I don't know if any of you remember- or even if any of you read this- but my New Year's Resolution for 2011 was to write a paragraph each day. I made a note on here at the beginning of last year announcing that I would post each paragraph online as a shame-incentive to make sure I finished this resolution. The good news is that while I did finish this resolution- HOORAY!- I wrote them in a journal and quickly grew tired of typing them all up at the end of the week. By this point my paragraphs are so fragmented and scattered- and I am pretty sure a few of them were lost or eaten or rendered blurry messes- that I have no motivation to type them up and doubt anyone would want to read them. If anyone did, I apologize, but several of them are the beginnings to or the odd rising-action type segments of short stories I am considering finishing, and you may see them there.

I also wrote a journal entry a few weeks or something ago claiming to have found two brilliant animes I wanted to share with everyone. I still want to share this amazing thing with all of you, but I realized probably no one wanted to read an extremely lengthy review unless it was something they had already heard of or included pictures.
That said, the second anime I wanted to share is a 25-episode piece of brilliant fun called "Tiger and Bunny" that has actually enjoyed a good deal of popularity. The anime is set in "Sternbild City," implied to be a futuristic redesign of New York City in the late 70's, where super-powered people called "NEXT" are sponsored by companies to compete with each other as superheroes on the television network Hero TV Live, which broadcasts and awards points for the rescues and arrests each hero makes to crown the "King of Heroes" with the most points at the end of the season. The stars are Kotetsu Kaburagi a.k.a "Wild Tiger," the veteran hero who suffers in points due to his tendency to break things in his determination to save people and is bullied for his "old age," and Barnaby Brooks Jr., the flashy new hero who ascends to instant popularity. Due to a company buy-out, Kotetsu becomes partners with Barnaby, nicknamed "Bunny" by Kotetsu for the earpieces on his costume and high jumps and kicks, as the city's first superhero team.
This is a show about superheroes, so naturally it contains action, adventure, and comedy, but the depth is constantly developing, within themes, plots, and the incredibly endearing and lovable cast. You cannot taste the entire anime or the entire personality of the protagonists in the first two episodes- you will be drawn in and unable to stop, because everyone and every thing keeps growing. Despite a slight dip in animation quality around Episode 8 due to the apparent doubts of the production team to the show's potential popularity at the time (Oh, they can laugh at it now.), the series' art is modern, American-influenced (this was designed to be like an American superhero show), sharp and eye-catching, with skillfully, tastefully used and blended CGI. Oh, and the voice acting is really good, with lots of tone and variation.

I love this show. I love Kotetsu. If you watch this, you will, too. <3

Wow, I did not mean to make something that long for it.
Now that my loose ends are tied up, I can get to my new points for this journal.
I'm thinking about taking down my writing and finished stories. While I'm not arrogant to the point of paranoia that someone is going to take my stories and pass them off as their own or that I could become embroiled in a copyright battle for just such a thing, since I know I am not popular on deviantArt and hardly anyone reads this stuff, nor does anyone really go to deviantArt to read the kinds of things I post, these are things I have published- in small places, admitted- or intend to, and may continue to edit or change. I am not sure I cannot explain it properly why I want to bring them back in, but I think I will.

The other good news is that I am finally trying to put up new jewelry pictures! Yay! I am also finally going to start selling my bottle cap pendants! Also Yay! I am, however, taking these to college first, and unless you want to talk to me directly here, I do not know when I will have an open sale before the craft show we are planning to have at my house before Christmas this year, Winter 2012. I am also short on bails, the things attached to the cap so you can wear it as a necklace, which I need to order in bulk, so let me know everyone if you think I should just put the caps up without waiting for them, and put them on later. I also think I will start recycling unwanted magnets to use on the caps, as well. Oh, and if anyone has any cool ideas, let me know! Thank you! <3