[PP] I'M ALIVE!!!

It's my baby!!

Hello everyone, I'm back to the blog!
Before I go into anything else, I would like to tell you all about why I was gone, if you care please read on, otherwise just skip this paragraph.
Anyway, I was in college back then and I was taking a Robotics class. In addition I am also the new stage manager for my college Glee Club and a college tour guide as well. These three things have single-handily kept me busy the whole 4 quarter, known as d term in my college (we do a quarter system NOT a semester system). First things first we were given a gigantic final project in robotics, where we had to design, build, and control a robot that would compete in a class competition. Although it was a lot of fun, I missed so many meals and hours of sleep over this. I was literally in the RBE lab all the time. The project itself went well, our first round in the competition went amazingly, but then one of our motors overheated (we think so at least) and then things went for the worse. O well it was only a fun competition, no grading occurred during then. Thank goodness.  But that's only a third of what I have been doing. Tour guiding is fun, but takes up a lot of time. When I wasn't in the lab, most of the time I was giving tours to prospective students. Sometimes you meet crazy parents (its never the students themselves xD) but that only makes the tours interesting lol. And finally, being stage manager is a lot of work. Now the stage manager position works a little differently than what you would think. Instead of running the stage and lighting and whatnot, I'm mostly in charge of just concert stuff in general. Therefore I am ordering all the buses, I make sure that the concerts we do generally go smoothly, I keep the tuxes in order, and a bunch of other random stuff as well. It's a lot of fun, even if its a bunch of work.
However, that all finished (mostly) when summer started. My business has turned from that to other things.

I've gotten myself into a tizzy with fan-fiction. I am working hardcore on all my stuff and people are liking it a lot! It's awesome to write up a work and have people love it. My first fan-fic, A Little Ship Lost in Space, is a Mass Effect 3 ending story that simply picks up the pieces that was the ME3 ending and goes from there (indoctrination theory FTW!!!!). The fan-fic itself has 3 chapters and sets me up for other fan-fics. It is my most popular of most viewed of my fan-fics.
My second most popular is Memory Eternal, a fan-fic (that I need to tweak a little) about Thane and his last moments. It won second place in the Retake Mass Effect fiction contest, I was very happy. There are other Mass Effect fan-fictions, but those are the biggest ones.
My newest Mass Effect fan-fic, From the Ashes, picks up immediately after A Little Ship in Space and concerns the reconstruction of Earth, which Shepard gets dragged into. I just posted it today on fanfiction, soon I will get it up on deviant art as well.
Just recently I also went down the Avatar route, submitting No is for Naga, a story about how Korra met and befriended Naga. Although a tiny bit sad, people are loving it!!

My stuff can be found on my profiles on these sites: Fanfiction.net and Deviantart.com. (the links go straight to my profile btw)

Now before I go, there is one last thing I want to go over. I'm going to attempt to change the structure of the blog around a little bit to make it easier to read and more fun (sort of). If you look at the title you can see that two letters, P and U, are bracketed before the actual title. Those are what I will call reference tags, and they denote the subject matter (to a degree) that the post will be going into. So far the reference tags are as follows:

[PP] = Personal post. These posts will be about me, myself, and I. I am shooting for one a week, and anyone who is interested in what's going on in my life can read them!!

[FP] = Feature post. These posts will be anything cool that I find on the web, or to showcase anything awesome that I have done. Look out for these for the cool stuff!

[AN] = Author's note. I used to do my author's notes in the descriptions of all my poems, fan-fics, and art. Since I put the fan-fictions on two sites, I don't want to have to write the author's notes again, plus they take up space and some people don't like to read them at all. That is why I will be moving them all onto the blog, so in the description I can just link them over to here. I also will have the time and space to put in EVERYTHING that I want to say about the piece. The title of the piece will immediately follow this tag, so keep an eye out for these ones.

[EP] = Editorial Post. These posts are ones where I argue my opinion for a certain side, and make an attempt for people actually discussing it on the site (but we will see how that goes).

[IP] = Important Post. Finally, this last post is for anything very important related to the blog or any other announcements. When I have this tag there is something big going on.

I have been debating whether or not to have multiple tags in one post, but we will see how it goes I guess.
Anyway, I have a lot of stuff that I want to put up on the blog, so I'll be busy with that, and of course with fan-fics as well!

NotCras

Moving on

Ok so to be honest, Ive hit the dead horse enough with my Mass Effect 3 posts. The immediate jumps in page views was astounding: No sooner had I posted a link to the forums would the count increase incredibly. Thats not to say I merely did it for the views, I really wanted to have my opinion heard. Heck thats the whole reason for this blog! Maybe once I get actual people reading in on my blog it will be different, but remember I have to get posts somehow! haha

Well anyway, unless I think up something, Im going to stop with the Mass Effect 3 posts. My final verdict is that Bioware is not stupid and has something up their sleeve for the March 15th release date. In fact, I've gained enough hope back to go and start a New Game plus with my Shepard on Insanity. Should be loads of fun... but I might just skip the ending for now, we shall see. Its strange how I feel at peace with Mass Effect finally. Hopefully my theory will be true and everything will work out for Shepard, and the series. Only time will tell. EDIT: While we wait, i suggest some hysterical ME3 memes. I guess I can finally agree with Hitler for once!! haha

But now its time to move on to other topics. One such topic is music, and specifically soundtracks. You see I absolutely love soundtracks to things I love already. The songs provoke the emotions that I had with whatever they might be to, and its always nice to bask in such awesomeness. The Mass Effect 3 soundtrack that I got is incredible! But thats not the point I want to make.

Before I go on, I feel like explaining something about myself. I have a kind of personality that likes to constantly suprise, keep people on their toes and interested in what Im doing is a hobby of mine. Plus, I like to explore everything and give my opinions on it. Pretty much Im vocal about myself to give others ideas for themselves. I never want to control others, I just want people to say, hmmm let me look into something more. My family is constantly annoyed with the fact that Im always trying to point out the other side to things. I partially say its because of my desire to have people pay attention to me, but who doesnt like that?

Anyhoo, heres some random stuff I found on the interwebs. Its an old machinima company that made some pretty awesome stuff. To be honest, they set the bar for me in terms of Machinima acting, and music (see theres the soundtrack tie in!). They are Litfuse Films!! (www.litfusefilms.com) Now mind you, they are done doing things, some moved on to do cinematic scenes in Bioware (i hear they did work on ME2, and possibly ME3! (darn more Mass Effect I thought i said i was done with them!)) Anyway, Mass Effect aside, their work in the feature machinima film War of the Servers is incredible. War of the Servers is a play off of War of the Worlds, enough said for now haha. I feel its Machinima at its best. In fact, I keep a copy of it on my tablet to watch every now and then. Furthermore, they made the hysterical Melon 3. Its about the thundermelon, a cursed melon that holds untold destructive power. I shall not go into more details. The dialogue here is not the best, BUT the ending is hilarious, especially with the custom song tie in. The main thing is too, it must have been so much fun to make as it is to watch. So give them a try, they really are pretty awesome (and their soundtrack is free now which is totally awesome! (and its free!)). Also I forgot to mention, that they mostly do work in Gmod, so if you know Gmod, its make the machinima even better!

On a more personal note, everything is going fine with me. I have my first undergrad robotics class to pass at the moment and it seems like it will be soooooooooo much work. But its what I love so I cant complain too much now can I? Also, I have some ideas of what to put up on here so maybe I can get some of it up eventually. Hopefully I can get some people here to stay and follow me possibly? I guess time will only tell.

EDIT: I also forgot to say that once I get some free time on my pc, Im gonna make the site all nice and pretty. Truth is, Im doing this on my tablet and I cant really do site design on this.

NOT PART OF EDIT: O and I shaved and I hate the feeling after a shave... DARN IT.

EDIT: It feels better now xD

NotCras