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I'm back! Thanks for the comments you two, I liked all your poetry. (Thanks for the warning on the language, Black Bird. I'm a little leary of swearing, so I apriciate the warning; that was a pretty good poem, so I'll just let it slide :) ). Anyways, I haven't typed much more poetry over the weekend, I was vegetating on Fanart Central the whole time (my other favorite website to spend hours computer potatoing at), but I do have one quick one: [B][U]Balance Cycle[/U] Yin and yang, Night and Day, Black and white, Dark and light, Echoes ring with hope and light, Shadows of the darkest night, Restoring balance to the earth, Never underestimate The everlasting balance.[/B] It's kinda short, but I like it. What do you think? Oh, and Black Bird, how about gotta', will that work?

Wow, cool poetry you guys. Black Bird, I think I might have a good title for your poem, if you want. How about "Emptiness". I thought one up for your second poem, too, Knight in Black; how's "Banishing Darkness" sound? Anyways, thanks for the compliments, guys. I appriciate them. Oh, and I finally got that poem I was talking about earlier typed up. Here it is: [U]Please[/U] I must know, I don?t know, I gotta? find this out, An obsessive need, A pointless plea, Curiosity?s got the best of me. Bitte, onegai, please, I need to know these things, Don?t know what?s wrong with me, I think it?s curiosity, They say it killed the cat, Well I?m a playful kitten, And I?m dying to find out. Bitte, onegai, please, Miau, miau! A kitten?s curiosity, Nyan, nyan! Come on, you gotta? tell me now, Meow! Bitte, onegai, please! How did you like that one? Here's another one I wrote, it's very fast paced: [U]Nightdream[/U] Must sleep, Can?t sleep, These thoughts are far too much for me. Dreaming, Musing, It?s a daydream in the night. Thoughts flow, Can?t stop, Running, running, tap, tap, tap? So good, So deep, Fly, fly away. Waking, Nightdream, It?s a daydream in the night. That one was not describing a nightmare, by the way. Actually, it was my musing on my own overactive imagination. Not a negative poem at all, in fact, it symbolizes energy. Now for the next poem (I'm on a poetry typing spree...): [U]Nighttime Musings of a Poet[/U] Isolated, I?m perfectly fine, Don?t really feel like talking, I sit here pouring out emotions, Letting them flow, Page after page, Poem after poem, What I?ll do with them, I don?t know, I?ll find a place to keep them Until I think it up. Blank and hypnotized, That?s what?s in my mind, It?s all on paper now, So I must think of what to write, I don?t know, But I?m getting tired now? No, nothing is wrong with me. I was just really tired when I wrote that one; you don't need to call a psychologist on me ^_^;. Now for a more upbeat one: [U]Go Out[/U] Go out, Make a difference, Make a friend, Make a path. Come in, Take a seat, Your heart is welcome here. Take care, You?re our friend, You?re their hope, You shine light on us. Don?t you worry, We?re your friends, And we?ll help you through these years. That one is dedicated to a couple of missionaries from Haiti who stayed at my house a while back. Now that I've cheered everybody up a bit, back to my normal "everything's all right, even if it seems bad at first" style poetry. I wrote this after a very gloomy event happened in my life, so the positive outlook at the end says a lot about my all enduring optimism: [U]Stained Glass Life[/U] I watch from a distance As my life is shattered into pieces, It crumbles down before my eyes And leaves no traces of what it once was, But is broken glass not still beautiful? Can crumbled stone not be put to use? If I place the pieces right And leave design to greater forces, Then I?ll become the artist Of a life more beautiful than before. Ok, now for another one. I really went overboard with the typing this time...: [U]?Hello?[/U] I hold my head up high, To prove that I?m not weak, Confidence runs strong, A cocky pride runs through my veins. I bow my head down low To show respect to you, But do you understand That these feelings are so true. Tears run down my cheeks, You?re all but gone to me, But you come and bow your head In a casual ?hello?. I close my eyes in glee And smile to myself, At that moment I realize That you?ll always be my friend. Well, I think I'm done typing up poems for now. I hope you liked them :D .

Oh, good job Knight in Black :) . That's good poetry. I especially liked The King and the Eagle. I love poetry^_^. Anyways, I have I couple of fanfic poems that I decided I want to post. They're YuGiOh poems, one's about Ryou and the others about Malik: [U]Dark Dream[/U] ninetails390: This is a poem I wrote when I was in a gloomy mood. The power was out at school, and I was bored^_^ Ryou: It?s in my point of view. Malik: ninetails390 officially owns nothing. ninetails390: Hey, I own stuff, just not Yu-Gi-Oh. Flying, Light flashes in my eyes, Rising through the clouds, I see things I?d lost long ago, And Amane, my dear sister, But she?s gone, deceased, Now I know where I am. Suddenly, I?m falling, Tumbling, Broken wings, Darkness surrounds me, It bewilders and swallows me. Where am I? Why am I here? This isn?t the shadow realm, and not Earth, Am I, could I really be, Dead? A hand shakes me, I awaken, Yami no Boku stands above me, ?Thank goodness,? He whispers, ?Aibou, you?re alive.? ninetails390: So, how did I do? [U]True Friendship[/U] ninetails390: This is another one of my dark, slightly angsty, poems. Malik: It?s about me, from my point of view. Ryou: Diane is a good author, but she technically doesn?t own any Yu-Gi-Oh characters. Hieroglyphs, in my back, Carved by my own father. Mother died when I was born, And Father when I was young. Left with Isis, my older sister, I?ve always been a loner. Rishid was my only friend, He guided me to darkness. Then I met two loyal friends, Ryou Bakura and his yami. Ryou has taught me kindness, love. Bakura showed me memory. They?re like me in so many ways, But have their own uniqueness?. I guess that all I really need, Is the power of true friendship. So how did I do on those? anyways, as soon as I get around to typing it up, I've got a really cool (and surprisingly lighthearted compared to most of my poetry) poem about curiosity that I want to post. I'm lazy, so it takes me a while to get around to typing things, but I'll try to get it up someday in the near future^_^.

I'm back!!! Sorry I haven't updated this for a while, but I've got a lot more poetry for you to read (like anybody ever even reads this thread, Flashlight's the only one who ever comments...). Anyways, here's some more poetry^_^. [U]Zephyr[/U] Though the wind may blow hard sometimes, And it may seem all hope is lost, The storms will soon die down, And peace will be restored. A gentle zephyr carries your dreams, So follow the wind No matter where it blows, Don?t turn around ?Cause the wind carries hope. [U]Fork in the Road[/U] You may find your life divided, With two ways to go, A fork in the road. When this happens, Don?t be frightened, Just choose where your heart wants to go. [U]Someday[/U] Don?t know where I?m going, Don?t know what I?m worth, Don?t know where I?m at now, But I know I?m being watched. Can?t be nowhere, Must be somewhere, ?Nothing? is a pointless word Then again, unless you?re God, So is ?everything?. Can?t own the universe, Can?t be perfect, Can?t know everything, But you can be loved, And that love?s the most perfect gift of all. It can fill this emptiness It can fix this sadness, Depression has no meaning When you leave this Earth. So live life to its fullest, Don?t worry if you?re lost, You?ll find your way, Someday, Someday? The next one is from the point of view of one of the characters in my story, so don't worry if you don't recognise the characters' names, some of them (including Kaz himself) haven't apeared yet in what I've typed of my Okami no Portal... [U]Reflections[/U] (Kaz?s image song) I sit quietly on a ledge, Wind rustling my hair, Strands of white fly before my eyes, Emotions fill the air; I sometimes wish they?d go away, But then I remember they?re good some days, Memories of friends I?ve had, Some may drift away, but for now? A friend free and wild, And loyal to the end, She?s fast and agile, And she?s always been my friend. Tsuki, Tsuki, Come to me, A night-hawk so loyal, A friend you?ll always be.. A warrior so violent, My protector and my love, Explosive but gentle, And my lover for all times. Hikaru, Hikaru, Come to me, Warrior so loving, You are my protecting friend. A guardian so gentle, Quiet and solemn at times, She never stops caring, And she?ll protect me till? the end. Okami, Okami, Come to me, Guardian so humble, You?re always helping me. A dragon of confidence, He always sees the good, He seems a bit conceited, But he?s always a great friend. Katsumi, Katsumi, Come to me, The bravest dragon living, You?ve taught me how to fly. The greatest friends I?ve ever had, They?ve helped me through my hardships, I owe my life to them, For they are my whole world. My friends, my friends, Come to me, You?ve always been there for me, And I?ll repay you with my love. As I sit there dreamily, I run through these reflections, And think that maybe? ?Just maybe? I have a reason to live, Because I must repay my friends. My friends, my friends, Please come to me, I cannot live without you, Your love is my life. Wow, I posted a lot more poetry than I normally do ^_^. No, I'm not depressed by the way. I wasn't when I wrote the poetry, either, so don't ask me if I am; I'll just tell you to look at the endings closer. 90% of my poetry is in a sort of "everything's all right, even if it seems bad at first" style, definately not the results of depression, ne? (Though Kaz sometimes is depressed, but that's jut because he's my favorite character in my story and I love to feel sorry for my favorite characters ^_^...my poor favorite characters...).

I wonder why nobody here likes Bubsy? I used to have a Sega Genisis and I would spend [I]hours[/I] playing Bubsy on it. It was a really adictive game. I had no player's guide, though, so I didn't know where it ended and kept getting lost :laugh: ; I got hours and hours (and hours, and hours, and hours...) of entertainment from that little game, though, cute music, too. I never did finish it 'cause we put the Sega away when we got a Playstation. I llooooooooooovve Pokemon Snap, too. It's my favorite N64 game. No kidding ;) . I guess I just have weird taste in video games,ne? Though I do greatly dislike some games, too... [B]Playstation[/B] Ok, this one's hard, I like all the games I have for this, (other than possibly the sports games my dad and brother have, but those don't count because they're not really mine). Lets see :rolleyes: , aha! Final Fantasy Tactics! That game was horendous; the graphics were boring (I felt like I was playing a gameboy advance game on a large screen), I couldn't figure out how to use the controls, and I couldn't figure out the plot. I liked the opening theme, though. Anyways, it was no wonder I got it for so cheap. [B]Nintendo 64[/B] Same as with Playstation, this is hard to think of a bad game, but I think Pokemon Puzzle league wins the prize. It's not that it's a bad game, in fact, I find it slightly addictive; it's just that it's not very, well, exciting. There aren't very interesting graphics, either, just backgrounds and falling blocks. [B]Playstation 2[/B] Without a doubt, Spiro: Enter the Dragonfly wins. It did NOT live up to it's Playstation1 predacecors [I]at all[/I]. I personally think that all the Spiro games after Year of The Dragon are just cheap, sorry attempts at sequals. The first three games are excellent, though, some of my absolute favorites. [B]Gameboy[/B] Rocket Power. Period, no explanation needed. I almost had to pay my brother to take it from me. I finally just gave it to him for Christmas (at least he likes extreme sports). I like the playstation game; it's alright, but this was the absolute [I][B]worst[/B][/I] game I've ever played. [B]Gameboy Advance[/B] Spiro: Season of Flame. I already expained why. [B]Computer[/B] Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone was ridiculous. I'm already eternally frusterated by video games played on keyboards, but go and make a badly made computer game of one of my favorite books and lure me into buying it and I get [I]really[/I] mad. The Gameboy Advance version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets isn't much better. My personal opinion: don't make video games to go with a perfectly good book series, period; they never do it right. Well, there's my ranting and raving over some of the absolute worst video games ever. I hope you like it. ;)

I hang out with boys all the time. They usually don't seem to mind, and I have had some pretty good friends who were boys. I'm a 13 year old girl and I've never really had a crush on anyone (I don't think... though I've been trying to avoid such things for a while, until I'm a little older, so I might have just ignored it: who knows), so I don't know much about that particular subject. Anyways, don't worry, I have a similar problem, only slightly different. One of my friends (I won't mention any names) seems to have aquired a girlfriend recently, and is now almost completely ignoring me (though he seems to accnowledge me a lot better when his girlfriend isn't around...), so, yeah... I hope you figure out your problem soon, though. Good luck ;) !

Thanks again Flashlight, I edited Endless Void. I'm glad you liked my revision of Unconditional Friendship :D . I love your comments; I'm glad somebody likes my writing ;) . Oh, and did you read my story? If so, how do you like it? I'm working on the fourth chapter right now, but only the first one is typed :( . Oh well, maybe someday I'll get some big inspiration to type all my writing... Anyways, here's Dark Void, revised version: [U]Dark Void[/U] Darkness, Blackness, Wings unfold, Coming back From tales untold, Deep within The darkest void, There?s a heart that knows no love. Saving time And saving space, Don?t give up your endless chase, Take the crystals, Don?t lose hope, Protect your home The sacred place. Worldly strength And spiritual powers, Searching far and wide for hours, Do your best, with limited power, Don?t turn back, The world?s in danger. Heal the world, Mend fatal wounds, Find your purpose By light of moon, Don?t stop now, Your time is soon, The future's in your hands. Darkness falls, Light recedes, Midnight comes, The end seems near, But don?t fall weak to mortal fear, Don?t fall weak to mortal fear. How's that? Does it sound better?

I just got my best friend, Maya, into Demon Diary (I let her borrow some of my manga and manwa last night). She loves it, her favorite character is Eclipse (mine's Raenef, but I love all of them). She's, um, not very familiar with shounen-ai, but she loves it anyways, so I'm happy. I don't read things because of shounen-ai, but I don't have a problem with it if it's in the actual original storyline. Obviously Maya doesn't either, though neither of us like full blown yoai. Anyways, I now have a fellow Demon Diary fan to obsess with. I'm so happy :D . Now the two of us are going to ave to figure out how to draw Demon Diary characters.

I'm 13 years old and I rapidly switch between mature and immature. I guess I'm really mature and wise for my age, but have an extremely immature way of showing it. I tend to be very philosophical and hold strong opinions; I hate to break the rules, and popularity is very low on my list of priorities, but then again, I'm hyperactive and thoroughly enjoy acting weird, on purpose. I'm very intelligent and love to write very symbolic stories, but fill them with an equally extreme amount of humor (the majority of which is word-play or playing with the characters' personalities and quirks). So, yeah, I'm immaturely-mature (mature thoughts and opinions, but immature ways of showing them 90% of the time, though I can act [B][I]very[/I][/B] mature sometimes, especially when I'm feeling sad or philosophic).

I'm not good with politics... Anyways, um, I guess my point is that the earth isn't going to last forever anyways, so, though it is a problem, we shouldn't argue about it, just try our best to do something about it and get as many others as posible to do the same; the best we can do ist the best we can do, and we can't do any better than our best. I don't have a whole lot of time because I need to go to bed, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. :huh:

Why, thank you, Flashlight-chan. I appriciate the compliments and suggestions. :D I'll try editing my poetry up a bit as oon as I think of something. Actually, int Purpose, I wasn't even trying to ryme; it just happened that way. I rarely [I]try[/I] to make my poetry ryme, but it's cool when it does. Pretty funny, ne? Thank you so much, though, domo arigato! I have another poem to post, I forgot I had it typed up. It's sort of a theme song to my story, Okami no portal, actually. (You can see a preview of my story at [url]http://frontpage.kconline.com/rickowens/Okami%20no%20Portal%20preview.htm[/url]): [SIZE=3][U]Dark Void[/U][/SIZE] Darkness, Blackness, Wings unfold, Coming back From tales untold, Deep within The darkest void, There?s a heart that knows no love. Saving time And saving space, Don?t give up your endless chase, Take the crystals, Don?t lose hope, Protect your home The sacred place. Worldly strength And spiritual powers, Searching far and wide for hours, Do your best, with limited power, Don?t turn back, The world?s in danger. Heal the world, Mend fatal wounds, Find your purpose By light of moon, Don?t stop now, Your time is soon, Time is in your hands. Darkness falls, Light recedes, Midnight comes, The end seems near, But don?t fall weak to mortal fear, No, don?t fall weak to mortal fear. So, how do you like it. If you nice people read my story, too, tell me how you liked that also. If not, go read it, or I'll call my muses on you! :flaming: :laugh: Don't worry, I won't let them hurt you; I'm not that dangerous. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~EDIT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey, Flashlight, I edited Unconditional friendship. Read it now and see how you like my revisions ;) . [U]Unconditional Friendship[/U] Friends must be loyal, Give respect with all their hearts, They never judge you By looks and clothes, And when you need their help They never leave you on your own. But friends need not be perfect, If they stay right by your side. So, what do you think?

[QUOTE=ScirosDarkblade] I don't think Mist and NineTails have a clue, actually, because both believe that people are trying to help, but just can't do as well as some would like. Well, a few people ARE trying to help, but most aren't. I would encourage the both of them to educate themselves on the issue, and then maybe we'd get some real suggestions out of them.[/QUOTE] I think I'm taking more of a religious and philsophical standpoint than a scientific one. I'm good with science, but I'm bad at making opinions using it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the few of us who are trying to help should, I don't know, recruite more people to help take care of the world. I know we can try harder, and that we are far from perfect, but we aren't completely bad. Nothing is completely bad or completely good, unless you count God and the devil. I'm sorry if my posts sound a little like, erm, a psycologist on a rampage or something (they probably do), I just love to state my opinion, and I can even be bit "overly-optomistic" on this particular topic. My dad is a pastor, so I think I got part of the inspiration from him (which is good, not bad, by the way), and I tend to be a bit of a daydreamer, so I always hope for the best. I like to contemplate our purpose, so if it seems like I have a bit of a preocupation with that theory, it's probably true. I live for symbolism and depth, and Iwould probably make a great (though overly-optomistic, if there is such a thing) philosepher, if I weren't already planning on becoming a vetrinarian and authoress. So, anyways, sorry for any offense I've caused. I will now rant some more on this very contreversial subject, this time, taking science into account (or trying too, at least). I believe that humans should try [I]much[/I] harder to protect the world from themselves, but that they are not perfect and were never meant to be while on this Earth. We can do good, I know we can. We can destroy the world, we are destroying it, but, at the same time we are saving it and fixing what we have done wrong, piece by piece. Even though we are destroying faster than we are fixing right now, some people are trying to help, and the number of people trying to help is growing, slowly and gradually, but surely. My latest inspiration for my comments here is Princess Mononoke, which I just rewatched tonight, partially because I have spent so much time on this thread. Many of my thoughts in this post relate to it a little. If you have seen, please think on it a little, it has ahappy ending where everything balances out; if you haven't seen it, try watching it some time, it really has a great story and moral. I know it's not the greatest reference ever, considering it's a fantasy genre anime, but it really has a good point. We hurt nature, nature hurts us, we help nature, nature helps us, and everything will all balance out eventually. I don't think I can really say much more without going into the same old speech, which practically nobody here agrees with.

I love to write poetry (usually very philosophical poetry with extended metaphores), so I decided to post it here at OtakuBoards for you all to see :D . Please comment on my writing, I love it when people acnowledge my existance). Positive comments are great (please don't spam, though, of the Moderators won't be happy), and suggestions are, too; I love too improve my writing! Please don't flame me, though, I'm easilly offended. Complaints and constructive critsizm are one thing, but flames scare me! Ok, here we go: [U]Purpose[/U] A purpose hidden deep inside, A place where you can fly, Where is it? The talent?s hard to find, But when you do, you?ll fly, It?s human nature to lose faith, But just keep going, You?ll find your place, Don?t worry, it?s there, Deep inside you, It?s in there somewhere. [U]Unconditional Friendship[/U] Friends must be loyal, Give respect with all their hearts, They never judge you By looks and clothes, And when you need their help They never leave you on your own. But friends don?t need to be perfect, Just as long as they are good. Well, that's all I've got typed so far, I've got tons more, though. Please comment :) Oh, and all my poetry is G-rated, by the way ;)

Sorry, Sere, did anything I say offend you (sorry, offending people is sort of a paranoia of mine). Anyways, that's not exactly what I meant. I meant more along the lines of "we must have been created for a purpose. We have to protect our world because, unlike plants and animals, we, thoeretically, have the technology to destroy it, so we need to take care of it; that must be the purpose we were created for. We were created with the gift of compassion (not that there aren't other animals that can feel love, loyalty, and friendship, also), and should use it to take care of our world. We take the ability to love for granted, sometimes abuse the gift, but we don't realize that we wee granted with the rare ability to love and fully understand it, to do something about it. Yes, we are greedy, we abuse are gift of love and forget why we are here, but we are human, we make mistakes. Eventaully, we will die, and whether you believe we will go to a new, perfect world, or drop out of exstance entirely, you will eventually not be here on Earth, so any mistakes we have made will eventually be irrelevant, because the Sun will not last forever, the Earth will not either, but you will (ok, I have to bring religion into this). If you go to Heaven, you will live forever, Earth is just the first step in existance, when you leave it, everything you have done wrong will be forgiven, even forgotten. It will become irrelevent. We are not horrible, we are not perfect, not by a long run, but we aren't horrible, otherwise, why would we be here?" There, I think I worded my opinion better that time ( :o sorry if I offended anyone, i was trying to stay neutral on religious stuff in this thread, but I had to mention Heaven to get my point across. You can probably tell I'm Christian, huh). Oh, and also, please note that I'm a major nature-lover. I'm osessed with animals and believe that they were created to be just as important as us, they were just created with different gifts than us. I do not believe that we are any more important than them, or that we are a horrible species that is worthless and doesn't matter compared to animals. Lets just say everything balances out (I'm tempted to post more philosophical poetry, but I think I'll resist...)

Ok, first you have to know that practically the only kind of games I play are RPG's. I delight in good plotlines and graphics, so my favorite game system from what I've seen would have to be Playstation2, but that's mostly because it has the .Hack games, which are currently my favorite game series (.Hack//INFECTION is the greatest game I've ever played, I need to get .Hack//MUTATION, though, cause I have INFECTION and OUTBREAK, but not MUTATION, which makes OUTBREAK a little frusterating). It also has (or rather Playstation in general has) the Spyro the Dragon series, which I find undyingly entertaining (partiularly the third game, Spyro: Year of the Dragon), though I don't like Enter the Dragonfly or any of the gameboy games much... Strangely enough, my second favorite gaming system is actually Nintindo 64, yes, you heard me, not Gamecube, good old Nintindo 64. The reason? Well that's equally bizzare. The reason I like Nintindo 64 so much is because of...Pokemon Snap. Yes, you heard me, Pokemon Snap, the all-time greatest N64 game ever created! I love it (I bought the game for ten dollars at Wal-Mart and have never stoped loving it since. My 3 favorite video games are (in this order) -.Hack//INFECTION -Pokemon Snap - Spyro: Year of the Dragon, tied with Lunar Legend (GBA) and Pokemon Saphire (GBA) So I guess that makes Gameboy Advance my third favorite, ne?

:twitch: I read mangas out of order, I just grab whatever looks interesting at the time, which is sometimes volume 6 of a manga I've never read before. Sometimes this is because they don't have the first volume at the evil library or bookstore, sometimes it's because volume (insert random number here) looks more interesting. Though I do normally try and read them in order. I own about five manga graphic novels currently (well, one's manwa, but same difference). I own: -Wish (volume 1) -Dragon Knights (volume 1) -Cardcaptor Sakura: Legend of the Clow (volume 4) -.Hack//Legend of the Twilight (volume 1) -Demon Diary (volume 6) I also go to the library a lot and supply myself with other manga (mostly Evangelion and Inu-Yasha, I get Wish an some other manga there sometimes, too). Anyways, my current favorite mangas (or manwas) are Dragon Knights, Evangelion, and Demon Diary, though, .hack//Legend of the Twilight is pretty high up there, too.

[QUOTE=r2vq]Ninetails390, this kind of talk disgusts me. It disgusts me that more people dont think like that. We have over 6 billion people at our disposal. Do we have means to feed them? Ask the obese in North America. Do we have a place to house them? Take a look at Canadian wilderness. Do we really need them? Yes! If everybody took heart, if everybody [i]cared[/i], if nobody took more than needed, if nobody was [i]greedy[/i], we could make a world that [i]everybody[/i] would love, and [i]nobody[/i] would be able to turn away. -ArV[/QUOTE] Wow someone agrees with me :D Thank you! I'm so happy, the entire thread isn't full of pessimists any more (no offense to everybody else, ok ;) ) Our world is a beautiful place, the environment, the creatures, and the [I]humans[/I]. We, being more advanced technologicaly and mentally than plants and animals (and rocks, but I don't think they'll ever become intelligent life forms, then again, trees probably won't either...), have been left to care for our world and eachother (imagine the fate of the world in the hands *cough* erm, I mean branches, of oak trees :bellylol: , and then say we aren't important; or should we leave it to the frogs instead? :frog: :therock: ); that is what our creator intended for us to do (I'm staying away from specific religios references, here, for fear of offending people) :o . Every living thing has a purpose, and all living things are equally inportant in the grand scheme of things, and we are one of those species', so we must have been created for a purpose, right? I have a poem that I wrote a while ago that sort of fits the subject so I'll post it: Purpose A purpose hidden deep inside, A place where you can fly, Where is it? The talent?s hard to find, But when you do, you?ll fly, It?s human nature to lose faith, But just keep going, You?ll find your place, Don?t worry, it?s there, Deep inside you, It?s in there somewhere. See, we all are important; it's just up to you to figure out what you can do to contribute to our species' purpose in the world. ;) Oh, and look at my signiture, it says ~We are human beings, we aren't perfect, but we try our best.~, that's sort of my motto, as I believe i stated earlier, so it's pretty hard to convince my that humans are horrible monsters, or that we're the greatest beings ever to live ;)

[quote name='Mist][color=orange][size=1] I would just like to state that I always appreciate people's opinions, but [i]honestly[/i], the 9/11 comment were really out of line. In regards towards humans being a virus, for all the wrong we've done, we have at least [b]attempted[/b] to right some of our wrongs, haven't we? Why do you think we plant a tree for every tree we cut down? Anyway, it's not really our fault why we're here. I won't go into my opinions on that subject though. ^_^[/color'][/size][/quote] Mist is right, we are doing our best to fix what we've done wrong; it's not our fault that our best sometimes isn't enough. We are human, we aren't perfect, no one and nothing is, of any species. Perfection is a position held only by the one who created us. We only need to try our best, and everything will work out in the end. Killing people is not the answer; how would you feel if you died because someone went out on a mass-murder spree too solve overpopulation? That changes the veiwpoint a little, doesn't it? Resourcefulness is one of the most valuable qualities anyone could have in today's collapsing world, more inportant than almost every quality other than compassion and faith. We just need to try our best; care for others and tell them how to try their best, too. Have faith in God, or whoever you happen to beleive in. Just have faith in your religion, whatever it is, it will give you hope. All of us are truly good inside, as Anne Frank said. It's just a question of whether we believe that we can be a sucsessful species, and I believe we can. ;) Wow, I didn't know I was that philosophical. I must have got it from my dad; he's a pastor...

I fear sudden, intense pain, such as shots/ bee stings/ getting cavities filled/ etc.. Another thing I fear is being taken advantage of or attacked. I am really shy, but I love people and am very bouncy, cheerful, and talkative around my friends and even total strangers (that doesn't make any sense, but oh well. It's more of a fear that people won't accept my opinions. I don't care if people don't like/ agree with my opinions and intrests; I'm weird and I know it, and I'm proud of my uniquness, too, but I fear that people (even my family and close friends) will not accept certain interests or opinions of mine, so I just don't mention them because I'm afraid I'll offend my friends by saying it. So I guess really I'm araid of offending others and being guilty. Nobody's perfect, that's even sort of a motto for me, but I'm scared to death that I will slip and do something really bad and offend someone really badly. Also, along those same lines, I'm afraid of getting in trouble. It's not the punishment I fear, it's the guilty feeling that I did something wrong. It's a huge paranoia, I don't like being guilty of something I know is wrong. My other fear is losing friends. It rips me to pieces when I lose friends, I can't stand it. Whether it's because of moving away or just drifting apart, I get really depressed when I lose a friend. My mom is getting married soon (my parents are divorced), and that means that we wil probably have to move to a bigger house this summer. I have spent months making sure she moves to a house in the same school district as I'm in right now, I will not lose any more friends, I plan on graduating from high school with my best friend, Maya (well, that's her "inernet penname", like Diane is for me) and all my other friends. I already had to move away from friends once this year; my dad is a pastor, so he got moved to a new church and I had to leave all sorts of friends behind. I miss them so much :bawl: At this church, though, he only has to move away if he wants to switch churches. Yay!!! :D Thanks fro actually reading my atempts at explaining my fears, I enjoyed reading yours, too. :babble: I like to talk... :laugh:

I've been looking all over kingdom come for Demon Diary for months now, and I finally found it! I ran over to Walden Books today at the mall while my family was eating, and, behold, I found Demon Diary! I bought it (the 6th graphic novel, I wih they had the first one) and then proceded to read the entire thing in less than an hour. It's great! I love all the characters! Chris and Erutis are hilarious, and Raeneff and Eclipse are so lovable (not to say that Chris and erutis aren't). The art is beautiful :love: I love it! So kawaii, so it satisfies my love of humor, but it's really deap, too, and anyone who knows me (not many people here, in other words) knows that I love deap stories with lots of anghst, magic, symbolism, lovable characters, and a touch of humor to lighten things up. Oh, by the way, this is the first manwa I've read, so lets just say it had a good impression on me :D

[QUOTE=Wandering Mage]I think the people who did Witch Hunter Robin have stolen my li'l notebook of random inspirations. I was going to do one about magick and spells, but it's taken. :bawl: [/QUOTE] It's okay Wandering Mage, there are all sorts of magic animes. You could write one with a slightly different plot and characters. I mean, look at Love Hina and Maison Ikkokuu, they've got almost identical plots, but both are unique and cute (though I'm more familiar with Love Hina). My story has some plot elements that are inspired by (not based on, inspired by) YuGiOh, Inu-Yasha, Slayers, and many other animes. It's okay if your anime reminds peolpe of another anime, as long as it's unique. :D Well, good luck! ;)

[quote name='QuincyArcher']to be honest, it was my grandpa that got my anime addiction started. by blood i am japanese but i was born and raised american. when i was about 5 years old my grandpa (who lived in japan) would always send me tape recordings of Dragonball, Dr. Slump and Doraimon which aired on japanese TV back then and i always would anticipate when the next batch of tapes would arrive. now 15 years later im a full blown otaku anime addict, thanks Gramps! may he rest in peace :)[/quote] That's cool! One of my family friends got me into anime (well, he REALLY got me into it). I went to his house for vacation last summer (he lives far away), and started showing him my art (I had a million pictures of pokemon from my new Pokemon Saphire version :ball: and of Ryou Bakura from YuGiOh, though I didn't know much about other animes). He's a prophesor at Colorado State University and teaches a sort of overseas Eastern Religions class (Japan and India, mostly), so he recognised the art style almost imediately (I was very shocked that he knew what anime was) and promptly ran to get his Princess Mononoke DVD, which we watched later that night. He had me hooked, I spent the rest of the trip learning basic Japanese from him and atempting to draw Ryou, and the mountains in Colorado, and Ryou, and mountains, and...). Anyways, before you acuse me of going on the biggest tangent in history, I'll explain; I call him Ojiisan, which means grandpa in Japanese. So, that's the story of how I became obsessed with anime, and, for that matter, Japan in general. Um, minna-san? Where is everybody? Oh well, I must have bored them with my reminiscing... :sleep: :sleep: :sleep: :sleep: Hey! Wake up! [COLOR=Navy]Next time, please try to stay on-topic. If your posts stray too much from the discussion at hand, they may be deleted. ~Dagger~[/COLOR] Oh, ok, sorry... Anyways, I think I forgot to mention, my "step dad-to-be" also doesn't really mind anime. He just doesn't understand what I'm saying when I speak in Japanese. I think he'd really love Trigun, though. (Again, sorry about the tangent, I like to talk^_^;)

[COLOR=Navy]Hey, I think my mom actually LIKES Inuyasha. Well, she hasn't really watched it, but she thinks it sounds cute. That's a start, huh? She actualy buys me anime DVDs. (Yu Yu Hakusho, Love Hina, Inuyasha, Haibane Renmai, etc.) My dad got me two of the .Hack games ^_^ I looovve ELK!!!!! :love: He's so kawaii! Shounen-ai has, erm...interesting...effects on my family members. As I think I've stated before, I'm not the world's biggest yaoi fan ever, but there are a select few canon [I]shounen-ai[/I] (as in NOT full blown yoai) pairings that I find cute. So, reactions: My perverted little brother [I]likes[/I] it. Well, he likes picking on various characters by putting them in same-gender pairings, at least. My dad doesn't mind that some of the animes I watch/read have a little bit of minor fluffy shounen-ai in it (which is about all I can handle,sooooo...), and then theres my mom; she's actualy amused by Shinji/Kaworu (or at least at my hopeless efforts at decifering their relationship); She thinks all male anime characters are obsessed with girls, "except the two boys who are in love": on the other hand, if I try to explain the characters in Gravitation (which I like for the character development, not the shounen-ai), she acts all grossed out. She's so strange... Oh well, I'm not to terribly obsessed with Gravi. (Evangelion is one of my favorites, though, and I'm a little nervous watching it around her, even on my portable DVD player. I know it's not bad, but I just don't want her to misinterpret it as a "bad anime") Soooo confusing....[[/COLOR]

Haibane Renmai's great! I have a DVD of it. It kind of reminnds me of The Giver, by Louis Lowrey. You should watch it, it's a great anime. The characters are really lovable. I't's kinda sad at times though. :love2: I love the characters though;they're so sweet.

My mom dorsn't like it much, she doesn't understand it. She limits it a little, but mostly for my brother (Yu-Gi-Oh, for some reason, so we watch it at my dad's house since my parents are divorced.) I hate DBZ, so I don't mind not being able to watch it. She lets us watch Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin, though. And I get anime DVD's from the library a lot and watch them on the computer (we have a DVD player program), mostly Evangelion, but I get some others too (like Ranma 1/2). She sounded a little interested in Slayers, though, I'll try renting it and showing it to her. She also really liked Spirited Away. I read all sorts of manga, mostly Inuyasha (my favorite manga^_^), and Ranma 1/2 (manga's better than the anime, I don't like Ranma's dub voice). My dad doesn't mind anime and even thinks it sounds interesting. He just thinks it's too confusing. He'll listen to my half hour long talks about anime and he really loves to look at my pictures (even the ones of Shinji and Kaworu holding hands). He doesn't mind at all that I like anime, he even encourages that I keep drawing anime characters. He does get a little nervous when my brother watches some of the more violent anime's because he tries to role play the characters in our ongoing RPG, and ends up hurting me (his Yu Yu Hakusho characters act more like DBZ characters!). Then again, he also doesn't really like my brother watching The Powerpuff Girls-_-;, so that isn't saying much. My brother loves anime, he just doesn't understand that it's not all aimed towards 9 year olds. He keeps trying to take my Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2 manga and read it. He also tries to watch Ranma 1/2 with me and one time I handed him a Fushigi Yugi manga to show him that it would be to hard for him to understand, but he just laughed at the funny facial expresions (which is also the only reason he likes Rurouni Kenshin). I did manage to convince him not to watch Evangelion with me *whew*, so at least he knows that not :all: anime's are meant to be hilariously funny. As for shounen-ai, my brother likes it more than me. Of course, the only reason he likes it is so he can pick on the characters I like (he thinks Kurama is in love with Hiei). I do like Kaworu/Shinji, though. My parents don't mind. My dad has to tell my brother to stop singing "Kaworu and Shinji, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G..." all the time. Anyways, now I'm done with my super long post-_-;