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[CloudMountainJuror]

This series and its fandom are tiring me out. I'm exhausted.

Kishimoto, why'd you have to go and catch me in the childhood? Why, man? It'd be so much easier to just ignore the manga's existence if it didn't impact my childhood like it did.

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 29 May 2013 - 07:52 AM.

[CloudMountainJuror]

Been a while since I posted here.

 

Moved into college on Saturday the 24th. So far, dorm life isn't bad. We'll see how it goes long terrm.

 

First job interview was today, for a tutoring program. I'd be tutoring kindergarten to 8th grade-level kids for at most 8 hours a week. Got offered a position by the end of the interview, which I'm very excited about. Particularly because this was my first ever job interview and I was positive I was going to goof it up somehow.

 

I haven't been to all of my classes yet, so I'm not 100% sure how bad the workload is going to be yet. However, one class in particular, CIV111, seems like it's gonna be trouble. We'll see.

[Phantom_999]

Ah congrats for getting into college my friend!!!   I'm starting my second year myself.

[CloudMountainJuror]

Thanks! And nice. How's it going so far?

[Phantom_999]

I'l enjoying it so far. I'm studying Law and and the general applications. I'm also going to be working at a law firm for the experience. How's the tutoring?

[CloudMountainJuror]

Oh, interesting!

 

Haven't started yet; tutoring begins somewhere around the 20th.

[CloudMountainJuror]

This song.

 

 

That is all.

 

...and when the flames grow dim, looK WITHIN, UNLEASH. THE. FIIIIREEEEEEEEEEE!~

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 23 March 2014 - 06:58 AM.

[Phantom_999]

Ooh. Badass. 

[Fenris]

Oh hey Zac. Here's a nice little post for your blog.:

 

you're a wonderful friend and i'm really glad i met you, and there should be more people like you in this world because you are a nice and caring person, and i hope you have a good day. or.. night... considering it's night right now. yeah, lets go with that: night time. Hope you have a good night time.(and a good tomorrow!)

 

and i had fun stalking your blog. :)

 

and here's an extra little coolness for this post:

 

 

P.S. ...

 

[CloudMountainJuror]

Ooh. Badass. 

 

I know right? I've been listening to that song/album a lot lately.

Oh hey Zac. Here's a nice little post for your blog.:

 

you're a wonderful friend and i'm really glad i met you, and there should be more people like you in this world because you are a nice and caring person, and i hope you have a good day. or.. night... considering it's night right now. yeah, lets go with that: night time. Hope you have a good night time.(and a good tomorrow!)

 

and i had fun stalking your blog. :)

 

and here's an extra little coolness for this post:

 

 

P.S. ...

 

 

Thank you so much. I'm so glad I met you too. Talking to you is always a ton of fun and a highlight of my day. It cheers me up, really. A lot.

 

Thank you for being you. Thank you for being my friend.

 

those images are fantastic by the way

 

P. S. Here's a video of a corgi rolling down stairs.

 

http://www.youtube.c...d&v=-mmfGIuib6g

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 29 September 2013 - 05:13 AM.

[Fenris]

 

 

I know right? I've been listening to that song/album a lot lately.

 

Thank you so much. I'm so glad I met you too. Talking to you is always a ton of fun and a highlight of my day. It cheers me up, really. A lot.

 

Thank you for being you. Thank you for being my friend.

 

those images are fantastic by the way

 

P. S. Here's a video of a corgi rolling down stairs.

 

http://www.youtube.c...d&v=-mmfGIuib6g

 

Thank you for being my friend too, Zac.

 

THAT VIDEO OH MY GOD.

 

the noise i made was inhuman.

 

you may also enjoy this:

[CloudMountainJuror]

They're now all mine. Fiinallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

 

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 28 December 2013 - 09:19 PM.

[CloudMountainJuror]

Just finished reading through volume 2 of the Attack on Titan manga.

 

Good lord, was the anime a massive improvement

 

Seriously, the whole beginning of the manga is totally kittened. There’s no training arc set before the battle of Trost, meaning that we don’t get to know or care much about the characters post-timeskip before kitten hits the fan, meaning that when kitten does hit the fan and the action starts it’s just a lot of boredom and waiting to get invested.

 

If I wasn’t just reading the manga to get to future events, I’d be dropping it right about now. Being mildly interested in Armin and Mikasa isn’t enough to keep reading from here. I know it apparently gets really good later on, but messing up the beginning this badly leaves a stain on the story as a whole. I'm so glad I watched the anime before reading the manga.

[BakeNeko-Chan]

I haven't watched the Shingeki no Kyojin anime, only read the manga. I remember the beginning was a bit... disorienting, there were all these characters that were not really introduced in a way to make the reader care about them before they started dying off and fighting for their lives and such, and it took a while to make sense of it. I was interested, but not really invested in many of the characters, because I didn't know who the heck any of them were. Does the anime really make that much of a difference?

Edited by BakeNeko-Chan, 14 January 2014 - 06:24 PM.

[CloudMountainJuror]

Ohhh yes, it really makes a huge difference. Characters are introduced much more strongly in the anime, time is spent with them in their training beforehand, so by the time Trost happens, you know who most of them are and remember them, and are invested enough in them to care about what's going on (particularly the main three, mostly Eren, but the supporting characters gain a lot from this too).

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 15 January 2014 - 01:07 AM.

[BakeNeko-Chan]

I've been watching the Shingeki no Kyojin anime, and you're that it does make a big difference. The characters are much better established by time the battle for Trost comes about so there not just nameless faces.

[CloudMountainJuror]

Haha yep! And that, in turn, makes Trost a really awesome part of the story, like it honestly should be.

[CloudMountainJuror]

 

Our anime club president showed us this. I'm so glad he did.

[CloudMountainJuror]

So I saw "The Lego Movie" today, and it was pretty great. It took a totally unexpected direction that really enhanced it.

 

Tomorrow's pretty much my last day of Spring Break, which feels like it went by way too quickly. I should probably do some of my work tomorrow so I don't have it all saved for Sunday... I also have an informative speech I need to research, lay out, memorize, etc. within the next two or so weeks, which I'm not really looking forward to.

 

On another note, this band seems to have a habit of getting their songs (mainly the chorus sections) stuck in my head. The most recent example is this (another is up higher on this page):

 

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 23 March 2014 - 06:59 AM.

[CloudMountainJuror]

I just finished Evangelion 2.0 and I feel pretty aggravated. I was really looking forward to watching it, considering its great reception, and it was doing a good job...only for the ending to come in and leave a really bitter taste in my mouth.