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Hi there, and welcome to KHV! Be sure to read the rules and all that fun stuff, and if you have any questions, feel free to message me or any member of the staff team. :) What's your favorite dish to cook/bake? What's your favorite dessert to make? Is it fun to own a bakery?
lol, I be wonderin' if raidin' the new Family might be in bad taste? We be civilized pirates after all, it's why I try to talk like Barbossa. XD Perhaps strikin' an accord and makin' the Simple and Bean our new haunt when we be home from our pillagin' and plunderin' would be better. We need a local haunt anyway, all the respectable pirates have their favorite pubs and taverns. Our haunt could be a coffee shop. Seems fitting enoough, aye? XD
So at work yesterday I looked at a clock for a moment, and then turned to one of the managers who was nearby, and said "I think this clock is wrong..." and he was like "...Yeah? It is." And I was like "How did that happen?" And he was like "Because of the time change? We haven't reset that clock yet." and I was like "Time change?" And he was like "Yeah. Daylight savings?" And I was like "OH RIGHT, I JUST DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WAS COMING UP" And he was like "Yeah. That came up." XD
Ooh, hot chocolate with orange? That sounds great! I'll have to try that sometime XD
Heh, well it would be awkward to spring some kind of raid or attack on them, seeing as how I've filled out my membership card and all. XD What can I say? The Cap'n likes coffee houses. XD
Username: Marushi Preferred Name: Marushi, Any variation of Marushi, any other nickname people might call me, Rachel, whatever, it all works. XD Representative photo (optional): Spoiler: this works View attachment 48774 If you expected anything else, you don't know me. XD Age/Birthday (optional): 25, Dec. 12 Favorite Heartless: Barrier Master Favorite Color: Currently pink Favorite Coffee: frozen butterscotch mocha with whipped cream, chocolate syrup, and crushed Butterfinger pieces XD
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Hey guys! As you might recall, I've been talking a lot lately about the plans for our new Youtube channel. Well, I'm proud to say it's officially been launched! Technically, we've already been using it for our Choruses, but we're also going to be featuring the winners of our AMV battles there each month! In addition, this channel will house our upcoming monthly Newscast series, and a few other ideas in the works for the future. It's gonna be a little bare-bones for awhile until we can get things really rolling, but feel free to check it out and subscribe to get updates on our new projects as they come out! ~Click here to check it out!~ And if you guys have ideas or suggestions for another series, feel free to either post it here or send it to me in a Private Message if you want to remain anonymous. I can't make any promises that each idea will be used, but we'd love to get some feedback on what you'd all like to see!
Oh dang. XD According to the Wiki, Pluto was around at the same time as Terra in BBS, which gives us an opening for Xehanort to have first scouted him as a potential host. Then he was in KH (obviously) where he followed Donald and Goofy around in their search for the Keyblade - sniffing it out and tracing it to Sora almost immediately - connection to Ventus? Then in the end of Chain of Memories he's seen with an alleged 'letter from Mickey,' but instead of giving it to the group, he runs off, prompting them to chase him all the way to Castle Oblivion, where Org. 13 was waiting to trap Sora. First you see of Pluto in KH2 is him wandering around the World that Never Was, sniffing around for Axel. What the heck is Pluto doing in TWTNW, and of all Org. 13 members for him to be tracking, he's following Axel, the established good-guy of the group? Suspicious... He then "rescues" Kairi from Axel, through one of the Dark Portals we mentioned, only to end up getting Kairi kidnapped anyway. "But Mar, why didn't he just make a portal to escape if he can do that?" Because, he's with a Princess of Heart who has a personal connection to Sora and to Namine, he's not going to risk revealing his dark secret. Straight from the Wiki regarding his role in Coded: "When Data-Sora fixes Traverse Town's Bug Blox corruption the Journal shows everyone in Disney Castle's computer the message "Their torment has been lessened" and a scene is shown, where Sora, Donald, and Goofy first meet. The scene shifts to show Pluto in the background revealing that after the battle against the Guard Armor, Pluto ran off into a Corridor of Darkness." Seriously, idk how he's been flying under our radar for so long. This dog is evil, and I knew there was something untrustworthy about those brooms. Using them as vessels through which he can travel through time is clever.
Well I mean, I specifically said that 36 was a horrific number of mass shootings. XD The only reason I said "only" was because I was replying to Sara, who said that there's been a mass shooting every day this year, and I can't find any source to support this figure, and I believe objective facts are important to any side of an argument. The two most credible sources I can find regarding gun violence is firstly the source I linked above when I gave the "36" figure, which is a non-profit, non-affiliated data collecting site designed to document accurate gun violence statistics free of bias. The second 'most credible' source is actually not all that credible, it's a crowd-sourced open site that seems mostly credible, but freely admit in their "about us" page that as most of the data comes from volunteers, they're liable to commit errors. Even this site, however, lists 52 as their figure for mass shootings in 2018, a full ten less than the 62 Sara listed five days ago. So, my "only" wasn't intended as a statement of complacency at the frankly alarming possible "36" (now 39 according to my source) it was just an attempt to prevent possible misinformation, which in many cases, leads to fear-mongering. On this note, however, I think one of the biggest issues with the debate of gun violence is the lack of accurate or credible sources of information. The site I've linked twice now seems pretty credible to me, and I'm choosing to trust it mostly, but I don't tend to believe anything 100% these days, no matter who or what is sourcing it. With the Dickey Amendment working to prevent funding to government research into gun violence, there's a surprising lack of credible information regarding the subject - which again, leads to misinformation on both sides. Pro-gun supporters are able to easily make it out to be less than it really is, thus preventing change, while anti-gun supporters are easily able to make it out to be more than it is, which again, can lead to fear-mongering. I feel like the first step in improving gun control is in getting the research done to support it. That's not the end-goal, obviously, but it's the first hurdle. Nothing can be done without information, until we manage to get the research funded, we're stuck.
AND LET'S NOT FORGET PLUTO IS THE ONE WHO LED SORA TO CASTLE OBLIVION
Question: how do people get around the worlds? 1. A Gummi Ship 2. A dark portal 3. The Lanes Between Question: How does Pluto get around the worlds? 1. ??? Seriously, Pluto just pops up wherever the heck he wants, but he has no Gummi Ship and no Keyblade Glider... Does... does this mean Pluto can open dark portals?! He's been seen using them before, but... is he the one opening them? Sometimes he uses them when an Org. 13 member opens one, but sometimes... I wonder. XD My theory is that Pluto is actually a creature of Darkness. Not that he always was, mind you. But if I were Xehanort, I'd want to keep an eye on the goings ons of people important to my evil scheme. And like, King Mickey's been pretty involved, so he'd likely want to keep tabs on him. Plus with that Cornerstone of Light thing right there (and also, time travel, which we know he's into these days) I'd want to keep an eye on things. What if Pluto is already half Xehanort?! Possible KHIII Final Boss concept: View attachment 48749
Well, according to this stats list, there have only been 36 mass shootings this year by the definition of 'four or more shot.' And no, I don't say 'only' to imply that this is a small number - because quite frankly 36 shootings involving four or more victims within the span of 62 days is horrible. But it's not accurate to say there has been a mass shooting every day this year. That said, there have been 9,154 total gun-related incidents in 2018 so far, with 2,441 dead, which is ridiculous. In fact, since I'm on the subject, there was an active shooter in my neighborhood earlier this year, and lemme tell you, it's not exactly relaxing to know that police are looking for a gunman who was last seen like a block away from your not-controlled-access apartment building, lol. I've personally known two people who have been murdered by guns, the first being a teenager who used to babysit me as a child, who taught me to swing a bat and who kid!me rather idolized. She was shot and murdered when I was around twelve years old, and although her murder was domestic and not in a random mass shooting, that was the year I started paying attention to news about guns, and was subsequently the year when I first accepted the fact that I could be killed in a shooting any day. This was thirteen years ago, and although I've never personally been in an emergency situation and I've only been around a block away from a situation maybe three times in my life, I still live every day with the understanding that it very well could be my last. It's... desensitizing. I live in a world where earlier this year, there were police sirens outside and a helicopter hovering over my building and I was sitting on my couch talking and joking around on discord, (not joking about the guns, just being normal) putting graphics together, and baby-talking my husband's cat with "Let's stay away from the window today, baby, we don't wanna get you shot, do we, pretty kitty?" XD I kept my family and close friends updated on the situation, and I didn't leave my house for most of the day - until we ran out of toilet paper and so braved the outside world to go to the store and stop by a drive-through even though the shooter was still at large somewhere in the area. Because this is normal now. And that sucks. Now, I'm personally all for stricter gun laws. I'm not saying we should take all guns - especially because I've lived in some towns where hunting is the only way some people get enough meat to last the winter. (I am against hunting for sport, but that's an issue for another day) and I also think it's important for people to defend themselves. In fact, I've recently been thinking about getting trained and licensed to carry a gun myself, but haven't thought it necessary since I stay in my house all the time and because - until very recently - there haven't been a lot of gun scares in my current city. Sometimes a gun in the right hands can be what saves a life - but we must also recognize that there are a lot of 'wrong hands,' and we need to be more strict in how people get their guns. And no, stricter gun laws are not going to completely stop shootings. This is true. How each shooter got their gun is different, and sometimes it's just not the fault of laws when someone gets their hands on the weapon and opens fire. But sometimes it is, and I don't understand why people are so adamantly insistent on trying to deny this (btw Cstar this isn't talking about you, this is other people on the internet at large I'm talking about) and who use the examples of when stricter gun laws wouldn't have prevented a shooting to distract and deny the times when they would have. My official stance on stricter gun laws is the stance I took last week when my managers informed us at work that we're no longer allowed to keep our phones on our person during our shifts because too many people were on their phones when they should have been working. "I don't use my phone while I'm working, so stricter policy on phones doesn't affect me." Obviously, this is nowhere near the level of 'inconvenience' that stricter gun laws would afford their owners, but the same basic principal applies. If you don't intend to misuse your gun, why are you so against instating laws that will hopefully prevent guns from getting into the hands of those who will? If even one death can be prevented by a stricter law, isn't that worth it? But, that's just my two cents.
This is an interesting topic, one that, oddly enough, I hadn’t planned on covering. But two things happened that made me decide on this subject: First, I was recently approached by someone asking for advice on what to do when you feel obligated to write something you really don’t want to, and second; I have a different half-written topic I was going to post here in the Tips and Tricks section last month but isn't finished yet because I don’t want to write it. XD As a writer, this happens sometimes, for many different reasons. I still get messages from former fanfiction.net followers asking me if I intend to finish five-to-ten-year-old stories that I stopped writing, some of them because my interest in the base material dwindled, some of them because I didn’t have time for them, and some because a very bad experience with a toxic member left me with a sour taste for the whole fandom. I’ve also dropped stories because I disliked the work I’d already done and realized I didn’t care enough about the story to re-write it, I’ve dropped stories because I just didn’t have enough of a plot to make anything of it, heck, I’ve even dropped solid stories with good plot simply because I got bored of them. My stance is and has always been that if you don’t love what you’re writing, there’s no point in writing it. Writing, like many creative pursuits, is a reflection of the writer’s emotions. This isn’t to say that writers always write about what they’re feeling, like if someone writes a sad scene, that must mean they were sad when they penned it. But it means that when a writer loves their stories, when a writer cares about their work, they pour their heart into it - whether they meant to or not. We feel when we write, it reaches us in a way that other things don’t. That’s what makes our work come alive. It’s like… It’s like Sauron’s ring, lol. Writing is like Sauron’s ring: We pour our souls into this thing, these words, and that gives it life. When you don’t love what you’re writing… There’s no life in it. It’s just words. And the readers can tell, too. When you’re writing just because you’re supposed to, it falls flat, it’s emotionless, or dry. Loving your work is perhaps the single most important aspect to being a writer, even above actually being able to write. I’ve read books that, from a technical point of view, are just plain garbage. Bad writing, bad plot, bad characters… and yet, they stuck in my memory because I could just tell the author really loved this story they were trying to write. Whereas on the other end of things, I’ve read stories that were technically very well written and had no outstanding flaws, yet I don’t recall what happened in them because it all felt like it was written by a third party. It felt… distant. Cold, almost. I found myself skimming over the work, because the emotion the writer poured into it - obligation to finish something he didn’t care for - translated to me, the reader. And more often than not, I dropped the book before I read the ending. If you don't love what you're writing, there's no point in writing it. But what about that aforementioned obligation? What if the work you’re trying to write is something you can’t just drop, what if you’re obligated to complete it for some reason? Or what if you’ve taken a leap of faith and have left the traditional workforce, and are relying on your writing to get you through the month? Sometimes we can’t just drop a story because we’re not ‘feeling it anymore.’ That’s not always an option… But if you don’t like it, it’s going to turn out inferior. What are we supposed to do then? Well, if dropping it isn’t an option, but you don’t want to churn out subpar work, here are a couple of tricks that have helped me get through a writer’s block over the years: Listen to music. Music is a great way to get creative juices flowing, especially if you know the genre you need to finish a difficult section or even a less-than-liked plotline. Need to channel your inner angst? The band ‘Red’ is my favorite for writing angst. Are you writing a Fantasy novel? The Lord of the Rings soundtrack is a classic, though I’ll also listen to Youtube musicians Adrian von Ziegler or Peter Gundry, especially for that Celtic flair. What if you’re writing a fight scene? I usually just search for ‘epic anime battle music’ and put on a playlist. And of course, I listen to the TWEWY ost almost constantly, lol. If you find the right music, you can get your creativity flowing in no time. In fact, several of my personal favorite stories I’ve ever written have been completely inspired by songs. Watch inspiring and/or plot-heavy movies. Again, Lord of the Rings is a classic, especially if you have the Extended versions. Nothing makes me feel as much as LotR Extended does. They are easily my favorite movies of all time. I also watch the Star Wars original trilogy, the Bourne trilogy, Mary Poppins, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty… Heck, even the classic Muppets’ movies are surprisingly deep and inspiring if you pay attention. I also highly recommend the first four seasons of Doctor Who, maybe five and six if you’re in the right mood. Those first four seasons are some of the most inspiring stories I’ve ever seen. In addition, there's a little known but well-loved television series from the 90's called Due South, which restores my faith in humanity like nothing else, lol. These movies and shows I listed are big for a reason, (most of them at least, though Walter Mitty and Due South are just my personal recommendations) and watching them can help to give you the emotional boost you need to get back into your own work. Go for a walk. Seriously, this one is so simple, but it really helps. Find a park or a pretty sort of wilderness nearby or even an urban area you just find really cool, and take a walk. No music this time, no distractions, nowhere to be. Just you and your thoughts and the fresh air. *Works best in early morning, foggy days, or during a sunset, lol. Talk to someone. If you’re like me, talking out loud is a surefire way to figure out what to do next. The amount of times I’ve sought out my sister to be a listening ear while I talk about my stories is vast, lol, and then in turn, I’ve listened to her talk about her stories. Sometimes, someone can give you really good advice or can make the key suggestion to turn your work around, but even if they have nothing to offer, you’d be surprised how fast you can realize the problem on your own after accidentally saying it out loud. And if you have no one to talk to, either go all Sherlock and talk to yourself (or a skull lol) or even open up a blank document and write about your block as if you were sending it in an email. We’re writers, after all; wordsmiths. Sometimes it isn’t until we’ve laid out the problem in a tangible sentence that we even realize what it is. So there are a couple of my tips and tricks for what to do when you don’t want to write but you have to. But I still hold to my stance that, if you don’t love what you’re writing, there’s no point in writing it. If those tips don’t work and you simply cannot feel for your work, it might be time to cut it loose. After all, if you’re obsessing with trying to fix a subpar story you can’t love, you might be missing out on new ideas worthy of your devotion.
But no because of open-faced sandwiches. The statement is still wrong, but not because of that. XD
...There is something wrong with that statement but I can't... figure out what that is.
View attachment 48715 As I've mentioned recently, we here at KH-Vids.net are planning to expand our influence over to the Youtube half of the internet, starting with the creation of a new 'Community Channel' in addition to our 'Cutscene Hub' channel. This means that our Community Channel needs projects - and the Newscast is going to be one such project. ~ What is this? The Newscast is going to be a monthly ten-minute series, hosted by myself and Heart, featuring site, community, and KH news. Each month, we're going to be joined by a guest star, open to community members who'd like to participate. The video will be animated with Avatar Sprites for each of us, and we have several segments planned for each episode: What's Happening on KHV? - Forum and site news regarding Events and Projects going on that month Something Cool - A sort of 'human interest' segment, varying month by month. This would be a short discussion about something going on that month on the forums or Discord, a fun fad or a new user-run game in the Playground that looks interesting Kingdom Hearts News - A recap of all the cool Kingdom Hearts news released that month Twitter Q&A - Users can submit questions to us via Twitter, and the hosts (myself, Heart, and our guest host for that month) will all select our favorites and answer them on the show ~ How do I apply to be a guest star? Right now, applications are only going to be open to Contributors first, and Premiums second. Applications are going to open sometime in early April, and will include a short questionnaire and a 'build your avatar' section for the guest slot sprite. The selected guest star will be announced around a month before the video is posted, to give users plenty of time to submit questions. ~ What's the schedule for this project? The Newscast will be uploaded to Youtube on the last Sunday of every month. The guest star will be selected on the first Sunday of the month, immediately followed by writing the episode outline and picking our Q&A questions. After everything's written, we'll find a time where we can all three record the episode, sometime between the second and third Sundays, and then we'll give the audio and avatars to our wonderful producer - Aelin - so she can put the video together in time and upload it to the channel on, you guessed it, the last Sunday of the month. ~ Why are you telling us all this now? Well, with such a big project in the works, we're gonna need some help to get it off the ground! And that's where you guys come in: We're going to be running a contest - or rather, two contests - to let you guys be a part of this and contribute to the KHV Newscast! ~ Theme Music Contest! We're gonna need some music, you guys! We'll need a short, five-to-ten second Intro Theme to play along with our logo at the beginning of the video, a background loop track to play in the background during the video, and a twenty-to-thirty second Credits track to play at the end. If you want to compose music that's Kingdom Hearts-y or even just a remix of some Kingdom Hearts tracks, that's fine, but you're also free to submit any style of music you wish. You're also free to submit as many tracks as you want! After the deadline, a public thread will be posted with all the track submissions, and users (including staff) will be able to vote for the tracks they like best! In order to submit your tracks, please upload them via Discord DM's with me (Marushi#6324) in .mp3 format. Submissions are due by April 2nd. Note: ALL submissions must comply with the KHV Content Rules. ~ Logo Contest! In addition to the music, we're also opening up Logo Design to our art lovers here on KHV! What we need is an eye-catching, professional looking logo for the Newscast! It must include the words "KHV" OR "KH-Vids," "Community," and "Newscast," and it's recommended to use our official KHV Logo, though not required. Other than that, express your creativity and just, make something nice! You can submit as many logos as you want, and after the deadline, a public thread will be posted with all the art submissions, and users (including staff) will be able to vote for the logos they like best! In order to submit your logos, please upload them via Discord DM's with me (Marushi#6324) in .png format. All submissions must have a resolution of at least 1280x720, with an aspect ratio of 16:9. Submissions are due by April 2nd. Note: ALL submissions must comply with the KHV Content Rules. ~ I have an idea for another segment you could use on the show! Great! I would love to hear it! Anyone who has an idea for another segment is welcome to post it either here in this thread, or in Discord DM's or Private Messaging here on the site if you wish to remain anonymous. We really want this project to be a reflection of our community and a series we can all look at as something we helped to make happen. Ideas for it are always going to be welcome, and I look forward to seeing what we all come up with!
Can't AMV for the life of me lol but here are some songs I would enjoy seeing! Same Disease - Red Meet me on the Battlefield - Svrcina MMM - The World Ends With You Solo Mix Kingdom Fall - Claire Wyndham
I think if we're measuring true love by McDonald's now, we're doomed as a society. Miracle Max would not be reviving these two.
