Sara

[COLOR=orangered][FONT=century gothic]Yes, we seem to be in the "I hate my life" phase again. But a phase it is...one topic spurs others like it. This, too, shall pass. [/FONT] [/COLOR]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rick Hunter [/i] [B]...and force me to not work at 100%! The fans of theOtaku.com don't deserve less then 100%, and I refuse to give less then 100%! So as of today I am officially retired from theOtaku.com!:( [/B][/QUOTE][COLOR=orangered][FONT=century gothic]Because 0% is just [i][b]so[/b][/i] much better than 99%... Heh, don't mind me, I couldn't resist... Best to you! -Cera[/FONT] [/COLOR]

[COLOR=orangered][FONT=century gothic]heh, good ol' DS....I miss him.[/FONT] [/COLOR]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by BabyGirl [/i] [B][color=deeppink]Nobody should be complaining...our phone line only supports 28K...so quiet, all of you! :p[/color] [/B][/QUOTE][COLOR=orangered][FONT=century gothic]I hear ya. ;) We only just got a faster one a little while ago... Our old one didn't even make 28.8. >_

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ShadowGohan [/i] [B][SIZE=1]this thread is pointless...[/SIZE] [/B][/QUOTE][COLOR=orangered][FONT=century gothic]Anyone ever see the movie [u]The Point[/u]? ...I remember watching it when I was very young.....strange movie....[/FONT] [/COLOR]

[COLOR=orangered][FONT=century gothic]I share a room with my sister. It's actually pretty plain--brown painted floor, white painted walls... A bunk bed in one corner, a drafting table in another [heh, that's where I do all my writing and drawing...] and a sort of closet where our dressers are... This is a picture of me, you can see part of the bunkbed and a snippet of the closet in the background...otherwise, it's just me, grinning at the camera while sitting at the drafting table. It sorta looks under-construction, my dad had a bunch of his tools up thee when the picture was taken a couple weeks ago.[/FONT] [/COLOR]

[COLOR=orangered][font=century gothic]I had the most remarkable dream last night..... I was at school-back at my old grade school, actually...I was in fifth grade again. ::shudders:: I hated fifth grade. One of my buddies from high school was there, somehow he was in my old class. We were all supposed to go down to the auditorium, to work on the Christmas Program....Well, once we got there, everything settled down to the normal rehearsal chaos...no one wanted to be there, everyone was fooling around, the whole deal. A teacher sent me down to the classroom to get his gradebook. On my way there, I saw my buddy from high school, he'd also been sent to get some random item for a teacher. Well, when we found our way back to the auditorium [we were in no hurry to get there, and the school was layed out differently...], everything was different. Everyone was behaving and acting their parts out, and singing when they were supposed to, and there was no talking or anything....freaky. Well, the two of us later figured out that somehow the entire school had been brainwashed when we were outside the auditorium. So, after faking some extraordinary illness and ditching class, we set out to look for the teacher who had sent us out of the room. He'd disappeared.... And later, after quite the series of ordeals, losing each other a few times, finding a handful of other students who'd been out of the roon, eventually finding the teacher, and learning that the state had been invaded by some army or other, we ended up leading a geurilla group against the new government...kinda reminded me of the John Marsden books about Australia.... We were eventually caught and all executed for treason. As I said, a most remarkable dream....[/COLOR][/font]

1. What's worse, drinking problem or gambling problem? maybe both of them are just as bad? [b]If you're smart, you'll try to avoid both.[/b] 2. What's better (finally a "positive" question :laugh: ) being merciful or being generous? [b]To be merciful.[/b] 3. Who//what will you take along If you have to travel to a far island all by urself? [b]Well, you didn't say desert island island, so I'd bring a good book to read on the plane ride and some money for snacks for when I got there.[/b] 4. what do you prefer, Anime or sit coms? (comedy series) [b]Anime. This being and anime board, I'm rather amused you put this question up...[/b] 5. If you had tons of money, what are the 5 first things you would have bought? [b]1. A quality set of colored pencils 2. A good solid book to read 3. A new computer 4. A pair of hiking boots 5. And I'd walk over to the neighborhood ice cream place and get a lemonade and a butter pecan waffle cone.[/b]

1. Do you spend much time in this forum? 2. Do you contribute a lot of poetry? 3. Do you read a lot of poetry posted here? 4. For the most part, do you enjoy it? 5. How would you describe most of the poetry posted here? Insightful? Light hearted? Moving? Mind-numbingly depressing? 6. Do you write [or have you, in the past, written] much poetry that could be considered "depressing"? 7. Did writing it make you feel any better? 8. Do you prefer reading "depressing" or "lighthearted" poetry? 9. And does the phrase "you have to suffer to write" mean anything to you?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Nerdsy [/i] [B][color=deeppink]If I had to choose, I'd have to say Seph. he knows more about Anime than Safer.[/color][/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]Wha??[/FONT] 1. What's worse (oh joy): being greedy or spoiled?? [b]Greedy.[/b] 2. Say Adam retired from Otaku (like that's ever going happen). Who would inherit the sites: [b]...inherit?[/b] 3. Which do you think is paradise: Land of Money, Land of Food, or Land of Anime (and this isn't Japan..lol)??? [b]None of the above.[/b] 4. What's worse: yourself (physically) or yourself (mentally) It's a shrink question. [b]I don't understand what you are trying to say...[/b] 5. Let's say $1 million just dropped out of nowhere and landed at your front door....literally. Are you going to give it to charity or go on a spending spree of your life. [b]I'd spend it.[/b] 6. What would you pilot: A Gundam, Zoid, or EVA??? [b]EVA[/b] 7. And for the closing question.......Are you a vegetable, straight or just mentally insane?? [b]Again, I don't understand what you're asking...[/b]

[FONT=century gothic]Hey, I know where I'm going.[/FONT] ;)

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by tursi [/i] [B]i have alot of dreams where my friends go evil and try to kill me.[/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]My friends and i have this sort of a...joke...where he tries to kill me every Friday. Let me tell you, that makes for some veeery disturbing dreams....[/FONT]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Justin [/i] [B]o_O...Maybe you should lock yourself up in your room to escape him...Or perhaps he's just gone [i]bananas[/i]...hee... -Justin [/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]EVIL! Well, there was a great lack of soviet business in that post, at least... I swear, if anyone starts anything in Digimon, I won't be responsible for my actions..... :shifty: My sis used to be registered here as BriarMoss. But that was almost a year ago...[/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]Knowing you, it's about a cat.....[/FONT]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i] [B] [color=royalblue]Otaku is a strange word. It essentially means "hardcore", within the context of being a hardcore fan of anime or manga. However, in Japan, the word is occasionally considered offensive. Because the implication is that an "Otaku" never leaves their room and spends all day and night watching anime/reading manga. So as you can see, it's an absolutely perfect name for our sites. :D [/color] [/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]You have such a high opinion of us all, James.[/FONT]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Nerdsy [/i] [B][COLOR=deeppink]I guess jarbled English runs in the family. Yes, I have a brother on the boards. Spikey.[/COLOR] [/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]I guess ::cough:: runs in the family. [size=1]please, nobody hurt me...[/size][/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]I play soccer. We had practice in the snow yesterday--it was FUN! Wheee! [/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]::eyes previous posts:: Oh yeah? Well, I think he says Jongo Fett...or Jingo...or....and he was his mom's second cousin twice removed. There, don't you feel enlightened?[/FONT]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Jamvis [/i] [B][every1 knows im more of a nerd than nerdsy :p] [/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]That would be a "No."[/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]So how old were you when you became obsessed with this series, James?[/FONT]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Voodookanaka [/i] [B]hahahahahaha lol look what i found, bring back memories :) [url]http://members.aol.com/vudukanaka//theotaku.gif[/url] [/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]I remember when that was first done up...heh, good times...[/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]Well, here goes... I sure as all heck don't believe in "love at first site." Not the way you mean, at least. Love is a funny thing. I've loved a lot of people. Been "in love"? Nah, not like that. But I loved them very dearly. Lost each one of them, and the wounds never quite healed... Dear friend of mine says I'm afraid to let anyone get too close...he's referring to himself, of course...:-/ [i]Isn't it curious that [b]love,[/b] so fickle, is placed above [b]friendship,[/b] almost always so worthy?[/i] Me, get married? Not like I've really thought about it or anything, I'm only barely sixteen. I can't really picture myself ever being married. I don't know if that's something most people do, think about the future? When I was in grade school, girls would always talk about their wedding day, how fancy their dresses would be, and just [i]exactly[/i] how perfect their husbands would look. I never did that...I remember asking one girl why they would talk about those things--I just didn't get it. She looked at me funny and walked off. She didn't really have a good reason, so she just left. I don't know if there was a point to that story at all...It's late, I'm tired...[/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]It's been around for a couple years. The boards were totally redone in August, they went from UBB to vB, or the other way around, or something, and all the old members had to reregister. As comfortable as you may be asking the Digimon crew, those in GD can surely answer your question better than I. ;)[/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]Heh, i defininetely see the conncetion to Poe's workl. I wrote a story modeled after his witing style a while back..I was a disturbed child....:shifty:[/FONT]

[FONT=century gothic]Well, I was going through my old essays and found this little pearl. This was written about two years ago. I like to think that my writing has improved since then... But it's a rant about fairy tales. I was in a fairly awful mood when I wrote it, but reading it now always makes me laugh. It hasn't been edited for mistakes since it was written, so be gentle with your criticisms. Enjoy! And let me know what you think about it.[/font] [b]HAPPLIY NEVER AFTER[/B] I just can?t figure out fairy tales. I mean, most of them are pretty ridiculous. Take Rapunzel. You know the story. The pregnant wife gets this totally uncontrollable craving for?of all things?lettuce. How likely is that? Chocolate, I could understand. Cheesecake? Definitely. But lettuce? What, is she part rabbit? And do you have any idea how long it is going to take before someone?s hair is twenty feet long? Cause Zel?s tower has to be at least two stories high, or the kid would have jumped out the window before she was four. Hair grows less than an inch a month! It would take between twenty-five and thirty years! How does the witch get up to the top of the tower for the first two or three decades of this girl?s life? How about Snow White? Evil stepmother-witch sends this kind-hearted woodsman out into the forest to kill her stepdaughter and bring back her heart in a box. You have got to be kidding me. I mean, if you?re gonna off someone, at least hire a mercenary who?s gonna get it done right. None of this sentimental stuff. And what?s she going to do with the heart? Eat it? I mean, this isn?t some little pendant or piece of cute jewelry or something. This is a real, bloody, squishy heart. Does she have some sort of spell she wants to do, but she doesn?t have all the ingredients? ?One heart of a beautiful maiden, must be stored in an elaborate jewelry box before being used.? Sure. Makes perfect sense. A little salt, a little pepper... And what about Rumplestiltskin? Don?t you think that funny little men who can spin straw into gold would be well-known? Come on, they?d have to be listed somewhere. Yellow pages, maybe? Everyone has to make a living. Although the price is a little high. First born children and all that. Makes you wonder about this guy. I mean, can he possibly know what he?s getting into? Probably not. Give him the whining little brat. In three days he?ll be back, begging to spin straw into gold for the rest of his life, if you?ll just take the kid back. Or maybe he eats them. You never can tell. Speaking of unlimited gold, do you remember King Midas? Everything he touched turned to gold. Including people. So much for an active love life. And that?s gotta do something awful to supply and demand. I mean, that?s totally going to wreck the senior economics classes. An unlimited supply of gold? THAT fast, it?s worthless, and people are buying things with fig leaves again. Good wishing, genius. And Hansel and Gretel. Cast out of their home by an evil step-mother, they find a house in the forest made of gingerbread and candy. Do you have any idea what would happen to a real gingerbread house? What about rain? What about ants ? What about Health Department Officials? Take Sleeping Beauty. Especially the Disney-ized version. Puh-lease! Like an evil witch would ever be put off by a little thing like having every single spinning wheel in the kingdom destroyed. She?s an evil sorceress, people! You could repeatedly try to kill the princess, and she would not be able to die until she pricked her finger on her sixteenth birthday. Curses are stubborn like that. At least in this one the evil witch isn?t a step-mother. What listing of fairy tales is complete without Cinderella? This one. So there. Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! The Frog Prince. This has got to be the stupidest story ever. No, I?m sorry. I didn?t mean that. The stupidest story ever was some asinine thing in my eighth grade literature book. So this gets to take second place. Princess meets frog. Frog rescues princess?s ball from fountain. Princess kisses Frog. Frog turns into prince. Princess marries frog. How is this girl ever gonna learn to live happily ever after with someone who wants to get rid of the termite problem by eating them? I mean, what if they go to Mickey D's? He?s gonna try to order all his meals with a side of french flies. (Bah. Old joke.) Sheesh. She should have kept the talking frog. Jack and the Beanstalk. How do hundred foot tall giants manage to build a castle in the clouds? Clouds. Water vapor. This stuff if not strong enough to support a mouse, much less angry giants who stomp around reciting bad poetry. And what?s up with the singing harp and golden goose eggs? Were they exposed to radiation, or what? These are not things you would want to approach, much less steal from a giant. And how exactly does English blood smell any different than, say, Swedish blood? Just wondering. It?s all in the interest of science. Little Red Riding Hood. If I am correct?and you?d better believe that I always am?this story is about a girl named (get this) Little Red Riding Hood. And you thought Rapunzel had it bad, being name after lettuce! She is called Little Red Riding Hood because, wherever she went, she wore a neon green football jersey. (The Mutant Frogs, #44, Prince) No, she wore a ?little red riding hood.? Just what the heck IS a ?little red riding hood?? Beats the heck out of me, but that?s what she wore. So Little Red goes to bring her poor sick Grandma some cookies. Now, where I come from, Grandmas are typically thought of being the ones to bake cookies to give to their sweet little grandchildren, not vice-versa. But, hey, I live in the real world! What do I know? So this little girl (let me stress this next bit) with her mother?s permission?with her mother?s orders (do we see a possible step-mother here?)?goes out into the big, dark, scary, wolf-infested forest, and meets the friendly neighborhood villain. Now this girl is not too bright. When the wolf asks where she?s going, she tells him. And then she takes the secret ?short-cut? that will inevitably cause her more grief than anything else in her life. But, being the girl she was ?the one named after a type of clothing no one even knows about? she cheerfully waves goodbye to Mr. I-Just-Had-The-Three-Little-Pigs-For-Breakfast. That?s all I?m going to write about Little Red, because, frankly, I?ve already written more about the idiot than she deserves. And now for another idiotic little girl with a weird name who goes out into the forest by herself! You guessed it?Goldi-ditz! Er, I mean Goldi-locks. Oops. Ha-ha. This girl is a destructive maniac. She breaks chairs, steals food, bounces on beds. She is a complete brat. She deserves to be eaten by angry bears. I mean, the poor creatures have gotta get some compensation for supplying her with bed and breakfast. Although not necessarily in that order. The ugly duckling was a perfectly normal swanlet (or whatever the heck the term is for a baby swan) whose egg just happened to be stolen by rude, mean, unfeeling, hateful ducks. His evil adopted sibs give him a lot of grief, and his evil adopted parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents etc., don?t really care. He goes through a lot of hazing before running away from home and becoming a beautiful swan. The moral is that running away from home will solve all your problems. The Princess and the Pea. I don?t know if this particular princess had a name. And although she almost certainly had a wicked step-mother, I don?t know much about that either. All I know is that she slept on at least twenty mattresses, and was such a spoiled brat that she felt a pea underneath them and couldn?t sleep. Poor baby. I feel sooooo sorry for you, I think I?m gonna be sick. The Emperor?s New Clothes. This a cool story about two fun con-artists. They go into this place where the emperor is a big idiot, and they tell him that if he?ll give them a gajillion dollars worth of gold and jewels, they?ll make him the most totally awesome cloak in the world. Here?s the best part: they don?t! They tell him that only really ?smart? people can see it. The emperor doesn't want everyone to think he?s not smart, so he pretends that he can see it! Pretty soon the entire empire is pretending to see the ?invisible? cloak. And then this one little jerk says that he can?t see it, and everybody realizes that the emperor isn?t wearing any clothes. The emperor gets all mad and embarrassed and everything. He orders the two really fun cool guys to be shot, or hung, or drawn and quartered, or whatever it is that they did to criminals. But as far as I?m concerned, they got away. Cause otherwise, what?s the point of the story? The Three Little Pigs has got to be one of the more violent Fairy-tales. I didn?t learn it the Disney-ized way, where all three little porkers survive. No, I learned it the real way, the good way, the way in which two of the stupid idiots get killed. For crying out loud, if you try and build a house out of straw, you deserve to die. Slowly. Digested alive. You gotta feel sorry for the wolf, though. He must have felt sick for a month afterward. Does anyone actually know the story of Puss-In-Boots? I don?t. Apparently its about a cat named Puss-in-Boots for obvious reasons. Other than that, I?m not sure, though if I had to guess I?d say it involved a wicked step-mother or two.