I'm going to try starting a Homestar Runner forum. There's a lack of good ones at the moment, so I think I might have a chance to not crash and burn. Maybe?

I think if I just create a good looking banner and advertise it everywhere I can, then the rest will like as itself. If I'm lucky.

Well, even if it fails, I'll have more of a right to whine about there not being a good Homestar Runner forum at the moment. Even if I lose, I win!

I'll link to it when it's finished. At the moment I'm still stressing over what colours to use and what boards to make.

I'm getting tired of my icons. So I'll just stick with this one for a while. I made it myself on MSPaint!

I'm running out of things to ask the Tarot. Reading it is strangely addictive. As I was pulling out cards to represent Homestar Runner characters because I was running out of things to ask, I got The Fool for Homestar. That was pretty funny.

Apparently you can only have 1000 images in a sub album on Photobucket? Who came up with that rule? And why didn't anyone tell me before I took 1400 screenshots of the Neverhood? Some of those are repeats, but still. Well, it's pretty easy to get around. Just have to make another sub album.

Applied for a job today. This shouldn't be as stressful as it is. And by stressful, I mean totally incapitating. ...My mum had to help me. I think I need help with my anxiety.

If you have both me and capslock_hsr friended, no I'm not listening to this song on repeat. Just the album it's on. But I wouldn't mind listening to this song on repeat. I really like it.

I left some comments in my deviantART notifications yesterday because I hadn't responded to them yet. I was going to last night, but I was really tired for some reason. Normally the best time for me to talk to people is at night, but not last night I guess.

Anyway, the only reason I'm posting this now is because I clicked on my notifications today and the comment notifications disappeared. I mean, they were there when I hovered my mouse over the number to see what kind of things I was being notified for, and when I loaded the page they'd vanished, and I know I never cleared them. And the comments themselves were still there, I checked.

Just thought that was weird. The glitch kind of thing where comments disappeared that dA had a little while ago was worse, though. I don't care about my comments, I knew what they said. I wanted to read other peoples' comments.

The attitude that there shouldn't be a Homestar Runner Wii game because Homestar Runner isn't megapopular anymore really irritates me. Probably I shouldn't googled '"Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People" "five years"' in that case, but I only did that once. Anyway, of course it's not megapopular anymore. Nothing can stay that popular for that long, The Public has a very short attention span. Just because these particular people got bored with it and haven't thought about it in years doesn't mean that the site doesn't exist anymore. That's a very self-centred view. And stupid.

Homestar Runner is still popular, because the wiki is up-to-date, the creators can still live off merchandise sales, and someone keeps going around adding new examples to the TV Tropes Wiki every time a new cartoon comes out. And most of the time it's not me. People don't link to it anymore because everyone's supposed to have heard of it by now. But it's five years on and not everybody has.

On a related note, I really enjoyed the start of the Homestar Runner crossover fic chakramchucker put up on her journal. I also really enjoyed the beginning to a Homestar Runner fic recently put up on fanfiction.net and think it has a lot of promise. I can barely remember the last time I read a Homestar Runner fic for the first time and really enjoyed it. Is Homestar Runner fanfiction having a renaissance? Am I just lightening up? Am I overreacting? It's probably that last one. Still, it's heartening.

I wish there was a good Homestar Runner forum around. I've developed a theory about what's happened in the various hrwiki communities. The forum tends to reject anyone who's not something of a jerk and jaded like a lot of the members. At the very least, they reject people who are new to the Internet. Not knowing of anywhere else to go, the newbies, who at times border on n00bs, go to either the knowledge base or the fanstuff wiki. The knowledge base is full of intelligent people who don't bite the newcomers to their faces, but it also requires effort and for the majority of edits to be related to the project, so people who don't enjoy picking apart an internet cartoon so much go to the fanstuff wiki, which doesn't require so much effort. Essentially, they're just there because they want to socialise with other Homestar Runner fans and the forum doesn't want them. They're not there to make fanstuff, something I figured out a long time ago anyway. But they feel obligated to make it anyway, and see it as the best route to becoming popular. So they do, and it usually turns out not very good. And then they get bored and threaten to leave until the friends they've made convince them not to, but that's common behaviour for twelve-year-olds on the Internet. I know I did it a couple of times when I was twelve.

So the forum is stuck in a rut of being jerks to or ignoring or just plain not attracting people who are different, and then complaining about how low the forum has sunk. I've only been there since September 2006, so I wouldn't know, but at the moment I'm reading a post by The Noid saying that the reason he liked the forum in the past was the friendliness, so that sounds like sinking to me. The fanstuff is stuck in a rut of being so full of kids that nobody else will touch it. The knowledge base is flourishing as far as I know, but has to restrict non-wiki discussion to their IRC channel, which doesn't seem to perpetuate itself as well as a forum. Plus I'm not good at real time chat. The people who don't fit into any of the majorities of the three communities, which constitute some of the best people in the fandom in my probably biased opinion, seem to hang around here and around deviantART.

But all this is useful for making personifications of the hrwiki communities and the loosely defined fourth community. Not that many other people other than me would think of that. But I did, and the interaction between Fanstuff and The Weird One (Couldn't think of a better name, sorry) was funny and I want them to be friends.

( What happened in what I came up for them, because I'll probably never actually write it. )

What was I talking about before... Oh yeah. I kind of want to create my own forum that lets everyone in equally, but with the hrwiki as popular is it, and with my organisational and promoting skills as bad as they are, it'd most likely crash and burn. I guess it might make a pretty pattern on the way down, though.

Well that post was all over the place.

I had a dream last night! A Homestar Runner fandom-y dream! I'll write it down before I forget it.

So Limozeen were apparently touring in my dream, because they were playing in some tiny venue in Canberra. When I found that out, I went straight there because otherwise I'd miss it. They played Because, It's Midnite, and it was really cool. Then I decided that maybe I should call my parents and tell them where I was, so I did. My mum was quite angry, which was understandable.

At the show, I met up with kartoon_kween, which apparently I didn't think was anything out of the ordinary. Somehow, we ended up talking about Mike/Matt. I'm very squicked by real person slash, especially when it's something like incest, but that's what we ended up talking about. kartoon_kween brought it up, not me. Just like in real life! She showed me a series of pictures that were supposed to be Mike/Matt, but fortunately for my sanity, weren't. Instead, they depicted a totally non-sexual scene in which the Brothers Chaps were being attacked by a giant, tentacled monster. I think she drew it... Or maybe dutchtoast drew it. She was around somewhere too, but I didn't run into her. But it wasn't in either of their styles. If I had to guess, it was more like chakramchucker's style. Which made the dream even more bizarre.

The pictures still disturbed me, because I'm sort of squicked by real person fic even when it's not incestous slash between people I greatly admire. But I didn't have much time to dwell on that until I woke up, because the scene suddenly switched to an ancient haunted town. kartoon_kween was still there, but we decided to split up because apparently my dream had turned into a bad slasher movie. Except for the part where nobody died.

Our objectives: Either find a way out, discover the secret of the town, or wander around like idiots, I can't remember which one it was. I do remember that the tentacled monster was somewhere in the town, adding a sense of urgency to the proceedings. There turned out to be a lot of puzzles in the town, and a lot of people trapped there. But I never found out what the secret was, because my parents picked me up, and then I woke up.

I never even got to see sloshy play...

Hahahaha, owned.

EDIT: Since that entry's been deleted, here's what was in it:
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Also, the air conditioning was off at the gym today. I couldn't even get through my warmup before I gave up and just did weights.

You see this, which is what the Homestar Runner Wiki page for the latest Strong Bad Email looks like at this point in time? I wrote all of that, except for the place list and the Easter egg descriptions. Practically nobody else was on, and I was the only one who felt inclined to make more than one edit.

I also updated all the "Strong Bad Email by First Letter of Second Sentence of Email" type lists, and all the list of update lists except for the Strong Bad Email page.

Why yes, I do want a freaking medal. Thank you for offering.

But seriously, it was fun. I hadn't edited the wiki in a big way for ages, and that was quite refreshing in a tiring way. And the toon was entertaining too, I suppose.

My friendslist is really quiet this morning. (pokes it) I need to find more people that I like enough to friend.

And I need to catch a bus just about right now. I think I'll get onto that.

I probably won't get another chance to post today, but it's not because of the boycott. If LiveJournal don't think they're getting enough money with Basic accounts in place, then they have every right to remove Basic accounts. It's not like they're going to make you pay for the privilege of having an account here. All they're doing in essence is adding ads. It sucks, but it's not worth protesting over.

Also, I thought it was hilarious that the protest song for Strikethrough 07 was the song from the start of Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

And now, Folk Festival.

I need to respond to stuff, but I've just been to the gym and I'm too tired. Later. I'll do it later. Speaking of the gym, I shouldn't've picked an exercise bike right next to the speakers. Am I Standing Still by Jewel from the speakers and River Below by Billy Talent from my MP3 player were competing at equal volume, even though I had my MP3 player up quite high.

And now I'm a mod on the hrwiki forums. I'm reading the mod forum and it's quite interesting. And the thread about shipping finally got that split from the thread about the which Homestar Runner character is the most attractive.

Wow, someone was really bored. (Language and a lot of it)

And I'm not going to get all this reverted before I have to go to my drawing class, am I? How annoying.

I'm leaving for Tasmania early next morning. This will probably be my last entry until I get back on the 27th. I think it's the twenty-seventh.

My mum thinks that my apathy cycle I'm currently at the lowest point of is PMS. I don't know why I never thought of that.

And here's my interests collage:
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It was fun. I recognised that fanart of the Delightful Children from Down the Lane. It's by tofu04. It was an art trade with Nathalie, which shouldn't have surprised me. She was one of the biggest Delightful Children fans ever.

The TV Tropes Wiki is down? What will I do with my life???

I think I'll add the Holy Bibble to my webcomic reading list, now with three whole webcomics.

http://roflcon.org/

I WANT TO GO SO BADLY. Why must you be on the other side of a continent that's on the other side of an ocean, Massachusetts? And why must you have such a hard to spell name?

Also, apparently I'm a pensioner now. It's a disability pension, but still, it sounds weird. But I will keep getting money off for bus tickets even though I'm not a student anymore, which is good.

Dreams: A couple of nights ago, I dreamed that there were catastrophic floods so bad that they passed mountain ranges. At one point I was at the beach one second, and the mountains the next. The next morning, I found a story about bad storms on the east coast in the newspaper. I hadn't heard about that before, so I was pretty surprised.

Nostalgia: This morning I got up early (for me), and started feeling nostalgic for 2001, when I was twelve and in year seven. Even though I was being bullied really badly then, and had no friends, and the work wasn't that enjoyable either. I think I just missed the atmosphere, but I miss every atmosphere, including the one where I was watching South Park all the time to try and forget about how horribly depressed I was.

More dreams: Last night I dreamed I was watching episode 313 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Despite the lack of firebending, and, I think, main characters, I didn't realise that it wasn't actually that episode until after it finished. It was really episode 311, which is nothing like the episode in my dream at all.

Overreacting over fanfiction: This complaint about Strong Sad's characterisation in Homestar Runner fanfiction ran a bit long, so I'll put it in its own entry.

LJ: I think I really needed a comm like capslock_hsr to exist.

Cognitive dissonance: Yesterday I spent most of the day reading about and watching subbed anime. Then I started to watch a movie, and was actually confused for a few seconds that they were speaking perfect English.

Mood theme: I really need to finish this mood theme.

My Everything Else Volume 3 DVD and my Series 1 and 2 figurines arrived today. I started acting out a couple of my fanfics with the figurines, mostly because it was funny. At the same time, my brother continually killed them by knocking them off the table.

Also, the Limozeen Advantage is one of those funny-because-it's-bad things. Basically, they get an all girl metal band, Advantage, to open for them. Larry pronounces Advantage with an emphasis on the last syllable the whole cartoon. So then they find that Advantage has disappeared, and there is a galatic space hippo spider on the stage. So they have a really sparse chase scene for a while, then find out that Advantage were just doing their makeup, and the galatic space hippo spider was a robot that Larry would fight on stage during his encores. Lessons are learned all round. I think.

I could listen to the 80s video game remix of the intro theme all day.

And on a completely different note, here's the Make The World A Better Place game's ranking of People Who Have Made The World A Better Place.

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I'll cut them because they're long.

( In 2007... )

( IN 2007 I: )
That second meme was boring. (Looks for some more)

You know what would be awesome? An archive of Homestar Runner fanstuff, only not sunk into a pit of n00bs like the Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki is. That way it might attract good stuff-makers, thus ushering in a new era of awesome for this tiny fandom.

Not that I have any idea how to go about doing that.

I was just looking at my old Johari window from a couple of years ago. Interesting. I think it's pretty accurate for the most part, except for one person who got it totally wrong, and I don't know why I believed her when she said all those negative and hurtful things about me. But anyway, that was a couple of years ago.

I'm strangely happy right now. That's why I'm still up, because I won't be able to get to sleep until I calm down a little. I'm worried about how I dropped out of school and everything, but... I don't know, it's like it's not as much as a problem as it should be.

I need a better writing style.

So it's still not November.

In non-NaNo related news, it turns out I can pass one of my classes by showing what I do as a sysop on the Homestar Runner fanstuff wiki. I CAN PASS BY DOING THE THING I DO FOR FUN ANYWAY. :D :D :D :D

Also, I found my sketchbook, and I'm going to see how badly I draw on paper. I also found a couple of old drawings I'll probably upload to my deviantART account later.