Weekly Report: 12/24-12/30

Happy New Year folks. Another year gone and we're still here. I just finally finished my last final yesterday, and am now free. That said I haven't gotten to work on anything yet; but today will see me starting to work on something new. Have a good day everyone!

Professor Astonishing Comic 9

End of a story arc, I hope everyone is hyped about the good Professor now and ready for some really weird stuff in the future.

Javier Aladren: Rough Cuts: Vicious Cycle

This is an interesting one, he's using a few tools to modify the sound of his voice as well as some form of electric drums. I dunno I'm not well versed in a musicians tools. It sounds cool go listen to it.

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Little late, but 'tis the season. Fan Fic might not happen this week as well, nor will the report be any bit interesting; I still have 2 finals due in by the 31st and they are effin' huge. Javier's stuff will be up like usual, but P. Astonishing is also up in the air.

Weekly Report 12/17 - 12/23

Well I've spent all my writing time this week working on finals, I still have two papers due after the fact and hope to be done with them before the week ends. In the meantime Christmas is chaos and wreaking a bloody vengeance on my schedule. Thankfully after tomorrow it'll all be over and I can focus on getting shit done.

On that note the comic may even be delayed this week due to the holiday. Also last week's fan fic chapter was dropped due to lack of time.

So psychoses all around. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays and Happy everything else this season.

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Sorry for the lateness, but Finals are kicking our butts. That said, last week of finals, then Christmas break. Have a good week everyone!

Weekly Report 12/10 - 12/16

As I said last time I finished the first draft, now I've done my first read through. As promised here is a cut version, it's about half the length of the full story and has all of the climax points taken out so I can you know, sell this...

Anyway this'll be the last time my Weekly Report's going to be about Dimensional Warriors for a while. I'm dropping the project over the Christmas break so I can do a read-through with fresh eyes at the end of the break. If it still holds up to my standards then I'll be moving on to finding a publisher!

So without further ado: Dimensional Warriors: Life (Cut)

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One last note, I am going to send the newest version off to get a cheap copyright today; just fair warning.

Desk of 3 Update

On the second amendment

A quick update and a response to the recent shootings.

Professor Astonishing Page 8

Sorry its a little late, but you can still enjoy page 8!

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 26

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It's sad, I want to move on from this arc, but I just don't have time to write more than this every week. Oh well. Here's the schedule for next week:

Saturday: Professor Astonishing
Monday: Weekly Report
Wednesday: Dimensional Warriors Comic
Friday: Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction.

Javier Aladren: Rough Cuts: Survive

Another rough cut, this one has fewer audio problems and in a much sweeter tune; comparative to Javier's usual music. It's definitely worth a listen.

Lyrics again when I get them.

Also a quick note, Facebook seems to be down for me, I'll get links to this and the comic page up ASAP, but that does rely on Facebook actually working with me.

Page is up! Semester is almost over!

Weekly Report 12/3 - 12/9

Okay, no except this time mostly due to time restraints; but I do have exciting news. I've completed the draft for Book 1 AND I've almost completed my first read through. I found a few spelling errors, and am changing a couple of things around. But all told it is surprisingly solid. The plan as of right now is to finish this read-through and then shelve it for the Christmas Break. Hopefully during that time select individuals will read the full draft and I will post large portions of the draft with the climax moments cut out so people can read and enjoy.

All that said I want to take a bit of a break before jumping into working on Book 2 so I'm going to probably do a little free-writing and generate some ideas for a new story that I'll work on over the break.

Then after the break I'll give Book 1 another read to see if it still holds up well, then it's on the hard road of publication. Somehow. Researching that will be part of the break too. As well as lining up a job for after graduation. Man I'm not even gonna have a break am I?

Anyway, have a great week everyone!

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return chapter 25

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A couple of notes. Firstly I'd like to thank one of the reviewers who has pointed out a couple of problems. The primary reason I "reset" the story was because if people didn't know a series these characters would be an unknown quantity. So I'm mostly going through and "modifying" stories from all sorts of places to give people a sense of the series and the world these characters come from. In that regard, I've expanded from the original eight series I was planning on covering. Now, it's pretty much no holds barred. Until I run out of places to go and people to see I'll keep adding in series that I find interesting.

The second note is after this story arc I'm changing the story structure again. I'll have more on that when it happens though.

Here's what next week is going to look like:
Monday: Weekly Report (may be late or may be on Tuesday.)
Wednesday: Dimensional Warriors Comic
Thursday: Javier Aladren
Friday: Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction

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This was a little late due to technical problems.

Weekly Report: 11/26-11/3

Work is being done. For the next three weeks or so this will be kept pretty brief because finals are approaching and when I'm not in class I'm existing in a state somewhere between life and death. Fortunately that doesn't usually hinder my writing time since that occurs on the train ride to and from school. So my current goal has been updated, I'm hoping to have a full transcript of Book 1 done by the end of the school semester. Considering I only have a few scenes left to write and couple scenes I know need editing, and I need to give it a read over; it's doable. It'll be tight, but it's doable.

Here's this week's excerpts from early Part 3, you should be able to see most of what I have planned for the story arc:

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By the way, there may be a special surprise on its way for Professor Astonishing soon. Definitely look forward to it.

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More comic goodness from the Professor!

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 24

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My one condolence is that out of everything I do this is the least popular. Therefore even when I post late or make horrible mistakes I don't have to worry. Though it does get sad when I do awesome things and no one gets to see them.

Anyway this week:
Saturday: Professor Astonishing Comic
Monday: Weekly Review
Wednesday: Dimensional Warriors Comic
Friday: DW Fan Fic

Javier Aladren: Rough Cuts: Inconsolable

We are now moving into his more recent work. Everything from here on out is not in an absolute complete state. This one in particular has a couple of audio glitches, but the beat is nice and the lyrics are interesting. This is a good place to be for those who like to critique music (so not really me) because constructive criticism is still usable in this stage. For my part all I can offer is tune the vocal part down, don't mumble one part and maybe boost the instrumental.

Lyrics will come when they come.

To Determine who Wants Death

Political Blog Update

I promise I'll have Javier's song up soon. I just need to ask him a few questions.

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Weekly Report: 11/19-11/25

I'll be honest, a little thing called Thanksgiving occurred this week. And while my typical reaction to this time of year is to hole up even further into my anti-social cave of wonders and ignore that the rest of the world exists, my brother arrived from Ohio. What's more he brought with him Dragon Age: Origins. And it wasn't until he was hooking up the virtual IV to my arm that I realized I was going to get absolutely no work done over the next three days. Sure enough three days and half of a game later I woke from my stupor to a dirty house and an inflated gut. The moral of the story is binge anything always has horrible consequences later. I also got a first hand lesson on EA's customer service philosophy of "go fuck yourself".

Do I regret it? No. Had an excellent turkey day even if the meal was substandard. My pie was amazing though.

But that isn't to say I have nothing for you guys. See, I have backlogged tons of writing (the official word count of the entire story so far is 55,000 words as of tonight.) So I'll go ahead and post up an excerpt from the final part of Book 1: Into the Maw!

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Have a fun week everyone!

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Fan Fic chapter is up. Here's the week's schedule:

Monday: Weekly Review
Wednesday: Dimensional Warriors Comic
Thursday: Javier Aladren
Friday: Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction

Be careful out there with all those sales!

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New page in time for Turkey Day. I hope everyone in America has a great vacation, and that everyone eats a lot of turkey. While I do not fully agree with the reasons for this holiday, any day that gets me out of school is a good thing in my book.

Weekly Report 11/12-11/18

Not a whole hell of a lot to report this week, school has entered that mad dash phase where the teachers are piling on work in an attempt to shorten their student's lifespans. And this is both me and Ted so comic work has gone down to a crawl. On the plus side since I use the train ride as my primary time to write I still have been moving forward. On the downside since last week I decided exactly how I wanted the last part to look other than just writing it down there isn't much else to say. So I'm going to instead offer you guys the middle part of BBT. The beginning is cut down a bit (It'll start from the first excerpt that I posted about two weeks ago) and the climax is also removed. Enjoy!

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Free injections of pure humor for all! Have a nice weekend folks.

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 22

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Hurricanes, blackouts and school have been collaborating to destroy this, but it survives. It survives because I want it to.

Onward to the schedule!
Saturday: P. Astonishing Comic
Monday: Weekly Report
Wednesday: Dimensional Warriors Comic
Friday: Fan Fiction chapter.

Perspective

Also Women, Gays and Religion

New one up on Political Blog, also working on Fan Fic. Need to petition for more hours in day.

Javier Aladren: Surgery

This song follows Javier's usual style of having upbeat music fused with depressing lyrics. It also marks the approaching 'end' of these segments. As of now there's only two songs left, once we cover those this will no longer be a Thursday thing, it will be a when he releases more I will post them thing. So enjoy it folks, 'cause Javier's in college and that means it takes him a while to get music written and recorded. If you wish to keep track of what he's been up to his blog is over here.

All that said I have lyrics for this one:

Let's take the moments 
One by one until our bodies reconnect 
And everything just seems undone 
And I'll sink right past your flesh 
So long 

I just need time to correct my eyes 
To tell you just how much I hurt inside 
I'll tell you anything tonight 
Just lend an ear, at least pretend to 

And every day piles up like rain 
Where our house starts decomposing 
And every paper pushes us 
And begs me to stop singing 

I hold my breath around an infant 
Hoping that comes back from this 
I'll do anything for it 
Just make her well, at least intend to 

Make my pain remain 
Just make my pain remain 
How else can I stay the same 
If it won't go away? So please 
Make my pain remain 
I'll take any pill to make them stay 
Just make my remain

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Sorry it's a little late. But here's page 42, with plenty of action too. According to Ted we only need about a page and a half to cover the remainder of the semester. Which is good because school is starting to get really tough, partially because we lost a lot of time due to Sandy. Hopefully the schedule will remain unbroken. Talks are still occurring about possibly upgrading P. Astonishing to a weekly schedule next semester. Nothing solid yet.

Weekly Report: 11/5-11/11

Yes this is extraordinarily late. Yes there was no Fan Fic chapter. Yes I'm slacking a bit. And Yes Dimensional Warriors Comic, Javier's next song, and Professor Astonishing will all be updating on time. So with the important stuff done, let's move on.

Fan Fiction
Was no chapter because there was no power until Friday. We got power back Friday night, and I have been spending all of that time drooling over my electronic stuff that was just expensive dust collectors beforehand. This week we will see a new chapter.

Dimensional Warriors Comic
Little tizzy with the next page, nothing too big, but it may delay posting for a few hours. Three max.

S.T.U.F.F. Reviews:
I know no one is asking, but just feel like stating the obvious. No power = no work.

Dimensional Warriors:
I'll skimp on the excerpt this week, and that isn't for lack of work. Actually it's the other direction. I'm becoming TOO immersed in writing. I've written in the climax for Battle Beneath the Tower and after a short bit of confusion, Friday morning I plotted out everything for Into the Maw and it is So Much Awesome I can't stop writing.

I can hand over a couple of tidbits. I've decided to change the entire layout of the place. It's still nine floors to mirror Dante's Inferno, but it's a little more streamlined now.

I removed a lot of the animal beasts, I'm thinking of leaving the Minotaur in some form, Cerberus and the Yamato no Orochi since these are some of my favorite fantastic creatures.

More importantly I've changed how the opposition will work, aside from Seth there's going to be another shadow to deal with, and I'm planning that fight to end in the course of the story.

With Pah's parts added this will start to make a lot more sense.

Aside from the extra shadow I've added three 'human' characters to serve as the villains for this segment, each one using a certain kind of deceit to trick their prey.

Seth's part is going to be expanded upon immensely.

Decided to keep things relatively relationship neutral for now. Too much external stress for the characters to even start thinking about that kind of stuff. That will definitely be in full swing at the start of the next book though.

Only thing still undecided is exactly what the end will look like, but that will come when it comes.

I still would love feedback on the parts of Battle Beneath the Tower and The Gathering that I've posted. Comments, Criticism and Ideas are all welcome.

I'm also still willing to promote anyone's work. (I'm not incredibly judgmental.)

The Unhealing Rift

A plea.

I pray to the great Gods of Power that my house will see electricity again this century. In the meantime the Republican backlash from an Obama win is getting... Pretty bad.

Democratic Victory, It's over right?

Wrong!

Go check it out, now the real games begin over at the Desk.

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Obama's President!
Page 41!
We Still Don't have Power!
Wait that last one wasn't a good thing. Oh right it's supposed to be screamed with a howl made up of pain and envy. And ended with a whimper of fear as we realize the new snow storm is here. And it is hungry... for Power...

Stay safe guys, we'll get through this mess and come out stronger for it. Or we'll move to Ohio. I hear their vote counts more anyway.

Weekly Report: 10/29 - 11/4

With the power out all this week, there was hardly any work done on projects like both comics and the Review show. This is due to the fact that both require use of programs that are only accessible through our desktops. Desktops that are currently employed as extremely expensive paperweights.

Instead I bring to you, a ton of work on Dimensional Warriors. I've added at least 20,000 words most of which inside BBT. So let's get started.

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I'm bringing out the next round of excerpts and might post everything up to the climax soon. So for now, here you guys go:

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All that said I've completed the bulk of the arc, and gotten several spectacular moments written down. I'm about halfway through the climax, and it is looking great. If I can keep this pace going, I'll probably have something ready to send to an editor before the school semester is out.

Like I said, other than that there has been very little progress. Ted sketched up a few comic pages, but without access to the computer he can't scan it in and add some effects as well as the text. So everything has kind of come to a grinding halt.

That said my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who was hit far worse than we were, as much as I hate having no power I'm still relatively well off. Though spending all this time camping at a coffee shop may just lead to me becoming fatter.

Stay safe everyone and I hope things get back to normal soon. Also make sure to go vote tomorrow, really important!

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I have to apologise about this size of the page, if you expand it, it will be enormous. Unfortunately we're still without power so there isn't much we can do about it until Monday when power should be restored. Stay safe everyone!

Hurricane Blackout

Fan Fiction probably won't go up today, and that is because I need the internet so I can look up little facts and things to make sure my writing is accurate. So no internet this week means I couldn't do any of the research I needed to do to get it done. Instead you get an insanity induced rant.

I'm writing this during the blackout caused by Hurricane Sandy, and it's going to contain a lot of whining, and bitching and moaning. And I advise people to not read this. It isn't going to be pretty, it isn't going to be well written. And the only reason I'm linking it to my Facebook and Google+ accounts is that I know people will read it anyway. But before I let you all go reading my helpless, insanity induced tripe I want to apologize ahead of time. I want to apologize to all the people who were hit harder by this hurricane than I was; to all those people who have to contend with broken homes and bodies my prayers go out to you, and I'm sorry that I'm about to bitch about my own sanity here. Like I said, I advise people to not read this. I wouldn't be posting it if I didn't have some strange compulsion to do so.

With that out of the way, the hardest part about this blackout for me is the alone time. I try really hard to drown myself in media, rather than have to face the demons that still plague my life. And fact is it works most of the time. Most of the time I don't have to think about my problems until I'm curled up in bed crying myself to sleep; at which point the whole thing is mostly moot. Now I'm forced to sit here, without anything but my left hand to distract me and the nightmare that I put myself into just keeps becoming clearer and clearer. I put on a strong face day in and day out, because I figure this is my problem, so I'll deal with it. The hypocrisy is that the problem is one that can only be solved by letting it be someone else's problem.

For those not in the know, let me explain. About a year and a half ago I was in heaven. I had a beautiful fiancee and a large group of friends, and I fucked it all up. It took me a long time to figure out how I did it, but that never changed the fact that I did it; and now I'm writing this not to place blame, or throw insults. I'm literally writing this because my own sanity is teetering on the edge of a knife, and I have no other way of even starting to stabilize it.

So I'm betting people are wondering how, well, I figure it starts with my fiancee's parents. In order to get out of what I considered a toxic environment at home I moved in with her parents. Unfortunately I took all of my emotional baggage with me; and a large part of that baggage was a distinct inability to place myself within my own environment. This led to a large amount of magical thinking, the most important one being as follows. Her parents had a weight problem, one solution was to get them to start moving around the house, which led me to conclude the best course was to try and get them to clean up the house. This of course circumvented the entire issue of me being a guest at the house, this line of thinking never even occurred to me. Though admittedly this was one of the very first things I would figure out during my solitude.

So I spent a long time sitting on a time bomb with her parents, before it finally erupted, leading to me being kicked out (inevitably) and leading to her breaking things off. Well that wasn't the only thing fueling this, I had slowly become more inattentive towards her, and this was due to two separate issues. One I can't talk about because it involves secrets held by her and a third party, but the other one took me a while to figure out. See for a while I couldn't figure out why I didn't feel like doing most of the things we had enjoyed together early on. It wasn't until later that I began lacking energy to do things that I enjoyed doing that I found the source of my woes. My stamina apparently was extraordinarily low. By the time I noticed I could barely handle ten minutes of slightly difficult labor before getting incredibly tired. Which meant that I was subconsciously avoiding anything that I knew would take effort. This included everything from fairs, to sex, to Rock Band. This is something I've spent a lot of time reversing, and how will become apparent later.

Now we had mutually agreed to remain friends after the break, and I in my ignorance had no clue what that was about. See putting aside her being my first girlfriend, this was the first time I had broken away from a friendship, and still had the ability to go back and see the person on a regular basis. I had spent most of my life moving across the country, loosing friends every time I moved. I had one semi-regular friend thanks to my occasional trips to my Grandmothers, but eventually I made several mistakes there as well, and the distance and increasing irregularity of my trips destroyed that friendship too. And I guess I might not have hurt these people as much as I feel that I have, and perhaps the next step for me is to reach out via Facebook (trust me Myspace wasn't even around when this shit happened) and see if I can rekindle some of my lost connections. However that is neither here nor there, especially considering there is no internet in a blackout, meaning I cannot use Facebook even if I wanted to.

Regardless, every time I had lost a friendship before, it was due to distance. I couldn't go back. So time would inevitably heal the wound, a fact that became faster the more it happened. Well by now you've got to be thinking “this boy is just bitching and moaning.” Well yes. Yes I am. And I fully apologize to everyone out there with actual problems. I fully accept that there are people with far more serious problems than my own. I've also come to realize that if I keep quiet about my own problems it will likely end with me in my underwear with a chainsaw running down main street and giving many more people worse problems than I have. That was a joke. I don't think I'm capable of violence, I had that beaten out of me a while ago. Doesn't change the fact that if I don't talk, my tenuous connection to my remaining sanity will snap.

And yes, the obvious solution is therapy. However, therapy is a dedication of time. See it's not so simple as go to a therapist and boom you're cured. I'd have to go to a therapist for likely five years running to fix my major problems. Now the problem with this, is I can't change therapists midway. I had a therapist for over a year at Kean. She retired. Now if I were to go to therapy again I wouldn't start with a year under my belt, I would start at square one. So I need to make sure the environment isn't going to change in the near future; and so long as I'm living under my parent's roof there is no assurance that I'll be remaining in one spot for long enough. I've already promised myself, when I move out on my own the first thing I'm doing is getting therapy.

All that aside, we go back to the issue at hand, not understanding how relationships and friendships work. This goes hand in hand with another little mental trait of mine, my own feeling of worthlessness and guilt. I was extended what I perceived as conflicting information. She wanted to not see me for three months, but she wanted me to come to the weekly group gatherings.

Me being easily confused and feeling guilty for the break-up decided to choose one, specifically the one I felt would punish me the most. And I picked a winner. Three months later and the only friend that was still speaking to me was Ted; who had never stopped coming by on a weekly basis to hang out and work on stuff for the blog. I soon got a call asking that I don't come to the weekly gatherings again because I had insulted everyone there. As well as something else, but that again revolves around secrets that are not mine to tell; plus the claim laid at my feet there I still don't know what they were talking about anyway so I can't refute it.

At the time I had no clue what they were talking about. It wasn't until a few weeks later that I learned about a conversation between me and my brother over Skype at three in the morning had been passed around. That sounds bad, and it was. I said things in such a way that they could easily be misconstrued as insults of a very deep and personal nature. In my own defense I have never sought to hurt or harm anyone, at the time I was babbling about the potential nature of a stereotype; something I like to do to distract myself. Of course my own inability to communicate, the fact this was all in text, and that three in the morning slurred all my words into an incomprehensible mess compiled to basically insult everyone of my old group of friends.

So bridge burned. Make new ones right? Well not so easy for me. See, I have never once approached someone else unless I was already close friends with them. Which doesn't make friendship impossible, just a little harder to get. I just need places where people gather and where I might find that outstretched hand; except I don't go out of the house. I see no need for theaters, and malls, and stores. I only really go out to eat when I'm with friends or family. Which leaves work and school. I've only got a semester and half left at Kean and it is a two hour grueling commute to get there, so I really see no point in trying there. I'm currently unemployed, but that remains my one future hope. That I'll get a job, and someone there will start to build a friendship with me. Though the most likely scenario is that I'll get a work-at-home job, which will destroy that.

So what did I do wrong? Well that was the hardest thing to figure out; and I honestly felt I couldn't even start to try to make new friends until I figured out how I lost the last ones. Eventually I realized that by not showing up, rather than starting to rebuild a different kind of friendship I just made the break-up harder. It was a selfish action, perceived as: if I don't show up we things couldn't change. Which wasn't how I viewed it, but I can see how others would view it that way, or at least looking back I can. And it's not like anyone in that group was particularly vengeful, or amoral. In fact I have never seen so kind a group, often willing to go so far as fifth or sixth chances towards someone who's messed up. Which makes my exile that much more damning. If I can't been seen well in these people's eyes, I'm just beyond saving. I might as well find an internet job and become a hermit; 'cause there is no chance I'll ever find people willing to put up with me. Except Ted obviously, I have no clue why he hangs around me, but I'm grateful for every minute he's willing to spend with me. I'm just afraid that one day I'll do something to drive him away too.

Now the last thing before I'm done here is a surprising thing. As much as this last year and half has been a living hell only survivable through massive media dosages and being a damned stubborn ass; I wouldn't trade this time for anything. I grew the hell up. My mind is sharper now than it has ever been. I'm starting to actually associate with my body, as well as place myself within the greater context of the world. I learned to do things I was too lazy to even consider doing; cooking, cleaning, acting, weight-lifting, computer repair. I picked up new habits like stretching and running. I'm planning on picking up some other new hobbies like sewing, dance, martial arts. I repaired my relationship with my mother and step-father to some degree. I've taken care of my twin baby sisters, dealt with their temper tantrums and changed their diapers. I have learned so much that I wouldn't have otherwise, and can safely look back and say that I've grown. I've matured in ways I hadn't been capable of. So while I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, I also do not regret the choice I made to get here. Dwelling on the past without trying to learn from it is a waste of time, something I couldn't avoid doing, but I tried to minimize the time I spent agonizing.

And with this, I think I might finally be able to move forward. If those people I once called friend wish to forgive my past sins I will return without hesitation; if not I hold no grudge against any of them. I will move forward, with or without them, maybe I'll find something better, maybe not. That's the fun thing about life, there really is no way to know how the future will turn out; all we can do is keep looking forward, and keep hoping for a better future.

And I think that's about it. I feel better now, and I'll probably feel even better after I edit and post this. I'm one of those people who don't like to do anything unless it serves more than one purpose. So yeah, next time someone asks how I'm feeling, I'll still answer okay, but know this; the answer is not okay. I'm never okay, I'm so far from okay it's scary. I may be repairing parts of my life, but it's a slow, grueling process. And at least until I build a few new friendships I probably won't truly recover. Might even take until I can get that therapy, but no I'm not okay. I'm hanging in there. I'm clawing with bloody stumps so that life doesn't leave me in the ditch. I'm hopeful for what tomorrow brings; but as of right now, and probably for the foreseeable future, no I am not okay.

Javier Aladren: Dressed and Bound

Dressed and Bound is one of Javier's best song, I know I said that about his last one too, but we're hitting a clump of them, and it isn't my fault. Blame the artist for having excellent songs. This is a must listen.

Lyrics will be up eventually.

Obama's Presidency

Also Red Cross and Todd Akin

Here's a quick political update with elections looming in the near future.

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Yeah it's late up on the blog, it's been up on the site for a while, but I just recently managed to get to a place that has some form of internet. So I'm doing this while our laptops are charging. As of this post we still have no power, hopefully that'll change soon, but with so many people SOL it's a pretty thin hope. Stay safe New Jersey!

Frankenstorm

Also Climate Change and Homeless People

New post up on the Political Blog. Stay safe everyone, and here's hoping power stays up.

Weekly Report 10/22-10/28

Dimensional Warriors:

Another week has passed and I've slowed down a bit on this front. Mostly due to a couple of detail hitches in the plot, like what kind of problems should I put in the way? How much should I focus on the Solarus? How many humans can I afford to put in? I've got tons of cool ideas, but I need to balance cool fighting with things like strife, famine, long standing wounds. But on the other hand, where The Gathering is all about survival in bad conditions, Battle Beneath the Tower is more of a warzone sort of condition. So the primary conflict is going to be several clashes between the remaining humans and the Solarus. I keep wondering if I have the remaining people banding together too easily, I mean it's easy enough to explain away since Metudo has already proven he can manipulate people's minds; but then am I removing a potentially lucrative conflict?

Anyway, I have written up several fights, and the one that I'm stumbling over is a great undersea fight. I haven't decided if I want to put a city with survivors down there, or maybe even merfolk, or if I just want Solarus. Been playing around with it, and nothing seems to be clicking. Maybe it'd be better to scrap it and move on. Or maybe I just need to find a bigger reason for the characters to go there.

Anyway, I've got an excerpt from Battle Beneath the Tower for you guys today; namely the inciting action. Yes one of the Solarus has been named, it occurs in an as-of-yet unreleased portion of the last chapter; it's part of the climax I so casually omitted. Let me know what you think.

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On a side note, I can confirm that pages up to 41 are complete and ready to be posted, and I just need to take the time to do so.

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction:
As some may have noticed I finally got around to cutting the first set of chapters and edited the first chapter. Unfortunately between school, a close electoral race, and my own dangerous lack of sleep I'm beginning to slow down. So the chapter was very short this time. Hopefully it won't be next time.

S.T.U.F.F. Reviews:
If the writing stuff that I can do on the train has slowed to a crawl you can imagine the progress I've made on the footage. In a word non-existent. It'll get done, but not until after I get my soul back. Or at least a full eight hours of sleep.

From the Desk of #3:
The Political Blog has taken off finally, and I now know how I can get some consistent material for it. By commenting on things that I find in the news. And this isn't small time commentary  I have been known to outright bash and make fun of some of the really stupid shit that flows through the world. I'll continue doing stand-alones, but the big problem I'm having is my current project revolves around discovering what it means to be Republican. Or at least why there are still people voting Republican  It isn't an easy question to answer and I don't want to write these people off as stupid. In fact when I say Republicans are stupid (and I will say it often) I'm usually talking about just the ones in politics. (I'll continue to make sure that distinction is known, to prevent future problems.) Though even that isn't true, and is in fact more just in jest. I fully acknowledge the extreme mental capabilities that many Republicans do have, I just really do not like the way they choose to uses these capabilities. Anytime you take gifts your God gave to you and use them to hurt others; well I call that being a horrible and despicable human being, but when I want to keep the mood light I call that being stupid.

One final note, I haven't really got clearance to talk about Professor Astonishing progress as of yet, but I can assure you the next page is done and ready to go for this weekend.

Political Blog Update

The Decline of the G.O.P. is posted up here. Go read it for a buncha good stuff.

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 21

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Okay this is actually much bigger than it first appears. The chapter itself is tiny, but I edited the entire first part, finally cutting out the first sixteen or so chapters and then posting a new edited Chapter 1. I may go through and edit some of the other chapters as well, but that is reliant on time.

Anyway, this week we should have another recap on Monday; I haven't gotten a ton of work done there yet, but I may have another opening done by tomorrow. We also have Dimensional Warriors Comic coming up on Wednesday, Thursday will also see a new song from Javier.

have a good weekend everyone, and for the Jersey folks, stay safe!

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And action! New page.

Weekly Report 10/15-10/21

Dimensional Warriors:
I've spent most of the week working on a couple of new openings pages. I'd like to know which one looks better, and whether they still need work or not.

The first new opening would just replace the first couple of paragraphs:
OP1 (.odt)
OP1 (.doc)
OP1 (.rtf)
OP1 (.txt)

The second opening would cut out the first couple of pages:
OP2 (.odt)
OP2 (.doc)
OP2 (.rtf)
OP2 (.txt)

I'd love to hear back about which one is more effective.

Anyway, I've also added a lot of work to Part 2. So I'll be posting the new version of that soon too.

S.T.U.F.F. Reviews:
Progress is going slowly, partially due to my desktop's slipshot internet connection. Gonna try and get that fixed soon.

From the Desk of #3:
Thinking about posting to this more often. Might have a new one up tomorrow. Might not. Depends on free time and school work.

New Segment, New Blog!

We're going political! If you're one of the few people who follow me on facebook, you've seen my political posts and outrage at certain things. Well I've been convinced to put all of that down in a place where more people can see it. I don't really have an update schedule yet, but I'm guessing weekly for now. Might be more might be less.

So without further ado: The Blog!

And here is the link to the first post: Voting!

Professor Astonishing Page 4!

Here we are, page 4! I hope everyone enjoys this, and the hard work Ted puts into this project.

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fic: The Return chapter 20

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Another chap. is up.

Anyway, the schedule for this week is as follows:

Saturday: New Professor Astonishing page!
Sunday: Mystery new thing.
Monday: The Report; featuring a few different openings and a poll.
Wednesday: New Dimensional Warriors Comic page!
Friday: Fan Fic chapter.

It's gonna be an awesome week, so hang in there, and have an awesome weekend everyone.

Javier Aladren: I Still Dream in Black and White

Ah, we finally get to this one. I Still Dream in Black and White is one of Javier's catchier tunes, along with Play on and Anticipation; he really pulls off some amazing vocal and guitar work in this piece. It's totally worth a listen.

Lyrics will come eventually.

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Sorry this is a bit late, I fell asleep. School + Debates + working with Ted = Very deep sleep.

Weekly Report: 10/8-10/14

Dimensional Warriors:
So after some consideration I've decided to post the first 15-16,000 words. So basically from the beginning to right before the end of the first part. I may do something similar with other parts if I feel that its necessary.

So here it is, in four different formats so that you can view it however you like, including (hopefully) on your smartphone.
Microsoft Word (.doc)
Open Office (.odt)
Rich Text (.rtf)
Text (.txt)

Now that having been said, anyone that has actually read the last draft, up until Raven appears, everything is the same. I've gone over those first few pages several times and other than some minor modifications haven't seen anything I need to change.

I spent a bit of time modifying the beginning to Battle Beneath the Tower. I think the biggest change is rather than have the whole team fly there, they're gonna be walking. Which means a ton of obstacles in their way. Plus Haven won't be safe for very long.

S.T.U.F.F. Reviews:
I finally have Premire working on my computer and completed the first stage of editing (taking all the footage Ted and I shot and cutting away everything I don't want.) Which leaves the hard part, matching all of that to movie footage.

Other Projects:
I've been working on a few things behind the scenes, and have got someone checking over the first of what I hope to be a new segment.

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 19

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Sorry this took so long, school has been beating me up and taking my free time. I think it lost interest in my lunch money after it realized the school had shitty lunches.

Anyway next week is a big one, I'm planning on posting the entire revised first part, so pretty much the entire new The Gathering. That will go up on Monday (and will be roughly 20,000 words.) More on the logic behind that when Monday comes around. We also have the usual Dimensional Warriors Comic page on Wednesday, and Javier's I Still Dream in Black and White will go up Thursday. Friday will end the week with another Fan Fic chapter. I'll start mentioning Astonishing on the Friday's before it comes out, since next Sat. will be the next Astonishing page.

I hope everyone out there has a lovely weekend, keep warm where it applies, keep cool where that applies as well. Enjoy!

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I hope everyone's enjoying the work Ted and I have been putting forward. I'm gonna try to have the Fan Fic chapter up for Friday, but with the new Adobe Suite on my computer I really want to get started editing.

Weekly Report 10/1 - 10/7

Dimensional Warriors: Novelization.
For my first time doing this I'd like to open up with a few things.

Mission Statement:
What I want to achieve with this piece is an intellectual novel for the common man, something that can cross all media and excel in all of them.

The Hook:
A transgendered woman has to find her friends while fighting against impossible odds.

If you want to read the first draft, you can download the completed first three parts from the link above. These are the parts I'm focusing on editing: The Gathering, Battle Before the Tower, Into the Maw


Excerpt:
This will basically be a favorite scene out of the new content to give you guys a taste of what I'm working on.

The Gathering: Neko, Vyrse, Raven, Henry and Eddy find an army bunker where Ben is hiding with lucy

Questions:
Not entirely happy with Haiden as Pahhur's family name. Suggestions?
Not 100% behind Zephos' weapon choice. Suggestions?
Situations or ordeals the characters should deal with?
Plotholes?

Notes:
-Added a LOT of scenes. Mostly to The Gathering. This includes a lot of tension building scenes, and introductions for new characters and antagonists.
-New characters:
--Henry; a self-important businessman and coward.
--Eddy; an Irish family man, companion, and spy.
--Ben; Eddy's son, a hyperactive punk that likes guns.
--Lucy; Girl who was sensitive to the Time distortion caused by the Dimension Bomb that made the whole mess. As of right now I have not decided whether to have her wake up or not.
--Beth; Punctual and realistic doctor.
--Names not set in stone, not entirely attached to any of them.
-Added several ticking clock elements to both The Gathering and Battle Beneath the Tower.
-Changed the conflict between Neko and Metudo vastly.
-Added all of Pahhur's scenes.
-Changed Zephos' weapon thinking about using chain blades ala Vivi's Peacock Slashers.
-Added conflict to practically every scene in The Gathering.

Thank you for reading!

Something New; the Week's Report.

For those of you who pay attention to the little blurbs I attach to all my blog posts it'll come as no surprise that I'm having some difficulties with my story Dimensional Warriors. The difficulty comes primarily from the fact that I've been editing the earlier chapters, and as any writer worth his ink stains and crippling arthritis will tell you; when you edit the early stuff the later stuff tends to change.

So I've got a really weird dichotomy going on with the "current" stuff becoming more invalid by the second. For instance, and part of what is making this particular point hard, I want Asuka on the ship with Metudo. I like their character dynamic and with this part of the story supposedly taking a long amount of time I need more characters to work with.

On the even further scale I've added several characters that I plan to have major payoffs not too far in the future of The Return. If I just arbitrarily add those anyone that has been following what I've been doing will be suddenly very very lost.

So what do I do?

Well I thought about it, and one of the things that keeps me writing is that I have to keep this blog updated. It doesn't account for all of my drive, but it certainly helps me get things done in a timely manner. So I have to be doing something week to week; but what?

This is why I'm going to start doing a sort of "report" where I'll post about my activities at first just on Dimensional Warriors, but if I get a good response I'll add other series and maybe even manage to convince Ted and Javi to get involved.

Now this is how I'm thinking of running this. I am going to talk a little bit about things like themes, ideas, and situations. Anything that isn't a major spoiler. So you can expect to hear blurbs about new characters, situations, things that I've changed. Furthermore there are a number of details that I either haven't decided yet or don't know at all. Questions ranging from should I go with Herm or Haidan, to what should Zephos' birthday be? And I would be grateful to anyone willing to pitch in their two cents.

So to sum up, I'm inviting the strange people living out there in the internet to join me in the editorial process. I think it could be a lot of fun, and might create an interesting new experience. The next post that will be on top of this one and make this one invisible to the public will be the first report which will basically sum up everything I've done for the past month or so. So it's gonna be huge.

Professor Astonishing Comic page 3

Here it is, Page 3!

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 18

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Another chapter, and it's not even based on a pre-existing story! That's about all the news there, unfortunately I've been losing a lot of steam with moving forward, partially because I've been working on editing the first book and I've made changes that are pretty big game changers to the story overall. It's making a huge discrepancy between what's being updated and my perception of the story.

That aside, we finally bought Adobe Premiere  and immediately ran into a different problem. I apparently downloaded the 32-bit version of Windows 7 and now need to get the 64-bit. So that will probably take up a lot of today while I uninstall Windows and reinstall everything else.

P. Astonishing coming out tomorrow! Look forward to it!

Javier Aladren: Play On

This one is a somewhat darker melody enhanced by a minimal amount of instrumental music. It almost gains a creepy quality to it and is definitely worth a listen.

Again lyric when Javier gets them to me, he's just being destroyed by the same things that made this post late. School, school and more school.

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Sorry it's up a little late, I forgot to do it in my bid to go to sleep earlier. Come back tomorrow, we will see a song from Javier!

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Gere, Finally

School. Zombie. Brains.

That's my only excuse.

Don't take your tasty brains too far, we have a comic page coming up tomorrow, followed by one of Javier's songs, followed by a Fan Fic chapter before ending the week on P. Astonishing.

Remember to wash your brains this week. P:

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 17

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You know, I posted this up yesterday and shared it on FB and G+, but then I never posted a link to it on blogger. Just completely forgot. Then again I've been so preoccupied lately... I don't have anything suitable to referece here... It's just... It's like I'm going senile at... how old am I?

Anyway have a nice weekend everyone. Next week is the engourged week of fun with both a new song from Javier and a new page of the good Professor; along with all the usual Dimensional Warriors stuff I work so hard to do.

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Enjoy the next page of Dimensional Warriors!

Dimensional Warriors: The Return: Chapter 22

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Welcome to the start of a new week!

Okay, all Dimensional Warriors this week, we've got the comic on Wednesday and the Fan Fic on Friday.

Now I would like to let it be known that S.T.U.F.F. Reviews is being worked on, kind of. We're getting a hold of the Adobe Suite soon, and I'm waiting on that to begin the editing process. This will also lead to another video segment soon to be named and revealed.

I hope everyone has a good week! Enjoy!

Professor Astonishing Page 2!

The Professor's back to brighten your weekend!

Fan Fiction chapter 16

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So I'm really hating the new layout for Blogger. It hasn't changed what the page looks like, but all my design tools are mixed around, and nothing works the same way anymore. That's right I'm wasting time complaining about this in hopes my seething rage will somehow travel through the internet and poison the person who did this.

Rage aside this was a fun chapter to write, considering how much I diverted away from the pre-written route.

Still have P. Astonishing coming in tomorrow, so don't stray too far.

Javier Aladren: Makes Me Ill

Sorry 'bout the late update, school has been slaughtering me.

Today we have another song from Javier's album -1, Makes Me Ill. A smooth, calming tune if a little depressing. It also has an impressively defiant undertone to it.

Lyrics will again be posted when I get them, if school has been slaughtering me I think it's already put Javier six feet under.

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Here we are, new comic page for Dimensional Warriors, and don't go too far tomorrow we have another of Javier's songs, Friday will see a Fan Fic chapter and finally Saturday will see the return of the good Professor. It's gonna be every day this week.

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 21

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New chapter of Dimensional Warriors is up. Once again I've been talking to myself and feel some clarity is in order here. These chapter updates are first and foremost for me. I do it to have a schedule that I have to maintain to keep me working forward on this story. I have the unfortunate habit of floating around one spot for a very very long time. To give you guys an idea, I've been working on this story since I was 16. I'm 23 now. Most of that time was spent in the beginning; at one point I wrote everything to the very end, but I left a lot out. This time I'm writing with the goal of it being entertaining to others. I know I'm failing at that goal, that is what the edit process is for. At least this time I'll have something more substantial to work off of. The other crippling factor here is you guys are only getting half the story. I've been intentionally leaving Pahhur's perspective out of the main story and try to focus on everyone else.

Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of what I've done so far, and if you are enjoying the story that's excellent it means I'm doing something right. My big goal for this year is to get a transcript to a professional editor of the first three parts; which constitute what I consider to be book one.

All that aside, we do have some fun stuff this week, Wednesday we have a new Comic Page (btw any changes I have been making to the early story will show up in part in the comic, so expect the comic to look very different from the text story.)

We also have two other updates Makes Me Ill by Javier Aladren will be up this Thursday, and the second page of Professor Astonishing will be up Saturday. (I wish I had planned this better and staggered them, but what's done is done.)

Fan Fiction: The Return chapter 15

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I'm wrapping up the Alabasta arc and moving on to another story line.

I don't know how many people read the fan fiction, nor do I really care. I know this should be obvious, but the voices in my head seem to think it isn't and that there's a few things I need to clarify. Primarily that the Fan Fiction exists to help me. Through it I develop my own characters and my ability to write different character types. I love the ride and coming up with new ways to screw with the worlds that I have spent so much time enjoying.

That is all, I hope everyone has a great weekend that is as different from mine as possible (I have a cold.) Enjoy!

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Aaand big reveal.

Anyway filming got done yesterday, now I just need to get my hands on Sony Vegas and begin the editing process, hopefully using an editor that isn't trying to suck my soul out of my anus.

We've got a Fan Fic update coming up Friday, I'm going to try and end the current One Piece arc, though I haven't decided where to send them next; and I'm thinking of having a huge turn around in the Dimensional Warriors chapter going up on Monday.

All of this so long as I can survive the long insanity inducing days of school.

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 20

A little late but

Main Story chapter is up, I get the feeling with the addition of Astonishing to the blog, I need to get a real website soon to host everything in an organized manner. Obviously the blog will remain as a way of spreading the word on updates, but I need some sort of mass archive system. (Yes I'm a little OCD, no your collar isn't straight.)

Anyway, new week and it's a pretty dull one... Just DW comic page on Wednesday and Fan Fic chapter on Friday. (Might be some behind the scenes action if I can finish this script we'll be filming this week.)

Enjoy the week, don't let life kick your teeth in. Or at least don't swallow the teeth, they're a bitch and a half to get out.

Professor Astonishing Comic 1

I know I promised the surprise on Saturday, but the first week of school curb stomped me so hard I was surprised I could write my name in the jam that was leaking out of my elbow. My name is now a very blurry red mark...

Anyway, Professor Astonishing! I have no clue why it's so blurry, but Ted is working to fix it as I write this post. Yes the video is still being worked on, no its not ready yet.

We're going to be doing this bimonthly, so every other Saturday (Yes I promise to get it up on time about as often as I get Dimensional Warriors up on time) we will have a new Astonishing comic. Again, this is to work around Ted's school schedule and since he's also the primary writer, it takes him longer to get this done.

Now I must vanish and get to work on the chapter that goes up tomorrow. If I had any homework yet I'd be ignoring it...

EDIT: Blurriness taken care of, enjoy!

EDITx2: Fixed some other problems, also here's a link to where the comic is hosted: http://professorastonishing.thecomicseries.com/

Fan Fiction: The Return chapter 14

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I'm really considering chopping off the first half of this, and modifying the first chapter. It's much easier for people to sort of "get in" when I'm slowly introducing worlds the way I have been in the last few chapters. In fact that is the plan, when I have some free time I'll get it done.

In the meantime enjoy the weekend folks, Imma go sleep now, wake me up when it's over.

Javier Aladren: I Can't Keep Up

A pleasant lyrical tone overlays the somewhat sadder theme of Javier's next song: I Can't Keep Up. This is a part of his only Album -1, all of which can be found at his Bandcamp page.

I will put the lyrics up here as soon as Javier gets them to me.

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I love the expressions in this one.

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 19

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We're moving out of sci-fi, and into romantic horror, a genre I just pulled out of my ass. Enjoy!

Upcoming this week is school, starting on Tuesday. May any Gods that still talk to me help me. We also have a comic on Wednesday, a song from Javier on Thursday, a Fan Fiction chapter on Friday; and a surprise on Saturday.

Have a good week everyone!

Fan Fiction: The Return chapter 13

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Sorry for the late update, I've been trying to re-acclimate myself to a new sleep schedule which means waking myself up earlier each day. It also means I spend half the day dazed and confused wondering why it's still light out and why there are voices in my head.

Anyway, Monday will hopefully be a main story chapter, then starting Tuesday I'll be back at school. So here's hoping I can keep up with everything. Wednesday will be a comic page, and Thursday we will be featuring Javier's I Can't Keep Up.

Enjoy your three day weekend folks!

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Late notice, it's been up for a while now. Enjoy everyone!

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 18

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Okay so this is very late, but the good news is the last two days were very productive for the comic. Which should still go up tomorrow on time. the Review show is hold 'till the semester starts, Webs might be coming back this weekend, I haven't decided. It'll probably have a new for if it does.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Fan Fiction Update: The Return Chapter 12

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Another chapter done, this is getting substantially harder to write, since I'm trying to decide what changes to the original events would work; and while a lot of times those changes remove power from the original it's something that I'm willing to sacrifice.

Anyway, Main Story will be up Monday, Comic page will be up Wednesday, and just to get some juices flowing we have a new webcomic coming next month!

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Javier Aladren: Personal Problems

Personal Problems has a strong defiant tone, which offsets the slower folk tune it is set to. A good listen, and the first one song where Javier has done all the work. Good job Javi.

Personal Problems

All the days I sit and watch the other’s fit right into life I
Think I’m getting better at adjusting
All my insides churn around I never feel quite well and still
I’m constantly reminded I’m not dying

I’m not dying

But still we all feel pain as equals
Just because some things are evil
Does that mean you can’t feel mad see
After all you have it easy

Hey!

Just because I sit alone in my room doesn’t mean that I am
Maladjusted or lazy
And just because you have more friends on Facebook that’s the internet it
Doesn’t mean that I am fucking crazy

Well I may be

And do you even know it all it really looks as if you do
Just strut around and act like you wouldn’t freeze up if she was

Right in front of you

But still we all feel pain as equals
Just because some things are evil
Does that mean you can’t feel mad
After all you have it easy

I Play guitar to sing my heart out
Such a shame not much to talk about
Just about how life should be harder
Gracious me, I have it easy

I have it easy
I have it easy

Page30 of the Comic

Now, if you are one of those two or three who follow this comic at its source (Comic Fury) You probably noticed this came up about midday yesterday. The reason for this is I'm a dumb ass. But since only three of you will know this fact, I decided to hide the truth and just post the blog post at it's regular time today.

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 17

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New chapter is up, with a new twist. Wednesday will see a new comic page and the end of Metudo's backstory arc. Thursday we'll be taking a look at Javier's next song, Personal Problems. Friday will be another Fan Fic update, dealing with Luffy and the fight against Crocodile.

I'm also happy to report editing is well underway on what will be book 1 of Dimensional Warriors (The Gathering, BBT, and Into the Maw). I've changed up a lot, added in parts from Pahhur's perspective, and all around I have been tightening up the story. Adding bits to increase tension and cutting away anything that slows the story down. Several events have changed, drastically; but that's why I posted the version I did. It's kinda a sneak preview of what is to come.

I hope everyone enjoys what we've worked so hard on, and make sure to have an excellent week!

Fan Fiction Update: The Return Chapter 11

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Short chapter this week, but I'm trying to keep things interesting.

On other notes this week we'll see another Main story chapter on Monday, a comic page on Wednesday, and new song on Thursday.

I'd also like to mention I've been putting a lot of hours into editing the older chapters. With any luck I can get it ready to be seen by an editor this year. From there, who knows.

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We now have sound effects. Next page is the end of Metudo's mini-arc, so look forward to that. The rest of the week will go as usual, Friday is Fan Fic, Monday is Main Story.

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I nearly forgot to put hits up, considering I had this ready two days ago...Wednesday is still comic update, Friday is still Fan Fic update. With Ted back we're working hard to get more stuff done, hopefully in the next couple weeks we'll get a review up as well. I've also almost decided how I want to handle Webs.

Hope everyone has a good week!

Fan Fiction Update: The Return Chapter 10

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It's pretty funny how easy this arc has been to write so far, considering how difficult the last one was. Anyway, this is the type of story I wouldn't have done just about a year ago. But over this last year I've been contaminated by Trek, and that's an irreversible condition.

Monday should see another Main Story chapter, Wednesday will have a comic page, and hopefully we will begin filming for the next review this week.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Javier Aladren: Anticipation of a Dream

Starting a new series, Javier Aladren has been working hard on his music for five years and we have recently gotten permission to display his work here. So bimonthly for the next few months we will be posting one of Javier's backlogged songs, including a link to his band camp page.

Anticipation of a Dream is one of Javier's quintessential songs, which is part of the reason we're so happy to have it as the musical theme for this season of S.T.U.F.F. Reviews. Javier's skills as a vocalist really shine in this piece, and the vocal accompaniment by Dan Baker and Elizabeth Held adds a lot of extra strength.

Anticipation of a Dream

Sitting on the tile floor it’s
Four in the morning, I need some warning
These small things are crawling inside me
I can’t escape, I can’t escape
It’s driving over, I’m crying over,
Something’s not there, Something’s not there

So I can’t escape myself, myself
I can’t, I can’t escape myself, oh no

Crawling on the bedroom floor it’s
Four in the morning, I need some warning
I see the web painted on the tree
Strike the leaves off, Strike the leaves off
They’re flying out of it, Flying out of it
Something’s not right, Something’s not right

You saw me lying there

So I can’t escape myself, myself
I can’t, I can’t escape myself, oh no

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Page 28, and this week marks the last week Ted is off at camp. So we won't be drawing from backlog anymore. Also S.T.U.F.F. Reviews will finally be able to begin filming again. (Planning on buying an oldish version of Sony Vegas since it looks like it's in my price range of less than 100$. If anyone has any suggestions I'll be happy to hear them.)

Up coming we have a bit of a surprise tomorrow (not involving a Professor, sadly); and there is the Fan Fic chapter on Friday followed by Main Story on Monday. So busy.

EDIT: I wasn't expecting this, but Ted just sent me a better version of this week's comic. It's worth another quick glance, but it looks like now that he's done with camp he's ready to show his true powers as an artist!

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 15

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Moot's been amazingly fun to write for and these chapters have just finally started to write themselves. Which makes my job easier, rather than actually having to think.

Wednesday still has a comic ready to go up, but other than that I'm thinking of posting the Fan Fic chapter on Friday this week and probably next week. That way I don't have an as condensed week. (Rather than writing all day Saturday and Sunday, it can be all day Thursday and Sunday. :D )

Enjoy the new week!

Fan Fiction Update: The Return Chapter 9

Yep it's up.

I've kinda given up on doing solo videos, I can't think of how to make some of these explanations entertaining, so the Review show is going to be on hold until Ted gets back (and we can film). This is also due to the fact that I don't trust my computer's inbuilt webcam to actually be useful.

Webs is also kinda on hold until I decide what to do with that. But DW in all its forms is still at full strength and a new chapter will be up tomorrow for the main story; as well as a comic page on Wednesday.


We also may soon have an extra surprise for everyone in the coming weeks, but it's a secret right now. Just know it might have something to do with a particularly grumpy professor.

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New page has been up, here's the reminder. Probably will have a video up, might even have a Webs up later this week. Gonna try and keep myself busy.

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 14

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Sorry for the lateness, I've been having some personal issues to deal with, Comic should be up tomorrow. Will either have a Webs or a video up later this week. Haven't decided yet.

Fan Fiction Update: The Return Chapter 8

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Took a while to finish that story arc, if anyone has suggestions about future places the Warriors should go feel free to say so either here in the comments or at the forums!

Main Story should be up sometime tomorrow.

S.T.U.F.F. Reviews: Midnight Kiss

First I want to apologize for the random jump cuts, either something happened to the footage or to my compiler. Either way there is nothing I can do to fix it, and trust me, I've tried everything. And yes, we say "cut to" a lot, but that's really the only accurate description as the movie keeps violently cutting to the next scene.

This was so bad there were even a few things I forgot to put in, in hopes that I could start forgetting about this movie sooner. The movie is completely unorganized, they keep jumping around, there is almost no semblance of logical progression. The only actor worth a damn is the Captain, and he has so little screen time there is no hope to save this movie. And yes I managed to compress the plot of this monstrosity down to eight minutes, it was that bad.