Due to the inevitable feeling of obligation and responsibility, I feel inevitably obligated and responsible to update this blog in relation to New Year’s Eve. Herewith I would like to do a few remarks, in random order and questionable connection to each other.
¶ This place is dead, being just a shadow of long forgotten past, but is my passion for anime dead as well? No, it isn’t. I have moved on. Liking anime is not equal to forcing your opinion onto others. It is rather a phase of self-establishment with the ‘weird’ hobby — you try to convince yourself that it is OK by connecting yourself with other fans in the most blatant way. At the very least, that’s how I interpret my dropped blogging habit now.
¶ The way I think of the past year is what you call ‘mixed feelings.’ Now I bid farewell to the year that’s made me most depressed in my life. But that depression has born fruits which otherwise would be unreachable for me. The depression freed me from my shyness, opened me up. And then it let me go. And I experienced more happiness than in a probably long time, because being open means making new friends, doing interesting things. The year has destroyed me — and created me anew.
¶ I joined the school newspaper, and a few threads led me to it.
- I am a big fan of Terry Pratchett. I have read literally all of his Discworld novels, many of those more than once. ‘Truth’ is a book about William de Worde — a man who started by monthly writing the most interesting happenings in letters to important people who hired him, and ended up with ‘The Ankh-Morpork Times,’ a daily independent newspaper read by the entire city. Clearly, that inspired me quite a lot.
- My mother was a journalist for a quite long time, working as chef editor in a Moscow woman magazine. I remember coming to her workplace and playing around with QuarkXPress on her Mac. A Mac was such an astonishing sight back then.
- My friend mefloraine is a school newspaper designer as well. Her tweets about the work always made me curious, so I wanted to check it out.
- I am a designer. I did quite a few jobs for real clients, I have a good-looking portfolio, I have skills. But my near environment did not necessarily know about that before. So it was a challenge I accepted.
- The school newspaper staff are nice people I wanted to know better.
- I simply love to create pretty things.
¶ I joined the school newspaper, and I wasn’t disappointed. Maybe I did expect some unrealistic high-level professionalism at first, but I do understand that it was an illusion coming from a fiction book. These people are real, and they are in high-school. They are doing their best, and they do it very well. I am just a designer, but I will still be doing everything in my might to make those people happy with the resulting product. ♥
¶ This year my music taste walked off the indie path down to the street of commercialism. I still like my completely unknown bands with the experimental music, but I also learned to like a few mainstream artists as well. Muse (hello, Kerry!), Oasis, even bits of Radiohead. Though doubtlessly Enigma stays my all-time favourite.
¶ This year has been all about people. Things happened, projects were made, but that’s all equal in the end. I am just grateful to everybody who contributed to the light part of my year. Thank you. (´･ω･｀)
¶ P.S. Oh my god, in a month I’m turning 18, and it will probably be not any different from being 17! Awesome.
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My year has been about people too. It’s nice to see the way they can change your life [positively].
A lot is different from last year, and I know I am glad for it.
Also, changing from one age to another does nothing. 8D
mefloraine´s last [type] post: 12 Days of Anime – Day 12 – PLEASE– CAN YOU KEEP MY CIGARETTE
What has changed in your life? Mind sharing?
Ah well, I thought at first that something awesome would happen, accompanied by music and special effects. But you just get older and older ;-;
Haha, oh, I don’t know. Friendships have all changed around~ :3
And nope. The only thing different is my back has suddenly begun to ache!
mefloraine´s last [type] post: 12 Days of Anime – Day 12 – PLEASE– CAN YOU KEEP MY CIGARETTE
I haven’t visited this for so long, I thought the ‘PREVIOUS DEAD BLOG IS DEAD” was part of your post :V
Happy New Year~
Mushyrulez´s last [type] post: Twilight
To you too
You’ve forgot to mention a certain girl that also works on the newspaper, fufufu. And thank god you are moving on from your hipster indie phase in terms of music. Why don’t you try photography as a side hobby? You would like that. Chicks too, ask Peter Parker.
Andd… If that fails, you still get nice photos of nice girls to keep!
Well, if you mess the photo up it’s your fault…
I tried to not mention any persons; that part is private.
Been there, did that. But I don’t have a good enough camera, and don’t think of it as important as to get one for the horrifying amount of money.
And Peter Parker is fiction, he’d tell whatever suits the plot.
Just 18? You youngin’s best get off my lawn.
Why you so oldfag, lela-tan?
Y U NO LET US SIT ON LAWN
Y U NO YOUTH POTION
Y U NO COME TALK MOAR
Y U NO LEVEL >9000 CUZ YOU’RE OLD
In reply to Gargron’s comments on other post:
Hell, give me rank in CL and daily suggestions for content for you and I can start brainwashing them into accepting that if you want.
If CL would be an extension of WLM, that would be out of question, but I can’t just favorize people out of personal relations. Start small. d(>.<)
Y U NO UNJUST RULER
AI ISH DOWNSIZE YOU
Hahaha.
Ok ok, I got it. But the suggestions part is a real request for aid. Thinking of those is A REAL BICTH.
Be online more, talk to people. Cartoonizable situations are everywhereeeee
Damnit, don’t blame me if I decide to cast you as a midget.
i am oldfag master.
anway, happy new year. hopefully 2011 will not be as depressing for you!
Well, there is a limited amount of girlfriends who could dump me yet, so I think I’ll be OK. Thank you, lela-tan. Happy oldfagging to you in 2011!
That’s it, my New Year’s resolution is to turn Gargron into a women impregnating sex machine
Well, can we maybe leave the ‘impregnation’ part out?
Can we add in with latent midget genes?
18?
I’m already NINETEEN. Herp derp.
It’s good that you’ve found so many things you love to do. Wish I could say the same about myself — but then again, that’s why I’m still stuck aniblogging and not having a life.
Good luck with your future endeavors.
I hate cliche sentences.
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Haven’t visited your blog for long. Happy late new year, man.
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Ok ok, I got it. But the suggestions part is a real request for aid. Thinking of those is A REAL BICTH.