Okay, so it has been a while and a half since my last entry. I apologize, but school, work, Skyrim, and cartoons(Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, and My Little Pony Friendship is Magic) do not wait.
Where to start? How about Cartoons? Those jovial mediums of art that we all love and pretend not to care for as we get older. Two in particular stand out from the rest as grabbing my attention. Adventure Time tends to my fun loving imaginative dungeon crawling post-apocalyptic veteran nerdy mind like there is no tomorrow. Everything from the characters that seem so very entertaining, to the ever so subtle sex jokes that may be found once in a blue moon; mature jokes that fly right over the heads of the children watching it, but to the adults that giggle to themselves thinking, "Did they just say that?" I love Marceline the Vampire Queen. She isn't my favorite character, but if you watch the show, you may see why she is commendable. My favorite character besides the main protagonist Finn, is his gender-switched variant Fiona. Fiona is the most independent teenage girl in the cartoon genre of today, projecting a message that girls her age don't have to rush out to find a guy for herself to call her own. She is patient in her relationships, just as you SHOULD be. I love this show for all of the nerdy imaginative elements I would normally find in video games, as of now Finn has received his fathers sword made of demon blood. How badass is that? Really? Last but not least are the elements of post nuclear war that loom everywhere in the series. Broken down buildings, destroyed cars, "ancient" technology, Huumans(mutated humans), references to a "mushroom" war, and characters specifically referring to Finn being the last of a dead species. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out, but if you can't figure it out on your own, then just visit the Adventure Time wiki page and prove me wrong. Marceline survived this nuclear war because she cannot die unless killed proper. The magic of the Ice Kings Nordic crown protected him from the war as stated in the Christmas special, and all of the candy people are results of human DNA spliced with candy. Its not the best post-apocalyptic base, but it works for me.
How about dem ponies eh? Before you bombard me with your homophobic banter and opinions that I might by a horse wanker, let me let you in on a few secrets. First secret, gay isn't bad, not at all. Many of my friends are gay, and all of the males happen to not actually like this show one bit. Second secret, I do not get my jollies off of rule 34. I hate rule 34, especially sense it gets its own jollies off of ruining my childhood heroes. Third secret, this show is actually pretty damn good. I don't know how to explain it off the top of my head without some time to properly give an answer as to why a heterosexual grown man such as myself can love a show targeted to five year old girls. This is a show about prancing little ponies that laugh, play, and occasionally break out into song. Anyone that watches for the first time should immediately die of a brain hemorrhage within ten seconds. Yet I find the animation of the characters so very compelling. That leads me to my next love of the show, the characters. You have the Book-worm, the party-girl, the country girl, the shy one, the fashion queen, and the tom boy(safe way of saying she is the gay one). All of these characters are unique and relatable to anyone who adheres most to the statement, "(favorite character name here) is best pony". Also the writing is really spot on. Even though it is targeted for young girls, creator Lauren Faust(Power Puff Girls and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends) doesn't make it that simple minded. She listens to the fans whom love the show. Unlike Bioware, creators of one of my favorite games Mass Effect, does not listen to its fans who cry out for female aliens to make their favorite game seem more in depth. The show has subtle references to books such as the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, when the party-girl Pinkie Pie makes motion to digging a hole, burying a secret in it, covering it, building a house on top of the hole, and movie into the house on the hole is fucking brilliant! I have not felt joining the herd was a very well worth it move for me.
Lastly is Skyrim. Where to begin with this behemoth of a sandbox rpg? Long story short, my first character play-through Severus, the Cyrodilic argonian, was awesome as Hell and received over 170 hours of my life. That's pretty sad since that is a little over a week straight of gameplay, and yet I want more. He had a few quests that bugged out and I really didn't want to restart him from ground up, he was quite the accomplishment now that I look back on it. So I decided to make a new character, Nyxrhea. She is a argonian archer/thief/dagger wielding/assassin/merchant in that order. Nyxrhea is a combination of two Greek mythological figures; Nyx is the female personification of night and shadow, while Rhea was the mother of the Gods. Put them together and you get the Nightmother. How awesome is that? Since I know what I am actually doing this time around, she is a lot better off then Severus because I am now using the one thing I have overlooked in an elder scrolls game, Archery. Arrows maxed out with maxed out stealth equals death to all Thalmor, Forsworn, Stormcloack, and necromancer that come across her way.
So those are the things that have kept me off of my journal thus far. Spoiler alert, they will continue to keep me away for many weeks to come.