I spent a week in some sort of creative hell trying to kick this severe writer's block I had. I finally dealt with it last night and I feel so much better about that.

In the process of trying to wreck it I read a couple of Ender books back to back (Ender in Exile which I had owned for a while but hadn't had time to read until now, and Speaker for the Dead, one of my favorites of the series). I also started reading Violinist of Hamelin after Selina tried poking me to read the manga for years. Literally years! I've watched the anime (it's actually one of my favorites, despite it having such a low budget half of the scenes were just stills with sound) but this is the first time I went through the entire manga.

Now I'm in this huge reading mode which is awesome. Reading kicks writer's block in the butt! I ended up able to update pretty much all of Outcastes, which is the only game I'm working on right now.

I was poking around through wikipedia just now. I forget how I started out, but I was looking through all sorts of sites... from gemstones to flowers, chrysanthemum leading me to a page about Japanese emperors, and thereafter to NHK taiga dramas.

I miss watching those so much. ;.; I was so spoiled living in the Bay Area. Every weekend I could watch jdramas subbed on KTSF, a San Francisco based channel. The taiga dramas were always my favorite (year-long dramas based on Japanese history, huge productions with period sets and costuming and well-known Japanese actors), and I've long been wishing I could get a complete subbed collection of the taiga dramas based on Nobunaga and Hideyoshi.