Alright, so I am going to cheat with this post a little because I'm basically going to use the big introduction post that I wrote when I first tried to start this blog and just update it as much as I can and all that good stuff, so... Here we go:
What is this blog?
This is basically just going to be a blog where I write about whatever is on my mind at the time or whatever I'm in the mood to write about. I do have a list of things that I would like to post about/random ideas of things to write about in case I don't have an idea for the day, but mainly I won't know what I'm going to write about until I start typing. I know that this blog probably won't interest many people - if any at all, but that's not what this blog is for. It's for me to write about what I want to when I want to. I'll be writing about things I'm interested in/obsessed with, my day, my desires, or it could just be a rant because I'm angry about something. I don't have very many strong opinions about things, but if I do, and decide to write them here, I'm going to make myself not worry about offending people, mainly because there isn't going to be anyone to offend, but also because this blog is for me to write anything I want, no matter what other people think.
Now onto a little about myself:
I am a 22 year old female otaku; my name is Cali. I still live with my family which part of me thinks is sad and knows that I should move out, but the other part knows that I'm just not ready for it yet and is trying to be okay with that. My family consists of my mother, Tiffany, myself, my 20-year-old brother, Jason, my 17-year-old brother, Tad, my 11-year-old brother, Sean, and my 9-year-old sister, Skye. I live in northern California and despite the outrageous prices of a lot of things here I still love it. I work at Staples as a cashier and have been working there for three years. I go to school at Santa Rosa Junior College during the school year and during the summer I lie around and basically do nothing...
How about some interests:
As I stated in the "little about myself" and the title of this blog, I am an otaku, which in Japanese means "fanatic", but is more commonly used as a term to specifically refer to an anime fanatic. So, as such, I am quite interested - obsessed - with anime, manga, and Japan in general. I will go more in depth into that in a moment, but first I'll go into my other hobbies.
I love to write. I have actually written two novels - even though one of them is in the process of being completely rewritten... Both of these were written in the month of November during the wonderful event known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I have participated in NaNoWriMo four times now; I won three out of four of those times and the first one I participated in was fan fiction, not an original work, so I don't completely count that one.
I do write fan fiction and I work on it way more than my original works, which sometimes makes me sad, but also there are just so many characters that I love and pairings that I need to write for that it sometimes just takes over. I mainly write fan fiction for anime - being the otaku that I am, but I have written for a few live-action television shows and a movie or two. Series that I have written for include, but are not limited to: Yugioh, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Death Note, Ouran High School Host Club, Clannad, and many others. I hope to write for many other series, but I just haven't been able to get to them yet; I'll probably post a list of all the series I've written for and the ones that I would still like to write for in a while, but I'll leave that for later.
Although I have written two novels already, and plan to write many more in the future - I have at least four others in various stages of planning/writing - I do not intend to publish. I am not super confident in my writing and my characters are near and dear to my heart so I don't want them criticized and the like; I write because I enjoy writing and have characters that simply need me to get their stories on paper, I don't do it for other people.
I love to read; I have read and love everything by Dan Brown. I enjoy reading historical fiction about Ancient Egypt. I also love fantasy and m/m romance, not a big fan of the other kind, but m/m I enjoy.
I greatly enjoy dabbling in the world of amateur voice acting - although I haven't been doing it nearly as much as I would like. I don't fancy myself all that great of a voice actor, but it's something that I greatly enjoy doing and find very fun. I know that I will never go beyond voice acting as a hobby, as much as I sometime fantasize about being a famous voice actress. Usually I participate in anime fandubs, abridges, and the like, but every once in a while I'll help out with other projects.
I love to cook/bake. I love to cook, but I slightly prefer baking; in fact, I prefer it so much that I actually plan on making a career out of it. I will finally be starting my culinary classes this coming semester and once I get my AA in Culinary Arts I plan on working to get a certificate in baking and pastry. I would really love to be a pastry chef/baker and although I'll probably never own my own bakery, I very much would enjoy working as the head chef in a bakery or something along those lines.
So, I think it's finally time for some anime:
Last, but definitely not least, the moment that all of you non-existent people have been waiting - dreading - for. As made perfectly clear through out this post I am a great lover of anime, manga, and everything Japan. It is a great wish of mine to one day visit and maybe even live in Japan - even if only for a year or two, but I know that that isn't very likely to happen.
If I had to I would say that my top three favorite anime are... Tiger and Bunny, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and... it's probably a tie between Ao no Exorcist and Durarara. About 2-3 years ago Yugioh would have sadly been on that list, but fortunately I seem to have grown out of that obsession at least a little bit. Yugioh will always hold a special place in my heart being one of my very first anime, but it just doesn't take up nearly as much of my life as it used to.
I suppose that I should warn most of you that I am a Yaoi fan, but seeing as I already mentioned that I enjoy m/m romance I'm guessing you guys probably already figured that out. I am quite fond of Yaoi, about 99% of the fan fiction that I have written is yaoi. I actually don't even like heterosexual pairings except for a very few exceptions. I am also a big fan of Yuri, but I don't enjoy that nearly as much as Yaoi, which a lot of my friends find amusing and slightly strange seeing as I am gay.
Okay... I think I'll leave it at that for the day. I'll probably go more in depth into my favorite anime and all sorts of other things later, but for now I think this post is long enough. I will be posting again tomorrow because I am insistent on completing this goal. I will write a blog post for the rest of this week if it kills me.
Well, two down, five to go.
See you tomorrow.
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