS Mincho.

    URL Code: Yes or no. If you chose yes, give me the URL you want the signature to link to.

  6. Posted

    I'm predicting Kingdom Hearts 3 from Square Enix, a Metal Gear Solid sidestory from Konami, and if Wii wins this generation, Square Enix pulls the Final Fantasy series off of Sony and develops Final Fantasy XIV on the next Nintendo console.

  7. Posted

    Everything's in my head, and I just never feel like writing it, because when I start I feel liek writing, then it all slows down. No, it's not a good thing to only have a chapter or two written down, as I think I may forget key happenings in the storyline. Not only that, but it's hard for me to connect the whole storyline (different dimensions, characters spanning across multiple stories in the series, ages, etc.) but I have managed to. My writing (er, thinking) technique is different, I do think up the beginning and the ending at the same time (often the ending before the beginning), then a few things in the middle. But what's odd about this is that while I'm living my normal life, ideas just come to me out of no where, ideas that vitally connect the entire plotline. I think up things to put in the middle that aupport those things, and it goes on. What I really want to do is write it, then type it, revise it, read the whole thing over, and do a final revision. Still on step one. But I don't think it up as I go along, so I guess I never get writers' block for that one.

    I do that too, to a certain extent. Since I usually write AU, I want to make as many references to the Zelda canon as possible. Some are rather overt, while some are pretty subtle that I have to point it out at the end of each chapter. I also like to include a lot of autobiographical pieces in my work; Charm Bracelet is basically one giant conglomeration of autobiographical twisted around into a totally different context.

    I also like to do a lot of research when writing. I'll go through fifty different Zelda fansites and Wiki articles regarding anything Zelda just to make sure that what I'm putting in my stories is accurate as far as the canon goes. I also do research on a lot of real world things (ie, cities, landmarks, countries, etc) since I base a lot of my present day Hyrule on different places around the world.

    Whenever I write new chapters, I have a separate document opened that I refer to; it's filled with all the locations to be used including thorough descriptions of each place, character bios and their backstories and roles in the story's timeline, and a bunch of other doodads. In fact, this is the one made for A World of Lies. When the final chapter comes out, I'm making it public on my blog for my readers to download.

    Full description and article here.

  8. Posted

    I play piano and guitar, and I sing as well. My sister plays piano and violin, and my brother plays guitar and piano like me. He's much better at the piano than me; here's my brother playing the Descendant of Shinobi from Final Fantasy VII (unrelated note: that wall the piano is against borders my room).

  9. Posted

    I'm not going trick-or-treating, but I am dressing up for school as Shinigami Ichigo from Bleach, and my friend going as Orihime in her school uniform. It's relatively easy to get the costumes arranged since my dad has a hakama that just so happens to be black (he's Japanese), and my Japanese teacher has different school uniforms from Japan. For the orange hair I'm using Kool-Aid*.

    *Yeah, it works! Mix Kool-Aid powder mix with your regular shampoo, run it through your hair for a good ten minutes, and you have a temporary hair dye! It's fairly easy for me especially since my hair is pretty short.

  10. Posted

    hmmm :unsure: so your saying im just....lazy? hmm :unsure: well your right :joy: i am one of the lazyest people on earth.

    After about three years of writing fanfiction, and at least five years of writing my own stuff before that, I've developed the following philosophy on writing (will have a semi-rant feel):

    When most authors get an idea for a story that s/he really feel will be a hit, they usually just run with it and publish it as fast as s/he can without really thinking of anything other than that one fragment of the whole story. Usually the first couple of chapters are really good and the becomes so eager to write, and the readers are so eager to get more. But that feeling for both the author and the reader lasts for only so long. The reader begins to take notice that the plot that once showed promise is beginning to lack a sense of direction, and the author will begin to slow down updates to think up the next chapter or end chapters with random cliffhangers to buy more time. That goes on until the point that the reader will receive (I'm taking this from most stories I see on Fanfiction.net) chapter-author's notes saying the story will go on hiatus for a while. This is usually becuase the author is "rewriting the whole story to make it better", when in fact s/he is rereading it over and doing major revisions to find, based on the existing chapters, just to think of where to go with the story's direction (or at that point, lack thereof). If that doesn't work out, then the story just dies unfinished. The author feels like s/he failed, and the readers are left disappointed with a really nasty and dramatic cliffhanger as their only ending.

    When I said I don't believe in writer's block and that I don't get it... I meant that I'm just one of those authors who don't suffer from it. I'm always thinking up plot bunnies, a majority of which becomes those oneshots I put up on occasion.

    When it comes to those monster stories like Sensei, Charm Bracelet or A World of Lies, I don't publish the first chapter until I know for sure where I'm going to take the story. I know a lot of authors that plan the beginning, the ending, and wing it on whatever comes in between (ie: the above scenario). I don't want to do that because there's a good chance that the story will end up being discontinued, and no one wants that, right?

    I take my time to craft each chapter (or at least have an idea of what's going to go in it). It just so happens that it takes me a relatively short time to do that (and the only reason my updates become delayed is my laziness). If I write a chapter from beginning to end, and when I reread it I'm unsatisfied, I'll even go back and rewrite the whole thing over just to please myself--something I've done numerous times. I'll even go as far as to scrap an entire story that's been planned for months just because I don't like where I've taken it. Even after I publish a chapter or oneshot, I'll reread it and go, "Damn, I should have done that differently", or "I wish I didn't put that in".

    What I also don't do is have multiple multichapter stories going on at once. I want to focus my full attention on just one story so chapters don't come out half-baked. Of coruse I get these really cool ideas for stories that I just want to put up, but I don't put them up because all of my creativity is spent on the major story that happens to be out at that time (in this case, A World of Lies). That's what I publish oneshots for.

    I'm known in the Zelda section at Fanfiction.net for notoriously speedy updates. But when a chapter is taking longer to write/edit than anticipated and my readers are getting a little testy (I constantly get IMs on AIM or PMs on Fanfiction asking when the next chapter is coming up), I go to those plot bunnies that shoot up every other second. I take a break from the chapter and spend a little time (usually 1-2 hours) writing up the ideas that ultimately become a oneshot. That way, the readers have something to read as I go back to work on my major story, and I have that much more time to write and edit.

    ...Whew.

  11. Posted

    I'm working on a Fanfic I've posted here, I'm having writer's block....*sigh* again... :cry:

    You know what, I never get writer's block. I don't believe in writer's block... but I do believe in laziness, and that's primarily what hinders my updates on my work over at Fanfiction.net.

  12. Posted

    On a related note, Wii is still in first place in overall home console sales as of 101307:

    Wii--12,420,000

    360--11,830,000

    PS3--5,070,000

    The title was kind of misleading; it should have said, "360 outsells Wii and PS3 in September".

  13. Posted

    1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

    2. Final Fantasy X (PS2)

    3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GCN/Wii)

    4. Final Fantasy VII (PS)

    5. Ookami (PS2)

    6. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2)

    7. Super Smash Bros. Melee (GCN)

    8. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)

    9. Super Mario 64 (N64)

    10. Resident Evil 4: Wii edition (Wii)

    Honorable mentions

    Golden Eye 007 (N64)

    The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

    Super Mario World (SNES)

    Super Mario Bros. (NES)

    Super Mario Bros. 3 (SNES)

    The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN)

    The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)

    Chrono Trigger (SNES)

    The Sims/The Sims 2 (PC)

    Super Paper Mario (Wii)

    Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3)

    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS)

  14. Posted

    No, and I don't think I'd want to. I can only stay in the house alone for so long before I go crazy. Plus, with all that free time to myself, I strongly doubt I'd get any of my assignments done since I'd most likely be on the computer or sleeping all day. I'm more likely to be productive in a classroom; I almost always get my assignments done during class.

    I'm quite fine with a traditional education. Besides, I like school. :D It makes the day go by faster, and since my classes are pretty fun already, it makes time fly by more.

    Semi-off topic: I've never taken a school bus to get to and from school. In elementary school I always walked since it was only less than five minutes away. In middle school I got rides from my brother. Since I start driver's ed this month, I'll be driving myself in a little bit.

  15. Posted

    This was taken from my blog, dated Sat. 101307:

    4:01PM Decided to read some Zelda fanfiction, which has sadly declined in quality in general in my humble opinion. Read zelda oracle of stories. Spelling and grammar was horrendous, so I suggested the author run it through spell check or something to ameliorate the problem. I got this reply:

    You have received a reply from the author, zeldafan9577, regarding the review

    you posted for:

    Title: zelda oracle of stories

    Chapter: 2

    Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3809958/2/

    Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1385401/

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    who cares about spelling and grammer

    i dont even have to spelling check

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  17. Posted

    That's the Roman alphabet at the top, with numbers and some punctuation marks. Below it is my Hiragana chart, and underneath that is the Katakana chart. To their right are the Kanji numerals, followed by the Kanji for the seven days, and a period and a comma.

  19. Posted

    I want to finish A World of Lies chapter twelve (click banner below to read). I have a deadline of 101307, 12:00 AM (I have 4 hours and 20 minutes left).

  21. Posted

    Afterschool on the last day of school last year I was hanging out in the ampitheater with my friends, and these three black guys kept eyeing me suspiciously whenever I took my phone out to call someone or something of that nature. One of the school's Japanese-washed ninja kids (out school's equivalent to an otaku plus some awesome martial arts abilities) came up to me and told me they were plotting to steal my phone or something like that. When they guys actually came up to me, they were like, "Nevermind, that phone ain't worth it."

    I think that's as close as I've ever gotten to being hassled.

    For anyone wondering, this is my phone.

  22. Posted

    Well, I decided I would post myself, and yeah. xP

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    Yay for school pictures! :D

    I've never been one for school pictures, since for me they always end up horrible. But this year's school picture is the only one for me that came out decently, which I love. :D

  23. Posted

    This is Princess Zelda as she appears in my current Zelda fanfiction, A World of Lies (click the banner in my signature to read).

    In AWoL, Zelda reprises her role as Hyrule's beloved princess and the sole heir to the throne of the Hylian Royal Family. However, AWoL is set in present-day Hyrule. That posed the biggest difficulty with designing Zelda: how to make a princess who has been stuck in a medieval setting for twenty years look modern.

    Every Zelda game, Zelda has appeared in a dress that was very decorative, very over the top and very formal. However, I didn't think I could do that with AWoL's Princess Zelda because it's set AU. So what I did was create a more modern dress fitting of a princess.It's very simplistic, but at the same time formal and decorated in Hylian livery.

    Zelda in AWoL is twenty-four. Because she's rather old, I didn't want a dress that was frilly and gaudy. So I designed her outfit so that it exposes her arms, with slits on the skirt that went mid-thigh, and the skirt itself goes down a little past the knees. It's revealing in its own right, but keeps her modest for some rather obvious reasons.

    As for keeping the dress faithful to the Zelda canon, it has all that you'd expect from a Zelda dress in the video games, just in a modern (and more revealing) outfit. The Triforce, the Hylian Falcon, and the Crest of the Sheikah have been moved from the skirt to the front of the top. Hylian inscriptions have been embroidered into the hemlines and the sleeves of the top. And of course, the ever present Triforce earrings on Zelda's ears. The only things missing are her gloves, golden armor, and a tiara on her forehead.

    The hair has that kind of style I'd expect a Zelda from the 21st century to sport. It's long and brown-blonde, bangs running down both sides of her face, and it's tied back in a loose ponytail. It gives her a sophisticated look for a princess, but at the same time it's casual so you don't take her royal position too seriously. She may be royalty, but she's still a normal girl.

    This was my first actual stab at coloring one of my drawings. Her color scheme is almost but not quite as subdued as her Brawl counterpart. Her hair is light brown with faint streaks of blonde (a la Twilight Princess). The dress is supposed to be pale pink, but is a little too much in my opinion. She's also a lot more tan than any of her other incarnations (I'm personally tired of seeing a rather pale Zelda).

    The Hylian inscriptions on the seams of the top are actually Katakana (in my present-day Hyrule, Hylian=Japanese). On her left sleeve it reads (from left to right) "Din" and "Nayru". On the hem is (from left to right) my first name, my last name, Link, and Zelda. Every name is separated by small dots.

  24. Posted

    I use a tan plaid Jansport Superbreak backpack. What's in it? I don't carry a lot, but:

    Large pocket

    -3 subject Five Star college ruled notebook (but I usually carry this in my hand)

    -Japan Bowl notebook

    -Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle

    -Mead assignment book

    -Casio Scientific calculator

    Small Pocket

    -Peter Woudt Invisible Cards deck

    -6MP Nikon Coolpix S9 (not in the picture because I had to use it for that)

    -Silver 2GB iPod nano + Apple earbuds

    -My bands for my braces

    -Flashcards for Japan Bowl

    -Black Uni-ball ball-point pen

    -Purple Papermate Titanium .5 mechanical pencil

    -Purple Pentel clic-eraser

    -Blue highlighter

    Altogether, it's about 4lbs.