Silverstone-Dancer

My sister and I both play Yu-Gi-Oh!! and recently purchased a Wii game for 5Ds. Unimaginative as the game is, it is fun to play and equally amusing to see how desperate they get in manufacturing names; a generic duelist cutout and the names are variations of Gary, Taka, and Danny.

But not today. My sister played against a character named Oscar.

The stock phrases used by the characters include "I'm going to defeat you!" "How weak you look." "How could someone like you ever hope to defeat me?"

Oscar's first line was, "Grrr. Wait, why am I growling?"

We blinked.

"Oh, that's right! My wife told me not to bother coming home if I didn't win this tournament. Oh well. Looks like I'm going to be sleeping under the stars tonight."

He shouted "I'm sorry!" once, while attacking my sister directly.

Oscar was the only cookie-cutter "AI duelist" we've ever felt guilty about defeating. I hope there are more Oscars in the game.

I was flipping through a record of my stories when I suddenly realized that all of my stories have male protagonists.

So I wondered why and thought about it carefully and came to the realization that when I was a kid, my parents only ever got me books with female protagonists. The books I read with male protagonists up until 4th grade were Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Hatchet, and Sporty Creek.

I remember thinking that I should write stories with male main characters because people didn't seem to like writing guys as main characters in books. So I only wrote stories with male mains, trying to equalize it.

Now I feel really weird whenever I try to write a female protagonist. What even- I'm a girl! So somehow a lot of my main characters are slightly feminine boys. There's this feeling that I have that says this isn't the most normal thing on earth.

I begin to research for a story I am writing. I look at my browser history.

Literally:

    Famous Serial Killers

    The Sacramento Vampire

    The Zodiac Killer

    How much blood is in the human body

    what is the best way to drain the human body of blood

    amount of blood loss it takes to kill a person

    how long someone can survive deprived of oxygen

    famous women serial killers

    cystic teratoma

    vitamin A content of the human liver

    spells requiring human sacrifices

    poisons that cause the liquefaction of organs in the body

And now, to add to the list:

     serrated combat knives

If I ever lend my computer to someone, they are going to think I am either a serial killer or crazy. All for stories, of course. Or out of curiosity.

Some of them I never wrote, but eh... I'm just glad my mother doesn't check my browser history.

I am writing again.
No, no fanfic; no, no Butterfly.
My jump drive was lost. All new stories were on it. It was painful.
I'm still writing, though- see you.

So, I'm going to have some difficulty with Butterfly. Thank you for caring, but I'm trying to finish a story that I'm stuck on, so rewriting, renaming characters, etc....

Why? I have written a lot of stories, and very few of those are complete. Butterfly is taking kind of a back seat to this one, for the moment.

The story is called Selim Academia, and once I finish it, I hope to publish it here or elsewhere, not necessarily on the internet.

I guarantee that you won't find it anywhere else. No chapters have been published online.

If anyone cares. You know, I have this feeling that, even if I just shut up and didn't publish anything, nothing would happen.

I could write the craziest stuff ever and totally get away with it!

........ and then the dragons ate the giant's cannonballs and drank all of their oil, thus becoming the rulers of the earth.

Paying attention now?

Pity party over. You may return to whatever it was you were doing.

So, likely slow updates (if they weren't slow enough already) on Butterfly.

Just a warning.

Oh, and Squirrel! I'm cosplaying soon, as Akiza Izinski from Yu-Gi-Oh!! 5Ds.