Schtuff Happening, Part 4

Well, schtuff has indeed happened in the past while since I've posted.

For starters, last week I acquired a Facebook account. I've been faithful to my life's equation (L+o2=[tR] the fifth power) and posted many random things about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Here's one of the memes I posted:


It's the perfect mix of LOTR and Christianity.

Speaking of LOTR,,, MY BROTHER FINISHED THE ENTIRE SERIES AND WE WATCHED THE RETURN OF THE KING LAST NIGHT!!!

It makes me feel very getchful (a De Manism for happy.)

Speaking of The Return of the King, which as the Grey Havens in it, which I've used an allegory for the death of my Grandfather, (that was quite the round-about way of getting to this topic, I know) we visited his grave of Memorial Day. I remained strangely composed. This is probably due to the fact that the air wasn't necessarily solemn. I think that we were all joking around to keep our minds off the fact that Grandpa is still gone.

I discovered a while back that I possess the ability to snap with my right hand, but not my left. I'm now snapping all the time, and not really sure why.

In totally unrelated news, yesterday was National Geek Pride Day as well as Memorial Day. In celebration, I purchased two t-shirts off of ThinkGeek.com, taking advantage of the sale going on there. I got a Tree of Gondor shirt:



And a Super Soldier Program shirt:



Both these represent my main outlets of Nerdom, The Lord of the Rings and Captain America.

RINE'S ACTUALLY POSTING.

Holy Ra, Rine's posting writing! (It's a miracle!) 

If Yu-Gi-Oh isn't really your thing, please feel free to check out my recent review of the new Pokemon generation on Squirrels and Dragons! 

This is a little bit of fan fiction based on a bit of an ongoing role play with my cousin, Shyruni. While it may not be 100% canon, it's what I imagine to be going on during the downtime between Yugi vs. Bakura, which leaves Bakura hospitalized, and the duel between Marik's brother Odion and Joey Wheeler.

Enjoy it for the sake of it being a role play. XD

That Namu kid was being a pest again, after witnessing Bakura's duel with Yugi that ended in Bakura's hospitalization.

The blonde Egyptian boy refused to do anything but lounge around wallow in his self-pity, and he refused to speak to anyone, despite the fact that he had taken up residence in the commons.

Joey and Tristan had tried every obnoxious trick they could before Namu got fed up and slapped Tristan on the face.

Kaiba assumed that the two boys - this Namu and Bakura- had some evil conspiracy going on, and the defeat of his partner-in-crime had crushed the boy's spirit. The time passed slowly, and the boy seemed to fall asleep. Kaiba took one last swig of his water and began to walk away from the commons. Namu remained on the couch, face down but still breathing.

It seemed like a good time to leave, so Kaiba made his way to his quarters.

A loud thump woke Kaiba up. It sounded like it had come from the commons, and Kaiba felt as though some of his property has been defaced. He threw on his overcoat and stormed on his way to the lounge.

The closer he got to his destination, the more he could hear something that sounded similar to muffled yelling. Kaiba hastened his pace, excited to lecture the vandal.

Disappointment filed the businessman' s heart when he saw only Namu' s quaking form pressed against the couch. Pausing in the doorway to see if he could find what the thud of destruction had been, Kaiba shuffled one of his feet. The boy on the couch twitched.

"Odion, is that you?" The boy mumbled into a couch cushion. "I need a hug..."

"I don't think so," Kaiba snapped back. He had no idea who this Odion character was, and guess that Namu was having a lucid dream.

"Come on, it's me, Marik! Not Melvin!" The boy practically screamed into the couch, and waited for a reply. When none came, he continued, "...And the Millennium Rod is stuck in the ceiling... tell Kaiba I'm sorry about that..."

Kaiba furrowed his brow and looked to the ceiling. There, impaling the metal ceiling, was a gold scepter that looked oddly familiar. Jacobs was utterly confused,  with the Namu boy referring to himself as Marik.

"How did you..." Kaiba began, unsure of what to think of the new ceiling decoration. "Never mind, I'm not even going to try to figure this out..." He turned to leave, but was stopped again by a reply.

"I was throwing it."

Kaiba whirled around to look at Marik, Namu, whoever he was, snapping, "Hard enough to penetrate a METAL CEILING?! Was that an accident?!"

"Well..." came the response, somewhat sheepishly. "Not unintentional, per se..."

Kaiba glared at the boy, who was clearly awake, trying to decide whether to kick his bare, exposed side or find some other punishment.

"CAN I PLEASE HAVE A HUG?!" The boy screamed suddenly, pushing his head up with his arms. His eyes were closed, but his hair was a little bit more wild than normal.

"NO." Kaiba snarled back. He was getting very fed up with this boy, and was still trying to decide what to do to him.

"BUT ODION! BAKURA'S BEEN HOSPITALIZED AND THEY WON'T LET ME SEE HIM." The boy's voice grew steadily more aggressive as he spoke, and he suddenly slammed his head back down on the couch.

"I'm Kaiba, not Odion. Whoever THAT is," Kaiba finally growled, folding his arms across his chest and sitting down at the bar counter.

The Egyptian sat himself up and looked at Kaiba. His eyes were frenzied, but focused on the business man with laser-like intensity. The violet orbs lingered on Kaiba' s person for a moment, then the boy's head dropped back down to the couch.

"I'm sorry. I'm lonely and angsty and I want to frigging kill something," the boy roared at Kaiba through the couch. "And that probably isn't helping my case one bit, is it..."

"Probably not. Tell me what you were doing before I came down here," Kaiba demanded.

The boy rolled over on the couch and stared at the ceiling. "Erm...“ he muttered. "Well..."

"Tell me right now." Kaiba hissed, extremely fed up with the boy.

"Well, see, I have this imaginary friend, see--" the Egyptian began. Kaiba snorted. "I'm serious. He wants to kill everyone, especially the Pharaoh. He was TRYING to get me to stab myself with the Millennium Rod, so I threw it at the ceiling. It got stuck, so I laid down on the couch like this again.“ The boy put his face on the cushion again. Kaiba shuddered.

"Right, so your imaginary friend tried to kill you. The only one he can possess, and his key to victory. Or whatever." Kaiba"s voice dripped with sarcasm, yet the boy didn't seem to catch it.

"No, I was being very stubborn today and wouldn't let him have control. He only stabs me in the arm until I give in," the boy quipped. He snapped off one of his gold armbands, underneath which was a nasty scar and several fresh wounds, seeping drops of red.

“Right... I'm starting to wonder which of you I would get along with better. " Kaiba had no idea why he was still here talking to a nut job.

"Gee, thanks."

"You're not welcome."

Kaiba stood up and walked toward the doorway. He was stopped by the strange boy yet again.

"Say, is there any chance that I could get my rod back sometime in the near future?"

Was he really asking that? No, of course not. HE was the one who got the thing up there. Kaiba decided to toy with the kid some more. "Maybe..." The brown haired man turned his head and saw the boy perk up a bit. "If you let me use your Egyptian God card for a bit."

"WHAT?! FRIG NO! What in Ra' s name do you want with it?!"

"Nothing I could admit to the general public."

"That's disgusting, Kaiba. How dare you think of stealing my card! And you organized this tournament, too!" After this short outburst, the Egyptian buried his head in his arms.

"Actually, no. My men did most of the work here."

The boy became one with the couch again and put his arms over his head. "Lovely stuff. How hard would it be to--" The boy paused, his breathing growing heavy and irregular. "To have your men get something of the ceiling?"

Kaiba began to walk away again. "I don't take orders from Egyptian peasants."

Silence, then a rustling noise as the boy sat bolt upright.

“What did you just call me?” He demanded, his voice growing darker and slightly more fearsome. Had Kaiba turned to look back, he would have seen that the boy was glaring straight at him, a look of murder. His hair was becoming very frazzled and wild.

If such a boy could ever be fearsome, Kaiba thought. He could feel the violet eyes staring through the back of his skull, but not the anger in the look.

His hair was becoming very frazzled and wild, sticking straight up in ways that shouldn’t be physically possible.

If such a boy could ever be fearsome, Kaiba thought. He could feel the violet eyes staring through the back of his skull, but not the anger in the look.

“I called you a peasant,” Kaiba replied nonchalantly, continuing his return to his quarters.

Agonized choking and sputtering noises came out of the boy’s mouth. He seemed to be trying to hold something back. “You are... You are going to... YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT LITTLE COMMENT, BINKY-BOY...”

“Seriously?” Kaiba pressed, turning around yet again.He decided to use what he knew about the (apparently) fake Marik to his advantage. “You live underground, in an unlit cave with little food or water, and spend your time guarding a dead man. I have cups made of gold, wide screen TVs, and statues of myself carved out of silver. And that’s not even mentioning that I’m funding this whole tournament,” the businessman bragged.

“I GAVE THAT UP. I NO LONGER ‘GUARD A DEAD MAN.’ THE PHARAOH MEANS NOTHING TO ME. IT WAS HIS FAULT THAT I WAS NEVER ALLOWED ABOVEGROUND, HIS FAULT THAT I HAD HIEROGLYPHS CARVED INTO MY BARE FRIGGING BACK, WITHOUT THE HELP OF MODERN MEDICINE,” The boy, hair now standing almost on end, stood and unclipped one of the gold earrings that dangled precariously from his tan ear. “IT WAS HIS FAULT THAT I WAS UNABLE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE, AND I AM GETTING REVENGE. THAT’S A LOT MORE THAN YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT YOUR CONSTANT RICH-BUTT BEHAVIOUR.”

So this IS the real Marik, then, Kaiba thought. “Well, then, you’ve spent most of your time trying to kill a dead man.”

Kaiba heard the blonde boy fall to the ground, making agonized huffing sounds as he tried to hold off his dark side. Tears poured from his eyes, and his fingers clawed at his face.

“I’LL GET YOU WHEN NEXT WE MEET, KAIBA,” Marik screamed, before collapsing to the ground, unconscious.

Kaiba glanced over his shoulder and saw the heap of boy on the ground. He called through the receiver on his coat collar for several of his workers, commanding them to take the unconscious boy to his room. Oh, and get the Millennium Rod out of the ceiling. Can’t have that ugly old thing sticking out and being an eyesore. 

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A list of stuff:

This is a list of stuff I enjoy:

Comments were made by friends, since this was originally in a Google Doc:

IN NO SPECIAL ORDER:

1. LOTR (Lord of the Rings)

2. FOTR (The Fellowship of the Ring)

3. TTT (the Two Towers)

4. ROTK (Return of the King)

5. The Hobbit

6. The Silmarillion

7. THE CHILDREN OF HURIN

8. Captain America

9. Cyclops (Marvel)

10. Airsoft

11. Paintball

13. Rabbit

14. Pheasant

15. Writing

16. Fantasy

17. Writing Fantasy

18. Blimey Cow

19. Cycling

20. Watching Pro Cycling

21. Minas Tirith

22. Osgiliath

23. Minas Ithil

24. Noah Mead

25. Grace Phillips :)

26. Talking in an angry Russian accent, comrade.

27. Saying “Eh?”

28. Inception

29. Gladiator

30. True Grit

31. Switchfoot

32. Beautiful Eulogy

33. Propaganda (artist)

34. American Propaganda

35. LOTR Film scores.

36. B.Reith

37. Imagine Dragons

38. Select Mumford and Sons songs.

39. Watching Heimo Korth skin a rabbit without making a single knife cut on YouTube

40. The Amazing Race

41. Hobbit Holes

42. The Human Torch

43. The Avengers

44. Spiderman movies.

45. Military history

46. AK-47s

47. Building hobbit holes

48. Watching the A-Team

49. Rhett and Link

50. History Channel

51. Steak

52. Tailwinds when cycling

53. Building airsoft bunkers

54. Small group

55. Writing Tengwar.

56. Coma ellipses,,,,,

57.The Fist of Justice

58. Wolverine

59. Vambraces

60. Pauldrons

61. AR-15s

62. M1 Garands

63. M16s

64. MP5ks

65. KNIVES

66. Cursing in Quenya

67. Writing blog posts

68. Hanging out my friends

69. Digging with Matt, Noah, and Sam (Poor Drew. Ya know he considers you his best friend?) He’s never there when I’m digging. Thus, I’ve never had the chance to experience digging with him

70. APPLE WARS!

71. Drawing cartoons

72. Drawing in general

73. Venison

74. BACON

75. Feeling heroic

76. Whittling

77. Quoting LOTR

78. Quoting the Hobbit

79. Quoting Inception

80. Quoting Gladiator

81. Minecraft

82. Smack-talking North Korea

83. Smack-talking Russia

84. Spewing jargon

85. Teaching my siblings to write Tengwar

86. Planning hobbit holes

87. Raiding the burn pile

88. Making stuff out of scrap metal

89. Hunting rabbits (HUNTIN WABBITS!!!!)

90. TWAC

91. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (Ha. I know what that is.)

92. Reading blog posts

93. Reading LOTR allegories

94. Creating LOTR allegories

95. EUCHRE

96. 500 (the game)

97. Settlers of Catan

98. Ticket to Ride

99. Chess

100. Teaching people to play chess

101. Bleak House

102. Not Dicken’s books

103. LOTR nerd jokes

104. Mechanical pencils

105. FACE-EATERS

106. Developing technology for WWIII fiction,,,,

107. Gondor

108. The Shire

109. Gondolin

110. NAZGUL! HIDE!

111. Partaking of a rather extensive vocabulary.

112. LEGOs. (TEEN FAN OF LEGO AND PROUD!)

113. LEGO minifigures (in general)

114. LEGO Minifigures (product line)

115. LEGO LOTR

116. LEGO LOTR minifigures

117. MOCpages
118. The Book of the Dun Cow

119. Unbroken

120. SPITTOON

121. Budding apple trees

122. Colby Jack cheese

123. Sharp Cheddar

124. The difference between Mumakil and Oliphaunt

125. The Bridge of Khazad-Dum from the FOTR Filmscore

126. Foundations of Stone from the TTT Filmscore

127. Minas Tirith from the ROTK Filmscore

128. Glamdring

129. Anduril

130. Orcrist

131. The White Tree from the ROTK Filmscore

132. At the End of All Things from the ROTK Filmscore

133. The Black Rider from the FOTR Filmscore

134. The Breaking of the Fellowship from the FOTR Filmscore

135. Concerning Hobbits from the FOTR Filmscore

136. Debating/arguing

137. Yelling “FOR GONDOR!” at random moments.

138. Learning survival skills.

140. Memorizing quotes from awesome books.

141. Kicking everybody's’ butt in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

142. Military stuff

143. AEG, 700 RPM, 355 FPS AK-37 airsoft gun

145. Camping

146. BACON

147. Selling the News by Switchfoot YES

148. Being assertive

149. ENTJ and proud ESFPs are better Drew, no type is better than the other, and if they were, then ENTJs would be the best because we rule the world. If there is no better there is no better, no if's no butts, no coconuts. Holy Dunedain, do you only watch mediocre Pixar movies? We need to pump some PG-13 for violence, some mild gore, thematic intensity and scary violence into your veins.

150. Chickens

151. Starting fires

152. Starting fires with magnesium and a striker bar

153. Goats

154. Chanting “GROND. GROND. GROND.” on the church buses

155. Leather

156. Leather Hobbit Moleskines

157. Matt’s Ithilien Ranger cuirasse

158. Ithilien

159. Ithilien rangers

160. That perfect mixed of leather and steel in armor. Think Eomer.

161. Rohirrim armor in general

162. Military science

163. ROOTBEER!

164. American cheeseburgers

165. NOT Ethiopian food. Bleh.

166. My Ethiopian sisters

167. Spaghetti

168. Quoting inspirational LOTR speeches from ROTK. “Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! MY Brothers! I see in your eyes, the same fear that would take the heart of me! There will come a day when the age of men fails! When he forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. In an hour of wolves! And shattered shields! But it is not this day. This day we fight. By all, that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand! MEN OF THE WEST!”

169. THE FLAME OF THE WEST

170. America

171. Making my argument against gay rights emma and I argued about this for about an hour.... And during lunch we had a debate,,,, Who was on what side? In my opinion, it should be thought of like this: detestable. I don’t understand how anybody could be for it, because it is absolutely, positively revolting. wow you and Emma agree on something It’s not a question of rights, or freedom, or really even sanctity of marriage. When boiled down to it’s very core and element, it is truly a question of morality and ethics. For those of you who don’t know, morality is a person’s ability to discern right and wrong, and ethics is a sort of moral code that we treat each other by. How do you feel about rape? Is it wrong? Heck, yeah. What about sex trafficking? Is that wrong? Most definitely. What about a guy having sex with a guy? or a girl having sex with a girl? Is that wrong? YES. And, yes, all those things fit under the exact same category: they are not how sex was intended. You may argue otherwise, that sex had no intention, that we discovered it, and can form it how we want. We are no better than the ancient Romans, who killed each other for sport.  Well, in MY opinion, Gays and Lesbians can be married if murders and rapists can be married. And personally, if it isn't killing me or hurting my family, I find no problem with it. If killing as many children as possible was a wedding tradition for gays/lesbians, heck yeah I'd be against it. But it isn't, and all it is doing is making two people happy. How would you feel if you couldn't be with Grace? That’s beside the point. It would suck. And actually, I have two lesbian couples in my family, and I love them very much. They are the best people ever, and I even went to their wedding. Okay, I understand where your coming from, and I agree that it is perfectly right and just to love gays and lesbians, after all, the Bible says to “hate the sin, but love the sinner.” But, in the end, your view still doesn’t look at it through the correct lense, which is morality and ethics. So, your opinion (from what I understand) is that if it isn’t causing you immediate harm, then therefore, it’s fine. Or, if it isn’t causing immediate harm to an innocent (such as an unborn child) that it’s pretty much okay. Well, ponder this: children need a) a mother and b) a father. Gay and lesbian couples are unable to provide that. So, by thinking through this lense, you could say that gay couples are causing harm to children, perhaps not immediate harm, but mental and emotional harm nonetheless.  How old is this cousin? Anyways, homosexuality is against my worldview, simply because it does not fit with the Bible or God’s intentions for mankind. And thats the only reason you are against it. It's not God's intentions. It makes so much sense now. And she's 27. Actually it does make sense. It’s me worldview, which, by the way, is a Christian worldview. If I’m actually a follower of Christ, then shouldn’t I not support things that aren’t supported by Christ? I really have nothing more to say on this subject. By adopting Christ as my savior, I adopt his views and beliefs. What he hates, I hate. What he loves, I love. The flames of Hell will consume the unrepentant sinners, and it’s my duty to follow Christ and try and save as many people as I can. I’d rather live in a in a hole in the ground on a firm foundation then Barad Dur on a shaky foundation. A shack on a rock then a castle in the sand.

172. Making my argument against abortion

173. Movie marathons

174. JEFF BRIDGES!

175. TRON: Legacy

176: TRON: Legacy Filmscore

177. Colored pencils

178. Lemmings

179. Lemons

180. Speaking De Manish

181. Speaking Wale

182. Drawing Captain America

183. Drawing Political cartoons

184. Drawing political cartoon of Captain America

185. LOTR MOCs

186. Food Network

187. Rationality

188. Functionality

189. Structure

190. Fire

191. Fili

192. Kili

193. Bofur

194. Ori.

195. The Song of the Lonely Mountain

196. The chorus to the Song of the Lonely Mountain

197. The fact that the Song of the Lonely Mountain is based of the Hobbit.

198. Born of Hope (LOTR fan-film

199. The fact that Born of Hope has Elrond’s sons in it

200. The LOTR appendices

201. Sword

202. Mattoxes

203. Morning-stars (weapon)

204. Gladius

205. Trebuchets

206. Trebuchets built by Noah

207. (pronounced TREY-boo-shay) that shouldnt be a thing I just figured that you guys hadn’t listened to any military history lectures and didn’t know how to pronounce it.

208. Making comic version of the Narn i chin Hurin

209. The Narn i chin Hurin in general

210. Calling Drew “Mr. Who”

211. Making up Soap Operas with my brother (for the love of Canadian bacon!)

212. The irony in making up soap operas with my brother

213. Not our dog. Our dog is stupid. He only has one brain cell.

214. Cartooning about Commodus in Gladiator (Commode-us)

215. Eating roadkill rabbit

216. Being a smallpox carrier (it’s complicated) dont think about kissing anyone any time soon I’d say the same to you.

217. Eomer

218. Eowyn

219. Theoden

220. Theodred

221. Theodwyn

222. Elfhelm

223. Erkenbrand

224. Arendts

225. The Battle of the Pellenor Fields

226. Chopping wood

227. Apple cider

228. * asterixis

229. The number 13

230. Random-osity

231. De Manisms

232. FACE-EATERS

233. Jon Foreman

234. Jon Stewart

235. Jer-Bear

236. Mechanical pencils

237. Prime numbers :)

238. Rinzler from the TRON: Legacy filmscore

239. The Game has Changed from the TRON: Legacy filmscore

240. Derezzed from the TRON: Legacy filmscore

241. The Arena from the TRON: Legacy filmscore

242. Armory from the TRON: Legacy filmscore

243. Fall from the TRON: Legacy filmscore

244. The Tale of the Horatii and Curatii.

245. The Song of Roland

246. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

247. LOTR supplements

248. Placing sticky notes that say “Censored!” over the nudes in me Art History book.

249. Standing for what I believe, not matter the cost.

250. Sharku. BEST. ORC. EVER.

251. @ symbol

252. Not bottoming out a bike ride. bleh.

253. Planning stuff

254. Solitaire

255. Hearts (game)

256. Falcons

257. Being a birds of prey nerd

258. Looking up, seeing bird of prey, then labeling it based upon wing shape and underbelly plumage

259. [brackets]

260. The Tengwar letter “i”

261. The Siege of Gondor

262. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

263. The Pursuit of the Grey Company (bet you don’t know who that is!)

264. The End of All Things

265. The Black Gate Opens.

STOP! Right now, get on YouTube and look up the song, The End of All Things from the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King filmscore. Comments: