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[nekokoban]

Slow work is sloooooow today. This is mostly because our task-management program is home sick with a stomachache and we cannot access anything. (I suppose it's a good thing, as I'm sleepy and rather unfocused; I spent twenty minutes fascinated by the split ends in my hair. ... on that note, I keep thinking I should wake up a little earlier, so I have time to put it up before I go to work, but. Precious extra minutes. ;o; I prefer to tack them onto the end than the beginning -- people are too fabulously interesting and I don't like leaving them to sleep. One's own headspace is nice, but blahblahblah it's enriched by being around other people; THE SHORT OF IT IS THAT I LIKE BEING AWAKE A LOT MORE THAN I DO BEING ASLEEP.

Except maybe in the morning.

I seem to have gotten into the habit of dropping random ficblah into people's LJ comments recently. IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO, just tell me. This is mostly because I fail at getting longer things written, though I did sign up for yaoi_challenge's Big Bang-esque edition; CAN I WRITE 10K WORDS ON TACTICS BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST I ... would like to think so. |D Whenever v10 comes out, it will hopefully answer the remaining questions I have about how the Oni-Eating Tengu fits into the whole Shuuten Douji/Minamoto family mythos. I wonder if we will ever see Soujoubou in the series. That would be kind of sweet.

There should be more tengu in fiction, guys. Just period.

IN OTHER NEWS SEKRIT PROJECT WITH harukami IS STILL GOING NICELY. On some level I still feel like I should be ashamed -- on the other? Naaaaaaaaaaaaah. It is exactly what it is, which is inherently "why the hell NOT! :D" so worrying is kind of pointless. My zen, let me shows u eet. In the meantime, I will spend the rest of the day till work comes back online reading about horror movies on Wikipedia, because I, er. Okay, so here's the peculiar thing: I can read really graphic things, or see them in comics, or see them animated, and it ... doesn't bother me. I have a vivid enough imagination, but it's like I have a mental filter over the whole thing when I'm reading. But seeing it "really happen," so to speak, with live-action movies, just. Squicks me to no end. I can't watch war movies, let alone horror movies, because all the blood just OOGS ME OUT. There's also the fact that I startle really easily -- more easily than I scare, even -- which is a fact that people at work take advantage of for much hilarity. :( So essentially, I can NEVER EVER EVER watch these movies, but I can read detailed summaries about them and ... come up with my own visuals? I dunno. It makes sense to me in one of those completely inexplicable ways.

................ a-also wtf my flist has exploded HI EVERYONE NEW BOTH FROM CFUD AND NOT. I apologize for being incredibly boring when I'm not pretending to be someone else. :(b

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(And now I'm off to. Try and catch up with comment replies orz.)

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

...Stomachache, huh? Uh-oh. So... that's what I've got, and I thought it was food poisoning from something I ate at con. But if people at work are sick with the same thing.... oh damn.

Well, at least it's not busy while I'm stuck here on the couch!

[nekokoban]

Oh, no, no, not the PEOPLE -- Oracle's down. S'been down ... most of today, actually, so Coworker JD is making Predictions Of Doom about how bad tomorrow'll be. XD

Sora and I were wondering where you were, though! :x HOPEFULLY YOU WILL FEEL BETTER TOMORROW. :|b

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Rereads entry* ...ah. Yes. ....Have I mentioned that I'm sick? And that anything I say should be classified as "potentially insane due to stomach bug?" Yeah. >___<

Yes! Better would be good! If for no better reason than that I'd like to eat something other than dry toast and broth sometime in the near future. :P I'm hoping I'm at the tail end of it... I was better last night, but then worse this morning, so it's hard to say.

[nekokoban]

[pets] Just take it easy and don't stress about it. Sick happens! Even to programs, it seems. XD Futz with the cat to make yourself feel better.

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

It's funny how squicks work sometimes. I have no problems with most movie gore, but show me anything involving fingernail injury (I mean like, nails being ripped off or having stuff shoved under them, not "oh noes I broke a nail!"), and I'm cowering with my hands over my eyes. XD; Human brainmeats are strange!

[nekokoban]

Oh man, my biggest physical injury squick is anything but anything to do with eyes. And yet, I read CLAMP manga. Sigh. I will cringe and look away at anything that looks like an eye or close is going to be damaged, especially in movies. ;;;;;

But hand injuries wig me out too. *g* Unless it's gloriously and obviously fake (like in Sweeney Todd, and even then I had to look away once or twice), I'm such a wuss and have to close my eyes or something for distraction. *g*

[plusqueparfait.livejournal.com]

HELLO you are quite interesting enough so far 8(

man I am so easily squicked out I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del my brain a few times a day. You'd think I would have flunked out of the Internet by now.

[nekokoban]

I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO I apologize if I suddenly become boring. :(

The big problem with me and the internet is that I never know if or when I'm going to get squicked -- it just. Poof! Something bothers me intensely, but something very similiar just breezes on by. o_oa I honestly never know!

Sigh brains.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Mmm, tengu. (In Nethack, when you kill a tengu you can eat its corpse and potentially gain certain teleportation powers. Useful stuff.)

[nekokoban]

I LOVE TENGU. :(b But I prefer them alive and not-cannibalized, since I don't think the teleportation thing exists in mythology. XD

[grendelity.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE NOT ALONE. The reading about movies thing is what I had to do with Se7en. Because. Aaldjflkasf. It makes me shudder to think about, and I can't. Watch. That. Though that's not horror, per se. I'm fine watching horror movies. [Unless they're awful gore-movies, then. No.] |D; I hate jump-scares, though, because they make me super-jumpy and neurotic. More than usual.

[nekokoban]

Sometimes I wish I could watch horror movies, especially the ones that aren't all cheap jump-scares and hack-n-slash; I love scary stories that get under your skin and oog you out hours or even days later, but a lot of times, I can't handle the movies. :\

[pets]

Pee Ess the reason I have not been on AIM recently is because my mother has discovered my screenname. Which is not always a bad thing, but Mom likes to talk a lot. |D I WILL TRY TO BE ON MORE REGULARLY, THOUGH. o/

[grendelity.livejournal.com]

The least cheesy one I can think of that fits that description is Ringu 0, I hate to say. That movie sort of broke my heart, but I have a very resilient suspension of disbelief thing going on, as we all know. :|b

Yes, I heard. XD I saw you were on last night and I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE BOTHERED YOU, but Physics had me cross-eyed and I finally took some medicine and crashed after staring blankly at my computer for a while. XD; Will keep an eye out for you~

[nekokoban]

Suspension of disbelief is a beautiful wonderful thing. :|b I've never seen Ringu 0, though I've read about it -- I'd probably like it in spite of myself, knowing me. XD

Oh, Physics. |D HOW GLAD AM I TO BE DONE WITH YOU. GOOD LUCK WITH IT, try to actually get sleep in between the madness that is your life, okay? ♥

[grendelity.livejournal.com]

Ringu 0 is an anomaly in that series of movies in that it was not directed by Hideo Nakama. I can't remember off the top of my head who did it, though. It was a nice change of pace, I guess, though it had the general plottish liberties also typical of Ringu. XD I really liked it.

Last night it was mostly awful because we were doing eyes and stuff, and seeing things barely out of focus drives my brain crazy because my eyes try super-hard to focus and can't and my glasses don't help. OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE AND HARASSED YOU ANYWAY. Also, sleep is nice. XD;;

[kadekmoment.livejournal.com]

But you're adorable. ♥

[nekokoban]

DENIED. ♥

[kadekmoment.livejournal.com]

What's that? "Yes, I am adorable, thank you"?

Also, word on the squicked by horror movies bit. I. . . can giggle at the really silly slasher movies, but g-god hearing NOISES and whatnot makes me duck and hide.

[nekokoban]

DENIED AND OBJECTION AND NO.

I'm amazingly wussy when it comes to horror movies. :|b But I love scary stories as-told, and survival horror video games and it doesn't bother me in animation -- AND THE SOUNDS DO NOT HELP. Bodies should not make squelching noises, ever. ;;;;b

[telrunya.livejournal.com]

So cute. 8D

[nekokoban]

WHAT IS SO CUTE ABOUT ME

WHAT

[telrunya.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE JUST CUTE OKAY

[nekokoban]

OBJECTION on the base of SO NOT CUTE. :

[telrunya.livejournal.com]

DENIED.

[nekokoban]

I DENY YOUR DENIAL.

[mitbix]

Hellooo Oh hey, what do you know, someone else who goes on Wikipedia and reads summaries of horror movies instead of watching them. :Db

[nekokoban]

Hahahaha, it's good to know we're not the only ones. :Db (I WISH I could watch horror movies, sometimes, because there are some that seem like they have really cool stories! I just. ... can't handle the gore or the jump-scares. |D)