for why I stopped doing the Sea of Dreamland. I know stopped a while ago, but I was just thinking of it, and I felt I had to get this off my chest and officially declare it dead, or at least on hiatus indefinitely. So, I have three main reasons for why I stopped doing the comic:

1) Technical reasons. My laptop suddenly died, leaving me with no Flash MX, no tablet (I couldn't find the disc to reinstall it on the dell) and no computer to do it on for a while until we got the dell. I've tried other programs, but they just don't cut it for me. I used Flash MX for years, it was probably the best unless I got photoshop or something, and the vectors and drawing tools were just perfect. In order to get Flash MX again, and maybe a tablet, I'd have to ask my parents. But they'd never be convinced, because...

2) I just don't have the time. My schoolwork doubled, I have a girlfriend, I'm exercising more, and I'll even be driving and (hopefully) getting a job soon. College is coming up, and webcomics just take a back seat. I haven't been doing much drawing in general. However, that's not much of an excuse considering that other webcomic artists are in college, have jobs, and can still draw better webcomics than me. However, I just can't bare to squeeze out that much time, because...

3) I've fallen out of interest. Probably the most selfish reason, but it's what's keeping me the most from doing it. See, back in Middle School I had a kind of self-esteem problem. I wanted to make something. I tried animating, making games, and making comics. The Sea of Dreamland was, by far, the most successful, probably because I actually put it on the internet instead of just made it on paper and showed my friends. But, and it feels inconsiderate to say it, I don't need The Sea of Dreamland anymore. It's nice to publish stuff and get feedback, but I just don't feel like it matters that much to me anymore, and I don't need the attention. My desire to create a story and characters is being channeled into Role-Playing on forums, which is much less time-consuming and more fun for me. I don't even think the Sea of Dreamland is that good, especially when I look at other webcomics, or even other things I'VE done. The art is crap compared to other artists I see, and the writing and plot premise is bad compared what I do for RPs (It was supposed to reflect Kirby games, being relatively simple. What was I thinking!? A simple plot can pass for a game, but not an actual story!). Even the humor is inferior to a paper comic I made in Middle School staring two nameless characters and a superhero named M Man (the M stands for Man).

I no long feel the desire to create internet content. I'm not entirely sure why, but it just faded away.

So I'm sorry to say that I can't continue the Sea of Dreamland anymore. I want to really thank everyone who read it and continues to favorite it despite the fact that it won't even get to the third boss, and apologize for not finishing it, just like how I've never finished anything. And I'm not leaving DeviantART, or refusing to draw. I might publish something now and then, or make a small comic once in a while, like that one Goldeneye thing. I jut can't do the Sea of Dreamland.

If anyone's interested in the plot, I might post it or something. But it's stupid. There's no plot twists. The bosses are from the games, or slight alterations. All of the characters act the same and meld into some homogeneous blob of generic personality. It's just bland and completely uninteresting.

Spore: Tribal stage. All three of the other tribes gang up on me, sending raids simultaneously, and kick the snot out of me. Damn. So much for the grand Pirate race.

No More Heroes: I was very close to beating Shinobu, the third boss. I had a whole heart, she was very nearly dead. Then some weird cutscene starts and she starts teleporting around, cutting me up into shashimi, and it's a one-hit kill. I was so hopeful, too, I have been trying to beat this boss the past week. This game.. it breaks my heart..

Resident Evil 4: I had no idea what I was doing, jogging around the village with my shotgun, until I got bored and let myself die. RJ told me I had to wait five minutes for the not-zombies to go to church. I tried to go back again, but after a couple playthroughs of the same thing, it's gotten frickin' boring. Seriously, why not let me save whenever I want instead of forcing monotony? At any rate, I might try again, just because I'm not at so much of a wall. (Also, the paper bag guy with a chainsaw is apparently a boss I have to beat. Weird, I thought he was just some random invincible dude that just... shows up. For some reason.)

Drawn To Life: I haven't gotten to the second boss yet. But my brother did. He yelled, "THAT FUCKING BOSS!!!", threw the DS, and then he stole my pencil and threw it.

Lunar Knights: Lvl 90 Dumas kicks my ass. I was almost able to beat him the last time, but while I was trying to dodge his Nightmare attack I ran into an invisible wall. Fuck.

Ugh, I dunno, I guess I'm just out of practice or rusty or something.. but every game I play seems to be kicking my ass lately.

On another frustrating note: My homework for spring break is to write a biography, a literary analysis, take some notes that will be far inferior to the ones I'll take in class anyway, two chapters of chem, a bunch of questions for a lab, and a worksheet. Why two classes assigned me tons of homework and the other four assign me nothing is really weird. And I can't draw socks.

I hate this finale. I hate it with mui gusto.

Mostly because Soul Eater is one of my favorite animes. It's cool. It's quirky. It's recurring theme is INSANITY. It has a bisexual emo with a screaming sword made of black blood fighting a giant overall-wearing golem with a demon chainsaw. THAT'S JUST PLAIN AWESOME.

But this last episode... ugh.

Summary: Maka is fighting the almighty demon god. She uses her Demon Hunter attack. Does nothing. She reawakens her inner weapon heritage and does some awesome scythe-generating kung-fu. Does nothing. She's about to be strangled to death or something.

CUE FRIENDSHIP SPEECH

Demon God starts flipping out, his eyes bug and his head does a 360. Maka does this cool running thing and punches him in the face. The Demon God talks more in a really annoying voice that reminds me of the godawful asian drama Hot Shot. Then his face splits in half and he explodes, and EVERYONE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.

The series was robbed of a truly epic final fight. Even though everything right up until the final episode has been pure win, the series fell short. Here are some things that could have made it better:
1. Instead of getting ignored, some other side characters could have had a show in it. Giriko should have turned into a chainsaw, and then get wielded by a giant Mosquito to fight the good guys that were just sitting in the robot city doing nothing (aided by lantern girl, gloves dude, and Oxford).
2. Maka's anti-demon wavelength could have actually meant something. The friendship speech, giving her courage, should have expanded her soul to the point where she could copy Black Star's Big Wave attack, and injected the anti-demon wavelength into the Demon God, killing him from the inside out. That would've been cool.
3. The part where Maka gets crazy scythe powers makes sense, but ultimately adds up to nothing. She attacks a bit with it, then it's over. No alluding to it previously, and no significance in the episode. Just.. padding for length. That time could have been used more constructively.
4. An epilogue. What happened to all the people in Death City when it turned into a robot? The remnants of arachnaephobia? Free and Eruka? Does Mifune become a teacher? (As Patricia said: That's what fanfiction is for. I guess......)
5. Black Star should have done something epic like Death the Kid did. I was expecting him to fight the Demon God a little after Kid blasted the Witch Soul out of him, but he was knocked out off-screen. Booooring. He should have used the big red sword he used on Mifune one more time.

And yes, I have made a journal for the first time in forevers. I really just wanted to get all that out there.

I'm gonna go read the manga. The art looks funny and the action is crap, so it better have a good ending goshdarnit!

Yeah, so I finished writing in the words. So you can follow the story! What little there is, anyway. Hey, it's supposed to be a children's book.

Anyway, my family's getting a new Dell pretty soon, so I'll buy(hack) a new version of Flash MX and get to work on a new comic. Maybe. But so far I've been bored out of my skull. I need more videogames. I should probably save up cash to buy Christmas presents or something though, so I'll just wait until then. I hope to get Lunar Knights, Apollo Justice, Bully Scholarship Edition, Eternal Darkness and Destroy All Humans. Whatever I don't get I'll just buy with gift cards.

So far all I'm doing is playing KSSU and Boktai, and the last boss on hard mode is IMPOSSIBLE. Ugh, stupid kills-me-in-one-hit-in-99-seconds. I always form the last piledriver right before she kills me, and that's not fast enough. And I've been trying to beat Helper-to-Hero with all characters on KSSU, which is too much of a freaking chore.

So, what is everyone else playing nowadays? I'm not satisfied with my Christmas list as of now.

Well, the reason I haven't drawn anything in like a million years is because my laptop is completely and utterly broken.

It first started with some weird bug where any program that utilizes the internet would fail to work. When Firefox and IE updated, they stopped working. Because I also had a Mac, I could still access the internet and stuff.

I took it to Fry's, who did absolutely nothing and took 70 bucks. I swear the tech support there has some kind of mental illness. Well, they DID clean my keyboard, but they couldn't figure out what was wrong.

But however bad Fry's was, Best Buy was worse. I took my laptop to "Geek Squad" which is some kind of tech support company that's conjoined with Best Buy, like a siamese twin or a tumor. Anyway, they looked at my laptop and couldn't figure out what was wrong, but they put some kind of diagnostics disk in it. They left it in, and when I started my computer back up, it wouldn't even start up. At all. Yeah, Fry's did nothing for 70 bucks, but Best Buy broke it for free.

Anyway, Flash MX and Paint.net were on that laptop, and the only drawing program I can get for the laptop right now is some stupid Paint knock-off. That freezes constantly. Anyway, if anyone knows a good mac-friendly drawing program (preferably with vectors) that'd be great. I can't seem to find anything. (Also, this Mac doesn't have Intel either. Yeah, it's like a dead kid sitting a Special ED's seat.)