Summer Blogging

This is just a clear statement and reminder to anyone following my blog (or taking a look) that I've been making posts decently often so far, but once April hits and I'm done with classes, I'll be doing an insane amount of blogging! You can expect at least 2+ posts per day and fully operational blog sections.

In addition, you'll see a lot more Go tutorials, some chapters of Love Lilycove at last, some role-play stuff, some MTG, the beginning of my Youtube channel and first ever Go teaching video (series!), and a whole lot more!!

So please, get excited!
Let me know what you would like me to talk about! I really appreciate your comments!! Criticism is also greatly appreciated. Be it about my blog, my posts, my teaching, my topics, your own thoughts or opinions, your requests - please tell me what you think!!

Thanks!

Please show your support and enjoy my content!

~Yukigami

More Thoughts On Poetry

Here's another reason, a thought, as to why "popular poetry" can, and perhaps should, seem more appealing than the scholarly "higher" variants.

It makes sense that metre, rhythm, phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, general symbolism and many other literary ploys should infest the every syllable of the "poetry" that we conceive, melodify, and scribble onto our medium before cutting, refining and rearranging until its audiovisual powers of intellectual invocation meet or transcend our original inspiration.

On that note, I should also add that true beautiful poetry as I see it is like a painting; it is up to the artist and the beholder whether or not to hold any bias or preference for subjective beauty as presented either overtly, covertly, or some blend of the two. True masterful poetry pays no homage to complexity, and most assuredly not to specificity. Those two elements do not generally complement, amplify, or enrich poetry in any general sense beyond the niche. True inspirational, evocative poetry is influential and timeless.

Whether yet budding small and meek as I, or bloomed, every writer springs forth in sudden bursts. So too should poetry rush out from its master's keep, from shimmering sunlight beaming down mosaics through the leaves and onto the restful face, the fleeting, sandy waves of opalescent blue on a blinding summer day, the unlikely marriage of street lamps and fall leaves under the bewitching beams of the twilight moon, or the romantic freezing of time as a violet night gently ices the world a cold alabaster.

 

~Yukigami

Summer Teaser

Hello!

There's one more thing I feel like posting today: A teaser for my blog-related summer productivity!


The following more or less sums up my blog-related productivity aims for this much-anticipated summer of 2014:

• Write a whole bunch of chapters of Love Lilycove, and possibly also chapters of another one of my stories (not a fanfic) called Jackie! (the exclamation mark is a part of the title!). The total combined chapters will probably, and hopefully, range from 10-25. I'm sure I can manage a lot more than ten, but no promises!
• Write a vast variety of character biographies, info sheets, and so on. First of all, all of the characters from the stories I'm currently writing (i.e. particularly Love Lilycove's characters, but also a bunch from my many other yet-to-be-written stories) will have all kinds of the aforementioned documents written up for them and posted!
• Exceed 100 poems! This should be an easy summer feat, as I already have around 70 poems completed and stored in my Evernote~ I believe I have only posted 2 poems to Nevermeltice so far. It's because I'm not clear on what the scoop is for literary/conceptual theft, as well as how internet publishing affects future career-related usage. That is, if I post poems and story chapters and things here, does that limit or hinder my ability to get my works published in the future? This is an issue about which I must further inquire...
• Write a bunch of each of the following:
• Story synopses
• Story one-shots
• (Possibly) manga chapters by me with poor drawings for the sake of visual story-boarding
• Some more quotes, at least bringing my total to 10-15
• Several big articles/essays on certain topics I'm enthusiastic enough about to the point that I'd go as far as to work hard on such things outside of school. For example, in addition to a big essay on Fate (Fate Zero especially, but also the Fate universe), I plan to write up something big I brainstormed that takes on some big real-world philosophical matters and life problems, particularly pertaining to school, parenting, careers, career counseling, advice and opinions, philosophy, the education system, grades, social judgement, and additional relevant matters. You'll see!
  
• Go stories and articles/tutorials, one of many examples being my new Joseki Explained series (or more broadly, my "Go Explained" series). I'll be writing at least triple what's needed for the CGA newsletter schedule as far as Go articles/tutorials go. I'll also be posting some other content that should prove helpful for Go players, specifically for students of the game but also for teachers.
• Role-play sessions for Pathfinder, D&D and whatever else will be written up as many stories and posted! Furthermore, my characters and everything about them will be posted. Other information, such as my imagined worlds, races (etc.) will also be posted.
• I'll be posting a lot into the Magic/card game section too, starting with my current decks, my deck plans, my personal taste, and some of my MTG aphorisms.
• In addition to everything else, there will of course be a lot of more random posts, or random tangents. Plus, I'll be sharing all kinds of interesting content from other blogs, especially those of my close friends - and that means even more stories, characters, magic, role-play and more!
• Anime reviews and related will of course also be featured. I will do some writing about Fate, Gundam SEED, Hataraku Maou-sama, and many more.
• And let's not get ahead of ourselves! I still need to write up some autobiographical posts. As all of my passions and a lot of my many personal ideas are being exhaustively poured into the many sections of Nevermeltice, I figure I might as well allow you the chance to get to know me through more than just topical posts in which I rant about, share, or guru things.
• All of the sections of this blog will be activated and fully operational pretty much as soon as the summer begins; as I'm not planning on taking any courses this summer, I'll have a lot of time to write, blog, and Youtube - or should I say, YukiTube - which brings me to my next points;
• My friends Johnny and Allen and I will be having weekly (or maybe even more frequently) short story contests. We''l choose either anime or other stories, scenes, or themes to write about and each be given like 1-3 hours (we haven't decided yet) to speed-write it all in separate writing environments and then return with our stories at a certain time. We'll then rate several aspects of each story and discuss them. I think this will be a lot of fun, and it was Johnny's idea.
• My Youtube Channel, probably to be named "YukiTube", will be fully active as soon as the summer begins! First, I'll finish adding all the music and other videos I've been meaning to fill it up with. I have various playlists with which all my videos will be organized, such as: Go, Fate, Pokemon, Interesting, Education, and so on and so forth. I plan to immediately make at least one Go video - the first video ever of my new and up-and-coming channel - before I get to other tasks.
• I will be practicing not only with Photoshop and Illustrator (I am currently Level 0 in Illustrator and Level 1 in Photoshop), but also with Visual Novel-making software such as Novelty and whatever else I can find that might be better. I have strong intentions to advance myself in terms of VN-making as well as (or especially) programming. Due to some unease about my future, I'll be doing a little more programming than I had originally planned.
• Also, as far as games are concerned, I also plan to download some other game design software and tools and see what else I can do. I'm very interested in the game-design industry. I might even read up on that specifically, as I'd really rather not procrastinate or half-ass an interest of mine that's both potentially career-relevant and about which I have plenty of enthusiasm. 

I have lots of other tasks to do that don't necessarily relate to my blog as well, such as:

-Using Athletic Centre and improving my fitness with a light daily exercise regiment and a certain number of days a week of "intense workouts" (but also exercising near/in home).
-Learning Python (I'm not taking it in school, I can only teach myself, learn from others, and study up on it online. But I really want to develop my skills seriously and turn myself into a prospective computer science professional. I think the more I learn, the more I'll like it and be able to fool around with programming stuff. When that happens, It will be easier for me to devote more and more time to developing those skills. I am, however, planning to take CSC108 next Fall.
-I have some other more specific goals and "to do" tasks, and well, I guess even these things (above) will find their way into the blog :)


So stay tuned!!

Once Summer comes around I'll be pumping out an average of two or more posts per day - and staying true to the original-but-seemingly-forgotten purpose of the blog, I'll be pumping out chapters of Love Lilycove for you to read, critique/comment on, and share! ;)

De wa!

~Yukigami

Nevermelt-blog

Yukigami in da house.

I've had a lot of blogs in the past. You'll be able to find those blogs and things easily on this one once I find the time to get it all organized (Summer is coming!).

I've had at least 2-3 other blogs plus a live journal, not to mention MySpace, a website through Tripod, and more... But this one is here to stay. I may have made this same claim about other blogs in the past, but this one will not share the same Fate.

Right now I'm studying for a difficult and heavily-weighted (final exam-like) stats test I have tomorrow. After that test, I need to write an essay on fantasy due the next day, and then write another essay due 6 days after that's a great deal more of a pain in the ass - an increased-difficulty variant of a Shakespeare essay. I'm planning to write on the topic relating to "airs and spirits."

Right now I just have absolutely no time to be blogging, but I plan to blog after I submit my Shakespeare essay due on the 19th, after which I should finally, after all this stress, despair, and chaos, have at least a day or two somewhat off from hardcore writing/studying. I may make a quick blog post before the 19th, but that's it.

The next thing I plan to blog about is the fact that I've joined the Canadian Go Association (CGA) newsletter team as an editor and writer. I have submitted this Joseki tutorial - the first of many to come - to the newsletter, and the newsletter containing it has been published and sent out to the CGA. You can view the newsletter here (March newsletter). Note: this link does not (yet) direct you precisely to said newsletter. In fact, the url is misleading as it seems to bring us to the home page with a different url. But just scroll down the newsletter tab :)

Oh, and I will be editing my "Subway Joseki" tutorial, since it was edited a little both by myself and by the other CGA newsletter editor before being published. Those changes will be made to the blog version within two weeks :)

Au revoir!

Awesome Cha La Head metal cover! Oh the nostalgia~ ~ !

 

 

~Yukigami

Nevermelting Love

Nevermeltice

 

**** 

I'll love you and forever pay the price;
Be trapped here in this never-melting ice

And all the shining light our future holds

Can never melt this frozen shell, so cold

Things will get better and better, I said

The lives we led, no longer do we tread

Frozen we stay in that ice forever

And so it shall be; I'll leave you never

Without you, forever my life would end

Forever my heart, all time would rend

For inside my heart be violent weather

And never to our time, could I, time bend

Thus forever I'd frown, as my time ends

I'd fall to the dark; I'd sink to the nether

Mourning the loss, forever, of my dear friend

I love you and I'll say it twice - no, thrice!

We'll continue our flow as our love grows

You'll always be beautiful, falling snow

I'll follow you down, and follow above

Together with you, forever my love

I'm trapped, happily, in Nevermeltice

****

 

~Yukigami