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Happy Birthday, Echoes~!

Congratulations on your second review star!

New star! Congratulations! And thank you for the review ^^

Congrats on your new star!! *throws confetti*

And welcome back! I remember your username so I'm sure I've seen you around. Glad you're back

Bleh, ah. Where am I? Ah right, I have an account here. XD Sorry for being gone for so long. Been working on a lot of stuff lately, especially college. I won't be too active, but I'll post now and then and do a review here and there. If I have anything big I'll publish it.

Anyway, I'm back.

Happy Birthday!

"'The greatest stories involve five things, he said. 'Family, religion, mystery, money and sex. And I know a story that has them all in just twelve words: 'God, said the banker's daughter, I'm pregnant. I wonder who it was.''"
-Garrison Keilor, Lake Wobegon

Gathered friends, let us rejoice, for Bionicle 2015 has been confirmed!

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Bionicle 2015 is coming!

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You know, I finished the latest episode of RWBY, and I feel it necessary to draw some comparisons and contrasts between a character from that and Looking for Alaska, primarily because any time I can call John Green a toss-pot is a very good time indeed.
Anyway, a lot of people called me stupid when I never thought that the eponymous Alaska in her book loved the main character, "Pudge." Well, I didn't for many reasons, and we'll get to that. But comparisons first.
All right, so RWBY and LfA both involve similar situations. Main characters go to boarding school. A smart, attractive, and assertive woman (Pyrrah Nikos for RWBY, Alaska Young for her titular book) are attracted to a 'normal,' 'dumb' audience surrogate character (Jaune and "Pudge," respectively) and make their moves.
Now here's where the comparison diverges.
In RWBY, Pyrrah actually does act like she likes Jaune. She helps him, is kind towards him when others are not, and often believes in him when no one else does. Heck, she even gives him advice to get a date with a girl he likes despite her crush on him. She's selfless, kind, and helpful, and that is "twoo wuv," for desperate need of a better term. Disregarding one's own desires for someone else, no matter what it does to oneself.
Alaska, on the other hand, simply would "do" anything with a Y chromosome. She was raunchy, flirty, promiscuous, and genuinely treated "Pudge" the same way she seemed to treat every other male character: like a potential sex partner. Totally selfish, looking to increase her own pleasure and showing no care to the other's thoughts. If that's love to you, then you're wrong.
That's why I never saw her falling in "love" with "Pudge." The closest she got was asking him to have sex with her in a drunken haze. That's not love, that's lust, and they are very different things.
So John Green's idea of love gets trumped by a low-budget 'anime' production and its side characters. Frankly, I'm fine with that. His idea of realism is bad and he should feel bad.

So, I go to my wall, and I see that I wrote that a new chapter of "Destiny" was soon. I find this hilarious, as, while writing this, I was tired and chatting on another site that was discussing the upcoming game. What I meant to say was "May have another chapter of Elementary soon," but the other chat must have overrode that in my brain.

Hate it when that happens.

May have a new chapter of Destiny soon!

Sorry if I seem inactive. I've just been on an inspirational dry spell lately. I haven't been able to write at all for the past week or so.

This is probably a stupid question, but... have you abandoned Elementary? (By the way, I write much better reviews now!)

"Part of being a hero is being prepared for the unexpected. The other part is knowing that you can't be prepared for something you don't expect. So what do you do? You improvise and make sure your enemies don't know you're doing it." - Kopaka Nuva