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Final Fantasy 7
More specifically Sephiroth but my love for a lot of things has emerged because of this one - the love of scifi and fantasy mixed, reality being tweaked just enough to give it this weird spark of amazing. Not to mention all the countless hours I've spent on coming up with things that I personally can understand and feel a connection to - energy of the planet, connections to other people, genetics and familial relations, what it means to be different, consequences of man with power, and so much more. Other things this has fed into is my love of human psychology, the sciences and philosophies I subconsciously subscribe to or feel particularly intrigued by.
This series and this character also have a special place in my heart because it was really the first thing I could readily claim I really loved without any reservations. It was also really my biggest front when it came to being...free and separate, learning who I myself am. It's corny and silly, but I love it for what it has come to mean to me.

Bastard!!
This series was amongst the first animes I really ever watched let alone started to read and purchase when it was released in the US. I have many fond memories of spending time with an old friend in school reading this very manga I had sneaked in while avoiding my parents earlier in the day. It's hilarious, violent, perverted and yet it was a ridiculous amount of fun. Dark Schneider was one of my favorite characters EVAH due to his personality and the strange complexity of the story despite it's initial image.

Gundam Wing
HURGH. Words. Words fail at this one. I saw this a long time ago with another friend finally in it's whole and elaborate form while visiting her house. Needless to say, my first viewing left me in shock and I was in tears by the end of it. It left with me a large love of mechs, pilots and the military as well as political intrigue and strong characterization. Didn't mean I was left with much love for the pilots, though. I was and still am an OZzie fan.

Raptor Red
OHGOD ANCIENT. It seems like nearly everyone I initially met and had a connection with had, at one point or another, loved and had grown up on this book as I had. Raptor Red to me reminds me of the days I LOVED dinosaurs with a passion to rival my existence and has forever left me with dinosaurs hunting me down in my nightmares. *laughs* I loved the characterization and the ideas of so many things at such a young age. That creatures and other "people" had these intense lives that were so different but so much the same to me. I can recall at my elementary school playgrounds later I would probably be most likely found playing a dinosaur (a Utahraptor, specifically; gee wonder why) in a scifi setting along with the rest of my weird friends.

Dune series
This series.. I remember actually my father taking me out and buying the entire thing that Herbert himself had written, not his son. I remember reading it with rapt joy and being amazed by what I read - the politics, the intrigue, the way the sciences had evolved, how technology had been altered..! Everything was amazing and left a very big mark in my brain. Eventually, later in that year, I was at school and had a dream containing my character Estanis from a very Dune-like tone in the Gundam Wing universe. I've obviously moved on from there, but it still leaves me all tingly.

Method Acting
Illustrated by C/Konstantin Stanislavski, the man who started it all in the early 1900s. Method acting is...complex, really, but simple. It's been the basis of how I will develop characters and settings for years and even without realizing it. I want things to be real, I want to feel like it IS real and would like to share that. The only way, of course, is to really method act it. Wikipedia defines it as "Method acting is a phrase that loosely refers to a family of techniques by which actors try to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters in an effort to develop lifelike performances."
It's just something I love being aware of, and there have been SO many great actors who have used this method - Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro and more...

Berserk
Haha, I've seen this one a couple dozen times now, but I figured I'd rant and rave about it anyway. I LOVED the anime series - it was depressing as all hell, but it was AMAZING, LIEK OMG. It was traumatizing and deep with the worst ending you can come up with, on top of that it seems like it's never, EVER going to END. D8 AGH. Violent, intense, the overarching story is brilliant and sadistic, leaving you with this sort of hollow feeling in your chest. ;m; I still love it for its powerful characters and amazing concepts.

Personal Experience
Ahah, this is actually illustrated by my uncle's chest after open heart surgery. I've had some interesting experiences in my life, that's for sure, and I try to make a point to not forget them, even if it was painful or particularly obtuse or whatever.

Fiction, Sci-fi and Fantasy Books
Because if I ranted and raved over them ALL I would have a huge influence meme that was dedicated simply to books I think people should read! *laughs* This list includes works by Asimov, Mercedes Lackey, Anne Rice, Garth Nix, Frank Herbert, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Brian Jacques, Tamora Pierce, William Goldman, Cornelia Funke, JK Rowling, Homer, Virgil, Franz Kafka, Madeleine L'Engle, JRR Tolkien, Robin McKinley, Helen Keller, Rita Ritchie, Voltaire, Diana Wynne Jones, Robert Louis Stevenson, HG Wells, Mary Shelley, Robert Frost, Charles Dickens, Jane Yolen, Harper Lee, Jerry Spinelli, Orson Scott Card and so, so many more..

Kingdom Hearts
AGH. This game is ridiculously controversial in how it tries to be complex but then be so epic SIMPLE and it just FAILS. They explain little to nothing then expect everyone to wonder why the hell there's a mix up in the offspring of Eastern Philosophy and Western philosophy. There are so many things about this though that I like, and admittedly, I like Riku the most. He's one of the most complex characters in this game if not like...almost the most complex one just for the simple fact that he experiences what we all have to - fitting in with our friends after we have been apart. People are literally afraid of scaring others at times. He doesn't want to disappoint and aaaaagh. I just love this game but I love to also hate on the fact that "darkness is natural" in one sentence then in another it's "evil" and "doesn't belong"....oh god, don't even...
Love the game, love the story but it leaves me HELLA confused.

Music
Ahhh. This one is self explanitory - I always play music while I am drawing or writing or being creative, and sometimes I get OCD and start replaying the one song with the same tone and/or feeling that I have while I am doing whatever it is that I am doing.

Human Psychology
The human mind is amazing in its complexity and capacity to alter even the tiniest of things to "keep us sane" or able to operate. Everything about human minds, in one sense or another, is completely fascinating. I mean, I love trying to figure out how another person works, how they got their ticks, why they tick, when they tick and when they tock. Just. AGH. BRAAAAAAAAINS, MAN. BRAINTHOUGHTS.
I really like the way people develop, as if it wasn't already evidenced enough by how much I have babbled about well put together stories and characters...

Friends
Another personal picture, this time actually of my hand, my oldest brother's hand and our foreign exchange student's hand form some years ago. Not really all of my friends, but it's the idea behind the image that counts. I can't help every day thinking about each and every one of the people that I am friends with. You guys are my family as much as you're my friends. I worry about how you're doing and love to see what you come up with. I also miss a lot of you, I wish you lived closer. :,)

Science, Nature and Technology
This one should be self explanatory at this point - I love scifi, so why the hell not? This one is shown off by the exhibit known as Body Worlds, something I went and saw recently in the Denver Museum.
Just...good GOD, it amazes me with what people can do nowadays. I would've never conceived the sort of thing that they do now, it's amazing to see how much has altered. It's strangely spiritual for me to have seen the exhibit I did, like.. a precious look at life itself, very inspiring...

H for History
Because I don't really mean the History channel considering I don't watch TV anymore... *chuckles* History itself is fascinating because like I have said, humans themselves are fascinating. The things we attempt to accomplish are really messed up if you think about it. We're like..some of the only critters that will drastically alter our environment not just for survival but just for fun! We're always constantly DOING something and it just boggles my mind when you look at things as a whole, let alone the insane things people do in a single environment.

Jim Henson and his Company
....D: I.. I... I love the Muppets. And The Labyrinth. And his myth thing he did. And...and the whole company was AMAZING and I loved it to death and I really miss the days of the Dark Crystal and the Labyrinth - good, intense magic with great stories and better characters... The caricatures alone of the people and ideas the group would capture and express in the shows was simply astounding. There's nothing that can really replace the reality of something actually being there.

Dynasty Warriors
AKA: Dynast Warrior - sounds pretty cool, actually.
XD; I put this one on the list because it was amongst the first games I ever actually played and one of the first that really, really got me interested in backstory and history of characters and the interlocking realities of every single person and thing you run across. I would spend HOURS reading the material that was in the character logs and end up more and more awed each time I would play. Not to mention, it was fun as a stress reliever... *chuckles* But the biggest reason I do remember it is because of how it was constructed. The entire Koei group did an amazing thing, the Gundam version of this game is actually a lot of fun too, and the different paths that people can take is just amazing. XD I love the alternate storylines....

Metal Gear Solid series
Also known as: Cal Espionage Tal Gi Solid
HURGH.
ESPIONAGE, GUNS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, GENETICS, BRILLIANT CHARACTERS, THINGS I CAN RELATE TO, YAY.
This one.. I remember watching a lot of this series as I have a serious problem with FPS/games that require guns be used. XD; Particularly to the extent that the later parts of the series demands.
God, I can also remember fangirling the hell out of Raiden. I loved Snake, but he was always too intimidating most of the time, so he was just a badass. I think he's all sexyschtuff now, Raiden just as much. My brothers would mock me for getting stupid and writing on my hands their names... XD;;

Assassin's Creed series
Or Sassi Ree if you believe it...
....I AM TEMPTED TO FANGIRL BRAINS OUT OVER THIS ONE TOO.
UGH. What IS it with assassins and tactical ops? Seriously? I would say this falls under my MGS fangirling just up one, but this is also different. It's messing with HISTORY! It's an AMAZING whatif and is SO much fun despite the cliche "TEH CHURCH IS EBIL". I can understand to a degree that thinking, but seriously, there are also lots of good people in that particular religious sect.. 8C But yes, all of it. So much fun, and I actually have been able to play them, unlike the stuff with Snake and Raiden. =_=; *shamed* I play tanks and damage dealers too much, so Ezio and Altair are like...easy peasy once I remember how to use an XBox controller.

Cirque du Soleil
If you have never even just watched one of their shows on TV from a DVD or actually been able to go to one of their performances - WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GO NOW BEFORE I HURT YOU. Kidding. No, but in all seriousness I don't know how so many people DON'T know about them. They're amazing beautiful and remind me of silent films - they say NOTHING, but just let dance and their gymnastics tell a story. On top of that their costuming department is...well.. I... I desire to somehow forcibly marry it. I don't EVEN know how to describe the detail and practical work that goes into what they do. I can't even imagine the HOURS that Cirque spends modifying the costumes for use. <3 So much love for them... they get me to basically cry all of the time with their music and art and agh. /fail

Shadow of the Colossus
This game is one of the perfect examples of a movie...that's a freaking game. And a beautiful one at that. This one is like...one of the simplest and non-talkative games you'll find while at the same time it says A LOT. It speaks by showing rather than telling, which is a perfectly brilliant thing a lot of games miss out on. It's also amazing because it's on a PS2 and the world is amazingly HUGE. You can spend hours running in one direction then hours in another while hunting down giant colossi. I don't really know how else to describe it other than a must play, especially before it goes "kerpoof" forever. 8,C

Dangerous Liaisons
GREAT, DEPRESSING movie! D8 OMG. This this PLOT and conflict and AGH. This is a good movie. I may not think John Malkovich is really...very attractive, but he is like...made out to be because of his character, then broken apart again for the very same reasons. ALL of them. Seriously. It's a great movie in sharing how charisma affects people and behavior and I really think it's done well at sharing interpersonal relationships on that particular level, how you can have conflicting desires and how far some people will sink and what exactly can happen as a result of it...
Oh, dude, Keanu Reeves is innit, and he's like...adorable. I 'd. Hard.

Hellsing
HAHAHA. Okay, this one should be easy - Dracula, vampires, Nazi-robots and killer Roman Catholics. What the hell isn't there to like? I mean, beyond the fact it's taking ages to finish up (the manga IS in fact completed, it's the new OVA I'm talking about), especially considering Genon has gone under. It has violence, copious amounts of blood, bits of sexual innuendo, guns with ammo capacity like you would not believe and it's still manages to be freaking amazing. It's just good for blowing things up, the plot itself isn't TOO intensive, it's more the wait that makes it intense. There are plenty of fascinating and unexplained characters to the umpth degree who may have like... a name, and a really cool fight and then they get killed and it's like "WHAT?"
It's still an awesome wordwide war conspiracy thing. 8D

Hero
SO PRETTY.
THIS MOVIE.
IS.
SO.
PRETTY. I don't even know how to adequately share the changes and shifts in color to alter mood and show story differences. The acting in this is amazing as well, it's one of those that, really, is a great martial arts movie with it's own glaring dash of Nationalism (honestly, I didn't mind, it's like watching some US films, ugh), but I love it just as much as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Emperor and the Assassin. ALl of them..just. Wow. When you know about good martial arts/Chinese dramas, they're really, really good. I kid you not.
Costumes and characters and settings and OMG LAKE, SO PRETTY. 8C

Star Ocean: The Second Story
And again it's another scifi/fantasy game! This game though is not just any game, this is a startling complex story that delves into character relationships while simultaneously having an interesting combination for a fighting engine (reminds me a lot of the AC and Mass Effect fighting engines, actually). The characters are also fun and entertaining while having complex stories of their own and skills that they can learn that compliments actually what they can do in their lives! 8D
My favorite was always Dias Flac. Hurr. I seriously like him. =u= Tragic sort of anti-hero who lost everything!11 Man, I have GOT to lay off the anti-hero types...they're starting to show. XD;;

Chronicles of Riddick
WHY YES, it's a corny/derpy sci-fi show in mien influence meme. Why?
Well, Riddick really solidified for me what I love about sci-fi and what I love to look for when it comes to piecing things together. It's also just good fun that still scares the bejesus out of me if I'm not careful. XD It's badass, cool, lame and cliched all at once, but it's still an endearing story. OH. And it has that one guy. And his wife. And they get all violent and "woo~" on each other and it gets hot too, that may be a reason. >w<;
But yes, Riddick himself is a great character, far better to begin with, but there's also a lot of potential in him. I'm one of those that would love to see another movie made. XD Though I'd be afraid at this point of seeing it get really epically "lulzy".

Interview With the Vampire
You knew this was coming, one way or another. I've read the book and seen the movie and honestly, I really enjoyed it. XD I may not have really read the rest of the series nor really been interested in doing so (maybe Lestat's book, but we'll see), but the sotry itself was fascinating and a great exercise in exploring what becoming immortal may mean to someone. It's also just a great piece of fiction, methinks, as I did enjoy the characters, setting, conflict and overall plot. I also had a serious "UNFCLOTHES" thing going on here. XD Long hair, hot guys and yeah.
I still say Armand kicks so much ass. I would have his undead babies if Anne Rice's vampires were not infertile let alone just completely incapable. BUT HEY! FUN TIEMZ TRYING.

Articuno
Yesyes, it's a Pokemon. >_>;; I don't really know how to describe this one other than I just kind of associate it with myself. I love birds of prey and wintertime, ice crystals and formations and just...yeah. It all sort of gets lumped together in my head, but this critter means a lot to me, for one reason or another, and as inane or childish as it may seem, I still like what it has come to represent in my head.

Fringe
This show. This SHOW. This show is amazing. I SHOULD KNOW, I AM EPIC. *ahems* No, it just is because it deals with that whole element that I love - fringe sciences, things that are not quite in reality but aren't really...outside of reality either for the moment. The characters are also great too, I really love Walter, he makes me so happy despite all of his obtuse and awkwardly painful behavior. Just...great characters and a really fun storyline figuring out the ins and outs of how things may or may not operate.

Writing, role-playing, being creative plus tons more...
...D8 I just. If you don't get it, I don't know how you read this far and didn't. Writing is being creative, creating and generating all of these things I love and more into the written word, role-playing is the same thing, and in some cases I can actually act out the parts in a sot of improv environment while developing and creating.
Being constantly in a state of creativity, questioning and developing sometimes is one of the best things to do. Being able to pick pieces of things apart and ask why and try to understand the dynamics of life and just WHAT the meaning of all this crap is... AGH. I'll stop blithering now. :>

...if you read all of that, you deserve a gold star. D:
I still think I shoulda thrown A Streetcar Named Desire on here. ._. Damnit. u_u

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Oh good god this is big.. XD;
WELP. Here is goes, eh?

Final Fantasy 7
More specifically Sephiroth but my love for a lot of things has emerged because of this one - the love of scifi and fantasy mixed, reality being tweaked just enough to give it this weird spark of amazing. Not to mention all the countless hours I've spent on coming up with things that I personally can understand and feel a connection to - energy of the planet, connections to other people, genetics and familial relations, what it means to be different, consequences of man with power, and so much more. Other things this has fed into is my love of human psychology, the sciences and philosophies I subconsciously subscribe to or feel particularly intrigued by.
This series and this character also have a special place in my heart because it was really the first thing I could readily claim I really loved without any reservations. It was also really my biggest front when it came to being...free and separate, learning who I myself am. It's corny and silly, but I love it for what it has come to mean to me.

Bastard!!
This series was amongst the first animes I really ever watched let alone started to read and purchase when it was released in the US. I have many fond memories of spending time with an old friend in school reading this very manga I had sneaked in while avoiding my parents earlier in the day. It's hilarious, violent, perverted and yet it was a ridiculous amount of fun. Dark Schneider was one of my favorite characters EVAH due to his personality and the strange complexity of the story despite it's initial image.

Gundam Wing
HURGH. Words. Words fail at this one. I saw this a long time ago with another friend finally in it's whole and elaborate form while visiting her house. Needless to say, my first viewing left me in shock and I was in tears by the end of it. It left with me a large love of mechs, pilots and the military as well as political intrigue and strong characterization. Didn't mean I was left with much love for the pilots, though. I was and still am an OZzie fan.

Raptor Red
OHGOD ANCIENT. It seems like nearly everyone I initially met and had a connection with had, at one point or another, loved and had grown up on this book as I had. Raptor Red to me reminds me of the days I LOVED dinosaurs with a passion to rival my existence and has forever left me with dinosaurs hunting me down in my nightmares. *laughs* I loved the characterization and the ideas of so many things at such a young age. That creatures and other "people" had these intense lives that were so different but so much the same to me. I can recall at my elementary school playgrounds later I would probably be most likely found playing a dinosaur (a Utahraptor, specifically; gee wonder why) in a scifi setting along with the rest of my weird friends.

Dune series
This series.. I remember actually my father taking me out and buying the entire thing that Herbert himself had written, not his son. I remember reading it with rapt joy and being amazed by what I read - the politics, the intrigue, the way the sciences had evolved, how technology had been altered..! Everything was amazing and left a very big mark in my brain. Eventually, later in that year, I was at school and had a dream containing my character Estanis from a very Dune-like tone in the Gundam Wing universe. I've obviously moved on from there, but it still leaves me all tingly.

Method Acting
Illustrated by C/Konstantin Stanislavski, the man who started it all in the early 1900s. Method acting is...complex, really, but simple. It's been the basis of how I will develop characters and settings for years and even without realizing it. I want things to be real, I want to feel like it IS real and would like to share that. The only way, of course, is to really method act it. Wikipedia defines it as "Method acting is a phrase that loosely refers to a family of techniques by which actors try to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters in an effort to develop lifelike performances."
It's just something I love being aware of, and there have been SO many great actors who have used this method - Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro and more...

Berserk
Haha, I've seen this one a couple dozen times now, but I figured I'd rant and rave about it anyway. I LOVED the anime series - it was depressing as all hell, but it was AMAZING, LIEK OMG. It was traumatizing and deep with the worst ending you can come up with, on top of that it seems like it's never, EVER going to END. D8 AGH. Violent, intense, the overarching story is brilliant and sadistic, leaving you with this sort of hollow feeling in your chest. ;m; I still love it for its powerful characters and amazing concepts.

Personal Experience
Ahah, this is actually illustrated by my uncle's chest after open heart surgery. I've had some interesting experiences in my life, that's for sure, and I try to make a point to not forget them, even if it was painful or particularly obtuse or whatever.

Fiction, Sci-fi and Fantasy Books
Because if I ranted and raved over them ALL I would have a huge influence meme that was dedicated simply to books I think people should read! *laughs* This list includes works by Asimov, Mercedes Lackey, Anne Rice, Garth Nix, Frank Herbert, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Brian Jacques, Tamora Pierce, William Goldman, Cornelia Funke, JK Rowling, Homer, Virgil, Franz Kafka, Madeleine L'Engle, JRR Tolkien, Robin McKinley, Helen Keller, Rita Ritchie, Voltaire, Diana Wynne Jones, Robert Louis Stevenson, HG Wells, Mary Shelley, Robert Frost, Charles Dickens, Jane Yolen, Harper Lee, Jerry Spinelli, Orson Scott Card and so, so many more..

Kingdom Hearts
AGH. This game is ridiculously controversial in how it tries to be complex but then be so epic SIMPLE and it just FAILS. They explain little to nothing then expect everyone to wonder why the hell there's a mix up in the offspring of Eastern Philosophy and Western philosophy. There are so many things about this though that I like, and admittedly, I like Riku the most. He's one of the most complex characters in this game if not like...almost the most complex one just for the simple fact that he experiences what we all have to - fitting in with our friends after we have been apart. People are literally afraid of scaring others at times. He doesn't want to disappoint and aaaaagh. I just love this game but I love to also hate on the fact that "darkness is natural" in one sentence then in another it's "evil" and "doesn't belong"....oh god, don't even...
Love the game, love the story but it leaves me HELLA confused.

Music
Ahhh. This one is self explanitory - I always play music while I am drawing or writing or being creative, and sometimes I get OCD and start replaying the one song with the same tone and/or feeling that I have while I am doing whatever it is that I am doing.

Human Psychology
The human mind is amazing in its complexity and capacity to alter even the tiniest of things to "keep us sane" or able to operate. Everything about human minds, in one sense or another, is completely fascinating. I mean, I love trying to figure out how another person works, how they got their ticks, why they tick, when they tick and when they tock. Just. AGH. BRAAAAAAAAINS, MAN. BRAINTHOUGHTS.
I really like the way people develop, as if it wasn't already evidenced enough by how much I have babbled about well put together stories and characters...

Friends
Another personal picture, this time actually of my hand, my oldest brother's hand and our foreign exchange student's hand form some years ago. Not really all of my friends, but it's the idea behind the image that counts. I can't help every day thinking about each and every one of the people that I am friends with. You guys are my family as much as you're my friends. I worry about how you're doing and love to see what you come up with. I also miss a lot of you, I wish you lived closer. :,)

Science, Nature and Technology
This one should be self explanatory at this point - I love scifi, so why the hell not? This one is shown off by the exhibit known as Body Worlds, something I went and saw recently in the Denver Museum.
Just...good GOD, it amazes me with what people can do nowadays. I would've never conceived the sort of thing that they do now, it's amazing to see how much has altered. It's strangely spiritual for me to have seen the exhibit I did, like.. a precious look at life itself, very inspiring...

H for History
Because I don't really mean the History channel considering I don't watch TV anymore... *chuckles* History itself is fascinating because like I have said, humans themselves are fascinating. The things we attempt to accomplish are really messed up if you think about it. We're like..some of the only critters that will drastically alter our environment not just for survival but just for fun! We're always constantly DOING something and it just boggles my mind when you look at things as a whole, let alone the insane things people do in a single environment.

Jim Henson and his Company
....D: I.. I... I love the Muppets. And The Labyrinth. And his myth thing he did. And...and the whole company was AMAZING and I loved it to death and I really miss the days of the Dark Crystal and the Labyrinth - good, intense magic with great stories and better characters... The caricatures alone of the people and ideas the group would capture and express in the shows was simply astounding. There's nothing that can really replace the reality of something actually being there.

Dynasty Warriors
AKA: Dynast Warrior - sounds pretty cool, actually.
XD; I put this one on the list because it was amongst the first games I ever actually played and one of the first that really, really got me interested in backstory and history of characters and the interlocking realities of every single person and thing you run across. I would spend HOURS reading the material that was in the character logs and end up more and more awed each time I would play. Not to mention, it was fun as a stress reliever... *chuckles* But the biggest reason I do remember it is because of how it was constructed. The entire Koei group did an amazing thing, the Gundam version of this game is actually a lot of fun too, and the different paths that people can take is just amazing. XD I love the alternate storylines....

Metal Gear Solid series
Also known as: Cal Espionage Tal Gi Solid
HURGH.
ESPIONAGE, GUNS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, GENETICS, BRILLIANT CHARACTERS, THINGS I CAN RELATE TO, YAY.
This one.. I remember watching a lot of this series as I have a serious problem with FPS/games that require guns be used. XD; Particularly to the extent that the later parts of the series demands.
God, I can also remember fangirling the hell out of Raiden. I loved Snake, but he was always too intimidating most of the time, so he was just a badass. I think he's all sexyschtuff now, Raiden just as much. My brothers would mock me for getting stupid and writing on my hands their names... XD;;

Assassin's Creed series
Or Sassi Ree if you believe it...
....I AM TEMPTED TO FANGIRL BRAINS OUT OVER THIS ONE TOO.
UGH. What IS it with assassins and tactical ops? Seriously? I would say this falls under my MGS fangirling just up one, but this is also different. It's messing with HISTORY! It's an AMAZING whatif and is SO much fun despite the cliche "TEH CHURCH IS EBIL". I can understand to a degree that thinking, but seriously, there are also lots of good people in that particular religious sect.. 8C But yes, all of it. So much fun, and I actually have been able to play them, unlike the stuff with Snake and Raiden. =_=; *shamed* I play tanks and damage dealers too much, so Ezio and Altair are like...easy peasy once I remember how to use an XBox controller.

Cirque du Soleil
If you have never even just watched one of their shows on TV from a DVD or actually been able to go to one of their performances - WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GO NOW BEFORE I HURT YOU. Kidding. No, but in all seriousness I don't know how so many people DON'T know about them. They're amazing beautiful and remind me of silent films - they say NOTHING, but just let dance and their gymnastics tell a story. On top of that their costuming department is...well.. I... I desire to somehow forcibly marry it. I don't EVEN know how to describe the detail and practical work that goes into what they do. I can't even imagine the HOURS that Cirque spends modifying the costumes for use. <3 So much love for them... they get me to basically cry all of the time with their music and art and agh. /fail

Shadow of the Colossus
This game is one of the perfect examples of a movie...that's a freaking game. And a beautiful one at that. This one is like...one of the simplest and non-talkative games you'll find while at the same time it says A LOT. It speaks by showing rather than telling, which is a perfectly brilliant thing a lot of games miss out on. It's also amazing because it's on a PS2 and the world is amazingly HUGE. You can spend hours running in one direction then hours in another while hunting down giant colossi. I don't really know how else to describe it other than a must play, especially before it goes "kerpoof" forever. 8,C

Dangerous Liaisons
GREAT, DEPRESSING movie! D8 OMG. This this PLOT and conflict and AGH. This is a good movie. I may not think John Malkovich is really...very attractive, but he is like...made out to be because of his character, then broken apart again for the very same reasons. ALL of them. Seriously. It's a great movie in sharing how charisma affects people and behavior and I really think it's done well at sharing interpersonal relationships on that particular level, how you can have conflicting desires and how far some people will sink and what exactly can happen as a result of it...
Oh, dude, Keanu Reeves is innit, and he's like...adorable. I 'd. Hard.

Hellsing
HAHAHA. Okay, this one should be easy - Dracula, vampires, Nazi-robots and killer Roman Catholics. What the hell isn't there to like? I mean, beyond the fact it's taking ages to finish up (the manga IS in fact completed, it's the new OVA I'm talking about), especially considering Genon has gone under. It has violence, copious amounts of blood, bits of sexual innuendo, guns with ammo capacity like you would not believe and it's still manages to be freaking amazing. It's just good for blowing things up, the plot itself isn't TOO intensive, it's more the wait that makes it intense. There are plenty of fascinating and unexplained characters to the umpth degree who may have like... a name, and a really cool fight and then they get killed and it's like "WHAT?"
It's still an awesome wordwide war conspiracy thing. 8D

Hero
SO PRETTY.
THIS MOVIE.
IS.
SO.
PRETTY. I don't even know how to adequately share the changes and shifts in color to alter mood and show story differences. The acting in this is amazing as well, it's one of those that, really, is a great martial arts movie with it's own glaring dash of Nationalism (honestly, I didn't mind, it's like watching some US films, ugh), but I love it just as much as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Emperor and the Assassin. ALl of them..just. Wow. When you know about good martial arts/Chinese dramas, they're really, really good. I kid you not.
Costumes and characters and settings and OMG LAKE, SO PRETTY. 8C

Star Ocean: The Second Story
And again it's another scifi/fantasy game! This game though is not just any game, this is a startling complex story that delves into character relationships while simultaneously having an interesting combination for a fighting engine (reminds me a lot of the AC and Mass Effect fighting engines, actually). The characters are also fun and entertaining while having complex stories of their own and skills that they can learn that compliments actually what they can do in their lives! 8D
My favorite was always Dias Flac. Hurr. I seriously like him. =u= Tragic sort of anti-hero who lost everything!11 Man, I have GOT to lay off the anti-hero types...they're starting to show. XD;;

Chronicles of Riddick
WHY YES, it's a corny/derpy sci-fi show in mien influence meme. Why?
Well, Riddick really solidified for me what I love about sci-fi and what I love to look for when it comes to piecing things together. It's also just good fun that still scares the bejesus out of me if I'm not careful. XD It's badass, cool, lame and cliched all at once, but it's still an endearing story. OH. And it has that one guy. And his wife. And they get all violent and "woo~" on each other and it gets hot too, that may be a reason. >w<;
But yes, Riddick himself is a great character, far better to begin with, but there's also a lot of potential in him. I'm one of those that would love to see another movie made. XD Though I'd be afraid at this point of seeing it get really epically "lulzy".

Interview With the Vampire
You knew this was coming, one way or another. I've read the book and seen the movie and honestly, I really enjoyed it. XD I may not have really read the rest of the series nor really been interested in doing so (maybe Lestat's book, but we'll see), but the sotry itself was fascinating and a great exercise in exploring what becoming immortal may mean to someone. It's also just a great piece of fiction, methinks, as I did enjoy the characters, setting, conflict and overall plot. I also had a serious "UNFCLOTHES" thing going on here. XD Long hair, hot guys and yeah.
I still say Armand kicks so much ass. I would have his undead babies if Anne Rice's vampires were not infertile let alone just completely incapable. BUT HEY! FUN TIEMZ TRYING.

Articuno
Yesyes, it's a Pokemon. >_>;; I don't really know how to describe this one other than I just kind of associate it with myself. I love birds of prey and wintertime, ice crystals and formations and just...yeah. It all sort of gets lumped together in my head, but this critter means a lot to me, for one reason or another, and as inane or childish as it may seem, I still like what it has come to represent in my head.

Fringe
This show. This SHOW. This show is amazing. I SHOULD KNOW, I AM EPIC. *ahems* No, it just is because it deals with that whole element that I love - fringe sciences, things that are not quite in reality but aren't really...outside of reality either for the moment. The characters are also great too, I really love Walter, he makes me so happy despite all of his obtuse and awkwardly painful behavior. Just...great characters and a really fun storyline figuring out the ins and outs of how things may or may not operate.

Writing, role-playing, being creative plus tons more...
...D8 I just. If you don't get it, I don't know how you read this far and didn't. Writing is being creative, creating and generating all of these things I love and more into the written word, role-playing is the same thing, and in some cases I can actually act out the parts in a sot of improv environment while developing and creating.
Being constantly in a state of creativity, questioning and developing sometimes is one of the best things to do. Being able to pick pieces of things apart and ask why and try to understand the dynamics of life and just WHAT the meaning of all this crap is... AGH. I'll stop blithering now. :>

...if you read all of that, you deserve a gold star. D:
I still think I shoulda thrown A Streetcar Named Desire on here. ._. Damnit. u_u