Fading Lights

Someone posted a link to this vid on Facebook today.

Frustrated With Growing Up? Shut Up And Watch This Video

It turned out to be one of the most beautiful, inspiring speeches I have ever heard. ♥

Random Things of the Day:

★ Why is no one else ever online when I'm here for more than a couple hours? -_-;;;

★ Matt Austin is awesome, and Twitter has today's reason why:

Superman has two dads and they're both Robin Hood. #ManOfSteel

— Matt Austin Sadowski (@mattyaustin) June 7, 2013

★ This song would make an excellent PR vid. Someone Not Me should get on that immediately.

★ I FINALLY finished re-watching the first season of MMPR last night.

... I remember this being a much better show. c.c;;;

But I have all sorts of thoughts and notes now, and I think Zack may be one of my new favorite characters, because he is adorable. ♥

I ship Jason/Zack now. It's all Ranger Recaps' fault.

I discovered this vid on YouTube a few days ago and fell in love with it. Gorgeous music, gorgeous vid, and it fits the character *perfectly*.

Today I was watching it again because that song keeps getting stuck in my head, and decided to investigate who sings it, because. *_* Which is how I discovered Michael Henry and Justin Robinett.

These guys are *amazing*. Beautiful voices, fantastic harmonies, musical ability ... Heck, they even do mixes. I hadn't found found any song they've done a cover for that I haven't adored. If I wasn't broke, I would totally be raiding iTunes for them. They need a CD. Or six.

And now I'm imagining their version of If I Die Young as a vid for Samurai and whimpering, because it would be *awesome*.




ETA: Also just discovered this lovely article through a Facebook friend. Ironically when I was thinking about CampNaNo, and if I want to/will be able to write something for it, and what I should write.

Babies don’t walk perfectly the first time they try; they start of shaky and wobbly and they fall down sometimes but with some practice and support they get the hang of it and eventually they’re walking pros. Where would you be now if as a baby you didn’t attempt to walk because you were afraid of falling?

Still don't know *what* to write, but I feel inspired all the same. ♥

PainfulMRI was PAINFUL.

Basically I had to lay down on a board with a brace pinning down my shoulder so I wouldn't move it. Then Tech Guy had me turn my right arm so my hand was palm up (to show the tendons, he said), and proceeded to strap my arm down against my side in that position. I mean, I get *why* - he told me that arms are really hard to get a clear picture of, because they tend to move when you breathe - but OWOWOWOWOWOW. After it was over, I was blinking tears. It still hurts like hell; I'm trying not to use it much. And FREAKING OUT over what the results will be tomorrow. x.x

Instead I'm trying to cheer myself up with vids and fluff. Which is how I found this, which is awesome. ♥

In the meantime, suggestions/requests for Antonio/Jayden fluff would be most helpful. ^.^

I actually managed to write something for Bright Skies! ... But then I couldn't make it fit. -_-;;; My only prompts left are Birthday and Holiday, which I *technically* already wrote for, but I don't think they fit with the way the story is now. I'll still keep them as side stories, but I'm trying to get the ending to flow better. Which lead me to re-reading and editing.

Don't worry, it's not a full re-write. (I promise!) I'm just trying to fix minor typos and things that I've noticed, and breaking up the chapters that really should have been made into two separate ones. A lot of them are already fixed on the Archive of Our Own version, but I wanted to fix/edit the Fanfiction.net version, too. Which lead into the debate of whether I should fix what I've posted on LiveJournal, and exactly how I should go about it.

So I made a poll! (Which unfortunately can only be found at LiveJournal, because I don't have a paid Dreamwidth account. -Sulks-)

Can you believe I first posted Bright Skies in March of 2008? I had it almost finished by December of the same year, except for the last couple chapters. I've been trying to end this damn thing for *four years*. x.x

Then after two days of glaring and swearing at Bright Skies, I decided to finally get off my butt and finish my master post for all my fanfics. Obviously this isn't it. I changed my LiveJournal layout too, 'cause I was getting bored with it.

Going through old entries was a bit depressing, especially over the past year. A lot's changed - not all of it bad, but not all of it good, either. I know it's the past, and all I can do is move forward from here, but it still left me a little sad.

( Especially reading comments from psyco_chick32. )

Ironically somewhere between sorting old journal entries and editing Bright Skies and ADSoR, I found this vid.

At first it made me think of the beginning of Bright Skies, but it sort of fits how I'm feeling at the moment, too. The vid itself is gorgeous, but probably won't make any sense to anyone who hasn't seen/knows Final Fantasy VII. (Particularly if you don't know anything about Advent Children or Crisis Core.) But it's still pretty, and the song is lovely in a very bittersweet way.

-Flail- I NEED THIS SONG. I CANNOT TELL YOU ALL THE THINGS IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT FADE TO DARKNESS AND ZEUS AND ALL THE THINGS. I NEED IT. NOW.

Unfortunately, this is one of those songs I can't steal off YouTube with my RealPlayer download option. -Sulks-

Anyone have an idea of where I can find it? (Excluding iTunes, which I do not have and cannot afford? ;_;) I need this song and possibly any and all Breaking Benjamin songs like, yesterday. Seriously. Hell, I need an EvilJustin video to it.

... Crap. There go the vid-making bunnies.



ETA: Finally found an MP3! -Raises fist in triumph- Angsty torture, here I come! ^_^V

My LiveJournal paid account that was gifted to me is going to die on the 16th (Sadness! ;_;), so this is my second attempt to convert to Dreamwidth, in hopes I'll start to like it more. No promises, but we'll see.

But mainly I'm posting for this song, which totally brings to mind the inSpace cast for me. I don't know if it's just because I was thinking about Cataclysm when I heard it or what, but either way, so pretty. *_*

I would love to see a inSpace vid to this. Or any Power Rangers cast, really. It's very ... them. ♥