This entry has been backdated thanks to a computer screw-up deleting my post twice. yes. You read that right. TWICE. This is the third time I have tried to write this entry. And worse, it's a stupid, pointless entry too. I should just give up and go to bed. But I'm not going to, 'cause I'm so damned stubborn.

The backdating? Well, I started this thing yesterday night and I am going to post it yesterday night, not early this morning. It's only fair, for Hell's sake. Therefore, the time assigned to this thing is utterly random and, simply put, a LIE. But who cares. Anyway, it could be worse. vermachtnis has domain problems and that brings things into a neat kind of perspective. It's only an LJ post, after all.

So... um... stuff to write about.

The first attempt at this update was a load of random crap of the random kind I specialize in. The second update whined about news articles. The third attempt is not going to do either of those things because neither was so sterling that I want to try and replicate them. My views on the idiocy of Big Brother Six will have to wait for another day. It'll come, I'm sure, With silly season looming large on the horizon and this retarded piece of programming on for well over two freaking months, there'll be plenty of time for me to complain about how stupid it all is, probably in an update devoted to just that. It can wait. I'll rant about something different this time, I think. Preferably something I can laugh about simply because - well, it's funny.

The only question is - what?

Hmm... *stares into space*

I get the feeling I have absolutely nothing to say. Doesn't help that the time on this update lies and it's actually around about two in the morning, which might explain why my mind has gone curiously blank (and also why I initially typoed the 'might' in that last sentence to read 'mat'. Mat? What the fuck?). or not so curiously, given the two in the morning thing. Maybe I should just give up and go get on with my Litmus Test crap. I want to have that done by the end of the long weekend but because I've been procrastinating like a good'un I have really got no idea if this is actually going to happen. I suspect it may not. I need to get the fanart finished, for a start. I have the outlines done so I know the characters are kind of actually going to FIT on the page, but I have yet to actually... you know... really draw them.

(Maybe if I keep it a line drawing I can do lame colorization on the computer, like I did for one of the chara sketches of Ouka, simply for the Hell of it and to prove that it could be done - or rather that it could be done by me - and it could. It'd be strictly anime-style cause I'm not very good at shading (namely, very simple demarcations between light and shade) and probably take me goddamn ages, but if I do get that far I may well decide to give it a shot. It's not like I've got anything to lose, after all...)

And I don't know what clothes they're wearing either. I may take the easy out and draw them in the shop stuff so that I can try and draw Aya's godawful bane of men orange sweater. The irony is, I'm probably not even going to post the mother when I'm done with it, but I'm doing it anyway. I really like to draw (and I like to draw Ken even more). I just wish I was rather better at it, is all.

I need to type up 'Seuche' parts. I have a fair few pages. I need to carry on writing a confrontation scene but I'm currently wrestling with the angles. I hate writing action scenes, and this one I can already tell is going to be a tricky one, largely because of the numerous bad things I know have to happen to almost all involved before the end of the chapter. Angst angst angst, you are my only friend and sole companion, but why is it so hard to write you when you're sitting on the 68 on the way into college? I hope that what with my placement and all I'll get a bit more fic time to play with.

[ooh, this is getting long. I shall post it now just in case the villains at LJ eat my post again, and carry on editing afterward.]

Speaking of. I was emailing vermachtnis the other day and just after complaining that I was missing a very crucial aspect to my very-much-in-the-planning-stages Weiss AU - namely, the thing didn't actually have any kind of central conceit for the plot; it had a plot, I knew there was stuff happening, there just wasn't any reason for any of the stuff to be happening in the first place because I had no idea what the villains' motives were - I got bitten in the ankle, and bitten hard, by a rabid Plot Bunny, infecting me with inspiration for exactly the thing I had just been bitching about not knowing. Which is something I bet never happens again. That was so neat, it was almost scripted. What was better, this bunny was fantastic for all its rabidness because in the process of having that one idea, I got an armload more. Lovely, lovely plot bunny *snuggles it*. If only they were all like that.

So yeah. MY AU now has a plot. Hooray!

Okay, so it needs refinement and all but that's okay. I'm not going to start it until I finish 'Seuche' anyway, simply because I cannot see myself being able to write two multipart angst odysseys (oh, come on - you all knew it was going to be angsty) at the same time. It wouldn't work. So yeah - holding fire on that one. Besides, I held off on writing 'Seuche' until I had the whole damn fic in outline - though like all works in progress, it's developed strange sports and grown in ways I wasn't quite expecting even though I knew where I was going and what was ultimately going to happen to everyone before I even began Chapter One. Not that I'm going to go into the changes here, it'd only be of any interest to myself anyway though some of them were influenced by current events, which was a bit odd.

I'm going to let slip the provisional title, though, in case I didn't already (German dictionaries at the ready, people). Right now, I'm calling this fic 'Zeugnis'. Yes, it's relevant - and it's going to be far more immediately so than 'Seuche' ever was, too. Not sure on the subtitle yet but it's going to have one because I like subtitles, dammit. I just haven't dreamed up anything suitably abstruse yet.

And I really ADORE Ken Hidaka. I LOVE him. I need help, right?

Oh. It looks like I have an update after all that. Maybe not a good update, maybe it is just blather about the things I should be doing and am not, but it's an update and dammit, that's better than I hoped for. Whee.

... Yay, Kenken. There is SO MUCH LOVE.