Zen Crib Notes

 Fandom: Dissiida 012
Characters: Lightning, Tifa, Yuna, Laguna, Vaan, Kain. 
Chapters: 5/?
Total words: 1370

Summary: A series of drabbles that depict the relationships of Tifa, Kain, Lightning, Yuna, Vaan, and Laguna. Multi-shipping to happen. The Manikins march to their own, lifeless drum and they are there to interrupt their rhythm.

 I have to stop this habit into making internal debates in my head, especially if they’re angry ones. 

But what can be boiled down to is that I don’t agree anymore with “strong” or “weak”  as descriptors for a character’s role in the story. Then again, I haven’t done much study into literature or in the written word as of late, so I can’t really say that I’ve made conclusions on them since my foundations are currently shaky. It has this kind of implication that a “weak” character is somehow lesser than a strong one, and I dunno, I mean as long as that character contributes well to the story to help guide whoever’s involved then I’m satisfied. It’s like saying one character is dynamic and the other is static when it’s talking character growth, but I’ve seen some people go on about how it’s all about character growth when there are numerous examples of very interesting static characters. 

It’s about 2 AM here in China, on vacation, and I think it ought to just be boiled down to “good writing” and “bad writing,” and even badly written characters can be dynamic and complex and strong/weak but I just don’t like how it’s delivered.

So I've migrated from Livejournal to Dreamwidth.

I suppose it's mostly because I don't like how things are getting more facebook-friendly nowadays, and having an option to cross-post my journal to my facebook was a little much for me. Oh, I know it's an option that I don't have to use, but it's probably because I'm a bit tired of seeing facebook everywhere, and hopefully Dreamwidth won't do that for the time being. And besides, I think that I like being in a community that seems fresh and new. Like seeing the possibilities of a clean slate, and also the dangers of one and inhibited it can be. Very exciting.

I think I'll commemorate this journal with something significant that had happened in my life: I've finally gotten my driver's permit from the DMV. Having just barely passed the exam, I'm now ready to practice driving a car! I already practiced driving in a straight line in the parking lot with my dad, but I now see that I have a long way to go and I'm pretty excited by the possibilities of finally gaining greater mobility. But I guess I shouldn't give up on the public transportation system quite soon, though.

Hobbies-wise, I've gotten back to reading for pleasure, which is something that I haven't actually done for a long time. What prompted me was that I was trying to write some fan fiction involving Vincent Valentine and Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII and what I usually do is that I would write it all down by hand and then eventually transfer it to the computer. Well, after doing the first chapter, I came up to the point when I began to feel that the story isn't really going anywhere and I felt limited by my writing abilities. So for a time I'll be going back to my old mentors in writing: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, some writing non-fiction books, and Tolstoy. Pretty old-fashioned sort of people, I know, but they are just a couple of the many masters in writing and I hope to be inspired and instructed by them through their words.

Tips: $39

Note to self: get my mood icons back