My Random Thoughts

Hello there. Welcome to my world of Random Thoughts. In this world I’ll be posting stuff about anime and manga. Not to mention various other topics. I may post the occasional music video every now and than. And from time to time, I’ll just talk about my life in general. But first, here are a few things about me.

I was born an only child, for one thing. Originally I was planning to go into art professionally, but recently I’ve been more inclined towards writing. I still do the occasional wallpaper every now and then though, and I also still draw a little. But much of my energy these days goes into writing fan fiction. I’ve also recently become interested in archive and library work, which is something I’ve discovered I’m good at. Finally, like most people on the Internet, I like cats.

Favorite Anime/Manga

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Card Captor Sakura, Vampire Princess Miyu, Dragon Ball Z, Code Geass, Digimon (Adventure and Tamers), Pokemon (Misty era), Gundam SEED, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Strawberry Panic, Rideback, Full Metal Panic, Slayers, Psyren, El Cazador de la Bruja, Sword Art Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Yurikuma Arashi, Kill la Kill, Parasyte: The Maxim, One Punch Man, and Mob Psycho 100.

Other Anime/Manga I Like

Buso Renkin, Gurren Lagann, InuYasha, Kannazuki no Miko, Shattered Angels, Bleach, Naruto, Durarara!!, Spice and Wolf, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, Dragonaut: The Resonance, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Trinity Blood, Blue Gender, Eden of the East, Last Exile, Soul Eater, Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, Space Dandy, Black Lagoon, Citrus, Riddle Story of Devil, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Favorite TV Shows

Original Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space 9, Star Trek Voyager, Magnum P.I., Numbers, Shark, The Simpsons, The West Wing, ~~Hawaii Five-O (Remake)~~, NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, NCIS New Orleans, Blue Bloods, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Leverage, The Mentalist, Elementary, MASH, Bones, The Red Green Show, Almost Human, Rizzoli & Isles, Supergirl, and Sherlock.

Other TV Shows I Like

Murder She Wrote, Simon & Simon, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, Powerpuff Girls, The Closer, Major Crimes, Columbo, Matlock, Futurama, JAG, The Rockford Files, Unforgettable, Emergency, Mysteries at the Museum, ~~Castle~~, Covert Affairs, ~~Alias~~, Due South, Nash Bridges, Body of Proof, ~~Longmire~~, ~~The Flash~~, ~~Arrow~~, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, ~~It Takes a Thief~~, Frasier, Home Improvement, and Last Man Standing.

Favorite Movies

Summer Wars, Short Circuit, The Abyss, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, Tron, Tron: Legacy, Highlander, The Ghost and the Darkness, Dark Shadows, Ghostbusters, Twister, Apollo 13, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Predator 2, The Martian, Rocky (1-3), Creed, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man (1-3), Original Star Wars Trilogy, Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country), Star Trek Next Generation (First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis), and the Star Trek Reboot Films (Star Trek, Into Darkness).

Favorite Musical Groups/Artists

Phil Collins (and Genesis), Journey, Styx, Boston, Queen, Heart, Meat Loaf, Billy Joel, John Denver, Survivor, Chicago (and Peter Cetera), and Josh Groban.

In addition to being a fairly good wallpaper artist, I'm also a fan fiction writer who's written quite a few stories on FanFiction.Net. To check those stories out, CLICK HERE

That’s pretty much all you need to know about me. I'm not sure how often I'll post something here, but I'll try to as often as I can. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy visiting.

Created By Darkarax

Swiped From Cosmic Moon

Mainly because I thought it would be fun to try out.

Rules:

You MUST post these rules!
Choose a music program you have (Spotify, iTunes, iPod etc)
Put it on random and press play
For every question, you answer with the song title that comes up when you choose next.
Do not cheat! Answer it totally honest and don't try to be cool!

* * *

1. The perfect opening credits: Deck the Halls by John Denver & the Muppets. (It’s a Christmas movie!)

2. You are dreaming: Daniel by Elton John

3. Feeling angry: Sweet Dreams by Air Supply (Where was this song on the last question?)

4. Waking up: Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot

5. Getting ready in the morning: Somewhere Down the Line by Tom May

6. First day at school: I Robot [Boules Experiment] by The Alan Parsons Project

7. Getting out the door to reach school: Scenes For a Night’s Dream by Genesis

8. At school: Lasagna by Weird Al Yankovic (I guess that was lunch.)

9. How are you feeling?: The Festival by David Arkenstone

10. Your day was: Snowblind by Styx

11. What hurts right now?: Weekend In New England by Barry Manilow

12. You are in love when: If Leaving Me Is Easy by Phil Collins

13. Your meaning of life is: Cannonballs (Rigadoon) by Michael Kamen

14. You think of someone you love: State Street Sadie by Styx

15. Your mood right now: Waterloo by Abba

16. Your motto of the day: Half A Mile Away by Billy Joel

17. Your mental breakdown: Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf

18. Your friend is: Be by Neil Diamond

19. A song that describes you: Visions of Paradise by The Moody Blues

20. You get your heart torn to pieces by: In The Bleak Midwinter by Dan Fogleberg

21. Flashback: Love Is The Ritual by Styx (This song has actually been on my mind a lot lately.)

22. You laugh when: Dixie Highway by Journey

23. The happiest moment of your life: He’s A Pirate by Klaus Badelt

24. Your friends think you are?: Eagles and Horses by John Denver

25. You think your best friends are: Looks Like We Made It by Barry Manilow

26. Revenge: Captain Jack by Billy Joel

27. Getting married: Back On The Road Again by REO Speedwagon

28. Final battle: Don’t Think… Feel by Neil Diamond

29. Getting lost: Fum, Fum, Fum by Mannheim Steamroller

30. You believe in: If God Could Talk by Meat Loaf

31. The last song you'll ever hear: Late Lament by The Moody Blues (Not really a song, but okay.)

32. The perfect prom song: Faithfully by Journey (Actually that would make a pretty good prom song.)

33. The Song they will play at your funeral: Pamela by Toto (Not the Requiem I was expecting, but okay.)

34. Ending Credits: After the Ordeal by Genesis (That’s actually pretty appropriate.)

*sigh* ...I think my iTunes hates me.

Swiped From yumi hearts u

Mostly because I had some time to kill. Mostly just a quiz to see how many fears you have.

[ ] the dark. (More specifically, what COULD be in the dark)

[x] staying single forever

[ ] being a parent

[ ] giving birth

[ ] open spaces

[x] closed spaces

[x] heights

[ ] dogs

[ ] birds

[ ] fish

[x] spiders

[ ] flowers or other plants

[ ] being touched

[ ] fire

[x] deep water

[ ] silk

[ ] the ocean

[x] failure

[ ] success

[ ] thunder/lightning

[ ] frogs/toads

[ ] my girlfriend's/boyfriend's dad

[ ] my girlfriend's/boyfriend's mom

[ ] rats

[x] jumping from high places

[ ] snow

[ ] rain

[ ] wind

[ ] crossing hanging bridges

[x] death

[ ] heaven

[ ] being robbed

[x] falling

[ ]clowns (I only find them annoying)

[ ] dolls

[x] large crowds of people

[ ] men

[ ] women

[ ] having great responsibilities

[x] doctors, including dentists (only that they’ll find something wrong)

[ ] tornadoes

[ ] hurricanes

[x] incurable diseases

[ ] sharks

[ ] Friday the 13th

[ ] ghosts

[ ] poverty

[ ] Halloween

[ ] school

[ ] trains

[ ] planes

[ ] odd numbers

[ ] even numbers

[ ] being alone

[x] becoming blind

[x] becoming deaf

[ ] growing up

[ ] creepy noises in the night

[x] bee stings (never been stung)

[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals

[ ] needles

[ ] blood

[ ] dinosaurs

[ ] dead bodies

[ ] high speed

[ ] throwing up

[ ] falling in love

[ ] super secrets

[ ] my girlfriend/boyfriend

[ ] public speaking

TOTAL: 15

If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling.

If you get more than 21, you're paranoid.

If you get 11-20, you are normal.

If you get 10 or less, you're fearless.

If you get 0, you're lying

Wow, I never thought I’d be called normal.

Part 1 Winners Are...

Greetings people of TheO. Once again, another of my wallpaper challenges has come to an end, and I have already decided the winners. It was tough judging the entries for this challenge, because so many of them were really good. In the end I decided to judge the entries by the level of emotion in the wallpapers. So here are our winners.

1st Place: Rain Tapping on my Pane by kita mitchi

It's just such a sad image, and the background was brilliantly done in my opinion.

2nd Place: Stand In The Rain by zombieusagi

Right away I recognized which episode of Code Geass this image is from. And I have to say that this wallpaper was a pretty good use of it.

3rd Place: ...even cold november rain... by Hanako Sho

I'm not a huge Guns & Roses fan, but I have to say that was a really appropriate song to use for the title. Also the background was excellently done.

There are a couple of honorable mentions in this challenge.

A Long Road by 21Emmz12

This one came really close to being one of the winners. The one reason why it didn't win was that I felt it was just a tad too bright.

Why Do We Fall by Klassic

Another wallpaper that came really close to winning. The reason why it didn't was because I didn't feel like it had the level of emotion I was looking for.

So there you have it. I wish I could've picked five winners, but this is the way it went. Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone who entered, and I hope you'll all enter my next challenge, which in theory will be starting up shortly. So stay tuned.

~Darkarax

Theme Song For the Afternoon

It's the first few verses that apply to this afternoon, and yesterday afternoon as well. I may use this song for a wallpaper if I can find an appropriate image. Once again I was outside in 99 degree weather spray painting popsicle sticks for a kids' craft project. This time I was out for four hours and fifteen minutes, though I did take breaks and kept myself hydrated.

Stupid, Crazy, or Other?

Here's how my afternoon went today. I spent four hours outside spray painting popsicle sticks for a kids' craft project at the library. The temperature out was about 98 degrees. So was doing that outside for four hours in that heat stupid, crazy, or something else. Keep in mind that I took breaks inside the building every now and than, and that I had an ample supply of water.