y helo thar!

Since I'm not sure exactly where you're tuning in from, I should introduce myself; I'm a 26 year old male. Generally on the internet you'll see me at various forums or communities using the alias Arrow (or Arrowned if that one's already taken). I only selected this name for my LiveJournal account because both of those were long gone (and I kind of regret doing that; everybody and their mom now associates me with Bridge from Power Rangers S.P.D., and while I enjoyed Bridge's character, he's absolutely nothing like me). Thankfully, I was able to snatch Arrow just fine at Dreamwidth.

My profile goes into a little more detail about me, but generally you can expect from this journal a hell of a lot of discussion on video games, Power Rangers, and Tokusatsu. If you're not down with that, friending me may be risky business.

Personal projects: I make music, write fanfic, and run websites. Sometimes I'll discuss those here as well. Most of my music is made via MIDI and ends up at vgmusic.com; while I'd like to get something on OverClocked ReMix some day, and I actually feel that my composition skills are up to the challenge, my sample sets/production abilities are not, so that'll be a while coming. What music I've done can be found at my personal website. As for my fic, most of it is, again, Power Rangers-based. Here's a master list of what I've written, for those interested in that. The primary website I'm working on at the moment, surprisingly not the one I just linked, is Rangerwiki, yet another PR-based item, this one being an attempt to make a trustworthy wiki for PR with all the canon information anyone would ever need.

Forums I normally hang out at: Metroid Metal, OverClocked ReMix, Power Rangers United, Rangerboard, and VGMusic.com. Forums I drop in at on occasion, but not as regularly as the above: Fuñaroboard, Henshin Justice Unlimited, Metroid Database (or at least I would if I could access the site; ever since it moved, I get a 404 without fail), Noteworthy Software, Rangercrew, SONIC EATS RINGS, Sonic Robo Blast 2, The Vinculum, and The Ur-Quan Masters. As I make the music for SRB2, I'm an administrator at that forum, but I'm just a regular user at the rest.

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A lot of other people on my f-list have watchlists for what toku they've seen, and I'm not sure why I didn't have one yet, so here you go. It's pretty safe to assume that if I've seen the whole series, I've seen the associated movies too, except in cases like Den-O and Decade where they're friggin still putting out movies even now. :P

( In Progress )

( To Watch )

( The Full List )

Tags: about me, watchlist

I figured for ease of purpose, I'd make an LJ post detailing my fics. The ones I've finished, the ones I'm writing, the ones I'm planning, and the ones that are sitting on my HD in purgatory because I'm not sure if I'm going to do them or not. When I make an update that people need to see about, I'll just be relinking to this post so they can see the whole shebang.

No, this isn't all Power Rangers. There's plenty of other stuff in here too. :P

( See the cut. Love the cut. )

This post, like my journal's introductory post and toku watchlist, is future dated to 2025 so that it stays at the top of the blog. If you're directly reading itsbuttery.livejournal.com, then whatever post is below this one is actually the latest journal entry.

Tags: fic, repository

Spider-man took a week off, since the episodes usually go up each Thursday, and nobody in their right mind would be at the Marvel offices uploading new episodes on Thanksgiving. On the other hand, next week's review is probably going to be a bit more crowded than usual, since it turns out I've missed the final three eps of season 1 of Aaron Stone.

( Dragon Knight 34: Back in Black )

( Rescue Fire 35: Report to Father, Jun's Rescue Spirit )

( Shinkenger 40: The Honorable Leader Heads to the Front Lines )

( Double 12: Revenge's V/Grudge Beast )

Tags: review

I spent most of my Thanksgiving being lazy, but around 5pm or so, I finally sat down to watch Turbo (has nothing to do with PR; it's more like The Wizard in the future with loads of CGI) and Turtles Forever.

I couldn't even finish Turtles Forever at first; I kept stopping it to stew for a while at how awesome it kept getting and to try and wipe the grin off before my face started hurting. About 50 minutes into the 70 minute movie, I stopped to eat dinner. Once dinner was over, instead of continuing, I actually unplugged my PC, carted it downstairs, hooked it up to the living room TV, and forced the family to watch the movie with me.

They loved it to pieces. They were laughing their asses off every 10 minutes, especially at all the scenes where 2003 Michelangelo was bring stupid, and 1987 Raphael was talking into the camera while everyone was wondering who he was talking to. Also, the final 20 minutes pretty much floored everybody; nobody was expecting what happened.

I give it a 9.5 out of 10. The only way it could've been absolutely perfect is if they had gotten the original voice actors for the 1987 cast. Though admittedly, Peter Renaday's probably way too past his prime to be voicing Splinter. But still, Leonardo voiced by anybody other than Cam Clarke (especially since this version of him was oddly deep), and Splinter by anybody other than Uncle Phil James Avery just felt wrong. The others were all at least somewhat close.

emotion: nostalgic

Man, my job is insane.

Okay, it's not actually insane. It's straight-forward at both locations, and may not be fun depending on the day and how bored I am, but it's at least satisfying. Even though I generally only work 40 hours a week though (though I often get overtime when I offer to come in when someone calls in), I work such crazy hours (midnight one day, first shift two days later) that I'm constantly getting behind on LJ. I don't think I've checked my friend-list in three or four days. XD

But since this post is up finally, I'll check it now; I'm very very curious as to fandom's reaction to this ep of Shinkenger. After work tomorrow, I'll watch Turtles Forever, but I'm not sure if I'll do a review post for it or not.

Also, ONLY FOUR WEEKS TO R.P.M.'S RETURN.

( Dragon Knight 33: Out of the Void )

( Spider-man Toku 38: The Twinkling Star of Twilight and the Youth Detective Club )

( Rescue Fire 34: Driven into a Corner: Tama-chan Suits Up!? )

( Shinkenger 39: The Very Urgent First Aid Emergency )

( Double 11: Revenge's V/Infected Car )

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( So it turns out 4chan is actually good for something. Double demotivational posters. )

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NaNo seems to have become an unmitigated failure for me yet again. I did start well, and got several thousand words in, but I'm just nowhere near the goal. And in the process of thinking things over, I finally realized the problem, both for this year and for back in 2007: trying to force myself into a deadline is killing the fun. I'm a procrastinator by nature, and so I hate deadlines, and I equally hate the feeling of franticness that results.

Proof of this is the fact that, a few days ago, when I basically told myself "F*** it" and stopped trying to write to hit 50000, I started writing again almost immediately without any real sense of agitation. I'm definitely not going to hit 50K at this point, but at least I'm having fun with what I'm writing again.

So basically, I'm not doing the process now, and I probably won't try it again. I'll keep writing where I will, and since Cowpocalypse is already going fairly well, I may start posting chapters of it to fictionpress.com soon. But NaNo itself is just not for me.

Downside to working a midnight to 8am shift on early Saturday morning: when I get home, I set my alarm to wake me up three hours later for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, and then I turn around and just turn the alarm off without even thinking when it goes off. I should probably just start not going to bed until noon.

Of course, since I ended up missing Shinkenger when it aired thanks to having to run the roommate down to the metro station, it didn't matter in the end.

( Dragon Knight 32: Advent Master Returns )

( Spider-man Toku 37: The Secret Emissary from Hell, the Enma Devil )

( Rescue Fire 33: Powers Combined: Wyvern Cannon Go Forth! )

( Shinkenger 38: The Gunnery Showdown )

( Double 10: S Terror/The Great Detective's Daughter )

Apologies for anyone who may have been confused by some of the comments in my last few reviews of Rescue Fire. It turns out that Fire-6 doesn't exist. It was just the fandom seeing scans of Dash-6 and GaiaLeon and jumping to conclusions.

( Dragon Knight 31: Xaviax's Wrath )

( Spider-man Toku 36: The Onion Iron Mask and the Youth Detective Club )

( Rescue Fire 32: Ritsuka's Overwhelmed: The Proud GaiaLeon )

( Shinkenger 37: The Epic Glue Battle )

( Double 9: S Terror/Look at the Maid Detective! )

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emotion: tired

Finally watching Kamen Rider Amazon ep 1. It's amazing how ridiculously weak Decade!Amazon's henshin call is compared to the original's badass screaming.