bjornwilde

I think I've recovered from yesterday now. After forcing myself out side of the comfort bubble, I was left feeling kind of raw the rest of the day so it was a struggle to be human.

On Monday, I removed New Xkit from Tumblr and stopped following tags. This improved loading times and cut out the thing where they kept showing the same few posts which were tagged with the thing (on mobile). I miss checking up on the latest for whatever tag there was, but I don't miss the site loading and behaving in a more friendly manner. I think they just need to kill tags as they just don't work, imho.

Still enjoying The Palace Job, even if the team doesn't really seem to be at risk so far. Ultimately, I fear the book might suffer from too much competence, but it's still fun so far.

I'm going out of town this weekend, for my father's birthday. The big 75. Mostly looking forward to it, but a little anxious as well as my father and sister tend to be stubborn in the things they want and not as accommodating as they could be. Like family trumps everything, including minor details like not giving my child too much chocolate on Easter. /grump

( And now, goofy RPG thoughts.... )

 I think I might have a few minutes to myself....(looks around anxiously)...nothing bad, just a crazy day at work. I've been thinking about my pups vs my actual time and energy level and decided I need to do another state of the pups post. Mostly just brain storming on my part, so nothing too important.

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Since I have no thread brain and work isn't allowing play anyway, my impulsive self is looking at other pups to play at some point, likely sandboxes cause of bandwidth issues.

America Chavez, because damn you Marvel. You suck, but sometimes you do things right. Plus, she'd be a lot of fun.

Jack Wolcott, from Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series. Thinking of came_tumbling_after as a user name and I have a bunch of icons cribbed from classic b&w horror films with mad scientists for use.

Ehren ex Cursori, from Jim Butcher's Codex Alera. Scholarly spy with a fondness for knives who seems pretty unfazed with life and odd things. About the only way he could be more my jam is if he were a shape shifter or teleporter. Only name I sort of have is study_of_cursors, but I'm not committed to it. I want to read more of the books first before doing anything farther. PBs are either Ben Whishaw or Mika., Ben Whishaw in Perfume: A Story of Murder would work really well.

Muse musing behind the cut, since I am silly and don't want to clutter your DW feed.

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New app cycle, new pups. Only two this time to think about...
Yato, from the manga/anime Norgamai. Crazy mixed up character who goes from cracky, to selfish, to noble with no warning. Nice balance of humor and drama, so that he could be anything I need to play with at the time. He also sells services for 5 yen as a means to gain followers, or at least not get forgotten and thus cease to exist. Perfect way to plant plot hooks within Milliways.

Amelia Heartstriker, from Rachel Aaron's Heartstriker series. Lady adventurer, planeswalker, dragon mage. Lots of fun potential and well, dragon. She wears a human form, being of the shapeshifting type of dragon. Magic, dragon, and immortality, as well as being able to teleport and open portals to other dimensions, what is not to love? She's also kind of a pulp hero adventurer and just seems fun.

The problem with both of these is that I still am challenged by how much time and motivation I have to play. I also only have one slot open once I delete Briareus, whom I love but he's just not clicking with me.

This is mostly me thinking out loud and trying to get a few things down for potentially playing Izana. Spoilers for Knights of Sidonia are likely, so I'm including a cut. As well, my rambling will focus on the culture presented in the anime (i.e. a fictional Japanese culture) and speculations on writing a transgendered gender neutral character. If I screw up and offend in this, I apologize now. (Sorry, gender neutral is a better term for the character than transgender).

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 Well, another crazy busy day at work, leaving me with no spoons for playing. Either that or my stumbling into Ahsoka Tano feels this morning lead to my being side tracked. I might have even made a journal (jedi_interrupted ) and found some 100 icons. How the hell did that happen?

I do plan on waiting until Star Wars Rebels picks up and the book Dark Disciple is released, as I sort of assume Asaaj and Ahsoka have some contact post-Clone Wars and I want to see if SW Rebels has some hint of Ahsoka's story.

I've also gutted my icons since I am not going to doing a paid account for this journal (which is expiring in a couple of weeks) to I can shift the money to character journals. I really don't like how DW is 15 icons or 100. I miss LJ's different levels of icons. Some pups can work fine with 30 or so, really.

 October looks to be the month of cats for me. I plan on apping Tybalt, of course, and I had planned on taking the plunge and apping Yang Xiao Long but now I am thinking I am going to be apping Selina from Gotham instead.

I love Yang. She is very straight forward and truly happy and balanced. She has a great world to play in and I love her abilities and personality. However, I've yet to picture any interactions with her. And, to be honest, figuring out her world is intimidating me. I understand it enough to enjoy watching it but having to explain it to another character? Don't know that I am up for that. I would worry that I would come up with something that contradicts canon at a later date.

Selina on the other hand seems to be a character that survives by her wits. She is a rogue and I do have a softspot for that kind of character, especially the ones with a heart of gold, as she does. I know Gotham and this Gotham seems even easier since it is such a young Gotham. I needn't worry about the rest of the world as it's the US and not too much is different. Exactly what year it is is somewhat vague but despite the noir feel, cellphones and other modern inventions are present.

In regards to who she is, I don't have much to go on. In the pilot episode, she didn't say anything but by her actions and facial expressions, she seems to care about victims, especially kids and cats. The next episode does bear the title of her name, so one would assume we'll get a better feel for her character. There is also this promo clip to go by and so far, I've not seen anything to dissuade me from liking the character.

Best part is, I'm imagining all sorts of interactions with established Milliways characters. I can see Selina easily adapting to other worlds as well, something I never quite got with Yang either. I'm even coming up with head canons about her past.

Also, Agents of SHIELD is looking pretty good. Not happy with them killing off another female character, though.