Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

++ Felicia Day's The Guild: Ren Faire'd movie has officially broken and surpassed the Veronica Mars movie Kickstarter record. That's so awesome, and it makes me excited to see this movie once it comes out (and I got even more excited when it was announced that Misha Collins and Nathan Fillion are going to be appearing in it). I love that this still something that Felicia is passionate about, and it makes sense since it is coming up on its 20th anniversary (that doesn't seem real, tbh) as a means to celebrate something she was, and still is, very proud of. Here is the Kickstarter page for anyone interested.

++ It was recently announced, among other releases, that Faraway Wanderers is getting an official English translation. It's about damn time.

++ I haven't talked about the Asian dramas I've been watching in a while, mainly because I've either been busy with other fixations or that I've been going back and forth between them that I haven't actually finished. My current interest is the Thai GL drama, Ai Girl which, despite the title, isn't about the current rendition of AI but the very typical scifi element of a humanoid robot, as in actual artificial intelligence rather than a generative one. It's very clear that they took advantage of the recent AI wave to advertise the show which is lampshaded a bit in the drama, including having the main characters named Gen and Ai so their ship name is "GenAi", making searching anything for this drama and the pairing incredibly difficult. With all that aside, I have an emotional soft spot and weakness for anything involving robots and the human/robot romance angle gets to me every single time, and this being a GL romance that explores that along with the exploration of the ethical complications had me very intrigued from the jump.

( A Bloodymary AU fan trailer )

My Comments: Okay, I know I had previously already did a Simon/Ryland Grace fanvid for one of these entries, however this one is something I had just discovered and I'm instantly blown away. This is a fanmade AU trailer and the way the vidder edited it together so seamlessly left me astounded. This reminds me so much of the fandom crossover graphics and vids from back in the day, the way the vidder chose some of Mark's other projects (specifically The Edge Of Sleep) along with Iron Lung scenes to manip and practically flawlessly put it together to match a particular AU narrative is absolute genius. Just, GAH! I'm in utter awe with this fanvid so much. Major kudos to the vidder, just outstanding work. In general, I'm obsessed with not just this crossover pairing but also the amazing talented people in fandom creating such masterpieces, from fanart and fanfiction to fanvids such as this.

Asked by spaciireth: If you came into a large sum of money, say, ten million dollars, what would spend it on (after the obvious things like taking care of any debts, etc.)

First and foremost, travel and experience the many cultures and wonders of the world.

Secondly, I would renovate the house, just little additions that I think would be nice to have, like a room that would operate as a personal library with built-in shelves, perhaps a secret passageway of sorts to a little nook with a comfortable window seat for my own peace and quiet. Just those kinds of personal little additions that are frivolous yet enjoyable for me to appease my kid self.

Being able to get the supplies of whatever hobby that I've always wanted to try, this includes taking classes of an activity.

Honestly, it's endless, it would be pure personal indulgence. As Veronica Mars once said, I would be a perfect blend of "frivolous and sensible".

Asked by eglantiere: your favorite poems, your relationship with poetry, your own poetic aspirations if you'd like, whatever fits.

Truthfully, I'm not really huge on poems. I appreciate the craft of poetry, the different ways poems can be constructed and I have come across several I've seen posted online that I like the flow of, but it's not something that I know too much about or a deeper relationship with.

With that being said, I do have a few favorites. "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, "The Box" by Kendrew Lascelles (a poem I memorized and recited with some of my classmates in elementary school in a performance, it's one that I often thing about and can still recite by memory to this day), and "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass.

Asked by author_by_night: Have you ever been on a summer road trip? If not, would you ever want to go on a road trip?

I've definitely been on summer road trips, mainly when I was younger. One big one that I remember (that we have home video of) is traveling across the country to visit my aunts and uncles. It took quite a long time to get there, perhaps a week? Aside from that, I've gone on some road trips since then that aren't as long, not always during the summer. I think the last one was to Los Angeles, which took roughly the whole day to get there.

Road trips are interesting because it really depends on who you're traveling with and how things are planned out, and how one can handle sitting in a moving vehicle for hours at a time if you didn't bring something with you to keep you entertained. It can be merely exhausting just sitting for hours at a time, and, because I live in America, while there are some interesting sights to see especially once you get to places you're unfamiliar with there are also prolonged periods of time where it's just a long stretch of road with nothing to see, that you'll be relieved once you see something like a rural area or a field and other pieces of nature and not just road and other vehicles. Plus there is also something really special about rest stops, those areas in the middle of nowhere.