New Computer up and running

Jesus finally I can convert that old one into a development devoted comp!

It had DDR2 memory and was very hard to work with for a while since alot of its tech was outdated as well. But with this new comp I have 16 gigs of moving power so now I can start striving closer to my goals!

My writing is ALIVE

For the longest time I've only lived in my head and played around with ideas of stories and plot lines. This that and the third and I was great (so I believe) at coming up with interesting tales and characters. I could make a story off of a single thought, even so much as a single sound could easily spark my imagination into overdrive. I could rattle off about everything I've possibly thought of but since I pulled an entire continuity reboot and started from scratch that would be pointless. Back to what I was saying.

My most recent writings in the The Sentinels, which is an episodic story on a blog, has made me start to realize the writing itself is... living. Week to week I've got to expand the story and keep things on track and while I'm doing this I find myself saying "No no, she wouldn't do that." or "He/she's gotta make this happen" and I slowly started realizing that this stuff has a mind of its own. When it wants to expand it demands a new character or plot element. It demands a character act a certain way or a scene have a certain type of symbolism. At first I thought "ok... I've lost it" and perhaps maybe I have but I as the writer can't deny what the story wants. It's part of me, my creation so why would I neglect it?

That was just the thought of the moment, I apologize if this is like an obvious point for everyone or just plain insane. But that's what I was thinking.

Growth

With the addition of a new character named Mr. Magic in my The Sentinels series, where magic is a prevalent force/ plot element. He is a character who's pretty well versed in the mystic arts and I realized "oh crap, I haven't mapped this crap out yet!"

So for the last 4 hours I've been mapping out and defining the various colors and schools of magic, what they do and what uses they have.

At first I thought "This is gonna be easy, I play Final Fantasy"

Ugh. Because I wanted to be original and not just copy and paste from another work I used other fantasy worlds as influence on my own. And Cripes! Coming up with an entire hierarchy for magic isn't easy AT ALL. And after all that work the back of my head was pounding and I needed to lie down for second.

While it was uncomfortable I feel a tad bit accomplished that I cared enough about my writing to create an entire system for just a plot element. If this was some time ago maybe I'd like to say a year ago I wouldn't have even bothered and probably woulda taken the magic schools out and just winged it in explaining it all. I myself am surprised at how much I've grown as a writer and how much writing has grown on me.

Writing hasn't always been a top top priority like it has become now. I would just pump stories out and not even care about the whos, whats, whens, wheres, or hows It would just be a "Yup that's that" and I'd just go on to create another. But with what I feel now I want my stories to be worth the read or at least worth the look. And this is how far I'm willing to go for it.

Marshall Mathers LP 2 is a no go

I got Marshall Mathers LP 2 a week ago and like any Eminem fan I was excited but with a healthy dose of skepticism. I was hoping maybe he'd go COMPLETELY back to MM LP and back to the cleverness and gore that made him. And did he succeed? Short answer: no.

It seems Eminem's a bit more disappointed in himself these days more than usual and decided to make an album in a last ditch effort to recapture his magnum opus back from 2000, or 13 years ago if you can't count backward very well.

Eh. Never thought I wouldn't be able to sit through an Eminem project, hell I sat through Relapse just fine the first time (Stay Wide Awake still gives me nightmares though) so why couldn't I get through this? One word: Production. It absolutely PILEDRIVED this album into the ground. It wasn't a homage to early 2000's Eminem it was more late 2010 Eminem. But the thing is Recovery was GOOD, I particularly enjoyed it, but MM LP 2 feels more like Recovery 2 than anything.

The beats just make you want to tuck yourself in. Outside of Rhyme or Reason, Bad Guy, and Brainless There was absolutely no notably good production on the songs, and the hooks sung by these various different women here and there, I don't know what that was about. Even with the lyricism being Eminem standard clever and fast the beats and hooks killed all excitement on pretty much every track. It didn't feel like the MM LP Eminem that he reached for. Honestly half the beats coulda gone to Macklemore.

If I had to Rate this album 3.5/5

What did you think? Comment below

King Grim turns 21!

Happy birthday to me this fine Veteran's day as well as a happy Veteran's day to all the Veterans out there including my mother. While today was more of a day of rest for me I still feel as though finally I've gotten my life back on the track it was meant to travel on. I've still got a long journey ahead of me but FINALLY I can say my head is on straight.

I really want my goal: to become a mogul. To build an Empire and have a legacy to share even when I'm gone (dark thought).

Time to start moving into the future further and further.

And continuing with my advancement into the future, The Sentinels has also advanced itself quite a bit into it's future with the latest release. Nicholas and Tonya Harding finally meet!

Go check it out for yourself!

As always thank you guys for reading, I appreciate it alot! Make sure you follow this blog and The Grim Library so you'll be the first to know when new stories come out!

Anyways, much love guys!

~ King Grim

How Bleach prevented me from watching or reading any more Anime and Manga

I'll admit I was a 90's baby which means I grew up on DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho and pretty much everything else Toonami played. For the last couple years I got wrapped in Animes and almost always they were impressive with each tale and the art styles never got old even though they're virtually all the same.

Then I watched Bleach... As soon as I watched the end of the Aizen conflict I left more pissed than the last episode of Inuyasha.... So many... goddamn plotholes... glaringly obvious character inconsistencies and constant constant PIS PIS PIS (Plot induced stupidity)

It was like Taito Kubo wrote himself into a corner and instead of writing himself out of it he tore the damn walls down. I just... I felt so betrayed... I invested time in this series more than any other series because the Shinigami Invasion arc was flawless and the character development was great up to that part.

I watched the Bound arc... shut up...

It really got bad at the Hueco Mundo arc, powers coming out of nowhere, characters introduced , established, and bopped pretty much immediately, Ichigo dies twice but comes back from the force of love or something. I for the life of me started tearing my hair out at the whole end to the Aizen kidnaps Orihime thing, that BLEW ME. At this point mentally I'm like "Why me? Kubo, what did I do?" But I stuck with the series still.

The next Arc I WAS DONE.

The things that made me cry:

• Ikkaku not using Bankai despite reality itself being at stake (This is at the fucking top because WOW)
• Kumomora's Bankai making no sense
• Tousen, just that was pointless
• Gin's Bankai making no sense
• Shunsui Koryaku's bankai being "too dangerous to use while people are looking" (WHAT!)
• Aizen's Death (YES HE DID DIE)
• Wonderweiss
• Everyone vs Aizen
• Soi Fong's Bankai not making sense
• Why did Aizen slice up Hallibel?
• All the useless support characters standing within hugging distance of Aizen without "losing their existence" when previously they could barely see ghosts
• Various power level inconsistencies
• Ichigo's dad is how fucking old?
• Why does Ishin Kurosaki know Getsuga Tensho? Where'd Final Getsuga Tensho come from?
• The final fight with Aizen
• Yammy is number 0
• Shunshui Koryaku's Shikai

I've never been able to commit myself to another series since. I even went back to Inuyasha to see the final act but this was just too much. It hurt. It scarred me and has since prevented me from ever touching another anime/manga

The Sentinels #5 is up!

Rufio in prison may be the worst idea yet! There's some serious trouble going down in Santa Maya Prison. And you can probably tell who's behind it, but if you can't!

Find out now!