No worries, it's me. Alive and mostly well. I'm perfectly aware of the fact that I didn't write here since... forever. Reasons being, nothing much crazy happened. I literally got trapped in the house doing nothing but other school works and going crazy with college apps. Combined with some host-family issues and vicious false advertisement (not gonna write it here but all you need to know, is that brainwashing comes in angel forms, that's what I saw) it was a rough few weeks. Now I'm in my next host family (amazing people btw) and finally settled down with most of my college apps. Only crazy things happened in that period was (other than Trump's election); a basketball game, visits to Science Museum and Russian Arts Center and a few cool restaurants around Twin Cities- all with other people. Oh, and I'm 18 now, an official adult. Yeey? Unfortunately, my art and writing suffered through the most. I can't imagine what would I've do if I didn't participated in the Writing club. My muse feels totally killed. I'm just left with vague storylines and small paragraphs or sentences, with nothing to push it forward. Not even "Go with the flow, rest comes naturally!!1!" thing works. I tried and it was a disaster. I hate to say but writer's block is too real this time, it's almost scary. I am also aware that I'm not much active on Instagram right now (not even talking about dA, urgh) I continue with my sketchbook adventures but I don't think they are worth showing. Honestly, I'm having an overall crisis with my art and needs a lot of time and work to break unfortunately. Oh well, I think it's the obligatory problem of being a storyteller
Other than that, what am I doing other than being a giant nerd depressed about her art? Well, just doing what a nerd does for fun: Movies, books, comics and anime! (I am trying on have a life, I swear!) Dr. Strange had disappointed me a bit. Not to disband it totally, it was a very good movie. Dr. Strange is one of my favourite comicbook characters and definitely a lot different than a lot of superheros we have. When they announced it with the premise "Fantasia of Marvel", I flipped out in excitement. Fantasia of Marvel, do you know what that means?! More artsy, more risks, bit darker but still Marvel but even more awesome! It came out to be a magical version of Iron Man which was... Just disappointing. Fun but lacking I've been waiting for Rogue One for a long time and holy crap, it paid! It. Was. Amazing. I think it was the perfect movie for Star Wars universe with all the gritty, dark atmosphere and risks it took (gotta keep this spoiler-free- go see it yourself!) It made me realize that this was the type of movies that Star Wars need: Stories from other parts of the Universe, not only Skywalker story. Because let's be honest: Skywalker legacy is suffering and if you at least take a peek at (now-banished) Expanded Universe/EU, it's like the less interesting story compared to others. Unfortunately EU is gone, time to write another good one, means creativity and effort! Sounds scary, right? *aggressively looks at Hollywood* Many of you who might be following me for a time, know that I'm more of a indie comic gal. I just think that indies have more interesting stories, characters and even art These days, beside Stand Still Stay Silent by one of my favourite artists Minna Sundberg, I'm usually on Tapastic. It is a mobile app/desktop site where you can read comics or even now, novels. It's kinda turning into the Wattpad of comics for me (people who've seen Wattpad knows what I'm talking about) so you really have to dig deep to find good stuff. But oh man, doesn't it pay well! My favourites so far are Bookwyrms, Grassblades, A Matter of Life and Death and as the only novel, Wolf Winter. Cool art, nice relations and mystery, all my jam~
I have 3 animes I'm watching this season. Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu has a 2nd season so it was inevitable. Rakugo is basically a one-man storytelling art, equivalent with Turkish meddah, which is one of aspects that got my attention. The characters are lovable and art is beautiful. I know it might be boring for some people (especially in the actual rakugo parts) but it's worth a try.
New animes that I watch are ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka and Youjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil. My starting premises were very different while I was checking them on Livechart and here is why: ACCA is a political drama about our protagonist Jean accused for a coup against the government and (of course) plot is thicker than that. I thought it might be exciting with loads twists and badass one-liners but even after 6th episode, I feel like nothing much is happening and even characters seems so... bored. It's disappointing man. Where is my cliffhanger revelations and badassery :( Youjo Senki is about a little girl, reincarnated from a unemphatic businessman, who... basically blasts people in a very-WWII-but-definitely-not-WWII setting. Sounds like a perfect guilty-pleasure anime, right? I. Was. Wrong. On episodes 2 and 3, the story gets a very interesting turn and plot thickens. A LOT. I- I didn't expected this. Came for the booms, stayed for the plot. That's what it is. (Now y'all can go and watch it) Long story short, pretty empty yet surprising season so far. We are already half way through so, I don't want to have a final verdict yet. Endings can change everything! So, that's all folks! I might give a small throughout post for where I went so far (it's an awfully small list but anyway) but no promises atm. Oh well, I will try my best as I go out and do more than I used to at the new house. Fingers crossed. Take care people and keep rocking \m/
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