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I beat Final Story on SA2B again. I kept needlessly getting killed at the final boss (fucking lasers), but I managed to stick around to hear Sonic and Shadow's lines to each other at the 4 minute mark with Final Hazard in the red.

( More SA2B nostalgia beneath the cut. )

I hope my store has those new MLP: FiM Valentine cards. Mwoiiiiing~!

This post has been crossposted with Dreamwidth at http://shamanicshaymin.dreamwidth.org/14141.html. Pick your poison. Mwoiiiiiiiing~!

Hey guys! Wanna know how infamously glitchy Sonic 2006 is? Here ya go!



I've been watching the LP of Sonic 2006 to pass the time when Jean wasn't reading Homestuck with me, and lately, I've been getting a strange sense of nostalgia from my time in Sonic fandom. Hell, after I talked to Sipp on Plurk, I felt inspired to make an RP account for E-102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure 1, and did it. I'll refine it and make icons for him later after I replay the game. Just... wow. I used to love Gamma. :o And I totally shipped him with Amy. I still do.

Aside from Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog fandom had a lot of "firsts" for me. My first serious crush on a fictional character (Shadow the Hedgehog, which I felt a lot of guilt for, mostly because I was scared of being a "rabid fangirl" and that I was gonna be labeled as a "furry", though I eventually stopped caring about the latter. :P Former, on the other hand... hoo boy), the first time I started receiving attention for my work in fandom (not BNF-status, but I've had a couple strangers who went up to me and said, "Hey, aren't you the one who wrote that one fic/that Sonadow essay at ship_manifesto?" and gave me warm, fuzzy feelings inside. Usually those fans and I became friends. ;;), and hell, even the first time I wrote smut... a looooooooong story which deserves its own entry. :P Gods, the first AMV I ever made was a Shadow the Hedgehog AMV using "Bliss" by Tori Amos. I think I lost it and never recovered it, which is kind of a shame, but then again, I made a couple other old Sonic AMVs too, haha. XD

It's kind of painful for me to look back on my years in Sonic fandom since I went from being a cheerful fangirl who did what she loved to being a paranoid worrywart who was concerned what people and older fans thought of her because she loved Shadow and Sonadow and felt "ostracized" because she enjoyed playing the newer (at the time) games as well as the classics. When I look back on them now, Sonic Heroes and the games after them are crappy. Yet even knowing games like Shadow the Hedgehog are horrendously and painfully cheesy and has all these flaws and tries way too hard to be hardcore ("Where's that DAMN 4th Chaos Emerald!? DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN WATCH ME SAY DAMN."), I get a sense of guilty pleasure from them due to the time I spent with friends in fandom. Under normal circumstances, I would've found a character like Silver stupid and annoying, and today I really wish he didn't have to be another hedgehog, but... ngggh. Fucking Narm Charm. gjdskgjdksg

My heart will always belong to Sonic Adventure 2 and the earlier games like Sonic CD and S3&K though. Fuck yes.

I don't get me started how much I whined about Sonic elitists. It's like I spent the last part of my active years of Sonic fandom feeling "persecuted" and miserable, and it shows in the last few Sonadow fics I written. To the point I think my friends were calling me out for it. When I think about it, the more I want to strangle my past self. I was so concerned with being a "good" Shadow and Sonadow fan, even in the eyes of people who didn't like them, and... gdhskjghdkjsgh. I even gotten into fights with a couple friends about this, and lost one of them because of it. I spent too much time worrying about what other people thought. You can see why this was painful for me to think about. I feel like Karkat from Homestuck with his self-loathing and how much he detests his past self for being so moronic, 'cause I'm feeling exactly the same way when I look at myself in my late years of Sonic fandom.

As my Sonic obsession waned into hiatus (a little before I got into Earthbound), I finally got around to watching SatAM despite feeling "poisoned" and what do you know, I loved it. I started to mellow down, thank god, and stuck around to spazz about the series for a while. Sonic/Sally became my favorite het pairing for Sonic, I shipped Bunnie/Rotor, and it was around the time the Sonic Kink Meme (kinkyclosetzone, which I helped name) opened. It's pretty much dead now, I think. XD The other day, my friend and I were talking about robot sex ("How does it work? Transformers fandom is divided over this."), and though she wasn't much familiar with the fandom, I linked her to my favorite Shadow/Omega fic (NSFW, despite wires and robotics) for referential purposes. (Her response: "Hee hee. Code-fondling.")

So yesterday, I decided to browse the kink meme to read old fills. I came across an old request of mine, which wanted Sonic/Griff from the "Warp Sonic" SatAM episode. I went on, expecting nobody answered that one ever, except... bam. A fill. Written two months after I left it. And... it's fucking incredible. (NSFW) I don't know how I never saw that fic in my LJ message box, but it's been about three years before I finally read this fic. Even though the writer will probably never know my thanks, I left it anyway. God, I wonder if I should've de-anon'd myself. But just... I'M FEELING SO MUCH EMOTION. WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU HAVE ALL MY LOVE IN THE WORLD. ;; I wonder if it's even someone I know, though I don't think I recognize the style. I can't help but feel guilty somehow. But still... anon, whoever you are. Thank you.

Reading that fic meant a lot to me, and I've been feeling sort of crummy lately. Namely about my creativity (or lack of it).

Sometimes, I wonder if ought to finish that humongous Sonadow fic I started that was going to be one of my fandom magnum opuses. Post-SA2, Shadow was caught in space and taken inside a hidden lab in the Mystic Ruins run entirely by a sentient supercomputer named P.A.N.D.O.R.A. PANDORA likes to build creepy advanced robots, including the Leviathan, and has experimented on an unconscious Shadow for three years. Shadow wakes up before he's "ready" and steals a Chaos Emerald one of the robots brought in and escaped. Sonic, having since moved on, is troubled why he still remembers a rival he barely knew. Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman wants to seek out PANDORA and claim the lost lab and the creations inside for his own. Shit goes down in Mystic Ruins and Sonic chases Dr. Eggman. The Leviathan is trying to hunt Shadow, and the two hedgehogs meet again... Cue "WTF!?" In short, Sonic and friends must stop Eggman while figuring out what the hell is up with the PANDORA business and its connection to Shadow. Sonic & Shadow begrudgingly work together, and end up more tangled in each another than they'd like to admit, playing right into PANDORA's logic-minded hand...

If I stopped to work on it, would I feel closure? Sometimes I wonder if I should save it as maybe a future original work, but the story is clearly written to be for the Sonic universe. To take out all the Sonic essence would be robbing it of its soul. I will never be able to unsee it as something that used to be "about Sonic." I'm like this with my other incomplete big fanfic projects I started too. Augh.

tl;dr: Puri was a self-pitying paranoid moron for her latter years in Sonic fandom, and is now wibbling over old crap and a lovely fic featuring a super obscure pairing someone left her in a time capsule. She then goes on to fret about her own fanfiction again. WHOO SELF-DEPRECATION

Damn blue hedgehogs giving me feelings.

I feel like anyone who's ever been in fandom has their own personal "worst badfic." ficbitches brings up Chocobo Nights a lot, for example. Without a doubt in my mind, I know lots of badfic classics and talk of them like we talk of bad movies (some with humorous affection aka My Immortal, others with disgust and utmost horror, like "the one where Tifa gives birth to a Chocobo."), but the one that leaves tar-coated thorns oozing over the cockles of my little black heart is a Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic called "Manipulated Love."

Apparently, Manipulated Love has been deleted from FF.net. The fic whose badness inspired me to write my first lemon as an antidote / "brain bleach" to the UTTER HORROR AND RAPE IN MULTIPLE LEVELS OF THIS GODAWFUL SGHDKJGHDKJGHKJD disappeared. My first reaction? "Nooooooooooooooooo!"

Then I realized it still existed on Sonadow.com. Cue simultaneous response of "Whew!" and "Oh god no!" My god, the memories. Yeah, a fic this bad to influence an ashamed 16-year-old girl wrangling with her sexuality to write loving graphic smut of two hedgehogs is uh... "special."

I'm going to play more Epic Yarn.

# Day 06 - The best kiss?

All of Dee & Ryo's scenes in FAKE. ♥

Outlaw Star with Gene & Melfina had an epic kiss. Gods, it's been years since I've seen that show, I barely remember a thing.

WALL-E & EVE's buzz kiss~ ♥

The ending to Nightmare Before Christmas. ;;

Megan and Graham in But I'm a Cheerleader! in the back of the bar and during the Glass Vase, Cello Case scene. Just baw.

The early kisses in Adrian Lyne's Lolita in a DEAR GOD NO kind of way.

Princess Bride. 'Nuff said.

Never saw X/1999. But I saw an AMV where it had Fuuma kissing a crucified Kamui. That was cool in a twisted kinda way. :o

Rotom and Shaymin's kiss in the mistletoe event in pokedressing. Just... oh god, I feel warm and fuzzy every time I keep rereading that.

Speaking of Rotom and Shaymin~

( AWWWWWW! )

9:04 in. A peck on the cheek that leads to the best expression of King Dedede ever. But hey, if you've got spare time, you can see how cute Kirby & Ribbon are in general. :)

Now for our usual fanart splurge~ From snogging to pecks to eskimo kisses, get ready to squee~ ♥♥♥

( First, we have a couple gay hedgehogs. )

( But those two schoolboys just take the cake. ghskjghskjghr )

Mwoiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing~

I don't believe I ever posted the rest of my SSBB caps. Let's remedy that. Let's start off with a tradition Puri has: the 99-Minute Battle!

( 25cc and No Bodies Yet! )

( Field Trip to the Mushroom Kingdom! )

( And the Rest Nom )

I'll see what else I have stored later. :o

Here's Part 1 for now!

Create Your Own Sea Kitten at peta.org!

DO SOMETHING MORE PRODUCTIVE AND SAVE THE SEA COWS. YOU CAN DO IT BY GOING TO HORNY MANATEE.COM

"There's very little whatsoever to imply any sort of attraction between Sonic and Shadow of Sonic The Hedgehog. That being said, it's one of the most-shipped yaoi pairings out there, Or So I Heard." --TV.Tropes on the Foe Yay page

Quick! Somebody update that page with Sonic's flirting in Shadow the Hedgehog! :o

Time to tackle my paper for Rhetoric! *disappears*

Yume Nikki makes you go MOMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!!1!1!11

Mother 3 makes you laugh your head off until you realize Bambi's mom has been shot. Then it makes you laugh five seconds after that. Then it punches you in the stomach. Repeat back and forth as your emotions are manipulated, while throwing in a bit of MOMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!!1!1!11 too.

Sonic Chronicles? Pure unadulterated hilarity.

That's it. Nice balance of current games, huh? ;D

Eggman doesn't walk. He prances.

Shadow runs like he's knocked over a hive of bees. He also talks about Omega like how Amy refers to Dexter. ("Omega isn't like the other robots! Omega... is intelligent. He hates Eggman. >(" "Err, Shads? It's hard to be jealous of someone with a robot for a boyfriend." "You keep quiet! >(") Shadow talks about his friendship with Omega and goes on and boasts about the perfect partnership they have together and how superior their make-out sessions are to Sonic and What's-His-Date's and expects us to take him seriously. Tee hee! X333 Either way, Shadow's on my team now, and I absolutely refuse to separate him from Sonic~ ♥ Atomic Strike is the most beautiful storm I've seen in my life. *__________________* Their love circulates and shocks the world~ ♥♥♥ Took out those Raptor Hawks fast too, haha! X333~

Shadow's making friends with an adorable pink Chao named Joy~ ♥

Nightmare aside, I had this twinkly melody composed in my head. Gameboyish and gorgeous. It's in the same key as "Black Balloon" and it sounds like something that could fit into a Kirby game soundtrack. (Might be similar to Fallin' Love too) It's hard to record sounds on paper when you don't know how to set up the key and hence, don't know how to organize the notes. Figures I'd forget that pretty melody later. Goddamn it.

Sonic FF.netters: If a story says The End in clear bold letters, that means there's NO more chapters. Also? There is NO sequel. What the hell could I make a sequel out of? XD Stupid brainless Sonadow fangirls. XD

If Dad still won't give Puri a hedgehog, maybe she can bug him into getting her a rattie. An adorable cute little rat~ ♥

Today's Mario Party Day at Smash Club! :D

Magic Cake Woman wanted requests, so look what I got from her: ♥♥♥


George, Maria, and Giegue by ~Magic-Cake-Woman on deviantART

EB0 Mood? Me? :D

Now that Puri's discovered the Share This/Blog It feature on DA... ♥

( We've Got Sonic, Pokemon, Mario, Earthbound, Sweeney Todd, Original, Misc... )

I was veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery tempted to share the Ultimate Jeff Fanservice art, but I was nice and tucked it to the back of my subconscious. ^^;;;;

( *whistles* *glances around real quick* *POSTS!* )

I'm such a liar. XD

For No Apparent Reason
Shadow visits Sonic and savagely rapes him. Yep, that's about it. Anal,Angst,Anthro,Humil,M/M,M/M/M,N/C,Oral,PWP

TRAI HARDER. LAWL.

Every time I go over, I have a huge need to update with something. :o Alas, I have nothing finished or started. Doh.