Gorsecloud

Guess I owe you all an explanation for disappearing again.

Well, as some of you may know, I've just transitioned from high school to college, and it's been a change on an insanely large number of levels. It's been a maturing situation for me, as I'm forced to learn how to balance schoolwork and free time not to mention the basics of taking care of myself (I'm living on campus). I'm also gaining more new fandoms in the past few weeks than I have within the past few years...

Kingdom Hearts - better late than never, eh? You guys probably knew this one, what with my Xion fanart and all. Probably one of the most intensely I've felt about a fandom that I can ever remember. I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes. And to play Birth by Sleep.

Tales of the Abyss - My first Tales game, though I've heard of Tales of Symphonia in the past. DANG this game is good... We're maybe halfway through it now, I think? We being myself and the friend who introduced it to me, who is playing Luke... Seriously though. This game is intensely emotional, with great graphics, music, and plotline, and the surprises JUST. KEEP. COMING.

Persona 4 - This is the one that surprised me. Frankly... had I come across this game on my own, I would have taken one look at the rating and beat a hasty retreat in the opposite direction. But I just started watching my roommate and her friend play it while cross-stitching, and it grew SO. DAMN. MUCH on me, that when we got to the scenes that it's probably rated M for (Two words - Rise's Shadow), I merely averted my eyes for the battle rather than sprinted away and never came back.  It's... it's incredible. Great plot, graphics, and I mean, I wasn't too keen on the vocal BGM at first, but it grew on me. And I mean, one of the things that impressed me so much was the fact that, for instance, the rating... Well, I'll just put it this way. It wasn't rated M for fanservice (Well, admittedly there were a few fanservice-y moments, but mostly those were brief and played for laughs) - all of the more adult elements were integrated very nicely into the plot. If I may say so, I heard more inappropriate things from the people watching than I did from the game.

Overall... it's been a very enlightening experience, and I'm glad to be here.

As for classes (the important thing, though not always as fun to talk about!), so far I haven't been doing anything too specialized. Mainly just general and introductory classes, even though none of them are the basic math, science, lang/lit, or social sciences. It's helped make the transition easier, but at the same time, can be a little dull. I think I'm going to be starting into some real stuff next semester, though!

Just wanted to let you all know what I've been up to. And what I might be gushing about.

I might also post some fanfics soon. I'm beginning to doubt I'll finish Chains, but the first chapter is done, and it stands fairly decently on its own. I've also got a couple Persona 4 ones in production and a third one in my head. It's funny... I like letting ideas just play around in my head, even if they don't all make it to paper anymore.

Hope you all are doing well!

Gorse

Wow...

Seems really kind of jerk-ish for me, doesn't it? To complain about people not talking to me, then going completely AWOL like I did. I am sorry about that. Life's thrown me a lot of curveballs lately. And a few knuckle balls too. Iono.

In any case... hopefully I'll be back to a regular updating schedule soon.

I'm not minding v7 too much. Like how they separated feedback and watched notifications.

Meanwhile... I've long since been curious to see how people have been viewing my works, how they've been inspired and whatnot. I've also wanted practice for maybe someday taking commissions, especially since I'm more and more sure nowadays that I want to make a living with my art. I'll likely be starting an alternate account, a professional one, soon enough.

So right now, I'm just asking, as a kind of "soft testing," who would be interested in doing an art trade with me? And I'm hoping for a response from some of my more silent watchers, in addition to you regulars who I suspect are going to be saying yes.

Anyway, I soon should have a lot more free time. Wish me luck!

Gorse

P.S. I REALLY need to update my profile pic... badly...

I'm kind of feeling a little lonely lately. It seems like I don't get as many comments as I used to, and a lot of my deviations just seem to fall on the wayside.

I can be really socially awkward though, so it's kind of hard for me to step out of my bubble. It also makes it hard to reply to stuff sometimes.

I miss talking to you guys, you know? I'm not just an artist, I'm a person, a person who like sharing interests and having discussions and even getting criticism and stuff. And I can be silly. Just ask Wraith, or any of the other people who know me well.

You don't have to be strangers...

I'm sorry if I've ever made you all feel ignored...

Gorse

The rules:

1- Be one of the first 14 people commenting on this journal entry, and I will add you to the Promotional List.

2- For each of those 14 people I will put their avatar and three deviations I like from their gallery on the list.

3- If I feature you, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing this way the list with 15 people.

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Onto updates - Spanning Time Chapter 9 is done! And Chapter 10 is actually well underway. So all I need to do is work up the will and energy and time to type it up, and then it'll be ready to go. Oh, and edit the intro, because it needs a little bit of fixing.

Now, onto spoilerish bits. AVERT THINE EYES IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED/FINISHED PLAYING EXPLORERS OF THE SKY.

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I finished Episode 5...

Oh. My. God. <3

The twists. Holy crap the twists. I'd read a little bit by accident on Serebii, so I sorta new what was going to happen, but it still faceslap-surprised me. Gotta love PMD2 for that. And the musical score is incredible, with a couple of exceptions (not redoing the Temporal Tower music to reflect the fact the tower was destroyed was just plain lazy. All they had to do was change the key signature from major to minor and BAM! SPOOKY MUSIC.)

Anyway, that's not the important part of me mentioning this. The reason I'm mentioning this is because I've decided what to accept and incorporate in the ST Universe and what not to.

1. Anything about this "Planetary Investigation Group" or whatever it's called is to be discarded and ignored. It was seemed so randomly inserted anyway, that I don't know what to make of it. But regardless, it's already been made clear in Spanning Time that Celebi, Grovyle and Miranda are the only major players in any kind of resistance movement. So far as they know, at this point they are the only ones who know about and how to reverse the paralysis.

2. As for the rest of it... with exception of a few minor details... well, as much as I love "We Go On," I'm afraid it's going to have to fall in favor of this story. The same goes for Depth of a Nightmare, although elements of the story may not be totally doomed, becauuuseee....

3. This has given me HUGE HUGE HUGE plot bunnies for a Spanning Time Sequel/Companion fic. Everything about it is still massively tenative, and ST isn't even done, so I'm not going to say too much about it.

In any case, hope your creative endeavors are going well!

Gorsecloud

EDIT: I AM A DORK! http:/ /s152 .photobucket.com/albums /s175/Gorsecloud/?action=view&current= Picture12.png (remove spaces)

Because I like the concept of feedback and exposure as much as the next person, I have an idea.

I've seen fanfic clubs for different fandoms, so I think now is a wonderful time to start a PMD Fanfic Club.

Problem is, if I were the only one to try to do this, then the moment I get distracted by RL, or by some inspiration, I'll probably end up neglecting it. Like . I don't want that to happen, SOOO... I'd need support. People who are willing to be staff and such. 8D

Oh, and this club would be perfectly happy to help bring exposure to fics outside of dA.

We'd have a review section, most likely. Like does. 8D

How does that sound? Anybody want to help me?

Gorsecloud