pokemania strike again

Hi, there!  I've been having a rough go of things without my DS (I know, it's a spoiled train of thought, but I really miss my video games!).  So Recently I've been playing Pokemon FireRed on an online simulator, and enjoying my play-through so much, I started to write what is possibly the worst fanfic of all time.  It details the adventures of Apple, the female protagonist of FireRed, as opposed to Red/Ash/Satoshi/whatever else you call him.  Gary is now named Soarin, and I'm not sure what Red's new name will be, but their names all have a little to due with the change of roles and starters the characters are given.  Fore example, Apples are red and Red is the title character of the game, symbolizing Apple's new position as the main protagonist.  However, they can also be green, a nod to her past and recognition of her starter Pokemon being a grass type.
Anyway, since the real cover won't upload to Wattpad (My username's whimsywish99, if you're interested) I'm uploading it right here!

new fire emblem

I MUST HAVE THIS GAME.  I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE TO WAIT A WHOLE YEAR TO OWN THIS THING.  A WHOLE YEAR.  CURSE YOU, JAPAN, JUST GIVE ME MY FIRE EMBLEM!!!  DOES THIS NOT LOOK AMAZING?!!

more poetry

Hi, everyone!  It's been awhile since I posted a poem last, maybe because I haven't really been feeling it lately.  But I think I'm ready now.

Summer is almost here.
She's come for us again--
Waited all this year
Just to be let in.

It's almost funny, when
You think about just how
The disappearing "then"
Becomes a sudden,
surprising
NOW.

And the leaves that fell grow back
and the cold that came
Is not the same
And the pale blue nights
turn hot and black
And all around is green, green, green
Like the prettiest picture you've ever seen
And you feel like everything,
Everything,
Again.

Is just about to begin.

pokemon xy fun with SCIENCE!

 

I was really bored recently... so I decided to watch Pokemon X and Y on youtube!  I didn't expect it to be all that fantastic, but I've been feeling some serious nostalgia about the game series recently, and I really enjoyed going over the story, especially with the differences between the show and game.  I was surprised to realize that the storyline for the video game is actually way better than the anime storyline... but I also really admired how effective the transition between the two was.
The characters for the XY anime were also really likable!  In past seasons, Ash seemed like this dumb kid that always won because he...tried hard, and, uh, believed in himself, and, um, used the same tactic over and over again, but shouted louder...?  In X and Y, the show actually seems to poke fun at his recklessness and absent-mindedness.  Plus, the side-characters like Bonnie and Clemont are really fun, too.  I love the whole "SCIENCE!" gag, and Bonnie is pretty cute.  Serena's not bad, either.  I mean, maybe she's a little bit of a girly-girl, but at least the show is consistent about that fact.  And (unlike some folks) I liked that they gave her a background, and that she had met Ash before her adventure.  I do kinda wish they had more of an overarching plot, though.
Still, of all the characters, Clemont's totally my favorite.  I mean, he's got SCIENCE on his side.  I love how every time he comes up with an invention, Ash's eyes go all kawaii, and he's all like "wow!  Science is amazing!" ...until it blows up and everyone's hair turns into an afro.  Seriously.  How do you beat that?

"FOR SCIENCE!" *destroys Teams Rocket's device*

artemis fowl book review

Okay, so recently I took the time to finish a series I had previously begun.  Hold on, because there's a story behind this...err...story.  I was waiting for the first dance of my Freshmen year--the Back in Black Dance--to begin.  Two hours I would wait at the school, bored numb, with nothing to do but hope that 6:00 would get there soon.  So, I figured, why not read a book?  Now, our school library (if it can rightly be called that) is small.  Not just small.  Diminutive.  Minuscule.  Tiny.  It is, no lie, four tiny bookshelves line up back-to-back.  You could measure it with a ruler.
But back to the tale:
Sitting there, like it had been waiting for me, was a stiff old book with a gold cover, font Times New Roman (my favorite, as you can see), paperback, and with that old-book smell that does for me what the smell of warm apple pie or fresh-baked cookies does for others.  I could tell it'd been waiting awhile, too, because of how rough and straight those aging pages were, sort of brownish-yellow, like they hadn't been out quite so much as they ought to.  The cover had two words I could read: Artemis Fowl.  I didn't know back then, but those would become two of my favorites.
I read the first book--it wasn't fantastic.  It wasn't amazing.  It was good, but in a odd, building-up sort of way.  Reading it, I knew that this story on it's own was nothing but an exposition, a beginning.  I was right.
I read the second book--I was amazing.  The story I had hoped for was the story I'd gotten.  To this day, The Arctic Incident outranks even Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.  I mean, did Percy ever had to face down a horde of laser-shooting goblins, stop the planet from imploding, rescue his abducted father, ally himself with his worst enemies, and stop an underground revolution of fairies right under the nose of the rest of the world within the course of a week?  Why, no.  No, he did not.
I read the next four books and loved it.  Then I stopped reading--I don't even remember why.  And a few weeks ago, I picked up The Atlantis Complex, and followed it up with the final Artemis Fowl novel, The Last Guardian.
I can say without hesitation, this series gets a 10 out of 10.  It was consistently brilliant in both plot, theme, and characters, all of which were wonderful.  The protagonist is fantastic, and perhaps most importantly, undergoes some pretty amazing changes throughout the course of the story, going from a diabolical criminal mastermind to a reluctant hero.  All of the secondary characters, also, are hands-down awesome, with real personality and spunk to them.  Even the villains--heck, ESPECIALLY the villains--are marvelously wicked, cunning, and endearingly dastardly.  Making it all the more AWESOME when the good guys (mostly) come out on top.
Seriously, read these books.  They will probably change your life.

"Trust me.  I'm a genius"  --Artemis Fowl

"Push that button before I have to climb through that tower and push it with your face!" 

--LEP Recon Commander Julius Root

"I'm not threatening you.  I'm just informing you of police procedure.  If you continue to obstruct me, I remove  the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed onto the next command."  --Lower Elements Police Recon Officer Holly Short.

"I don't like lollipops."  --Artemis Fowl