On to greener pixelated pastures

To the few of you who follow this blog, I thought it fair to let you know that I've moved from Blogspot to Livejournal.

My new digs can be found at http://parabiguous.livejournal.com/

Enjoy!

A New Low

As I'm sure you few who are interested enough to follow the shenanigans of a near-19-year-old girl over the internet (see: stalker, rapist) have gathered, Alex has manipulated my squishy, female brain into really, really liking Transformers, in particular, the new Transformers Animated cartoon. The levels of geekiness there, while prominent, are nothing really new. Liking a cartoon? That's nerdish, of course, but it could be worse.

If you could imagine my voice and face right now, imagine my shadowed visage leaning slowly closer, the dim light gleaming off of my glasses lens as my face becomes only partially illuminated by an ominous, pale glow. My voice is the slightest of whispers as I lowly rasp out "Much worse, Reader. Much, MUCH worse."

I jerk backwards into the shadows and make a sharp slide away from the table, causing it to rattle. I slither out of sight. My re-arrival is heralded by the pained squeaks and rattles of rusty, worn wheels as I slide a cold, sharp metal table covered by a sheet towards you.

In a single, dramatic whirl of bloodstained cloth, your gaze falls upon...

*pause for dramatic effect*

TRANSFORMERS ACTION FIGURES!!

That's right, people. That's how far I've fallen. I knew of the toys' existence, of course. Transformers was originally created for the sole purpose of selling toys, after all. I just never thought I'd really care. After all, I haven't glanced twice at these insignificant little collectibles since Pokemon was still popular.

But as soon as Alex dropped the plastic tomb of a box containing a Bumblebee action figure, all of my self restraint and respect gave me a polite tip of the hat, and went on their merry way. The first sound out of my mouth was the kind of strangled gasp one might hear after finding a priceless golden statue buried in their back yard. And the first words out of my mouth were "OHMIGOD dude I TOTALLY need the Prowl figure now!!"

Alex flashed me look of pure smug douchebaggery as he worked on setting up his own figure of Swindle.

I thought I might be able to salvage my not-that-geekiness and not slip further into the inferno. But, around the time we spent hours and hours combing through various stores for a Prowl figure and coming up empty handed, I realized that, no. Alex dragged me down here by the throat, and here I'm staying.

As a matter of fact, our plastic army of cybertronians has grown to six. On my desk, I have Bumblebee, Lockdown, and Blurr. Over across the room, Alex is cooing over his Swindle, Optimus Prime, and Soundwave. Tomorrow, Prowl and Megatron join our respective forces.

I'm not going to worry too much. If I ever start LARPing however, I give you permission to shoot me 'til I stop twitching.

Wai Hallo Thar

Oh.

Right.

Yes.

I, uh, do have a blog, don't I? Yes.

I should update it more often.

..........Yes.

Ahem. Well...lets hop in the "Way-Back" machine, and look at my last post, written some eons ago when Evolution deemed giant lizards roaming this earth to be a good idea, and see if we can figure out just why my blog has been so barren these past few bleak months.

Mhmm.

Once again, video games prove to own my ass on a silver platter.

World of Warcraft is the usual suspect, with his partner in crime, Wrath of the Lich King. But wait, he's got two new whipping buddies that give me absolutely no rest these long, weary nights! These hooligans come in the sinister(ly awesome) forms of Saints Row 2, and the cartoon, Transformers Animated.

The irony of the latter is that Transformers is one of those shows that I promised myself I would never watch, or at least never enjoy. Damn Alex and his persistence though, while he could do little to warm me up to the retro 80's cartoon that started it all, he did finally manage to get me to hop onto the Transformers fan-wagon through dark and sinisterly clever means; modern day Transformers. He began with the live action movie, which I enjoyed, and when he showed me the new cartoon, I fell for the proverbial bait, hook line and sinker.

It's not lost on me that my stubborn "I shan't enjoy this" attitude is usually met with the swift, merciless 2x4 of "Shut the fuck up and watch". This is hardly the first time Alex has pulled this stunt on me. Star Wars and Indiana Jones, to name a couple of what he considers his more golden achievements.

My recent affection for the Transformers story truly borders on the insane though, as I was recently horrified to realize that I was beginning to show interest in the 80's Transformers cartoon. And not even the movie. The god damned camp-fest of a series. Holy zombie Jesus, what's wrong with me?

To further cement my place eyebrow-deep in this fandom, I recently dove headfirst into the glitchy abyss that is my computer trying to properly run DVD Decryptor and Sony Vegas, and crawled out bloody, bruised, and carrying a brand new fan music video tucked 'neath each arm. Yaoi, of course. Apparently that's how you can tell I really, really like something; when I find some way to make it GAY.

Below are links and some information on the videos I made. Forgive my use of Filefront as opposed to Youtube, but they've been cracking down hardcore on fan made videos of this sort lately, and my MV's are usually removed before I can so much as call tomfoolery and flip them the bird.

Also, be wary the streams provided. Sure, you can see the video much (much, much) faster, but, the video and sound quality are far poorer. On the other hand, the video files are stupidly large, and take forever to download. So the sacrifice just might be worth it.

((The Bot All The Bad Guys Want))

Ahaha, well, what can I really say here. It's bouncy, happy, cute, and I think rather a pick-me-up. I simply adore Prowl and Bumblebee together, and I have a hard time making most Autobot romances anything but this. Romantic and cute. Anyone who's really watched this show cannot possibly deny how well these two bots go together. Their personalities contrast enough to make it interesting, while still mingling enough to make a relationship possible.

And besides...

Check out how Prowl pounced on Bee there. C'mon. The kid blushed.

Case closed.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY (sorta) DIFFERENT!!

((I Hate Everything About You))

If you couldn't tell right away by the title, this video isn't quite as upbeat. Ooooh yes, nothing quite like some good ol' Decepticon love...uh...lust. Yeah. Lots of fiery passion and loathing. Really, I can't see Megatron and Starscream having a lovey-dovey relationship. Might have something to do with the fact that Screamer's prime hobby is trying to plant a knife right in his lord's back on a near daily basis, in an attempt to take his place as ruler of the Decepticons.

And Megatron?

He's just a jerk. Main villain and all that.

Looking over these videos and thinking about the what-if relationships, it strikes me that they really are polar opposites of each other. Both represent the different aspects of these romances that I find intriguing.

Prowl and Bumblebee have that sweet, fluffy cuteness that makes me say "Aww..."

Megatron and Starscream meanwhile have that raw, kinky, angry, hateful lust that makes me drool.

I know I read a bit too much into these things, but hey, that's what being a fangirl is all about.

'Til next time, RogueKitty signin' off.

OMG

WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING WRATH OF THE LICH KING.........


WRATH

OF

THE

MUTHAFUCKIN

LICH

KIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!

Testing

I'm trying to find a new video hosting service that allows embed videos, because YouTube is really making an ass out of itself with my videos lately. I'm just posting this to see how a Filefront stream works, because I fully intend to use this, or whatever other video hosting service, to host my slide show detailing Alex and I's trip to LA.

That's right, I haven't forgotten about that. It's just about done.


thraxozz_betweensheets.avi

Here's hoping this works.

EDIT:: Eh, the quality kind of sucks, at least on the music video. Maybe it'll be kinder to a slide show. Just in case, I'm gonna keep looking for another hosting service, but if I can't find anything else by the time I'm done, I'll use this to embed my sideshow to my blog.

Happy Halloween

See those geeks?

Aren't they geeky?

Don't they simply exude pure geek?

Yeah, I thought so too. The geeks you see in the picture above are myself (left) and Alex (right), in our costumes for Halloween this year. Fun was had, though washing all that face paint, hair color, mousse, and hairspray out was significantly less thrilling.

For Halloween, my honey Alex cosplayed Zul'jin the Amani Forest troll, one of his favorite characters from the Warcraft games. Seriously. He wants to have his babies.

I cosplayed as Thrax, aka El Muerte Rojo, or The Red Death, from the fantastic movie Osmosis Jones. I only wish I could use that long claw to set stuff on fire like he can. Oh well.

Hurray for geekiness! Hope we have as much fun next year's Halloween.

Blizzcon - An Update

I'm in the process of sorting through all the photos I intend to use for a slide show featuring the highlights of me 'n Alex's trip to LA. Bear with me a bit longer, sorry I'm taking so long. ^_^;