Starting fresh.

Well, that's it. I'm starting anew. This blog wasn't meant for much before, but either way, I've deleted all the other posts and decided to start afresh with a new perspective.

This blog will now be used for the following:

• Serious things and discussions about things I want honest opinions from others about. I hate politics, so these will be kept to more (or perhaps less?) abstract concepts. These will probably end up being more of writing exercises for me, and even then I try to make them somewhat interesting.
• Poetic ramblings; not necessarily poems (because I'm horrible at poems), but poetic prose. In other words, short clips of prose with lots and lots of pretty words in between.
• The occasional review. I'd rather do these in video format, but I'm not quite experienced with that medium yet, so I'll have to suffice with text for now.
• Ramblings, updates, or even chapters regarding my fanfiction works (I write only fanfiction that is meant to be read as a source of entertainment, not pity, as I see a lot of works being written for these days...) and other original writing/comic projects I might be working on.
• Art. Be it fanart, a request/collab/etc., or something original, I might just post some art I want to show off to you people. Assuming, of course, that actual people end up reading this thing, which I'm not quite sure about yet..

And, of course, there's the occasional random post that seems to be about absolutely nothing but then ends up being some form of writing practice... i.e., what I'm writing right now. ^^ I'm practicing sounding all formal and crap.

Really, am I little miss formal all the time? Not always, but it's always good to crack your knuckles every once in a while and flex them writing skillz (avec une zed). Speaking of which... *crick, crack* ... Much better~ :3 (I'll make an attempt to put my smiley-using habits to a minimum in my senseless ramblings here, although I'm not sure how long that'll last every time...)

Anyway. This post is terribly boring, but I suppose it's informing in some way, no? Now. Since that's all done and over with and whatnot, allow me to further introduce myself.

On deviantART, I am kittypopchow601 (formerly ruinedshadows and hanathemongoose, but the accounts "merged". Really, I was sick of playing two personas and wanted to slowly ease out of the fake one, although the transition of course wasn't anywhere near as smooth as I wanted it to be... anyway, I have little connection left to those two previous accounts now, so there's little need to worry about them.)

On YouTube, I am ruinedshadows (there aren't too many videos on there, and really none of them are worth checking out... except for maybe that one Fullmetal Alchemist MMV that plays automatically, and perhaps a quite glance through my menacingly huge favorites, just to see what I'm up to lately. To put it in perspective for anyone not reading this post at some time close to my posting it, I was starting to get into .hack//SIGN at the time, so I favorited the opening and the first episode just as a log of sorts. From there, you can probably judge roughly how many videos I fave over a given amount of time. Yep... I'm pretty much a fave-o-holic. ^^; Sorry...)

On fanfiction.net, I am ruinedshadows (I don't update it too often... at ALL. The last thing I posted on there was a silly little FMA yaoi fanfic about Kimbley and Greed!Ling. OTL. Safe to say my writing has greatly changed since then. Not that I don't like yaoi, I just don't write romance because I honestly find it to be completely pointless. >>)

Damn do I miss livejournal. Now I can't bug you with my insane taste in music. :,( Right now I'm listening to my awesome Kerli music that you don't know about because you're just so damned culturally OBLIVIOUS. No really, Kerli is awesome and all, but if you don't like her, you don't have to, I won't force you nice people~

Anyway. That's about as much rambling as I can do for tonight (today? I don't know.) Let's meet again sometime. はじめまして and all that jazz, good night, and LOVE AND PEACE! 8D

This is Elly Ruined, signing off. Now, for your viewing pleasure, some very childish-looking Japanese characters below that I've only placed here because I've just finished my Japanese homework tomorrow and can't get the language off my mind, unfortunately. D;

さようなら. そうして, ありがとうごぞいます よ!